The Old Man died, aged 96.

It’s about the worst time he could have died, because he lived to see his daughter ruin his legacy, but not long enough to see her get elected.

It’s a very old age, 96.

Euronews:

Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of the French far-right Front National party, now known as National Rally (RN), has died at 96.

The founder and longtime leader of the French far-right Front National party, since rebranded as the National Rally (RN), Jean-Marie Le Pen, died on Tuesday, his family said.

He was 96.

In a statement on Tuesday, National Rally called Le Pen a “courageous and talented politician” who “was determined to serve his country without fail.”

Le Pen was a polarising political figure known for his extreme views on immigration, his trademark nationalism and his theatrical oratory skills.

He founded the Front National party in 1972. At first, the party garnered little attention and his own bid for presidency won less than 1% of the vote in 1974.

A decade later, a surge of support saw his party win 10% of the vote in the 1984 European elections, where Le Pen won an MEP seat which he would hold for more than 30 years.

Le Pen with his daughters

Labelled by his critics as an extremist, Le Pen was convicted several times for his remarks, including denying the Holocaust and proposing to forcibly isolate people with AIDS.

In 1990, he was famously convicted for a remark he made on radio three years earlier in which he referred to Nazi gas chambers as a “detail in World War II history.” He doubled down on his comments in 2016, leading to another conviction.

Le Pen said of himself as being: “ni droite, ni gauche, français”, or “not right, not left, French”.

It’s a good message.

He will be missed.

Editor’s Note: This is more evidence that smoking doesn’t kill you. Le Pen lived to be 96, which I would hope is longer than anyone wants to live. If you are planning to live that long, you gotta stay fit.

What a stupid whore.

The Guardian:

The French far-right leader Marine Le Pen’s support of Israel in the wake of the Hamas attacks is being seen as part of a long-running drive to move her National Rally party away from its toxic, antisemitic past before a run for the presidency in 2027.

National Rally, which is the biggest opposition party in the French parliament and is polling ahead of Emmanuel Macron’s centrists for next year’s European elections, has firmly supported Israel’s right to defend itself since the Hamas attacks on 7 October and the ensuing bombardment of Gaza.

In a speech in parliament condemning what she called the “pogroms on Israeli soil” and attacking Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s leftwing La France Insoumise party for its “intolerable” stance in not classifying Hamas as a terror group, Le Pen was met with applause from parliamentarians from the traditional right and centre.

“Israel must be allowed to eradicate Hamas”

As she prepares to run for a fourth time for president in 2027, her anti-immigration party is promising to protect French Jews from what it calls the biggest danger: Islamism. Jordan Bardella, her party president, told French radio: “For lots of French Jews, the National Rally is a shield against Islamist ideology.”

France is highly sensitive to the Middle East conflict, with a community of about half a million Jews – the largest outside Israel or the US – and more than 800 antisemitic incidents recorded by police since October. France also has the biggest Muslim community in Europe.

Who brought all those Moslems there?

Who?

Marine Le Pen’s support of Israel has been seen by some commentators as a certain political opportunism. She has long sought to “normalise” her party and move it away from its jack-booted, antisemitic past, which was seen as a brake on the party’s new political ambitions. In 2015, Le Pen expelled her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, the party founder, after he reiterated comments belittling the Holocaust, for which he has several convictions. She later changed the party name from the National Front to National Rally.

This didn’t help at all

In a highly symbolic move, several of Le Pen’s parliamentarians attended a march in Paris in October led by Jewish groups in support of Israel. This was a radical change from previous years. In 2018, Le Pen attempted to take part in a march commemorating Mireille Knoll, a Jewish pensioner killed in an antisemitic murder, but had to move aside amid comments by some of “Fascists out”.

Although Le Pen did not personally attend the Israel march, several National Rally politicians who are members of the parliament’s France-Israel friendship group quietly took part. Yonathan Arfi, head of the Crif, France’s umbrella group of Jewish organsiations, told Le Monde he would fight National Rally in the 2027 presidential election and had clearly not invited them or exchanged with them in a way that would legitimise them, but the street was open to everyone.

Jewish groups continue to express concerns about the anti-immigration, far-right party, including on policy questions such as a potential ban on ritual slaughter, including for kosher food, and whether or not Jewish people should be allowed to wear kippas in public.

