Assassination attempt on Trump, 13th July 2024

[maomao]

would you think i was a piece of shit if the roles were reversed. i would be a low down piece of human garbage for celebrating an attempted assassination on biden, right, just the lowest of the low, scum of the earth etc, right?

Nah. We'd still be taking the piss if it was Biden.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Now if you feel that you can't go on
Because all of your hope is gone

It just shows the delusions of the right

 

[maomao]

Nah. We'd still be taking the piss if it was Biden.

And having a big fucking party if it was Starmer.

 

[Mr.Bishie]

show boating trying for a headshot when centre of body mass gets the job done may not be and instant kill but he'd probably die on the theatre table not in the best of health

£1 says he’d be wearing a vest.

 

[likesfish]

soft body armour the sort you can wear under a suit is only rated to stop handguns or shotguns a high velocity rifle round will go straight through it that's why soldiers wear heavy ceramic plates font and back but you can't wear that sort of thing under a suit.

 

[klang]

i'm just curious, would you guys think i was a total piece of shit if it were biden and i kept joking about how much i wish he would have actually been assassinated, or if i started preemptively coping over the things i presumed the left might say in defense of him in the future, 'if you think assassination is bad yeah you should see the threats the other guys post online, that's way worse than getting shot in the head; and now they're just going to twist the narrative into making assassination attempts look bad, i'm calling it you just wait!'

silver linings though, this means that, unless the bill banning illegals from voting in the election fails, trump basically just won. that photo of trump raising his fist while bleeding from the gunshot wound in his ear will go down as one of the most iconic images in the history of american politics.

Will you vote for trump then?

 

[Pickman's model]

No problem; something like; a system of government with a significant degree of dependance on a Mandate. HTH

what, like the british government in palestine between the wars?

 

[Pickman's model]

i read as far as i could bear it, then it started getting embarrassing tbh. apologies though, you're right, i should have waded through 20 pages of this shit just to ask my still unanswered question: would you think i was a piece of shit if the roles were reversed. i would be a low down piece of human garbage for celebrating an attempted assassination on biden, right, just the lowest of the low, scum of the earth etc, right? my intention was to illustrate to you how you sound to me, and emphasize that there is no moral high ground on the left, just wild abundances of mental illness and pettiness. going to mute the thread now though, my point was made.

tbh you're not so far off persuading me you're a low down piece of human garbage anyway

 

[Richard46]

what, like the british government in palestine between the wars?

Absolutely not. Not the definition of Mandate I had in mind.

 

[JimW]

 

[Pickman's model]

Absolutely not. Not the definition of Mandate I had in mind.

yeh. perhaps you need to define your terms as you seem to be using them in a very peculiar, indeed idiosyncratic, fashion

 

[Richard46]

yeh. perhaps you need to define your terms as you seem to be using them in a very peculiar, indeed idiosyncratic, fashion

I am just using a dictionary definition of mandate; this one; If a government or other elected body has a mandate to carry out a particular policy or task, they have the authority to carry it out as a result of winning an election or vote.
So a specific definition yes, idiosyncratic? not so much.

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/mandate

 

[frogwoman]

Donald Trump has said he was "supposed to be dead", calling the assassination attempt a "surreal experience".

"I’m not supposed to be here, I’m supposed to be dead,” said Trump, speaking to the New York Post while en route to Milwaukee for the Republican National Convention.

Trump wore a white bandage that covered his right ear but his aides did not allow any photographs to be taken, said the Post.

“The doctor at the hospital said he never saw anything like this, he called it a miracle," Trump added.

From the BBC

 

[JimW]

The Miracle of the Clipped Ear. Pah, got them all the time when I was a kid.

 

[Rob Ray]

Absolutely not. Not the definition of Mandate I had in mind.

You think monarchs don't have mandates? Hrh, protector of the realm and defender of the faith Sausage Fingers III, for example?

 

[JimW]

You can get them on Grindr.

 

[Cid]

Popular mandate (with the M uncapitalised) is what you're looking for Richard46 . I mean everyone knows what you're talking about, and it is conventionally referred to as just a 'mandate', but this is urban and we're special here.

Personally I derive legitimacy from the 天命 mandate.

 

[two sheds]

Welcome to urban Richard46

 

[two sheds]

"Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses ..."

 

[Pickman's model]

"Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses ..."

political power comes from the barrel of a gun

 

[RevolutionSound]

"Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses ..."

Mandate from the mandem

 

[RevolutionSound]

Or as Gil Scott Heron said - mandate, my ass!

 

[Pickman's model]

No problem; something like; a system of government with a significant degree of dependance on a Mandate. HTH

this is a fucked up definition of democracy. a government of who for who? and there seems no place within it for the interplay between population and politicians which might be expected over the course of a mandate.

 

[two sheds]

You think monarchs don't have mandates? Hrh, protector of the realm and defender of the faith Sausage Fingers III, for example?

... and certainly not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.

 

[Richard46]

... and certainly not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.

Ow I don't know there is something to be said for mandates being distributed by Ladies in Lakes.

 

[Jeff Robinson]

At one point will the cringe-inducing well-wishes to Trump stop? Here's how he responds to an assassination attempt of one of his rivals:

 

[two sheds]

Ow I don't know there is something to be said for mandates being distributed by Ladies in Lakes.

Just a scratch

 

[Jeff Robinson]

At one point will the cringe-inducing well-wishes to Trump stop? Here's how he responds to an assassination attempt of one of his rivals:

 

[mojo pixy]

Oh woah, mandate
You came and you took without giving
And I need ya today

 

[JimW]

The Canchurian Mandidate