#recreating my old twitter poll

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Tumblr Wrapped 2024:

But specifically just the things that I remember seeing a lot of on my dash and remembered to note down

December 2023:

galve goat destroyed by being eaten by birds

frozen bug man asking to borrow an outlet is a potentially fraudulent misogynist

January 2024:

Chicago rat hole

King Charles gets cancer

hellsitegenetics

February 2024:

1 day blinding stew

Car covered with hammers that explodes repeatedly (pregesterone gets her blog nuked and the tumblr CEO looses it)

Fairy vs. Walrus debate.

Terrible AI Willy Wonka experience in Glasgow featuring the Unknown.

Tumblr officially announces that they have a deal to train AI off of tumblr.

March 2024

Princess Kate weird photoshopped picture makes people speculate that she’s dead

Challenge to beat every single level in Super Mario Maker 1 reaches a crunch point due to Nintendo shutting the servers down in April

April 2024

Whatever the heck is going on with Boeing’s planes all falling apart and also their whistleblower dying under somewhat suspicious circumstances

Boop (April fools)

Francis Scott Key bridge in Baltimore got hit by a boat)

Visitpilled friendmaxxer

Pro Palestine divestment encampments and protests at universities across the US. Notably violent at Columbia university.

Bee guy saves the baseball game!

May 2024

- white people rap discourse

June 2024

general trump getting elected fear and posts telling everyone to fuckung vote for Biden because trump is only going to be worse, combined with GB election fears

Toyota Hilux

the presidential debate 🙃

July 2024

the French 👏go👏to👏the👏polls👏

Trump gets shot at a rally (only in the ear sadly)

CrowdStrike lives up to their name and strikes out a large crowd of Windows computers.

Biden drops out of the presidential race, citing old age.

JD Vance Couchfucking saga

I’m not calling you “good boy” ____, you ____!

Special section: Olympics!

Conservative Christians in the USA boycotting watching it because the opening ceremony had a recreation of the last supper/some dyanasious painting with drag

The USA men’s gymnast who only does one event and spends the rest of his time chilling and doing rubix cubes before stepping up, taking off his glasses, and absolutely destroying in the pommel horse

The Norwegian swimmer hoarding all the choccy muffins.

The shooting finals including the person who stands like a Jojo character, the woman who’s stanced and was giving people bi panic, and the 52 year old divorced dad in a t-shirt that won second.

The bus taking the skateboarders to their competition broke down so they all just skateboarded there instead

Imane Khelif, a cis woman boxer, is accused of being trans by JK Rowling because she looks too masculine

Breakdance will not return as an Olympic event because Australia was really bad at it.

August 2024

Colorado puppy adoption event rabies risk

Animation union yaoi

The triangle maker meme

Gravity falls trends due to book of bill release. Mostly with old man and triangle yaoi and jokes about how Ford doesn’t know about 9/11

World hatsune mikus

September 2024

Twitter gets banned in Brazil

First presidential debate: They’re doing transgender surgeries on illegal aliens who are in prison

Another trump assassination attempt but no one really cares than much about it

Moo Deng the baby hippo

Nefarious anglerfish meme evolves into the humble ____ meme

October 2024

people flipping the Wednesday doll’s hair back so they look bald

Why is this ____ serving Saddam Hussein hiding spot

Hawk tuah

Boop round 2 spooky edition

November 2024

US elections.

Dread immedietly following the us elections, including lots of people posting suicide hotlines.

The what is the most fuckable Tetris piece poll

The Onion buys InfoWars.

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I do (ironically) love it when people make posts about how little fucks they give about tumblr changes, and making a point to ridicule the people who were, in fact, upset by those changes. Very cool. :)

And now seriously?

UI change is not the worst thing on earth, and often can actually improve the quality of life and make the place better.

While yes, the tumblr user base does not typically receives change happily (unless it's good, polls, am i right?) to say that this is all about the users being 'bitchy' or 'silly' is a gross understatement of what upsets people in reality and is pretty damn rude.

I will not go down to every single point of why it's bad, but I'll bring forth a few points nevertheless.

Releasing a massive UI change while there's still active and major bugs and issues in the main functionality of your platform is not only bad towards a loyal user base that is used to a certain way of things, it's also unprofessional, incompetent, and quote frankly—stupid.

Here is an example of main tumblr functionality, the post editor on web. As a website that is heavily reliant on text posts, and the ability of users to be able to write quality posts, the fact that as of today, the text editor is heavily bugged, is truly a thing to be astonished by.

Especially considering the fact that some users (namely me) made a point of sending them a proper documentation of the bug, along with full descriptions and even a screen recording for an easy recreation of the issue on their side.

Following image was submitted with my feedback months ago:

In case you were wondering what response did I get—well— TL:TR they say that there's an issue, and IF they find the issue, they will fix it :)

So now with this in mind, and many other bugs like this still present, since April they could not have fixed the post editor— but they could add numerous and absolutely pointless UI changes, right?

Now taking it a step further, let's address the UI changes, why not?

The changes they're rolling out are clearly unpolished, unfinished and untested. The audacity to force hardly-working versions onto people without any sort of consent as is customary in such an unpolished version of a product is something that I have no other words for other than absolutely shameless.

Even look at the Chat UI change, the text is smaller, the windows cover other parts of the dashboard, the Chat visually changes from section to section of the website (for instance it's new on main, it's old on support page) and again, endless amount of other bugs.

