48 Replies to “Video from the Fuel Protests in Paris”

  1. The inevitable and easily foreseeable result of the entire Euro project. I have no sympathy for France; they been voting socialist longer than I been alive. They deserve all the pain coming their way.

    1. Paris, US-Mexico border. Now we have to bail out corrupt and incompetent regimes by taking their unskilled workers?

      No thanks Global Hillary. Come through the border legally, temper tantrums can’t be allowed to work.

      Meanwhile gated progressives get cheap labour for their gardens and wiping their bums, we get inflation and war.

      Before long, we’ll all be serfs. There was a time when competing political ideas were liberalism and conservatism.

      Now we have semantic gymnastics where anything can mean anything. But, the liberals have morphed into progressives and have enough common cause with the liberals in a hurry Douglas political eugenics.

      Because libertarians and conservatives have been hived off for the collectivist cause, we can count on 2/3 making the 1/3 pay for their government jobs and “safety net.”

      And the statist funded media, now with others beside the CBC fully snouted in their trough, you can count on how great it is here, with no problems except $billions in unpaid very near in the future medical and pension bills.

      The only saving Grit grace is the reality that like our federal government, boomers aren’t ready either; for retirement, and are relatively healthy. Not for long, but just long enough away for our federalistas to bribe it all away with voters.

      1. “Now we have to bail out corrupt and incompetent regimes by taking their unskilled workers?”

        That’s not a bailout.

        “Now we have semantic gymnastics where anything can mean anything.”

        The irony here is incredible.

  2. What is up with all the fluorescent vests? Are the crossing guards a major political faction in France?

        1. A lifetime ago I was going through the Army’s Non Commissioned Officers course. We had to have our lockers exactly just so. Just 6 pairs underwear shorts, folded and stacked just so. I said it was stupid, and why I asked. I was told that anyone that blindly did as told was what they were looking for.

          So, there you go. Gov making what seems are stupid rules are actually a very important conditioning program. Serfs, slaves, peons, arent born, they are made.

          1. Only a true statist would go to a protect dressed up in a high visibility fluorescent vest to get tear-gassed and water-cannoned.

  3. Where are our protesters? Shouldn’t we be marching in Ottawa, Trawna, and Calgary demonstrating our displeasure at the incompetence of the Fiberals?

    1. Skweeker, I agree. Conservative bloggers like to ridicule the French (France and Quebec), but when it comes organizing effective demonstrations, they seem to do a good job. We could learn from them. Btw, a compelling video. Macron is not doing that well, eh?

    2. Here in prosperous (for some) CA … voters had the chance to REPEAL the usurious added gasoline taxes and auto registration fees. But the eco-Socialists threatened the voters with even poorer and more-crumbling roads if they didn’t PAY UP!! Note: the average price of a gallon /gas in CA is +$1.00 MORE than the National average.

      CA gasoline taxes go to, a) The General Fund, b) CalTrans Workers gold-plated pensions, c) High Speed Train to nowhere, d) a host of anti-automobile pet projects of Democrap crony’s. Our gasoline taxes go everywhere EXCEPT where they are supposed to go. Jerry Brown has had an anti-automobile hatred since the 1970’s and has ALWAYS restricted road building and road repairs.

  4. Always remember; the only way a human ever learns anything, is through pain. If you shield people from the consequences of their own poor decisions, you are going to get more poor decisions. If you reward a Venezuelan for voting for Chavez, you are guaranteeing more Chavistas.

    If you stay in unifor when your job goes away, you deserve all the pain coming your way. If you support being a slave to organized labor, then slavery is what you shall have.

    1. I would suggest Kevin that the vast majority don’t even contemplate what will happen to their economic futures. Yes, this is intellectually lazy and as you suggest experience is often the best teacher.

      Capital is fleeing Canada at an accelerating pace and yet our CPC alternative is failing to get this message to mainstreet Canada. As per usual conservatives will throw their hands up and blame the media. Fair enough as they carry a huge responsibility. However as a life long conservative this reality is something that has never been seriously addressed and is not being addressed today.

