French Elections Called: LePen vs Macron

[quiet roar]

Only America would elect Trump

I obviously have a lesser opinion of Australians because I think "we" would also be capable.

 

[Jabberwocky]

I obviously have a lesser opinion of Australians because I think "we" would also be capable.

Agreed. I'm no expert, but from what I understand national politics in Australia are nearly as fucked as in America (if not equally so).

 

[consumer]

I obviously have a lesser opinion of Australians because I think "we" would also be capable.

I dont think we would have. A guy who bragged about sexually assaulting women and who constantly and obviously lied. Our politicians are shite but Trump is in a league of his own and i cant see how he would get in here.

 

[One Thousand Words]

I obviously have a lesser opinion of Australians because I think "we" would also be capable.

Please explain........

 

[Escher's Waterfall]

I think their might be a lot of pissed off French people but lets face it France is a very different country. Their is no significant religious right and the average French person would have a far greater appreciation of the world than a lot of Americans.

Only America would elect Trump

Weren't we just talking about Duterte in another thread? Duterte is the equivalent of a lovechild between Trump and Putin. He just talked about eating a terrorist's liver last week. Literally.

 

[quiet roar]

Please explain........

Exactly!

 

[Jabberwocky]

Weren't we just talking about Duterte in another thread? Duterte is the equivalent of a lovechild between Trump and Putin. He just talked about eating a terrorist's liver last week. Literally.

LOL now that is some funny shit. Reminds me of that meme of Bush (jr.) eating the baby

 

[consumer]

Please explain........

Do you honestly think that bag could get to be PM?

 

[quiet roar]

Tony Abbott did and he isn't that far removed from Trump.

 

[consumer]

Tony Abbott did and he isn't that far removed from Trump.

Yes he did but he is not Trump.

 

[alasdairm]

france resoundingly rejects le pen. macron wins by ~65% to ~34%.

alasdair

 

[-=SS=-]

Oh well, guess the French want to embrace their masochistic side and endure more of the same. Beh.

 

[alasdairm]

yeah, i'm sure you know what's better for the french than the french...

alasdair

 

[Erikmen]

france resoundingly rejects le pen. macron wins by ~65% to ~34%.

alasdair

Great news indeed. The only problem is that she's running for the next elections.
She won't stop now that she conquered almost 35%.

 

[Ovidio]

In all seriousness, I thought it was pretty unlikely that Le Pen would get elected in France, even with Ruski influence. So what's with all this conservative collaboration with the Russians then, eh?

 

[-=SS=-]

yeah, i'm sure you know what's better for the french than the french...

I'm certain you said exactly the same thing when Obama endorsed Macron /sarcasm.

Macron is a pro-EU lacky boy. Enough said.

In 5 years time, following continued decline in France, a crumbling eurozone, and no doubt more terrorist attacks in France, Le Pen will breeze into power. This isn't going to magically disappear.. it's going to get worse.. and the longer it goes without confrontation the worse the inevitable solutions will be. It's quite bemusing and sad to watch nations commit cultural suicide, but it is what it is.

 

[consumer]

I predicted the Trump win, brexit and the snp failed referendum and I predict a Le Pen victory and France to leave the EU.
Happy days!

Fail

 

[alasdairm]

I'm certain you said exactly the same thing when Obama endorsed Macron /sarcasm.

if i did then substantiate your claim with a quote?

alasdair

 

[Escher's Waterfall]

In 5 years time, following continued decline in France, a crumbling eurozone, and no doubt more terrorist attacks in France, Le Pen will breeze into power. This isn't going to magically disappear.. it's going to get worse.. and the longer it goes without confrontation the worse the inevitable solutions will be. It's quite bemusing and sad to watch nations commit cultural suicide, but it is what it is.

Looking at the last five years, per capita GDP in France has increased every year. Unemployment has risen from only 9.4% to 9.6% (Dec 2011 to Dec 2016). Last year I can find homicide rates for, it looks like it's remained unchanged (2014 had a homicide rate of 1.2, down slightly from 1.3 in 2009). Euro is still up from the British Pound compared to before the referendum, and has remained consistently so.

What decline is supposed to be continuing?

 

[LucidSDreamr]

The only ^ stat conservatives focus on is number of muslims...by "decline" he meant increased muslims