#mikes replacement

[sleepymrshmllow]

insp 🌸

[blue-byers]

this song has been playing in my head non-stop with mike wheeler running around it

song: has anybody seen my will to live by The Tin Knees

[counting-stars-gayly]

Mike being visibly angry as they walked through the airport and when they were at Rink-O-Mania just because Will wasn’t talking to him enough and because he thought Will had a crush on a girl is still so funny to me. Yes, funny “haha” but also funny “queer.”

[alpineshepherdbadboy]

bcs x this fool

[thecryptidart1st]

Some quick Help Wanted 2 related art:

[starsarefire824]

i'm sorry but no

[sonknuxadow]

im gonna miss deven mack sonic and ian hanlin shadow and kazumi evans rouge so bad i will not lie

[yendts]

some eddie sketches without context from my tiktok because i make myself laugh

[demobatman]

whiteboard doodles of some of the s5 bts pics 🙇‍♂️🙇‍♂️🙇‍♂️

[maplefiasco]

In an episode PACKED with heartbreaking, horrible sights and scenes, the winner for Most Devastating Thing I Had to See is the hand of an off-screen stranger comforting Kim Wexler mid-breakdown on an airport shuttle. The empathy! The humanity! The non-judgemental, tiny offering of grace and kindness when Kim has none for herself! Fuuuuck!

[emblazons]

Hopper also told El in his letter that find her in the woods changed his life 🤔

NAWWW BESTIE tell me why I went to go pull the images to your point and THIS is the image that shows up during that quote?

Mike's one handed hug is what they chose to put here? The one where she's clinging to him while he's only half-invested/also holding Lucas AND Will is in the shot, knowing damn well there's a shot right after where it look like he hugs her proper? 😭 "I feel like my life started that day when we found you in the woods" to "I left eggos in the woods, you came into my life and I started to feel things again?"

and then, right before that...we get this parallel too?!

Mike Wheeler never escaping the familial-parental associations with Hopper for El in this show ever in his life

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Jay Kuo at The Big Picture:

In 2020, Trump launched his Big Lie about a stolen U.S. election. Through a conspiracy among Democrats, foreign countries, and nefarious, shadowy bad actors including innocent voting machine and voting software companies, so the theory went, Joe Biden had managed to switch millions of votes and win his election illegally, making him an illegitimate president. It was such an audacious, almost laughable lie that historians and political scientists dubbed it Trump’s “Big Lie”—one so outrageous and so stunning in its implications that it somehow has to be true, at least in the minds of his followers. Now, in 2024, Trump is back at it again. On top of his original Big Lie, Trump is now pushing a 2024 version for the upcoming election: that illegal immigrants will be voting in numbers by the millions, rendering any result other than a Trump victory yet another fraud upon the American people.

Undocumented migrants aren’t allowed to vote in this country, and there are already laws on the books covering that. And there have been very few documented cases of non-citizens voting, certainly not enough to change the outcome of a national election. Nevertheless, recently House Speaker Mike Johnson made a pilgrimage to Mar-a-Lago to stand beside Donald Trump and proclaim that they were united in their resolve to pass a new law to prevent non-citizens from voting, never mind that there’s already such a law on the books and that such fraud rarely ever happens. Their actions are of course performative, meant to plant dangerous seeds that could grow into even more dangerous lies. In today’s piece, I’ll explore this newest attack and how Trump is hoping to spin it into The Big Lie 2024 style.

Existing law already outlaws non-citizen voting

Last week, when Speaker Mike Johnson traveled to Mar-a-Lago to seek Trump’s support, it felt eerily familiar. It’s become a rite of passage for GOP House Speakers to make the journey to bend the knee to Trump. We all remember the photo of former Speaker Kevin McCarthy standing supportively by Trump just months after the deadly attack on the Capitol that Trump helped incite. Like McCarthy, Johnson’s speakership hangs by a thread these days, with the far right ready to decapitate yet another GOP leader for having failed to toe the line, this time for Russia by denying critical aid to Ukraine. Trump’s support of Johnson came with a price, of course, because Trump is always transactional in his dealings. In this case, it was a pledge by Johnson to support a bill to clamp down on the alleged crisis in non-citizen voting. [...]

What the right claims about “illegal” immigrant voting

The idea that millions of undocumented migrants will cast ballots in 2024 and help steal the election for Biden is objectively far-fetched. But it taps into far deeper fears of brown- and black-skinned people taking over America in something broadly known as the Great Replacement Theory. The Great Replacement Theory is a racist ideology that falsely warns that migrants who don’t speak our language and don’t share our values are deliberately being let into the U.S. so that Jews and other Democrats can turn them into millions of future voters. This process will allegedly displace “white” Americans politically and economically. Right-wing amplifiers of this include Tucker Carlson (formerly of Fox News) and Elon Musk, owner of the X platform. This is by no means a recent theory. Waves of immigrants from Ireland, Italy and Eastern Europe sparked the same unfounded fears and conspiracies in the 19th and 20th centuries with respect to the “replacement” of more established “Northern European” Americans. But recent conspiracies around migrants have shortened the timeline of the Great Replacement and are warning that the hordes of desperate asylum seekers crossing into America now will be deployed this November to unlawfully tip the election to Biden. 

[...]

It’s crucial to call this out and push back

When Trump began attacking mail-in voting in 2020, claiming falsely and without evidence that mailed ballots were vulnerable, easily tampered with, and unreliable, it should have clued us in that he would reject the results of the 2020 election if they were unfavorable to him. We also should have known that Trump would exploit the “red mirage” created when Election Day ballots, which would favor the GOP, were counted before the mailed ballots, which would favor the Democrats. Trump would go on to demand that the vote counting stop while he was still ahead, even though millions of mailed ballots remained to be counted. We now already know that a main attack by Trump and the MAGA GOP will be upon the ballot counts, particularly in battleground states with high numbers of migrants whom he will claim voted illegally by the millions. This necessitates preemptive action.

Donald Trump, GOP politicians, and right-wing media commentators are pushing the lie that noncitizen voters will get Joe Biden re-elected, never mind the fact that noncitizens aren’t allowed to vote in federal elections. This is part of the right-wing’s white nationalist “great replacement” theory shtick.

See Also:

MMFA: Right-wing media figures are citing a Spanish-language flyer of dubious origin as evidence that Democrats are importing new voters to “rig” elections

[cringelordofchaos]

"he is overrated :/" yes. and for a reason .watch me obsess over him like everyone else right in your face. just outta spite.

[dont-open-dead-inside-25]

Is that a Sam Winchester pfp? 👀👀👀👀👀

Yeah! I love him so much

Here's the full image

[rosstrytobe]

Devi: "You're gonna hate someone else in college"

Ben: "Not possible"

When I alredy heard this 🤔

WAIT A DAMN MINUTE

[muppetbyers]

idk man but i think theres such a connection between will being possessed in s2 and like 'what happens when my boy is gone' and will giving the painting to mike under el's name. just like... will being replaced and then replacing himself. and like his entire person was being replaced by the mf, but also everything that he said was from el with the painting and speech was intrinsically his and his alone. and how his arc since s1 has been about hiding but also being right there. and how its all tied to his queerness. and how ideally in s5 this should lead to will not hiding/moving on from his identity and his feelings, but instead embracing them.