Althouse: Paris.

18 అక్టోబర్, 2026

Paris.

Galeries Lafayette in Paris is being looted tonight. It’s the French equivalent of Harrods in London or Bergdorf Goodman in NYC https://t.co/F5jZU4bswZ
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) October 17, 2026

111 కామెంట్‌లు:

Dagwood చెప్పారు...: Charles Martel must be rolling in his tomb.; 18-10-26 10:16 AM
Old and slow చెప్పారు...: Rioting is great fun, that's why young people do it. The correct response is to take the fun out of it via swift and painful consequences.; 18-10-26 10:16 AM
Jim చెప్పారు...: We’ll be ready for these school boys, they will wet themselves in blood.; 18-10-26 10:17 AM
Mike (MJB Wolf) చెప్పారు...: Bummer. Oh well.; 18-10-26 10:17 AM
FullMoon చెప్పారు...: Social media makes it easy to organize.; 18-10-26 10:19 AM
FullMoon చెప్పారు...: Lack of fear and lack of respect of law enforcement.; 18-10-26 10:20 AM
RCOCEAN II చెప్పారు...: I get suspicious. Just like I got suspicious when the so-called BLM rioters were looting high-class stores in the USA in 2020. People should track where these goods are ending up at. I'd bet organized crime is involved.; 18-10-26 10:20 AM
chickelit చెప్పారు...: Say, where is that American Pope? Behind walls.; 18-10-26 10:21 AM
RCOCEAN II చెప్పారు...: these "rioters" who go to high class stores and steal, always seem to know what goods to take and what to leave.; 18-10-26 10:21 AM
Peachy+2 చెప్పారు...: Kill the very society that made your life easy.
Idiot cruel leftism in a nutshell.; 18-10-26 10:22 AM
Achilles చెప్పారు...: What are the greatest things in life?

To see your enemies defeated and driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women.

Maybe France can become part of Poland and they can run the foreign invaders out.; 18-10-26 10:24 AM
RCOCEAN II చెప్పారు...: One disappointing thing when I went to Europe for the first time was seeing the same high class shops in London, Paris, Rome, etc. that you can see in SF or Manhattan. I naively thought things would be different. This one in France has a differnent name but the high class goods and clothes are all the same.; 18-10-26 10:25 AM
Peachy+2 చెప్పారు...: Defund the Police helps.
Defund the Police is a universal leftist plan.; 18-10-26 10:25 AM
PrimoStL చెప్పారు...: Well, at least they're not speaking German.; 18-10-26 10:26 AM
Original Mike చెప్పారు...: Oh, it's organized.
And it's a crime.; 18-10-26 10:27 AM
bagoh20 చెప్పారు...: France is holding a huge holiday sale all week. ~ The media.; 18-10-26 10:28 AM
Peachy+2 చెప్పారు...: Leftist Rage Envy is sponsored by...
Neville Roy Singham; 18-10-26 10:31 AM
Achilles చెప్పారు...: RCOCEAN II said...

I get suspicious. Just like I got suspicious when the so-called BLM rioters were looting high-class stores in the USA in 2020. People should track where these goods are ending up at. I'd bet organized crime is involved.

LOL!

It certainly isn't the red-green alliance between antifa and imported muslim invaders.

Nope it has to be organized crime...; 18-10-26 10:32 AM
Lazarus చెప్పారు...: Is Bergdorf really the American equivalent?; 18-10-26 10:33 AM
Paul Zrimsek చెప్పారు...: ఈ కామెంట్‌ను రచయిత తీసివేశారు.; 18-10-26 10:34 AM
Dave Begley చెప్పారు...: Trending on X.

""I’m French. I want to talk to Americans who are about to vote Democrat. Not to insult you. To warn you. I come from your future. In France we did everything your progressive politicians promise. Free healthcare, free college, generous welfare, strong unions, heavy regulation, high taxes on the rich, a state that takes care of everything. Public spending close to 57% of GDP, one of the highest on the planet. On paper, it’s the dream. Here’s what it looks like from the inside. . . .

