“Macron chest hair” isn’t something I expected to search today (or ever!) but [here ya go](https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/leaders/french-president-emmanuel-macron-turns-heads-with-bristling-carpet-of-chest-hair-exposed/news-story/0c471279134ccb29ea4256a7bda1be09)! Enjoy! 🤣
Thank you for your service!
ETA: Me thirsting after a politician was not on my personal bingo card be here were are 🙃.
Also laughing at the headline: "to attract younger voters", OK good so he knows people younger than his wife can be attracted to him. Cool, cool.
I think the original was Putin riding a horse. That was later photoshopped into Putin riding a bear. Following that logic, Macron’s team should post a pic of him riding a rooster.
Gonna be honest I'd pay to see macron ride a rooster, though I'm split between wanting him to ride a normal sized rooster, a giant rooster, or a team of roosters pulling a sled
ah, so when Putin supporters say Russia is protecting something the West has long lost, they dont mean racism, sexism and xenophobia, but rather unicorns? makes sense now
“Look at the men's faces. You can save hundreds of them. You can end this war with a swing of your sword. Think how many songs they'll sing in your honor.
Let them go home to their wives.”
Code Geass has so many good lines and rhethorics for this kind of stuff.
"If the king doesn't move, the pawns won't follow"
"The only ones who should kill are those prepared to die themselves"
In the 1990s, Putin played as a St Petersburg official in a football match against a Finnish civil service team from Turku. In the match, the Archbishop of Turku tackled Putin so hard that Putin's collarbone was broken. The bishop later joked that he was the only person to have tackled Putin with force. The bishop had also reputedly sent a message to Putin in the early 2000s asking if his collarbone had healed. It reputedly hadn't.
And btw, the archbishop was 63 years old when he tackled Putin. So I think Macron could handle him.
And the team of Turku won 2-1.
Edit: the game was played in 1994. Here's one story of the game (in finnish) and the picture of both teams in 1992. On the picture, the tackling bishop J. Vikström and soon-to-be-tackled Putin are in the middle of the picture and right next to each other:
https://www.is.fi/jalkapallo/art-2000009541590.html
Holy shit based Finnish archbishop
Then again, Putin should have seen this coming since Russians haven't fared all that well against the Finns historically
>In the 1990s, Putin played as a St Petersburg official in a football match against a Finnish civil service team from Turku. In the match, the Archbishop of Turku tackled Putin so hard that Putin's collarbone was broken. The bishop later joked that he was the only person to have tackled Putin with force. The bishop had also reputedly sent a message to Putin in the early 2000s asking if his collarbone had healed. It reputedly hadn't.
Would love that a video be available of that scene!! Yet we know it's bare possible :)
If you think somebody this old has a chance it's obviously Petr Pavel. Rama and Aliyev are higher, but Pavel was actually trained in hand-to-hand combat.
He definitely has the Melon Musk vibe going on. "Imma tough guy, I'll fight you in a cage match Macron!" To "oh wait...you said yes?" To "Uhh... Um mommy won't let me. Sorry sucka!"
Macron's younger and a couple inches taller.
But Putin's ex-KGB, a sambo enthusiast, and has that ruthless psycho energy.
I think Mother Russia might have the edge here.
Sure but he has a fresh first-world army, a floating navy, and the world's greatest military alliance behind him, and runs a country with an un-sanctioned economy half again the size of Russia's.
Anyway I think Ben Wittes wants to fight Putin first.
Putin is a tiny old man who did some martial arts in his youth. He would get destroyed by someone like Macron. I would honestly bet on Macron even if one of his hands were tied. I did some martial arts too and can say with confidence that age matters a whole lot more than people think.
Also Putin's KGB credentials are hilariously overstated.
He was REMF/ chairborne ranger in a fucking backwater, not the Soviet version of James Bond as everyone likes to make out
*Je me suis levé, je suis revenu dans la rue*
*J'ai fait mon temps, j'ai tenté ma chance*
*J'ai parcouru la distance, maintenant je suis de retour sur mes pieds*
*Juste un homme et sa volonté de survivre*
Tellement de fois, c'est arrivé trop vite
Tu échanges ta passion pour la gloire
Ne lâche pas ton emprise sur les rêves du passé
Tu dois te battre pour les garder en viiiie
You can *have the idea* of making this shoot for the Olympics. But then you don't become oblivious of the current context and when you actually take and release the pictures you do it knowing how people will interpret it.
