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- For decades, France has been one of the few European countries that the rest of the world didn’t have to worry about, but with its upcoming election between current president Emmanuel Macron and far-right contender Marine Le Pen, that could all change. #DailyShow
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"So she's not leading in the poles. But, remember, neither was Donald Trump in 2016." Unlike the US, France has a crazy system where they count up the number of votes for each candidate, and the one who has more votes gets to be President.
No electoral college? How backward (sarcasm)
Lool
Thats rather right. Every vote should count. No one should win because they had more votes in a certain state rather every vote counts
whaaaaaaaat?
Imagine winning a big Electoral college state by just one vote, you get all the Electoral votes from that state but winning a smaller Electoral college state by thousands of votes get you smaller Electoral college votes hence you losing and you think this is rather fair, advance and not "crazy"... what a joke
Sincerely Trevor, our problems in Nigeria run deeper than the flavours of jellof rice.
Seriously oooh😂
Abi my guy 😂😂
😂
Yes o 😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
" *One last* shot at the presidency" is a sweet, optimistic way to put it. She and her father (and even her niece now) spent their lives trying to become president.
All racist pigs. I remember Jean Mary Lepen being a big one. I assume she is as well.
😂
Yep. I'm not counting on it being the last attempt either. And anyway, her niece will find her way back in the party eventually and pick up the stick, and she's going to be worse.
@@ameliecarre4783 Yep, exactly.
---And the husband of another niece now ,it is a kind of family business or mafia clan of some sort
There's something else that helped Le pen to rebrand herself and it's Zemmour, that man is soo extreme and the farthest right politician than Le pen looks now moderated compared to him. Also since it was her third election, she took all her lessons and built a stronger program that she was working on since 2012.
Weirdly enough, Le Pen is far right, but not Zemmour, because Zemmour is for a neo-liberal economy and Le Pen is more nationalistic, but yeah. Zemmour is definitely worse
@@cassiopee2072 I don’t know for their economic program I was talking about their plans for immigration
Zemmour le best 🇨🇵🔥
@@leyoshivenere350 7%
@@leyoshivenere350 Heu... No
7:25 That “May I take you back to where you came from?” jab at Marine Le Pen was excellent.
France has a hughe problem with muslim immigrants, as many other european contries, is no thing to joke about.
Well Trevor I wouldn't say France has been the country we didn't have to worry about. This is a culmination of years and years of a far right drift (just as in other countries). Before Marine LePen there actually was her father Jean-Marie Le Pen.
Every Western nation has far-right politicians with damning manifestos; however, La Pen Sr's approval ratings were never as high or close to his opponents' as his daughter's ratings in this election cycle. That's what puts the future of France and the EU at stake here
She kicked him out of the party for being too far right.
Father Le Pen had no credibility, ironically, his lack of credibility was the reason he made it to the second round.
@@donovanlocust1106 wrong, he resigned and put his daughter in place.
@@thierry860 oh ok
By French standard, that debate was scandalous 😂 On local French news, people thought that their debate was an embarrassment 🙈
Why?
It was better than last year's
@@Arschlochterminator69 because a few times the candidates were being mean to each other. Nothing compared to a US debate, but still. France used to have candidates respecting each other during the whole debate.
Are you talking about any debate attended by Donald "Putin's B!tc#" Trump?
Signed: The USA
Mmmm no ? Where you saw that lol ?
Hey im french and i agree with almost everything you said except from the fact that you said that french people thought it was a heated debate between Lepen and Macron.
We all thought (media and folks) the debate was dull and Boring and it also were the least watched debate ever in french history
Indeed it was. I literally fell asleep.
Tu ne représente pas « les français » ….
@@Jvi11111 ça change rien au fait qu'il ait raison, ce débat était ennuyeux et sans fond. Et tout les média de tout bord l'on reconnu unanimement.
thats because internet viewership has exploded ( YT/Website/ Streams)
Poor France hahaha
I like how Le Pen held up a photo of one of her tweets during the debate. A new high for twitter.
been calling her french trump for a long time, her dad was the original donald but she is like the ivanka of france.
That's a dangerous comparison, because it's very likely Ivanka would have been a better president... And therefore more destructive to the country.
Le'vanka
@@juliantucker807 HA!
She's actually worse than her father. She just knows how to breed cats and put on a nice face, but she's full of hate and as mean spirited as her father actually was.
@Thwack "If Trump learned to do what she’s doing "
that's why daddy stepped down, not clean/modern enough (but still the same views)
Back from the polls and watching this. I was so depressed this morning and the soufflé part really made me laugh. We have soooo many expression in french language based on food. This is not a cliché at all. And we love it! ❤️
If you don't believe it, just check this: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_d%27idiotismes_gastronomiques_fran%C3%A7ais
Depressed ? Now with macron for 5 years again, you can be depressed
The soufflé part was hilarious indeed, totally sharing that with Sarah here 🤣
@@kayzenl7911 still better than le pen
@@alicewonderland1380 if you are ready to lose your country, yes go ahead mate, I won't take part to the sink of the ship
In Syria we use food as a metaphor for politics and economy, otherwise we might get arrested 😂😂😂😂😂
The Netherlands is the name of the country, Holland is the Northern region, we got North and South Holland. Just for the people who where asking... 😉
that is helpful, thank you.
in south africa afrikaans people always have this debate lol
The Netherlands have North and south Holland, but Great Britain's got TOM holland!
