France is a banana republic

[scruffy]

Macron is arresting people for insulting him.

Woman Charged With Insulting Macron on Facebook

She didn’t think she had committed any crime in referring to the French president as “a piece of filth” on Facebook. French authorities thought otherwise.

europeanconservative.com

 

[JGalt]

Hey guess what? President Macaroni is a piece of filth and a commie bastard.

Now come get me.

 

[MarathonMike]

We're not far behind France in turning into a Banana Republic. There have been Howler Monkey sightings at the Capitol already.

 

[progressive hunter]

Macron is arresting people for insulting him.

Woman Charged With Insulting Macron on Facebook

She didn’t think she had committed any crime in referring to the French president as “a piece of filth” on Facebook. French authorities thought otherwise.

europeanconservative.com

when were they ever a republic let alone a banana republic??

 

[MisterBeale]

We're not far behind France in turning into a Banana Republic. There have been Howler Monkey sightings at the Capitol already.

You do not know how right you are. We just had a new member sign up who claims to live in WA tonight. This is the insanity they believe is American, and constitutional out there. . .

WA State Bill Will Send Political Enemies to Psych Wards​

WA State Bill Will Send Political Enemies to Psych Wards

America is rapidly becoming a full-blown authoritarian state.

kurtnimmo.substack.com

Washington State Legislature

app.leg.wa.gov

Dissent Into Madness: The Weaponization of Psychology​

Dissent Into Madness: The Weaponization of Psychology

by James Corbett corbettreport.com March 12, 2023 "WA State Bill Will Send Political Enemies to Psych Wards" blares a recent headline from Kurt Nimmo's Substack. The bill in question, Washington State Legislature House Bill 1333, "Establishing the domestic violent extremism commission

corbettreport.substack.com

". . . Reich then spends the majority of the rest of his 6,000-word article contrasting the American approach to mental health—in which "psychiatric treatment has become acceptable enough during the last few decades for people in emotional distress to seek it out"—with the Soviet approach—in which "the need for psychiatric care is more likely to be seen as a cause for shame."

The Soviets, we are told, had taken the honourable study of the human mind and weaponized it, turning it into an instrument of political oppression.

For years, Soviet psychiatrists had been accused in the West of diagnosing as mentally ill political dissidents they knew to be mentally well. According to both Western critics and Soviet dissidents, the K.G.B.—especially after it was taken over in 1967 by Yuri V. Andropov, now the top Soviet leader—had regularly referred dissidents to psychiatrists for such diagnoses in order to avoid embarrassing public trials and to discredit dissent as the product of sick minds. Once in psychiatric hospitals, usually special institutions for the criminally insane, the dissidents were said to be treated with particular cruelty—for example, given injections that caused abscesses, convulsions and torpor, or wrapped in wet canvas that shrank tightly upon drying.

Lest the reader be left in any doubt as to his message, Reich states it clearly later on in the piece: "[T]he experience of Soviet psychiatry had a lot to teach," he tells us, "about the vulnerabilities of psychiatry to misuse wherever it is practiced."

To be sure, Reich isn't wrong. The horrors of the Soviet psychiatric system—in which political dissidents were routinely diagnosed with "sluggish schizophrenia," psychiatric hospitals were used as temporary prisons during periods of protest, and troublesome rebels were kept in medically induced comas or drug-induced catatonic states for extended periods of time—has been well documented in numerous mainstream sources, both popular and academic. But these horrors were given their most poignant expression in the words of Alexander Solzhenitsyn:

The incarceration of free thinking healthy people in madhouses is spiritual murder, it is a variation of the gas chamber, even more cruel; the torture of the people being killed is more malicious and more prolonged. Like the gas chambers, these crimes will never be forgotten and those involved in them will be condemned for all time during their life and after their death.. . "

And when you point out what is happening, the normies tell you that you are, "fear mongering."

 

[MisterBeale]

Hey guess what? President Macaroni is a piece of filth and a commie bastard.

Now come get me.

They can't lock us all up. . .

. . . or can they?

Best consult rightwinger.. . .

 

[scruffy]

There's going to be some very uncivil disobedience around this.

 

[JGalt]

They can't lock us all up. . .

. . . or can they?

Best consult rightwinger.. . .

He's free to put down his crack pipe and come give it a try.

 

[MisterBeale]

He's free to put down his crack pipe and come give it a try.

He always seems to have the most up to date information, on the rest and recreational fun getaway activities, planned those the FEMA re-education facilities.

 

[JGalt]

He always seems to have the most up to date information, on the rest and recreational fun getaway activities, planned those the FEMA re-education facilities.

No way I'm going there unless they have a shuffleboard, or at least afternoon bocce ball tournaments.

 

[MisterBeale]

No way I'm going there unless they have a shuffleboard, or at least afternoon bocce ball tournaments.

I'm sure they will let you be on the women's team as soon as you agree to take hormone blockers, and have 'yer nuts chomped off. . .

 

[Ringo]

Macron has arrived in China on an official visit.
Funny thing is that the French president is accompanied on this trip by Ursula von der Leyne, who promised that Macron would put Xi in his place. Apparently she is accompanying him to personally supervise the process. So that Macron doesn't change his mind.