#bye-election

[accuratenewsng]

Saturday Bye-Election: Terrorists Attack Collation Centre, Kill Two

The re-run and bye-elections held Saturday February 3, 2024 in some parts of the country were greeted with cases of violence, allegation of vote-buying, ballot snatching, disruption and low turnout of voters in some polling units. The Independence National Electoral Commission (INEC) conducted re-run polls at designated constituencies and polling units following the order by the election petition…

[truetellsnigeria1]

Voting Begins In Surulere Constituency 1 Bye-election To Replace Femi Gbajabiamila (Photos)

Voting has commenced in the Surulere Federal Constituency I bye-election in Lagos State for the House of Representatives seat. The election is to replace Femi Gbajabiamila who resigned after he was appointed as the Chief of Staff to President Bola Tinubu. Twelve candidates from different political parties are jostling to occupy the Surulere Federal Constituency I seat in the Federal house of…

[sher-ee]

This is why Trump has been losing his mind over the last 24 hours on Truth Social.

VP: “I was a courtroom prosecutor. In those roles I took on perpetrators of all kinds. Predators who abused women. Fraudsters who ripped off consumers. Cheaters who broke the rules for their own gain. So hear me when I say I know Donald Trump's type.”

[gayforcarstairsgirls]

Reminder to anyone from the UK who sees this today: PLEASE REMEMBER TO VOTE

[angelofsmalldeath-codeine]

The tories are gone. They will now be busy accusing labour of not being able to fix the economy, blame them for Brexit, say they are spending too many money on social programs. They also be obviating the fact that they’ve caused every single issue they will accuse the current government of causing not being able to resolve.

[buzzbugs]

Out of Touch Thursday perfect time to get rid of Out of Touch Tories!!!

[tunyeta]

hello! would it be okay to req something where korai and reader split and we get to see his side of the breakup? i think it would be really interesting to see how you'll depict him in an angsty situation! much love!!!!!

Languished in deep

PTS! Korai Hoshiumi x Reader, RQ by: Anon

- WC: 0.6k, oneshot.

Notes: GN! reader, breakup, maybe its kinda OOC BUT I BELIEVE he would do that, korai is WALLOWING, the end is ambiguous/up to reader, I had fun with this one lmao.

The taste of alcohol lingered in Korai’s mouth, it was bitter, sour, harsh; all the words you could think of when drinking anything raw. Still, he didn’t mind how much it stung his tongue, he was muddled in a haze of what once the both of you had been. 

Korai thought it was sickening how he was engrossed in the split between you two, it was only a week. He should be moving on, practicing his spikes, hanging out with his team. But no, instead he’s in a dingy bar, doing shot after shot to blur the image of you; when tears were rolling down your cheek but you never once stammered with your words. You weren’t even the one to initiate it, it was him. He believed that you shouldn’t go to bed with an empty spot, that he was distant whenever he left for his games, and that you deserved someone better than him.

Maybe it was stupid of him to do this.

Deep down, he thinks he was careless or didn’t think this through enough. Regret was already churning in his gut, but what’s done is done. How pathetic Korai would be to crawl back to you when he was the one to call it off. 

As miserable as he was, Korai needed to get back home to his shared— wait no, his apartment now. He paid his tab not even bothering to thank the barkeeper, he left a hefty tip instead.

Aimlessly he struts back to his apartment ever so slightly stumbling and not paying a single mind to whatever passes him. He stares down at his shoes, these were a gift from you when he won his first games in VNL, it wasn’t a basic gift and he knows that; it was poured with thought, Asic’s blue with yellow accents, personalized to fit him perfectly with both his and your initials on it barely hidden on the heel, just as he likes it. It reminded him of his shoes back in high school.

Korai is home, facing the door with utter silence, knowing opening it no one would be inside to greet him.

Fumbling with his keys on the knob, it swings wide and he goes in, crouching down to set his shoes in the nearby rack. He notices that yours was still there unmoved, you left in a hurry he remembers, not bothering to call or text him if you left anything. Every little thing you own that he notices is still there and it leaves a slight pang in his heart— he needs to get a move on.

But.

Korai misses you, but that isn’t a word that could depict him right now. No, he yearns for you.

Yearning for the times when he would be there for you; when he woke up you would be there embracing him, cooking meals that made his stomach growl even more whenever he got a waft of it, nagging him to do his chore of laundry for the week. It’s the mundane things he also cherishes, though he wasn’t home most of the time.

He didn’t even notice the tears that were threatening to fall until he wiped his face. 

Stand up Korai! Now’s not the time to be a baby!  That is probably what you would have said to comfort him if you saw the state he was in, a chuckle escapes his throat.

He stands to move towards the bedroom, not concerning himself to clean up and change his clothes and the bed wasn’t even made since you left. He plops onto the cushions face first, and your scent remains on it, taking it in as if it were his last.

Before his phone chimed.

Are you okay?

@tunyeta — 2024 ✧

[solarpunkani]

Ok fuck it you know something I've never really quite understood about part of the Leftist vs Liberals debate on voting.

So so so many people act like its either-or. Like you're either dedicating your entire life to voting and promoting politicians and phone banking or whatever, or you're a True Rebel waiting for The Uprising to Come and Solve Everything.

But like. In my experience. Me voting is just me kinda go 'which person seems kinda good? Which one at least sucks the least? ok lemme go vote.' and then its anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour tops of my life. And I still have plenty of time to do Stuff and participate in Conversations about Other Important Things. And also you can admit and acknowledge and understand that the system As Is kinda sorta really sucks ass, but also still admit and acknowledge and understand that at this current point in time we are still living in the suckass system and do something to alleviate the suckass At Least A Little while also working to bolster/create/advocate for Other Systems.

