#donald is a very proud kid

[contemplatingoutlander]

It has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to endorse Harris for president

Isn’t this what a newspaper is supposed to do?

I love that The Washington Post satirist Alexandra Petri took it upon herself to endorse Harris for her paper after Bezos pulled the plug on the editorial board doing so. This is a gift🎁link, so feel free to read the entire article. Below are some excerpts:

The Washington Post is not bothering to endorse a candidate in the 2024 presidential election. (Jeff Bezos, the founder of Blue Origin and the founder and executive chairman of Amazon and Amazon Web Services, also owns The Post.) We as a newspaper suddenly remembered, less than two weeks before the election, that we had a robust tradition 50 years ago of not telling anyone what to do with their vote for president. It is time we got back to those “roots,” I’m told! Roots are important, of course. As recently as the 1970s, The Post did not endorse a candidate for president. As recently as centuries ago, there was no Post and the country had a king! [...] But if I were the paper, I would be a little embarrassed that it has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to make our presidential endorsement. I will spare you the suspense: I am endorsing Kamala Harris for president, because I like elections and want to keep having them. Let me tell you something. I am having a baby (It’s a boy!), and he is expected on Jan. 6, 2025 (It’s a … Proud Boy?). This is either slightly funny or not at all funny.  [...] Well, that world [the baby will be born into] will look very different, depending on the outcome of November’s election, and I care which world my kid gets born into. I also live here myself. And I happen to care about the people who are already here, in this world. Come to think of it, I have a lot of reasons for caring how the election goes. I think it should be obvious that this is not an election for sitting out. The case for Donald Trump is “I erroneously think the economy used to be better? I know that he has made many ominous-sounding threats about mass deportations, going after his political enemies, shutting down the speech of those who disagree with him (especially media outlets), and that he wants to make things worse for almost every category of person — people with wombs, immigrants, transgender people, journalists, protesters, people of color — but … maybe he’ll forget.” “But maybe he’ll forget” is not enough to hang a country on! [...] I’m just a humor columnist. I only know what’s happening because our actual journalists are out there reporting, knowing that their editors have their backs, that there’s no one too powerful to report on, that we would never pull a punch out of fear. That’s what our readers deserve and expect: that we are saying what we really think, reporting what we really see; that if we think Trump should not return to the White House and Harris would make a fine president, we’re going to be able to say so. That’s why I, the humor columnist, am endorsing Kamala Harris by myself! [color/ emphasis added]

How far The Washington Post has fallen into the "darkness" it used to work so hard to ward off to help keep our democracy alive.

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[odinsblog]

Can we please get something straight here??

Mitch McConnell has supported Donald Trump and will support him again if Trump wins the Republican nomination. I have never supported Trump and I never will.

Mitch McConnell has been a willing tool of the NRA and helped pass countless stand-your-ground laws, he has helped pave the way for laws like permitless carry, and he has helped make guns easier for anyone to get. I have not.

Mitch McConnell has helped pass laws that intentionally suppress the votes of millions and millions Black people. I have not.

Mitch McConnell has helped write or pass laws that deny millions of women access to reproductive health care. I have not.

Mitch McConnell has helped write or pass laws that deny basic healthcare and living wages to millions of poor people. I have not.

I AM NOW AND I WILL ALWAYS BE BETTER than Mitch McConnell and Republicans, because my wishes do not have any material impact on anyone, unlike the myriad of hateful draconian laws that Mitch McConnell has helped to pass.

I could continue, but hopefully I’ve made my point: people sending Mitch McConnell “ill wishes” IS NOT being “just the same” as Mitch McConnell and Republicans, and it doesn’t make anyone “as bad as” McConnell and the GOP.

Are you fucking kidding me??

Saying that my wishes = McConnell’s actions is a false equivalence. It’s false, it’s offensive and it’s gaslighting.

Mitch McConnell is an elected politician who has a very long history of using his political power to actively harm the poor, marginalized communities, women, LGBTQ people, and non-Christian, non-white people. If you cannot differentiate between the words and the unenforceable “wishes” of the oppressed vs. the actions of an oppressor, then you have some serious problems to unpack.

I could ~almost~ see it if there was some chance that a Republican would go, “Oh wow, those progressives are being nice to Mitch McConnell, maybe I’ll stop being a racist and vote for a Democrat now.” But that almost never ever happens, does it??

You are not going to win over a Republican by being kind. Their entire ideology is based on racism, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, and cruelty.

Look, I’m not tryna write a dissertation here, but please believe me when I say that this neoliberal knee jerk Pollyanna reaction of, “turn the other cheek” and “be kinder to your oppressors” is very much rooted in Christofascism + white supremacy. It’s a weaponization of the “hate breeds hate” trope and the “forgiveness narrative” meant to tame slaves, and I refuse to fall for it.

I absolutely positively do not wish Mitch McConnell well, and HELL NO, I am not being a bad person for hoping that a racist, evil, old white man suffers a fraction of the pain he has inflicted on others for decades and decades.

I am a proud member of the #MitchMcConnellDieChallenge community.

That all said, at the very least, Mitch McConnell has unintentionally provided us with a teachable moment: please learn to spot the warning signs of someone having a stroke

[mugiwara-lucy]

With 100 days until the election, I have to say I'm VERY AMAZED and PROUD of my fellow Democrats for rallying behind Kamala Harris LITERALLY in the last week! Like seriously! ALL the MONEY she raised and Beyonce, Taylor Swift and NETFLIX are endorsing her?!

My FAVORITE part is the UNITY! Since the summer started there was CONSTANT going back and forth with Biden that while I was confident, I had a feeling in the back of my head that we'd get 2016 again but MUCH WORSE with this Project 2025/Agenda 47 shit.

I haven't seen THIS MUCH UNITY since OBAMA! (And even though I was a kid back in 2008, I remember the UNITY that led us to win!).

Now TWO THINGS!

1.) Just because things are going in our favor, we can NOT get complacent and lazy! This is going to be a DAY BY DAY EFFORT to reach the finish line!

2.) The Media is going to be on Kamala Harris even WORSE than Biden since she's not only Black but an outgoing, unintimidated Black Woman and the only black people the Media likes are people like Candace Owens, Tim Scott, Bryon Donalds and etc. so if you're gonna leave because you can't handle the attacks, LEAVE! We do NOT need any pussyfooted cowards amongst us!