Our hospitals are collapsing despite record funding. Our schools rank lower every year. Young people with degrees can’t afford an apartment in the city they were born in. Our best engineers leave for London, Zurich and San Francisco. And the rich you wanted to tax? They left too, and took the jobs with them. The promise was protection. The result is stagnation. The worst part is that nobody in France voted for decline. Every single step sounded generous, compassionate, reasonable. . . . Fifty years of them, and you wake up in a country that can no longer build a nuclear plant on time or keep its streets safe. . . . Trust me. You don’t want to be France."; 18-10-26 10:34 AM
Paul Zrimsek చెప్పారు...: That place needs some armed Korean shopkeepers.; 18-10-26 10:34 AM
chickelit చెప్పారు...: We won’t be able to save the French if we don’t save ourselves first.
I full expect our local RC Mencken to retort something about ‘Muricans.; 18-10-26 10:40 AM
Maynard చెప్పారు...: It appears that Jewish shops are being attacked and Muslim ones are not. That doesn’t sound like organized crime, in the traditional sense.

Of course, that report could be propaganda. This is a war and the first casualty in war is the truth.; 18-10-26 10:42 AM
RCOCEAN II చెప్పారు...: How absurd. When's the last time the USA "built a nuclear power plant"? We should be building a dozen. Are we?

France has a Debt-GDP which is LOWER than the USA. They spend 57 percent on Government. What is the USA, 41 Percent (State/Federal/Local) ? Big whoop.

And the difference is the French spent their money on health care and old age pensions and a safety net. We shovel our money into foreign wars, foreign aid, support for illegals, and big business. The french tax payers gets some benefit from his taxes. The USA one gets almost none.; 18-10-26 10:43 AM
Dogma and Pony Show చెప్పారు...: "these 'rioters' who go to high class stores and steal, always seem to know what goods to take and what to leave."

Because it takes a criminal mastermind to read a price tag.; 18-10-26 10:43 AM
RCOCEAN II చెప్పారు...: Oh there's "stagnation" in France. LOL. yeah maybe they should import a 1 million Indian H-1Bs.; 18-10-26 10:44 AM
James K చెప్పారు...: It's happening because the French government is allowing it to happen. They could stop it in about five minutes if they wanted to.

And this will likely be coming soon to a city near you. The only reason it might not is because we have the 2nd Amendment.; 18-10-26 10:44 AM
Original Mike చెప్పారు...: Milan; 18-10-26 10:45 AM
Peachy+2 చెప్పారు...: ot - a little-
I should not be laughing. but I am.; 18-10-26 10:45 AM
bagoh20 చెప్పారు...: Ah Oh! France has no chance now. Trump just said "“Close your Borders and take control, before it is too late!”.

They can't do it now. Trump killed their chances with one sentence.; 18-10-26 10:46 AM
RCOCEAN II చెప్పారు...: Because it takes a criminal mastermind to read a price tag.

Because high class stores have "price tags". LOL. Its not walmart - dumbo.; 18-10-26 10:46 AM
Peachy+2 చెప్పారు...: The more ya learn about Karl Marx(D) - the more you learn he was just a fat lazy entitled mooch., with Elizabeth Warren ideas; 18-10-26 10:49 AM
Peachy+2 చెప్పారు...: Reports do say the Jewish owned shops were targeted.
Indeed. RC Cola smiles.; 18-10-26 10:49 AM
Achilles చెప్పారు...: RCOCEAN II said...

How absurd. When's the last time the USA "built a nuclear power plant"? We should be building a dozen. Are we?

France has a Debt-GDP which is LOWER than the USA. They spend 57 percent on Government. What is the USA, 41 Percent (State/Federal/Local) ? Big whoop.

And the difference is the French spent their money on health care and old age pensions and a safety net. We shovel our money into foreign wars, foreign aid, support for illegals, and big business. The french tax payers gets some benefit from his taxes. The USA one gets almost none.

LOL!

You should move to France. It sounds like... Utopia?; 18-10-26 10:52 AM
rehajm చెప్పారు...: NFL to move their Paris game next we- haha!!!, who am I fooling, they'll probably let the rioters on the field...; 18-10-26 10:54 AM
n.n చెప్పారు...: Cultural appropriation, immolation.; 18-10-26 10:56 AM
Dave Begley చెప్పారు...: Can we all agree that, except for a few things related to race and sex discrimination, that the Left has made things worse?; 18-10-26 10:57 AM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ చెప్పారు...: Are these the same students who were joining the protests against raising the pension age 2 years ago? Didn't they realize this would be at the expense of their education? And that they themselves will have to work much longer than retiring at 62?

