France Races Towards a Debt Crisis as the Nation Continues to be Besieged by Violent Foreigners Demanding to be Paid for Peace

Before getting to that, let me offer a completely-unrelated bit of history. Via Google AI:

Danegeld was a tax raised in Anglo-Saxon England and Francia from the 9th to the 11th centuries to pay tribute or protection money to Viking raiders to stop them from ravaging the land.
Key Historical Facts
• Meaning: The word comes from Old English, literally translating to "Dane payment" or "Dane yield".
• Early Tribute vs. Army Tax: Originally known as gafol when paid directly to Vikings as bribes, it later evolved into a kingdom-wide land tax called heregeld (army tax) used to fund a standing defensive force or pay mercenary armies.
• King Æthelred the Unready: The practice became most prominent during the reign of King Æthelred II (978--1016), who paid massive quantities of silver pennies (such as £10,000 in 991 CE and up to £48,000 in 1012 CE) to buy off invaders

With that irrelevant, off-topic mention of large bribes paid to violent invaders to not loot and pillage and kill them, let's turn to a completely different subject.

France's, uh, guests are demanding, supposedly, more "resources" for schools.

This demand comes at a very bad time. Because France's dysfunctional government is made up of alleged "centrists" and even some "conservatives" in a coalition with socialists and communists, no one can agree on a budget.

So they just keep borrowing money, growing the deficit more and more.

You can only borrow freely until the markets begin to doubt you can ever repay your debts. And then the cost of borrowing rises, and you have to borrow more and more at higher and higher interest rates until it becomes impossible to repay the debt and then people stop lending you money completely, and your finances collapse.

France is now in this doom-loop of increasing debt and compounding interest on the debt.

For most of the past decade, lending money to France was considered almost as safe as lending money to Germany.
That belief is now breaking down, and it is happening fast.
Last week, investors demanded up to 5% a year to lend to the French government for 10 years. France had not faced borrowing costs that high on its 10-year bonds since July 2002.
The extra return investors want to hold French debt instead of German debt rose to its highest level since the eurozone debt crisis of 2011-2012.
France now pays more to borrow than Italy and Greece, two countries that sat at the centre of that crisis.
This matters well beyond the bond market. Government borrowing costs influence the rates on mortgages and business loans and the interest bill that every French taxpayer ends up covering.
...
Beyond the rise in France's 10-year bond yield to 5%, its widening gap with Germany shows investors are increasingly concerned about French debt.
Its premium over Germany's equivalent Bund reached 152 basis points, or 1.52 percentage points, returning to levels associated with the 2011 eurozone crisis.
Intesa Sanpaolo strategists, led by Gian Marco Salcioli, argue that the speed of the move matters more than its level.
When yields jump this fast, they say, the fear shifts from the price of borrowing to the risk of not being repaid in full, and France is the clearest example.
"The move tends to transform rate risk into something broader, first and foremost credit risk," Salcioli said in a note to clients.
Díaz-Alvarez said this was "the largest weekly widening in said spread in seventeen years."

Politico 4 Kidz, Axios:

France is dealing with a major debt crisis and social unrest ahead of its presidential election next year.
Why it matters: Worries are rising about contagion in Europe and beyond, and the situation is drawing comparisons with the sovereign debt crisis that rocked the European Union in the 2010s.
"Government bond yields in France are spiraling out of control. Contagion to the rest of high-debt Europe is unfolding rapidly," Brookings' Robin Brooks wrote recently.
Where it stands: Yields on government debt are rising across Europe and in the U.S., but the situation in France is worse.
Investors are demanding higher yields to hold French debt, compared with bonds from Germany, which are seen as a safer alternative.
On Friday, the difference, or spread, between the two countries' bond yields, was the widest it has been since the debt crisis.
The spread is widening due to "higher sovereign default risk in France," Macquarie's Thierry Wizman wrote in a note Thursday titled: "Are the French Toast?"

Meanwhile, the foreign guests continue ravaging the countryside while demanding the peasants pay them more money in exchange for a few months of pillage-free "peace."

🚨 BREAKING: MASSIVE RIOTS and PALESTINE FLAGS are waving in Paris, riot police are STRUGGLING, foreigners are everywhere and leftists are going berserk
THIS IS AMERICA IF THE LEFTISTS WIN.
The Islamists are waving the Palestinian flag everywhere...FRANCE IS FALLING
TEAR GAS is now being deployed.
Hamas movements are "ACTIVELY INVOLVED" in the riots
Rioters are being chased everywhere, but I want to see more MASS ARRESTS
This is a total free for all! IT LOOKS LIKE A 3RD WORLD NATION.
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) October 6, 2026

A perfect depiction of Leftists ignoring the absolute shithole their open border policies create.
— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) October 6, 2026

Total chaos in France right now. The situation is completely out of control. They want to kill. https://t.co/9HhsENYnZx
— RadioGenoa (@RadioGenoa) October 8, 2026

Not even the trees are safe from these Aspiring Doctors and Engineers:

The majority of these people causing chaos across France don't appear to be students.
Smashing up cities, cutting down trees and destroying public property is not protesting.
You're destroying the very communities you live in, leaving ordinary people to pick up the pieces and pay the price.
Watching this unfold across Europe, it's becoming increasingly difficult to shake the feeling that Europe's decline is inevitable. https://t.co/YshGOIEyYV
— Ben Graham (@BenGrahamUK) October 8, 2026

Harsh, but seems accurate:

The problem looming over these riots is that France has a large population of young people who are immigrants or the children/grandchildren of immigrants that are simply not employable. They will not work and employers will not risk hiring them.
They are not citizens in any meaningful sense, but an unassimilated third world horde, unemployable and ultimately ungovernable.
— John Daniel Davidson (@johnddavidson) October 5, 2026

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 05:20 PM

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1 I'll get em again..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at October 08, 2026 05:21 PM (08OqX)

2 District B13 looking kinda prescient?

Posted by: Lizzy at October 08, 2026 05:22 PM (4KUe5)

3 France is now in this doom-loop of increasing debt and compounding interest on the debt.

Whoa.

Posted by: Louis XVI at October 08, 2026 05:24 PM (sDWtc)

4 When are we going to steal their nukes?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 08, 2026 05:25 PM (3mtzY)

5
Does this affect the price of French Bread?

Posted by: Frank Barone at October 08, 2026 05:25 PM (OkYzo)

6 A country that gets itself deeply into debt deserves to suffer.

Posted by: Oglebay at October 08, 2026 05:26 PM (2ap+5)

7 Sacre bleu!

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at October 08, 2026 05:26 PM (Sco7b)

8 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at October 08, 2026 05:26 PM (hG5L0)

9 How long until the teewee news blames OrangeManBad's tariffs for wrecking the French economy?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 08, 2026 05:27 PM (3mtzY)

10 Chimping out.

Posted by: tubal at October 08, 2026 05:27 PM (Gqar8)

11 Grapeshot. Whiff. Some assembly required.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 08, 2026 05:27 PM (GfgtS)

12

I have never understood why countries bring in people who want to destroy their country.

Yep, bring the worthless people in and pay for them to live here and in their countries.

It's not like the invaders are contributing to make the country they invaded better.

Posted by: four seasons at October 08, 2026 05:28 PM (/QHx4)

13 Let me get this straight:

A. France is in massive debt.
B. “School kids” upset about insufficient funding are burning down their schools and beating up teachers.

How is that a legitimate response to a complaint— creating a HUGE new cost of building new schools??

I know, it’s not about funding, it’s about revolution.
So.. yeah, they’re not fixing this any time soon.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 08, 2026 05:28 PM (4KUe5)

14 Ya really hate to see all of that, happening to such an enlightened society. Sacre Bleu!

Posted by: Zeera , Damn Right I voted for all of this! at October 08, 2026 05:29 PM (K7v1x)

15 If the French had any balls, they would start press ganging the "students" into service to clean up and rebuild the shit they just destroyed. That would be a proper education.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at October 08, 2026 05:29 PM (TvbZP)

16 All we have is a six year old that shoots his teacher and attacks his restrainers.

Posted by: tubal at October 08, 2026 05:29 PM (Gqar8)

17 When the yield on 10-year government debt is over 5%, it's' time to panic.

Posted by: Oglebay at October 08, 2026 05:29 PM (2ap+5)

18 If you send them back fast enough their landing zone might pay you to stop.

Posted by: WhatHelicopter at October 08, 2026 05:29 PM (FhXTo)

19 U.S.Govt: "Tell me more about this doom loop"

Posted by: WisRich at October 08, 2026 05:30 PM (G0vdT)

20 Let me explain.

It's France.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 08, 2026 05:30 PM (RIvkX)

21 "France is now in this doom-loop of increasing debt and compounding interest on the debt."

USA too, or at least not far behind.

Posted by: gp at October 08, 2026 05:30 PM (Jr5Lq)

22
The crude price for a Barrel of French Dressing is now over $26.

The Strait of Paris needs opened!

Posted by: Frank Barone at October 08, 2026 05:30 PM (OkYzo)

23 "The most French thing I ever seen" picture is an apt IRL manifestation of the "This is fine" meme with the dog sipping coffee as the house burns.