Now with all that said and done....

KAMALA HARRIS FOR PRESIDENT 2024!!!!!!!

Let's win this thing and be RID of Trump ONCE AND FOR ALL!!!!

(Non Voters/Third Party voters can FUCK OFF btw)

[radical-revolution]

Bowing to Reality

When I was young, I tried to escape the madness of my world by imagining a better future. Now that I'm old, I seek that refuge in nostalgic memories of the past. It still doesn't work. I can dwell in the present for hours on end while practicing meditation, but when I turn on the evening news I just want to cry. How pathetic we are... how laughable... we sing about the angels, but we are programmed with the law of the jungle.

I wonder how many of us would be content to just earn a decent living, raise a family, and give our kids a good education? Most of us, I think... but throughout all of history we have been cursed with a ruling class that is never content... never satisfied! No matter how much we give them, it is never enough.

In colonial America, we fought a revolution to escape that sort of tyranny... but then we turned around and stole an entire continent from its native inhabitants. It seems to me our revolution was a fraud... we merely replaced a royal aristocracy with a corporate aristocracy based on tobacco, alcohol, cotton, and slave labor. We threw the King's tea into Boston Harbor, and then picked a president who used slaves to brew Rye Whiskey. Our founding fathers were so proud of their drug trade that they decorated the Capitol Dome with tobacco leaves.

Somehow our Christian forbears convinced themselves that their genocidal transgressions were God's gift of 'Manifest Destiny'. Not even Donald Trump could have imagined such a scam! We signed treaties with the Cherokee, Choctaw, and Seminoles, and then marched them off to die on the Trail of Tears. Some of us took asylum in Texas and then stole it from Mexico. We pretended to fight a Civil War to emancipate the slaves, but only gave free black men a fifth of a vote! Then we allowed Jim Crow slavery to flourish for centuries. Our wives didn't even get a fifth of a vote until 1917.

We created puppet dictators in Central America to enslave the native 'Indios' so our corporations could grow cheap bananas, sugar cane, and pineapple. Those illegal Indios are still harvesting our fruits and vegetables in the Imperial Valley even as Trump plans to deport them. And what has all that hypocrisy accomplished for us? Unsurprisingly, we have all become the economic slaves of a few elite families holding 90% of all the wealth in the world. And yet we go on telling ourselves that we live in a democracy where all men are created equal!

And how many American boys and girls have been sacrificed on that altar of false freedom? In 1917, we killed 116,000 of them in a war between Queen Victoria's relatives because one of Kaiser Wilhelm's submarines sank one of George V's ocean liners that had some Americans on board. In 1941, Roosevelt got the Japanese to attack Pearl Harbor so he could declare war on Germany over the objections of America's isolationist majority. That war killed over 400,000 Americans, including my dad. In the 1970s, we killed fifty thousand more American boys while losing a war with Vietnam, and fifteen years later our corporations were making bluejeans and computer chips on those very same killing fields. In 1992, we gave Saddam Hussein chemical weapons to kill his Iranian enemies, and in 2006 we killed him over weapons of mass destruction that didn't exist. That Iraqi meddling cost us a trillion dollars and thousands of lives over a period of twenty-five years.

So many misadventures... there were the Philippines, and Israel, and Samoa, and Diego Garcia, and Afghanistan, and Lebanon, and Panama, and Cuba, and Sudan, and Yemen, and The Congo, and Nigeria, and Nicaragua, and Cambodia, and Korea. Oh, don't forget Korea... 36,000 dead Americans there, and another 24,000 guarding that no man's land to this day. And remember the Marshall Islands? No? Well, we claimed that territory after WWII without bothering to consult the native islanders. And how did we treat them? Well we removed the entire populations of Bikini and Enewetok so that we could test our atomic bombs on their Polynesian paradise. That's American democracy for you.

And despite all that death and destruction, America has not actually won a war since 1945. Only America's corporations can be said to win wars. They profit even when we surrender. Today, you and I are paying withering taxes so that America can maintain over 600 military bases around the world, and the military industrial complex pockets it all: $895 Billion more scheduled for 2025. Think what America would look like if we spent that on education!

And what is the corporatocracy planning for us now? They are being subsidized by our taxes yet again to build giant computer centers that will house an Artificial Intelligence Network so superior to our human networks that we will have absolutely no ability to resist our enslavement. Elon Musk predicts that our streets will be full of self-driving cars within two years, and shortly afterward our homes will be full of R2-D2 and C-3PO style humanoid robots. He predicts that these robots will become the defining product of our time, with each human owning several, and industry employing billions. And with so many robots building our world and doing our work, we won't need to earn money anymore. So much wealth will be generated that every human will have a universal basic income, and humanity's standard of living will surge beyond our wildest dreams. Well... certainly Elon's wealth will surge, but I'm not so sure about the homeless folks sleeping in the streets!

And because the robots will be smarter, faster, and stronger than us, Elon foresees humanity living in 'retirement'. Any activities we take up at that point will be in the nature of hobbies. We won't need to work anymore because it will be so much easier to tell the robots to do it. And you won't even need to speak your commands aloud. You won't even need a remote control. Musk is working on Neuralink Technology to connect those computer devices directly into your brain. Three human test subjects are already connected. So... if you really want to match wits with the robots, you will just need to use Elon's Neuralink so that your brain cells can tap into the robot's super-intelligence. Won't that be fun?

And there is yet more... Musk expects to send the first robot-crewed spacecraft to Mars in two years, with human-crewed ships to follow soon after. His goal is to build a self-sustaining colony on Mars, so that if some catastrophe wipes out humanity on Earth, our species will still survive. Of course, this begs the question; if robots are so superior, why bother to save a human? In fact, the most likely catastrophe on Earth will be the Armageddon brought on by robotic warfare. Every military on Earth is even now building AI and robotics into their weapons of war.

Back in 1942, Isaac Asimov published his famous 'Three Laws of Robotics'.

First Law: A robot cannot injure a human or allow a human to come to harm.

Second Law: A robot must obey human orders, unless those orders conflict with the First Law.

Third Law: A robot must protect itself, unless that protection conflicts with the First or Second Law.

