The political situation in the Frog Pond is looking even messier than the one here, and on top of it they're hosting the Olympics in a month.  Something tells me there is going to be more action on the Champs d'Elyssee than in the Olympic Stadium.

There doesn't appear to be any solution that could actually work to form a "Democratic" goobermint in France that could agree on anything, particularly in the area of finance, and their finances are a hot mess.

This article posits the possibility of "Technocrats" being appointed as a caretaker goobermint.  Technocrat is another name for Bankster Stooges.  Governance to them means making sure the banks are paid, which is supposedly "apolitical".  Apolitical means they do stuff nobody except the banks like.

In this scenario, I suspect lively street action from both the left and right will light more fires than just the Olympic flame.  I don't know how many Gestapo they plan to mobilize for the Olympics, but I suspect also it won't be enough.

At least we should get pretty good TV coverage. 

https://www.politico.eu/article/france-elections-2024-far-right-snap-election-protests-paris-ecb-economy-emmanuel-macron/

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Do technocrats always wear suits?  I think they do.

Quote from: K-Dog on Jun 25, 2024, 03:27 PMDo technocrats always wear suits?  I think they do.

Their Pajamas are suits.

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The latest from the Frog Pond is that Macronian Amphibians are standing down from the election if one of the candidates from the Radical Left is better positioned to defeat Penne Pasta and prevent the Nazis from taking power.  So far, 180 candidates have pulled out.

This sets up  a pitched battle between the Nazis and the Commies to see if one of them can win the necessary 289 seats to form a Goobermint and choose the Prime Minister.  The Nazis were projected to win between 250-300 seats before the Left mobilized and the centrists withdrew to throw their support to the radicals.

If neither gets the necessary majority, France will have a hung Parliament incapable of passing any legislation and Macron may appoint Technocrats to run the Pond until 2027.

The next round of elections happens July 7th, and the Olympics begins a couple of weeks after that.  Pariis has a socialist Mayor, so if Le Penne wins count on lots of action in front of the Eiffel tower.

https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/8682948/french-candidates-bow-out-in-bid-to-block-far-right/

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All the horror scenarios of the Nazis getting a majority in the Frog Pond are now history, and instead the Commies took the most seats and Macaroni came in 2nd.  Nobody has a majority, and the 3-way split is so even there's about no way a coalition can form a Goobermint.  So the Frogs will likely have a hung parliament unable to pass any legislation.  We'll see if Macaroni appoints TechnoBrats to keep the banksters happy and the budget balanced.  probably the current Goobermint will continue day to day operations until after the Olympics.

The most interesting details will be seeing how this affects the Ukraine war and how it affects the Frog economy and the Euro.  Will it tip the Eurozone into a crash?  Stay tuned for updates.

https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/france-election-runoff-results-07-07-24-intl/index.html

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Macaroni calls a Snap Election which he gets reamed in where nobody got enough votes to form a Goobermint under their multi-party  Parliamentary system, but the Lefties got together and got the most votes, keeping the Fascists led by Penne Pasta out of power.

Now however after a couple of months with no goobermint, he's handed the goobermint over to the Fascists anyhow.  The Parisian Frogs are now croaking loudly and are Hopping mad.  Look for Burning Gestapo cars in the near future.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clywrqr92dpo

Thousands protest in France over Macron's choice of PM

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Quote from: RE on Sep 22, 2024, 12:49 AMhttps://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clywrqr92dpo
Thousands protest in France over Macron's choice of PM
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By the sounds of the article, quite a bit enthusiastic whining. Seemed also familiar to what's going on in the US, with extremes on both sides (lets call them Fascists and Communists) with the real Americans somewhere in the middle, those not wanting their kids gunned down in schools or the oligarchs running the show in a democracy, and wanting nothing to do with gender guessing games that allows men to box as females in the Olympics.

The giving away shit for free I get, grew up among that population in Applachia. But while the distribution of intelligience in humans is quantified as normal and the advantages/disavantages of calculating that are known, no one likes talking about the right skewed distribution of results generated from the work/experience/talents of those that distribution are built on.

That would be a nice conversation, and would seem to make it possible to penalize the successful (the way they think of it) more heavily to subsidize the poor/unaccomplished/"I want free stuff" crowd with a little rearranging of priorities on the taxation side, without dragging in all the gender bending nonsense, "how dare you not know I am a pan/cis/bi/hetero/homo/trans individual you should be arrested!" into it.

Quote from: TDoS on Sep 22, 2024, 07:12 AM"how dare you not know I am a pan/cis/bi/hetero/homo/trans individual you should be arrested!" into it.

Sadly,the society has become obsessed with gender "choices" and being "inclusive" because it's all OK.  Out in Junior High now boys have boyfriends and girls have girlfriends and the blended family which has black dads and white moms with Chinese kids is de riguer, at least if you watch a Netflix teen movie.  Is it really like that out there in suburbia, or just more WOKE propaganda from Hollywood?  I tend to lean toward the latter.

It would be nice if politicians   dealt with the real economic problems, but since they can't do that and get elected,, we get this endless nonsense.

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Quote from: RE on Sep 23, 2024, 03:15 AMIs it really like that out there in suburbia, or just more WOKE propaganda from Hollywood?  I tend to lean toward the latter.

