Garbage is piling up on the streets, ports are blocked, fuel is running in short supply, transportation of essential goods and services have been brought to a standstill; these are the outcomes of a general labor strike that has been happening in France as a result of protests to Emmanuel Macron’s unilateral pension reforms.
It might seem like a small issue pushing the retirement age back two years for French citizens, but it’s not really about the pension reform – the bigger issue is about this “new democracy” in the aftermath of new powers assumed by the French president during COVID-19.
President Macron used a special constitutional article to push legislation through Parliament last week without a vote. He now faces two efforts to engage a no confidence vote with only tepid support from his totalitarian allies in government. The people of France are not only unhappy with the pension reform outcome, but they are also furious about the nondemocratic process – a familiar and growing sentiment that extends far beyond the borders of France.
While the protests did carry the customary French socialist-leaning violence, the issues underpinning the anger are felt by more than just the radicals. The larger network of ordinary French workers has now begun using the power of the people to shut down the economics of society.
Trash is piling up in the streets as sanitation workers refuse to work {LINK}. Ports and critical energy infrastructure like refineries are also shut down, and things are starting to get sketchy amid the social and economic fabric that generally goes unnoticed. Indeed, you might say, ‘the peasants are revolting‘.
(Reuters) – Several French refinery sites were still blocked from delivering products after two weeks of strikes in France, causing production to be disrupted while the government requisitions workers at the Fos refinery, and power supply was also disrupted.
The industrial action is part of a nationwide movement against pension system changes that lift the retirement age two years to 64. The changes were forced through parliament without a vote last week.
The Normandy refinery operated by oil major TotalEnergies’ will be shut down on Tuesday due to the strike, a company spokesperson said, as the industrial action against the pension changes stretched into its 14th day.
Production disruptions at the other sites operated by TotalEnergies remained unchanged, the spokesperson added. About 36% of operational staff at TotalEnergies’ refineries and depots were on strike on Tuesday morning, the spokesperson said. (read more)
All of these tremors point to a larger issue in the background of “western government” policy. Something is going to eventually erupt. Government cannot keep a lid on the chaos they create forever. Sooner or later a spark will ignite something… and it will not just be in France.
Do not focus too heavily on the weeds of any particular issue or nation lest we lose sight of the much larger dynamic. One thing is most certainly assured; Chairman Xi and President Putin can see that larger dynamic clearly, and there’s abundant opportunity within the geopolitical unrest.
Western governments are being led by blinded ideologues working furiously in the background….
I’m wary of the West, but the East too. No matter who comes out on top, only the elite will really win. They have their claws in the CCP as well. Remember, Schwab loves Xi’s surveillance state.
Yes, but that’s because our political and corporate elites created Xi’s surveillance state.
However it’s not the state that enforces it.. It’s their people.
Anyone else notice all the brand new super rich Chinese non citizens moving in all over the place.. wakie wakie..
My sister — a former So Calif. realtor, working in Orange County — shared with me >20 years ago that wealthy Chinese were buying up multi-million $ homes and paying CASH.
IOW — the infestation is not new but of long-standing duration.
Sort of reminds me of a wealthy funder of the WHO who is buying up our farmland.
At that time many of those people were likely getting their wealth OUT of China. The Chicoms wouldn’t be setting up satellite police stations overseas if they trusted their brethren who moved here many years ago.
As for the WHO funder, he can’t hide forever.
We have been through this before, wealthy foreigners buying up property here.
It was the Japanese in he late 70s and then the Saudi’s for a while in the 90s.
Both of those eventually lost out, lost their financial mojo and went back home.
It always happens.
I remember all of the frenzy and worry over the Japanese buying up so many American icons like Radio City Music Hall and quite a few others.
People were really worried that America would not be America with Japan owning our Americaness.
I was only a few years later that everything was sold back to Americans when the Japanese started having their own money problems.
We were all so worried they were going to take over the world.
Then we were worried about the financial mojo of the Saudi royal family spending like a crazy and “buying up America”.
So maybe it will happen with China and maybe they will go the way of Japan and SA.
I do know that we have a lot of problems here financially to worry about and need to get busy fixing them but the countries who come here to buy every thing seem to have their own problems over take them eventually.
We sure do not have the stability of the 1950s and 60s anymore.
China isn’t just buying up the deeds.. they are moving in. If you don’t get out much you likely haven’t seen it yet..