Posted by: Thrawn at October 08, 2026 05:31 PM (oPFtC)

24 >>The majority of these people causing chaos across France don't appear to be students.

No, really?

Same stuff is happening next door in Belgium. They aren't students either.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 08, 2026 05:31 PM (viF8m)

25 Alors, il commence.

Posted by: Ce gars qui pense toujours que ça commence at October 08, 2026 05:31 PM (amcLV)

26 France could use a few Vikings about now

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 08, 2026 05:31 PM (t9883)

27 15 If the French had any balls, they would start press ganging the "students" into service to clean up and rebuild the shit they just destroyed. That would be a proper education.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus)
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Too big as far as numbers. The question for France is civil war now versus a worse one later. The only response that can work in the long run is massive expulsion of kebab like what happened in reverse to Frenchmen after Algeria fell and the rest of the French colonies went their own way.

Posted by: whig at October 08, 2026 05:31 PM (E4rtv)

28 Posted by: four seasons at October 08, 2026 05:28 PM (/QHx4)

They're leftists. The whole point is to grind down the "bourgeoisie". When the good people are forced to cower at home, that's a bonus. Look at Abigail Spanberger's parole board in Virginia, which just loosed a bunch of violent felons back onto the streets.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 08, 2026 05:31 PM (sDWtc)

29 The problem looming over these riots is that France has a large population of young people who are immigrants or the children/grandchildren of immigrants that are simply not employable. They will not work and employers will not risk hiring them.

They are not citizens

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The solution is very simple: deport, deport, deport. Everyone knows it will have to be done, it's just a matter of who will have the guts to do it first.

Posted by: Decaf at October 08, 2026 05:32 PM (jsLqC)

30 So will they finally give up on the lie that they need these migrants to work to support the welfare state?

It never made a damn bit of sense, but many believed it.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at October 08, 2026 05:32 PM (TvbZP)

31 Looks like Baltimore.

Posted by: America's Shithole Cities at October 08, 2026 05:32 PM (pa/M5)

32
"Students" < Foreign Adult Men

Posted by: Frank Barone at October 08, 2026 05:32 PM (OkYzo)

33 Western Europe just gave up after World War II. Threw their doors open and said “ whatever”.

Posted by: tubal at October 08, 2026 05:32 PM (Gqar8)

34 The EU solved their sovereign debt crisis in the 2010s thanks to Germany’s economy and deep pockets.

Germany is steadily losing its economy and their pockets have gotten considerably shorter.

This could get interesting, but the EU always manages to talk their way out if a crisis.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 08, 2026 05:32 PM (6ydKt)

35 Ace -

There is a second example from British history even older than the Dane Geld. As Rome started dying off in the West the central government cut of Britain, told them to work out their issue of raiders and pirates on their own because they could not - they were basically working on the south coasts of France and Spain and Italy proper. This was somewhere in the 410s AD.

So the British locals called up some Saxon tribesmen to defend their shores from the pirates and raiders, which worked for a while. Then after a bit of looking around at the situation, with Saxons being the sole military around, they started taking over the part of England in the South and next to the channel. Kent, Isle of Wight, all that area. And the other Angles and such followed them in.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 08, 2026 05:33 PM (uhVAy)

36 Silver pennies is real money.

Posted by: Eromero at October 08, 2026 05:33 PM (LHPAg)

37 If the French had any balls, they would start press ganging the "students" into service to clean up and rebuild the shit they just destroyed. That would be a proper education.
Posted by: bob

Not sure why they'd work at all. And, I wouldn't trust the results. Open a jail some African country and send them there.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 08, 2026 05:33 PM (nEUC6)

38 >>>You can only borrow freely until the markets begin to doubt you can ever repay your debts. And then the cost of borrowing rises, and you have to borrow more and more at higher and higher interest rates until it becomes impossible to repay the debt and then people stop lending you money completely, and your finances collapse.

Those silly Frogs.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 08, 2026 05:34 PM (dK+Kv)

39 Here’s a thought, maybe they’re ok with burning sh$t down, destroying anything within reach is because the not French? They may live there, but they have no love nor loyalty to the country, her people, history, etc.

Crazy, right? Except the media and left keep insisting that these new American/Brits/French/Aussies are absolutely citizens, maybe even better city than the actual citizens.

Can we now stop pretending that paperwork makes one part of the country they’ve been boated into, that this is in fact self-destructive madness?

Posted by: Lizzy at October 08, 2026 05:34 PM (4KUe5)

40 21 "France is now in this doom-loop of increasing debt and compounding interest on the debt."

USA too, or at least not far behind.
Posted by: gp

Not really, reserve currencies are different. It is more that debt financing gets much worse the more it is external to the state. In an ideal world, the currency can depreciate, making the country produce cheaper goods and consume less imported ones, but stuck in the Eurozone, France cannot resort to that.

FWIW, both Japan and China have debts of over 300 percent of GDP. But in both cases, internally financed mostly, not external.

Posted by: whig at October 08, 2026 05:34 PM (E4rtv)

41 Debt to GDP ratios:

France: 116%-118%.
USA: 121%-126%.

Posted by: gp at October 08, 2026 05:34 PM (Jr5Lq)

42 "France Races Towards a Debt Crisis as the Nation Continues to be Besieged by Violent Foreigners Demanding to be Paid for Peace"

Are you sure you didn't mean to type The United States instead of France?

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 08, 2026 05:34 PM (I43vL)

43 France is now in this doom-loop of increasing debt and compounding interest on the debt.

Whoa.
Posted by: Louis XVI at October 08, 2026 05:24 PM (sDWtc)

The debt that under EU law must be kept within some narrow limits that Greece was gutted for not doing? That debt?

One rule for the Greeks, another for France and Germany.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 08, 2026 05:34 PM (uhVAy)

44 Silver pennies is real money.
Posted by: Eromero at October 08, 2026 05:33 PM (LHPAg
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Just ask Barliman Butterbur.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 08, 2026 05:35 PM (amcLV)

45 They've done The Camp of Saints in slow mo rather than all at once.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 08, 2026 05:35 PM (JzUSu)

46 Oh, no! Not the Facebook~!

Nandini Gupta @yoursnandieni
As America is suspending H-1B programs for many Indians, we Indians should ban the use of American apps such as WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram so that America faces a huge economic downfall and then let America beg all Indians to come back. America will regret doing this.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 08, 2026 05:35 PM (nEUC6)

47 Paying your murderers is never a smart option.

Posted by: tubal at October 08, 2026 05:35 PM (Gqar8)

48 Migrants with chainsaws cutting down trees, something, something bingo card.

Posted by: Max Power at October 08, 2026 05:36 PM (SwyyQ)

49 Too big as far as numbers. The question for France is civil war now versus a worse one later. The only response that can work in the long run is massive expulsion of kebab like what happened in reverse to Frenchmen after Algeria fell and the rest of the French colonies went their own way.
Posted by: whig

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Yes, of course.
But that requires even more balls. They will not leave unless the alternative is death, and the countries of origin will not accept them unless the alternative is a nuclear bomb.

The West has to understand that they (we?) have lain with the devil and can not get out of it without doing some very very nasty things. Our alternative is worse.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at October 08, 2026 05:36 PM (TvbZP)

50 Can we now stop pretending that paperwork makes one part of the country they’ve been boated into, that this is in fact self-destructive madness?
Posted by: Lizzy at October 08, 2026 05:34 PM (4KUe5)

I'm for deporting as many Democrats as possible. I am willing to imagine a patriotic Democrat but like a perfect gas or absolute 0, in the real world it never happens.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 08, 2026 05:36 PM (uhVAy)

51 Did someone say "Let it burn?

Posted by: France at October 08, 2026 05:37 PM (dCMJG)

52 E.J. Antoni is the Chief Economist for the Institute for Economic Policy Studies and a Richard Aster Fellow at the Heritage Foundation.

E.J. Antoni today:

"NY Fed: consumer inflation expectations jumped in Sep to 3.9% for year ahead, while 3-yr rises to 3.3% and 5-yr holds steady at 3.0%; while people believe the current spike of inflation will be short-lived, they also believe we're not getting back to 2.0%..."

Posted by: Oglebay at October 08, 2026 05:37 PM (2ap+5)

53 If the French had any balls, they would start press ganging the "students" into service to clean up and rebuild the shit they just destroyed. That would be a proper education.
Posted by: bob

Not sure why they'd work at all. And, I wouldn't trust the results. Open a jail some African country and send them there.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 08, 2026 05:33 PM (nEUC6)

Does France still own French Guyana?

Posted by: Joe Kidd at October 08, 2026 05:37 PM (08OqX)

54
Nandini Gupta @yoursnandieni
As America is suspending H-1B programs for many Indians, we Indians should ban the use of American apps such as WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram so that America faces a huge economic downfall and then let America beg all Indians to come back. America will regret doing this.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 08, 2026 05:35 PM (nEUC6

How can we miss you if you won't go away ...)

Posted by: It's me donna at October 08, 2026 05:37 PM (91qhl)

55 This could get interesting, but the EU always manages to talk their way out if a crisis.
Posted by: SpeakingOf

I would phrase it put off the crisis rather than talking their way out of it. There are tactics that a large debtor can use that smaller ones cannot. And that applies to countries too--too big to fail means that the other countries in the Eurozone are forced to do things like require payins by those with savings and liquid assets to prop up the currency. Works in the short run but destroys trust in the long run just like formal defaults or allowing massive inflation as a soft default does.