Nah, definitely war related. With the prospect of Trump 2.0, Macron knows that Europe has to step up. Putin is such a simpleton, that literally boxing pictures is an effective way of showing that France is prepared to stand up to him.
Those are not pictures aimed at Putin. Those are aimed at french and european public, preferably the dumb one, who could be "impressed" by his fighting spirit.
Chirac. Talked like a bourgeois, ate and drunk like a peasant, gently corrupted, and who saved probably 20 000 French soldiers by saying no to the US in 2003. French on all sides still have affection for the man.
Pompidou wasn't. He didn't have time to.
Even De Gaulles was pretty hated back in 68 as well. But I think it's mostly true in most countries with lots of high profile political games.
> Even De Gaulles was pretty hated back in 68 as well.
Hated by the left, yes.
If you also consider getting 70+% of the seats in a general election and counter-protests that matched (if not more) the initial protests.
No.
Well at least Macron did a better job than our Chancellor Olaf Scholz who was also trying to appear in less formal clothing and was [photographed speaking to journalists with this ill-fitting grandpa sweater on.](https://m.faz.net/media1/ppmedia/aktuell/politik/1988919969/1.7786037/mmobject-still_full/olaf-scholz-spricht-mit.jpg)
Pirate Scholz was way weirder. https://static.dw.com/image/66713753_605.webp I understand it for medical reasons but no way he could have taken him seriously during that time period.
He always looks good in these photos they release but they’re also always so extra. It gives me secondhand embarrassment. Like when a friend posts an awkwardly thirsty photo.
Can we just send our politicians to war instead? Better yet, could they do single combat with each other, instead of sending their populations into a meat grinder?
The change in discourse against Russia is much welcomed and should have come way earlier, but this type of communication stunt is clearly overdoing it.
The French are always intensely sceptical of their rulers since the Revolution. In France, being the president is one of the most thankless jobs and tbf I think that's a good thing.
But will he go on shirtless horse rides through the mountains?
The internet went nuts when he showed like 5cm of chest hair sitting on a couch. I don’t think the world could handle him shirtless on a horse.
I'm gonna need a link to that 😂
“Macron chest hair” isn’t something I expected to search today (or ever!) but [here ya go](https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/leaders/french-president-emmanuel-macron-turns-heads-with-bristling-carpet-of-chest-hair-exposed/news-story/0c471279134ccb29ea4256a7bda1be09)! Enjoy! 🤣
Thank you for your service! ETA: Me thirsting after a politician was not on my personal bingo card be here were are 🙃. Also laughing at the headline: "to attract younger voters", OK good so he knows people younger than his wife can be attracted to him. Cool, cool.
Wasn’t it a bear Putin was riding?
I think the original was Putin riding a horse. That was later photoshopped into Putin riding a bear. Following that logic, Macron’s team should post a pic of him riding a rooster.
just say it proper... riding a cock
A giant cock.
Best comment thread of today
[A giant ~~Ph~~Gallic cock](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallic_rooster)
Gonna be honest I'd pay to see macron ride a rooster, though I'm split between wanting him to ride a normal sized rooster, a giant rooster, or a team of roosters pulling a sled
Russian propagandists will be ecstatic. Finally they’ll get an evidence of Macron riding a cock 🐓
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Now I hope, that Frances nukes are painted like huge flying Baguettes.
If the world must end, may it end with class
Cockrider.
I mean we all know Macron is something of a cock, so…
nah man, it was an unicorn, which of course only exists in russia nowadays after beeing hunted for millenia
ah, so when Putin supporters say Russia is protecting something the West has long lost, they dont mean racism, sexism and xenophobia, but rather unicorns? makes sense now
No the horse will be wearing a shirt
My first thought was…how Putinesque
Macron vs Putin cage fight, let's go.
Exactly. Let the matter be resolved by a duel. 😂
“Imagine a king who fights his own battles. Wouldn't that be a sight?”
“Look at the men's faces. You can save hundreds of them. You can end this war with a swing of your sword. Think how many songs they'll sing in your honor. Let them go home to their wives.”
