The French Revolution

[dennishoddy]

I thought there was a huge water leak.
Honestly, Paris is burning and no one cares.
They let a ton of Islamist in, give free everything and now they don't want to pay for it.
Sounds like California without the revenue.

That's absolutely true. They reap their rewards now.

 

[mr ed]

Wonder how many yellow jackets are not French?

 

[tRidiot]

French people dissatisfied? You mean... with a guaranteed living wage, guaranteed 6 weeks of vacation a year, free healthcare, the EU benefits and all the social programs they tout as being so progressive these people aren't happy and want... more??? MORE?

I dunno, I just don't believe it. We all know doing these things would solve all our problems and make people happier. Socialism... because... yeah, man.

 

[ConstitutionCowboy]

Those who reap the 'benefits' of socialism will soon reap socialism's reward: Starvation.

Socialism is a death sentence.

Woody

 

[ConstitutionCowboy]

Beggars Begging From Beggars

Woody

 

[SMS]

I thought there was a huge water leak.
Honestly, Paris is burning and no one cares.
They let a ton of Islamist in, give free everything and now they don't want to pay for it.
Sounds like California without the revenue.

This one actually sounds like the working class folks have gotten sick and tired of it actually...they seem very similar to our Tea Party movement. It will be interesting to see how it plays out.

 

[SlugSlinger]

Here's one reason of the protest:

While gasoline is about $1.90 here.

"Thanks to the steadily rising tax bite, taxes on both gasoline and diesel fuel are sending the price of gasoline past $7 a gallon."

 

[Dale00]

Lafayette - MAGA is coming!

The ‘gilet jaunes’ — or yellow-vests, after the hi-vis vests they wear — are in rebellion against Macron’s hikes in fuel tax. As part of his and the EU’s commitment to cutting carbon emissions, Macron is punishing the drivers of diesel vehicles in particular, raising the tax by 7.6 cents for every litre of diesel fuel. This will badly hit the pockets of those in rural France, who need to drive, and who can’t just hop on buses as deluded Macronists living in one of the fancy arrondissements of Paris have suggested they should. These people on the periphery of French society — truck drivers, provincial plumbers, builders, deliverymen, teachers, parents — have rocked up to the centre of French society in their tens of thousands three times in recent weeks, their message the same every time: ‘Enough is enough. Stop making our lives harder.’

It is a perfect snapshot of the most important divide in 21st-century Europe: that between a blinkered elite and ordinary people who’ve had as much bossing about, tax rises, paternalism and disdain as they can take. So from his presidential palace in Paris, Macron decrees that the little people of the nation must pay a kind of penance for the eco-crime of driving diesel-fuelled cars, like a modern-day Marie Antoinette deciding with a wave of the hand what is good for the plebs. It’s little wonder that the graffiti left behind following the latest uprising in Paris at the weekend compared Macron to Louis XVI and demanded that he resign.

https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2018/12/in-praise-of-the-gilets-jaunes/

 

[steelfingers]

If you look at the other demands of the YellowJackets, they want everything. The hard core anarchist are stepping up now and any core protest of fuel cost is lost in the mud.
France has done this to themselves. They protested in mass against the US for not doing more to cut carbon emissions. Now, they have to pay the price for what they wanted us to do.
Don't forget that France continued warm relations with Iran during the hostage situation because they got so much of their oil at a discounted price.
I'm half French and I say screw'em

 

[Dale00]

Hard to know what is going on exactly at the core and who is attempting to piggyback onto it. I see multiple sources saying it is a widespread revolt against the elite and their imposition of higher fuel costs and taxes in the name of climate change.
A regime change seems likely. ...Only a few days ago Macron was talking down to Trump....that'll teach him!
Maybe Trudeau will offer him sanctuary

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