#lil-als

[problematic-president]

What do you think Van Buren smelled like?

Cabbages. Next question

[winterbirb]

After booping you a lot, this came to mind and only you could possibly answer this (fairly) inquiry

Hypothetically one boops John Kerry… what happens next?

It goes like this:

You boop him.

He asks: "Huh? What was that?" He turns to an aide.

The aide whispers to him what a boop is.

He says: "Oh, haha! I got booped. Happy April fools!" In that somewhat monotone way of his.

He then ignores the whole thing just until he gets up to leave, which is when he strikes back, revenge booping you, even saying the word 'boop.' But it's too late for you. He's already walking away, and his 6'4" body and proportional, yet still freakishly long legs can't be caught up with.

[winterbirb]

I love that your tags are animal emojis. “Is this John Kerry or is this a fucking bird 🕊️” is my new favorite game

He probably has the most animals out of all the tags (🐯 definitely has some tigers and maaaybe 🐻 has some bears but it isn't as common) bc he's sooooo pigeon-dove coded actually. People act like the dove as a symbol should be exalted as a symbol of peace and holiness, but the domesticated pigeon is ignored, even hated, seen as incredibly boring and just... forgotten about. Doves are peace, pigeons are vermin. Contradictory, right? (In Russian, btw, they're the same word: голубь (golub). This is similar to the adjective голубой, which means (sky) blue (as opposed to dark blue). That's apparently also a euphemism in Russian for uhhh kinda fruity 😳 anyway. Just a fun fact :3

So I assign to pigeon-doves a lot of symbolism for him. He's also seen as boring and is looked over or forgotten about—people either forget about or criticize his tenure as SecState even though he undertook a lot of really difficult initiatives with little PR payoff, even if they don't understand how instrumental he was. (He was key in negotiating w/ Russia in sept 2013, preventing a US military strike on Syria in order to secure safe passage of Assad's chemical weapons so that ISIS didn't get a hold of them. Sam Power recounted that, when she (as the US rep to the UN) and Churkin (the Russian rep) afterwards successfully negotiated the UN side of things, Lavrov was handing out dove pins. So. :3

Coughcough anyways. That's why there are so many birds in that tag. Although in one interview he also mentioned hunting and eating doves, which is hilarious.

(My top three picks for his repping animal are 1. Mourning dove 2. Domesticated rock pigeon and 3. Luzon bleeding heart.)

🦆 OTOH has no ducks. It's just John Edwards's tag (well, him/Andrew Young) bc Edwards sounds a tiny bit like Mallard 😹 and I'm fine revealing who that tag is because at one point I tag his name in all caps soooo