Maybe the protestors should focus their ire on the pensioners and those parties who forced Macron to back down from raising the retirement age.; 18-10-26 10:58 AM
loudogblog చెప్పారు...: This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
- T.S. Eliot; 18-10-26 10:59 AM
Interested Bystander చెప్పారు...: The usual suspects.; 18-10-26 11:05 AM
Mary Beth చెప్పారు...: Dior has hired their own security. That photo was from yesterday evening. I hope they are still holding out.; 18-10-26 11:05 AM
Iman చెప్పారు...: And the tsunami of effluent continues with this Indefatigable Enema Exhibitions™️.

It’s as if France wasn’t subject to a state-sanctioned invasion.; 18-10-26 11:08 AM
Smilin' Jack చెప్పారు...: “Fifty years of them, and you wake up in a country that can no longer build a nuclear plant on time or keep its streets safe. . . . Trust me. You don’t want to be France."

Too late. The only question now is whether we should start learning Arabic or Chinese.; 18-10-26 11:13 AM
Lem Vibe Bandit చెప్పారు...: Video: "French woman tried to stop a horde of Muslims by explaining to them that she voted for them to be able to enter the country and that she's on their side, while they laughed and stole everything in the store" link to video; 18-10-26 11:14 AM
Hombre చెప్పారు...: “I’m French. I want to talk to Americans who are about to vote Democrat. Not to insult you. To warn you. I come from your future. In France we did everything your progressive politicians promise.” Too late. If they could learn, they wouldn’t be voting for Democrats.; 18-10-26 11:15 AM
Interested Bystander చెప్పారు...: " The worst part is that nobody in France voted for decline. Every single step sounded generous, compassionate, reasonable. . . . Fifty years of them, and you wake up in a country that can no longer build a nuclear plant on time or keep its streets safe. . . . Trust me. You don’t want to be France."

It always sounds compassionate and generous. Generous with other people's money. The Marxists always tell us they want "the rich" to pay their fair share. They don't tell anyone that the top 5% in wealth pay most of the taxes. Half the people pay no income tax at all.

As I read the comment from the Frenchman above I thought of post war England. They went all in with Socialism. Nationalized airlines, railroads, auto makers, pretty much every industry. It ended in all the things the writer mentions. Stagnation, urban decay, more crime, more corruption. When will humanity ever learn the Utopianism has never worked and never will work. The word Utopia literally means nowhere. Because that is where Utopianism works. Nowhere.

I do go on but damn, why can't people ever learn from the mistakes of the past? Socialism, communism, collectivism. It's been tried. Get a history book. Learn about it.; 18-10-26 11:16 AM
baghdadbob చెప్పారు...: Diversity is not their strength. Vive la difference!; 18-10-26 11:17 AM
Hombre చెప్పారు...: RCOII: “And the difference is the French spent their money on health care and old age pensions and a safety net.”

Social Security and healthcare are the largest expenditures of US tax dollars.; 18-10-26 11:21 AM
Paul చెప్పారు...: What did you expect? Like Biden and Pelosi they let illegals flood the country.. but, unlike Trump who deported them, the French cheese eating monkeys will do.. nothing.

Tough luck France... and UK. You did this to yourself and you disarmed the population so they cannot REVOLT!!!; 18-10-26 11:27 AM
Mason G చెప్పారు...: Très vibrant. I bet the food trucks are outstanding.; 18-10-26 11:27 AM
Dogma and Pony Show చెప్పారు...: Because it takes a criminal mastermind to read a price tag.

Because high class stores have "price tags". LOL. Its not walmart - dumbo.

I stand corrected. Let me rephrase: Because it takes a criminal mastermind to discern that the jewelry and watches in locked display cabinets in a high-end store may be worth stealing.; 18-10-26 11:30 AM
Achilles చెప్పారు...: Is there a faster way to bring a nation to ruin than to invest all of your money into the older people rather than the next generation?

What did we get for our social security investment other than young people who can't afford to buy a house and have kids?; 18-10-26 11:30 AM
RCOCEAN II చెప్పారు...: God, you know the type. They will always have the last word. Incredible. Anyway, here's my advice for trolls or bored little kids on the 'net.

