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(Source EN) https://h16free.com/2022/[...]idat-dun-monde-qui-expire
(FR) Macron, the candidate of an expiring world 
And while social networks are gossiping (rightly and probably not enough) about the #McKinseyGate, this costly irruption of private consulting firms used to monetize such judicious advice that will have cost more than 2 billion euros to the French in order to - among other things - force them to drink their coffee standing up, the electoral campaign for presidential renewal continues with more or less happiness and relevance while the country happily continues to get bogged down in its bad collectivist habits.
While the attractive and more or less far-fetched electoral promises are piled up on professions of faith that we already know will not be read (or that they will not be of interest, or that they will not be distributed as the new republican tradition now requires), we notice various troop movements in rallies to some and to others.
In this somewhat sordid race for power, one cannot help but notice the media's obstinacy in reporting all the latest rallies for candidate Macron, who, if we are to believe what the press tells us, seems to be reaping some nice rewards.
Indeed, after having dissolved the Socialist Party in 2016 and 2017 by siphoning off its cadres, leaving Anne Hidalgo with only a small chance of overtaking the price of gasoline at the pump, the wriggling Macron seems able to bring to him all that the country has of caciques more or less representative of all political sides, with the exception of course of what the press calls extreme.
This is how we discover an old Rebsamen, a little dusty, who declares without hiding his vote towards Macron.
We have here, without much surprise, another illustration of these representatives of the necrotic left, ready to accept absolutely all compromises and all twists of their ideology as long as it is a question of keeping power, even if it means joining the "declared winner" before the first round in order to be able to claim one or the other largesse afterwards.
The same is true for other forgotten "celebrities" of politics, such as Marisol Touraine, who believes that the "useful and responsible" vote would be found in Macron, whose history of useful and responsible decisions leaves one wondering, even though Touraine's history of wise decisions completes the decision.
Hollande's ex-minister is joined with calculation by Elisabeth Guigou, who quickly does the same and goes further since she has even decided to help the campaign of the current president.
By the way, one can decently wonder what precisely constitutes this campaign: between the non-meetings where the candidate is not there, the filling of seats by contests as puerile as inspiring a certain pity and decidedly not breathing by the win, the improbable tinkering (and which leave an impression of a little sticky embarrassment) on Minecraft, nothing seems to really go in what should normally carry the crowds which are, for reminder and according to some polls to the most precise alchemy, to nearly 30% favorable to the current tenant of the Élysée.
In short, Rebsamen, Guigou, Touraine, there are still a few big pieces missing and when Ségolène Royal starts, the ball will be complete on the left.
For the right, there is already no shortage of defectors from LR, including Pécresse's right-hand man, Guillaume Larrivé, who is already considering a rally to Macron. However, the campaign of his boss is of the same scope and triggers the same charisma of extinguished bus shelter as that of Macron. So what...
No doubt about it: Macron has succeeded in attracting to himself... all the garbage of the World Before, of the franchouillarde politician politics as we have always known it and which extends from the fetid remugles of the 2000s to the current "opposition" and its current invertebrates.
Recovering all that passes and does not know how to have a real alternative thought, this aspiration by the vacuum shows above all that there is no one else to collect these relics of the old world, the political debris of the right and the left of which the citizens already did not know what to do one, two or three mandates ago and which are deposited in the electoral debate like so many collapses of over-cooked and over-infused political parties.
In fact, the startup nation has inexorably turned, after a shameful quinquennium, into an Old World hospice, a sort of EHPAD for parties under heavy medical assistance.
These rallies show to what extent Macron has become a veritable life raft for losers on the right and the left, who are once again only making a petty calculation along the lines of "We know where the seats and the dough will be anyway, no need to delude ourselves, let's rally Macron."
However, all these pathetic agitations quickly make us forget that the first round is not done, whatever the polls with still wide margins of error say. Thus, Macron might not pass. Oh, sure, it's not the most likely, but it's not impossible, just as it wasn't the most likely that Jospin wouldn't make it to the second round in 2002.
At the time, he had difficulty convincing his militants and supporters to vote, as everyone had presented him as a certainty in the second round. And the man didn't trigger half the irritation that Macron does now. Doubting that he will make it to the second round is therefore not completely lunar, and it is an interesting hypothesis: imagine that he won't be there.
A Zemmour/Marine Le Pen or Zemmour/Mélenchon runoff would certainly be a thunderclap in a France on the verge of implosion, a return to divisive politics after the depoliticized soup that Macron sold us in 2017. Panic in the editorial offices. Horror for many.
Don't worry, we're kidding. But imagine anyway, and above all, don't forget: whatever the candidates in the second round, this country is screwed.
