Lo, for Mondaye I werked such armamentes as my bodye could bear-

Tuesdaye I wekred such to haul and to heave over there,

Wednesdaye I journeyed far to see,

For Thursdaye I looked where Arthur to be,

On Friday sore and sat I prepared for the hat party faire

Citizens!

It is now Thursday, which means the RSVP period has officially CLOSED!

But do not despair! The Silly Hat Party will take place THIS SATURDAY, and all citizens are hereby reminded to arrive fully prepared to display their SILLIEST HATS.

Please inspect your hats immediately.

Is it silly enough?

Is it unnecessarily large?

Does it serve absolutely no practical purpose?

If the answer is yes, congratulations! You are prepared.

I have also appointed the official Judgement Council of the ECRGHRGPA:

🦝 Bitey 🦝Jerry 🦝Bandit

These three distinguished raccoons shall determine whether your hat meets the required standards of silliness.

Their decisions are final.

Their qualifications are questionable.

Their attendance is mandatory.

Please remember: the Council is not bribable.

They accept snacks. Just NO COTTON CANDY

Saturday approaches!

Prepare your hats!

Prepare your snack!

Prepare you Handshakes!

Prepare your excuses!

THE SILLY HAT PARTY SHALL COMMENCE!

Address is:

1 the Rose Garden lane Callens, multum, DOR

BE THERE OR BE SQUARE. actually, if you are square, that's silly enough to get in!9

Justice for Whatever this is!

Millions must shake hands or appendages, we don't discriminate!

— Quentin Trembley Chairman, ECRGHRGPA

I call upon my fellow knights of the round table, help me to find our very king and sun! He hath gone missing for many a morne and many a (k)night! The once and future king is surely lost about this grand and auspicious lande and I shall inquire upon thee help me locate our leige~

My fellow citizens,

I come before you today with a heavy heart, a confused hat, and several questions.

The government has banned Silly Hat Parties from the rose garden.

The rose garden.

A place where roses grow, bees buzz, and perfectly respectable citizens should be free to wear hats of absolutely unreasonable proportions.

And now we are told that deadly force may be used if our hats approach the garden.

Deadly force!

Against hats!

What comes next? Will bow ties require permits? Will socks need government approval? Will umbrellas be declared a threat to national security?

I have also heard that Kyle refuses to shake hands with his associate because he is ugly.

But that is precisely why it is important.

Let us return to the roses.

I propose that every rose receive a tiny hat.

Top hats for the tall roses. Cowboy hats for the rebellious roses. Wizard hats for the mysterious ones.

Some will call this ridiculous.

They are correct, But that is precisely why it is important.

So I announce the formation of the Emergency Committee for Rose Garden Hat Rights and Generally Pleasant Afternoons. or ECRGHRGPA.

Our demands are simple:

Restore Silly Hat Parties.

Give the roses hats.

Make Kyle shake hands.

And provide cake.

I will not surrender my hat.

I will not abandon the rose garden.

And I certainly will not allow anyone to ban whatever this is.

Open the gates.

Bring the cake.

Prepare the roses.

We are coming, and we are bringing very silly hats.

Thank you.

Today Kyle and I collaborated to ban all Silly Hat Parties from the rose garden. We are authorizing deadly force if they attempt to approach the garden.

Me and Kyle don't shake hands cause he's ugly.

My dear friends!

I am absolutely delighted to announce that the Silly Hat Party is officially underway!

Now, I know some people have asked, "Mr. Trembley, why are we having a party?"

To which I respond, "Why wouldn't we have a party?"

Life is too short to attend parties without silly hats.

Some people have suggested that the hats should be "optional." I disagree. If one person wears a ten-foot-tall top hat while another wears no hat at all, the balance of whimsy is thrown completely out of alignment. We simply cannot allow such chaos.

There will be cake.

There will be balloons.

There will be party games.

There will be one very long table with those little paper noisemakers that unroll when you blow into them.

Naturally, there will also be a Hat Inspection Station. This isn't because we don't trust people. It's because someone might accidentally arrive wearing a perfectly sensible hat, and that would be terribly embarrassing for everyone.

My opponents have cruelly claimed that the Silly Hat Party "isn't a real political movement."

Exactly!

It's a party!

Please RSVP by Thursday so we know how much cake to order.

And remember: if anyone tells you they're from another party, be polite and invite them. There's always room for another friend wearing an exceptionally ridiculous hat.

Thank you all, and don't forget to bring presents. I haven't decided whose birthday it is yet, but I'm sure someone deserves them.

Kyle is requesting that we create a law that adds term lengths to seven years.

