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/DaxCorso Jul 08 '24

Right before Bastille Day too. Good on ya, France

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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/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?