A striking contrast on the streets of Paris: A couple sits sipping drinks at an outdoor café as flames burn just steps away. The moment was captured Saturday near the Arc de Triomphe, on the outskirts of rioting that erupted during demonstrations over rising prices, inequality and public spending. Video shows the pair continuing their conversation as a burning trash bin lights up the background.
— Fox News (@FoxNews) October 19, 2026
The museum itself aestheticizes the message:Des étudiants de l'école du Louvre bloquent l'accès au Musée depuis le début de matinée. De nombreux touristes attendent sur le parvis. #Paris #Louvre #17octobre #24octobre https://t.co/bjFc0dh90W
— Luc Auffret (@LucAuffret) October 19, 2026
🇫🇷 Chers visiteurs, en raison d’un mouvement social étudiant, le musée est fermé pour le moment. Nous vous prions de nous excuser de la gêne occasionnée. 🌍Dear visitors, due to student strikes the museum is currently closed. We apologise for the inconvenience. https://t.co/tNKFk3B9aj
— Musée du Louvre (@MuseeLouvre) October 19, 2026
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Tourists in Paris
Since she is smoking a cigarette, I'm guessing they are locals.
That video is [chef's kiss] just...oh so French.
Smoking will kill you. Maybe tonight...
"I'm guessing these are, in fact, local residents, because they're smoking, but if they are tourists, they are doing what I think tourists more or less always do. "
This doesn't make my point, but if it did…
If you think it's bad, just remember: They're not fearing for their personal safety. Yet. There's a photo, apparently A.I. generated, showing an elderly white couple on a Parisian street, in their underwear, surrounded by the black-blok thugs that supposedly robbed them of everything, including dignity. This is probably a fairly accurate projection of Europe's future.
yah my guess is residents- plus ça change and all…
Synecdoche, New York is supposedly a word play on Schenectady, New York, a place EXACTLY like that except the house wouldn’t be vibrant yellow…
The woman pleading with the rioters is my fave. Watching someone get mugged by reality pleases me greatly.
They could be tourists - but from eastern europe. Lots of smokers in Bulgaria or Croatia. We can guess they're not Swedes. LOL.
Its looks like everything is quiet and no one is in danger. We just have a few fires that need to be put out. I'd go drink at a paris cafe too under those conditions. Enjoy the quiet and the lack of crowds.
The Roman fire department would rush to a fire and offer to buy the house, at declining prices.
'muricans always hate the French because they don't make "money, money, money" their God. 35 hour work week and everyone gets 5 weeks vacation. OMG, those lazy frogs.
And until Macron gets his way, retirement at 62.
The smartest people in london in 1940-1941 went around and bought up bombed out houses and shops for a song. if the Germans won, it wouldn't matter. If the brits won, they'd be rich.
"Bonne Nuit. Would you like some Allahu Akbar with that?"
Sitting in street cafe drinking wine and eating a good meal is the ideal of Paris put in our minds by endless numbers of TV shows and movies. I've done it, and while enjoyable, it didn't compare to those wonderful Croissants for breakfast.
They couldn’t find one Frenchman, sitting out front in a lawn chair, cradling a shotgun, defending his property?
Needs a thought bubble saying "This is fine" in French.
A tipping point has been reached in France's cities. The rioters don't fear any political office holders or police- they outnumber them by a lot now. The riots may die down when there is nothing left to loot by the end of this week but they will only be waiting for the shops to get restocked and reopened in a month or two.
…yah RC ‘buy when there’s blood in the streets’…except if they win it is still France…
…yah RC ‘buy when there’s blood in the streets’…except if they win it is still France…
‘student strikes’. Heh. Is that a performance piece, louvre?
"They couldn’t find one Frenchman, sitting out front in a lawn chair, cradling a shotgun, defending his property?"
La Police Nationale are trying their best to find him. When they do they intend to prosecute him to the fullest extent of the law.
“They have a fantasy of a place and they believe they can go to that fantasy and they perform the mental labor of believing they have entered into the place they imagined.”
The data in this blog can be selective, biased or even fabricated
Ever the opportunists, the usual leftist suspects have joined the immigrant rioters.
Dreary, predictable theater.
Western European culture has reached its senescent stage. The descendants of the people who built the culture are old, dying out, and being rapidly replaced with third-world immigrants who would be living in mud huts if left to their own abilities and talents.
Houllebecq warned about this a dozen years
Literal muslims from muslim countries warned about this just a few years ago. In English.
Gut reaction is that it's a staged photo, not candid truth. I saw that because knowing that there are riots/distruptions is one thing, but having something burning that close to you means anything can happen at any time and it wouldn't take long at all for a group of people to move that far on foot. The only sensible thing is to leave the area. If they live in the area, leave the street and go prepare a bugout bag. Then you can relax...a little.
