“It seriously damages his reputation for technocratic competence “
And there it is. Our would-be globalist masters believe that humanity should be subjugated to a world-wide technocracy. A technocracy that will seek, nor require the consent of the governed.
Quel dommage !
French voters: FIXIT.
Lesson learned: Don’t bash The Don by comparing nationalism to Nazism.
But, but......Macron lectured Trump so effectively!! [/s]
FREXIT? What’s that, where the people leave Macron? It would be easier to kick him out of the country...perhaps send him to the island off India of those tribal people.
The Tower of babel that the E U has always been is coming apart and not a second too soon. It was always built on a jealousy fueled delusion that Europe could become as good as America by merely saying they are. If the jerks that ran America for the last 70 years had not paid for their security by funding their military this would have happened 25 years ago.
Redistribution of Wealth ,I mean Global Warming Scam not working out very well
Nobody should ever trust any politician in the first place.
Anyone who does is a fool.
Funnest part about all this is reminding the TruCons of the glowing praise they’ve been giving to Macron and how they say the United States needs its own Macron (Max Boot).
Ironically, it is the LEFT in France that is leading the charge against higher taxes.
Damndest thing I ever saw.
When the French left says taxes are too high, taxes are WAY too high.
The 4th reich is crumbling.
“left-wing groups within the French Parliament discuss launching a no confidence vote against him”
so apparently, the French might replace a leftist extremist with a leftist uber-extremist ... sounds about right - for the French ... soon coming to the USA ...
This is what the Communist Party wants for America only a lot worse. More like Mexico’s economy.
The crisis is the carbon tax wasn’t nuanced enough. It was too obvious and the frog started climbing out of the pot.
That may be accurate. This tax plan was a bad sales approach as well as a lousy idea. This sort of punitive taxation alone causes resentment in its target, but this was worse, this was not only a punishment for purchasing and running a motor vehicle, it made it difficult to impossible for the owners to get rid of that vehicle because nobody would want it. So they rightly viewed themselves as stuck. Still worse, someone on Macron's staff told the media the revenue raised would be redistributed to third world countries to offset their fictitious climate change damage as a part of Macron's widely touted Paris accords. So in essence what the middle and working class stiffs got was (1) moral disapproval, (2) higher taxes, (3) an inability to sell the offending vehicles, and (4) the people instituting the taxes publicly patting themselves on the back for giving the money away. Yeah, I'd be a little angry too.
When one feels that one is not represented by anything or anyone, and that one cannot reform the system from within, one seeks to free oneself from the established order and create a new system with its own rules.
Resemblance to the Declaration of Independence is not accidental.
Those European countries that have gone further down the road of socialism and Gaia Worship....and even added to it with their insane no borders multi culti ideology are fast approaching the breaking point. There is no easy way out. The money is rapidly running out despite America massively subsidizing their national defense not for years or decades but generations. This will not end well for them. There’s at least still hope for the Anglosphere.