listen.

jumpingjacktrash:

razziecat:

greenjudy:

jumpingjacktrash:

don’t vote for the best candidate.

vote for the one most likely to remove a republican.

it’s that simple.

Vote them out.

Vote for the candidate that sees every person as a human being.

not if they can’t win, buddy. i’m serious. LISTEN. VOTE OUT THE REPUBLICANS. EVEN IF THAT MEANS VOTING IN SOME REGULAR ASSHOLES.

if the candidate who sees every person as a human being is green party, then you vote for the democrat who sees every person as a stepping stone, because unless we get rid of the republican who sees every person as a target a lot of us are going to goddamn die. people are dying already. like, not to guilt you, but if we don’t get a democratic majority in the house and senate ASAP we’re screwed.

it doesn’t fucking matter if you voted for Jesus Actual Christ if he was running on a penny ante party ticket. we need you to vote for Joe Slick Bastard Democrat instead, because there is no such thing as a green party majority in the senate, do you understand? there will not be a green party speaker of the house. green party will not get to put up supreme court nominees.

if you vote for the Good People instead of the democrats, we’re gonna end up back in this toilet bowl again, only deeper this time because the republicans will take it as a mandate to do whatever they want.

take a deep breath, put on rubber gloves, and touch the poop. don’t be precious.

ideological purity is a god. damn. myth.

We are LITERALLY DYING HERE. I will die if I don’t get put on hormones. I will die if I don’t manage surgery. I WILL die if people continue to see people like me as targets or a group they can hand-wave away as if we don’t exist and TRY TO LEGISLATE US OUT OF EXISTENCE.

We have to WALK THIS SHIT BACK. That means voting Democrat, and then in the next election and the next midterms, doing our best to set up the people who see us as humans to win, and IF THEY DO NOT STAND A CHANCE, to VOTE IN BETTER DEMOCRATS.

This is how politics work, now help us fucking fix it.

lenyberry:

omegaspreem:

the-real-seebs:

omegaspreem:

the-real-seebs:

when Trump said he’d create jobs, i didn’t realize the plan was to escalate rhetoric and advocate violence against the media in order to create work for bomb squads, but hey, it’s working.

as of this writing, i think we’re up to eight confirmed bombs sent to people that are Democrats, or media that are insufficiently friendly to Trump, so far today (or possibly some were yesterday?).

just for reference: this is not normal.

suggest that, if you don’t think it should be normal, you consider the possibility that the rhetorical environment in which it seems normal is probably the problem, and that the thing where the Republican party as a whole cannot be seen to say anything negative about Trump openly claiming to be a nationalist and praising people for killing dissidents and censoring their media is probably the primary root of that problem right now.

options include (1) cause the Republican party to stop doing that, (2) cause them not to be in a position of power.

suggestion: vote.

While not meaning to normalize it, but didn’t the white house and some republicans just receive ricin letters last month? I find it a bit strange that that kind of just slid under the radar without this discussion of either side normalizing this behaviour before or whatever, but then presumably a mirror version happens and this discussion is now at the forefront. I mean, are we just going to apply anything negative we want about whatever group we want to blame and say that it normalizes ricin letters now? How about any religion? I just don’t see the correlation here being justified and just trying to equate one bad thing as being the fault of a thing you want to be thought of as bad by others.

Uh… This line of discourse is sort of complete bullshit.

What normalizes violence is actively advocating for it and cheering it on and treating it as normal.

And since before the 2016 election, we’ve had people talking about getting death threats from Trump supporters, and Trump talking about how he could just shoot someone and his supporters wouldn’t care (true enough), and violence at Trump rallies, and Trump praising the fucking dictator of North Korea, specifically his “relationship with his people”, and Trump supporting the Saudis and accepting their claim that probably the journalist was dismembered before he even got to their consulate.

That is normalizing violence as a response to political disagreement.

It has nothing to do with “religion”. It has nothing to do with any of the other negative things you might believe about Trump’s coterie. There are people out there who are racist assholes and think that putting little kids in detention camps is great, who still absolutely oppose the normalization of violence. And they are not at fault in the thing where it seems normal that we’ve had more attempted political assassinations in the US this year than we had during probably any previous decade of my life.

