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[Em & cherry @5emma9706]

Being in an airport and having to listen to the dumbest people around gloat about voting against their own self interest is not how I wanted to spend today.

[Em & cherry @5emma9706]

Just so we're crystal clear, I voted for Harris and NOT the felon. And while I don't wish ill on anyone, if you did vote for the diminishing orange goomba (lot of you fuckers out there), I will be sure to lay the blame for what is to come at your feet. Vocally.

[Em & cherry @5emma9706]

I may need to send @JasonKander all my money for the therapy session. I need every word from him.

[Jason Kander @JasonKander]

It is extremely early and most indicators are positive. Be patient.

[Arnold Schwarzenegger @Schwarzenegger]

I don’t really do endorsements. I’m not shy about sharing my views, but I hate politics and don’t trust most politicians.

I also understand that people want to hear from me because I am not just a celebrity, I am a former Republican Governor.

My time as Governor taught me to love policy and ignore politics. I’m proud of the work I did to help clean up our air, create jobs, balance the budget, make the biggest infrastructure investment in state history, and take power from the politicians and give it back to the people when it comes to our redistricting process and our primaries in California.

That’s policy. It requires working with the other side, not insulting them to win your next election, and I know it isn’t sexy to most people, but I love it when I can help make people’s lives better with policies, like I still do through my institute at USC, where we fight for clean air and stripping the power from the politicians who rig the system against the people.

Let me be honest with you: I don’t like either party right now. My Republicans have forgotten the beauty of the free market, driven up deficits, and rejected election results. Democrats aren’t any better at dealing with deficits, and I worry about their local policies hurting our cities with increased crime.

It is probably not a surprise that I hate politics more than ever, which, if you are a normal person who isn’t addicted to this crap, you probably understand.

I want to tune out.

But I can’t. Because rejecting the results of an election is as un-American as it gets. To someone like me who talks to people all over the world and still knows America is the shining city on a hill, calling America is a trash can for the world is so unpatriotic, it makes me furious.

And I will always be an American before I am a Republican.

That’s why, this week, I am voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.

I’m sharing it with all of you because I think there are a lot of you who feel like I do. You don’t recognize our country. And you are right to be furious.

For decades, we’ve talked about the national debt. For decades, we’ve talked about comprehensive immigration reform that secures the border while fixing our broken immigration system. And Washington does nothing.

The problems just keep rolling, and we all keep getting angrier, because the only people that benefit from problems aren’t you, the people. The only people that benefit from this crap are the politicians who prefer having talking points to win elections to the public service that will make Americans’ lives better.

It is a just game to them. But it is life for my fellow Americans. We should be pissed!

But a candidate who won’t respect your vote unless it is for him, a candidate who will send his followers to storm the Capitol while he watches with a Diet Coke, a candidate who has shown no ability to work to pass any policy besides a tax cut that helped his donors and other rich people like me but helped no one else else, a candidate who thinks Americans who disagree with him are the bigger enemies than China, Russia, or North Korea - that won’t solve our problems.

It will just be four more years of bullshit with no results that makes us angrier and angrier, more divided, and more hateful.

We need to close the door on this chapter of American history, and I know that former President Trump won’t do that. He will divide, he will insult, he will find new ways to be more un-American than he already has been, and we, the people, will get nothing but more anger.

That’s enough reason for me to share my vote with all of you. I want to move forward as a country, and even though I have plenty of disagreements with their platform, I think the only way to do that is with Harris and Walz.

Vote this week. Turn the page and put this junk behind us.

And even if you disagree with me, vote, because that’s what we do as Americans. https://t.co/eHFZ723I4H

[Em & cherry @5emma9706]

And the race is essentially tied. The country is well and truly effed. At least it was good of John Kelly to define fascism because I'm certain Trump supporters (all of them deplorables) need the explainer.

