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Party leader faces backlash over his decision to support Republican-led bill to avoid government shutdown

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 days ago (3 children)

The dems should just start bringing bags of feathers and pots of tar to their meetings. Real casual like.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago

I've got a bag of chicken shit ready to bring to chicken shit Ed Cases' office.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Corn syrup stays sticky at room temp and is easier to clean out of the carpet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I think death is the point though...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Death? Tarring and feathering wasn't an execution, it was a humiliation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've been lead to believe that to be correctly tar and feathered the tar must be applied thickly and to the whole naked body. This causes a slow and agonising death via the complete shut-down of normal skin function.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've found numerous cases of tarring and feathering and no intentional deaths. It was typically meant to humiliate someone rather than kill them, which is why it's not considered a method of execution.

What does "complete shut-down of normal skin function" mean?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

The skin can't breath or sweat under a full layer of tar and ends up like a full body case of advanced trench foot causing numerous complications.

The context was medieval full body and naked tarring though and it was something I was told as a child around 40 years ago.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

We need to. It’s way past time of letting the dnc be the controlled opposition and the party needs to genuinely represent a populist platform