Speaker Johnson: Newsom should be 'tarred and feathered

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64. Tarring and feathering historically was not just a humiliation.

It was a slow form of execution done with boiling tar usually causing slow painful death due to burns and then toxicity and infection. Tar is a form of crude oil not easily removed from skin so it literally partially cooked a person. It would be like falling into a natural boiling tar pit.

Even without the boiling, contact with crude oil or petroleum products in most forms is incredibly poisonous and toxins absorb quickly through the skin. The people who assisted in the Exxon Valdez oil spill were tracked over the years and many of them died early due to health complications - all who assisted in 1989 were dead by 2010.

There was also a case of a man in the Ukraine who willingly jumped into a reservoir of motor oil for a prank video and completely submerged. When he gets out his companions are trying to clean it off with a pressure washer and he's complaining he can't breathe and can't see and is burning. Followups are sketchy, but it's reported he died within 48 hours.

So I am sure our odious Speaker believes he's joking metaphorically, but the amount of apathy for the well-being of any perceived enemy is toxic and unconscionable - and for a person claiming to be as religious as he is, wishing specific harm on someone is complete blasphemy. Saying something like that out loud might give someone who is equally as ignorant the idea to actually try it. Politicians publicly wishing harm on individuals "should be tarred and feathered" is stochastic terrorism because it is de-facto permission at a high level for someone to actually carry it out.