One wonders how Asimov ever came up with such a ludicrous scenario. In a world ruled by Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, Ali Khamenei, Benjamin Netanyahu, Kim Jong Un, Elon Musk, and Donald Trump, our robots will never be programmed with compassion. Like their makers, our robots will be programmed with the unvarnished law of the jungle. As I said... when I turn on the evening news, I just want to cry.

Not all who wander are lost,

༺ Ŧoƞpa Ɉoƞ

[polisena-art]

what would you say is the ideal carnaval for each of the caballeros? What's their favorite things about the holiday?

Kinda of a late answer for this but that's on you for expecting me to be answering asks on tumblr during Carnaval. I think Donald would be elated on the simple premise of a whole week off of work. I think he would first revel on sleeping in and, later in the day, going out with friends. Maybe falling in line with the relaxation route, at least the most permitted for Donald Duck, he'd take the kids to the beach and, during the days of parade, watch them on TV. Sure he would plan for slow days, but you just now something would happen to throw it off the rails. Panchito I think, whether he is in México or Brazil, his favorite part when it comes to Carnaval are the street parties. Him being a very lively guy with such fiery disposition, he loves to feel the crowd's energy and also being a part of it. All the colors are so vibrant and everyone is having so much fun, dancing, jumping and singing that Panchito would go all out as well. Tbh I would not be surprised if he ended the day on top of a stage or sound truck. José is a bit trickier of an answer because, what doesn't he like about Carnaval? I feel like he makes a point of enjoying it to the max since it's one of the events Brazilians, and specially cariocas, are super proud of and, him as a very stereotypical symbol, embraces with his whole being. I mean, it makes sense that the moment Reveillon is past Zé is already eager for this next big party in the city. That said, Zé would super enjoy the Pre-Carnaval, the street parties that happen before Carnaval has even officially arrived, and then Carnaval itself and pretty much everything it entails. In the end, I imagine the ideal Carnaval for José is one he gets to spend with his friends, and from then on they start their fun. Getting and assembling their own costumes, participating in street parties, getting some action during the street parties, going to friend's parties, drinking way too much at said parties. Later going to Samba School rehearsals, eating all the Feijoada he can get at said rehearsals, organizing his OWN Samba School rehearsals and parading with the Unidos da Vila Xurupita wherever he can, playing on his school's band, watching the big Samba Schools parade in the Avenue, live or on TV. Start another day sleeping in and then staying out all night, waking up on Ash Wednesday completely disoriented with no idea how he ended up home and finally catching the final results of which School was the big winner of that year's Carnaval.

[winters-on-the-wing]

🦢-annie's little intro-🦢

hey, fellas! welcome to my blog! here are some fun facts about me. if you like the same things as me, i would love to be friends! :)

🌅 my name is annie!

🌅 my pronouns are he/she/him/her, and when people ask my gender, i just say that i am a lesbian (i hate gender labels).

🌅 i am filipino-american, and very proud of my heritage!

🌅 i am twenty years old, and i am in college studying to be an actor and a choreographer in the theatre industry!

🌅 my main fandoms are maida's little shop (a fandom of which i think i am the only member LOL), anne of green gables/anne with an e, the secret garden, sofia the first, dance moms, and animal crossing!

🌅 fandoms i am trying to get into are pokemon (i only really play the games and don't know any lore), the marauders (my best friend really wants me to get into it, and i am trying my best to get caught up on the lore LOL), and stardew valley (i am only on spring 1 of the gameplay, i fear).

🌅 i have been a prominent member of the sanders sides fandom for a really long time, but i am separating myself from that now because thomas has been pissing me off lately, and the show's quality is deteriorating. also, a fandom with no girl characters is so boring, bro.

🌅 my main thing is writing, though i am more of an ideas guy than an actual writer. i think writing is actually rather boring. i also like to draw, but not seriously. you will catch me drawing stick figures of my au concepts. edits are fun to make, but again, i don't take them too seriously. i mostly just float around and come up with ideas for stuff that nobody cares about. it is very fun!

🌅 please do not interact with me if you are younger than fourteen (i might sound like a boomer but i think young kids being on social media is extremely dangerous and i'm not gonna perpetuate it), if you voted for/endorsed donald trump, if you positively discuss eating disorders or endorse eating disorders (i am in recovery from a very intense ed), or if you ever plan on flirting with me (this sounds like such a pick-me thing to say, but trust me, it has happened numerous times and it is so cringe).

🌅 i am firmly anti-censorship and you will never find me using a censored spelling of a word. i will use content warnings for basic things like blood and heavy themes, but if you ask me to censor things like food or something dumb like that, i will say no. minding personal triggers isn't my responsibility - it's yours. and i will not contribute to the mass censorship that the world of social media is pushing because all it does is create more fear and eggshells to walk on. sorry if that seems mean, but i will always prioritize knowledge over caution.

i hope you all like my blog! always feel free to send me a message or an ask if you want to. bye!

best wishes,

annie 🌟

[eiderducksonofhumperdink]

New DuckTales (87) fanfic!

"Finally!" Yes, enthusiasm sounds different. "Ye're nah better than mah good-for-nothing nephew!" By the good-for-nothing nephew, Scrooge McDuck indeed refers to his nephew, Donald Fauntleroy Duck. By "no better" he means neither a relative nor a stranger. Launchpad McQuack, the best and worst pilot ever. "Late again!" "By two minutes," grumbles Launchpad, rolling his eyes. "Time is money," says the supposedly richest duck in the world firmly. Launchpad says nothing more. He doesn't like to argue. In this respect, he is clearly different from Donald. He is also late, but only half a minute, and is already ready to start polishing coins.

Launchpad sets off for his workplace. To take care of repairing the plane. Despite having crashed so many times, both pilot and plane are still safe and sound. The pelican has a few fans too. "Hi, Quack." "Ah, kids." Huey, Dewey and Louie, of course. Always ready for adventures. "Is something special going on?" asks Huey, the one with the red cap. "Not yet," says Launchpad , shrugging his shoulders. My plane has to be ready to take off soon. "It's a really cool thing," admits Dewey. "You can be proud of yourself." "Well," Launchpad smiles modestly. "I got here thanks to my parents. It was a tough school, my father was always pretty strict and even now he still doesn't seem to be happy with me." Louie laughs. "Well, of course your old man has every right to be disappointed if you keep crashing." Launchpad has to laugh too. "Well, I didn't hear that. I'm still in one piece." "You seem to be invulnerable somehow," admits Huey. "But now, brothers, we should let him work in peace."

