France 2012: the official thread

[minionofmidas]

Retaliation is a sin .

See, life is much easier when you aren't a christian.

But the afterlife is not. 0:)

The afterlife is much easier when it doesn't exist.

[minionofmidas]

So what's this "Porschegate"?

[minionofmidas]

Anyways, I trust the justice and I know that if he's innocent, he will be acquitted.

You trust the justice of New York state?

That's... remarkable.

Mind you, I've no opinion of what's really going on here. The guy drives a Porsche, so he presumably rapes people, too.

[minionofmidas]

So, DSK back in?

[minionofmidas]

I don't know much about French politics, so what's wrong with Aubry?

She lives in a constant state of paranoid rigidity. That's the first thing.

Well at least she's not a useless, do-nothing wimp with a vague personalist campaign.

And since when, exactly, can you do well in elections in France without being a do-nothing wimp with a vague personalist campaign?

[minionofmidas]

Yeah, someone go break his little legs on May 4th.

Or you just all go vote Hollande in the runoff.

[minionofmidas]

***BREAKING NEWS***

Ségolène just endorsed Hollande, in order to "amplify his lead" ! So she hates Aubry more than Hollande, no doubt anymore.

Or she hates Hollande more than Aubry, and is cleverer than you think.

[minionofmidas]

I'm guessing at 54-46, maybe 53-47.

[minionofmidas]

So, you f**king got to beat Sarkozy in 2012. Or I swear God you'll pay.

And you bloddy well got to beat him by more than you beat Aubry!

[minionofmidas]

No baby bump for Sarko? Goodgood. Very good. Or are there not enough polls since to say for sure?

[minionofmidas]

Sorry guys, my life's real sh*** these days. Many, many professional and personal problems.

So sorry to hear that.

The tracker will be updated... soon.

Not sorry to hear that.

[minionofmidas]

Does ponderated mean weighted?

Clearly so.

Including etymologically (except that the English form is pondered, of course).

[minionofmidas]

God, this is disgusting.

[minionofmidas]

The PS seems to be morphing ever so slowly into the second incarnation of the RadSocs: a bunch of experienced local notables who dominate local elections but which is not able to win anything of worth nationally.

great ! you point exactly right on the target

There definitely is a lot of truth to that. Of course the old SFIO was a bit like that as well.

[minionofmidas]

Throwing out old maps at my mom's (she's moving. Within the neighborhood, as it happens) I came across an old touristy map of the Marais Poitevin from the early nineties... with a short preface/dedication/whatevsky by Segolène Royal. Heh. Got thrown in the trash, mind.

[minionofmidas]

Yeah, this would be good news for Hollande if Germans could vote in French elections.

[minionofmidas]

Probably not Porte d'Eau materiel.

[minionofmidas]

The older I grow, the more Catholic I am.
I'm really disgusted by the leftist paradigm of medias and of teachers. I deeply believe that this modern or post-modern left, having destroyed the old 3rd Republic school, is the best ally of this mass-consumption capitalism which is only looking for stupid consumers.
I deeply believe that we are already in a society of genetic manipulations, of merchandization of the human body, of "good old" euthanasia like the 1930s Sweden, that we'll soon be forbidden to keep our children at home.
I deeply believe that all these so-called social advances are only the other face of our deep moral decline due to mass capitalism. It's only two sides of materialism.

OK, let me be as short as I can :

I. Don't. Get it.

Not that I agree with all of the rest, but the teachers part is the only part I "don't get".
But I wouldn't have expected you to get much of it...

[minionofmidas]

Because it's an attack on a specific and rather new subspecies of moderate leftism that you very much help epitomize?

[minionofmidas]

*please French People don't screw this up don't screw this up please French People*

[minionofmidas]

May France be red.

Pink. Red would be PCF.

[minionofmidas]

If you look over precinct-by-precinct results, you realize that some such people do exist.

[minionofmidas]

Hollande should be fine so long as he continues to avoid major fyck ups. In the end, and at the end, this is about the Poison Dwarf and not him.

If that were still true, they'd still be polling in the high 50s.

We are basically talking about Europe's dumbest right wing troll here.

[minionofmidas]

Berlusconi was utterly delusional and an even worse crook than Sarko, but I never thought him dumb.

[minionofmidas]

(of course, Hollande alose is useless, so we have to pray for  Germany as well, in 2013).

Unless something really major happens to the SPD - either a dramatic turnaround and policy renewal or a wholesale collapse - fuggeddaboudit.