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The Perversions of a Quiet Girl

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What a cunting great ride
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Acrobatic dance demonstration interrupted by a southerly wind

Puts on sound 🎼🎙🎚🎺🎻🎶🎵📣

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Timing is everything in life...........................................................................................................

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shmreduplication

We don't talk enough about the implications of the annual Thanksgiving presidential turkey pardon

The thing that the turkey is getting pardoned /from/ is being Thanksgiving dinner, the thing the turkey is being pardoned for is a mystery. What are turkeys' crime that gives them the death penalty unless pardoned mr president? Is being a turkey an inherent crime? They were nearly the national bird!

Also, after a turkey attacked a president during the pardon ceremony, the turkeys that will be pardoned in the future are bred and raised to be docile and calm in front of large crowds and next to the potus, indicating that birds can be artificially selected to be genetically capable of being legally freed from their original sin of being born a turkey

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tanoraqui

I am SO DELIGHTED to inform you that one of The West Wing’s annual-ish Thanksgiving episodes, there was a subplot about the annual turkey pardon which culminated in this iconic scene:

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kedreeva

I don't know if you wanted a real answer or not, but here goes, buckle up:

The first unofficially pardoned turkey was actually just a turkey spared in private by President Lincoln in 1863. The bird had been gifted to the president's family for Thanksgiving dinner, but Lincoln's youngest son, Tad, had adopted the bird upon arrival. He asked his father to let the turkey live rather than become their Thanksgiving dinner, and Lincoln obliged. Tad named the bird Jack, and Jack would later be spared from Christmas dinner as well, through the use of a written reprieve note to Tad from his father. In this case, the turkey was spared because he had committed no crimes and a little boy loved him. Heartwarming.

The first public “sparing” of a Presidential Thanksgiving turkey was in 1947, by President Truman. This was not a pardon, but rather part of a lobbying campaign to reduce meat and egg consumption by introducing “meatless mondays” and “poultryless thursdays.” Truman publicly spared the turkeys but there’s no record of it going anywhere alive, and it was most likely not spared in private. This is OFTEN credited as the first “presidential pardon” but that’s just flat out wrong. The birds were not pardoned, pardoning was not a part of it, and likely the birds were not even spared, there was just a public advertising event about eating less/no meat/eggs.

The first non-presidential use of the term “pardoned” in reference to the Presidential Thanksgiving turkey would come later, in 1963, when Kennedy publicly spared his (live) gifted turkey. The press reported that the turkey had been “pardoned” by the president, even though no official presidential pardon had been given. The turkey would outlive Kennedy, who was assassinated 3 days later. Some people count this. I don’t. No crimes were committed here, Kennedy didn’t call it a pardon himself, though the turkey was actually spared.

The first presidential use of the word "pardoned" in reference to the Presidential Thanksgiving turkey was in 1987, as a deflection of Reagan's shady business. Reagan had sent his gifted turkeys to a petting zoo since 1982, but in ‘87, his administration was selling arms to Iran under the guise of rescuing US prisoners, and then using the funds to assist a right-wing terrorist group in Nicaragua (the Contras). During a press conference, when Reagan was being asked whether or not he would pardon two of the national security council members (Oliver North and John Poindexter) involved in the Iran-Contra scandal, Reagan deflected by joking that if that year’s (live) Thanksgiving turkey had not already been destined for a petting zoo, he “would have pardoned him,” as if that was a valid answer to the question. Again, no official pardon was issued, but at least crimes were committed, just not by the turkey.

Two years later, in 1989, President Bush would actually go through with the first official, public Presidential pardoning of a turkey. The official quote is: “But let me assure you, and this fine tom turkey, that he will not end up on anyone’s dinner table, not this guy—he’s presented a Presidential pardon as of right now.” The turkey was sent to live at a farm, as had been done for spared turkeys in the past. This altered the tradition of sparing a turkey either privately or publicly, and it became pardoning a turkey in a cutesy public event for good PR, despite no crimes having been committed by the turkey.

So, TL;DR: Presidential Thanksgiving turkeys were first spared by Abraham Lincoln, out of love for his son, who had great fondness of the innocent bird. Presidential Thanksgiving turkeys are now pardoned because Ronald Reagan joked about pardoning a turkey as a means of deflecting attention from his administration’s crimes, and George Bush thought a ceremony for publicly pardoning a turkey for crimes it didn’t commit sounded like a good idea.

