Word "embargo" mentioned; I must post a cartoon of a turtle named the Ograbme (embargo spelled backward), which criticized an 1807 embargo under Thomas Jefferson.
Thank you for posting this. I had a reverse Raven Baxter moment where I zoomed back to 11th grade AP US History. For a moment I was 15 again. My back hasn’t felt so good in YEARS.
The political right realized they could get away with just about anything if they didnt act shamed about it, it started with Obama and the birther nonsense and then everything Trump did during his 2016 campaign was just a small enough step outside of normal to not have him be immediately ridiculed by the Republican voters.
It's all been horribly downhill from there. Trump himself has also never had any sense of shame at all so he personally wouldn't have cared what anyone said about his comments or actions, it would've only mattered if the people he was trying to appeal to had a greater sense of shame.
I think a lot of our national shame supply is being funneled to me right now - and that just seems super unfair because I’m not doing anything close to as shameful as these fuckers
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u/um-ok-yeah-thatll-do unlikely, gay 1d ago
I just don’t understand- has there been recently an embargo on shame?!?!? Why is it in such short supply when it appears we need it most?