{"id":178392,"date":"2018-12-12T20:19:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T01:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/12\/12\/nice-troll-dude\/"},"modified":"2018-12-12T20:19:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T01:19:00","slug":"nice-troll-dude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/12\/12\/nice-troll-dude\/","title":{"rendered":"Nice Troll, Dude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The head of the 5-Star movement in Italy has suggested that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/fee65144-fd56-11e8-ac00-57a2a826423e\">France is risking budget sanctions from the EU because of Macron&#8217;s capitulation to protesters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There is no real risk for France though, because, as Orwell observed, &#8220;Some are more equal than others,&#8221; but you have to admire the quality of the trolling:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Emmanuel Macron\u2019s decision to make costly concessions to French protesters has prompted angry recriminations in Italy and Germany, where political leaders signalled Paris\u2019 new spending plans could intensify Europe\u2019s tense fiscal debate.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Luigi Di Maio, a leader of Italy\u2019s populist government, said that France should be punished for breaching the EU\u2019s deficit limits after Mr Macron promised tax cuts and handouts that could cost up to \u20ac10bn, arguing Rome was being sanctioned for similar \u201cemergency\u201d budget plans.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Mr Macron\u2019s measures, designed to assuage the gilets jaunes protesters, would \u201ccause a widening of the deficit\u201d and should require the European Commission to \u201calso open a case against France, if the rules apply to all,\u201d said Mr Di Maio, head of the anti-establishment Five Star Movement.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Italy is in the middle of a bruising fight with Brussels over its breach of promised spending limits, with the European Commission calling the populist coalition\u2019s new spending plans an \u201cunprecedented\u201d breach of its budgetary rules.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The real problem here is not the deficit, of course, it is that the EU is dominated by Germany, and failed German economics, and like the last disastrous turn, we are seeing the rise of Fascism in Europe as a result.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The head of the 5-Star movement in Italy has suggested that France is risking budget sanctions from the EU because of Macron&#8217;s capitulation to protesters. There is no real risk for France though, because, as Orwell observed, &#8220;Some are more equal than others,&#8221; but you have to admire the quality of the trolling: Emmanuel Macron\u2019s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[446,630,480],"class_list":["post-178392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-budget","tag-european-union","tag-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178392"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}