"and being rapidly replaced with third-world immigrants who would be living in mud huts if left to their own abilities and talents."
Assuming they are capable of making mud.
The Germans wore gray, you wore blue. We’ll always have Paris.
The folks at Triggernometry are talking to a British educator who blames the riots and, more generally, Western hatred of the West on the education system, which teaches history exclusively through an oppressor-vs-oppressed prism. She's right. The education establishment has been taken over by the progressive left as part of what Gramsci (?) call the "march through the institutions." The only question is whether it is too late to do anything about it. I don't know, but I'm not optimistic. Good thing I'm old and childless.
"and being rapidly replaced with third-world immigrants who would be living in mud huts if left to their own abilities and talents."
They would probably still be there living in their mud huts if we hadn't bombed them to get the oil they lived on top of.
Are they really protesting over 'rising prices, inequality and government spending?' I somehow doubt it. But if they are, they will be surprised to learn that after this event prices will be even higher and the government will be strapped for cash as the rebuilding costs will be enormous. As for that inequality thing . . . I guess they can all be equally poor and miserable.
France's government has lost its legitimacy and here comes the 6th Republic. Macron jiggered the elections and suspended their laws to pass a budget by decree that he couldn't even get through the parliament that he had engineered by probably bribing certain candidates to drop out so that his favored candidates could overcome the popularity of Le Pen's party.
Basically Le Pen is going to win in a landslide over this, but my bet is that nothing important will change.
Locals, embodying sangfroid.
Either that or they are Ukrainians or Russians.
Or they are doing the meme.
That time when the sightseeing outsiders are seen as the least of their problems. Where there is smoke, call the fire brigade.
Europeans,
Seeing what is going on in France, I have just one question:
Do you get it now?
RCOCEAN II says "'muricans always hate the French because they don't make "money, money, money" their God. 35 hour work week and everyone gets 5 weeks vacation. OMG, those lazy frogs."
No, some of us looked askance at a nation that sent inspectors to office buildings afterhours to make sure no one was working late. Passion for work and accomplishment was replaced by tight controls lest the nation run out of work to do. This seemed sort of insane.
"Basically Le Pen is going to win in a landslide over this, but my bet is that nothing important will change."
Probably a good bet, especially the second part. The French don't want anything important to change. They want someone to protect their benefits and their retirement system. But nobody can - not in the long run.
I slam, you slam, we all slam Islam.
Every couple centuries, Europe has to wake up and repel the invaders. They may have waited too long this time.
Nobody says you have to work to make "money, money, money". If you don't want to work, then don't. Just don't call for the government to take "money, money, money" from those who do work to give to you.
••Money Manger said...They couldn’t find one Frenchman, sitting out front in a lawn chair, cradling a shotgun, defending his property••
Paris needs more Koreans.
They’re clearly reminiscing of younger days when they were the ones doing the burning.
"Europe has to wake up and repel the invaders."
How many times has Europe been invaded in contrast to the number of times Europe has invaded other continents?
Most recently the 8th Century, the Islamic Moors invaded Spain, and in the 15th through the 17th century, the Ottoman Turks invaded southeaster Europe.
Now lets look at the other way around:
"Over the last five centuries, the number of distinct wars, campaigns, and major military operations by European states outside Europe runs into the hundreds (and potentially more if every small colonial campaign and revolt is counted separately). " —Grok
I wonder why they are angry. I wonder what has the Somalis leaving their country and coming to America?
***Official AFRICOM 2026 strike tally (Somalia / Horn of Africa)
AFRICOM maintains a public list of strikes (mostly precision airstrikes coordinated with the Somali government against al-Shabaab or ISIS-Somalia). As of the latest available official compilation:
Total for 2026 so far: 86 strikes.
August 2026: 1 strike
Aug. 7 near Jilib (southwest of Mogadishu), targeting al-Shabaab.
September 2026: 8 strikes
Sep. 4 near Buulo Fuulay (west of Mogadishu)
Sep. 5 and Sep. 8 near Quumbi (northwest of Kismayo)
Sep. 14 near Saacow (north of Kismayo)
Sep. 17 in Sanaag (southwest of Bosaso)
Sep. 24 near Quumbi (north-northwest of Kismayo)
Sep. 25 near Welmaro (west of Jilib) and Ali Farhan (northeast of Jilib)
These are predominantly against al-Shabaab in southern Somalia (especially the Kismayo/Jilib area), with limited activity against ISIS elements in the north (Puntland/Golis Mountains region).*** —Grok
We are defending our puppet government there. The "government" is whoever we say it is, even if they don't actually control the country.
Smokes, brandy, a blanky and a nice warm fire.
What a pleasant way to spend an evening out. They even put the phones away and are enjoying each other's company.
