Vote to make his claim of victory less believable. Vote to make Trump lose by a truly embarrassing amount. Be one of the voices that said GET THE FUCK OUT, not one of the ones that stayed quiet. Vote so that you have the satisfaction of knowing you helped make him go apoplectic.
Vote, even if you expect to have to riot the following day because you think he’s going to ignore the results.
Don’t make it even one vote easier for him to claim his losing the election is Fake News.
View casting your vote for Biden as the easiest method of protesting against Trump and his blooming dictatorship that you can engage in, no matter what other styles of protesting you are involved with.
And if you’re already planning to vote? Please be aware that you may well have to engage in some of those other forms of protest as well, in order to save our democracy.
You don’t have to choose between voting and other forms of action. You can do both.
In an interview with Fox News Sunday recorded at the White House on Friday, Trump said “I’m not losing, because those are fake polls” and refused to say if he would accept the result if Biden won in November.
“I have to see,” Trump said. “I have to see. No, I’m not going to just say yes. I’m not going to say no, and I didn’t last time either.”
This is why you should vote, though.
Here’s the nightmare scenario: Biden could win by a very small margin - too close to call, like the 2000 election - and the conservative Supreme Court could get to decide that Trump is the winner, even if he loses the popular vote by a substantial margin (again).
Knowing that this is a possibility doesn’t mean we should give up. It’s actually an argument for getting out and voting, and encouraging every person you know to vote, especially if you live in or know anyone who lives in a swing state. If Biden wins by a landslide, it will be significantly harder for Trump to argue the results. Yes, he’ll stomp his feet and say it was rigged and spout conspiracies. But he will have lost, and it’s important that the rest of the world can clearly see that.
You know how the United States sometimes does that thing where we stand behind the democratically elected candidate in contested elections in other countries? Yeah. We’re that country now! So in the case that Biden wins decisively and Trump tries to contest the results, I fully expect other democratic leaders like Trudeau, Merkel, Macron, etc. to say loudly and clearly, “Congratulations, President Biden! We look forward to working with you!” This hits the global news, making it even harder for Trump to argue his case since it exposes him for what he is: A big giant baby throwing a temper tantrum. I also expect (lol) most (some) Republicans to do the responsible thing and back Biden in this scenario (shoutout Mitt Romney in advance). Is it going to be messy? Probably! But our best chance of getting him out of office is to vote him out now - waiting another four years will be disastrous, and who knows what elections will look like after another four years of voter suppression, gerrymandering, and Trump welcoming foreign interference? Let’s not find out.
Would I be surprised if Donald Trump went on Fox News and continued to insist that everyone there call him President Trump for the rest of his life? No. And the situation above isn’t the only nightmare scenario: It is highly likely that the 2020 election will drag on for days as mail-in ballots are being counted. But I don’t give a fuck what he does after he’s out of the White House - as long as he’s no longer in a position power. I will physically go there myself and stand outside screaming until he leaves if I have to, and I hope you will join me.
I just read the line “President Donald Trump also indicated that federal squads would likely target cities run by the party that opposes him” in a real-life news article and I’m just thinking about how people really thought Democrats were overreacting in 2016 and that we should “give him a chance”
“Joe Biden and Donald Trump are the same” really? ?? What a galaxy brain take. Because right now the standard is “will address the pandemic and not send unidentified federal agents to kidnap citizens in the street” so, yeah, they’re not the same
Dictators don’t let themselves be elected out of power.
TL;DR Donald Trump will leave the White House one way or another. If the idea of 4 more years of Trump scares you, then let’s do everything we can to make sure he sees a decisive loss in 2020. We can’t afford to wait for 2024, when who knows how he will have abused his power and even fewer of us will have the chance to vote him out.
Okay this is funny but where’s the freakin link??? I need one of those cases
STOP POSTING DOPE ASS PRODUCTS WITHOUT THE LINK
YOU GUYS… I found that phone case online hereand it has 30+ games built in like Tetris, Super Mario Bros, Contra, Donkey Kong, Star Force and more. Got mine on sale and with free shipping!!
please if you do anything useful in your life, don’t scroll past this
watch it
PLEASE
tchaikovsky is proud
In case anyone is baffled by this, there’s a Tchaikovsky piece in which there’s supposed to be a loud sound but he never specified what you should use to make that sound. People have done all kinds of weird shit depending on how they think the sound should, well, sound. Hitting a large piece of wood with a sledgehammer is a relatively conventional one.
okay but /listen/ the one thing this fandom doesn’t have nearly enough of is headcanons surrounding the gryffindor boys dorm in harry’s year
like,,,, harry, ron, dean, seamus, and neville… there’s so much potential for wonderful, wonderful headcanons and i feel like we really don’t explore that enough
actually you know what sometimes we have to be the change we want to see in the world so:
seamus and dean are notorious for sneaking leftover desserts up into the dorm. they have a secret stash in seamus’ suitcase and will hand them out whenever anyone wakes up with a nightmare
there’s a running joke in the dorm where whenever someone’s lost something the others will respond with ‘seamus blew it up’
(e.g “i can’t find my tie!” “seamus blew it up”)
after a while even seamus joins in, talking about himself in third person
games of exploding snap when it’s late but no-one feels like sleeping
neville getting really anxious around exam time and the rest of them working really hard to make sure the dorm is a quiet place where he can study and all offering up their individual expertise in subjects he struggles with
literally, exam times are the only times there will be even a moment of quiet in the boys dorm
3am conversations where they somehow end up getting really deep into the meaning of life (”i’m just saying, i know you’re the boy who lived and all- but are any of us truly alive” “… go to sleep seamus”)
seamus comes out as gay at 2am one night when they’re sat in a circle playing truth or dare
they have extended after-parties following gryffindor winning a match that are exclusive to the five of them
dean introducing everyone to muggle songs and teaching the others the words to bohemian rhapsody- they can now launch into a five part acapella version of it at a moment’s notice
the extended war going on between ron and dean about whether quidditch is better than football
basically i love these kids a lot okay they need more content
dean and harry teaching everyone else about muggle things and totally blow ron and neville’s minds
but in turn, ron and seamus start to play a game where they tell harry and dean huge lies because they’ll totally believe them cus they have no idea what’s real and what’s fake (neville, of course, refuses to participate because that’s mean)
turning up late to breakfast because they’ve been chatting about their weird dreams all morning
ron refusing to go into the dorms if he sees a spider until someone’s DEFINITELY gotten rid of it (neville isn’t visibly scared, but he totally keeps his distance)
when one of them gets sick, they totally baby the sick one for weeks, even when he’s okay again
That fourteen year old emperor was Elagabalus. You should really say her name, because she was an important figure and fascinating, and historians are very eager to forget her. I say her because she was openly transgender. She searched the entire empire for a physician who could give her female genitalia, but as far as we know she couldn’t find one. She dressed only in women’s clothes and wore makeup and long hair. She referred to herself not as Emperor, but as Empress and as Queen. She was forced to marry several women for her office but all the marriages ended in divorce. She freed one of her slaves, a man named Hierocles, and married him. This made the Praetorian Guard so mad that they decapitated her (and her mother, who tried to save her).
By those standards, Elagabalus was the only female ruler of Rome.
And today she is still only known as “the boy who invented the whoopee cushion.”
This is all fascinating but I’m reblogging for that last comment.
