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Emmanuel Macron's party, La République en Marche, looks poised to take a majority in the National Assembly.  

La République en Marche is a political party that Macron started less than 2 years ago. 

 

Wonder what Theresa May thinks of this.

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Speaking of Theresa May and the uncertainty in Great Britain, the British can take heart in one result of the disastrous results for the Conservatives, and UKIP (to some extent): Trump appears to be delaying his trip to the United Kingdom.

I guess Trump may not want to be associated with May and Nigel Farage because they aren't 'killers' right now.

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A Guardian article framed it as though Trump were scared to go to the U.K. in light of previous protests and opinion polls (so he does pay attention to the polls, huh?

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) from the British, the majority who stated that they thought he was "threat to global stability". 

 

There's a great deal of merit to this argument but in addition to that, it is also likely that Trump, consumed with "winning" doesn't want to be associated with "losers" right now and May and Farage/UKIP are viewed as the major losers of last week's elections.

Trump can't coordinate anything with Corbyn who doesn't want him there, in the first place.

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You're welcome. I think the decades of reluctance had to do with the fate of the last clergyman to openly align himself with poor folks, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Lots of people admire him but I if any are honest, none want to meet his tragic fate.

I'm glad that some are willing to step up despite the obvious risks. What I think will help is that this movement encompasses a diversity of people, rather than focusing on one person.  

This also makes it challenging to focus the movement but there tends to be safety and strength in numbers.

 

On a slightly lighter, more absurd note-

LOL

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@Roman, Whew @ Vicente Fox, he is merciless with the taunts and shade!

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  That was FIRE!  

 

He is right about the sophistication of drugs being transported via the dark web and fyi about that, most of those labs producing the deadliest supply of opiods like fentanyl are actually located in China.  

Some of the most successful Mexican drug cartels use a system of tunnels (similar to ones El Chapo used to escape prisons) to transport narcotics.

Those tunnels are comprised of a complex and vast system of underground tunnels, a few of which where excavated before the U.S. was a country!

I also saw video of two teenagers who were able to scale the border wall faster than Spiderman!  People need to be realistic and stop believing the hype of what Trump claims he can do.

 

Whoop!

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