Yeah - if you’re in NYC at any point and go up anywhere you can see roofs of a lot of buildings, you’ll see a TON of water tanks and towers on older stuff.

Welp time to stop using google maps I guess

I’m honestly a bit surprised you’re not big mad at the prospect of the fascists winning the presidency in November

A hilariously apropos insult leveled at her by a fellow representative whilst calling her out on some hypocrisy a little while ago: bleach blonde bad built butch body

Alliterative, snappy, and didn’t even have to stoop to the obvious profane jab that would work under that constraint (thus running afoul of chamber decorum rules). Props to Rep Crockett for that. I like to shorten it to B^6^.

11am and 4pm (with a break between 1230 and 2 for napsies)

FTFY

Essentially , the DNC and RNC have at this point successfully executed regulatory capture of the US political system. That is, it’s incredibly difficult to run for anything and win at a state level or higher unless you’re affiliated with one of those two, and the parties are able to exert a substantial degree of control over any and all candidates affiliated with them simply by giving or not giving them financial and political support. And the FEC has rules that effectively entrench both parties - the barrier to entry for 3rd parties is obnoxiously high, and the vagaries of our FPTP system (and for president, the electoral college too) mean that we’re effectively forced to vote tactically if we want our vote to mean anything in general elections.

If you take “job” to mean “doing a thing in exchange for another thing”:

Allow me to narrate a brief historical reenactment:

Caveguy:

dragging cavedeer carcus somewhere

Cavegirl:

happens upon the scene

grunting (translation: damn that venison lookin’ tasty af)

Caveguy:

grunting (translation: it’s mine you can’t have it)

Cavegirl:

grunting, but seductively (translation: well, if we smash, can I have some?)

Caveguy:

aroused grunting (translation: hell yeah girl, you can stick around, I’ve been having the worst dry spell)

~fin~

Jesus fucking christ, Biden. This is the opposite of inspiring confidence.

First trench warfare makes a comeback, and now this?

There is no way I am installing any Meta filth on my personal devices

Harris, Newsom, and Whitmer would probably be my top 3 picks for viability. Of those three, I think Whitmer would be my favorite choice, but I think Newsom would be the most pragmatic choice (and to be clear, there is a LOT I don’t like about Newsom, despite the fact that I align with him on a decent number of issues) in the context of electability (white, male, a touch religious but not overly so, charismatic, great public speaker). I think Harris is uninspiring and the wrong choice for a TON of reasons, but the establishment will probably stick with her if they are somehow forced to not go with Biden simply because she’s currently VP.

But, you know, that’s what primaries are supposed to be. We’re not really supposed to have the DNC essentially just playing kingmaker and doing cloak and dagger shit behind the scenes so their Chosen One ends up guaranteed to clinch the nomination. Unfortunately, the DNC is basically run by corporatist neoliberals at this point, so they aren’t interested in doing that… and they’re also unwilling to admit that such attitudes are precisely how we got here in the first fucking place.

We got Trump because “it was her turn”. And I will NEVER fucking forgive Hillary for that. It’s abundantly clear that the “adults in the room” at the DNC have no fucking idea what they’re doing.

I… don’t care.

He showed me precisely the caliber of leadership he’s bringing to the table on Friday, and I find it disturbing, uninspiring, and deeply wrongheaded. Specifically:

GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: And if you stay in and Trump is elected and everything you're warning about comes to pass, how will you feel in January?

PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: I'll feel as long as I gave it my all and I did the good as job as I know I can do, that's what this is about. Look, George. Think of it this way. You've heard me say this before. I think the United States and the world is at an inflection point when the things that happen in the next several years are gonna determine what the next six, seven decades are gonna be like.

That’s not Churchill taking a stand against the Nazis (or, in modern terms, Macron sacrificing his own party’s chances to keep the fascists out of power). That’s President von Hindenburg acquiescing to Hitler becoming the Reichschancellor in 1933. He doesn’t fucking get that we are probably not going to have meaningful elections for the foreseeable future if he loses.

He isn’t addressing this as the clear, present and existential danger that this very much is. He does not have his head in the game. It is becoming more and more obvious that he does not even understand what the game is, nor does he have the temperament or psychology to play it effectively if he did. I dearly hope to be proven wrong, but at this point, I’m more or less resigned to the fact that I’m probably going to end up moving to a different country in the next year.