continue-puh-leez:

hillary-for-president2016:

“Hillary is so good at delivering the good that when she was in the Senate Karl Rove literately sent out a memo forbidding republican senators from talking to her because she kept getting them to support progressive causes.

She’d get to know each individual senator as a person, find some area where they weren’t shitty human beings, and talk them across party lines.

Her partnerships were deemed so successful … that Karl Rove, according to a source close to him, sent word last year to halt Republican cooperation with her—an edict that has been ignored. 

As the atmosphere in Washington has deteriorated, Clinton has emerged within the Senate as the unlikeliest of figures: she, not George W. Bush, has turned out to be a uniter, not a divider.

She walks softly but carries the biggest sticks. This is going to be great”

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Why I would pull my hair in frustration every time a Bernie voter pointed out that she was friendly with or supported by a bigot or republican. You do realize that Republicans are basically your -coworkers- when you’re in the senate, right?

That leaders of bigoted special interest groups have an impact on our country whether someone meets with them & tries to reel them in or just leaves them to their own hateful devices.

Hillary Clinton would AT LEAST meet up with these people to let them know she had her eye on them, and at most to get them to do the most progressive thing they were capable of.

pokemongostories:

my husband and i went out late one night looking for a nearby squirtle, and instead we found our cat that went missing 3 years ago

dduane:

vaspider:

lady-feral:

solacekames:

sitta-pusilla:

You have no options. Voting for a third party candidate is effectively throwing your vote away. It’s a BINARY CHOICE. 

You are going to get us all killed.
You are going to get us all killed.

You might not remember what happened last time, but I do. Leftists swore up and down an Al Gore Presidency would be “just as bad” as a Bush Presidency. That was the EXACT phrase they used.

“Al Gore is a corpratist,” they said.

“I want to vote for something instead of against something,” they said.

Now, over a decade later, the entire GLOBE is still trying to correct what was done during the Bush administration–global financial collapse, SCOTUS nominees, TWO endless wars, drone strikes, the Patriot Act, No Child Left Behind, Isis, DICK CHEYNEY.

Open your eyes and see how the tide is turning. For the past 10 years, there’s been a steady rise of right-wing ideology and politics. There’s UKIP and the Brexit, France and their damn neo Nazi Marine Le Pen, whatever is happening in Brazil right now. Canada only just ousted a leader who muzzled scientists who spoke about climate change!

And now we have the possibility of Trump. Trump who, as of this moment, has a 38% chance of winning according to Five Thirty Eight. Not 38% of the vote. 38% chance of winning. Those aren’t terrible odds. They’re better odds than rolling a specific number on a die, 16.68%. 

Do you understand that we have a chance to flip the Supreme Court for the first time since the 60’s? 

Remember all that Civil Rights shit from the 60’s? Do you know what happened to it, why it didn’t usher in a new age of equality like MLK’s Dreamers hoped? The Burger Court happened to it. The Burger Court is the conservative-majority Supreme Court that came into power in the backlash following the 60′s. With that Court came a conservative jurisprudence that would last for generations. It was the Burger Court that stymied de-segregation efforts, and created ‘white flight’ by ruling that de-segregation orders couldn’t be extended past district lines. It was the Burger Court that laid the groundwork for Citizens United, when they ruled that corporations could spend money in politics. Everyone was so shocked when SCOTUS ruled corporations are people and money=speech. Well, thank the Burger Court!

Now, for the first time in SEVERAL DECADES there is an opportunity to flip the Supreme Court. We haven’t had a liberal jurisprudence since the 60′s. And look at what’s coming down the pipe–anti trans laws like HB2, Affirmative Action, housing rights, repealing Citizen United, immigration, abortion, gun control, police brutality, climate change, etc. 

I am begging you to vote Hillary. And tell others to vote Hillary. I won’t quibble over whether her policies are better than Trump’s (they objectively are) or whether or not she is a better person than Trump (that’s…more subjective). The SCOTUS nominations should be reason enough. PLEASE don’t make me live through a Trump administration. Please don’t do this again.

I want to fix our system so that third parties have a chance, but at the same time, I substantially agree with the post above. I was around for Bush V Gore. I voted for Nader. Yeah, we were wrong. My vote didn’t really count because I wasn’t in a swing state, so I don’t feel guilty, but I was still wrong,

I’m voting Clinton this election even though I’m still not in a swing state. Especially if you live in a swing state, you need to vote Clinton. 

Fuck.

I had just had @mistresskabooms the last time I watched angry progressives sentence our country to eight years of Bush. She was an infant. I don’t want to send her into adulthood like this. Please. This is scarier than 2000.

This needs a much longer post from me – and that will come when I’m less busy – but the OP and I are right in the middle of the same page here. (And now on top of everything the story starts to break of who’s really behind the Wikileaks material that just magically popped out at the worst time for the Democrats. Putin really doesn’t want That Woman in the White House. Frankly, that would impel me to vote for her even without all the other reasons, as Putin is Trump with a brain. [A truly terrifying concept.] …And nukes.)

jennhasablog:

Jon started a new job in product development (I’m a proud lady!) It seems like everyday he brings home new useful facts about food, skincare, or beauty products that makes me go, “HOW COME I DIDN’T KNOW THAT!”

I thought I would pass some along to you. 

Here’s one, about suntan lotion!

You can mostly trust the labels on sunscreen (meanwhile, in food, labels like “organic!” and “cage-free!” are a joke). HOWEVER! Sunscreen labels are heavily regulated, but make sure you buy sunscreen with the words “broad spectrum.” That means will protect you from the harshy-harsh rays.

Also, terms like “waterproof” sunblock and “sweatproof” sunblock have been banned, because they mean nothing. The new term is “water resistant” and usually those still need to be re-applied about 30 minutes in the sunshine (not after 30 minutes in the water).

(Maybe this isn’t news to you, but it was to me!) Knowledge is power and all that!