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[batboyblog]

President Biden's plan for the first 100 days of his next term:

—Restore Roe v. Wade

—Sign John Lewis Voting Rights Act

—Expand Social Security and Medicare

—End all medical debt

—Raise the minimum wage

—Pass the PRO Act for workers

—Ban assault weapons

—Lead the world on clean energy

—Permanent child tax credit

—$35 insulin cap for all

—Build more housing

—Invest in child care and elder care

you want that? FIGHT! for it, check if you're registered to vote and then find a way to volunteer, everyone can make a difference everyone!

[centropristis]

Also for those of you saying “why doesn’t he do it now”, he doesn’t have a Blue Congress. If he gets a blue Congress, he can pass these, but if either the house or senate stays red, no progress can get made. Vote.

[jaegerisim]

Some of yall needed to hear this

Credits to @/mattxiv on Instagram

[justeliiijah]

Sources confirming this include

Project 2025 website

BBC News explanation of Project 2025

Wikipedia page on Project 2025

MsMagazine’s explanation of Project 2025

NewRepublic’s explanation of Project 2025

Trump says he doesn’t know shit about P2025, ABC News theorizes he’s full of it

you can find plenty more information on Project 2025 on any reputable news source, but I thought I’d confirm OP wasn’t full of fear-mongering shit, ‘cuz this is insane.

[lady-raziel]

Reblogging because this has additional links for more info and because this is one of the best concise summaries of project 2025 I’ve seen—good reference for people to understand the conservative game plan in both the coming years and their long term goals.

The important thing I’d note is that while this transition plan and objective set was created for Donald Trump, it is not necessarily specific to him—this is the distillation of what conservatives have wanted for a long time and WILL CONTINUE TO PUSH FOR even after Trump is no longer in the picture someday. They are proposing it now because they know Trump will be likely to enact these proposals, but understand this: the things outlined in the graphics above are the world the Republican Party envisions going forward regardless of who their candidate is. They are not going away. Unless time and time again those who oppose this vision fight the Republicans at every level of government, one by one the hard fought wins those in the past have achieved will be stripped away.

Look, I have no idea what’s going to happen at the top of the Democratic ticket. And I will be the very first to list the problems I have with the way the Democratic Party is run. But I firmly believe that helping the Democrats defeat the extremely harmful things the other side wants to do needs to be a priority, and that the only way the Democrats ARE going to get reformed and start finally listening to the people they claim to represent is by making changes while working inside and alongside the party. Remembering what stands to be lost is a good reminder on why it’s important not just to throw up our hands and say it’s all fucked and there’s no hope for politics.

[w0lp3rtinger]

"- I have a lot of problems with Biden. He is clearly the better of the two options, which I recognize is a very low bar. Being better than Trump cannot be the standard, because Donald Trump is the absence of a standard.

"But the truth is, even if Trump looses, that won't be the end of this. The people who cooked up Project 2025 will just move onto Project 2029 instead, because for them, this is so much more than just one election, or indeed, one candidate. Project 2025 is born from impulse as old as America. It's an impulse that says one class of Americans is entitled to lead, and the rest of us are lucky to be allowed to serve- that thinks there should be a limited government when it comes to rules they have to live by, but also a unitary executive to keep the rest of us in line. These are old, old ideas that have been shouted from podiums-... but have now been placed into a new handbook for an only too willing president to use on day one.

"And in a perfect world, I would love if we had an opposing party better able to articulate a strong defense of our country's ideals and that also consistently lived up to them. People are entitled to hope for more from the next four years than someone just not being Trump (and for at least two supreme court justices to die)-...

"And for anyone tempted to think, 'Well, we survived Trump's first term,' first, not everyone did, and it should hopefully be very clear by now a second Trump term really does promise to be far, far worse, because if Trump's first term was defined by chaos, his second could be defined by ruthless efficiency. That should be troubling to absolutely everyone because Project 2025 is a movement who's members joke about wanting a white homeland and insist women have to have more babies to uphold western society.-

"We need to be better than this."

-John Oliver, June 19th of 2024

[guerrillatech]

[lierdumoa]

"If stuff was just handed to me I'd have no motivation to do anything! That's human nature!" No, babe, that's depression. Psychologically healthy people are still motivated to do things even when their survival isn't being actively threatened.

[dramaticowl]

[Image description: tweet by Roxi Horror @roxiqt on March 30, 2022 at 11:13 AM: “’Oh, so you think everyone should just be handed enough money to live?’ lol. lmao. yeah.”]

[ruinedrainbowpooka]

okay so like, we all know that housekeeping in a hotel is a Shit Job, right?

