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France’s Macron appears set for runoff with Le Pen
Centrist Emmanuel Macron and far-right leader Marine Le Pen are set to face each other in a May 7 runoff for the French presidency after coming first and second in Sunday’s first round of voting, according to multiple projections.
Though Macron, 39, is a comparative political novice who has never held elected office, opinion polls in the run-up to the ballot have consistently seen him easily winning the final clash against the 48-year-old Le Pen.
Sunday’s outcome spells disaster for the two mainstream groupings that have dominated French politics for 60 years, and also reduces the prospect of an anti-establishment shock on the scale of Britain’s vote last June to quit the EU and the election of Donald Trump as U.S. president.
The euro currency was quoted higher immediately after the first projections were issued, with banks quoting around $1.092 versus $1.072 on Friday evening, according to Reuters data. EUR=
In a race that was too close to call up to the last minute, Macron, a pro-European Union ex-banker and economy minister who founded his own party only a year ago, was projected to get 24 percent of the first-round vote by the pollster Harris, and 23.7 percent by Elabe.
Le Pen, leader of the anti-immigration and anti-EU National Front, was given 22 percent by both institutes. At least three further pollsters all projected broadly similar results.
Macron’s supporters, gathered at a Paris conference center burst into singing the national anthem, the Marseillaise, a few seconds after results came through. Many were under 25, reflecting some of the appeal of a man aiming to become France’s youngest head of state since Napoleon.
Le Pen, who is herself bidding to make history as France’s first female president, follows in the footsteps of her father, who founded the National Front and reached the second round of the presidential election in 2002.
Jean-Marie Le Pen was ultimately crushed when voters from right and left rallied around the conservative Jacques Chirac in order to keep out a party whose far-right, anti-immigrant views they considered unpalatably xenophobic.
His daughter has done much to soften her party’s image, and found widespread support among young voters by pitching herself as an anti-establishment defender of French workers and French interests.
“RAMPANT GLOBALIZATION”
“The great issue in this election is the rampant globalization that is putting our civilization at risk,” she declared in her first word after results came through.
Nevertheless, Le Pen seems destined to suffer a similar fate to her father.
Defeated Socialist candidate Benoit Hamon, Socialist Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve and defeated right-wing candidate Francois Fillon all urged voters to rally behind Macron in the second round.
Harris gave both Fillon, badly damaged by allegations that his wife had been paid from the public purse for work she did not do, and far-left contender Jean-Luc Melenchon 20 percent in the first round.
“This defeat is mine and it is for me and me alone to bear it,” Fillon told a news conference, adding that he would now vote for Macron.
The result will mean a face-off between politicians with radically contrasting economic visions for a country whose economy lags that of its neighbors and where a quarter of young people are unemployed.
Macron favors gradual deregulation measures that will be welcomed by global financial markets, as well as cuts in state expenditure and the civil service. Le Pen wants to print money to finance expanded welfare payments and tax cuts, ditch the euro currency and possibly pull out of the EU.
Whatever the outcome on May 7, it will mean a redrawing of France’s political landscape, which has been dominated for 60 years by mainstream groupings from the center-left and center-right, both of whose candidates faded.
Macron ally Gerard Collomb said the defeat of the mainstream center-left Socialists and the center-right Republicans showed a “deep malaise” in French society.
The final outcome on May 7 will influence France’s standing in Europe and the world as a nuclear-armed, veto-wielding member of the U.N. Security Council and founding member of the organization that transformed itself into the European Union.
51 Comments on "France’s Macron appears set for runoff with Le Pen"
Cloggie on Sun, 23rd Apr 2017 3:43 pm
https://mobile.twitter.com/i/web/status/856233846903328770
Cloggie on Sun, 23rd Apr 2017 3:59 pm
The difference with the US is that the French party establishment has been eliminated. Nevertheless the US imperial system promoted a Rothschildt candidate and his fake 2016 “party”, with the full backing of the media.
Macron is pro-open borders for France and pro-closed borders for Israel and of course anti-Russia.
Cloggie on Sun, 23rd Apr 2017 4:58 pm
Her father was beaten in 2002 with a margin 82-18.
Her daughter will be beaten more likely like 2:1.
You could call that progress.
I had preferred Fillon, but he shot himself majestically in the foot, with a little help from the system, that objected to the pro-Russia stance of Fillon and preferred Macron.
