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stop asking who’s the man and who’s the woman in gay relationships and start asking which ones the serial murderer and which ones the one trying to catch them

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so I was washing potatoes last night when I got excited

it was just one of those moments, you know. I was getting dinner together and I looked at the ingredients coming together on the counter

and I thought to myself, and said aloud, “Hell yes, I have three potatoes”

living with me means having to develop a robust tolerance for hearing a guy occasionally cry out aloud: saying, for example, “Hell yes, I have three potatoes”

but over and above my everyday state of excitement about the ten trillion small things that ease the path a little — colors, shades, sounds, flavors, sensations, moods, fleeting thoughts, moments of transcendence when you’re very lucky —

I had one of those moments of gratitude to have food. and not just the food but a counter to prep it on and a stove for cooking

but it wasn’t just the food and the kitchen and the comforts of home, either

it was me standing at the stove in a house where I’m safe. got here on my own two feet. had a lot of help. plenty of points where I wouldn’t have bet on the outcome. now I have three potatoes, you know?

here’s the thing

some of you reading this are in houses where you’re not safe all the time, and I know it

some of you are day-to-day with any of a thousand different troubles and on any given day you feel like you might buckle

maybe you’ve felt like that a lot of times over the past couple years. A lot of people have. some people have felt that way who’d had some preparation, and some people have found themselves navigating scary, unfamiliar straits

but if you’re reading this right now you managed to make it work. maybe it doesn’t feel like it worked all that well, maybe you feel like you’re coasting across the goal line with no fuel at all left in the tank,

but here you are

here you are.

having found some way to nourish yourself through it.

look at the calendar, look at the clock. you sustained yourself through this. maybe you got sick, maybe it was real bad. maybe some things got better and maybe they got worse. but give yourself the gift of a long look in the mirror

look at the person hard, uncertain times, in days of sickness everywhere, will see another year

that’s the person who will do it again, and to that person, over and over, I say, loud enough for the neighbors to hear,

Hell yes, hell yes, hell yes, hell yes, hell yes

from all of us here at Mountain Goats Central Command a thank you for seeing us through 2021. it was so good to see you in the flesh again. stay safe. trust yourselves. we will see one another through to safer times

this year’s New Year’s Eve thread is dedicated to that one guy who’s mad about people wishing one another happy new year: may he never know why people actually do it

and may the rest of us, collectively, defiantly, never forget it /thread.

a long awaited squeakquel i meant to make months and months ago

your all wrong, bowser is just already in a committed relationship

for some reason yall have stuck around this long so now your gonna get the MOST self indulgent sammi posting with the awnser to this

we go back to 2014 when i first watch that shitty live action mario movie, it was so bad i loved it so much. i knew it sucked but i was SO into it i loved it so much

and i specifically had a small crush on the lady who played the character big bertha, who was based on a one off comic character who was a giant cheep cheep who had a crush on mario. and in the movie was was also into mario. and let me tell you 14-15 year old cringe ass sammi drew SO much fanart of her as a mermaid who was in love with mario

so this one goes out to little crange ass baby nae nae sammi 

mario and his giant spikey mermaid gf

An election? In September? Yes. A stupid one.

You see, some Republicans got Big Mad at Governor Gavin Newsom when he made the decision to lockdown the state last year at the beginning of the pandemic. They decided to start a petition to remove (recall) him from office. California's state constitution allows voters to remove the governor via recall election if they get enough signatures.

How many signatures, you ask? 12% of the total votes cast in the previous election for the office of the person being recalled, or in this case, 1.5 million.

Yeah. That's all. Out of a state of nearly 40 million people. A state that is the 5th largest economy in the world.

Just 1.5 million people need to sign an official recall petition for a statewide vote to remove the governor from office.

(If you didn't know, a recall election is how California got Arnold Schwarzenegger for governor in 2003.)

If a simple majority (50% + 1 vote) of voters choose YES on their ballots, Gavin Newsom will be removed from office and whomever of the 46 candidates on the ballot gets more votes than anyone else (not even a majority vote, just more than the other candidates) will become California's new governor.

The current (as of today, August 20th) frontrunners are a very right-wing talk radio host named Larry Elder, and a real estate broker/YouTube personality named Kevin Paffrath. Neither have what you would call "political experience."

(Caitlin Jenner is also running. Just in case you were wondering.)

How do you get on a recall ballot in California? To replace the governor, the highest office in the state? Well, you need to complete the arduous task of forking over about $4000 and getting 7500 signatures of real Californians saying they back you as a candidate.

Yeah. That's all.

Oh, and just having this election is costing CA taxpayers over $250 million dollars.

So what's at stake if Newsom gets recalled?

Majority control of the US Senate.

You see, Senator Dianne Feinstein is 88 years old this year. She's been Senator since 1992. If she falls too ill to continue her duties, if she resigns, if she dies while in office, California does not hold a Senatorial election.

The governor appoints a replacement.

This is how we got our current junior Senator, Alex Padilla, after Kamala Harris was inaugurated as Vice President.

Let me say that again.

The governor appoints a replacement Senator if Dianne Feinstein cannot complete her term.

If enough people vote to recall Gavin Newsom, and a Republican, or Libertarian, or, let's be honest, any inexperienced wet sack that can be bought off by the highest bidder, takes his place, they will very possibly appoint a Republican Senator to replace Dianne Feinstein and put that fuckface Mitch McConnell back in control of the US Senate.

So please, please, if you're a Californian, make sure you're registered to vote, get your ballot, and vote NO on this stupid waste of money recall election.

More info:

www.sfgate.com/gavin-newsom-recall/amp/Gavin-Newsom-recall-poll-support-Elder-Paffrath-16390077.php

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