imagine falling in love with someone and then finding out they don't like dogs https://t.co/P5YLKEJeqb
— laura olin (@lauraolin) December 26, 2017
… But I hope this one was wearing a good pair of work gloves. Per the Washington Post:
It was one of those gag cards you can buy in a drugstore. “Merry Catsmess!” read the caption. And in a personal touch, as if for emphasis, Robby Strong had enclosed a box of horse manure.“To Stevie,” he wrote on the envelope, meaning Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, for whose doorstep the manure was bound.
“We’re returning the ‘gift’ of the Christmas tax bill. It’s bulls‑‑‑.” Strong wrote on the card. “Warmest Wishes, The American People.”
And then, he says, he went through with it. On Saturday, Strong hand-delivered the manure to two Los Angeles homes he believed belong to Mnuchin — one in Beverly Hills, and one a mansion in Bel Air that consequently got a visit from Secret Service agents and a bomb squad.
“I wanted to ring the door and hand it to him myself,” Strong told AL.com the next day, after his early Christmas package had locked down one of the richest neighborhoods in the world.
Strong works as a psychologist for Los Angeles County, he told 89.3 KPCC, and expects that delivering animal feces to the man in charge of the U.S. Treasury Department could jeopardize his job. But Strong doesn’t sound as if he regrets it…
As proof of his commitment, he posted photos of himself — shovel in hand, serene smile beneath his beard — loading manure into a box the size of a mini-fridge. It looked much like the box a news helicopter would later observe being dumped out by police in Bel Air, as so many police and federal agents swarmed the street that Mnuchin’s neighbors couldn’t leave their driveways…
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Apart from a round of applause, what’s on the agenda for this abbreviated year-end week?
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Amazon could probably do pretty well selling gift wrapped horse manure to send to administration figures.
— Schooley (@Rschooley) December 26, 2017
Also, I’m not sure one can believe anything from The Sun, but you know the very suggestion is gonna chafe someone’s thin, orange-tinted skin…
Season eleven of The Crown is gonna be lit. https://t.co/xytKke51UK
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) December 26, 2017
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