Fire Walk With Me
This page is a weird mix of rantings and ravings, Music, graffiti, punk,Doctor Who, postpunk, comics,art, general silliness and GPOB (gratuitous pictures of Bowie). Sometimes I post about the 2012 US elections
white radical nerd lady in my 30s
transplanted to the East Coast US
happily living in sin with my co-conspirator Mr. X
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my Dragon Age sideblog
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BEYOND VISIBLE: LGBT CHARACTERS IN NEW GRAPHIC NOVELS
Wrote a mini-roundup of new(ish) manga/indie books with LGBT characters for NPR.
In which it is revealed that — as Matt Groening heralded back in the 1980s — Lynda Barry continues her undisputed reign as Funk Queen of the Universe. Because yow, but
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Wim Wenders, Paris, Texas
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Do we really want an incorruptible, nice guy superhero?
Go, read. I’ll be...
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how to give a good handjob
- bop it
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‘What is this strange creature.’
‘I must experiment by...
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me
Do hyperbolic rightwing hacks feel any responsibility for stories like this?
A tanning salon owner in Key West who blamed the president for his personal problems has killed himself after writing “Fuck Obama” on his will.
Michael Cossey told police that his partner, 64-year-old Henry Hamilton, had promised that “if Barack gets re-elected, I’m not going to be around,” according to the Key West Citizen.
Friends of Hamilton had requested that police conduct welfare checks on Hamilton because they were concerned about his state of mind. When Officer Pablo Rodriguez stopped by the condo on Nov. 8, he woke Cossey and the two found Hamilton dead with two empty prescription bottles, one for the anxiety medication Xanax and one for the schizophrenia medication Seroquel.
Cossey said that Hamilton had been “very upset about the election results” and “very stressed about his business.”
There are a lot of mentally ill people out there and telling them that Obama’s reelection means the end of America/Christianity/freedom really isn’t super-helpful. Do wingnut “pundits” feel any responsibility for this sort of stories at all?
They don’t, and they won’t. But they should.
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Looking at the data, it’s very easy to comprehend. Republicans are way out of touch with an electorate that voted out all “the rape guys“, voted in (or voted to keep) a lot of women, voted for gay marriage and for legalizing pot, and rejected the Republican’s racist take on immigration reform. The voters showed clearly that their values are far enough left of where the Republicans think they are that the Republican party is no longer relevant to the majority of us. It’s all right there in the data… but I guess it suits the Republican narrative better to just make up stuff.
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Like the film industry, the Republican party must evolve or get replaced with something more suited to our times. We need two strong parties – nations benefit from having both conservative and progressive elements to balance and check each other. But “conservative” does not mean “regressive.” Conservative means not moving forward before you’ve analyzed the data to make the best choices. The Republicans are so far away from any real definition of conservativism that they can be of no further use to the United States – unless they evolve.
Strategy lesson: voter suppression loses to data crunching: The Hathor Legacy (via brinstar)
Also, the media were pretty spectacularly off in all their predictions, either through faulty polling or cherry-picking of results to make the race look more interesting. At any rate, they ought to be fairly embarassed. They’re just as out of touch with the electorate as the Republicans are.
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yeah we didn’t want that guy running the country
if he won’t even take care of his own people, we know he wasn’t gonna take care of the rest of us.
what a swell guy
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Why White Women Voted for Romney : The New Yorker
56% of white women voted for Romney, 42% for Obama.
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WELP.
who wants to take a bet on whether this’ll get attention from white f*eminists? oh, no one? hm. (by the way - white women have skewed republican for a while, although this was the biggest margin in that direction in the last three elections.)
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yeah this goes well away from the narrative we’ve got going that white women support Obama. That’s only if you compare us to white men; on the whole, not so much.
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Mitt Romney’s loss on Tuesday laid bare a Republican demographic problem that, if not addressed, could transform the GOP into a permanent minority party.
Romney dominated among white voters, who made up 72 percent of the electorate: He won that group by 20 percentage points, according to thenational exit poll. But he was crushed among Latinos, who broke for President Obama 71 percent to 27 percent.
The former group is shrinking as a portion of the electorate. In 1988,they were 85 percent of all voters. By the year 2000, that was down to 81 percent. It’s fallen nine more points since them. The Latino population, meanwhile, is growing at a staggering pace: Latinos accounted for more than half of the U.S. population increase between 2000 and 2010,according to the 2010 census. The black and Asian vote, which also broke overwhelmingly for the president, is also growing. Blacks were 13 percent of the electorate this year, up from 10 percent in 1988; Asians have risen from one percent of the electorate to three percent over the past two decades.
It’s a demographic reality that already has some Republicans calling for a new course in the wake of Romney’s defeat.
“The conservative movement should have particular appeal to people in minority and immigrant communities who are trying to make it, and Republicans need to work harder than ever to communicate our beliefs to them,” said Florida Sen. Marco Rubio.
This is classic Republican Party post-Nixon.
Reconsider strategy, not your platform.
Come up with novel candidates, not novel ideas.
See, their idea of how to deal with the demographic reality of America today is to come up with different talking heads to say the same old shit to new groups. Get more black and latino candidates to talk about why affirmative action is bad and immigration should be super-difficult. They will never consider changing their basic set of ideas, which is that rich old white guys should continue to run everything via big business and big money, and that human rights should be parceled out according to their personal religious preferences. They’re just gonna look for new ways to sell it.
I don’t expect them to figure this out anytime soon. Especially as long as guys like Karl Rove are still around. Expect more of the same in 2016, to diminishing returns.
