"Cheese-eating surrender monkey", along with the renaming of French fries into freedom fries, was a moniker coined by the jingoistic wing of American politicians and media to discredit the French campaign to warn America that invading Iraq wasn't such a smart move.
It would be nice if Wonkette did not revive pre-MAGA rightwing tropes.
On a related note, per capita more French soldiers and citizens died fighting the Nazis in WW2 than American soldiers and citizens.
For WW1, the ratio of French casualty rate to US casualty rate is over 100 to 1.
thank you for setting the record straight. one does get tired of hearing it, even if one professes to not grant much regard to military endeavors. besides, why should we not eat cheese?
I, for one, am sick of that tired old "surrender monkeys" label. France fell in 1940 largely because of being actively undermined by their own MAGATs avaunt le lettre, sowing disinformation, antisemetism, and mutual distrust. No wonder that when things went wrong on the battlefields, all too many French soldiers were well prepared to believe they had been betrayed, sold out by their country's leaders ("nous sommes trahis! sauve qui peut!") They had been sold a narrative of French decline, caused by liberals, modernity, and the lack of the iron fist of a dictator.
One good thing from Sweden at least. The Green party (Miljöpartiet, MP) got more votes (13.8%) than the far right party (Sverigedemokraterna, SD) with 13.2%.
For the first time in more than a decade the far right didn't increase their voter turnout. I'm hoping for a trend of diminishing far-right support, in Sweden at least.
I am so FUCKING SICK of Marine Le Pen and her asshole father and her asshole followers and her fucking National Front or National Rally or National Whatever the Fuck They're Calling It This Year. I really wish the French would tell her to fuck off for good. Why don't they?
Funny, that the right in Mexico is now bemoaning the end of "democracy" with the leftist blowout in lat week's election. Could it be that the European right is listening to, or at least selling their agenda, to the masses much better than the center has been doing? I donno, but if "democracy" is just a matter of voting and the will of the majority, it appears the Europeans are "democratic". If "democracy" is providing for its citizenry, regardless of social class, gender, beliefs, etc.than nope.
macron hasn't been able to get anything done since the last election. i think he just said 'fuck it, let's do it live'. you wanna see the far right in power? let's do the far right in power!
(also, since the FR presidency is practically jupiterian - and not just for Macron - he probably relishes fighting with that bardella twerp).
“Fun” fact-Jesse Owens was an alternate on the US Olympic team. He went because the USAOC agreed with Hitler that Jews shouldn’t go to the Olympics. Jews cheered when Owens won his gold medals.
And when Mr. Owens came back to the States after winning his Olympic golf medals for a banquet in his own honor ... he had to go in the back door because the White guard wouldn't let him in the front.
That part was particularly shameful. An American athlete wins big, undermines Nazi theory, and FDR is too white supremacist or too chickenshit to publicly honor the man.
This scary thing that we made up just to get clicks turns out to have just been made up! Ha ha!
"Cheese-eating surrender monkey", along with the renaming of French fries into freedom fries, was a moniker coined by the jingoistic wing of American politicians and media to discredit the French campaign to warn America that invading Iraq wasn't such a smart move.
It would be nice if Wonkette did not revive pre-MAGA rightwing tropes.
On a related note, per capita more French soldiers and citizens died fighting the Nazis in WW2 than American soldiers and citizens.
For WW1, the ratio of French casualty rate to US casualty rate is over 100 to 1.
thank you for setting the record straight. one does get tired of hearing it, even if one professes to not grant much regard to military endeavors. besides, why should we not eat cheese?
I, for one, am sick of that tired old "surrender monkeys" label. France fell in 1940 largely because of being actively undermined by their own MAGATs avaunt le lettre, sowing disinformation, antisemetism, and mutual distrust. No wonder that when things went wrong on the battlefields, all too many French soldiers were well prepared to believe they had been betrayed, sold out by their country's leaders ("nous sommes trahis! sauve qui peut!") They had been sold a narrative of French decline, caused by liberals, modernity, and the lack of the iron fist of a dictator.
One good thing from Sweden at least. The Green party (Miljöpartiet, MP) got more votes (13.8%) than the far right party (Sverigedemokraterna, SD) with 13.2%.
For the first time in more than a decade the far right didn't increase their voter turnout. I'm hoping for a trend of diminishing far-right support, in Sweden at least.
I am so FUCKING SICK of Marine Le Pen and her asshole father and her asshole followers and her fucking National Front or National Rally or National Whatever the Fuck They're Calling It This Year. I really wish the French would tell her to fuck off for good. Why don't they?
The French would also like to very strongly tell Macron to fuck off, with cause.
Crickey.
Ta, Gary. Too bad we live in such 'interesting' times.
Funny, that the right in Mexico is now bemoaning the end of "democracy" with the leftist blowout in lat week's election. Could it be that the European right is listening to, or at least selling their agenda, to the masses much better than the center has been doing? I donno, but if "democracy" is just a matter of voting and the will of the majority, it appears the Europeans are "democratic". If "democracy" is providing for its citizenry, regardless of social class, gender, beliefs, etc.than nope.
For not making us French? Nah, for not making us Finnish like Aino and Toivo.
Hitler has only got one ball,
Göring has two but very small,
Himmler is rather sim'lar,
But poor old Goebbels has no balls at all.
Dunno, seemed appropriate.
macron hasn't been able to get anything done since the last election. i think he just said 'fuck it, let's do it live'. you wanna see the far right in power? let's do the far right in power!
(also, since the FR presidency is practically jupiterian - and not just for Macron - he probably relishes fighting with that bardella twerp).
More to the point, the .1% who put Macron in his position expect to get along fine with Le Pen too, so why should they bother to fend her off?
AfD. Adolph fucks Donkeys? Right?
One man. One nut. And the search for the second that will destroy 75 million lives.
I don't think you can lay Japan's victims and Stalin's victims at Hitler's feet.
Axis Bold as Hate
"It’s just like America, only with less English and more yodeling."
But America, being exceptional, still control the VEGAN BABBY YODELING BUTTHOLE block.
“Fun” fact-Jesse Owens was an alternate on the US Olympic team. He went because the USAOC agreed with Hitler that Jews shouldn’t go to the Olympics. Jews cheered when Owens won his gold medals.
And when Mr. Owens came back to the States after winning his Olympic golf medals for a banquet in his own honor ... he had to go in the back door because the White guard wouldn't let him in the front.
Even when he knew who he was.
https://youtu.be/qRWBNglP5N4?si=f4ww4WTwAjoOR7-6
That part was particularly shameful. An American athlete wins big, undermines Nazi theory, and FDR is too white supremacist or too chickenshit to publicly honor the man.
Spooky. But not as spooky áls Der Drumpf Bewegung.