Yes. the Orange Groves or Orange County are gone.. Some of the most fertile land in the world is now a concrete jungle mostly owned by foreigners. Back when the prices were falling all over the country Irvine kept prices up by selling the McMansions they built to Chinese and other foreign nationals with CASH. Every major industry sold out to them at the time because they wanted to get rich.. Just wait another couple years as tens of thousands migrate here every couple months and increasing.. they only need a small portion of their population to completely displace ours. The move is already upon you.
Hey, the McMansions are not in Irvine.. they are in Costa Mesa and South of the El Toro Y.
Get those facts together.
That said, the fact that we have TWO, not one, TWO! 99 Ranch markets within six miles of each other ought to tell you something…. I don’t venture much East beyond the Santa Ana Fwy.. although we do have some newcomers in my neighborhood too.
One thing about such. they have no clue…. they tend to do what they want and then they get hit with the CCC&Rs and lawyers… Ooops.
Let’s not even go into their driving…
But, yeah, they pay in cash.
I have seen the new towers going up around CM and Newport but those are mostly condos. Apparently you haven’t been anywhere around Irvine Blvd and Portola Pkwy or east of the 5 between Alton and Jeffery in the last 15-20 years? StoneGate among other high walled mansion lined neighborhoods from end to end. Do you recall the El Toro Marine base and the supposed ‘Great Park’ they said they were working on? Irvine has always been that way but now instead of the various dialects and various people from that region now all I see and hear are pasty white Chinese paying cash.
It’s a fly trap. A complete fly trap. When they are all living well under Xi, one day he will say he has had enough of these arrogant westerners. And they will not have a way out and no means or measures at their disposal.
If you walk into a room and can’t find the exits, I don’t care how nice it might be at first, you’re F’d!
“Welcome to the Hotel California”
I think you are missing the point of the song.
BTW, I just cued it off Tidal HiFi in my office audio system… which is High End… and I can’t forget the first time I listened to that song, when I bought the record the summer after I graduated after High School.
What an album!
Call something Paradise, call it Goodbye… The Last Resort.
If we could only reverse the last 25 years and send all of them Eastern carpetbaggers out of my State and we could go back to those mellow times when we all got along.
IMHO,
$chwab is NOT just a “front man” for the CCP, although there is obviously SOMEONE “behind the curtain”.
I think his hidden benefactors ARE Conmunists, but NOT CCP.
The history of Conmunism is factions; they may work together for common goals, but fight visciously amongst themselves.
For historic parrallel, think of the Nazis and Bolshevics prior to WW2.
BOTH were Conmunists, but fought each other for supremacy.
Yes, the WEF “admire” (are ENVIOUS) of the level of centralisation and “control” the CCP have achieved.
They look at it, and say “why can’t WE have that level of control, over ‘our’ populace?”
However, they have no idea HOW to get from where they ARE “point A” with the illusion of ‘democracy’ to where the CCP is, with no such illusions.
Makes sense. I will say though that Mao wasn’t alone in making the CCP what it is today. They welcomed Westerners who actually ended up as generals and advisors.
Bolsheviks (Vladimir Lenin) hard line – vs – Menshevik (Julius Martov) progressive in Russia pre-Soviet Union. The Bolsheviks eventually just killed them off and in 1924 Uncle Joe came out on top.
Vicious bastards this is no game with these creatures.
Oh, as an ancillary the Rockefeller’s financed the Russian revolution.
Klaus Schwab? The man with a bust of Lenin in his office a communist? Who would have thought!
Point of order: the NAZIS & the Bolshevik’s were both SOCIALIST.
National Socialists v Soviet Socialists.
China kicked out Soros and his ilk long ago. Russia has been saying nyet to the Rothschilds for a while now.
Can Russia and China defeat the WEF? Can we tag along for the ride for that?
The argument of “East vs. West” reminds me of the stale argument of “Vote for the R, even if he’s a RINO, cause the D is ‘worse’.
The CCP runs their country with one party rule, and oppresses any opposition parties, opposition media, and even controls the I-net to suppress opposition opinion.
They jail political opposition, and oppress religious freedom.
Supplant “Uniparty” for “CCP” in the opening of the above paragraph; it’s only a matter of DEGREE.
It’s different factions of Conmunism, fighting for control of the World, for a Global, One World centralised government of corruptocrats.
And each faction is fighting for it’s SURVIVAL, like a cornered rat.
