On France.

Since everybody already expressed opinion on French elections, I can only add here the title of Srdja Trifcovic's piece Adieu, France. 

Here is the quote: 

Macron is an evil idiot, so he will naturally occupy the Élysée Palace after a grotesque predecessor.  Marine Le Pen’s predictable defeat shows that the political process in the Western world is a charade with preordained outcomes.  The refusal of the Parisian elite class to protect France from Islam reflects a global problem that is a synthesis of all others, and goes beyond “Culture Wars.”  It is the looming end of culture itself.

Difficult to disagree. Western elites in general are degenerate.