What's worse? And I will not go into depth about this particular topic as not so many people are from 10+ years ago still here, but just in short: The loss of identity that tumblr had prided itself for so long with. We are not like other social media, right? Or well, so we thought. As it seems like tumblr is adamant to change and curate for new users that will, frankly, leave the moment their social media gets fixed. Some will stay, and they are warmly welcome to, however most will leave just as they did last time twitter had a crisis.

P.S You have to appreciate the irony of tumblr making money out of making fun of twitter, and the user base supporting it because that's the sort of UI changes we do enjoy— only for tumblr to copy paste twitter some months after :)

But yes, why not, call everyone a crybaby, since siding with a staff that simply does not listen to its user base or cares about fixing current and relevant bugs—is the way to go!

P.S2 it's absolutely fine if you're unbothered by the change or simply don't care. Ain't nothing wrong with having some good proportion on things. However please don't embarrass yourself by making fun of the people who actively care and worry about how this place operates and what sort of platform we'll be engaging in the future.

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random question (its about the jon kent art you reblogged)...who/what exactly is bendis??? im more versed in the batfamily and only really know on a surface level of superfamily members, would you mind explaining that to me? or giving me a link to read about them on? thank you!!

sorry this took a bit to answer - I was in the middle of a practice session (circular breathing is hard)

but anyways, Brian Michael Bendis is a comic book writer. (Here’s his Wikipedia page!) He helped create Miles Morales, which is awesome, but his DC work is, well, not great (in my opinion). 

see, the thing is, Bendis was the one responsible for aging up Jon Kent. He changed Jon from a 10 year old kid to 17 years old in the span of three weeks - aka Jon ages seven-ish years while everyone else ages 21-ish days due to a bunch of comic book science that just borders on not making any sense, but hey, Cyborg used a Motherbox to hack the freaking multiverse once so it’s not the wackiest thing that’s happened.

and he did it all so he could put Jon in the Legion of Superheroes since he is now a young adult instead of a ten-year-old kid and can therefore now be trusted with his own decisions. I mean, I understand that he probably wanted to recreate the original entrance of the Legion but with Jon instead of Clark,,, but why. he ruined a perfectly good childhood and is it too much to ask to let the sunshine child actually be a sunshine child for once? (here’s a pretty helpful article that looks into that whole Legion of Superheroes thing a bit!)

besides, he’s gotten quite a bit of flak from the fans for it. I remember a twitter discourse (cannot find the tweets or the tumblr post I saw it on, sorry!) where someone said something along the lines of “why can’t he just be a normal fourth grader and do normal things like chores”, etc etc. and Bendis’ response was something like “[insert some bullshit about Legion of Superheroes here] and you can always do the chores here if you like them so much!”

which, what. it’s not like the entire comic book industry is centered around what the fans like or anything, right? Jason Todd only died because they held a poll for whether or not he should die and 72 more people voted for him to die so he died.

in conclusion: I do not like Brian Michael Bendis and Miles Morales’ creation is the only reason why I do not actively hate on him every single moment of my life.

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BUZZFEED NEWS

For 20 minutes on Sunday night, inside the Lied Recreation Athletic Center at Iowa State University, activity comes to a sudden halt. Students on the rock wall glance across the room, suspended in midair. A pickup game stops. And from the lobby, a crowd forms to watch as Bernie Sanders walks past a line of ping-pong tables.

“I used to play ping-pong and basketball,” he says. “I had a life! Now look.”

On Day 3 of a nine-state swing to campaign for Democrats across the country, Sanders is here to play H-O-R-S-E with two local candidates, J.D. Scholten and Deidre DeJear — except tonight the letters are V-O-T-E. Scholten, a former professional baseball player who is running against Rep. Steve King in the state’s 4th District, quickly dispatches with his opponents, but Sanders hangs around the court for a while, putting up shots on the right-side corner. One goes in. Then another. And another. “See,” says DeJear, Iowa’s Democratic candidate for secretary of state, “you just needed to warm up.”

Sanders, with genuine frustration, remarks that he’s not the player he used to be, then heads for the exit. A white Ford Transit van is waiting outside the athletic center to take him to the airport, where he and his staff will fly to Wisconsin — the next stop on a 2018 tour that has already taken him through Indiana, Michigan, South Carolina, and Iowa.

“BERNIE!” a young man calls after him as he leaves. “Are you tired yet?”

The senator shouts back without stopping: “No! I’m just waking up.”

By now, Sanders is used to questions about his age and a new generation of leaders in line to take control of the Democratic Party. (“I’m very blessed with my health,” he tellsPolitico.) But he and his team of advisers view this week’s tour across the country — with the crowds and their response — as proof it’s time to ramp up, not scale down.

His trip to campaign on behalf of Democratic candidates is scheduled much like a presidential campaign swing — with long hours and late nights, big rallies, small meetings with local activists and union workers, unscheduled stops along the way, a team of advance staffers ready to greet him in every state. For the former presidential candidate, who ran against Hillary Clinton until the final primary in June 2016, it’s a show of the kind of nationwide infrastructure and enthusiasm that few other potential Democratic presidential contenders could rival at this early stage of the 2020 race.

At 77, Bernie Sanders might say he’s old, but he will never tell you he’s tired.

