Doug Jones Victory Dog Dance Party! Open Thread for laughing at Roy Moore

Sarah,

https://twitter.com/JordanUhl/status/940711301046849536

Repeated from the old Open Thread:

I think if there’s one takeaway to US politics I’ve noticed over the past year, it’s that time and again, black people, and black women in particular, have had to save white people from their own worst instincts.

It’s certainly not a burden they asked for. They have enough to deal with as it is without having to handle white people’s temper tantrums.

I can all but guarantee: elect more women of colour and the nation improves.

Oh yeah, and for more election goodness, the Liberal Party of Canada took 3 of 4 contests in the recent byelection: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/federal-byelection-decided-tonight-1.4443683

The Tories are leaning heavily on “Boo, Terrorism!” as Andrew Scheer continues to flounder in Trudeau’s wake, as they are wont to do. But voters were having none of it. Gordie Hogg pulled off an upset victory against conservative Kerry-Lynne Findlay in South Surrey-White Rock. Jean Yip won her husband Arnold Chan’s seat in Scarborough-Agincourt (which I grew up in when I was little) after he passed away of cancer earlier this year.

So yay! Up yours, Scheer!

Also former Blue Jay Jack Morris was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, yayyyy!

Parasol: I had the thought of “Just let him *try* to play alpha dogg with Sassy”, but said thought quickly went places that probably won’t fly here.

Dem lawmaker said revealing clothing can be ‘invitation’ to harassment: report

“I saw a member yesterday with her cleavage so deep it was down to the floor,” Kaptur said during a Democratic Caucus meeting to talk about sexual harassment issues, Politico reported, citing sources in the room.

“And what I’ve seen … it’s really an invitation.”

Infuriating. No, what they wear is not a fucking invitation to harrass someone. Ever. This is not a difficult concept …

people of color (who are not David Clarke) to run for office

I’d vote David Clarke for office Christmas decoration.

I’m so glad that black women dragged a bit of America, kicking and screaming, into doing the right thing.

I would just like to say that in the recent Virginia elections, the majority of white men and women voted for the fascists. This is a problem with white americans, and the way this country is built on white supremacy.

@Shadowplay

Alt-right women shocked that alt-right men preaching that women are inferior are, in fact, misogynistic yet by these recent stats from Alabama’s election, will still vote for them. Yeah, not all those white women are ‘alt-right’ but far right enough to vote for a man who allegedly sexually assaulted a minor, multiple women, and visited a brothel with child prostitutes instead of a democrat. Good fucking grief. Everyday passes and those on the right still push for Handmaid’s tale to be reality.

But this is such a nice victory

It’s good to see you feel up to posting David.

Dunno how to to post Eric Weiskott’s tweet here, so I’ll just transcribe it:

I have taken
the senate seat
that was in
yr state

and which
you were probably
saving
for an alleged pedophile

Forgive me
it was democratic
so special
and so disproportionately due to black voters turning out despite significant targeted voter suppression efforts

Jesus. Frida is an absolutely amazing movie. I knew how hard she worked on it; that she also went through hell surviving and succeeding against all the machinations of that murderous rapist piece of shit… Jesus. Well, the film remains amazing and he’ll die in infamy, so, that’s something.

Reverse peristalsis alert: Huffington Post got ahold of a leaked Daily Stormer style guide which was shared last week on an IRC channel in an effort to recruit new writers.

The gist of it is: blame everything on the Jews, use slurs, and advocate for genocide. But in a light-hearted, fun way! So that “normal” readers don’t suspect they’re being led down the primrose-strewn path to atrocities.

The idea that anyone “normal” would read the Daily Stormer and not immediately close their browser and spray bleach on the internet is questionable, but whatever.