Le Pen Contre Le Déluge

Steyn Online ^ | 10 Apr 2022 | Mark Steyn

[Rummyfan]

Say what you will about la République française but, unlike America, its election operations are not a rusted malodorous sewer of brazenly corrupt practices. So the election was held, the votes were counted in hours, and the official result was known by 1am Paris time. There are no unmarked vans motoring the Dordogne or the Pas de Calais in the dead of night bearing additional votes sufficient to the need.

That speaks well for any nation. Alas, not much else about yesterday does. The Top Three is as follows:

Emmanuel Macron 27.6 per cent; Marine Le Pen 23.41 per cent; Jean-Luc Mélenchon 21.95 per cent.

Mme Le Pen is designated by the BBC "far right" and M Mélenchon "hard left". I am unclear whether, in Beeb parlance, it is worse to be "hard" than "far. But, be that as it may, they could at least cease applying the label "mainstream" to candidates who can't crack five per cent, which is the threshold below which your election expenses are not covered by the French state.

[Rummyfan]

News from France.....

[rktman]

So macaroni is the ACTUAL french version of the assclown justine true-DOH in CanaDUH then? And apparently the vichy french are still alive and well? Elite’s gonna elite.

[Truthsearcher]

The problem with Le Pen is that despite all the nationalism, she’s still a socialist, and socialism is why France is dying. They are importing immigrant workers precisely because large welfare states are Ponzi schemes that require ever larger cheap labor force to produce taxes to fund them.

[sauropod]

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[who_would_fardels_bear]

Leftists will always want socialism.

Those on the right could be convinced to move toward Distributism as many already have.

Mondragon in Spain is not too far from France and would be a better economic model than any proposed on the Left.

[Mr. K]

"So they [the political parties] created their own artful [...] hybrid, [...], a both-of-the-neither-of-the-above pantomime horse comprised of two rear ends.

Brilliantly sums up todays GOP Rino's and Dem's..

[SunkenCiv]

Mme Le Pen is designated by the BBC "far right" and M Mélenchon "hard left".

Of course, the media portrays them that way because they're a threat to democracy and free speech.

[imabadboy99]

This comment couldn’t be any further from the truth. Socialism has nothing to do with why France is disintegrating.

Diversity, Open borders, and Multiculturalism replacing Christianity as the NATIONAL religion is the reason France and other Western Nations are nearly dead.

I don’t give a crap what economic system Le Pen promotes. Stopping the insanity of national suicide is the only thing that can stop the bleeding.

[Lisbon1940]

We’ll always have Budapest.

[dadfly]

Steyn brilliant as usual.

[Truthsearcher]

And who do you think is pushing diversity, open borders and multiculturalism. The elites who are in charge of the welfare state Ponzi scheme.

And for the record I agree with you, their abandonment of God why the population fell for the socialist vision. Which now has a chain around their neck, and they will not throw those chains off until they are ready to the confront the real problem.
Their problem is not how many Muslims are in France, their problem is how they got to the point they needed all those Muslims there.

[Bratch]

The Possibility of a Win for Marine Le Pen in France Has EU Worried

April 16, 2022 | Sundance | 77 Comments

One week from tomorrow the presidential election in France will be decided.  Polls put the race between Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron in a statistical dead heat, and combined with the recent Hungary election outcome – that has many bureaucrats in the EU very twitchy.

No doubt this race would have major ramifications if Marine Le Pen could end up victorious.  Factually, the Western alliance military operation in Ukraine could fundamentally change.  A post-COVID shift toward increased nationalism in France and the European Union would be very problematic for the forward plans of the professional political class and corporate globalists.

ASSOCIATED PRESS – […] If Macron falters in France’s April 24 presidential runoff between the two, the far-right could be at the helm of the European Union, an abhorrent idea to most leaders in the bloc.

Experts say a win for Le Pen would have immense repercussions on the functioning of the EU. Not only would her coming to power damage the democratic values and commercial rules of the bloc, but it would also threaten the EU’s common front and sanctions in response to Russia’s war in Ukraine.

[…] France has always stood at the heart of the EU — a founding member that has partnered with neighbor and historical rival Germany to turn the bloc into an economic giant and an icon of Western values. … [Le Pen] has proposed removing taxes on hundreds of goods and wants to reduce taxes on fuel — which would go against the EU’s free market rules and efforts to fight climate change.

[…]  Jean-Claude Piris, who served as a legal counsel to the European Council, said a victory for Le Pen would have the effect of an “earthquake.”

“She is in favor of a form of economic patriotism with state aids, which is contrary to the rules of the single market,” Piris told The Associated Press.

“She wants to modify the French constitution by giving preference to the French, by suppressing the right of the soil, the right of asylum,” which would be “totally incompatible with the values of the European treaties,” Piris added. (read more)

There isn’t a ‘splodey head detonation meter big enough to record the sound of the EU eruption if Marine Le Pen stands victorious next Sunday.

Vive le France!