pussy facing the world

every day is all there is

[brookbee]

David Bowie performing the song "Cracked Actor," 1974

[r04ches]

am i even mentally ill or am i just living in some kind of infinite torture chamber that would make anyone like this

[errorschacha]

Periodic reminder that everybody who aided Trump's reelection should be miserable constantly and that no amount of pain or suffering is too much for them.

[asystolle]

Romeo + Juliet (1996) dir. Baz Luhrmann

[anxeious]

[femalegothic]

my life long belief that handedness is a choice is a very low stakes example of why it's important to check your own priors

[spirulin4]

there is a pain inside me so stupid that i'm not going to communicate it to anyone

[femalegothic]

I knit in such a bizarre way that I have a hard time following tutorials sometimes

[femalegothic]

trying to teach myself to crochet left handed because I'm dealing with some wrist pain and I'm having trouble tensioning the yarn with my RIGHT hand for some reason 😩

[hocketing]

i am sooo pro-cheating in fiction omg wdym you want them to ethically break things up with their significant other before getting together that actively makes it less hot 🙄 like literally whats the point then 🙄 bring back UNETHICAL NON-MONOGAMY!!!!

[sivavakkiyar]

Eugene Chadbourne, I Hate The Man Who Runs This Bar!

[femalegothic]

polygamous people are not a marginalized group lmao

[femalegothic]

sakura is the main character to me. It's her world, naruto and sasuke are just living in it.

[femalegothic]

Yeah I just need to have some hope. Last year was so awful. I need to believe there is a future that will be better.

I want to have hope too. I want democrats to take the senate and the house. I want to believe that it's still possible. But that's why I'm so frustrated with what's going down in Maine. I'm genuinely very angry the supposed progressives threw their weight and money behind someone so toxic that we may lose this unique opportunity to finally flip that seat.

[femalegothic]

Yes, I understand the difference between a primary and a general election. But you are still ignoring all the evidence that this year is markedly different (especially for the 'independents' Collins used to rely on). She will not be able to fall back on her bipartisan schtick - she has tied herself too tightly with Republicans. She will have to answer for rural healthcare, abortion, tariffs, inflation, Iran, ICE, even her billionaire donors. She's going to clutch her pearls about Platner while slavishly supporting Trump, Epstein's best friend? Collins will say he is unfit and Platner will say so is the pedophile rapist you support. She is also just physically much weaker and older. She will not fare well in a debate.

I'm not ignoring that she's in the weakest position she's ever been in. What you're ignoring is that she's actually a very skilled politician with an established track record of keeping independents on side by strategically breaking with republicans on key issues and successfully downplaying her weakest issues by highlighting the material benefits she's been able to bring to Maine as a senator. Maybe this time she will have finally pushed moderate and independent Mainers too far, but she's not held onto that seat this long by accident. It would be a mistake to underestimate her and the reputation she's built with Maine voters specifically, especially when her opponent is an inexperienced, scandal-ridden liar with a history for voting her.

[reallyreallyreallytrying]

you're not making enough of stone fruit season. that's another thing you're fucking up. a few dozen stone fruit seasons you get your whole life. you need to take a hard look at your peach and mango consumption.

[femalegothic]

Twitter was not the deciding factor in the Maine primary. And again, if Mills was such a great candidate, why couldn't she raise money too and actually compete?

Also, here's a fun fact: Republicans were able to flip 10 House seats in special elections during the 1st Trump admin before the 2018 blue wave. So far in the second, Democrats have flipped 30 seats and have defended every one of their seats. Republicans have not flipped any and have lost even in a deep red district in Texas (that had not voted for Democrats since the early 90s). And for polls - gotta look at the crosstabs. Most are assuming the same 2024 electorate (or even R+2 in some I've seen).

And also, there's over 4 months still. I don't see how Republicans can improve their prospects (besides obviously their attempts to cheat) but there's plenty of opportunities for things to get worse.

(Also, sorry if the tone is coming off wrong, I mean this all just conversationally).

I've not made the argument that Mills was a great candidate. I don't know if she could have beat Susan Collins. All I've said on that matter is that there's a reason that moderate Democrats encouraged her to run, which is that she's got a lot of the same appeal as Collins while also being a democrat, the hope being that she'd be able to carry both democrats and enough independents to flip the seat.

Also Platner out fundraising raising her doesn't necessarily mean she was a bad candidate either, it just means he had some deep and well connected pockets backing him. This is specifically where Twitter comes into play because he raised a lot of money outside of Maine and that was the work of the podcast bro commentariat glazing the hell out of him to their audience.

Furthermore, primary and general elections are very different beasts, especially in a state like Maine that has a semi-closed primary. In the primary, she and platner were splitting only Democrat and unaffiliated votes. In the general, platner and Collins will be competing for independents and moderates, which Collins has historically won. Collins is a notoriously strong incumbent candidate that consistently over performs polls and we have months left for the republicans to absolutely batter him in the media.

Republicans as a whole are unlikely to improve their prospects between now and the election, but Collins is the cockroach of republicans. Getting her out of that seat will not be easy even in under such dire conditions for republicans and I really don't think that the Nazi tattooed sex pest is going be the one to finally defeat her.