withacorkscrew:

youmeandpolitics:

Steve Bannon’s appointment to the NSC requires Senate approval because he is a civilian. Start calling your reps about this now!

Holy shit this is big! A potential way to keep Steve Bannon, unelected political advisor and white supremacist, from having the power to co-authorize assassinations and attacks on foreign powers.

Reblog, spread the word, call your senators!!!

kalinara:

ragnell:

athelind:

raptorific:

nurselaney:

raptorific:

@ impeachment folks, February 19th 2017 is your last day to get this shit done and still break William Henry Harrison’s record for shortest presidential term

If we’re going to impeach Trump though, we need to impeach Pence as well while we’re at it because THAT’S who gets the presidency if Trump is impeached.

Don’t get me wrong here, I’m in agreement with you and I support what you’re saying, but it is also important to note that impeaching both Trump and Pence would leave us with President Paul Ryan, which wouldn’t be all that different from President Mike Pence. The fact that the line of succession is, at the moment, five republicans deep, should not deter us from the fact that it’s absolutely necessary that Donald Trump be immediately impeached, convicted, removed from office in disgrace, and legally barred from holding any future public post as quickly as possible. Pence and Ryan are both absolutely vile, wretched, pathetic excuses for human beings, but they would be doing a lot less damage if their Nazi Figurehead Boss didn’t have a death grip on the world’s largest mouthpiece. I agree that both Trump and Pence should be removed from office as quickly and as disgracefully as possible (through legal channels, of course) but given the choice between Trump and Pence, I’d say Pence is about 1% less unspeakably evil (although still unspeakably evil) and I’d trade an arm and a leg to choose Pence over Trump at this point. 

It’s been pointed out that, venal as Pence is, he doesn’t have the popularity, or, more accurately, the NOTORIETY, to BEGIN to get away with the shit that Trump has been pushing for the last two weeks.

This fascist movement is like every other: it’s deeply invested in the Myth of the Strong Leader, and even if removing Lord Dampnut from office were merely a symbolic act (instead of taking the baseball bat away from the petulant, unpredictable child in the throes of a constant tantrum), that symbolic act will be immensely powerful against the fascist myth-complex.

The other thing people forget is that if Trump gts impeached, then a line is drawn. Pence knows that if he goes THAT far, he gets removed from office too. The rest of the Executive Branch knows not to support him. The Rule of Law is re-established. “Don’t Impeach Trump because Pence is just as bad” completely misses the point of Impeachment, which is to establish that the other two branches of the government have the power to reign in a runaway Executive.

Pence would still be bad, but he could not be nearly AS bad because Congress would have set a standard and demonstrated they’ll hold a President to it.

Impeach Trump, and you put the Fear of the People in Pence.

And honestly, who do you people think is behind a lot of Trump’s choices anyway?

Do you think it’s a coincidence that the populist rabble rouser has made universally ultra-conservative choices for every appointment?

Pence, Bannon, and people like him are already running things.  They’re already handling whatever Trump doesn’t feel like handling.

If we impeach Trump, we strip away the populist mask and shine the spotlight directly on Pence.  It will still be bad, but at least we’ll be looking in the right direction for the cause.

systlin:

systlin:

Also apparently the Republicans of congress are now running up against exactly how fucking hard it would be to repeal the ACA and replace it and recent protests have hit them in the fucking face with just how much political fallout defunding Planned Parenthood would cause and it’s scaring them.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/behind-closed-doors-republican-lawmakers-fret-about-how-to-repeal-obamacare/ar-AAmk4Tb?li=BBnbcA1

GOOD.

KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK EVERYONE.

They specifically addressed the fact that they are afraid of the backlash over social media and in protests and the possible political fallout in the midterms in 2 years.

However Paul Ryan continues to be the utter douchebag we all know and hate. Fuck Paul Ryan.  

BTW this is all from audio files of a meeting that was leaked to the Washington Post, and all quotes were confirmed by the offices of the politicians involved when confronted.

bathtimefunduck:

lintujasukissa:

howprolifeofyou:

kiwianaroha:

officialclinicescort:

theworld-onherhips:

“Women aren’t baby-making factories!”
Okay I hate to be ~that~ anatomy nerd, but if you think of the human body as a factory, the female body is literally a baby making factory! From the way our organs are set up, to our hormones, and even our external parts, our bodies are geared toward baby making.
So yes, women are baby making factories 😁

Fuck you.

@theworld-onherhips did you flunk high school biology or what?

The female reproductive system is actually extremely hostile towards embryos

Our species have hemichorial placentas, designed to weed out all but the fittest embryos. We develop thick endometrial linings from a ridiculously young age in order to aggressively protect ourselves from what is essentially a ruthless parasite that is literally sucking our blood; every time we have a period our body is shedding blood and tissue so that it can efficiently eject embryos deemed unworthy, which is most of them

On top of that, there is only a 12 hour window each menstrual cycle during which we can conceive - over the course of a year, there is less than a week of time in which we are in danger of conceiving. Which is why it is perfectly normal for a healthy couple to go 12 months or more without getting pregnant. 

The way our hormones are calibrated is to protect US, not the fetus. The wider pelvic girdle, extra fat, etc. is about minimizing the damage a fetus can do to the pregnant person

I love getting biology lessons that also happen to shit on misogynistic anti-choicers.

Also, I don’t know a lot about factories, but spending 9 months to make (typically) just one product and then not knowing when you can make another one sounds like a really poor business model.

Also what we consider carrying “to term” would kill pretty much any other creature on earth? Babies are not fully developed when they come out, they’re helpless to predators and can’t even stumble their way to a food source like most baby animals. 

Scientists believe to “fully grow” a human, it would actually take 18-21 months, to equate the development of other primates’ babies.

 http://www.livescience.com/22715-pregnancy-length-baby-size.html

The female body literally cannot carry a child to full development. It would kill us. We’re more like… game developers at Ubisoft— we kick the product out before it’s ready and hope we can work out the bugs to make them playable as they get older. 

kayvsworld:

Tbh my most realistic and also simultaneously least realistic wish for the next avengers movie is for one of the members of team freeloader to like. openly Care abt tony and treat him nicely

spaceddad:

pomegranat:

i–started-a-joke:

pomegranat:

heca-tea:

let 👏 bisexual 👏 girls 👏 love 👏 boys

what

LET 👏 BISEXUAL 👏 GIRLS 👏 LOVE 👏 BOYS

who’s stopping them

Lesbians who say they’ll never date a girl that has touched a man. People that say bi girls will cheat because they’re bi. There’s so much biphobia not only with straight people, but in the gay community

mylivingmuseum:

On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, let’s remember the indifference, hate, and fear the American public and State Department had for Jews trying to escape Europe.

Remember that in the 1920s, the American government began working to keep immigrant Jews out.

Remember Anne Frank would have lived if the State Department had approved Otto Frank’s desperate application for his family to join relatives in Massachusetts.

Remember the passengers of the St. Louis, who sailed across the Atlantic only to be turned away from every American harbor.

Remember the American public opinion polls that said even Jewish children posed a danger.

Remember that Jewish fundraising and awareness campaigns to rescue European Jews received no major public or governmental support.

Americans were not the heroes of the Holocaust. They were participants.