#and if any of y'all vote for Kanye

[prettyvintageafternoon]

I adore how Republicans and conservatives are arguing with Ye like most of you don't share the exact same beliefs.

Y'all complained about "globalists" for years before Kanye West even wore a MAGA hat.

Y'all constantly equated white supremacists and the people who fight them because "punching Nazis is bad." I didn't forget how many people spoke out when Richard Spencer got punched...but never had anything to say about his rhetoric.

Y'all let organizations like Turning Point USA, which I can personally say is a trash organization, attract youth on college campuses...even though Nick Fuentes' supporters were dragging their organization YEARS AGO for not being far-right enough.

Y'all whined about identity politics for the longest until it comes time to use anybody black, any LGBT+ person who spews your BS to say "Look, we're not racist!"

Y'all praised Kanye West for hating abortion as if pro-lifers on and off this app have not been comparing pro-choice people to Nazis for a while now.

Y'all allowed people like Candace Owens to grow in popularity even after she made antisemitic comments YEARS AGO. She was only associating with Kanye to get him to but Parler, which is why she's silent right now.

Y'all still watch Tucker Carlson after his TOP WRITER resigned when his comments became public. He sat down with Kanye and platformed him after his antisemitic comments.

Y'all defended Alex Jones after he bullied parents who lost their kids AND lost the defamation lawsuit, but he ALSO gives Kanye West a platform.

Y'all supported Ben "Arabs like to bomb crap and live in open sewage" Shapiro while he praised Kanye West UNTIL he started pointing hatred in his direction and at his people.

Y'all still demonize transgender people and call LGBT people groomers in general even though the books burned by Nazis related to homosexuality and gender science.

Y'all call yourselves free speech warriors but you have been silent as conservative groups have been getting books they don't like banned across the United States.

Y'all voted for the SAME PRESIDENT he did and made excuses over and over again for every scandal that came out of the White House - from Charlottesville to the January 6 Capitol Riots.

Y'all hate immigration, think Black Lives Matter is unnecessary, believe feminism is the reason why nuclear families are going away, think women should be locked up for getting abortions...just like Nazis.

It is very fair to say that most of the things that overt Nazis believe has been embraced by the everyday conservative, right-wingers, pro-lifers and the GOP at large FOR YEARS.

So, to conservatives, right-wingers, Republicans and pro-lifers...how are you all any better?

[honeysucklepink]

MISSISSIPPI VOTERS:

Look, I know. “It’s a red state, doesn’t matter if I vote, all our electors will go to Turnip anyway, blah blah blah.” I know it feels hopeless, depending on other states because we know we can’t depend on ours. But...look, I just have a feeling, okay? And besides, there are other things on the ballot!

First off, unless you have been living under a rock or completely avoiding all local television, Democrat Mike Espy is running to unseat completely useless Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith. Seriously, this is the Confederacy-loving, “public hanging” lady from two years back (aren’t Senate terms six years? Yes, but that was to fill the last two years of the late Senator Thad Cochran’s term...this is for the whole six). Aside from being a lapdog for Trump, Cindy hasn’t done jack-shit...hasn’t written or sponsored a bill, doesn’t meet with constituents, votes against her state’s interests. Mike is running to bring better healthcare to us (we are dead last, pun intended, on many health markers). He has the experience, the goods, and he would be the first black senator from the state since Reconstruction.

Then, all our congressional representatives are up for re-election, as they are every two years. Look up your district here (first one listed is the incumbent):

First: Trent Kelly (Rep) vs. Antonia Eliason (Dem)

Second: Bennie Thompson (Dem) vs. Brian Flowers (Rep)

Third: Michael Guest (Rep) vs. Dorothy “Dot” Benford (Dem)

Fourth: Steven Palazzo (Rep) vs. no one, I’m so sorry Coasters...

There are also races for justices on the Mississippi Supreme Court; again, these races will depend on if you are in the North, Central, or Southern District, and these are “nonpartisan”:

Central District Place 1: Kenny Griffis vs. Latrice Westbrooks

Central District Place 2: Leslie D. King (unopposed)

Southern District Place 3: Michael Randolph (unopposed)

Northern District Place 3: Josiah Coleman vs. Percy Lynchard

In addition to all of that, there are three ballot initiatives. The first two are pretty easy; the third is a bit more complicated (and is in two parts!):

Sorry for the big flag, couldn’t get it between the bullet points.

Removing the House Electoral Provision: this gets rid of a Jim Crow rule that a candidate for statewide office has to win the majority of the popular vote AND the majority of state house districts (and in the case of a tie on both, the House votes). Instead, the top two vote getters (in the case neither get 50% + 1) go to a runoff. Vote “yes” on this one.

The State Flag. Look, I don’t like that it says “In God We Trust” anymore than you do but it sure as hell beats a FUCKING CONFEDERATE FLAG (and who says it has to be GOD-God? If you want that “God” to be Thor or Wonder Woman or the inventor of Toaster Strudels, go ahead). I like it...who doesn’t like magnolias, and the diamond star in honor of the First Nations is a nice touch. Definitely better than the 2001 option (which was ugly but still would have been better than what we just got rid of). Vote “yes” on this!

Finally, the medical marijuana question. This would have been cut and dry but the legislature just HAD to go and put a “poison pill” in there. Here’s the lowdown,,,there are TWO questions:

Do you want medical marijuana in Mississippi, yes or no? Vote yes.

Do you prefer Amendment 65, or 65A? 

Amendment 65 is the citizen’s initiative that all the petition signatures got on the ballot. IT IS A GOOD PLAN, with a strict list of conditions, size and potency regulations, administered by the Department of Health, 

Amendment 65A was added by the legislature to muddy the waters. It only allows it for “terminally ill” patients, and otherwise...it just says “the legislature will make the plan.” It’s not a plan, it’s a roadblock. 

VOTE AMENDMENT 65.

This page has a full voter guide with more details on the candidates and ballot measures. Do your homework, and vote blue no matter who (I mean, you 4th district folks, um... there is a campaign apparently to write in the former Dem Gene Taylor?).  

