“But the one thing that frustrates me most about the popular conception of Senator McConnell, which has been crafted and repeated and tenderly used by the broader pundit and journalistic community, is that he is a man of the Senate and cares about the Senate and is concerned about procedures. The notion that that has ever been true is highly questionable, and the notion it has been true over the last decade is farcical. This is a guy who blew up the Senate in the Obama years and did more to blow up the norms than any three or five majority leaders before him put together. And now he has moved to blow up even more.”
imagine we make contact with an alien species that’s like, vastly technologically superior, they could fucking kill us in a single shot if they really wanted to
and this species has never eaten salad before. and we show them salad and they eat it and they’re like holy living fuck this is tasty. and suddenly they’re offering us huge houses with all kind of advanced technological shit and incredible medical care and all the amenities and everything, with the only condition that we keep making salad for them.
and like, salad isn’t even hard to make. grab some plants, dump em in a bowl. it doesn’t have to be fancy salad, they’ll fall all over themselves for the most mediocre salad in the world. we can make so much salad that we’re practically drowning in it, even if we eat some of the salad ourselves. and in exchange we’re protected from danger, we have great living conditions, it’s basically paradise compared to life on earth
imagine
now realize that this is what bees have done to us
also like 10-15 years from now I hope someone makes one of those inspirational sports movies except it’s a 50 year old woman who wants to play competitive online games and everyone tells her she can’t because she’s too old, her reflexes are too slow, etc, and she gets this grizzled trainer except they’re a 19 year old kid who had a promising career until carpal tunnel syndrome ruined their chances of becoming the world champion so they train her and she fuckin wins, the end. movie of the year.
People need to realize that there’s a difference between straight people and Straight People™
Straight person: Hey, you got a new haircut. Looks really good.
Straight Person™: No homo, but your haircut looks good on you.
In case you were confused 👌
Just like how there are white people who are gay and then there are the White Gays
White people who are gay: “I’m gay.”
White Gays: “I can’t believe I got accused of racism after calling that person a racial slur! I mean, I know what racism looks like because I’ve been discriminated for my sexuality. How is me being racist even possible? I’M GAY!”
Lmao all the angry White and Straight people in the comments, keep reblogging
neurotypical: i don’t have any mental illnesses or disorders Neurotypical™: Happiness is a choice!! ✨✨Have you tried yoga? Drink more water and eat kale ✨✨
cis person: i identify completely as my assigned gender
Cis Person™: It doesn’t matter what you identify as, cause you still have Female Genitals! I’m not being offensive!! Read a book on Human Biology! 🚹🚺
men: I identify as male.
Men™: feminazis ruin everything, get back in the kitchen and make me a sandwich bitch
atheists: I don’t believe in god or identify with a religion
Atheists™: Don’t fucking talk to me if you believe in God. Open your closed-fucking-minds!! (usually targeted towards Christians)
nice guys: hey I know when not to invade someone’s space and I totally respect boundaries
Nice Guys™: IVE BEEN YOUR FRIEND FOR A MONTH AND NOW YOURE TELLING ME YOU DONT WANT TO FUCK ME ???? WHAT IS THE POINT OF WOMEN IF YOURE NOT HAVING SEX WITH ME?
this post got all kinds of better since I last saw it
Every animal screams because screaming is fun; every animal is capable of recognizing screams because suffering is universal and we will all eventually die alone.
Artist Brian Coldrick’s series Behind You is an ongoing look at the very common fear that someone is lurking just out of your field of vision—perhaps prepping to do something not very nice.
this isnt a question of how evil the military is lol the fact that trans people are banned from enlisting isnt making people upset because they wanted to enlist and now they cant its a problem because the ability to enlist is (unfortunately) a facet of citizenship that trans people had taken away from them and this is most likely the first step in this administrations movement to strip lgbt people of their citizenship
idk how its hard to understand that people arent upset by this because theyve lost their right to participate in us imperialism theyre upset by it because the trump/pence administration is beginning to strip people of their citizenship
Also: there are 15,000 trans people in the military ATM. That’s 15,000 people who could lose a job, housing, HEALTH CARE, including mental health care – and all sorts of benefits if they go the DADT route, of dishonorable discharge once you’re outed as trans. And if they don’t, if they go the pre-DADT trend of basically witch-hunts to out people? It’ll be dangerous & brutal for people in that environment.
Plus what will it mean for veterans, who also often depend on the VA for health care & support? What will it mean for everyone’s families?
Smug “well that’s just another reason to destroy the military industrial complex ;)” is just….. ridiculous to me. NOT ACTUALLY THE PROBLEM, RIGHT NOW.
the actual living fuck is wrong with people? Those poor snakes!
