She’d get to know each individual senator as a person, find some area where they weren’t shitty human beings, and talk them across party lines.
Her partnerships were deemed so successful … that Karl Rove, according to a source close to him, sent word last year to halt Republican cooperation with her—an edict that has been ignored.
As the atmosphere in Washington has deteriorated, Clinton has emerged within the Senate as the unlikeliest of figures: she, not George W. Bush, has turned out to be a uniter, not a divider.
She walks softly but carries the biggest sticks. This is going to be great”
Why I would pull my hair in frustration every time a Bernie voter pointed out that she was friendly with or supported by a bigot or republican. You do realize that Republicans are basically your -coworkers- when you’re in the senate, right?
That leaders of bigoted special interest groups have an impact on our country whether someone meets with them & tries to reel them in or just leaves them to their own hateful devices.
Hillary Clinton would AT LEAST meet up with these people to let them know she had her eye on them, and at most to get them to do the most progressive thing they were capable of.
Me: why do I feel so sad right now
My brain: you're a human being with emotions and a lot of stuff going on in your life, on top of that you have a known history with depression which means sometimes you have moods that don't necessarily reflect your situation, and you've just got to be patient through the times when your contentment lies fallow
Me: no that doesn't sound right
My brain: oh shit then maybe we should buy like ten dollars worth of candy
Me: that seems right, that feels right, I'm glad we had this talk
Destroy the concept that you can’t be fat and disabled.
Destroy it.
Destroy the stigma that surrounds people who are overweight and in wheelchairs.
Destroy the photos of people riding electric wheelchairs in Walmart with long, hateful, fatphobic captions about how they’re lazy and entitled.
And I’m looking at every single member of the disabled community because we (and I say we because even I’ve been guilty of this) are just as guilty of this as the abled community.
Which is really, really, really unfair.
Because disability advocacy is supposed to be about showing how we’re all equal despite the differences in our bodies (and/or minds).
And it’s shocking that so many people will talk about how beautiful people with disabilities are in one breath and then will use their next breath to fat-shame overweight people with disabilities.
I’ll put it bluntly: If your version of disability advocacy is screaming at an overweight person in a wheelchair because “they don’t really need that chair, they’re just fat” then you’re not a disability advocate. You’re just a bully.
When die-hard Sanders supporters say, “Nothing could convince me to vote for Hilary Clinton….”
They think they’re saying: “I’m such a progressive purist that I cannot bear to compromise my ideals.”
But they’re really saying: “I have so much privilege that, not only can I feel confident that a Trump presidency won’t get me killed (or even seriously inconvenienced), but I can’t even comprehend that people who say otherwise are expressing a genuine, literal fear and not indulging in hyperbole.”
Eh, while it’s great that these characters are independent, something about all these princesses of color not finding love at the end of their movies rubs me the wrong way. Just like how Disney patted itself on the back for a black princess but she was Frogger damn near the whole movie.
And it would’ve been a great opportunity to cast moc in romantic roles from that culture :/
^^^ I’m so conflicted because yes, always having a love interest is annoying but poc never get to have a love interest
Having the princesses of color not find love reinforces the idea that we have to strong and independent and aren’t needing of any support
But I do like it because it deviates from the norm
It might be cool if they had dudes in the movie who were interested and they had the princesses be like, “naw, I got shit to do, but maybe later!”
Cause then it would obviously be a choice, instead of a worldstate that WoC don’t get hetero love (I’m not even gonna wish for queer love).
This is actually a good example of the need for intersectional feminism.
it is very common that white girl characters have love interests and finding love be the plot line and basis for all their stories and interactions.
It is uncommon for a girl character of color to be seen as a potential love interest, in need of defense by a male character and/or support from a male character full stop.
This is because of the history of social devaluation of woc and infantilization of white women.
Thusly:
it is subversive for white female characters to not have love interests for once and to focus on strength outside of male attention.
while at the same time
is it subversive for woc to be love interests and treated with care and reverence and with support in relationships on screen.
The “norms” for two groups of women are different based on the historical interaction both groups have had to suffer under patriarchal and sexist/racist media.
This is why its okay to feel hurt and roll your eyes when you see people screaming about how michonne from the walking dead “dont need no man” because she’s too “strong” to want to be desired and cared for, while at the same time feel hurt and roll your eyes when Black Widow is suddenly too helpless to get herself free from a basic ass cage and needs to be rescued by her randomly inserted love interest.
Next level, cat is on top of fitted sheet. Level after that, cat is beneath fitted sheet. Final level, you are not sure WHERE the cat is, but there is definitely a cat.
DON'T mistake me, I love Bernie, and I want to live in a world where he could have pulled this off. But the Dems had valid reasons for not embracing him.
“Democratic Party aids life-long Democrat against opportunistic independent” seems like it should be a smaller story than “Russia uses Wikileaks to interfere in a US election”.
A week ago, we were watching the RNC roll call where the committee contrived to shove extra votes into Trump’s heap by manipulating previously unused rules. State after state was shocked to find that the votes they reported bore no relationship to what was announced from the podium. That process ended in protest and confusion.
What a perfect contrast to tonight where every delegate had a chance to have their vote reported and recorded, and then Bernie topped it off with a wonderful gesture of unity.
Democrats have the first woman nominee ever of a major political party. And the ceremony that brought that result was a celebration of both the diversity of Democratic voters and the unity of Democratic purpose. What a great moment.
This speech is incredible. Please watch the whole thing. I can’t even begin to explain how important her words are. Michelle Obama is such a gift and I feel lucky to have witnessed her time as first lady.
