#mock elections

[balls-on-my-face]

pratik telling akarsha about the snail race he won at school 🐌

#butterfly soup 2 #akarsha #butterfly soup #akarsha butterfly soup #pratik butterfly soup #!!! #today i learned his age gap with his sister is the same age as mine and my brother.. #and our birth years align with them as well #as also in grade 1 in 2009 i think pratik voted for obama in the elementary school mock election #or was it #idk my years #my point is #snail races were HUGE in elementary school 2009 #and u all need to understand the victory #and the bestieship

[farsight-the-char]

So many Democrat Americans wanting me to "Vote Blue"....

#personal political posts #wolverine #I have no ability to vote in your elections #I am simply mocking Biden's terrible foreign policy #...........

[tomorrowusa]

Too many liberals in bubbles have this peculiar view of US politics that it's supposed to be like the Oxford Debating Society where the person with the soundest argument wins.

Such people need to quit watching reruns of "The West Wing" on auto-repeat. 😆🤣😃

Whether you like it or not, if you are personally attacked by your opponent then the most effective thing is to hit back in kind twice as hard. That's what needs to happen to Trump.

And nobody is as vulnerable to personal attacks as Donald Trump. Late night comics and political cartoonists did more to defeat Donald Trump's re-election bid than all the terabytes of position papers and political analyses combined.

As I argued last time around, the best hope may lie in messages that Win It Back hasn't been as eager to test. They must strip him of the strongman persona he tries so hard to create: Use ads that portray him as a laughingstock and paint his supporters as chumps. Make it embarrassing to support Trump—so that wearing a MAGA hat in public feels like wearing an advertisement for your favorite hemorrhoid cream. Trump's been walking right into that potential trap in recent weeks by delivering rally speeches that sound like complete gibberish, peppered with verbal flubs that Fox News would base entire news cycles around if it were a Democrat making the gaffe. Any ad campaign looking to prove Trump to be a bumbling clown clinging only tenuously to his own persona would have ample material to work with. Republican primary voters don't mind that Trump tried to overthrow the government, because Republican primary voters think that, well, maybe they ought to be able to do that if Black Americans keep insisting on their rights or if Fox News throws up another B-reel of migrants wading across the southern border to ask for asylum. But Republican primary voters do care—a lot—that so much of the rest of the country considers them to be muleheaded saps.

You might think that all the voters have seen all the derisive stuff about Trump. But not everybody has the same media menu that we do.

Of course the hardcore MAGA cultists will stick with Trump even if he personally poops the digested remnants of well-done steak with ketchup on them. But there are some squishy backers who are just going along for the ride. And there are also low information voters who don't pay a lot of attention to politics who need to know that Trump is an unstable crackpot who kept classified nuclear secrets in boxes next to his toilet.

The more personal, the better – though such interjections probably need to have at least a small grain of truth in them so they can't be completely refuted.

With numerous elections in states that are decided by less than two percent of the vote, every little bit helps. Just referring to Trump as a "nut" may go a lot further with some people than a long-winded explanation of how his poor response to the COVID-19 emergency led to hundreds of thousands of deaths and a terrible hit on the US economy.

Nobody wants to be associated with a loser. Making personal fun of Trump in various ways will go far if done propitiously.

#donald trump #make fun of trump #mock trump mercilessly #personal attacks #republicans #election 2024

[sapphicgleek]

just rewatched ‘i kissed a girl’ and it reminded me of how much I hate this episode, so here’s my alternate, wishful version of that episode:

It basically starts the same, with finn forcing santana to participate, despite being the one who outed her. But it is clearly framed as him being the bad guy in the situation. He kicks it off with his stupid cover and santana basically reacts the way she reacted to klaine’s number in the actual episode, but additionally pointing out that he outed her

britanny realises how unhappy santana is with the situation and they have a private talk where britanny points out that the glee club does genuinely care for her and then she sings to santana a la a reversed ‘songbird’ number

next klaine sing to her (something better than ‘perfect’ 🙄) and this time santana is a little more open to it. afterwards, the two couples meet up and discuss how being queer impacts them (especially living in ohio and being around a bunch of otherwise straight people) and santana seems to finally make peace with the situation, despite the circumstances that led to them

cue the scene leading up to ‘i kissed a girl’ but it leads into a britanna duet instead. the sequence ends the same, with santana coming out to her abuela and it ending badly. maybe this is followed by a pep talk from britanny

episode ends with a santana solo (also generally more focus on santana’s emotions throughout the episode)

#how come her literal girlfriend had zero lines?? I’m not even that into britanna but come on… #the fact that the only other gay characters get mocked for trying to help but the straight man who outed her gets praised? jail #please just give me some crumbs of wlw/mlm solidarity… #the puck/shelby plot is gone #the election plot can stay ig and kurt can have his sad moment during ‘constant craving’ #glee #santana lopez #britanna #3x07

[frogmanfae]

