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lmao NONE of those words are in the necronomicon 🤣

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To all Americans out there:

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Happy Halloween to the two gay extras on the Army of Darkness set.

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Brokeback Mountain (2005) dir. Ang Lee

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History will remember

Crazy to think we're finally down to the last week here before the election and I just want to say this. To all of you who may be considering NOT voting in this election or voting third party...be aware that whatever happens in the future can be traced back to your decisions now. If Trump's Project 2025 were to come to pass and the Supreme Court upholds everything, you need to ask yourself... Where was I on November 5th? Why didn't I vote? Or why did I vote third party instead? Why didn't I try to stop Project 2025? As much as the crisis in Palestine matters, it's just as important to think about the people here in the USA who will be impacted by Trump and the GOP's plans. Is it fair to completely ignore American lives? Perhaps you might even be someone who thinks Project 2025 is "fearmongering" and couldn't come to pass...but that doesn't mean there's a 0% chance of it happening. Even if only 25% of it were to be implemented, that 25% is still too much and would radically shift the USA forever. There's a very real chance that we can see a collapse of freedoms here in the USA, and we've already seen this with the Supreme Court ruling to overturn Roe v Wade. The judges who ruled to do this were put on the court by Trump. I understand there's a lot of things that democrats and liberals might be unhappy about right now...I get we don't have the absolute perfect candidates. But is it worth ignoring the reality of our democracy and personal freedoms being stripped away? This is our future on the line. We only get one shot at this. To reiterate, I understand the frustration with our two-party system, the horrible genocide in Gaza, and conflicting messages concerning Harris' values. It's good to have a strong demand for justice and reform because everyone deserves better. With that said, it's impossible to get where we want if we don't vote for the candidate that has the most similar goals to us. Even more important to vote down ballot to ensure we get a huge majority in the House and Senate. Once we have the Presidency, House, and Senate, change can truly begin. However, for so long, it's been slim majorities that have little power to implement change. That or the House might be red while the Senate is barely blue or vice versa. This has killed so many incredible bills that would have helped the American people. It's not so simple as just voting in the President--we need the House and Senate. Not as a slim majority, but a HUGE majority. So if you're sitting there frustrated and wondering why a Democratic government hasn't done x or y, that's the reason. We've yet to see a BIG majority in the House and Senate. So to go back to my previous point, this election is going to potentially decide the freedoms we possess and whether we get to keep them or not. Harris has openly stated her values and policies that are favorable in safeguarding personal freedom. For example, she has voiced her concern for safe abortion access as well as securing our right to vote. She has openly stated we need a ceasefire in Gaza. Trump has voiced the opposite and called for restricting our voting rights, and he is favorable to the Gaza genocide. Is that okay? When you look back at this years from now, you don't want to have any regrets. When you vote, you make your mark on history. How do you want to be remembered?

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I cannot stress enough that now is not the time to let headlines like these make you feel so demoralised and discouraged that you think “ugh he's going to win what's even the point” and decide not to vote.

The only poll that matters is the actual election.

And your feelings about this election have no impact at all unless you express them electorally. Don't want Trump to win? Make sure you vote Democrat, and engage your friends and family and workmates to do so too. Your preference makes no difference if you don't make it heard in the voting booth.

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Two young men wrestling in mud

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Just voted. Felt real fucking good to fill in that little fucking bubble NOT next to Trumps name.

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Cody Foster & Co. Pierogi Ornament Multicolor ebay a Via Store

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@ everyone who went through a period of having no friends, who ate alone, who had a point in their life where they were too embarrassed to tell their parents they had no one to play with after school: I love you. I know it hurts and I know it’s hard but it’s not your fault. Things will grow and change. You will find people who you click with and they will love you too. You deserve positive friendship relationships just like anyone else. And if you’re still going through this phase, you’re strong, and things will change for you too. You are not alone, there are people experiencing the same thing you are, find them, you deserve positivity and companionship. Keep your head up.

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Protect me from what I want

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(via Phil Lesh, Bassist Who Anchored the Grateful Dead, Dies at 84 - The New York Times)

Phil Lesh, whose expansive approach to the bass as a charter member of the Grateful Dead made him one of the first performers on that instrument in a rock band to regularly play a lead role rather than a supporting one, died on Friday. He was 84.

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Hey y’all especially those in swing states, eyes up:

The elongated muskrat has engaged in blatant election interference by putting out a fake voter registration page on Google ads with the clear intention to dupe voters into thinking they have actually registered to vote. It’s likely also a data harvesting tactic.

Hopefully this gets immediately flagged and taken down but we all know this fascist chucklefuck will not see consequences to his actions and this is something that would drag out in court. Spread the word. Only register to vote through state board or check vote.org for more resources. Do not register through anything else ESPECIALLY if it has some sort of clear motivation.

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"Sometimes lost amid all the shouting of a high-octane campaign heading into its final couple of weeks is that simple if mind-bending fact. America for the first time in its history may send a criminal to the Oval Office and entrust him with the nuclear codes. What would once have been automatically disqualifying barely seems to slow Mr. Trump down in his comeback for a second term that he says will be devoted to "retribution."

In all the different ways that Mr. Trump has upended the traditional rules of American politics, that may be one of the most striking. He has survived more scandals than any major party Presidential candidate, much less President, in the life of the republic. Not only survived but thrived. He has turned them on their head, making allegations against him into an argument for him by casting himself as a serial victim rather than a serial violator.

His persecution defense, the notion that he gets in so much trouble only because everyone is out to get him, resonates at his rallies where he says "they're not coming after me, they're coming after you, and I'm just standing in the way." But that of course belies a record of scandal stretching across his 78 years starting long before politics. Whether in his personal life or his public life, he has been accused of so many acts of wrongdoing, investigated by so many prosecutors and agencies, sued by so many plaintiffs and claimants that it requires a scorecard just to remember them all.

His businesses went bankrupt repeatedly and multiple others failed. He was taken to court for stiffing his vendors, stiffing his bankers and even stiffing his own family. He avoided the draft during the Vietnam War and avoiding paying any income taxes for years. He was forced to shell out tens of millions of dollars to students who accused him of scamming them, found liable for wide-scale business fraud and had his real estate firm convicted in criminal court of tax crimes.

He has boasted of grabbing women by their private parts, been reported to have cheated on all three of his wives and been accused of sexual misconduct by more than two dozen women, including one whose account was validated by a jury that found him liable for sexual abuse after a civil trial.

He is the only President in American history impeached twice for high crimes and misdemeanors, the only President ever indicted on criminal charges and the only President to be convicted of a felony (34, in fact). He used the authority of his office to punish his adversaries and tried to hold onto power on the basis of a brazen lie.

Mr. Trump beat some of the investigations and lawsuits against him and some proved unfounded, but the sheer volume is remarkable. Any one of those scandals by itself would typically have been enough to derail another politician...Not Mr. Trump. He has moved from one furor to the next without any of them sinking into the body politic enough to end his career. The unrelenting pace of scandals may in its own way help him by keeping any single one of them from dominating the national conversation and eroding his standing with his base of supporters...And victory next month may yet help him escape the biggest threat of all -- potentially prison."

-- Peter Baker, laying out very plainly how insane it is that America could very well elect Donald Trump as President once again, in the New York Times. I really hope you'll take the time to read the whole article, which I am sharing gift links to in order to bypass the paywall, and remember just what is on the line on November 5th.

(Please feel free to copy and share this gift link to anyone and everyone that you think needs to read this immensely important article in the next two weeks.)

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bizarre magazine uk december 1999