Election 2024 - Tumblr Posts
Jeremy Freaking Jordan, everyone.
YES 💞
okay I've marginally calmed down
some other things
these two newsies playing the same game that the cast of 92sies played between shoots <3
also that one guy asleep in the back
all the red bandanas/ascots, 92sies Jack Kelly you will always be famous
the newsie with the dice (probably racetrack?) has Crutchy blow on his dice
"Hey Davey💕!" *live denton (DENTON!!) reaction*
why are they always so gay?
I SAY WHAT YOU SAY IS WHAT I SAY!!!! (wrong character but I still call this a win)
"Tell 'em Jack" (BLINK REFERENCE???)
Kath silently telling Jack to breathe is so cute
BROOKLYN 👏 GIRLS 👏
Crutchy/ie's costume is so good here, it is very 92sies and I love it
honestly some of these lyrics are cringe but oh well
seize the day reprise anyone?
"think of tomorrow, seize today" is actually a good line 10/10
new favorite obscure background newsies unlocked, they are adorable
a nod to seize the day chorale???
that one guy in the brighter blue shirt made me think of pierre (tutsies) jack but that's probably just a me thing
Kara, Ben, Tommy Bracco and AKB look like they're having so much fun so good for them
anyways. They really let Kenny Ortega (he directed this!!) go crazy and I support that
this one video brings me more joy than the entire official musical production, conclusion: Kenny Ortega is a national treasure
Something I think about often when it comes to the current election and the mentality of ‘vote them out to punish them’ or ‘it’s worth another Trump term to send a message’ or even ‘it’s worth it to tear it all down’ is the question of who suffers. Who will suffer as a result of this? Who actually gets hurt if this ‘message’ is sent? Because it sure isn’t top level Democrats. The people at the DNC making decisions, the socially liberal big business owners, even Biden himself-none of them will suffer from this. The message means nothing to them. It won’t change their opinion on Palestine, and it won’t change the way they handled protests or how they’ll handle protests in the future.
You know who it’ll hurt? The people who are already marginalized. The people who are already struggling, and suffering. Queer people, POC, disabled people, illegal immigrants, hell, even legal immigrants would be unquestionably endangered by another Trump term. I’m amazed that people seem to have forgotten how frightening it was to have possibly the most unstable man ever to be in politics controlling the fucking nukes. The man who is barely intelligible, lies constantly, and can easily be swayed by any extremist who manages to bend his ear for even a second. If you think for one second that putting a white supremacist racist bigoted unstable terrifying man like that in the highest position of authority in this country will help anyone aside from a chosen few, then I don’t know what to tell you. Stop watching Fox News.
I strongly believe that anyone who is pushing to teach the democrats a lesson is either a republican spreading propaganda, or perhaps a neoliberal sitting in a place where they believe that another Trump presidency won’t affect them. Unfortunately, it will affect all of us-but it’s the marginalized who will be truly hurt by this. If you care at all about minorities, or queer people, or anyone listed above, please, please vote democrat in the upcoming election. I wish we had the luxury of choice, I really do. I wish we had the option to try and elect someone more progressive than Biden. But we don’t. And abstaining, or voting third party, even…is contributing to a Trump win.
Stay safe out there everyone.
President Biden's plan for the first 100 days of his next term:
—Restore Roe v. Wade
—Sign John Lewis Voting Rights Act
—Expand Social Security and Medicare
—End all medical debt
—Raise the minimum wage
—Pass the PRO Act for workers
—Ban assault weapons
—Lead the world on clean energy
—Permanent child tax credit
—$35 insulin cap for all
—Build more housing
—Invest in child care and elder care
you want that? FIGHT! for it, check if you're registered to vote and then find a way to volunteer, everyone can make a difference everyone!
Genuinely do not understand Americans who say they aren’t going to vote or the vote doesn’t matter. You’re on the clown site, babey, and you just got the chance to have a black woman, however morally questionable you find her, wipe the floor with the most overconfident, below-mediocrity white man you ever did see. The comedy! The drama! The pizzazz! Where’s the commitment to the bit!? The dedication to the show going on!? The “god forbid women do anything” tenacity you all so love!? You’re in the circus now and I swear, I better see you all getting into this clown car because the world is watching and we’re waiting for the best show of our lives!
The way some people are acting like white people would be getting their just deserts if Trump was elected is so fucked up. Like, collectively punishing white people shouldn't be a goal here; we should be aiming to make things better for all vulnerable people. And I promise you, however bad things are for said vulnerable people right now, they would become infinitely worse under a second Trump term. In your desire to collectively punish white people, you are condemning everyone else to even crueler fates. Kill the Catholic priest in your head; punishment is not justice, atonement is not accomplished through suffering.