Finally, as you may know, Governor Tater Tot let the mask mandate expire last month. So it’s a crap shoot as to whether your polling place will be safe or not. A lot will depend on where you live; if your county is one of those few under a governor-mandate (he is doing them county-by-county based on case rates), or you are in a town that still has their own, like Oxford or Starkville or Jackson. My county isn’t under a rule, BUT the old ladies that are poll workers at our polling place insisted on a) still working and b) being protected, so we have the whole enchilada. BUT YOU MAY NOT. Call your clerk’s office, check your polling place, and come prepared...photo ID, masks, sanitizer, shield if you want, comfy shoes. 

Oh, one other thing! Q-TIPS WORK ON THE TOUCH SCREENS! Some polling places have them, but just in case, bring some so you can vote touch-free!

Stay safe, protect your health AND our democracy!

[qqueenofhades]

Okay, y'all. Time to do this one more time. Let the fact that there are so many of these posts right now reinforce the point. Many of you already know this, and I see and love you, but for anyone still ~undecided about their choice, should they be an American citizen of voting age on November 3, 2020:

Time to not be. It was time a long, long while ago, but I am going to have to say it again.

Primary season is over. The endless fine-tooth combing of candidates' policies and positions is over. We are all deeply well aware that the candidates on the Democratic ticket, being human beings and establishment politicians, are flawed. "BUT WHAT ABOUT THIS POSITION FROM 19/ 20-WHENEVER AS JUSTIFICATION FOR WHY IT'S TERRIBLE TO VOTE FOR -- "

No. Stop. Just stop. Stop threatening to hold the rest of us hostage, in the middle of a pandemic, the Great Depression, and racial inequality and protests on a scale not seen from the 1960s, because you did not get Barbie Dream Candidate. That is the behavior of terrorists and toddlers. If your supposedly enlightened morally pure ideology does not involve any action to mitigate the harm that is directly in front of you, it isn't worth a shit as an ideology actually devoted to helping people. If your approach to politics is to shout about how Pure your ideas are on twitter and tear down anyone working within a system of flawed choices to do the good that they can: you're not helping, and frankly, your constant threats to withhold your suffrage as a punishment to us aren't convincing the rest of us that we really need to listen to you or that you have anyone's best interests at heart. The Online Left TM is as much a vacuous, self-reinforcing noise chamber as the Online Right TM, and can sometimes tend to be even more dangerous.

I was saying this in 2016. A lot of us were saying this in 2016. I am just about to turn 32 years old and have been voting in federal elections for almost 15 years. For what it's worth.

This is not an ordinary election. This is not a contest between two flawed candidates who respect the system and want to work to enact their policies in the ordinary way. One is a flawed 90s era Democrat who nonetheless has already been pushed CONSIDERABLY left in his policies and platforms since the end of the primaries (and his existing platform would already make him the most left president elected, even more than Obama). The other is a fascist dictator who has openly spoken about refusing to accept the election results, his desire to abolish term limits and serve for life, and complete the pillaging of any remaining fragile American public funds for him and his cult of cronies. He does not respect the system. He does not want to do anything for anyone that is not himself. 160,000 and counting needless deaths of American citizens have already happened. Will keep happening.

This is the last time Trump has to face voters. This is the last chance the country has to repudiate his entire poisonous ideology and its marching Nazi minions. IF he steps aside, which is already far from guaranteed, he can ride off into the sunset as a vindicated two term president and probably be rehabilitated like George W. Bush was within a few years of leaving office. American political memory is very short. It will happen. Again, if he even leaves.

RBG is 87 and has cancer again. She will NOT survive another four years. Stephen Breyer is 81. Their seats could both come up in the next four years. The Supreme Court could be a right wing rubber stamp for whatever time we all have left before climate change and coronavirus kill us all.

"But if people just thought for themselves and did their homework and didn't vote the party line like sheep, we could support a third party/write in -- " Stop. Just stop. Attend a ninth grade civics class and learn about how politics work in America. Yes, the two-party system sucks. Yes, the Electoral College is a hot steaming pile of absolute bullshit. Magical unicorn fairy dust fantasies WILL NOT change that.

Do not vote for Kanye (who has pretty much openly admitted he is trying to play spoiler to Biden on behalf of his buddy Trump). Do not vote for godforsaken fucking Gary Johnson or Jill Stein who appear on ballots just to give sanctimonious leftists the illusion of virtue-signaling. If you want any chance of fixing the mess that 2020 has left America and the world in, you need to vote for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. The end.

Biden is a flawed old man who was our last choice, sure. He is also a distinguished public servant who has already been in the White House for eight years under Obama and thus we KNOW what to expect. He is an empathetic man who connects with people's personal tragedy and picked as his running mate a younger Black/biracial woman who directly confronted and called him out on past behavior. While the pundit class was simpering and whining about how it was Disrespectful and how could he consider her, Biden did so, and that speaks well to me of the fact that he is willing to learn, to take criticism, and not just accept it from a former Black female rival, but make her his second in command and the potential first female president of the United States.

Can you EVER picture Trump doing that? Not in eight thousand million years.

As for Kamala, we are all aware of her previous checkered history as a prosecutor (and even then, she did plenty of good things as well!). Since joining the Senate, however, she has consistently become one of its most progressive members. She is the co-sponsor of an economic aid package designed to give every American $2,000/month, backdated to March (the start of the coronavirus pandemic) and continuing at least a few months after its end. A Biden-Harris White House could make that happen. Especially if they are put into office with a Democratic House and Senate (for the love of God, Kentucky, kill Mitch McConnell with fire). That is just one example.

Harris's nomination is obviously historic. And Biden didn't choose another Biden (or another Tim Kaine, the blandest white man imaginable). He chose another Obama: a younger rising star of an immigrant background, a person of color, a former lawyer and someone who represents the diversity of the country that the white supremacists and the Cheeto in Chief have tried to paint as its worst and most degenerate evil.

