Reasons mentioned include a lack of economic opportunity, “a very bad atmosphere overall,” “a lot of hatred between people.”
“Since 2015, France has been on of OECD’s most economically pessimistic countries, just behind Greece.”
Also, they do not trust their government. Not because it is strong and overbearing, but because it is weak and feckless, with a divided parliament and a lame duck President Macron.
Some people interviewed are French Leftists who fear the Right.
Njcowgirl
Good morning CFP Patriots! Happy Caturday.
Interesting read in the stack, Murder in the skies.
Mama pajama
Good morning Njc! ☀️🕶️
Dee
Morning mama and cowgirl ☕️☕️
P D Q
Thunderbird
“I Want My EBT!” – Parody Song
Had these 3 songs for the CR, just couldn’t wait to put them up.
Thought Criminal
Weird Al started this.
Or was it Ray Stevens?
Allan Sherman?
Hank Rotten?
Brent Douglas aka R.D. Mercer?
Maybe it was Tom Lehrer?
“The STC is part of Yemen’s internationally recognized government, a fragile patchwork of factions united largely by their opposition to the Houthis, who control much of the country’s north.” https://english.ahram.org.eg/News/559368.aspx
“An organization calling itself Ansar al-Sunna claimed responsibility for the attack. The terrorist group was formed about a year ago following the overthrow of Bashar Assad’s regime. In June, the group claimed responsibility for an attack at the Mar Elias Church in Damascus.” https://www.ynetnews.com/article/b1dhqsnqbl
AZ state senator proposes research funding to study TDS. She is former majority leader. Yes, she is trolling the libs, but hey, this research could also help to save marriages and heal family ruptures.
“TDS has led to significant social harm, with Americans who support President Trump or his policies reporting discrimination, intimidation or ostracism in professional, academic and social settings, further eroding community cohesion.”
There is also a similar bill at the federal level, from Warren Davidson (R-Ohio).
This was a fantastic perspective, and well stated. I’ll copy it here for ease.
“Lived experience anecdotal comment:
Over the past decade I’ve lived in the bluest of the blue and the reddest of the red. From being surrounded by trans flags to being surrounded by Trump flags.
MAGA: There are two varieties – the cult members, who are still on board, and the ones who actually wanted Trump to make good on his campaign promises. Those folks are not so thrilled anymore. Regardless of which variety you choose, however, neither one will hate you for not agreeing with them. Some of them are dumb. Some of them aren’t. Most of them are just people that our system threw overboard decades ago. People who don’t want an unearned leg up but simply a fair fight.
Auth progressives: Again, two varieties – cult members, and liberals who keep their lips buttoned about the cult members. Some of them are dumb. Some aren’t. These people have no fixed ideology at all. Their positions, and outrage, are driven by opposition, full stop. They choose the people they don’t like and work tirelessly toward becoming the opposite. These people do hate you for disagreeing with them. Many, if not most, of these people have a level of privilege they’re utterly oblivious to. College grads. Middle to upper class live at home adult children. Wine moms (lots of wine moms). These people want both an unearned leg up and a fight that’s rigged in their favor.
There is a fundamental difference between the two that makes the latter far more threatening than the former. MAGA doesn’t care if their policies coming to fruition help those who oppose them. In fact, they’re fine with it. The majority of them don’t think that their opposition (we’re talking normal folks right now, not politicians) are bad or evil – just incorrect and misinformed. The A in MAGA is America, and most of them mean it. Make them great again. Make you great again. Make us great again. You might think they’re idiots, but at least their version of America includes you.
Conversely, modern progressives have determined their opposition to be evil. As such, they despise anything that might help their opposition. In fact, they’d prefer policies that hurt their opposition. This is part of why they now hold America in such distain: the opposition has identified with that word, America, and they want nothing to do with it anymore. They hate America, because they hate the people who identify as American.