The funny thing about online leftists is that they’ll discourse endlessly about class being the true divider, not race, but then will engage in the exact same race politics as liberals and the right
like I keep seeing leftists say shit like “America wouldn’t elect a white woman, why would they elect a black woman” and it’s like,, the point is right there?? Hillary clinton, aside from being one of the most deeply unlikeable politicians to begin with, was part of the political elite - she was effectively aristocracy, not one person felt they could relate to her; THATS why she didn’t get elected. If you keep parroting the exact same points about race and claim that Kamala is ‘unelectable’ because she’s a black woman then i’m sorry but you’re part of the problem
idk man. I’m not even american but this election has just highlighted the immense privilege and hypocrisy of a lot of people that call themselves leftists.
If you’re american, vote for kamala in november. I don’t give a shit about your holier-than-thou best-leftist complex. No, she isn’t perfect, but if Trump gets elected and bans abortion nationwide, begins mass deportation, bans trans healthcare, gives cops legal immunity, rolls back civil rights and discrimination protections, and starts putting protections in place that mean he can’t be removed from office, that’s when I’ll ask you to look me in the eye and tell me why you didn’t vote
and no reason will be good enough.
'I think it's very disrespectful to both, really. Whether it's Indian or black, I think it's very disrespectful to both' okay, so Trump is willing to misconstrue what it means to be biracial in order to leverage himself. That's super fucking insulting to me, and I hope it's insulting to other biracial Americans. If you don't give a fuck about trans or disabled people, at least you can acknowledge the guy's strategic racism. In the very least. Because this guy doesn't care about minorities, he doesn't even care about his fanbase of white people who, to me, appear to be mostly cishet and abled with some exceptions. If there are people who still go on to vote for this scumbag, that says a lot about them as people. They're self-entitled, stupid individuals who really think Trump has their interests in mind, and that's all that matters to them is that their own interests are being acknowledged and upheld... no matter how many people are harmed in the process. Sickening.
The discussions around whether or not to vote for Kamala keep being dominated by very loud voices shouting that anyone who advocates for her “just doesn't care about Palestine!” and “is willing to overlook genocide!” and “has no moral backbone at all!” And while some of these voices will be bots, trolls, psyops - we know that this happens; we know that trying to persuade progressives to split the vote or not vote at all is a strategy employed by hostile actors - of course many of them won't be. But what this rhetoric does is continually force the “you should vote for her” crowd onto the back foot of having to go to great lengths writing entire essays justifying their choice, while the “don't vote/vote third party” crowd is basically never asked to justify their choice. It frames voting for Kamala as a deeply morally compromised position that requires extensive justification while framing not voting or voting third party as the neutral and morally clean stance.
So here's another way of looking at it. How much are you willing to accept in order to feel like you're not compromising your morals on one issue?
Are you willing to accept the 24% rise in maternal deaths - and 39% increase for Black women - that is expected under a federal abortion ban, according to the Centre for American Progress? Those percentages represent real people who are alive now who would die if the folks behind Project 2025 get their way with reproductive healthcare.
Are you willing to accept the massive acceleration of climate change that would result from the scrapping of all climate legislation? We don't have time to fuck around with the environment. A gutting of climate policy and a prioritisation of fossil fuel profits, which is explicitly promised by Trump, would set the entire world back years - years that we don't have.
Are you willing to accept the classification of transgender visibility as inherently “pornographic” and thus the removal of trans people from public life? Are you willing to accept the total elimination of legal routes for gender-affirming care? The people behind the Trump campaign want to drive queer and trans people back underground, back into the closet, back into “criminality”. This will kill people. And it's maddening that caring about this gets called “prioritising white gays over brown people abroad” as if it's not BIPOC queer and trans Americans who will suffer the most from legislative queer- and transphobia, as they always do.
Are you willing to accept the domestic deployment of the military to crack down on protests and enforce racist immigration policy? I'm sure it's going to be very easy to convince huge numbers of normal people to turn up to protests and get involved in political organising when doing so may well involve facing down an army deployed by a hardcore authoritarian operating under the precedent that nothing he does as president can ever be illegal.
Are you willing to accept a president who openly talks about wanting to be a dictator, plans on massively expanding presidential powers, dehumanises his political enemies and wants the DOJ to “go after them”, and assures his supporters they won't have to vote again? If you can't see the danger of this staring you right in the face, I don't know what to tell you. Allowing a wannabe dictator to take control of the most powerful country on earth would be absolutely disastrous for the entire world.
