I just say Happy Kwaanza
I disagree though that saying Merry Christmas isnt inclusive although I query whether or not a muslim or sikh saying it constitutes cultural appropriation.
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I disagree though that saying Merry Christmas isnt inclusive although I query whether or not a muslim or sikh saying it constitutes cultural appropriation.
Altair
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So when Macron was elected, I made a point to say, watch out, for there are warning signs that not all was rosy with his scent to power.
Low voter turnout, and the fact that he was a continuation of the Hollande era. I remember saying we shall see where he is in 5 years, and people laughed.
Well, 3 months into his presidency and he's don't worse than hollande, who finished his term with a approval rating of...4 percent. 5 years, lol?
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/08/...ron-polls.html?referer=https://www.google.ca/
President Emmanuel Macron, who upended*France’s political establishment with his election in May, is breaking ground again, but in an unwelcome way: a rapid and nearly unequaled drop in the polls.
Low voter turnout, and the fact that he was a continuation of the Hollande era. I remember saying we shall see where he is in 5 years, and people laughed.
Well, 3 months into his presidency and he's don't worse than hollande, who finished his term with a approval rating of...4 percent. 5 years, lol?
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/08/...ron-polls.html?referer=https://www.google.ca/
President Emmanuel Macron, who upended*France’s political establishment with his election in May, is breaking ground again, but in an unwelcome way: a rapid and nearly unequaled drop in the polls.
Altair
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https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/08/...ron-polls.html?referer=https://www.google.ca/
The young president lost 10 points in one month in one poll, eight in another and seven in a third. Not since the first months of Jacques Chirac in the mid-1990s has any president fallen so far so fast.
The young president lost 10 points in one month in one poll, eight in another and seven in a third. Not since the first months of Jacques Chirac in the mid-1990s has any president fallen so far so fast.
Altair
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https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/08/...ron-polls.html?referer=https://www.google.ca/
Mr. Macron, at the head of a fledgling political movement, marked a victory that was always as tenuous as it was momentous. A former investment banker, he bested France’s traditional political parties and fashioned himself as something of a centrist, giving both left and right reason to support him, but also ample room to regard him with suspicion.
Now, it appears that France’s initial romance with the untested outsider to politics may be quickly fading.
Mr. Macron, at the head of a fledgling political movement, marked a victory that was always as tenuous as it was momentous. A former investment banker, he bested France’s traditional political parties and fashioned himself as something of a centrist, giving both left and right reason to support him, but also ample room to regard him with suspicion.
Now, it appears that France’s initial romance with the untested outsider to politics may be quickly fading.
Altair
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https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/08/...ron-polls.html?referer=https://www.google.ca/
The*“Jupiterian president,”*as aides fondly describe him, has alienated left-leaning voters with his promise to loosen France’s labor code and trim the country’s generous social safety net. He angered civil servants with his vow to freeze their salaries. And he upset voters on the right with his fight with the head of the country’s armed forces, Gen. Pierre de Villiers,*who resigned as a result.
The*“Jupiterian president,”*as aides fondly describe him, has alienated left-leaning voters with his promise to loosen France’s labor code and trim the country’s generous social safety net. He angered civil servants with his vow to freeze their salaries. And he upset voters on the right with his fight with the head of the country’s armed forces, Gen. Pierre de Villiers,*who resigned as a result.
Altair
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https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/08/...ron-polls.html?referer=https://www.google.ca/
The drop is serious. It’s a warning signal,” Mr. Fourquet said in an interview. “The causes of this discontent are deep. It is touching on some important elements in Macron’s agenda,” he added, pointing out that Mr. Macron had angered all sides of the political spectrum.
The drop is serious. It’s a warning signal,” Mr. Fourquet said in an interview. “The causes of this discontent are deep. It is touching on some important elements in Macron’s agenda,” he added, pointing out that Mr. Macron had angered all sides of the political spectrum.
