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Interesting this:

https://www.chathamhouse.org/expert/...im-immigration

This is a Chatham House poll of 10 countries in Europe. 54% actually agreed with Donald Trump's travel ban.

Take a look that this:

02-08-2017 , 09:47 AM

#153

florentinopeces

old hand

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Quote:

Originally Posted by LordJvK

We were told that Hilary had a 90% chance of winning.

That might have been right. She won the popular vote by a wide margin, and nearly won the electoral college. A few states going the other way and the election goes the other way. The thing is a 1 in 10 happens a lot.

02-11-2017 , 09:09 AM

#154

kioshk

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Time to send in the Marines!

02-12-2017 , 06:52 AM

#155

LordJvK

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http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2017/02...ench-collapse/

This was an interesting listen. Much more cause to be pessimistic than people in this thread have been making out.

02-21-2017 , 12:23 PM

#156

daca

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if youre not a little panicked and having brexit/trump related nightmares then i dont know where you spent the last year

https://twitter.com/BFMTV/status/834071185746960384

02-21-2017 , 04:46 PM

#157

SuperUberBob

Not interesting enough

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Are Russian internet trolls posting a bunch of pro-Le Pen nonsense on French language news sites?

02-21-2017 , 05:51 PM

#158

El Rata

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is there going to be a debate before the first round?

02-21-2017 , 06:57 PM

#159

Kukraprout

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- I'm officially shook. Zombie Fillon now has a high first round floor, high enough to get to the second round, and a second round ceiling that is uncomfortably low.

- Russian medias mostly attack Macron. Various alt right trolls (homegrown and foreign) also organize twitter campaigns against him.

- There will be a debate for the largest clowns in the car on march 20.

02-21-2017 , 07:35 PM

#160

SuperUberBob

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Le Pen winning would be their Brexit moment.

Fillon appears to be bad but not Le Pen type bad. Not going to destroy the EU and implement Nazi-esque policies bad.

02-21-2017 , 08:40 PM

#161

BABARtheELEPHANT

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I would be shocked if Fillon wins. You can be sure it's going to be 5 years with a very divided country where nothing gets done. I would probably take it to the streets myself for the first time in my life. Also his pro russian stance seems fishy to me but that's just me being paranoid.

If le pen wins, then **** me. I'll graduate then gtfo of this country.

02-22-2017 , 05:11 AM

#162

daca

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basically the centre/left is splitting 3 ways and the right only 2 so france will end up having to choose between the dodgy thatcherite millionaire and the fascist

02-22-2017 , 08:02 AM

#163

andre006

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Macron is a fart in the wind, le Ricky Rubio.

02-22-2017 , 08:12 AM

#164

chytry

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Le Pen is the most popular candidate so are people finally discussing why?

02-22-2017 , 08:19 AM

#165

andre006

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She brings together traditional racists and some peoples pissed off at euroland, i think it's the latter that puts her slightly higher than usual.

02-22-2017 , 08:20 AM

#166

daca

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le pen is going to jail apparently

02-22-2017 , 08:30 AM

#167

andre006

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would lmao.

Not sure who fired the scud missile at Fillon but it had me greatly entertained. Can't believe the timing is random.

It's Macron obv

02-22-2017 , 09:13 AM

#168

awval999

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Quote:

Originally Posted by daca

le pen is going to jail apparently

I think that's a stretch.

I had to google to see what you were talking about.

Quote:

French police searched the headquarters of Marine Le Pen’s far-right Front National on Monday evening as part of an official investigation into “fake” jobs involving the misuse of European Union funds to pay for a bodyguard and an assistant in Paris.

Brussels investigators claim Le Pen paid her bodyguard, Thierry Légier, more than €41,500 (£35,350) between October and December 2011, by falsely claiming he was an EU parliamentary assistant.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ided-by-police

Man these euro scandals are weak sauce. Isn't there any EMAILZ or pussy grabbin'?

02-22-2017 , 10:04 AM

#169

BrettFavre

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These are tough times for the EU. UK already left. France will have a hard Eurosceptic party as the most powerful one. We already have soft Eurosceptic parties in Denmark, Poland, and Hungary as the top parties in their countries. But how long is it before they take a hard line? Or before hard Eurosceptic parties take over? Imagine parties like Jobbik in Hungary taking over other EU countries.

It's like if Stormfront forum members had their own country.

Not sure how we don't see at least one country withdraw from the EU in the next few years.

Last edited by BrettFavre; 02-22-2017 at 10:22 AM.

02-22-2017 , 10:15 AM

#170

daca

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Quote:

Originally Posted by awval999

I think that's a stretch.

I had to google to see what you were talking about.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ided-by-police

Man these euro scandals are weak sauce. Isn't there any EMAILZ or pussy grabbin'?

it heated up a little bit http://www.reuters.com/article/us-fr...-idUSKBN1610XQ

but yeah she's not going to jail and her voters will care less that she's corrupt when it's eu money they're stealing.

02-22-2017 , 10:22 AM

#171

Mr.mmmKay

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Quote:

Originally Posted by BrettFavre

Not sure how we don't see at least one country withdraw from the EU in the next few years.

My money's on the UK

02-22-2017 , 10:56 AM

#172

Marn

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Could anyone outline why Le Pen is so awful? I will vote for our right wing party, the Sweden Democrats in our upcoming election, nothing about them is extreme or fascist, how do they differ to Le Pen?

Trump is too extreme for our right wing party, the party leader won't defend him.

02-22-2017 , 11:29 AM

#173

GBV

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Marn

The Swedish Democrats have a party platform obsessed with race. That's what a racist is. Any one supporting them is a racist.

If you mean is Marine Le Pen saying she is going to carry out a holocaust, no, she isn't. Yet. Nor did most perpetrators of genocide...at first. They went on about immigration and demonized people of foreign ethnicity in a variety of ways just like you and your swedish fascist scum do. They do that until they win power and dismantle the state till so their are no barriers to ethnic cleansing.