A vote for Biden and Harris means getting rid not just of Trump, but Mike Pence, Vladimir Putin, Jared Kushner, Betsy Devos, the Trump crony destroying the Postal Service, the rampant coronavirus misinformation and bullshit, the destruction of Social Security and Medicare, the spread of Nazi propaganda from the President's twitter account, the likely two Supreme Court picks that would be as bad as Brett Kavanaugh or worse... on and on. Biden and Harris would be elected by progressive voters and thus answerable to them in 2022 midterms and 2024 general. They can both be, and already have been, pushed further left. They are reasonable and competent adults who have demonstrated experience and compassion. I KNOW about their flaws and past actions I don't agree with. But I'm frankly done with any more counterproductive straw man bitching about This One Bad Thing They Did and how it makes it a terribad awful choice to vote for them. Open your eyes. Look at the alternative. LOOK AT WHAT HAS ALREADY HAPPENED AND THE FACT THAT THIS IS NOT EVEN AS BAD AS IT COULD STILL GET.

Check your registration or register at vote.gov.

DO NOT LOOK AT POLLS AND DECIDE "EH BIDEN IS CLEARLY GOING TO WIN, I DON'T NEED TO VOTE." THAT IS HOW WE LOST LAST TIME.

Unseating incumbents is HARD. It is even harder when the other side has openly laid out their plan to cheat in great detail, and there is nothing really stopping them from doing it. The only thing, in fact, is massive, unfalsifiable results on an undeniable scale.

So:

Vote.

Vote for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

Thanks a lot.

[darkworldlightwork]

Ok, y'all so here's how the grift works

Politicians get into business with Hollywood types

They recruit the "popular" kids to push their agenda because popular kids have influence

They make up a slogan

VOTE! simple and catchy right?

Of course

so everyone relates

Once they've got you convinced it's a heroic act of Civic duty to do so they start to warm the pot my little froggies

VOTE!

Oh wait, NOT FOR THAT GUY!

The other guy! Our guy!

A vote for Colleen Jorgensen or Kanye is irresponsible! Says some comedian who hasn't elicited laughter since the Obama administration and some aging drama queen

F. U.

Why? Is it not a vote

Don't vote for the guy that isn't going to win anyway that's a waste!

Vote for my guy!

NO FUCK OFF

If the goal was simple participation then ANY

Vote is valid, and should be respected

No one has any right to use their influence to manipulate the minds of the common man

It's cheap, it's immoral and it is NOT ART

When did these waters get so muddy?

I want to be entertained, not irritated by artists

Here's the rub, most actors

Especially those employed by Disney and it's subsidiaries (which is basically all media at this point) are chosen for who they know

And how easily they can be puppeted

Not how talented they are

And definitely not their commitment to the preservation of the arts

NOT COOL

-Angel Dust

[praphit]

Another Year, Another Recap - “Have a Coke and a smile... :)”

So, we're getting to the end, people. We're about to finish off another year. Personally, this year has been immensely better than the last.

I didn't even want to stay up and do any celebrating at the end of 2018. I just wanted to go to bed and be done with that bleepin year. This year has been a hell of a lot better. I hope that all of you can say something similar, but if not, there's always going to bed early, and putting your hope in the next year.

This past Christmas (and all Christmas', really) I spent time doing a lot of hating on Christmas music; it's a valued tradition of mine. I am, however, always surprised to find a few songs each year that don't bother me all that much. This year, one of them was John Legend's "Baby, It's cold outside" ft Kelly Clarkson  

- a rewritten, sans rapey vibe rendition to boot its 1940's something predecessor.

In this version (at least how I interpret it), both people wanted some action that night. John says all of the right stuff ("I'll call you a car", "maybe you SHOULD go"), creating a safe environment, and most importantly, not coming off as sleazy and rapey. He's also protecting himself with this recording:) But, let's be clear... he wants some, and he wants it bad! While Kelly, also wants some, but doesn't want to come off as being a hoe. Nobody wants to be labeled a hoe.  So, she says all of the right things as well ("My dad and brother are waiting for me", "I've gotta visit my sick grandma", "Gotta get home to the KIDS") But, at the end of the night, they both make a decision to sing to one another "Baby, It's cold outside, so let's stay in and BLEEP." That's how you do it! No guilt! No #METOO! No wife and kids around. All is well:) Divorces are still rising, and more older people (as well as old as bleep people) are on dating apps than ever before. Consider this song a Christmas gift from John & Kelly to you.

Sexiest man alive in 2019 btw

Congrats. Classic coming-up-out-of-the-water sexy.

There has been some good music in 2019. Good stuff happening. Also some sad and weird stuff happening in music - all things balance out, I suppose.

GOOD:

Lizzo

I am here for all things Lizzo.

SAD & WEIRD:

Maroon 5's Super Bowl performance. It wasn't even really M5's fault; they simply did what they always do. It was more a poor choice by the NFL. A boring and awkward performance. There was a time when all anybody wanted was a shirtless Adam Levine- both women AND men. Even times when he wasn't performing, he would show up places, some random person would announce to everyone "Don't worry, Adam WILL be taking off his shirt tonight." Talk about ME TOO. It was so bad that the old, white, slaveowners of the NFL hired Jay-Z (one of the blackest icons we have) to come and save them. We'll see how that turns out.

GOOD & WEIRD:

Tyler, The Creator - "IGOR"

One of my fav projects of the year. Tyler, the Creator is an odd dude - I mean this as a compliment. I love how Hip-Hop has evolved. There's a lot more room nowadays to be yourself, no matter how outsiders might deem your behavior as weird (sometimes, others NOT saying this as a compliment). I love his creativity, and hope he continues to inspire other artists (especially in hip-hop) to be creative. Heeeee also says stuff like this "I like girls, but I have sex with their brothers." But, also uses the word "gay" as an insult. Who knows?? There's a lot to unpack there.

SAD:

In other news, Camila Cabello might be a racist. Y'all can look it up if you'd like, but some posts of hers resurfaced. I'm a fan of hers, and checked out the posts for myself, thinking "People are prob just overreacting" - they're not, it's bad. She has apologized, saying the whole "I'm older and wiser now" thing. The prob with that is she's only 22.

GOOD & BAD, I GUESS:

ADELE

It's always good to see Adele out and about. These holiday pics show that's she's still alive (I get concerned, cuz she tends to disappear for a while) and apparently a lot thinner. This of course stirs men to say men type things, women to go on the attack, and all genuine compliments towards her to get lost. The good news is, Adele seems to be getting pretty chummy with Santa, and everyone knows that St. Nick is a heartbreaker. Adele should be spurned and back in the studio writing amazing tunes soon enough.