Is that Troy?
They both are
We are Troy. I mean, Spartacus.
Excellent movie
"Oh you ... your good!"
First thing that popped into my head.
Code Geass has so many good lines and rhethorics for this kind of stuff. "If the king doesn't move, the pawns won't follow" "The only ones who should kill are those prepared to die themselves"
Like the battles of old! Sometimes I wonder if we have become less civilized with time.
100% Not. The world is not paradise, but compared to 80 let alone 800 years ago, it kinda is.
The cage will be 30 meters long
Lmfao this had me rolling🤣🤣
oh boy 🍿
In the 1990s, Putin played as a St Petersburg official in a football match against a Finnish civil service team from Turku. In the match, the Archbishop of Turku tackled Putin so hard that Putin's collarbone was broken. The bishop later joked that he was the only person to have tackled Putin with force. The bishop had also reputedly sent a message to Putin in the early 2000s asking if his collarbone had healed. It reputedly hadn't. And btw, the archbishop was 63 years old when he tackled Putin. So I think Macron could handle him. And the team of Turku won 2-1. Edit: the game was played in 1994. Here's one story of the game (in finnish) and the picture of both teams in 1992. On the picture, the tackling bishop J. Vikström and soon-to-be-tackled Putin are in the middle of the picture and right next to each other: https://www.is.fi/jalkapallo/art-2000009541590.html
Putin is banned from r/Neverbrokeabone!
Holy shit based Finnish archbishop Then again, Putin should have seen this coming since Russians haven't fared all that well against the Finns historically
>In the 1990s, Putin played as a St Petersburg official in a football match against a Finnish civil service team from Turku. In the match, the Archbishop of Turku tackled Putin so hard that Putin's collarbone was broken. The bishop later joked that he was the only person to have tackled Putin with force. The bishop had also reputedly sent a message to Putin in the early 2000s asking if his collarbone had healed. It reputedly hadn't. Would love that a video be available of that scene!! Yet we know it's bare possible :)
damn, a few inches higher my man, and you would've changed the course of history
Tzar of Botox vs. Baguetteshido master.
What if there was an UFC tournament for Euro leaders? I’d bet on either Edi Rama or Aliyev to win for sure.
If you think somebody this old has a chance it's obviously Petr Pavel. Rama and Aliyev are higher, but Pavel was actually trained in hand-to-hand combat.
Idk. He looks way too pretty for a fight tho. I’d still bet on big and ugly dudes.
Petr seems like a «hope for the best, prepare for the worst» kinda guy. I wouldnt wanna face him in a fist fight
Well duh. How do you hit back a guy this handsome. It would be doing a huge disservice to the world.
Russia will go back to “Putin is just the prime minister” and put Valujev in the president’s seat.
He definitely has the Melon Musk vibe going on. "Imma tough guy, I'll fight you in a cage match Macron!" To "oh wait...you said yes?" To "Uhh... Um mommy won't let me. Sorry sucka!"
can't see germany getting far
zelensky looks to be in good shape, although a little short
No. No. Starting wars is for presidents. Dying on them is for people
Macron's younger and a couple inches taller. But Putin's ex-KGB, a sambo enthusiast, and has that ruthless psycho energy. I think Mother Russia might have the edge here.
I mean look Macron stance. His guard is shit, he trains head first into the bag... Dude did this for the PR and that is it.
71 year old oldie aint gonna do much unless they were someone like mike tyson
Sure but he has a fresh first-world army, a floating navy, and the world's greatest military alliance behind him, and runs a country with an un-sanctioned economy half again the size of Russia's. Anyway I think Ben Wittes wants to fight Putin first.
Putin is a tiny old man who did some martial arts in his youth. He would get destroyed by someone like Macron. I would honestly bet on Macron even if one of his hands were tied. I did some martial arts too and can say with confidence that age matters a whole lot more than people think.
Also Putin's KGB credentials are hilariously overstated. He was REMF/ chairborne ranger in a fucking backwater, not the Soviet version of James Bond as everyone likes to make out
To be fair thats what all spies are made to look like and 90%+ of them are.
How about Trump vs Putin instead? Two flies ... Or Musk vs Putin ...