Later, Launchpad has a break that isn't actually allowed, but if you forget to have your morning break... maybe you have to go now. "Oops! Excuse me!" "Typical men, well." The voice comes from a lady. An older one. "Oh, hello, Ms. Beakley." Bentina smiles. "Ah, Launchpad McQuack. You know, even at sixty, I'm still as busy as you." Launchpad laughs. "I know that from my parents. They're only in their late 50s, but well, even if math gives me a headache, even I know that it's not far off." "As my grandma always said, nobody gets any younger," Bentina giggles. "No, the reason I'm so busy is because everything here has to be in order. As you can see, your boss has an eye for money, but not for order." "I can understand that." "Not me! The villa can't look as if a tornado occured!" Launchpad grins. "Stop it! You sound like my mother!" "Your mother is absolutely right," Bentina insists, but she also laughs. "I'm not like that. How's your work going at the moment?" "Everything's as usual," Launchpad shrugs his shoulders. "A lot of work, but at least it's worth it." "Yes, I know, your airplane," Bentina replies. "Oh yes, Webby has a thing for that too." "A six-year-old girl?" says Launchpad, surprised. "That's impossible, she only plays with her dolls. I know her." "Thank God yes," Bentina sighs, "but the boys played baseball with her last weekend. She's getting bigger and bigger, she's already in first grade. She writes and reads very well." "I don't see it as that dramatic," grins Launchpad, "but doing math would kill me. Chickenpox isn't a nice thing, but when I had it for a week and missed two math tests, I been so thankful to the Lord thaz you wouldn't believe it!" "You're long past school," laughs Bentina. "Not as long as you, I hope," replies Launchpad.

Then he spots a picture when he squints into Bentina's room. The picture shows a young woman with blonde hair. She's smiling. "Do you know her?" asks Launchpad. Bentina is not laughing anymore, but starts look sad. "Yes, that was Wilma. She was my daughter. The daughter I had with William Vanderquack. Unfortunately, we didn't get married, therefore she took his last name while I kept mine. Unlike my younger sister Priscilla, who went on to become a Duck and went on to have five children, with Daisy being the youngest." Launchpad looks at the picture. Hmm, something looks familiar. Think, think about something... no, too much for the brain! Now he looks at Bentina again. "You said she WAS your daughter..." Bentina's eyes get wet. "Yes, but it was six years ago, almost seven..." Launchpad puts his hand on her shoulder. "Do you have any other children?" Bentina shakes her head silently. "You have Webby as your granddaughter," nods the pilot. "I have to say how well the little one is with animals, no fear... I'm not that scared either, as long as I don't have to think too much, but still, at that age, as a girl... respect. But who..."

He is interrupted. "Launchpad McQuack, where are you!? I'll shorten yer wages for yer damn laziness!" Uh oh! While Launchpad is rushing back, he asks Bentina one last question: "How's Webby in maths?"

[b0rkst3r]

to all Americans out there; save the constitution for yourself, read Animal Farm, Handmaids Tale, 1984 - find out why banned books are banned. You will never be the land of the free for your thoughts have never been your own.

Internationally, and all mutual, we look at North Korea with frowning eyes. For the lack of criticism that is allowed on the President and the limitations set on media for its people. America has looked at them that way - the far-right even considers China to be such. Know that that is how the world is looking at you.

We see a random, very weird new government department form, where one of the first things the Department leader does, is a nazi salute.

(For the angels among us considering this a "roman salute", let me explain what that is since most are too ignorant to know; the roman salute has never belonged to the Roman Empire. It was seen in paintings (painted later than its fall) and Benito Mussolini used it as his gesture. Afterwards, the Nazi's used it. For the dumbasses saying its because he's autistic and doesn't know the difference, see the clip below for his "my heart goes out to you" gesture at Tesla; https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNeEAgmTQ/ )

Do you guys not see the nazi group being formed..? ICE IS ALLOWED TO RAID SCHOOLS, CHURCHES!! What happened to love thy neighbor? I thought there were Christian values in America? I thought the far-right wanted to protect kids with their abortion bans?? Or are you guys finally ready to admit that all that was about is control?

They took down the constitution page. The White House home page is a propaganda video. It does not matter how smart you THINK are. YOU ARE NOT IMMUNE TO PROPAGANDA.

They always say a fascist doesn't realize he is one the same was a narcissist doesn't realize it. And I agree. I think that America (besides the neglective teachings on history and the proganda in their history books (no, not all wars went like you guys think they did) and the indoctrination they go through starting a young age (this is not patriotism btw, this is indoctrination and it's time you all see it for what it is. The only other countries that do this are the ones you frown upon (as we discussed earlier!!)) https://youtu.be/xcwg7cnhW4E?feature=shared

You have all been played. And it's sad, really. No one could have seen coming how one thing lead to another. But the butterfly effect works in mysterious ways - Elon buying twitter and using it to rig the election and push far-right content, leading to Donald Trump winning and Elon being brought on, leading to Trump wanting Greenland, Canada and the Panama canal. Just like Elon's parents did. It almost looks like it was all planned out right under your noses.

And it looks that way because that's exactly what it was. You have all been PLAYED. so be MAD. these people took advantage of your trust in it's government - in these fake persona's they create until they do a Nazi Salute after becoming leader of a newly formed government department. SO BE MAD. THEY LAUGH AT YOU AS THE 99% YOU ARE THE SHEEP THEY HERD. SO BE MAD

oh and I don't think I can make this clear enough. NO ONE IS ILLEGAL ON STOLEN LAND!!! THE BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP BEING TAKEN AWAY IS FOR THE ENTIRE COUNTRY, YOU WILL NO LONGER BE AMERICANS!!!! I thought y'all were so proud 'n nationalistic.

Not only are y'all no longer Americans y'all can't even be men anymore with this stupid new definition. Ig when you fill your government with billionairs who have no idea what they're talking about, you forget that AT CONCEPTION everyone is female. all men are now mtf and that's final. Goodluck going to a public bathroom and not being beaten in by the people you voted with.

To all the Americans out there; these four years are hell. Learn how to cover your face, go get strong and fast. your country is burning. and since you can't stop the fire; make sure you're not the only ones burning.