MAGA is a group that would be easy to satisfy. They have coherent concerns. You don’t have to agree with those concerns, but they’re understandable and – outside of the cult members – about as consistent as people can be. Throw them a couple of bones and they’ll be fine.
Progressives are impossible to satisfy. Their concerns aren’t coherent – they’re predicated on their enemies. They don’t actually stand FOR anything. They stand against things. And all it takes for them to stand against something is for their enemies to embrace it, no matter what it is. Short of half the country vanishing you’ll never be able to sate these people (and even then they’d just turn on each other). They are zealots in a way that MAGA simply is not.
Someone will bring up January 6th in response, I’m sure. But no matter what you think that was – insurrection attempt (it wasn’t), riot or manufactured – what it wasn’t was an attack on their opposing populace. It was directed at people in positions of extreme power, full stop. They did not throw a brick through a independent restaurant window or attempt to burn down a police station or set fire to private citizen’s cars or loot neighborhood stores. They did not take their anger out on regular people – they took it straight to power. Because, if nothing else, they correctly perceive where the problem lies, and it isn’t with the democrat in their neighborhood or the coffee shop with the trans flag sticker in the window.
Progressives, on the other hand, never seem to actually stand up to power anymore. All of their attacks are focused on the individual. Even for those who understand that the system is the problem, their wrath is meted out on the powerless. For them the root of the problem isn’t the powerful who enable the system – it’s the neighbor who doesn’t see things exactly as they do. To them, somehow, that person is responsible. And that makes them far more frightening. They want to punish you for what they’re unhappy about.
A long time ago a good dude on the left named Michael Brooks said “Be kind to people. Be ruthless to systems.” Brooks died in 2020, and the last whispers of his version of leftist ideology all but died with him.”
“Minnesota lieutenant governor is hijab cringe.”
Why is the MN lieutenant governor kissing fraudsters’ azzes? As an American she should have some self-respect.
Maris
Talk about a patronizing moron. Next it will proclaim how the Somalis sailed along with the Vikings and Pilgrims.
P D Q
Thought Criminal
When will Somalis build Somalia?
Somalia is a product of its inhabitants.
After the successful October Revolution in 1917 Yagoda joined the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage (Cheka). Felix Dzerzhinsky was head of the organization. Dzerzhinsky later commented: “In the October Revolution, I was a member of the Military Revolutionary Committee, and then I was entrusted with the task of organizing the Extraordinary Commission for the Struggle against Sabotage and Counterrevolution I was appointed its Chairman, holding at the same time the post of Commissar for Internal Affairs.”
Dzerzhinsky explained in July 1918: “We stand for organized terror – this should be frankly admitted.
Terror is an absolute necessity during times of revolution.
Our aim is to fight against the enemies of the Soviet Government and of the new order of life. We judge quickly. In most cases only a day passes between the apprehension of the criminal and his sentence. When confronted with evidence criminals in almost every case confess; and what argument can have greater weight than a criminal’s own confession.”
Thunderbird
Thunderbird
70 degrees in Missouri today. People dressed like it was summer.
MI Girl
Wow, really???
32 here, altho it felt warm to us! 🤣
Turns out no snow beyond a few flakes. Plenty of sleet, which I hope melts off soon. Got guests in the air right now. Yikes, nobody told me they are on an early flight. Oh no!
Don’t know what I would do with it but I want one.
Thought Criminal
Use it to knock out T34s and KV1s
Thunderbird
None of those driving around here but I bet I could scare the hell out of motorist on I-44🤣🤣
Thought Criminal
I dunno, those jihadi semi truck jockeys DGAF
Thunderbird
Yes they are! Had some close calls with those idiots. So a tank or armored vehicle of some kind could be justified for safety reasons. One with a large anti-tank gun might keep them in line.
Thought Criminal
I was on I44 twice today, joplin to Springfield and back. It was kinda tame for a change.
I usually take 96 or 60 just to escape the madness.