Internecine war — Lenin vs Trotsky, for example.
And RATS they are.
Related to this. ( In a way). Doing updates on praying/ fasting today. Some other
posters said they would join the effort. Original intent was for the safety of Trump,
but there are many other topics in the prayer discussion.
Finished the longest prayer/ thanks around 3:30. Thought I’d check out what was
happening, so I clicked on the Treehouse. This thread, specifically. First thing I saw
after saying “Amen”.
What the Lord and I discussed is between the two of us. But, I’ll say that what is
outlined in Sundance’s coverage would be filed under the “answered prayers” category.
Back to the fasting. Not even hungry.
Next little bout of pray: Thanking the Lord for instances like what the French are doing.
More importantly, for him to shield the persons that are standing up for themselves against
any evil imprisonment, financial harm, loss of jobs, or frozen assets ala Julian Castro.
Others are more then welcome to join me in the endeavor.
Amen Your Tour Guide. My fast breaks at 10 PM and I think I will bake some homemade bread to give thanks. You are not alone and we know what that means. (God is with us! Matthew 18:20) There have been so many answered prayers and miraculous interactions with God making Himself known. Encouraging!
Mines over at 9:30. Preparing the grill at 9:15 . I’m still not hungry.
One more long prayer to go (shielding Trump against the New York
Dumb Ass., er DA).
Thanks for being along for the ride.
Fasting, good idea Your Tour Guide.
Have not thought about this for a while.
I remember a story from the Bible where the apostles were unable to heal a man sickened with a “bad spirit” no matter how hard they tried.
Christ was able to heal the man easily, the apostles asked why they were unable to do so and Christ said ” This kind can come forth by nothing but by prayer and fasting”.
Fasting seems to be important sometimes, I do not understand it but it does seem to be.
Please understand how China really works:
Less than one percent rules the country, it’s hereditary (families). NO ONE can “join” the ruling class, one is only born in to it.
That small ruling class has approximately 10 percent of the population doing the actual “management” of the country, in all areas. The ten-percent “management” class is selected competitively based on scores and schools (the top 10% are “in”).
ALL of the competition in China is to get into that 10% class. Whenever something goes wrong in China, economically, some kind of social scandal, people start getting fed up with their government appointed superiors, etc., the ruling class publicly humiliates and places all of the blame on selected “managers”, and publicly jails or executes them. There is always a large pool of contenders to choose replacements from. This calms the hordes down, until next time.
So the goal of many Chinese people is to be part of that 10-percent “management” elite, by excelling in school, etc. This is the competition in China.
Summary: Less than one-percent rule absolutely (with no “outsiders”) using about 10-percent selected by academic excellence (and things like social-credit score) to manage the remaining 90 percent.
The WEF is a stooge of Xi. All the multinationals that relocated to China for cheap labor now totally reliant on the CCP, not to mention our countries manufacturing and pharmaceutical needs. Who’s the smart one! The CCP. They got us under their thumb. We even funded their biological weapons lab in Wuhan. Our puppet president and our political leaders are owned by them. They have filled our universities with Chinese brainiacs and they pay tuition to get the the best STEM degrees. Essentially the world is dependent on China products. That’s why Trump had to go.
I’ve thought for years that no tradesman or laborer should do business with politicians or media people.
How about throwing lawyers and the current crop of judges into the equation? School board
members for woke districts should also experience some degree of inconvenience.
I wish Americans were this determined to change things.
Americans still have it too good. Watch what happens when they cant get thire Happy Meals.
Funny but true.
All it takes is a spark. Trump being perp walked may be the spark. Time will tell.
The DOJ has been making the case for a while now that anyone who stands with Trump is a domestic terrorist. They also have their fedboys imbedded in almost every online discussion regarding “doing anything” about the current state of affairs. They would put an end to it very quickly. The problem is that people have become too comfortable posting their intent online to total strangers and not actually talking face to face with people they know and trust. America is the testing grounds for pre-crime. I honestly don’t know how Europeans get away with this sort of thing, but then they don’t have the DOJ who is only competent when it suits them.
Leave the cell phone at home…
Crush the cell phone.
That is so true, there are many other ways to communicate besides the cell phone.
During a peaceful protest, in a crowd there are lots of ways to keep in constant touch with your group.
Forget the cell phone it is useless to us and very useful to the enemy.
Lara, I 100% agree.
