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To: Sub-Driver

Winning! The gilets jaunes forced the French government into a humiliating climbdiwn.

People power works. Tax increases have been scrapped.


3 posted on 12/04/2018 3:59:53 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: goldstategop

It’s not winning yet. The suspension is TEMPORARY. And every headline I’ve seen that far has left that word out.


5 posted on 12/04/2018 4:02:30 AM PST by mewzilla (Is Central America emptying its prisons?)
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To: goldstategop

They’ve been delayed for six months.


8 posted on 12/04/2018 4:02:47 AM PST by bobcat62
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To: goldstategop

And I’m wondering if the suspension will be in place only until the French government can get new laws passed banning protests.


9 posted on 12/04/2018 4:03:32 AM PST by mewzilla (Is Central America emptying its prisons?)
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To: goldstategop
People power works. Tax increases have been scrapped.

TEMPORARILY

51 posted on 12/04/2018 5:40:36 AM PST by null and void (Socialist Worker's Party. If they ever get elected, you'll work and they'll party.)
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To: goldstategop
People power works. Tax increases have been scrapped.

uhhh….no, the article says "TEMPORARILY SUSPENDED".
Their self-appointed betters are huddling as we speak, trying to come up with more effective ways to fool them.

I suspect that will fail and the riots will be back.


56 posted on 12/04/2018 5:52:32 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: goldstategop

Good to have achieved even a deferral.
Bad to have set precedent that rioting works.

For some, this moment of success will evoke the question, “What do we want to riot about today?”


85 posted on 12/04/2018 8:46:03 AM PST by HKMk23 (You ask how to fight an idea? Well, I'll tell you how: with another idea!)
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To: goldstategop

The French government surrendering to the French people? Sacre’ bleu! C’est ne possible.


100 posted on 12/06/2018 12:55:56 AM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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