Me in my gov class

#we're doing a mock election #I'm the Washington Post #the primary debates were this week and thw two guys who are the “candidates” are atrocious at public speaking like this #not like with anxiety #but like they'd get asked a question and just sit there looking at the other one to answer #one of them raised his hand and said “ooh can i do one of those rebuttle thingies? alright sick” #just overall unprofessional #teehee

[mad-komet]

this is all reminding me of what I did with the favorite teams google form. pens had the largest percentage though not a majority, but of course that was not an exclusive choice, had a much smaller sample size, and wasn't based on individual people but teams

in the end though crosby-malkin won the presidency, but that could easily have been because it was against the leafs

#nhl parliament fic my beloved. you inspired me #partly bc you said the isles would form an alliance with the pens ... no they fucking wouldn't <3 #I am once again resisting the urge to do mock nhl elections

[asexualjedi]

Me when I’m asked if I want to join a journal. A few days after I submit my memo for the moot court try out and still have to do oral arguments the next month and having to give a response by Friday. Like truly I was like haha I won’t get in or if I do I’ll be able to choose the stuff all at once and see what I think I can do.

#I think moot court will be better in the long term what I wanna do but it’s a huge time commitment and I want to see my mom at least every #other week this semester instead of dropping off the face of the earth Aand I purposely picked the least time commitment journal as my numbe #one choice and that’s who asked me to join and like haha #also I applied to be vp of the gay club. but then?? elections never happened they said they would be in a week. this was several months ago #so I have no clue if anyone else ran or if I’m still running or if that’s a commitment I have to make lmao #Anyways I didn’t think I’d have to time for moot court and thought I’d probably have to decline but I didn’t expect to make this choice in t #the middle of the competition and alos befor the mock trial competition I tried out for even starts #I wanted to try out for all to *sasuke voice* test my ability and get practice and alos so I could choose between what I get in but lmao rip

[softpastelqueer]

Trumplican: *is an openly genocidal and openly white supremacist fascist*

White Liberals™️: *crickets*

Trumplican: *says something incredibly stupid*

White Liberals™️: HA HA THEY THINK WIND TURBINES STEAL WIND AND MAKE CANCER CAUSING NOISES AND THAT SOLAR ENERGY WILL ABSORB AND KILL THE SUN AND RENEWABLE ENERGY MEANS NO LIGHTS AT NIGHT AND-

#full offense but I’m more worried about them talking about putting gay people in camps again #and talking about outlawing being gay #and advocating for eugenics against disabled and ethnic bodies #like who cares if Lauro bobo the clown does a typo or says so #yes MTG is a moron who doesn’t understand basic words or science #but instead of mocking their intellegience maybe we should be more aware and afraid of their actual beliefs and goals? #this is also making bigots like Liz Cheney and Dan Crenshaw get woobified because they’re not as openly stupid #Dan Crenshaw is getting praise right now for being ‘sane’ as if he didn’t get elected for his open racism alone ????

[kyuala]

HE TOLD US HE'D BE BACK!! YOU CAN'T BURY THE LEFT WING IN THIS COUNTRY

#you guys brazil's history in the last 10 or so years have been so fucking insane #what started as a general discontentment over a rise in the public transport fare prices somehow turned into #an unprecedented reactionary extremist right-wing wave that only got worse and worse through the years #our first and only woman president suffered a literal coup and in the 2 years we were governed by the mild right #a politician who did nothing - and i do not say this lightly - literally NOTHING in like 20 years as a deputy gained so much popularity and #social media attention using nothing but hate speech fake news and the instrumentalization of the Christian faith and masses #somehow won over the public opinion - thru dishonesty n prejudice that's how - and was elected president. that's bols*naro #his mandate was marked by lies prejudice incompetence and negligence. thousands of ppl were literally dying in brazil everyday bc of covid #and u know what he did? mocked them. said he wasn't an undertaker so it wasn't his problem. mocked ppl's difficulty to breathe. caused a #animosity in the population against SCIENCE and health organizations. schemed to overprice when buying vaccines when companies were willing #to give them to us literally for free so the government could cash in. not to mention he dismantled federal operations against crime just #bc they were the left-wing govt's legacy he messed with the legitimacy of the federal police when it went after his sons he created a #scheme to divert public money into politician's pockets instead of employing the resources in u know. the public collective well-being #his govt created a law to protect said politicians and hide the money for 100 FUCKING YEARS from public records #the lost money already amounts to over 65 billion reais. that's roughly 12 billion dollars in taxpayers money. all lost #and he and his supporters have the NERVE to say he's an honest man. that he's a Christian. that he represents goodness. #when he did nothing but spew lies and prejudice and kill us and fuck us over the past 4 years. #his government is the definition of fear politics and necropolitics. it's a stain in the fabric of our country's history. it's never been #anything but a threat to our democracy. our senate n house of deputies r filled with bigoted extremist right-wingers now. but we have hope #now we can have hope! lula has been dishonest and corrupt in the past. he should pay for what he's done like almost every single high #ranking politician in this country should. but not like it was done! after they staged a coup against his ally they unjustly arrested and #convicted him SPECIFICALLY so he couldn't run for president. they KNEW our country would choose him. if he was free bols*naro would've #NEVER won. he's wrong and corrupt and now a convicted criminal turned free man but he represents our country and our democracy! #he's always been our only hope! he's not the right choice but the only choice. and that's how now we have - for the 1st time in history #- not only a president serving a historical THIRD mandate but a president who was arrested and freed between mandates #which is. fucking insane if u ask me #also blsnr is the first president ever in the history of brazil to not be able to be reelected lmfao fucking loser #what's also historical is our divide. lula won by 1.8% can u IMAGINE how split the public opinion is rn #but we won! and we're free of this vermin and on our way to rebuild our country. and i couldn't be happier or feel lighter #and not to mention they tried to stage another covert coup literally during the voting process today 😶‍🌫️ but anyways

