President Macron betrays Left Wing progressive coalition that helped him win; appoints Conservative Prime Minister

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Ok, I see a bit of misinformation about what constitutes right, left in Europe. In the UK Labour is technically a left wing party. However the Labour that for voted in is more centrist than it is left. The Conservative Party is seen as a right wing party. It actually aligns more to the Democrats in the US. Which is seen as left wing party in the US.

The rest of Europe however is far more complicated with their coalition governments
 

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I want to leave you alone but Homie is literally a republican. His party is called Les republicans

I get it Kamala gotta be punished because she ain't leftist enough for you. You're looking for another Jimmy Carter.
 

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I want to leave you alone but Homie is literally a republican. His party is called Les republicans

I get it Kamala gotta be punished because she ain't leftist enough for you. You're looking for another Jimmy Carter.

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That makes sense because in reality you're a super left leaning liberal that's voting against your interests because you're mad.

If Romney was running I'd vote for him because I lean more conservative.
:russ:Rommey would push all the same things trump would he would just do it in a more presentable way everthing that trump did in office is more or less what the political powerful politicians in the GOP wanted done like for example mitch mcconnell .
enate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) is widely credited with cementing a conservative majority on the Supreme Court.

But McConnell’s crowning achievement may extend past the Supreme Court. Experts in FRONTLINE’s upcoming documentary McConnell, the GOP & the Court, said that McConnell sees his role in filling the federal judiciary with conservative judges as one of the strongest parts of his legacy.

When President Trump took office and McConnell served as Senate majority leader, Trump had more than 100 vacancies to fill in the lower courts, including 17 in the U.S. courts of appeals — all of them lifetime appointments. The Supreme Court hears around 80 cases a year, while the courts of appeals handle tens of thousands of cases annually — often making them the last word in most cases that impact the lives of Americans.

“[McConnell] has calculated, correctly, that most of the most contentious issues in our society eventually wind up in the courts,” conservative columnist and author Mona Charen told FRONTLINE in a 2023 interview for McConnell, the GOP & the Court. “It is critical, if you want certain outcomes, to be sure that you have the right mix of judges.”

McConnell’s Strategy During Obama’s Presidency
During the first 2020 presidential debate on Sept. 29, President Trump boasted of the “record” number of judges he had appointed, adding that one of the reasons he had the chance to appoint so many was because former President Barack Obama had left so many vacancies.

“When you leave office, you don’t leave any judges,” Trump said. “That’s like, you just don’t do that.”

It wasn’t President Obama’s decision to leave the judicial vacancies, however. Just as McConnell helped cement a conservative majority on the Supreme Court for decades to come, judicial experts and journalists who spoke to FRONTLINE for Supreme Revenge, a 2019 documentary examining the political battle over the highest court, credited McConnell with holding open vacancies that Trump then filled with conservative federal judges at a breakneck pace.

McConnell himself took credit for the strategy in a December 2019 interview with Sean Hannity of Fox News. When Hannity wondered why President Obama left so many vacancies, McConnell said: “I’ll tell you why. I was in charge of what we did the last two years of the Obama administration.”

McConnell “completely changed the nature of congressional warfare against Obama and Democratic judicial nominees,” Norman Ornstein, a political scientist at the conservative think tank American Enterprise Institute, told FRONTLINE in 2019.

McConnell was exposed to the machinations of judicial appointments early in his career, when he worked for Marlow Cook, a U.S. senator from Kentucky who sat on the Senate Judiciary Committee. During his time as a staffer for Cook, McConnell saw two of President Richard Nixon’s Supreme Court nominees rejected.

“It was in those years that McConnell really came to understand the importance, the centrality of judicial nominations in our political system, both the Supreme Court nominations and also … federal lower-court nominations,” Alec MacGillis, a ProPublica reporter and author of “The Cynic: The Political Education of Mitch McConnell,” told FRONTLINE in 2019.

The young McConnell also learned “what it takes to get these nominations through the Senate, to really kind of figure out how to win that game, the game of judicial politics,” MacGillis said.

Those lessons proved useful when McConnell took on leadership positions in the Senate. Senate Republicans were in the minority for much of Obama’s tenure, but under McConnell’s leadership they employed filibusters to slow down or block the confirmation of judicial nominees — a tactic Democrats had used under President George W. Bush. GOP senators also withheld “blue slips,” which were traditionally given to the two senators from the home state of a judicial nominee for their approval or rejection.

In order to overcome those efforts to stall appointments, in November 2013 then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and the Democrats changed the rules, eliminating filibusters for federal judicial and executive branch nominees, with the exception of Supreme Court nominees.

At the time, McConnell told the Democrats, “You’ll regret this, and you may regret this a lot sooner than you think.” When Republicans took control of the Senate in 2015, confirmations of Obama’s judicial nominees slowed to a crawl.

According to the Congressional Research Service, only 28.6 percent of Obama’s judicial nominees were confirmed during the last two years of his presidency, the lowest percentage of confirmations from 1977 to 2022, the years the report covered.

Trump’s Judicial Appointments, With McConnell’s Help
When Trump won the 2016 election, Senate Majority Leader McConnell employed the “nuclear option” when Senate Republicans ended filibusters for Supreme Court nominees — stymieing attempts from Democrats to block Neil Gorsuch’s confirmation.