My problem with le Pen was obviously not her anti-immigration standpoint, but her anti-Europe attitude. I completely agree with the hard-right French author Guillaume Faye:
http://www.gfaye.com/euro-revolver-sur-la-tempe-de-marine-le-pen/
Wilders made the same mistake. People are anti-immigration but pro-Europe. We do not need a repetition of 1914 or 1939, but instead a massive European armaments program.
It looks like 4-5 more years of US imperial BAU, more terrorist attacks, Turkey moving away from the West, etc.
Marine le Pen is still young (48), 23 years younger than the US geriontocracy of November 2016. And then there is her younger niece Marion waiting in the wings, just in case.
Boat on Sun, 23rd Apr 2017 8:42 pm
I read Germany’s right is losing ground. Pen will most likely lose. Your far right ideology supporters are losing steam. It will be interesting to see the US mid term elections. Will Trump scare his support away?
Sissyfuss on Sun, 23rd Apr 2017 9:07 pm
Macron married his teacher who is 24 years older than him. Sounds like mommy issues. Class dismissed.
Cloggie on Sun, 23rd Apr 2017 10:48 pm
The European Right is not losing steam ar all but gaining everywhere. But it is not yet enough to declare independence from the Hamburger empire, the biggest suicidal disaster in the history of the white race.
The German AfD has solved its leaderships issues yesterday and will likely enter parliament in the Autumn for the first time.
But I don’t think politics can change anything, the street will.
Four-five more years. America will further darken and weaken and ethnic tensions will increase, China will continue to rise, there will be no bromance. Brexit will be ugly. There will be no fuel shortage or major climate disruption. Trump will probably be a one term president, the last president of European America. After him the darkies can have it. Hopefully it finally falls apart.
dissident on Sun, 23rd Apr 2017 10:58 pm
Being anti-Brussels unelected dictate is not being anti-European. I guess EU citizens will keep on bending over and taking it by the globalists and their immigration flooding agenda. Ironic, self-defeating ignorance.
Boat on Sun, 23rd Apr 2017 11:01 pm
Clog,
Why don’t you just say Mexican. They are the only darker skinned people with any size able gain in population. Muslims are at 1 percent, Jews At 1.8. You gotta lot of hate for such a tiny part of the population. What do you think of the Mexican people. You never seem to mention them. Are they inferior to whites also?
joe on Sun, 23rd Apr 2017 11:05 pm
France is under an offical state of emergency. Islamists will not stop attacking, ever. Le Pen should she be elected would not be able to cope with the scale of civil unrest. Remember, its the islamists goal to provoke non muslim society, they want to do everywhere what they have achieved in Syria and Balkans etc, ie win over western liberal support but as they creep ever westward we will see how far tolerance goes. So far it seems the sheep just wont defend themselves, then again Europe killed off its wolves a long time ago, they new wolves have open country in front of them.
q on Sun, 23rd Apr 2017 11:39 pm
Vive la France. 🙂 Rothschild bankster will surely solve problems that Rothschild banksters produced.
Cloggie on Sun, 23rd Apr 2017 11:42 pm
Boat, never forget: Zimbabwe, Mexico and America are all equal. Any other attitude would be racist and we are all glad we are not like that.
Hope this helps.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/07/detroit-illiteracy-nearly-half-education_n_858307.html
https://fellowshipofminds.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/detroit.jpg
Boat on Sun, 23rd Apr 2017 11:56 pm
Clog,
You should try the homeland security gov web site. They explain in detail how immigrants fair economically by country, English speaking, age, etc. Immigrants rarely do as well as citizens but 2nd generation kids do fine. The Mexicans in particular have taken over home construction. Roofing, plumbing, electrical, ac, landscaping etc. Most of them don’t speak English but can read blueprints and a tape measure. They pose no threat to the US political system and like many Texans simply don’t vote and distrust any authority. Assuredly not left or right. They are more like drink beer and love to own a car.
