#vote 2023

[kingoftieland]

Listen to the Hulk. 🗳️

[yahoo201027]

Fans of The Great North, hope y'all enjoyed your time as champions throughout the past year and now, with Season 4 on the way in less than a few weeks...despite being pushed back from the Fall schedule because of the strikes, but that's not what we're talking about, your time as champions will come to an end in less than 30 minutes. Handing the crown and the title of “champion” to the next fandom up. And looking at the results, if it stands once poll closing hits, y'all did your service in keeping this particular series' seat warm because it's your cousin show, Bob's Burgers, going for a third title. Passing the baton from Judy Tobin to Louise Belcher.

[ashleywritesstuff]

There's a local election in my neck of the woods today. Just a friendly reminder that elections works best when everyone participates. Each one, be it local, state, or national, is important so make sure your voice is heard!

[po-pulari-tics]

@beatrice-otter wrote this on May 26 (reposted with permission)

I want to push back on the battle "not being about progress?' Because Biden has accomplished a lot, actually, especially given a Republican-controlled House. One could argue that he hasn't gone far enough, but that's not the same as having accomplished nothing. So here's some things Biden has done:

1) Raised taxes on the wealthy and corporations.

2) Highest appointment of federal judges since Reagan. Reagan started a trend of Republicans packing federal courts with uber-conservative judges, and blocking Democrat appointments, which is how we ended up with our current Supreme Court. Biden is doing his absolute best to turn the scales back the other direction by appointing as many liberal and left-wing judges as he can, as fast as he can.

3) $1.2 trillion dollar infrastructure package that will pour federal money into things like public transit, high-speed internet in places that don't have it (which are overwhelmingly poor, and cut off from the rest of the world), and a whole lot of other basic things that make life easier for ordinary people.

4) Halted Federal executions. This doesn't affect state-level convictions, but it does affect federal-level executions; those are completely off the table for as long as he (or any other) Democrat is President. (13 people were executed under Trump)

5) Rejoining the Paris Climate Accords and pushing for other environmental care legislation,

6) Pushed through the "Inflation Reduction Act" (named that to get Republicans to be willing to allow it through). It's actually the largest climate bill in U.S. history and allows Medicare to negotiate the prices of certain prescription drugs for the first time. It includes 369 billion for a climate initiative to reduce greenhouse emissions and promote lean energy technologies. $300 billion in new revenue through a corporate tax increase. $80 billion for the Internal Revenue Service to hire new agents, modernize its technology, audit the wealthy and more. A $2,000 annual cap for out-of-pocket prescription drug costs for those insured by Medicare.

6) Overturned Trump's ban on transgender people serving in the military.

7) Re-authorized the Violence Against Women Act

8) Pardoned marijuana

9) Forgave student loan debt (this one the Republicans in congress managed to partially stymie, but that's not Biden's fault--it's the Republicans).

10) Managed to get a modest gun-safety bill through the gauntlet of Republican opposition. (The first one anyone's managed to get passed in decades.) It's far from perfect, or enough, but it did expand background checks on gun purchases and made it easier to prosecute illegal gun trafficking. And the reason it was as weak as it was, is because the Republicans have a majority in the House and they blocked anything stronger, it's the Republicans' fault. Not Biden's. If we want sensible nationwide gun control, we have GOT to get the House a Democrat majority.

11) Passed a long-stalled Post Office reform bill.

There's a lot there! And the things that he promised but didn't manage to achieve, he put them before Congress and the Republicans in the House stopped them. If Democrats controlled the House as well as the Senate, most of them would have passed and now be the law of the land! The problem is not Biden.

Biden may not be very exciting, and he may not be as far left as we want. But he's still got a lot done in the last three years.

[writeblrvotes]

All Writers Vote 🗣️ What Age Did You Know You We’re A Writer?

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Voting ended onJul 18, 2023

[crazywomanontheinternet]

Best pop female singer Round 1

Taylor Swift

Katty Perry

Voting ended onJul 8, 2023

[yahoo201027]

Who'd you got winning Match 1 of the Group B stages?

Choose one

Feliciano Vargas/Italy (Hetalia)

Piccolo (Dragon Ball)

Voting ended onMar 3, 2023

Characters & Fandoms: Feliciano Vargas/Italy (Hetalia); Piccolo (Dragon Ball)

Poll Date: March 19 (Opening); March 25 (Closing)

[yahoo201027]

Vote 2023: The polls have closed and when all the votes are counted in the first match of the Quarterfinals in the 2023 Battle of the Week Voting Tournament, for the first time in three years, the number one seed from any party will be sent packing. The number four seed, Feliciano Vargas/Italy from Hetalia, the previous number one seed from two years ago, will go and defeat the number one seed Riko from Made in Abyss 39-38.

The Hetalia fandom, first time in two years, will be moving on to the Semifinals. They await either Jolyne Cujoh (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure) or Piccolo (Dragon Ball) on October 8 for the nomination. And for Made in Abyss...got the number one seed in the anime community, was the favorite to get the nomination and possibly the voting tournament as a whole...one and done. But this is y'all's first time in this voting tournament, so might as well consider this as a learning experience.