General News & Politics (16 Viewers)

[Martin]

Cmon she looks like she's his mother

Mac looks in that pic like all his Fifa high scores have been erased.

 

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[radekas]

wtf this guy actually married his high school teacher

 

[DAiDEViL]

wtf this guy actually married his high school teacher

...Brigitte, whose maiden name is Trogneux, but was known as Auzière at the time as she was married, was Macron's theatre and French teacher at the private Catholic high school La Providence, in the town of Amiens in northern France.

 

[Martin]

Maybe he just wanted to continue learning more?

 

[radekas]

And they are a couple since he was 18 years old. Oh man, French presidents are a special case.

 

[Hængebøffer]

We all know they were banging back then. What a disgusting person.

 

[Osman]

This is bizzarely funny, I usually think americans are overly prude/scandalize most minor things in politics. But the french I mean ffs they voting as leader a guy who dated his high school teacher? (and his 2nd fav besides Le Pen, Fillion, is someone who paid his wife half a million state funs for no work? plus Sarkozy had harem in office LOL etc) No holds bared. Bravo lol.

 

[Seven]

That shit is very, very weird. First time I heard it btw, despite Belgian media covering quite a lot of it.

 

[Ocelot]

Really? I've heard it a couple of times already.

But honestly I couldn't care less. I mean sure, it's weird af, but not something that should even remotely influence your voting decision (not that you were implying that).

In that sense I actually really like the French political culture.

 

[Seven]

Really? I've heard it a couple of times already.

But honestly I couldn't care less. I mean sure, it's weird af, but not something that should even remotely influence your voting decision (not that you were implying that).

In that sense I actually really like the French political culture.

I haven't been following it much, but when I drive to Court in the morning I always have the radio on and I've heard people speak about it pretty much every single day for a few weeks now. I guess maybe did say something about it and I wasn't really paying attention. But still, it was definitely not all over the news.

 

[Ocelot]

Ah okay, yeah I haven't it heard in the radio either, but most longer newspaper articles & especially magazine features talk extensively about it, or at least mention it somewhere.

 

[radekas]

This is bizzarely funny, I usually think americans are overly prude/scandalize most minor things in politics. But the french I mean ffs they voting as leader a guy who dated his high school teacher? (and his 2nd fav besides Le Pen, Fillion, is someone who paid his wife half a million state funs for no work? plus Sarkozy had harem in office LOL etc) No holds bared. Bravo lol.

Don't forget

 

[Ronn]

The surprising thing to me was that polls were very accurate despite the recent trend

 

[campionesidd]

The surprising thing to me was that polls were very accurate despite the recent trend

It seems the hardest thing for Macron was to get to the second round, since the left leaning voters were split more than the right leaning voters were.
In a 2 way race, Macron seems to have the clear upper hand.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/le-pen-is-in-a-much-deeper-hole-than-trump-ever-was/
http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2017/04/daily-chart-5

 

[Hængebøffer]

The surprising thing to me was that polls were very accurate despite the recent trend

Not really. Le Pen had higher numbers in the polls.

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But the trend is the same here like everywhere else. People from rural areas vote for the right wing populists.

 

[Ronn]

Not really. Le Pen had higher numbers in the polls.

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But the trend is the same here like everywhere else. People from rural areas vote for the right wing populists.

Much better than what we saw in Brexit and US. Granted, it's very different when you have only 2 candidates, but the results were pretty much within the margin of error of the latest polls.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opini...7#Opinion_polls_for_the_first_round_of_voting

 

[DAiDEViL]

German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel is visiting Israel and wants to meet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today. If, however, Gabriel intents on meeting with Breaking the Silence activists, who criticize Israel's settlement policy, Netanjahu will cancel the meeting.

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How dare we Nazis. @lgorTudor

 

[lgorTudor]

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How dare we Nazis. @lgorTudor

OY GEVALT

 

[Zacheryah]

This is bizzarely funny, I usually think americans are overly prude/scandalize most minor things in politics. But the french I mean ffs they voting as leader a guy who dated his high school teacher? (and his 2nd fav besides Le Pen, Fillion, is someone who paid his wife half a million state funs for no work? plus Sarkozy had harem in office LOL etc) No holds bared. Bravo lol.

I somehow missed all of this juicy info, nais

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That shit is very, very weird. First time I heard it btw, despite Belgian media covering quite a lot of it.

You and me both know very well that Belgian media isnt covering shit if it means right or extreme right partys would get electorial gain from it

 

[Ocelot]

This is bizzarely funny, I usually think americans are overly prude/scandalize most minor things in politics. But the french I mean ffs they voting as leader a guy who dated his high school teacher? (and his 2nd fav besides Le Pen, Fillion, is someone who paid his wife half a million state funs for no work? plus Sarkozy had harem in office LOL etc) No holds bared. Bravo lol.

Hollande, Macron and Sarkozy are a very different case from Fillon.

The former just have a weird private life, but that's purely their and their spouse's business.

Fillon has blatantly abused his public office for personal gain, that shit should get him arrested, baffling that he was even allowed to run for president, let alone getting as many votes as he got.