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This is my grandfather’s rock.  It is Probably a Garnet, which he mined out himself when he was in college studying to be a geologist.

Though you may assume this is a Small Rock, it is in fact a very Large Rock, and also a very Heavy Rock, but most especially a very Square Rock, which is what makes it particularly cool.

Here we have a rock which used to be a tree.  This rock is petrified wood!  It was one of my very first Cool Rocks!

Speaking of rocks that used to be things that were not rocks, this rock is Petoskey stone!  This rock used to be a coral.  Let’s get a good look at those patterns.

Now that’s a Cool Rock!

Amethyst?  It’s an Okay Rock.  If you are looking for an inexpensive rock to start your collection, amethyst is the way to go.  It’s a quartz with a deep purple color.  A very nice, if average, rock.

Now citrine… Citrine is a Cool Rock!  It’s a smoky quartz with a lovely honey color.  The druzy on my chunk of citrine has a wonderful sparkle.

This is my Amazonite!  It grew that hexagon shape all by itself!!  This specimen is from Colorado.

Look at this shiny little slice of rock!  This rock is Tiger Iron, and those bands of red and orange glow beautifully with some light behind them.  These different colored bands are made from Hematite (the dark silver), Jasper (the red-orange), and Tiger-Eye quartz (the yellow-orange).

Here’s a rock you’ve probably seen before!  This Cool Rock is Malachite.  The patterns and rings are from the stalagmites this little egg was carved from.

Whoa, look at this giant slab of Extremely Cool Rock!!!  These crystals formed in the cracks of fossilized mud, to make the awesome patterns in this geode of Septarian!  This is my second best rock.

This is my Best and most Favorite Cool Rock.  In this dark room it’s a dull little grey rock, but if I move it closer to the light…

Those glints of gold!  Those veins of blue!  This rock is most certainly Labradorite, which changes color spectacularly when the light hits it just right.  Let’s put it in direct sunlight.

Ham: *Small chuckle as he moves towards Miles*

in 2020, the ONLY GOAL is getting that orange sludge out of office. 

That’s it. That is endgame for 2020. If you stick your head up your ass so far as to think anything is more important than that at this point, get an emergency head-ass-ectomy REAL fucking quick because we CANNOT pull another 2016.

I don’t care if the Dem nominee is someone you hate, if you’ve voted Green Party for 34 years, if your goddamn mother is on the ticket. If mama isn’t the official presidential candidate from the Democratic Party, then you DO NOT VOTE FOR HER.

2020 is about blocking another four years of nightmare hell. 2020 is about caring about other people’s realities over your “conscience” (read: online woke points). It’s about standing up for every person hurt, every person harassed, every person KILLED by the hate this piece of radioactive bile spews from every disgusting orifice.

ESPECIALLY my fellow white people better take this message to fucking heart, because WE are the ones who fucked this up, ESPECIALLY my fellow white women. You are not allowed to “vote your conscience.” You are not allowed to “weigh the options.” You are suddenly a single-issue voter, and that issue is Trump Is Evil. You are voting to evict, voting to BLOCK. If the Democratic candidate is less than ideal, you suck it the fuck up for 2020.  This election is not, CANNOT be about idealism, about perfection. It’s about starting to undo four years of damage.

We do not have a parliamentary system, or even a ranked choice voting system.  We basically have a two party system, and Trump is going to be one of the parties unless he’s in jail by then.

Any third party vote muddies the waters.  Jill Stein and the Libertarian schmoo did that in 2016 and helped the orange shithead win.

2020 is simple: vote for the Democratic Party nominee.  We can go looking for the perfect unicorn once we throw Trump’s ass out.

And this pisses me off. Like really pisses me off. Yeah, voting is an individual right that you living in a free country should be fucking grateful that you have access to. Yeah, at the end of the day, voting is about selecting a candidate you would like to see win. But what voting is also about, and what a lot of selfish, egotistical, morons aren’t understanding is that you have to take into account the current, past, and future problems before making your choice. Get your fucking heads out of your asses long enough to see that your choice of voting third party, or choosing not to vote at all, all on the basis of some imagined moral high ground so you can tweet about how much of a fucking saint you are, only allows the evil, despicable Republican party and their asshat orange dictator-wannabe to win.

In the primaries, vote for who you want. But once that choice is made and you have an official candidate, I don’t care if you don’t like them. I don’t care if they did one (1) Problematic Thing years ago. You know what they haven’t done? They haven’t locked children up at the border, resulting in deaths in some cases. They haven’t ruined global relations with other nations, who you do still need to like you, by the way. That’s how living in this globalized world works. They haven’t started a trade war with countries you absolutely don’t start trade wars with. They haven’t colluded with a foreign power who would benefit greatly from the implosion of American democracy. They didn’t throw a fucking tantrum when they didn’t get funding for a fucking useless border wall, and by that I mean hold government workers hostage for the record longest shutdown in US history. And then moments after agreeing to end said shutdown without the funding, threaten to shut it down again in a few weeks if they don’t get that wall money.

gwen: freaky flexing. but alright

miles:

Steve: Get what?