In a speech yesterday, Hillary Clinton admitted what many have long suspected: She is an advocate of cat GIFs.
After reciting a litany of the horrible things Trump has said, she declared that his divisive rhetoric
makes you want to turn off the news. It makes you want to unplug the internet. Or just look at cat GIFs. I get it… I’ve watched a lot of cats do a lot of weird and interesting things. But we have a job to do and it’ll be good for people and for cats.
My own research has confirmed that one can indeed find many GIFs online featuring cats doing “weird and interesting things.”
Here is some of what I have discovered:
Feel free to share your own research in the comments below.
Or just us this as an OPEN THREAD to talk about whatever!
Thought you guys might like this tweet for a laugh:
https://twitter.com/m_m_myers/status/787098187752275968
This afternoon I had what I thought was a job interview at a large, well-known company (not naming names, but there’s a giraffe involved). Now it’s looking more and more likely that the “interview” was actually a conditional offer and that I accepted it without recognizing it as such.
@Axe,
Yeah, my Chrome crashing too now.
Sorry everybody!
Also thanks for the cello, Axe, though I kept being distracted from the music by watching the guy with the mangled bows’ face as he played. I’ve never noticed someone doing cello face before, and now I can’t stop seeing it. I feel ickily intrusive.
@Scildfreja, that tweet and the replies are brilliant.
@Nikki, how bad is it? Is it really, really bad?
@Mish
No, not bad at all! The offer’s pretty good (it’s a seasonal retail position, so not the best thing ever, but it’s good for seasonal retail and very good for someone like me-a student trying to build up work experience). It’s just very unexpected, as I haven’t had much luck in the job market for quite a while. My interviewer said she’d call me back (presumably with a final offer) after the background check goes through (which should be no problem), and I don’t think I’ll be able to believe they actually want me until she calls.
@Nikki, that’s brilliant! Keep us posted 🙂
Also in the spirit of sharing, you must all see Scott Adams’ concession to a likely Trump defeat (no, you must – I cannot bear this alone):
And, my favourite bit:
(on the Dilbert blog if anyone is actually interested…)
Clever retort coming up! Make sure your seat is locked in the upright position! Safety goggles on!
Are you ready?
Are you prepared?
I’ll give you a few moments.
Now?
Now.
*ahem*
FFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCKKKKK YOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUU SCOTT ADAMS! You gibbering miserable asshole. You aren’t even a sentient collection of syphilis. You’re a damn lickspittle for the sentient collection of syphilis which you call Trump. If you sunk any lower in your cravenness we would have to redefine the word “down”. In short…
So I just saw this over my wife’s shoulder and it’s fucking amazing and even though I figure it’s 50/50 in another thread on this site I needed to make absolutely sure so here you go:
Everything? So, if after Clinton’s term/s there’s 5 male presidents and then in 2060 there’s a recession, it’s all women’s fault? Kay.
I thought everything was already women’s fault?
Sorry for so many comments, but
@Freemage, that’s fucking brilliant. Thank you and your wife!
Shorter Scott Adams:
http://www.reactiongifs.com/r/sam.gif
I haven’t seen this mentioned here; please excuse if it’s redundant: One of the Miss Teen USA competitors, who has reported that a Trump used to walk into the young women’s communal dressing room unannounced and without permission, has said that she complained to Ivanka, who replied, “Yes, he does that.”
I think the article, which I can’t find now, stated that Ivanka was 15 at that time. I really wonder whether Trump’s inappropriateness went far beyond the comments we all know about. And whether we’ll ever find out…
If the Yellowstone caldera blows and creates a volcanic winter, will that be women’s fault?
If Justin Bieber has 5 kids and they form a pop supergroup, is that all women’s fault?
If a comet carrying a deadly plague smashes into the earth and causes a gigantic pandemic, is that all women’s fault?
Thanks, Hillary!
So, my mother has offered to take me clothes shopping next week. And I need it; my wardrobe’s pretty thin right now and i have no winter wear to speak of. The problem, basically, is the part where my mother is along. The last time we saw each other, she didn’t get my name or pronoun right even once in the course of a 10 hour move. Which is bad enough when it’s just family around, but is not fucking on at Lane Bryant. And I am not sure how to diplomatically convey that a gift card would be better because I can’t trust her not to humiliate me in public any more.
Cool, Open Thread! Exactly what I needed! Ok, here we go…
Women in Argentina are going on strike on Wednesday 19th! Yes we are!
Things are still a bit messy and disorganized but lots of organizations are supporting it and it keeps growing.
The reason is horrible, and very sad so I don’t want to talk about it right now. But the reaction is visible.
I can hardly believe this is happening. There might be a very violent reaction to this but then again, I get to feel like a suffragette xD
Anyway, I wanted to keep you updated on this because holy freaking tapdancing Jesus!!!! I hope everything goes well and especially no one gets hurt!
I really really really needed to share all this joy and freaking out with you. I couldn’t be doing this without all the things I learned here.
