@raeseddon welp I might just never come back when I come to visit this summer
The ironic thing about this is that all of my local representatives voted against it– we are in loony republican hell down here. But dude, you are welcome to put in some applications when you visit. There’s only one grocery store chain that’s unionized tho .
just watched a video of ted cruz getting his ass handed to him on the senate floor god I love that shit happy thursday everyone
op wheres the link
The video was awesome, he torn Cruz a new one.
Ted Cruz: …only thing that is necessary to pass a clean bill
paying the salaries of every man and woman in the coast guard is for the
democratic senators to withdraw their objections is that correct?
Man: That’s correct
Ted Cruz: Thank you
Michael Bennet: Madam President
Woman: Senator from Colorado
Michael Bennet: Madam President I seldom, as you know, rise
on this floor to contradict somebody on the other side. I’ve worked very hard
over the years to work in a bipartisan way with the presiding officer with my
republican colleagues but these crocodile tears that the senator from Texas is
crying for first responders are too hard for me to take. They’re too hard for
me to take. Because when the senator from Texas shut this government down in
2013, my state was flooded! It was under water! People were killed! People’s
houses were destroyed! Their small businesses were ruined forever! And because
of the senator from Texas this government was shut down for politics that he served
to a second place finish in the Iowa caucuses, but were of no help to the first
responders to the teachers to the students whose schools were closed with the
federal government that was shut down because of the junior senator from Texas.
Now it’s his business not my business why he supports a
president who wants to erect a medieval barrier on the border of Texas; who
wants to use eminent domain to build that wall; who wants to declare an
unconstitutional emergency to build that wall. That’s the business of the
senator from Texas. I can assure you that in Colorado if a president said he
was going to use eminent domain to erect a barrier across the state of Colorado;
across the Rocky Mountains of Colorado; he was going to steal the property of
our farmers and ranchers to build his medieval wall there wouldn’t be an
elected leader from our state that would support that idea.
Which goes to my final point: how ludicrous it is that this
government is shut down over a promise that the president of the United States
couldn’t keep and that America isn’t interested in having him keep. This idea
that he was going to build a medieval wall across the southern border of Texas,
take it from the farmers and ranchers that were there and have the Mexicans pay
for it isn’t true. That’s why we’re here because he’s now saying the taxpayers
have to pay for it. That’s not what he said during his campaign over and over
and over and over again. He said mexico would pay for the wall over and over
again.
That was at—I was going to talk about what he said about the
junior senators father but I’m going to let that alone. It was after that.
And now we’re here with the government shutdown over his
broken promise while the Chinese are landing spacecraft on the dark side of the
moon. That’s what they’re doing. Not to mention what they’re doing in Latin
America with their one belt one road initiative in…in…in Asia. That’s what they’re
doing while we’re shut down. Over a promise he never thought he could—he would
never keep and didn’t keep.
And finally this idea that—I’m sorry to say my colleague
from Texas and I respect him and he’s obviously a very intelligent person—but this
idea that democrats are for open borders is gibberish! And it is proven by what
the senator from Louisiana said which is that time after time we have supported
real border security. Not a ‘wall’ that Mexico pays for, that gets you
attentions at campaign rallies from some people in America and it gets talked
about on Fox News at night. In 2013 the senator from Texas didn’t support it; I
did. In 2013 we passed a bill here in a bipartisan way. It got 68 votes. It had
46 billion dollars in border security in it. Forty-Six! Not five billion for
his wrinky-dink wall he’s talking about building. Forty-Six billion dollars of
border security. It had, to be precise about it, 350 miles of what the
president now refers to as ‘steel slats’—by the way America do you hear him not
calling it a wall anymore. Now it’s steel slats; now it’s a border barrier.
Three hundred and fifty miles of so called steel slats was in that bill.
And you know what else was in that bill—I think Madam President
I believe you voted for that bill. I’ll tell you was else was in that bill: we
doubled the number of border security agents on that border. They could
practically hold hands on the border there were so many border security agents
in that bill.
We had billions of dollars of drone technology so that we
could learn from what we’ve learned in Afghanistan and other places and see
every single inch of that border. Every inch! We had internal security in that
bill so that small businesses and farmers and ranchers don’t have to be the
immigration police. So that finally in America we could actually know who came
here legally on a visa but overstayed their visa because 40 percent of the
people in this country who are undocumented are here—who came here legally and overstayed.