Educate yourself. The 1% could not exist without the 99%, and as much as you THINK you need a hierarchy, you do not need an OLIGARCHY. You do not need the 1% let alone to run your country. You are not outnumbered - you are unorganised. Listen to Ben and Jerry's, organize and revolt.

"If we burn, you burn with us."

[dertaglichedan]

Kamala Harris sticks with ABC for first solo interview since slanted debate — and still serves up word salad

Vice President Kamala Harris sat down with an ABC affiliate for her first solo interview Friday, choosing the same network that got her through this week’s slanted presidential debate — but still managed to stumble through softball questions.

She answered five questions from Action News 6 ABC, a local affiliate of ABC News, in the interview that came just days after the moderators in the ABC debate with Donald Trump assisted her by providing fact checks on the former president but not her.

One of the ABC moderators for the debate, Linsey Davis, is a member of Harris’ sorority and Dana Walden, a Disney executive whose portfolio includes ABC, is one of the vice president’s close friends.

Action News 6 ABC anchor Brian Taff asked Harris, 59, what she would specifically do to bring down prices as president.

“Well, I’ll start with this. I grew up as a middle class kid. My mother raised my sister and me. She worked very hard,” she began, before going on about her neighborhood where people “were proud of their lawn.”

“We as Americans have beautiful character. We have ambitions and aspirations and dreams. But not everyone necessarily has access to the resources that can help them fuel those dreams and ambitions,” Harris went on.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Mehdi Hasan at Zeteo News:

On Monday afternoon in Milwaukee, the guessing game came to an end as Donald Trump announced J.D. Vance as his 2024 vice-presidential running mate at the Republican National Convention.  Now, these days, the junior Republican senator from Ohio, elected in 2022, is a full-fledged Trump toady, denouncing the prosecution of the GOP presidential candidate in New York as a “sham trial” and praising Trump’s record as a “great president,” but he used to be a self-proclaimed “Never Trump guy” back in 2016. 

I happened to interview him for a panel discussion on the threat posed by Trump on my old Al Jazeera English show, ‘UpFront,’ in September 2016, less than two months before the presidential election. “He’s exploiting some of the racism that’s there, but he’s also exploiting people’s fears and pointing it in a direction that maybe they wouldn’t go on their own,” Vance told me, referring to Trump. “I think that he is leading people in a very dark direction.” Today, Vance has joined Trump in “exploiting people’s fears” and “leading” them in that “very dark direction.” He is a proud part of the GOP 2024 presidential ticket. For the 39-year-old Ohio senator, former venture capitalist, and best-selling author, it has been a remarkable - and remarkably shameless - transformation from “Never Trump guy” into Trump loyalist, Trump booster, and, now, finally, Trump running mate. [...]

On Trump’s fascism… “I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical asshole like Nixon who wouldn’t be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he’s America’s Hitler,” Vance wrote in a message to a former college roommate in February 2016. “How’s that for discouraging?”  On Trump and ‘Access Hollywood’... “Fellow Christians, everyone is watching us when we apologize for this man. Lord help us,” Vance tweeted on the day that the ‘Access Hollywood’ tape leaked on Oct. 7, 2016, in which Trump could be heard bragging about his ability to “grab” women by their genitalia. On allegations of sexual assault against Trump… “This is sort of he-said, she-said, right?” Vance said on MSNBC, referring to an accusation from a woman called Jessica Leeds, who claimed Trump groped her. “And at the end of the day, do you believe Donald Trump, who always tells the truth? Just kidding. Or do you believe that woman on the tape?”  Per CNN, Vance later also ‘liked’ a tweet accusing Trump of having committed “serious sexual assault.” [...]

On Trump as “cultural heroin”... “Trump is cultural heroin,” Vance wrote in an essay for The Atlantic in 2016, referring to the way in which Trump seemed to offer white working-class voters “an easy escape from the pain” of addiction and despair.“ He makes some feel better for a bit. But he cannot fix what ails them, and one day they’ll realize it.” On (not) voting for Trump… “I’m a Never Trump guy,” Vance said in an interview with Charlie Rose in October 2016. “I never liked him.” In fact, Vance later boasted that he was voting for independent candidate Evan McMullin in November 2016. 

J.D Vance was once a vehement critic of Donald Trump. Now, he is on the ticket with him.

Expect his statements to be used in Democratic attack ads.

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Cruelty is all the Republicans have left

Thom Hartmann

August 24, 2024 5:55AM ET

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) speaks to members of the press on the steps of the House of Representatives at the U.S. Capitol on May 8, 2024. (Photo by Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)

During the 1950s, Republicans were the party that promoted labor unions, Social Security, and a top 91% income tax bracket and 70% estate tax on the morbidly rich. Dwight Eisenhower successfully campaigned on what we’d call a progressive agenda for re-election in 1956.

During the Reagan years, Republicans embraced Milton Friedman’s neoliberalism with its free trade, opposition to unions, ending free college, and tax cuts for the fat cats. They called themselves “the party of new ideas.” They may have done more harm than good, but for most Republicans it was a good-faith effort.

Today, they’ve pretty much given up on all of that. All they have left is cruelty.

When Governor Tim Walz gave his heartwarming acceptance speech Wednesday night here at the DNC in Chicago, his son Gus was caught on camera proudly proclaiming, through tear-streaked eyes, “That’s my dad!”

The response from Trumpy Republicans was immediate: Ann Coulter wrote, “Talk about weird.” Rightwing hate jock Jay Weber posted, “Meet my son, Gus. He’s a blubbering b---- boy. His mother and I are very proud.” Trumpy podcaster Mike Crispi ridiculed Walz’s “stupid crying son,” adding, “You raised your kid to be a puffy beta male. Congrats.” Another well-known podcaster on the right, Alec Lace, said, “Get that kid a tampon already.”

Compassion for a learning-disabled child is dead on the right: all they have left is cruelty.

Ronald Reagan helped shepherd through Congress the most consequential border bill in American history, and when it needed updating Oklahoma’s Republican Senator James Lankford worked with Democrats to update it in a meaningful way. Trump demanded Republicans kill the legislation, invoking the memory of his tearing over 5,500 babies away from their mothers and trafficking them into fly-by-night “adoption” schemes (around 1000 are still missing) and his demand that the border patrol shoot immigrants in the legs.

Trump’s acolytes in Congress don’t even pretend any more to have a border policy: all they have left is cruelty.

