Bernie Sanders’ statement. He’s willing to normalize and empower Trump for his class war. Fuck him forever.
…wowwwwwwwww so I guess I know more about Sanders now.
Wow, how dare Sanders … acknowledge that we’ve elected a walking tire fire as President, and pledge to fight against racism, sexism, xenophobia and the rape of the environment while doing what he can to improve citizens’ lives?
Okay, I need you to back up about a thousand paces and preferably off a fucking cliff because are you fucking kidding me? Sanders would get no cookies for acknowledging that the future President of the United States will be a disaster - that is, if he’d actually done that, which he absolutely didn’t.
Plus, where was this guy during the goddamn general election? Bernie needed a fucking gift-wrapped perfect pure progressive DNC platform and a handjob before he would acknowledge that Hillary Clinton had won the primaries. He literally waited days before even admitting he’d lost, and then he spent the past FOUR MONTHS holding the most half-assed, luke-warm, temper-tantrum, bare-minimum rallies where he just said “we can’t let Trump win!” without, y’know, showing any enthusiasm or support for the actual candidate of his party. He never praised her policies except when he could claim that she’d done as he’d told her, he never acknowledged the millions of people who voted for her and what their votes meant.
But less than 24 hours after Trump squeaks out one of the narrowest victories in history, the second time where the next president has actually lost the popular vote, Bernie stands there and sweeps aside all of the racist, sexist, xenophobic things that Trump has already done in order to praise Trump’s message? And he has to lie about the message in order to do it! The ‘declining middle class’? Please. The middle class has been doing better, seeing more jobs, seeing more economic security. The poor in this country - who have yet to make the same gains - voted for Hillary Clinton. But Sanders’s argument is essentially that HRC was - what, for longer hours and shipping jobs overseas and protecting billionaires? What the fuck?
And he so he pledges himself and other progressives (whom I’m sure are thrilled that he’s decided to speak for him) to working with Trump without requiring any kind of apology or promise, without any acknowledgement of the people Trump has already hurt and endangered. Like, whoopee for him for promising to “vigorously oppose” racist policies! I kind of expected the Darling Of The Left to already do that, though. I kind of expected him to be just a smidge more angry on behalf of the people he claims to represent. I kind of expected to hear something more reassuring than that he will “vigorously oppose” things that he thinks are a distraction from class struggle. I kind of expected him, in short, not to be a fucking asshole and shit all over the millions of people who voted for Hillary Clinton by saying they weren’t voting for the right things.
Also, don’t ever use the word “rape” the way you did. Ever.
#god I hope Sanders steps on legos barefoot for the rest of his life #EVERY MORNING
in case anybody was still wondering why so many progressives voted for Hillary in the primaries; in case anybody was still wondering why so many nonwhite Democrats voted for Hillary in the primaries; in case anybody was still wondering why so many southern black voters especially picked Hillary and rejected Bernie: well. Here you go. This is who he is.
….and that? was a read.
Obama: once out of office, I’m gonna stop being polite and start getting real
Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin has a great new interview with President Obama in Vanity Fair. In the wide-ranging interview, they discuss Abraham Lincoln, Obama’s biggest regrets from his time in office, and how a visit to the pyramids reminded Obama that cable news doesn’t really matter.
But perhaps the most intriguing bit was when, in a brief discussion of Obama’s plans for his post-presidency, Obama hinted that he planned to start speaking out more like an activist than a president.
There are “things,” he told Goodwin, “that in some ways I suspect I’m able to do better out of this office.” He elaborated that because of the “institutional constraints” of the presidency, “there are things I cannot say.”
He went on to essentially say he wanted to use his post-presidential bully pulpit more like an activist than a venerable elder statesman. “There are institutional obligations I have to carry out that are important for a president of the United States to carry out, but may not always align with what I think would move the ball down the field on the issues that I care most deeply about,” he said.
And while vague, this is an intriguing hint that Obama is thinking about being a very different ex-president than we’ve been used to.
Never normalize Trump.
The media will try. Don’t allow it. He can never be treated like a normal president. We can’t let this ever be seen as acceptable, not for a minute.
it’s almost, almost, comical that this is 100% on white people.
and they will blame it as a reaction to poc, to lgbt, to the ‘problem’ they saw and had to respond to and handle.
but anything from here on out is 100% on them.
you can blame third parties, you can blame people who didn’t turn out, but ultimately the blame falls on white people for being so blinded with hate that trump actually seemed reasonable to them.
This post is upsetting racists, keep reblogging it.
Comic book questions I will never have again:
“Really? There was evidence that an explosion on Krypton was imminent and everyone just denied it?”
“Really? People elected Lex Luthor as president?”
