#2016 primary

[wanderinthedeep]

just a reminder that I think Biden’s actions re: American support for Israel are reprehensible, and,

1. I will vote for someone other than Biden in the Democratic primaries, BUT,

2. If it comes down to Biden vs Trump in the general again, I will absolutely vote Biden, I will not abstain from voting in protest, I will not vote third party in protest,

because Trump is several fucking orders of magnitude worse, and it’s not even close.

#just seen a lot of Biden hate on the dash lately #AND IT IS WELL DESERVED #but it’s also eerily similar to being on Tumblr in the leadup to 2016 #and how much of a push there was to encourage progressives not to vote #or to split the vote #and wow guess what that turned out to be a whole Russian psyop campaign #a SUCCESSFUL ONE #like we very much had Trump for four years #because some people wouldn’t hold their noses and vote for the better of two bad options #so I am begging and pleading #make your voice heard in the Democratic primary #but if it comes down to Biden and Trump one is obviously worse #and we have to get people to vote in substantial numbers against him #early morning political rant I guess idk

[smewduck]

first 2024 Night art she’s arson. ing. (what even is the word for that.) like she deserves

#warrior cats #wc #oc #art #my art #wc oc #oc art #night #when I draw this scene I struggle with the colours so much but?? #I think I finally pulled it off how I saw it in my head??? #so yay? #drew this in a half delirious state while sick. woke up this morning more sick. no memory of how I shaded like that. #I’m tired and my chest hurts and my throat is scratchy #I want to go back to 2022 #or like. #2016. #idk. #no primary school was bad but 2020-2021 was covid. And 2023 was bad. #idk where I want to go but not here. #ok I shut up. I’m tired I’m sorry 🙃💀

[answrs]

anyway since this apparently needs to be said again, anyone insisting it is immoral to vote in any election, especially not the US Presidential election this year, is getting immediately reported and blocked for election interference on-sight.

get the absolute fuck off my blog if you think "actively campaigning on dictatorship and having me and anyone like me raped and then murdered the moment he's installed" and "not liberal enough but can be pressured into it" are "def the same!!!1!!"

#a kleenex to a head wound isn't enough but it's the first most basic step and sure as FUCK is not the same as acid on said wound instead #you can suggest better bandages! stitches! a fucking hospital! (in the primaries) but when it comes to it vulnerable people DO NOT #get to opt out while you just sit on your ass and pretend you can opt out of the blame!!! #if you don't vote for the kleenex everyone WILL have acid poured on them. you do not get to opt out of this result!!! #because the pro-acid voters are NEVER going to not vote to Make A Statement™ #they will vote for The Acid That Kills You *no matter what* #and once the acid is no longer the biggest threat #you start advocating for a doctor and an ambulance #because. i repeat. YOU AREN'T DEAD YET. #the world is still shitty as fuck but you didn't vote in the Pour Acid On The Queers/Disableds/Immigrants/Black/Women Party #(and make no mistake a refusal to vote IS a vote for the Kill Everyone I Love Party) #this is not difficult to understand! #this is also literally the same shit that got spread around and GOT THE FUCKER ELECTED IN 2016! #LIKE THIS IS ACTUAL KNOWLEDGE! IT'S THE REASON THERE'S A REPORT CATEGORY FOR IT IN THE FIRST PLACE!

[eppysboys]

This is an archive of Trump Moments that belong together:

#does anyone else get it?? #donald trump #fully believe if he hadn't done the Obama birth certificate shit #+ leaned into his cultured new yorker persona #and run as democrat #he would have beaten hilary in the 2016 primaries #neolib fascist trump running for the donkey party would have flipped texas #and then the horrors would begin #maybe he would have at least left the Iran deal alone

[shitty-check-please-aus]

I saw something about May being Mental Health Awareness Month or something, and I just want to say that if you are experiencing mental health symptoms, you should also try to be on top of monitoring your physical health, i.e. with full bloodwork. The line between the two is really blurry with a lot of overlapping symptoms, and I don’t think I really fully understood that until I experienced it. 

I spent a lot of time brushing off symptoms of my hypothyroidism by saying “it’s just my depression/anxiety” instead of looking more closely at the problem. I still have depression, and I still take those medications, but I can’t emphasize enough how much better those meds work now that I’m taking care of my thyroid, now that I’m also supplementing with vitamin D and vitamin B12- it’s all brought me to a much better place than I was. 