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Cécile Alduy, a professor at Stanford University and a specialist on Le Pen’s party said: “The Front National has a long history of antisemitism: one of its founders was a Waffen SS [member] and Jean-Marie Le Pen has been convicted several times for denying or minimising the Holocaust, or for antisemitic slurs. Jean-Marie Le Pen also expressed sympathy for the Palestinian people in the 90s, and was against any alignment on the US’s politics in the Middle East.

“But the party has always supported the existence of Israel – the young Jean-Marie Le Pen was an admirer of the Suez operation in 1956, and after September 11, 2001, the far right started to see Israel as an enclave of the west within the Arab world, in a war of civilisations.”

Alduy said Marine Le Pen had tried several times in recent years to go to Israel and meet officials, which had been denied. Louis Aliot, the National Rally mayor of Perpignan, whose mother’s family has Jewish heritage, had particularly tried to build bridges with French-Israelis.

“The National Rally has started to target the supposed entrenched antisemitism of immigrants of Muslim heritage, and tried to buy a new virginity on that front by pretending to protect the Jewish community from them,” she said.

Alduy said: “Marine Le Pen is against a ceasefire, does not seem to support a humanitarian corridor, and her [MPs] have called Palestinian victims “collateral damage” necessary to entirely eliminate Hamas. This clearly signals a desire to contrast the National Rally’s absolute support for Israel against Islamists, [and] against the ambiguous position of some on the far left. It certainly plays into the National Rally’s narrative of normalisation.”

This isn’t even a good strategy.

Jews are never going to forgive her for being born of the seed of the best anti-Semite in Europe since Hitler. She’s not going to appeal to the Jews based on hating Moslems.

I understand that the centerpiece is anti-immigration, and that the immigrants are Moslems, but that really shouldn’t even be related. These are two totally separate issues.

Well, the link between them is that it is Israel that is responsible for the refugee crisis (although the core population of France’s Moslem bloc are not refugees at all), and the fact that the Jews are the ones who pushed for immigration.

The Jews are already leaving anyway. How many Jew voters are there?

Where are the French gonna emigrate to?

The real electoral strategy is to target what the French people are sympathetic to. You don’t even have to call for arming Hamas, but just don’t go out and say you support Israel.

It doesn’t make any sense.

Women are so retarded.

France is doomed because Marine, instead of a male sperm, won the sperm race – probably because Old Man Le Penn wasn’t eating enough fatty fish.

It’s the butterfly effect.

Old white men are too old and racist to ever learn that love trumps hate and that millions of Jews were turned into lampshades in electric shower rooms by Adolf Hitler.

France 24:

The 93-year-old founder of France’s main far-right party, Jean-Marie Le Pen, goes on trial Wednesday over allegations of once again inciting racial hatred, this time with comments targeting a Jewish pop singer.

He already has a string of hate speech convictions that eventually became too much for his daughter Marine Le Pen, who expelled him from the National Front’s leadership in 2015 in a bid to achieve mainstream respectability.

Le Pen senior, however, has continued to relish the outrage prompted by his statements regarding Jews, Muslims, black people and immigrants.

The latest trial stems from a 2014 video on the party’s website in which Le Pen railed against artists who denounced his extremist stances, including Madonna and the French tennis star-turned-singer Yannick Noah.

Asked about the French singer and actor Patrick Bruel, Le Pen referred to his Jewish origins with a pun evoking the Holocaust – “I’m not surprised. Listen, next time we’ll do a whole oven batch!”

The taunt sparked a torrent of indignation including from leaders of his own party, with Marine Le Pen criticising what she called a “political error”.

Jean-Marie claimed the comments carried no anti-Semitic connotations “except for my political enemies or imbeciles”.

He does not intend to appear in person at the trial in Paris, where he is charged with inciting anti-Semitic hatred, according to associates.

“This case is based only on part of a phrase taken out of context,” said his lawyer Frederic Joachim, who will seek to have the charge dismissed.

Sigh.

Old Man Le Pen literally had the solutions to our problems for 60 years, but no one paid attention.

If you have democracy, you cannot also have freedom – the two are totally incompatible.

Now all these kinds of problems he warned about are truly manifest in the form of this virus hoax, so they’re silencing him again because he made fun of a Jew pop star…?

Jean-Marie’s stupid whore daughter is half-wittedly fighting against the virus hoax, and going out to these protests against the vax pass and forced vax.