WEIRD:

Kanye

These pics say it all. 

... that being said, I love his new music (which is how I stamp all of my conversations about Ye).

GOOD:

Billie Eilish! 

Now (like many), one of my fav artists. 

BAD:

She just turned 18, so of course, us men being ourselves again say things like "She's 18 now. You know what that means." Honestly, I'm still trying to figure out what that means. Nothing says crossing-over into womanhood quite like being objectified.

Speaking of 2019 pervs - R.KELLY!

We can throw MJ and... what the hell, I'll just throw Spacey in there as well (his documentary is coming soon enough, I'm sure).

We were all enthralled by these two docuseries. It's interesting how different races respond to MJ. Both see him as... you know, but most black people are still listening to his music. White people on the other hand are ready to riot every time someone plays one of his songs... except around Halloween - gotta have "Thriller".

We love depressing television.

There was "Chernobyl" as well as "When they see us"

Movies too -

"Joker"

I love this movie, but it's about a homicidal clown, struggling with mental illness.

"Us"

I love this movie, but it's about classism and marginalization.

"Endgame"

It's largely about grief.

It's the best movie of the year, as far as I'm concerned!

It should win all awards!

ALL OF THEM!

Best Horror

Best Comedy

Best Romance

Remember when he sent the message to his wife? Cute, right?

Personally, I think he and Nebula were banging in each other.

... I think that story is going to come out some day. C’mon... they were up in space, alone... they both thought they were going to die. She was like “OMG, I’ve always wanted to bang Robert Downey Jr. 

He was like “I don’t blame you.”

But, afterwards, he was like 

 - you know? He felt all bad, because he’d never get to do that again (that was the last of his energy). Annnnd also because he cheated. Which led to that cute recording for his wife. SEE, it’s all connected!

Best actor in Josh Brolin (Thanos) - the range of emotions (satisfaction, terror, humility, revenge, arrogance, beatin ass, defeat) Leo and Brad Pitt ain't have to do all of that!

Best Actress... hmm.. idk about this one. Many say J.Lo deserves an Oscar for her performance in "Hustlers" - a movie made for strippers, by strippers.

Exotic dancers are making a comeback! Maybe one day, stripping will be going in the same direction marijuana is - just something people do. No more shame! You can actually make a decent living at it - ain't that right, Stormy?

And who can forget this J.Lo quote "This city, this whole country, is a strip club. You've got people tossing the money. and people doing the dance."

There have also been plenty of things in 2019 that I have not understood:

1) Hatin on Greta

Greta - trying hard to do what she believes will make this world a better place for us all.

Certain people - "Shut that bitch up! She's crazy!"

2) Hatin on Megan Rapinoe

MP - leading a soccer team to a World Cup victory, being outspoken for women's rights and gay rights, having awesome purple hair, and trying to be the best leader and athlete she can be.

Certain people - "Shut that bitch up! She's Crazy! Equal pay my ass!"

3) Popeyes Chicken Sandwich

 - the gov't test for a new crack epidemic. Sadly, I never got to partake.

4) Allison Mack

- This whole story began being unveiled in 2018, but continued through this year. I still don’t understand how this story has not gotten more attention. Some of y’all don’t even know what I’m talking about.... google it, and be horrified.

5) BTS (and K-pop in general)

-I love them, but... our country's K-Pop fetish has gotten kinda out of hand. All kinds of artists are trying to share the spotlight with them. Next, we're going to see them team up with Kendrick Lamar.

6) TikTok - I just don't get it. What’s the difference? 

7) Cancel Culture

To me all cancel culture is silenced by Trump being our president. Where was all of this righteous indignation when we voted him into office? You might say "I didn't vote for him." Yeah, but, WE did - Idk what that says about us, but it's prob not good.

It doesn't even really work - Louis CK is currently selling out venues for an unapologetic tour. I'm not even saying that it SHOULD work (in SOME cases). I'm simply saying that it doesn't work (in most cases). But, perhaps the fear of it working is enough. Or perhaps we should think through how we spend our anger.

BUT, enough of that! It's time to pass out this year's PRAPHIE AWARD!

Here are the noms:

Jordan Peele

Pedro the turtle

(no need for context, just know he’s awesome)

Baby Yoda

 (btw - studies show that if you have access to "The Mandalorian" and you AREN'T watching it, you're an asshole. This is not ME talking, this is science)

Megan Rapinoe (who I’ve already mentioned)

Flying Elbow Guy (Again, this requires no context. It’s Flying Elbow Guy! There is a baseball player who’s name I can’t remember. He took on a whole team, and... you know what - that’s too much exposition. It’s Flying Elbow Guy!

  Keanu Reeves

Annnnnnnd! It’s...

...

KEANU!

This year:

Of course JW, Toy Story 4, Cyberpunk 2077, “Always be my Maybe”, plus we found out that he’s down for The Matrix 4, John Wick 4, and Bill & Ted. CRAZY!

Also my BAMF of the year (see previous post)!

We love Keanu Reeves so much, that he's allowed to murder as many people as he wants (as John Wick).

We'll get mad if an actor who's not handicapped is playing someone who is, we'll get mad about whitewashing (as we should), we'll get mad if things are too sexualized, we GOT MAD at "Joker" for predicted violence. But, Keanu can murder all he wants:)

(See the scene above? - that was a McDonald’s before he showed up)

He found love as well. Women are loving that he chose someone closer to his age. Honestly, Idk why it matters. I'd still love this man, even if he were dating 22 year old, racist ass Camila Cabello.

But, he's viewed by some as the perfect man. I disagree. I don’t think that he’s merely the perfect man, but the perfect human.

His career and popularity paths are unique. No one would call him a... GOOD actor, but look at him! And he seems like a genuinely, awesomely, good person. And whatever "good person" means to you, he's at the top! We should all (men and women) be a lil more like Keanu in 2020.

Let's all be as lovable as we can, so we may all get away with as much as we can:)

With each new year, I challenge myself with a slogan to live by. In 2020, it's going to be this - 

From Eddie Murphy’s “Raw”- Richard Pryor’s advice to Eddie, concerning Bill Cosby 

Telling certain people in my way "To have a Coke and a smile, and shut the bleep up." Sometimes, I might need to be the one to do this, rather than say it - we'll see.

