Below are two videos about the ongoing political crisis in France centered around the Yellow Vest movement and the presidency of Emmanuel “Toy Boy” Macron. Many thanks to Ava Lon for the translations, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling.

In the first video Mr. Macron lectures his fellow citizens on their duties to the state:

Later Mr. Macron descended on the town of Grand Bourgtheroulde in Normandy for what was billed as a “National Debate”. Hundreds of Yellow Vests converged on Bourgtheroulde, but the president was not willing to meet with them or debate them:

More on the National Debate in Grand Bourgtheroulde: France24

Video transcript #1:

00:00 The troubles that our society is going through are also, 00:04 sometimes, owed to and linked to the fact that 00:08 far too many of our compatriots think that you can obtain 00:12 [something] without putting out any effort. That sometimes 00:16 you, all too often, forget that besides the rights of everybody in the Republic — 00:20 and our Republic has nothing to envy about many other countries, I can tell you this — 00:24 [besides the rights] there are duties. And if there’s no engagement, this steering 00:28 of effort, the fact that every citizen brings his stone to the [construction of] the building 00:32 by his work, by his engagement at work, our country won’t ever completely retrieve its power, 00:41 its cohesion.



Video transcript #2: