anexplanationofunfortunateevents:

The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation….

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments….

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.….

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on…. Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

leupagus:

pinkcheesegreenghost:

phoenix-ace:

leupagus:

I’m not kidding when I say that every single one of you who didn’t vote in 2016 or voted for some stupid third party candidate are just as responsible for today as those who voted Trump, and you can all suck my fucking dick forever. Go to hell and I hope you burn.

Except that the majority of Trump voters were white people across every voter group. All of the 3rd party voters in the country couldn’t out vote the majority (especially with the Electoral college), especially when democrats spent most of their time trying to appeal to them, and made no real effort (outside of grassroots efforts) to protect the poor and non white voters who make up their main voter base. If you want to hold people responsible you can complain about non voters and 3rd party voters (as long as you also acknowledge how gutting the VRA had a role in this), but you also have to come after Dems for abandoning their base, underestimating Trump’s ability to use identity politics, and you have to come after white voters for falling for “Southern Strategy 3.0”.

im so fucking sick of people blaming 3rd party voters! ffs 

either admit that voting should be about picking the person who best represents your personal interests, or admit that voting is only beneficial when the votes go the way YOU think they should.

FUCK YOU. I don’t give a fuck what you think voting “should be.” There is no fucking “should be,” you absolute twerpfaced asshole. There is what voting is, which is doing your goddamn motherfucking duty as a fucking citizen of this country—a duty that others in this country can’t fulfill—and pick one of the two people who will win the election, rather than whatever bullshit unicorn you’ve decided is more in line with your pet causes. Because while you’re making a fucking statement or whatever with your inane third party vote, the guy who you know is worse, the guy who has done irreperable harm to our country, our citizens, and the world in a record year and a half, won the election.

And no, “the Dems” (whatever the fuck you think that means, I guess just “old ladies I think are ugly and kinda like my mom”) did not abandon “the base” (which is not, contrary to what you think, you and your best pal Noah who would’ve totes voted for that bitch I mean Hillary except she just abandoned you and your vewy pwecious ideals). The base, which is Black women, turned out. They showed up. It was you who pouted and stomped your feet and couldn’t get off your fucking entitled asses because something you’d read in Jacobin convinced you Hillary owned slaves or was friends with a KKK leader or whatever bullshit you fed to yourselves, all to give yourselves cover for fucking up an election that has cost us… I don’t really know what. Fifty years of progress, give or take? But sure, it’s your mom’s fault–I mean the Dems’ fault.

And if you want to come at me with “voting is only beneficial when the votes go the way YOU think they should”—yeah you’re fucking right that I don’t think the votes should have gone the way they did. Are you seriously trying to tell me that this is a lesson I should internalize? Assholes, I turned up. I voted. I helped my dad vote. I volunteered and donated and did my best to get the best candidate elected. You didn’t do anything; in fact you discouraged others from voting because that bitch who kinda reminds you of your mom or that mean manager you hate didn’t lick your ass quite hard enough during the elections. I mean, for all you know maybe she did—it’s not like you dicknozzles ever actually read any of her policy papers or listened to her speeches. You just kept checking The Hill for whatever latest dirt there was on her emails. And now you want fucking credit, for having such high and lofty ideals that you couldn’t lift a fucking finger to prevent all of this?

This is why I’m angrier at you than I am at the Trumpists. This blatant lying, right here, that you have any kind of actual principles other than “I don’t want to vote for that icky lady.” You didn’t vote third party out of any conviction. You voted third party, or didn’t vote at all, because you don’t care about any of the shit you pretended to care about here on tumblr.com. 

The Trump voters are hateful, vile, bigoted shitstains who are already salivating at the overturn of Roe. But they were honest about what they wanted. They said “I want to hurt Black and Brown folks, and gays, and uppity women, and Muslims, and everyone else who isn’t exactly like me.” You guys told us over and over again that you were better than us because you wanted economic justice, you wanted free college and no corporate PACs and universal healthcare. And then you did absolutely nothing to bring it about. You couldn’t even be bothered to the one candidate who would have listened to you once she was in office (because newsflash you moosenuggets, she would have had to, as you should have known if you’d listened for ten goddamn minutes, because she would’ve been banking on getting the House and Senate back in 2018 and to do that she would have had to go hard left, DUH, HOW DID THAT NOT MAKE IT THROUGH YOUR FUCKING SKULLS). 

No, you decided that looking personally pure was worth the suffering of millions of people. You lied about every one of your goals, because you ensured that none of that shit will ever happen in your lifetime now. None of it. Our generation is fucked, and yours, and your kids’ generation. And it’s your fault as much as the Trumpists—but they didn’t lie to my face about what they wanted.