On the tour, built to drive Democratic turnout in college towns and liberal pockets of red states like Iowa and Arizona, Sanders is greeted as part celebrity, part familiar face. “You’ve always been there for us,” a laid-off worker tells him at one of his first events in Bloomington, Indiana. “You’re like me. You don’t give a shit what people think about you.”

Earlier in the day, after a rally with Liz Watson, a Democrat running in Indiana’s 9th District, he leads supporters to an early-voting polling place about 15 minutes away. The 0.6-mile walk down East 7th Street, near Indiana University, is instant chaos. A police siren wails. Students sprint over from the rally, cheering and chanting. A walking jazz band appears and follows along. When the senator passes one young woman, she begins to cry. Students dart in and out of the thickening crowd, running up the road to catch up to Sanders, narrowly avoiding parking meters and signposts. When they make it to the Monroe County election office, a line to vote is already forming down the block.

From there, Sanders continues on to two more events in Bloomington before flying to Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he speaks to two overflow crowds and a full auditorium. Late that night, he lands in South Carolina. The next morning, when his top adviser, Jeff Weaver, appears on CNN to talk up the tour, the segment ends with a graphic on the screen: Age on inauguration day in 2021, it reads, with photos of Donald Trump (74), Joe Biden (78), and Bernie Sanders (79). “Has his moment passed?” the host asks.

Weaver is ready with his reply. “It’s not age, but it’s vitality. You should talk to your own CNN reporter and other reporters who were trying to keep up with him as he led hundreds of people to the polls...They were all huffing and puffing, and he was doing great.”

On the road, Sanders is obsessive about how many people are following his tour via Facebook and Twitter. Of the staff he’s brought along with him, nearly half are dedicated to video and social media. At every stop, they chase after him with a camera. Everything is filmed and livestreamed and tweeted. As soon as Sanders gets in the van, or on the plane, the first question for his staff is always the same: “So, what are the numbers?”

He doesn’t just want to know that 3,000 people attended his rally in Bloomington. He wants to see how many likes are on the Facebook post about the rally. He wants to know how many people they are reaching — by the hour. He wants to hear which videos are performing well, and about which issues. His aide will usually show him on a laptop, which Sanders reads by holding the machine in the air, screen close to his face. He is very aware that a Social Security event at a public library in Indiana may draw a crowd of 200 people in the room — but that 200,000 people are following along online.

Aides estimate that Sanders is reaching 5 to 6 million people per day on this tour.

For the senator, those numbers are not only a measure of enthusiasm. They are “accomplishments,” he says during an interview between stops in Iowa. “So if you’re gonna ask me about some of my proudest accomplishments in the last two years — we have done three town meetings that I’ve gotten between a million and 2 million viewers. The ability to talk about our issues, directly to people, is extraordinary.”

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via Politics – FiveThirtyEight

More than half of the Democratic field crowded into San Francisco this past weekend for the California Democratic Convention, where they tried to stand out in the crowded primary as the clock ticks away for the candidates to qualify for the first debates.

And with less than a week for candidates to hit the threshold to make the debate stage, the Democratic National Committee announced a rule change which leaves Montana Gov. Steve Bullock on the outside looking in. Bullock had qualified for the first debates, in Miami at the end of June, based on polling, but the DNC said on Thursday that two ABC News/Washington Post polls — one of which had put Bullock over the top — would no longer be counted. As of Thursday afternoon, that left 20 candidates who had met thresholds via polling and/or fundraising.

Meanwhile, the mass shooting in Virginia Beach last week brought the issue of gun violence to the fore, and former Vice President Joe Biden seemingly set himself apart from the rest of the crowd when he said he supported the Hyde amendment, which blocks federal funding of abortions. On Thursday, however, he appeared to reverse that position.

Here’s the weekly candidate roundup:

May 31-June 6, 2019

Michael Bennet (D)

Bennet met the polling criteria to participate in the first Democratic debate scheduled to take place later this month in Miami. He garnered 1 percent in a national CNN poll on Tuesday, which is the third qualifying poll he has reached 1 percent in.

In the aftermath of the deadly mass shooting in Virginia Beach, Bennet told ABC News Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos on “This Week” that, “I think the president can make a difference. The House of Representatives has passed background checks to close the internet loophole. This person bought the guns lawfully as we know. Every single fact pattern will be different. We should pass those background checks — 90 percent of Americans support it.”

The Colorado senator spent the weekend campaigning in South Carolina while many of his fellow 2020 rivals were at the California Democratic Convention.

Joe Biden (D)

Biden broke from the other 2020 candidate when his campaign announced that he supports the Hyde Amendment, but he would be open to repealing it. Then, on Thursday, he said that he no longer supported the policy. “I’ve been working through the final details of my health care plan like others in this race and I’ve been struggling with the problems that Hyde now presents,” he said.

The Hyde Amendment was first passed in 1976, three years after the landmark Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade. It encoded abortion as a protected right, but stipulating that federal funding could not be used to pay for abortions. A few years later, Congress made an exemption for cases in which there was a threat to the patient’s life. An exemption for cases of rape or incest was added in the early 1990s. The law largely affects patients who are on Medicaid, meaning low-income patients have to pay for an abortion out-of-pocket. Many of the other candidates responded by calling for the repeal of the Hyde Amendment.