Stephen Miller and 16 Republican state attorneys general are suing for the right to tear apart about a half million American families because at least one member of their family has brown skin and is not yet a US citizen.

Their hatred has almost no limit because all they have left is cruelty.

President George HW Bush worked with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to unwind the USSR in the hope of creating a democratic Russia. Neither expected Vladimir Putin to turn that nation into a virtual concentration camp where gays are routinely murdered, child pornography is legal (and they’ve kidnapped over 700,000 Ukrainian children), and dissenters are tortured, poisoned, and sent to brutal Siberian gulags. Donald Trump celebrates Putin, calling his invasion of Ukraine “genius” and “savvy,” handing Putin’s ambassador a western spy and top-secret information in his first month in office, and trying to abandon America’s traditional role as a moral leader in the world.

Trump’s GOP has abandoned our founding principles: all they have left is cruelty.

During the 2020 election, Trump followers tried to run a Biden/Harris campaign bus off the road in Texas, threatening to kill the occupants (which they believed included Kamala Harris). A crazed Trump supporter broke into Nancy Pelosi’s home and attacked her 82-year-old husband with a hammer. Trump tweeted a picture of the bus being attacked, writing below it, “I LOVE TEXAS!” and repeatedly makes jokes about the attack on Pelosi, as if to encourage future attacks on the families of other Democratic politicians. Most recently, Donald Trump posted a picture on social media of Joe Biden tied up in the back of a pickup truck with a bullet hole in his forehead.

Not a single elected Republican (as best as I can find with a pretty thorough web search) has condemned any of these, because all they have left is cruelty.

Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis turned down federal money that would have fed 2.1 million low-income children in his state; he was one of 13 Republican governors to do the same, in a nation where one in seven children — over 11 million every year — go to bed hungry.

We are literally the only developed country in the world with a massive child hunger problem because all Republicans have left is cruelty.

When President Obama succeeded in passing and signing the Affordable Care Act, it offered every state funds to expand Medicaid to give healthcare coverage to all their low-income citizens with the federal government covering 90% of the cost. To this day, ten states under Republican control have refused to accept the money, leading to millions of preventable illnesses and early deaths.

Republican states could have joined all the Blue states and every other developed country in the world by providing universal healthcare, but refuse to because all they have left is cruelty.

When a 10-year-old girl was raped and impregnated, Republicans like Congressman Jim Jordan, Governor Kristi Noem, Fox’s Tucker Carlson and Jesse Waters, and Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost ridiculed the claim. When the rape and pregnancy were proven and the girl fled Ohio to a state where abortion was legal to terminate the pregnancy, Indiana's Republican Attorney General Todd Rokita promised to launch an “investigation.”

Rokita didn’t investigate the rape, however: he instead went after the physician who performed the abortion. Because cruelty is all Republicans have left.

When Donald Trump lost the 2020 election by seven million votes, he sent a violent mob against the US Capitol. As they tried to murder the vice president and speaker of the house, covered the walls of the building with feces and defaced priceless paintings, Trump gleefully watched on live television for over three hours while refusing to call in the national guard or take any other meaningful action.

Five civilians and three police officers died as the result of his sending that murderous mob because all he and his GOP have left is cruelty.

This week Americans saw Democrats display compassion, care, respect, and reverence for our democracy. We saw the best of this country, hope for the future, and actual plans to improve the lives of Americans.

Last month, in sharp contrast, we watched the Republican convention and saw, instead, a cavalcade of anger, bile, grievance, hate, and, of course, cruelty.

Because cruelty is all Republicans have left.

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[davycoquette]

What're your favorite books?

Is this real, or something Tumblr just does? 🥴 If one of y'all asked me this, thank you!

My favorite sentimental books are:

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

IMO the most "accessible" book by the author I look up to most. I picked it up in the book store, read it IN the book store, bought it, and have given it to several readers since. It's devastating, quick to consume, beautifully written (McCarthy was a genius), and it never leaves you.

The Call of the Wild by Jack London

Jack London is a top favorite author, too. This book is important to me because as a Girl Who Loved Wolves, it was what I wanted to write when I was a kid. I remember buying it at a book fair when it was waaaay above my reading level - but that never stopped me from trying. I was so proud when I finished it. A few years ago I read through it in one sitting, and laughed at what a simple book it actually is. It's a great adventure novel, though. If anyone enjoys Jack London's (very fun) writing & wants to read about human characters, I recommend Sea Wolf.

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

My introduction to Jane Austen. Not my usual cup of tea, but I cannot put anything she writes down. I feel like this lady really understood the human heart - and she awoke something in me and every other reader in the enemies to lovers department with this novel.

A Separate Peace by John Knowles

Read this one when I was very, very young and will never forget it. The bond between the main character and his friend continues to be a major influence in the way I have my characters interact. The story is heartwrenching. The dark academia vibes are awesome. If you like Saltburn and would still enjoy it with 800% less weird sex stuff (not that I am complaining about the weird sex stuff in Saltburn lmao), I think you'll enjoy this classic novel.

Since those are classics and kind of obvious, I'd like to throw in a few things I've read recently that I'd recommend - not permanent favorites, maybe, but still good reads:

Knockemstiff by Donald Ray Pollock

I do not recommend this one to folks with strong triggers, or anyone who is squeamish about reading some bleak, FUCKED UP shit. It's fucked up, but this dude's writing is stunning. The happenings in this vignette about an Appalachian town are a train wreck; horrifying, but you cannot look away.

Gentlemen of Space: A Novel by Ira Sher

It's been a couple years, but I found this book in a beach house and read the first few chapters there. I was mesmerized by the premise (boy's father is an astronaut who goes to space then cannot get back, to keep it short & simple), and the haunting prospect of the two "communicating." If I recall correctly, it got little attention and poor reviews. While none of the characters particularly interested me, the prose was so good I bought another book by this author. I think this one is aesthetically fascinating and would love to hear others' thoughts on it.