Isn't Denmark also called Netherlands?
@@evaa.6754 no, it's not
As far as the French media and population is concerned, this debate was not considered intense. Five years ago, the debate between the two politicians was filled with personal attacks, they never let each other finish a sentence and especially Marine le Pen was widely criticized because she was considered aggressive. This time though, even the two candidates have admitted during the debate that they were both more calm and that they "grew up". It is also not true that Marine le pen still wants to leave the European Union (she wanted to in the last two elections) but her program is very euro-sceptic and she constantly affirm that she wants to give the french people more power by changing the EU. As a french citizen, I think that this election illustrate very well the division of our people. On one hand we have the voters of Emmanuel Macron who are in general wealthy and wants to see a strong and united Europe to strengthen their influence against the United States, Russia and China. On the other hand we have the voters of Marine le Pen who are exhausted of the social crisis my country is going through and are generally afraid and in certain cases even hate the massive immigration in France. Finally there are also the voters of Jean-Luc Mélenchon who had only 1.2% less votes then Marine le pen and is considered far left. His voters are generally looking for more social justice in the country by taxing way more the rich, take more the climate change into consideration and are also EU-sceptic. The decision of his voters is very likely to determine who will be our next president. I believe in a certain extend in the program of Macron and more importantly not in the program of Le Pen and hope that he will be elected. I didn't mention a lot of elements but these are the big lines, I hope you understood everything :)
We certainly did. Merci.
Macron has a lot more voters than there are wealthy people in France. Even if you use Holland's definition of wealthy.
So I'm curious is Marie Le Pen also not considered a wealthy elite? I'm having trouble seeing how she represents the common folk more so than he does
@@gemelwalters2942 I also don't believe for a second that a politician like Le Pen genuinely changed her stance on leaving the EU. She seems to operate like US politicians so my guess would be that she would contribute to rotting the EU from the inside to persuade more and more people it's a bad idea and then she'll have the traction she needs to accomplish leaving the EU. See it ALL the time in the US. "This program is a waste and inefficient, vote for me and I'll prove it" *cuts budgets, fire experienced staff and experts, replace with business leeches, stall proceedings, pass bills to add pressure* "see I proved it was inefficient by making the situation worse, vote for me again and my policies."
She does still want to leave the EU, she just knows that it's not the best idea to mention it now that the consequences of Brexit are becoming clearer and the French electorate aren't necessarily going to be as easy to sway on the issue than before. What she wants hasn't changed, what she's saying and how she's acting has, purely to try win the election, like any politician.
And for those who will vote Macron this coming weekend, they're not all going to be the wealthy or even the fairly well off, it'll also be everyone who does not want to see LePen in power, just like how he won the second round last time. The more wealthy tend to favour the banker, sure, but when the opposition is LePen you're going to have more than the well off who will vote for him.
As for Melenchon voters, many might abstain altogether, or vote Macron to keep LePen out. I don't know how many are keen on LePen, even if some of their ideals are similar, the others might be hard to swallow. We'll have to find out this weekend.
Quite honestly I'm a little scared, I am British by nationality, but France has been my home since I was a child. Don't want to go through Brexit twice XD
Succeeded in making me laugh with my poor French and European situation, thank you Trevor. By the way, a diagram in France is a camembert. Food for ever.
But as a Belgian of Lebanese and Iranian descent who has lived in Spain and Morocco with his Turkish husband before moving to Vietnam, when he said no other country would use their cuisine as a metaphor for politics, a lot of things came to mind, from wafelijzerpolitiek (Google is your friend) to Thatcher the Milk Snatcher.
So happy she lost. I’m a Republican lean slightly right but she was WAY to far right. She wants to ban religious clothing, leave nato, wants a French Russian alliance after the war……. No thanks.
@Robert Monroe he is still the better out of the two.
Far right in France. In the US she would be between Sanders and Biden.
@@j.m.3038 there’s no way lol she wants to leave nato, make an alliance with Russia after the Ukrainian war, and lastly, ban the hijab to “free women” but yet that literally limits what women can do but she didn’t want to ban any other clothing from other religions.
As a Nigerian, we do have problems, but jollof is not one of them 🤣
Just looked that up and it sounds delicious :)
🤣🤣🤣
And never will be. 😊
Facts!!
Y’all might need to reconsider that.
Times are indeed uncertain, interesting.
Interesting times are fun for historians, not so much for people living it.