There’s of course no guarantee that anyone else is in the same spot as I was with all this stuff, but I spent a lot of time not realizing that I should have been looking into this that I just want other people to know that it’s a possible problem

#I was seeing doctors but I didn't have a primary care doc for like.... 6-7 years? #like a lot of people I was mostly seeing a gyno and then specialists as needed #so bloodwork slipped through the cracks #I mean idk if I would've registered as the correct numbers to get treated or not #but this is one of my few real regrets #I wish I'd taken care of myself more between like 2016 and 2020

[pochapal]

health update: last week's sickness kind of went away then it came back real bad and i've been in bed all sopping wet and pathetic these last two days but i think as this evening's progressed i'm past the worst of it so all things considered i am fundamentally in the same state i was in seven days ago only now a process has occurred

#:) #having a parent that works at a primary school when there's a tonsillitis outbreak is soooo slay <3 <3 <3 #my immune system has straight up not been having a good time these last few months #i could say it's a post-covid/post-pandemic restrictions lifting thing #but i was constantly also getting fresh child imported plagues even back in 2019 and earlier #i think the real problem here is that i am at home all the time and my only exposure to the outside world is through kid diseases lmao #evidence of this is that 2020 i was not really sick at all nor was i in the autumn/winter of 2016 when i moved out that one time #the common link between me and good health is when i do not have a direct exposure pipeline to these kids' pathogens #so like either i need to become more immune to all illnesses or these kids need to stop transmitting infections for the rest of forever

[world-of-wales]

CATHERINE'S STYLE FILES - 2016

7 FEBRUARY 2016 || The Duchess of Cambridge helped launch Place2Be’s Children’s Mental Health Week 2016 as she appeared in a video message recorded at Salisbury Primary School.

#catherines style files #style files 2016 #mine. #british royal family #british royals #royalty #kate middleton #brf #british royalty #royals #catherine middleton #duchess of cambridge #royal #princess of wales #the princess of wales #princess catherine #7.02.2016 #sailsbury primary school 16 #children’s mental health week 16 #rebecca taylor. #sapphire and diamond earrings #sapphire and diamond oval drop earrings. #royal fashion #fashion #style #lookbook

[senseiwu]

Bro.... this year I will have been out of high school longer than I was in it... why do I still have panic inducing dreams where I'm back

#2016 last year was six years ago #there are six years of high school #wait. lemme double check. #7 8 9 10 11 12 #yes #its primary school wjere theres seven

[living400lbs]

Trump is an “emotions candidate.” More than any other presidential candidate in decades, Trump focuses on eliciting and praising emotional responses from his fans rather than on detailed policy prescriptions. His speeches—evoking dominance, bravado, clarity, national pride, and personal uplift—inspire an emotional transformation. Then he points to that transformation. “We have passion,” he told the Louisiana gathering. “We’re not silent anymore; we’re the loud, noisy majority.” He derides his rivals in both parties for their inability to inspire enthusiasm. “They lack energy.”

Not only does Trump evoke emotion, he makes an object of it, presenting it back to his fans as a sign of collective success. His supporters have been in mourning for a lost way of life. Many have become discouraged, others depressed. They yearn to feel pride but instead have felt shame. Their land no longer feels their own. Joined together with others like themselves, they now feel hopeful, joyous, elated. The man who expressed amazement, arms upheld—“to be in the presence of such a man!”—seemed in a state of rapture. As if magically lifted, they are no longer strangers in their own land.

“Collective effervescence,” as the French sociologist Emile Durkheim called it in The Elementary Forms of Religious Life, is a state of emotional excitation felt by those who join with others they take to be fellow members of a moral or biological tribe. They gather to affirm their unity and, united, they feel secure and respected. While Durkheim was studying religious rites among indigenous tribes in Australia and elsewhere, much of what he observed could be applied to the rally at the Lakefront Airport, as well as many others like it. People gather around what Durkheim calls a “totem”—a symbol such as a cross or a flag. Leaders associate themselves with the totem and charismatic leaders can become totems themselves. The function of the totem is to unify worshippers.

Seen through Durkheim’s eyes, the real function of the excited gathering around Donald Trump is to unify all the white, evangelical enthusiasts who fear that those “cutting ahead in line” are about to become a terrible, strange, new America. The source of the awe and excitement isn’t simply Trump himself; it is the unity of the great crowd of strangers gathered around him. If the rally itself could speak, it would say, “We are a majority!” Added to that is a potent promise—to be lifted up from bitterness, despair, depression. The “movement,” as Trump has increasingly called his campaign, acts as a great antidepressant. Like other leaders promising rescue, Trump evokes a moral consciousness. But what he gives participants, emotionally speaking, is an ecstatic high.

From Strangers In Their Own Land by Arlie Russell Hochschild

#arlie russell hochschild #Collective effervescence #strangers in their own land #Trump primary 2016

[larkandkatydid]

"Why is Bernie Sanders being grumpy on the eve of this world-changing legislative achievement?"

"Why are you?"

#your choice to relitigate the 2016 primary doesn't even have the cover of being loosely related to school lunch funding #you being a big chunk of twitter

[arctic-hands]

No but for realsies we're back to blaming trump's victory (and biden's weak response to the trump era and his constant walking back on his promises) on "Bernie Bros" costing Hillary the election when Hillary won the popular vote??