Biden also released a $5 trillion climate plan which calls for net zero emission of carbon pollution in the U.S. by 2050. The plan includes $1.7 trillion in federal spending over 10 years; the rest of the spending would come from the private sector.

Cory Booker (D)

The New Jersey senator unveiled a plan to make housing more affordable by offering a tax credit to people who spend more than 30 percent of their income on rent. According to researchers at Columbia University, the refundable renters’ credit would benefit more than 57 million people — including 17 million children — and lift 9.4 million Americans out of poverty.

Booker’s housing plan also includes measures to expand access to legal counsel for tenants facing eviction, reform restrictive zoning laws, build more affordable housing units and combat homelessness through funding grants.

At the California Democratic Convention over the weekend, Booker also addressed the issue of gun violence.

“We are seeing the normalization of mass murder in our country,” Booker said. “It is time that we come together and stand together and take the fight to the NRA and the corporate gun lobby like we have never seen before. We can lead that fight and we can win.”

Steve Bullock (D)

On Wednesday, Bullock announced the first official policy of his presidential campaign, designed to keep foreign money out of U.S. elections. His “Check the Box” proposal would require all 501(c)(4) groups that aren’t required to disclose any of their donors and Super PACs to “check a box” saying that they are not taking money from foreign actors. Lying “will carry the penalty of perjury,” according to Bullock’s policy.

In a Des Moines Register op-ed, the Montana governor wrote, “Trump’s dark money loophole is telling these secretive groups that they don’t even have to disclose the source of their funding to the IRS. It opens the door not only to significantly more spending by corporations and wealthy donors, but also to potential spending by foreign entities.”

Pete Buttigieg (D)

During a MSNBC Town Hall on Monday, Buttigieg said he “would not have applied that pressure” for Sen. Al Franken to have resigned in 2017 over sexual harassment allegations, without first learning more about the claims.

“I think it was his decision to make” the South Bend, Indiana, mayor said. “But I think the way that we basically held him to a higher standard than the GOP does their people has been used against us.”

At the California Democratic Convention, Buttigieg leaned into his position as a Washington outsider and said the country needs “something completely different.”

“Why not a middle-class millennial mayor with a track record in the industrial Midwest? Why not a mayor at a time when we need Washington to look more like our best run cities and towns, not the other way around? And why not someone who represents a new generation of leadership?” the 37-year-old mayor said.

Julian Castro (D)

The former Housing and Urban Development secretary unveiled a sweeping police reform plan Monday, aiming to prevent officer-involved shootings, increase transparency and end “police militarization.”

“Even though we have some great police officers out there, and I know that because I served as mayor of San Antonio, this is not a case of just a few bad apples,” Castro said on CNN. “The system is broken.”

Included in the proposal are restrictions on the use of deadly force, the increased adoption of technology such as body cameras, an end to stop-and-frisk tactics and expanded bias training.

Bill de Blasio (D)

De Blasio earned his first union endorsement since launching his presidential campaign. The New York Hotel and Motel Trades Council announced their support on Wednesday and even said they would campaign for the New York City mayor in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina.

John Delaney (D)

Delaney criticized the DNC guidelines which include a 65,000 donor threshold as one criteria to qualify for the presidential debates. He argued that the criteria leaves voters excluded from the process.

“I don’t think we should have a donor standard, I absolutely don’t think the Democratic Party should be about money. Fifty percent of the American people can’t afford basic necessities, I’m running for those people,” he said on MSNBC.

On health care, the former congressman from Maryland was aggressively booed at the California Democratic Convention for denouncing Medicare for all as “bad policy.” His proposed health care plan would keep private insurance as an option.Jeff Chiu/AP

After New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez slammed Delaney’s health care plan over Twitter, urging the candidate to “sashay away,” Delaney responded by asking her to a debate, but Ocasio-Cortez declined.

“I think that’s too bad because I think health care is the most important issue facing the American people and she obviously has an issue with my plan, based on that she tweeted that thing at me, and I would have loved to debate it because I think these things should be a battle of ideas,” Delaney said in a phone interview with ABC News.

Tulsi Gabbard (D)

The Hawaii congresswoman reacted to the House passing the “DREAM and Promise Act” which would protect young undocumented immigrants and immigrants with temporary status who were once covered by the Obama-era DACA program. She said on Fox News, “The hyper-partisanship around this issue has gotten in the way of delivering a real solution. This legislation and finding a solution for these Dreamers is something that has had bipartisan support.”

Kirsten Gillibrand (D)

Gillibrand released a plan to legalize marijuana, which called for expunging all non-violent marijuana convictions. Gillibrand said that under her plan, tax revenue from recreational marijuana would be put “towards programs that help repair the damage done by the War on Drugs.”

The New York senator also participated in a town hall on Fox News, where she attacked the network for its coverage of abortion. Gillibrand was asked about her position on “late-term abortion” and she began her response by reiterating her stand that “when it comes to women’s reproductive freedom, it should be a woman’s decision.” She then criticized Fox News for creating “a false narrative” on the issue.

Gillibrand was cut off by moderator, Fox News anchor Chris Wallace, who said, “Senator, I just want to say we’ve brought you here for an hour.”

Wallace continued, “We have treated you very fairly. I understand that, maybe, to make your credentials with the Democrats who are not appearing on Fox News, you want to attack us. I’m not sure it’s frankly very polite when we’ve invited you to be here.”

