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France Yellow Vests Week 269: Government Shakeup Talk, Marine Le Pen Maintains A Lead In Popularity, Today's Paris Protest
Nextrush Free ^ | 1/6/2024 | Nextrush/Self

Posted on 01/06/2024 6:57:56 PM PST by Nextrush

As we went into the weekend talk in France that President Emmanuel Macron was ready to shake up his government.

Talk that Macron might ditch his current Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne.

Today in French media the discussion about who might be the new Prime Minister.

Former National Assembly President Richard Ferrand taking his name out of consideration.

Meanwhile polling data points to the political strength of Marine Le Pen who leads the National Rally in France's National Assembly.

Which politician is most 'in touch' with the everyday concerns of the average person in France?...

The protest in Paris a small group of protesters carrying on a yellow flag, the French flag and some protest signs...

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TOPICS: Government; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: boneheadblog; emmanuelmacron; europe; france; horriblewriting; macron; marinelepen; protest; revoltingblog; specialneedsblog; whowrotethistrash; yellowvests

1 posted on 01/06/2024 6:57:56 PM PST by Nextrush
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To: Nextrush

Out of France 🇫🇷 same news year after year.

The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum. That gives people the sense that there’s free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate. ~Noam Chomsky


2 posted on 01/07/2024 5:35:05 AM PST by Chickensoup
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To: Chickensoup

The genius of Trump was his ability to grab the Overton Window (spectrum of acceptable speech) and just yank it all the way over.

Currently, the Overton Window on immigration is “how much” to have. We need someone to say “deport them ALL, AND their anchor babies”.


3 posted on 01/07/2024 5:50:55 AM PST by SauronOfMordor (Either you will rule. Or you will be ruled. There is no other choice.)
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