Adviser: Romney “shellshocked” by loss - CBS News (via apsies)
How? Did…did you SEE your campaign? Were you there? And this is really rich coming from a woman who has literally (I know what the word means and i’m using it correctly) cried audibly in public because she could not find the precise cheese she wanted for dinner after a long, stressful day? But why are you crying about this? I did not cry in 2000 or 2004. I understand being shocked that the black guy won once but come on.
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I’m really enjoying white tears week
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I’m here for white tears, yo.
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he didn’t even write a concession speech ahead of time.
wow.
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Mary Elizabeth Williams on why Romney’s concession speech was simply not gracious. (via bricksandmortarandchewinggum)
I agree, I thought Romney’s concession speech was shitty, ungracious, hollow, fatuous, unjustifiably pompous, utterly lacking in either substance or sincerity or preparation — in other words, reflective of his overall candidacy. This fucker didn’t write a concession speech in advance? Well that nicely captures one of the many reasons why this guy is absolutely unqualified for the job. This is a guy who draws up a risky battle plan without a fallback plan, totally unbefitting a competent strategist. He’s spent so much of his life getting away with half-assing it that he doesn’t even realize that others fastidiously double-check their Plans B and C and D and E before entering battle. Once the shots started flying, he got his ass handed to him. John McCain’s concession speech four years ago was gracious. Romney’s was a petulant foot-stomp. Hopefully the last one we’ll see from his ignoble figure.
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that’s the error bred in those like willard who have not clawed face to face with struggle and pain and fighting for what you are and have. they aren’t ready, they haven’t been made ready, they never see it coming.
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All of the barriers broken by women in politics last night are significant, but Duckworth’s is especially notable because of what she represents on so many fronts. Women veterans are routinely erased from the national conversation about military service and who comes back from war, and she’s a loud, defiant figure showing that women can be and are injured in combat, even as they’re excluded from most combat roles as the result of outdated policies. For women veterans who are used to being ignored and sent to the corner, Duckworth is a concrete sign of change.
more reasons to be psyched that Tammy Duckworth is going to Congress.
Ok, I know before long I’ll be complaining about messed up shit the government is still doing under Obama, but today? I like this dude, ok.
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“A Victory for Obama and Obama’s America” by John Cassidy | New Yorker
A change isn’t going to come. A change is already here.
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Tulsi Gabbard becomes first Hindu-American in US Congress
Washington, Nov 7 — While all five Indian-American candidates hoping to enter the US Congress lost out, Tulsi Gabbard today created history by becoming the first Hindu-American to enter the US House of Representatives.
An Iraq war veteran, 31-year-old Gabbard defeated K. Crowley of the Republican Party with a handsome margin in Hawaii’s second Congressional district. Her victory has been cheered by the Hindu-American community across the country.
The heavily Democratic district also elected one of two Buddhists to have ever served in the Congress, Mazie Hirono, who won her seat in 2006 but is now running for the US Senate.
Born in American Samoa to a Catholic father and a Hindu mother, Gabbard moved to Hawaii when she was two. In 2002, at age 21, she was elected to the Hawaii state legislature.
The next year, she joined the Hawaii National Guard, and in 2004 was deployed to Baghdad as a medical operations specialist. After completing officers’ training, she was deployed to Kuwait in 2008 to train the country’s counter-terrorism units.
“Although there are not very many Hindus in Hawaii, I never felt discriminated against. I never really gave it a second thought growing up that any other reality existed, or that it was not the same everywhere,” Gabbard said in a statement soon after she took an unbeatable lead over her Republican challenger.
“On my last trip to the mainland, I met a man who told me that his teenage daughter felt embarrassed about her faith, but after meeting me, she’s no longer feeling that way,” Gabbard said.
“He was so happy that my being elected to Congress would give hope to hundreds and thousands of young Hindus in America, that they can be open about their faith, and even run for office, without fear of being discriminated against or attacked because of their religion,” Gabbard said.
At 21, Gabbard became the youngest person elected to the Hawaii legislature. At 23, she was the state’s first elected official to voluntarily resign to go to war. At 28, she was the first woman to be presented with an award by the Kuwait Army National Guard.
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A collective post of things that are completely worth celebrating: in no particular order-
- Mazie Hirono (bottom left) from Hawaii becomes the first Asian-American woman (born in Japan) in the U.S. Senate. [x]
- Tammy Duckworth (top) from Illinois becomes the first disabled woman to be elected as Congresswomen. Also, she is half-Thai. [x]
- That means the rape apologist Joe Walsh has been kicked off. [x]
- Todd Akin who’s been quoted saying; “If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down” has also been outed from his seat. [x]
- As has the disgusting Richard Murdock who thinks “Rape is a gift from God”. Booted off. [x]
- Colorado has become the first state to legalize the recreational use and sale of marijuana. [x] And it’s predicted it will pass in Washington. [x]
- Maine and Maryland have voted for marriage equality, and Minnesota has voted for NOT passing a ban on marriage equality for same-sex couples. Washington almost has their referendum for marriage equality passed.
- Tammy Baldwin (bottom center) in Wisconsin becomes the first openly gay senator to be elected. [x]
- Mary Gonzalez (bottom right) of Texas is the first openly pansexual senator. [x]
Psst. This post has been edited to include the two people on the bottom, and thank you the people who sent me messages about them.
some of these, man.. we’ve NEVER had an asian-american woman in the senate before? never? That’s shameful. But high-five to you, Senator Hirono. And you too, Congresswoman Duckworth (first disabled woman in congress? dude). Thanks for taking out another rape apologist while you’re at it. AND both an openly gay and openly pansexual senator? The US Senate just got a lot more awesome.
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omg!
LOL Someone just won the internet
BEAUTIFUL!!!
hahahaha
it’s
so
beautiful