Well, you know the curse: "May you live in interesting times".
@@Dreeblet indeed.
tou·ché!
THIS!!
_Glorified-pseudoscience_ FTW!
As the uszche.
From Europe: I like satire and certain kinds of comedy, and of course Trevor. However, this spot does not really explain, why a win of Le Pen would be disastrous to Europe (and make Putin happy). It will crumble the EU and weaken Nato - just what Putin desires.
True, but that would be a deep dive, I guess. Let's just hope, that France choose wisley.
It's a 9 minute (primarily) comedy spot. More time will be needed for the kind of exposition you're referring to
Nato is the problem. They're the biggest and richest gangsters.
He did mention her desire to leave the EU and get cozy with Putin. I think that while this spot was brief and largely comedic, it does make clear that she poses a threat to Europe. Well, did. She lost. Again. The French aren't foolish. They aren't as a majority going to vote for a bigot that clearly said she agrees with Trump. France is struggling with many issues but they never have put the likes of a Le Pen in office.
NATO is archaic and a puppet for US foreign policy. The US is now fighting a proxy war against a nuclear power and playing a dangerous game. France would probably be smarter than that.
"Is Holland the same as the Netherlands?"
If just all questions Europe is facing right now would be so easy to answer.
The answer is: No, it's not the same. Holland is a region (about 15%) of the Netherlands.
One problem less.
WOW Trevor just did a Trump impression with a French accent!!
my exact thoughts
It could not get better in this show
That was impressive 😅
He did a Trump impression speaking Arabic once. It was epic! Loved this one too! 😂
Only him can pull it off.
If voting for Macron is like eating a leftover baguette from yesterday, voting for Le Pen is like eating a half chewed hamburger from the garbage bin. You'd think it's tasty, but so did the rats.
Brilliant comparison
This is brilliant 😂
😆
You are a vibe 🤣🤣
I think u meant the opposite, it's the baguette which comes out of a dustbin
French stereotypes are never cliché when it's about food 😂
😉😁
Surveys predicted that Le Pen will get 40% in 2017, she ended up getting only 33%. Le Pen is now polling at 44% so I won't expect Le Pen winning this election given her performance in the debate.
She had no chance. The leftists and far leftists weren't going to switch their vote to LePen but to Macron. The far right voters largely did vote for her in the run off but they're still a minority to centrists and leftists and socialists and greens and communists.
And Macron wasn't exactly impressive in that debate. I agree she's a bigoted idiot but there's a reason so many of the French don't like him. He won not because they like him and his leadership so much but because she's a radical nutjob and her policies are monstrous. Sure it's sad that a certain percent agree with her, but France isn't about to swing far right.
Wow. Totally saw that lady's *"collapsing like a soufflé"* comment a week ago & had *giggled uncontrollably* about it ^___^ glad I'm not the only one!
I don't have enough words to express my love for Trevor's French Trump
I tried to write and couldn't come up with words .Trump crossed with anything else seems to be hilarious. Trevor is genius funny
As a French I love the way Americans see our politics, very instructive and often well seen !
Same! Sadly, just like in France, most of the time is spent discussing the candidates instead of their ideas and program. And the 10 other candidates who were competing didn't even get a mention, while this is crucial to understand how the vote works.
@@dr.antonius8350 Well that's how it goes in politics, you also vote for the candidate's personality
Well, I'd disagree a bit. Especially in this case, I find it a bit ignorant too.
How many US citizens are aware that France was very seriously discussing whether it should leave NATO ? With more than 50 % of voters that did vote in the first round for a candidate that does want to leave : the extreme right being financed by the russians and wanting to ally with them (even if they don't admit it) and the left wanting to get back to a non-aligned position in the coming back of cold war between USA and China...
US came very close to lose one of their main military allies in the world and most of their citizen don't even know it.
(Just to say from where i'm speaking, I'm french I voted Melenchon and I did want France to leave NATO towards a non-aligned position)
That being said, yes, this is instructive to see how akward US people feel about the way french discuss racism issues.
@@roger2121271 is that you Hilary? Did you check there finances? Russia didn't finance anything. Just you people are "useful idiots"
Enjoy the proxy war and getting all those people killed... Bidens money laundromat..
0:51 I love listening to that wet Teletubby joke hitting the audience more and more 🤣
I am a bit sad that they did not talk about Mélanchon cause that was an key point of this presidential campaign and it explains a lot about how mlp is positioning herself in this second round !
Who is your favorite artist.
I came for the French accent and got a French Donald Trump. Trevor understood the assignment ❤️
Trump literally has made y'all Liberals mad 😂 he's not even in office , you've literally got a old age home president
@@karankapoor2701 Lol, I’m not a liberal, but thanks anyway 😂. I actually just thought the joke was funny. I listen to conservative and liberal news sources without trolling because I like to hear both sides of issues. I honestly believe that Biden and Trump revealed a lot of weaknesses in both parties. They also revealed a lot of weakness in the American people.