I don’t see how you can look at someone specifically praising violence and repression, and calling out “the media” as the Enemy of the American People, and then say “I don’t see how that’s correlated to package bombs being sent to the media”.

So where is your huge “Liberals endorse violence through their narratives! These Ricin letters were encouraged by the atmosphere the liberals push about the GOP being evil!”, or would that not make any sense?

I mean, you just said Trump’s statements on national incidents and relations as being part of an atmosphere that made these bombings occur. I’m sorry, but I don’t see how the correlation between the diplomacy game and mail bombs are really related or considered by however actually did the act. Like it seems like your taking everything you can construe as endorsing violence and saying that lead to this event.

My point about religion is that it’s not really fair to say that they create an environment that leads to terrorism as well. These are actions and decisions of individuals (and we can see that in that there are people who seemingly disagree with everything the GoP stands for doing similar stuff), they aren’t brainwashed agents that only get the idea that they can hurt people because someone else says they can, they are deranged people who try to do something by a means they know can stop people (by killing them).

I mean, would you say the idea that video games cause violence is bullshit? It would seem you’re applying a similar thing here to me.

So where is your huge “Liberals endorse violence through their narratives! These Ricin letters were encouraged by the atmosphere the liberals push about the GOP being evil!”, or would that not make any sense?

Show us where liberals have called for violence, have praised those who act violently, not just made criticisms, or no it does not make any sense to make that claim.

“These people are evil and should be removed from power” is a very different statement from “these people should be locked up/roughed up/treated harshly/made to suffer”. Can you really not see the difference???

I mean there’s a point there… “punch all nazis” where “nazi” is very nebulously defined and could be expanded to include anyone you don’t like….?? Yeah, I’ve seen that shit. Heck I AND my partners have BOTH been called Nazis just for being white on the “wrong” side of town and/or not immediately looking Queer. So uh…. yes, it does apply.

lenyberry:

the-real-seebs:

omegaspreem:

the-real-seebs:

when Trump said he’d create jobs, i didn’t realize the plan was to escalate rhetoric and advocate violence against the media in order to create work for bomb squads, but hey, it’s working.

as of this writing, i think we’re up to eight confirmed bombs sent to people that are Democrats, or media that are insufficiently friendly to Trump, so far today (or possibly some were yesterday?).

just for reference: this is not normal.

suggest that, if you don’t think it should be normal, you consider the possibility that the rhetorical environment in which it seems normal is probably the problem, and that the thing where the Republican party as a whole cannot be seen to say anything negative about Trump openly claiming to be a nationalist and praising people for killing dissidents and censoring their media is probably the primary root of that problem right now.

options include (1) cause the Republican party to stop doing that, (2) cause them not to be in a position of power.

suggestion: vote.

While not meaning to normalize it, but didn’t the white house and some republicans just receive ricin letters last month? I find it a bit strange that that kind of just slid under the radar without this discussion of either side normalizing this behaviour before or whatever, but then presumably a mirror version happens and this discussion is now at the forefront. I mean, are we just going to apply anything negative we want about whatever group we want to blame and say that it normalizes ricin letters now? How about any religion? I just don’t see the correlation here being justified and just trying to equate one bad thing as being the fault of a thing you want to be thought of as bad by others.

Uh… This line of discourse is sort of complete bullshit.

What normalizes violence is actively advocating for it and cheering it on and treating it as normal.

And since before the 2016 election, we’ve had people talking about getting death threats from Trump supporters, and Trump talking about how he could just shoot someone and his supporters wouldn’t care (true enough), and violence at Trump rallies, and Trump praising the fucking dictator of North Korea, specifically his “relationship with his people”, and Trump supporting the Saudis and accepting their claim that probably the journalist was dismembered before he even got to their consulate.

That is normalizing violence as a response to political disagreement.

It has nothing to do with “religion”. It has nothing to do with any of the other negative things you might believe about Trump’s coterie. There are people out there who are racist assholes and think that putting little kids in detention camps is great, who still absolutely oppose the normalization of violence. And they are not at fault in the thing where it seems normal that we’ve had more attempted political assassinations in the US this year than we had during probably any previous decade of my life.

I don’t see how you can look at someone specifically praising violence and repression, and calling out “the media” as the Enemy of the American People, and then say “I don’t see how that’s correlated to package bombs being sent to the media”.