Thunderbird
I don’t blame you. A little slower but more scenic and sane.
Red Walls Krumbling
Because ‘the state’ has so much time.
“A Moscow court has sentenced Galina Timchenko, co-founder and CEO of Meduza, to five years in prison in absentia on charges of leading an “undesirable” organization, Mediazona reported.
Good Evening,
I looked up in the sky earlier today, and I saw a lot of birds , all the same kind. I thought with my heart, Thank You JESUS.
Seeing a flock of birds , on the wing , brought back fond memories of my childhood, growing up in the cornfields of the Midwest. I wondered, will future generations of Americans get a chance to enjoy such beautiful, simple wonders ?
GOD, Bless America !!!
CFThinker
Just finished putting the Festivus decoration back in the attic. Whew! Won’t be long, now. 1040 time. 🎈 🍸 🥃
MI Girl
Good afternoon, Patriots. Time to sit down with a Winter Lager and chill a bit. 32 degrees and ice everywhere here in the mitten state. Thank heavens we have power, many places don’t. Its horrible weather, but the only thing worse is having the flu! Please feel better soon, Boss!
A HARD RAIN
Ma’am, make mine a Frankenmuth larger , please.
Frankenmuth, Michigan the Christmas capitol of Michigan, known for it huge Christmas decoration store, and only a short 90 minute drive north of Detroitastan, well worth the journey.
Blessings to you, Dear Ms. @ MI Girl.
Thought Criminal
From The Stack-
The Flu sucks.
Me avoiding sick MFkrs-
Spike Warbird
I believe the flu bug just got tired of trying and failing to make me sick for 70 years and gave up.
Thought Criminal
I get hit ever 3-5 years, it’s usually a doozy
Spike Warbird
Maris
Classy vehicle there, spike.
Thought Criminal
We couldn’t make anything like that again.
Dee
26 Dec 2004: A huge #tsunami triggered by a 9.1-magnitude earthquake, the third largest in the world since 1900, off the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra in the Indian Ocean kills more than 230,000 people, mostly in southern Asia. It is estimated that the wave of the tsunami reached 167 feet. #OTD #History
Mama Pajama
God Bless Tilly ~
Dee
Definitely!
P D Q
DHS has quietly rewritten the H-1B lottery to give priority to higher-salary jobs. (No more low-wage coders from India.)
Good morning from Missour-ah
Sometimes, it’s justified.
Happy Caturday ! ☕️
Round 2
“The 16-point joint statement reiterated both sides’ commitment to implementing the ceasefire agreement and working towards peace, stability and security along the border.”
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/3164483/thailand-cambodia-sign-immediate-ceasefire-agreement
https://zeenews.india.com/world/explained-thailand-cambodia-ceasefire-what-sparked-dispute-between-the-two-nations-3000557.html
1 in 4 French people would like to emigrate from France.
https://www.euronews.com/2025/12/25/in-2025-french-peoples-desire-to-leave-the-country-is-at-an-all-time-high
Reasons mentioned include a lack of economic opportunity, “a very bad atmosphere overall,” “a lot of hatred between people.”
“Since 2015, France has been on of OECD’s most economically pessimistic countries, just behind Greece.”
Also, they do not trust their government. Not because it is strong and overbearing, but because it is weak and feckless, with a divided parliament and a lame duck President Macron.
Some people interviewed are French Leftists who fear the Right.
Good morning CFP Patriots! Happy Caturday.
Interesting read in the stack, Murder in the skies.
Good morning Njc! ☀️🕶️
Morning mama and cowgirl ☕️☕️
“I Want My EBT!” – Parody Song
Had these 3 songs for the CR, just couldn’t wait to put them up.
Weird Al started this.
Or was it Ray Stevens?
Allan Sherman?
Hank Rotten?
Brent Douglas aka R.D. Mercer?
Maybe it was Tom Lehrer?