#manifestation4septembre Là on bat tous les records !!! Et ça continue d’arriver en masse ! Incroyable mobilisation populaire ! 🇫🇷 pic.twitter.com/5hS8paiMZf

— Florian Philippot (@f_philippot) September 4, 2021

But the bitch is dumb, and a total failure. Regardless, women can’t lead revolutions.

If Jean-Marie had had a son, all of these problems wouldn’t even exist at all.

tfw your daughter says “Islam is French.”

eeee.

This is rough.

Marine is such a horrible feminist nightmare woman. She has literally collapsed the entire party.

The old man is saying exactly what I’ve been saying, though I really don’t think he should have said it. I mean, I understand he’s pissed off, but Sarkozy is a Jew and is pro-EU.

The Local:

If you wanted any confirmation of how far to the right presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy was swaying in order to get elected, it came in the words of Jean-Marie Le Pen, the former leader of the far right Front National.

Jean-Marie Le Pen, the father of the current party leader Marine, has criticized his daughter for being too “centrist” and has suggested his real heir is Nicolas Sarkozy.

Sarkozy, who beat Jean-Marie Le Pen to become president of France in 2007, is fighting to win the centre-right primary election in November which would give him a strong chance of being re-elected as head of state next May.

As part his campaign to beat rival Alain Juppé to be the chosen conservative candidate in November’s primary, Sarkozy has occupied the terrain normally held by the National Front’s Le Pen.

He has spoken repeatedly of the need for France to put a stop to immigration, close its borders, lock up those suspected of having jihadist sympathies and of how Muslims must assimilate to French culture.

He also wants to take on Europe and end the deal that sees Britain’s border on the French side of the English Channel.

As a result he has made Le Pen senior very proud and a little jealous.

“He is occupying the ground that Marine Le Pen has abandoned to go to the centre. [Sarkozy] on the other hand has left the centre ground to head towards the nationalist and populist right, that is winning over public opinion due to the pressure of recent events,” said Jean-Marie Le Pen.

“It’s not me that has become more like Sarkozy, it’s him that has become more like Jean-Marie Le Pen,” said the former FN party leader.

Le Pen also criticised his daughter for recently “renouncing the Front National’s flame logo and the FN initials “that have got us so far. It’s suicidal,” he said.

At a recent election rally for Marine Le Pen’s 2017 campaign all mention of the National Front and even the name “Le Pen” were dropped from the posters as she attempts to distance herself from the more extreme elements within the party, like her father, and make herself more electable.

Le Pen senior, of course, has a reason or two to have a dig at his daughter.

He was unceremoniously banned from the party after he repeated inflammatory remarks he had made in the past, referring to Nazi gas chambers as a “detail of history.”

He is still fighting his corner through the courts.

His bitter dispute with his daughter means that she is not guaranteed her father’s vote in next year’s presidential election.

“I don’t know [who I will vote for]. Over the next seven months anything can happen,” he said.

As I say.

I encourage my French readers to vote for Le Pen, despite her disgusting shilling, because the main issue remains the EU, and she is going to do a referendum. Jew Sarkozy isn’t, and that’s why he’s out there out-shitlording her. The ideas of NF were popular. These new ideas she’s promoting are not.

This has been my message to the Alt-Right all along. If you cuck, you lose everything. You gain nothing. Maybe some of the figures involved in leading you into a sellout will get rich, or get shows on TV, but the movement will collapse and you will lose. It happened to the Tea Party and it has happened to the FN.

Cucking doesn’t make you more palatable. It just makes you look weak and pathetic. The reason people are drawn to the right is that they want strength and principles. If you cuck, you lose all appeal.

We gain nothing from being implicit. We must continue be absolutely explicit.

It isn’t just the right thing to do, it’s the only thing that works.

And this, my friends, is why for millions of years, women were not ever put in control of anything other than the kitchen.

Sputnik:

Jean-Marie Le Pen, who co-founded France’s far-right National Front, was ousted from the party on Thursday over inflammatory and anti-Semitic remarks the 87-year-old provocateur made earlier this year.

The decision was announced in a statement hours after the end of a three-hour hearing by the party’s executive bureau, during which Le Pen defended himself against a list of 15 complaints, the Associated Press reported.

“The full decision, including its reasoning, will be sent shortly to Mr. Le Pen,” a National Front spokeswoman said.

Upon hearing reports of his expulsion from the party, Le Pen said he would appeal the decision.

“When they notify me of this decision, I will, of course, attack it before the competent authorities,” Le Pen said, speaking to the I-Tele broadcaster.

