Darker Worlds

Let’s all pray we don’t wake up.

2: Babe, it’s not what it looks like!

3: [Platypus noise]

1: You’re sleeping with another man?

3: [Takes of sunglasses and makes a platypus noise]

1: You’re s- [breaks off laughing] You’re sleeping with a platypus?

3: [Throws a sweatshirt on his head in place of a fedora]

and more importantly this

and

and

hmmm and perhaps

1) She's a cop, and we're allowed to be unhappy. We're allowed to be mad, even.

2) We are not just voting for the Presidency. We are also voting for Ruth Bader Ginsburg's replacement. And a lot of other stuff, but let RBG retire or die secure in the knowledge that doing so will not fuck over this country.

3) "Kamala Harris is a cop and ACAB" and "Kamala Harris's nomination represents a number of important firsts in the field of politics" are both solid takes that do not cancel one another out and in fact coexist because we do not live in a magic Star Wars world where we have just have the Light Side and Dark Side.

4) The immigrants currently being held in cages and doused with weapons-grade disinfectant by our own government will not appreciate the subtleties of our political choices if we elect Trump for a second term through our inaction or dithering. For that matter, the people dying of COVID because Trump gutted the pandemic response team and then mishandled our response to the virus will not appreciate them. Because they're dying or dead. Because we couldn't get our shit together four years ago. My own mother may be one of these people. I'll never know for sure.