French Presidential Election

[Grizalltheway]

But is she still mightier than Le Sword?




Did someone already make that joke ITT?

[Ibanez]

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.

Wrong. Hillary lost b/c of Comey and Russia.
It had nothing to do with her having an unprotected homegrown server in her basement.
It had nothing to do with her and her aides sending classified emails to those that weren't cleared to know.
It has nothing to do with her being untrustworthy.
It had nothing to do with the DNC usurping the role of the Democratic voter and allowing the better Democrat win (Bernie).
It had nothing to do with her husband having a meeting with the AG, days before she was to speak with the FBI.


Nope...it was all because Russia, allegedly, spilled the beans on how bad her campaign and the DNC was and Comey trying to do the right thing.

[GannonFan]

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.

Wrong. Hillary lost b/c of Comey and Russia.
It had nothing to do with her having an unprotected homegrown server in her basement.
It had nothing to do with her and her aides sending classified emails to those that weren't cleared to know.
It has nothing to do with her being untrustworthy.
It had nothing to do with the DNC usurping the role of the Democratic voter and allowing the better Democrat win (Bernie).
It had nothing to do with her husband having a meeting with the AG, days before she was to speak with the FBI.


Nope...it was all because Russia, allegedly, spilled the beans on how bad her campaign and the DNC was and Comey trying to do the right thing.

And misogyny.

[Ibanez]

But is she still mightier than Le Sword?




Did someone already make that joke ITT?

Non

[Ibanez]

Wrong. Hillary lost b/c of Comey and Russia.
It had nothing to do with her having an unprotected homegrown server in her basement.
It had nothing to do with her and her aides sending classified emails to those that weren't cleared to know.
It has nothing to do with her being untrustworthy.
It had nothing to do with the DNC usurping the role of the Democratic voter and allowing the better Democrat win (Bernie).
It had nothing to do with her husband having a meeting with the AG, days before she was to speak with the FBI.


Nope...it was all because Russia, allegedly, spilled the beans on how bad her campaign and the DNC was and Comey trying to do the right thing.

And misogyny.

And racism.

[kalm]

But is she still mightier than Le Sword?




Did someone already make that joke ITT?

Le Plagiarism...

[kalm]

And misogyny.

And racism.

Bernie Bros and millennials.

[Grizalltheway]

But is she still mightier than Le Sword?




Did someone already make that joke ITT?

Le Plagiarism...

Goddammit. Second post.

[BDKJMU]

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?

Tongue in cheek about him being very young and inexperienced compared to the leader of their neighbor & rival, the most powerful country in the EU..

[Ibanez]

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

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

Tongue in cheek about him being very young and inexperienced compared to the leader of their neighbor & rival, the most powerful country in the EU..

You're really bad at humor.

[kalm]

Tongue in cheek about him being very young and inexperienced compared to the leader of their neighbor & rival, the most powerful country in the EU..

You're really bad at humor.

He's doing some next level shit that's beyond your comprehension.

[Ibanez]

You're really bad at humor.

He's doing some next level shit that's beyond your comprehension.

He must be...he's evolved.

[Pwns]

I'm getting some good lulz in with US media outlets referring to Marine Le Pen as "conservative".

I guess it just doesn't compute with some that the candidate who is liberal on economics could be the "zOMG Hitler!!1" candidate.

The National Front makes a lot of US donks look like tea partiers and makes a lot of Republicans seem like open-border diversity-philes.

[BDKJMU]

He's doing some next level **** that's beyond your comprehension.

He must be...he's evolved.

[kalm]

He must be...he's evolved.

Ibanez should know better than to use that word with a conk. It's as profane as democracy or egalitarianism...

[Ibanez]

Ibanez should know better than to use that word with a conk. It's as profane as democracy or egalitarianism...

I didn't mean to trigger BDK.

[Skjellyfetti]

Democrats should learn from this...

Both Macron and France were well-prepared for any sort of last-minute shakeup that had the promise of throwing a historic election on its head, however. The incoming French president and his campaign refused to take such attacks lying down, after first reporting several of its members were targeted in online phishing incidents weeks before Le Pen visited Russia and met with Putin.

Macron's En Marche! campaign unleashed an operation attacking those hackers and their ability to gain accurate log-in information. "Every week we send to the team screen captures of all the phishing addresses we have found during the week … we also do counteroffensive against them," Mounir Mahjoubi, Macron's head of digital, told the Daily Beast in the final weeks of the election.

When staff members received fake emails leading them to log-in pages hackers could use to record keystrokes, Macron’s digital team flooded those landing pages with fake passwords and other data, confusing the hackers and making it virtually impossible to gain access to the campaign’s emails.

"You can flood these addresses with multiple passwords and log-ins, true ones, false ones, so the people behind them use up a lot of time trying to figure them out," Mahjoubi said.

http://www.newsweek.com/emmanuel-macron ... -le-596310

[Ivytalk]

People are comparing Macron to Tony Blair as a "market progressive." I'm not sure I buy it. There are many reasons to dispute that analogy, the lack of a real supporting political party being just one of them. Macron is a cipher: seems to have no bedrock principles of his own.

[Aho Old Guy]

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

Appalachian student (fo' real)
. . . though I thinks she was from SC originally ?

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.


Marine *Pepé Le Pew* et plein de merde.

Elle pete plus haut que son cul.

Très Bien!
(Whew -- glad I could put that French I learned 45 years ago to good work ...)

[houndawg]

The Chicago Tribune reports that Russian hackers are attacking the Macron campaign.

LePen sucks Putin's balls on a daily basis.

Thanks, Vidav!

It is so invigorating to see all the attention paid to Russians doing what they have been doing for 50 years

Remember "Don't confront the Russians! NUCLEAR WAR!!!" from the left in the good ol days?

Good times


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So embarrassing to see the French easily deal with hacking attempts. I thought we were supposed to be good at that computer stuff.

[houndawg]

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..

I bet she was smokin back then..

[BDKJMU]

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

He married her for the money.

And like every French politician of the past two centuries, he has a couple of mistresses stashed away.

When he started banging her she was a 39 year old school teacher. Was she a school teacher from a rich family?

[Ibanez]

He married her for the money.

And like every French politician of the past two centuries, he has a couple of mistresses stashed away.

When he started banging her she was a 39 year old school teacher. Was she a school teacher from a rich family?

Maybe it's from her first marriage.