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I hate how history books refer to things like the “patronage system” or “spoils system” as if they’re legitimate systems and not just open corruption.
I guess it ties into my general hatred of how history textbooks tend to treat history as a bunch of isolated facts to be memorized rather than trying to connect the dots in an insightful way.
So what you’re saying is political assassination works
Shinzo Abe vibes.
Direct action gets the goods
Oh that’s a huge over simplification on why the guy shot Garfield. Dude was literally insane.
Yeah, totally worth reading about Guiteau because he was crazy on an amazing level.
For those like me who lack the attention span to read about it Sam O’Nella did a video about it
The man bought an ivory gripped pistol for the assassination because he thought it would look cooler displayed in a museum, IIRC.
Sane people don’t kill other people.
Ohhhh I get it. The guy hated the stress of Mondays, so he killed Prez Garfield, who is later reincarnated as Garfield the cat who now hates Mondays because they remind him of his assassination.
Holy shit, it all checks out. President Garfield had a nephew named Rutherford B. Lasagna who he gave a high-ranking position to, just two weeks before he was assassinated.
(source: my ass)
Your sweet ass has about the same integrity as all the other bullshit I see (and sometimes even read) every motherfuckin day on this Internet we find one another on… Source verified as original by way of alcohol.
Nice fuckin job, eh…
this is why Garfield hates mondays
Dont worry, the Trump admin brings that back, too.
True, shame he missed though.
So when he says “make it great again”, he means to bring back the good old days of unbridled corruption in the government. That tracks.
That didn’t end. Most ambassador appointments are like that, and even though agency/department appointments require congressional approval, the wheels are so well greased, people with zero relevant experience get through. The horse breeder who was head of FEMA under bush comes to mind.
It’s also kinda how governments work; merit is nice to have, but loyalty is vital. It doesn’t matter how competent someone is if they’re going to use their power to sabotage your administration to benefit their friends in the opposition.