Posted by: whig at October 08, 2026 05:37 PM (E4rtv)

56 Oh, no! Not the Facebook~!

Nandini Gupta @yoursnandieni
As America is suspending H-1B programs for many Indians, we Indians should ban the use of American apps such as WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram so that America faces a huge economic downfall and then let America beg all Indians to come back. America will regret doing this.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 08, 2026 05:35 PM (nEUC6)

what would we do without Indian people stealing content on Facebook?

Posted by: Oldcat at October 08, 2026 05:37 PM (uhVAy)

57 55
Nandini Gupta @yoursnandieni
As America is suspending H-1B programs for many Indians, we Indians should ban the use of American apps such as WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram so that America faces a huge economic downfall and then let America beg all Indians to come back. America will regret doing this.
Posted by: weft cut-loop

That would improve the hell out of X if they did that.

Posted by: whig at October 08, 2026 05:38 PM (E4rtv)

58 TEAR GAS is now being deployed.

Lead is the only answer invaders understand. France is falling.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 08, 2026 05:38 PM (NnhvP)

59 I don't understand why they cut downt that tree. That's new, amirite?

Now, on top of massive debt and Paris circling the toilet, they have at least 40 schools to repair.

Where are the protest manure trucks when you need them, French farmers?

RISE UP! Try at least!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 08, 2026 05:38 PM (hzuYO)

60 The guy is right, and he means well. But that this a newsworthy statement shows just how ridiculously conditioned most people are.

Unemployable? Ungovernable? The Muslims? Noooo... not the people who have a cultural allergy to gainful employment, and are heavily inbred, and have a demonstrated, unbroken record of homicidal psychosis?

This is not an edgy or controversial statement. Muslims, and particularly Arabs, are a bunch of straight-up mental defectives. Everyone who's ever observed them in the wild knows this.

The fact that this guy says this and it seems controversial means that propaganda has overridden all reasoning.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 08, 2026 05:38 PM (BI5O2)

61 The U.S. can still make some spending cuts and grow our way out of a debt crisis.

The EU is low growth, high tax, high government spending, and a PITA to deal with.

The US won’t get off easy but the EU, and other countries don’t have it so good, looking at you Canada and Japan.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 08, 2026 05:38 PM (6ydKt)

62 OMG, yessssssss, Indians, please get off social media!!! That will punish us so dang hard.

DO IT
NOW
Srsly
Please

Posted by: Lizzy at October 08, 2026 05:39 PM (4KUe5)

63 Does France still own French Guyana?
Posted by: Joe Kidd at October 08, 2026 05:37 PM (08OqX)

Think so, and its part of France proper and not a colony.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 08, 2026 05:39 PM (uhVAy)

64
Will I still get paid?

Posted by: French Citizen at October 08, 2026 05:39 PM (OkYzo)

65 When the yield on 10-year government debt is over 5%, it's' time to panic.
Posted by: Oglebay at October 08, 2026 05:29 PM (2ap+
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Yeah that's us too.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 08, 2026 05:39 PM (RIvkX)

66 "NY Fed: consumer inflation expectations jumped in Sep to 3.9% for year ahead, while 3-yr rises to 3.3% and 5-yr holds steady at 3.0%; while people believe the current spike of inflation will be short-lived, they also believe we're not getting back to 2.0%..."
Posted by: Oglebay

I would trust the Fed projections as far as I would the mass media. Both are essentially Democrat shills and the NY Fed is a mouthpiece essentially for bankstas that want high interest rates to prop up their profits.

Posted by: whig at October 08, 2026 05:40 PM (E4rtv)

67 No more curry stench, whatever will we do?

Posted by: tubal at October 08, 2026 05:40 PM (Gqar8)

68 I don't understand why they cut downt that tree. That's new, amirite?

Now, on top of massive debt and Paris circling the toilet, they have at least 40 schools to repair.

Where are the protest manure trucks when you need them, French farmers?

RISE UP! Try at least!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 08, 2026 05:38 PM (hzuYO)

They are tired of Green platitudes too.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 08, 2026 05:40 PM (uhVAy)

69 Not sure why they'd work at all. And, I wouldn't trust the results. Open a jail some African country and send them there.
Posted by: weft cut-loop

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This is what I mean by balls: "Do this or get shot."

And paying to remove them is not the answer. It is a mistake. Figure out where they are from (this is easy -- DNA, but even accent can be very precise) and ship them there. Tell receiving countries that they accept or they too will face consequences. The West is now adopting the barbarian tactics of not caring about who has to die for victory.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at October 08, 2026 05:40 PM (TvbZP)

70 Works in the short run but destroys trust in the long run just like formal defaults or allowing massive inflation as a soft default does.
Posted by: whig at October 08, 2026 05:37 PM (E4rtv)

Energy prices are killing the German economy.
That’s a lot of their inflation base right there.

It’s economic & cultural suicide for many countries in Europe.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 08, 2026 05:41 PM (6ydKt)

71 *IF* leftists win...

Scoreboard:
California, Illinois, New Jersey, New York, New Mexico, Colorado, Minnesota, Washington, Oregon

Cities: Dearborn, Hamtramck MI, Paterson NJ

...and others

Posted by: JM in Illinois at October 08, 2026 05:41 PM (PKL0q)

72 TEAR GAS is now being deployed.

Lead is the only answer invaders understand. France is falling.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 08, 2026 05:38 PM (NnhvP)

It took an Italian, Napoleon, to save Paris and the Revolution with his "whiff of grapeshot" from the mob.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 08, 2026 05:41 PM (uhVAy)

73 The most French thing is just like the tea drinking dog meme.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 08, 2026 05:41 PM (Cqx++)

74 67 When the yield on 10-year government debt is over 5%, it's' time to panic.
Posted by: Oglebay at October 08, 2026 05:29 PM (2ap+
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Yeah that's us too.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

I lived through the early 80's and that particular claim is simply not true. What matters most is internal versus external debt--external means more money leaving the country with higher interest rates depressing the domestic economy, owed internally, it changes the distribution of who gets what but doesn't affect the economy as much.

Posted by: whig at October 08, 2026 05:41 PM (E4rtv)

75 I don't think we are ever going to see serious cuts in US government spending. Higher taxes are a certainty, probably including a wealth tax on billionaires. And new taxes extended to millionaires who own LLCs. And just plains millionaires. And thousandaires. And air.

Posted by: Oglebay at October 08, 2026 05:42 PM (2ap+5)

76 Nandini Gupta @yoursnandieni
As America is suspending H-1B programs for many Indians, we Indians should ban the use of American apps such as WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram so that America faces a huge economic downfall and then let America beg all Indians to come back. America will regret doing this.
Posted by: weft cut-loop\

Her terms are acceptable

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 08, 2026 05:43 PM (vJrRc)

77 Energy prices are killing the German economy.
That’s a lot of their inflation base right there.

It’s economic & cultural suicide for many countries in Europe.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 08, 2026 05:41 PM (6ydKt)

well blowing up your source for cheap energy and attacking the people selling it to you is pretty damn stupid but the Germans did it.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 08, 2026 05:43 PM (uhVAy)

78 ITS FUNNY BECAUSE IT’S ONLY BEEN A FEW MONTHS SINCE WE WERE SUPPOSED TO BE SHOCKED BY A MOVIE ABOUT A SINGLE VIGILANTE IN THE UK EXACTING VIOLENCE ON CRIMINALS. BUT MOBS OF “STUDENTS” BURNING DOWN FRANCE IS … JUST PROTEST?

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBER at October 08, 2026 05:43 PM (4KUe5)

79 Yeah, man you don't want your national finances to be so bad that you're moving towards having half your budget just for debt. Clearly something to steer away from.

Umm, ......

Posted by: joining the chorus at October 08, 2026 05:43 PM (U/Byj)

80 Poor France, I imagine there are no Korean roof top shooters because weapons are tightly controlled so only the jihadis have any.

Posted by: PaleRider at October 08, 2026 05:44 PM (PV+Zw)

81 Energy prices are killing the German economy.
That’s a lot of their inflation base right there.

It’s economic & cultural suicide for many countries in Europe.
Posted by: SpeakingOf

Eh, a lot of that was greenie bullshit that the Euros simply cannot admit was fraud. Like Germany shutting down its nukes and ending domestic coal use. UK with its insipid and stupid net Zero regulations, and so on. The French at least were not stupid enough to shut down their nuclear power plants. All of them though have failed to try to explore for oil and gas domestically except Norway which is an associate EU member, not full.

Posted by: whig at October 08, 2026 05:44 PM (E4rtv)

82 In the Yorkshire Ripper case, someone sent a confession tape to police. These were short tapes of low quality.

UK academics could tell what village he grew up in, and moved to, with about a 5 mile accuracy based on tiny variation in how he spoke.

Surely they can identify the city of every migrant based on a few sentences. AI can probably do it seconds.