I worked with a woman who was independently wealthy. But she liked working housekeeping. So she did. And if the manager got bitchy with her, she’d just shrug and be like “Okay, I can quit.”

Like the manager treated her like a human being because she knew she had to because otherwise she’d lose one of her best workers.

Yes, everyone should be just handed the money to live.

[actualaster]

I worked with a lady who’s husband made more than enough to support them both.  She just did the retail to have something to do with herself part-time.

There’s a lot of people who’d happily do the same sort of thing.  Honestly?  A lot of the jobs we consider “shitty” jobs?  Are shitty because the employees are treated like garbage.

If employees weren’t being screwed over by people higher up the chain constantly or being forced to kiss the asses of customers currently shitting all over them, those jobs would by and large be a whole lot more bearable, and appealing to more people!!

[amuseoffyre]

Plus rich people are just handed a lot of money, whether they earn it or not, and no one questions that. Only poor people getting money gets interrogated over and over and over again.

[giantgayratthatmakesalltherules]

I’d like to add a footnote to this thread that the US gives more money (by way of the income tax reduction) to homeowners than it does to poor people who need subsidized housing.

[hulking-godless-child-beast]

My best teacher in high school was the guy who had previously made a ton of money that he could’ve retired at like 30. Man just wanted to teach teenagers.

If people as a whole were handed enough money to live on, maybe more people like him wouldn’t be put off by the poor salary teachers make. (also teachers should be paid a lot more)

[atopfourthwall]

There's also this assumption that if people were just handed enough money to live that they'd do absolutely nothing, as if they'd be satisfied being completely bored all the time. They'd still buy food. They'd still buy video games. They'd still go out and get coffee and put money into the economy even if they didn't want to work because they still want to LIVE. They'd buy movies. They'd go DO stuff. I review comic books on the internet and I love doing it, but I often have to compromise on some things because I just can't afford to do otherwise and I stress out about stuff because I need to earn money.

[resisteverything]

One time I heard a dude online compare new and obscure LGBT terminology to newspeak. This I think is one of the biggest examples I have seen of people with their whole chest ignoring the basic themes of 1984.

In 1984 the whole point of newspeak was that it shrinks. Ideas that could once be communicated now cannot. Everything is simplified as much as possible. You cannot explain complicated ideas of freedom or equality because the words no longer exist, or they don’t mean what they once did.

More specifically, there is canonically no word for “gay” in 1984. There are only two words for the entire spectrum of sexuality. “goodsex” and “sexcrime”. If you’re gay it’s the exact same as being a pedophile. And those are is the exact same as cheating on your wife, which is the exact same daring to fuck your wife just because you feel like it. Which is no different than literally any sex act that might offend big brother.

Do you see what’s happening? In 1984 can no longer ask your wife to peg you or something because the word for pegging is the exact same word for pedophile. And you can’t come out as gay because all you can say is that you did a criminal sex act, which means you cannot make a case for your rights either.

Inventing made up words to describe obscure things that previously lacked words would literally be a perfect remedy to newspeak. This language would counter every barrier to communicating the necessary concepts. Because it’s what literally every normal non-dystopian language does.

[atopfourthwall]

Keep this in mind especially in regards to what's happening in Florida right now. They associate LGBT+ content with grooming, define it as pedophilia or child abuse or sexual crimes or etc. Then they pass laws calling for sex offenders to be executed. Bigots or morons claim "Oh, why are you against these anti-child abuse laws?!" Because the state is trying to redefine LGBT+ activity and individuals as being the same as child abuse. For all the bluster and anger over "Grrr, words don't mean anything anymore! These terms I grew up with don't matter anymore!" the truth is THEY are the ones trying to limits what words mean because they want to associate certain groups of people with evil people to make more innocent/ignorant individuals be okay with hurting those groups of people.

[m0unta1ndude]

dr who’s on first, doctor strange is on second and doctor house is on third. theres no way theyre getting through a single inning

[four-rabbits-in-a-trenchcoat]

so who’s on first?

[you-say-that-so-often]

That’s right 👍🏻

[four-rabbits-in-a-trenchcoat]

that’s strange

[you-say-that-so-often]

No, he’s on second.

[four-rabbits-in-a-trenchcoat]

Well how’s he on second if he’s on first?

[you-say-that-so-often]

No no no, House is on third. Second base is Strange.

[supreme-leader-stoat]

Well this whole darn thing is strange but what I’m asking is who’s on first?

[cplus902]

Naturally.

[supreme-leader-stoat]

Who?

[tornadointhetundra]

Naturally.

[supreme-leader-stoat]

So Naturally is the first baseman?

