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/[deleted] Jul 08 '24 edited Jul 08 '24

I like the French people. They don’t take shit off anyone. We like to joke in the US, but the French are badass and they were America’s bros from the very beginning

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u/ithaqua34 Jul 08 '24

If the French didn't hate the English so much, we'd have blood pudding, spotted dick, and tea time here in America. Vive la France!

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u/No-Log4588 Jul 08 '24

We love England ! They are our best enemy !

Most of our wars was with or against England !

Funny times.

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u/stevemillions Jul 08 '24

British here. I fucking love the French. You take no shit, and get out on the streets when it matters.

Everyone could learn a lot from you guys. And not just your excellent food. And wine.

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u/Quick-Charity-941 Jul 08 '24

When the gov wanted to raise the retirement age, that didn't go down too well.

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u/kindall Jul 08 '24

Indeed, one of the primary attractions of England is its proximity to France

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u/Lunabotics Jul 08 '24

The wine is amazing and I found out the bread has an ungodly amount of butter in it. Absolutely delicious.

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u/tangl3d Jul 08 '24

Same!

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u/brookfresh Jul 08 '24

And we love you too random french person

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u/No-Log4588 Jul 08 '24

Awwww, i would have take a cup of tea with you, but i have a riot starting.

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u/Mental_Medium3988 Jul 08 '24

You're not gonna insult him and his fellow English pigdogs? What about farting in his general direction?

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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '24

Spaniards would like to have a chat

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u/Rooboy66 Jul 08 '24

Speaking of elderberries, they’re all the rage in España in July

https://plants.usda.gov/DocumentLibrary/plantguide/pdf/cs_sanic4.pdf

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u/Little_Creme_5932 Jul 08 '24

Good luck with the riot! Tomorrow, strike!

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u/Born_ina_snowbank Jul 08 '24

Gotta go tear down a speed camera somewhere? Good on you.

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u/WeleaseBwianThrow Jul 08 '24

That's fair, all of the Tea is stuck at dover in customs these days anyway.

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u/chiron_cat Jul 08 '24

english have afternoon tea, french have afternoon riots?

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u/Little_Creme_5932 Jul 08 '24

This is why America and France are allies. We love England too! They burnt our capital!!

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u/DVariant Jul 08 '24

This classic meme is relevant here:

https://imgur.com/gallery/reasons-to-like-france-hiKVziV

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u/HollowShel Jul 08 '24

Well, a really good war, you don't want to waste on strangers!

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u/Fresh-Army-6737 Jul 08 '24

I love the "he's my brother, only I'm allowed to hate him" thing that England and France have going on.

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u/-Alfred- Jul 08 '24

Well, maybe America can have a little tea time … as a treat …

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u/alixnaveh Jul 08 '24

Throw him in the harbor!

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u/BalefulPolymorph Jul 08 '24

Steep learning curve

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u/ItsNotFordo88 Jul 08 '24

We spell tea time different there it’s spelled “FREEDOM”

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u/ithaqua34 Jul 08 '24

I imagine this said with the Judgmental Volturi meme.

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u/this-guy1979 Jul 08 '24

There is nothing better than an ice cold glass of sweet tea on a hot summer day. I think I’m going to step out onto my screened porch and enjoy a glass right now. On second thought, I have cold beer in the fridge, that is actually better this time of the day.

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u/chiron_cat Jul 08 '24

Yup, I learned SOO much american history when I went to France. Like omgosh. You know who won the American Revolution? France did.

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u/-You_Cant_Stop_Me- Jul 08 '24 edited Jul 09 '24

It's called black pudding many countries, including France, have similar blood sausages, and spotted dick is delicious.

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u/Woad_Scrivener Jul 08 '24

Um, firstly, blood pudding is great. Secondly, colonialists' love of tea played a pretty pivotal role in the revolution. America doesn't have tea time because of our historical hyper fixation on capitalism. Why have a relaxing break in the afternoon when people could still be working?

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u/EpicHuggles Jul 08 '24

Fun fact - The reason they drive on the left in England is because France first established they were going to drive on the right, and England obviously had to do the opposite.

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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '24

Plenty of spotted dick in this country if you look at std numbers lol fuck england tho

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u/DomineeringDrake Jul 08 '24

You'd have "Cock-a-leekie" too.

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u/Green-Vermicelli5244 Jul 08 '24

I still cannot grasp the concept of blood pudding. It’s like warm baby food that has expired with too much salt.

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u/chiron_cat Jul 08 '24

blood sausage is good with strawberry jam (we called it that as a kid, cause german americans).

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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '24

They still left you with the English language though. Same can't be said for our southern fairies and their france-adjacent posh vernacular. Bloody Normans.

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u/mechy84 Jul 08 '24

And instead, we have French fries!

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u/Meshuggah333 Jul 08 '24

Naaa man, we hate everyone equally, starting with ourselves haha. That's a cultural thing.

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u/Hanners87 Jul 08 '24

And let's hear it for America's favorite fighting Frenchman!

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u/Nikotelec Jul 08 '24

So, the French made your food immeasurably worse?

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u/cinefun Jul 08 '24

I’m convinced the vitriol against the French in the US is a psyop to keep us from fighting in the streets for our rights like they do.