Gillibrand said that she would “do it in a polite way,” but she was interrupted by Wallace again who said “instead of talking about Fox News, why don’t you answer Susan’s question?” referring to the question asked by the member of the audience.

Still, Gillibrand attacked the network for their use of the word “infanticide,” calling it “illegal” and “not a fact.” She added, “I believe all of us have a responsibility to talk about the facts.”

Kamala Harris (D)

Harris was rushed off the stage Saturday while speaking at the MoveOn #BigIdeas forum in San Francisco after an activist rushed at her and grabbed the microphone out of her hand. Harris returned to the stage, about a minute later, to chants of “Ka-ma-la” from the audience.

An animal activist group claimed responsibility for the man rushing the stage. He was identified by the group as Aidan Cook. The group’s spokesperson, Matt Johnson, told ABC News that Cook was not detained or arrested; he was simply kicked out.

John Hickenlooper (D)

The former Colorado governor has struggled to gain traction so far. He faced a disruptive crowd at the California Democratic Convention when he said, “If we want to beat Donald Trump and achieve big progressive goals, socialism is not the answer.”

The crowd of Democratic activists responded to his message with a chorus of boos and a massive display of waving “Bernie” signs.

Hickenlooper responded to the boos by saying, “You know, if we are not careful we are going to help re-elect the worst president in American history.”

Jay Inslee (D)

The Washington governor has been pushing hard for the DNC to dedicate one of its presidential primary debates to the topic of climate change. DNC spokeswoman, Xochitl Hinojosa, responded in a statement saying, “the DNC will not be holding entire debates on a single issue area because we want to make sure voters have the ability to hear from candidates on dozens of issues of importance to American voters.”

Inslee called the DNC’s decision to not host a climate debate “deeply disappointing.”

“The DNC is silencing the voices of Democratic activists, many of our progressive partner organizations, and nearly half of the Democratic presidential field, who want to debate the existential crisis of our time. Democratic voters say that climate change is their top issue; the Democratic National Committee must listen to the grassroots of the party,” Inslee’s campaign said in a press release.

Amy Klobuchar (D)

Klobuchar secured her first Iowa endorsement from State Rep. Ruth Ann Gaines. Gaines said she’s endorsing Klobuchar because of the senator’s “commitment to addressing and prioritizing mental health.”

Seth Moulton (D)

Moulton said in a CNN town hall that if elected, he would seek to change current Department of Justice guidelines which prevent a sitting president from being indicted. The comment came after former special counsel Robert Mueller said that a “longstanding” department policy prevents a sitting president from being charged with a federal crime.

Beto O’Rourke (D)

O’Rourke released a voting rights plan which called for term limits for members of Congress and for Supreme Court justices. O’Rourke is calling for members of the House and Senate to serve for no more than 12 years, and for justices to be capped at one 18-year term. O’Rourke said that after a justice completes their term, they would be permitted to serve on the federal courts of appeals.

The former Texas congressman’s plan also includes measures to increase voter participation, including by making Election Day a federal holiday and by allowing automatic and same-day voter registration.

Tim Ryan (D)

Ryan flipped his position on impeachment, this week, saying he believes Congress has to begin impeachment proceedings against President Trump. The Ohio congressman made his announcement during a CNN town hall, saying that Mueller’s statement last week made him support impeachment.

Bernie Sanders (D)

Sanders spoke at Walmart’s annual shareholders’ meeting on Wednesday, directly criticizing the company for paying its employees low wages and lobbying for a resolution that would give hourly workers representation on the company’s board of directors.

As many Democratic candidates spoke out on abortion rights this week, comments by Sanders in 1972 — prior to the Roe v. Wade decision — resurfaced via Newsweek. He told a Vermont newspaper at the time that it struck him as “incredible” that the male-dominated state legislature, and politicians in general, “think that they have the right to tell a woman what she can or cannot do with her body.”

This weekend, Sanders visits Iowa to speak at the Capital City Pride Candidate Forum in Des Moines, he will march with McDonald’s workers who are seeking higher wages and attend the Iowa Democratic Party Hall of Fame Celebration in Cedar Rapids, among several other events.

Eric Swalwell (D)

Swalwell talked about his assault weapon ban and buyback plan on ABC’s “The View.” He said that he’s the only candidate calling to “ban and buy back every single assault weapon in America.”

The California congressman also left the door open to drop out of the presidential race and run for re-election for his House seat. Swalwell said he is open to running for a fifth term in Congress, but said he wouldn’t make that decision until December.

Elizabeth Warren (D)

Warren announced on Thursday that her campaign staff has unionized.

“My campaign has submitted their support to join IBEW 2320,” Warren tweeted. Her campaign joins a growing number of others that are showing support for unions and unionizing themselves. The Sanders and Castro campaigns have also unionized and the Swalwell campaign had previously said they were unionizing.

Andrew Yang (D)

During Pride Month, Yang tied his signature universal basic income proposal to the LGBTQ community, noting in a BuzzFeed interview that he’s heard from many people who say they’ve been kicked out of housing and fired from jobs over their sexual orientation. He said it is his plan to give all American adults $1,000 per month, which could help them “adjust if they’re economically singled out.”

Yang will be among the speakers at the Iowa Democratic Party Hall of Fame Celebration in Cedar Rapids on Sunday.