      As Canada steadily marches towards a fiscal crisis there is no clear alternative strategy in place to pick up the pieces.
      The pending kaos is more likely to destroy the country we know and give more opportunity for negative forces to gain ascendancy whether on the right or left. Most Canadians are hypocrites or grossly illinformed if they think what has happened in Venezula cannot happen in Canada.

      I have argued for years that what is happening in Canada is a national security issue. Eastern Canada has been quite prepared, even facilitated, the collapse of Western Canada’s energy economy. Today as GM closes another plant and 25000 jobs disappear perhaps some might realize where this country is headed. Canadians should realize how much of the GDP of this country is based on housing. As housing collapses, and it will, the full brunt of what this country faces will become obvious. The fact that global energy sales would have provided US$ revenue which would have defended the CDN$ to an extent, should be common knowledge. Like Venezula massive inflation is headed our way as the CDN$ sinks.

      1. Not to quibble, but according to CTV, it is 2,500 plant workers, plus 300 office workers. Not 25,000. What they do not say is how many jobs that are indirectly related to the plant will also be lost.

        You are absolutely correct about the CPC failing us, but then, other than a few hundred, possibly two thousand, protestors in Calgary, Canadians, unlike the French people in the video above, and a few bloggers here and there, have been silent about the destruction of the Canadian economy.

        1. You are absolutely correct about the CPC failing us

          I often wonder whether Andrew the Sheep was elected by Liberals who took out Conservative memberships in order to make sure that the new party leader was someone who could never defeat Herr Prinz Dummkopf.

        2. Ken, but I get CPC clowns on my FB page verbally wanking off about pot and abortion, which are not “federal” concerns as far as I am concerned. I have stated before, and will do so again, get those who can not separate their religion from their politics, out of politics. You can serve only one master at a time.

      2. Excellent comment CT….We are absolutly headed for a disaster and one long in the making.
        Pain is coming…lots and lots of it. As for the GM plant in Oshawa…I am going to say that fully 3500 direct and indirect jobs wil be lost there…at a minimum.

        Not a fan of the EAST ever, but I feel for those folks whose livlihood has been taken away….
        Much of this, if not all, on JustDims plate.

      3. Hey folks wait until your pensions disappear. As Turdeau and Moroneau tax companies to death, pension funds will struggle to pay retired workers.
        Hey government employees – your pensions will be toast too. Taxpayers back stop your pensions, but there will be no more money.

        1. Public Sector Pension payoffs are just a Union/Government Ponzi Scheme anyhow, collapse is inevitable.

      4. As Canada steadily marches towards a fiscal crisis there is no clear alternative strategy in place to pick up the pieces.

        Actually, I believe there is an alternative strategy in place and it was put into law behind the scenes shortly after the Liberals took power. It is the Trudeau/Morneau “bank bail-in”. Debt gets to high and unsustainable, no problem, the bank bail-in law allows the Liberals to drain OUR bank accounts to cover the shortfalls. All to help the middle class of course.

    2. Kevin…what you said is very true…unfortunately the sheaple on this side of the world have yet to feel real pain for their miss guided decisions. I wonder when people will wake up to what they have done….Steve O

  5. Socialism is proof, that the world is full of fools. The world was filled with fools, by people protecting other people from the consequences of their own bad decisions.

    I think it is going to be really important to learn some old skills for this new world. Basically, expect to be a hunter gatherer for a few generations. So learn how to make a bow and arrow. How to gut and skin an animal. How to preserve food for the long winters. How to tan a hide. How to make a moccasin. How to navigate on foot without a cell phone…

    Because your parents, your grand parents, the so called “greatest” generation; they voted for the world we live in today. You probably did too.

  6. I hope they’re successful, push the statists over the edge, the price of fuel in France seems a bit high. + $7. / gallon.

    The protests go on, not so much changes there except for the grinding enlargement of the state.
    All paid for by citizens, though I recall citizenship being a big deal to the French.