We still can’t do that in America because that bill passed
the senate but it couldn’t get a vote in the house because of the stupidest
rule ever created called the Hastert rule. Named after somebody who’s in
prison! That has allowed a minority of tyrants in congress to bring a
Democratic president low; President Obama who they didn’t let do anything; and
to ruin the speakership of John Boehner; and to allow Paul Ryan to almost
accomplish nothing while he was speaker except leaving this place in a
government shutdown. This so called ‘Freedom Caucus’. And the so called freedom
caucus has had a veto around this place for ten years, Madam President.
Completely distorted the republican party here, if I do say so myself. That may
sound presumptuous but I know a lot of republicans in Colorado who don’t agree
with almost anything—or anything that the freedom caucus has stood for. Yet
they have had a veto on good bipartisan legislation passed the United States
senate.
So I’m not going to stand here and take it from somebody who
shut the government down while my state was flooded. Or from a president who’s
saying he wants five billion dollars to build some antiquated medieval wall that
he said Mexico would pay for. When I helped write and voted for a bill that
actually would have secured the border of the United States of America. It
would have secured our internal defenses as well. This is a joke! And the fact
that it consumes, you know, the cable networks all night every night and all
the rest of it. This government should be open! We can debate whatever it is
that we want to debate.
Do you think that the Chinese don’t know that we can’t land
a spaceship on the dark side of the moon? Do you think the Russians don’t know that for the first
time since John Glenn was sent up to orbit this planet America cannot put a
person into space without asking the Russians to do it. Do you think the rest
of the world doesn’t know that we’re not investing in our infrastructure? That
we’re not investing in the young generation of Americans. That we’re willing to
lose the race for artificial intelligence to the Chinese? That we’re going to
break all of our longstanding alliances since wwii at a moment when china is
rising? That the Chinese GDP has quadrupled since 2001, tripled since 2003,
doubled since 2009. Do we think no one in the rest of the world knows all that
about us?
We should reopen this government, Madam President, today. We
should open it today. And then what I hope much more than that it that we
actually come together to figure out how we’re going to govern this country
again. And stop playing petty partisan politics that are going to do nothing to
educate the next generation of Americans; that are going to do nothing to fix
the fiscal condition of this country.
For ten years, Madam President, I’ve heard the junior
senator from Texas, I’ve heard the freedom caucus in the house of
representatives talk about how important it is to get the fiscal condition of
our government fixed. In fact that’s been the pretext for shutdowns and for
fiscal cliffs and for all this stuff that does nothing but denigrate our
democratic republic. And now, Madam President, for the first time almost in
history—it happened once before during the Vietnam War. For the first time
almost in history we are actually having our deficit shooting through the roof
while unemployment is falling. Never happened before.
And these are the people who called Barack Obama a Bolshevik and
a socialist and at the depths of the recession when we had a ten percent
unemployment rate, didn’t lift a finger to do anything. They have now given us
a fiscal condition where our deficit is going up while our unemployment rate is
falling. Do you know how hard, Madam President, it is to accomplish that? Do
you know how irresponsible you would have to be to accomplish that? Yet that’s
what’s been accomplished.
When I was first here, it was actually a little after I was
first here, I used to walk through Denver International Airport, which we’re
very proud of in Colorado. By the way it is the most recent airport that’s been
constructed in America. While we’ve been closed other airports around the
world, new airports, have been opened, just while we’ve been closed. So Denver international
airport is the most recent airport in the country to be opened and it was
opened 25 years ago, a quarter of a century ago. And during moments like when
the senator from Texas shut the government down while Colorado was underneath
floods and people had lost all the things that I talked about earlier—their houses,
their jobs and their lives—I used to want to walk through that airport with a
paper bag over my head because I was so embarrassed to be a part of this.
And I often wondered, Madam President, why anyone would, in
their right mind, want to work in a place that has a 9 percent approval rate.
In fact I brought out a chart, two charts, one day to the floor. One that
showed that we hadn’t always had the nine percent approval rating, to remind
people how far we had fallen in the public’s estimation over the time that the
senator from Texas and I have been here. And then I brought another chart out
that looked at who else had a nine percent approval rate. I can’t remember all
it’s sort of been lost in the mist of time but I do remember that the IRS had a
40 percent approval rating. There was an actress who had a 13 percent approval
rating. More people wanted America to be a communist country, 11 percent, than
approved of this country. And Fidel Castro had a 5 percent approval rating,
which was lower than our 9 percent approval rating. He was the only one who had
a lower rating than that.