Tom Lehrer – National Brotherhood Week
“I Hate Myself for Voting Blue” – Parody Song
“Bye Bye Illegal” Parody Song
Friday Night Fever – George Strait
Ah the ‘O’ years.
““Yemen separatists said they were undeterred after strikes blamed on Saudi Arabia hit their positions Friday, December 26, in the latest escalation since they seized large swathes of territory last month.”
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/12/27/yemen-separatists-defy-alleged-saudi-air-strikes-as-tensions-escalate_6748859_4.html
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/rubio-calls-for-restraint-amid-escalating-violence-in-yemen/
“The STC is part of Yemen’s internationally recognized government, a fragile patchwork of factions united largely by their opposition to the Houthis, who control much of the country’s north.”
https://english.ahram.org.eg/News/559368.aspx
“Netanyahu targets Turkey as Tripartite alliance courts Trump for new trade corridor”
https://in-cyprus.philenews.com/international/netanyahu-targets-turkey-as-tripartite-alliance-courts-trump-for-new-trade-corridor/?utm_source=philenews&utm_medium=phil_feed&utm_campaign=philenews_block
“An organization calling itself Ansar al-Sunna claimed responsibility for the attack. The terrorist group was formed about a year ago following the overthrow of Bashar Assad’s regime. In June, the group claimed responsibility for an attack at the Mar Elias Church in Damascus.”
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/b1dhqsnqbl
https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/1/144209/Egypt%E2%80%99s-Al-Azhar-condemns-treacherous-terrorist-bombing-targeting-mosque-in
AZ state senator proposes research funding to study TDS. She is former majority leader. Yes, she is trolling the libs, but hey, this research could also help to save marriages and heal family ruptures.
“TDS has led to significant social harm, with Americans who support President Trump or his policies reporting discrimination, intimidation or ostracism in professional, academic and social settings, further eroding community cohesion.”
There is also a similar bill at the federal level, from Warren Davidson (R-Ohio).
https://x.com/AZSenateGOP/status/2003543227840999504
This was a fantastic perspective, and well stated. I’ll copy it here for ease.
“Lived experience anecdotal comment:
Over the past decade I’ve lived in the bluest of the blue and the reddest of the red. From being surrounded by trans flags to being surrounded by Trump flags.
MAGA: There are two varieties – the cult members, who are still on board, and the ones who actually wanted Trump to make good on his campaign promises. Those folks are not so thrilled anymore. Regardless of which variety you choose, however, neither one will hate you for not agreeing with them. Some of them are dumb. Some of them aren’t. Most of them are just people that our system threw overboard decades ago. People who don’t want an unearned leg up but simply a fair fight.
Auth progressives: Again, two varieties – cult members, and liberals who keep their lips buttoned about the cult members. Some of them are dumb. Some aren’t. These people have no fixed ideology at all. Their positions, and outrage, are driven by opposition, full stop. They choose the people they don’t like and work tirelessly toward becoming the opposite. These people do hate you for disagreeing with them. Many, if not most, of these people have a level of privilege they’re utterly oblivious to. College grads. Middle to upper class live at home adult children. Wine moms (lots of wine moms). These people want both an unearned leg up and a fight that’s rigged in their favor.
There is a fundamental difference between the two that makes the latter far more threatening than the former. MAGA doesn’t care if their policies coming to fruition help those who oppose them. In fact, they’re fine with it. The majority of them don’t think that their opposition (we’re talking normal folks right now, not politicians) are bad or evil – just incorrect and misinformed. The A in MAGA is America, and most of them mean it. Make them great again. Make you great again. Make us great again. You might think they’re idiots, but at least their version of America includes you.
Conversely, modern progressives have determined their opposition to be evil. As such, they despise anything that might help their opposition. In fact, they’d prefer policies that hurt their opposition. This is part of why they now hold America in such distain: the opposition has identified with that word, America, and they want nothing to do with it anymore. They hate America, because they hate the people who identify as American.