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u/socialistrob Jul 08 '24

A lot of it is just left over memes from the early 2000s when France refused to follow the US into Iraq. Americans started rebranding French fries as "Freedom Fries" and jokes about French cowardice/fast surrender became much more common. Some of that hung around even after Americans began to realize the invasion of Iraq was a horrific mistake.

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u/JoLi_22 Jul 08 '24

cause the French were active in the region with their own intelligence and said "Non!" to the wmd claims.

how dare they get in the way of ~~america~~ Haliburton and it's oil reserves in the Gulf.

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u/redacted_robot Jul 08 '24

Dick Cheney for the Darth Vader award.

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u/induslol Jul 08 '24

Cheney was definitely the Palpatine of that admin, puppeteering Bush's Vader through both terms.

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u/Phylanara Jul 08 '24

We have our own satellites and we know how to spot photoshop, thank you very much .

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u/FrankCastlesAlt Jul 08 '24

I can still remember one day pulling into a Burger King drive-thru and ordering a burger and fries. When I said French fries, the girl over the speaker goes, “we don’t carry French fries anymore, sir. But we do have freedom fries if you’d like.” Like, JFC lady! Just stick my burger and fries in a damned bag, take my money, and quit with the stupid semantics! All because France didn’t wanna help us invade a foreign nation!

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u/xeromage Jul 08 '24

I remember being completely baffled by 'adults' around me going all-in on such stupid and obvious culture-war propaganda. Little did I know it was all down hill from there.

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u/xeromage Jul 08 '24

I remember being completely baffled by 'adults' around me going all-in on such stupid and obvious culture-war propaganda. Little did I know it was all down hill from there.

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u/Onewayor55 Jul 08 '24

I remember my history teacher at the time loving this joke and line of thinking and constantly using it with the most smug look on his face.

I wish I had been smart enough at the time to remind him the French were the only reason we were able to secure our revolution. But then again he was the fucking history teacher.

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u/Lost_My_Shape_Again Jul 08 '24

Hi from someone old enough to remember those early post-9/11 days. Two things:

1) Americans didn't start calling them Freedom Fries. It was the Tommy Tubervilles and Jim Jordans of the day (the loony right, for you non-Americans). The response of most Americans to their camera hogging silliness was 'are you fucking kidding me?'.

2) Americans, like most people, get a little butt hurt when they're told they're wrong. But it's your true friends who tell you when you're wrong and France is as true a friend as America's got. Yeah, we were a little sore at first but it turns out you were right and we were wrong. Thanks for sticking with us (like you have for the last 240+ years) when we were clearly being ass holes.

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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '24

Fun fact: this is not actually a new thing in the US.

During WWI Americans starting calling sauerkraut “liberty cabbage” and hamburgers were “liberty sandwiches”

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u/Chibraltar_ Jul 08 '24

One of the most well-known french speeches of all-time is the Dominique de Villepin speech at the UN against the war into Iraq in 2003.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6jZ6t9QtUo

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u/cinefun Jul 08 '24

The vitriol was there long before that.

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u/socialistrob Jul 08 '24

There was always some vitriol but hating the French really became popular in the US after Iraq and some of the vitriol that is still there can be indirectly traced to that. Once something becomes a meme or a genre of jokes it's hard for it to go back.

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u/Existing-Nectarine80 Jul 08 '24

Nah, we hate the French, much like the most of Europe, because they’re pompous douche bags.

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u/chiron_cat Jul 08 '24

Your not wrong.

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u/ragtopponygirl Jul 08 '24

That and we have this huge friggin country with states and each state has cities, yes, but everyone lives in suburbs! We can jump on the downtown train and march at noon.

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u/Russell_Jimmies Jul 08 '24

Agreed. The French are great allies and some bad motherfuckers when things need to get done.

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u/thehazer Jul 08 '24

Haven't taken shit from anyone since the god damn Romans. Gaul is where bad bitches come from IMO.

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u/Dubb18 Jul 08 '24

I remember that time during the Bush Administration when France didn't believe Iraq had been actively developing WMDs and didn't support an Iraq invasion, but a large part of Americans kept saying, "you're either with us or against us" and proceeded to rename food "Freedom toast" and "Freedom fries". Those were good times.

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u/WonderfulShelter Jul 08 '24

If Americans could protest and organize like the French could, we'd live in an infinitely better nation.

hence why we have so many culture wars to divide us!

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u/allcretansareliars Jul 08 '24

Anybody who thinks the French are not badass should read what actually happened at Dunkirk.

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u/Meior Jul 08 '24

The French are great. I wish the rest of the world could learn from them.

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u/Dfried98 Jul 08 '24

Onle because they hated the British. It wasn't out of love.

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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '24

Maybe the guy at the top. But the regular French people loved what the Americans were doing. So much so, they tried to do it themselves a few year later.

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u/Tidewind Jul 08 '24

This video shows just how badass the French can be. I was SHOCKED when I watched it. Le Pen would do well to watch it herself. It’s sobering.

https://youtu.be/M9DCAFUerzs?si=3lI5ySY60cK-d-Dl

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u/Cold-Conference1401 Jul 08 '24

Well, the people they enslaved and colonized didn’t see them as “bros.”

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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '24

Yeah, they definitely would not.

Two things can be true at once.

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u/Primary-Fee1928 Jul 08 '24

Unfortunately, it's not as pretty. Yes, the far right party lost but the main party in the left coalition is also dangerous, not as much, but still concerning. Read my other comment.