Lots of love and hugs and warrior kitties :3
PS: Oh, and I’m adopting a baby kitten next week. Life is getting better, after all.
Ugh. This Scott Adams thing is annoying because you just know some people actually think like that – like if Clinton ends up being a bad president, then there you go, women suck as presidents, end of story. It kinda reminds me of the “But superhero movies starring women always fail!” crap. Because no matter how many bad superhero movies starring men are made, they’ll be brushed aside as just a bad movie, and given another chance, maybe in something better and/or more successful (case in point: Ryan Reynolds), but bad superhero movies starring women are somehow “proof” that the problem is women.
Because men are just the default, but women are suspect for just being women.
(Also insert the relevant XKCD comic here.)
Welcome to J’raffic Park!
http://www.freakingnews.com/pictures/28500/Giraffe-and-Dinosaur-Hybrid-28502.jpg
@freemage:
That is amazing and I am going to show it to everyone I know.
@Dalillama:
Oh noes. That’s a difficult situation and I feel for you. It can be very difficult to make family members appreciate that their behaviour is unacceptable and if their feelings are hurt by realising this, then it’s not your responsibility to make them feel better about hurting you.
I hope she comes around. The best-case outcome is a mother-daughter shopping trip, which could be a lot of fun.
(I’ve basically had to cut my own mother more or less entirely out of my life because of her repeated insistence on leveraging any conversation into “you pointed out my misbehaviour and that made me feel bad and I want you to apologise for making me feel bad.” I really, really hope you don’t have to take that step.)
@Luxbelitx:
All my warrior kittens back to you as well! Public protests can be great fun; there’s nothing like taking to the streets with large numbers of likeminded people to realise just how powerful you are and to break down the feelings of isolation.
I hope it turns out really well. Please let us know what happens.
@Penny Psmith:
Exactly. It’s almost as if Golda Meir, Indira Gandhi, Margaret Thatcher, Angela Merkel and Megawati Sukarnoputri hadn’t existed. If Clinton messes up then it will prove forever that women can’t run things.
They, of course, are going to be doing their very best to ensure that she fails. Because something something objectivity.
@EJ(TOL)
The thing is, she’s paying a considerable portion of my rent right now, so I’d rather not upset her too too much.
She still doesn’t reliably get my husband’s pronouns right, and he’s been using the same ones for the dozen years she’s known him.
I think that’s what she’s aiming for, I just don’t think that’s what’s going to happen.
Of course not. They’re all foreigners, and everyone knows foreigners don’t really understand democracy. The U.S. invented it, so it’s only important when we do something.
Men had a good run.
You’ll have to define “good run” for me.
We invented almost everything, and that’s cool.
Nah, but you did take credit for inventing everything, and that’s not cool.
But we also started all of the wars and committed most of the crimes.
So you’re done with wars and crime?
It’s a mixed record to be sure. Now it’s time for something different, apparently.
And you’re saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad.
Hillary Clinton is all yours, ladies.
Nah, the other ladies and I don’t own Hillary Clinton.
She and her alleged rapist husband are your brand now.
As it turns out, the other ladies and I don’t own Bill Clinton either, whether he’s a rapist or not. Weird!
Wear them well.
You can spin and spin and spin, Scott, but you can’t turn this (potential) victory into a defeat.
Urgh. Mild derail but can I just say how much I hate the “Hillary’s husband is terrible so she is terrible” narrative. Does the media not recognise that married people are still separate individuals? That most people have no idea what their spouse is actually doing when they are not right there? Like I assume my husband works ten hours a day because there’s reasonable evidence, but if it turns out he’s actually spending that time eating kittens for money, how exactly does that make me into a kitten-eating monster?
I’d consider adding Benazir Bhutto to that list. Two terms as prime minister in a muslim country? No bad going, especially given the opposition she had (which eventually killed her).
Totes your fault. The worst man in the world can be fixed by the love of a good woman. If the man is bad, it means his woman is also bad, or she didn’t love him enough (which is probably also bad). How do we know he was eating kittens before he met you? You probably drove him to it.
Bacon:
Well, women are just extensions of their husbands. This is why women shouldn’t vote, if she votes the same as her husband, she’s just doubling his vote. Unfair to the opposition! And if she votes opposite her husband, she’s cancelling out his vote. Unfair to him! Either way, a vote for women is unfair. And it also means we’re giving Bill a third term!
Scott Adams:
Actually, we need evidence of this. There are many examples of women writing, inventing, and umm arting things under men’s names, or with a man taking credit, or otherwise attributed to men. There is an undefined % of stuff created by women. But because women were oppressed and silenced, we do not know a) how much between 0% and 100% was actually created by women, only credited to men, and b) what percentage women would have created throughout if they weren’t oppressed (also somewhere between 0% and 100%).
Until you can prove under no uncertain terms that women didn’t create most things under men’s names, you cannot make that statement.