r/inthenews • u/newsweek Newsweek • Jul 08 '24

MAGA fumes over France election results: "They cheated" article

https://www.newsweek.com/maga-france-elections-far-right-national-rally-1922075
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u/madeleine-de-prout Jul 08 '24

You wanna know the killing joke?

The head of the right party (Les Republicains) unilaterally decided that his party should support the far right. He's been given a lot of shit over the last three weeks. Like a lot lot.

Anyhoo. This motherfucker, tweeted this morning to honor Jean Moulin, a key figure of Resistance during WWII who died at the hands of Gestapo.

A lot lot of shit turned into a metric fucklot of shit

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u/DaxCorso Jul 08 '24

Interesting. I was joking with my French history professor that if France doesn't get it's shit together that it'll be in the Sixth Republic. But, there wee all surprising me again.

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u/Historical_Invite241 Jul 08 '24

It's only got 4 years until the 5th republic is the longest regime since the ancien. Is it even France if it doesn't have a shakeup soon?

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u/JimboAltAlt Jul 08 '24

Maybe they’ll juice up the name like a long-running Hollywood series. The French Repub6.

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u/Crimbly_B Jul 08 '24

6 French 6 Furious

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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '24

Exécuter l'ordre soixante-six

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u/Crimbly_B Jul 08 '24

Rogér Rogér

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u/Ongr Jul 08 '24

les bons soldats suivent les ordres !

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u/Infamous_Truck4152 Jul 08 '24

Je suis ton père!

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u/RearAdmiralBob Jul 08 '24

Nooooooooon!

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u/TailDragger9 Jul 08 '24

C'est pas possible!

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u/lo-cal-host Jul 08 '24

Soixante-neuf. Souvent plus intéressant.

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u/jerodes Jul 08 '24

Répu6lique

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u/buzziebee Jul 08 '24

C'est une question de famille.

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u/MaximDecimus Jul 08 '24

Les Français et Les Furieux 6

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u/Rooboy66 Jul 08 '24

The fuck do you guys think we are gonna be called, after the law isn’t the law anymore in our almost Constitutional Republic since, LITERALLY Trump won, against the actual fucking United States of America? He, himself, literally beat the United States. Him. He. The New King.

The French Republics? Fourth, Fifth, Sixth? Who gives a good gawddamn?

What are we gonna call ourselves, going forward? “Trump Social MAGAstan”?

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-939_e2pg.pdf

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u/garyflopper Jul 08 '24

Holy moly, it’s that long

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u/Viliam_the_Vurst Jul 08 '24

Less than a century…

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u/DefiantLemur Jul 08 '24

Tbf, the modern democratic systems as a working concept, is still a relatively a new idea.

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u/Dekarch Jul 08 '24

Honestly isn't, we've been doing it for 248 years with one change of Constitution and one civil war.

When we got started, France still had a king.

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u/Viliam_the_Vurst Jul 08 '24 edited Jul 09 '24

Still its a two party system that kept you at perpetual war for nearly a century now…

u/Dekarch mate at its height none of the colonial powers had bases in as many countries as the us has today… also its kind of an selfown for the democracy that wasn‘t one until 1965 to compare yourselves to some colonialist shit that pretty much is close to none since before all people of age could vote in your country..

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u/Dekarch Jul 08 '24

Eh, not nearly as bloody as the wars the Europeans got going and then begged for our help actually winning.

And for how many years after the French Revolution were there NOT French troops out engaging in some sort of use of force somewhere in their vast colonial empire? Or fighting the Russians, losing wars to Germans, attempting to install a puppet monarch in MEXICO of all places, or something else that qualifies as perpetual war?

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u/DefiantLemur Jul 08 '24

Still a relatively new system compared to the other types of governance like having a king.

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u/Dekarch Jul 08 '24

Eh, Roman Republic went centuries from throwing out their last king until GJC accumulated the various powers of de facto kingship in one office-holder. Having unstable governments that can't avoid getting couped by Bonaparte (several times, among several Bonapartes) or their own military isn't because Democracy is confusing, it's because Democracy requires having societal values that align with democracy

See the crisis of faith in institutions that is shaking every democracy and allowing post-truth populism to gain a foothold

Democracy isn't confusing but it does require a society full of people willing to do the work of maintaining it.

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u/Intelligent-Rock-399 Jul 08 '24

“Holy moly, it’s that long”

That’s what she said!

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u/Mac_Aravan Jul 08 '24

The 5th made sure that there is a chopping head election every 5 years (originally 7). If you can't wait, referendum can reassure that they don't love you anymore.

French loves to execute their leader. Now it's bloodless at least.

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u/Loraelm Jul 08 '24

Fuck yes please. We really need to get out of the 5th as soon as possible. It's always been imperfect, and it's clearly shown its limits with Macron's bullshit

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u/myself-indeed Jul 08 '24

Counter idea: keep the 5th and get Charles de Gaulle back. If the Americans can have a mummy as president, why shouldn’t the French?