@@mbyrd6713 definitely agree but Trevor and other late night shows have stopped being funny long ago
@@karankapoor2701 yet they’re still funny till this day
It’s not funny because he’s making fun of your cult leader lol
@@mbyrd6713 facts
I’m french and i love this show!🥰
“Our problems run deeper than the flavours of Jollof rice”… the most Un-Nigerian thing to say ever 😂🤣
Trevor making me laugh about a topic that is so deeply unsettling is showing what a great entertainer he is. And his team of course. This is political satire at it's best. Thank you!
I know. People forget that he's actually an entertainer
@@brianlevine249 He is a king!
@@brianlevine249 But reality is not entertainment. If he had the problems that so many people have with sociopaths in power, he wouldn't be laughing.
@@leatherandtactel haha so true considering he is one of those in power. A minor power. But still in power
He’s got the entertaining skills of a sponge at best
"...May i take you back to were you came from..."
😂😂😂
that killed me
Le Pen has indeed spent the last 5 years making her image and her program more palatable, but at bottom she remains the same Islamophobic, xenophobic extreme-right nationalist. Toward the end of the debate, she mentioned her intention, if elected, to pass a bill prohibiting wearing the hijab (the Islamic veil) in public. To which Macron replied: "You are mad. This is going to be civil war!".
If you lived in a European neighborhood with a Muslim majority and experienced first-hand the problems that this entails, that joke would not be so funny. In Europe we don't have a problem with immigration, we have a problem with Muslim immigration for obvious reasons taht you Americans don´t have to deal with. You are the liberals and the feminists, you know how women are treated in Islam, in theory you should be the ones who oppose Muslim immigration, but for some reason you defend it and therefore you defend the inhumane treatment of women in that culture. That is an absolute contradiction that you should check.
Trevor knows Nigeria well enough, just didnt want to be too blunt - in actual fact, our problems runs deeper than the flavor of a burnt jollof rice 😁
This made me google Jollof, looks very tasty, might try to make some.
Like missing Russian oats and oils?
Biden insults against Putin were so helpful for the people from the world...
This man is amazing! I'm french and what he says are always fair and funny 😍 Hi and love from France US 🇺🇸 ❤️
I am French, and this video was pretty funny and pretty spot on, our hope that it doesn't turn like the previous US elections (against Clinton) turned, is that the system here is 100% popular vote, so, Le Pen should loose, just like Trump "should have lost" the first time around...
@Amazigh Girl people can walk around france without clothes and not have a problem?
Indeed, the "French equivalent of Wisconsin" would simply be France. 🤩
@@aman-qj5sx .
@@Khronogi ?? No why ?
Yo Trevor Bro, you don't wanna start that Jollof war 😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂
”May I take you back to where you came from?” TOOK ME OUT!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
6:45 As french I would like everyone know that Lepen couln't get any money from other bank as Holland's gouvernent gave order... When you know Lepen is at least bear by 30% of French, it's anormal in a democratie states.
Exactly. Macron prevented it again unlike what he said in 2017 before he got elected. And she was the only candidate out of 12 this year who opened up about the issue.
Trevor, our problems in Nigeria actually run deeper than the flavors of Jollof rice ☹️
As a Nigerian here… Trevor nailed it 😅😅😅. Our problems are not as deep as the flavors of jollof rice oooo
Now I want some jollof rice
@@himap3842 Which type Ghana or Nigerian Jollof 👀
Just don't say Jollof three times, you might summon Jamie Oliver telling you how it's done.
@@bracalvinsmith Yes
@@bracalvinsmith Ghanaian. Its the best 😋😚
We were voting yesterday and my 4 years old girl said at the jurys at the voting center: "the evil witch can not win"...
I'm so glad she didn't.
As a french/colombian binational I was loosing my job if Le Pen won.
Everybody watching that scene have wondered why her parents had poluted and contaminated such innocent child mind with politic issues.
A lot of Latin-Americans supported Le Pen, I guess it depends on everyone's view. I heard Le Pen was more patriotic from my Mexican friends, so I always thought she was just pro-France, which makes sense. I haven't really heard negative about her.
you live in France legally with binationality, you would not have lost your job
A child can only have the opinion of his parents...
@@bhs3871 Im french, I didnt vote for her but I never heared really bad stuff about her either... the thing is in france we have massive north african immigration and no other candidate than far right speak about it
I love when Trevor Noah does his french impression. They are so funny. 😂😂😂
Further proof that the pandemic can be used by ANYONE take advantage of general public anxiety, no matter how few true solutions they offer! 🙄
Here in Romania, an openly Russian sponsored extremist party went from non-existent to major party, during the pandemic.
Populists thrive on chaotic times
@@scratchy996 When is anyone gonna see the only true solution to dealing with these people....?
lol i do not know what the pandemic has to do with this .. when u are talking about immigration 24/7 , covid / virus or not, this does not change anything indeed
@@gabangkokinsoumise9866 It has more to do with how global prices have all increased due to supply chain issues (caused by pandemic largely of course).