Looks like a job for Vlad Tepes.
"France's government has lost its legitimacy and here comes the 6th Republic."
It's bad when you have anything past the sequel:
- 6th Republic
- 3rd Reich
- 8.3rd wave feminism (I think that's what we're on now...)
It screams "we'll get it right eventually, just hang on!"
They have a fantasy of a place and they believe they can go to that fantasy and they perform the mental labor of believing they have entered into the place they imagined.“
Or maybe it’s exactly as they imagined it would be. It’s an expected part of the Paris experience now. Tourists used to go to see the art; now they’ll go to watch the fires. I’m kinda tempted to revisit it myself.
White people are strange this way. I had relatives in Detroit who poo-pooed our warning that their neighborhood was changing and that they should get out while they could. They never did tho insisting that it was transitory thing and way overblown. Had some aquaintences with relatives in South Africa say the same thing. "It ain't that bad" they said.. There were probably Jews who dismissed Kristallnacht too. Human folly, inransience, willful blindness and such have always been a thing, but especially among Europeans.
Reminds me of the time I was in an Eastern European nightclub that got raided by armed gunmen. It turns out they were cops, but it wasn't immediately apparent. Anyway, while sheltering under a table the attractive lady next to me lit up a cigarette. I commented on how calm she was. "Well, I used to live in Libya" was her reply.
"They never did tho insisting that it was transitory thing and way overblown. Had some aquaintences with relatives in South Africa say the same thing. "It ain't that bad" they said..."
They always think it's overblown, don't they. "It ain't that bad" schadenboners are my favorite schadenboners.
Just don't call for the government to take "money, money, money" from those who do work to give to you.
🏆Now do Trump's promised $5000 welfare checks.
From "They always think it's overblown, don't they"...
"This is now an ongoing fight in Austin between these black students and this progressive Talarico supporter, who is now enforcing border security AND utilizing the same police Talarico has pushed to keep defunded."
One must have a heart of stone to read this without laughing.
"Now do Trump's promised $5000 welfare checks."
Okay, sure. "I'm not calling for $5000 checks."
"One must have a heart of stone to read this without laughing."
Bless their hearts! It's a Southern thang...
Reminds me of folks in Madison calmly snapping photos of the sunrise in 2020 while BLM was ransacking their town. And they didn’t even need to travel for the experience!
Just don't call for the government to take "money, money, money" from those who do work to give to you.
The french have a different view. Even the neo-liberals understand they live in a society, not a losertarian all vs. all fantasy. everyone get 5 weeks vacation. The standard work week is 35 hours. Unions are strong, and retirement is 62. Plus, the french have a medical system that covers all.
People expect to pay taxes and get benefits in return.
"The french have a different view."
And how's that working out for them?
“I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.” ― Thomas Sowell
It's helpful to remember the refrain from the French national anthem:
Aux armes, citoyens,
Formez vos bataillons,
Marchons, marchons !
Qu'un sang impur
Abreuve nos sillons
The current expression of that aspect of French culture seems a bit more serious than prior ones, but it's not an order of magnitude different. And probably not a good idea to try to understand it through the lens of other nations' troubles with immigration or anything else.
BTW, saw a comment on an article about the current riots saying that the video of the couple in the cafe is actually from the 2023 riots, not the current round. No idea whether that's right, but given the frequency with which this stuff happens in France, it fits.
Elissa Slotkin est une salope.
Just sayin’…
and so is DeeDeeDrivel…
RCOCEAN II said...
Just don't call for the government to take "money, money, money" from those who do work to give to you.
The french have a different view. Even the neo-liberals understand they live in a society, not a losertarian all vs. all fantasy. everyone get 5 weeks vacation. The standard work week is 35 hours. Unions are strong, and retirement is 62. Plus, the french have a medical system that covers all.
People expect to pay taxes and get benefits in return.
LOL! Utopia by government mandate.
It might have worked if they hadn’t imported all those Muslim men.
In the last decade or so over 20 new jobs were taken by foreigners for every one job taken by a native male.
But at least they only have to work 35 hours and they get 5 weeks paid vacation.
They just need to get hired first.
France has been raping The Sahel in Africa for decades. They installed corrupt rulers and used the natural resources to subsidize their economy.
They lived under the protection of the US during that time.
Bush Clinton bush Obama were all corrupt wef servants.
The war in Iraq was a scam and the long term goal of that war was to make Iran more powerful. The US was doing what Britain wanted us to do. George W Bush was a fucking traitor and Obama just consummated the plan pulling us out of Iraq and handing it to the mullahs.
It is time for Europe to be put in their place. Britain is next. Charles needs to be removed from whatever you want to call it and Lloyd’s/chatham house must be destroyed.
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