Please excuse the lo-res, this was sent by fax
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18005265
Unique ways to peace out as national leader
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18005265
Unique ways to peace out as national leader
During 1672, which the Dutch refer to as the disaster year, France and England attacked the Republic in the Franco-Dutch War. De Witt was severely wounded by a knife-wielding assassin on 21 June. He resigned as Grand Pensionary on 4 August, but this was not enough for his enemies. His brother Cornelis (who was deputy-in-the-field for de Ruyter at the Raid on the Medway), particularly hated by the Orangists, was arrested on trumped-up charges of treason. He was tortured (as was usual under Roman-Dutch law, which required a confession before a conviction was possible) but refused to confess. Nevertheless, he was sentenced to exile. When his brother went over to the jail (which was only a few steps from his house) to help him get started on his journey, both were attacked by members of The Hague's civic militia. The brothers were shot and then left to the mob. Their naked, mutilated bodies were strung up on the nearby public gibbet, while the Orangist mob ate their roasted livers in a cannibalistic frenzy. Throughout it all, a remarkable discipline was maintained by the mob, according to contemporary observers, lending doubt as to the spontaneity of the event.
I kept reading Orangist as Organist, which given the ending took me a while to realize I was reading it wrong
After after we lost the PM that went for a swim, we proceeded to name swimming pools after him.
The first one looks like a map of countries where the PM shat himself at the Engadine Maccas
Cool, now do a map of all the countries where the former President’s cook (who couldn’t swim) mysteriously died in a paddle boarding accident and everyone forgot about it a week later…
And resignation (drop out technically) by tweet?
Is it still called a tweet? An X? Xpost? Xtra? Xerox?