{"id":178331,"date":"2019-01-02T22:01:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T03:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/01\/02\/quils-mangent-de-la-brioche-again\/"},"modified":"2019-01-02T22:01:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T03:01:00","slug":"quils-mangent-de-la-brioche-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/01\/02\/quils-mangent-de-la-brioche-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Qu&#8217;ils Mangent De La Brioche \u2014 \u2014 AGAIN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like Emanuel Macron is a man who emulates the Bourbon kings, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2018\/12\/31\/macron-terms-yellow-vest-leaders-hateful-mob-combative-new-years\/\">he has learned nothing, and he has forgotten nothing<\/a>, to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikiquote.org\/wiki\/Charles_Maurice_de_Talleyrand-P%C3%A9rigord\">paraphrase not-Tallyrand<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He is now calling the yellow vest protesters a hateful mob, all because they have the audacity to object to his policy to benefit the haves at the expense of the have nots.<\/p>\n<p>He is blind in a way that the now-incarcerated Sarkozy could never:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Emmanuel Macron last night delivered a combative New Year&#8217;s address, vowing to push forward with economic reforms despite two-month long protests from what he termed a &#8220;hateful mob&#8221;.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The French President, whose televised address was broadcast form the Elysee Palace, acknowledged that &#8220;anger over injustices&#8221; lay behind the yellow vest movement that has scarred his second-year in office.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">But the 41-year-old also strongly condemned protest-leaders. \u201cThose who claim to speak for the people, but in fact speak for a hateful mob &#8211; attacking elected representatives, security forces, journalists, Jews, foreigners, homosexuals &#8211; are quite simply the negation of France,\u201d he said.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Alexandra Schwarzbrod, an author and political analyst, argued that the President still lacked a common touch.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cHe did a creditable job in terms of his political communication, but he still appeared fairly distant from the everyday problems the \u2018yellow vests\u2019 have injected into the political agenda,&#8221; she said. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course he seems distant.<\/p>\n<p>He had a privileged childhood, the child of a doctor and a professor, and went to elite schools, and he has nothing but contempt for people who lack the initiative to have well-off parents.<\/p>\n<p>Marine le Pen must be feeling very confident about her future right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like Emanuel Macron is a man who emulates the Bourbon kings, he has learned nothing, and he has forgotten nothing, to paraphrase not-Tallyrand. 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