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

I am not actually finished with this one, yet! I'm listening to the audio book, and Spotify only lets me listen to so much a month. I am kind of enjoying the fact it's forcing me to slow down to absorb and anticipate the next installments, so I'm not paying extra. Plus, wtf, Spotify. You cost enough money already. Anyway - this book is SO slice of life at times. So wholesome and enjoyable and pleasant. Then, when it isn't wholesome, enjoyable, or pleasant, it's absolutely horrifying. I can't speak to how politically correct it is. It's a Western, published in 1985. There's "cowboys vs Indians" stuff in it. If that's not something you feel you can enjoy reading, I cannot recommend this one. But! if you want to take your time and really indulge in a pretty slow paced but still fascinating Western, this one is brilliantly engaging.

[thislittlekumquat]

Saw all the cool (?) kids doing this on booktube for their 2023 reading, and while I don't think a tiermaker style chart is quite right for comparing some of these books (like how am I supposed to compare The Haunting of Hill House with like. How to Resist Amazon and Why?)

Anyways, S tier is my personal biases, just my absolute faves of the year, no notes. A tier is very good, would recommend to basically any reader without caveats. B tier is "If you're really into this type of thing or have the necessary historiographical context and use your critical thinking skills (as relevant), solid read, worth your time". C tier is like. I've read much worse, but honestly disappointing, though there were at least a few redeeming qualities. D tier is no, definitely skip.

I'm still figuring out how well storygraph works to non-users, but if you're curious to see any further details on these books: https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/ovvlish

Titles and authors in the order they appear, because the images are small. For the manga, some I started this year, others are ongoing reads for me, and I only included one volume of each. All told it was 65 books, so you can see I read a lot of tankubon!

Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Faeries - Heather Fawcett

Kuroshitsuji (Black Butler) - Yana Toboso

Gideon the Ninth | Harrow the Ninth | Nona the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir

The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson

Witch Hat Atelier - Kamome Shirahama

Death on the Nile | The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie

My Man Jeeves - P. G. Wodehouse

Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief - Maurice Leblanc

The Ancient Magus' Bride - Kore Yamazaki

Dungeon Meshi (Delicious in Dungeon) - Ryoko Kui

Dracula - Bram Stoker

The Future of the Past - Alexander Stille

How to Resist Amazon and Why - Danny Caine

The Evil Wizard Smallbone - Delia Sherman

The Omnivore's Dilemma - Michael Pollan

Stiff - Mary Roach

A Mighty Fortress - Steven Ozment

Showa - Shigeru Mizuki

The Proud Tower - Barbara W. Tuchman

The Cruel Prince - Holly Black

Other Ever Afters: New Queer Fairy Tales - Mel Gillman

The Stripping of the Altars - Eamon Duffy

Twisted Wonderland - Yana Toboso/Wakana Hazuki/Sumire Kowono

The Relic Master - Christopher Buckley

The German Empire, 1870-1918 - Michael Stürmer

Versions of History from Antiquity to the Enlightenment - Donald R. Kelley

Cast Iron Baking - Dominique De Vito

The Bear and the Nightingale - Katherine Arden

Bea Wolf - Zach Weinersmith/Boulet

Testimony of Light - Helen Greaves

The Priory of the Orange Tree - Samantha Shannon

The Fossil Hunter - Shelley Emling

[bestgirlinc]

Kingdom Hearts Review

After long last I am back with another review! This time with a review of Kingdom Hearts 1! Kingdom hearts is one hell of a large series. the game back in the day was marketed as a Crossover between Final Fantasy and Disney. An odd mix to be sure, but it sure intrigued my Disney loving, Final Fantasy loving ass as a kid. I remember playing this game over and over again as a kid. That is to say that I'll be honest that while I will attempt to be critical of it, I am not perfect and I am sure bias will peek through.

Gameplay: The gameplay of KH1 is definitely not as good as KH2 or 3. That's not that controversial to say of course. The series WILL get better over time as they explore and expand the gameplay. That said the gameplay is definitely good. The game is a simple action adventure rpg. It has elements of a platformer here and then but mostly just action adventure, with a heaping helping of hack and slash. The gameplay is pretty simple and even on the hardest difficulty isn't hard to understand or get over. I'll say the biggest criticism I have is of the game having such drastic effects on the game such as how fast you level or what moves you learn at all being behind quiz answers and such that at the time you'd never know and even now only if you do research is a very bad idea. It makes the game very annoying and punishing for those that want to go in blind. That is a VERY bad idea that I do not like at all. But IF you have help with that, then you are golden. The game is good, not great, gameplay wise.

Sound: The music in most of the levels is simple. Lots of KH music in the Disney levels are kind of mindless. Mostly just ideas taken straight out of the movies the levels are based on. Halloween town has the "This is Halloween" for example as the easiest choice of "yeah that's what I expected" choices. That said in THIS game most of the songs are BASED on the movies and not actually just the straight songs. But the music is still very much BASED on the music there and blends in a lot in my opinion. Tarzan and Peter Pan being the best levels in the game for music in my opinion. I think the music while very much of the movie it is based on is still rather nice. That said the big stand outs are the songs made for the original levels. Hollow Bastion's level having the best in the game to me as the music is intense and grand. It fits the concept of this being Maleficent's castle. This is where the greatest evils in Disney and the KH universe as a whole call home! It also makes you feel like "Yeah, I hit the final stretch of the game. Things are moving to the finish line now!" For that and much more the game's music STILL is something I'd consider good. Just don't expect top tier music from the Disney levels.

Story & Characters: We've reached the category that non KH fans dread: The STORY! So allow me to explain the complicated plot. A kid gets a giant key weapon. The kid fights Disney and FF characters with Donald Duck and Goofy to help his friends and saves the world from a guy who wants to conquer all worlds. Like I could go into unnecessary detail on the plot to make it seem more complicated but it really isn't that complicated. The worst of it is that the keyblade weapon Sora, our protagonist, uses sort of has a mind of its own. But that's sorta common for magic weapons in fantasy media. Really KH1 is very accessible for newcomers (obviously). You wanna play KH1? Don't do chronological order, just start here. The story overall is good, well written and hits the right beats. The Disney levels mostly are original plots that service the overall story too. So yeah, overall good.

Extra Segment, Is it worth it?: Why this segment? Because I played this game on the HARDEST difficulty after being bullied to do so. Now I wish to truly show my thoughts on Proud difficulty. Is it worth playing? No, not really. Like, it's not THAT hard. But not really worth it either. Just play it if normal difficulty is too easy for you. So yeah, no, I don't think it's worth it. I'll probably play on normal mode if I go back to it again. That way I can relax and not die over and over again. Don't get me wrong though I did nearly everything in this game on hardest difficulty. Only didn't do the synthesis and Gummi missions.