Boat on Mon, 24th Apr 2017 12:05 am
Clog,
Texas turn out in the last election was 42 percent. Texans love their country, their military, their state, but their government, not so much for decades.
joe on Mon, 24th Apr 2017 12:10 am
If Cloggie was really dutch (i really doubt he is) he would know just how many South Americans live in Europe (and please dont quote offical stats they are lies, I believe my eyes thanks), I have to say they work hard and are Chrisitan and they dont bother people. Granted, they dont mix well with whites but then again there is a historical context for that, and every minority knows by instinct that whitey is a lying devil, I mean even I have seen Roots. Not going to point out the problem immigrants, too many flat earthers will cry, you only need to read the news to know which ones hate the place they live in and want to turn it into a donkey fuckers paradise.
makati1 on Mon, 24th Apr 2017 12:12 am
Cloggie, Boat just exposed his ignorance and gullibility by referring to the U$ H.S. website. One of the biggest propaganda sources in America. He will believe anything put out by the government or the oily financial rags. Typical America sucker. The 2X4 of reality is gonna really hurt when it hits him between the eyes.
Cloggie on Mon, 24th Apr 2017 12:18 am
Well joe, you might doubt that I’m Dutch, I sure as hell do not doubt you are English.
Is that you joe?
https://twitter.com/DefendEvropa/status/856211277152178176
Cloggie on Mon, 24th Apr 2017 12:33 am
Well, cheer up joe. At least Hitler didn’t win. It’s the thought that counts and the most important thing in the life of a little sneaky Brit: that the Germans don’t win.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1229643/This-isnt-Britain-fought-say-unknown-warriors-WWII.html
Britain, the new el-Andaluz. Muslims have taken over London and that’s a good thing. And now they want the rest. And joe thinks that this stinking feminist May will turn out to be a white nationalist and save Britain, after she was six years home secretary and responsible for flooding the country with immigrants.
Cloggie on Mon, 24th Apr 2017 12:48 am
http://www.volkskrant.nl/buitenland/gevestigde-franse-politiek-krijgt-oorvijg-van-jewelste-met-winst-macron-en-le-pen~a4490190/
“Volgens een peiling van Ifop-Fiducial zal 43 procent van zijn aanhangers op Macron stemmen, terwijl 31 procent voor Le Pen kiest en 26 procent thuis zou blijven.”
According to a latest French poll, le Pen will do much better than expected in the 2nd round and will score 43-31, not 2-1.
But she will lose anyway. But again, 15 years ago it was 82-18. Perhaps the breakthrough will come in 5 years time, when she is 53.
Boat on Mon, 24th Apr 2017 12:58 am
mak,
The US gov has always liked immigration, corporations like immigration, small business loves immigration, farmers need immigration. So why would the US gov post stats on immigrants that show what a drain on society they are. Thinks your brain doesn’t reason to well. Who hates immigration? Those who worry about a sustainable country and planet, those who make a low wage, racists.
Cloggie on Mon, 24th Apr 2017 2:31 am
The US gov has always liked immigration, corporations like immigration, small business loves immigration, farmers need immigration. So why would the US gov post stats on immigrants that show what a drain on society they are. Thinks your brain doesn’t reason to well. Who hates immigration? Those who worry about a sustainable country and planet, those who make a low wage, racists.
Yes, the top 5% income bracket and money chasers and government bureaucrats love immigration, especially in Anglosphere, that fake “nation” of immigrants without identity, or at least without an identity the 5% wants to protect. The 5% sees Joe Average as a “resource”, to be exploited for profit and taxes.
But the average white American hates it, always has and increasingly so with every passing year, until the inevitable breaking point will have been reached.
Until then the white American desire to have a country of its own will be denounced as “racist” by money scrapers like Boat.
The Anglo-Zionist elite has totally failed its own population in its quest to conquer the world for themselves since 1933, but the end of that story is clearly in sight. There is hardly a country where the divide between population and politics is so big as in America. And that should worry the “elite”.
Trump was the last chance to keep Washington and the white American population somehow together, but it looks like Trump’s attempt to reintegrate the Heartland folks into the political system, will fail majestically. He wanted to drain the swamp but the swamp has drained him. Trump didn’t have “the stamina” himself either, after all.
[part 1]
Cloggie on Mon, 24th Apr 2017 2:32 am
Now even his right-wing supporters are turning away from him, disillusioned:
http://www.unz.com/article/the-president-formerly-known-as-hitler/
http://www.unz.com/tsaker/voting-for-trump/
https://altright.com/2017/04/22/trumps-latest-black-pills/
Washington will probably be able to generate the patience to sit out this intruder, now that he has been effectively neutered or so it seems. Perhaps they use the time to let demographics work to the further disadvantage of white America and to kill time until 2023 when the #1 adversary of the NWO Vladimir Putin will leave office.