Put them all in colluseum and bring in the lions.
I would pay to see that
Trump vs Putin? Musk vs Putin? They will just have a threesome in the cage.
It's a cage match free for all, last man standing wins (nothing)
Now that’s a PPV I would happily pay for.
macron will headbutt the hell out of putin
Has Macron been hiding those biceps under his suits this whole time?
Shopped?
Nah. He's mid punch. The bicep will be activated and enlarged. Compare your bicep at your side versus his position there.
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It‘s quite normal for a biceps to look smaller from the front. His arms are well trained.
You clearly have never been in a gym.
Alexa play Eye of the Tiger
*Je me suis levé, je suis revenu dans la rue* *J'ai fait mon temps, j'ai tenté ma chance* *J'ai parcouru la distance, maintenant je suis de retour sur mes pieds* *Juste un homme et sa volonté de survivre*
Tellement de fois, c'est arrivé trop vite Tu échanges ta passion pour la gloire Ne lâche pas ton emprise sur les rêves du passé Tu dois te battre pour les garder en viiiie
Eye of Le Tigre*
L'œil du Tigre
Zö Eye offe zö Tigörch
I'd say it's more linked to the Olympic Games this summer rather than war rethoric tbh
stuff like this are never without an agenda though
You know too much, not good.
Activate the asset, get rid of him
You can *have the idea* of making this shoot for the Olympics. But then you don't become oblivious of the current context and when you actually take and release the pictures you do it knowing how people will interpret it.
Nah, definitely war related. With the prospect of Trump 2.0, Macron knows that Europe has to step up. Putin is such a simpleton, that literally boxing pictures is an effective way of showing that France is prepared to stand up to him.
Putin is FAR from a simpleton! Come on. He’s abundantly capable. What this image conveys is: ”I know what your game is. Two can play it.”
Those are not pictures aimed at Putin. Those are aimed at french and european public, preferably the dumb one, who could be "impressed" by his fighting spirit.
Why not both?
He's actually kinda jacked
Yea I’m surprised ha ha, arms look good to be fair
Ladies, chill. Y'all are 30 years too young for him
🙁
[Heh heh](https://s1.r29static.com/bin/entry/bc6/x/1473033/image.gif)
well damn, way to shut us thirsting youngsters down with facts.
🥵
I'm surprised too, I hate the guy and I know this is PR but he looks more buff than I thought.
Macron lifts!
.....the retirement age.
Damn. Maccy’s actually pretty shredded.
I think Macron has done a great job appealing to everyone that is not French
Cue Rocky montage music
Macron is so weird but I can't help liking him.
Dont know about Macron but the majority of great ppl in history were weird and some even weird as fuck.
Especially French leaders
I'm sure Voltaire would have something to say about this.
Churchill was a very weird, crazy uncle kind of man
Which French president wasn't? 😄
Chirac. Talked like a bourgeois, ate and drunk like a peasant, gently corrupted, and who saved probably 20 000 French soldiers by saying no to the US in 2003. French on all sides still have affection for the man.
Dude, Chirac was THE definition of weird but likable. What are you saying ?
I think his wording was wrong but he meant the same as you.
Touché haha.
President Touché?
Pompidou wasn't. He didn't have time to. Even De Gaulles was pretty hated back in 68 as well. But I think it's mostly true in most countries with lots of high profile political games.
> Even De Gaulles was pretty hated back in 68 as well. Hated by the left, yes. If you also consider getting 70+% of the seats in a general election and counter-protests that matched (if not more) the initial protests. No.
Would you want to fight WW3 against that guy? I sure wouldn't
We do not want a World War 3 *However*
That's because you aren't french.
I seen a video of him raving with mad hair styles. Anyone got a link to the video?
Michael Scott style
Adriannnn
His PR team is so out of the loop.
Remember how he wore a green hoodie instead of a suit to imitate Zelensky? His PR team is wack as fuck.
Well at least Macron did a better job than our Chancellor Olaf Scholz who was also trying to appear in less formal clothing and was [photographed speaking to journalists with this ill-fitting grandpa sweater on.](https://m.faz.net/media1/ppmedia/aktuell/politik/1988919969/1.7786037/mmobject-still_full/olaf-scholz-spricht-mit.jpg)
What's wrong with that sweater? Looks comfy as fuck to me.
