Same brains that believe communism is the best design for living, believe this is the best design for rain, snow and falling debris management

Douglas Murray on whether France will survive “ceaseless attacks from discontents inside the country.”

我以前在法国最好的大学巴黎政治学院学经济学。以我在法国生活和读书的亲身经历来看，法国今天变成这个样子，我一点都不意外。法国最大的问题就是，所有人都在想着怎么分过去留下来的蛋糕，而不是怎么把未来的蛋糕做大。我在巴黎政治学院读书的时候，最让我震惊的就是，我们经济学课上读的东西，居然大部分不是亚当·斯密，而是马克思！ 马克思的理论说白了，就是人类历史是由富人和穷人之间的阶级斗争推动的。富人叫资产阶级Bourgeoisie，穷人叫无产阶级Proletariat。因为资产阶级掌握着生产资料，无产阶级没有，所以只能靠给资本家打工赚钱。这两个阶级的利益天生就是对立的。 但这套理论最大的问题，就是它假设生产资料是固定的，新的生产资料不能被创造出来。很多法国人被这套思想洗脑了，觉得如果自己是穷人，想过上好日子，唯一的办法就是把富人干掉。当年法国国王路易十六就是这么被送上断头台的，今天法国发生的事情，本质上也差不多。你看这个视频，一群野蛮人直接冲进一个年轻女孩开的店，把店砸了，再把里面的商品全部抢走。 马克思错就错在，在资本主义社会里，只要你愿意承担风险，就有机会创造出原本根本不存在的财富。而且你创造财富的同时，整个社会的生活水平也可以跟着提高。但要做到这一点，大家就得想着怎么去创造未来，而不是整天争抢过去的东西。 法国其实跟印度一样，有很多非常聪明、非常努力的人。问题是，这些聪明又肯干的法国年轻人，根本看不到自己国家有什么未来，所以最后一个个都跑去美国了。我认识的大部分法国朋友，宁愿死都不想回法国，因为那个地方真的太让人压抑了。 你随便哪天去巴黎街上走一圈，就能看到一群法国年轻人站在路边，一只手拿着烟，另一只手端着红酒。这些人对自己的人生根本没什么追求，也不想着去创造什么价值，每天就是混日子，慢慢烂下去。法国这种根深蒂固的问题，我觉得至少还得花一百年才能解决。

No, Ukraine is not an ally, but Russia is an adversary, and in a world of geopolitical proxy wars, our support of Ukraine has absolutely damaged Russia and made it rethink its short term foreign military and expansionist policies. They are also down some 2 million conscripts since the engagement’s beginning, counting battlefield deaths, wounded casualties, and desertions. The equipment and assistance we have supplied to Ukraine thus far is about 0.2-0.3% of our cumulative federal spending over the period since the conflict. It also has not been more than 1% of our federal annual budget if you break it down yearly. I was once petty against our involvement, financial or otherwise, with the conflict, but I have revisited it and evolved my thought process. From a strategic level warfare perspective, it absolutely makes sense. No US troop involvement. We learn valuable information from Ukrainian military and intelligence services about Russian TTPs. We get to test our own drone and counter drone capabilities in one of the most drone heavy battlefields on earth. And Russia is caught in a stalemate war of attrition that is costing them dearly in both assets and lives. Lots of wins and it doesn’t actually cost us very much. About 20 times as much is going to unemployed Americans that eat and live for free each year.