Boat fails to see all this and thinks in his unending hubris that his club will be in charge for the remainder of this century, just like was the case in the 20th century. Boat fails to see how many enemies Washington-America has meanwhile made and that the most important enemy Washington will have are the disillusioned Trump voters, who know that they have no representation whatsoever in Washington, occupied by “racism”-shouting and money counting clowns like Boat, who all think they own the planet.
Boat should remember that these folks are all armed. And when after Trump the NWO gang will return to the corridors of power (if they ever left it in the first place), the white folks will realize that Trump was their last shot at representation and failed and that they have nothing to expect from Washington, not even a stupid wall, let alone reigning in legal immigration, the real issue.
Pay attention Boat. Europe, Russia and China can’t defeat America on its own soil. But if the country goes up in flames, it will be a different ball game. You can only ignore your own population at your own peril. There might come a day when you, to use your own favorite words, will get your white 5% libtard ass handed over to you… by your own folks, who you thought you owned but didn’t.
[part 2]
makati1 on Mon, 24th Apr 2017 3:07 am
Thank you, Cloggie, for setting our village idiot straight. The top percentage of Americans who profit from immigration love cheap labor. The rest of the Americans who lose their jobs to that same cheap labor hate them and it is beginning to boil to the surface as the U$ slides into chaos.
Boat on Mon, 24th Apr 2017 3:47 am
If I am such a 5 percent librtard then why am I against immigration. Why would I be against a growing population. Why would I support higher taxes to support renewables and much bigger incentives for electric cars. Why would I support free education for teachers willing to work in schools with high drop out rates. Why would I support no lobbying for corporations and money for corporations. You boys nothing about my views on many topics including cutting military spending 400 billion a year and social programs another 400 billion. You both just talk a lot of shyt and make many false assumptions.
peakyeast on Mon, 24th Apr 2017 4:40 am
A real good disease is where the immune system doesnt even realize it has been compromised..
A vote for Macaroni is a lost vote. It will be more of the same. I suppose first chance of real change will be next election if the sheeple arent demented enough to go back to the two old duds (socialists and conservatives).
kanon on Mon, 24th Apr 2017 8:54 am
Is nuclear power the reason for France’s economic malaise? https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/24/business/international/areva-nuclear-results.html Adding passengers to a sinking ship is bound to create controversy.
Simon on Mon, 24th Apr 2017 9:21 am
Cloggie, you are looking for a right wing revolution, not gonna happen, the whole body politic is slowly moving to the right, instead of a mad leap.
Whilst Macron is indeed an ex-financier, he is also a businessman and puts france and the EU first so, he may indeed pivot more toward Russia, it depends, france has always had a love/hate relationship with the bear.
I would be interested to know, if there is a correlation between FN views and whether people believe there is a finite amount of wealth in the world …. anyone
joe on Mon, 24th Apr 2017 9:43 am
Cloggie is completely mad, hes totally bipolar, he blames jews and english and america and everyone else except the dutch for the fact they must now and forever accept islam into their culture. He would rather spout here than get up off his arse and do somthing about it. Any crazy theory except the one that matters eh cloggie. My theory is that you and western society is slowing dying because of its success. As with ancient Sparta, Rome and Athens, its success that leads to collapse, can the world sustain ever more debt? Sure, can debt sustain the world? We will see.
Trump says, we are about to find out.
Apneaman on Mon, 24th Apr 2017 10:23 am
Baha hair clog is pissed because his right wing whore didn’t win baha. Do you have as much heavy emotional investment in the elections in your own country or just everybody else’s? Reminds me of every retard sports fan.
So if boat takes your unsolicited advice and pays attention will that save his country?
Boat! Pay attention the fate of your nation depends on it.
Apneaman on Mon, 24th Apr 2017 10:25 am
Hair clog, don’t sweat it. It’s just another Hoax.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C-C0MkzXUAAfaN7.jpg
Cloggie on Mon, 24th Apr 2017 11:16 am
The election was yesterday, the analysis is now.
Several sources from different political angles all of sudden are not so sure that this time the famous cordon sanitaire is going to work again.
