DARWIN HOLMSTROM—We need to stop suckling Mugwump fluid. We need to take a lesson from the yellow vests and rise up against all of these repulsive, predatory oligarchs. Let’s quit wasting our time being outraged by Trump’s latest offensive tweet and let the ruling elite know that they have more to fear from us than we have to fear from them. The Mugwumps may feel safe hiding behind their hired thugs in the militarized police forces, but that’s not working out so well for Macron and his fellow Mugwumps from the grandes ecoles; all across France, police and fire fighters are removing their riot gear, donning yellow vests, and joining the manifestations.
FRANCE
-
-
ISRAEL SHAMIR—The American nationalist right is too law-abiding to achieve anything. They used some non-institutionalised violence against blacks, and even that was long time ago. They collect a lot of weapons but never use them against hard targets. They have lost their will to fight. Probably they won’t even defend their President Trump if he were to be removed from power. They have to join forces with some dynamic blacks who aren’t afraid to disobey authority, but for that, they must understand that their enemy is the liberal establishment, not the blacks or immigrants. The French far right had concentrated on the immigrants for too long a time, and failed to take a place and lead the protests.
-
Jean-Baptiste Redde said he was shocked when he learned that TV channel France 3 had sanitized an AFP photograph showing him holding a sign that read “Macron out.” The channel, which dropped the “out” part of Redde’s message, blamed the curious Photoshop-job on a “human error.”
-
ROBERT HUNZIKER—Four words, “Yellow Vests and One-Percent,” have converged in a firestorm of resentfulness of every inequity propagated by the utter failure of elite capitalistic globalism punctuated by its neoliberal tendencies. It’s as if the world has lost its way, directionless meandering that honors wealth creation but nothing else.
-
“Maidan” in France, or a national uprising? Ollie Richardson’s compleat guide to the Gilets Jaunes
52 minutes readOLLIE RICHARDSON—And here is where the problem lies: since society is extremely fragmented and essentially a hodgepodge of the “fruits” of colonialism, migrants (those who have their roots outside France) don’t mind smashing things up. For them it is revenge for what France did to their homeland. And they will never become “French”, nor do they want to, since they know that there is no “Liberté, égalité, fraternité” in France. This is the core of the matter, and not liberal tears about “violence”. If people felt like they were a part of something and that the state cared about them, then the desire to torch a car or loot a shop wouldn’t rise to the surface.