[Edward-Isaac Dovere @IsaacDovere]

Where we’re at is that the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff under Trump says he is “fascist to the core” and Trump’s former White House chief of staff says he
“certainly falls into the general definition of fascist, for sure.”

[Em & cherry @5emma9706]

Make them the same...problem solved!

[Dad Jokes @Dadsaysjokes]

Shout out to everyone who can still remember their childhood phone number but can't remember the password they created yesterday.

You are my people.

[Dad Jokes @Dadsaysjokes]

Shout out to everyone who can still remember their childhood phone number but can't remember the password they created yesterday.

You are my people.

[Em & cherry @5emma9706]

In politifact-ese this is close to a stone called truth lock as you're going to get from them. It's true. Everyone knows it. So mostly true. 😀😀

[PolitiFact @PolitiFact]

On Fox, Kamala Harris said 16 Nobel laureates indicated that her economic plan “would strengthen our economy, (Trump’s) would make them weaker, would ignite inflation and invite a recession by the middle of next year.” This is Mostly True. https://t.co/FUbJ7SpQRa

[Bruce Mehlman @bpmehlman]

COLLEGE CHASM
Women with College+, Harris +38
Women < College, Trump +3

Men with College+, Harris +8
Men < College, Trump +28

Fascinating new @NBCNews data via @pollsterguy

[Derek Cressman @DerekCressman]

“it quickly became clear that the former president has no conception of the mechanics of or the potential ramifications of the economic platform he’s running on. Bluntly, the former president was incoherent when pressed with real questions.” https://t.co/SERd2XvBAQ

[Em & cherry @5emma9706]

I didn't need another reason to support #KamalaHarris in less than 30 days but this hits my demo. 😀

[Evonna @evonnawawa]

Today I learned that Kamala Harris is a big fan of #f1 and def TeamLH!!

[Em & cherry @5emma9706]

Biggest endorsement of the cycle..

[Rick Steves @RickSteves]

As a traveler, I'm both a proud American and a citizen of the world — and I've got a few thoughts on this coming election.

This election is deeper than partisanship. It's far more than Republican versus Democrat. In the future, big challenges like pandemics, refugees, and climate change will be blind to borders. They'll be everyone's problem and only solved by working together as a family of nations.

The world needs not American isolation, but American leadership. Not the chaos of Trump, but the stability of @KamalaHarris.

Of course, how you vote is your choice. But if you believe, as I do, in the importance of nations working together constructively, the stakes are really high...and the best candidate is clear. Register to vote today at https://t.co/ghTvEdFIEP — and encourage your travelin’ friends to do the same!

[Noah Garfinkel @NoahGarfinkel]

A key point missing in a lot of post debate analysis is that Trump’s claim about immigrants eating pets almost perfectly syncs up to the piano in the Peanuts theme song.

[Kerstin Emhoff @keprettybird]

Damn right 👊

[David Rowe @mrdavidrowe]

'Hopefulness is not a neutral position. It is adversarial. It is the warrior emotion that can lay waste to cynicism. Each redemptive or loving act, as small as you like – such as reading to your little boy... keeps the Devil down in the hole.'
Nick Cave.

[Em & cherry @5emma9706]

Old senile man stories best be coming soon.... I'll be here waiting.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Trump wrongly takes credit for $35 insulin while accusing Biden and Harris of wrongly taking credit for $35 insulin: I did that… I remember when I did it. I said I hope I’m elected because someone is going to get a lot of credit for doing what I got done.

[Jemaine Clement @AJemaineClement]

I've been to Australia. That was their best dancer.

[Joe Posnanski @JPosnanski]

It has been a trying couple of weeks. I've tried to see the world the way Buck O'Neil did. https://t.co/2A470IQh8M

[Em & cherry @5emma9706]

Nothing has made me happier during the #Olympics than having the last round of the gold medal battle for breakdancing be soundtracked by a remix of America "Horse with no Name". Just amazing.
🎶 Plants and birds and rocks and things 🎶 😂