Listened almost three hours to this very interesting US right-wing source:
https://altright.com/2017/04/23/alt-right-politics-23-april-2017/
In the last third (after 1:52:00) there is an interview with an Italian-French American (without accent) who brings a very lucidly analysis of the French situation, a few days before the election.
Then there is the German outlet of the US empire propaganda der Spiegel that has to admit that the old 2002 situation does not apply to this election. These are after all post-Trump/post-Brexit times. They settle for 62-38, but there is a little doubt that certain voters could change their minds in unexpected ways. Especially, the the communist refused to advise to vote for the Manchurian candidate of the bankers, Macron.
And here is an upbeat analysis of a German right-winger, for the occasion appropriately named Juergen Elsaesser, who claims that actually le Pen has good chances to win:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jRaby4rqnI
I’m not very convinced of her chances to win, but perhaps it could be that she will be defeated with only 55-45 after all.
Cloggie on Mon, 24th Apr 2017 11:22 am
Here a reader for Boat, who seems to think that the US is a Platonian Eternal Idea:
https://altright.com/2017/04/24/the-united-states-should-seriously-peaceful-partition/
“The United States Should Seriously Consider Peaceful Partition”
Hello on Mon, 24th Apr 2017 11:23 am
A right wing revolution is only going to happen when there’s nothing to lose. Most europeans still have alot to lose.
And as long as europe remains an economic and knowledge powerhouse that’s not going to change. Slowely being outbred by the 3rd world. And before they know it, it’s too late. They will have a 3rd world majority revolting, disposing of the obsolte europeans.
It’s pretty sad if you look at it realisticly.
Cloggie on Mon, 24th Apr 2017 11:32 am
Cloggie is completely mad, hes totally bipolar, he blames jews and english and america and everyone else except the dutch for the fact they must now and forever accept islam into their culture.
I’m cursing my own Dutch government just as much as I curse the entire Western establishment. I’m not going to discriminate here.lol
…and I do that for 15 years on end now.
Cloggie on Mon, 24th Apr 2017 11:37 am
@Hello – indeed they are not going to revolt with weapons yet, but they are already revolting via the ballot box. And if that doesn’t work, weapons will speak.
Nobody saw Syria coming, or Donbass. And then it happened anyway.
There only needs to be a single western country to fold (Sweden, France, US), in order to make BAU in other countries impossible.
History is per definition on the march, always. At some point there will come a real reaction and then we will be living in a different age. The 20th Anglo-Soviet century was leftist-globalist. This century won’t be.
Cloggie on Mon, 24th Apr 2017 12:32 pm
For those who insist that Trump is BAU, think again:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/mexican-us-border-wall-funding-congress-donald-trump-veto-shut-down-government-john-kelly-mick-a7697846.html
Trump threatens with government shut down if Congress blocks building the Wall. Price tag: 22 billion.
For the right it doesn’t make sense to dump Trump. Instead put him under pressure to get the maximum out his presidency.
And wtf, if dirt poor Hungary can seal off its country, why can’t the US.
Cloggie on Mon, 24th Apr 2017 1:57 pm
A few minutes ago Marine le Pen withdrew from the presidential election:
http://www.lemonde.fr/election-presidentielle-2017/live/2017/04/24/presidentielle-2017-suivez-en-direct-les-suites-du-premier-tour_5116215_4854003.html
Cloggie on Mon, 24th Apr 2017 2:04 pm
Oops, fake news. She withdraws from the presidency of the Front National.
Boat on Mon, 24th Apr 2017 2:24 pm
Clog,
The counter argument to building walls and wasting another 20 billion is the much cheaper alternative of just jailing a few ceo’s, and plant managers who hire illegals. Poof, illegal jobs would dry up. I do support Trump on having enough judges on the border for quick turn around for deportations on those caught.
Even with Brexit sealing off borders is just inefficient and drives up costs. Simple laws allowing workers 5-10 permits would work but no inclusion with social programs. Companies would have to cover costs like health care and education up front by year. No immigrants moving in poor and working their way up the wage ladder.
Cloggie on Mon, 24th Apr 2017 3:26 pm
Have to admit that I liked Michelle better:
http://tinyurl.com/n32f33e
http://tinyurl.com/lcaa4eo
GregT on Mon, 24th Apr 2017 3:37 pm
“the much cheaper alternative of just jailing a few ceo’s, and plant managers who hire illegals. Poof, illegal jobs would dry up.”