    From earlier this year, 200,000 seemed like a lot then, but the same gov’t is there:
    https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/935490/Paris-protests-french-rally-emmanuel-macron-reforms-paris-riots

    1. What? Are you telling me they are not happy with the logical and easily foreseeable result of their own Paris accords? Did they not actually think about what a “carbon free” future actually meant? Carbon free means that you get to walk every where, and fat guys driving humvees from the government show up to punish you if you are caught using anything other than burning dung to heat your food.

      1. “Did they not actually think about what a “carbon free” future actually meant?”

        Think? THINK? You want voters to THINK?

        Sadist! Deviant! This is a slippery slope – what’s next “Personal Responsibility”? Fascist!

        1. It seems we are at that stage. The pretty face, the pretty hair, with the media complicity, still bedazzles the sheeple.

          1. “You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.” Abraham Lincoln

            Except in Canada.

      2. No… I’m not telling you they are “not happy” with the way things are in France.

        I’m saying, that the 200,000 screaming folks in the streets weren’t enough in the spring, and 200,000 there now, isn’t enough, or rather they’re not where they need to be, if causing an effect is what they’d like. If 2,000 French stand in the roads leading to and from the Paris airport, and in front of their railways into France and did not move for a month. Then I’d expect more change.

        In the same way as the 2,000 screaming people in Calgary last week during PM Imbecile Trudeau’s visit, isn’t enough. Trudeau knows very well those 2,000 screaming folks are never going to vote for the Liberals, and if every single one of their friends will never vote Liberal, it’s of no consequence to the Liberals.

        If those 2,000 folks took all their closest friends and family to Ottawa, and they had 40,000 people on the frozen front lawn in Ottawa for an afternoon of screaming, the affect would be the same. It’d take about 20 seconds for PM Imbecile Trudeau to dismiss it with the shrug, and address it as “the right of good people to protest freely in Canada”.

        and that’d be the end of the controversy.

        There are 4 railways that traverse the border between Alberta and BC. If there were 1,000 people on the railway tracks, stopping all (All) rail traffic to the coast, not for a day, not for a week, perhaps a month until pipelines were approved in BOTH directions from Alberta, that’d be a quantifiable result. That’d be better than screaming in front of the Tv cameras.

        That’s the power of “leverage”

        1. Here’s what the 200,000 screaming protesters on the Champs de Elysee have done to me. Eliminated Paris from my retirement visitation list. I have no interest in getting trapped inside or outside the bombproof plexi-Glass surrounding the Eiffel Tower while the tear gas, rubber bullets are flying. Add homeless Muslim Africans sleeping in the (formerly) landscaped medians … and I am just not interested. Paris is now added to London on my list of places NOT to visit with my BIG American $$$.

      3. But Kevin … France is Paying big €€€€ to purchase a clean-green golf cart in lieu of your diesel bmw.

        http://europe.autonews.com/article/20150205/ANE/150209915/france-offers-up-to-10000-euros-to-encourage-diesel-drivers-to-switch-

        The minions of France should be CHEERING their Politicians who have promised to completely ELIMINATE diesel vehicles by 2040. You think this latest fuel tax is bad? Just wait till the government seizes your diesel automobile.

  7. Ken, I extrapolated the 2500 GM jobs by a factor of 10:1 as the multiplier effect to service and supply jobs to reach the 25000 job loss. Most industry standard is 8:1 but I am assuming the larger GM fallout is a reflection of how capital and labour intensive the auto industry is.

    The bigger issue will be a significant down turn in the real estate market. I believe it was a Fraser Institute study prior to the last provincial election in Ontario that stated the housing industry was contributing +68% of the provincial GDP. My memory is not what it was so I stand to be corrected. Bottom line it was a huge portion of the economy. My question is who will pick up the shortfall. I would suggest the Liebels will carry bigger deficits than anything that has been suggested to date.

