Dancer and Prancer

Hope you enjoy my blog!! Basically I reblog what I want. Could be anything, who knows. .

[kirstengillibrand]

“and then he said, his temperament was his strongest asset”

I came out as a queer during football practice when my coach was like “son, you’re having trouble throwing straight” and I replied “I’m also having trouble being straight”. It got very quiet and then coach just shook his head and said “throw the damn ball, Cooper”

[ohmycarveredlund]

i have been laughing for 3 million years

[sheisraging]

I cannot believe that Donald Trump is a presidential candidate and people are still undecided between he and the Hillary Clinton. The woman who is standing up there and clearly, effortlessly refuting all his bullshit, who understands what needs to be done, and who knows how government works.

Flawed though she may be, there is a perfectly clear choice in this election. 

This man knows nothing. He has answered no questions with anything relevant. This is bullshit, circular nonsense and childishness. We cannot have this man-baby running the country. This is ridiculous.

[thedailyshow]

Jordan Klepper attends a Trump rally to catch up on all the hottest conspiracy theories.

[rayvone-deactivated20200430]

SCREAMING

[blackgirlshit]

I have a fucking headache

[ancestorswatching]

I just lost half of my brain cells reading that.

[tyleroakley]

THESE PEOPLE WILL BE VOTING. MAKE SURE YOU DO TOO.

REGISTER TO VOTE HERE.

[candyphoenix]

Clinton: trump has failed to ever pay federal taxes

trump: lol ya cuz I'm smart

clinton: wat

USA: wat

trump: China

[brbjellyfishing]

[beautifulblackmen]

The Internet is amazing

[cumnog]

“According to Billboard, on-demand audio streams of Nelly’s 2002 smash single have sky-rocketed by 219 percent following the initial news of his tax troubles.”

[blogfrenzy-deactivated20170507]

Are you fucking kidding me?

[brbjellyfishing]

Chaotic good

[canisleepinyourroom]

@weedmoon98

[bloom--again-deactivated2019061]

BAHAHAH jesus lord. can we channel this same energy to keep Trump from being elected? 

[plaidadder]

Hillary Clinton played Donald Trump like a grand piano tonight. And I would like a million encores.

I want everyone to know what Hillary Clinton did tonight. It isn’t just that she ‘won’ the debate; Democratic presidential candidates have been winning these debates on substance since 1980 and often, it doesn’t help them in the election. She went in there tonight with two objectives: 1) make people warm up to her personally and 2) make Donald Trump self-destruct. Donald Trump’s objective was to make people believe that he is a grown-up, or at least that he can pretend to be a grown-up for ninety minutes. 

I knew how it was going to go down as soon as she said, “Donald, it’s good to be with you.” I knew for two reasons. First: because she really meant it. She was genuinely pleased to be on a stage with him. And it’s not because she likes him. It’s because she knew she was going to fuck him up and she knew exactly how she was going to do it and she was really looking forward to it.  

Second: she called him Donald. She called him Donald all night long. Consistently and deliberately and for three good reasons. One: it reminds everyone that he has never held a position that gives him any right to a title other than “Mr.” Two: it seems friendly, but it also really pisses him off. And three: By calling him Donald, she avoided repeating his brand name.

This is the level on which Clinton and her team are working. Donald Trump has staked everything on his last name–the name he inherited from his father. It’s Trump this, Trump that, Trump the other. When he puts his name on a thing, it doesn’t say Donald anywhere, it just says TRUMP. TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP. Trump is a good brand name. It’s a noun, it’s a verb, it’s triumphant-sounding. “Donald” has none of those qualities. If she’d been calling him “Mr. Trump,” every time she said it, she would be advertising the Trump brand, which is of course the exact opposite of what she’s there to do. So she called him Donald. And he could not take it.

Without losing her temper, raising her voice, or descending to his level, she made that bastard reveal himself to the Jedi. She brought up things that are going to seem completely unsympathetic to voters, but of which Trump himself is really proud: like not paying any federal taxes (”That makes me smart,” Trump said), stiffing his contractors (”Maybe they didn’t do good work,” Trump said; “I took advantage of the laws,” Trump said), his repeated bankruptcies, the $14 million loan from his father (”A very small loan,” Trump called it). She noted that he exploited the housing crisis for personal gain (”That’s called business,” Trump said). She called him out for his racism; he responded by proving that she’s right (Trump, apparently, is aggrieved that he did not get a medal for opening a club that did not discriminate against Black people even though it was in a really nice part of Florida). When he made what to me was a cryptic jab about her “staying home” while he was traveling, she just smiled and said, “I think Donald just criticized me for preparing for this debate. And yes, I did. You know what else I prepared for? I prepared to be President. And I think that’s a good thing.”