Yep, the DOJ and FBI haven’t just been making the case, but are participating in fabricating a case. Remember the fake ‘noose’ in Bubba Wallace’s garage, with ten FBI agents sent to investigate? The supposed threat to the Soetoro presidential library by ‘white supremacists that didn’t happen’?
A “noose” that every nascar team new was a garage door pull, including the wallace team. And who owns the garage door pulls, who installed them? The France family that controls Nascar. They all knew, every damn one of them, from every driver to every tire changer, they all knew the truth.
So….like France we do nothing. Absolutely nothing.
You following current events in France? Absolutely nothing is not what they’re doing.
Did you read this post at all? Also I didn’t say do nothing. I said be smart about it.
I have no “intent.”
I have observations and my interpretations of events, borne of many decades of experience, reading, education, and religio-philosophical understanding.
The same as anyone else on the planet.
I’m not bad mouthing you. I’m saying from the DOJs perspective any dissident thought is “intent”.
What matters to me, Lara, is how I view my conduct, conscience, and intent.
I answer to a higher power than any arm of the bureaucracy.
If it pleases Him then it pleases me.
Somebody knows someone who is an FBI agent. If it ever gets bad enough, people should make their families feel the pain while they are away at work. The same for LEO. Let them decide if it is worth it for them to go to work to harass their fellow citizens or to stay at home to protect their families. Guerilla warfare is a very effective tool.
Nobody called for violence. Ostracism of the complicit goons and their families is a must. How long would the concentration camps have operated in Germany if the guards and their families were shut out of all society?
The enforcers are the ones we must stop. The hidden rulers may never be found, but the local enforcer is known to many. Identify them, ostracize them. No daycare, no friends to play with, no groceries, no plumber, no car repair.
I refuse to live in fear of standing up to teach, defend, and assert our freedoms under the Constitution. If I become part of forensic record – well, so be it.
Certainly the 2024 election will be the defining moment, one way or another.
We all feel it, “it’s coming”.
Revolts don’t need a lot of planning or organisation: they happen organically.
Just as an individual “red-pilling” is a PROCESS, that occurs over time, a revolt is like a landslide or avalanche; it occurs SLOWLY, over many years,…and then all-at-once, and once triggered,nothing can stop it.
Yes I suppose it does happen naturally, but also remember France is physically a much smaller country than the USA. I have a feeling it would be a state by state landslide.
Dutchman truer words have never been spoken I have read your posts for years and allways enjoy your input and perspective
R.D.
Successful revolts require lots of young people, to do the actual revolting.
We ain’t got it.
Maybe if Rascal offered a scooter with missile launchers?
Scooty-Puff Sr, The Doom Bringer.
France is about the size of a medium to large US state, but they have 67 million people. Oregon for example only has 4M.
Is the US population too spread out for a country-wide strike?
Anyone in France is not too far away from Paris.
But DC and NY are 3,000 miles from the left coast.
Am I supposed to drive a couple hundred miles to WA state capitol Olympia to protest DC?
Or should I bring my pitchfork to the Vancouver city hall?
Just contemplating logistics here.
Block the nearest freeway and the frontage roads. The state police cannot be everywhere.
They are sleepwalking into a disaster. Won’t be pretty when it happens, and will be too late to do anything about it.
Hope they are enjoying life until reality slaps them.
It has been discussed that Macron is looking for a way to step down from office.
He no longer has the majority in Government– and he can’t deal with that.
He has been used to having total control.
I think there might be some merit to that discussion.
Could the same work stoppage would work here? This type of thing starts underground and becomes an upswell rapidly.
The truckers in Canada might reemerge, as well as the Dutch farmers and their tractors who already have been visiting their government. American truckers might join, a blockade, the motorcycle gangs…who else?
How does it all begin?
The yellow vests in France would march. The young girls in Iran who protest. There is unrest in China.
The maga millions only need to know what they can peacefully do to make their point, and crush these treasonous elites where they hide in their money holes.
Agree or disagree with the French citizens and their politics, they’re showing that sand in the machinery is an effective method of protest.
Yes, it causes suffering and for some injury and death but that is part of the adversarial process throughout human history. Much as I might wish we all get along it apparently isn’t in our nature.
What can we learn from it? I’ve been advocating economic warfare for a long time here; it appears of late others have broached the subject as well. The system can squash one person like an insignificant insect but a few million? Watch the French.