Here was the runner-up slogan (his response)

Magical.

Happy New Year, Everyone! Enjoy yourselves. Be less of an asshole. And be safe... enough to at least make it TO 2020.

Much love!

[nightcoremoon]

potentially controversial post ahead

Republicans: literally running a gestapo, literally murdering brown people, literally screaming for mexicans to "go back home", literally funding racist domestic terror organizations, literally covering up internalized pedophilia scandals, literally driving this county into the fucking ground

Joe Biden: says something taken out of context and overanalyzed to be indicative of some slight racist tendencies which is to be 100% fully expected from a white man in america

You dumb motherfuckers: they're the same thing, both evil, don't vote for biden if he wins the candidacy or you're a racist too, this is a rational mindset to have, this exact same mentality towards clinton lead to landing trump in the white house once already but I'm a dumb motherfucker who never learns so I'm gonna shit on and disparage everyone who isn't sanders (until we dig up some random dirt on him saying he's *throws dart* misogynist) or cortes (until we dig up some random dirt on her says she's *spins wheel* ableist) or whoever the fuck else while being terrible because HEY NEWSFLASH! ALL POLITICIANS ARE BAD!

so you gotta choose who's less bad. and, like, literally anyone would be better than trump for ever singly minority demographic in america.

all white people are racist in some capacity so it's fucking stupid to just discount every white potential candidate for being ~racist when the opposition is goddamn rice and milk on a paper plate in a snowstorm with an unhealthy tinge of orange spraytan. there's a fucking difference between "all blacks are rapists" racism and "hey brown skinned people are given worse opportunities for education than white people so let me make a careless offhand remark that's incredibly tasteless and sounds bad out of context" racism, and "let's shoot unarmed black kids because we cops can get away with it" racism and "I sing gold digger by kanye west and say every word even though I'm white" racism, and "fuck muslims, we should kill them all" racism and "I'm too stupid and narcissistic to understand why any person would have a different upbringing than me and therefore don't know why affirmative action is necessary in situations that I've never encountered" racism, and "BLM are terrorists and kaepernick is the antichrist" racism and "I don't like rap music" racism. like yeah it's all bad and it's all terrible and life is a fucking nightmare for poc in america but logically microaggressions are a better alternative than being murdered, right? there's no magic off switch to turn off all racism forever, but there's a way to make it less bad if even slightly.

but if the prospect of joe "literally obama's vice president" biden sometimes saying dumb and kinda racist shit is JUST AS BAD as donald "literally throwing kids into concentration camps for being brown" trump, then go off.

but like... ethnicity isn't the only demographic that's being treated like shit, being murdered, and having civil liberties stripped from them. if y'all are fine keeping trump in office because biden's "also racist", keep in mind that all the impoverished, the female, the gay, the trans, the disabled, the sick, the mentally ill, the autistic, the jewish, the muslim, the homeless, and the dissenters, they all get fucked too.

it just blows my mind that the radicals and the extreme left are so hard-on for an unattainable image of fucking perfection that nothing short of god herself will ever be good enough for us, that they're willing to let the tangerine stay??? stupid, stupid, stupid. but whatever, what do I know, I'm just affected by the decisions of the government of the country i'm forced to live in.

if biden becomes the democratic candidate I'm fucking voting for him because he'll be the democratic candidate. don't @ me if you don't like it because like it or not we have a 2 party system. so don't blame me. I voted for kodos.

inb4 I get a swarm of angry hatemail calling me racist and telling me to kill myself just because I dared to say that trump is far more of a majorly dangerous problem to ethnic minorities than joe "again, literally obama's vice president" biden ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

btw:

fuck republicans

fuck you if you're a conservative

fuck off if you're in the right wing

eat a dick if you're in the GOP

and all nazis and fascists must die

[thesinglesjukebox]

NICOLE BUS - YOU

[5.67]

We really, really, sorta, kinda like...

Thomas Inskeep: So today, a classic-sounding R&B track basically means it sounds like peak-era Lauryn Hill (whose first solo album is now 20 years old), and "You" does that in spades. The song smartly samples The Charmels' "As Long As I've Got You" in the same way that RZA did on Wu-Tang's landmark "C.R.E.A.M." -- and considering that Wu fans from '94 (Enter the Wu-Tang is 25 years old, y'all) are likely to be Adult R&B listeners, it shouldn't come as a surprise that "You" raced to the top of said radio airplay chart in a ridiculous hurry. Bus has got a real L-Boogie tinge to her voice, and combined with some clever pop cultural references ("love you like Kanye loves Kanye," et al.) and that sample, this kinda can't lose. It works equally well for late nights, early mornings, and head-nodding all day long, and is one of my favorite R&B records of the year. [9]

Ian Mathers: "Former The Voice of Holland competitor interpolates old Wu-Tang song, older song Wu-Tang song was sampling" doesn't sound like the most promising logline (although these days also far from the worst), but it's finally getting hotter and that matches well with the interesting grit to Bus's timbre and the way the production here keeps the haze in the right places, in just the right amounts. I'm going to hate the summer heat, but songs like this matching with it so perfectly redeem the season a little. [7]

Alfred Soto: A Charmels sample, a timbre recalling Lauryn Hill and Jazmine Sullivan in ballad mode -- Nicole Bus is a demographic dream made flesh. She convinces as a person who thinks she's found the right song. [6]

Joshua Minsoo Kim: Sounding exactly like Lauryn Hill is notable, I guess, but "You" doesn't present Nicole Bus as anyone with any sort of personality. The sample does a lot of the heavy lifting; elsewhere, it's just a bunch of serviceable vocals and lyrics like "and I love the way you love me/like Kanye loves Kanye." [4]

Iris Xie: I'm fairly amused by the first verse, where the triad of Idris Elba/Steph Curry/Luke Cage references stack upon each other like stan tweets. But it doesn't elevate from there, and the crooning and staid instrumentation result in this 90s R&B homage sounding tired instead of wired. 2019 is a pretty rough year in a series of rough years, but if you're going to do a slow jam, at least try to forget how the world is for three and a half minutes. [4]

Tobi Tella: Beautiful voice, but wasted on a bland as hell slow jam about a lover, which is a topic that has been gone over many, maaaany times by R&B songs more memorable than this. [4]

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[lonelytartcake]

Lmfao, right wingers are slowly becoming tin foiled hat conspiracy theorists every day. It was the left wing mob that caused Kanye to quit politics? It was Liberal Hollywood? Oh oh, my favorite.

