#trump is to blame

[useless-englandfacts]

oh someone at the guardian has lost the will to live

[bellaciao-ciao-ciao]

[jasondamien93]

👋💙✊

[communist-hatsunemiku]

damnnn that attempted trump assassination was bad but now its going to be extra impossible for anyone else. Whoever tf that was you extra fucked up by not getting the job done😑

[rodeodeparis]

trump winning mostly due to channeling the economic concerns of american voters into a better campaign (and probably also a few bomb threats) being blamed by hardline dems on arab/muslim/jewish voter treachery is pretty medieval europe coded i have to say

[rejectingrepublicans]

And the control tower was short staffed with not enough air traffic controllers. If that weren’t enough Elon asked Trump to get rid of the FAA chief because SpaceX had received a small fine. But it gets better. Charlie Kirk told Trump that he was nervous to fly with a black pilot. Trump took this as a smear of DEI and has been repeating it. Further still Trump blamed DEI hires, Biden, Obama, Pete Buttigieg, along with various offensive critiques.

I don’t know how often Charlie Kirk flies but according to the FAA 94% of pilots are white. I’m fairly certain Trump’s never flown commercial so you have a racist blaming non-existent black pilots and a racist President implying to the press that too many pilots were POC, women, disabled etc.

And then when asked if he was going to visit the site he said why, it’s water, do you want to see me go swimming.

Please give this traction. If you want to delete my commentary when sharing be my guest.

[never-quite-buried]

All I’m saying is maybe MAYBE if we had voted in Harris we would still be fighting her for things but they would be semi close to reasonable things. Not things like “please don’t annex greenland” or “please don’t mass deport immigrants from sanctuary cities” or “please dont take away no fault divorce”. Shit, if people had showed the fuck up WE COULD’VE SECURED THE HOUSE AND SENATE!

Do you get that? We could’ve had a relatively easy 4 years to actually build a coalition, to get candidates ready for 2026 and 2028 that could challenge our established congress. Public servants that work for us, not for corporations, with all the oversight and scrutiny of a YouTubers Discord mod’s unflinching eye. We could have done that with relative peace while petitioning for normalish things like school lunches and rollback of book bans and common sense gun legislation and stacking the court.

But now we are gonna be running interference for a million fucking shitshows all at once. Demoralization was step one, now we’re onto full destabilization and invasion.

Y’all had one job and it was to fucking vote.

[ahaura]

im sure its been said already but as the election draws near more and more liberals will come out of the woodwork to shame people with a conscience to give away their vote to the democrats for free. i'm already seeing posts saying "why aren't people more concerned about a trump presidency?" you want to know why? it's because people already know he's bad. everyone already knows what he is and what he's done and what he'll do. there's nothing to discuss. he's a racist despotic worm of a man. there's nothing else to say.

biden is currently president. the genocide is happening under his watch. he's the one funding isra*l and arming them; he's sidestepped congress more than once to give them weapons. by oct. 27, the biden administration already knew that "Israel was regularly bombing buildings without solid intelligence that they were legitimate military targets." the state department/biden have engaged in atrocity propaganda, cast doubt on the legitimacy of the death toll recorded by the gaza health ministry, and so on. the united states is currently in the process of trying to pin the "war in gaza" on netanyahu (see sen. schumer's speech) after months of backing blatant genocide as a means to act as if they're "doing something" about the genocide (Instead of, say, threatening to cut off all aid to israel with the condition that all hostilities in gaza, the west bank, and occupied jerusalem are halted immediately and permanently, allowing palestinians freedom to travel, allowing aid into gaza, etc etc etc.)

the long and short of it is that liberals view their own lives as being worth more than palestinians'. that's it. they'll vote for another 4 years of the guy ushering in genocide and supporting apartheid + settler colonialism because he isn't outright attacking them (despite various laws and rulings happening both at the supreme court level and at the local level all over the country that will endanger people). they'll settle for the illusion of safety and security and shame anyone with a conscience and accuse them of "supporting the republicans" when in an actual democracy you would be able to use your vote as leverage to extract concessions from those who want to be elected. that's how it's supposed to fucking work.

democrats are not owed people's vote. if biden loses, it will be biden's fault; it will be his campaign's fault; it will be the democrats' fault. trump is bad; the republicans are bad. we already know this. this is not an endorsement of either. but if democrats are too cowardly and feckless and servile to the motivations of the american empire and never do anything for their constituents then why the fuck should anyone vote for them. you want to get mad at someone, why don't you do something useful and stop worrying about team-sports with a purely selfish basis and start hounding the people in power who are supposed to serve you, the voter.