MAGA is a group that would be easy to satisfy. They have coherent concerns. You don’t have to agree with those concerns, but they’re understandable and – outside of the cult members – about as consistent as people can be. Throw them a couple of bones and they’ll be fine.
Progressives are impossible to satisfy. Their concerns aren’t coherent – they’re predicated on their enemies. They don’t actually stand FOR anything. They stand against things. And all it takes for them to stand against something is for their enemies to embrace it, no matter what it is. Short of half the country vanishing you’ll never be able to sate these people (and even then they’d just turn on each other). They are zealots in a way that MAGA simply is not.
Someone will bring up January 6th in response, I’m sure. But no matter what you think that was – insurrection attempt (it wasn’t), riot or manufactured – what it wasn’t was an attack on their opposing populace. It was directed at people in positions of extreme power, full stop. They did not throw a brick through a independent restaurant window or attempt to burn down a police station or set fire to private citizen’s cars or loot neighborhood stores. They did not take their anger out on regular people – they took it straight to power. Because, if nothing else, they correctly perceive where the problem lies, and it isn’t with the democrat in their neighborhood or the coffee shop with the trans flag sticker in the window.
Progressives, on the other hand, never seem to actually stand up to power anymore. All of their attacks are focused on the individual. Even for those who understand that the system is the problem, their wrath is meted out on the powerless. For them the root of the problem isn’t the powerful who enable the system – it’s the neighbor who doesn’t see things exactly as they do. To them, somehow, that person is responsible. And that makes them far more frightening. They want to punish you for what they’re unhappy about.
A long time ago a good dude on the left named Michael Brooks said “Be kind to people. Be ruthless to systems.” Brooks died in 2020, and the last whispers of his version of leftist ideology all but died with him.”
https://substack.com/@jadednation/note/c-183759344
If we are honest, as Conservatives are known to be, we must admit that the revulsion is mutual.
Doesn’t need to be scratched. But the “intercession” allegedly by the US?
https://indianexpress.com/article/india/bangladesh-protests-live-updates-hindus-lynched-bnp-tarique-rahman-in-dhaka-bajrang-dal-10439382/
https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/cant-be-brushed-aside-india-on-bangladesh-attacks-101766775171185.html
Intercession?
https://www.newindianexpress.com/opinion/2025/Dec/26/return-of-the-prodigal-son-in-bangladesh-changes-prospects
Get well soon, Kane.
“Minnesota lieutenant governor is hijab cringe.”
Why is the MN lieutenant governor kissing fraudsters’ azzes? As an American she should have some self-respect.
Talk about a patronizing moron. Next it will proclaim how the Somalis sailed along with the Vikings and Pilgrims.
When will Somalis build Somalia?
Somalia is a product of its inhabitants.
Russian Revolutionaries: 1914-20 >
Genrikh Yagoda
https://spartacus-educational.com/RUSyagoda.htm
After the successful October Revolution in 1917 Yagoda joined the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage (Cheka). Felix Dzerzhinsky was head of the organization. Dzerzhinsky later commented: “In the October Revolution, I was a member of the Military Revolutionary Committee, and then I was entrusted with the task of organizing the Extraordinary Commission for the Struggle against Sabotage and Counterrevolution I was appointed its Chairman, holding at the same time the post of Commissar for Internal Affairs.”
Dzerzhinsky explained in July 1918: “We stand for organized terror – this should be frankly admitted.
Terror is an absolute necessity during times of revolution.
Our aim is to fight against the enemies of the Soviet Government and of the new order of life. We judge quickly. In most cases only a day passes between the apprehension of the criminal and his sentence. When confronted with evidence criminals in almost every case confess; and what argument can have greater weight than a criminal’s own confession.”
70 degrees in Missouri today. People dressed like it was summer.
Wow, really???