And so my question often was, why would anybody want to work
at a place that has such a low approval rating, and why would they want to
behave in a way that only made matters worse? And I’m sorry to say this madam
president but there is an answer: If you think you have been sent here to
dismantle the federal government—which I have lots of problems with, this
federal government. I think it does a lot of things very well and as a
westerner I certainly believe we need to not be in the business of defending
bad government, we need to be improving the government—but if you think your
job is to dismantle it, as the freedom caucus does in my view, then a 9 percent
approval rating suits you just fine because you get to go home and ‘say see how
terrible all those guys are. See what idiots all those guys are’? While you’re
taking your pay while the federal workers are not getting paid. While you’re
keeping your job while they’re losing their job.
And there has been an effort not just to dismantle the federal
government, but to separate it from the American people. To claim that it’s
someone else’s. Or that because it’s corrupt—and in many ways I think it is. I
believe it is, I believe this place is one of the most corrupt parts of this
whole thing—but because it’s corrupt or because it can’t get its act together
or because it’s too far away from the people or because I think—I would say
it’s populated buy a bunch of self-interested politicians who don’t care about
the priorities of the American people. But whatever the reason is, it’s not
separate. It is not separate. And the reason that’s important is because we
live in a democratic republic.
And the founders of this country who did two things that had
never happened in human history. They led a successful armed insurrection
against a colonial power in one generation, and they formed a democratic
republic whose constitution was ratified by the people who would live under it.
And what they knew, because they were enlightened figures—or I should say not
what they knew, what they believed because they had only bad examples from
which to draw when they sat there in Philadelphia writing that constitution.
But what they knew was in a republic we would have disagreements.
That was their expectation, and their belief was out of
those disagreements we would—and buy the way they knew we would have
disagreements because they had disagreements. And they failed on some very
important things it has to be said. They perpetuated human slavery because they
couldn’t come to an agreement about of that. And other people who I think of
founders just as important just as significant as those founders ended the
enslavement of human beings in America and did other important thinks like make
sure my daughters had the right to vote. Those people are also founders. But
what they believed at their core was that through our disagreements we would
forge more imaginative and more durable solutions than any king or tyrant could
come up with on their own. That was their belief. That was their expectation.
And I would say our
country in many ways has eclipsed any expectation they ever had of what America
would become. For the moment we’re the richest country in the world. We have
the greatest capacity for self-defense of any human population in the history
of the world. We are far more democratic and far more free with all of our
imperfections than they would have ever imagined and probably than most of them
would have ever wanted. We are the
longest lived democracy in human history.
But for some reason there is a generation of politicians in America
today who don’t think it’s necessary to live up to the standard that they set
and the standard that lots of other people have set from the founding of our
country 230 years ago until today.
I don’t even know what day it is anymore of this record long
shutdown but the pretext for it is an invention. It’s a creation of something
in the president’s mind. It was something we learned from reading the press
that was a pneumonic device used during the campaign to remind him to talk
about immigration in an effort to divide Americans from one another instead of
an effort to bring us together. In an effort to turn what just three years ago
was a bipartisan issue in the senate, securing our southern border with 46 billion
dollars, into a cudgel to be wielded at campaign rallies.
And in any case the least we can do while we have these
shabby disagreements that aren’t worthy of our predecessors, are not worthy of
the state I represent which is a third democratic a third republican and a
third independent, are threatening to make our generation the first generation
of Americans to leave less opportunity not more to the people coming after us.
A generation of politicians who are openly suggesting that America’s role in
the world should be diminished. The least we could do is reopen our government
and stop pursuing this self-inflicted harm that it creates to have hundreds of
thousands of federal workers out of work and not being paid, not able to
support their families while we continue to stand on this floor having mindless
arguments that are going to do nothing to advance the future of our country. We
shouldn’t shut the government down as it has been in this case for a campaign promise
the president I’m sure knew he could never keep. With that madam president I yield
the floor
Also this means that Tumblr is officially a place where you can safely propagate hate speech, anti-semitism, and white nationalism, but you can’t say f.uck.
And that says a LOT about the people in charge of this garbage hellsite.
@staff are you fucking kidding me right now?! You’re limiting text posts to 100 text blocks (aka paragraphs). What the absolute fuck.
Since you couldn’t take out fanfic writers with the purge so you’re just fucking up formatting for text posts until they leave? Is that your plan?
Would this count as a text block?
100 is a lot unless you write a lot of dialogue. I wonder if just linking fics on my word press would work because god damn this site is making things difficult. It’s like they’re trying to have people not use it.
yeah I noticed this, and I completely hate it lmao because I do write a lot of dialogue and I write small paragraphs for easy readability ): I might have to post everything on AO3 and just link it on here :/
This also effects long, informative texts posts of all kinds, which is one of tbe reasons I’ve been sticking around this hellhole.