Lucifers Children cant do anything for themselves. STARVE THEM!
I’ve called for this type of action for sometime. No one is coming to rescue the American people. This is not a call for violence. It’s a call for action. Maybe the inditement of our truly elected president, Donald Trump will finally open eyes to what is taking place. FJB. God bless America.
I agree.
Don’t buy anything for several days.
Take cash out of the bank tomorrow for re-deposit at a later date.
Don not support woke and ESG companies and Banks. Starbucks comes to mind.
There are many non-violent actions one can take especially if ALL MAGA voters start tomorrow.
The French might be the longstanding butt of war fighting jokes.
But domestically, once a line is crossed, they can be among the most ferocious in making changes.
The problem for incompetent French leaders is that they never quite know where that line is. But a clear one is messing with their traditional work week, or when they shouldn’t have to work. The French have always been very protective about that.
Who would have ever predicted the French would have teach us?
Without the French help we would have lost the revolutionary War. How quick we forgot….
When reading some of the sideswipes at the French, particularly the citizens, I remembered that as well, plus the brave work of the French Underground in WW2 not only opposing the Nazis but also helping Allied servicemen escape and evade. Some of us probably have/had family members whom the French helped and even saved their lives.
IMO, we’re getting a glimpse of one possible future. We have choices. With each choice a new timeline can be created.
Thomas Jefferson and Ben Franklin, for starters.
For one thing, I have a new appreciation for the guillotine.
IMHO The French are lazy, unthankful snobs.
I suspect that you may have visited Paris.
My experience with French in the countryside is quite different from that with the city dwellers.
If you want to visit a civilized city in France, go to Lyon. Paris is like New York.
Fwiw, over time i’ve come to believe the French get a raw deal on the war fighting topic…. they’ve lost entire generations of young men, from Napolean to WW1, and they even had i think two hundred thousand soldiers killed in WW2.
You do make a good point. I have thought about it quite a lot over the years. First we have the total bloodbath of the French Revolution. Everybody whose head emerged above the crowd lost that head, and many folks just left. Then come the Napoleonic Wars, with, as you point out, big, big losses of the younger generation. Then the Crimean War, in which (despite the British poetry), the French do most of the fighting. Then WWI, WWII…. All of that is pretty hard on the gene pool.
wayne:
Europe got stuck with the twin leftist horrors of Nazism and Communism, and was destroyed during World War II.
America lucked out, sort of, and got the flavor of leftism called Progressivism.
Progressives want revolution through a (progressive) undermining of the culture. Obama has devoted his life to this.
Nazis and communists don’t really exist anymore (except as a device for namecalling), but the horror of progressivism is only building.
Read the history of uprising, and one common element is the ELITES NEVER know when the line is crossed, until they see it in the rear view mirror, just before everything goes black for them.
Often, the “trigger” is not the most aggregious thing they have done, it’s just that it is “the straw that breaks the camel’s back”.
So, as an example, they are forced to blatantly steal the 2024 election, just as they did in 2020 and 2022.
The masses tolerated it before, why should the ELITES expect 2024 to be any different.
But, ALL of the crap they have been piling on us, for YEARS has had a cumulative toll, and the ELITES are totally bumfuzzled when the masses drag them from their towers, and give them anal probes with pitchforks.
And it could well be something, objectively much less consequential, something like the East Palestine detailment.
THEY are “cruising for a bruising” and they WILL cross that line.
100% in agreement Dutchman. Fear seems to drive people but there comes a time.
Very well stated, Dutch, and it certainly looks to be a repeat scenario unfolding before our very eyes.
And, btw, it was the exhausted, fed up, nothing-left-to-lose Parisian women, with their starving children, who led the people’s march on Versailles, before the “storming” of the Bastille, le 14 juillet, 1789.
Allons enfants de la patrie!
“Incompetent French leaders”?
C’est vrai??
More likely marionettes.
More likely weaklings addicted to the perks doled out by their masters.
Same old, same old motivators: greed, lust, pride, hubris, and so on. And sadly lacking in discernment and integrity.
Le voilà! ^^^
C’est la vie.
Such is the story of humanity since time immemorial.
There’s nothing new under the sun.
For now the peasants are winning but I predict the police will regroup and return in a much larger force with military equipment and water cannons. I think it’s a very effective strategy to use a work stoppage to cripple the country’s supply system and medical system. Get the nurses and aides involved, farmers, truckers, dock workers, etc, etc. The greater the participation, the better the chance of them succeeding. All groups/factions need to be solidly united so no one group is left standing on it’s own.
