lots of friends abroad have reached out asking about the situation in france, here’s my 2 cents
>the french are protesting against the gov, asking for more gov intervention to solve problems created by having too much gov intervention
>30+ years of no growth, deindustrialisation, low social mobility, dependence on gov spending, raising cost of living, degrowth mindset = we are the first generation in >200 years who don’t think we’ll do as well as our parents
>when the pie stops growing, the only way to win is to take away from others
>the welfare system is on its last leg: gov debt & deficit are such that france is on the verge of having the IMF come in with a austerity plan. the yield of gov bonds is skyrocketing. some want the extremes to come to power to precipitate this
>we’re in the midst of an ideological war 6 months away from presidential elections: will france reign in its public spending or will it expand its welfare state
>in the polls, far left & far right are increasingly leading, centrists are the main losers as many were macron ministers (retailleau, attal & philippe). the longer the protests continue, the worse they’ll do
>the silver lining: this may force them to do a primary/party election and all rally behind one candidate
>the strongest candidate is @davidlisnard: he’s still relatively unknown from the general public but he’s climbing in the polls, is the most liberal economically, has a serious plan to reign in gov spending and never worked with macron
>he’s still a wild card & even if elected may struggle to govern (his political party is 1 year old, the chances of him getting a majority in parlement are low)
>with the level of societal change we’ll experience in the next decade with technology, having strong institutions is paramount. french institutions are weak today
>last week was a fiasco: gov & police forces were heavily under prepared, protest organisers & politicians made things worse and rioters took advantage of it
>this is what Paris looks like this morning as we prepare for another weekend of protests
Prof. Jeffrey Sachs:
"How many wars has China🇨🇳 been in, in the last 40 years? Let me count them. That would be zero. Not one war in 40 years.”
While the US spends its trillions bombing poor people in the global south, China invests its trillions on improving the lives of its citizens, and building economic partnerships with the rest of the world.
🚨France: A woman forced to watch her shop get destroyed by left-wing thugs.
Decades of open-border politicians built this.
Every single member of the National Assembly and Senate should be removed from office and charged with crimes against the French people.
To every American, and to everyone watching France burn from abroad:
Do not blame the French people for this.
We never asked for it. We never voted for it. And the one time we were clearly asked, we said no.
Here are the numbers your media won't show you.
70% of the French say there are too many immigrants in France today.
79% want a tougher immigration policy.
77% disapprove of the government's record on immigration.
83% want foreign criminals and long-term unemployed foreigners sent home.
And no, it's not just the old. 69% of French 18 to 24 year olds support suspending legal immigration for three years.
This is not a fringe. This is the French people.
In 2005, we were asked if we wanted the European Constitution. 55% voted no. Three years later, our politicians passed the same text under another name, through parliament, without ever asking us again.
That is modern France in one sentence. The people say no. The elites do it anyway.
So who is responsible? The politicians who lied to us. A class of leaders formed in the same schools, the same forums, the same networks, loyal to each other before they are loyal to their nations.
In 2017, at Harvard, Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum, bragged about his Young Global Leaders program in four words: "We penetrate the cabinets." He added that it was true in France. Emmanuel Macron was one of his Young Global Leaders.
It's the same project in Brussels with Ursula von der Leyen and in Paris with Macron. Borders treated as an obstacle. Nations treated as relics. The people treated as a problem to be managed.
What you are watching in France is not the French people failing. It is the end of the globalist project, an abject, quasi-communist dream of a world run by unelected planners. It is collapsing everywhere in Europe at once, and the West has to cut this cancer out before it takes the rest of the body with it.
The peoples of Europe don't want this. They never did.
So when you see our town halls burning, don't say "the French chose this."
The French never chose this.
They were forced into it.
If you're French and you agree, repost this so the world hears it from us.
If you're American, look at us carefully. Then choose differently on November 3rd.
Ben Shapiro is an Israeli agent who wants Americans sacrificed for Israel’s wars.
His uncle, Zalman Shapiro, stole U.S. nuclear material that helped build Israel’s nuclear program.
The clip shows a declassified document exposing Hoover’s FBI cover-up of Zalman Shapiro despite Helms’s CIA demanding an investigation.
Now Ben Shapiro is pushing for American military intervention, declaring:
“Americans are not dumb. If necessary military activities can only be pursued at zero cost, there’s no use having a military.”
Necessary for whom, Ben? America or Israel?
He even invoked Hitler to reinforce his argument:
“Hitler thought Americans were decadent and unstable.”
Israel wants the war. Ben Shapiro wants Americans to fight it.
And the question remains: How many Americans must die for a war that serves Israel?
The documents are declassified. The history is buried. Follow the receipts in the thread. 1/3🧵
🚨 Tucker Carlson torches Ben Shapiro.
"Ben Shapiro is an old person's idea of a young person... Sell the even harder to pitch idea that it's unpatriotic to oppose wars for Israel."
Just to kill Larijani at his daughter's house, the Epstein Syndicate bombed AN ENTIRE RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOOD near Teheran.
At least one hundred CIVILIANS were murdered with him.
Murdered by barbarians who proud themselves of not reading anything - like neo-Caligula. Larijani wrote books on mathematics and Kantian philosophy.
Functionally illiterate Barbaria can only excel when it comes to killing sprees.