The problem is how broken the elections are. Only a fraction of French want either of these candidates. A forth to be precise. People are not going to vote for the candidate they want but against the one they dont want. This is mostly why there are a lot of abstention and thus uncertainty in the outcome. This is sad because Mélenchon's team was so close to breathing fresh air to this country...
France is basically split in 4 : Macronists, LePenists, Melanchonists and those who don't care
It's more than a third around 34,9% of registered voters that voted for either of them. Do you really think Melenchon could have won the second round? Macron would just have flipped around and gone all security to counter him.
Voting against someone? That's how we elect people in Latin America. You'll get used to it, don't worry.
@@Spearca Not if you account for RECORD abstention...
@@Fabriziodp same in the Balkans, elections are like choosing what type of disease do you want next
lovely to have you back Trevor ! I missed this show very badly
Well, I'm a French and recently, my history teacher compared the cold war to a souffle, so that's a really french thing and it's not even that weird
That soufflé line was a whole entire BAR 🔥🔥🔥
France even allowing Le Pen to get this far says a lot about their state of affairs there. Sure, elect a lady that is friends with Putin, that oughta turn out real well for you.
Well, you should see how the mainstream media all invite her, and how the supposedly respectable Macron and all the Right has been validating her views by behaving exactly like her. One of Macron's ministers told her on TV he found her too "soft" on Muslims. Sure, the others don't say they're friends with Putin, but they spout the same racist gunk and shaft ordinary working people.
If I’m not mistaken, the far left Jean-Luc Melenchon almost came 2nd. So it could’ve been macron vs Melenchon in the second round but he’s anti-Europe too.
He's never been anti-Europe. He's anti anti-democratic EU with a Parliament with no economic power and a European Commission with far too much power. He's a socialist, so of course he's against capitalist principles being written in the European constitution.
No offense as a French person I’m afraid of Le Pen handling the country if she wins
@@salilbhatnagar he almost came second cause a lot of teens 18-20 voted for him and I’m shocked
5:56 I didn't know that many Americans know about Jollof Rice. 😮😄
When you jump up in the débat as a waiter actually made me laugh a lot, nice one
No worries. Le Pen has no plan for the economics and wanted to get out of Europe when brexit was a new thing. She said people under 30 wont pay taxes so we asked about football player earning millions and aged under 30. She didn't know what to answer.
And when asked how she will finance all her great ideas. she only replies that all was taken into account by doing "savings" elsewhere... What a great vision and management for the future. At least Macron is honest on this point and says he wants to gradually push further the age for retirement WHICH anyway is not always followed. My father kept working until he was 70 y/o because he had skills his company could not replace so easily... AND he was happy to work more (and get more money). Not saying it is the case for everyone but I have so many examples of similar situation. Lots of people will complain "yeah but he is taking the place of younger generations..." Fact is NOBODY was willing to learn from him while he was still active, younger or older generation mixed because his job involved being VERY VERY meticulous and nobody would be bothered to do so.
@@dominiqueridoux2073 And when asked how she will finance all her great ideas. -Mexico- Spain will pay for it!
She breeds cats? If she ADOPTED cats, it might soften her image. She even failed on her rebranding.
Not to mention those look like Bengals.
Well is it surprising that she needs cats to be pure breed 😭
She's in fact trying to breed a new race of racially-pure white cats. How lovely, isn't it?
@@stephjovi You win the internet today!
Poor overpriced kitties deserve better than this.
I'm french but you killed me man ... " like a soufflé " hahaha
Our cuisine is everywhere in our language. If Le Pen had been elected, we could have said "Les carottes sont cuites."
The thing with Le Pen is that many people won't vote for Macron. His liberal policies have alienated the Left, which was close to getting to the second round.
Basically, Macron hopes he can claim the Left and Far-Left votes to create a "Republican wall" against Le Pen. Many leftists, though, don't want to get fooled twice.
This election is crucial for the future of Europe and the coalition against Putin, and I'm glad Noah took a brief moment to talk about it.
but thats the thing, if they don't back him, they get french ivanka, you reject the acceptable for not being perfect, you get the unthinkable. we (the us) did this, it turns out very badly, learn from our mistake.
@@ryanweible9090 Exactly!!!!
@@ryanweible9090 thank you 🙏 you said it all
@@ryanweible9090 you're absolutely right, unfortunately many French voters won't watch international news and get another perspective. But even if they did, I'm not sure it would change their mind. The US has a sad history with racism, but at least you try to tackle the issue. In France, on the other hand, we never really addressed racism, be it against Jews before and after WWI, or against Blacks, Arabs, and so on. I'm afraid Right-wing ideas are going to prevail at some point (even if Le Pen loses). It actually scares most of us, and we try to act on a local level to change things.
