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The Slippery Macron Commemorates One War .... Starts Another One?
freerepublic.com ^ | 11/11/18 | a little elbow grease

Posted on 11/11/2018 3:54:59 AM PST by a little elbow grease

This morning (EST) at the 100th Anniversary Ceremony of WWI ………. French President Macron says,

"Patriotism is the exact opposite of nationalism.

Nationalism is a betrayal of patriotism. By saying 'our interests first'...we erase what a nation hold dearest...its moral values."

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: ceremony; chat; emmanuelmacron; europeanunion; france; macron; surrendermonkey; trump; vanity
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To: Vlad The Inhaler; All
"Americans died in two World Wars to help preserve French nationality and culture.

The same nationality and culture French leaders are now throwing away in their insane rush to turn France over to the muslims."

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What do you think President Trump will have to say to or about Macron this afternoon concerning Macron's "nationalism" comments?

21 posted on 11/11/2018 5:49:02 AM PST by a little elbow grease (duct tape and cable ties hold more worth than pussy hats andYOI! resistance)
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To: alloysteel

I did a screen capture of several definitions of patriotism and nationalism. In none of them was there any reference to morality. Nationalism is the opposite of globalism.


22 posted on 11/11/2018 5:57:44 AM PST by Freee-dame (Best election ever! 2016)
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To: a little elbow grease

AUGUST 1944 NOVEMBER 2018
AMERICAN MILITARY FRENCH PRESIDENT
LIBERATES PARIS CURSES AMERICAN NATIONALISM


23 posted on 11/11/2018 6:10:09 AM PST by Vlad The Inhaler (I started out with nothing, and I still have most of it.)
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To: a little elbow grease
Having redefined male, female, marriage, &c., the left moves on to nationalism.

ML/NJ

24 posted on 11/11/2018 6:11:47 AM PST by ml/nj (.)
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To: a little elbow grease

The frogs just can’t help but revert to their natural, cheese-eating surrender monkey, selves.


25 posted on 11/11/2018 6:13:09 AM PST by Sirius Lee (In God We Trust, In Trump We MAGA)
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To: a little elbow grease
Who is this Frog who wants to teach me about English, MY native language?!

ML/NJ

26 posted on 11/11/2018 6:14:02 AM PST by ml/nj (.)
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To: Sirius Lee
If you studied history you would not be calling the Gauls cheese-eating surrender monkeys.

Meanwhile, Erwin Rommel had surrounded five divisions of the French First Army near Lille. Although completely cut off and heavily outnumbered, the French fought on for four days under General Molinié in the Siege of Lille (1940), thereby keeping seven German divisions from the assault on Dunkirk and saving an estimated 100,000 Allied troops.[33] In recognition of the garrison's stubborn defence, German general Kurt Waeger granted them the honours of war, saluting the French troops as they marched past in parade formation with rifles shouldered.

27 posted on 11/11/2018 6:25:42 AM PST by jpsb
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To: jpsb

Yes I would.


28 posted on 11/11/2018 6:27:42 AM PST by Sirius Lee (In God We Trust, In Trump We MAGA)
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To: a little elbow grease

Macaroni Man sure didn’t bother using a dictionary or thesaurus before opening his pie hole. He is a mangina proggie globalist two-faced rodent. No friend to America. Trust level = zero.

Many definitions of nationalism use patriotism to define it. Some use ‘super-patriotism’ to define it.

Nationalism is a synonym for patriotism. https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/patriotism

This is more proggie Newspeak at work (ala 1984); they want to redefine the word nationalist into something bad.


29 posted on 11/11/2018 6:37:40 AM PST by polymuser (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged today. - Chesterton)
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To: Dr. Ursus

Ahhh...

https://www.politico.eu/article/why-france-is-freaking-out-over-emmanuel-macrons-ex-bodyguard-alexandre-benalla/


30 posted on 11/11/2018 6:40:44 AM PST by polymuser (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged today. - Chesterton)
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To: polymuser
"This is more proggie Newspeak at work (ala 1984); they want to redefine the word nationalist into something bad."

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I totally agree with you.

I'm 71 years old in a month, and I've watched this relentless, purposeful mutation and degeneration of our language for decades.

I warned people about it as long ago as the early 70's when they started to tell us words like "criticism" and "judgmental" were negative concepts/attributes.

It's been going on too long to turn it around.

31 posted on 11/11/2018 7:09:41 AM PST by a little elbow grease (duct tape and cable ties hold more worth than pussy hats andYOI! resistance)
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To: Sirius Lee; jpsb
Yes I would.

Then you don't know history. The common French soldier fought well and bravely What he didn't have was a leadership that understood modern war. Like many generals, they were prepared to fight the last war. The Maginot Line was a failure and the Germans exploited it weaknesses. The invention of the tank and forming divisions around did was more responsible for the quick French capitulation than the fighting spirit of the French soldier.

I'm not a French apologist but I am a student of history.

One must remember it was the French soldiers who stayed behind at Dunkirk so that the majority of British soldiers could escape to reform and fight the Germans and keep Britain as a base for American soldiers to prepare for WW2
32 posted on 11/11/2018 7:38:52 AM PST by RedMonqey ("Those who turn their arms in for plowshares will be doing the plowing for those who didn't.")
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To: a little elbow grease

“I warned people about it as long ago as the early 70’s when they started to tell us words like “criticism” and “judgmental” were negative concepts/attributes.”

Other bastardized words: Gay, discriminating (taste), rainbow, marriage, equality, rights, gender.


33 posted on 11/11/2018 7:50:14 AM PST by polymuser (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged today. - Chesterton)
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To: a little elbow grease

Macron is a dumb ass and his morals ain’t worth s*#t to begin with.


34 posted on 11/11/2018 8:06:13 AM PST by Scott from the Left Coast
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To: a little elbow grease

French President Emmanuel Macron: ‘Nationalism is Treason’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3704958/posts

It's simple - The French are a dead end growth off the tree of humanity that has developed in strange and abnormal ways.


35 posted on 11/11/2018 11:15:22 AM PST by Vlad The Inhaler (I started out with nothing, and I still have most of it.)
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To: a little elbow grease

Macaroni will be sorry. Alpha male doesn’t take kindly to sneaky snake mealy mouth verbal stabs in the back.


36 posted on 11/11/2018 5:35:36 PM PST by greeneyes
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To: Vlad The Inhaler

The French are hillbilly Italians.


37 posted on 11/11/2018 5:41:04 PM PST by CodeToad ( Hating on Trump is hating on me and America!.)
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