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To: Kartographer

This is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical ceremony.


5 posted on 12/08/2015 12:00:40 PM PST by PlateOfShrimp
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To: PlateOfShrimp

I just thought it was interesting and a good tie in with legends and fair-tales, but you sir might just want to check your meds and be sure you took them all.


7 posted on 12/08/2015 12:06:37 PM PST by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: PlateOfShrimp

“...not from some farcical ceremony”

you mean like voting on Diebold machines?


9 posted on 12/08/2015 12:07:21 PM PST by ameribbean expat
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To: PlateOfShrimp

I’m being repressed!


10 posted on 12/08/2015 12:08:37 PM PST by pgyanke (Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
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To: PlateOfShrimp
This is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical ceremony.

Yeah, that's really worked out well for us.


11 posted on 12/08/2015 12:09:35 PM PST by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: PlateOfShrimp

There you go, bringing class into it again.


13 posted on 12/08/2015 12:12:02 PM PST by freedomlover
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To: PlateOfShrimp; Kartographer
For those not in on the joke...

Monty Python... The Annoying Peasant

15 posted on 12/08/2015 12:13:58 PM PST by pgyanke (Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
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To: PlateOfShrimp

Au contraire, FRiend. “Some day a king will come, and the sword will rise again.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o4viqGUtrw


18 posted on 12/08/2015 12:17:17 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: PlateOfShrimp

I didn’t know we had a king. I thought we were an autonomous collective.


25 posted on 12/08/2015 12:27:52 PM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: PlateOfShrimp

I suppose you prefer the way Obama pulls policies out of his ass?


27 posted on 12/08/2015 12:41:26 PM PST by SoCal Pubbie
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To: PlateOfShrimp

/monty python


29 posted on 12/08/2015 12:52:30 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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