1) Put the dumbest interpetation on someone's remark or
2) Comment on some minor point and pretend to misunderstand it.
3) Then play Gotcha!
4) When you get a reponse, never give up.; 18-10-26 11:37 AM
Dogma and Pony Show చెప్పారు...: "It always sounds compassionate and generous. Generous with other people's money. The Marxists always tell us they want "the rich" to pay their fair share. "

The worst is when they try to make spending other people's money sound like a Christian imperative. If people want to take care of the poor and downtrodden, they can just do it . . . invite homeless people to stay in your home, for example. Forcing other people to act out your charitable impulses is not my idea of Christian sacrifice.; 18-10-26 11:37 AM
Lucien చెప్పారు...: Shooting looters on sight is a good idea & should be universally adopted.; 18-10-26 12:00 PM
Gospace చెప్పారు...: The same as Bergdof Goodman in NYC? So rapes and sexual assaults happen in the women's dressing room that no one hears and are unreported for years? Obviously an evil place that deserved to be looted!; 18-10-26 12:06 PM
Iman చెప్పారు...: I’ve shed a tear and now I’m farting in their general direction.; 18-10-26 12:15 PM
imTay చెప్పారు...: Obama started the war in Syria that flooded Europe with Muslim refugees, maybe he should have let these ruffians be Assad's problem, but you know who wanted Assad overthrown.

Obama destroyed the government in Libya, and released a second wave of angry refugees on Europe, instead of letting these ruffians be Qaddafi's problem. A funny quote from Qaddafi was that he was holding back the tide and protecting Europe.

If we manage to turn Iran into a destroyed state, without civil government, which is you know who's goal, let's see how many angry refugees that unleashes on the world.

So if you back these wars on the other side of the world to control oil and further Israel's ambitions for regional regiional military domination, kindly stop looking like an idiot and complaining about the consequences that follow for the West.; 18-10-26 12:15 PM
imTay చెప్పారు...: https://www.hawaiipublicradio.org/2016-08-30/1-day-40-boats-thousands-of-people-rescued-trying-to-get-to-europe; 18-10-26 12:17 PM
imTay చెప్పారు...: What those who control the levers of power have done is pry the governments of Europe from the hands of their people, by election jiggery pokery, or judges who can't find a legal reason to overturn the election, like in Romania, fall back to a clause in their constitution that allows them to "vote their conscience.."

Macron engineered the election to thwart the will of the French people, and well, here we are. Macron is one of the most unpopular figures in European politics, somewhere around 10% approval, but he holds on to power with an iron grip.; 18-10-26 12:21 PM
tcrosse చెప్పారు...: Liberty Leading the Looters; 18-10-26 12:51 PM
Joe Bar చెప్పారు...: Suicidal empathy on display. They burned down the 143 year old town hall in Limoges:
https://x.com/DrewPavlou/status/2111547284941132148; 18-10-26 1:23 PM
William చెప్పారు...: French Jews are starting to see the bright side of Le Pen, and Le Pen members are starting to see the plus side of Jews. So, in a way, all this diversity has increased tolerance in France.; 18-10-26 1:30 PM
Gospace చెప్పారు...: This is what imTay's link should have said- and warning- it's not actually a link: .
𝘩𝘵𝘵𝘱𝘴://𝘸𝘸𝘸.𝘩𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘪𝘪𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘰.𝘰𝘳𝘨/2016-08-30/1-𝘥𝘢𝘺-40-𝘣𝘰𝘢𝘵𝘴-𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴-𝘰𝘧-𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦-𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘤𝘶𝘦𝘥-𝘵𝘳𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨-𝘵𝘰-𝘪𝘯𝘷𝘢𝘥𝘦-𝘦𝘶𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘦

