Obsessively Distracted

It’s that time of year, again!

Fine, fine, I’ll get up and eat something.

wanna show this image to myself a week ago 

Republicans continue to threaten us with a good time.

When John and Theodore Copsey helped build California’s Lower Lake Stone Jail in 1876, they didn’t expect they’d become the first people to ever be jailed there- but that’s exactly what happened after they celebrated their finished project a little too much at the local saloon.

After remembering they’d forgotten to secure the roof, they also became the first people to ever escape from it.

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Half ass and save yourself problems later

IT’S NOT THAT BASTARD DONALD TRUMP, SOOKIE!!!!!!!!

yeah there’s a lot of work we still need to do but i am literally begging y’all to let people celebrate. let us just have one day of happiness before we return to the grime truth of reality

Defeating an incumbent president is hard. Getting people to participate in politics when it’s just been hopeless chaos and noise for the last four years is hard. Getting out the vote when you can’t campaign door-to-door and relying on a newly widespread voting form across the country instead of in-person voting is hard. Voting when an entire political party in the country has committed themselves to making it difficult or impossible for certain groups to vote is hard. Defeating a president who has an entire propaganda media machine behind him with no obligation to the truth or decency is hard. 

All the caveats apply - it was closer than it should have been, this win is not joe biden’s but the hundreds of thousands of grassroots organizers who worked tirelesly, there is still work to be done on the georgia senate race run offs, joe biden being a democrat doesn’t mean he is perfect nor exempt from criticism, etc etc etc etc. 

But this victory is a BIG FUCKING DEAL. And it’s NOT A GIVEN. People across this country worked very, very, very hard for today. Our problems will not all be fixed tomorrow, or when biden is sworn in in january - but the united states of america is a brighter, safer place today than it was yesterday or the day before. This is a big fucking deal. And we should be allowed to take a moment to BREATHE and experience it. 

trump got the full covid experience, unemployment included

Remember it is perfectly possible to both be aware that the struggle is going to continue and there is always more work to do AND feel deeply, profoundly relieved and even celebratory right now.

Let yourself enjoy any feelings of happiness, comfort or relief you have. Life is short and hard, and joy is a worthy and wonderful thing.

There are so many good thing that will come from Trump being out of office, but as a daughter of a public school teacher, this gives me particular joy.

Everyone say it with me: THANK YOU BLACK VOTERS AND ORGANIZERS

It’s not “Ding Dong, The Witch Is Dead”, but… I’ll take it!

this is the first time in years that tumblr has felt organic. No I will not elaborate 

For years Tumblr has been putting on airs, like a lady who’s risen above her station and fastidiously cut ties with her roots. But today, in the face of this perfect fucking storm, the pretense of dignity is gone. Now our fine hat bought with our husband’s money is in the mud and we’re fist fighting Maud who we used to run cons with in the middle of the road.