Good for France! And for the Netherlands! Little by little the fallout from the WEF plans are hitting the people who really count. Peasants unite!
We are all peasants now. And proudly so.
Trudeau will give Macron a call for guidance.
We have big protests in Montreal about police brutality and how is it being handled?
with police brutality.
I do not recognize my country anymore.
i hate our treasonous vengeful PM
Trudeau is an incredible chicken with a low IQ. Trouble is that because he is intellectually bereft and immature, he is dangerous.
*Very* dangerous.
I love the French people… they are with us in this epic struggle! (I bet they’ve figured out RDS, too…) Pray for them… this is not easy on them.
Democracy:
An oligarchy that prints out ballots and delivers them at 3am for their preferred candidate.
LOL!!
I thought I read here from a poster about refineries as well as a lot of industrial processes needing to be constantly running.
Reason given was that prolonged shutdowns create problems with raw materials acquisition (suppliers go elsewhere or out of business), startup and maintenance.
Could the French government be using friendlies to shut down fossil fuels under the cover of a general strike?
That’s the whole point, in my humble opinion. We are between a rock and a hard place, which has been the plan. May each of us think seriously about our response. Personally, I like the image of a rifle behind every tree, rock, and blade of grass. Meanwhile, until the fuse gets lit broadly in this country, I choose to prepare for a long, drawn out, campaign against us. #beans#bullets#bandaids
And batteries…..don’t forget the batteries. From use in flashlights to portable radios and other communication devices (wink, wink **) they are an essential part of my SHTF portfolio.
Systems routinely go down for maintenance and are brought back online when complete. What you may be referring to is output being continuous, accomplished with parallel and/or redundant systems.
My only exposure was in oil and gas and the related petrochemical industry so that’s what I know. Other industries may differ. My earliest experience was working the chemical side of a cottonseed plant.
We had ‘units’ that fed the processes that were running in parallel and would go down routinely for maintenance or sometimes due to failure.
Then those of us on the maintenance/breakdown side would go to work and work around the clock if necessary. I continued that when opening my own shop, often doing plant breakdown work in the middle of the night when necessary.
IME, industry is very robust and well-planned. Or was. I’m old so not up on the latest stuff.
Thank you for sharing Dunes. I appreciate your insight.
GOOD FOR THEM – Hopefully we will unite and follow in their footsteps! Think of that – the “French” are leading the way 🙁
We are all “yellow vests” now.
This is a global assault which takes a global solution in the form of coordinated civil disobedience worldwide.
Its happening!
It’s 67 years old here for full benefits if born after 1960. They’d lose their minds if that was the new law in France. They need to get real and accept this one. The CoViD crap was legit tyranny.
You need to read the whole article, Greg “The CoViD crap was legit tyranny.” PS I took mine at 62 and lost nothing, if you consider I am 79 now, so you wait if you want to.
” the bigger issue is about this “new democracy” in the aftermath of new powers assumed by the French president during COVID-19.
President Macron used a special constitutional article to push legislation through Parliament last week without a vote. “
Btw life expectancy when social security was started was right around 65. The math wasn’t planned for people to last 20 to 25 years beyond that.
Wasn’t the life expectancy more like 55 years old when SS was started….
France needs to revisit its 18th Century revolution, same for US.
Sharpen or dull blades?
rusty.
No.
Yes; the right’s attitude to date has been that “they’re decent, but misguided people”; newsflash, they aren’t decent and they’re not misguided but are a dogmatic/dictatorial, ideologically driven people who want World domination, they need to be defeated, totally.
I’ve been in the room back in the day and heard them chuckle about the dummies following the rule book. They have no rules “the ends justify the means”.
We really must get this straight, think about having a negotiation with an Abbie Hoffman. Tell you what you want to hear to your face, then shiv you when you turn your back.
You can’t find middle ground with these jerks they must be utterly and completely destroyed.
Ultra-MAGA!
“Western governments are being led by blinded ideologues working furiously in the background….”
It’s always the nameless,faceless NGOs, think tanks, academics and lawfare types who are shaping the playbooks for their masters.
This really is the problem. Brainwashed true believers.
And don’t forget the eighty plus thousands added to the IRS as enforcers.
