pundit is an angel

••• a side blog (liking/following from cucumbermelondishsoap)

[dogsofthepod]

aaron sorkin may have committed many war crimes in his day but “if you were in an accident i wouldn’t stop for red lights” will forever be one of the greatest lines in television history and you can’t change my mind

[freakoutgirl]

the internet seems like a distant dream

[freakoutgirl]

whatever we are on rn is not the internet. It's ads

[marisatomay]

at the risk of being cringe with everything going on — this week, the last six months, the past five years — i keep thinking about that one quote from the great gatsby

[marisatomay]

“they were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”

[marisatomay]

it’s just every day now, huh.

[boylebingo]

yuna to shane and ilya in the heated rivalry finale:

[gena-rowlands]

WHEN HARRY MET SALLY… (1989)

[marisatomay]

The moral arc of the universe is long but it bends towards RPF

[doctorcurdlejr]

rpf that makes you say curious and curiouser

[doctorcurdlejr]

rpf that makes you say solved at last

[stillgotscars]

so the new pope is from chicago, illinois

[stillgotscars]

the rise and fall of a midwest pope

[marisatomay]

THE NEW POPE IS AN AMERICAN

[dogsofthepod]

hope everyone had a happy thanksgiving i made pecan pie bars and they were a hit will be riding this high for at least a week 🫡

[dogsofthepod]

look at this drink i had she’s so pretty 😋

[dogsofthepod]

perhaps against my better judgement i did decide to make a blue sky account if you would like to come find me on there @/hannahhedgehog

[marisatomay]

I’m somehow less shocked than I was in 2016 but also more despondent. 2016 was a violent shock to my system. I cried the whole night. Now I just feel a deep unending ache in me. What an awful year.

[marisatomay]

I think also there was some minor comfort in 2016 knowing that he lost the popular vote. We could tell ourselves that We The People didn’t actually choose him.

The People spoke this time though and they decided that they don’t care that he is who he is they just want eggs to “cost less” and fewer immigrants by any means necessary, damn the repercussions.

I don’t know where we go from here.

I’m trying not to be fatalistic here but I do think that there is a reality check that is going to come within the next year that will change us all. This will not be like last time. This will be so very much worse.

In 2016 I was told by many people in my life that I was being hysterical for knowing in my bones that abortion was going to die after he won because that’s what he said he was going to do and you should believe fascists when they say what they’re going to do. God help us all if he does everything he’s said he’s going to do this time.

Last time he did, at least in retrospect, have a few people around him who believed in the American government and how it’s supposed to work. Last time he didn’t know how things worked and which levers to push. He does now. This time it’ll be exclusively people like JD Vance (evil), RFK jr (stupid), and Elon Musk (evil and stupid). The one saving grace will be that Trump is so tempestuous that none of them are likely to stay around for long. We can only hope their replacements are not even worse than them.

The second he’s in office Alito and Thomas are retiring from the Supreme Court and he’s installing two 35 year olds who make Kavanaugh look like Bernie Sanders. They’re going to overturn Obergefell and any number of other civil rights won over the decades.

He’s going to raze Gaza to the ground. All of it. Same with Ukraine. He might even break the nuclear taboo to do it.

He’s going to start rounding people up. He’s going to prosecute his “enemies”. He’s said he’s going to do it and I believe him. Protect yourself. Protect yourself.

I don’t know where we go from here. There is an evil in this country that has existed since its original sin. I had deluded myself into thinking at least a majority of us were trying to be better than that. I was wrong.

[dogsofthepod]

took a little accidental nap before but i think im gonna try my best to actually call it a night now folks… sending strength <3

[dogsofthepod]

good news so far:

new york just passed the equal rights amendment! i’m so proud of everyone in my state for rejecting the transphobic and anti immigrant rhetoric that the right was trying to push to shut it down

sarah mcbride is set to become our first trans member of congress! this is great!

the self admitted n*zi lost the north carolina gubernatorial race! nice to know this is still a red line for people, and even better to know that man will not be anywhere near lawmaking

[marisatomay]

[dogsofthepod]

finding out my best friend got engaged and that the selzer poll has iowa at harris +3 within like 6 hours of each other yesterday might have been the best afternoon of news I could ever hope for