Why wait til 2027? If I was wealthy and 85, I’d be chillin’ and hanging out with my grandkids. These ghouls just love staying in politics til they croak. There’s a non-zero chance she makes it to 2027.
Why wait til 2027… These ghouls just love staying in politics til they croak.
I’ll never understand that either. She and her husband are worth 100s of millions of dollars.
Have you seen the Congressional schedule? They get more days off than kindergarten. The hardest part of their job is trying to stay awake during long filibusters.
Do they even do real filibusters anymore? The only recent ones I can think of were symbolic only and didn’t require a vote at the end
They’re not in it for the money. They’re in it to always be making more money.
Once you get enough money, the point is prestige and dynasty.
85?? LMAO i knew she was decrepit but holy shit
She should’ve retired 20 years ago when I was in high school
Yes but does the flesh of innocent children taste as good when you didnt personally authorize the fascist coup that murdered their parents?
Its when her term ends.
It was her term.
If I’m 85 years old and have hundreds of millions of dollars I’m not waiting until my term ends, I’m getting tf out of there
If I magically became that rich you would never again find me doing anything that could even be misconstrued as “a job.” I will be on the beach in Spain with my gorgeous spouse.
Terms are only two years for congressional representatives. She got reelected last year and her term started this year.
Oh shit I forgot she’s not a senator my bad
That’s worse
Gracious of her to bow out and give a new generation (boomers) a chance, she could’ve kept going for another 15 years at least
oh god, can you imagine the braying media on her final day in office, with montages of her REIGN and how she girl-bossed her way through. i’m gonna hate that day
Voices on the far left have been critical of Pelosi yet she preserved…
Bleh.
Preserved indeed, like a mummy or lich queen
(persevered is the word I think you wanted, I just couldn’t resist the joke)
Is that a fasces on the wall?! What the actual fuck, America?
ZWQ beat me to it. Historically the founding fathers were absolute weebs for Rome.
Of course, all we need is burger Spartacus (but successful) and make it official.
Of course, all we need is burger Spartacus (but successful) and make it official.
Already did it
Washington DC is full of Roman motifs. There’s Fasces carved into granite/marble on all sorts of federal buildings. TBF it all predates WWII and “Fascism” proper by a lot.
There’s also several buildings where the ceiling is covered with criss crossing Greek meanders which naturally form a tessalating pattern of swastikas.
TBF it all predates WWII and “Fascism” proper by a lot.
Well the fasces in the house of representatives that Owl noticed were installed in the 1950s.
https://history.house.gov/Exhibitions-and-Publications/Capitol/1951-Present/Furniture/
The wall behind the rostrum still includes decorative Roman fasces—a classical symbol of civic authority and unity—but stylized and in bronze rather than gilded iron.
Really wanting to hold onto the idea of them being “The New Rome” after defeating some fakers.
The empire never ended
Cringe country
Basically every country obsessed with Rome is cringe and that’s like “the west”.
Cuba, noooo!
That’s so weird to me because I’ve only heard of fasces as a fascist symbol
It’s a Roman symbol for state power basically. Was really popular in the 19th century (but not only in the 19th) in the west.
I wouldn’t even really say Mussolini misappropriated it, it’s a pretty good fit. If anything it’s weird how people keep saying that it primarily symbolizes strength through unity, when that’s a modern interpretation.
People loose their mind about the 👁️ of providence but the fasces are everywhere too.
people keep saying that it primarily symbolizes strength through unity, when that’s a modern interpretation
Where are you getting that this is a modern interpretation? As I understand that’s why the Roman’s adopted it as a symbol for state power because they operated on those principals and it strongly differentiated them from other city states.
That said, its all over DC because DC is The New Rome. So in that context you’re correct.
Fasces predate fascism by more than two millennia, both as weapons and as symbols.
A Roman lictor’s bundle of sticks is not realistically a weapon. It is a facsimile of a weapon, but you’re better off with an actual stick. The axe heads were removed within the boundaries of Rome (Well, until Sulla), and weren’t placed in a position where they were realistically used as a weapon. Etruscan fasces may have been weapons, but Roman ones were not.
I literally learned this same thing earlier this year via this website! I think it’s a common historical misconception
Leftists need to remember to not put too much stock into symbolism. One could say the principles of democratic centralism could be represented with a fasces. That doesn’t make them red-fash even if they started using it.
I’d say just leave away the fasces but that was the coat of arms used by the guy who wanted bring Cuba under US occupation (from Spanish occupation) to ensure the preservation of slavery.
In case it’s unclear, my goal wasn’t to callout Cuba as redfash, i just wanted to show the most surprising contemporary use of the fashes. The fashes also look more brotherly without the axe and with the sleepy hat, which I’m sure also has some symbolism.
The Phrygian cap was worn primarily by freed slaves in Rome, and became a symbol of the French Revolution
Nice
Nah I knew you weren’t hating on Cuba. My point is the fasces predate fascism and represents a principal independent of fascism. We don’t need to jump every time we see it.
It’s curious though that the eye gets more attention than the fasces. Both are related to freemasonry too.
Its less explicit and political so its gets the most traction.
Maybe it’s Thornley’s (et al) fault? I’m not sure how much of an impact operation mindfuck actually had.
Peloscels in shambles
All 5 of them
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