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oh my god may i introduce you to my favorite virginian gubernatorial candidate? meet Paul Davis https://ballotpedia.org/Paul_Davis_(Virginia), who has so far in every poll received "-" of the vote. His campaign has brought in $525, of which $260 was from one Patricia Davis (he has given Patricia Davis $897 somehow). One of his top campaign expenses is Chicho's Pizza. But that's not the good part!!! Enjoy some actual quotes from his ballotpedia page

(one of his "3 key messages") "No Tolls , We Roll . MEDICINAL ,RECREATIONAL MARIJUANA . NO TOLL FEES TRAVELING ACROSS VIRGINIA"

"I am running for Governor because my family has been defrauded by The Commonwealth of Virginia stealing our property. I have found the largest corruption case in my backyard where my private property was used in financial applications and taken use for public use without eminent domain. The constitution is in trouble when you find out thats happening to you. My mother is 80 years old and many of our neighbors that have been affected this type of corruption is what makes a descendant of John Adams decide to run for Governor. Your 2nd amemdmemt is being violated and I'm not turning and running I face forward"

(what is something that has been a struggle in your life) "Watching the constitution be violated that my Great Grandfather John Adam's 2nd President co author of The constitution wrote."

(what does the authority of governor mean to you) "It means that I would have capability and authority to place Commonwealth of Virginia back under The US and VA Constitution which it currently is not according to the FBI."

AND IT GETS BETTER ON HIS TWITTER

"TERRY MCAULIFFE YOUR CAREER DISPENSATION LIGHT JUST KICKED ON TERRY DONT BE SHY TELL EVERYONE YOU COMMITING FELONY CRIMES IN MY MOMS BACKYARD ACCORDING TO FBI :) ITS NOT GLENN YOUNGKIN YOU NEED TO WORRY ABOUT ITS CONSERVATIVE WRITE IN CANDIDATE PAUL DAVIS"

"Hey @/TerryMcAuliffe ask @/MarkHerringVA could his commonwealth atty get evidence in court against me lmao you both going to prison is how I become Governor of Virginia and it's going to be my pleasure to serve the commonwealth as Governor tell ya boy @/RalphNortham prison time :)"

so far none of the gubernatorial candidates have websites that look like they were designed by a teenager in 1997, which is sucking a lot of joy out of the process, but on the bright side one lady describes herself as a “spirit-initiated shaman” whose goals include “allocate new funding streams to assist people in micro-harvesting atmospheric dew”  and “pause any permits or approval to research being done to create non-gendered humans made in test-tubes with Ai capacities.” 

California, never change. 

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Cringe-Worthy And Hilarious Politician Meltdowns

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Cringe-Worthy And Hilarious Politician Meltdowns

Politicians are confronted with an excessive amount of stress every day. Some can deal with the warmth, some can’t. And people who can’t usually explode in a spectacular public show of emotion. These politicians’ meltdowns may have you laughing hysterically, or turning crimson with second-hand embarrassment.

A Cubs recreation virtually was a combating match between fan Brad Joseph and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. When Joseph acknowledge Christie at recreation, he proceeded to inform him that he sucks and is a hypocrite. When Christie had sufficient, he approached Joseph (nachos nonetheless in hand) and instructed him to “have one other beer.” At first, Joseph laughed, pondering the governor was joking round, however then he rapidly realized how tense Christie was as he acquired inches away from Joseph’s face. Christie started to antagonize Joseph, calling him a “robust man” and “huge shot” and bumped Joseph’s knee aggressively together with his leg. When he lastly walked away, Joseph thanked the governor snidely for his opinion.

Politician Greg Pianoforte, who’s planning to run for Congress in 2017, apparently doesn’t like to speak concerning the GOP healthcare invoice. At an occasion, with quite a few TV crews current, Pianoforte physique slammed a Guardian reporter Ben Jacobs when he requested Pianoforte concerning the invoice, shouting that he “was sick and bored with you guys” and that Jacobs ought to “get the hell out” of there. Jacobs didn’t undergo any accidents from the unusual assault, however his glasses did get damaged. The entire thing was recorded on audio, and Pianoforte was charged with misdemeanor assault.

It’s secure to imagine that when you’re a politician and you’re caught on tape threatening to “take out” a journalist if he reveals a few of your secrets and techniques, your profession will most likely quickly be over. Tea Get together candidate for Governor Carl Paladino made such a menace to New York Submit Editor Fred Dicker. Dicker approached Paladino about whether or not he had any proof to again his claims that his challenger Andrew Cuomo had cheated on his spouse. Paladino then snapped at Dicker, who’d beforehand taken images of Paladino’s 10-year-old daughter, who he conceived with a mistress. He instructed Dicker, “You ship one other goon to my daughter’s home and I’ll take you out, buddy.” When requested how he’d do this, Paladino solely replied, “Watch.” The whole factor was caught on video and Paladino’s profession quickly went down in flames.

Whereas making an attempt to rally his supporters for upcoming polls, Presidential candidate Howard Dean made a sound that might be burned into the brains of the American individuals…and a sound that price him the election. He began itemizing off the entire states he was going to win, and his tone acquired louder and a bit crazier with every state. After he mentioned he’d win Washington D.C., he adopted it with a loud, wordless scream. A scream that was caught by quite a few information sources, and can be replayed and mocked over and over. Dean’s probabilities instantly diminished, and he as a substitute turned a laughing inventory.

