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Unreal. They took out the opposition. Marine Le Pen, who is currently leading in opinion polls for the 2027 election in France, has been sentenced to 4 years in prison and banned from running in the next election. pic.twitter.com/BcDgfvmnol — Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) March 31, 2025 It’s becoming clearer by the day that the old …
It's because their goal is chaos and destabilization. Unity and cohesion go directly against that. They want you loyal and dependent to The Party and nothing else. — Doku HL SD (@Doku_HL_SD) August 13, 2024
PARIS — French far-right leader Marine Le Pen isn’t on the ballot at the weekend’s European Parliament election, but she’s likely to emerge as one of its biggest winners. Polls expect her National Rally party to be the top vote-getter in France, trouncing President Emmanuel Macron’s moderate pro-business party. And across Europe, the anti-immigration, nationalist ideas Le Pen has long championed …
The above video is an Oxford debate Pelosi attended. At a few points she gets involved. The guy is the usual pompous brit but makes excellent points. h/t Guest
One of the salutary features of federalism is that different states can govern themselves differently, making them, in the words of Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis, “laboratories” of democracy, free to “try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.” Examples of this abound. For example, Nebraska alone has a unicameral …