French political discussion megathread: Yellow Vest Redux

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The European Left's obnoxious self obsession with doing whatever the opposite of what the Americans do has now culminated in them standing up for wife-beating homophobic anti-Semites to own the Jews.

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The European Left's obnoxious self obsession with doing whatever the opposite of what the Americans do has now culminated in them standing up for wife-beating homophobic anti-Semites to own the Jews.

*Totalitarian far left as NUPES is

Does France have an actual left? I don't remember any major candidates on that side other than Melenchon

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Any ideas for who Macron will endorse as his successor in 2027? I was thinking Elisabeth Borne or Yael Braun-Pivet.

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Any ideas for who Macron will endorse as his successor in 2027? I was thinking Elisabeth Borne or Yael Braun-Pivet.

Brigitte Macron (because why the hell not)?

I can think of quite a few reasons.

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Any ideas for who Macron will endorse as his successor in 2027? I was thinking Elisabeth Borne or Yael Braun-Pivet.

Brigitte Macron (because why the hell not)?

I can think of quite a few reasons.

In all seriousness, what would be different about Birgitte running for President of France as opposed to Hillary Clinton running for President of the United States?

Brigitte worked less than a year at a private secondary school before resigning for having an affair with a student, while Hillary worked as a non-profit lawyer, Senator, and Secretary of State.

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If anything, the police response has been pretty brutal with, as a few examples, testimonies of violence from policemen against demonstrators and even bystanders, the video of a homeless man being thrown on the floor and insulted by policemen or the video of a protester collapsing unconscious on the ground after having been violently punched in the head by a policeman.

There has been also the massive and indiscriminate arrests of  292 persons during a demonstration on the Place de la Concorde of which only nine may be prosecuted for illegal acts, the rest turning out to be pacific demonstrators, bystanders and even foreign teenager tourists who hence spent a night in custody for having been at the wrong place at the wrong time:

https://twitter.com/libe/status/1638219171421888526

Arrests during the demonstration on the Place de la Concorde: the embassy of Austria intervenes for freeing two teenagers.

Two Austrian minors aged 15 were ‘on a school trip’ and found themselves held in custody on Thursday evening.

Once again, there have also been many criticisms against the systematic use of the ‘kettling’ tactic by the police forces, a tactic previously used during the Yellow Jackets movement (and was blamed for having led to an escalation of violence during protests) and whose legality is unclear.

But now it is clear this is part of a strategy from Macron himself to further ignite the situation with the hope it degenerate to present himself as a bulwark of the bourgeois order against chaos and social upheaval and no matter if this further undermines democracy, trust in public institutions and destroys what remained of the ‘Republican Front’ against the RN.

The interview with two journalists he gave today at lunchtime during the news bulletin on TF1 and France 2 (the hour matters because it is mostly watched by boomer and often rural pensioners, i.e. Macron voting base) is very revealing: his first public intervention since the defeat of the non-confidence motion has been a succession of provocations and an unbelievable display of arrogance. His only regret is to not have convinced French of the necessity of the reform. He blamed the unions for not having tried to seek a compromise. He renewed his support for Borne because there is ‘no alternative majority’ in the National Assembly (but there is no majority at all, especially since the LR caucus is now totally unreliable and bridges have been burnt with the LIOT). He compared the protesters against the pension reform with the Capitol attack participants and the followers of Bolsanaro who stormed Brasilia on last January. He bragged about the power purchase of "smicards" (workers on minimum wage) which has never having increased so much since decades (he is aware about the ongoing inflation???), announced measures to force people on basic income to find a job because apparently they are lazy and made demagogic promises on an immediate replacement of teachers for the next school year (there is currently a shortage of teachers due to the stagnation of salaries and the increasingly harder working conditions).

Shockingly, it seems the presidential interview has totally failed to convince skeptics. Who could have predicted that?

https://twitter.com/LCI/status/1638611995783045120
Meanwhile, the situation is becoming more tense in the streets with blockades of ports and refineries organized by unions and fishermen (who are protesting for different reasons) launching a tractor against a police vehicle in the streets of Rennes in an apparent failed attempt to set the Parlement de Bretagne building on fire like they already did in 1994 (note that the protests of the FNSEA farmer organization usually also involve tractors but also manure and slurry but these one have always benefited from an incredible indulgence from public powers).

Big demonstrations will take place tomorrow, possibly the largest since the beginning of the movement, and there is a serious risk it will turn ugly.

Is there a chance some protesters will overwhelm the guards of some government buildings or something?

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Starting to wonder if Macron will still be alive this time next year.

France has a long history of murdering (or attempting to murder) leaders whom the public strongly dislikes.

If De Gaulle survived May 68 Macaron will survive this.

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Would someone more versed in European politics than NewYorkExpress say if a real chance of Macron being killed exists?

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Macaroon is being French again

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Disappointing, but not surprising. The Constitutional Council is a joke, but tbh it wasn't really their job to clean up Macron's mess.

Sadly this fight is probably over, but Macron is now weaker than ever, and I doubt he'll be able to 49.3 his way out of the next controversy.

You can oppose the reform, but why would it be unconstitutional?

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