In April, Le Pen reiterated comments from 25 years ago that gas chambers used by Nazi Germany to kill Jews were “merely a detail” of World War II, and said that France should get along with Russia to save the “white world.”

Just imagine for a minute if women weren’t allowed any power in society.

Where would we be as a civilization?

A small victory.

It’s too bad he’s too old, he could just completely take over the party again and start firing up the ovens. He seems to have set up a very good legal position as leader for life.

AP:

A French appeal court has confirmed the cancellation of a mail-in vote organized by far-right leader Marine Le Pen to try to end her father’s influence on their National Front party.

The court in the Paris suburb of Versailles ruled Tuesday that the vote by party members represented a breach in party statutes.

It was the third court victory in less than a month for Jean-Marie Le Pen, a co-founder of the National Front, and a setback for daughter Marine, the president.

He had already been reinstated as honorary party head for life by a court after Marine had tried to Jew him out of the position.

It’s a shame he didn’t have a son.

For the record, Le Pen is still being prosecuted for Holocaust denial for calling the Holocaust a “detail of history.” Yes, he didn’t deny it happened, but because he didn’t claim it was the most important thing that has ever happened in history, the Jews who run France are equating it to denial.

Following Marine Le Pen’s attempt to punish her own father for hilarious statements he made about the sickening Jews, a court has acted in his favor.

AP:

A French court has reinstated Jean-Marie Le Pen as a member of the far-right National Front party he founded decades ago, delivering a biting blow to his daughter and party president Marine Le Pen, who had suspended him after a series of controversial and anti-Semitic statements.

The family drama reflects the political evolution of the party, as Marine Le Pen eyes the French presidency and cultivates a less extreme image than her father.

She had tried to sideline her father, honorary party president for life, and held a special meeting May 4 in which senior party figures suspended his membership.

Jean-Marie Le Pen protested, and a court in the Paris suburb of Nanterre ruled in his favor Thursday. The judge said that the party breached its own statutes by suspending Le Pen without setting a date for a final decision on whether to expel him permanently.

This is both a victory for true nationalism – which is necessarily anti-Semitic – and a victory for men as a sex.

Jean-Marie needs to simply wait for his chance to seize control of the party and begin mass deportations of the filthy Jews and their monkey-like Moslem fighting comrades.

Female “Nationalist” politician and current FN leader Marine Le Pen has been wanting her father Jean-Marie out of the party, which he founded in 1972, after he uttered some totally evil remarks about the Jews’ Holocaust hoax.

Well that desire has unfortunately come to fruition. Papa Le Pen was suspended from Front National on Monday. A select group of party members will eventually meet to decide whether or not to strip him of his title of honorary president.

In response to the suspension, Jean-Marie basically disowned his party-wrecking daughter.

Telegraph:

On Monday night, the 86-year old, who founded the FN in 1972 and led it until 2011, reacted furiously to his suspension by calling on his daughter to change her name because she was not fit to be a Le Pen.

“It is a felony and I am ashamed that the president of the FN bears my name,” he said. “In fact I would like her to change it as soon as possible.

“I do not recognise any ties with someone who betrays me in such a scandalous fashion.”

He has been accused of “taking the party hostage” through his “damaging” remarks belittling the Nazi gas chambers, praising the leader of Vichy France and his call to “save the white world”.

It’s actually Marine who has taken the party hostage through her damaging moderate approach. Papa Le Pen’s approach is the right one.

Let this whole fiasco be a lesson that women in politics, even Nationalist-oriented women, is not the brightest idea.

The real leader of the National Front has responded to his usurper daughter.

Jean-Marie Le Pen has said that he will not be leaving politics, despite this unleashed woman’s outrageous demands.

Reuters:

Marine Le Pen said on Thursday she would seek disciplinary action against her father after the 86-year-old was quoted this week calling France’s Spanish-born Prime Minister Manuel Valls “the immigrant”.

He also defended Philippe Petain, the leader of the war-time government that cooperated with Nazi Germany. Last week he defended a past comment that Nazi gas chambers were a “detail of history”.

Asked on RTL radio whether he would stay in politics, he said: “Obviously – I’m a politician.”

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Jean-Marie Le Pen said he would fight any disciplinary action by the party’s leadership and would seek the party’s candidacy for the presidency of the southeastern Provence, Alps and Cote d’Azur region, a move his daughter opposes.

