Posted on 04/24/2017 3:12:02 AM PDT by calvincaspian
All the smartest people in the world are setting themselves up for more Brexit- and Trump-style shock and disappointment, this time in France.
Last night, Western European globalists and experts breathed a collective sigh of relief as pro-EU, anti-Brexit, pro-immigration centrist Emmanuel Macron edged out the National Front’s Trump-esque Marine Le Pen for a narrow first-place finish in the French presidential race, roughly 23 percent to 22 percent. The pair will face off in a May 7 runoff election, which “everyone” naturally expects Le Pen to lose.
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Hardly, unless Trump has started calling for the nationalisation of key industries. Weird how most here just latch on to her anti-muzzie-immigrant stance (good) but totally ignore her socialist economics (bad)..
“VIVA THE FREE REPUBLIC OF FRANCE & VIVA LAFAYETTE”
Probably the finest Frenchman to ever set foot on American soil.
So how much vote fraud can be expected in the French system over and above the 500k ballots sent to overseas French who are expected to vote heavily for the most establishment candidate? Were those ballots for the first round, the second, or both?
During lunch, CNBC was on and the giddy lady interviewer by the Arc D'Triumphe was interviewing a man named Lex who had worked on the 2008 Obama campaign.
I'm not making this up.
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