#Ben Bernie

[hibiscusbabyboy]

[mur-art]

During Government shutdowns, do Flo and Louie have a habit of carting Gov's temporarily-lifeless body around to meetings "Weekend at Bernie's" style and freaking everyone out? Yes, yes indeed they do.

Thanks @aceasadhd for this request!

Started this while this year's annual government shutdown scare was still pending. I'm a federal employee irl (can I even say that here? Lmao) so it's always a hot mess at the end of the fiscal year.

Reference and lineart under the cut:

Also...

Does this count as a political cartoon? 😂 Just going back to my roots I guess.

[yrsonpurpose]

[eelhound]

"At one point in their conversation, [Chris] Wallace grilled [Bernie] Sanders about whether he thought it would be better if Walmart didn’t exist and hence the million and a half American Walmart employees didn’t have jobs... If they’d continued on this subject, Bernie undoubtedly would have talked about the ways his social democratic program would help these workers — for example, by making it easier for them to organize labor unions. But none of this quite gets to the heart of the point Wallace was raising. Isn’t it good that the enterprises owned by billionaires exist and provide all those jobs?

Here’s how Sanders could have answered:

Yes, it’s good for the enterprises to exist and provide people with an income. But there’s no reason they need to be controlled by oligarchs. Walmart, for example, could be nationalized. Or it could be turned into a giant worker-owned cooperative. Either of these options, or some hybrid like converting it into a publicly owned entity whose governing board was split between public appointees and worker representatives, would cut the Walton family out of the picture — which would be all to the good.

The average full-time worker at Walmart makes between $25,000 and $30,000 a year. Jim Walton brings in about $5 billion a year — almost 167,000 times more than the high end of that range. He doesn’t get all that money because he’s 167,000 times smarter or more talented or less replaceable than any of the people actually doing the work to keep Walmart going. He gets it because capitalist ownership relations let him just take it.

If Walmart were organized as a worker co-op, the pay scale wouldn’t necessarily be entirely flat. A majority of worker-owners might be convinced to go along with higher incomes to attract candidates to apply for administrative positions carrying a lot of stress and responsibility — or conversely, to incentivize people to take particularly dirty or dangerous jobs. But good luck to anyone trying to persuade their fellow workers that whatever they did was so essential they deserve to earn 167,000 times more than what everyone else gets.

You only get to pay yourself a billion dollars — never mind five billion a year — if you have immense structural power to decide how a firm’s revenues are divided up. Even in a fully socialist economy, some people might have higher incomes than others for a variety of reasons. But you only get the kind of staggeringly unequal distributions of wealth that make some people billionaires when you have extreme inequality in the distribution of economic power.

Of course billionaires shouldn’t exist."

- Ben Burgis, from "Bernie Sanders: Billionaires Shouldn’t Exist." Jacobin, 4 May 2023.

[minimitchell]

Oh, is [Emma] that blonde woman I’ve seen around?

[motionpic-by-alterpetrus]

If you ask me, Ben and Me, The Rescuers and The Great Mouse Detective are all set in the same universe.

[desire-mona]

monaaaaa I’m on vacation right now it’s fun but it also kinda sucks. Wish I could be on my phone more <-guy that’s in an incredibly beautiful and scenic beach town

sighhhh

^how it feels to not be able to see what my friends are blogging about

hi joel its ok lemme give u the rundown of the past couple days in the mona sphere: desire mona discord server is in the brain which will likely be in the works eventually, ive gotten closer with my coworker ben (+ came out to him which he was incredible about - yay!!!!), my laptop is my girlfriend, aaaaaaaand thats it. i miss you!!!!!!!!!!!

[baratiddyadvocate]

telling you RIGHT NOW democrats have a suicide wish if come 2028 they posit Newsom or Shapiro as the “frontrunner” candidate 😂 get ready to LOSE, and lose again SO HARD in that case

[spookytuesdaypod]

spooky tuesday is a (now not so new!) podcast where we’re breaking down all of our favorite slashers, thrillers, monster movies and black comedies on the new scariest day of the week.

it's a b-cember to remember here at spooky tuesday! to finish the year in festive fashion, we decided to do one last lil theme month and dedicate december to b horror movies, so of course we had to start with a classic. creature from the black lagoon (1954) may have marked the end of the monster movie era, but it laid the ground work for a whole bunch of famous scary movies that followed. guillermo del toro's the shape of water is an obvious one — but steven spielberg was taking notes for jaws, too. on our latest episode, we're talking film history, four foot dicks, and lighting things on fire.

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[bobjackets]

Bernie Wrightson.

[grimbunnies]

Once briefly involved in a small-town scandal, Viola now lives happily with her son Bernie and teaches at the local school.

[from1837to1945]

The Kiss Waltz

Sue Carol version (Dancing Sweeties)

Other Men's Women

Grant Withers version (Dancing Sweeties)

Ben Bernie's recording

Kiss me, sweetheart, kiss me / That's what the Kiss Waltz is saying

Bring your lips close to mine while we're swaying

Oh, my dear! Can't you hear what they're playing

This waltz is the Kiss Waltz / Telling us both what to do

So kiss me, sweetheart, kiss me

While I dance the Kiss Waltz with you

[nosolaceofastraightanswer]

yeah. that’s right. i’m back. yet another video that i made a lil while ago, but here!!! look at it!!! its a mini umbrella academy pmv i guess and it’s ON PAPER!! GASP!! srsly the lack of yt art things for the fandom is CRIMINAL.

i actually really like how this turned out lol. if ur interested… sub to my YT CHANNEL. 🔥🔥🔥 more vids coming soon :DDD also youtube is scary and the analytics are scary but i am the proud owner of a channel with NOT ONE but TWO SUBSCRIBERS!!!! WOAHH!!! also when i originally posted this someone left what i think was a hate comment about how there were too many lines so PLEASE it’s an artistic choice maybe not a good one but it’s notebook paper alr. also also sorry if i’m clogging the tags. i still don’t know how to tag this stuff???

[rainingmusic]

King Buffalo - Centurion