Kathy Griffin Trump Head for those who haven't seen it

[politicat]

43. I have been muttering about tricoteuses and tumbrels(& associated implements) for months.

To myself, mostly, and I don't have a following.

I spent the last eight years (in no particular order)
- watching multiple fraternities and high school students festoon campus trees with nooses
- living through a pack of feral man-baby LARPers threatening Federal agents with rifles because the feral man-baby LARPers wouldn't pay their goddam, below-market rent
- then those same feral man-baby LARPers occupy a Federal wildlife refuge and not be convicted
- seeing the legitimately elected President and his family abused daily, including being burned in effigy and hanged in effigy
- enduring another feral pack of man-baby LARPers cyber-stalking, real-world stalking, SWATting, and slandering women who had the temerity to talk about video games while most of the press considered it a minor tantrum amongst the geeks, except that "minor tantrum" was the genesis of the Alt-Reich.
- witnessing dozens of innocent people of color be murdered by cops, and thousands be abused short of death by the same, and millions have their economic lifeblood leeched out to support those self-same cops via abusive fines while their right to redress grievances and vote is stripped away
- defending our eroding reproductive rights while old white men grin and giggle
- and surviving hundreds of other aggressions, ranging from micro to egregious, perpetrated by the racist, sexist, homophobic, feral supporters of King Shit of Turd Mountain.

I don't find the image at all funny. I do find it powerful and cathartic. Doesn't mean I'm going to run to IKEA and pick up the JACOBIN kit. But goddammit... a lot of us have Fuck of a LOT to be furious about.

Tumbrels. Tricoteuses.