I believe the new Congress stopped this,
” eighty plus thousands added to the IRS as enforcers.”
“,..the peasants are revolting,..”
Actually, it is the ELITES that are revolting, and disgusting, evil and awful.
As far as I can see, the “plan” of the “Western conmunists” of the WEF, has always had a # of inherent flaws, guaranteeing eventual failure.
Taken in aggregate, they amount to “HOW to get from point “A” to point “B”?
Point “A” is the gradual, covert infiltration and corruption and hence CONTROL of all the institutions, in order to exploit the CREDIBILITY of those institutions to manipulate public opinion, in order to manipulate the masses of “sheeple”.
However, at SOME point they were going to HAVE to shift to OVERT actions, in order to institute a radical shift to totalitarianism, and HOW do they make that transition, in order to get to point “B”, where they have the “total control” they envision, WITHOUT the “sheeple” waking up, and refusing to comply?
As one example, is the 2A in the U.S.
THEY can continue to “chip away” at 2A, and make progress towards their goal of restricting/eliminating guns, but at SOME point, they are going to HAVE to go from incremental, to direct confiscation.
Their “plan” was NEVER going to work, and their very actions will trigger it’s failure.
Which is why the pivot to banks. They’ll never get all the guns in this country. Ever.
Don’t need banks either if you are willing to deal without their “conveniences”.
It’s only a matter of what hardships one is willing to endure to be free. I cannot speak for others as that’s a deeply personal choice to make.
I’ve an idea how it would turn out though. There will be a tireless minority that will not submit to any means of coercion one can think of.
I boiled an old gun for days. Still not edible.
Nice use of the word “triggering”! 🙂
We need to have a plan
Ourselves
Ready to implement
When we need it
“Who’s “WE”?
Just as the strings have been visible all along, for those who didn’t ignore them in order to “suspend disbelief” there are many who have seen this coming, for YEARS, and have been planning for it.
Derided and abused as crazy, the “preppers” and “survivalists” have made plans for they and theirs.
It’s an ongoing process, but I am “ready”.
How are they organizing and why can’t it be done here? Big Tech controls all platforms world wide, so that’s not the excuse.
It’s all on purpose. It’s maddening and frustrating. Create chaos, divide people, turn them against one another, then the new regime(s) sweep in. This is all on the A$$HATS in the White House. They aren’t going to let us have a 2024 (albeit, corrupt) election, are they?
The French are leading the way. To the American people have the fortitude to follow suit?
The point of no return is when the French people can convince the PO PO to join them. That is who the leaders should be working on right now. When the PO PO’s wives and children are feeling the pain big time, maybe they will join them.
For blinded ideologues read desperate criminals……Nemesis has sharpened her sword. Our judges need to swing it.
All talk of revolution in America (right now) is empty rhetoric.
The Uniparty (the establishment) was shocked that they got away with the 2020 coup so easily: but how could the State revolt against the State?
Antifa stages their bizarre pretend revolts, but how could the children of well-paid bureaucrats (that’s Antifa) oppose the State? Puny riots only supply justification for a stronger State.
But the end of the welfare state, indeed small cuts to the welfare state, will produce in America a reaction that will shock the State, and may escalate to a fundamental turnover in America. Also known as a revolution.
Coming to a neighborhood here soon.
I recall an article from December in which the French Interior Minister guaranteed that police pensions would be excluded from any changes. Guess he could foresee what was going to happen.
Exactly, emet.
America’s fascists (the State) fully intend to end the welfare state, but like Jefferson said, they have a wolf by the ears.
The welfare state simply can’t go on, but they don’t dare let go.
We need James Bond. God knows we have the Bond villains.
John Wick would be more effective.
If only we can get THIS level of unity in our country. Many people simply can’t genuinely believe how bad things are and how much worse they will become.
I watched in horror as our entire government at every level deny the fraud we all saw and the refusal of the courts even to hear the evidence.
And no one around me feels or acts like anything out of the ordinary had happened at all. It’s like here in the US, they are so zombified that they can no longer detect when things are wrong. Who are these people!?
Then we have the rest of the world starting to respond exactly as they should. And we have a world war looming as a couple of serious world opponents are winning additional support as western civilization is experiencing the implosion which no one here acknowledges.
We should follow the French lead. Shut down the entire country and especially let garbage pile up in the Leftist cities and prevent grocery deliveries to places like greater Washington DC and New York City.
