{"id":200206,"date":"2021-06-08T19:34:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T00:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/06\/08\/mixed-emotions-10\/"},"modified":"2021-06-08T19:34:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T00:34:00","slug":"mixed-emotions-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/06\/08\/mixed-emotions-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Mixed Emotions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 330px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OzYiLoeAbR0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"320\"><\/iframe><br \/><i>Surreal<br \/><\/i><\/div>\n<p>French President Emmanuel Macron was working a crowd line, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/08\/emmanuel-macron-slapped-in-the-face-during-walkabout\">someone in the crowd slapped the crap out of him<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At first, I thought that this was the feel good story of the day, because Macron has serious&nbsp; Backpfeifengesicht.<sup>*<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, this man who slapped him is someone who is in serious need of a kick in the ass. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\">Emmanuel Macron was slapped in the face by a man during a walkabout in southern France.<\/p>\n<p>The president\u2019s security detail immediately pulled the man to the ground and moved Macron away from the crowd, though the president appeared unhurt and determined to continue meeting the public.<\/p>\n<p>Afterwards, the French leader said the assault was \u201can isolated act\u201d that should be \u201cput into perspective\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe mustn\u2019t let ultra-violent individuals take over the public debate \u2026 There can be no violence, no hatred, not in speech or action. Otherwise it\u2019s democracy itself that is threatened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NunesChr\/status\/1402244466770128897\">A video of the incident<\/a> showed the president, in a white shirt and tie, approach onlookers waiting behind metal barriers at Tain-l\u2019Hermitage in the Dr\u00f4me department.<\/p>\n<p>Macron, wearing a mask, is seen reaching out to shake hands with a man in a green T-shirt wearing glasses and a mask.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters reported the man was heard shouting \u201c\u00e0 bas la Macronie\u201d (down with Macronism) before he grabbed the president\u2019s right arm and delivered a slap to the left side of his face. He was also reported to have shouted \u201cMontjoie Saint Denis\u201d, the battle cry of the French armies when the country was a monarchy.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The guy was almost certainly a right wing racist French Royalist.&nbsp; You know, the folks who still think that <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alfred_Dreyfus\">Albert Dreyfus<\/a> was guilty, and they make Marine Le Pen (who, to her credit strongly condemned the attack) look like Rachel Maddow.<\/p>\n<p>So, Macron gets slapped, and this douche bag ends up in the slam for a few months.<\/p>\n<p>I can live with that, I guess.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">It&#8217;s German for, &#8220;A face that begs to be slapped.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surreal French President Emmanuel Macron was working a crowd line, and someone in the crowd slapped the crap out of him. At first, I thought that this was the feel good story of the day, because Macron has serious&nbsp; Backpfeifengesicht.* Unfortunately, this man who slapped him is someone who is in serious need of a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[984,978,1019,1059,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-politics","category-schadenfreude","category-violence","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200206"}],"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=200206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}