[tornadointhetundra]

No. The first baseman is Who.

[supreme-leader-stoat]

Well I don’t know that so how’s about you tell me?

[tornadointhetundra]

House is on Third.

[supreme-leader-stoat]

I’m not asking you about third base I’m asking you about first base.

[tornadointhetundra]

Who’s on first!

[supreme-leader-stoat]

This is horrible

[tornadointhetundra]

Dr Horrible is the pitcher, not first base

[supreme-leader-stoat]

That’s not what I’m asking about! No!

[jimwilldrawforyou]

#ReasonsICouldNeverQuitTheInternet

[eldritchsandwich]

“In my work with the defendants (at the Nuremberg Trails 1945-1949) I was searching for the nature of evil and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants, a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”

—

Captain G. M. Gilbert, the Army psychologist assigned to watching the defendants at the Nuremberg trials

Quoting two Redditors:

“Conservatives attack empathetic people all the time. They invent new slurs just for empathy every 15 years, like “politically correct”, or “bleeding heart”, or “woke”, etc.Restricted or nonexistent empathy is a prerequisite for conservative ideology.”

“The entire conservative ethos, everything they say and do, is completely consistent when your starting point is: no empathy.The bad part is that a lack of fundamental empathy is a somewhat innate quality, established in your first few years.  It’s very hard to acquire later in life.  So a lot of conservatives are beyond redemption.“

(via wilwheaton)

[atopfourthwall]

Empathy was honestly probably one of the things that broke me of my conservative beliefs. I kept being told “Oh, people are lazy” or “These things aren’t REAL problems; they’re just making them up / it used to be a problem but not a problem anymore” or some such things. But then I kept being confronted by the realities of the world - people suffering, struggling, and doing their best yet were continually being told “it’s not good enough / you’re just lazy, etc.” I saw people terrified of a conservative gaining power and losing things that would help them stay alive. I saw racism and sexism and bigotry and conservatives saying that it wasn’t any of those things. I saw people dying and conservatives saying it was deserved, that we shouldn’t feel sorry for people. I saw people claim to be Christian while expressing hostility and disdain instead of love and empathy. I thought we had learned the lessons of history - that even if we were harsh that kindness WAS necessary, that violence is not strength and and compassion is not weakness.. …and time and again conservatives displayed the opposite. They went further and further away from it, embracing cruelty and hatred and scoffing at the idea of being good to the less fortunate, to not slander and slur their fellows, to recognize that sometimes empathy - caring about others - is the most important trait we have. That THAT is our humanity, our greatest strength. Instead they embraced inhumanity. Selfishness. Greed. Claimed that acts of goodness were actually evil plots to subvert and destroy an imaginary way of life they had never even witnessed themselves, propagandized into believing that the only truth they’d ever not hypocritically say the opposite of is this: hate your enemy above all else - “to own the libs,” as it were. I have left that state of mind and I pray to God I never reenter it.

[comicsareforkids]

Fourth in a series I of comics about protesting safety tips I made with @this.is.ysabel . This one is about the dangers of police surveillance and how to avoid it if possible. Keep being safe when you go out. Don’t get snatched!

[huffylemon]

[huffylemon]

an important addition

[william-snekspeare]

creacher

[jimwilldrawforyou]

King of the Monsters

[70sscifiart]

RIP Jean-Claude Mézières

[jimwilldrawforyou]

Count Duckula - No Sax Please, We're Egyptian clip

Count Duckula finds himself a more-or-less-human sacrifice when he decides to try and loot the pyramid of the Pharaoh Upshe.From the very first episode.

We don’t talk enough about Count Duckula and how funny it was. I was reminded of this from looking at some of the duck comics of @modmad  When I watched this as a little kid I used to imagine it took place in the same universe as Ducktales.

[marauders4evr]

Abled Person: Hey man, can you hold this wad of $2,000 and this one penny for me while I open my wallet?

Disabled Person: YOU COMPLETE AND UTTER FOOL!

The United States Government:

(Watch how many people don’t get this.)

[marauders4evr]

#raises hand #i dont understand #please explain? 

In order for disabled people to receive any sort of financial assistant for their housing, food, bills, medical supplies, etc., they cannot ever have more than $2,000 of resources to their name. Ever.

It doesn’t matter what it’s for.

You’re saving up for a new wheelchair?

For college?

To put a downpayment on a house?

Hell man, you just happen to budget for once in your life so that you can have some extra money in case something bad happens?

Your benefits immediately get cut off if you’re a cent over $2,000.

And, even worse, you usually end up having to pay back every dollar the government gave you that month.

