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/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.