{"id":178510,"date":"2018-11-08T19:02:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T00:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/11\/08\/this-is-not-an-accident-this-is-a-sistah-soulja-moment\/"},"modified":"2018-11-08T19:02:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T00:02:00","slug":"this-is-not-an-accident-this-is-a-sistah-soulja-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/11\/08\/this-is-not-an-accident-this-is-a-sistah-soulja-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"This is not an Accident, this is a Sistah Soulja Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>French President Emmanuel Macron just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-46129990\">lauded antisemitic traitor Philippe P\u00e9tain<\/a>, former President of the puppet Vichy Republic.<\/p>\n<p>This was not a slip of the tongue.  This was a not particularly subtle appeal to supporters of the racist National Front, because he is concerned that his policy of f%$#ing the average French worker like a drunk sorority girl will lead to a further rise Marine Le Pen which would threaten his hold on power.<\/p>\n<p>It is a chickensh%$ move from a chickensh%$ politician:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Nazi collaborator Philippe P\u00e9tain during centenary commemorations marking the end of World War One later this week.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Mr Macron said Marshal P\u00e9tain was a &#8220;great soldier&#8221;, even though he had made &#8220;disastrous choices&#8221; during WW2.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">P\u00e9tain was praised for the defence of Verdun in 1916, but he was sentenced to death for high treason after WW2.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Some French politicians and Jewish leaders condemned Mr Macron&#8217;s comments.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What is going on here is very clear:  Macron is going full pander to bigots, because he&#8217;s worried about Le Pen, whose base is profoundly bigoted.<\/p>\n<p>Macron is a contemptible pissant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French President Emmanuel Macron just lauded antisemitic traitor Philippe P\u00e9tain, former President of the puppet Vichy Republic. This was not a slip of the tongue. This was a not particularly subtle appeal to supporters of the racist National Front, because he is concerned that his policy of f%$#ing the average French worker like a drunk &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":[506,585,371,387,374],"class_list":["post-178510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bigotry","tag-cowardice","tag-europe","tag-hypocrisy","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178510"}],"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=178510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}