A man named Rodrigo Franco of Monterey Park, California, is potentially facing 20 years in federal prison for his involvement in a recreation of the fake snakes in peanut brittle gag with actual deadly King Cobras jammed into knock-off Pringles containers.
Maybe – just maybe – government should be run by people who know what they’re doing.
Maybe.
We have also learned that Congressional Republicans are incapable of governing, have no respect for the rule of law, and care only about consolidating and perpetuating their own power.
“Everyone should realize that John McCain is the perfect American lie, a man who professes to be noble and fair and just while being none of those things. He served his country honorably in combat, but in no other fashion. And he serves out his time in the Senate, and here on planet Earth, as a pathetic enabler. Never the lion; always the sheep. For seventeen years, gullible people have been waiting for him to make his face turn, to make some grand defiant move for the sake of God and country. But that was always just clever branding on his part, and today should serve as a cold slap in the face to anyone who still thought he might have that kind of political courage left in him. He’s a fucking disgrace.”
McCain’s shameless display yesterday was the perfect distillation of his career in Congress: a big speech that gets lots of attention and praise, accompanied by action that completely undermines his empty words.
It’s all about getting attention for John McCain. He has no moral center and no convictions other than propping up his own ambitions, and he will always always always go along whatever the Republican party wants, regardless of what he says.
If he cared so deeply about the Senate’s traditions, why did he go along with McConnell stealing a SCOTUS seat? If he cares so much about debate and compromise and working together, why did he participate in every single obstructionist move in the Senate since 2008? If he truly believes that McConnell’s efforts to destroy the ACA are underhanded and wrong, why did he not take a stand when he had real power and refuse to vote on the motion to proceed?
Because he has no principles, and is little more than a useful idiot for the GOP agenda. And as long as his Senate colleagues and the pundit class continue to feed his ego, he has no reason to find any principles.
He may have been a hero, once, but in Congress he’s a coward and a charlatan. Nobody in that chamber respects or fears him, and McCain seems to be the only person in Congress who doesn’t know that.
be kind to yourself. remember that your journey is your own. don’t punish yourself for not having accomplished as much as x person at age 16, 17, 25, 40– their journey is not yours. your journey is not theirs. just because they are “doing more” than you are at this moment in time, or at that moment in time, does not mean you have wasted your time. you have had different experiences, circumstances, and opportunities. it is not a matter of fault on your part. you will get there, day by day, no matter how long it takes.
This is one of those things I need to hear almost daily. It’s one of those things that I know in my head to be true, but can’t seem to convince my heart to accept.
billie joe armstrong is like…the definition of chaotic good. a prime example of this is the fact that one time at a green day concert this guy in the pit was harassing a young girl so billie stopped the show to help her. however, his way of doing so was to jump into the audience, dropkick the guy directly in the face, and then fight him in a crowd of screaming fans
This is missing the best part - when he saw the guy, he tried to be like “Dude, stop” and when the man didn’t stop pushing the girl around he screamed “Fine! You wanna fight? I’ll fucking fight you, then!” and leapt directly into the crowd
My toddler accidentally hit me in the face yesterday; the most bullshit part of Superman’s origin story is that he didn’t accidentally kill the Kents when he was three.
on the one hand i agree with this but on the other hand one of my coworkers rented an alpaca from a petting zoo and brought it to work because my boss said she wanted an alpaca sweater but the guy didn’t hear her say sweater and didn’t want to upset her by asking why the fuck she’d want an alpaca
I think that highlights a good genre difference: miscommunication in drama is frustrating, overused, and just kinda shit. Miscommunication in comedy is fucking hilarious.
A default ring tone is heard. 100 moms look at their purses.
I’ve actually played the default iPhone ringtone at full blast at Jo-Ann’s during a quick shopping trip. Just so I could make them slow down to dig their purses out from under a giant pile of bulk fabric, so I could get to the only open checkout lane with my ten items before I had to spend half an hour waiting for them.
I am, in fact, going to hell. But I’m having fun on the way I guess.
the “which member of the TFA trio is supposed to be the luke of the group?” discourse is the worst discourse because it’s obvious that rey, a desert-child dreamer; finn, with a heart big enough to hold galaxies; and poe, the fearless hotshot flyboy, are ALL luke skywalker
Rey, the mechanic; Finn, trying so hard to be selfish and failing; and Poe, with deflector shields of snark; are all Han Solo.
Also.
Rey, the self-liberator, who looked at her rescuers and said “well, looks like I’ll have to save us”; Finn, who stood up and said “this is wrong, and it must not stand”; and Poe, rallying the forces of freedom; are all Leia Organa.
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