Speaker Johnson: Newsom should be 'tarred and feathered

[EdmondDantes_]

79. This isn't really true

The initial order was for boiling tar, but that was during the Crusades. Tarring and feathering in the US sense was about humiliation not killing.

https://allthingsliberty.com/2013/12/5-myths-tarring-feathering/

The notion that hot tar caused severe, sometimes fatal burns is based on the assumption that “tar” meant the asphalt we use on roads, which is typically stored in liquid state at about 300°F (150°C). But in the eighteenth century “tar” meant pine tar, used for several purposes in building and maintaining ships. As any baseball fan knows, pine tar doesn’t have to be very hot to be sticky. Shipyards did warm that tar to make it flow more easily, but pine tar starts to melt at about 140°F (60°C). That’s well above the ideal for bathwater, but far from the temperature of hot asphalt.