    1. yup CT, the side effects could be huge with this shut down. Throw in the fact many of these GM works will be unemployable because of the environment they are used to. GM Oshawa was at one time one of my customers, and WORK is not in their vocabulary

    2. CT Please, please, please take a remedial economics course – there is no “standard” multiplier, and the multiplier for the vehicle manufacturing sub-sector is perhaps 2.5. It would depend on how many of those GM parts are imported from US parts companies; stating a figure of 8:1 makes anything further you say suspect. And BTW, a business can’t be capital AND labour intensive – it’s one or the other with regards to multipliers.

  9. What’s really interesting is the police response. Antifa and Occupy gut businesses, burn police cars and attack counter protesters and the police use minimal if any force against them. Ordinary people protest real problems that affect everyone and they break out the water canons and tear gas.

  10. Evidently … to paraphrase Margaret Thatcher … the French Socialists, and EU Socialists are running out of their people’s money. Time for another loan from the Germans?

  11. Heh …. seems that the socialists don’t like when they have to pay taxes.
    Oh yes, they have this idea that it is the other people, who ever they are, that should pay big time.

    Maybe they will go for a new republic, the Franco’s do this every so often.
    I think they are on their 5th republic right now, unless another one past by me without notice.

  12. Wait till the folks from African (poor) living in France start burning cars. As they usually do. So much for carbon free.

    1. Dustoff,

      you may remember a few years ago when they wrote about burning cars every day. They never said that it was in fact in the muslim neighborhood.
      Eventually the totalitarians, not unlike the locals in Ottawa, ordered them to stop writing about it.
      It can be presumed that it has never stopped, they just shut up about it.

      Such is socialist/fascist diktat.

  13. Some great comments here but a lot of you are way off the mark in assigning blame. This is not Justin’s fault or for that matter the “Greatest Generation’s Fault” it is in actuality the fault of the “Flower Power Generation” that came of age in the Sixties. If you graduated high school between 1962 and 1975 then it is you, of this generation, that planted the seeds of catastrophe that are about to engulf the Western World. Make no mistake the Baby Boomers that ate up the socialism that was spoon fed to them courtesy of a biased education system are the ones to blame for this whole mess. Some of us have been sounding the alarm for years, but it was falling on deaf, disbelieving ears. The Liberal/Socialists that are starting to wake up are now casting about for the Fall Guy to take the blame. Well if you have ever voted Liberal/Democrat/Socialist in your life thinking that the government will take care of you and solve all the problems, then the Fall Guy is staring back at you every morning when you look in the mirror. I’ve stated here for a number of years now that Liberals/Democrats are Nazis in clown costumes, we’ve all been forced to buy tickets to this circus because of our complacency, and we are now about to see what happens when the clown costumes come off. Europe was the test culture in the lab, much like the frog in the pot. It will be interesting to see how many North Americans, or Westerners if you will, wake up and take the pot off the stove.

  15. Where are their printed signs? Macron Démission!

    ( Quoi? Un appel d’Ottawa, oui, oui, je vais le prendre…”âllo Justin, votre Parissss Accord, là, là, ça ne marche plus… ooo là, là…merde alors ! Arrrrrrgh! A-yoi, a-yoi! Bwaaa! Ssnnnn! Maaa! Maa!” )

  16. I can get the fwench protesters a real good deal on liquid hydrocarbons to burn in their street theatre.
    see post: ‘Turdoo the pipeline killer’ for a price quote.
    goddamn vacuous bubblehead. the utter worst prime minister we have had or ever will.
    including the sad scenario by which the TURDoo 2.0 demolishes the nation.

  17. The students in Paris and elsewhere don’t care about fuel taxes, and are not participating.

    If the students don’t get involved, the movement will probably fizzle.

  18. Trudopians would never protest like the french weenies are doing, Trudopians are the politically correct cucks of the world… ball-less Ken dolls and shallow woman who vote for socks and hair, thats how we end up with Dear Leader, Juthtin. Macron could run as PM for Trudopia and win handily, that way he could impose tax after tax assured that no one would ever protest. When fwenchman have bigger balls then Trudopians then its about time to admit that Trudopians have been reduced to a sack-less mob of Tranny’s.

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