Dieu merci! 18 million French people liked one guy which is more than the not-quite 17 million French people who liked another guy which is still 6 million less than the 30 million odd French people who because of age or circumstance or not giving a shit or doing the only sensible thing and writing in a goat did not vote for either. Democracy is the most self-congratulatory system of all the systems humanity has ever dreamed up; it relentlessly bellyaches about the utter iniquity of all other modes of organizing a society or a country or a culture or a swap meet or a pyramid scheme and touts its own universal legitimacy even as its own method of determining the fate of men and nations involves giving a meager majority of an actual minority of an overall population the car keys and the bank accounts until the next time the circus is in town. I mean, Francois Hollande's margin of victory is the equivalent of less than two percent of the population of France, but this somehow represents a change in the national will, whereas, say, being a talented little corporal or descending through no fault or design of one's own from the proper inbred European clan or rising through the ranks to become the Supreme Cleric or whatever is somehow antiquarian and ridiculous.
Monday, May 07, 2012
Sarko revoir
I've got to admit that I'm going to miss Sarko. He was exactly the President that the Fifth Republic deserved; like George W. Bush in America, he laid bare the pretensions of the French state by persistently and infelicitously admitting to all the true things it did not wish to admit about itself.
29 comments:
Democracy does as predicted. "No" even to pseudo "austerity" which would put spending levels back to those of a few years ago -- much less actual austerity. Message: we know we're in a creek without a paddle and there's a waterfall ahead, but if we just join hands and sing Kumbaya loudly enough, our canoe will sprout wings and fly.
The new president of France's last name is Hollande. Am I the only one who finds this funny?
You're right, democracy is best.
I think that Grandpa Simpson remembering Superbowl 3 is the perfect encapsulation of Leonard's world view.
"And how is Biquette [the goat] going to fix the economy? “She’s just going to eat grass in a field and I guess be happy,” he said."
better plan than any i;ve heard.
Democracy is OK, but me, I'm a Dapper Dan myself.
,shhe looks up from 'er nibbling,.. these fleurs are delicious .. .
NYAN 2012
The Archdruid has something to say about this:
http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/2012/05/democracys-arc.html
Arka, you are hereby banned to the archives until you find a goddamned clue. No more commenting; you've got a lot of reading to do.
HOLLANDE IS NOT THE ISSUE HERE, DUDE.
hmm.
Pere Duchene all the way
This era will henceforth be know as The Hollande Days.
"what's your problem with Hollande?" Well for one he's not even Dutch.
the anarchic democracy of IOZ's peanut gallery
This is anarchy, but it is not democracy. This is good, because if it was democracy I'd be hanging by the neck and you'd be in the stocks being pelted by rotten oranges, avocados, and other semitropical fruits.
"What's your problem with Hollande" is a simple fact finding question like "when did you stop beating your wife" is.
Are all women this stupid, or just HA?
Misogyny! Gasp!
DAMN IT ANONYMOUS SHUT UP! I wanted to see if she noticed on her own.
Ruin all my fun.
I've got it, Nutella.
You're Velma Von Tussle come to life, like Ava in One Touch of Venus.
But as played by Michelle, not Debbie.
Debbie couldn't help letting a trace of humanity show thru.
While Michelle had Wilhelm Reich's "big-brained hysteric" down pat, just like you do.
I see my name there, but nothing else. I've broken my vow again, yes, but I'm back to not reading you or responding, EL. You're too boring even to mock.
Hopefully for real for the last time, now, go away.
No one's gonna cut off your Johnson, Leonard. Not if I have anything to say about it.
,morning , ..as always seeing how the scenes that eerily likes are suited to io z and eerily's angling .. , and he has captured something of toast with his compare ,that he knows that he has captured something of .. and what it is ..i doubt , he misses so much , it's likely just a fall y ' eer / toast , yes just pass over his comments , no one should be forced to relive .. remembered because of something of what we are (each.. of his or 'er own ) ) .., and of loves and likes , we all have our own .. , all that he notes here and there .. are of pop , from the past ,of his reading as well
toast
IOZ, you are such a fucking twit.
Leo,
Lemme clue ya in. France has more nucear reactors than the rest of Yurop COMBINED. With the reacteurs in place, the french gub'mint is raking it in better than the Saudis (a MWh is 3 times more expensive in Yurop than here).
On da flip side, a good percentage of the french populace is under a real threat of being forced to raise up and leave their abode for good within 12 hours (see Chernobyl, Ukraine; Fukushima, Japan).
So exactly WHY should frogs put up with "austerity"?!?
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