Democrats can't stand a free thinking African American fleeing from the plantation, so they had to beat him in line.

Is it not racist to assume that black people can't think for themselves freely unless they become republican? And that we all have these hive minds? Does the fact that you being a republican and comparing yourself to Lincoln freeing the blacks one red pill at a time not tip you off to think that you have a weird saviour and superiority complex?

Lmfao, our liberal identity politics? It's so funny how republicans have to try so hard to prove they aren't racists by milking Kanye for all he was worth for his 7 seconds of Red pill fame. As if any of y'all gave a shit about what he said until he put on that MAGA hat. Does no one remember "shut up and dribble"? How about everytime a celebrity, especially a black celebrity uses their own free thinking and reasoning to make a few left leaning posts? You have people like Candace Owens, who tells them that no one cares what they think...until it's Kanye West (:

Our identity politics? And yet you use old democratic history and SLAVERY to sway us to vote for your side. You literally just called black democrats slaves to the real racists running America!!! But yeah screw identity politics, amiright?

"We dont care about skin color, but we'll push you as our poster child for diversity on our side of the political spectrum in hopes to sway black voters into voting for us if we keep having this condescending attitude that they can't think for themselves until they vote red."

[arcanistouroboros]

Haven't y'all ever heard of "splitting the vote"?

The Electoral College system favors the majority of a majority vote within states. In most states, popular vote (which is the biggest per district, not overall) goes back to your state government so they'll say "hey Electorates, dump ALL our votes on this candidate." Even if they won with less than 49% of the popular vote, as long as they had the most districts in the state (look up a thing called gerrymandering to know why that's bad). You can count on one hand the states who actually scale the casting of their electoral votes to the results of their popular vote.

Remember, Trump lost the popular vote.

He won the electoral vote because of that majority of a majority (of a majority, realistically). That's all he needs to stay in power.

Here's the thing about a third party candidate in the current system: it's not a vote of no confidence in both major parties or of greater faith in a smaller candidate.

You have the incumbent party. You have one party that represents the largest opposing power. Then you have several smaller alternatives to the latter.

Unless a single third party wins in a landslide, most states are going to give ALL of their votes to their largest candidate of the two major parties.

Each vote given to one of those alternative parties is, by necessity, cast by someone who opposes the incumbent party. However, they're votes that cannot be used by the party closest to your ideals with the best chance of winning.

If someone votes for a third party that's right-wing like the Tea Party or whoever the Lincoln Project puts up, they probably are a conservative who would normally align their ideals with Republicans but didn't like the candidate. That's not a vote for the Left and demographically never would have been, but unless the Tea Party wins by a landslide, it is a vote taken from the conservative base. That is a demographically right-wing voter voting against Trump. Their vote doesn't magically go to Trump just because their candidate lost.

The same holds true on the other side of the aisle, though. You know why Bernie didn't run third party in 2016, despite being a way more popular candidate amongst millennials? Because he knew that any votes he received would be leeched from Hillary, not from Trump's base. Once the vote is cast, it's done, there's no Fusion Dance with Hillary to oppose him.

That's why we were so scared of Kanye running Democrat against Biden. Because he would have split the vote. Because his platform was built to appeal to voters who would normally oppose Trump, therefore making everyone who opposed Trump be split between two or more parties instead of united against him.

And Trump just needs the majority of a majority under the electoral college. One-third is bigger than one-quarter, no matter how many quarters there are.

If you would have never voted Trump or right-wing but you decide to vote third party because you don't like Biden, you're taking away a vote for "a reasonable chance of opposing Trump." It's that simple.

Yall, I don’t want to be alarmist but…. that’s… concerning. 

[womenofcolor15]

Kanye West Proudly Admits In GQ His First Presidential Vote Will Be For Trump + 'Ye Says Kobe Bryant Was The Basketball Version Of Himself

Take a deep sigh, y'alls problematic fave is talking again.  Kanye West covers GQ magazine and he opens up about casting his first ever presidential vote for Trump and his close relationship with late NBA icon Kobe Bryant. Highlights inside…

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                  Presenting GQ's May cover star: Kanye West. Hit the link in bio to read the story by @WillWelch. Photographs by @Tylersphotos.

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  Kanye West is the cover star for GQ’s May 2020 issue where he offers up a series of interviews that spans across five weeks and three countries with GQ editor-in-chief Will Welch.

The 42-year-old has never voted in his life. However, that’s all going to change when the 2020 presidential election comes around. Remember in 2015 when he was telling the masses he would run for president in 2020?

Ye didn't put a bid in for 2020, however, he did say last year he plans on running for president in 2024.

So, since Kanye can’t vote for himself in the upcoming election, the Jesus Is King rapper will be casting his first ever presidential vote for his homie Donald Trump, who will be up for re-election. Lord, help us.

“So look, I’m not telling anybody who they should vote on, what they should wear, where they should live. I’m doing me,” he told GQ magazine.

We see he still only likes to flaunt and admit to his influence when it benefits him.

Peep the highlights from a conversation he had with GQ on January 30th on a jet from Cody to Los Angeles below:

GQ: So this is an election year, and I’m curious how your faith plays into your thoughts on politics. To go back to when you put on the MAGA hat, how do you see that moment from where we are now, sitting on this plane, in January of 2020?

Kanye West: Both my parents were freedom fighters, and they used to drink from fountains they were told they couldn’t drink from, and they used to sit in restaurants where they were told they couldn’t eat from. They didn’t fight for me to be told by white people which white person I can vote on. [laughs]

What do you make of how that moment reverberated? Did it have the effect that you intended?

I didn’t intend for anything except to speak my mind and express how I felt. I have no intention other than to be free, and I don’t intend to be free—I just simply am.

