Days That End in 'Y' - editorial 'toons & memes

Saturday, February 22, 2020

Days That End in 'Y' - editorial 'toons & memes

'Gentlemen, start your engines!' edition.

To the Californians moving to Texas:
Remember those high taxes, burdensome regulations, & socialistic agenda advanced in CA?
We don't believe in that.
We believe in less government & more individual freedom.
If you agree with that you'll fit right in.https://t.co/Qv5nKaD315
— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) January 23, 2020

(Moreover, it's not the government's job to determine what goes on between 2 consenting adults. MYOB!)

U.S. Senate candidate selects guillotine as ‘symbol of the work we have to do’

"The logo, unveiled this week by Democrat Bre Kidman, recalls the execution device known for its role in the 18th century French Revolution and is intended to symbolize revolt by low- and middle-income people, Kidman said.

“The guillotine is an image which calls to mind what people have done for revolution before,” said Kidman, an attorney who’s running for the seat held by Republican Sen. Susan Collins. “If we can find a better path to revolution than that we owe it to ourselves and our country.”

When someone threatens you with a method of execution, know they mean to kill you.

The Guillotine
The guillotine is an instrument for inflicting capital punishment by decapitation. In 1789 a French physician and member of the National Assembly named Joseph-Ignace Guillotin was instrumental in passing a law that required all sentences of death to be carried out by “means of a machine.”

During the French Revolution (1789 - 1802), the guillotine became the primary symbol of the Reign of Terror (September 5, 1793, to July 27, 1794) and was used to execute thousands of people, including King Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette. Louis Collenot d'Angremont was a royalist famed for having been the first guillotined for his political ideas, on 21 August 1792.

The murderous mob eventually turned against the main protagonist behind the Reign of Terror, Maximillian Robespierre (ironically, the leader of the Committee of Public Safety (CPS)), and the guillotine claimed his head, too.

Previous to the French Revolution, similar devices were in use in Scotland, England, and various other European countries, often for the execution of criminals of noble birth.

The use of the guillotine continued in France well into the 20th century, diminishing during the 1960s and ’70s, with only eight executions occurring between 1965 and the last one in 1977. In September 1981 France outlawed capital punishment and abandoned the use of the guillotine.

Today, we associate the guillotine with the brutality of the French Revolution, when 16,549 men and women were executed by the device. However, the Nazis were equally devoted to it. They are thought to have beheaded almost as many victims as the French Reign of Terror during the Nazis' 12 horrific years in power.

And now, at least one Leftist in Maine thinks it appropriate to use this killing machine as her political campaign symbol. Once again, Kaiser's Maxim is confirmed, and underscores the need to eliminate with extreme prejudice these vile Leftists. Politically speaking, of course.