Are you willing to accept an enormous uptick in fascism and far-right authoritarianism worldwide? The far right in America has huge influence over an entire international network of “anti-globalists”, hardcore anti-immigrant xenophobes, transphobic extremists, and straight-up fascists. Success in America aids and emboldens these people everywhere.
Are you willing to accept an enormous number of preventable deaths if America faces a crisis in the next four years: a public health emergency, a natural disaster, an ecological catastrophe? We all saw how Trump handled Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. We all saw how Trump handled Covid-19. He fanned the flames of disaster with a constant flow of medical misinformation and an unspeakably dangerous undermining of public health experts. It's estimated that 40% of US pandemic deaths could have been avoided if the death rates had corresponded to those in other high-income countries. That amounts to nearly half a million people. One study from January 2021 estimated between around 4,200 and 12,200 preventable deaths attributable purely to Trump's statements about masks. We're highly unlikely to face another global pandemic in the next few years but who knows what crises are coming down the pipeline?
Are you willing to accept the attempted deportation of millions - millions - of undocumented people? This is “rounding people up and throwing them into camps where no one ever hears from them again” territory. That's a blueprint for genocide right there and it's a core tenet of both Trump's personal policy and Project 2025. And of course they wouldn't be going after white people. They most likely wouldn't even restrict their tyranny to people who are actually undocumented. Anyone racially othered as an “immigrant” would be at risk from this.
Are you willing to accept not just the continuation of the current situation in Palestine, but the absolute annihilation of Gaza and the obliteration of any hope for imminent peace? There is no way that Trump and the people behind him would not be catastrophically worse for Gaza than Kamala or even Biden. Only recently he was telling donors behind closed doors that he wanted to “set the [Palestinian] movement back 25 or 30 years” and that “any student that protests, I throw them out of the country”. This is not a man who can be pushed in a direction more conducive to peace and justice. This is a man who listens to his wealthy donors, his Christian nationalist Republican allies, and himself.
Are you willing to accept a much heightened risk of nuclear war? Obviously this is hardly a Trump policy promise. But I can't think of a single president since the Cold War who is more likely to deploy nuclear weapons, given how casually he talks about wanting to use them and how erratic and unstable he can be in his dealings with foreign leaders. To quote Foreign Policy only this year, “Trump told a crowd in January that one of the reasons he needed immunity was so that he couldn’t be indicted for using nuclear weapons on a city.” That's reassuring. I'm not even in the US and I remember four years of constant background low-level terror that Trump would take offence at something some foreign leader said or think that he needs to personally intervene in some military situation to “sort it out” and decide to launch the entire world into nuclear war. No one sane on earth wants the most powerful person on the planet to be as trigger-happy and careless with human life as he is, especially if he's running the White House like a dictator with no one ever telling him no. But depending on what Americans do in November, he may well be inflicted again on all of us, and I guess we'll all just have to hope that he doesn't do the worst thing imaginable.
“But I don't want those things! Stop accusing me of supporting things I don't support!” Yes, of course you don't want those things. None of us does. No one's saying that you actively support them. No one's accusing you of wanting Black women to die from ectopic pregnancies or of wanting to throw Hispanic people in immigrant detention centres or of wanting trans people to be outlawed (unlike, I must point out, the extremely emotive and personal accusations that get thrown around about “wanting Palestinian children to die” if you encourage people to vote for Kamala).
But if you're advocating against voting for Kamala, you are clearly willing to accept them as possible consequences of your actions. That is the deal you're making. If a terrible thing happening is the clear and easily foreseeable outcome of your action (or in the case of not voting, inaction), in a way that could have been prevented by taking a different and just as easy action, you are partly responsible for that consequence. (And no, it's not “a fear campaign” to warn people about things he's said, things he wants to do, and plans drawn up by his close allies. This is not “oooh the Democrats are trying to bully you into voting for them by making him out to be really bad so you'll feel scared and vote for Kamala!” He is really bad, in obvious and documented and irrefutable ways.)
And if you believe that “both parties are the same on Gaza” (which, you know, they really aren't, but let's just pretend that they are) then presumably you accept that the horrors being committed there will continue, in the immediate term anyway, regardless of who wins the presidency. Because there really isn't some third option that will appear and do everything we want. It's going to be one of those two. And we can talk all day about wanting a better system or how unfair it is that every presidential election only ever has two viable candidates and how small the Overton window is and all that but hell, we are less than eighty days out from the election; none of that is going to get fixed between now and November. Electoral reform is a long-term (but important!) goal, not something that can be effected in the span of a couple of months by telling people online to vote third party. There is no “instant ceasefire and peace negotiation” button that we're callously overlooking by encouraging people to vote for Kamala. (My god, if there was, we would all be pressing it.)