Whereas explaining why he believed abortion needs to be unlawful, former Missouri Congressman Todd Akin angered lots of people with the horribly inaccurate assertion that, “If it’s respectable rape, the feminine physique has methods to attempt to shut the entire thing down.” He was operating for Senate on the time, and people phrases led to him dropping 20 factors within the polls. He then tried to redeem himself just a few years afterward MSNBC, claiming that “respectable rape” is an abbreviation utilized in regulation enforcement for ‘respectable case of rape”, which in keeping with Akin, which is when “A girl calls a police station, the police examine, she says ‘I’ve been raped,’ they examine that. So earlier than any of the info are in, they name it a respectable case of rape.” The one snafu on this assertion is that regulation enforcement officers with a few years of expertise have publicly declared that they’ve by no means heard of such a time period.

Issues acquired a bit heated on the Home Chamber Ground in 2014 between Home Minority Chief Nancy Pelosi and Consultant Tom Marino when he was on the mic discussing the border funding invoice. Marino was criticizing the Democrats’ lack of motion on the invoice, Pelosi’s particularly. Pelosi turned infuriated and acquired up throughout his feedback, approached Marino, difficult him. When Marino stayed agency, an enraged Pelosi charged at him additional, her finger waving. She continued to angrily and relentlessly comply with and argue with him as he left the rostrum and walked down the Republican aisle. Different Republicans needed to get between the 2 to cease the argument, and ultimately Pelosi was pressured to return to the Democratic aspect.

In case you are a political determine, it’s not precisely a good suggestion to ship out photos of your genitalia over the web. Somebody ought to have most likely relayed this important data to former Congressman Anthony Weiner. A girl in Seattle revealed that Weiner had despatched her an image of his, properly, , by way of Twitter. At first he claimed his account was hacked, however then quite a few different girls got here out and mentioned that he had been obsessively sexting them as properly. Weiner was pressured to resign, however tried to make a comeback two years later when he ran for New York Metropolis Mayor. Sadly for Weiner, his makes an attempt had been foiled when he as soon as once more was caught sexting a girl aside from his spouse, together with his son in his mattress beside him.

GOP candidate Phil Davison took operating for the place of Stark County, Ohio Treasurer very significantly. Throughout one assembly, Davison gave a speech through which he proceeded to get an increasing number of indignant and visually emotional, till he was mainly screaming on the viewers for an prolonged time period. He even felt the necessity to scream the phrases “I’ve a Grasp’s Diploma in Communications.” Viewers members had been fairly confused and uncomfortable, and lots of walked out earlier than Davison completed. His outburst did earn him some web fame, because the clip of his tirade went viral. He was even invited to look on the comedy present Tosh.zero to “redeem” himself throughout a mock skit of Meet the Press. The spotlight of that skit was when Tosh requested Davison how he was with kids, and his first response was, “Properly, I’m not a member of NAMBLA.”

It’s not unusual for politicians to lie or get tongue-tied when confronted about errors they’ve made. Japanese assemblyman Ryutaro Nonomura, nevertheless, broke down in tears. After allegations had been made that Nonomura used over $30,000 of presidency cash for private journey, he held a press convention to deal with them. As soon as on the rostrum, he started to have a significant meltdown. Unable to provide any receipts, he tried to elucidate himself, however then began crying uncontrollably, slamming his fists towards the desk, his phrases inaudible as he gasped for breaths in-between sobs. The video went viral and he resigned the next week. He was later charged with fraud.

Texas Consultant Sheila Jackson Lee has earned the title of “meanest” member of Congress. Her aides have relayed horror tales of working along with her, from being publicly referred to as “silly idiots” (and far worse names) to having cell telephones thrown at their heads. One incident that exposed how chilly she could possibly be came about at a city assembly through which Lee was giving a speech about healthcare. After the speech, a most cancers survivor began to ask a query to Lee, who was nonetheless standing on the podium. In the midst of the query, Lee all of a sudden picked up her cellphone and began speaking to somebody on the opposite finish. When somebody within the room accused Lee of being impolite, Lee shouted again “I’m not impolite!”

At one level Democratic Presidential nominee John Edwards was on prime of the world. Many even thought he can be Obama’s operating mate in 2008. However that each one ended when data leaked that John had been dishonest on his spouse, who was dying of most cancers, with a girl who was making a documentary about him. And if that wasn’t dangerous sufficient, he apparently had gotten his mistress pregnant. When his spouse came upon concerning the affair, she “collapsed in a ball” in an airport car parking zone, and her distressed state tore off her shirt. She instructed him to finish the affair, however he didn’t hear. His spouse ended up passing away not lengthy after. Edwards then confronted fees for misusing marketing campaign funds to cowl up his affair.

Senator George Allen was operating for re-election in 2006, and entertaining the concept of probably operating for president, when he made a racist remark that might price him any probability of profitable. Throughout one marketing campaign speech, Allen observed a Democratic volunteer from his opponant’s marketing campaign who was American-Indian. He pointed him out to the viewers and mentioned, “This fellow right here, over right here with the yellow shirt. Macaca or no matter his identify is. He’s with my opponent, he’s following us round in all places. So welcome, let’s give a welcome to Macaca right here. Welcome to America, and the actual world of Virginia.” (For many who have no idea, Macaca is a racial slur meaning “monkey.”)