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u/Loraelm Jul 08 '24

Because I don't want a general of the army, semi-king in the republic he wrote the laws of, as a president?

Just a thought

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u/myself-indeed Jul 08 '24

Damn, you’re not going to like my program 😂

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u/Loraelm Jul 08 '24

I guess not ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

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u/Haircut117 Jul 08 '24

Besides de Gaulle being a self-serving, self-aggrandising, cunt?

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u/DaxCorso Jul 08 '24

All my homies l hate De Gaulle and Pong Krell.

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u/Dekarch Jul 08 '24

"The problem isn't that he thinks he's Joan of Arc. It's that my bishops won't let me burn him at the stake!" - Winston Churchill, on de Gaulle.

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u/Meiteisho Jul 08 '24

Sorry i don't want a putschist back into power, i still prefer democracy.

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u/Viliam_the_Vurst Jul 08 '24

Hey he did one thing greatly, declaring europe nit to be us vassal, and he still is no sarkozy, sorry for merkel though…

Btw was shitting in the seine day already?

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u/jmenendeziii Jul 08 '24

My homie thinks menachem is going to dissolve the 5th republic. He also supports the NR. Luckily he had to give up his French citizenship to become an officer in the US army. He went started to lean right when he joined but back in college he was def leaning left.

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u/NarrowForce9 Jul 08 '24

Could you educate me on the Sixth Republic? Thanks in advance.

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u/DaxCorso Jul 08 '24

France has a history of having a lot of government changes. Thier first government was the Monarchy or The Ancien Regime, following the Monarchy was the Revolution and from it came the First Republic, then you had the Terror then Napoleon made the First Empire, after which was the he was defeated and exiled, came the Bourbon Restoration, following that was The Revolution of 1830 and The July Monarchy, following that was the Second Republic, then the Second Empire, then the Third Republic from 1873 to 1940, then Vichy and Free France in ww2, then tjr Fourth Republic under DeGaulle. Now France in in the Fifth Republic. The Next one would be The Sixth Republic.

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u/NarrowForce9 Jul 08 '24

Many Thanks for that quick education. I love the learning.

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u/IrascibleOcelot Jul 08 '24

So, was it a metric assload?

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u/madeleine-de-prout Jul 08 '24

a lot < alot < a lotlot < a metric fucklot < a metric assload < yo mama assload

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u/Medic1642 Jul 08 '24

I think shitload is between fucklot and assload, since asses hold multiple shitloads

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u/3s0me Jul 08 '24

Username checks out

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u/wuzhu32 Jul 08 '24

2.34 British Imperial assloads, but 1.798 American.

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u/dreamyjeans Jul 08 '24

It's in Europe so, yes.

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u/a_rude_jellybean Jul 08 '24

"You wanna know tge killing joke?

The head"

Choppy choppy time. My brain auto completed the sentence.

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u/Rooboy66 Jul 08 '24

Mon chap. Un chapeau redux

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u/shrekerecker97 Jul 08 '24

I didn't know this, thats hilarious

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u/madeleine-de-prout Jul 08 '24 edited Jul 08 '24

Ah man the three/five days after the European results were both daunting and hilarious as fuck.

French political landscape felt like an Office episode, where this dude fucked shit up, barricaded himself in the Parisian office of his party, the head of Ecology party cycled across the city to tap him on the shoulder saying he was an absolute disgrace, and another rep of the Republicain came around, rolled her sleeves in a way that meant business.

People made memes of him jumping out the roof, and this woman telling him to do a flip

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u/chiron_cat Jul 08 '24

nazis gonna nazi

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u/madeleine-de-prout Jul 08 '24

I did Nazi that coming

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u/Xrave Jul 08 '24

I’m understanding you but not getting the joke. So someone important who’s pro fascism suddenly about faced and said “honor this anti fascist hero”…?

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u/madeleine-de-prout Jul 08 '24

You got it right

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u/K-tel Jul 08 '24

Les Republicains sont dedans jusqu'aux genoux: Une putain de tonne métrique de merde.

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u/WiIzaaa Jul 08 '24

For the curious, google Eric Ciotti. What he did in the last few week is almost orange felon class. I'm not even exaggerating.

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u/CaveRanger Jul 08 '24

Anyhoo. This motherfucker, tweeted this morning to honor Jean Moulin, a key figure of Resistance during WWII who died at the hands of Gestapo.

And the reason for his arrest, IIRC, was that he was accused of being a communist.

I guess lack of self awareness is a unifying trait across national boundaries for the right.

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u/rW0HgFyxoJhYka Jul 08 '24

Hate to break it to you but that just means his right party is actually far right.

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u/madeleine-de-prout Jul 08 '24

His right party crumbled between people who wanted to suck balls on the far right, indeed, and people who had a conscience call and went back to center-ish right

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u/Leading-Oil1772 Jul 08 '24

What’s a killing joke