#America Decides

[tomshivbaby]

TAKE A LOOK AT THESE HANDS 🖕🖕🖕🖕

[courtofchaos]

My fellow🧔‍♂️ Americans 🇺🇸. It’s becoming 🌬️ clear 🌝 tonight, that as 🔎far as we 👥 can tell 🔮, Mr. Jeryd Mencken 👨🏻‍🦳 will likely be the ⏭️ next president👑of the 🇺🇸United States 🌎, and I 👁️, for one ☝️, wish 🧞‍♂️him ❤️‍🩹well 👍. For although I 😜 set out a clear🛣️ and compelling 🌱 path🛤️, America 🏦, in her divine 😇 wisdom 🧐, has chosen 🍁to take 🍂another🚵‍♀️. Well. 🤞Good 🍀luck. ⛲️ And I’d like 👍 to say 🗣️ to my first 🥇 running 🏃‍♀️mate , who I 👀will not 🚫 dignify with a🙊 name-check, but had that woman 💅not dropped💧 out 📤, and then had 🧑🏼‍🦳 I not ✋had to 🔁 replace her with 🥈another👤 figure who turned 😤out not 🚫to be able to bear🐻 the weight 🏋️‍♀️of public 🕵️‍♂���scrutiny 🧐—Had I 👁️ not been 🔙🔪betrayed 😭 by those two 2️⃣ jackrabbits 🐇, who 🤷🏼‍♀️knows🤷🏼‍♂️? Politics🕴️ of 🤢envy 🤑. Ugly 👾 game 🎰. I 💲happen 💸 to 💰be 💵 a 💳billionaire🪙. Sorry 😔. But honestly, 🇺🇸 America, you flunked 💯 it. I 🤔 guess 💭you’re gonna have to find some 👤 other poor 🤱mook’s 🍼paps 🗻 to suckle 🐄 on. The corrupt 🫏 bipartisan 🐘 system zombie 🧟‍♂️ marches 🥁 on. And so I call 📞out 🗣️to my 👯‍♂️friends 🌛tonight, to my 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦people, I 👄 say, Conheads 🤓, I salute 🫡 you 🫵🏻. And, America 🇺🇸, be afraid 😱. Be ☣️ warned ⚠️ for the Conheads 😎 are coming. 🙌🏻 Thank you 👏🏻. God 🧔‍♀️ bless 🙏 America 🇺🇸.

[scooterpengie]

Obsessed with this ominous looking gif of Shiv from America Decides and it seemed appropriate to post now since we all just lived through it... 😭

Anyway ask me about my drawing process cause I'm actually super happy with how this came out!

[tomwambsgans]

the way shiv is the only character who greg ever directly, undeniably purposefully fucks over, whereas every other situation is simply greg looking out for himself and certain others wind up as collateral damage, ntm he expresses guilt each time but with shiv he very clearly enjoys it......... like that's for tom. that is 100% for tom and greg wanting to remove shiv from tom. undeniable.

[tomwambsgays]

...do you want some of what you asked for?

[simsiddy]

thinking about them rn

[no-tenderness]

as the non-white daughter of white parents I can confirm that no matter how close you are to individual people of color, no matter how much you love them, most white people simply do not view racism as a systemic issue, but rather as Individual Instances Which Must Be Condemned. Unless white people actively educate themselves on the material consequences of racism, most of them don’t really understand it for what it is. In the case of Kendall and Sophie, he is already at a severe disadvantage due to him being A Literal Billionaire and whatever, where his primary goal as A Billionaire (and of all billionaires) is the deification of capitalism and all the exploitation that comes with it. Kendall certainly doesn’t see himself that way because capitalism overwhelmingly benefits him and those like him, so he thinks the system works and it works because he’s Figured It Out. And, of course, capitalism goes hand-in-hand with racism because the two will be forever inextricably linked unless they — and the systems that support them — are dismantled. Kendall is also so far removed from actual people’s actual lives that he really can’t fathom what Real People (who just so happen to look like Sophie) experience day to day. Instead, he views racism kind of as a nebulous concept, one that only affects those unfortunate enough to not be in a position to shield themselves from it. Because Kendall has the resources and infinite money to throw at problems, his “protection” of Sophie is Fixing the Problem. Sophie is physically protected and that’s all that matters, regardless of the fact that she even needs this protection scares her. Granted, as the child of a billionaire, Sophie herself very much does not have to encounter the same kind of conflicts that those lower down the socioeconomic ladder do — but she is not at all immune to it, either. Similarly, I know that as much as my white family loves me, most of my family members see only me as an individual, i.e., a cousin, niece, etc., but don’t necessarily extend that viewpoint to others who, again, Happen To Look Like Me. Roman, Shiv, and Connor all truly don’t make this connection either, as Sophie’s uncles and aunt, despite all of Shiv’s posturing. When Kendall tells Roman “some guy pushed Sophie,” Roman’s only response is “but she’s okay, right?” As if that’s the end of it. As if she wasn’t actually damaged, it wasn’t all that serious. As if that will be the only fallout. Any time that I’ve brought up racism that I’ve directly experienced to my white father, he’s taken it as a personal failing. Has he failed as a father? Has he failed to raise me, his child, to not be hardy and resilient enough to simply ignore These Things? How come his whiteness and all the protections that come with it didn’t extend to his daughter? How come his experience as a parent involves considering different things than if he had raised white children? Whose fault is it? Who or what can be blamed for inflicting that particular kind of pain on his child? Because racism is systemic, there is no bogeyman to point to, no Guy Who Pushed You On the Street who you can send your bodyguard after, or hire a van to tail your kid for her “protection.” She will continue to experience this specific kind of harm, especially under a nakedly fascist president, regardless of your wealth and status and power, and you were the one to sign off on it.

[gaydennisreynolds]

macdennis 🤝 romencken = canonically texting each other eggplant emojis and acting like it isnt explicit gay sexting

[marxism-leninism-wonyoungism]

When lana del rey said "is it the end of an era? Is it the end of America?" she meant Connor not becoming president.

[justinkirkism]

Jeryd Mencken (portrayed by Justin Kirk) in Succession's "What it Takes" episode

Roman Roy (portrayed by Kieran Culkin) in Succession's "America Decides" episode

[tv-moments]

Succession

Season 4, “America Decides”

Director: Andrij Parekh

DoP: Katelin Arizmendi

[cloudyscribbless]

Roman Roy is not a facist, he’s something which is arguably worse, he’s politically apathetic with tons and tons of wealth and power. Whoever pays him the most or gets him what he wants he’ll invest in them. Be it terrorist, facist or any other whoever gets him what he wants is who he’ll invest in.

[finalgirlkateausten]

You've tried. That's all we can do.

[boardchairman-blog]

**Shots of the Episode**

Succession (2018)

Season 4, Episode 8: “America Decides” (2023) Director: Andrij Parekh Cinematographer: Katelin Arizmendi

[tomwambsgans]

yearning for another day, another time

[susiephone]

the brilliance of calling the election episode "america decides" and then showing the election get called for a fascist basically because a billionaire most of the country probably doesn't know the name of threw a temper tantrum