What was at odds to me about you wearing the hat is that “Make America Great Again” is about looking back. Whereas, to me, you are a perpetual forward thinker.

I buy real estate. It’s better now than when Obama was in office. They don’t teach you in school about buying property. They teach you how to become somebody’s property.

For the election ahead, do you plan to speak more about it, or are your interests elsewhere?

No, I’m definitely voting this time. And we know who I’m voting on. And I’m not going to be told by the people around me and the people that have their agenda that my career is going to be over. Because guess what: I’m still here! Jesus Is King was No. 1! I was told my career would end if I wasn’t with her [Hillary Clinton]. What kind of campaign is that, anyway? That’s like if Obama’s campaign was “I’m with black.” What’s the point of being a celebrity if you can’t have an opinion? Everybody make their own opinion! You know?

  Ye just continues to prove he's all about self and not the greater good of the people. And frankly, we're over him.

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                  For the May issue of GQ, @WillWelch spoke with Kanye West in a series of interviews that took place over three months and across three different countries. Head to the link in bio for the full story. Photographs by @Tylersphotos.

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  In a separate conversation for the cover story, the Grammy Award winning rapper talked about his close relationship with late NBA icon Kobe Bryant. This interview went down days (72 hours to be exact) after Kobe died in a helicopter crash (Jan. 26th), and he admitted he was taking it hard. When asked how he was doing he said "not good." When asked what was wrong, he responded, "Kobe was one of my best friends.”

He got candid about his feelings and how Kobe "was the basketball version of me, and I was the rap version of him."

West: One thing I thought was really amazing is that we were able to find a groove with the photographs today even as out of it as I was with the loss of Kobe. We were able to just go to the court and play ball. There’s one street that I drive to go from either my office or my home to the property where the domes were built. [Editor’s note: The street is Las Virgenes Road, the site of the helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant and eight other people just four days prior.] So now there’s no way for me not to be as determined as Kobe every time I drive down that street. It’s game time. There’s no move that we can’t make, or that we’ll wait to make. Everyone in our life is now a member of the Lakers on one of Kobe’s championship teams. The way that Kobe would say that we all have to come together and win this championship is the way I look at life now. To an infinite, other level.

This is a game changer for me. He was the basketball version of me, and I was the rap version of him, and that’s facts! We got the commercials that prove it. No one else can say this. We came up at the same time, together. And now it’s like, yeah, I might have had a reputation for screaming about things—but I’m not taking any mess for an answer now. We’re about to build a paradigm shift for humanity. We ain’t playing with ’em. We bringing home the trophies.

The Yeezy designer also talked about a time he felt his late mother - Donda West - talking through him.

You seem really focused on architecture right now—developing and building these domes.

When I visited the Tadao Ando Art Island [in 2018], there were three James Turrells next to each other and I said, “We need to live in a Turrell.” The funny thing is, the first time I ever talked to Turrell on the phone was the night I ended the Saint Pablo Tour. And the last thing I ever said on that tour was, “The show’s over.” Which felt like my mom talking through me.

How so? Like she was telling you through your own voice to stop?

Yeah, and telling everyone else. Like, “My son is not just here to fill up these sports arenas. My son’s got something else to do.”

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                  “Life is a song that's already been written, that takes your entire life to hear.” At the link in bio, @WillWelch spoke to Kanye West about the Yeezy campus he's developing in Wyoming, his next album, his “altered ego,” and his renewed faith in God. Photographs by @Tylersphotos.

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  The YEEZUS rapper opened up about wanting to retire from rap and the moment he realized he was a functioning alcoholic:

Let’s talk about the music you’re making.

I was thinking of not rapping again, because I rapped for the devil so long that I didn’t even know how to rap for God. Then one of my pastors told me, “My son just said that he would want a rap album about Jesus from Kanye West.” He didn’t say, “Kanye West, you should do this,” or “you need to do this.” He just told me something that a child said. And that one thing made the difference.

One day I was in my office working on the couture collection, and there was some Grey Goose in the fridge and I was just going to get a daytime drink, and I looked and thought, “Devil, you’re not going to beat me today.” That one statement is like a tattoo. I haven’t had a drink since I realized I needed to take it day by day, but I never owned up, or was even told, “Hey, you’re a functioning alcoholic.” People have called me a crazy person, people have called me everything—but not a functioning alcoholic. And I would be drinking orange juice and Grey Goose in the morning.

There was never a public perception of you as an alcoholic. Of course everybody knows the Hennessy-on-the-red-carpet moment, but there wasn’t a perception of “Kanye West has a drinking problem.”

Right? I really grabbed the drink to be able to even go to the awards show due to the information that everyone knows now. To say, “Okay, I can handle this.”

Ye also shared his journey to becoming a born again Christian:

I want to understand the timeline of your rebirth as a Christian. Did it evolve out of Sunday Service—and can you tell me the story of the moment where you accepted Jesus?

I surrounded myself with the healing—the highest-level healing possible: singing about Jesus with my friends and family surrounding me [at Sunday Service] every single week. This was a place, contrary to popular belief about Christianity, of no judgment. I feel that the church that most people grew up on as kids had a negative environment. The greatest thing for me, as someone who’s given their life to Christ, is knowing that other people have that as an anchor and a form of healing, because you’re talking to a person that went to the hospital and back. Now you see the measured nature—being able to let the child take the driver’s seat but still be measured.

Do you attribute that to the anchor of faith?

Yes, because when you’re not in service to God, you can end up being in service to everything else. To live inside of sin, it’s going to cost you more than you can pay. You don’t want to continue to sin with no repentance. I understand that people feel that I’ve made some cultural sins. But the only real sins are the sins against God, and you don’t want to continue to sin against God.

Do you conceptualize yourself as having been born again?

I’m definitely born again.

You can read the rest of his lengthy interview here.

  Photos: Instar/Getty

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[masseffectdoctor]

As always this is a calculated move to derail the votes and sway votes away from the Democratic side. All the damn people who write in Kanye are people who don't have a vote in for Biden. We're literally watching a god damn play by play repeat of the 2016 election right now and Kanye is filling the role of Harambe.