The answer: The turkeys never committed any crimes, but the humans pardoning them sure weren't innocent.

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David Tennant on The Last Leg 17.11.2023 :D ❤

Int: We need to congratulate you, by the way, on yet another accolade. Amongst all of David's awards, you were recently named on the DILF list. Now, for those who don't know, DILF, of course, stands for 'Dad I'd Like to Fondle', kind of. .... Here's the top five: 1. Pedro Pascal, 2. Oscar Isaac. 3. David Tennant. 4. Mads Mikkelsen. 5. Cillian Murphy. Oh, and Michael Sheen came in-

David: Oh - where is he on the list?

Int: Michael Sheen's number six.

David: Number six.

Int: Number six.

David: Number six.

David: And where... just remind me where I am.

Int: Three. You're three.

David: Number Three.

#you know he's had this conversation with Georgia and Michael
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Image description: A four page black and white comic of my tortoiseshell cat, Bunny, complaining that I won’t let her in from the screen porch.

Page 1 

Panel 1: A small tortoiseshell cat sits on the other side of a glass door, looking up sadly, saying, “Mama! Mama, help! I’m in the screen porch!” 

Panel 2: She scratches at the door. “Mama! Mama I’m trapped! I’m trapped in the screen porch! Mama!” she cries. 

Panel 3: She looks through the glass with her sad, innocent expression. “I see you, Mama! Can’t you hear me? Why won’t you let me in? What have I done, Mama!”

Panel 4: The left corner is dominated by a close up of her face, as she reminisces about the cat tree in the screen porch. We see her perched on the very top, looking out over the backyard.

She says, “Was I not grateful enough, Mama? You gave me a throne, here in the screen porch! A place where I could look down upon the world as a god!”

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Panel 1: While she’s perched atop her cat tree, it begins to rain outside. Bunny looks askance at it from behind the screen. 

“But I couldn’t touch it, Mama!” she narrates, now in boxes instead of word balloons, “I could see the rain lavish the earth, but never feel its cool caress!”

Panel 2: A paw rests on the screen. On the other side, two birds chirp, unbothered by the presence of Bunny.

 “I could smell the blood of the song birds, but never taste its warmth! I lived as Tantalus in this screen porch, Mama!”

Panel 3: Sitting on a cushioned chair, bunny looks out over the yard, barred from her by the porch screen. 

“Tormented by what I could never reach!” 

Page 3

Panel 1 : Another reminiscence, this time of Bunny running through the open door to the screen porch earlier that day while I was taking out the garbage. 

“And yet I returned, again and again and again! Was that my sin, Mama? Is this my punishment? To be condemned forever to a hell of my own choosing?” 

Panel 2: Returning to the present, Bunny looks up from the otherside of the door, her eyes wide.

“Is this what you call justice, Mama?” She says. “Is this what you call love?” 

Panel 3: From Bunny’s perspective we see me; I am ignoring her, going about my business. She calls out to me, “Answer me, Mama! Mama!”

Panel 4:I glance back at her, unmoved by her cries. “Mama!” she yells. 

Page 4

Panel 1: Pulling out we finally see more of the wall which has the door to the screen porch. Directly beside it is a cat door that goes through the wall, out into the screen porch. Another cat, Bunny’s sister Maggie, is coming through the cat flap with no issue.

 I say, “ Bunny, I know you know how to use the cat door.”

Clawing at the window, tears in her eyes, Bunny screams “MAMA!!”

End ID.

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ihavealotoffeelings

I feel like “is this what you call justice, Mama? is this what you call love?” is going to enter my “cats being dramatic” lexicon the same way “you KICK miette?” and “father is…evil?” have.

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kedreeva

delighted to inform you it's not just cats-

that are waiting behind open doors to be let out of jail

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infamouslydorky

I resent the framing of being poor or starving as some form of virtue since "it really makes you appreciate what you have." Sure, fine, it can when you've experienced it. Why would you wish a person to experience that though? Terrible living conditions are nothing to be praised or blame on an individual as much as it is society as a whole who has failed to provide their basic needs. It just goes back to the arguments of classism and who is deserving of good things and such. Maybe people in general should have their needs met. Why is that such a wild take? Why do you hate the poor and disenfranchised?