Next question- why rescue people invading your nation?; 18-10-26 1:31 PM
William చెప్పారు...: Compare Marie Antoinette's expenditures for jewels versus Napoleon's expenses for, say, the 10,000 flatboats that he had built for the invasion of England. French revolutions do not have a history or ending well, nor do they have a history of ever finally ending. I would guess the cost of rebuilding will exceed that a many learing centers.; 18-10-26 1:39 PM
Shoeless Joe చెప్పారు...: I think there are only two possibilities for France going forward. The first is that the country gradually surrenders to the Islamists, and becomes the European equivalent of Gaza or even Libya. The other possibility is the Gov’t decides to go full Tiananmen Square on the rioters and starts shooting them in the streets followed by mass deportations. As ugly as the second option is it might be the only way France survives the 21st Century.; 18-10-26 1:41 PM
Leland చెప్పారు...: They just want lower prices.; 18-10-26 2:00 PM
FullMoon చెప్పారు...: "It can't happen here
It can't happen here
I'm telling you, my dear
That it can't happen here
Because I been checkin' it out, baby
I checked it out a couple a times
------
And they thought it couldn't happen here
(duh duh duh)
They knew it couldn't happen here
They were so sure it couldn't happen here
But . ...."

Mothers; 18-10-26 2:08 PM
Eric the Fruit Bat చెప్పారు...: It looks like only dudes are running around in there so it's safe to say the Women's Lingerie Department has gone untouched.; 18-10-26 2:10 PM
JAORE చెప్పారు...: Diversity is our strength.
No culture is superior to another.; 18-10-26 2:25 PM
Mason G చెప్పారు...: "They just want lower prices."

You mean like when the government provides stuff for free? Like they pretend to do with health care in some countries?; 18-10-26 2:27 PM
Achilles చెప్పారు...: imTay said...

Obama started the war in Syria that flooded Europe with Muslim refugees, maybe he should have let these ruffians be Assad's problem, but you know who wanted Assad overthrown.

Obama destroyed the government in Libya, and released a second wave of angry refugees on Europe, instead of letting these ruffians be Qaddafi's problem. A funny quote from Qaddafi was that he was holding back the tide and protecting Europe.

If we manage to turn Iran into a destroyed state, without civil government, which is you know who's goal, let's see how many angry refugees that unleashes on the world.

So if you back these wars on the other side of the world to control oil and further Israel's ambitions for regional regiional military domination, kindly stop looking like an idiot and complaining about the consequences that follow for the West.

Welp. Timmy comes in with the 95 IQ take on the last couple of decades.

Obama took out Libya and Syria at the behest of the current rulers of Europe.

Trump is trying to unwind 125 years of British imperial rule in the Middle East.

But since you are only informed by MSNOW and Fox News you don't actually know what is going on and you say half right half wrong crap.

The fact that you can't tell the difference between what Trump is doing and what Obama did just makes you look stupid.; 18-10-26 2:30 PM
Leland చెప్పారు...: It seems anyone can get free healthcare once in Canada. Perhaps they could offer the same in France.; 18-10-26 2:30 PM
kcl766 చెప్పారు...: Thank you Full Moon. I was singing that song in my head this morning. Frank Zappa was well ahead of his time, wasn't he?; 18-10-26 2:37 PM
rhhardin చెప్పారు...: Looting reduces inflation.; 18-10-26 2:38 PM
rehajm చెప్పారు...: …remember how mad France was when their culture was being destroyed by invasions from the English language? Good times…; 18-10-26 2:41 PM
Mason G చెప్పారు...: "…remember how mad France was when their culture was being destroyed"

Meanwhile, in Italy...

Traditional staples of Italian cuisine face being replaced by couscous and chicken curry on some school menus to accommodate the dietary and cultural needs of a growing proportion of Muslim pupils from migrant backgrounds.

The ban on pork products will be imposed on schools in the province of Pordenone in the north-eastern region of Friuli-Venezia-Giulia, which has a high percentage of foreign-born and second-generation migrant children.

https://archive.ph/0xxTa#selection-4217.0-4225.220

That "high percentage" is 21 per cent, BTW.; 18-10-26 2:49 PM
Original Mike చెప్పారు...: Macron blames Trump Mais bien sûr.; 18-10-26 3:16 PM
Jim at చెప్పారు...: ఈ కామెంట్‌ను రచయిత తీసివేశారు.; 18-10-26 3:17 PM
hanuman_prodigious_leaper చెప్పారు...: Can we say Macron did ReverseMohammed – HUPB/PBUH - he took in his lap 25yrs older woman!; 18-10-26 3:18 PM
Rabel చెప్పారు...: Twenty years ago Althouse blogged with deep concern about multiple private Islamic schools in NYC in which the students spent three years doing nothing other than memorizing the Koran.