And worst case, you tell them if they can not identify home country they go to the Pacific and no one will see them again.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at October 08, 2026 05:45 PM (TvbZP)

83 Tax policy is social policy and has nothing to do with fiscal or monetary policy.

What they "bring in" is completely disconnected from what they spend.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 08, 2026 05:45 PM (RIvkX)

84 If the French had any balls, they would start press ganging the "students" into service to clean up and rebuild the shit they just destroyed. That would be a proper education.
Posted by: bob

Not sure why they'd work at all. And, I wouldn't trust the results. Open a jail some African country and send them there.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 08, 2026 05:33 PM (nEUC6)

They might work if the alternative was being penned up and starved out until being deported.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 08, 2026 05:46 PM (uhVAy)

85 The German to French bonds might not be apples to apples for debt worthiness. There's something funky with the German bonds. My best understanding, which is even shakier than usual here, is that there is some legal requirements for the purchase of the bonds as reserves for insurance/banking companies.

The Germans ran bonds with negative yields. Nobody buys that without being compelled to.

Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at October 08, 2026 05:46 PM (r7+Q7)

86 All this is, obviously, Trump's fault.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at October 08, 2026 05:46 PM (XMwZJ)

87 I don't understand why they cut downt that tree. That's new, amirite?

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"HURRRR DURRRR I have a 68 IQ, and I love destroying shit and this tree is not a Muslim tree DUHHHHH it's a French tree DURRRR I'll steal a French chainsaw and cut the tree HURRRR now pay my jizya infidel, this is the only kind of work I will ever do DERRRRP."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice, the Arab Whisperer at October 08, 2026 05:47 PM (BI5O2)

88 "Nandini Gupta @yoursnandieni
As America is suspending H-1B programs for many Indians, we Indians should ban the use of American apps such as WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram so that America faces a huge economic downfall and then let America beg all Indians to come back. America will regret doing this.
Posted by: weft cut-loop"

We should be so lucky. The destruction of social media could be one of the best things to happen to this country.

Posted by: Ripley at October 08, 2026 05:47 PM (PTDkx)

89 You're full of shit. Dave in Florida level of full of shit.
Posted by: Inconvenient History at October 08, 2026 05:46 PM (6B9qW)
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Genius level discourse right there.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 08, 2026 05:48 PM (RIvkX)

90 Surely they can identify the city of every migrant based on a few sentences. AI can probably do it seconds.

And worst case, you tell them if they can not identify home country they go to the Pacific and no one will see them again.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at October 08, 2026 05:45 PM (TvbZP)

Why should I care? Let countries bid on who gets them to jail them for us. We are all globalists now, right. Lets take back the factories and export prisoners.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 08, 2026 05:48 PM (uhVAy)

91 the Algerians chanted "Suitcase or Coffin" at the French in the 50's and 60's.
Let the French chant it back today.

La Valise ou le Cercueil

Posted by: Kindltot at October 08, 2026 05:48 PM (rbvCR)

92 Listening to the MA gubernatorial debate. Less than 15 minutes in and Healey has mentioned Trump 16 times.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 08, 2026 05:48 PM (GfgtS)

93 Boy, at this rate, they won't be able to afford maintaining their nukes, let alone keep them secure.

Time to mount another Operation Sapphire.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at October 08, 2026 05:49 PM (iIyc0)

94 And this is different from the BLM riots how, exactly?

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 08, 2026 05:50 PM (FyeA3)

95 That video of the couple sitting at the table drinking their wine while a fire burns down the street really says it all.

It is the forever meme incarnate:

“Everything is fine.”

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 08, 2026 05:50 PM (6ydKt)

96 94 the Algerians chanted "Suitcase or Coffin" at the French in the 50's and 60's.
Let the French chant it back today.

La Valise ou le Cercueil
Posted by: Kindltot at October 08, 2026 05:48 PM (rbvCR)

You saw the wine sippers and the soy couple in the video, right?

Posted by: tubal at October 08, 2026 05:50 PM (Gqar8)

97 Why should I care? Let countries bid on who gets them to jail them for us. We are all globalists now, right. Lets take back the factories and export prisoners.
Posted by: Oldcat

I don't want to pay anyone to take back their trash.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at October 08, 2026 05:50 PM (TvbZP)

98 That video of couple drinking wine while caos is going on is surreal

Posted by: Skip at October 08, 2026 05:50 PM (Ia/+0)

99 The US won’t get off easy but the EU, and other countries don’t have it so good, looking at you Canada and Japan.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 08, 2026 05:38 PM (6ydKt)

__________________________

Last week the Canadian press was highlighting Canada's Mark Carney visiting (and meeting specifically) with Macron, and the jist of the press was that the two countries were teaming up against the US. There were no clarification as to how they propose to accomplish any substantive action....both countries have gutted their industry sector in the name of CLIMATE, and are beholden to assembly type manufacturing piece meal from China. It was amusing.

Posted by: Orson at October 08, 2026 05:50 PM (dIske)

100 92 You're full of shit. Dave in Florida level of full of shit.
Posted by: Inconvenient History at October 08, 2026 05:46 PM (6B9qW)
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Genius level discourse right there.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 08, 2026 05:48 PM (RIvkX)

It'll do in a pinch. I'll give it 4 out of 5 Karens.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 08, 2026 05:50 PM (FyeA3)

101 The German to French bonds might not be apples to apples for debt worthiness. There's something funky with the German bonds. My best understanding, which is even shakier than usual here, is that there is some legal requirements for the purchase of the bonds as reserves for insurance/banking companies.

The Germans ran bonds with negative yields. Nobody buys that without being compelled to.
Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at October 08, 2026 05:46 PM (r7+Q7)

The Germans had a huge crisis with mortgage fraud but instead of what we did by letting some banks fail and jailing a few peeps, they papered it over and hid the fact that their actual assets are fraudulent. This makes them desperate to hang on to the actual assets too, like the Belgian banks clinging to the 300 billion Russian money they froze years ago. The EU wants to steal it, the banks need to keep it to save the house of cards for the moment.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 08, 2026 05:51 PM (uhVAy)

102 The U.S. can still make some spending cuts and grow our way out of a debt crisis.

The EU is low growth, high tax, high government spending, and a PITA to deal with.

The US won’t get off easy but the EU, and other countries don’t have it so good, looking at you Canada and Japan.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 08, 2026 05:38 PM

Sorry but that ain't ever gonna happen. In less than 5 years social security goes "bankrupt" and every single person drawing a SS check will have to take at least a 10% haircut and those people vote in huge numbers. The only way to avoid that is to increase deficit spending even more which is what will happen.

Realistic projections have SS, medicare/medicaid and interest on the debt consuming 100% of all federal tax revenues before 2032 with that growth at least doubling every 10 years.

We ain't growing our way out of this mess.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 08, 2026 05:52 PM (I43vL)

103 You're full of shit. Dave in Florida level of full of shit.
Posted by: Inconvenient History at October 08, 2026 05:46 PM (6B9qW)
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Genius level discourse right there.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 08, 2026 05:48 PM (RIvkX)

It'll do in a pinch. I'll give it 4 out of 5 Karens.
Posted by: tcn in AK at October 08, 2026 05:50 PM (FyeA3)
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I leared so much from his comment.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 08, 2026 05:52 PM (RIvkX)

104 The French people, even if they could be aroused to take direct action, are pretty thoroughly disarmed I believe, like all of the Western Euros.

Posted by: tubal at October 08, 2026 05:52 PM (Gqar8)

105 France used to be the best in the world at water cannons and riot control. I understand that can't happen in the US because Bull Connor got Elijah Cummings shoes wet at the Pettus Bridge in Sel-muh, but what is the French excuse this time?

Posted by: American-LaFrance, FTW! at October 08, 2026 05:52 PM (EdP2u)

106 "They are not citizens in any meaningful sense, but an unassimilated third world horde, unemployable and ultimately ungovernable."

The only solution is to open immigration further so that the ratio of potential doctors and engineers exceeds the number of potential reprobates.

Posted by: EU, Brussels Division at October 08, 2026 05:53 PM (oji8u)

107 Leftists dragged France into tje sewers, they can get themselves out.

Posted by: Skip at October 08, 2026 05:53 PM (Ia/+0)

108 Last week the Canadian press was highlighting Canada's Mark Carney visiting (and meeting specifically) with Macron, and the jist of the press was that the two countries were teaming up against the US. There were no clarification as to how they propose to accomplish any substantive action....both countries have gutted their industry sector in the name of CLIMATE, and are beholden to assembly type manufacturing piece meal from China. It was amusing.
Posted by: Orson at October 08, 2026 05:50 PM (dIske)

Trump just made an offhand remark that if Canada joined the EU then the EU inherits Canada's 50 pct tariffs. And possibly worse because of the Monroe Doctrine.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 08, 2026 05:53 PM (uhVAy)

109 We ain't growing our way out of this mess.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 08, 2026 05:52 PM (I43vL)
====

All a y'all need to start earning more.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 08, 2026 05:53 PM (RIvkX)

110 That's another thing Trump needs to do -- start emptying out our prisons of all foreign born inmates (denaturalize if necessary).

If the border is tight, then I would prefer if these foreign murderers and rapists and thieves were just deported. Tell the foreign country what their sentence is and let them decide what to do with them. I just don't care as long as it does not cost us anything and they are not on US soil.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at October 08, 2026 05:54 PM (TvbZP)

111 That video of the couple sitting at the table drinking their wine while a fire burns down the street really says it all.

