In the following video Marine Le Pen thanks her supporters who campaigned for her on social media. She credits them with putting her through to the second round of the presidential election.
Many thanks to Ava Lon for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:
Transcript:
00:00 | My dear friends, I wanted to make this video to thank you: | |
00:04 | you, the internet militants, who were mobilized | |
00:08 | from the beginning of this campaign, on social media, 24/7! | |
00:12 | You are the wonderful relay for my project and my actions. | |
00:16 | You actively participate in the campaign, with creativity, energy, | |
00:20 | humor. You intelligently resist the propaganda and the lies spread | |
00:24 | by the system’s media. You are among the craftsmen | |
00:28 | of this first victory: the part that allows me to get to the second round of the elections, | |
00:32 | and that puts us right now on the road to victory! You are the ones who give me energy, | |
00:36 | which I very much need. Your enthusiasm and your fervor are unparalleled. | |
00:40 | None of my adversaries has with him such efficient militants! | |
00:44 | This shows, I believe, the power of patriotism, the power of sincere engagement, | |
00:48 | but also the power of my project. It invites adherents and gives hope. | |
00:52 | Everywhere, every day, on the internet and in the real world, new patriots | |
00:56 | are joining us and are committing to our side. There are a couple of days | |
01:00 | of intense mobilization remaining, like before the first round, but perhaps now even more | |
01:04 | the system is going to unleash all its weapons against the patriots: | |
01:08 | the caricatures, the compromises of the truth, maneuvers; nothing will be spared against us. | |
01:12 | So it is precisely on you, therefore, that I count, on that home straight, | |
01:16 | to bring back the truth every time it’s necessary, to convince and | |
01:20 | to show to all our compatriots that my project is to protect them. You are the best | |
01:24 | messengers — responsible, intelligent and in solidarity — who can explain | |
01:28 | that my election as leader of the country would be the best news for French people in a long time. | |
01:32 | I am the people’s candidate. And I can feel it with an even greater obviousness | |
01:36 | when I see all your actions. When I fight in the election | |
01:40 | it’s for you, with you, and thanks to you. |
“…the propoganda and the lies spread by the system’s media.”
“…the system is going to unleash all its weapons against the patriots.”
I’m not ashamed to say that when I voted for Trump a prime motivator was my visceral hatred of the lies spread by the media. Long exposure to those lies had inoculated me against all of the system’s weapons. This, I hope, is not a boast. And now I will say something either terminally stupid or terminally naive: how can Frenchmen, living in a country rocked weekly by Muslim atrocities, NOT share my visceral hatred for the lie spewed at them by the system’s media that MORE OF THE SAME is the proper respectable path to take and that PATRIOTISM IS FASCISM?!
You are very welcome! 🙂
We wish Ms. Le Pen the best. Perhaps she may want to label her opponent with a nickname :” MACROLLANDE “. Lets also hope she is not flying under a false flag like the self promoter Trump; who reversed all his promises in less than one hundred days; and even murdered sixteen innocent Syrians with missiles based on a bogus rationale.
Whatever her faults might be, Marine Le Pen looks human, unlike her rival who resembles a malevolent puppet.