Current Affairs Assault on US Capitol and Related (non-Trump) Investigation

[TN Toffee]

I do wonder if he is going to get so very mad that he ignores all his lawyers advice and does give testimony.

Teump just the type of person to think that he could lie under oath and he’d get away with it - he might not even think he was lying.

 

[tsubaki]

Off topic but always felt extremely sorry for Jane Grey, from the limited amounts I read her parents sounded awful.

a bumper crop of sh*tty people around at that time

 

[LinekersLegs]

 

[tsubaki]

Was Edward II the one with the redhot poker?

That is one rumour - but there is a much better modern one that says he wasn't murdered, was used as a hostage until his captor (Sir Roger Mortimer, perhaps the most interesting man in English history) was executed by Edward III, then went to Italy to become a monk and ended up meeting his son later on. It sounds mad but there is contemporary evidence for it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fieschi_Letter

Ian Mortimer's "The Perfect King" contains the best account of the survival theory, and is a fantastic book in its own right.

 

[Bohemian Toffee]

Was Edward II the one with the redhot poker?

It's debatable that he was murdered this way but he certainly died at Berkeley Castle in 1327 and the poker detail was added by later chroniclers.

That detail worked, everyone remembers Edward II's sexuality which was certainly the chronicler's agenda.

 

[LinekersLegs]

 

[Bohemian Toffee]

"I don't f'ing care that they have weapons; they're not here to hurt me."

President for all the people.

 

[LinekersLegs]

That is one rumour - but there is a much better modern one that says he wasn't murdered, was used as a hostage until his captor (Sir Roger Mortimer, perhaps the most interesting man in English history) was executed by Edward III, then went to Italy to become a monk and ended up meeting his son later on. It sounds mad but there is contemporary evidence for it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fieschi_Letter

Ian Mortimer's "The Perfect King" contains the best account of the survival theory, and is a fantastic book in its own right.

Visited Corfe Castle many times but had never heard that he might have have fled there.

It's debatable that he was murdered this way but he certainly died at Berkeley Castle in 1327 and the poker detail was added by later chroniclers.

That detail worked, everyone remembers Edward II's sexuality which was certainly the chronicler's agenda.

Tbf it is one of the those details that once seen is difficult to not see!

 

[LinekersLegs]

 

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[BlueTX]

For those who understand the context, this is a brutal takedown.

 

[TN Toffee]

 

[LinekersLegs]

For those who understand the context, this is a brutal takedown.

Popehat is superb at these takedowns.

 

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