Le Minou de Verdun

'Take it down!' Macron sparks outrage after EU symbol replaces French flag over war grave [More]

 I'd like to see someone who knows how redub the scene from Casablanca where, instead of drowning out the Nazis singing Die Wacht am Rhein with La Marseillaise, Laszlo leads the patrons in Ode an die Freude.

Macron is a great admirer of Pétain and Vichy France.

I Remember Every Detail. The Germans Wore Gray...

Merkel calls for the creation of a 'real, true' European army in rebuke to Trump after US President called Macron's earlier proposal 'insulting' [More]

What's a monopoly of violence without an enforcement mechanism?

Why did all those Americans die in WWs I and II again...?

And how do foreign entanglements "secure the Blesings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity"?

Macron’s Self-Defense Dismissal Says All We Need to Know about Violence Monopolists

In other words, police should be “Les Seules” armed and authorized to use force to stop criminal attacks, even in the home. [More]

You have to wonder at what point some of these people will get tired of surrendering and start rolling out the tumbrels again...

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Guillotine

French riot police are now using semi-automatic weapons with live ammunition against Yellow Vest protestors as Macron's law and order crisis spirals [More]

They can get away with it because of all those "commonsense gun safety laws."

Funny, though, how one group seems to merit a less robust response...

[Via Michael G]

Nous sommes les Seuls Connectés Assez

They also revealed that while working at the presidential palace, Benalla received a permit for a Glock pistol on his fourth try. The permit was approved after a new request, on new grounds, was transmitted to police by Macron's office director, Patrick Strzoda. [More]

It's good to be the king!

Oh, pissboy...

[Via bondmen]

Doing What They Do Best?

Macron Stretches Lead As French Presidential Campaign Enters Final Day [More]

They had a choice and it looks like they're rejecting it. We can hope the polls are wrong, and the establishment has been fooled before (!!!), but unless the lead is completely fabricated, it does not look good.

As an aside, I've been seeing people pointing to One America News Network as a potential alternative once the Murdokinders trash Faux News. But adopting "Authorized Journalist" conventions like "far right" to describe someone who believes in sane border and immigration policies, and "centrist" to describe an Obama endorsee makes me wonder.

And profiling Miley Cyrus getting over her nipple pastie phase hardly fills me with confidence.

At least I get no hits there searching for "botched gun sting."

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UPDATE: Won't this be interesting if it pans out...?