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petrea_mitchell ([personal profile] petrea_mitchell) wrote2021-04-20 07:20 am
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Beowulfian politics

If there is one thing that has severely disappointed me about the coverage of the recent attempt to form an "Anglo-Saxon caucus" in the House, it was that no one was talking about how "Anglo-Saxon" does not mean what the caucus wanted it to mean. Well, here's Alexandra Petri to fix that:

Okay. This seems like it was pretty clearly just supposed to be a dog whistle and now you’re tripling down.

“When I spoke,” cried Marjorie Taylor Greene, hammering shield with sword,

“I weighed each word! Let us have maethlfrith!

Let us have drihtinbeage! We must make America Geat again!
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[personal profile] delosharriman 2021-04-20 11:10 pm (UTC)(link)
I assume that the central policy objective of an Anglo-Saxon Caucus would be (after amalgamating the two Dakotas, because really, who needs two Dakotas?) to divide the States into 7 equal groups, thus creating a Heptarchy.