France erupts into riots.

[UKSmartypants]

Massive Yellow Vest Riots in Lyon and Paris, but dont expect much coverage in MSM.

A cabal of the top generals wrote to Macron and told him to sort out the problems or they would initiate a coupe de tat.

A poll of frenchmen puts the majority in agreement with the generals.

Looks like Marine Le Pen is going to be president. Macaroni boy is done for.

[UKSmartypants]

More than half of French people support generals’ warning that France is 'DISINTEGRATING,' hurtling toward civil war, poll shows — RT World News


France chaos as protests erupt across nation – police charge crowds and launch tear gas | World | News | Express.co.uk



French effort to tackle ‘radical Islamism’ is doomed if SPINELESS Macron no longer dares to mention it by name in new law

https://www.rt.com/op-ed/509266-fran...lamism-macron/

[dinosaur]

Oh, so it's anti-racism backlash from the "racist" Frenchmen? Ahhh, sounds familiar.

Yeah, we gots ourselves a bunch of retired generals over here too. They didn't like the new LGBTQ military wokeness, so they got out. But that retired general thing, you know, no army under their command, so no coup. Yellow vests, you're on your own.

[dinosaur]

What's the issue that has everyone so upset?

I thought the French only had to work 36-37 weeks per year, only about 30 hours or so per week?

Macron imports all these foreign workers to do the dirty jobs the French won't do?

Was there a price increase on wine?

Travel restrictions mean that French peoples have to spend their 15 weeks or so of vacation in their own homes?

[Frankenvoter]

What's the issue that has everyone so upset?

I thought the French only had to work 36-37 weeks per year, only about 30 hours or so per week?

Macron imports all these foreign workers to do the dirty jobs the French won't do?

Was there a price increase on wine?

Travel restrictions mean that French peoples have to spend their 15 weeks or so of vacation in their own homes?

I've heard the frogs don't use deodorant all that much and so I suppose that could be an issue during long duration enclosures.

[TheOneOnly2]

I've heard the frogs don't use deodorant all that much and so I suppose that could be an issue during long duration enclosures.

They actually love perfume but they wash less than a Pommy which is scary.

French do not wash: official. But the British are smelly | The Independent | The Independent

Then again - I do not know if these bathing statistics for the English include the Pommy Wash. A Pommy Wash is not exactly bathing but at least its something.

Pommie-wash Meaning | Best 1 Definitions of Pommie-wash (yourdictionary.com)

[UKSmartypants]

What's the issue that has everyone so upset?

several things, the Yellow vests want pension reforms that macron promised years ago. The movement was initially motivated by rising fuel prices and a high cost of living; it claims that a disproportionate burden of the government's tax reforms were falling on the working and middle classes

then theirs the Le Pen anti Eu Frexiters

and the anti vaxxers and anti lockdowners

The generals and the people are pissed off about Moslem mass immigration and the way its turned parts of some towns, including Paris, into moslem no go areas.


See, theres a principle when you are in government, only piss off one set of people at a time. Macron has managed to create enough reasons to piss off most of the french population en masse.

[Trinnity]

Are you kidding?

What's the issue that has everyone so upset?

Radical Islam. It's in the OP.


And the express UK said this:

Violence has broken out in France after protestors took to the streets for annual May Day demonstrations. Police in Lyon have clashed with demonstrators after a large number of trade unions and left-wing activist attempted to march through the city.

express.co.uk

[TheOneOnly2]

Are you kidding?Radical Islam. It's in the OP.


And the express UK said this:

May Day.

I think it is very dishonest of the OP or anyone else to try to make these protests about Radical Islam. The Yellow Vests are far left populists that want 'economic justice'. Leftists. Socialists basically. They protests about high cost of living for middle and working class. About fuel tax. About climate agenda raising their cost of living. I never heard of them protesting about radical islamists. The generals that supposedly wrote letter to French leader - that has zero to do with yellow vest protests. Some media are writing up stories claiming that La Penn wants to appeal to these yellow jackets and while they are populists and the far left and far right have more in common than with each other than most people want to admit these protests are not in support of La Penn. OP is dishonest and at the very least borderline racist propaganda.

The yellow vests movement or yellow jackets movement (French: Mouvement des gilets jaunes, pronounced [muvmɑ̃ de ʒilɛ ʒon]) is a populist,^[66] grassroots^[67] protest movement for economic justice^[68] that began in France in October 2018. After an online petition posted in May had attracted nearly a million signatures, mass demonstrations began on 17 November.^[69] The movement was initially motivated by rising fuel prices and a high cost of living; it claims that a disproportionate burden of the government's tax reforms were falling on the working and middle classes,^[70][71][72] especially in rural and peri-urban areas.^[33][73] The protesters have called for lower fuel taxes, a reintroduction of the solidarity tax on wealth, a minimum-wage increase, as well as the implementation of Citizens' initiative referendums,^[41] among other things. On 29 November 2018, a list of 42 demands was made public and went viral on social media, becoming de facto a structuring basis for the movement, covering a wide range of eclectic topics, mostly related to democracy, social and fiscal justice

Yellow vests movement - Wikipedia

edit - You America First folks have zero in common with Yellow Vests. La Penn yeah but not these guys. edit - Well you do hate fuel taxes. Any taxes hey. Including any tax on wealth.

edit - Hmm - I was going to say you America First folks have an ally in the French 'Les Identitaries' movement but apparently it has been banned. March 2021.

Ban[edit]

On 3 March 2021, France banned Génération Identitaire (Generation Identity), as the Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said the movement incited "discrimination, hatred and violence".^[15] A few weeks before, dozens of people protested in Paris against the dissolution. it was estimated about 200 protesters

Les Identitaires - Wikipedia

Talk about a bunch of morons. They used a Lambda on their logo. But they are French.... I think the idea is that Spartans were white? But are Southern Europeans really white? Ha. If you were making a logo for a French far right movement you would go with something French wouldnt you? Charles the Hammer Martel? Put him on the logo. That would have made more sense.

[UKSmartypants]

May Day.

I think it is very dishonest of the OP or anyone else to try to make these protests about Radical Islam.

I didnt

I posted the full range of reasons in post #11

Try reading the whole thread.


and the mass immigration of moslems into France most certianly is a bone of contention - reports from 2016 to 2020:

Migrants Attack Jews Celebrating Hanukkah in Paris No-Go Suburbs


'No-go zone' for women? How street harassment in Paris boiled over | Cities | The Guardian


France’s No-Go Zones: Assimilation-Resistant Muslims Are the Real Refugee Problem | National Review


Paris Becomes Massive Camp for Illegal Migrants :: Gatestone Institute


Branded a no-go zone: a trip inside the 93, France's most notorious banlieue | Photography | The Guardian


Riot police clash with anti-immigration protesters in the former capital of France's Nazi dictatorship | Daily Mail Online


French retired general among anti-immigration protesters


Anti Immigration protests:




Its been simmering close to boiling for years, and started back in 2016, Macron was elected on the back of promises to sort out various issues like this. He's done nothing about this or any of the other issues. That what kicked off the Yellow Vests in the first place, Macrons lack of action.


Apology accepted.