Michel Houellebecq was awarded France's top literary prize today, the Prix Goncourt. That's no doubt intended as a great big F-U to France's Muslim minority.
His Divine Majesty Macron has his hands full these days with various revelations concerning military meddling in Libya, Yemen, and various African (former?) colonies, the ongoing working class revolt that won't go away, and of course, the convenient catastrophe of the Notre-Dame fire, the fire that promises to unite all French, or at least those from the respectable classes, around the cross of Jesus.
Whatever Houellebecq's charms as an artiste, he is best known for his anti-Muslim fear-mongering. That France's cultural elite would choose this moment in time to elevate such a hate-monger into the literary pantheon speaks volumes.
Nothing good can come of this.
Showing posts with label Emmanuel Macron. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Emmanuel Macron. Show all posts
Thursday, April 18, 2019
Friday, April 13, 2018
Trump drunk on Deep-State Kool-aid
I was just putting my lap-top to bed for the night when the Farm Manager announces that Trump has hit the GO button for Paveways and Tomahawks to Damascus.
Apparently Macron the imbecile and the hapless May are fully on board with this most recent Trumpian misadventure.
Which should not surprise.
Macron has his trousers more than full with the uprising against his "labour reforms."
May is still in denial about that whole Brexit thing.
Both of them desperately want a distraction.
As does Donny J.
Between the Comey book and the Cohen raid, Mafia Don needs a distraction more than anybody...
Bombs away!!!
Apparently Macron the imbecile and the hapless May are fully on board with this most recent Trumpian misadventure.
Which should not surprise.
Macron has his trousers more than full with the uprising against his "labour reforms."
May is still in denial about that whole Brexit thing.
Both of them desperately want a distraction.
As does Donny J.
Between the Comey book and the Cohen raid, Mafia Don needs a distraction more than anybody...
Bombs away!!!
Thursday, July 13, 2017
Can Savior Macron save Trump?
So what's up with the fresh new breeze wafting through the halls of power in the Nations of Virtue? Looks like Manny "The Redeemer" and Donny J are spending the day doing touristy stuff in the City of Light. Isn't this the same Macron who was just recently praised to the heavens for standing up to Trump?
What goes on here?
This is especially intriguing given the completely opposite treatment these two alleged political neophytes have gotten at the hands of mainstream Western media. On the one hand, Macron has been received with near universal adoration. He is the fresh new face of a new politics that is neither of the left or the right, or so we are lead to believe.
Trump, on the other hand, has endured a non-stop torrent of loathing and vitriol from the same media.
So what gives? Could it be that one flim-flam artist has recognised a kindred spirit in the other?
Or is there something more sinister afoot?
Recall that a mere six weeks ago Macron was being loudly lauded for standing up to Putin. The new kid gave Bad Vlad a stern finger wag over everything from election interference to Syrian chemical attacks to the nefarious propaganda that Russian state media outlets Sputnik and RT have been aiming at gullible dupes in the West. Yes, Macron was unflinching in his anti-Putin stand.
Yet when the two men met again at the G20 last weekend, the tone was much more muted. Hardly a month after their first meeting, Macron has noticed a tangible change in Russo-French relations and is "ready to move on to a new phase..."
Well, that about-face wasn't long in coming!
Could it be that the Russians have a dossier on Macron too?
What goes on here?
This is especially intriguing given the completely opposite treatment these two alleged political neophytes have gotten at the hands of mainstream Western media. On the one hand, Macron has been received with near universal adoration. He is the fresh new face of a new politics that is neither of the left or the right, or so we are lead to believe.
Trump, on the other hand, has endured a non-stop torrent of loathing and vitriol from the same media.
So what gives? Could it be that one flim-flam artist has recognised a kindred spirit in the other?
Or is there something more sinister afoot?
Recall that a mere six weeks ago Macron was being loudly lauded for standing up to Putin. The new kid gave Bad Vlad a stern finger wag over everything from election interference to Syrian chemical attacks to the nefarious propaganda that Russian state media outlets Sputnik and RT have been aiming at gullible dupes in the West. Yes, Macron was unflinching in his anti-Putin stand.
Yet when the two men met again at the G20 last weekend, the tone was much more muted. Hardly a month after their first meeting, Macron has noticed a tangible change in Russo-French relations and is "ready to move on to a new phase..."
Well, that about-face wasn't long in coming!
Could it be that the Russians have a dossier on Macron too?
Tuesday, July 11, 2017
Manny "The Redeemer" Macron sheds white man's burden
And not a moment too soon!
The wunderkind of the neoliberal world order set the record straight on the challenges facing Africa at the weekend while in Hamburg for the G20 shindig.
Apparently the plight of many African nations today, poverty, instability, a ruling class made up largely of thugs and looters, has nothing to do with hundreds of years of rapacious colonialism.
Nope!
Not at all. Africa's problems are "civilizational."
Yup!
Africa's problems are due to the women of Africa's inexplicable prolificacy in popping out new Africans! That's it! Apparently all it would take to bring peace and prosperity to Africa and bring it into the modern era would be to have African women keep their legs shut.
You must admit it's quite an accomplishment to insult 1.2 billion Africans in one brief media interview!
Attaboy Manny!
You're showing the world what you're made of!
Emmanuel Macron is a colonial era reactionary shitbag whose ideas are as fresh as 1925, and quite possibly an imbecile to boot.
Good luck, France!
And God help Africa.
The wunderkind of the neoliberal world order set the record straight on the challenges facing Africa at the weekend while in Hamburg for the G20 shindig.
Apparently the plight of many African nations today, poverty, instability, a ruling class made up largely of thugs and looters, has nothing to do with hundreds of years of rapacious colonialism.
Nope!
Not at all. Africa's problems are "civilizational."
Yup!
Africa's problems are due to the women of Africa's inexplicable prolificacy in popping out new Africans! That's it! Apparently all it would take to bring peace and prosperity to Africa and bring it into the modern era would be to have African women keep their legs shut.
You must admit it's quite an accomplishment to insult 1.2 billion Africans in one brief media interview!
Attaboy Manny!
You're showing the world what you're made of!
Emmanuel Macron is a colonial era reactionary shitbag whose ideas are as fresh as 1925, and quite possibly an imbecile to boot.
Good luck, France!
And God help Africa.
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