I got a call from a friend in Washington who knows more about political polling than anyone in America. He was almost breathless with excitement.
“It’s gonna be a landslide,” he said.
“In which direction?” I joked.
“Hillary’s going to win in places we haven’t won in years – Georgia, Nevada, Arizona. She’ll take the entire West, the whole East Coast. Trump is sinking like a stone.”
“So do we get the Senate back?”
“You bet.”
“Sixty votes?”
“No, but a nice majority.”
“And the House?”
“We won’t win it back, but Democrats will get 14 of the 30 they need. So still a Republican majority, but far weakened.”
“And what about the states?”
He paused. “The states?”
“Will we take back the states?”
“No. The GOP will remain in control in most states.”
“So the only part of government that will change hands is the U.S. Senate, and not even by enough to overcome a filibuster?”
“Yes,” he said, as if I had taken the air out of his balloon.
“And what about all the people who’ll be voting for Trump?”
“What about them?” he asked, cautiously.
“After Trump loses, they’ll still be out there, right?”
“Of course.”
“And they’ll be madder than hell, poisoned with Trump’s venom. They’ll be a ready-made constituency for the next demagogue.”
“Bob?” he asked.
“What?”
“Remind me never to phone you again.”
“Sorry,” I said.
This is why complacency is not an option, and why we must continue fighting *even harder than we are now* after Trump is defeated. It’s going to take at least one more election cycle – the mid-terms, when Democrats just historically don’t turn out – to get the House back and get past 60 votes in the Senate, and it’ll take even longer to get the states back.
This isn’t something that will be over in a single election. It’s really, really important to remember that, so we stay engaged and keep fighting, because you can bet your life that the neo-nazis who are the GOP base now will be fighting just as hard, convinced that they and their ideas would have won if they’d had a better candidate.
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you know when its late at night and youre about to walk back into your bedroom after going to pee and theres always that guy on all fours in the dark at the end of the hallway looking at you just as you walk back through the door? whats up with him? whats he about?
Katherine Johnson, the NASA Mathematician Who Advanced Human Rights with a Slide Rule and Pencil
NASA chief Charles Bolden recalls the historic trajectory of the “human computer” who played a key role in the Apollo 11 moon landing, and as a female African-American in the 1960s, shattered stereotypes in the process.
This Vanity Fair article is so great. I might have to buy a copy on the newsstand.
“‘In math, you’re either right or you’re wrong,’ she said. Her succinct words belie a deep curiosity about the world and dedication to her discipline, despite the prejudices of her time against both women and African-Americans. It was her duty to calculate orbital trajectories and flight times relative to the position of the moon—you know, simple things. In this day and age, when we increasingly rely on technology, it’s hard to believe that John Glenn himself tasked Katherine to double-check the results of the computer calculations before his historic orbital flight, the first by an American. The numbers of the human computer and the machine matched.”
Im reblogging this tiny cat saying wow again because it is perfect and pure
no offense but chicken nugget the nonbinary butterfly saved 2016
Watch: This is the fantastic new movie about the Obamas’ first date that comes out tomorrow
Everyone loves Michelle Obama. In Southside With You (in theaters August 26), a movie about the Obamas’ first date, producer and star Tika Sumpter introduces us to someone with whom America is less familiar: Michelle Robinson.
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I’m so going to go see this, this weekend!!!!!!!!
@theladyinfinite I’m seeing this!
“bisexual? you mean you’re experimenting?”
*kicks test tubes and alien hybrid under a desk* “um no what do you mean”
