Behind the Façades in France: What expats and the mainstream media (French and American alike) fail to notice (or fail to tell you) about French attitudes, principles, values, and official positions…
Among the people who were face to Face à Darius Rochebin Thursday night was Vanessa Biard-Schaeffer (appearing at 1:13:07 and 1:27:27), ROF's vice-president who was, in the words of Paul Reen, "defending Trump against the clown Gallagher Fenwick who compared Trump to a rapist on FranceTV last week, and can only resort to name calling. Bravo Vanessa for trying to bring some sanity to these ridiculous TDS channels."
Au sommaire
: 1er-mai : Jérôme Guedj et le PS pris à partie. "90 % des emplois sont
menacés par l'IA" (L. Ferry). Administration Trump : le début d'une
purge ?
The latest example of Drama Queenery comes from France via CPAC, where Jordan Bardella pulled out of a scheduled speech because one of the speakers, Steve Bannon, allegedly made a "gesture referring to Nazi ideology".
"If he cancelled [the speech] over what the mainstream media said about the speech, he didn't listen to the speech. If that's true, he's unworthy to lead France. He's a boy, not a man," Bannon told the French news magazine Le Point.
At the Reagan Dinner Friday night, the head of the War Room again said: "All I did was wave to the audience."
few fascists ever, few Nazis ever gave the fascist/Nazi salute from
the heart, as Elon Musk did. Whether in Italy, in Spain, in Portugal, or
in Germany, the arm went straight up from the side as the individual is
standing still. Aye, there is the rub: the salute is traditionally
formal, given as a soldier standing still by an "inferior" to a
"superior" at the outset of an event or only when asked (when commanded)
to do so.
Thus we see lines of Nazis, in uniform or civilian attire, all doing the Führergruß together, mechanically, at exactly the same time, while shouting the same words (Heil Hitler or Sieg Heil) in unison…
Back in Paris, as a guest on Sud Radio, ROF's Vanessa Biard-Schaeffer gave her take on the allegations…
Russia and the future of the Ukraine war were the initial subjects of Darius Rochebin's Sunday 6 pm show on LCI with part of the focus on Donald Trump's telephone call to Vladimir Putin. And as the subject changed (at about 29:30) to President Trump's domestic fight against the swamp — and to cries of outrage about Elon Musk calling Europe a "cathedral to bureaucracy" — Vanessa Biard-Schaeffer, a member of Republicans Overseas France (ROF), was brought into the debate (from about 30:50 to 50:50, video at the link), where she proceeded to be… regularly interrupted, although she persisted and held her own.
18H Darius Rochebin du dimanche 9 février 2025
Publié hier à 19h54
Au
sommaire : Toretsk tombée aux mains de l'armée russe ? Trump/Poutine :
un nouveau coup de fil ? Trump/Musk : les nouveaux révolutionnaires ?
Musk s'en prend à l'administration européenne.
Source : 18h Darius Rochebin
The pundits on LCI thunder against Trump and Musk (who the hell does Musk think he is?!) before one of them puffs his chest with pride, stating that he is proud of being European — presumably in no need whatsoever of administrative simplification. It might do them good to read Nicolas Conquer's Figaro article ("While America seeks to restore its ability to be one step ahead, Europe
persists in a systematic distrust of risk, success, and initiative"). A word, writes The Smallest Minority, that we should all know (Americans, French, other foreigners, and not least pundits on… French TV shows) is Statolatry (thanks to Instapundit's Sarah).
Economist
Ludwig Von Mises coined the word to describe the literal worship of
government. He said: “People frequently call socialism a religion, It is
indeed the religion of self-deification.”
Statolatry is about
worship for the state to replace a God they have rejected, a
relationship with some entity more powerful than themselves to which
they swear their love and fealty, the goal of which is to receive
blessings (which are drawn the public till).
The people on the
statolatrist left have landed on a toxic mixture of statism, politics,
mysticism, and atheism rolled up into a loose ball called
“progressivism” as a substitute for Judeo-Christian theology.
Progressivism is as much a religion as Catholicism, it just replaces a
Pope with government, counting on the senior leadership of [leftist parties] to be their High Priests.
Présenté
par Darius Rochebin tous les dimanches.
Chaque dimanche, à 18h, Darius Rochebin reçoit
une personnalité
française ou internationale marquant l’actualité. Les interviews sont
menées dans un esprit d’ouverture à tous les domaines et de diversité
des opinions.
De Marine Le Pen à Jean-Luc Mélenchon, en passant par François Hollande
ou Edouard Philippe, les acteurs politiques de tous bords et leurs
interventions exclusives ont jalonné l’émission durant l’année écoulée.
Il s’ensuit le duel des idées, qui oppose Luc Ferry à Daniel
Cohn-Bendit.