A month later she followed up with this -

["Mr. Best said there is some indication that hafiz schools might begin offering a more well-rounded education than others in the city."

What?]

I ran into that chasing a link and since we now have Super Intelligence at out fingertips I thought I'd ask my friend Grok to give me an update-

"Yes, these types of schools and programs remain in operation in the New York City area.

The original Muslim Center of New York in Flushing/Queens (featured in the 2006 New York Times article) continues to run a full-time Hifz (Quran memorization) program. It celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2025, has produced recent graduates (Huffaz), and still offers intensive memorization tracks, including summer programs."

Good to know. And now they vote.

Please excuse the brackets. Doing it right looked too hard.; 18-10-26 3:29 PM
Fritzthecat చెప్పారు...: Achilles said, "Is there a faster way to bring a nation to ruin than to invest all of your money into the older people rather than the next generation?"
LOL! I played by the rules and now I cash my yummy SOS check every month as I smile! Had I been given a chance to INVEST my money, I wouldn't have gone the SS route. Since that wasn't offered, I paid into SS for 52 YEARS. Now, I'm collecting. Cry harder.; 18-10-26 3:29 PM
Joe Bar చెప్పారు...: FullMoon said...
"It can't happen here
It can't happen here"

Frank Zappa: Suzy? You just got to town and we've been... we've been very interested in your development
SUZY CREAMCHEESE: Forget it!; 18-10-26 3:39 PM
Jim at చెప్పారు...: Just how is this any different from what we saw from leftist thugs in 2020?

It isn't.; 18-10-26 3:55 PM
imTay చెప్పారు...: "The fact that you can't tell the difference between what Trump is doing and what Obama did just makes you look stupid."

So we had nothing to do with bombing Syria? The first thing that drew my attention to Syria was when John Kerry talked about our national interests in Syria, and I thought "what are our national interests in Syria other than getting along with the Syrian people in peace? Then there was Hillary, who famously wrote in a leaked email that "al Qaeda is on our side in Syria" and we seized their oil fields and seized their wheat fields, and kept them under sanctions until the country turned into the failed state run by head choppers that it is today, serving Israel's interests.

The waves of Muslim refugees from the war in Syria is what caused Brexit, and what has flooded Europe with these people.

As for Libya, let me quote Hillary again: "We came. We saw! He died! (chortle chortle)" so hundreds of thousands more refugees.

The attack on Iran, precipitated by and Israeli attack, as per Rubio, is just a continuation of this strategy. If you can explain to me what the US national interest was in this attack, I'm all ears, and don't tell me nukes, unless you somehow believe that the attack on Venezuela was about "drug running" and not taking control of its oil: "To the victor, go the spoils." —Donald Trump.; 18-10-26 3:56 PM
imTay చెప్పారు...: What collapsing Syria did was eliminate a rival of Israel to the north, and probably make permanent its seizure of the Golan Heights, which Trump has recognized, alone in the world, as Israeli territory, and take out multiple S-400 systems that would have made it pretty difficult to fly refueling tankers to strike Iran. After the collapse of the Syrian government, Israel bombed it for weeks to destroy its military capability, until its reduced to a warlord or two with AK-47s and RPGs.; 18-10-26 4:00 PM
imTay చెప్పారు...: I would agree with you that the first term Trump was different, but this guy in the WH now is way past his sell-by date.; 18-10-26 4:01 PM
gspencer చెప్పారు...: I guess the French really like their Muzzies. They let them have the best of France.; 18-10-26 4:06 PM
Mason G చెప్పారు...: "I guess the French really like their Muzzies."

Until their diversity pets start looting the stores of the French. Unfortunately by then, it's too late for the French to change their minds.; 18-10-26 4:14 PM
Original Mike చెప్పారు...: "and don't tell me nukes,"

It's nukes.; 18-10-26 4:18 PM
Bruce Hayden చెప్పారు...: “It certainly isn't the red-green alliance between antifa and imported muslim invaders.”

AntiFA blackshirts were the Soviet response to Hitler’s Brown shirts. They have been a Communist front since their founding. Naturally, with the fall of the Soviet Union, they changed their allegiance to the PRC. Yes, those AntiFA riots are funded and directed by the ChiComs, in order to destabilize their biggest enemy.