So say you get $400. If they find out you’re twenty dollars over the resource limit, you have to give them all $400 back and you undergo an investigation of your funds to see if you will continue getting money.

“What if I spend the money that day?”

Doesn’t matter. In fact, from what I can tell, people who do this are actually put under investigation for fraud.

And yes, this system literally kills people.

[locuas642]

Remember when “Guardians of the Galaxy” came out? one of Rocket Racoon’s creators, Bill Mantlo, suffered an accident in 1992 and has irreparable brain damage.

before the movie came out, Marvel gave him an exclusive preview screening. SOme people were upset because they felt if Marvel was really wanted to thank mantlo, they should have donated money to Mantlo’s family.

Bill Mantlo’s brother had to come out and explain: If Marvel gave them monetary aid, Bill Mantlo would lose his financial assistance.

[rootbeergoddess]

That’s so utterly depressing.

[sushinfood]

disgusting

[beeskeepony]

I have friends on welfare who won’t pick up a penny in the street because they’d risk the welfare they struggled to get for 10 years.

[raenboow]

oh look another fucked up thing in this world. let’s just add it to the list. number 63858b

[luvtonique]

My brother has been on California State SSI for autism for the last 10 years, and he absolutely has to (no joke, HAS TO) spend all 720 bucks of his SSI every month, because if he puts it in the bank he risks losing his SSI altogether.

Sometimes, at the end of the month, he has no idea what to do with his money because the whole month went by and he still has 400-ish bucks in his account, and he fucking panics because he doesn’t want to get anywhere near 2,000.

And here’s the funnest part of the story!

One day he did a huge commission on Second Life and wound up earning 1500 bucks off of it, and he told the guy to donate it 500 bucks at a time over 3 months. The guy didn’t want to, and just donated all 1500, which put my brother at 2,036 bucks.

The state IMMEDIATELY (I’m talking less than an hour) called him up to tell him over the phone that they were canceling his SSI, because they noticed he had gone over the 2,000 buck threshold. He had to tell them that someone had made a charitable donation to him and that this was not a common occurrence in any way shape or form, and upon not believing him, my mother had to call to talk to them as his legal caretaker and say basically the same thing until they called off the cancellation of his SSI money.

He also had to cancel his renter’s assistance because it put him to 1,062 a month, so if he went 30 days without spending any money they’d cancel his SSI altogether. Like, none of us in the family have any fucking clue why that regulation is in place and it’s the stupidest shit in human history.

Please, legal side of Tumblr, tell me what positive reasoning this law has?

[sodomymcscurvylegs]

Happy 4th of July everyone! This is what the “nation of opportunity” looks like.

[xfirecorex]

There’s something called an ABLE account that can help. If you are on SSI and were diagnosed as disabled before the age of 26 you can apply for an ABLE account that will allow you to save up to $99,000. More people need to know about this!

[strawbebbynya]

thank you so much for this information. i’m applying for an abled account right now

[viostormcaller]

THERES A WHAT

OH GOD BLESS THE SHIT OUTTA YOU YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW FREAKED OUT OVER THIS I WAS

[septic-dr-schneep]

I’ve been looking into SSI; I had no idea about this!

[perksofbeingdisabled]

Read till the end for the important info

[whatevercomestomymind]

Reblog to literally save a disabled person’s life

[victorywithseaandsun]

According to wiki, 39 states + DC have ABLE accounts, so check with your state

[grimprocrastinatrix]

This is so important.

[judedeluca]

A-AND IT’S GONNA BE YOU, ME AND JIMMY, CLARK. LOIS AND CLARK AND JIMMY FOREVER, ONE MILLION YEARS LOIS, CLARK AND JIMMY O-OUR WEBSITE’S GONNA BE LCJ DOT COM

Oh geez Lois

[jimwilldrawforyou]

I can’t think of much to add to this, so I’m just gonna say “Thank you.”

[lemonadesoda]

Ok like 100% guaranteed way to make me laugh is to send me a joke that takes out the superlative/adjective from a phrase that should have one like

easily one of the days i've had all week

world's...dad

drinks that taste

this is by far one of the posts youve made

this is one of the world's most sounds

one of the seattle colleges

it won't fail

[bugsinspace]

one of the jokes ever

[jimwilldrawforyou]

out of all the people I’ve met, you’re one of them.

[existenceisanillusion]

[staff]

[estrogenpatchnotes]

What the fuck is wrong with you people

[blelbinems-deactivated20190925]

[habitualshaker]

actually this is the only good thing staff has ever done

[thereddestpotato]

I would like this animation every time I log on

[whitepeopletwitter]