#i swear the centrist Dems are more obsessed with Bernie than actual leftists #two people once told me i didn't deserve to criticize Biden because i "*obviously* voted for Bernie in the primaries #like yeah? that's the point of the primaries? i then voted for Biden in the actual election #but they kept going on about how i was a radical Bernie Bro even tho *they were the ones to bring up Bernie in the first place!* #anyway #joe biden #hillary clinton #2016 election

[pepprs]

the m*ga candidatw for governor who my dad said would never win in a million years fucking won the g*p primary. by A LOT. im about to throw up

#emetophobia tw #sorry #delete later #bc WHEN have we seen this before?! in 2016 when he said tr*mp would never win the primary and then he did! and then in 2016 again when he #said tr*mp would never be president and then he WAS! im going to die literallyyyyy im going to fucking die. ok. i do not want to be working #in the area i am working in rn we are literaly going to have to invite him to campus for a debate and im going to throw up and pass out #i hate you elections i hate you politics i hate you voting i hate you human rights being at the mercy of people who would literally rather #let the state / country / whatever burn and everyone die so they can get money and power. im freaking out rn lolllll #apparently this was like strategic bc the d*mocrats think if they donate to this guys campaign they’ll have a better chance of winning the g #general bc my state is so blue that it’s unlikely this guy will win. WHY WOULD YOUEVEN PUT US IN THAT PLACETO BEGIN WITH KNOWING WHAT IS #GOING ON!!!!!!!!!! do you want us to get fucking KILLED! (of course the answer is yes. but like lolllll. LOLLLLLLL!!!!)

[psithurism-elisheba]

“There was a simpleness to countryside train rides that I adored, the shamrock hills of dreams and riches, the quaint houses and the children who bustled with absolute delight and excitement and ran to the edge of the gardens, pointing gleefully at the approaching train only to scamper away to escape the smoke that blanketed the hinterland like the morning mist.”

- Me at 9 years old

#Why did I write like this #I read pride and prejudice and decided I was the next jane austen #lmao #autism #this is definitely an autism thing #actually autistic #autistic #Writing #Poetry #Children stfu you were 9 #this is a whole story #about some girls #and nuns #I really wanted to be a nun #nun #9 years old #Primary school #description #Hinterland. Babe it was like 2016 why were you writing like that #classic novels #pride and prejudice

[calicojack1718]

Election 2024: Protest Vote in the Primary, not in the General

Just when you thought it was safe to protest vote, Clayton Jones of Claytoonz reminds us of the actual stakes.

There’s been a lot, and when I say a lot, I mean a lot, of pixels burned, ink spilt, clothing rent, and self-righteous smirks smirked over the “uncommitted” or “no preference” protest votes against Biden in the primary, especially in states with large Muslim populations. That’s fine. Protest vote all you want. Be as much of a sanctimonious ass as you wanna be over it as long as you remember and…

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#Election 2024 #General Election #Joe Biden #Primary Election #Protest Vote #Remember 2016

[nowisthewinter]

First starting on the plus side for the primary election result for NC, Jeff Jackson won his nomination. So, to all of those who came out and voted for him, I say, "Thank you from the bottom of my heart." Now keep it up this November. We can get him that seat if we stick to it.

Now on the minus side, LESS THAN 24% of registered NC voters came out to vote in the primaries. Look at that number. That's embarrassing!

I keep on hearing people whine, "Why do we get such horrible people to choose from every four years?"

IT'S BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T COME OUT TO VOTE IN THE PRIMARIES, BRENDA!

You had a nice wide range of people to pick from and several weeks of early voting. What kept you?

Non-voters out number actual voters by a huge margin and I swear, they are going to end up killing this country. ...but they'll show up at protests for the Tiktok vid!

#voting #primaries #are we going to have a repeat of 2016 with Trump #Trump didn't win because he was popular #He won because Clinton voters didn't bother to show up #Apathy is the greatest enemy of this country #And we do this to ourself #jeff jackson

[bipolarandannoyed]

US politics are a fucking nightmare, I am fully aware. But I cannot express how important it is to vote AGAINST Trump. Political experts are warning about Trump doing EXACTLY WHAT HE'S THREATENING TO DO and trying to turn the country into a dictatorship.

I know no one wants Biden to be president again, so make sure to vote in the primaries for the democratic candidate you want, AND THEN VOTE FOR THEM.

You don't want the US to be a two party system? Don't vote for the literal fascist who's openly stated he'll refuse to leave once his second term is over. You don't want a single person to be allowed to throw your vote into the fire and choose the candidate that they want? Vote for the party that has a chance of winning that has an interest in getting rid of the electoral college.

You're already part of the system. You are automatically existing and acting within it. Unless you somehow have the power to overthrow it all on your own, if you want to change it, you have to do your part in the same way the rest of us do. Protesting and advocating are great, and necessary [and still a part of acting within the system], but your vote is one of the biggest, and most important ways to fix it.

I am fucking terrified. I don't know if I can survive a future where Trump is president again and lobbying against my actual fucking safety as a queer, trans person, and as a woman. I can't do this again.

#I'm so fucking terrified #And with the uptick in alt right boys and men in Gen Z #It's so fucking important for the rest of us to do what we can to avoid a dystopian future for this fucking country #VOTE IN THE PRIMARIES #AND DO YOU OWN RESEARCH #DON'T JUST FOLLOW PEOPLE'S LINKS #This is going to be an exhausting year #But please do not make the same mistake as the 2016 election