If we're suggesting people vote for her, it's not that we “are willing to overlook genocide” or “don't care about sacrificing brown people abroad” or whatever. Nothing is being “overlooked” here. It's that we're simply not willing to accept everything else in this post and more on top of continued atrocities in Gaza. We're not willing to take Trump and his godawful far-right authoritarian agenda as an acceptable consequence of feeling like we have the moral high ground on Palestine. I cannot stress enough that if Kamala doesn't win, we - we all, in the whole world - get Trump. Are you willing to accept that?
And one more point to address: I've seen too many people act frighteningly flippant and naïve about terrible things Trump or his campaign want to do, with the idea that people will simply be able to prevent all these bad things by “organising” and “protesting” and “collective action”. “I'm not willing to accept these things; that's why I'll fight them tooth and nail every day of their administration” - OK but if you're not even willing to cast a vote then I have doubts about your ability to form “the Resistance”, which by the way would have to involve cooperation with people of lots of progressive political stripes in order to have the manpower to be effective, and if you're so committed to political purity that you view temporarily lending your support to Kamala at the ballot box as an untenable betrayal of everything you stand for then forgive me for also doubting your ability to productively cooperate with allies on the ground with whom you don't 100% agree. Plus, if the Trump campaign gets its way, American progressives would be kept so busy trying to put out about twenty different fires at once that you'd be able to accomplish very little. Maybe you get them to soften their stance on trans healthcare but oh shit, the climate policies are still in place. But more importantly, how many people do you think will protest for abortion rights if doing so means staring down a gun? Or organise to protect their neighbours from deportation if doing so means being thrown in prison yourself? And OK, maybe you're sure that you will, but history has shown us time and time again that most people won't. Most people aren't willing to face that kind of personal risk. And a tiny number of lefties willing to risk incarceration or death to protect undocumented people or trans people or whatever other groups are targeted is sadly not enough to prevent the horrors from happening. That is small fry compared to the full might of a determined state. Of course if the worst happens and Trump wins then you should do what you can to mitigate the harm; I'm not saying you shouldn't. But really the time to act is now. You have an opportunity right here to mitigate the harm and it's called “not letting him get elected”. Act now to prevent that kind of horrific authoritarian situation from developing in the first place; don't sit this one out under the naïve belief that “we'll be able to stop it if it happens”. You won't.
you know what? you don't have to vote for kamala. you also don't need to return the cart to its place after using it, you don't need to cover your cough, and you don't need to flush after using the toilet.
do as you please, but on behalf of the rest of us, fuck you
Wake up girl new assassination attempt dropped. And while I was eating nachos too😒
they are doing insanely good pro kamala propaganda u lame ass vote blue libs are getting outdone so bad
Friendly reminder that Palestine is NOT the only issue in the world, and that if Palestine is the only reason you’re not voting, you probably don’t actually care about the genocide.
I want to put in a disclaimer- Palestine is very important! We should help them as SOON as possible. Call for a ceasefire- YES. Condemn the Israeli government for its atrocious behavior, 100%. Donate to help those in need? Of course. Do all of that. Do everything in your power to help them!
I also want you to note that I can’t vote myself. I’m 15. I have very strong political views on the fact that we should be supporting Palestine. However I myself can’t do much except post this. But I have some very important questions for everyone who chooses not to vote JUST because you don’t like Kamala’s views on Palestine:
What about Russia and Ukraine? Did that suddenly stop being an issue just because of Palestine? Trump has outwardly stated his support of Russia. The people of Ukraine are actively dying. Make no mistake, this is an attempted genocide and shouldn’t be overlooked. And most, if not all, of the people I’ve seen saying “I’m not going to vote because of Palestine” say NOTHING about Ukraine.
What about the genocide in Sudan? Nobody pays that one any mind either. I personally don’t know much about it, but it seems kind of odd that nobody talks about it. There are plenty of others, too, not just there, that nobody focuses on.
What about the civil rights violations in places such as Pakistan, with its lack of affordable healthcare leading to incredibly high prices that make revisiting medial help nigh impossible for the everyday citizen? It may not be as important as, say, genocide, but think about what it could lead to if it were to occur? It could make recovery even harder.
I feel every bit of sympathy for the people of Palestine. I want to be able to help them. I 100% agree that it should impact HOW you vote. But they are NOT the only victims that would suffer from Trump becoming president. They are NOT the only people who would suffer from you not voting.
The genocide can impact how you vote. But it should not impact IF you vote.
This election is shaping up to be the biggest, most consequential election of my life. Likely yours too.
I'm anxious, excited, and nervous. So I made some stuff:
GET OUT + VOTE Collection = 24% OFF
