I'm noticing how much love Macron is getting on some liberal sites just because his ego matches that of Trump. His government was hardly elected on a wave of euphoria, turnout was appalling.
His Jupiter speech and the choice of venue, Versailles, have Napoleonic overtones.
Well Marine Le Pen was roundly put to one side for now especially here in the West where in Bretagne she got less than 25% of the vote.
This gives a bit of breathing space over the next five years to work on social justice for both the immigrants and the French themselves, a new social contract as it were. Integration rather than segregation, genuine attempts at understanding rather than regurgitated dogma.
How do I know? Well, let's just say that Macron is running a brilliant campaign, just like fellow globalist Killary Klinton. The Press in the US and in France ingenuously calls him a "centrist". He is as much of a centrist as Donald Trump.
M. Macron has learned quite well from Medusa, referring to LePen voters as the French equivalent of "deplorables", an endearing way to garner undecided votes.
French media have been warned not to publish content from any emails allegedly hacked from presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron's campaign team, to prevent the outcome of the vote being influenced.
It comes after Mr Macron's team said it has been the target of a "massive and coordinated" hacking attack ahead of Sunday's presidential runoff.
France's presidential election commission also said it could be criminal offence to republish any campaign data.
French law is by no mean absolutist when it comes to protecting free speech, but this appears to be a much bigger step in the wrong direction. Even so, I can't help thinking that all this government attention shone on the Macron leaks is self defeating.
Emmanuel 'The Neoliberal Banker' Macron has it in the bag.
He's so far ahead of the right-wing Marine Le Pen that there is no hope that she'll catch up.
Question: Who would like Loyd Blankfein to run the U.S. Government?
Answer: He already does. Three of his minions are in Trump's cabinet. Jared Kushner is cut from the same globalist cloth also.
The next round
Emmanuel Macron: Neo-liberal
Marine Le Pen: Fascist
The left basically got what was coming to it after the total disaster that was François Hollande [his warmongering did it for me].
Five weeks ago Jean-Luc Mélenchon was in fifth place and polling at 12%.
Today's he's what The Economist calls "The nightmare option".
Until recently the talk in France's presidential election was all about either Le Pen's bigotry or Fillon's corruption, and the only alternative was the quasi-neoliberal centrist Macron.
But now someone else has surged into contention - Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
I have to make this quick, jakkalbessie is getting stuff together for our afternoon wildlife hunt, packing her camera and the mosque spray and shaking her head in disgust that I said 'Let's get ready' then got on the wifi to post this.
We are here in remote Tortuguero, Costa Rica . Uber, then Two buses and a hour and a half bus ride from San Jose.
