Party leader faces backlash over his decision to support Republican-led bill to avoid government shutdown

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          Death? Tarring and feathering wasn’t an execution, it was a humiliation.

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            I’ve been lead to believe that to be correctly tar and feathered the tar must be applied thickly and to the whole naked body. This causes a slow and agonising death via the complete shut-down of normal skin function.

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              I’ve found numerous cases of tarring and feathering and no intentional deaths. It was typically meant to humiliate someone rather than kill them, which is why it’s not considered a method of execution.

              What does “complete shut-down of normal skin function” mean?

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                The skin can’t breath or sweat under a full layer of tar and ends up like a full body case of advanced trench foot causing numerous complications.

                The context was medieval full body and naked tarring though and it was something I was told as a child around 40 years ago.

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      We need to. It’s way past time of letting the dnc be the controlled opposition and the party needs to genuinely represent a populist platform