If you don’t find it interesting, fine with me; I don’t find your technique of arguing by assertion very interesting either, so I assure you the feeling is mutual. I’m happy to ignore you and you can do likewise (though I have found some of your postings about Islamic culture and thought to be informative in the past).
Pfft. All that’s missing from Trump is the makeup.
So how’s that rumbling working out for ya ?
(yes, it’s petty, but then again I’m pretty drunk. I’ll just do like my wife and hate myself in the morning)
Congratulations, France, for good eyesight, good sense, and a good nose for what is rotten.
Le Pen was Blightier than a Gourd.
(…more shame us for electing an orange Trumpkin as a leader…)
One of 'em, at any rate
We don’t need any fucking evidence. We’ve known we were superior to the Brits since the one hundred years war, and how could we not be superior tro a country that is less than 1000 years old?
Felicitations on Paris being selected to host the 2024 Jeux Olympiques, btw. Yes, there’s some ceremony to complete first, but it was either that or have the IOC do something nice for Trump. Now that Le Pen is out of the picture for now, there’s a safe choice to make.
(bolding mine)
We’re happy to forgive you one extra (r). We have way too damn many of them here, so how can we not…?
It was? Oh, fuck!
He’s already congratulated Macron on a “big win” and said he looks forward to working with him. My guess is he’s going to forget everything he ever said about Le Pen and get offended if anyone else brings it up.
“Felicitations” isn’t French for “my deepest condolences.”
He sent out a tweet congratulating him. IIRC, he called Erodgan directly.
Any word on whether Trump has personally called Macron yet?
Well, shit.
No, it’s great news. This could really put Paris on the map. Maybe bring in some tourists.
In news today, Putin loses French election.
Congratulations, mes amis.
Could we possibly foist it on Marseilles or something ?
It’s noteworthy that while polls were accurate in the complicated multi-candidate first round they significantly underestimated Macron’s vote in the two-candidate second round. A possible reason may be that the e-mail hacks backfired which should hopefully discourage future cyber miscreants.
This was a pretty decisive victory. I’d like to hope that this is strong evidence of a back lash against the rise of right wing populism. I think the rest of the world is seeing what a joke Trump’s presidency is, and the absolute debacle of the brexit process and realising that sometimes they do need to listen to “experts” and have people that actually understand how government works in power.
No, Trump has no real political philosophy, Le Pen has one and she is very determined, very focused.
they are not really alike at all.
So no boasting, it is repaid with punishments.
Macron 66.1%.
a gain over the margin of error of most of the polls.
From the relevant wikipedia page, we have the following map, which shows what départements were a win for Macron vs. a win for LePen. Yellow is Macron, Blue is LePen.
LePen won in 2 out of 102 départements. Macron won in the other 100.
I think this map makes it very clear that Macron had much more wide-ranging appeal than LePen across the whole country.