Is France shackled by a two party system in the way the US is? I'm just curious why there aren't other options besides these two
I really, REALLY, hope the french remember her buddying up to Putin this coming weekend. Cause seriously, I'm scared of her coming into power. I don't trust her one tiny bit, especially given she wants out of the EU. She's being very quiet about that this election cycle, and it's making me worry that she's actually going to try and do it. And if she does, and loses the referendum on leaving the EU, I don't trust her not to try again, or see what other means she might have to do it. Coming from a Brit who's lived in France for the past couple of decades, I really don't want to basically go through Brexit twice.
I do to ! That's why she will win!
@@KingMinosxxvi I think you missed the part where I mentioned I don't want her to be President of France
@@hannahsmart4494 Nope.....I didn't miss anything. The left was squeezed out by the extreme center just like they did to Bernie in the states so now all you have left is crapcron and more sacntions and more prolonged conflict and more of the US pushing around europee.....Le Pen can maybe stop the madness....so I didn't miss anything. And dont worry SHE WILL NOT WIN...its close enough that wont let it happen even if she gets the votes
why do you even care lol. you act like the EU isnt funneling money to russia every single day since that war started.
@@mikegreystoke8379 The EU has faults, as does every single organisation on the planet. It's bureaucratic, slow, complicated, political, but still, I prefer the idea of Europe in this ever more globalised and interconnected world than being alone. More places in the world are forming trading blocs than aren't, countries are far better off working together with their neighbours than not. Besides, unlike what seems to be most people, I can actually understand that the EU helps more than it actually harms at the end of the day. Guaranteeing a certain level of standards aside (worker's rights, food, health and safety standards, etc.) the EU does have a rather important global influence. GDPR, making websites actually ask before planting cookies and trackers on your devices, at least trying to protect your online data, more than can be said for many other places. Also having enough sway to basically enforce all phones/tablets/etc are charged all with USB-C cables in the future, reducing the environmental impact of needing several chargers for several devices.
Two more notable things the EU has helped do recently.
The Russia issue is complicated, frankly I'm also annoyed and disappointed that they haven't done more sooner to cut off Russian oil and gas, though individual member states are starting to finally. But I can also understand the want to avoid directly causing an energy crisis practically across the continent just to continue an economic war against Russia which is already escalating enough as it is. Nobody wants world war three. And that very well might happen anyway, especially if it escalates worse.
I live in France and I can assure you that Lepen is heavily supported for this particular presidency. Not that many people genuinely like her but there's been a very strong dissatisfaction with Macron's presidency (covid didn't help, granted). That even far-left folks are willing to vote Lepen ever since she made sure to change her program and its policies.
She lost, that is all that matters for now. Her/her parties far right policies are problems for later down the line, hopefully giving the rest of France and Europe as a whole time to deal with their other problems in the meantime.
It's funny how often the far left ends up on the same side of the far right everywhere in the world, in my country it isn't different.
@@turnthepage867 thankfully i hope in your country a bas### will be elected and sh## on you all .
@Mike Macron also invited Putin in Versailles and shook his hands.
@@vilayoudama6235 He did it as a leader to an other leader, he didn't go to moscow to get money for his campaign...
As a french person, I'll sum up my own feelings on this election with a local expression: "Choisir entre la peste et le cholera". It translate as "chosing between catching the black plague or cholera".
It's only my opinion of course but I think the general 28,01 % rate of abstention woudd tend to indicate I may not be the only one. (It's not the highest ever reccorded, that was 31% in 1965 but it comes pretty close...)
I don't really understand your comment ... I am one of the many French people who voted Mélanchon in the first round and who voted Macron in the second round without any hesitation even if I consider that in many ways his first term was a disaster because Marine le Pen would have been an even bigger disaster ...
@@vol222nuit méluche puis macron .... ta bien fait barrage à la haine bravo "et sans hésitation" quel bon samaritain
@@Chaudab0y Tu aimeras ton prochain comme toi même ...le bon samaritain , ouais ça me va ... Même si parfois c'est compliqué ...
@@vol222nuit It's because many left people in France are effrayed by far right. Actually, and it's not really a bad idea because the left make a union and they are first in opinion.( Sorry for my english 😅)
"Holland" is actually just a region of the Netherlands.
And no - the Dutch don't like it, if you call the Netherlands "Holland" and them "Hollanders".
Imagine people from outside the US would just call the US "Texas", and everyone living in the US "Texans".
holland is the president that was before macron. problem solved.
Sometimes the whole USA reminds me of Texas. 🤣
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Makes complete sense to me!
I just wanna say that there are no words to express how much I want there to be timers on the front of American podiums when there are Presidential debate like in France because it would make SO MUCH SENSE!
