Key anniversary = higher turnout = more repression. Worst violence in weeks.
Me impersonating an MSM journalist: "Don't you think that because of the fire at Notre Dame you should stop marching in order to promote national unity (even though this is a "secular" country)?"
French Yellow Vest quote: "The fire at Notre Dame touched everybody, but there is a big controversy over how we could raise a billion euros for a church so quickly, and why we can't raise such an amount for poor people. There is a lot of anger, and a fire at Notre Dame is not going to change this logical reality."
The last time the Yellow Vests touched 100,000 protesters, but only by rounding up.
April 24 - Record suicide pace for cops amid Yellow Vest demos
April 25 - Journalists help Macron ignore Yellow Vests at 1st presser
Incredibly, Macron has finally held his very first press conference.
Prior to that he and I had held the same number of press conferences since May 2017. Key difference: I am not the popularly elected president of a country. I am, however, the authoritarian and arrogant leader of "Raminia".
Incredibly, and we can add another "incredibly" on top of the first "incredibly": this is when Macron said the words "Yellow Vests" in public for the first time.
Less incredibly, considering the toadying, social-climbing French media class, the mainstream journalists permitted to attend the press conference (Iranian media is banned from official press conferences of the president, PM, FM, etc.) dared to ask Macron just one direct question about the Yellow Vests. The question was posed by the extremely mainstream anchorwoman Laurence Ferrari, and kudos to her: every other journalist failed.
Here was Macron's initially nihilistic answer, via an explanation which is totally acceptable in Anglophone countries, which are also politically nihilistic; he then switches to total defiance based on technocratism: "We are a country where disagreements are expressed forcefully and where there are always protests. I totally take responsibility for having not given way - during my first two years - to those who want to set back our projects which I deeply believe are good for the country."
Two subjects which were never mentioned by anyone were the routine police brutality, nor Macron's raft of anti-democratic measures such as the "anti-Yellow Vest Law".
Polls showed that 65% of France said they were unconvinced by Macron's answers. Nearly 80% said he did not address the concerns of the Yellow Vests.
Despite a record-low approval rating of just 27%, Macron said he thinks it "would be best" to stand for re-election. No serious policy changes were announced, because the conclusion that Macron drew from the National Debate was, "Our approach over the past 2 years has been right."
Ugh" I'm glad I'm banned from there.
May 1 - Record cop violence at huge Paris May Day demo
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