French Presidential Election

[Rob Iola]

Apparently he was hot for teacher when he was 15...

With her? If that's the case, and if my math is correct, she was banging him when she was 40 and he was 15..

Macron was only 15 when he met Brigitte Trogneux, a married teacher at his high school in northern France who had three children. Macron’s parents sent him to Paris to put distance between the teacher who ran the drama club and their precocious son, but their bond lasted, she divorced, and 10 years ago they were married.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/eu ... bb0e22ab96

[kalm]

With her? If that's the case, and if my math is correct, she was banging him when she was 40 and he was 15..

Macron was only 15 when he met Brigitte Trogneux, a married teacher at his high school in northern France who had three children. Macron’s parents sent him to Paris to put distance between the teacher who ran the drama club and their precocious son, but their bond lasted, she divorced, and 10 years ago they were married.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/eu ... bb0e22ab96

Gotta admire his doggedness. High 5!

[Ivytalk]

Obama has endorsed Macron. He's hoping the same magic that worked for Hillary will work for the Frenchman.

[BDKJMU]

And, now he's running under En Marche - a centrist political party he founded.

Yeah, En Marche would be left wing in this country. But, remember... this is an election that's happening in France, BDK. Reuters is framing it within French politics and not American politics. They're a centrist French party.

That's right how could I forget. In Europe Liberals are Centrists and Conservatives are Far Right, or Hitler or something..

[GannonFan]

Obama has endorsed Macron. He's hoping the same magic that worked for Hillary will work for the Frenchman.

He threw his weight against the Brexit vote and that didn't go his way. I think he may be backing the winner finally but you gotta think if this goes the other way should they ban him from endorsing things anymore? Oh, and if Putin endorses anyone would that be considered interfering in the election???

[cx500d]

With her? If that's the case, and if my math is correct, she was banging him when she was 40 and he was 15..

Macron was only 15 when he met Brigitte Trogneux, a married teacher at his high school in northern France who had three children. Macron’s parents sent him to Paris to put distance between the teacher who ran the drama club and their precocious son, but their bond lasted, she divorced, and 10 years ago they were married.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/eu ... bb0e22ab96

Yuck...Holy shades of Randy Travis.

[houndawg]

I hear she's mightier than La Sword.

*Le Sword

[houndawg]

History repeating itself. The rise of Rightie 'Nationalism' on Earth was predicted in 2007/2008.

Yah see, it takes 20+ years to fully recover from the likes of the global financial crisis hoisted upon the World by The Bush Crime Cabal. History has shown that during the midpoint of recovery from such a disaster, those "left behind" economically blame everyone but themselves.

I hear she's mightier than La Sword.

Marine *Pepé Le Pew* et plein de merde.

Elle pete plus haut que son cul.

[houndawg]

Yeah, the polls missed Brexit. But, the polls were relatively close before each of those votes.

Macron is ahead of LePen by over 20 points.

And he has Trump to compare Le Pen with. Surprised thgat he isn't calling her La Donald.

[houndawg]

Macron is 39 and his wife is 64..WTF..

She's just mad about Macron.
Macron's mad about her.

for the Donvan reference. Old fvck..

[kalm]

She's just mad about Macron.
Macron's mad about her.

for the Donvan reference. Old fvck..

I thought it was Belinda Carlyle.

[houndawg]

for the Donvan reference. Old fvck..

I thought it was Belinda Carlyle.

Mellow Yellow

[Ivytalk]

Early results should be posted shortly! It's time for the

[Ivytalk]

Macron 64, Le Pen 36, with 80% reporting.

[Skjellyfetti]

Hmmm. I'm shocked the polls weren't 30 points off.

[Ivytalk]

Chalk up another win for Goldman Sachs.

[BDKJMU]

1st time in 73 years France will be ruled by a German..

[Skjellyfetti]

And for the first time in history, the French president speaks better English than the US president.

[BDKJMU]

And for the first time in history, the French president speaks better English than the US president.

Not with that nasally French accent..

[Ibanez]

1st time in 73 years France will be ruled by a German..

Macron, born in France to French parents, is German!?

Or are you suggesting he's a puppet of Merkel?

[Ibanez]

And for the first time in history, the French president speaks better English than the US president.

Not with that nasally French accent..

Accent aside, Macron can form an intelligent sentence based on facts.

Trump has verbal diarrhea and prays you don't notice.

Here's a picture of Trump's public-speaking inspiration:


You're starting to sound like an elitist.

[CID1990]

I was discussing this with colleagues this morning-

That Macron, at least in the respect that he is a political outsider, is a bit like Trump in his appeal to French voters. He does represent a radical change in French politics and in that respect he is satisfying to French voters who want to shake up the political system without the nativist populism of Le Pen.

A center-left party candidate running in his place would have made for a much closer race, if not a win for Le Pen, because the voters I described above would have held their noses and voted for Le Pen.

This was a win for France, IMO. They stumbled into it, but a win nonetheless.


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[kalm]

I was discussing this with colleagues this morning-

That Macron, at least in the respect that he is a political outsider, is a bit like Trump in his appeal to French voters. He does represent a radical change in French politics and in that respect he is satisfying to French voters who want to shake up the political system without the nativist populism of Le Pen.

A center-left party candidate running in his place would have made for a much closer race, if not a win for Le Pen, because the voters I described above would have held their noses and voted for Le Pen.

This was a win for France, IMO. They stumbled into it, but a win nonetheless.


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Hillary tried to sound like an outsider...

[GannonFan]

I was discussing this with colleagues this morning-

That Macron, at least in the respect that he is a political outsider, is a bit like Trump in his appeal to French voters. He does represent a radical change in French politics and in that respect he is satisfying to French voters who want to shake up the political system without the nativist populism of Le Pen.

A center-left party candidate running in his place would have made for a much closer race, if not a win for Le Pen, because the voters I described above would have held their noses and voted for Le Pen.

This was a win for France, IMO. They stumbled into it, but a win nonetheless.


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Hillary tried to sound like an outsider...

Indeed. The French election shows what happens with an election where two opponents basically come from outside of the normal political spectrum. Le Pen would've destroyed Hollande if he had run again, just like Trump was able to beat the status quo candidate in Hillary. Bernie would've in all probability beaten Trump, but the Democratic party elite didn't want the people voting that way and rigged it otherwise.

On another note, strange, the left here in America seems perfectly fine with a white male from a privileged background beating a female candidate who was trying to be the first female President in her country. Nary a suggestion that misogyny was the reason for the outcome.

[kalm]

Hillary tried to sound like an outsider...

Indeed. The French election shows what happens with an election where two opponents basically come from outside of the normal political spectrum. Le Pen would've destroyed Hollande if he had run again, just like Trump was able to beat the status quo candidate in Hillary. Bernie would've in all probability beaten Trump, but the Democratic party elite didn't want the people voting that way and rigged it otherwise.

On another note, strange, the left here in America seems perfectly fine with a white male from a privileged background beating a female candidate who was trying to be the first female President in her country. Nary a suggestion that misogyny was the reason for the outcome.

Great points on both!