Saturday, June 29, 2024

This has been a BAAD week

Macron’s election gamble looks doomed

France’s main far right party appears poised to do well in the two-round parliamentary vote.


Washington has begun to accept that Macron is headed for defeat.

“People recognized from the start that the decision to have early elections was a risky one, but what is becoming more clear in the weeks since is that Macron did not have his ducks in a row to give the best possible chance of success for his bold gambit,” said Jeff Rathke, a former U.S. diplomat.


And we didn’t even get the SCOTUS ruling on Trumpian immunity!