Actually, flaming poo blowing all over the Champs-Élysées is kind of the perfect illustration of effete, elfin French President Emmanuel Macron's France at the moment, wouldn't you think?
🚨🇫🇷WATCH: France Is Burning Today as Farmers Rise Up Against the EU Agendas!
— Mario ZNA (@MarioBojic) January 12, 2026
Brave French refuse to back down as protests rage on for days.
"EU wants to turn us into modern-day slaves, we will not allow the struggle of our grandfathers to be in vain." pic.twitter.com/VWu3oljpJz
Oh, yeah - Greenland, tough guy.
I mean, farmers are mad and blowing that earthy fertilizer stuff everywhere, and Macron's gonna save Greenland for the Danes.
Okay.
He’ll, the French can’t even stop their farmers from spraying 💩on government buildings!🤣 pic.twitter.com/BTJJDWG6xO
— Tom (@Tom129782383) January 12, 2026
And Macron could not, in fact, keep the farmers out of Paris.
🚨BREAKING:
— Based Hungary 🇭🇺 (@HungaryBased) January 6, 2026
🇫🇷 French Farmers are BREAKING through Gendarme Barricades to get to Paris.
Rural France is COMING for Macron's Paris. pic.twitter.com/1tOrjEzHqe
What the farmers across the European Union are mad about - and who could blame them - is a deal called the Mercosur, the South American trade bloc consisting of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay. Mercosur is Portuguese for 'trade,' and this is a free trade agricultural deal with those countries that will open the EU to tons of new products. What has farmers across the EU so incensed is that their stringent and exceedingly difficult regulations will not be loosened in any fashion while imports from the South American countries will not be subject to those same requirements to come in.
So, rightfully, the European farmers feel like they're getting the short end of the stick yet again.
It's only the most egregious poke in the eye in a long list of EU-imposed insults.
...On top of Mercosur, farmers also protested against high costs and excessive local regulation and demanded an end to a government policy of culling herds of cows in response to a highly contagious cattle disease, which they consider excessive.
"We are between resentment and despair. We have a feeling of abandonment, with Mercosur being an example," Stephane Pelletier, a senior member of the Coordination Rurale union, told Reuters beneath the Eiffel Tower.
..."We're going to import products from the rest of the world that don't meet our standards – that's not possible, that's unacceptable. So we're staying mobilised, we're carrying on,” Arnaud Rousseau, president of the FNSEA farm union told reporters, referring to the Mercosur deal.
Bowing to pressure and explosive demonstrations by farmers in their countries, both the French president as well as the Irish government are bucking the deal when it comes up for a vote in Brussels, although they believe they have Meloni on board for a yes.
...Macron said on social media that France would vote against signing the agreement on Friday, despite having secured "major commitments" from the European Commission.
"The signing of the agreement is not the end of the story. I will continue to fight for the full implementation of the commitments obtained from the European Commission and to protect our farmers," he said on X.
Ireland will also vote against the agreement, its deputy prime minister Simon Harris said earlier. But as the European Commission seems to have secured the support of Italy, the agreement is likely to be adopted during Friday's vote.
The trade deal, backed by countries such as Germany and Spain, is a political hot potato for the French government, with municipal elections in March and the far right polling strongly ahead of elections to replace Macron in 2027.
French Farm Minister Annie Genevard repeated on Thursday that, even if EU members backed the accord, France would continue to fight against it in the European Parliament, whose approval will also be required for the agreement to enter into force.
Tensions are high, and people besides the farmers were out on the streets in support.
🚨🇫🇷 Thousands of French patriots filled the streets of Paris last night.
— CitizenGO (@CitizenGO) January 12, 2026
Only French flags and Christian symbols were seen. No EU flags. We stand with French farmers.pic.twitter.com/QqBWAO2Kgh
They are out there en masse again tonight.
Ce soir, au dépôt de La Pallice (La Rochelle), le préfet menace les agriculteurs qui bloquent le site: garde à vue + 800€ d’amende.
— LE GÉNÉRAL Officiel💎 (@leGeneral_off) January 12, 2026
Après les gaz, les hélicos, l'euthansie de leurs vaches le désespoir… jusqu'aux suicides.
Ils nourrissent la France. On les brise Honte 📽OlivOliv pic.twitter.com/uMn0HjB0eT
Tonight, at the La Pallice depot (La Rochelle), the prefect threatens the farmers blocking the site: custody + 800€ fine. After the tear gas, the helicopters, the euthanasia of their cows, the despair... even to suicides. They feed France. We are breaking them Shame
But it has all been for naught. Bond Villainess Ursula von der Leyen will jet off to South America this coming weekend to sign the deal.
The EU and Mercosur will sign their long-awaited trade agreement on Saturday, with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen traveling to Paraguay on Jan. 17 for the signing ceremony.
Commission spokesperson Thomas Regnier confirmed von der Leyen’s travel plans to POLITICO. She will be joined by European Council President António Costa, his cabinet confirmed.
The trip comes after a majority of EU member countries on Friday voted in favor of signing the deal.
I don't know how long the EU will hold together.
They've murdered their industrial base, and now begins the long slide of what agriculture they had left, and both of them will have been Green-regulated out of existence.
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