Right Boat. 11 million illegal immigrants out of work, just like that.
POOF! 🙂
peakyeast on Mon, 24th Apr 2017 3:47 pm
Mexico will automatically pay for the wall since humans has negative value there and the flow of $s from USA will stop increasing and then slowly dwindle..
peakyeast on Mon, 24th Apr 2017 3:50 pm
Here in Denmark we have about 140.000 jobless people.. Interestingly we have about the same amount of polish low wage workers.
I wonder why that is considered a boon to the Danish economy since the polish workers sends as much home as possible of their income – and not only that – they get Danish social benefits which are way above what they could get at home…
GregT on Mon, 24th Apr 2017 3:57 pm
Undocumented Immigrants’ State & Local Tax Contributions
Released March 2nd, 2017
“undocumented immigrants are taxpayers too and collectively contribute an estimated $11.74 billion to state and local coffers each year via a combination of sales and excise, personal income, and property taxes”
http://www.itep.org/immigration/
Boat on Mon, 24th Apr 2017 4:38 pm
greggiet,
The US pays close to 20 billion per year on ICE and border enforcement. Almost 50 percent of fed crimes are immigration related. The court system and time spent by local and state are in the billions. Try some Google dude.
GregT on Mon, 24th Apr 2017 9:59 pm
As usual Boat, you are full of shit.
The Criminalization of Immigration in the United States
“For more than a century, innumerable studies have confirmed two simple yet powerful truths about the relationship between immigration and crime: immigrants are less likely to commit serious crimes or be behind bars than the native-born, and high rates of immigration are associated with lower rates of violent crime and property crime.”
Walter Ewing, Ph.D., Daniel E. MartÃnez, Ph.D. and Rubén G. Rumbaut, Ph.D. July 13, 2015
https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/criminalization-immigration-united-states
antaris on Mon, 24th Apr 2017 10:16 pm
Peak, most likely if you took away the polish low wage you would still have 140,000 jobless Danis and many more unhappy people.
GregT on Mon, 24th Apr 2017 11:03 pm
“The US pays close to 20 billion per year on ICE and border enforcement.”
That would work out to less than 16 cents for each and every ‘legal’ US immigrant per day. Chump change Kevin. I’m sure that someone from an immigrant family such as yourself can afford that.
Cloggie on Tue, 25th Apr 2017 1:19 am
Macron is together with his school teacher (24 years his senior) since he was 18. Perhaps she helped him accept his own gayness, as she had already three kids. The only child Macron has is a Roths-child. For conspiracy theorists, Macron is a Freemason. You can’t get them more NWO than this punk.
The election of May 7 will be another contest between nationalism and globalism.
And if we talk about globalism, the name of George Soros, the 21st century follow-up for Vladimir Lenin, isn’t very far away:
http://www.dagelijksestandaard.nl/2017/04/hoe-macron-le-pen-hoopt-te-verslaan-met-een-beetje-of-heel-veel-hulp-van-george-soros/
The name of Macron’s movement En Marche has great resemblance with Soros club Move On.
Macron’s financial handler was Henry Hermand, who died recently and had strong ties with Soros. Macron is a nobody, a puppet, who like Obama, was hand-picked by financial interests, to keep the country in question in their basket.
Cloggie on Tue, 25th Apr 2017 3:28 am
Fooled again: Trump gives in to Dems pressure and won’t shut down government after all, even now that the Dems aren’t willing to fund the Wall, so ever more colored future Democrats voters can enter the country unhindered.
The Dems did throw a piece of Republican red meat in the direction of Trump and agreed on a lowering corporate taxes. Reps short term interest against a Dems long-term interest. Right-wing big business interests trump right-wing blood-and-soil interests of the Tuck Buckford’s of the Heartland, who voted Trump into office but are left empty-handed once again. Reason: Bill Gates has a lobby-organization in Washington, but Tuck hasn’t (other than the NRA).
The Republican Party ain’t called the Stoopid Party for nothing. Focus on short term interests only.
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/donald-trump-gibt-im-mauer-streit-nach-a-1144675.html
Cloggie on Tue, 25th Apr 2017 3:48 am
Sums it up US politics in 2017 pretty well:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C-NUR5sUwAA6cVd.jpg:large