Pictured: The “youth of France” expressing anguish and concern

I see the protests in France are trending. Since I just spent 10 days there during the heart of them, I figured I'd chime in with what's actually going on. The news and clickbait accounts on X will show you the outlier events: burning buildings, raging violence and everything that triggers you. I was in the heart of Aix en Provence during the biggest protest day and filmed the center where it was happening. (See below) This is right the University, across from the church, dead center of town. The students are dancing, singing, kicking soccer balls and have comically barricaded the entrance doors to force the school to close. I visited many cities in France during the protest period, and saw zero violence or malpractice of any kind. More broadly, I spent more than a month this year in France across 3 trips and 10+ cities, including Paris, Bordeaux, Aix en Provence, Nice, Antibes, Biarritz, and others, and it's incredibly safe, charming, peaceful and beautiful. Every city I visited is nicer than almost every American city, and there's zero comparison. So much that it wouldn't even be insulting to France to try, because nobody who has spent significant time in both countries would take this comparison seriously. I spoke with the students at length about their views. I also spoke with waiters, drivers, merchants, staff and whoever. They were all civil, well articulated and genuinely wanted to see change. We can disagree about their reasoning, logic or whatever, and it's true that France has fiscal problems, but to chalk up the France protests to raging extremist violence from "pick your favorite group to blame", is a laughable misrepresentation of what's actually going on. If you exclusively watch the news and believe the top 1% extreme situations, you have likely been psyoped.

Democrats would, in a hot second, steal every dime you paid into Medicare, scrap the entire American healthcare system, and give it away for free to shitbirds and illegals.

🚨BREAKING: A distressed woman is restrained by left-wing thugs and forced to watch her livelihood destroyed France has become hell on earth.

They protesting for better education?

That sounds like straight up, unironic fascism

Tonight, France burned. America, you should be watching very carefully. Today, October 17, 2026, more than half a million people marched across France against the cost of living. By 8pm, around 400 had been arrested. In Paris, police turned water cannons on the crowds at Place de la République, and one march was stopped 150 meters from the Élysée Palace. Of the 195 people arrested in the capital by the afternoon, only one actually lived in Paris. Mobs forced their way into the city halls of Marseille and Lille. In Lyon, a tourism office was set on fire. In Rennes, barricades burned. Near Limoges, a highway was blocked and police cars were torched. And then came Limoges. A crowd of very young people stormed the city hall, a protected historic monument built in the 1880s. They flipped police cars in front of it and set them ablaze, then set the building itself on fire. The flames took the roof, the wedding hall, and the civil registry, the office that records every birth, every marriage, every death in the city. Tonight, the bell tower that has crowned Limoges for nearly 150 years collapsed. The mayor's response: "It's a monument that is burning, not the Republic." That is the problem in one sentence. Our leaders still think words can put out fires. None of this came out of nowhere. For twenty years, the French political class has excused everything. Every riot was "anger." Every burned car was a "social symptom." Every attack on police was "a reaction to provocation." And the hard left, La France Insoumise, which officially backed today's mobilization, built its electoral machine on an alliance with political Islamism: refusing to condemn, refusing to name, trading secularism and public order for votes. In France we have a word for it. Islamo-gauchisme. Islamo-leftism. Tonight you saw where that culture of excuse ends. A country where a mob can burn down a town hall, and the state arrives after the roof has already fallen in. My dear American friends, I say this with love, as someone who has lived among you and owes you a great deal: your midterms are on November 3rd. And the same alliance is growing inside your Democratic Party. The same far-left wing that treats disorder as protest and police as the enemy. The same activists who refuse to draw a line between legitimate dissent and those who openly despise the West. The same politicians who think tolerance means tolerating everything, including the people who want to burn it down. It always starts with excuses. Then comes impunity. Then come the flames. Same causes, same effects. If you create the conditions we created, you will get exactly what we got tonight. France was the country of the Enlightenment, of cathedrals and town halls that stood for centuries. Tonight, one of them collapsed live on social media while the government called for calm. My dear American friends, the only advantage you have over us is that you've been warned. Vote like your city hall depends on it. Because one day, it will.

【悲報】治安悪化が叫ばれる🇫🇷フランス・パリにて、老舗百貨店(Galeries Lafayette)が略奪集団に襲われる

Trump has a chance to do not one but TWO funny things re: the Press Secretary slot: 1. Make Marco come out and do one; or 2. Come out himself and announce he’s his own Press Secretary, and bloviate about how he’ll “be the best one maybe ever.” Vote for the one you want to see:

Today is No Kings Day! I rallied with Montrose patriots to stand for our government of the people, by the people, and for the people.