Macron has won!

[beveeheart]

[Leith]

1. Here Is a Link to the Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/07/emmanuel-macron-wins-french-presidency-marine-le-pen

almost 2 to 1 for Macron against LePen!

[mchill]

2. watching 24 France - declared winner!

http://www.france24.com/en/20170507-liveblog-live-france-presidential-election-macron-le-pen-second-round-run-off

[beveeheart]

6. Watching le Pen now.

Invites her people to join new version of her defeated party.

[Ilsa]

3. A strong victory is GREAT NEWS! nt

[blogslut]

4. Whoohoo!

Great news!

[mnmoderatedem]

5. awesome!

no female version of Trump as a world leader. Some much needed good news...

[iluvtennis]

22. +++ agree

[NastyRiffraff]

7. Congratulations to the French people!

Good on you. You did better than we did, for sure.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. Maybe they took note of what was happening to us under Trump

and decided they didn't want any of that. Trump's tacit "endorsement" of Le Pen might have helped Macron.

[iluvtennis]

23. +++ agree

[Cha]

56. They learned.. we were a cautionary tale..

Link to tweet

[shenmue]

8. Just got the BBC bulletin

[suffragette]

10. Very good news, indeed!

[Fla Dem]

11. Vive la Resistance! There is still hope for the world. Thank you France!

[BigmanPigman]

16. Vive la Resistance! FUCK Putin, tRump and Bannon!

[bathroommonkey76]

12. Generation X wins its first major election.

[uponit7771]

21. +1

[calimary]

13. C'est magnifique!

[MoonRiver]

14. WOOHOO!

WAY TO GO, FRANCE!!

[Beartracks]

15. Maybe France can save us again in our time of need?

[retrowire]

17. Merci france!!! You chose compassion! Nt

[iluvtennis]

24. +++ agree

[fun n serious]

18. YES!!! France sent a big FUCK you to Trump, Bannon, Putin!

[beastie boy]

19. Don't knock centrists, people!

They may be the only thing that stands between us and the fascists.

[bigbrother05]

58. A French centrist would be well left of center in the USA

[question everything]

20. The U.S. Bill of Rights and the Independence Declaration were borrowed from France's

At least, they stick by their founding principles.

[iluvtennis]

25. Like! So glad Macron bitch the bigot LePen...wish we had done that here in US

[JTFrog]

26. YEEEEEEEESSSSS! nt

[democratisphere]

27. Makes you wannabe French.

[iluvtennis]

28. Trump's tweet on Macron...

Link to tweet

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Does he have dementia and not recall that he supported Le Pen. GAH, what a LIAR.

[padah513]

37. Watch

Next thing you know he'll be taking credit and declaring victory for the win.

[iluvtennis]

38. Yep, and our US media won't call him on it. GAAAAH

[Akamai]

29. Thank God the French voters were told of the Russian interference. Makes us more angry

At Comey's lackluster response to the Russian Hacks of Hillary.

[karynnj]

47. Actually, credit the French voters, Americans WERE told by President Obama, 17 intelligence

agencies and by Hillary Clinton in one of the debates where she referred to the statement of the 17 agencies. That all happened more than a month before the election.

In contrast, the ONLY notice that the French got was a statement put out by the Macron campaign about 5 minutes before the quiet period began. The government did nothing itself other than make a very strong statement about the news media honoring the quiet period. The Macron campaign had earlier spoken about the fake news from RT and Sputnik and that they had been the target for a huge number of unsuccessful hacking efforts.

I suspect that two big things may have made the difference -- one was the American experience that Macron did reference when speaking of RT and the hacks, the other was that Macron was seen as "clean" and that he forcefully had denied the allegations that Le Pen hinted at in the last debate and actually filed a suit.

In addition, I think a clearer case could be made that the Comey letters and the email investigation itself were the cause. The argument on the leaks is far more subtle and hard to prove. Where you can see the polls shift drastically with the Comey letters, I did not see any clear impact when the leaks happened.

[RhodeIslandOne]

30. Congrats to France, they didn't fuck up like us. n/m

[iluvtennis]

31. She voted for Le Pen to piss people of, soreminiscent of the [non]thinking that occur ed here in US

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[Bigredhunk]

32. -

Giddeyup!

Thanks for learning from our mistake.

[COLGATE4]

33. VIVE LA FRANCE!

[orangecrush]

34. Take that, Bannon and Putin!I

[iluvtennis]

35. Putin: You put a clown at the White House, but the circus has...closed. You won't succeed in Europe

Link to tweet

[Honeycombe8]

36. Hallelujah! A good sign! nt

[dchill]

39. Vive la France.

[Doreen]

40. Woo-hoo!!!! I am so glad we do not have another trump but with a vagina!!!

Way to go France. Good for you saying screw you Russia. I hope he will join Merkel and Trudeau as a leader of the free world. We definitely need them.