[mariacallous]

And how it was always contrasted with overjoyed Trump supporters.

#everyone who mocked the images of people upset over 2016 election night rot in hell challenge

[warrioreowynofrohan]

….scale of 1 to 10, how horrible is tumblr going to be for the next few days?

#maybe i should take a break #i don’t have strong feelings on a symbolic/ceremonial monarchy either way #other than that it avoids us needing to elect both president and pm like the french which i find a bit odd #but deciding someone’s a monster deserving no respect whose deathshould be mocked just because of the system she inherited #is pure nastiness #victor hugo for one was able to distinguish between opposing a system and disparaging a person

[frenchly-anxious]

Thank fuck the far right hasn't won the French Presidential elections, but I can't stop being worried when I look at their scores getting bigger every time. What are we doing? What are we becoming? I'm scared for the next election in 5 years

#french elections #we're staying with macron for another 5 years #the far right scares me #I cannot believe we were mocking the USA with Trump and despite that we're getting closer to it every year

[calicojack1718]

Trump's Narcissism Apparent in His Campaign Strategy

We all know Trump is a textbook narcissist, so why does anyone wonder when he pursues asinine goals in asinine ways? He's a narcissist surrounded by sycophants who are eager to pick up whatever crumbs they can from him and goose-step them out back & shot.

SUMMARY: Why isn’t Trump following conventional campaign wisdom and trying to grow his coalition by appealing to more swing voters instead of doubling and tripling down on the fascist racist violent anti-democratic rhetoric that has lost every election since 2018 and caused the 6 January Insurrection? The answer, as to every question about Trump, is that he’s a narcissist. Review the signs and…

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#Campaign Strategy #Election 2024 #Mock Paper Scissors #Narcissism #Narcissistic Personality Disorder #Symptoms #Tengrain #Trump #Wayback Machine

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My god the tiktok kiddos are romanticizing being in high school in 2016. I feel faint

#if you had to do a mock 2016 presidential election in high school you may be entitled to financial compensation

[rockeyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy]

spread message of chuck

#my gov teacher hides him around the room like the Elf of Shelf. #he has run for president in mock elections before. idk if he ever won #rocky thinks #don't know where he came from or why he is like that. i dont think the sombrero was provided

[socialistexan]

I'm so tired of cis people asking stuff like, "Why would Texas want a list of trans people who legally changed their names?" or "Why would Florida want a list of college students who have seeking gender affirming care? We can't figure it out."

It's eliminationist.

Ken Paxton wants a list of trans people who have changed their name in Texas so he can reverse all of those decisions (and that's the most charitable interpretation). Ron DeSantis wants a list of college students who have sought affirming care so he can force them to detransition.

Oklahoma introduced a bill to forcibly detransition people under the age of 21 (ironically doing what they accuse us of doing, forcing someone to live as the wrong gender). Texas has a new bill that will ban gender affirming care for every Texan of any age and makes it a felony for doctors to provide it. Multiple states either have passed or will pass bills that will ban legal name changes. Some states have slipped in language to anti-drag bills (which are horrific enough on their own) that ban anyone from displaying, presenting, or dressing outside their "biological" gender (one state has language about "DNA gender") in public.

It's about legally and morally mandating trans people out of existence.

Plain and simple. It's about making sure that trans people can not exist. Period. It's not about restrictions, or "think of the children!" It's about eliminating us from public life and then eliminating us from private life so that we have a choice of either die or conform.

When will y'all realize this isn't some wedge issue or a political football that they'll just give up on if they lose an election or two. These are ideologues who are singularly focused. They don't care about the marketplace of ideas. They don't give a shit if they get mocked on lefty Twitter and the late night shows. They only care about one thing: gaining and then wielding power to achieve their goal of eliminating trans people (and then gay people, and then women who don't conform to their gender standards, ect).

If you give them that power they will use it.

#trans #transgender #nonbinary #lgbtq #lgbt #i kinda have nowhere to go here if theres forced detrans i have breasts now i am getting bottom surgery #like you take me off my hormones and i just... dont have sex hormones anymore #or we'll just have to go underground again just like we had to in the 1930's