Posted on 12/09/2018 6:53:36 PM PST by ameribbean expat
It’s been like this for years. He’s (Macron) paying for how arrogant he is. That plus the way he speaks to French people. He doesn’t care about the people, he’s in his world. He needs to pay for all of that. He’s the most arrogant of all presidents. I don’t know why he does this, he should realise how he talks to French people. He thinks he’s superior to everyone.
(Excerpt) Read more at euronews.com ...
A what point between 0% and 100% taxation do you become a slave?
I think he found it.
That about sums it up — your typical leftist leader or run of the mill Democrat. Thank you Mr Frenchman.
That's why I'm happy we elected President Donald Trump. Even though he is a billionaire, he feels the pain of regular folks and is trying to help them. Unlike leftists or Democrats in general. If we ended up with Hillary as president, we would probably be wearing those yellow vests and burning down Washington, because Hillary would hike our taxes and give us pain like the French people.
We need to arm these people
AGREED! Not yelling with the all caps, just agreeing with vigor. :)
The speaker’s ‘blistering critique’ could apply to most any leader of most any country. There almost has to be a certain degree of arrogance to presume that only you could lead the flock. Not that there’s anything wrong with self confidence, so long as it’s based on fact.
And send them our support. Tell them that we understand. And remind them that we pay half of what they pay for petrol. And that they too can pay a lot less. Power to the folks!
from https://fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/what-good-can-a-handgun-do-against-an-army/29622
A friend of mine owns an instructive piece of history. It is a small, crude pistol, made out of sheet-metal stampings by the U.S. during World War II. While it fits in the palm of your hand and is a slowly-operated, single-shot arm, it’s powerful .45 caliber projectile will kill a man with brutal efficiency. With a short, smooth-bore barrel it can reliably kill only at point blank ranges, so its use requires the will (brave or foolhardy) to get in close before firing. It is less a soldier’s weapon than an assassin’s tool. The U.S. manufactured them by the million during the war, not for our own forces but rather to be air-dropped behind German lines to resistance units in occupied Europe. Crude and slow (the fired case had to be knocked out of the breech by means of a little wooden dowel, a fresh round procured from the storage area in the grip and then manually reloaded and cocked) and so wildly inaccurate it couldn’t hit the broad side of a French barn at 50 meters, to the Resistance man or woman who had no firearm it still looked pretty darn good.
The theory and practice of it was this: First, you approach a German sentry with your little pistol hidden in your coat pocket and, with Academy-award sincerity, ask him for a light for your cigarette (or the time the train leaves for Paris, or if he wants to buy some non-army-issue food or a half- hour with your “sister”). When he smiles and casts a nervous glance down the street to see where his Sergeant is at, you blow his brains out with your first and only shot, then take his rifle and ammunition. Your next few minutes are occupied with “getting out of Dodge,” for such critters generally go around in packs. After that (assuming you evade your late benefactor’s friends) you keep the rifle and hand your little pistol to a fellow Resistance fighter so they can go get their own rifle.
Or maybe you then use your rifle to get a submachine gun from the Sergeant when he comes running. Perhaps you get very lucky and pickup a light machine gun, two boxes of ammunition and a haversack of hand grenades. With two of the grenades and the expenditure of a half-a-box of ammunition at a hasty roadblock the next night, you and your friends get a truck full of arms and ammunition. (Some of the cargo is sticky with “Boche” blood, but you don’t mind terribly.)
Pretty soon you’ve got the best armed little maquis unit in your part of France, all from that cheap little pistol and the guts to use it. (One wonders if the current political elite’s opposition to so-called “Saturday Night Specials” doesn’t come from some adopted racial memory of previous failed tyrants. Even cheap little pistols are a threat to oppressive regimes.)
They called the pistol the “Liberator.” Not a bad name, all in all.
Macron’s reply: “Let them eat cake...but no icing”
Sounds like he’s talking about Ben Sasse.
That sounds about exactly what he would say, since he is a typical left wing, liberal, socialist, pinko commie geek, out of touch, POS politician. Did I miss anything? 😁🙃
He probably also wonders how many Muslim families on welfare he’s supporting, but can’t say it.
A lot of the interviews I saw were people that just wanted Macron to make businesses and other ‘rich” people pay for everything. Then I saw a couple of interviews with small business owners that can’t pay any more.
France has a lot of problems. Immigration, labor laws, climate regulations, etc. Where Obama was taking us.
Maybe this is the shot heard around the world in reverse. This time it is the French citizens and I am hoping that Americans are paying attention.
We are all slaves
There’s something wrong with a guy marrying a woman old enough to be his mother.
Reminds me of these quotes from "The Russian Revolution" by Alan Moorehead 1958
"… this was a predatory state which the Czar and a small group of noblemen and bureaucrats ruled for their own exclusive benefit...The ruling group owned all the wealth, enjoyed all the privileges and monopolized all the political power, and it did not intend to give up any of its prerogatives. It considered the peasants to be little better than animals..."
Yes.
Yup, sounds just like our ‘elites’
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.