Le 30 mars 2022 par Hashtable
(FR) Macron, the candidate of an expiring world And while social networks are gossiping (rightly and probably not enough) about the #McKinseyGate, this costly irruption of private consulting firms used to monetize such judicious advice that will have cost more than 2 billion euros to the French in order to - among other things - force them to drink their coffee standing up, the electoral campaign for presidential renewal continues with more or less happiness and relevance while the country happily continues to get bogged down in its bad collectivist habits.
While the attractive and more or less far-fetched electoral promises are piled up on professions of faith that we already know will not be read (or that they will not be of interest, or that they will not be distributed as the new republican tradition now requires), we notice various troop movements in rallies to some and to others.
In this somewhat sordid race for power, one cannot help but notice the media's obstinacy in reporting all the latest rallies for candidate Macron, who, if we are to believe what the press tells us, seems to be reaping some nice rewards.
Indeed, after having dissolved the Socialist Party in 2016 and 2017 by siphoning off its cadres, leaving Anne Hidalgo with only a small chance of overtaking the price of gasoline at the pump, the wriggling Macron seems able to bring to him all that the country has of caciques more or less representative of all political sides, with the exception of course of what the press calls extreme.
This is how we discover an old Rebsamen, a little dusty, who declares without hiding his vote towards Macron.
We have here, without much surprise, another illustration of these representatives of the necrotic left, ready to accept absolutely all compromises and all twists of their ideology as long as it is a question of keeping power, even if it means joining the "declared winner" before the first round in order to be able to claim one or the other largesse afterwards.
The same is true for other forgotten "celebrities" of politics, such as Marisol Touraine, who believes that the "useful and responsible" vote would be found in Macron, whose history of useful and responsible decisions leaves one wondering, even though Touraine's history of wise decisions completes the decision.
Hollande's ex-minister is joined with calculation by Elisabeth Guigou, who quickly does the same and goes further since she has even decided to help the campaign of the current president.
By the way, one can decently wonder what precisely constitutes this campaign: between the non-meetings where the candidate is not there, the filling of seats by contests as puerile as inspiring a certain pity and decidedly not breathing by the win, the improbable tinkering (and which leave an impression of a little sticky embarrassment) on Minecraft, nothing seems to really go in what should normally carry the crowds which are, for reminder and according to some polls to the most precise alchemy, to nearly 30% favorable to the current tenant of the Élysée.
In short, Rebsamen, Guigou, Touraine, there are still a few big pieces missing and when Ségolène Royal starts, the ball will be complete on the left.
For the right, there is already no shortage of defectors from LR, including Pécresse's right-hand man, Guillaume Larrivé, who is already considering a rally to Macron. However, the campaign of his boss is of the same scope and triggers the same charisma of extinguished bus shelter as that of Macron. So what...
No doubt about it: Macron has succeeded in attracting to himself... all the garbage of the World Before, of the franchouillarde politician politics as we have always known it and which extends from the fetid remugles of the 2000s to the current "opposition" and its current invertebrates.
Recovering all that passes and does not know how to have a real alternative thought, this aspiration by the vacuum shows above all that there is no one else to collect these relics of the old world, the political debris of the right and the left of which the citizens already did not know what to do one, two or three mandates ago and which are deposited in the electoral debate like so many collapses of over-cooked and over-infused political parties.
In fact, the startup nation has inexorably turned, after a shameful quinquennium, into an Old World hospice, a sort of EHPAD for parties under heavy medical assistance.
These rallies show to what extent Macron has become a veritable life raft for losers on the right and the left, who are once again only making a petty calculation along the lines of "We know where the seats and the dough will be anyway, no need to delude ourselves, let's rally Macron."
However, all these pathetic agitations quickly make us forget that the first round is not done, whatever the polls with still wide margins of error say. Thus, Macron might not pass. Oh, sure, it's not the most likely, but it's not impossible, just as it wasn't the most likely that Jospin wouldn't make it to the second round in 2002.
At the time, he had difficulty convincing his militants and supporters to vote, as everyone had presented him as a certainty in the second round. And the man didn't trigger half the irritation that Macron does now. Doubting that he will make it to the second round is therefore not completely lunar, and it is an interesting hypothesis: imagine that he won't be there.
A Zemmour/Marine Le Pen or Zemmour/Mélenchon runoff would certainly be a thunderclap in a France on the verge of implosion, a return to divisive politics after the depoliticized soup that Macron sold us in 2017. Panic in the editorial offices. Horror for many.
Don't worry, we're kidding. But imagine anyway, and above all, don't forget: whatever the candidates in the second round, this country is screwed.
Le 30 mars 2022 par Hashtable