Also they didn’t receive ricin, exactly. ( @omegaspreem for information, no judgment intended, there was definitely some confusing news put out at first and not everyone probably got as much of the follow-up details as I did thanks to the incident qualifying as “local news” in my area). The guy sent ground castor beans, which… ricin is extracted from, yes, but he did not send extracted ricin. Castor beans are still poisonous… but pretty darn safe unless you EAT them. You’d have to be pretty stupid to just… eat the powdery stuff some rando mailed you without knowing what it is (granted, Trump might actually be that stupid, but in general this was really poorly planned if it was actually meant to hurt anyone). This was not a well-thought-out assassination or even intimidation attempt, this was some loser who either lacked the intention to do real harm, or the knowledge to be able to pull it off (or both). Considering that he also listed his actual home address for a return address on the letters… either he’s a total moron, he’s delusional, or he was after 15 minutes of fame (and maybe, just maybe, deliberately trying to make liberals look bad?). I heard, but haven’t been able to confirm, that he also claimed to have sent similar letters to the Queen and to Putin (this bit might just be local rumor, I’m mentioning it because I’ve heard it a few times, but no official news outlets seem to be confirming it so I would suggest taking that bit with a few grains of salt). Also, he has a past history of making threats including against Obama, and has done prison time for child abuse and assault.

(sources: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)

Anyway, I’m guessing that the big reason that story died down real quick outside of Utah was that it… wasn’t actually ricin, just ground-up castor beans (which tested positive for ricin, since they do contain it, but aren’t nearly as dangerous as the extracted form). There wasn’t actually any real danger unless someone had decided to eat the contents of the letters, and even then they’d have a shot at surviving depending on how much they ate. But of course “Letters Sent To White House Test Positive For Ricin” is a much more attention-grabbing headline than “Actually Those Letters Just Contained Ground-Up Castor Beans And No One Was Hurt Or Even In Serious Danger”.

a-magpie-witchling:

badscienceshenanigans:

systlin:

dzamieponders:

miss-pearls-official-account:

systlin:

frenzy5150:

systlin:

untilstarsfall:

systlin:

systlin:

systlin:

So apparently Senators Collins and Murkowski have pissed of the white male members of the GOP to the point where some members have said that they’d challenge them to a duel if they were in South Texas

Anyway so I’m calling Rep. Farenthold later to accept on Sen. Collin’s behalf and I’m choosing Fists. Can take place in Iowa because if two parties agree to mutual combat, under state law it is totally legal here.

And if he accepts yes I will stream that shit live don’t be silly.

And after I beat his ass once for Collins, I will duel him again on Murkowski’s behalf.

Square up, bitch.

OH MY GOD I LOVE YOU SO MUCH GOD CSPAN BOUT TO BE LIT

Submitted

SO I CALLED HIS DC OFFICE AND SAID BASICALLY THE SAME THING I SENT VIA EMAIL.

After about 20 seconds of dead silence, the staffer let out kinda a little laugh and said “Well ma’m, I’ll be happy to pass on your…”

“I’m not joking.”

“Ma’m?”

“You think I’m joking. I am dead serious. You want my address? Or I’ll meet him at the airport. I am absolutely serious about this. Oh, and as the challenged party, I get to pick weapons. I choose fists.”

Another 20 seconds of somehow even deeper silence.

“I…I’ll pass your challenge on to the congressman.”

“No. He issued the challenge. I’m accepting. Unless he’s backing out like the spineless coward he is.”

More silence. “I…I’ll let Congressman Farenthold know, ma’m.”

“You do that.”

ANYWAY SO HOW DID YOU ALL SPEND YOUR LUNCH BREAK TODAY.

I LOVE THIS DO IT B

followup when

FOLLOW UP; He has proved himself a faithless coward and refused to meet me in honest physical combat, so I cursed him. Specifically, called on his past misdeeds to be visited upon him and justice he’s evaded to find him.

He’s now retiring after his history of sexually assaulting women came to light and will not be seeking re-election anywhere.

reblog to bring truth out of her well to fisticuffs mankind

Reblogging for fist dueling beekeeper witch. This community needs more of those.

hm…. Well as someone who thinks Honor is a very important trait to have so long as you don’t go the way of Ned Stark, this interests me.