It is the forever meme incarnate:

“Everything is fine.”
Posted by: SpeakingOf
___________

Look at the first couple of replies on X. The first one is a gem.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 08, 2026 05:55 PM (JzUSu)

112 The Germans had a huge crisis with mortgage fraud but instead of what we did by letting some banks fail and jailing a few peeps, they papered it over and hid the fact that their actual assets are fraudulent. This makes them desperate to hang on to the actual assets too, like the Belgian banks clinging to the 300 billion Russian money they froze years ago. The EU wants to steal it, the banks need to keep it to save the house of cards for the moment.
Posted by: Oldcat
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They collaborated to remove Orban because he was blocking the EU from issuing bonds bearing interest based on the frozen Russian assets.

If I was a US international company, I would be wary of this shit myself. They already, in the case of Cyprus, basically took money from depositors in those banks (often Russian) to 'bail in' the bank from losses from imprudent lending. Been floated around as a general rule for money kept in the EU by savers to temporarily save the EU from financial crises.

Posted by: whig at October 08, 2026 05:55 PM (E4rtv)

113 I used to date a Serb. She and her mother were Christian, but the dad was a (largely nonpracticing) Muslim. So pretty much the cream of the Muslim crop.

Their family had a big blowout fight when the Muslim family came to visit.

It started when, after asking nicely several times, my girlfriend and her mom flipped out on them: "This is America, dammit, and you will use toilet paper in this home and stop washing your disgusting, shit covered hands in our sink!!!"

At which point they turned on the dad and started berating him about raising Christian whores with no respect for the old ways and blah blah blah.

Sorry, but you're never going to assimilate large populations of these *ahem* people. They will literally just smear shit everywhere.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 08, 2026 05:55 PM (BI5O2)

114 It was never about students. Students are just the vehicle.to launch this revolution.
Meanwhile there are approximately 13 million French folk who own weapons. Better get them cleaned up mon amis.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 08, 2026 05:55 PM (2WIwB)

115 97 And this is different from the BLM riots how, exactly?
Posted by: tcn in AK at October 08, 2026 05:50 PM (FyeA3)

As bad as 2020 was, and it was bad - burned down a police station, went on for months - I don’t remember kids throwing bombs into their schools or hoodlums firing aerosol flamethrowers at people’s faces.

This riot has some added North African flavor which can get a little more spicy than our fiery but mostly peaceful lootfests.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 08, 2026 05:55 PM (6ydKt)

116 Posted by: Inconvenient History at October 08, 2026 05:51 PM (6B9qW)

You seem nice.

Posted by: A random guy on the net at October 08, 2026 05:55 PM (dCMJG)

117 BEN ROETHLISBER gets it.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at October 08, 2026 05:55 PM (XMwZJ)

118 Today's stupid comment...

If Napoleon were alive today ...

"He would be rolling over in his grave" !!!!

Posted by: Mike Hunt at October 08, 2026 05:56 PM (jGtoG)

119 The three economic pillars of the Euro are Germany, France and Italy. There are no other major players that can shoulder the Euro, and all three are at the rope's end financially.
Germany is looking at de-industrialization, France is looking at a bond and financial crisis, and Italy has PM Meloni talking to the US about a bilateral trade agreement. The Euro does not have sufficient value in it to support it as a straight fiat currency, and there really is not enough ability to satisfy anyone that the Euro based bonds are worth taking a risk on since there may not be any ability to pay them back except in inflationary Euros maybe. No matter how much everyone likes using Euros for foreign exchange, it is looking risky to hold those .

the bad news is that they hold a lot of US Treasuries and bonds, and will probably start dumping them for things like buying diesel, so the Treasury auctions will be depressed which will look like an economic failure. The good news is that the Treasury will be buying them back at a discount, possibly wiping out US debt.

Maybe if France defaults, this time we can ask them to occupy Iran for us.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 08, 2026 05:57 PM (rbvCR)

120 CNN reporting that these are "MOSTLY PEACEFUL' Riots and building burnings ....

Posted by: Mike Hunt at October 08, 2026 05:58 PM (jGtoG)

121 ***France now pays more to borrow than Italy and Greece, two countries that sat at the centre of that crisis.
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The Mediterranean is a strategic area for Europe, and Italy will continue to work to bring it back increasingly to the centre of European policies and priorities
_Giorgia Meloni

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 08, 2026 05:58 PM (nqf1u)

122 I leared so much from his comment.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 08, 2026 05:52 PM (RIvkX)

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 08, 2026 05:58 PM (FyeA3)

123 Heh. I am amused.

Posted by: whig at October 08, 2026 05:59 PM (E4rtv)

124 Great place for making friends, the HQ, yes?

Posted by: tubal at October 08, 2026 05:59 PM (Gqar8)

125 This is the point at which you begin slitting throats.

Because if you don’t, you no longer have a country.

They see a lack of firm response as weakness.

There is no penalty for their behavior.

Posted by: That Guy at October 08, 2026 05:59 PM (c7nOQ)

126 French Riot participants: "We are protesting to acquire more funds for education."

Someone with multiple brain cells: "And, what if they don't provide them."

French Riot Participants: "THEN, we'll burn down more schools."

Someone with multiple brain cells: "Education funds pay for those schools."

French Riot Participants: ...

Posted by: Orson at October 08, 2026 06:00 PM (dIske)

127 Trump Rules Out Iran Attacks Before Midterms..

This means he is going Hammer the Ragheads very soon....

Whatever Trump says always translates into the opposite...

Posted by: Jackson K. at October 08, 2026 06:00 PM (2WXOn)

128 At which point they turned on the dad and started berating him about raising Christian whores with no respect for the old ways and blah blah blah.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
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Twitter is funny -- One day you see a bunch of shitskins ridiculing the West for not using their hands to wipe their asses, and the next day the same bunch of shitskins saying we don't use our hands to eat because our food sucks.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at October 08, 2026 06:00 PM (TvbZP)

129 Great place for making friends, the HQ, yes?
Posted by: tubal at October 08, 2026 05:59 PM

I'm mot your friend, buddy!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 08, 2026 06:00 PM (GfgtS)

130 Inconvenient History at October 08, 2026 05:57 PM (6B9qW)
~~~~~

You walked in here looking for a fight.

Best to be ignored.

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at October 08, 2026 06:00 PM (3ImbR)

131

He's back. I knew I smelled something.

Posted by: four seasons at October 08, 2026 06:00 PM (/QHx4)

132 ^***You're destroying the very communities you live in, leaving ordinary people to pick up the pieces and pay the price.
----

It will continue until ordinary people become extraordinary.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 08, 2026 06:00 PM (nqf1u)

133 If I was a US international company, I would be wary of this shit myself. They already, in the case of Cyprus, basically took money from depositors in those banks (often Russian) to 'bail in' the bank from losses from imprudent lending. Been floated around as a general rule for money kept in the EU by savers to temporarily save the EU from financial crises.
Posted by: whig at October 08, 2026 05:55 PM (E4rtv)

Stealing Russian assets and trying to liquidate them was a blunder, because plenty of people abroad who stash money in foreign banks for a "rainy day" at home suddenly found out the EU could pull out the carpet on them. So these kind of accounts started leaving for safer shores.

But the problem behind the problem is that EU-socialism was always robbing Peter to save Paul, making your system weaker over time. What happens when Peter and Paul are both equally sickly? What happens when you have a hundred administrators managing Peter to Paul payments instead of one?

At some point, Reality reasserts itself.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 08, 2026 06:01 PM (uhVAy)

134 So France is finally joining the 21st Century with its own Quality Learing Centers?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 08, 2026 06:01 PM (qlLNh)

135 Cummings shoes wet at the Pettus Bridge in Sel-muh, but what is the French excuse this time?
Posted by: American-LaFrance, FTW! at October 08, 2026 05:52 PM (EdP2u)

The Police hired a bunch of Algerians and Moroccans probably.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 08, 2026 06:01 PM (6ydKt)

136 Democrats: You know what's deflationary? Taxes!

Posted by: Oglebay at October 08, 2026 06:02 PM (2ap+5)

137 Inconvenient History at October 08, 2026 05:57 PM (6B9qW)
~~~~~

You walked in here looking for a fight.

Best to be ignored.

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at October 08, 2026 06:00 PM (3ImbR)

Good gravy, he's made an Irish a peacemaker and everything.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 08, 2026 06:02 PM (uhVAy)

138 114 That's another thing Trump needs to do -- start emptying out our prisons of all foreign born inmates (denaturalize if necessary).

If the border is tight, then I would prefer if these foreign murderers and rapists and thieves were just deported. Tell the foreign country what their sentence is and let them decide what to do with them. I just don't care as long as it does not cost us anything and they are not on US soil.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at October 08, 2026 05:54 PM (TvbZP)

The border is and never will be that tight.

Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at October 08, 2026 06:02 PM (82QJ1)

139 So France is finally joining the 21st Century with its own Quality Learing Centers?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 08, 2026 06:01 PM (qlLNh)

You have to say that in French by law.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 08, 2026 06:02 PM (uhVAy)

140 Always look on the bright side of life!!

Posted by: tubal at October 08, 2026 06:03 PM (Gqar8)

141 Passing Corsicana! Hi Ben Had!!

Posted by: LASue at October 08, 2026 06:03 PM (bwwpJ)

142 The border is and never will be that tight.
Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at October 08, 2026 06:02 PM (82QJ1)

Sure but if the dude shows up in-country, you have a discussion with the dudes in his capital instead of just him.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 08, 2026 06:04 PM (uhVAy)

143 Ben Had lives in Corsica??

Posted by: tubal at October 08, 2026 06:04 PM (Gqar8)

144 I guess it's time for Vikings to invade France and the UK again?

Maybe chase the barbarians back to their homeland?

Where are the men of England and the EU? I'm too lazy to look for the Where Are the Men of England song.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 08, 2026 06:04 PM (hzuYO)

145 Students is another word for taliban.

Posted by: PG at October 08, 2026 06:04 PM (DIADF)

146 > 139 When the wife bounces the second check ?

That's where we are at. That's where Western Civ is at.
Posted by: Inconvenient History at October 08, 2026 06:01 PM (6B9qW)

You don't go writin' hot checks,
Down in Western Civvy...

https://tinyurl.com/yczdc9bd

Posted by: Johnny and Waylon at October 08, 2026 06:04 PM (qlLNh)

147 Debt is not good but not the existential crisis most people think it is. It ends with either an inflationary spiral or a formal default. Both have consequences as austerity does usually for about a decade or so of slow to no growth because people don't lend to government for awhile. Argentina is an example with multiple defaults--when it did borrow after a default, then it had to pay higher interest rates and the refusal to cut spending led to virtually no external funds flowing into Argentina for awhile and assets being seized abroad to pay for them. Got more examples if you want them of 'austerity' and countries including the UK post WWII when it was broke.

Want do some reading history try This Time It's Different, by Carmines and Rogoff. About one thousand years of economic tomfoolery of the nations. Both are noted economic historians but my guess is you would rather bitch and whine than actually read something.

Posted by: whig at October 08, 2026 06:05 PM (E4rtv)

148 ITS FUNNY BECAUSE IT’S ONLY BEEN A FEW MONTHS SINCE WE WERE SUPPOSED TO BE SHOCKED BY A MOVIE ABOUT A SINGLE VIGILANTE IN THE UK EXACTING VIOLENCE ON CRIMINALS. BUT MOBS OF “STUDENTS” BURNING DOWN FRANCE IS … JUST PROTEST?
Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBER at October 08, 2026 05:43 PM (4KUe5)

I streamed and downloaded it when it was being shown on X (thankyou, Elon!). Burned a few DVDs for friends who of my political persuasion. They're reaction was, "if only".

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at October 08, 2026 06:05 PM (hmYU4)

149 Trump Rules Out Iran Attacks Before Midterms..

This means he is going Hammer the Ragheads very soon....

Whatever Trump says always translates into the opposite...
Posted by: Jackson K. at October 08, 2026 06:00 PM (2WXOn)

So the Arab states, or Israel, can hit them. Lol.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 08, 2026 06:05 PM (uhVAy)

150 Oh, l see that the man of many handles is back with a new one. How inconvenient for us. LOL

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 08, 2026 06:05 PM (JrHfD)

151 This has been in planning for a very long time. France is in some deep shit and civil war is very likely.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 08, 2026 06:05 PM (2WIwB)

152 Have we gotten from Talefreako's Mom yet on his flu?

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 08, 2026 06:06 PM (2GVsD)

153 Reading is worse than math

Posted by: Oglebay at October 08, 2026 06:06 PM (2ap+5)

154 Frak

Have we gotten a note from his Mom? Has she chekced her basement?

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 08, 2026 06:07 PM (2GVsD)

155 Does anyone know if the "Gay Pride Day" Parade in Yemen today is still on ???

Posted by: James Talarico at October 08, 2026 06:07 PM (973Ju)

156 Want do some reading history try This Time It's Different, by Carmines and Rogoff. About one thousand years of economic tomfoolery of the nations. Both are noted economic historians but my guess is you would rather bitch and whine than actually read something.
Posted by: whig at October 08, 2026 06:05 PM (E4rtv)

Yes financial games in South America cooled down a lot when they were forced to pin their money to real dollars. Of course, that let us play more games with the dollar.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 08, 2026 06:07 PM (uhVAy)

157 How much of France is now a No-Go Zone? 'Cause this has been building for a looong time.

And Britain might be even worse. Their government has seemingly and largely behaved as proxies for most street violence. They just skipped over street action and said, "Don't trouble yourselves, Mob. We'll take care of this."

And Merkel's legacy will be that she was the horse that escorted all the Trojans into the castles.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at October 08, 2026 06:08 PM (oji8u)

158 Good gravy, he's made an Irish a peacemaker and everything.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 08, 2026 06:02 PM (uhVAy)
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You talking to me? You talking to me? I mean who the hell else you talking to? You talking to me? Well I'm the only one here.

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at October 08, 2026 06:08 PM (3ImbR)

159 Does anyone know if the "Gay Pride Day" Parade in Yemen today is still on ???
Posted by: James Talarico at October 08, 2026 06:07 PM (973Ju)

Pride goeth before a fall in Yemen.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 08, 2026 06:08 PM (uhVAy)

160 152 Have we gotten from Talefreako's Mom yet on his flu?
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 08, 2026 06:06 PM (2GVsD)

Ironically, just read about sexually transmitted diarrhea having become a Thing.

Posted by: tubal at October 08, 2026 06:08 PM (Gqar8)

161 > That's another thing Trump needs to do -- start emptying out our prisons of all foreign born inmates (denaturalize if necessary).
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We need moar executions. Daily.

Like, maybe a dedicated channel. No PPV. There's a reason we have GOTV.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 08, 2026 06:09 PM (RORbl)

162 Isn't it a little late in the day to be pissing in Cornflakes?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 08, 2026 06:09 PM (t9883)

163 > You have to say that in French by law.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 08, 2026 06:02 PM (uhVAy)

Centre d'apprentissag de qualité?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 08, 2026 06:09 PM (qlLNh)

164 159 Does anyone know if the "Gay Pride Day" Parade in Yemen today is still on ???
Posted by: James Talarico at October 08, 2026 06:07 PM (973Ju)

Pride goeth before a fall in Yemen.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 08, 2026 06:08 PM (uhVAy)

Heh.

Posted by: tubal at October 08, 2026 06:09 PM (Gqar8)

165 You talking to me? You talking to me? I mean who the hell else you talking to? You talking to me? Well I'm the only one here.
Posted by: IrishEi ?! at October 08, 2026 06:08 PM (3ImbR)

Aw have a pint on me. My lineage has Irish, German, Swedish and English so I am at war internally for the last 1300 years or so.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 08, 2026 06:09 PM (uhVAy)

166 It is only a cold sore and not HIV....... I hope ....

Posted by: James Talarico at October 08, 2026 06:10 PM (973Ju)

167 Sorry Talarico, the Gay Pride Parade on Yemen was cancelled. They fired all their gays at Saudi Arabia

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 08, 2026 06:10 PM (t9883)

168 You know what a good plan is? Bringing in millions of third-world savages who don't respect WORK, women, beauty, community, animal assholes, or any real Western value.

That was a good plan.

FU EU.

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 08, 2026 06:11 PM (iOpI2)

169 If you've lived through 10% inflation and 15% long bond it's hard to get exercised about 5% anything.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 08, 2026 06:11 PM (RIvkX)

170 So, what did Maceon say when he addressed the nation?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 08, 2026 06:11 PM (JrHfD)

171 131

He's back. I knew I smelled something.

Posted by: four seasons at October 08, 2026 06:00 PM (/QHx4)

He really can't help himself. He is, after all, the smartest person in the room. Just ask him. He will tell you.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 08, 2026 06:11 PM (FyeA3)

172 >
Ironically, just read about sexually transmitted diarrhea having become a Thing.
Posted by: tubal at October 08, 2026 06:08 PM (Gqar

I'm pretty sure I don't want to know the actual mechanism by which this is spread.

In some cases, ignorance is good.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 08, 2026 06:11 PM (qlLNh)

173 Sexually transmitted diarrhea?

A new Oregon Trails game that starts in 2024 San Francisco?

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 08, 2026 06:12 PM (2GVsD)

174 170 So, what did Maceon say when he addressed the nation?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 08, 2026 06:11 PM (JrHfD)

Apres moi, le deluge, I think.

Posted by: tubal at October 08, 2026 06:12 PM (Gqar8)

175 129 Great place for making friends, the HQ, yes?
Posted by: tubal
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I am used to a far higher level of insults when I submitted papers for peer review or at conferences. I don't get riled much about it.

But simply most of the macroeconomics I learned including Chicago and Vienna schools as well as Keynesian and Marxist, are not borne out in reality. Microeconomics is pretty much a science which relies on price as its key foundation. Macro depends on what assumptions you make about what is good, bad, etc. and then you see the real world makes a pig's breakfast over assertions from a model because your model is underspecified (doesn't include all relevant variables). Tariffs are a perfect example. Taxes are another, so is borrowing, GDP, national debt, inflation, etc.

We can find little truths but there is no big truth that we can trust even analyzing a domestic economy; it gets far worse when we bring in a multiplicity of other foreign actors into the equation.