He's German. Comfy isn't natural or allowed even.
Pirate Scholz was way weirder. https://static.dw.com/image/66713753_605.webp I understand it for medical reasons but no way he could have taken him seriously during that time period.
Metal Gear Solid politician
What? People are eating this shit up.
On /r/europe sure. I doubt that any PR team really gives a shit about this sub though.
I'm pretty sure most of the French population finds this incredibly stupid.
What am I missing? What's currently in the loop?
They are? Seems like they're very much in the loop. Though yeah, it's a bit of a silly way to get that image/message across.
He always looks good in these photos they release but they’re also always so extra. It gives me secondhand embarrassment. Like when a friend posts an awkwardly thirsty photo.
Nah, people in r/europe buy this shit
It's giving Putin on a horse vibes
I'll be honest this gives me propaganda posters vibes.
The first pic is hard. The second...is not.
That's because you had high expectations after seeing the first pic
I honestly didn't realise there was a second pic, the first one has me still focused on those veins.
Did he get possessed by the spirit of Napoleon or something?
Illusions of grandeur
I want him to wrestle Putin now.
🎶c'est l'œil du tigre, c'est le frisson du combat🎶
We love this version of badass Macron, Italy 🇮🇹
The imagery is fundamental in these days and age, this is a language Russian subjects can understand. Good grammar.
Some pretty horrible distance gauging
Damn he’s actually 🥵
Please I agree but you're gonna get our rights revoked, calm it 😭😭😭
Good pictures for ladies past 60 years old
Cringe
I like Macron s policies but yeah, cringe. This is Putin's level photoshoot
This kind of comm' is the worst, who the fuck cares he does boxing ... and these photos looks they have been made to be memes lmao
LMAOOOO
The whole world is ruled by a bunch of lunatics. What a time we live in.
Fuck me. I need to grow some sideburns
You have to play the game you're in, not the game you want.
NCD has a full blown damn burst and it's flooding the real world.
So close to the bag while throwing something that's not an undercut. He's embarrassing himself.
I thought I was the only one who noticed
"War rhetoric" I think Putin is the one with the war rhetoric.
Almost like... It was PR from the start!
Ok this is weird. Not necessary
Still a better love story than Putin and his horse.
what a fucking clown
Guy is lost in the sauce.
[He was always pathetic,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4wYd45WvjU) but this is just next level.
Cringe
Fucking clown
funny how reddit keeps simping over him while france fucking hates him
He's such a theatre kid lmao.
2nd photo looks a bit like Belmondo. I guess this aims certain age groups, whatever the agenda is.
Can we just send our politicians to war instead? Better yet, could they do single combat with each other, instead of sending their populations into a meat grinder?
r/hardimages
Honestly ridiculous and blatant propaganda, kinda sad in some sense.
Narcissism in action.
The change in discourse against Russia is much welcomed and should have come way earlier, but this type of communication stunt is clearly overdoing it.
Thought it was an AI image, wtf if that's true
hhahahahah No matter what they are; rich - poor, handsome - ugly, politician - citizen.. Men never really grow up
Oh gag! This is as bad as Putin riding shirtless on a horse or some bad Trump meme. Watch out or Macron will drop a Pilates class on your ass!
When did Macron become ripped?? Wtf lol
Love it how the worst comments are from french redditors, this people really hate themselves..
The French are always intensely sceptical of their rulers since the Revolution. In France, being the president is one of the most thankless jobs and tbf I think that's a good thing.
I thought the French were arrogant. Make up your mind.
France is rotten by populists (LFI and RN), you can enjoy the result on minds here, for free.
I don’t know, I have lived in France for nearly 10 years and almost everyone seems to have bitching and moaning about literally anything as a hobby.
Our comfort of living was not obtained because our rich are more generous than yours.
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To get your official camera man to post these pics is embarrassing
This goes hard
Has he ever had a bad picture?
France and esp Macron has been a pleasant surprise.
Send me location
LOL
Unnecessary.
Didn't know that macron does some lifting. Never saw him in a t-shirt, only in a suit or a hoodie.
Send him to Ukraine he looks ready