I guess just like. it's not a black or white thing. Between 'top 500 volunteers for a specific politician/voting office/etc' and 'absolutely positively not voting at all' there is a gray area called 'vote and then just do other stuff'.

[silvidaee]

This is like the sea recessing just before a tsunami

[mysecretdsmpblog]

foolish saying he genuinely trusts bad especially after the election announcement is like. oh

like i knew it a little. i knew they bantered but bad still came to help him when he thought he was dying in that hole. bad still takes care of the eggs, bad shows up, etc.

but leo and foolish are literally talking about how good of a person bad is and like. yeah. yeah even though foolish is all 'oh i hate bad he's terrible and a menace' it's clear he really does trust bad. and he's not the only one

it's easy to forget just how many people trust bad implicitly on the qsmp, especially with all the shenanigans he gets up to. but like. oh

[monsterouscookie]

Most dutch newspape headlines this morning were about Biden.... My personal favorite?

BYE BYE BIDEN

[sher-ee]

Sorry Donald, looks like you're not in control anymore. The people who you trusted to help you are actually hurting you. They're costing you votes, time, money, and eventually, the presidency.

[lightyaoigami]

americans only others look away this doesn't apply to you: i shouldn't be surprised that the most braindead political takes really catch flight on the website where white american suburban ex-evangelical shut-ins who use their queerness as a cudgel against other marginalized identities hang out lmao

[rosewind2007]

Honestly this is a perfect image to end his stint as PM with…she looks like a haunted doll

[captainjackscoat]

A GREAT FUCKING GOOD MORNING BRITAIN. TORIES ARE OUT, BITCHES!!!

[birdsthatsingaftermidnight]

Today, in UK Politics

I'm going to have to start putting a date on these things. I'm referring to 20/10/22.

The Prime Minister resigned. She lasted nearly nine Jane Greys (8.889 if you want to be exact), or 4.4 Scaramuccis.

So anyway, Liz is out and this means there's someone new to come in. Yay! Hopefully this is the last new PM before Christmas.

In the July leadership contest, when the Tories finally realised that maybe, just maybe, Boris was a terrible Prime Minister, a candidate has to be nominated by 20 Tory MPs to be included in the first round of voting's ballot. They then held the vote, and anyone with less than 30 votes was withdrawn from the competition. Voting continued with the MP with the lowest number of votes being withdrawn (and others withdrawing even if they did scrape in) until two people were left, and then all Conservative Party members, that's MPs as well as paid up members, then voted. It's obviously a lengthy process (this started in July and ended with Liz Truss the winner in September).

This time they've decided it'll all get done by the end of next week. Nominations close on Monday, and anyone with 100 nominations goes through. Given that there's currently 357 sitting MPs, that obviously means a maximum of three people going through. "If three candidates reach the threshold there will be an vote of Conservative MPs. The top two will then be subject to an indicative vote of Conservative MPs before going froward [sic] to an online vote of Party members. This will be completed by 28 October 2022. If only one candidate secures the required nominations there will be no confirmatory vote of Party members and the candidate will be confirmed leader on Monday 24 October 2022."

In case the last two bullet points were too lengthy, here's the TL;DR - I've had colds last longer than this leadership contest.

But why take your time over an important decision like who should run the actual country. It feels like something you should rush, right?

Jeremy Hunt says he doesn't want to be in charge. Probably very wise of him, honestly. (Seriously, though, remember when he was the worst Tory MP you could think of?! What sweet summer children we were!).

Neither does Michael Gove (remember when he was also in the running for worst Tory MP you could think of? Ah, the naivety of trusting vaguely to the political process).

Jacob Rees-Mogg, allegedly the Business Secretary, but we all know he's really the Minister for the 18th Century / a Victorian scarecrow haunted by a dead Victorian industrialist, is said to be encouraging people to nominate Boris Johnson, who apparently does appear to be in the running.

Boris Johnson.

The good news is, the suggestion of nominating Boris has immediately split the party. Because that's what they need. More divisions.

BBC political correspondent Ione Wells said that some senior Conservatives have said they would consider standing down and thus triggering by-elections if Boris gets the job back. On the other hand, Cabinet Office Minister Brendan Clarke Smith insists that the former prime minister was a proven winner who could restore his party's fortunes. This must be true, because everybody's favourite Boris fan, Nadine Dorries, says he's a winner! Her credibility - for want of a better term - is currently a little shot right now.

Penny Mordaunt, currently the Leader of the House, appears to be in the running, and so does Rishi Sunak, who was Chancellor of the Exchequer until he resigned in July and kicked off the whole getting rid of Boris things.

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said his party was on an election footing, with a manifesto at the ready. I imagine they've been getting it into electioneering-ready status amidst the surprise that the Tories, handed a metaphorical rope by Labour's tabling amendments on the fracking legislation that had to be voted on, put said metaphor around their own necks and started shoving each other off the equally metaphorical battlements.

Also demanding an election is Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey, Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, and Wales's First Minister Mark Drakeford.

Not that they can force one, unless Labour can convince enough Tories to vote with them in a vote of no confidence, which they're unlikely to try for anyway. It's so much more useful for them if the Tories keep shoving people who cannot do the job into the PM job and burn their own party down from the inside.

Which will make a nice change for Labour, who over the last few years have been cheerfully engaging in the left wing's favourite hobby - schisming. Gosh, but the left love a good schism.

The next general election is not required to take place until at least 2024 (and by January 2025 at the latest) and, at this stage, it looks unlikely that date will be brought forward.

Because we're British, this is also happening, and it is magnificent.