2017 French Presidential Election

[Middle-aged Europe]

Oh boy. I hope Fillon manages to come in fifth in the end.

[Middle-aged Europe]

I'd say the "Van der Bellen of France" is indeed Emmanuel Macron. Not only because it will be his task to stop the far-right candidate in the presidential run-off, but also because they seem to be the most similar candidates ideologically.

Van der Bellen also ran as a nominally independent candidate, because ideologically he stands a bit to the right of his own party, while Macron is independent because he's more right-wing than his former party, the Socialists.

[Middle-aged Europe]

My results:

Hamon 66%
Arthaud 63%
Macron 60%
Poutou 58%
Mélenchon 54%
Fillon 51%
Cheminade 50%
Le Pen 47%
Dupont-Aignan 47%

[Middle-aged Europe]

So, Macron is basically the French version of Ron Paul then?

[Middle-aged Europe]

Some leftists tend to like Russia because of the whole "the enemy of your enemy is your friend" fallacy, and they think it's a good obstacle to American and "Western" imperialism. Of course some leftists are just idiots.

Russian imperialism is even worse than Western imperialism.

[Middle-aged Europe]

^^ "What's going on" is Trump's code word for MUZLIMS!!, right??

[Middle-aged Europe]

^^ "What's going on" is Trump's code word for MUZLIMS!!, right??

Or "code word" for terrorism.  But whatever floats your boat

Short of resigning there isn't a thing in the world which Trump could do to "float my boat".