[norwaypinesavage]

The REAL story on the Yellow Vests, that you won't get from the MSM

[marktwain]

This is a very interesting and informative article. Here is a bit more:

Will the French government succeed in smearing the earnest, nonviolent people in the yellow vests elsewhere around the world? Doubtful But just about everyone with an agenda is trying to horn in. This includes climate campaigners who are trying to claim the Gilets Jaunes as their own. They’ve posed in yellow vests for the media during carefully staged climate events. Don’t buy it for a second.

We spoke with a wide assortment of protesters and asked them point blank, What do you think about climate taxes? “They are BULL SHIT” is among the more genteel exclamations our question engendered. Here are the straight facts.

To repeat, the Gilets Jaunes represent a broad cross section of the French working and middle classes. They are butchers, bakers and automobile makers. They are the folks who grow the food, drive the trucks, build the buildings, police the cities, and fix what breaks. They are France. They are fed up.

Well worth the read.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Bkmrk.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I especially like the way they have donned yellow vests and do not mask their faces. The yellow differentiates them from the anarchy-communist black bloc / antifa. And, unlike the commies, they are happy to let their identity be seen.

[ASOC]

The working French are not Taxed Enough Already

They are, in fact, Taxed to Death.

There is a major rural vs Urban set of factors as well.

[MarMema]

Globalism eliminates the middle class and turns countries into third world banana republics with elitists at the top. France, Canada, Ireland...

[Windflier]

"They are butchers, bakers and automobile makers. They are the folks who grow the food, drive the trucks, build the buildings and fix what breaks. They are France. They have had enough."

So why'd they elect a left-wing socialist like Macron?

Didn't they know what they were going to get?