Fleurs des Champs

In times of change, perhaps we need to reflect on the importance of what we do, or become if we don’t. 🌸

[Fleurs des Champs @FleursdChamps]

@KoreyG80 ❤️🙏❤️

[Fleurs des Champs @FleursdChamps]

@WhiteHouse ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

The federal government no longer stands in your way, it stands only at your service.

Easy. Fast. Convenient.

🇺🇸 Hello, America. Welcome to https://t.co/L8I74Hj1UR 🇺🇸

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 IT’S OFFICIAL: Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent just filed to REQUIRE citizenship status be disclosed to the Trump admin on IRS forms

LONG OVERDUE.

No doubt this can be used to advance mass deportations and the elimination of fraud!

Make illegals WANT TO LEAVE 👋🏻

[Daniel Foubert @d_foubert]

Don’t be like the French 🇫🇷.

Don’t spend fifty years explaining away every dysfunction until dysfunction becomes a national tradition.

Don’t confuse endless debate with action, paralysis with sophistication, and the refusal to enforce rules with moral superiority.

Don’t wait until every obvious problem has metastasised before admitting that perhaps the people warning about it twenty years earlier were not all hysterics, fascists or idiots.

Don’t build a state so enormous that it regulates everything, taxes everything and comments on everything — while somehow becoming progressively less capable of stopping a bin from blocking a school entrance, a riot from paralysing a district or an administrative office from losing the same document three times.

And above all, don’t make decline your identity.

France is what happens when a country becomes so accustomed to explaining why nothing can be fixed that eventually it forgets that fixing things was ever an option.

[Fleurs des Champs @FleursdChamps]

@EmmanuelMacron Trump vous a donné aucun choix.
Il menace l’arrêt de l’exportation du diesel dont vous avez besoin.
Toujours pour la politique Net-0
🤡

[Fleurs des Champs @FleursdChamps]

@d_foubert Le plaisir (douloureux) de vous lire 🌸

[Daniel Foubert @d_foubert]

At first, Jean-Pierre did not understand.

He watched the evening news, paid his taxes, voted responsibly and believed what respectable people told him.

1. France needed immigration because the economy needed workers.

2. Diversity was an opportunity.

3. Public services were under pressure because they lacked funding.

4. Disorder at school was caused by inequality.

5. Crime statistics required context.

6. Anyone who connected these things too quickly was probably an extremist.

Then his children started coming home from school saying they could barely hear the teacher.
Half the lesson was spent restoring order.
Teachers changed constantly.
Some simply disappeared for weeks.

Jean-Pierre complained once, politely.
The administration explained that the situation was “challenging” and that the school was developing an “inclusive pedagogical response.”
Jean-Pierre went home reassured.
There were professionals dealing with it.

His neighbourhood changed too.

Shops closed.
Others appeared.
Groups of men occupied the same corners every evening.
His wife stopped taking one street after dark.

Jean-Pierre noticed all of this, but he had also learned that noticing patterns was dangerous.

So every event remained an isolated event.
One closed shop meant nothing.
One assault meant nothing.
Ten incidents meant ten unrelated incidents.
Only a racist would connect dots.

Then his daughter was sexually assaulted by a man who had recently arrived in France.

Jean-Pierre was devastated.

But almost immediately he began policing his own thoughts.
The attacker was an individual. Of course.
One must never generalise.
The television explained that exploiting such crimes politically was irresponsible.
A minister warned against “stigmatisation.”
Jean-Pierre found himself nodding through tears.
What had happened to his daughter was monstrous, but the truly frightening possibility, apparently, was that somebody somewhere might vote for the wrong party because of it.

Nothing changed.

His son’s school became worse.
His daughter stopped going out alone.
His wife wanted to move.
The police were exhausted.
The teachers were exhausted.
The hospitals were exhausted.
Jean-Pierre was exhausted.

Yet every explanation he had been given required him to believe that each deterioration was temporary, accidental, exaggerated or caused by something entirely unrelated to the deterioration immediately beside it.

And whenever somebody proposed that perhaps the country had made serious mistakes — about migration, authority, education, policing, integration, punishment or borders — Jean-Pierre knew the correct answer.

“Careful. That sounds like the far right.”

So he remained reasonable.

