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Why Garfield hates Mondays
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He was shot on July 2nd, which was a Saturday and then lingered for the next month or so until he died.
He got an early form of air conditioning using fans and big blocks of ice since the summer was hot while he was dying.
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No, but I can confirm that is an excellent little Italian food place not far down the road from his estate
And the reason he died was because the doctors didn’t wash their hands and had dirty equipment
No joke his assassin has to be one of the craziest and most interesting people ever. Look him up
Charles J Guiteau, most interesting assassin of all time
Definitely. Totally forgot his name thou
so i guess he’s not the most memorable assassin of all time
"DAMN YOU GARFIELD!" - Charles J Guit-out
“I sense a disturbance in the force, maybe daylight savings just made Monday an hour longer”- Garfield
HEY KIDS
"Wow Garfield, that was quite the wisecrack. It's amazing to see how you can keep things fresh, year after year." -beige dog
Burn in hell beige dog
There is a way. Garfield Minus Garfield :The story of Jon Arbuckle's depression, loneliness, and descent into utter lunacy.
Charlie Guiteau done shot down a good man, good man
More like Charles J Getout
Ha, more like Charles get out
He doesn’t always drink beer...
Watch Sam O’Nellas video on him
If the dick don't spit, you must acquit.
I remember hearing about him in history class. He was an anarchist or something, right?
You're thinking of McKinley's killer, Leon Czolgolz
He killed Garfield to unite the North and South and thought he could run for president afterwards. Also danced to his hanging
No that was the McKinley assassination.
Seems like many assassins are very interesting people completely of their rockers.
Like the guy who built the [25-barrel "Infernal Machine" organ gun](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infernal_machine_(weapon)) to kill King Louis Phillipe I. The king survived with just a scratch, but 40 people around him were hit (18 fatally) while the gun also almost killed the assassin firing it.
Seconded.
It's just an interesting story as Lincoln and JFK's assassination. Wish it was more well known
His victim's political career appears to be really interesting too
July 1881
Dr Doctor Bliss: Not to worry, Mr President! I shall just shove my hands into your body to find that pesky bullet. If that fails, I'll phone up my friend Alexander Graham Bell and see if he has some sort of device that detects metal. Mark my words; you shall not end up being fed with a tube shoved up your butt!
Oh God I didn't need to be reminded of that tragedy
I read they put him on his belly and used a metal detector to try and find the bullet, it beeps and they start digging...having failed to consider the put him on a metal bed frame.
That, plus the fact that the doctor treating Garfield was CONVINCED that the bullet was on one side of his body and he wouldn’t even let examiners look on the other side of his body for the bullet. Lots of egos involved in that tragedy among the doctors, especially considering that the Lincoln assassination was still fresh in recent memory, so everyone wanted to be the doctor that saved this president.
In the end, it turned out that the bullet wound itself, while debilitating, wasn’t fatal. In fact, it was all of the doctors who arrived at the scene of the shooting who tried to remove the bullet from Garfield’s body while he was lying on the floor of the train station who created an infection in the wound that festered over the next few months, which is what ended up killing him.
Dr Doctor
Destiny of The Republic is a great account of Garfield's assassination. The Assassin, his doctors being terrible, Alexander Graham Bell creating a prototype imaging device to find the bullet, crazy stuff. The poor guy was just lying there for two months suffering.
One of my favorite presidential history books. Candace Miller does a great job of interweaving each of the stories while also creating a vivid picture of the kind of man Garfield was and the possibilities that he represented as far as the post-war US was concerned
What kind of president would he have been if he had survived?
Of course it’s hard to tell for sure because history is history and working in hypotheticals is a lightening rod for debate, but I believe he would’ve been a very good one.
He was an educator by career, and one of the humble, statesman-like politicians that were considered ideal for the president by the founders. He was a big proponent of Reconstruction, and right around the time when he held office was when that post-war movement ran out of steam and left a lot of people hanging as politics started to look towards economic matters (monopolies, robber barons, trust busting - gilded era stuff). Also, somewhat recently before he was shot, he had brokered agreements and cleared away some key political opponents in the opposing parties and had a bit of a clear path to being able to push forward some substantive policy initiatives. One could argue that he could’ve reinvigorated the push for expanded civil rights for the freed slaves, especially those living in the south who ended up going through the Jim Crow era policies of many states.
Again, it’s tough to say if all this would’ve ended up actually happening, but he was a man of the proper temperament for a president, and he was poised to be able to put forth some good policies at the time of his death.
Damn. Nutty right wingers have quite the history of assassinating progressives. It keeps fucking happening but at least Johnson and congress managed to get civil rights legislation through.
"Find 7 dollars enclosed, shove it up your bung hole and wipe your nose on it, and that will remind you of the estimation in which you are held by Charles J Guiteau"
And to his brother the madlad
DAMN YOU GARFIELD!!!
I feel a disturbance in the force...
Screw you beige dog
Sam O'Nella is life
But did he love lasagna?
Garfield is a cat. He has no reason to hate Monday, Wednesday, or any other day as he does not have a job.
Jon, however, does have a job. Jon goes to work on Mondays. Garfield hates Mondays because his favorite human has to leave the house all day and he misses his human.
Jon, however, does have a job. Jon goes to work on Mondays. Garfield hates Mondays because his favorite human has to leave the house all day and he misses his human.
Jon works from home as an artist.
On the contrary Chester Arthur loves Mondays
I would never have understood it if you hadnt put giant circles around it
I love the thought that President Garfield got reincarnated as a lasagna-loving, existentialist fat orange tabby cat.
Alexander Graham Bell invented the metal detector to find the bullet because the doctors couldn't. The doctors were so stupid they only let bell use the detector on one side of Garfields body. Bell's device didnt find anything, and the bullet was never found because it was on the other side of his body.
Also the mattress was an early metal spring bed prototype
It’s all coming together now.
Fun fact: that’s my birthday
Deep lore.
All that, AND you know no party involved bothered to wash their hands. Fine gentlemen they were, they just pulled off their fancy gloves and got some butchers gloves. Just a few more years and Germ Theory will overtake the Miasma Theory.
I beg you to look up the story of his assassin. Its probably one of the craziest, my big brain moves pulled by this insane man
The best part is that you had to look up "garfield president death" vs just "garfield death"
So I looked it up and apparently, Garfield got his name from James A. Garfield so it makes so much sense
Monday’s am I right
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Charles Get Out 😂
man, he should've kept an open mind
This is the second meme in a row with Garfield, let’s go for a turkey
Okay, now explain the lasagna.
Lol,nice
Garfield just confirmed being an isekai???
Thanks for the red circles, I wouldn’t have understood the joke without them
DAAAAMN YOU GAAAAARFIEEEEEELD
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