oh. its ryan.

24-year-old college grad. New York City by way of California. Trying to figure out my next move.

[thebeyhiveforever]

Beyonce -Sandcastles

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[beyoncespenis]

[beyoncespenis]

NOT ONCE , BUT TWICE. STILL ICONIC

[apsies]

It is, however, a bit unseemly for Sanders to blast New York’s primary for barring independent voters only to have his campaign manager go out and say they’re explicitly planning to use superdelegates to overturn the will of the voters. But what turns this into an unusually difficult argument for Sanders is that, early in the race, Sanders’s supporters feared this is how Clinton would steal the election, and so they mobilized their supporters to demand that the superdelegates abide by the will of the voters. Even today, some Sanders supporters (wrongly) think Clinton’s lead is the unfair result of superdelegates ignoring the voters and backing her campaign. Theres nothing new about seemingly principled arguments about process covering opportunistic jockeying for candidate advantage. But imagine if it was Sanders who was leading in pledged delegates and Clinton who was suggesting New York’s primary results weren’t legitimate and her campaign would use superdelegates to win even if they lost the primaries. Sanders’s voters would be furious, and rightly so.

Sanders’s campaign manager previewed a very undemocratic strategy for the Democratic primary - Vox (via apsies)

yep

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[ohitsryan-blog]

where can i buy this...

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[micdotcom]

Watch: Ted Cruz pandered to these Bronx Latinos and they weren’t having it.

[laughingfish]

I live for this

[ohitsryan-blog]

bless the people of new york city

[steviemcfly]

Shit people have forgotten about the Bush Era:

Free Speech Zones, which were a real thing and not a plot element in a particularly ham-handed dystopian novel.

The phrase “hidey hole.”

Watching a budget surplus become a massive deficit that was bigger than it even looked because the White House was just like, “Okay, we’ll just not put the wars on the books and just ask for more money for those every few months.”

The sheer number of times Alberto Gonzalez said, “I don’t recall,” to Congress regarding war crimes and human rights violations.

“…now watch this drive.”

Mission Accomplished.

“The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence,” “yellowcake uranium,” Condoleeza’s “mushroom clouds” fearmongering, and all the other bullshit we were fed to get into Iraq.

The President of the United States said so many stupid things that there were one-a-day calendars consisting of an individual quote for each day of the year. They didn’t all have the exact same quotes.

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“There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don’t know we don’t know.”

And then we went to war.

[teeth-and-spackle]

“Tonight I ask you to pass legislation to prohibit the most egregious abuses of medical research: human cloning in all its forms; creating or implanting embryos for experiments; creating human-animal hybrids; and buying, selling or patenting human embryos.” - George W. Bush, 2006 State of the Union

[steviemcfly]

Okay, that’s the best one.

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Bush watched that Batman Beyond splicing episode and had nightmares for a week

[sidneyia-deactivated20210826]

was it hidey-hole? i thought it was spider-hole.

[lord-kitschener]

Yeah, it was spider-hole

[comedownstairsandsayhello]

I think my favorite was how we un-ironically referred to a whole set of countries as the “Axis of Evil” as if that phrase gives us some kind of meaningful understanding of their geopolitical role and isn’t borrowed straight out of a mediocre made-for-TV superhero movie.

[steviemcfly]

And then there was:

We literally got a terrorism forecast on the news every morning like it was pollen. So many of the things that happened, if they were in a dystopian novel, people would be like, “That’s way too goofy and ridiculous to actually happen in real life,” and yet they did.

[lady--liberty-blog]

THE LAST ONE’S REAL?

[tiffanarchy]

Yeah https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeland_Security_Advisory_System

[daggers-drawn]

Not only was the terror threat system real, but it was often raised and lowered based entirely on how panicked they wanted us to be. Famously they raised the level for no reason during the 2004 election.

Also, “Free Speech Zones” looked something like this:

It was literally a cage.

[avant-sad]

there are people who don’t remember the color-coded advisory system? the times are a changin folks

[apsies]

“Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it.”

[salt-pepper-shakers]

[joshpeck]

me af

[hol-ohcene]

[lledxela]

[wakaflackalypse]

[ohitsryan-blog]

oh my god

[camerondiazepam]

New York and Hottie arguing over what they’re going to do with a room when they win Flavor of Love, unaware that Flav doesn’t even live there and the house was rented by VH1 for the show

[katiaobinger]

the true american experience is wondering if you just heard firecrackers or gunshots

[cresentmoon2000]

PLEASE TELL ME THIS IS A JOKE

[autisticyunarukami-remade-deact]

bonus points: both are illegal in your state and you still cannot tell

[intuwitchion-deactivated2019011]

Bonus points: one is illegal in your state and it is not the gun

[folieadicklord]

what the fuck is going on down there are you guys okay

[thedesignateddriver]

no

[coeur-de-coucou-deactivated2015]

Bonus round: was the scream after caused by fun or was it them getting shot

[higherthanheroes]

Challenge mode: it’s the 4th of July

[demandean]

bonus round: it’s New Year’s Eve and ppl are also drunk

[apsies]

Super bonus: local sports team wins a thing.

[weirdbuzzfeed]

[dykejedi-deactivated20170430]

enough is enough

[annalizahaa]

GET THIS THE FUCK AWAWY FROM ME

[bradpitts-deactivated20151122]

how straight people react to finding out you’re gay

[aspiringtrophyhusband]

I’m the straight guy

[tundrakatiebean]

This is one of the most exhausting things the Straights™ do