So no, simple thoughts don't make for reality.

And fwiw, Dave in Florida was not wrong but the Democrat fraud was so massive that it made him look wrong in 2020. I was right there when that happened.

Posted by: whig at October 08, 2026 06:12 PM (E4rtv)

176
Genius level discourse right there.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 08, 2026 05:48 PM (RIvkX)

It'll do in a pinch. I'll give it 4 out of 5 Karens.
Posted by: tcn in AK at October 08, 2026 05:50 PM (FyeA3)
=====

I leared so much from his comment.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 08, 2026 05:52 PM (RIvkX)
*************
I don't know wut is going on anymore.

I have a sinus in an uproar that's ticking me off so badly I'm going to take a hot shower, inhale steam, plus a violent warm salt water rinse. Then I am going to drink the dreaded (by my dude) warm cure of chopped garlic in V8. It works. He also complains of me reeking of garlic and you can see how much I care.

I would almost rather have STD dire rear at this point than a future sinus infection headache.

Note: I will never have STD diarrhea, no worries. This is how much I hate a sinus infection.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 08, 2026 06:12 PM (hzuYO)

177 172 >
Ironically, just read about sexually transmitted diarrhea having become a Thing.
Posted by: tubal at October 08, 2026 06:08 PM (Gqar

I'm pretty sure I don't want to know the actual mechanism by which this is spread.

In some cases, ignorance is good.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 08, 2026 06:11 PM (qlLNh)

Yeah, trust me, you don’t.

Posted by: tubal at October 08, 2026 06:13 PM (Gqar8)

178 They are destroying these communities because it is not their community. They have no connection to it. In fact, I’m guessing there’s a lot of unconscious resentment of the people and structures of these communities because they know they could never build or maintain them themselves.

They come from sh$tholes, only know how to live in sh$tholes, so why should the French (Brits, Aussies, Americans, et al) get to live in something better? They hate westerners and want to drag them down. That’s why they cut down the trees, burn the schools: you can’t have anything nice because we can’t build anything nice! LIB, we can survive in squalor, Frenchies.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 08, 2026 06:13 PM (4KUe5)

179 Ironically, just read about sexually transmitted diarrhea having become a Thing.
Posted by: tubal at October 08, 2026 06:08 PM (Gqar

Well, thank you for sharing.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 08, 2026 06:13 PM (FyeA3)

180 The most French thing I’ve ever seen

---------------

"Welcome to the 'Mostly Peaceful' Sidewalk Cafe! It's Happy Hour and the Molotov Cocktails are half-price ..."

Posted by: ShainS at October 08, 2026 06:13 PM (SgYCn)

181 Charles Martell and Marquis de Lafayette are not around to save France, just like George Washington is not here to save us. Besides, islam is too big a problem in their native regions, they should never have been allowed into civilized countries.

Posted by: Eromero at October 08, 2026 06:13 PM (LHPAg)

182 And fwiw, Dave in Florida was not wrong but the Democrat fraud was so massive that it made him look wrong in 2020. I was right there when that happened.
Posted by: whig at October 08, 2026 06:12 PM (E4rtv)

Agreed

Posted by: It's me donna at October 08, 2026 06:13 PM (+gK6I)

183 I saw Sexually Transmitted Diarrhea open for the Vomit Pigs in a punk club in Austin back in '81.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 08, 2026 06:13 PM (qlLNh)

184 They are destroying these communities because it is not their community. They have no connection to it. In fact, I’m guessing there’s a lot of unconscious resentment of the people and structures of these communities because they know they could never build or maintain them themselves.

They come from sh$tholes, only know how to live in sh$tholes, so why should the French (Brits, Aussies, Americans, et al) get to live in something better? They hate westerners and want to drag them down. That’s why they cut down the trees, burn the schools: you can’t have anything nice because we can’t build anything nice! LIB, we can survive in squalor, Frenchies.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 08, 2026 06:13 PM (4KUe5)

-----------------

Satan is often disguised as a Green-Eyed Monster ...

Posted by: ShainS at October 08, 2026 06:14 PM (SgYCn)

185 Was O'Rourke on guitar for the Vomit Pigs?

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 08, 2026 06:14 PM (2GVsD)

186 You know what a good plan is? Bringing in millions of third-world savages who don't respect WORK, women, beauty, community, animal assholes, or any real Western value.

That was a good plan.

FU EU.

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 08, 2026 06:11 PM (iOpI2)

Well considering that good many EU member states thought a proxy war in Russia was a good idea despite them having tried it themselves many times and lost, it isn't so surprising that their economic ideas are rubbish.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 08, 2026 06:15 PM (uhVAy)

187 > And fwiw, Dave in Florida was not wrong but the Democrat fraud was so massive that it made him look wrong in 2020.

100%.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 08, 2026 06:15 PM (qlLNh)

188 178 They are destroying these communities because it is not their community. They have no connection to it. In fact, I’m guessing there’s a lot of unconscious resentment of the people and structures of these communities because they know they could never build or maintain them themselves.

They come from sh$tholes, only know how to live in sh$tholes, so why should the French (Brits, Aussies, Americans, et al) get to live in something better? They hate westerners and want to drag them down. That’s why they cut down the trees, burn the schools: you can’t have anything nice because we can’t build anything nice! LIB, we can survive in squalor, Frenchies.
Posted by: Lizzy at October 08, 2026 06:13 PM (4KUe5)
That's it in a nutshell.

Posted by: Eromero at October 08, 2026 06:15 PM (LHPAg)

189 Yes financial games in South America cooled down a lot when they were forced to pin their money to real dollars. Of course, that let us play more games with the dollar.
Posted by: Oldcat

Financial crises are not pleasant to work through. But what is worse is a civil war caused by it. Arguably the French Revolution was caused by the French state buckling under the cost of the American Revolution worldwide for them and the French and Indian War before that.

When the state cannot bribe the gimmedats, then the gimmedats get frisky.

Posted by: whig at October 08, 2026 06:15 PM (E4rtv)

190 Do you get Brie or Chambert with the Molotov Cocktail?

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 08, 2026 06:15 PM (2GVsD)

191 Sorry, but you're never going to assimilate large populations of these *ahem* people. They will literally just smear shit everywhere.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 08, 2026 05:55 PM (BI5O2)

The apartment living room scene in a certain movie comes to mind.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at October 08, 2026 06:16 PM (hmYU4)

192 > 185 Was O'Rourke on guitar for the Vomit Pigs?
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 08, 2026 06:14 PM (2GVsD)

They would've kicked Beatoff's ass and torn off his dress.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 08, 2026 06:16 PM (qlLNh)

193 Camembert, yeah that's it

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 08, 2026 06:17 PM (2GVsD)

194 This demand comes at a very bad time. Because France's dysfunctional government is made up of alleged "centrists" and even some "conservatives" in a coalition with socialists and communists, no one can agree on a budget.

So they just keep borrowing money, growing the deficit more and more.

—

Is this about France or AneriKa?

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 08, 2026 06:17 PM (T+9ay)

195 190 Do you get Brie or Chambert with the Molotov Cocktail?
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 08, 2026 06:15 PM (2GVsD)

Roquefort. Should be something sorta rotten to fit right in.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 08, 2026 06:17 PM (FyeA3)

196 Argentina always has had a determination to follow through on the social welfare side of things, since that was Peron's path to stability, and a way for the Kirchners to stay in power -- I think it also had to do with a lot of very dedicated Italian unionists and anarchists immigrating in the late 1800's due to oppression in Italy about then and they colored the economics quite a bit. After the hyperinflation they pegged the peso to the US Dollar, and got bogged down because they couldn't afford the social welfare they promised.
Social welfare bought votes, bought participation, and was always a ready source of corruption. One of the things Milei has done is push the price of social services back onto the provincial governments when he couldn't cut them completely, and this makes counting centavos important. I believe that Minister of Public Security Patricia Bullrich is also quite focused on stomping out corruption. This was not focused on last time, and it is why they had to drop the peg

Posted by: Kindltot at October 08, 2026 06:17 PM (rbvCR)

197 Then I am going to drink the dreaded (by my dude) warm cure of chopped garlic in V8. It works. He also complains of me reeking of garlic and you can see how much I care.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 08, 2026 06:12 PM (hzuYO)

I always liked V8 especially the peppery one.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 08, 2026 06:17 PM (uhVAy)

198 Geez, my YouTube feed is full of Malfoid stuff. Even the Koreans are getting into making anime of Malfoid.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 08, 2026 06:19 PM (2GVsD)

199 Well, Christy, at least you won’t be pestered by Vampires!

Posted by: tubal at October 08, 2026 06:19 PM (Gqar8)

200 When you drone on and on about playing straight in a rigged game ? That makes you wrong.

Dave's first assumptions were wrong. He wouldn't see that the game was rigged. He was ... wrong.
Posted by: Spoiler Alert at October 08, 2026 06:18 PM (UsXdl)

You know what else is wrong? Being the only asshole in the room. When everyone else is wrong, you might want to look in a mirror.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 08, 2026 06:20 PM (FyeA3)

201 200 Geez, my YouTube feed is full of Malfoid stuff. Even the Koreans are getting into making anime of Malfoid.
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 08, 2026 06:19 PM (2GVsD

Malfoy ? From Harry Potter ?