Where else can I learn about weirdass historical weapons/armor, then read a hilariously long winded account of something ridiculous that happened to someone when they were ten years old?
you know… with this rise in interest in east asian culture and “aesthetics” over the past couple of years also comes with a rise in asian cultural appropriation… so for every nonasian out there who would consider themselves a fan of cutesy asian things or stuff like kpop or anime, you guys have an obligation to people of the culture you’re enjoying to be informed and educated about their struggles. it’s not right to love and consume cultures that’s not your own while ignoring the people who are part of them. read up on appropriation, the fetishisation and infantilisation of east asian women and desexualisation of asian men, whitewashing in media, xenophobia, the erasure of our achievements and the model minority myth. you owe it to us east asians to be educated on topics that concern us if you’re going to continue to consume media and content we make.
EDIT: if you’re nonasian please reblog this so that other nonasians can see it!!
Tumblr just rolled out a group chat feature. They apparently appear at random for you to join, and the messages disappear after 24 hours. And they have random themes. The one I’m in right now is DnD themed with tumblrbot randomly suggesting bad DnD jokes.
Tumblr literally thought this site needs a luminal space that functional effectively as a PvP zone you randomly spawn into against your will.
This is incredible. Literally I could not have predicted this.I’m fucking reeling.
I feel like this is fake… but
I really want a group chat feature, just to see some batshit stuff
It’s real and more terrifying than I ever imagined
I know a lot of people called it when Yahoo first bought Tumblr but I can’t stress enough how: A) this was their plan all along, it’s how Yahoo makes most of it’s money and B.) fandom has always had to be vigilant where any form of social media is concerned.
Even before the scorched-earth purge tactics started en'masse, there was always this sort of “keep your head on a swivel” attitude, because individual web hosting companies would do targeted take downs. It was more difficult to pull off back then because it was harder to monitor what was being uploaded but it still happened. People with shrines to slash pairings changed hosts pretty regularly due to these laser targeted purges. When older fans say “this is nothing new” they mean it. It’s always been a challenge to find and make space for fandoms online, and social media has just made it easier to scrub us out from the digital aether.
happy lunar new year, friendly reminder that jimmy kimmel and ellen degeneres inviting marie kondo on to their show to “tidy up” their writer’s rooms only to dismiss her advice, belittle her methods, make fun of her use of a translator, and act like ungrateful children in the face of her genuine attempts to help is literally the most basic form of Othering from white people. It’s another form of commodification by white people of non-white cultures that is being willingly shared, and it doesn’t get any less racist when it comes from “progressives”, be they a liberal white woman or a “Woke” news pundit
like she’s already being attacked and villainised into this aggressive book-burning harpy by white people on twitter who thinks having a full bookshelf can substitute having a personality, and now mainstream network talk shows are coming after her as well.
I don’t care if you think “this is just how Degeneres/Kimmel does comedy”, I don’t care if they did it for laughs. The overall tone of their segment is to show their reaction; to show how ridiculous and childish they find the KonMari method. We get it, white liberals don’t have time for wishy-washy Japanese mindfulness woo-woo and their enlightened views make them too rational to take seriously any other cultures that are based in spirituality and animism
Kimmel made a long, over-winded joke that deliberately put both Marie and her translator into an embarrassing situation, deliberately highlighting and mocking Marie’s lack of English, and then mocked the Shinto cultural background that Marie’s methods come from. Ellen’s writer acted as if Marie was going to overturn his office, then shoves Kim Kardashian’s ass into Marie’s face, then admit that he’s going “put everything back anyway” after Maries leaves. Both of them act as if her “greeting ritual” was some form of Weird Hokey Japanese Gimmick.
White “progressive liberal voices” are turning non-white cultures either into a commodity or into a joke without any self-reflection or foresight into the damage they’re potentially doing. They take no care in the damage that they as white comedians are potentially sowing when they make Marie’s methods into a cultural gag. If they’re making the act of othering and disrespecting non-white cultures more normative and easier to do, then their activism and political commentary is nothing but performative white bullshit.
When we share don’t share our cultures, white people turn it into a hip commodity, then cry PC-gone-mad when we take offense. When we willingly share our cultures, it gets turned into a joke. It doesn’t matter if the dismissal and commodification come from someone wearing a MAGA cap or a white liberal icon; the lack of respect still stems from the same root of privilege.
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