Le Pen, who is the party’s honorary president, is loathe to see it dilute the anti-establishment image that he nourished for decades. “Madame Le Pen is blowing up her own party,” he said.

It very much looks that Madame Le Pen is blowing up her own party.

What a complete disaster.

It seems Papa Le Pen has come out and questioned the nature of the Charlie Hebdo attacks!

…but then he pretty much changed his mind, or said there were problems with the Russian translation of the interview where he said it.

Liberation:

In an interview with a Russian tabloid, the honorary president of the National Front said he believes that “the operation” of the Kouachi brothers’ bears the signature of secret services. To Liberation, he said he wasn’t talking about a “conspiracy” but merely “asking questions.”

[Updated with the reaction of Jean-Marie Le Pen]

In an interview published Thursday in the Russian tabloid Komsomolskaya Pravda, known for its sensationalism, Jean-Marie Le Pen did not show much restraint as he forwarded the conspiracy theory regarding the Charlie Hebdo attacks. After the journalist Daria Aslamova states that there are “a lot of gray areas” in the “official” version of the killings, the honorary president of the National Front muses: “I agree with you. This ID card forgotten by the Kouachi brothers brings to mind the passport of one of the September 11th terrorists being miraculously found in a pile of ashes in New York. We are now told that these terrorists are just idiots. The entire operation [of the Kouachi brothers] bears the signature of secret services. Of course, we have no evidence. I’m not saying that the French authorities are behind this crime, but they may have allowed it to occur.”

Le Pen made the statement “I’m Charlie Martel.” Saying that France has between “15 and 20 million Muslims,” he stated his long-held position on immigration, that “every successive government has allowed and even encouraged it.” He believes that the National Front should have been at the forefront of the Republican running, “being the only party to have alerted the public to the dangers of immigration and radical Islam.”

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“Every year 300,000 people come and do not seek work. Between 6 and 8 million people live on social benefits in France, suggesting that this is not a migration of workers but of conquerors. This is the result of the Christian decadence that affects all of Europe. The European Union banned borders within it, and now, in the South, nobody protects us from the arrival of hundreds of thousands of immigrants. This appears to be a betrayal from within Europe.”

When asked why Charlie Hebdo drew caricatures “of Muslims and Christians, but almost never the Jews,” the FN patriarch explained that this is because “the Jews know how to defend.” As an example, he refers to “Femen, who can undress in front of the Pope but have never entered a synagogue.”

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The President of the National Front [Marine Le Pen] gave a press conference on Friday. when asked about the statements of her father, she said he had no knowledge of this interview, but it sounds “strange” to her.

That afternoon, the National Front issued a statement saying that Jean-Marie Le Pen does “not endorse interviews which have been translated into Russian and then back into French.”

Reached in the early evening Liberation, Jean-Marie Le Pen refused to talk about “conspiracy theory” because “no authority has made ​​such a theory.” He accused the media of “extrapolating from countless sources and notes that as soon as one asks questions and does not completely go along with the government’s account of events, one is immediately identified as a believer in the conspiracy theory.”

“Why can we not be surprised that they found the identity cards of terrorists in the vehicle?”

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As for the reference to the secret services, he did not deny saying it, but was vague: “The killers of jihadism are members of a secret service right? There are many states that fund them, is it not so?”

So, he didn’t go full-conspiracy. He said that he told the Russian media that the secret services might have been involved, then seemingly backtracked and told the French media that the terrorists themselves were part of a secret service.

He clearly believes that 9/11 was a Jew conspiracy, and like many conspiracy theorists, drew a parallel between the convenient ID card find in the terror mobile with the convenient passport found in the ashes. He then stated that it he believes events could have been manipulated after the fact in order to support the present government, though he wasn’t clear about how that might have happened.

I will state again that I just don’t see the sense in this being a conspiracy as it makes Moslems look bad and FN look good. I also don’t think finding an ID card in a car is all that crazy, given that these guys would have been high on adrenaline after killing all those people.

Also, I will note that I imagine much of his backtracking would have been due to Jews getting killed. I was willing to entertain conspiracy theories until that happened (one was also killed at Charlie, but that didn’t come out until later).

Again, you all know my policy on things such as this. I say as I believe, based on available data. If some data comes out in support of the theories, I will publish it, but right now all that there is is “well it’s weird the ID card was in the car…” and this really does not amount to much.