Well as a french I can tell you that those timers are here for a very important reason: the talking time. There’s a rule which says that every candidate should have the exact same amount of time to talk about their program. I think that it’s the same in the US ? Idk but that’s the reason
@@rb026 we kinda have the same tho except only the person mediating the debate can tell the time so whenever they say times up you have to stop talking. Because of this candidates typically go over cause interrupting others is a classic American art form we learned from the British
@@siena2248 haha nice to know thnx
"may I take you back to where you come from?" 🤣🤣🤣
Loveeeeee the series. Please countinue it!! ✨
I love this installment because it at least tries to educate the American audience concerning European politics in a light hearted manner. In my opinion, this really is necessary taking into account American ignorance towards all current events that do not take place within their borders or supposedly do not directly concern them.
Love these segments. I'd never heard of this woman before. I sincerely hope France looks at the US and takes some serious notes. They DO NOT want 4 years (or however long their terms are) of a Trump.
I hope too! (It’s 5 years here in France)
@@raymaa1223 please go vote
You’d be surprised how many French want a leader just like Trump, if not more “Trumpier”
@@starcherry6814 why? Are they dumb?
Yeah, better macron who destroyed economy
Why was I expecting him to use Nigeria before he did 😆 🤣 😂 our TV interviews are even always too intense! "You go collect" 😆 🤣
How did I know Trevor was going to run that Jollof rice joke before he did? 😂😂😂😂
"Is Holland the same as the Netherlands?" let me try to explain that with an analogy: Is Montana the same as the USA?
Or England the same as Britain or the UK?
I'd have gone with Dakota, seeing as there's a north and south there :P
"Is America the same as The USA?" would be a better analogy.
The answer is yes and no. It's a bit of totem pro parte vs pars pro toto.
@@888PsyMike888 it's actually even more confusing, basically Holland is only a part of the Netherlands, but 99% of the people in the Netherlands, call the whole country Holland, and most people from the neighbouring countries do the same. In 9 out of 10 cases, saying Holland, means saying Netherlands.
@@888PsyMike888 In a EU or World Cup, it's always "Hup Holland" which is ment to include the whole Netherlands, but never you would hear "hup nederland"
France better not go down the road the US is going
the scary thing is from what i'm reading, Australia is doing it too. its like, I'm American and i'm holding up danger signs "no, dont follow us, we are barely keeping it together here, please do the smart things you do, not the dumb things we do."
We won't... Trust me... The max Le Pen will get is 44 %(which is still too much) but Macron had the older voters on his side(same as the US they are the one voting en masse) so the media is making it seems closer than it is.... We'll have Macron re-elected banners at 8pm local time
"Stop telling me how to finance my own plan."🤣🤣🤣
Trevor, you need to hear about Argentina’s “flan”, a dulce de leche dessert highly used to talk about the economic situation :)
She follows trump's policy? It's both hilarious and sad if she thinks he had a coherent policy.
He had. Filling his pockets. And that is also Le Pen's policy. And Putin's policy. And Bolsonaro's policy. And Fujumori's policy. And Hernandez's policy.
Basically, all of those far-right leaders are corrupt and greedy to the core.
Well, it just means she lies all the time and tries to look smart...
@@dominiqueridoux2073 When Trump ran for election, the media predicted the apocalypse. And what happened in the end? Not a thing. Nothing that hadn't happened before. The Trump administration did not cause the economic debacle, women were not forced to be housewives and wear hijabs, homosexuals were not persecuted, segregationist laws for blacks did not return, nothing happened that would not have happened with Obama or any other former president. Well, something happened, far fewer bombs were dropped in the Middle East than under Obama and fewer immigrants were deported than under Obama. Could it be that the media lie to us, want to confront us and want to keep us in an eternal state of tension and anxiety?
@@dominiqueridoux2073 Exactly!!! Thank you
Better than 40% inflation, a ministry of truth and open borders.
You people are so blind. I would vote for anything that wasn't a dem
This debate betwen Macron & Le Pen actually was one that got the less view in all the history of political debates broadcasted on French television, just to get an idea how people didn't care. Neither was it tense, Macron is so sure of himself he didn't even make a proper campaign, his strategy rellying solely (exactly as it was five years ago) on the fear of Le Pen, a dangerous strategy; while Le Pen try to appear like a friendly face able to oppose Macron.
We, in France are in a really deep mess, because Macron isn't a friendly face either. Sure, he is far less a threat to everyone, but is still verry damaging, people are legitimately tired and scared of him and this is one of the reasons Le Pen gained so much votes. Macron also has ties and sympathies to the far right, wich kinda blur the differences between him and Le Pen in the public eye.
To summerise, French people are discouraged by this two clowns because it feels either of them in power would deeply damage the country and the economy, people don't want to vote for them, and are confused regarding wich would be less damaging.
In India even people who don't really like the ruling party vote for it because the alternative is an extremely weak, very confused opposition. You have to pick the lesser of the two evils.
I can understand people being tired of Macron (please don’t elect Le Pen though), but… scared? Could you elaborate?