(CNN) – CNN’s Van Jones exchanged hot words with Kayleigh McEnany on Wednesday night as the Trump supporter argued Jones ought to repudiate fears among protesters that a Trump administration would create camps for illegal immigrants.
“You should correct that fear,” said McEnany. “Donald Trump has never proposed internment camps. You have to correct that fear.” "You need to back off,“ Jones fired back. “You need to have a little bit of empathy and understanding for people who are afraid because your candidate has been one of the most explosively provocative candidates in the history of our country.”
“There is a price to be paid for that,” he added. As McEnany sought to interrupt Jones, CNN’s Anderson Cooper jumped in, telling her to “let him finish.” "I am not finished,“ said Jones, his voice rising. “I am not going to be talked over tonight, I am not.” Jones said he was not spreading unfounded fears of internment camps but that he senses a real terror among minorities who opposed Trump.
for chinese new year they get all these famous actors and comedians together and they do a lil show and one of the comedians was like “i was in a hotel in america once and there was a mouse in my room so i called reception except i forgot the english word for mouse so instead i said ‘you know tom and jerry? jerry is here’
jerry is here
my chinese teacher once shared this story in class about someone who went to the grocery to buy chicken, but they forgot the english word for it, so they grabbed an egg, went to the nearest sales lady and said “where’s the mother”
When I was a teenager, we went to Italy for the summer holidays. We are German, neither of us speaks more than a few words of Italian. That didn’t keep my family from always referring to me when they wanted something translated because “You’re so good with languages and you took Latin”. (I told them a hundred times I couldn’t order ice cream in Latin, they ignored that.) Anyway, my dad really loved a certain cheese there, made from sheep’s milk. He knew the Italian word for ‘cheese’ – formaggio – and he knew how to say ‘please’. And he had already spotted a little shop that sold the cheese. He asked me what ‘sheep’ was in Italian, and of course, I had no idea. So he just shrugged and said “I’ll manage” and went into the shop. 5 mins later, he comes out with a little bag, obviously very pleased with himself.
How did he manage it? He had gone in and said “'Baaaah’ formaggio, prego.”I was done for the day.
This makes me feel better about every conversation I had in both Rome and Ghent.
I once lost my husband in the ruins of a French castle on a mountain, and trotted around looking for him in increasing desperation. “Have you seen my husband?” I asked some French people, having forgotten all descriptive words. “He is small, and English. His hair is the color of bread.”
I did not find my husband in this way.
In rural France it is apparently Known that one brings one’s own shopping bags to the grocery store. I was a visitor and had not been briefed and had no shopping bag. I saw that other people were able to conduct negotiations to purchase shopping bags, but I could not remember the word for “bag.”
“Can I have a box that is not a box,” I said.
The checkout lady looked extremely tired and said, “Un sac?” (A sack?)
Of course. A fucking sack. And so I did get a sack.
I once was at a German-American Church youth camp for two weeks and predictably, we spoke a whole lot of English.
When I phoned my mom during week two I tried to tell her that it was a bit cold in the sleeping bag at night. I stumbled around the word in German because for the love of god, I could remember the Germwn word for sleeping bag.
“Yeah so, it’s like a bag you sleep in at night?”
“And my mother must probably have thought I lost my mind. She just sighed and was like ‘So, a Schlafsack, yes?”
Which is LITERALLY Sleeping sac … The German word is a basically a one on one translation of the English word and I just… I failed it. At my mother tongue. BIG
My former boss is Italian and she ended up working in a lab where the common language was English. She once saw an insect running through the lab and she went to tell her colleagues. She remembered it was the name of a famous English band so she barged in the office yelling there was a rolling stone in the lab…
Planned Parenthood has been here for 100 years, and one thing is clear: We will never back down and we will never stop fighting to ensure that Planned Parenthood patients have access to the care they need and for the people who come from communities that need our continued support in this new reality.
Many of the people Planned Parenthood health centers serve may be concerned about their safety, and the safety of their families and friends. We will support our immigrant, Muslim, Black and Latinx colleagues, partners and patients in the face of threats made over the last several months.
Health care should not be political. Every morning, Planned Parenthood health center staff across the country wake up and open their doors, as they have this morning, to care for anyone who needs them, regardless of race, religion, sexual orientation, gender, income, or country of origin. They will do so today, they will do so tomorrow, they will do so every day as they have for 100 years.
Me too boo
This is literally so heart breaking, she’s suffered every child’s worse nightmare. Her family was taken from her, there were no government officials there to help her when she was sitting in an empty house scared, worried and alone waiting for something to know they were okay. They just detained and deported her family back to Colombia and she was only 14 years old. Imagine going home to an empty house and not knowing what happened to your family or if they were okay. Please understand what having trump as a president really means not only to Diane Guerrero but to millions of immigrants and their families and friends.
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