Final Thoughts: Kingdom Hearts 1 is a whimsical game that is easy to see how it became such a big thing that Sora being in Smash was the most requested character ever. It's fun and actiony and has a little something for everyone. I don't have much left to add except yeah, if ANY of these things intrigue you, go give it a shot. The game is dirt cheap nowadays.

[outoftheirdifferences]

👑 + Scrooge from 2017 DuckTales?

SEND ME 👑 + A CHARACTER NAME OF A CHARACTER YOU THINK I SHOULD WRITE ! 

I’LL REPLY WITH 

WOULD I:YES / MAYBE / NO

HAVE I EVER BEFORE: YES / NO (except for a single post for a previous meme!)

ICON & WRITING SAMPLE (IF YES TO EITHER PREV. QUESTION):

(Well, I... wouldn't be opposed to trying him somewhere, he's a very fun character for sure (and, as a newbie to the duck fandom, the definitive Scrooge voice in my mind!). That said, as I found out when I first started writing Webby, my lack of knowledge of his comics backstory can definitely be a bit of a hindrance when RPing against characters who have all these questions about his past that I can't answer xDD; So I'd be more inclined to write him for just a one-off thread here or there than as a regular muse. I also don't know that I'd be great at replicating his very unique alliterative turns of phrase!

Also don't mind me reusing a post I made for him when someone suggested him for a try meme on my old blog! Updated slightly since I now have context of the rest of the series, but still set in season 1.)

“Och, kids.”

There was a distinct fondness in the elder duck’s tone as he watched the triplets and Webby scamper up the darkened staircase. Another hard day’s adventuring had left the four of them practically asleep on their feet as they returned to the manor; but, like true daring explorers, they’d pressed on, kept up with him, and the five of them together had brought back another ancient treasure to crown his money bin.

But for once Scrooge’s mind wasn’t on the treasure, not right now; it was on the four youngsters: his family. Adventure was in their blood; Dewey the daredevil, Louie the treasure-seeker, Huey the organised leader… and of course, Webby, the girl who reminded him so much of…

A weary frown crossed the duck’s beak for a moment, and he left that thought unfinished.

He was proud, so proud of them all. He could imagine them upstairs, chattering excitedly about their individual escapades as they got ready for bed… each one of them had done so well today. Oh, for sure, they still each had their own long ways yet to go... but they were as fine a crew of young adventurers as he could ever hope to be related to. And if they were a little tired after such a full day…

Well, they weren’t the only ones.

Scrooge’s old bones pained him now, as he followed his great-nephews’ footsteps upstairs; a sure sign that he was feeling the strain of the day. In the heat of the moment, he felt spry as a duck half his age; but once the adrenaline wore off, his age started creeping back up on him, always there to remind him that he wasn’t as young as he once had been.

Donald would say he was being foolish; just trying to relive his glory days… the thought rose unbidden as Scrooge paused outside his nephew’s room. From within, he could hear the younger duck’s quacking snores, a familiar and curiously comforting sound, and for a moment - just one moment - Scrooge wondered if maybe Donald wasn’t right about that.

With a murmured “harumph”, he marched straight on past, not allowing that thought the time of night.

He was Scrooge McDuck; tougher than the toughies and smarter than the smarties. He knew his limits, and he also knew he had a long way still to go before he reached them: no-one else got to tell this Scottish swashbuckler that he was too old for the thing he loved.

[masterflight8058]

This is so ridiculous that I hate even responding to it, and I know that I have a better chance of convincing a whale to prowl the Serengeti than for the poster to actually read my response with a half way open mind, but for the possibility of just one person reading this and taking it to heart I will sacrifice my time.

First things first, Donald Trump has said again and again that he is not going to touch abortion, this issue deserves to be a state issue and most states have law on the books that provides for abortion. Any claims beyond this are flat lies.

Numerous things are presented here and I want to address them individually. First I’ve been there, we thought my wife was pregnant for a while early in our marriage, a time when neither of us felt ready or wanting to go that direction that early in our marriage. We never considered any option besides keeping the child. Very, very briefly (minutes) I considered the “what if” of if we blessed another couple who could not have kids of their own. There are so many options out there for situations like this. However it is exceptionally selfish to prioritize your comfort or convenience over another life (or even the possibility of another life).

Every single state without exception has verbiage allowing full on abortion if the life of the mother is compromised. Look it up I challenge you. Beyond that every doctor promises a standard such as the Hippocratic oath, to do no harm. Knowingly allowing a patient to die like this is at minimum medical malpractice and has nothing to do with abortion law. This lie while emotionally tugging is so very blatantly a lie that it is absurd that it is still being pushed.

I would love to see an example of the legal statute that gives any male coach any excuse to “strip off her pants and peep at her genitals.” Then the poster brings up trans issues, I have no idea why that’s here, I cannot find any way to link that to this discussion. No coach should EVER be alone in a private location with ANY child under their leadership, it’s never good or appropriate. I won’t even go into the suicide statistics for situations like this, they are no where near as bad as the poster claims.

The poster claims as many as hundreds of thousands of people are going to die as a result of this, beyond that being ridiculous and an insult to any reader’s intelligence by even presenting such an absurd number; over a hundred million abortions have taken place since 1973, that is a known number.

Lastly as I stated this is all moot as Trump is not going to touch federal abortion law, and they are already legal in most states with many more laws passed in yesterday’s elections. I will say I am proud of all the lives that will be undoubtedly saved by my vote for Donald J Trump, a reduction in armed conflict, a safer country due to improved border security, and for so many other reasons.

To the men who voted for Donald Trump today:

When your girlfriend gets pregnant, and you’re not ready to become a father, and you’re forced into a position that cripples you emotionally, financially and irreversibly, remember: you did this.

When your sister’s pregnancy turns out to be ectopic, and she can’t get the life-saving medical care she needs and dies a completely pointless, preventable death, remember: you did this.

When your 12-year-old daughter is raped by her soccer coach — after he’s legally allowed to strip off her pants and peep at her genitals, because the existence of trans kids terrifies you — and she steals your shotgun and kills herself in your garage, remember, first and foremost: you did this.

Hundreds of thousands of people are going to die because of the decision you made today.

You did that.