As @marthagimbel.bsky.social put it: We've reached the point where the French are better at fighting Nazis than we are www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/w... - ThreadSky

crampell.bsky.social • 4 days ago

As @marthagimbel.bsky.social put it: We've reached the point where the French are better at fighting Nazis than we are
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/world/europe/france-marine-le-pen-embezzlement-2027-election-ban.html

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wndlb.bsky.social•4 days ago

Homer Simpson is no longer right about them?

kipcat.bsky.social•4 days ago

France's judicial system also, notably, isn't absolutely fucked like the US' re judicial review –

You'd not get something like "Oh, we decided that actually the constitution protects handguns 200+ years after the fact"

martinnagle.bsky.social•4 days ago

At least they had the woefully ineffective Maginot Line. All we have is the shredded remains of “norms”…

real-nar.bsky.social•4 days ago

The fact that a corrupt despot who is trying to destabilize the entire world is “president” makes the US a #Bananarepublic

sashat.bsky.social•4 days ago

"J'aurai ce que les Français ont"

jandehn.bsky.social•4 days ago

Maybe they just have better police and courts than America…she is a criminal.

abundantlyerica.bsky.social•4 days ago

They would be. They understand the threat far more

henryporter.bsky.social•4 days ago

How long did this prosecution take?

steve36893.bsky.social•4 days ago

All the more reason that the U.S. needs to break up at this point.

Why aren’t more people talking about this.

The United States as we knew it is over. We can only save America now by breaking up.

I get it’ll be hard. But we’re not lazy or afraid of big projects.

And it’ll be worth it x a million

wazzy1949.bsky.social•4 days ago

French conservatives failed to stack the judge bench with ass kissers, I guess. Learn from trump, dears.

njsmith.bsky.social•4 days ago

We’re more like Vichy France at this point.

notmymonkeymon.bsky.social•4 days ago

'The verdict effectively barred... [LePen]...from participating in it...because nobody is entitled to “immunity in violation of the rule of law.”'
Is Congress incapable of defining & codifying potential criminal acts by the executive branch?
Or just unwilling to act like a co-equal branch of govt?

walterdragon.bsky.social•4 days ago

It must be so nice to live in a country that actually cares about democracy and the rule of law. I wonder what it feels like.

atxdweller.bsky.social•4 days ago

Brazilians, too, for that matter.

infinitelyloopy.bsky.social•4 days ago

I was at a nice restaurant in Valence where a group of tipsy Germans were being loud (a total no go). An old French woman walked over to the table and scolded them (they shut up after that).

It was hilarious

I always imagined she said something about hating them in the war among other things

pepe-mccormack.bsky.social•4 days ago

Yeah, they didn’t dropped the prosecution and ran like we did.

ivana-from-pa.bsky.social•4 days ago

But it still took them 10 years

mrasia1962.bsky.social•4 days ago

Nothing to do with politics. MLP misused / stole EU money to pay for RN politicians who were not working for the EU, called fraud.

fromtheburgh.bsky.social•4 days ago

So if you are a criminal in France no Presidential possibility, but here in USA you become President!

firefly-7461.bsky.social•4 days ago

they always were

pranya3922.bsky.social•3 days ago

They have always been better. They hid every artifact from the Louvre. Their French Resistance was very effective and they were a big part DDay and the liberation of France. If you research the stories, they were fearless badasses. The women were just as fearless as the men.

danp2078r.bsky.social•4 days ago

S Korea also

curiouskev.bsky.social•4 days ago

Maybe they can assist us and train US in how to resist. We have a Vichy group that need to be shamed. No appeasement of the billionaire class or the Maga/Republican Party.

eringloriaryan.bsky.social•4 days ago

it is we who are the cheese eating surrender monkeys

notmymonkeymon.bsky.social•4 days ago

Nope, just Congress & the SCOTUS .

5thgenfljane.bsky.social•4 days ago

Except with most of us it's Cheetos because we have no taste.

leftofcenterus.bsky.social•4 days ago

Thank the lord. Maybe France will go commie. I mean that literally and it's not the CCP there.

crampell.bsky.social•4 days ago

To wit: https://www.politico.eu/article/elon-musk-slam-marine-le-pen-guilty-verdict/

bbuttler.bsky.social•4 days ago

And they’re completely silent on Viktor Orban jailing his challenger. Shocking.

littleluigi.bsky.social•4 days ago

CRY ELON, CRY

hogenboomj.bsky.social•4 days ago

And how is E.M. qualified to have a public opinion on this or any other issue (international) politics? Cut publicity, please.

irish-pawpaw.bsky.social•4 days ago

One gets caught, they all feel eyes on them

tttomblue.bsky.social•4 days ago

fElon should be careful of taking on the French! He's already in the doghouse there with his Nazi rhetoric. They do NOT take kindly to foreign 'agents provocateurs' interfering in their affairs.

Sales of his SwastiKKKars are already in the toilet and they will shut his sXitbox down in a flash!

teedubber.bsky.social•4 days ago

Grifters always band together.

scottwhall.bsky.social•4 days ago

This is what happens when turds start to rule the world. Yesterday, it was just a dump in the toilet and now they want to be our overlords!

mariopro.bsky.social•4 days ago

https://linktr.ee/jesseduquette

sbpnw.bsky.social•4 days ago

So if you’re a political sociopath you’re incapable of committing a crime, is the upshot.

pinkmouse.bsky.social•4 days ago

“When the radical left can’t win via democratic vote, they abuse the legal system to jail their opponents,” Musk said Monday. No Elon it's called the Rule of Law. Something you clearly don't understand.

5plume.bsky.social•4 days ago

Musk is intent on being a power player in government affairs, domestically and internationally. He definitely needs to be brought down a few pegs. That requires teamwork from the public, politicians and businesses.