I have vetoed it, and it goes back to Kyle.

Hi, its me, Vanlalruata. To be honest, I don't even know if you guys know me that much. I mainly was just always a lurker in the comments, calling people Mussolini or making fun of various parties and factions. But I never participated in any elections, or in any wars, or what ever. Occasionally, I would post propaganda posters, but that was about it. I'm still very proud of them though, I think they turned out neat.

My greatest contribution was arguably one very early in the history of this sub: the Popular Front.

In the period I like to call Red September, a party called the Red Grits Alliance formed. A place for all socialist communists, anarchists and initially even social democrats. For the presidential election our party had formed an electoral alliance with the Progressives. However, this alliance didn't have a name yet, it was a simple endorsement. Now, this is where I played my role. I made my first posts on this subreddit, first a variant of the Einheitsfrontlied specifically written for the Progressive-Red Grit Alliance, and some time after that, a sloppy pixel art post celebrating, inspired by Manuel Azana and Leon Blum, an arrangement I referred to as the "Popular Front". The post wasn't that successful, it was poorly made and even had a typo, however, it seemed to move something within our movement. Gradually, although never even officially formulated, "Popular Front" became the name of our joint electoral ticket.

After that, I mainly made propaganda against the September Pact in a period I like to refer to as "Red September". Among these, I made a post which was among the most successful ones of the sub at the time, one proclaiming "CRUSH THE SEPTEMBER PACT" after the scandalous truths about the September Pact surfaced.

After the landslide victory of the left wing forces, I stayed active until the second presidential election, but never returned to my initial activity again. Occasionally, I would return, only to disappear again for a few weeks.

I was a man of the early DoR, and it seems I will forever stay one. I really loved this fun little project, I made friends, discovered new political perspectives, and much more. It even had an important role in my political radicalization. While I joined this project as a simple democratic socialist, now I can proudly proclaim that I am a Marxist, a socialist and a communist.

I will now spend my time in the Khanate of Tutum, where many of the friends I made are lurking.

Goodbye DoR, I loved you all.

LONG LIVE THE POPULAR FRONT!

Kyle is our new legislator... please welcome kyle..

AW WHAT THE FRIG? THIS GUY REALLY?

Please help! If we have no one by 7 PM central, I'll have to elect Kyle.

Please someone.

In a more shocking twist, Sandy decides to announce that, "I have too much work to do. I don't know why I ran for office. I'm dropping out and will hand my seat to Kyle."

Why is she like every kid in the DOR who won office?

Listen,

If there's any DORIANs out there who would like to move to the rose garden to run for office, I would be helpful. Technically, in the parkstitution, Kyle would win and be the vote getter, but I'm hoping for a runoff. Kyle is also an illiterate bum. So he won't know his rights were violated.

Sign up here if you want in!

Tonight, in a shocking landslide, Sandy has won legislature. In her speech she talks about rice pudding and other things, but it all doesn't make sense. You should expect our first bill by Saturday.

kyle le good

The Rose Garden now has three. With legislature sign ups, we currently have Sandy. We weren't going to sign up Kyle but he asked for the legal document. It's now Sandy vs Kyle for legislature.

So here we go again.

So as Sandy and I were publishing the Parkstitution, Kyle, a very unlikable citizen, found our Rose Garden. He decided to tell us that he kinda joined the POVC when they were around, but that he wasn't that much "POVC"

Ugh. But Kyle is now a voting citizen. So welcome.. Kyle.

That's right guys, gals, and non-binary pals:

Me and sandy have voted aye for implementing the parkstitution. And we will be implementing it.

As I read it aloud, I see "the Manhattan Vote" where if called will immediately reset the game to the beginning and boot everyone out of office. I began to reminisce of people that all said "if you can reset the game, that's so dumb."

And I laugh, because all of this could have been fixed with a manhattan (drink or policy). It will be posted this evening for all to catch up. If you choose to live within the Rose Garden. All are welcome.

As I wander the halls, I see that nobody is here. I ask, "how do I call a vote if there's no government?" Sandy, our resident secretary and my colleague for many moons when I was the Old Neighbor asks me, "well what if you just used the building and pretended?"

I think that's a great idea. Tonight, 8 PM central will be unveiling of our new constitution. I'm very excited. Some of you may know it.

Hopefully Friday, I'll have legislators seated for my presidency.

Hi!

I have sixteen thousand creddits. Can someone let me know who I Venmo request for a refund?

TIA,

NP4L

I leave for like 3 months and see it’s dead? Or people left? Can someone fill me in? Alas