Candace and Brigitte and Emmanuel

Candace Owens is on the verge of becoming the next Princess Diana

That is, the most famous woman in the world.

I have written about Owens previously.  I find her position on Israel and October 7th to be noxious and anti-semitic.  Nevertheless she is a colorful character.  She was the only journalist, that I know of, who honestly tried to explore Kamala Harris' family background, before last year's election.  With her video series, A Shot in the Dark, Owens is Big Pharma enemy number one.  And now, she is taking on the President of France and his First Lady.

I am not going to recap the story here.  If you are interested, go watch the Owens' series Becoming Brigitte.  But the long and the short of it is that Owens believes that Brigitte Macron is a man.  And she has been broadcasting this globally for some period of time.

And evidently Macron and his partner want her to stop.  First, they asked President Trump to personally intervene.  He did and Owens agreed to pause the discussion for a few months.  But she did not agree to stop, and now the pause is over.  So the Macron's have sued her, in the US, for defamation.  That's right, the President of France is suing a Tennessee podcaster working out of her basement.  The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

Now, I have no idea whether or not Brigitte was born a male.  But it seems easy enough to refute.  Just take a blood test.  Or as Owens requests, just supply some photos from your early life.  But the Macron's have presented no evidence.

The whole thing reminds me of Trump and Barack Obama's birth certificate.  Obama did not provide anything until he figured he could do maximum damage to Trump.  Then, bam.  Is this the game that the Macron's are playing?

Maybe.  But in the meantime they are doing more damage to themselves than anything else.  Why?

Could it actually be true that Brigitte Macron is a man?  I have watched the Owens' series, and yes, she makes a compelling case.  She is not the lunatic conspiracy theorist that the Macron's would have the world believe.  Owens believes that the Macron's only filed the lawsuit as a public relations stunt, and that they will absolutely drop the case prior to discovery.  I think this is probably correct; discovery would be too delicious.

Whether or not Brigitte is a man, the Macron's do not want anyone looking too closely at their history, for any reason.  Brigitte was one of Emmanuel's high school teachers and she was twenty-five years older than him.  Was it some type of grooming?  Of course it was; the question is did the grooming breach some legal standard?  Did Brigitte sexually abuse Emmanuel when he was a minor?  What else might one ask about?  I mean even the libertine French have their limits.  No, no, they want this to go away.  Yesterday.  And if they could prove Owens wrong, they would have already quashed the nonsense.

So there are several options to consider:

One, Owens is somehow proven wrong and found defamatory.  Whether in court or by the press.  Owens will lose her reputation and career.  This is a problem ...for the Macron's.  I think Candace would be all too happy to simply raise her four children and tend her garden.  If the Macron's think they can bully her, like a good little French provinciale, well, bon chance with that.

Two, the Macron's somehow manage to stay quiet and threaten any and all other doubters.  I do not really think this is a viable option; Owens will just continue to make a lot of noise.  And the way the Macron's have behaved and continue to behave just ensures that everyone is watching.  Macron may be the President of France, but evidently he is not very clever.  And he is certainly no match for Owens.  It would be painful to watch except the Macron's are so very haughty and arrogant about the whole thing.

Three, it comes out that Brigitte Macron is a man.  Emmanuel Macron would be forced to resign in disgrace.  Not because he is gay, but for the years long massive coverup.  And Candace Owens will become the most famous woman since Princess Diana.  This is the most likely scenario.  Believe me, if this plays out, Candace will not have any trouble buying handbags in Europe.

There is a fourth option.  The Macron's may try to silence Owens outside of a courtroom.  She might have a car accident or some other such misfortune.  No, wait, I do not want to also be sued for defamation:  Mon dieu, the Macron's are such good people; I'm sure they would never do such a thing.
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France in Twilight

Watching France descend into darkness

An interesting update on Islam in France and how French leaders are dealing with the situation.  Or rather, not dealing with it.  The writer, Bruce Bawer, is an American who has long lived in Norway.  His article includes this extraordinary passage which includes a rather basic question from a retired French general, Roland Dubois:

The minds and hearts of these people are consecrated to a set of beliefs and practices that represent an existential menace to Western Civilization.  To pretend that these believers can be reined in by any lame law or charter or pact is sheer folly.  As one General Roland Dubois asked rhetorically in a recent commentary:  When faced with a choice between a sacred text, dictated by Allah himself, and therefore untouchable to the end of time and some newly concocted document, more or less imposed by the unbelievers, which text can you expect to win out?  Muslims have felt a sense of indomitability in France for some time now; can anyone honestly expect them to turn meek?  The bottom line, then, is this:  If Islam were harmless in the first place, there would be no need for any laws or charters to control its adherents; but since Islam is not harmless, such documents are useless – except perhaps as part of an effort by Macron to make it look to voters, in the run-up to the next election, as if he’s actually doing something about the issue.  [Emphasis added]

In an Open Letter to the President of France and Members of Parliament, General Dubois and nineteen of his fellow retired generals write:

As Cardinal Mercier, Primate of Belgium, once said:  When prudence is everywhere, courage is nowhere.  Ladies and Gentlemen, stop equivocating — the hour is late, the work ahead is immense.  Do not lose time, and know that we are ready to support political leaders who would undertake the rescue of the Nation.

However, if nothing is done, heedlessness will continue to spread its poison throughout society, inexorably.  In the end, there will be an explosion, and our comrades in active military service will be forced to step in and undertake the perilous mission of protecting our civilizational values and the lives of our fellow citizens.

It is easy to see that the time for hesitation is over.  Otherwise, tomorrow, civil war will put an end to this growing chaos, and there will be thousands of deaths, of which you will bear responsibility.

Editor's note:  Translation from The American Mind.  Read the full translated letter here:  Twilight in Paris (love the title).

Needless to say, the letter has not been received well by the French bien-pensants.  Left-wing politicians labeled it a thinly veiled call for insurrection, and called for legal action and prosecutions.  Here is an accounting of the episode from the Daily Mail.  The Mail updates the story here.  Here is the story in The Telegraph, also updated.

The Left offers no substantive alternatives.  They certainly dare not address Dubois' question above.  In this new millennium, the Left has only one playbook:  Label anyone who disagrees with their narrative a bigot, have them canceled or fired, and completely ignore the mayhem all around.

As Samuel Huntington wrote in The Clash of Civilizations, Islam has bloody borders.  And the European border is no longer the Mediterranean Sea.  Today, the border stretches through every major European city.  And the blood spilling has just begun.
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