Let the tyrants starve and let those parasites who keep them in power starve along with them. They have chosen a “them-or-us” path. Hunger might sharpen their minds and give them some shock therapy. They might come to realize food does not originate in the supermarket.
Oops, missed the edit.
Sorry so large.
Sundances’ post made me think of this Twilight Zone episode.
his party doesn’t hold the majority in the lower house, so this reform would have received a DOWN vote…. what a spineless, contemptible WEF puppet…
No sympathy for France! They had a chance to get rid of Macron, and they didn’t! They should have voted for the woman! You get what you voted for!
Les Deplorables
No sympathy for France
When they indict Trump on Soros funded fake charges lets shut it down! Massive labor strikes across the country, blockade the ports, shut down traffic, start fires across American cities. Naturally the Trump haters will still work but if millions of us organize, stick together and revolt we can bring Biden and the leftists down. Now they may fire on us and kill some of us to intimidate us but that will prove who they really are to the people. WE make this country go and WE can shut it down. It is time to take this country back or we are going to lose it.
Peaceful protests are the thing to do right now. No violence. But people must take action while they can.
These are also anti-War anti-NATO protests.
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Well that very small bit of French DNA I have feels pretty proud after reading this.
I have some, too, from the 16th and 17th Century.
We can learn a lot from the French.
did they smarter since yellow jackets protests ??????
Russia made it very clear they don’t wanna have anything to do with the West’s new woke trans gender ideologies where men can get pregnant and women can be born in the wrong body and it can all be corrected with surgery
The best thing that happened to Russia was the sanctions. Pushing through the sanctions showed to all the Russian peoples they ain’t gotta do what our government says or does. By the time most Americans wake up the international dollar will no longer be the international currency.
The rabid rhetoric coming from people like Graham and the rest warmongering clowns have only further pushed countries together and away from us.
We will end up isolated and in ruins…
But we can always cry and vent on our favorite internet site, maybe
thanks …FC…you nailed it….do not forget ..bread and games…as before end of roman empire 476 AD….saaaaaaaaaad….
As the Western “leaders” weaken and bankrupt their own countries and alliances at the direction and behest of Klaus Schwab and his corporate sponsors (many have large Chinese investors), I can’t help but wonder what the BRICS+ federation, Putin and Xinping view as a once in a 300 year opportunity to set things “right” in their point of view? They are definitely not stupid men, but the USA has been doing some incredible self-harm to her future generations; literally handing them opportunities they only dreamed of a couple of years ago. Only Trump has the ability to bring the world out of this death spiral of total war and make everybody winners. Putin, Xinping and BRICS+ knows this as well; but the Soros-WEF-Obama Cult would again, get completely manic in their resistance to Trump. WE must join the fight to weaken the WEF sponsors, so more sane people have a chance of NOT wading into nuclear halocaust. Even if everything Biden disappears tomorrow; we’re still in deep shit TODAY!
It’s a shame we can’t organize that here. To think the French have more moxie than we do is sad.
The US is pretty well lost. Most people have already submitted in fear. No moxie anymore.
Imagine the damage we can do if we all simply refuse to participate in the consumer economy for 6 months…
I need help understanding this line of thinking. People are saying “take your money out of the bank.” So the bank collapses right along with the dollar, and, bingo, digital currency!
“Don’t participate in the consumer economy.” So groceries, hardware stores, auto shops, feed stores, medical offices, etc. go out of business.
What? We become feral humans? I don’t see what that accomplishes.
I’m not being snarky here. I just don’t understand how this sort of protest plays out in our favor. Anyone care to explain?
Right on!
Our commonality is their demise.
Link up, be prepared and stay alert.
God Bless the free peoples of the earth.
Vive la France!
The French are protesting the raising of the pension age by two years.
If there is a compromise they settle down and things return to normal.
This is a limited, one subject issue. Serious as it is for them.
Of course it’s the tip of the great reset iceberg. But I doubt a true revolutionary fire is ignited over this. Unless their government provokes things even more.
It’s not the pension-age “adjustment” that is so galling to the Gauls.
Though there is that!
It’s the executive-type order that is raising their hackles — as they see in it the harbinger of the stake about to be driven into the heart of democracy. IMO.
I have said all along that a national strike is the only non violent way to bring a government to its senses. Maybe we here in the US will do the same thing once the inevitable comes and the food shortages become all too real.