The deputy mayors of Paris, and Europe’s fall

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On the one hand, it was just another story about a nasty, crazed European; on the other hand, it turned out to be a window into what’s happened in Europe, and why I consider it a dead continent walking.

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The story is that one of Paris’s many deputy mayors blamed the United States for the heat wave sweeping Europe. There were two falsehoods in her little accusation, both of which deserve attention. But the real story is what I learned about Paris’s government, and it’s so not pretty.

This began when Audrey Pulvar, a deputy mayor in Paris, blamed America for what is currently a record-breaking heatwave sweeping across Europe, a continent remarkably hostile to life-saving air-conditioning. Europe’s leaders say that it’s because they are protecting the world from worsening anthropogenic climate change.

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My theory is that Europe’s elite view humanity (except for themselves) as a form of parasite, so they’re glad to have seen 200,000 earth-destroying human parasites die in the last four years. And I’m not making up the point about the nomenklatura. When the heat wave got bad, the EU turned off A/C in its building, but not on the floors where the executives are:

Into this deadly discomfort stepped Ms. Pulvar:

“Dear American journalists and social media ‘influencers’: for days, some of you have been criticizing and making fun of Paris because the city does not have A/C in every room … OMG, this is so rich!” Pulvar wrote on social media.

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“As the second-largest emitter of greenhouse gas emissions in the world, you bear a significant amount of responsibility for global warming and the consequences we, in France, are experiencing. Your cities, which are 90 percent air conditioned, are not unrelated to this,” she added.

“So please, enough with the lecture. Just start doing your part,” the post concluded.

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There are two lies here. First, there is no anthropogenic global warming. There is simply the Earth’s natural climate variability, which is driven by that glowing thing in the sky...the sun. We humans can affect our local environment (very badly in some cases), but even the leftists are beginning to realize that their climate narrative is broken and that we puny humans are not bigger than the sun.

The other lie is the implication that the U.S. emits unholy amounts of CO2—not that CO2 is bad, given that it’s a de minimis part of the atmosphere and completely necessary to sustain the plant life that feeds the world. The real story is that China puts out more in carbon emissions than 37 nations put together, including the U.S., and more than the next six carbon-emitting nations put together:

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But of course, Pulvar’s rant is the usual leftist garbage we always see.

What made me curious was the “deputy mayor” thing. Is a deputy mayor a real position or just a typical European puffery label?

Well, it turns out it’s a real title for what are essentially government department heads. Paris has one mayor and 36 department heads running the government. The mayor is the socialist Ana Maria Hildago Aleu.

As for the 36 deputy majors, 16 are socialists, 12 are greens (i.e., socialists), 4 are communists (i.e., hardcore socialists), 1 is a Place publique (i.e., socialist), one is L’Après (i.e., socialist), and 2 are (per ChatGPT) “miscellaneous left.”

In addition to Paris’s socialist governance, what’s noteworthy is the number of foreign-born people or people who are the children of immigrants who occupy these positions.

Of the 36 deputy mayors, one is from Morocco, one from Iran, two are from Martinique (including Pulvar herself), and one is from Burkina Faso. Several others have names indicating people with shallow roots in this ancient nation, such as Fatoumata Koné, Aminata Niakaté, Karim Ziady, and Annah Bikouloulou. Forty years ago, those names would have been exotic but wouldn’t have meant that these people hated the land of their birth or the land to which their parents came. Today, especially given that every last one of them is a leftist, you must assume that they hate the country they help govern.

And how do we know, aside from the socialism and the names indicating alienation, that they hate their home country? Because of videos like this, showing what Paris’s government has let happen and even welcomed in this famous city:

Each of those illustrates perfectly that new saying: “Import the third world; become the third world”—at least in those Western nations that actively discourage assimilation and patriotism among their own citizens and newcomers.

As we near the official date of the 250th anniversary of America’s founding, it’s worth contemplating that our world is still riven between two 18th-century events: On the one hand, we had the American Revolution, grounded in individual liberty, small government, and the Bible.

On the other hand, Europe had the example of the French Revolution, focused on replacing the tyranny of the monarchy with the tyranny of the commune, and with a rare and passionate hatred for the Biblical tradition that freed the world from the savagery of paganism. The French Revolution’s legacy is the greatest internal threat facing Western civilization.

X screen grab (cropped), and a very ironic one, too. In August 1944, as Allied troops were liberating Paris, Hitler asked General Dietrich von Choltitz, “Is Paris burning”? The question flowed from his order to von Choltitz—an order von Choltitz did not follow—to burn the city down rather than let the Allies liberate it. Hitler would approve of what Paris’s socialist government is doing now.