Sincerely, a citizen of your pretzel-loving neighbor to the east
@@jordinagel1184 After five years of despise and attacks on social issues (retirement, housing aids, work legislation, shutting down hospital beds...), police violence against the yellow vest movement, climate inaction, rise in military spendings, the only ones not afraid are Macron's friends (consulting groups, banks, media moguls...).
Le Pen is even more dangerous but will it be enough to motivate voters on Sunday ?
@@yeswellfrombrittany6907 hmm… Still can’t see how that would actually be “scary,” but I see where you’re coming from. Out of curiosity, how is the military spending in France seen now that Russia has invaded Ukraine and may try its luck with Finland or the Baltic states next? Has public opinion changed?
@@jordinagel1184 All candidates were for a well-funded army. Those two want a second nuclear aircraft carrier flagship. The opposition between them is regarding Europe and Russia. Macron would love France to take the lead in a "Europe of Defense", Le Pen would rather cut ties with NATO, stop sending weapons to Ukraine, appear 'neutral' and work together with Putin towards a quick peace treaty,
Trevor: is Holland the same as the Netherlands?
Me: *prepares for full teacher mode*
5:12 - The Soufflé Lady! Bahaha!
I love anytime Trevor mentions my country Nigeria
Man, Trevor is back in his prime 🙌
Other Countries Have News Too "I never kneeewww" Tony Baker voice...
Has anyone realized that Le Pen has the same stage walk as Trump😂
Birds of a feather… waddle together
Well done Trevor with the jollof rice/Nigeria joke....
She says she's different from her father *(less extreme?)* but the apple seldom falls far from its tree... and he supports Zemmour which makes things complicated
shes the ivanka. looks more palatable form the croaking old frog, but still carries the ugliness of bigotry and isolationism.
When Charles de Gaulle became the President of France in 1958, he asked, "how do you run a country that has over 300 cheeses?"
I was expecting that Nigeria part and you came through 😂😂
Macron can crush Le Pen:
"I met with Vladimir Putin because it was my job as head of state. You met Vladimir Putin because....reasons.... I think France isn't interested in having a President that is close to Putin BEFORE having any reason to be."
too based, Macron wouldn't say it
I think you should go to Madagascar…. It would be better for you ;)
@@namyetebarian3684 why specifically Madagascar?
🇳🇬 woops... Our problems really do run deeper than the flavour of jellof rice😅😅😅
There is something you should'nt miss: the dynamic around Jean Luc Mélenchon (kind of a local Bernie Sanders but with more swag B) )
The jollof line 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I remember being told at school back in the 90ies that the US are a cultural salad bowl. Guess that was the influence from French immigrants 😁
That was used in la guage classes a lot. Ive taught Spanish for years, Ive heard that
French immigrants in Greece? Textbooks are written locally, not by the people in the book...
(edit; you might be German ofcourse)
@@brmbkl as far as I know the concept origins from Canada.
So she really is a she French version of trump. She supports Putin, she modeling her campaign after trump, so yeah let's hope she doesn't win. I feel like the buck should have stopped at British trump AKA Johnson. we saw how that ended
I hope she wins.
@@nadominhoca the pro Russian bots have arrived in the comments.
@@nadominhoca She will NOT
@@nadominhoca And I hope she doesn't and I instead can vote.(And just did )
@@sjbock bruh are you aware that people dont like the US and prefer russia?
Our problems actually run deeper than the flavors of jollof rice 😂😂😂
😂😂😂man Trevor got me, was just about to mention my country “Nigeria “ and he did it for me.
Trevor looks happier lately!!!
I'm tired of this war. It should end. Oil has tripled here in Kenya. Economics is crazy but the war should end
Mate, fuel prices have increased everywhere, not just in Kenya. Even food prices have skyrocketed since Ukraine and Russia jointly produce 14% of the world's wheat. None of this, however, will get Putin to cease his invasion.
Even if the war ends I don't think oil prices will go down.
Living in Wisconsin, that joke was on point lol
Trevor, I need to make that comment about Jollof Rice in Nigeria 😂😂😂
Well I mean, I'd _like_ to think France has more sense than to have it's own _Brexit_ moment. I mean _all the world_ has seen how unfortunate that business turned out for _Britain._
Agreed. As long as we can avoid someone like Le Pen as President, we in France won't even get a referendum on leaving the EU. Macron is well placed and well respected in Europe, and when he finishes this 5 year term, I fully expect him to commit himself totally to working for Europe.
I'm french, very very funny Trevor 👏👏
Who do you support in this election cycle?
@@Geniusignotus i'm for macron but i'm not old enough to vote😭
@@jocelynhergott8310 Tu t'appelles Jocelyn et t'as moins de 18 ans? Coup dur😂
@@matthieu-2414 effectivement je suis un des seuls c'est dur parfois mais on s'habitue 😬😅
"Our problems run deeper than the flavours of jollof rice." 🤣
I like the close up personal shows from Trever, but just listening to him is great...really like his hair long and not short...as long as he is comfortable and enjoying his work is wonderful