Altair
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https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/08/...ron-polls.html?referer=https://www.google.ca/
the discovery after his election of a $9.5 billion budget shortfall left by his predecessor, combined with Mr. Macron’s vow to make the deficit conform to European Union norms at 3 percent of gross domestic product, led inevitably to promises of further cuts, including $1 billion in military spending.
But some of the wounds are self-inflicted. Previous vulnerabilities are coming to the fore. A product of France’s elite schools, the Olympian Mr. Macron doesn’t have the common touch, was never previously elected to anything, and since his election has preferred high-tech salons to trips to France’s struggling provinces.
the discovery after his election of a $9.5 billion budget shortfall left by his predecessor, combined with Mr. Macron’s vow to make the deficit conform to European Union norms at 3 percent of gross domestic product, led inevitably to promises of further cuts, including $1 billion in military spending.
But some of the wounds are self-inflicted. Previous vulnerabilities are coming to the fore. A product of France’s elite schools, the Olympian Mr. Macron doesn’t have the common touch, was never previously elected to anything, and since his election has preferred high-tech salons to trips to France’s struggling provinces.
Altair
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https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/08/...ron-polls.html?referer=https://www.google.ca/
He was booed by workers when he visited a threatened auto-parts factory in central France, not helping himself there by proclaiming that he was no “Father Christmas.”
His abrupt handling of General de Villiers, a man nearly 30 years his senior — the president let it be known that he was furious at the general’s criticism of cuts to the military budget — was seen as “authoritarian,” a word that recurred in French press accounts.
He was booed by workers when he visited a threatened auto-parts factory in central France, not helping himself there by proclaiming that he was no “Father Christmas.”
His abrupt handling of General de Villiers, a man nearly 30 years his senior — the president let it be known that he was furious at the general’s criticism of cuts to the military budget — was seen as “authoritarian,” a word that recurred in French press accounts.
Altair
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https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/08/...ron-polls.html?referer=https://www.google.ca/
Then, the president coupled television images of himself posing with military — on a submarine and with French troops in Mali — with the military budget cut.
Then, the president coupled television images of himself posing with military — on a submarine and with French troops in Mali — with the military budget cut.
axlsalinger
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Did you not get the memo that no one in the world can think or talk about anything other than North Korea for the foreseeable
axlsalinger
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future?
JohnnyHolmes
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So you're telling us they should have elected Le Pen, which everyone that isn't a moron already knows.
Altair
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That would be a odd memo.
I think the actual memo is the USA has really big issues on the go but cannot focus on them due to the healthcare debacle and the Russia collusion investigation taking up everyone time and energy.
Yeah, that might be the actual memo.
Good talk.
Altair
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No. Le Pen would be a different kind of shit show but a shit show none the less.
No, the point here is people declared victory over the far right/anti establishment movement the night Macron defeated Le Pen.
It wasn't that clear cut then, and it isn't that clear cut now. People, collectively had a president Bush on the aircraft carrier moment,because if Macron continues down this road of plunging popularity he won't survive the 2022 election and neither will his party.
As I said when he won, if he fails, there is nothing left to stop that populist sentiment in France. Pretty big responsibility and to date he's don't nothing but squander political capital for zero tangible results.
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JohnnyHolmes
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Le Pen is what France needed, and still needs.
Altair
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If Macron continues his hollande impersonation they may just get her yet.
Yeah can disagree and choose to say Merry Christmas at your business. Just don't whine that other businesses choose to say "Happy Holidays"
Bleedsblue&white
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Gotta laugh at a guy who basically showed up here to defend/take habsy's place....the guy who owns this site...and now, cause he's having another hissy fit, he's "spamming" habsy's site.
Nobody is going to tell you to stop, you're not going to be able to say ,"but zeke...."
Nobody is going to tell you to stop, you're not going to be able to say ,"but zeke...."
Bleedsblue&white
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Vagenda.