Posted by: It's me donna at October 08, 2026 06:20 PM (+gK6I)

202 One of the things Milei has done is push the price of social services back onto the provincial governments when he couldn't cut them completely, and this makes counting centavos important. I believe that Minister of Public Security Patricia Bullrich is also quite focused on stomping out corruption. This was not focused on last time, and it is why they had to drop the peg
Posted by: Kindltot at October 08, 2026 06:17 PM (rbvCR)

Milei's secret was actually firing chunks of the dead weight infesting the government there. Social services is one thing, paying thousands of ticks to suck your life blood is another.

This is a lesson the EU will never learn, because they are 100 percent ticks. Member states might have a chance, if the EU would let them.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 08, 2026 06:21 PM (uhVAy)

203 191 Sorry, but you're never going to assimilate large populations of these *ahem* people. They will literally just smear shit everywhere.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 08, 2026 05:55 PM (BI5O2)

The apartment living room scene in a certain movie comes to mind.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at October 08, 2026 06:16 PM (hmYU4)

Feral Scheisse Maidens VII: Doo Doo Butter Purgatory?

Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at October 08, 2026 06:21 PM (82QJ1)

204 Donna

5-minute AI film of Malfoid and Harry Potter

https://youtu.be/6tCVsS8X6mU

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 08, 2026 06:21 PM (2GVsD)

205 welp you have to appreciate the tolerance they maintain as their shit gets destroyed

Posted by: DanMan at October 08, 2026 06:22 PM (8uzBS)

206 Posted by: Spoiler Alert at October 08, 2026 06:18 PM (UsXdl)

I'm guessing that when you go to a bar with friends you always sit at an empty table.

Posted by: A random guy on the net at October 08, 2026 06:22 PM (dCMJG)

207 In a letter to colleagues this week, staff at the Chicago library said they were organizing a union due to the institute’s ‘increasing workloads’ and benefit rollbacks.

Translation:
Show up on time
Work
Stay till closing

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 08, 2026 06:22 PM (/+uur)

208 200 Geez, my YouTube feed is full of Malfoid stuff. Even the Koreans are getting into making anime of Malfoid.
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 08, 2026 06:19 PM (2GVsD

Malfoy ? From Harry Potter ?
Posted by: It's me donna at October 08, 2026 06:20 PM (+gK6I)

Its a gender bend trend - making a cute anime girl version of Malfoy. Like the Brits adopting the government scold evil Amelia as a heroine for the English.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 08, 2026 06:22 PM (uhVAy)

209 Aw have a pint on me. My lineage has Irish, German, Swedish and English so I am at war internally for the last 1300 years or so.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 08, 2026 06:09 PM (uhVAy)
~~~~~

That wasn't me; that was the Taxi Driver.

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at October 08, 2026 06:22 PM (3ImbR)

210 Chocolate Jesus is out campaigning and saying that Trump is all about promoting himself as the Savior...

Trump credits others for a good job..

Look in the mirror Mr. Soetoro and you will see whom is in love with himself ....

Mr. Soetoro always says I and Trump says We ....

Jus Sayin ...........

Posted by: James Talarico at October 08, 2026 06:23 PM (jGtoG)

211 This demand comes at a very bad time. Because France's dysfunctional government is made up of alleged "centrists" and even some "conservatives" in a coalition with socialists and communists, no one can agree on a budget.

So they just keep borrowing money, growing the deficit more and more.

—

Is this about France or AneriKa?
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 08, 2026 06:17 PM (T+9ay)

France's government is just "anybody we can collude with to keep out the right wing" and has been for a decade. Macron himself was created by that.

Same with England, and even Germany has been losing election after election by the 'big parties' in rotation to keep anyone who will fix things out of power for probably more than 10 years.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 08, 2026 06:26 PM (uhVAy)

212 Talarico is gone
Gone ass gone
Gone Girl gone
AMF

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 08, 2026 06:26 PM (/+uur)

213 Translation:
Show up on time
Work
Stay till closing
Posted by: r hennigantx

======

From an organization named after Obama.

Irony that thick has its own gravity.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at October 08, 2026 06:26 PM (4HoLg)

214 Toss foreign criminals out they will come right back

Posted by: Skip at October 08, 2026 06:26 PM (Ia/+0)

215 Chocolate Jesus is out campaigning and saying that Trump is all about promoting himself as the Savior...

Trump credits others for a good job..

Look in the mirror Mr. Soetoro and you will see whom is in love with himself ....

Mr. Soetoro always says I and Trump says We ....

Jus Sayin ...........
Posted by: James Talarico at October 08, 2026 06:23 PM (jGtoG)

Not sure religious blasphemy accusations are going to swing anyone against Trump.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 08, 2026 06:27 PM (uhVAy)

216 Milei's secret was actually firing chunks of the dead weight infesting the government there. Social services is one thing, paying thousands of ticks to suck your life blood is another.

This is a lesson the EU will never learn, because they are 100 percent ticks. Member states might have a chance, if the EU would let them.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 08, 2026 06:21 PM (uhVAy)

Milei also seeded the ideas of it by talking publicly about the economics for near on 20 years, and the Argentines had gone through so many economic cycles they were tired of them. Argentina has not had a 30 year bond go through to maturity since 1890, and they were facing a hyperinflation again. It helps that he is an outsider and gathered a very talented team to be his cabinet. I have no idea if there is that level of talent in any EU state anymore.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 08, 2026 06:27 PM (rbvCR)

217 The only right answer to these things is a set of barked out commands...

All ranks lock and load 1 beanbag round!
All ranks, live ammo to the ready!
Front rank kneel!
Volley fire on my command!
To the ready!
Aim!
Fire!

All ranks load live ammo!
Rear rank, advance through!
etc....

Posted by: GWB at October 08, 2026 06:27 PM (kU0PQ)

218 Toss foreign criminals out they will come right back
Posted by: Skip at October 08, 2026 06:26 PM (Ia/+0)

Not if we toss them in a foreign jail.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 08, 2026 06:27 PM (uhVAy)

219 Posted by: Anna Puma at October 08, 2026 06:21 PM (2GVsD)

Thanks....

Posted by: It's me donna at October 08, 2026 06:28 PM (+gK6I)

220 I have no idea if there is that level of talent in any EU state anymore.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 08, 2026 06:27 PM (rbvCR)

Well not in "serious" circles. EU groupthink is strong, no matter how dumb the results. Consequences? what are those?

Posted by: Oldcat at October 08, 2026 06:29 PM (uhVAy)

221
well blowing up your source for cheap energy and attacking the people selling it to you is pretty damn stupid but the Germans did it.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 08, 2026 05:43 PM (uhVAy)

Aug 1914, Germany's biggest trade partners, in order:

British Empire
Russia
USA
Austria-Hungary
France
Italy

And they went to war with half of them that month. By 1917 they were at war with 5 of these 6 countries.

Plus ca change and all that shit.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 08, 2026 06:30 PM (y9nCu)

222 @212 Talarico is gone
Gone ass gone
Gone Girl gone
AMF
Yeah, but he shows up constantly in gay ass annoying ads when streaming Youtube on my TV. I block the ad, but it just shows up again in a few minutes.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at October 08, 2026 06:34 PM (XMwZJ)

223 In a letter to colleagues this week, staff at the Chicago library said they were organizing a union due to the institute’s ‘increasing workloads’ and benefit rollbacks.

-

Working while getting paid by tax payers is a hate crime.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 08, 2026 06:35 PM (T+9ay)

224 The only right answer to these things is a set of barked out commands...

All ranks lock and load 1 beanbag round!
All ranks, live ammo to the ready!
Front rank kneel!
Volley fire on my command!
To the ready!
Aim!
Fire!

All ranks load live ammo!
Rear rank, advance through!
etc....
Posted by: GWB at October 08, 2026 06:27 PM

Followed by

Fire mission!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 08, 2026 06:37 PM (GfgtS)

225 Not sure I trust foreign jails

Posted by: Skip at October 08, 2026 06:40 PM (Ia/+0)

226 The only right answer to these things is a set of barked out commands...

All ranks lock and load 1 beanbag round!
All ranks, live ammo to the ready!
Front rank kneel!
Volley fire on my command!
To the ready!
Aim!
Fire!

All ranks load live ammo!
Rear rank, advance through!
etc....
Posted by: GWB at October 08, 2026 06:27 PM (kU0PQ)

There is a beauty to volley fire.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 08, 2026 06:42 PM (2WIwB)

227 Rorke's Drift.

Posted by: Eromero at October 08, 2026 06:45 PM (LHPAg)

228 There is a beauty to volley fire.
Posted by: Diogenes

I have a No. 1 Mk 3 and a P14 with Volley Sights. The Brits dropped them finally in 1916 to simplify manufacturing.

Posted by: whig at October 08, 2026 06:52 PM (E4rtv)

229 Yeah, but he shows up constantly in gay ass annoying ads when streaming Youtube on my TV. I block the ad, but it just shows up again in a few minutes.
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent
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To talafreako, your ass chapping is part of the kink of rough trade.

Posted by: whig at October 08, 2026 06:52 PM (E4rtv)

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