#Aaron Blake

[tomorrowusa]

« Think of that: a red-state Democrat running on abortion rights and winning. Only in a post-Roe world.

[ … ]

Beshear has now won two races in a state that favored Trump by 26 points in 2020. The first could have been dismissed as a fluke, given that in 2019 he faced an unpopular Republican incumbent in a tough environment for the GOP. But he significantly expanded his margin of victory this time. He’s also just 45 years old.

He’s not the only governor to win multiple times in an unfavorable state for his party. Such governors tend to have little hope nationally because of how much they have to moderate and even criticize their party. But in Beshear, Democrats could actually have someone potentially acceptable to their base. He’s largely in line with his national party on key social issues. »

— Aaron Blake at the Washington Post writing about Kentucky Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear.

Gov. Beshear won by a bigger margin in 2023 than he did in 2019 when he ran against a deeply unpopular and corrupt GOP incumbent governor. And his opponent this year was endorsed by both Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell who had racked up big margins in Kentucky.

[2bpoliticallycurious]

Trump ceded the moral high ground on this idea long ago.

He has advocated for the prosecutions of each of the last four Democratic presidential nominees — every single one since 2004. In two cases, he did it during the campaign, even suggesting they should be ineligible to run.

And that’s to say nothing of the many other political opponents he has suggested should be prosecuted. He even, in some cases, actually agitated for that outcome when he held sway over the Justice Department.

The “lock her up” chant leveled at Hillary Clinton is the most well-known entry in this long succession. Trump at times merely goaded his 2016 rally audiences to go down that road, but at other times he endorsed it. He said late in the 2016 campaign, “Hillary Clinton should have been prosecuted and should be in jail,” and he even told Clinton to her face at a debate that if he were president, “You’d be in jail.” He added at a later debate that “she shouldn’t be allowed to run.”

By 2020, Trump gave a similar treatment to both his predecessor as president, Barack Obama, and his then-opponent, Joe Biden.

A month before the election, Trump tweeted, “Where are all of the arrests?” He added: “BIDEN, OBAMA AND CROOKED HILLARY LED THIS TREASONOUS PLOT!!! BIDEN SHOULDN’T BE ALLOWED TO RUN - GOT CAUGHT!!!” [...] Former Trump White House chief of staff John Kelly summed up Trump’s posture this way to the New York Times’s Michael S. Schmidt and Maggie Haberman: “He was always telling me that we need to use the FBI and the IRS to go after people — it was constant and obsessive and is just what he’s claiming is being done to him now.”

Trump, his Republican enablers, and right-wing pundits who are outraged by Trump’s indictment are total hypocrites.

Ironically, it is the House “weaponization” committee that is now trying to “weaponize” the power of the U.S. House of Representatives to obstruct justice in New York State. 

Republicans have no shame.

[insidewarp]

A persistent idea undergirds reactions by Donald Trump and the GOP to Trump’s indictment. Sometimes it’s explicitly stated, and sometimes it’s more implicit: Indicting a former president and a candidate in the next election is beyond the pale. It’s even election “interference” or the stuff of banana republics. Trump ceded the moral high ground on this idea long ago. He has advocated for the prosecutions of each of the last four Democratic presidential nominees — every single one since 2004. In two cases, he did it during the campaign, even suggesting they should be ineligible to run.

Aaron Blake

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/trump-ceded-the-moral-high-ground-on-presidential-indictments-long-ago/ar-AA19mkUE

[prcg]

Cada periodista basura que mintió sobre los comentarios de Cheney de Trump

La prensa propagandística demócrata miente completamente sobre los comentarios que Trump hizo sobre la neoconservadora y exrepresentante Liz Cheney en una entrevista con Tucker Carlson. Trump llamó a Cheney un “halcón de guerra radical” y señaló lo fácil que es tomar decisiones sobre las vidas de las tropas estadounidenses cuando estás sentado en una oficina acogedora y aislada y no tienes idea…

[robynsassenmyview]

Three lovers, four villains and a gullible bloke

"Three lovers, four villians and a gullible bloke", a review of the opera 'The Tales of Hoffmann' staged by Met Opera and screened by Cinema Nouveau in South Africa, on 22 October 2024.

THROWING away my music for your love. Pretty Yende is Antonia and Benjamin Bernheim is Hoffmann in the Met Opera’s wonderful production of The Tales of Hoffmann, on at Cinema Nouveau countrywide on 22 October 2024. TIGHTEN YOUR SEATBELT for a long ride of ribaldry and burlesque, beauty and disappointment with good and bad angels on the shoulders of our protagonist. This is what you can expected…

[onenakedfarmer]

Playing

Philip Glass AKHNATEN

Karen Kamensek

Zachary James, Richard Bernstein, Aaron Blake, Will Liverman, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Disella Lárusdóttir, J'Nai Bridges,

Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus

[itshelia]

My mom to her friends, my aunts, and literally everyone she knows: Yeah, my kid is so smart. She is on her phone a lot of the time, but it's not like you guys think, She is not like how kids nowadays are, She reads a lot of books on her phone!!