This isn't a joke. This isn't funny. It isn't fun and games. It's a manipulative tactic to keep the fucking literal fascist Nazi Trump in office another 4 years. I literally cannot explain this enough because we cannot have another 2016. We said people wouldn't survive a trump presidency in 2016 and y'all went "Lmao they're both bad, gonna write in Harambe!" And now 4 years later when we're posed with a decision between two people whom neither seems like what we want, and we have an obvious joke of a candidate making a stupid bid well past the time when it could be taken seriously that you'd HAVE to write in people are cracking jokes about it, and ALREADY talking about writing him in.

Y'all seem to forget that Kanye and Trump are all buddy buddy. They're good fucking friends. Trump and his people are ALL fascists and Nazis, and Kanye is no exception! It doesn't matter that he's black. This is direct election interference in an attempt to take votes away from Biden because Trumps base isn't unfocused enough to vote away from him in any margin that would matter. They're dedicated and full fledged fascists shooting for a regime to be built in the next 4 years, and their opposition is a lot of people whom are disillusioned and angry and confused and hurting. They will divide us with stupid shit, with dumb games, they will try and break and wittle down the votes that are lodged against Trump in as many ways as humanly possible before November 3rd.

Trump's goal is voter suppression. His goal is to screw up voting in any and every way humanly possible! His aim is to stay in power as a fascists and get bolder and bolder by the day in his direct shift of the US into a fascist state.

We have ALREADY warned all of you about this shit. We were right about EVERY SINGLE THING WE SAID HE'D DO IN OFFICE IN THESE 4 YEARS, AND WE TOLD YOU PEOPLE WOULDN'T SURVIVE AND THEY FUCKING DIDN'T!

I know we're desperate for a joke in the heavy depressing hell that is 2020.

But this isn't a fucking joke.

Kanye is running for President and Elon Musk endorsed him what the fuck is happening anymore

[thesinglesjukebox]

KANYE WEST & LIL PUMP FT. ADELE GIVENS - I LOVE IT [3.36] #canceled

Alfred Soto: Well, it's short and samples Adele Givens. [3]

Thomas Inskeep: I'm not actually offended by this, like I expected I might be; this feels like a return to old-school, 2000s Kanye, who wasn't afraid to be silly and ridiculous. And this is more ridiculous than offensive to my ears. What it's most reminiscent of is his 2007 "remix" of Rich Boy's "Throw Some D's," which West flips to talk about breast implants. Because of course the future husband of Kim K. would do that, right? The bassline on "I Love It" is phat (whether stolen or not), Lil Pump is fairly irrelevant, and Kanye's verse is stoopid. The smartest thing about "I Love It" -- besides clocking in at just over two minutes -- is the Adele Givens sample that opens and closes it. This is a throwaway, but it's preferable to ye, put it that way. [6]

Joshua Copperman: Contrary to popular belief, which speculates Kanye has lost touch with What People Want and also Reality, it turns out he's been in touch all along. It's just not with the adult world, but the always robust edgy middle school one. Hooking up with Lil Pump for a video inspired by Roblox, with lines like "I'm a sick fuck I like a quick fuck" primed for humorless Minecraft rewrites and 10-hour editions? That's not (only?) desperate, that's outright savvy. It's somewhat like Eminem's pivot to earnest pop-rap on Recovery, with the opposite approach toward the same demographic. This will probably be all the rage at summer camps next year. Only this pairing can make something so tasteless it wraps back around to harmless. Bonus point for the way Lil Pump attempts to fit the word "ignorant" into his flow, a flow that cannot hold more than two syllables. [6]

Anthony Easton: Who doesn't like having their dick sucked? I mean, that's not some shocking thing, is it anymore? Since when is cocksucking and dirty talk scandalous? Seriously. [4]

Cédric Le Merrer: Sorry, not my kind of stupid. [0]

Jacob Sujin Kuppermann: Lil Pump is focused by Kanye's presence (and production job, which, even though it's just "Fade" again, is far better than anything Pump has ever rapped on) but what Kanye gets from this pairing (other than chart success) is less clear. Like most of his 2018 raps, Ye seems unconcerned with anything that resembles coherence-- and while the whole spoken interlude and repetition routine works better on a song that's inherently jokey, it's still largely a waste of time. At least Adele Givens gets a check off this. [5]

Taylor Alatorre: Using a data set consisting only of this song, you could write the sentence "Lil Pump is a better lyricist than Kanye" and be 100% accurate. "Like a lighter, bitch, we ignant" is the kind of studiously dumb shit that forms the lifeblood of Twitter virality, while "sick fuck / quick fuck" is the half-formed thought you type into a fast-moving Twitch chat and immediately regret after doing so. (It's the latter which has actually gone viral, of course, because we live in a society.) Another contrast: where Lil Pump is focused on making his crudeness as pleasant to the ear as possible, Kanye remains committed to the project of extrapolating his basest impulses onto all aspects of his music. This can still turn up gold sometimes - in this case the airtight production - but mostly it just sounds drained of any forward momentum, an artistic dead-end. If this is what the greatest rap genius of my generation wants to do with his talents, all hail our new SoundCloud overlords. [5]

Tobi Tella: Points for something resembling sex positivity, and that amazing Adele Givens sample. Points off for being one of the most inane things I've ever heard and another desperate move in Kanye's desperate spiral. Remember when we all still thought he was a genius? [2]

Maxwell Cavaseno: Truly a turn of events when you spend a majority of a rapper's verse asking to nobody in the room, in rhetorical despair "Hey, can y'all pull back that Lil Pump verse?". Unfortunately, such is the case of 2018 Kanye. [3]

Joshua Minsoo Kim: A half-hearted quickie. [3]

Nortey Dowuona: Lumpy, bouncy bass slides in under Adele Givens' admittedly funny joke about lazy male sex as limp, lazy drums push up Lil Pump's bored, "done in 20 minutes" raps. THERE IS NOTHING ELSE. NOTHINGNOTHINGNOTHGINGNOTHINGNOTHINGNOTHTINGNOTHINGNOTHING NOTHINGNOTHINGNOTHINGNOTHINGNOTHINGNOTHINGNOTHINGNOTHINGNOTHINGNOTHINGNOTHING [0]

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