He remained moderate.

He remained informed.

He remained completely incapable of drawing a conclusion from his own life.

So at first, Jean-Pierre did not understand.

And he still does not understand.

[Fleurs des Champs @FleursdChamps]

@Kristof_Poland C’est la France qu’exècre la gauche. 🇫🇷❤️

[Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 @Kristof_Poland]

Remember still?

That was 6 days ago…

[Fleurs des Champs @FleursdChamps]

@KoreyG80 🙏🫡🇺🇸❤️🙏❤️

[Fleurs des Champs @FleursdChamps]

@beaver48755 @Annans4g Oh dear 😄

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@Guigz75116 😄

[Fleurs des Champs @FleursdChamps]

@Guigz75116 La meilleur 👏

[🇫🇷 NathDuSud 🇫🇷🌿🐕🐈‍⬛🐎🌿🇫🇷 @MissNathDuSud]

La Crise - 1992 😬😱

[Department of State @StateDept]

SECRETARY RUBIO on GREENLAND DEAL: Under this agreement, which exists now in perpetuity, never will any adversary of the United States have the ability to invest there without our approval and their approval.

[Eliee @elie1757]

Simon Moos , une leçon magistrale !

[Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent @SecScottBessent]

Iran loaded ZERO crude oil onto tankers in September. The Trump Administration is cutting off the Iranian regime’s most critical source of revenue.

Operation Economic Outcast is severing the economic lifelines that have allowed Tehran to finance its terrorist agenda.

[Daniel Foubert @d_foubert]

Europe doesn't have "a problem". It has THREE problems: 3 European nations are suffering from a severe "post-imperial hangover".

First, there is the United Kingdom, a nation that voted for Brexit to "take back control" only to realize it has completely forgotten how to drive.

The British identity crisis is like watching a retired lion try to adopt a vegan diet. They traded imperial confidence for an HR department’s sensitivity training. The land of Churchill is now governed by a sprawling "nanny state" bureaucracy that is more terrified of offending someone on X than it is of actual decline. The British police, once the envy of the world, now seem to spend more resources investigating "non-crime hate incidents" and painting their patrol cars in rainbow colors than solving burglaries. It is a nation desperately clinging to the aesthetics of tradition—the Royals, the pomp, the tea—while its institutions have been hollowed out by a progressive rot that makes a California university campus look conservative. They want the swagger of the 19th century but are paralyzed by the emotional fragility of the 21st.

Then there is France, the angry, chain-smoking aunt of Europe who refuses to admit she’s been unemployed for decades.

France’s hangover manifests as a permanent state of insurrection masquerading as "civic engagement." Their identity is split between a delusional elite who still think Paris is the capital of the universe and a populace that expresses its "joie de vivre" by burning down bus stops every Thursday. The French suffer from a Napoleonic complex without a Napoleon; they demand the living standards of a conquering empire while working a 35-hour week and retiring at an age when most Americans are just hitting their stride. They preach "Republican values" and aggressive secularism, yet the state has lost control over vast swathes of its own suburbs. France is essentially a beautiful, open-air museum where the curators are on strike, the guards are afraid of the visitors, and the management is busy lecturing the rest of the world on "grandeur" while the electricity bill goes unpaid.

Finally, we have Germany, the neurotic giant that has decided the only way to atone for its history is to commit slow-motion industrial suicide.

Germany’s post-imperial hangover is a moral autoimmune disease: the country is so terrified of its own shadow that it has replaced national pride with aggressive self-flagellation and recycling regulations. Their identity is built on being the "Moral Superpower," which practically translates to shutting down their perfectly functional nuclear power plants to burn dirty coal, all while lecturing their neighbors on carbon footprints. It is a nation of engineers who have engineered a society that doesn't work. The German spirit, once defined by efficiency and discipline, has mutated into a paralyzed bureaucracy where filling out the correct form is more important than the outcome. They are so desperate to avoid being "threatening" that they’ve become essentially a large NGO with an army that has broomsticks for rifles, terrified that showing any backbone might be interpreted as a relapse.

[Fleurs des Champs @FleursdChamps]

SpaceX wonders 💥

[Fleurs des Champs @FleursdChamps]

@_cosmicearth Beautiful 🌸