I see the MuhJoo crew is out in force.
Someone must be shitting themself.
>>7573326, >>7573416 pb
>What is that Pin Pelosi is Wearing?
Yes, that's the United States House of Representatives, and, on each side of the central podium, fasces, complete with the wreath that symbolizes victory.
The origins of the symbol are Italian, using that designation broadly. The bundle of wooden sticks, bound together, and sometimes including the axe blade, has Etruscan beginnings but became prominent with its adoption by the Kingdom of Rome, then the Republic, then Imperial Rome.
The fasces were carried by Lictors (attendants), and their presence signified the power of the magistrate being attended. Added in Republican Rome, the axe meant that the power of that particular magistrate included capital punishment. When the fasces were brought into Rome's center the axe was removed, a sign that power resided with the people, rather than with an arbitrary and capricious magistrate.
Millenia later, Mussolini's Fascism took its name from fasces.
https://romethesecondtime.blogspot.com/2016/02/fasces-fasci-trolling-rome-for-politics.html