[athena]

45. It's interesting, isn't it,

that those who accused female Hillary supporters of "voting with their vaginas" were not the least surprised when female Hillary supporters did not support Le Pen.

[Doreen]

46. They will not outwardly admt it but they have seen their mistake

and saw she is like trump. If only they could outwardly admit it it might be safer in the future elections for us. We will have to see.

[smirkymonkey]

41. Bravo France!

[nikibatts]

42. His crowd is bigger than 45's Inauguration crowd. Tweets coming!!

I feel like we just had a real election in the US.

[onetexan]

52. LOL good one

please someone post a picture if you can find it. I can't wait to irk the hell out of the orange idiot.

[Blue Ridge Virginia]

43. Eerily reminiscent of the Iraq War era: Germany, France, Canada, and Mexico all opposing it

while the Brits were every bit as stupid as the Americans in supporting nonsense and hatred and false accusations. We have four longterm allies who know the score and one whose voters are as clueless and easily manipulated as our own.

[athena]

44. When Macron got the highest vote in the first round,

Fillon and Hamon told their supporters to vote for Macron. The French recognized the gravity of the situation and voted for a centrist to stop the progress of a neo-Nazi fascist.

If it had been the U.S., there would have been endless complaining about how Macron shouldn't have won, how his campaign had supposedly cheated, how Mélenchon or Hamon would have been stronger against Le Pen, how leftists should stay home because Macron was too centrist, how leftists should vote for Le Pen to teach the Socialist Party a message, how Macron wasn't really that different from Le Pen, how five years of Le Pen wouldn't be the end of the world, etc., etc.

I congratulate the French people. They have succeeded where Americans have failed. May we learn our lesson this time.

[democrank]

48. Macron's speech was so powerful.

I couldn't help but compare Macron to that disgusting bully we have in the Oval Office.

[90-percent]

49. I am so happy!

WE ARE ALL NOT STUPID DEMOCRACY LUVIN' FRENCHIES NOW!

A steel toed motorcycle boot directly to the gonads of KLEPTOCRATS the world over!

Has the Short-fingered vulgarian called to congratulate yet?

-90%

[onetexan]

53. LOL thank u for the good laugh

i'm sure it's bugging the hell out of him that one the same day Le Pen loses Barack Obama is receiving the JFK Profile in Courage award. I hope he pops a vein from rage and jealousy.

[Tatiana]

50. Beautiful speech.

Thank you my friends, he says. Thank you for being here this evening. Thank you for having fought with such courage for so many months because this evening you have won, France has won.

What has been accomplished has no precedent or equivalent, he says. People said it was impossible. Thank you for the efforts, and the risks some people took. I take full measure of the honour.

He says he is aware he has not been given a blank cheque by those who voted for him simply to keep out the extremist parties. He says he will stand by his engagement to protect France.

He says of those who voted for Le Pen that he understands their fear and their anger and will do all he can to ensure during the next five years that they have no further reason to vote for the extremists.

This evening, he says, it is Europe and the world who are watching us.

Macron says the task facing us is immense, and will start tomorrow. It involves reinforcing France’s economy, building new defences, ensuring the safety of all French citizens. It is a huge job and it will require more of the same audacity that has brought us this far.

This task will require the involvement and commitment of everyone, he says. It will require the courage of truth. It will require the building of a real and strong majority, a majority for change that the country needs and deserves.

We have the strength and the energy. We will not give in to fear, to division, to lies, to a love of decline or defeat. I know what I owe you, to my companions, my family, my friends. It will not be easy. The job wil be difficult.

I will tell you the truth but your fervour and your courage will carry me forward. I want the unity of our people and of our country. And finally, I will serve you with humility, with force, and in the name of our motto: Liberty, equality and fraternity.

I will serve you with love, he says. Vive la République, vive la France.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2017/may/07/french-presidential-election-emmanuel-macron-marine-le-pen

[onetexan]

51. Vive la democratie!!!

So glad the french people chose to keep fascists from taking over their country. They need to keep this fight up, however - Le Pen got 34% of the vote and this will embolden the extremists moving forward.

The map on NYT's story is resoundingly blue: https://www.nytimes.com/. It gives me hope democracy is still alive. We as Ameiricans need to make sure it doesn't die in our country.

[GoneOffShore]

54. Vive la France!

I'm so pleased.

Takes a lot of stress off.


And this is what they were up against.

http://www.canalplus.fr/humour/pid1787-groland-le-zapoi.html?vid=1444948

[Cha]

55. I have a message for you guys

Link to tweet

[MrPurple]

57. It's less easy to game the system with....

Direct popular vote, partisan locals can't reduce the # of polling places in unfavorable districts from 16 to 1, no games to remove voters from rolls. I'm not familiar with voting details in different countries, but it seems like the US may be one of the more corrupted democratic systems out there (in an actual first world democracy).