carrie fisher you were a badass icon who got to walk the red carpet with tom hiddleston and a frenchie with his tongue hanging out of his mouth. mad respect.

look, guys, this is bad and all, but the really compelling argument about why he sucks is that he was the executive producer of suicide squad

PS for all of you idiots who think i’m calling clinton a “victim” for losing: no. i’m calling clinton the victim of an unprecedented smear campaign which included bernie bros, fucking RUSSIA and the FBI on top of your standard rightwing propaganda campaign. only one of those things were a factor in the obama campaign,…

agreed wholeheartedly - plus the straight up dog whistle of calling clinton’s win “illegitimate” (aka affirmative-action-esque) is so sickening to hear from the left.

it’s just as easy to flip the narrative there. obama used some shitty sexist terminology against clinton in 08 (and for the record i was an obama supporter in 07/08 and i was still rather angry at him for that). sanders VOTED FOR the bill that clinton was supporting in her superpredator speech. why do obama and…

you know, the thing that is giving me crippling depression about 2016 is not that conservatives voted for donald trump - i pretty much expected that. it’s all the personal sexism i experienced from ostensibly liberal men about hillary clinton, and now the victim-blaming that they are heaping on her after the fact.

my favorite part of this is how he doesn’t seem to realize that his bff putin is the one most likely to engage in this arms race with us. like, trump, you’re not going to be swapping nuclear weapons with russia like they are outfits here, dude.

so good to see that people who really hated hillary’s neoliberalism decided to vote for colin powell because he’s obviously the more liberal choice.

proof positive that liberals are never sexist, amirite?

it’s not for no reason that whenever people talk about the most beautiful areas in the US they reference the west. that’s the only part of the country that hasn’t been indiscriminately parceled out and mowed down for industrial or farming use.

for those of you who are struggling to understand why this is a problem:

they replaced a stereotypical asian character with a white character (which, i think not wanting to offend china [while stupid] was probably actually their motivation there) and then still both played on the stereotype (with the older asian man…

women are the least unified “minority” group and as a result, at the legislative level, have their interests represented more poorly than every other minority group. pragmatically, i think picking a woman puts us at a disadvantage where she will have to be 10x as good to actually win.

yeah i totally get that. i just find it personally irritating that we will likely see a bernie bro turnaround about neoliberalism if booker wins. it will pretty much confirm my beliefs about the 2016 election.

you’re welcome. this is a fairly detailed article about the whole thing: http://www.npr.org/2015/09/21/442183080/assessing-the-100-million-upheaval-of-newarks-public-schools

if by “off” you mean preparing for the debates which made the biggest impact of the entire campaign on her poll numbers then yes. it was the only time in the campaign (other than the DNC) that she was guaranteed to be able to have unfiltered access to voters to talk about her programs and it worked.  

as a former resident of new jersey i feel compelled to highlight cory booker’s complete trashing of the newark public school system in favor of charter schools owned by mark zuckerberg.

booker is the woooooorst.

i love tammy duckworth (seriously, i yelled wildly about tammy duckworth just a bit ago) but i think she’ll bump into the same systemic sexism clinton did. i disagree with saying clinton’s loss was totally her fault because looking at studies like these make it clear that the battle for women is profoundly uphill: http…

if you think hillary wasn’t fighting an uphill battle the whole way to present her programs you’d be incredibly wrong.

thisthisthisthisthis. every fucking time hillary actually was SHOWN in the media (at the dnc and the debates) her polling percentages went way up. it’s like if people actually took her fucking programs seriously and/or learned something about them they liked them.