The French Revolution

[Dale00]

This bears watching...hard to discern what is really going on..meanwhile cancel your flight to Paris. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ce-Paris-riot-police-use-tear-gas-batons.html

The 'yellow vest' or 'gilets jaunes' protesters have taken to the streets of Paris again in what began as a row over fuel prices but has developed into a wider onslaught on the French government.

It was first prompted by Emmanuel Macron's move to raise the price of diesel fuel in a bid to encourage less polluting cars.

Yellow-jacketed protesters on the Champs-Elysees today

Motorists took to the streets wearing the high-visibility yellow jackets which drivers are required to carry in their vehicles in France, giving the movement its name.

Since then the protest has gathered momentum and taken aim at the high cost of living and wider dissatisfaction with Macron's presidency.

Macron has been accused of being out of touch with the problems of ordinary French people.

At today's demonstration there were calls for Macron, whose popularity has slumped, to resign.

 

[Slim Deal]

This 'yellow vest' thing has spread to Brussels(the city of corruption and evil globalism). Only 2 things happen in Brussels, huge amounts of money laundering and globalism.

 

[Chief Sapulpa]

This 'yellow vest' thing has spread to Brussels(the city of corruption and evil globalism)...

It's spread to Tampa FL as well; the street corner pan handlers are required to wear them as well.

 

[ignerntbend]

It's spread to Altus, Oklahoma as well. Saw a half dozen guys like that milling around in the bar ditch the other day.

 

[D. Hargrove]

Spread to Fort Sill, saw a gaggle of folks with them on this morning. The threat is real, the struggle, well not so much.

 

[TerryMiller]

I must have missed the e-mail. The wife and I each have vests that are more of the green color, but we bought ours to wear when we were out walking on Colorado roads...

...wouldn't want a stoner to hit us, you know.

 

[ignerntbend]

Neon green, Terry? You know how mesmerizing that is? Dopers will gravitate toward it because WOW! Do you see that? Is that real? Then wam! You'll be a statistic. One more luckless pedestrian.

 

[dennishoddy]

Neon green, Terry? You know how mesmerizing that is? Dopers will gravitate toward it because WOW! Do you see that? Is that real? Then wam! You'll be a statistic. One more luckless pedestrian.

Not so. Stoners gravitate more to the hunter orange vests because they more closely resemble the color of Cheetos.

 

[Dale00]

Unless they are speaking French while wearing the vest they are not the real deal.....beware of imitations

often imitated, never duplicated

 

[steelfingers]

I thought there was a huge water leak.
Honestly, Paris is burning and no one cares.
They let a ton of Islamist in, give free everything and now they don't want to pay for it.
Sounds like California without the revenue.