Mr. Macron's Parenthesis

Yesterday France's Emanuel Macron called Europe's postwar peace and prosperity, 'A golden parenthesis in our history.'

Quite right.

The European techno-crat, the Jean Claude Junker, the former East German Communist Angela Merkel and the like, credit the post-war piece to European diplomacy, integration, the Common Market, the EU, etc etc.

But Macron's use of the parenthesis metaphor is apt.

The Red Army was the right side of that parenthesis. The US Army the left. That is, foreign powers, powers alien to Europe, imposed that peace.

Western Europe prospered because an American army of 300,000 men stood ready to defend that prosperity.

The European imagined that the fall of the Berlin Wall brought about Francis Fukayama's end of history, where soft power, not gunboat diplomacy would reign.

But European soft power failed to stop the Yugoslav War and Putin's invasion of Crimea. It was George W Bush and the US Navy that stopped Putin from overrunning Georgia in 2008.

European soft-power? Yeah. Sorry. No.

Still Pussies

Holy Merde.

We must admit we are surprised by the depth and depths of Macron's victory.

Seriously this might be the most French thing that's ever happened. That man is a metro-sexual beta or there's no such thing as same, most likely closeted, and married to his former HS teacher. In America what Mrs Macron did to her husband is a crime, but in France I guess its just vive le Difference!

She must peg him, right?

[Why do you even know what that is, ed?]

So the great anti-globalist wave is concentrated in the English speaking world, Brexit, Trump,etc. It only makes sense that the wave would beak up upon the shores of le continent. The anti-globalist sentiment is strongest  there in the Netherlands, where Geert Wilders (PHUH) placed second in this year's elections.  The Nederlanders are the least worst of the Europeans. Oh hell, they're a fine country, and I'm not just saying that because Stroock is a Dutch name and I'm from the Hudson River Valley. Free and open, these are the people that invented the joint stock corporation, which among things enabled their merchants to finance expeditions throughout the world.

Aside from our Nederlander friends It's the English speaking people taking a stand against the Order Internationale. It always is. German Imperialism, Fascism, Communism, now the Global Elite.

So it only makes sense that the French would reject Le Pen and side with the sexual assault survivor.

Let's look at this nation's record. The bloody frogs are on their fifth constitution. Of course they overthrew a king in the name of liberte, egalite, fraternity, only to install an emperor. They got their asses kicked in World War I, surrendered in World War Two, collaborated throughout, lost in Vietnam, lost in Algeria, had a spate of military terrorism and damn near a military coup...They stayed out of the war on terror only to become its focus. About the only thing they did right was blow up the Rainbow Warrior and they even screwed that up.

And when Macon made his great post election march at the Loov (we insist on spelling it as pronounced), he did it to the EU anthem nationale:

God Bless America...
They defend our ungrateful asses...
They've got eleven carrier battle groups....
We've only got two...
And now our Muslims are driving out le Jew...

It's possible I've embellished at least some of those lyrics.

France collaborates with Germany once again. Vive le Merkel!

Le Merde Le Elite Internationale

While we don't believe the polls showing an epic wipe out in France, I mean after Trump and Brexit who believes those, we don't see how a pretty boy centrist with a senior citizen wife can loose the French election.

That said,the crackup of the Consensus Internationale continues apace. As the great M Steyn points out, Marine will double the vote total her father got in the accidental election of 2002. With Macron in office there is no reason to think Le Pen won't finally slip into power in 2023.

Sarkozy-Hollande, Blair-Cameron, Clinton-Bush, what's the difference? They are all part of the same Consensus Internationale whose foreign policy favors super-national entities and what Steve Sailor calls 'invade the world/invite the world'.

Had one told us we would write that in 2000, when we felt the future of the Republic hung in the balance, well, we would have punched you in the face and given you some American Enterprise lit to read.

We can't speak for Macron, Hollande, Sarkozy, Chirac et all, but since the end of the Cold War this country has been run by elites with elite educations, a never ending cavalcade of degrees from Yale and Harvard, Harvard and Yale. How they doing?

Since 2000 we've had a series of foreign and economic crisis, the continued collapse of the American family, crumbling infrastructure, etc etc. Can't these people do anything right?

We were thinking about this yesterday, look at the Cold War presidents vs the modern elite.

Harry Truman went to 'commercial' college for a year before dropping out. Ike of course went to West Point. Kennedy went to Harvard, but his bootlegging father bought his way in. Johnson went to a teacher's college. Nixon attended Whittier. Ford starred at Michigan, Carter attended Annapolis, Reagan went to Eureka. Not until we get to Bush the Elder do we have a real scion of the elite.

Pretty pedestrian education there.

In 2008 the elite mocked Sarah Palin because she attended a vast array of small and state schools. Which batch of presidents do you think she fits in with? Of course the elites came up with the idea of giving unsecured, variable rate loans to bad credit risks. You think Sarah Palin would've thought of that? Think she would have said, 'You know guys, we have this Muslim terror problem, let's invite a lot of Muslim immigrants.' Also, she never drove a car off a bridge like certain scions of the elite.

Le Pen, Le France, Le Merde

As France has been targeted for terror in the last few years our stance on that nation has softened a bit. Up until recently we were in the 'cheese eating surrender monkey' school of thought. After Charlie Hebdo, The Bacalan, Nice, and on and on we can't quite muster the contempt we once had for those wine drinking pussies.

The frogs even came out looking pretty good in To Defend the Earth. Just wait till you see what they're up to in World War 1990: The Final Storm.

Please let it be known that we've felt nothing but for contempt for France since they refused to allow our bombers to overfly their territory when we smacked the Libyans in '86. We'll let the Prime Minister speak for us:

They still are.

Macron has a decent lead against Le Pen, high 50s vs low 40s. We don't know enough about French political dynamics to try to break down the race, though we doubt Macron will win by such a margin.

We think this Macron fellow will be next president of France. Macron and Le Pen are debating today. In 2007 the Royale-Sarkozy debate changed the course of the race, maybe Le Pen will be able to do so as well.

We'll see.

We'd like to address one point about France and old grudges.

Back in 2003 France elected to support Saddam Hussein, hoping among other things to avoid the scourge of Islamic terror.  How'd that work out?