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The extreme-right stomps in the Franch elections, with the extreme-left not too far behind.

Jul 01, 2024

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I can’t believe this happened. I feel like the earth is spinning off its axis. Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria.

Your gracious host, Damian Penny, actually predicted something.

Flashback to the 2022 French Presidential election, when Emanuel Macron handily defeated far-right challenger Marine Le Pen:

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Mac is back

The results are in: I’m kidding, of course. Jeb! was disqualified on some legal mumbo-jumbo technicalities, like “not being a French citizen” and “not actually running for President of France.” IRL, it looks like Macron is now 2-0 against Marine Le Pen…

3 years ago · 2 likes · 2 comments · Damian Penny

I find myself thinking back to the 2002 French Presidential election, when Marine’s infamous (and even more hardline) father Jean-Marie Le Pen shocked everyone by making it to the second round. Aside from the Front National base, French people of all political persuasions held their noses and united behind Jacques Chirac, and Le Pen pere won a smaller share of the vote in the runoff than he’d received in the first round.
Marine improved on that standing in 2017, winning about a third of the vote. This time around, she broke the …

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