Me, a fanfic reader who can survive off nothing but just words and day dreams herself to sleep:

[love-at-first-sight-23]

Welcome to the world of “Being in love with a person who doesn’t exist in real life but you pretend they do anyway because you’re obsessed” ✧˖*°࿐

[cxrrodedcoffin]

me after spending 6 hours reading criminal minds fanfiction instead of sleeping:

[mrjellybeanz]

(Album) Aaron Blake - "How About Her"

Oklahoma native Aaron Blake is an Eclectic Singer Songwriter with something new to bring to the industry. The future star started his career in a band, where he wrote and composed the songs. Recently hailed by Spotify and Social Media Followers as “Creative, Ruggedly Smooth, and an overall “Refreshing Artist .” Blake is a Versatile Storyteller of Groovy music and has several projects in various…

[wardengrill]

I've come to realize I'm more married to this team than I ever was to three ex-wives

[tomorrowusa]

« There are few things Congress loves more than a short-term solution to a long-term problem — something to help it forestall difficult decisions and paper over divisions in hopes that, at some later date, these problems will magically disappear.

House Republicans can’t even agree upon trying that right now. »

— Aaron Blake at the Washington Post on the failure of House Republicans to come up with even a band-aid solution to the Speaker situation.

Liz Cheney was on State of the Union on Sunday. She places blame for the current dysfunction in the House and the violent threats associated with the Speaker elections on Donald Trump.

She's currently writing a book which is supposed to be available in December – in time for holiday giving to any MAGA zombies on your gift list. 😉

[adoniseverywheremen]

Aaron Owen by Blake Ballard

[reidobsessed]

The whole cast is sickeningly fine

[youbutstupid]

-A Job That Slowly Kills You-

-Bruises That Won’t Heal-

[imagining-in-the-margins]

CM Friends-with-Benefits Challenge

The following are prompts including friends with benefits/situationships!

This event is over (Masterlist here!), but you are welcome to use any of these prompts. If you would like to be added to the existing Masterlist of entries, please check out the Rules below!

🥰 Song Prompts 🥰

"Sex" by The 1975

"Too Sweet" by Hozier

"dress" by Taylor Swift

"august" by Taylor Swift

"Casual" by Chappell Roan

"Dinner & Diatribes" by Hozier

"Close to You" by Gracie Abrams

“Stuck in the Middle” by Tai Verdes

"Good Luck, Babe!" by Chappell Roan

"I Wanna Be Yours" by Arctic Monkeys

“Why’d You Only Call Me When You’re High?” by Arctic Monkeys

💌 Dialogue Prompts 💌

“I’m just in it for the snacks.”

“No wonder you’re single…” (joking?)

“So... what’s the stance on cuddling?”

"You deserve something real. I want us to be real.”

“We’re just friends with benefits.” // “Right, and the benefit is being madly in love.” (sarcasm?)

“We’re… friends. With benefits.” // “Without sex? What’s the benefit?” // “My delightful company, asshole.”

"I'm your boyfriend without the benefits." // "Do you want the benefits?" // "Yes—No... I'm your fluffer!" ('New Girl')

“What is up with those two lately?” // “They’re sleeping together.” // “Yeah, right. Imagine… wait, seriously?”

General & NSFW Prompts Below!

🌹 General Prompts 🌹

Someone figures out the situation. A and B try to figure out how.

A is blindsided by jealousy when someone shows an interest in B.

A and B try to be normal so no one knows. Literally everyone knows.

A is so worried about B falling for them that A fails to realize A already fell for B.

A realizes they are happier with B than any actual significant other they’ve had.

A is totally B’s type, which has never worked out before. As a result, A keeps sabotaging things.

A agrees to a situationship with B because they think it's the only way they'll be able to have them.

A reaches out to B for a hookup but gets rejected, and they each struggle with their disappointment.

A is treating the arrangement like a formal business deal. B gets tired of it and shuts them up with a kiss.

A and B used to be friends with benefits. When they meet again later, the arrangement is still appealing.

A has to leave town for a long time. They have one last night with B but don’t tell them. They’re gone in the morning and leave B wondering what they wanted to say the night before.

Anything else you can think of!

💋 NSFW Prompts 💋

A completely defies B’s expectations of what they’re like in bed.

A and B decide to hook up one last time (or maybe not the last...)

A agreed to take B’s virginity as long as B didn’t catch feelings. It seems like B didn’t. A did, though.

A and B's no-judgment rule means they're finally comfortable to ask for what they've always wanted to try in bed.

A is annoyed with B, so they start loudly complaining/joking about their situationship. Angry/playful sex ensues.

A and B have never felt truly satisfied in bed until there were no strings attached... it definitely wasn't because of finding the right partner.

Happy Writing!