France’s far-right leader hit by egg, days after flour attack

https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/article/frances-far-right-leader-hit-by-egg-days-after-flour-attack/

Jordan Bardella, leader of France’s far-right National Rally party, was hit on the head with an egg Saturday, just days after another incident in which a protester threw flour at him.

Bardella was at an event in Moissac, southwest France, to promote his latest book when a man broke the egg on his head.

The suspected attacker, a 74-year-old man, was arrested and taken into custody for violence against a public official, prosecutor Montauban Bruno Sauvage told AFP.

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BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world · 195 pts · 255d (5 replies)

Next is milk, then sugar, then you beat him thoroughly and put him in the oven.

yakko@feddit.uk · 59 pts · 255d

Custard's last stand

BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 254d (2 replies)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pound_cake or as French call it, quatre quarts

AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 254d (1 reply)

Quatre quarts. Or "four quarters".

BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 254d

And this, is already too much maths for Bardella

Akasazh@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 255d

Add in some stale bread, and then forget all about him for some 'pain perdu'.

edgemaster72@lemmy.world · 104 pts · 255d (3 replies)

America: throw a whole pre-made sandwich at a cop

France: individually throw every ingredient to make every part of a sandwich from scratch

SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 19 pts · 255d (2 replies)

I really hope they make a Croque Monsieur with this pig.

ODGreen@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 255d

Escroc Monsieur

OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 255d

I was thinking a Monte Cristo, because the hot oil would be satisfying. But I guess they’re essentially the same thing.

TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website · 102 pts · 255d (11 replies)

Flour, egg. It’s time for a pie

Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world · 67 pts · 255d (4 replies)

It’s France so it’s definitely cake

faythofdragons@slrpnk.net · 31 pts · 255d (1 reply)

Theres a pain joke in there somewhere

defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 255d

Last time someone in France let people eat cake, it didn't go too well for them.

Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 255d

Brioche?

Everyday3671@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 255d (2 replies)

No, they are still missing the butter and sugar.

halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 255d

Give it time. Its a slow recipe, but I trust the French to follow through if its a protest.

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 255d

dont forget the salt.

fonix232@fedia.io · 14 pts · 255d

No, the next step is panko/breadcrumbs.

And after three strikes, you dunk him in hot oil.

To be fair I never imagined that "eat the rich" (or in this case, eat the Reich) would turn out Kentucky Fried, but I'm all for it.

Bigfish@lemmynsfw.com · 6 pts · 255d

If he was Italian, pasta

LoonyLenny@lemdro.id · 3 pts · 255d

You get pie in the sky when you die.

rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works · 55 pts · 255d (1 reply)

Someone get him with some butter and sugar and see if he turns into a racist cake

NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz · 18 pts · 255d

Nope! Sorry. Still just a wet sack of shit.

wabafee@lemmy.world · 51 pts · 255d (10 replies)

I guess next would be milk.

janus2@lemmy.zip · 35 pts · 255d (9 replies)

Poach@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 255d (8 replies)

You can't eat your cake and have it too

echodot@feddit.uk · 13 pts · 254d (2 replies)

You can, through the magic of buying two of them.

ayyy@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 254d

*deliciously smooth jazz*

ilinamorato@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 254d

But how would one wash the dish? Surely not with a dishwasher pod?

mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 255d

yes, FBI? this guy right here

jokes aside, this is good protesting

kaidenshi@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 254d

Thank you for getting the idiom right. To all of the folks who think you can't have your cake and eat it too, you most certainly can. You have to "have" it before you can "eat" it. But you most definitely can't eat your cake and then still have it, which is the meaning of the idiom and the correct way to say it.

MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 254d (2 replies)

I've never fully understood this phrase because don't you have a cake by eating it?

"what did you eat last night?" "I had a cake instead of dinner"

EtAl@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 254d

Once you eat the cake, you don't have the cake anymore. "Have" showing possession, not "to eat".

luciferofastora@feddit.org · 3 pts · 254d

"I have a cake (in my possession)" as opposed to "I'm having / I had a cake (for a meal)". Perhaps the less ambiguous phrasing would be "...and keep it too" – the nuance is probably academic at this point – but proverbs tend to be stubborn.

umbraroze@slrpnk.net · 44 pts · 254d

I've heard of slow cooking, but this is next level stuff.

Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 34 pts · 254d (2 replies)

So just milk and sugar missing and he turns into a cake?

lemmy_outta_here@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 254d (1 reply)

Some Morton’s and a little milk and we can call it salt and batter-y. Just deserts, i say.

ripcord@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 254d

Well done.

pHr34kY@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 255d (1 reply)

If the next encounter is breadcrumbs, this schnitzel is ready for the fryer.

stormeuh@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 255d

I think you need to beat the pork vigorously first, to tenderize the meat, you know

s@piefed.world · 31 pts · 255d (3 replies)

Let them eat cake

Lumisal@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 255d (1 reply)

" Let them eat cake " ❌

"Make them into cake" ✅

myrmidex@belgae.social · 4 pts · 255d

I never knew Eat The Rich is preceded by a flavouring stage. Great addition!

BiggestPiggest@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 255d

Just like everybody else, I was looking for a cake joke but you nailed it.

Gammelfisch@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 254d

The 74 year-old is a hero and remembers what his parents said about the fucking Nazis and Vichy French.

mavu@discuss.tchncs.de · 29 pts · 254d (2 replies)

Milk and sugar next week.

Free Crepes.

GeorgimusPrime@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 254d (1 reply)

Or cake

mavu@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 254d

nods or cake.

SethTaylor@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 254d (5 replies)

I'm sorry but this is fucking hilarious

I'm desperate to know what will be next. Jam? Chocolate spread? Cream?

RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com · 13 pts · 254d

clearly they are trying to turn him into a cake so next will probably be the butter

maplesaga@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 254d (2 replies)

I hope every political argument devolves into food being thrown eventually.

luciferofastora@feddit.org · 2 pts · 254d (1 reply)

Pelt him with grapes: not big enough to do much damage, but in the right quantities, it'll get the point across

ilinamorato@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 254d

The point: "stop wine-ing"?

JigglySackles@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 254d

Just going down the ingredients list until they toss him in an oven to bake until golden brown.

FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 255d (1 reply)

The Marsha P. Johnson method suggests that a brick is more effective at creating change.

Make fascists scared again.

H3mp79@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 254d

This is the only way

j_z@feddit.nu · 18 pts · 254d

Operation dessert storm

Harvey656@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 254d

74 year old badass.

fullsquare@awful.systems · 15 pts · 255d

they're trying to get him breaded lol

m33@lemmy.zip · 14 pts · 255d

Demain du lait et on a de la ….. Pâte à crêpes !!! 🥞🥞🥞🥞🥞🥞🥞🥞🥞🥞🥞🥞🥞🥞🥞🥞🥞🥞🥞🥞🥞🥞🥞🥞🥞🥞🥞🥞🥞

adespoton@lemmy.ca · 14 pts · 255d

It’s well pasta time….

slickgoat@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 255d

They're French, they're making a soufflé

sukhmel@programming.dev · 12 pts · 254d (1 reply)

I can't understand if I should praise aiming skills or if the egg was cracked up close and personal. Tried to check in the article and saw what Bardella made of it:

The more we make progress, the closer we get to power, the more the violence from the far left, intolerance and pure stupidity are unleashed

For fuck's sake, he just barely survived an assassination no less

jj4211@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 254d

When they get all melodramatic about flour, eggs, sandwiches being tossed at them, don't they realize how pathetic they sound acting like these acts are in and of themselves just horrible violance?

Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 255d
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melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 255d

Now whisk.

WanderWisley@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 253d

Just need sugar and we gotta cake to let us eat!

mp3@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 255d

Complete the brunch with bacon and sausages.

SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org · 9 pts · 255d

Bricks are usually more effective.

ilinamorato@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 254d (1 reply)

Whoa, the Eat The Rich people are serious.

Uruanna@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 253d

Gotta make them edible enough first. Need some seasoning.

INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone · 8 pts · 255d (1 reply)

Any Aussies out there remember egg boy?

What a legend.

ryannathans@aussie.zone · 7 pts · 255d

Also thinking about Bush and the Iraqi shoe

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 8 pts · 255d

milk, sugar, butter, and then chocolate chips or chunks. icing, whip cream, fruit chunks.

RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 254d (1 reply)

Get some sugar in the mix, and boy... you got yourself a cake going.

elucubra@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 254d

A crêpe, rather.

Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 255d (1 reply)

What a crepe week.

Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 255d

Only if someone throws some milk at him next.

ininewcrow@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 255d

If they keep talking with all their hot air and raise the temp to about 175C ... they could bake themselves into a cake

IzzyJ@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 254d (1 reply)

"Violence", gotta love the special treatment government gives the rich. Noones getting arrested if you reverse the roles

luciferofastora@feddit.org · 1 pts · 254d

I mean, hitting someone with an object, whether solid or fragile, is violence. Mild violende is still violence. Justified violence is still violence.

It should be up to a court to decide the severity of the assault and whether it warrants punitive action. In a fair and just society at least.

And in a fair and just society, the decision should be a reprimand because judicial encouragement of violence is a bad idea, but no further action.

andallthat@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 254d

I'm appalled at all these people who condone throwing flour and eggs at politicians. Everyone knows that the egg goes first, because it helps the flour stick.

marmaraunimezunu@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 254d (1 reply)

Is it a tradition to throw eggs or flour at politicians in France? If so, it is a good tradition.

tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 254d

I think people have been throwing produce for a long time in general. But there's a list of stuff thrown at politicians on wiki

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incidents_of_objects_being_thrown_at_politicians

I'm partial to the Australian "egg boy" because a ska band wrote a song about it

https://abcnews.go.com/International/eggboy-teen-cracks-egg-anti-muslim-australian-lawmakers/story?id=61730581

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUCVAOY76xo

gustofwind@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 255d (6 replies)

I’ve heard rumors that bricks work better than eggs

Tja@programming.dev · 7 pts · 255d (4 replies)

Bricks create martyrs and increase the vote share of the party. Ridicule doesn't particularly help, but doesn't hurt either.

theneverfox@pawb.social · 8 pts · 255d (1 reply)

Ridicule definitely helps against the far right, they don't have a real ideology. Make their leader look weak and they'll quiet down

Tja@programming.dev · 3 pts · 254d

I would like to think so, but I haven't seen data to support it.

Miaou@jlai.lu · 1 pts · 254d (1 reply)

We should do some A/B testing to confirm your first statement

Tja@programming.dev · 1 pts · 254d

Well, Charlie Kirk is STILL on the front page of fox news...

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 255d

what about an OSTRICH egg, they do weigh 5lbs each.

HugeNerd@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 255d (6 replies)

With the price of produce?

Dremor@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 254d (5 replies)

US prices are laughable right now. With the price of one egg you could buy a dozen in France.

Quadhammer@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 254d (2 replies)

Not if you let right wingers take over!

Dremor@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 254d

Oh, I'd be long dead before right winger dismantle our democracy. Either of old age or for resisting their takeover.

TheBlackLounge@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 254d
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cabillaud@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 254d

I'm not so sure.. We had a shortage on eggs recently (maybe still ongoing). I bought 12 eggs for 3.94€ last week.

cabillaud@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 254d
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hohoho@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 255d

“Pour some sugar on me”

Tattorack@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 255d

Ok, now tar and feathers.

33550336@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 254d

it's time for digested food

ServantOfRa@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 255d

They're on a roll!

DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 254d

Um... wouldn't it be funny if someone tried doing that with some dogshit next lol

MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 255d

Just the breadcrumbs to go! lmao

Cattail@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 254d (1 reply)

At least he can make pancakes

oce@jlai.lu · 1 pts · 254d

Waiting for the milk

bearboiblake@pawb.social · 1 pts · 254d

Make the next one a bullet

Taleya@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 254d (1 reply)

Make him into a baguette

ilinamorato@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 254d

By French law, bread can only contain flour, yeast, salt, and water. Sadly, he must be cake.

AlecSadler@lemmy.blahaj.zone · -5 pts · 255d (3 replies)

Why not throw a bullet

ohulancutash@feddit.uk · 11 pts · 255d (2 replies)

This one’s probably an american.

NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz · 9 pts · 255d

All those guns and they're still throwing their projectiles

Miaou@jlai.lu · 1 pts · 254d

Not possible, Americans only shoot Nazis they cannot hire. But that one is already on the same payroll so it's all fine