Thirty of President Trump’s appeals court nominees were confirmed during his first two years of office. According to CRS, that was the greatest number of appeals court nominees confirmed by the Senate in the first two years of any presidency since it started tracking that data.

President Trump maintained his pace through the last two years of his term and appointed 54 appeals court judges during his 4-year tenure — a higher number than any other recent president, with the exception of President Jimmy Carter. (By comparison, President Obama appointed 55 appeals court judges over the course of eight years.)

By the end of his term, Trump confirmed a total of 228 judges across the appeals and district courts. They were mostly young, white and male. They would go on to decide cases about elections, voting rights, immigration, the environment, labor, abortion, gun control and other issues that impact the lives of Americans. They will remain on the courts for their lifetimes.
 

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UK has gone left while Europe goes right...

Don't forget it's the US which pushed for a lot of f*ckery in Europe

Anglo-debt drove the rise of Adolf and they were cool with him when he was bodying Soviets
The current leadership of Labour is not left wing let alone socialist. They are a mix of centrists, center right and a PM with more than a touch of an authoritarian streak.
 

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:russ:Rommey would push all the same things trump would he would just do it in a more presentable way everthing that trump did in office is more or less what the political powerful politicians in the GOP wanted done like for example mitch mcconnell .
Hey I lean conservative. The main problem I have with Trump is that he's unfit to be President.
 

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The lack of knowledge pertaining European politics and the ridiculous comparison of an entire continent to a singular government is on code for a myopic worldview and lack of contextual understanding when it comes to history but :yeshrug:

lol Americans really don’t be realizing how absolutely stupid we look to the rest of the world. Especially talking about geopolitics or the other political/economic systems in the world.

The vast majority of the population being literal dummies make us all look like the goofy ass rich kids that ain’t never been nowhere. :russ:
 
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Are you saying Keir Starmer is authoritarian?
Are you British?

Within the context of UK politics and especially Labour party history he has demonstrated authoritarian tendencies. There has never been a party leader who treated the party like his own little kingdom. I could expound but I don't really see the point, if you want to look further look into the process of how Corbyn was denied the whip after his suspension, the unprecedented number of parliamentary candidate suspensions and stich ups so Starmer could parachute his cronies and yes men into safe seats. His inadequate opposition to the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 which effectively limited the right to protest and his unusual assertiveness in abolishing the House of Lords. The House of Lords are the only body that can delay and offer push back on dreadful positions coming out of the Commons.

It all feels like a power grab.

The worst for me isn't even all of that. It's purely because he is a cop. He is opposed to legalizing weed based on his own ideology even though he wants to portray himself as a technocrat who only cares about good policy.

Of course I also understand that within the context of US politics, Starmer would probably be equivalent to your standard corporate democrat.
 

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Of course I also understand that within the context of US politics, Starmer would probably be equivalent to your standard corporate democrat.
Yes, he would. Marçon would as well. @2Quik4UHoes from what I’ve seen, the major members of the labor party, along with the Renaissance (RE) party, who hold the real political power in their party, seem very similar to the Centrist/corporate Democrats we have here in the USA. I don’t really see much of a difference between them.


In this section, the speaker criticizes Western governments, specifically France, for claiming to uphold democracy while acting against it. Emmanuel Macron, the French president, is described as an oligarch who formed a government with the far-right party despite losing the elections to a left-wing coalition. Macron's appointment of a right-wing prime minister from the losing party is referred to as a "coup." Additionally, The speaker argues that Western governments prioritize the interests of the rich capitalist oligarchs over the people, making it a plutocracy rather than a democracy. Macron's unpopularity in France, with approval ratings as low as 26%, further highlights this issue.
French President Emmanuel Macron's controversial policies and their impact on the French population.
Macron's undemocratic legislation to increase the retirement age without a vote led to massive protests. While some argue that the retirement age was too low, Macron had also been cutting taxes for the rich and eliminating the wealth tax, leading to a significant increase in wealth inequality. The speaker highlights that half of the French population cannot afford to rent a modestly-sized apartment in Paris, let alone buy one. The speaker also mentions a study showing that the 500 richest families in France now have wealth equal to nearly half of the country's GDP, an increase from 6% in 1996. The speaker emphasizes that Macron, as the "president of the rich," has overseen the accumulation of immense wealth by French billionaire capitalist oligarchs, including Bernard Arnault, who is among the top five richest people on Earth.
it is alleged that French President Emmanuel Macron formed an alliance with the far-right leader Marine Le Pen to prevent the left, which won the election, from coming to power. Jean-Luc Melenchon, the leader of the French left-wing Coalition, openly accused Macron of stealing the election and appointing Michelle Barnier, a member of a party that came last in the legislative election, as prime minister. Melenchon and the French left are calling for mass protests and a vote to impeach Macron, with 52% of the population supporting the motion. Despite Macon's lack of democratic mandate, EU officials, including Ursula von der Leyen and Christine Lagard, congratulated Barnier on his appointment. Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau also congratulated Barnier, despite Barnier being a symbol of authoritarianism and his party, the Republicans, getting only around 6% of the votes. Barnier, in his first official remarks as prime minister, gave a condescending speech towards the people, further fueling accusations of Macron's autocratic behavior.
 

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The current leadership of Labour is not left wing let alone socialist. They are a mix of centrists, center right and a PM with more than a touch of an authoritarian streak.

They are the leftwing party in the UK -as for authoritarian - what are you refering to ?
 
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