[s0fter-sin]

what up i’ve been obsessed with would you fall in love with me again like every other person on the planet and i can’t stop thinking about penelope’s final verse

she’s so angry; angry that odysseus would dare to suggest that her love for him has faltered or his actions were enough to destroy it. she’s been waiting, working her fingers raw unweaving her shroud every night, not sleeping as the suitors camp inside her home; every day a threat to her and her son, to her kingdom if an unworthy man - and they are all unworthy - should take the throne. she knew they wouldn’t wait forever, that at some point her deception would be realised; her dedication to her husband means she is at constant risk and the first thing odysseus does when he sees her - if this even is him - is question her love for him?

the very first thing he says (other than her name) is, “i am not the man you fell in love with.” penelope asks him if it’s really him standing there or if she’s “dreaming once more”. once more. she’s felt the cruelty of hope before; has looked at her doorway and seen odysseus the same as when he left (which is probably partly why she’s so shocked by how he actually looks) and felt unfathomable pain when her hopes were dashed over and over again. she asks if he is really her odysseus and he says no

yes, in his mind, odysseus can’t see how he can deserve her love after everything he’s done - the atrocities he’s committed, to himself he isn’t the same man, “i see a man who gets to make it home alive, but it’s no longer you” - but all penelope hears is her husband, the man she loves and waited for, doubts the strength of her love

penelope asks what kind of things he’s done and it must be shocking to hear; his actions so different from the man who left her behind even if he did them in name of returning to her. but when she asks him to move the bed, it’s as much a challenge as it is a test. she’s asking him to prove that he is the monster he claims to be; that if he’s changed so much and become so heartless, he should have no qualms about ripping the symbol of their love from its roots. and it’s also her only way of actually determining if this man who claims to be her husband yet doesn’t take her in his arms, is actually him

“just a moment of labour would bring me some peace” - if he does what she asks, then she will know either he’s changed so much that he’s no longer her odysseus or he’s another fake and was never hers to begin with; that her husband didn’t just stand in front of her and claim she can’t love him as he is. but she’s done. she was already willing to die when she stood behind the twelve axes she challenged the suitors to shoot through. she’s so tired. she just wants it all to be over

“only my husband knew that, so i guess that makes him you” - i guess. even after telling her something only odysseus and her knew, penelope’s still not convinced that it’s truly him. how many men came to her door claiming to be her long lost husband, banking on time and distance to dull memory of his face and voice, on her longing and desperation for odysseus to blind her into believing them?

but if this is her husband? if the man she’s loved through decades of absence has finally returned to her?

“i will fall in love with you over and over again” - an exhausted promise, the core of who penelope is and how she feels; assuaging his doubts and his own clear pain

but

“no matter how long it’s been, you’re mine. don’t tell me you’re not the same person, you’re always my husband” - penelope is screaming at him; how dare odysseus say this to her? dismiss her love and her suffering? he saw the men outside, he’s smart enough to know what they were here for and instead of apologising for being gone for so long, instead of begging for forgiveness for inadvertently putting her and their son at risk, instead of embracing her and putting an end to her torment, odysseus doubts her

“and i’ve been waiting, waiting” - the tone shift of penelope screaming at him to lamenting how long she’s been waiting is heartbreaking; it’s quieter as she gets lost in the pain of her grief, her anger failing as she recalls the memories of her long years of solitude. odysseus tries to call her back with his gentle “penelope” - such a contrast to his own exhausted anger at being asked to destroy their marital bed now that he understands why she asked that of him - but she can’t hear him; she’s too trapped in the memories. he tries again, still gentle but more insistent, and this time she does hear him and her anger comes rushing back along with her grief. her “waiting, waiting,” becomes almost accusatory; she’s been alone for so long and it’s bc of him, bc he wasn’t there, bc he left her waiting

that abrupt “oh” at the end of the verse isn’t just a vocalisation; in that moment, she’s realising that she has realised that he truly is odysseus. she knew it was him before she even processed it. she wouldn’t be this angry if he were anyone else; love and grief and anger coalescing in one single divine moment where penelope finally believes her odysseus has returned to her

“for you” - she’s been waiting and waiting, years turning to dust, her sleepless nights and days spent living in fear and preemptive grief- and it was all for him. odysseus is actually here. which means her waiting is over

“how long has it been?”

“20 years”

“i- i love you”

[republicansaredomesticterrorists]

[holy-shit-comics]

I received this in my messages today. I tried to reply but Tumblr says the blog doesn't exist. Maybe he blocked me. I don't know. But, I have no memory of trying to kill Trump.

Let's keep these kind of people out of the white house

[someoneintheshadow456]

Once again just like 2016 you people are literally going to blame EVERYONE but Harris for this outcome. And now you have the audacity to keep spreading fear as though 2016 never ended.

If your only strategy is threats, doomsday scenarios, and coercion, do not be fucking surprised when people refuse to vote for you.

If you call Jews and Hindus Nazis and fascists, tell them they’re “parasites” and say they should “go back to their country”, do NOT be surprised when they refuse to vote for you.

If you call people “not really queer” if they don’t uncritically support your policies, DO NOT be surprised when they refuse to vote for you. Not to mention queer rights doesn’t matter if the economy is shit.

If you only support minorities when they can’t think for or support themselves, DO NOT be surprised when they refuse to vote for you.

Trump did not win, YOU LOST.

[republicansaretheproblem]

Trump flat out lied and said that the FAA, under the previous administration DEI policies, was hiring people with severe intellectual disabilities to be air traffic controllers. He also said they were hiring people missing limbs, people with vision and hearing loss, and dwarfism. Besides directly blaming people with disabilities he also “implied” that the FAA wasn’t white enough.

[saywhat-politics]

In the midst of tragedy, you can always count on Trump to start with finger-pointing.

[allpiesforourown]

I'm seeing posts depicting Trump as the one and only president in American history to be a bad person and its driving me insane. "The founding fathers would hate this-" Thomas Jefferson raped his 14 year old slave and she was forced to have 6 of his children. Like I hate Trump as much as everyone but let's not just ignore past atrocities to make him look the worst

[rejectingrepublicans]