If the French fuck this election up, like the US did with Hair Furor, the EU is in for a world of hurt.
Will Trump take the bait and call LePen?
Yet another reason why Democrats lost so many seats at every level between 2009 - 2016. Neoliberal servants of plutocratic capitalism flock together…
Count on it.
While we have no way of knowing what President Obama actually said it’s safe to assume it didn’t include hyperbole, superlatives, threats and references to the Electoral College.
The French are the most controversial nation in Western Europe. They’re always looking for something different.
Or
plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose
Well, I see the “Obama’s a corporatist sellout!” chorus has already begun.
While somewhere in Moscow, Putin grins and licks his lips at the prospect of a post-EU, post-NATO Europe.
Like the swallows returning to Capistrano. And the Drumpf’s flocking to Mar-E-Coli…
John Oliver made the most salient argument on his show on Sunday
http://www.polis.cam.ac.uk/about-us/talking-politics
Part of this most recent podcast discusses the French election. U. Cambridge Dept. of Politics & International Studies (also available in iTunes).
Since a lot of French people have been begging OBAMA to run for president (no law against non-natives running, apparently) this is clearly a move to solidify support for Macron.
Fascinating. He has no financial scandals, as do Républicain Fillon (€1.5 million to his wife and children for non jobs in the Parlement) and Le Pen (sued by the EU for fake jobs for her bodyguard on the EU–which she supposedly hates–dime); he was in the Socialist government and is not at all right wing on social policy. So… just calling him a “neo liberal” is supposed to damn him and permit the far right or the hard right to capture the presidency? that would be better?
Or the “far left” Melenchon, whose speeches are Trumpian in the vagueness and breadth of the promises, and whose big bugbear is NATO–much to Putin’s contentment.
Good for Obama.
Now please call PMs in Australia, Germany, Britain, and South Korea to clean up some other messes. We could really use a shadow government.
Deep state, baby!
This attitude on the left is how the nationalists carried Trump to the White House.
President Barack Obama…President Obama spoke…President Obama appreciated…President
Obama remains…President Obama
Angry Twitter rant inbound: “Not the President. Not the President. I’M THE PRESIDENT”
The whole bit about the French election was wonderful. Love that show.
(Missing the subtitles from broadcast.)
This is bigger than the 2016 presidential election! How is it the Left’s fault that the Clinton campaign chose to ignore Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania while they were off chasing unicorns in Arizona, Texas and Georgia? Was it the Left’s fault when Chuck Schumer, in a fit of orgasmic hippy-punching claimed, “For every Bernie supporter we lose we gain two moderate Conservatives”? How do you explain the epic loss of seats at every level of government by Democrats from 2010 - 2014? Were the hippies (or the Russians) to blame for that as well, instead of the national Party’s failed tactics, too-Right candidates, failed Neoliberal beliefs, and failed association with Wall Street. So, to quote President Obama, 'Please continue." Yes, please continue to prove Albert Einstein’s definition of insanity…
Economic nationalism is just another variation of nationalism and Marine Le Pen is cut from the same cloth as Trump. If the debate is framed as nationalists v globalists then I’m throwing my lot in with the latter because the system of liberal democracy we’ve come to know and take for granted for seventy years is at stake. A return to extreme nationalism is a very dark path.