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thumperfbc
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I suspect the bulk of us here would respond with some version of "Come and take it."

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16 March 2025 8:05pm GMT
France should take back the Statue of Liberty because the US no longer represents the values that led France to offer the statue, a French MEP said Sunday.

“Give us back the Statue of Liberty”, centre-Left politician Raphael Glucksmann said at a convention of his Place Publique centre-left movement.

Mr Glucksmann rose to prominence last summer and has become a key figure in the increasingly powerful Leftist alliance in France.

His comments come as Donald Trump’s presidency has spread widespread fears about the future of European security and democracy in America.

“We’re going to say to the Americans who have chosen to side with the tyrants, to the Americans who fired researchers for demanding scientific freedom: ‘Give us back the Statue of Liberty’,” Mr Glucksmann told cheering supporters.

“We gave it to you as a gift, but apparently you despise it. So it will be just fine here at home,” he added.

Trump’s ‘fan club’

The Statue of Liberty was unveiled in New York City’s harbour on October 28 1886, for the centennial of the American Declaration of Independence as a gift from the French people to America. It was designed by Frenchman Auguste Bartholdi.

Paris does have a far smaller copy of the statue on a small island on the Seine in Paris.

Glucksmann, a staunch defender of Ukraine, has strongly criticised Mr Trump’s radical change of US policy on the war.

He also took aim at Trump’s cuts to US research institutions, which have already prompted a French government initiative to attract some of them to work in France

“The second thing we’re going to say to the Americans is: ‘if you want to fire your best researchers, if you want to fire all the people who, through their freedom and their sense of innovation, their taste for doubt and research, have made your country the world’s leading power, then we’re going to welcome them’,” continued Glucksmann.

Since Trump returned to the White House in January, his government has cut federal research funding and sought to dismiss hundreds of federal workers working on health and climate research.

Glucksmann also criticised far-Right leaders in France, accusing them of being a “fan club” for Trump and billionaire Elon Musk, who is spearheading the president’s efforts to cut spending.
 
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Sounds reasonable.
After that, we can give France back to the Germans.
 
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If he can carry it, he can have it.


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How can the whole world have TDS? This just seems absolutely absurd.

Asking for equitable tariffs with Canada and Mexico rather than just get fleeced . . . why is that so polarizing for people?

Trying to secure our borders and send home criminals, (who continue to hold parades with the flag of the nation they dont want to go back to?)

all of this just feels like I am in some sort of weird dream.

Sure France, come and take it, and when we withdraw from NATO you ungrateful bastards and the Euro goes into complete freefall, I hope you like learning Russian.


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We can leave a light on for ‘em when they come to pick it up.


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Has he ever visited Normandy?
 
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It’s time to CLOSE EVER OCONUS MILITARY BASE and bring home all the troops along with their equipment. If those countries don’t like it, “F” them. Don’t ask for American help anymore; we don’t need you, and you are on your own from now on.


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One French politican wants the Statue of Liberty back...

Just an attention whore, that's all. Roll Eyes


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Start with a big slab from the pedestal. Deliver it right to his house.

 
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I'm not familiar with French politics and which politicians are brain dead idiots whom the French people don't respect. Although, I suspect one self identified himself.

To be fair, I'd be embarrassed if European newswires picked up some of the stupid shit that our halfwit politicians (e.g. Mazie Hirono) said.


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Hey Mr Glucksmann. Give us back the lives we lost saving what you call a country. Fuck you.
 
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“Come try and take it” should be the answer.




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Merde.




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To be fair, I'd be embarrassed if European newswires picked up some of the stupid shit that our halfwit politicians (e.g. Mazie Hirono) said.

At least our politicians, being as dumb as they are, don't demand anything back from our allies.


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"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

They forgot thieves, gang-bangers, religious zealots, terrorists, child traffickers, drug smugglers, cartel members, spies, invaders…

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Originally posted by tatortodd:
To be fair, I'd be embarrassed if European newswires picked up some of the stupid shit that our halfwit politicians (e.g. Mazie Hirono) said.

At least our politicians, being as dumb as they are, don't demand anything back from our allies.


Exactly, everyone says dumb shit from time to time. But this is a vindictive divorcee move.




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Mebby we can just put President Trumps head atop it, a fist in place of the torch. Fight, fight, fight on the plaque..
 
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Tell the French bite me
 
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There are no US troops stationed in France (other those on Embassy duties) but there are a bunch buried there.
 
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