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#402 - The Air Force OG, the Tennessee "Three," and a French Protest Spree

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The Slow-Motion Disaster in France

Every single French government of the last 30 years has tried to reform the system at least a tiny little bit tinker with it because it is literally unaffordable. This has happened every single time and so this time what is different is that Macron who remember he came to power without a party. He's a an idea. The idea is he's kind of young good looking and he's not and he's charismatic enough that he can keep the country from being taken over at long last by Le Pen and the Front Nationale. So people like screw it will vote for him but it's not like there's a long history of a political apparatus behind him. It presumably was lawyered to death which

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