Board 8 > Politics Containment Topic 467: Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story

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France's new PM just resigned after a month because he couldn't get his cabinet voted in. Elections surely coming as the government is entirely useless, and the far-right will likely be coming in. Just a matter of how long Macron clings on, but I imagine the longer he stays the more support RN gets. Bit of a dilemma because if he doesn't leave, things have no chance to get better but it stops the far-right getting in short-term.

I'm not well educated in French politics but isn't a big reason for the current situation over there that Macron and his party outright refused to cooperate with the Left coalition despite them getting a plurality in the most recent elections? That was my probably incomplete understanding.

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Yeah thats a fair assessment by Sheep. To give an idea of the numbers right now it is 577 seats with 289 needed for a majority and the seats are:

Government: 213
Far-Right: 126
Left bloc: 176
Regionalists: 21
Other left: 17
Other right: 16
Independents: 8

So basically there is no path to a majority that doesnt include either the left or the far-right. Of course making things even more complicated is that the left bloc is itself an alliance of multiple parties with the main components being the centre-left, the left/far-left, and the greens. However it is split in a way that it is not like the government can just peel off the centre-left and have enough MPs to govern.

All of this is made even more difficult by the fact that the government itself is already a very uneasy coalition of centrists, liberals, centre-right conservatives and even literal not even joking Bonapartists. It is already very unstable by itself. So really there are two viable options, appoint a left Prime Minister or hold fresh elections.

The Treasury Department said in a statement that Bisignano will be responsible for overseeing all day-to-day IRS operations while also continuing to serve in his role as commissioner of the Social Security Administration.

Bonapartists? What's their platform, have a Third Empire led by a descendant of Napoleon?

Schumer asks why Democrats should believe GOP will solve expiring health insurance tax credits in November

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer asked why Democrats should believe Republicans when they say they will negotiate on the expiring Affordable Care Act tax credits once the government reopens.

"If you're not ready to solve it now, how do we know you're going to solve it 45 days from now?" Schumer said.

Republicans' proposal would fund the government until Nov. 21. Democrats argue that pushes negotiations too close to the end of the year, when the enhanced tax credits for people who purchase health insurance through Affordable Care Act marketplaces expire. The subsidies were originally passed in 2021 during the pandemic and extended in 2022 for another three years.

There's urgency in extending the tax credits now, Democrats say, because open enrollment begins Nov. 1 and Americans face skyrocketing prices without the subsidies.

Democrats' plan would make the tax credits permanent.

"Insurers are waiting around to set rates for next year. They're doing it right now, not three months from now," Schumer, a New York Democrat, said.

I don't even know how Jeffries got where he is. Is it just because he's in New York? That can't be our only qualifier.

I would obviously like to see a left PM even if I don't like Melenchon, but I think even if Macron signalled he was willing to do that, they'd rather elections. Taking power right now would be a trap for any party especially for such a short-term period, with godawful finances hanging over their heads and large-scale social unrest. And I might be cynical, but I'm of the opinion that a lot of leftist parties with genuinely radical ideals or policies much prefer being in opposition, capitalism is a system that's easy to critique and near-impossible to actually subvert.

Yeah whoever is in charge is going to get punished in 2027, Macrons whole gambit was that the far-right would win and get destroyed in the presidential election. Of course the big problem with that plan is that it meant wrecking the country for three hears and voters did not agree!

Youre absolutely right on the point about some leftwingers never wanting power by the way. It is not most but a fair amount. Maybe you saw but there was some interesting recent polling of UK Green party members (https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/53108) showing that about 20% of members would not want to form a coalition with any other party, in other words do not want to enter government. It is the permanent opposition mindset and I have just no time for it.

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I truly think he may be the worst living human being? He's worse than Trump himself for sure. By the "buy them a beer" metric, I'd probably sooner chip in for Putin.

Youre absolutely right on the point about some leftwingers never wanting power by the way. It is not most but a fair amount. Maybe you saw but there was some interesting recent polling of UK Green party members (https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/53108) showing that about 20% of members would not want to form a coalition with any other party, in other words do not want to enter government. It is the permanent opposition mindset and I have just no time for it.