Marguerite Bennett's Blog, page 273
July 29, 2016
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I love when I’m studying outside and a bee is...
I love when I’m studying outside and a bee is like “flower? r u a flower? I check! is laptop a flower? i check! No one here a flower… ciao!” and I wave goodbye saying thank you for visiting little bee!
Bees don’t think in English you fools. You imbeciles.
The bee said ‘ciao’ it’s obviously Italian
July 28, 2016
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Trying to figure out...
Trying to figure out whether I wanted to tag this Hamilton or Les Miserables was a struggle.
Shit people have forgotten about the Bush Era:
Free Speech Zones, which were a real thing and not a plot element in a particularly ham-handed dystopian novel.
The phrase “hidey hole.”
Watching a budget surplus become a massive deficit that was bigger than it even looked because the White House was just like, “Okay, we’ll just not put the wars on the books and just ask for more money for those every few months.”
The sheer number of times Alberto Gonzalez said, “I don’t recall,” to Congress regarding war crimes and human rights violations.
“…now watch this drive.”
Mission Accomplished.
“The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence,” “yellowcake uranium,” Condoleeza’s “mushroom clouds” fearmongering, and all the other bullshit we were fed to get into Iraq.
The President of the United States said so many stupid things that there were one-a-day calendars consisting of an individual quote for each day of the year. They didn’t all have the exact same quotes.
“There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don’t know we don’t know.”
And then we went to war.
“Tonight I ask you to pass legislation to prohibit the most egregious abuses of medical research: human cloning in all its forms; creating or implanting embryos for experiments; creating human-animal hybrids; and buying, selling or patenting human embryos.” - George W. Bush, 2006 State of the Union
Okay, that’s the best one.
Bush watched that Batman Beyond splicing episode and had nightmares for a week
was it hidey-hole? i thought it was spider-hole.
Yeah, it was spider-hole
I think my favorite was how we un-ironically referred to a whole set of countries as the “Axis of Evil” as if that phrase gives us some kind of meaningful understanding of their geopolitical role and isn’t borrowed straight out of a mediocre made-for-TV superhero movie.
And then there was:
We literally got a terrorism forecast on the news every morning like it was pollen. So many of the things that happened, if they were in a dystopian novel, people would be like, “That’s way too goofy and ridiculous to actually happen in real life,” and yet they did.
THE LAST ONE’S REAL?
Yeah
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeland_Security_Advisory_System
Not only was the terror threat system real, but it was often raised and lowered based entirely on how panicked they wanted us to be. Famously they raised the level for no reason during the 2004 election.
Also, “Free Speech Zones” looked something like this:
It was literally a cage.
I genuinely forget that people, even within my own age group, has forgotten the Bush era since they were teenagers and below the voting age at the time, and so forgot how fucking horrifying it was.
I always reblog this reminder
The terror levels were often raised before elections, with “reports” of “terror plans discovered and destroyed.” Fear is the best tool to control the populace. Make us afraid of the other and compelling us to vote for “safety” and the status quo.
CATWOMAN: If you would like to win the pretty girl, Helena, you...
CATWOMAN: If you would like to win the pretty girl, Helena, you can always kill some Nazis for her.
HUNTRESS: I hate you so much.
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Bunny Constantine stickers
I loved how Zatanna...
Bunny Constantine stickers
I loved how Zatanna turned John into a dumb little bunny in DC Bombshells and I just had to draw him doing all sorts of little bunny things and struggles :’)
Sticker set available in redbubble and also as variety of other products but works best as stickers ^^
UPDATE! Upon request, now also available as separate stickers~
"My father had taught me to be nice first, because you can always be mean later, but once you’ve been..."
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Laurell K. Hamilton, A Stroke of Midnight (via quotethat)
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