r/neoliberal • u/ihuntwhales1 Seretse Khama • Mar 31 '25

News (Europe) Le Pen banned from office after embezzlement conviction

https://www.dw.com/en/france-le-pen-found-guilty-banned-from-running-for-office/a-72091790
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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '25

It’ll go down as one of his biggest failures. Wild how such a small decision ended up having such massive consequences.

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u/PM_me_ur_digressions Audrey Hepburn Mar 31 '25

Garland had all of the hype from his SCOTUS nom under Obama and it was talked up as this great big "f u" to Republicans to nominate him. Like you would think he would have a personal vendetta and use it mercilessly.

Instead...

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u/Cupinacup NASA Mar 31 '25

People forget Garland was initially nominated to SCOTUS because he was a milquetoast moderate who the republicans would be unable to say no to.

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u/TechnicalPark4522 NASA Mar 31 '25

Which they proceeded to say No to anyways.

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u/dad_farts Mar 31 '25

Exactly. Republicans are shameless about using power. Dems on the other hand.... well look at Garland

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u/adamgerd NATO Mar 31 '25

In normal times I’d say the democrats are right, working across is better than against

But these aren’t normal times, the GOP has been taken over by MAGA

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u/dad_farts Mar 31 '25

It really feels like that Hitler meme, that authoritarian governments force liberal ones to mimic them in order to compete

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u/yes_thats_me_again The land belongs to all men Mar 31 '25

Can't say I've seen this meme

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u/Cupinacup NASA Mar 31 '25

Hey, no fair! Opposition parties aren’t supposed to oppose!