He tried to talk over her. She ignored him. That was beautiful. One, because it’s exactly the way Trump should be treated, all the time; and two, because it made him even madder. His inability to get a rise out of her made him lose his mind. This is a man who wants to be President of the United States. And he spent an entire 2-minute segment begging people to call Sean Hannity so he could vouch for the fact that Trump was always against the Iraq war. Nobody would talk to Sean Hannity, he complained. Why would no one talk to Sean Hannity?

She was capable of actually remembering the original question and getting around to answering it after dealing with the human distraction standing next to her. He often seemed to completely forget the question seconds into his answer. At times, he was so busy talking over the moderator that he didn’t even hear the question. 

Hillary Clinton has been dealing with entitled, narcissistic, patronizing, asshole men her entire life as a Senator and as Secretary of State. She has skills in this area. She used them all tonight; and she enjoyed doing it. She looked like she was at ease, confident, and having a great time. She looked young. That was the way I put it to Mrs. Plaidder, and she agreed. She looked fresh, and energized, and exhilarated by the challenge. And that only made Trump’s “stamina” bullshit seem even dumber.

She stayed focused, despite his distractions. She dropped every bomb she came to drop at exactly the right moment. She used everything he bragged about against him. She made him too mad to put together a coherent sentence. And she smiled.

We knew she could to the job. We now know she can win this election.

During, I believe, the 2012 presidential election, people used to pass around a photo of Obama pointing forcefully at the camera with the caption, “Everybody chill the fuck out. I got this.” 

Y’all can chill the fuck out now. Hillary Clinton has this shit handled. She knows how he works and if he is ever fool enough to share a stage with her again she will fillet him. And yes. I AM WITH HER.

[tyleroakley]

make sure you’re registered to vote HERE, it’s so easy to do.

[the-movemnt-deactivated20170912]

Colin Kaepernick’s National Anthem protest continues to spread like wildfire

Naysayers doubting the staying power of Colin Kaepernick’s protest got more proof over the weekend that taking a knee during the national anthem is attracting more and more supporters. 

From school sporting events to the opening of the new National African American museum in D.C., people are kneeling and raising their fists. Kaepernick himself gave visited and then gave a rousing speech to high school football players in Oakland.

follow @the-movemnt

[shakirugh]

[teamrocketing]

you can tell from her eyes how offended she is and yet she gives such an incredibly eloquent response. shakira is an angel sent by god himself. bless her.

[c-bassmeow]

she is literally a genius, takes college classes for fun, knows five languages fluently, made a non-profit as a young woman that helps poor children in Colombia many  afro-colombian, can play four instruments, and she is literally an angel who has a pure heart like thank u for being born like i can go on and on 

[femininefreak]

That is one upside of this debate. Women everywhere will now have a concrete, tangible example of mansplaining. 

[just-shower-thoughts]

I’m pretty sure the best part of tonight’s debate will be when BadLipReading posts their video tomorrow.

[chonce]

not voting for hillary clinton is a vote for donald trump

[4rkham-asylum]

But also THERE ARE MORE THAN TWO CHOICES IN THIS ELECTION pls people, I know it seems unlikely, but if everyone who didn’t want either candidate wrote in a name, someone else would stand a chance [and we could live with ourselves, not having voted for one or the other]

[chonce]

no they wouldn’t, literally do not do this

please educate yourself about nader and the 2000 presidential election before encouraging this literally terrible idea

[somepretty-things]

People on both sides say “Not voting for my candidate is a vote for the other guy” No, it’s just not a vote for your fucking candidate. Vote for who you actually believe in, otherwise you might as well not vote. If Hillary actually gave a damn she would try harder than just say “Vote for me cause I’m not Trump” No bitch, how about you show me something I can believe in. God damn, no wonder so many people don’t fucking vote.

[teamironmanforever]

*sigh*

Let me explain why they say a vote for a 3rd candidate or not voting for Hillary is voting for Trump:

The United States does not have a direct democratic voting system. We have an indirect system called the electoral college.The electoral college is  a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens.

To win the Presidency you do not need a popular majority; you need the majority of votes of the electoral college. 

The way the college works is that the two parties select the delegates that will serve as electors, and the electors pledge to vote for the candidates, depending on their party affiliation, of either the democratic or republican party. So, when people go vote, they are actually going to vote for electors that have pledged to vote for a specific party/candidate. 

