The Fascist EU

[Big Blitz]

 

They are not our friends.  
 

 

[Roundybout]

1 minute ago, Big Blitz said:

 

That’s completely incorrect. She’s barred for five years. 

Bolsonaro committed a coup to remain in power. He’s lucky he’s not dangling from a bridge somewhere over the Amazon. 
 

No one is trying to bar McGregor from office. We’re mocking that CTE-riddled domestic abuser for thinking he matters in the political realm. 

[Big Blitz]

 

 

 

[BillsFanNC]

Saving democracy!

 

 

[Roundybout]

1 minute ago, BillsFanNC said:

Saving democracy!

 

 

Don’t do crimes, B word!

[BillsFanNC]

 

[All_Pro_Bills]

8 minutes ago, Roundybout said:

Don’t do crimes, B word!

Interesting in the Le Pen case the court stated per the misuse of EU funds. "It was found that all these people actually worked for the party, that their deputy did not commission them any tasks,” said the judge. Assistants then “passed from one deputy to another.”

 

A violation that sounds awfully similar to what the US Democratic party has done with putting party workers and political activists on the Federal payroll. No arrests here though. Yet....

[BillsFanNC]

Show me the man and I'll show you the crime.

 

Also, stop calling us commies.

 

Friggin RoundyMao.

 

[Roundybout]

4 minutes ago, BillsFanNC said:

Show me the man and I'll show you the crime.

 

Also, stop calling us commies.

 

Friggin RoundyMao.

 

Cry harder! Glad France still knows what to do with fascist idiots.

[Big Blitz]

 

[BillsFanNC]

 

[Coffeesforclosers]

Why am I supposed to be furious about a corruption case in France?

[B-Man]

 

 

 

[Roundybout]

Just now, B-Man said:

 

 

 

Don’t do crimes. How is this a difficult concept for you people? 

[Big Blitz]

EXPLAINED: How The Lawfare Against Marine Le Pen Led to Her Prison Sentence and Politics Ban.

 

A French court convicted Marine Le Pen, leader of the populist National Rally (RN) party, on March 31, 2025, of “embezzling” European Parliament funds—but make no mistake, the move was nothing short of politically orchestrated lawfare.

 

Prosecutors alleged that from 2004 to 2017, during her time as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP), Le Pen and 24 co-defendants funneled over €3 million (~$3.2 million) earmarked for assistants to support their Brussels-based parliamentary work into party operations in France. For this, she received a four-year prison term—two years suspended, two under house arrest—a $108,000 fine, and a five-year ban from public office, slamming the door on a projected 2027 presidential election triumph.

 

To be clear, RN doesn’t deny Le Pen’s assistants performed RN work. They argue that, as the leader of a national movement, advancing the RN platform she was elected on was a perfectly legitimate part of their work—particularly when it comes to fighting European Union overreach into national affairs.

 

“Parliamentary assistants do not work for the Parliament. They are political assistants to elected officials, political by definition,” she argued at trial. “Their role is to assist us in our political work, which is inseparable from our mandate as elected representatives.”

 

Such work is commonplace, even standard, among MEPs’ assistants, and the fact that Le Pen is being singled out is a dead giveaway of bias from a judiciary in lockstep with France’s liberal elite and the EU she’s vowed to defy.

 

Even if you accept that Le Pen violated some technical, selectively enforced interpretation of the European Parliament’s rules around assistants, the 56-year-old’s sentence is clearly disproportionate.

 

Contrast the iron fist used against her with Christine Lagarde’s velvet-glove treatment. In 2016, Lagarde, then France’s finance minister—later head of the International Monetary Fund, and now the head of the European Central Bank—was convicted of negligence over a €404 million (~$428 million) payout to businessman Bernard Tapie.

 

The court ruled her guilty but handed down no punishment at all—no fine, no jail, no ban. She sailed into one of Europe’s top jobs without consequence. 
 

The EU playbook is clear: when populists like Le Pen and Georgescu surge, the EU doesn’t seek to defeat them at the ballot box; it shuts them out. Americans should be thankful similar partisan efforts to stop Donald Trump from standing last November failed, but they should be wary of the way Europe is normalizing such behavior.
 

 

https://thenationalpulse.com/2025/03/31/explained-how-the-lawfare-against-marine-le-pen-led-to-her-prison-sentence-and-politics-ban/

 

[B-Man]

 

 

 

 

 

 

[BillsFanNC]

 

[Big Blitz]

Go Ukraine!  For the democacy!

 

 

 

[Big Blitz]

 

 

 

[B-Man]

 

 

You are not allowed to say certain truths,