So, yes, we are talking the infamous Red-Green alliance at work.; 18-10-26 4:19 PM
Bruce Hayden చెప్పారు...: And yes, the rioters had lists of Jewish businesses that got burned down. Sound familiar? Of course it does. It’s exactly what the Germans did in the 1930s.; 18-10-26 4:22 PM
Mason G చెప్పారు...: Great, Bruce- light up the RCO signal.; 18-10-26 4:30 PM
James K చెప్పారు...: But wait, RC II assured us that they would never harm Jews or anything of value to Jews.

Here he is in the other thread: "But they're smart enough to not attack the Israeli embassy or anything treasured by the Jewish Community in france, because then it wouldn't be 'fun and games', the hammer would come down - hard."

That aged well.; 18-10-26 4:30 PM
Josephbleau చెప్పారు...: After the 2020 looting in Chicago vacancy on the high priced stores of Michigan Ave has been 33%. A lot of high priced retail shifted online and moved to less concentrated areas in other neighborhoods. It will never recover like it was, the risk always remains. There are blocks and blocks of vacant lots from the 1968 riots left on west Madison street to this day.

It’s no secret that muggers know high priced goods well, they take Rolex and Omega and scoff at lesser brands. They learn by fencing their loot and see what gets the best price. Stolen cars are centered in five or so luxury brands that sell well in Mexico.; 18-10-26 4:32 PM
Aggie చెప్పారు...: I landed at Orly years ago on my way to work in Africa, and we made it to the jetway before the rioters spilled into the taxiways. Since we were at the jetway, we were able to disembark, to find the rioters already working out on the concourse. The police watched them, with folded arms, off to the side. They didn't damage anything much, and I managed to snag my bags and make my connection in spite of the chaos.

The French really like their protests. It's a form of performance and recreation. But it also means that the government often is pretty relaxed about them, and unprepared when they get out of hand.

I was listening to the BBC today and they were discussing Macron's bullsh*t response to all this nationwide mayhem. He 'sympathizes' with the protestors and takes their message seriously. He blames the unrest on problems relating to the war with Iran, which he's careful to mention, France had no part in.

It don't surprise me that Macron is a complete sh*tweasel when it comes to bringing the rioters under control. And of course, looting is an opportunistic sport that needs the right environment to get going, but only a few on-the-scene specialists to really get it rolling. It doesn't surprise me that it's getting started in Italy too. But give the BBC credit, they laid it at the feet of radical leftists. I think there's a good chance that, with elections coming in a few months, France is going to the right. Italy might, too. Brazil might, too. Good.; 18-10-26 4:34 PM
Caroline చెప్పారు...: Paris is so dear to my heart. Mom was born there, and I still have family there. I can attest to the stagnation. Those family members with wealth moved it out of the country decades ago. My cousin sold his real estate company a decade ago, sold his Paris apartment and moved his family to Geneva. A sibling followed him. The French government has treated innovation and wealth creators with contempt for forty years.
There is a young cohort of conservative French who want to steer the country back to her Catholic roots. They were out on the streets in great numbers for the pope’s recent visit. Let’s hope they can make a difference.; 18-10-26 4:35 PM
Aggie చెప్పారు...: Oddly enough I was on my way to Gabon at the time, a French colony. Now, our staff house there was right next to the French Foreign Legion outpost, because Gabon sometimes gets a little spicy. Those were some hard-edged bad boys, I'll tell you. Very fit, quite ruthless. They knew the value of making some blood become visible to calm the crowds, without causing any really serious injury. Macron is playing to the radical left, but I'm not sure they're wanting to play.; 18-10-26 4:38 PM
Josephbleau చెప్పారు...: “ but this guy in the WH now is way past his sell-by date.”

People love smooth talk more than good economic policy, it’s always been that way.; 18-10-26 4:41 PM
Josephbleau చెప్పారు...: I look at Iran the way I look at a guy diagnosed for a root canal, oh it will hurt, I will have to pay the deductible, I don’t think it’s a real problem anyway. Then after a few years your jaw rots out.