My suburbia is a mix. My work is not. I am afflicted by youngsters everywhere and I must restrain myself sometimes when I want to shout out something "old mannish". The wife bashes me for it as well, with the daughters tacit agreement. They are quite comfortable with all the self identifying stuff, but can't explain to me how I am supposed to tell without asaking every tom, dick and jane what they identify as so I can get the pronouns correct.

I have just accepted being old, and try to minimize my old mannish manners as much as possible.

Around the block we have all kinds, and sometimes its a riot. Weird identifiers across the street, a wonderful gay female couple 5 houses down that are as nice as you can imagine and drive Jeeps, which makes them cool. Some traditional old fart people like me, two houses on the next block over, one flies "Don't tread of me" signs and Trump election stickers and the one right beside them is all BLM and Defund the Police and stuff.

Quote from: REIt would be nice if politicians  dealt with the real economic problems, but since they can't do that and get elected,, we get this endless nonsense.
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We get endless nonsense because people make up entertainment crap, it is disseminated through social media which normalizes it, and people you would least expect then begin to act as though what a moron in LA thinks is "cool" pops up locally and someone gets their head bashed for being cute with the local he-man football playing MAGA with no more brains than is expected who doesn't even know it was just a stupid joke/fad coming out of La La land.

I would also mention that bubble headed nonsense isn't confined to just social norms and behaviors, what were once decent scientific conversations have also become compromised as well, history has been reformed into nonstop conspiracies and greivances between classes, a single loud opinion claiming evidence of Yellowstone going BOOM! tomorrow gets more traction than the geophysics expert from the USGS contradicting it.

 

Looks like thing are hopping again in the Frog Pond goobermint.

For those of you who have not been following events transpiring on the lilypad of amphibian politics since we last checked in Macaroni managed to survive the Snap Election he called by appointing a Far Right PM, despite the fact the Far Left actually garnered the most votes in a 3 way split with Macaroni's Centrist party.  None of thee 3 had a sufficient majority to form a Goobermint, so Macaroni is dependent on the coalition with the Fascists to hold together.

Unfortunately, the sad fiscal condition of the Frog Economy has both the Left & Right unanimously against the current budget proposal, which must be passed by Dec 21st.  This seems unlikely at the moment, which means that a No Confidence vote might occur leading to a collapse of Da Goobermint.

As a result of course the Frog bonds are tanking and spells trouble for the Euro, since the Kraut economy is also in the toilet.  El Trumpo also plans on starting a Trade War, jacking up the  tariffs on European goods to the insane levels they are taxing Chinese stuff.  Also threatening Canada and Mexico with this, but I digress.

Bottom line is that it looks like economic chaos beginning the New Year and an exciting beginning to 2025 for Kollapsniks. 

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/27/le-pen-national-rally-could-bring-down-frances-government-in-december.html

France's far right propped up the weak government. It could now bring it crashing down

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Not a good week to own Frog bonds.

https://www.ft.com/content/d056bfb5-81ce-40c2-ac2c-757ccccdb8fe

French markets hit by threat of government collapse

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QuoteEl Trumpo also plans on starting a Trade War, jacking up the  tariffs on European goods.

A fascist move that disregards and disrespects the working man.  A tariff will cause inflation.  Fascists will concern themselves with maintaining a workforce healthy enough to work and die in a war, capitalist style and little else.  Tarrifs are a fascist move.

Quote from: K-Dog on Nov 27, 2024, 01:25 PMTarrifs are a fascist move.

And what would a tried and true advocate for the ACP position do? The 10 points of joining the ACP didn't continue past self help homilies in economic policy advice.

Quote from: K-Dog on Nov 27, 2024, 01:25 PM

QuoteEl Trumpo also plans on starting a Trade War, jacking up the  tariffs on European goods.

A fascist move that disregards and disrespects the working man.  A tariff will cause inflation.  Fascists will concern themselves with maintaining a workforce healthy enough to work and die in a war, capitalist style and little else.  Tarrifs are a fascist move.

How Trump's Tariffs Will Hurt You


Make america great again -------------------- -------------------- The gilded age. 

Strap in and enjoy the ride.

I mentioned in yesterday's posts how the energy crisis is being masked by political crisis, and that the prepping party in Europe isn't really about getting ready for an invasion from the Ruskies, it's about getting ready for Europe to start Turning Cubanese.  I also mentioned it's highly unlikely European countries political class can survive anything close to the kind of deprivation Cuba lives with.


Right on cue, the Frog goobermint has gone into full collapse mode with the proximal reason being Macaroni unilaterally pushing through a pension reform bill opposed by both the right and left parties.  Pensions are one of the main liabilities and claims against future earnings that corporations and goobermints made during the Age of Oil, which only could be serviced in a world of infinite resources and perpetual growth, which is NOT a description of planet Earth.

In realization of this, the political class wants to welsh on the deals made over the years with the proletariat to keep their wages down while promising them cradle to grave security, aka European style socialism.  This had gradually been being dismantled in many countries, particularly in southern Europe in Greece, Italy and Spain, now it's moving north into the core nations of France and Germany.

France in political chaos is going to totally disrupt the balance of power and economic stability in Europe, and Putin is pretty certain to capitalize on that by offering sweeteners to the Frogs if they abandon NATO.  The Frog Communist Party is actually still pretty strong and so are the Unions, so a new Communist Revolution in France is not out of the question.

I can think of no more fitting spot for the resurrection of the Guillotine. 


https://www.france24.com/en/france/20241202-why-the-french-government-is-headed-for-collapse

Why the French government is headed for collapse

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