Each state is allocated a different number of electoral seats, and so not every state is truly worth the same given that every candidate is racing to secure 270 seats (minimum required to win the election). 

What’s important to note is that the electoral college is a winner take all vote in 48 of the 50 states, meaning that the candidate with the higher number of votes in a given state will get ALL of the seats. This is one of the reasons why third party candidates are a wasted vote. 

Based on our country’s history, most States around the country have already been defined as either red or blue, because the majority of the people that go and vote in said states tend to stick to either one or the other no matter who is on the ballot. It becomes a bit of loyalism to a party or, more accurately, just a strong distaste towards the ideals of the other party. However, there are a few swing states that really define the elections, for each election cycle they tend to change depending on who is on the ballot. 

Now, third party candidates, which is often used as a protest vote, have never worked because a) they are not written into every state ballot, meaning that there are states that don’t offer these candidates given that they did not qualify b) have rarely gotten enough votes to even be up for electoral seats c) ALWAYS end up hurting one of the two candidates, for, in close runs, they can make one of the other two candidates lose a SWING STATE.

This is what happened with Ralph Nader in 2000. The votes that he received hurt Gore in certain states, particularly florida, which led to Bush winning as he had the majority of electoral seats even though he did not have the majority in popular vote. 

Now, in the latest poll, it shows that the race between Hillary and trump is very close, and, when third party candidates are involved, it actually HURTS Hillary’s chances. 

Now, if it hurts her enough, Trump can obtain the much needed swing states. If he gets over 270 seats (and thus more than hillary) he WILL win the goddamn election. 

This is not a year to vote for a third party candidate. This is not a man you want in the oval office of the most powerful country in the world. 

There is nothing NOTHING you can pull out that will make Trump the lesser of two evils. 

We live in a country that has a two party system, so yes, a vote for a 3rd party candidate or a non-vote IS actually a vote for trump. 

[trishmishtree]

[zohbugg]

And if you still don’t get why voting third party will never make a difference in this country and in fact ensure the election of the candidate you don’t like, listen to this nice man explain it with animals so it’s easier to understand

I was a Bernie supporter too, but “Bernie or Bust”ers are fucking idiots. Yes the system is corrupt, but you certainly wont fix anything by letting Trump win. Put your personal ideals aside for the good of the country. 

[accessandoctane]

Here, I even made a graph

If Everyone Pulls Together And Votes Hillary

If Y’all “Bernie Or Bust” People Vote Third Party

See? Not that hard.

[skygenders]

[chrissongzzz]

AIN’T GOD GOOD?! ?????

[cocomichellex]

Made my day 🙌🏾

[vegathebeast-deactivated2017092]

Now if we can get more of this

[divine-noire]

Officer Alex, we got your back ✊🏾

[reverseracism]

Can we take a moment to look how deeply imbedded racism is as a system when it comes to law enforcement?

This man reported his racist police chief who should NOT be in that position of power, because it opens doors to racial abuse. Instead of having a weight lifted off his shoulder… He is fearing for his life.

That is wrong beyond reason. He shouldn’t be fearing for his life. Also, the other officers shouldn’t be giving him reason to fear for his life. The police are the worst gang of them all.

[revvolutioned]

read more about Officer Alex Stone here

[yemme]

Kylie Bunbury.

[thundergrace]

I just died like twelve times. We must protect her.

[etherealnoir]

This is so well deserved.

[withgraceandlight99]

Everyone reblog one (or more) things they’re excited for in Season 5. It doesn’t have to be Olicity, or Oliver or Felicity related. Just something. We need to get some happy thoughts going! We’ve got NINE DAYS LEFT before the premiere! It’s time to get excited for this!!!! 

I’m excited for the dynamic between Oliver and the new kids, especially Evelyn. It could be a great opportunity for another big brother-little sister story. 

Thea working in the Mayor office! 

That shirtless scene Stephen tweeted about involving Wild Dog

[chaossmagic]

Bratva flashbacks

Fierce smol Evelyn Sharp (I love her okay she’s tiny and adorable and scary)

Oliver being the grumpy mentor for the new kids and how he’s gonna get along with them (or not!)

Curtis’s Mr Terrific arc (as long as it involves nothing bad happening to his husband as the reason for his realization as a superhero)

Finding out who Prometheus really is

Oliver and Felicity’s reconciliation 

Mayor Queen 

The reuniting of OTA and Oliver helping Thea, John, and Felicity through their own struggles and supporting them like they’ve done for him over the years

Felicity’s PTSD arc and potentially how she might connect with Oliver over the mutual experience of trauma and how that might lead partly to them reconciling and getting back together