A stitch in time saves nine, man.; 18-10-26 4:48 PM
Big Mike చెప్పారు...: I am way past tired oh Muslims, their violence, and their open disdain for a western norms. I am doubly past tired of their apologists.; 18-10-26 4:54 PM
bagoh20 చెప్పారు...: If you have an expensive luxury like a LV bag or something, but everyone knows you stole it, doesn't that ruin the whole point of having it to showing it off. It's not supposed to be like a scalp on the American frontier.; 18-10-26 4:54 PM
Big Mike చెప్పారు...: @bagoh20, the thieves will sell them to fences for hardly anything, but as the bag(s) were acquired free whatever they are paid is pure profit. The fences sell to middlemen for a multiple of what they paid. The middlemen sell to people who could plausibly afford to buy one, at a fraction of the cost of actually buying one in Galeries Lafayette (but still at a hefty profit for the middlemen).

A clear win-win for everyone except whoever is insuring Galeries Lafayette.; 18-10-26 5:13 PM
Leland చెప్పారు...: “He 'sympathizes' with the protestors and takes their message seriously. He blames the unrest on problems relating to the war with Iran, which he's careful to mention, France had no part in.”

Well then , I guess it isn’t Macron’s responsibility. No need to do anything.; 18-10-26 5:16 PM
Leland చెప్పారు...: “He 'sympathizes' with the protestors and takes their message seriously. He blames the unrest on problems relating to the war with Iran, which he's careful to mention, France had no part in.”

Well then , I guess it isn’t Macron’s responsibility. No need to do anything.; 18-10-26 5:16 PM
Paddy O చెప్పారు...: Do you hear the people sing? Singing the songs of looting men.; 18-10-26 5:27 PM
bagoh20 చెప్పారు...: Everyone will know that lots of these luxury items were stolen and sold cheaply, so you walk around advertising that you bought stolen property and are basically just a cheap poser. Still seems like the opposite of the point of having luxury, overpriced stuff, and not much different than having a knockoff item. These high-end brands would be wise to stop these thefts. It's worth the cost of security to save your brand.; 18-10-26 5:28 PM
Rustygrommet చెప్పారు...: It started, Timmah, with Algeria. Try reading books instead of social media.
Mueller; 18-10-26 5:30 PM
Dr Weevil చెప్పారు...: bagoh20:
Given the cost of some of these products, it would surely be cost-effective to put some kind of tiny thing in them that would deter theft. A GPS tag could track them so they could be retrieved, and the thieves arrested. Possibly more amusing, a hidden tag could ruin them when a command is sent. (As I recall, the Russians stole a lot of agricultural combines from Ukrainian farmers, but when they got them home, after a huge amount of effort, found that John Deere had "bricked" them.) Something that would cause a stolen handbag to scream like a dying pig at random intervals, or, when it's moving along a crowded street, shout "Help, help, I'm a lime-green Model X handbag from Company Y and the person carrying me is a THIEF! THIEF! THIEF!". Or maybe just catch fire, or fall to pieces, on command.; 18-10-26 5:38 PM
Dr Weevil చెప్పారు...: Rustygrommet:

Timmah is unteachable. I've corrected him on these points more than once already, but, as always, he just waits a week or two or three and then repeats the same refuted lies.

1. Neither the U.S. nor Israel had anything to do with the overthrow of Assad. It was done by the Syrian people, who hated him for murdering half a million of them over the years, with quite a bit of help from Turkey, and some crucial help from Ukraine (drones to kill Syrian command posts and leave the troops paralyzed).

2. Timmeh continues to pretend that there were only two sides in Syria, Assad and ISIS, and that Assad was the better of the two. In fact there were three sides, the third being the various democratic forces who opposed both, which included most of the Kurds and lots of other Syrians. They were and are obviously the best of the three factions. Al-Sharaa, the former ISIS guy ruling Syria now, has either turned over a new leaf and turned democratic,* or is doing a good job of pretending to have done so, because he needs to keep the democrats on his side as they root out the last bits of Ba'athism. There have certainly been some continuing atrocities, but (a) far fewer than Assad committed, and (b) they seem to be coming from disgruntled ISIS members disappointed by al-Sharaa's moderate policies. The fact is that Christians are worshiping openly, women in revealing dresses are partying openly in Damascus, and tens of thousands of Syrians have returned home from Europe. So far so good.

*Other former terrorists have done so: Nelson Mandela, Menachem Begin, Gerry Adams.; 18-10-26 5:55 PM

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