32 here, altho it felt warm to us! 🤣
Don’t worry we will pay for it next week but it has been warm and beautiful for the last 3 days and will be through Sunday.
https://spectrumlocalnews.com/mo/st-louis/weather/2022/02/03/st–louis-daily-forecast
Sleet and snow starting here in NJ.
No thank you, you can keep it.🥶🤣🤣
Turns out no snow beyond a few flakes. Plenty of sleet, which I hope melts off soon. Got guests in the air right now. Yikes, nobody told me they are on an early flight. Oh no!
A real live unicorn!
The only running Nashorn in the world!
https://youtube.com/shorts/l9DSh9kVAZs
Don’t know what I would do with it but I want one.
Use it to knock out T34s and KV1s
None of those driving around here but I bet I could scare the hell out of motorist on I-44🤣🤣
I dunno, those jihadi semi truck jockeys DGAF
Yes they are! Had some close calls with those idiots. So a tank or armored vehicle of some kind could be justified for safety reasons. One with a large anti-tank gun might keep them in line.
I was on I44 twice today, joplin to Springfield and back. It was kinda tame for a change.
I usually take 96 or 60 just to escape the madness.
I don’t blame you. A little slower but more scenic and sane.
Because ‘the state’ has so much time.
“A Moscow court has sentenced Galina Timchenko, co-founder and CEO of Meduza, to five years in prison in absentia on charges of leading an “undesirable” organization, Mediazona reported.
The court also barred Timchenko from holding leadership positions for five years.”
https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/12/26/moscow-court-sentences-meduza-publisher-galina-timchenko-in-absentia-to-five-years-in-prison
People will look you dead in the eye and say “humans aren’t meant to drink milk” while eating this
OMG think they have enough ingredients and Bioengineered on top of it.
Snatch – The Evolution of Dairy
AFP
“Inside Chernobyl, Ukraine scrambles to repair radiation shield”
https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/inside-chernobyl-ukraine-scrambles-to-repair-radiation-shield-642150802
Good Evening,
I looked up in the sky earlier today, and I saw a lot of birds , all the same kind. I thought with my heart, Thank You JESUS.
Seeing a flock of birds , on the wing , brought back fond memories of my childhood, growing up in the cornfields of the Midwest. I wondered, will future generations of Americans get a chance to enjoy such beautiful, simple wonders ?
GOD, Bless America !!!
Just finished putting the Festivus decoration back in the attic. Whew! Won’t be long, now. 1040 time. 🎈 🍸 🥃
Good afternoon, Patriots. Time to sit down with a Winter Lager and chill a bit. 32 degrees and ice everywhere here in the mitten state. Thank heavens we have power, many places don’t. Its horrible weather, but the only thing worse is having the flu! Please feel better soon, Boss!
Ma’am, make mine a Frankenmuth larger , please.
Frankenmuth, Michigan the Christmas capitol of Michigan, known for it huge Christmas decoration store, and only a short 90 minute drive north of Detroitastan, well worth the journey.
Blessings to you, Dear Ms. @ MI Girl.
From The Stack-
The Flu sucks.
Me avoiding sick MFkrs-
I believe the flu bug just got tired of trying and failing to make me sick for 70 years and gave up.
I get hit ever 3-5 years, it’s usually a doozy
Classy vehicle there, spike.
We couldn’t make anything like that again.
26 Dec 2004: A huge #tsunami triggered by a 9.1-magnitude earthquake, the third largest in the world since 1900, off the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra in the Indian Ocean kills more than 230,000 people, mostly in southern Asia. It is estimated that the wave of the tsunami reached 167 feet. #OTD #History
God Bless Tilly ~
Definitely!
DHS has quietly rewritten the H-1B lottery to give priority to higher-salary jobs. (No more low-wage coders from India.)
https://x.com/SanDiegoKnight/status/2003500159288983785
—
If you read comments at the link, it still has loopholes and problems.
Mugshot of the Day. Dude is 42 years old and still can’t grow a descent beard.