Tonight, France burned. America, you should be watching very carefully.
Today, October 17, 2026, more than half a million people marched across France against the cost of living. By 8pm, around 400 had been arrested. In Paris, police turned water cannons on the crowds at Place de la République, and one march was stopped 150 meters from the Élysée Palace. Of the 195 people arrested in the capital by the afternoon, only one actually lived in Paris. Mobs forced their way into the city halls of Marseille and Lille. In Lyon, a tourism office was set on fire. In Rennes, barricades burned. Near Limoges, a highway was blocked and police cars were torched.
And then came Limoges.
A crowd of very young people stormed the city hall, a protected historic monument built in the 1880s. They flipped police cars in front of it and set them ablaze, then set the building itself on fire. The flames took the roof, the wedding hall, and the civil registry, the office that records every birth, every marriage, every death in the city. Tonight, the bell tower that has crowned Limoges for nearly 150 years collapsed.
The mayor's response: "It's a monument that is burning, not the Republic."
That is the problem in one sentence. Our leaders still think words can put out fires.
None of this came out of nowhere. For twenty years, the French political class has excused everything. Every riot was "anger." Every burned car was a "social symptom." Every attack on police was "a reaction to provocation." And the hard left, La France Insoumise, which officially backed today's mobilization, built its electoral machine on an alliance with political Islamism: refusing to condemn, refusing to name, trading secularism and public order for votes. In France we have a word for it. Islamo-gauchisme. Islamo-leftism.
Tonight you saw where that culture of excuse ends. A country where a mob can burn down a town hall, and the state arrives after the roof has already fallen in.
My dear American friends,
I say this with love, as someone who has lived among you and owes you a great deal: your midterms are on November 3rd. And the same alliance is growing inside your Democratic Party. The same far-left wing that treats disorder as protest and police as the enemy. The same activists who refuse to draw a line between legitimate dissent and those who openly despise the West. The same politicians who think tolerance means tolerating everything, including the people who want to burn it down.
It always starts with excuses. Then comes impunity. Then come the flames.
Same causes, same effects. If you create the conditions we created, you will get exactly what we got tonight.
France was the country of the Enlightenment, of cathedrals and town halls that stood for centuries. Tonight, one of them collapsed live on social media while the government called for calm.
My dear American friends, the only advantage you have over us is that you've been warned.
Vote like your city hall depends on it. Because one day, it will.
At the current rate, it won’t be long before they burn the Mona Lisa or take hammers to Michelangelo’s David…
The West is destroying itself because weak leaders don’t want to be called mean names.
The Left defends and promotes its radicals like Hasan Piker, who has been rehabilitated despite his animal abuse and support for terrorism.
The Right censors and gatekeeps its radicals. They disavow, slander, and systematically purge them from institutions.
This is why we lose.
@jonbrooks I think it's a mix of job opportunities being concentrated in Florida HCOL cities and in the "more affordable" areas home prices are still just too high. Just tried buying from a builder in NE FL and their incentives don't mean much when they won't lower sales price.
In less than 1 year Democrats got a subset of left wing women to support or defend: Tren De Aragua, Somali fraud, MS-13, communism, running over law enforcement, Antifa, Maduro, Hamas, Sharia law, assassinations & sex changes for kids. Evil but impressive psychological operation.
🚨 JUST IN: NEW POV FOOTAGE released of the Minneapolis ICE agent that shot and killed woman who tried to run him over with her vehicle
He was DIRECTLY IN FRONT of the car as she floored it, you can hear the engine rev up
The agent then discharged his firearm.
CLEAR CUT, CASE CLOSED self defense right here.
The more video is released, the more it's obvious the Left LIED and is wrong. I stand with ICE.
📽️ @AlphaNews
🚨 HOLY CRAP. JD VANCE IS LIVID!
"Everybody repeating the lie this is some innocent woman out for a drive in MN - YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELVES. EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU."
"What that headline leaves out is the fact that that very ICE officer nearly had his life ENDED, DRAGGED by a car six months ago, 33 stitches in his leg, so you THINK maybe he's a little bit SENSTIVE about somebody ramming him with an automobile?!"
"What that headline leaves out is that that woman was there to interfere with a legitimate law enforcement operation in the United States of America."
"What that headline leaves out is that that woman is part of a broader left-wing network to attack, to dox, to assault, and to make it impossible for our ICE officers to do their job."
"If the media wants to tell the truth, they ought to tell the truth that a group of left-wing radicals have been working tirelessly, sometimes using domestic terror techniques, to try to make it impossible for the president of the United States to do what the American people elected him to do, which is enforce our immigration laws."
"You people in the media have been LYING ABOUT THIS ATTACK. She was trying to RAM THIS GUY with her car! He shot back. He's already been seriously wounded before!"
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I crunched the data. Again.
I made a map. Again.
The picture is now even CLEANER.
States without voter ID requirements are 16x more likely to offer welfare benefits to illegal immigrants than states requiring ID (67% vs 4%, p<0.0001).
Dems are importing and paying illegals for votes.
Details👇
🚨 JAW-DROPPING TRUTH FROM STEPHEN MILLER: "This was the plan all along - to get them here illegally so they can get free government benefits, get hooked to welfare and be able to participate in American elections. This was an attack on democracy by the Democrat Party!"
"The Biden admin devised a scheme to fly illegal aliens into the country and then to escort them en masse across the border by the millions and to give them something known as 'parole,' which gives them a work permit, which gives them a social security number, which gives them access to the VOTING BOOTH."
The grand plan. THIS IS TREASON.
H/t @Real_RobN
@shaunmmaguire@nickshirleyy@christopherrufo Literally every government program has stupidly high fraud.
The reason for most of the entitlements fraud is to create a giant cash magnet to attract and retain migrants to turn America deep, socialist blue.