Allen later claimed he made up the phrase and didn’t know what it meant. It’s fairly a coincidence although, that it’s generally utilized in Tunisia, and Allen’s mom is French Tunisian.

The response NY1 reporter Michael Scotto acquired after questioning New York Consultant Michael Grimm a few federal investigation into claims of marketing campaign finance fraud was positively not the one he’d anticipated. Evidently a sensitive topic, Grimm initially refused to reply. The reporter and cameras continued to prod, and eventually, Grimm responded by threatening to toss Scotto off of a balcony. After some backwards and forwards banter, he additionally acknowledged, “You’re not man sufficient. I’ll break you in half. Like a boy.” He quickly issued a public apology, however it was not the primary time he’d had an outburst like that. He’d beforehand acquired right into a verbal altercation with one other NY1 reporter, and there have been allegations in 1999 that he had threatened somebody with a gun in a Queens nightclub.

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford was caught on video having an alcohol and rage-infused rant throughout which he paced backwards and forwards, mumbling obscenities, after which threatened to homicide somebody, although it’s unclear who precisely he was speaking about. After the video surfaced on-line, Ford apologized, claiming that he was “extraordinarily, extraordinarily inebriated” through the video. His mom publicly defended Ford the next week, saying that he wanted to work on his weight and alcohol downside. Not lengthy after, police introduced they that had a video of the mayor smoking crack. Ford then admitted to smoking the substance, in addition to to having a ingesting downside.

In 2014, a video surfaced of Massachusetts Institute of Expertise economist Jonathan Gruber spilling some fairly huge secrets and techniques. Within the video, Gruber states that he helped “rip off” the federal authorities for $400 million a 12 months by shifting Medicare funds to cowl the uninsured. He defined how the Obama administration hid taxes on costly medical insurance coverage insurance policies by passing the prices to insurers, who then laid the monetary burden on to their clients. One other video then surfaced through which he mentioned the “stupidity of the American voter” made it vital for him and Democrats to cover Obamacare’s true prices from the general public. The loopy half was that these movies had been from speeches he had given, not non-public conferences.

Senate Minority Chief Harry Reid made his distaste for billionaires David and Charles Koch (higher referred to as the Koch brothers) very clear throughout one explicit Senate speech. In his notorious speech, he claimed the duo was attempting to purchase America. He began off by saying “For the final eight years, Charles and David Koch and their internal circle of billionaires have wielded immense affect inside our democracy.” He went on to say, “The Kochs and their darkish cash empire are flooding the airwaves with deceptive and false commercials.” These are simply two examples of the 27 occasions the Koch brothers names had been talked about throughout that speech.

A Democratic assemblyman who heckled actor-turned-governor Arnold Schwarzenegger acquired a veto letter with a particular hidden message inside. Throughout a neighborhood Democratic Get together fundraiser speech, San Francisco Assemblyman Tom Ammiano screamed out to Schwarzenegger, who was giving a speech, that he was a liar, amongst different issues. Within the subsequent months, Ammiano tried to go a invoice which might enable the Port of San Francisco monetary energy to remodel an previous shipyard into a brand new neighborhood. Schwarzenegger vetoed the invoice, and within the veto message, the primary letter of every sentence within the left-hand margin vertically spelled out one other message to Ammiano—the primary phrase starting with an ‘F’ and ending in ‘Ok,’ and the second phrase being Y-O-U. When requested concerning the secret message, Schwarzenegger responded with, “My goodness. What a coincidence.”

Final 12 months Britain’s Labour Get together discovered itself within the midst of an anti-Semitism disaster. In an try to uphold newly elected Labour MP Naz Shah, who had been accused of anti-Semitism, London’s former mayor Ken Livingstone was filmed defending Adolf Hitler. He was filmed claiming Hilter was a Zionist and a supporter of the Jewish homeland “earlier than he went mad and killed six million Jews.” Regardless of the backlash he acquired for this remark, Livingstone continued to debate it every time he was invited to talk on dwell broadcasts. He additionally sarcastically continued to say that all through all of his years related to the Labour Get together, he by no means got here throughout any situations of anti-Semitism.

When the late Rep. Jim Traficant tried to depart the room throughout a recess of a gathering about Traficant’s conviction on federal corruption fees, the Consultant confronted a slew of journalists who had been blocking the exit. Traficant responded to thier actions by saying, “Get out of my means or I’ll kick you within the crotch and offer you a hernia from right here to New Jersey.” Nobody moved. When he requested one partiular journalist who he was, and the journalist acknowledged that he was with NBC, Traficant responded by calling the community “Nincompoop Broadcasting Company,” and “If I had a gastric emission, it could destroy each digicam within the joint.” He then proceeded to enter the hallway and pose for photos with interns and junior congressional aides.

Sarah Palin isn’t any stranger to political backlash. Her controversial views and public picture have made her a straightforward goal for comedians and social commentators. However one incident, particularly, caught Sarah Palin amidst a slow-burning meltdown.

In 2008, Katie Couric interviewed the Governor of Alaska through which she requested her to call any choices by the U.S. Supreme Court docket that she disagreed with. Palin stuttered and spouted off a sequence of run-on sentences for greater than 5 minutes. The worst half? She couldn’t identify a single choice. The interview left viewers cringing as Palin was clearly struggling to piece coherent sentences collectively.