LE PEN (father, not daughter) JUST DIED!!!

edit: replaced the source in French with a source in English

Macron uses article 16 of the Constitution to obtain emergency powers

Thank you for the effortpost comrade! In a few days I’ll be off to visit mainland China, including Changsha and other parts of Hunan province (as well as few other cities like Xi’an and Guilin), on my way to Taiwan province (where I’ll study for the semester); so reading this post felt like of a good summary of what I’ve read/seen elsewhere in the past months about what I should expect there. I had heard about the loudspeakers of course, I hope they’re not as bad as you make it out to be, but that does seem to fit the picture that I’ve heard so far… I guess I’ll see (or hear) for myself when I’m there.

Also, if you don’t mind me asking, what are some lesser-known interesting places/things in Changsha that you would recommend?

Actually the part about the Barnier government being the shortest-lived is false. It’s the shortest lived since the foundation of the V^th Republic in 1958, by far (only 84 days); but the IV^th Republic had many short-lived governments (the 2nd Ramandier government (29 days), the André Marie government (33 days), the second Schuman government (2 days!)… and all these – and three other longer-lived governments – are only in the two first years of the 4th Republic).

Nevertheless your general point is valid, the current regime is in crisis, especially given how – contrary to the IV^th Republic – it was built from the beginning to favour stable majorities led by the president, yet now the ruling party cannot get a stable majority despite it all, and the president is opposed even in his own liberal bloc. I just wanted to point it out since the comparison with the IV^th Republic is one of the main points of your post; but I think you are right in that ça sent la fin de règne…

And they brought back all of the most clownish clowns that have ever clowned in the past decade of French politics: Darmanin (as minister of justice, which is already hilarious), Panier-Runacher, Borne, Montchalin, Aurore Berger, and even MANUEL VALLS!!! They’re scraping the barrel of the most soulless ghouls and the most corrupt morons, I’m surprised Schiappa isn’t in government this time around; regardless, it still probably is the most hilarious government in history. Anyways at least the memes will be good