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Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron - is he doing a good job in general?

Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron - is he doing a good job in general?

  • yes, he is

    Votes: 2 22.2%

  • no, he isn't

    Votes: 4 44.4%

  • I don't know

    Votes: 1 11.1%

  • I have no idea who Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron is

    Votes: 1 11.1%

  • he is average

    Votes: 1 11.1%
  • Total voters
    9
I gather he’s pretty unpopular with left and right so maybe that’s an indication he’s doing ok. Better than actual nazis anyway.
 
Here is some info for those who don't really know who Macron is:


Emmanuel Macron - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org
 
Decypher said:
I gather he’s pretty unpopular with left and right so maybe that’s an indication he’s doing ok.
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Or it is just an indication he is generally unpopular?

Personally I despise him. Especially his economic policies are spectacularly bad. It very much is a case where he won only because the alternative was so despicable. Most voters said the voted against Le Pen and not for Macron in exit polls for a reason. He is hated in France for being an extreme Neoliberal.
 
Rumpel said:
Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron - is he doing a good job in general?
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I don't think he's really been tested yet. He came into office essentially in a landslide... was given a huge majority in the National Assembly. But what has he done with it? If you look at his record, he's gotten a few things passed, but essentially it's a big pile of symbolic mush. So where's the vision there?

Truth be told, he strikes me as all sizzle and almost no steak.

So what is he going to do when/if he loses a big chunk of his legislative majority in this month's legislative elections? How does he handle that? That's going to be the test of whether he is good at the job or not.
 
Rumpel said:
Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron - is he doing a good job in general?
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A neoliberal servant of the rich who was happy to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy with slashed pensions (presided over by Jean-Paul Delevoye who engaged in a clear, criminal and explicit conflict of interest as an undeclared beneficiary of the insurance industry) and regressive taxes on everyone else while undermining worker's rights to the point of causing massive, sustained and deserved mass riots in the country. He was so committed to fellating the wealthy and powerful in fact that he steadfastly refused to reverse those tax cuts even as the country burned in response to his unyielding and merciless crusade for economic injustice.

In otherwords he's demonstrably and obviously terrible; slightly better than a crypto-Nazi like Le Pen of course, but that's a supremely low bar; it must not be missed that people voted against his opponent, not for him.
 
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Average. His neoliberalism is not really helping anyone.
 
Decypher said:
Better than actual nazis anyway.
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Sigh... you and the rest of the actual nazis keep using that word, but I don't think you know what it means...

 

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Vanquish said:
Sigh... you and the rest of the actual nazis keep using that word, but I don't think you know what it means...

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Welcome to the forum. Just a heads up, it’s ok to call LePen a nazi but not ok to call members of the forum nazis.
 
Before the political Nazis arrived in Germany, there was another meaning of the word
It was the South German short form of the name "Ignatius".

In our town there was a bakery founded by some Ignatius more than 2 centuries ago..
So this bakery was called "the Baker Nazis" - and everybody understood how it was meant.
Strange, but true
 
Decypher said:
Welcome to the forum. Just a heads up, it’s ok to call LePen a nazi but not ok to call members of the forum nazis.
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And what if we have a member from Bavaria with the name "Ignatius"?
Once "Nazi" was an old short form of Ignatius.
But nowadays this may lead to mis-understandings.
 
Rumpel said:
And what if we have a member from Bavaria with the name "Ignatius"?
Once "Nazi" was an old short form of Ignatius.
But nowadays this may lead to mis-understandings.
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I suppose we’ll have to cross that bridge when we come to it. Or call him Iggy.
 
"How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?"
 
AliHajiSheik said:
"How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?"
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Wasn't it some Charles who said so once - or words to that effect ...

Quoted in Ernest Mignon, Les Mots du General (1962). De Gaulle had earlier been quoted in the N.Y. Times Magazine, 29 June 1958, as saying, "How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheeses?"
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Charles de Gaulle Quote

How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
www.azquotes.com
 
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