We don’t talk enough about the two identical old women who just hang around Azula saying ominous shit in unison. What’s their deal. Is there a comic about them. Are they paid for their services
WHAT FUNCTION DO YOU SERVE IN THE GOVERNMENT
"But he's --"
It doesn't matter. It does. not. matter.
Not every battle is about progress. Sometimes it's just holding the line until we get reinforcements. And they are coming. The Gen Z vote was monumental in stopping the red wave, and there are increasing numbers as more and more come of age.
Hold the line.
I want to push back on the battle “not being about progress.” Because /Biden has accomplished a lot, actually, especially given a Republican-controlled House. One could argue that he hasn’t gone far enough, but that’s not the same as having accomplished nothing. So here’s some things Biden has done:
1) Raised taxes on the wealthy and corporations.
2) Highest appointment of federal judges since Reagan. Reagan started a trend of Republicans packing federal courts with uber-conservative judges, and blocking Democrat appointments, which is how we ended up with our current Supreme Court. Biden is doing his absolute best to turn the scales back the other direction by appointing as many liberal and left-wing judges as he can, as fast as he can.
3) $1.2 trillion dollar infrastructure package that will pour federal money into things like public transit, high-speed internet in places that don’t have it (which are overwhelmingly poor, and cut off from the rest of the world), and a whole lot of other basic things that make life easier for ordinary people.
4) Halted Federal executions. This doesn’t affect state-level convictions, but it does affect federal-level executions; those are completely off the table for as long as he (or any other) Democrat is President. (13 people were executed under Trump)
5) Rejoining the Paris Climate Accords and pushing for other environmental care legislation,
6) Pushed through the “Inflation Reduction Act” (named that to get Republicans to be willing to allow it through). It’s actually the largest climate bill in U.S. history and allows Medicare to negotiate the prices of certain prescription drugs for the first time. It includes 369 billion for a climate initiative to reduce greenhouse emissions and promote lean energy technologies. $300 billion in new revenue through a corporate tax increase. $80 billion for the Internal Revenue Service to hire new agents, modernize its technology, audit the wealthy and more. A $2,000 annual cap for out-of-pocket prescription drug costs for those insured by Medicare.
6) Overturned Trump’s ban on transgender people serving in the military.
7) Re-authorized the Violence Against Women Act
8) Pardoned marijuana
9) Forgave student loan debt (this one the Republicans in congress managed to partially stymie, but that’s not Biden’s fault--it’s the Republicans).
10) Managed to get a modest gun-safety bill through the gauntlet of Republican opposition. (The first one anyone’s managed to get passed in decades.) It’s far from perfect, or enough, but it did expand background checks on gun purchases and made it easier to prosecute illegal gun trafficking. And the reason it was as weak as it was, is because the Republicans have a majority in the House and they blocked anything stronger, it’s the Republicans’ fault. Not Biden’s. If we want sensible nationwide gun control, we have GOT to get the House a Democrat majority.
11) Passed a long-stalled Post Office reform bill.
There’s a lot there! And the things that he promised but didn’t manage to achieve, he put them before Congress and the Republicans in the House stopped them. If Democrats controlled the House as well as the Senate, most of them would have passed and now be the law of the land! The problem is not Biden.
Biden may not be very exciting, and he may not be as far left as we want. But he’s still got a lot done in the last three years.
stepping in as a Poor on Social Security to say that Joe Biden has done more for me than any other POTUS in my lifetime. Since he stepped into office I have seen:
-broadband internet help ($30/month toward my comcast bill, and even if I go delinquent, they are required to keep my internet connected albeit with a slower connection. the point is: my internet cannot be cut off)
-multiple SNAP increases
-direct stimulus
-MAJOR improvements to Medicare. I have a $0 copay for EVERYTHING now through my Medicare Advantage plan. Including prescription medicine!! I pay nothing! Ambulance, hospital stay? Again, I pay nothing. Including vision and dental and hearing aids if I needed them.
-my Medicare OTC card used to just give me a little to buy medicine. Now I get $205/month and I can use it for OTC medicines, groceries, and utility bills! This is literally more money in my pocket every month.
-speaking of that, Biden has given us two historically large COLA raises for Social Security. Last year’s was the biggest raise in 4 decades. This year promises to be very good, too.
this doesn’t even count in the multiple kinds of student debt relief or the pandemic-era child tax credit, because they didn’t affect me personally, but I know both of those moves were life-changing for people i know. Not to mention a long overdue infrastructure bill. And the fact that he has accomplished all this with the weakest possible senate “majority” really speaks volumes.
Yeah, he’s old. No, he’s not a socialist. But he’s good at his job and he is making things happen for vulnerable people. Not to mention that he is SO much better at foreign policy than any POTUS I can remember. Remember how we were at war for decades? We’re not anymore. Yeah, Joe did that.
huggingrey asked:
Mr Neil Gaiman why do we have to wait for season 2 💔 im too inpatient for that why cant we have it now?? /j
neil-gaiman answered:
Because we’re not there yet.
"biblical angels" you do realise there are angels in the old testament that are literally just regular looking guys, right? you do know that the hallucinogenic incoherent descriptions are in like. two books. and the rest of the time angels are just guys. you know that, right?
and I'm not saying don't have fun with weird angels. I'm saying, either the eldritch forms are for special occasions, or the society of the angels is Many-Eyed-Many-Winged-Interlocking-Circles, Four-Faces-Six-Wings, and Mike.
Literally Raphael is just a normal person!
this is what the heavenly breakroom is like
you know the wizards council will use this to expand the surveillance kingdom and erode nonhuman rights
👏dragon 👏blood 👏can’t 👏erode 👏mythril 👏beams
everyone else is funnier than me I quit
“this is the hill you want to die on?” oh no i just love arguing. i fully intend to leave this hill once it gets boring. sorry for the confusion!
