[barks internally]

TK and Judd + hugs

I’m a black man carrying the stars and stripes. What don’t I understand? Every time I pick this up, I know there are millions of people out there who are gonna hate me for it. Even now, here, I feel it. The stares, the judgment. And there’s nothin’ I can do to change it. Yet I’m still here. No super serum, no blond hair, or blue eyes. The only power I have is that I believe we can do better. We can’t demand that people step up if we don’t meet them halfway. Look, you control the banks. Shit, you can move borders! You can knock down a forest with an email, you can feed a million people with a phone call. But the question is, who’s in the room when you’re making those decisions? Hmmm? Is it the people you’re gonna impact? Or is it just more people like you? 

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Season 1 Episode 6: One World, One People

:’-)

ANTHONY MACKIE as SAM WILSON & SEBASTIAN STAN as BUCKY BARNES in The Falcon and The Winter Soldier (2021) | Truth

‘Anthony Stark has created a sword with untold possibilities,  and yet he insists it’s a shield’. Justin Hammer, Iron Man II  ||  ‘Earth’s just lost her best defender.’ –  Steve Rogers, Avengers: Infinity War

Bonus:

sketching these gays again

Just want to say how proud of i am of america right now. Removing a dictator during a dictatorship is near impossible (typically it takes civil war or a death/ power vacuum) but for four years you’ve been fighting back and now you’re fighting a heavily rigged, horribly unfair election and not giving Trump that “landslide victory” dictators typically get. I want you to know that many of us across the world, see those 50/50 looking results and don’t see america as half and half but 30% cultists who were given an easy vote and 70% people who’s vote was very hard to get out (we saw the lines, we saw the fake ballotboxes) and often outright thrown away. We hear that more people voted for Biden than have ever voted for a candidate before. We see your judges fighting to have every vote counted and the diverse new congressfolks you’ve voted in. The narrative of a close race omits that one team had skates on a downhill road and the other had an obstacle couse littered with dirty needles, fences to break through, barbed wire to crawl under and rabid dogs blocking the way.

I actually needed to hear this I think. All I’ve been hearing for the last few years is how terrible America is and I know that reputation is earned but I and so many other people have been fighting this whole time because we love our country and trust our institutions and don’t want to see them fall and I know we’re not the best neighbors to have but we’re trying and it makes me so happy to see that someone, anyone, understands that we’re trying.

Because Trump was golfing (of course) when the election was called, he had to drive through all of DC celebrating his outsting. Most have posted the picture (above) of his face as they drove in. I would also like to share with you the view of what he was seeing (below courtesy of an evan vucci/AP)

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