Tim Williams

opinions, snark, & puns, but mostly likes and RTs here

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

You can’t really argue this. They believe in investing in the people and infrastructure.

[Tim Williams @AskYourLibrary]

@Canes @LenovoCenter I don’t see a beer pour here. I see a horse pissing into a skate.

[Tim Williams @AskYourLibrary]

@GregTompsett @billsdaily This is as objective as I can be: Beane is 1/2 of a terrific GM. He’s a great dumpster diver for vet contributors. He finds hidden gems at the flea market. He occasionally drafts a great pick. But consistent he is not. Howie casts a huge GM shadow every single draft.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Billionaire ownership of media and the future of democracy. My thoughts:

[Ajay Cybulski @AjayCybulski]

Connor McGovern via the @PatMcAfeeShow: “I don’t think Josh wanted another center in front of him. He just wanted to stay under my butt all the time. He’s happy I’m still here, so we’re good to go.”

[Tim Williams @AskYourLibrary]

@DungeonNoir My wife nearly has the books memorized at this point, and she found some of her favorite lines & details revised. Not sure if they simplified in the hopes of getting picked up for syndication/film or what, but the reprint spoils the magic of the originals. Audiobook also bad.

[Tim Williams @AskYourLibrary]

@DungeonNoir My wife introduced me to this series a few years ago. No idea why it isn’t as popular as the Game of Thrones books. She is such a great writer! (Original version, NOT the reprint!!)

[Jeremy Barr @jeremymbarr]

Statement from FCC commissioner Anna Gomez: “This is yet another troubling example of corporate capitulation in the face of this Administration’s broader campaign to censor and control speech.”

[The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart @weeklyshowpod]

Justice is always possible, but the people need to choose to make it happen. #Vote

[Rick Steves @RickSteves]

I miss the Grand Old Party (GOP) and long for the day when we can return to healthy and principled partisan debates. (We idealistic hippies sometimes need to be reined in by practical conservatism.) But this election is different… and much deeper than D versus R and left versus right. It’s a clear choice, and the survival of our democracy is on the line.

The world needs not the chaos of Trump but the stability of Kamala Harris. The world needs America.

[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

[Tim Williams @AskYourLibrary]

@GregTompsett On a list with the Micah Hyde INT vs the Patriots, albeit lower on that list. The Jets are a Wendy’s, and this ain’t the playoffs.

[Sassington, M.C. @MissSassbox]

had no clue James Brown was out here slinging cup o'noodles in Japan over a deep funk beat.

[Tim Williams @AskYourLibrary]

@DylanStebbins @amtx58 @UberHansen Pretty sure this is the correct diagnosis.

[Tim Williams @AskYourLibrary]

@Pro__Ant TOO LATE! I WAS ALREADY YELLING BEFORE YOU TWEETED! P.S. I concur. Here’s hoping last year’s draft shapes up, too.

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

Here are those last few moments of Sen. Raphael Warnock’s speech

#DNC

[Bella Bergolts @BBergolts]

Hey there! ✨
Today is my birthday, and in keeping with tradition, I kindly ask for a RT as a gift! 😌
For those who were curious, I am turning 34. Thank you for your support and attention throughout all these years ❤️❤️❤️

[Lea Thompson @LeaKThompson]

I find this man super weird and I did a love scene with a duck. #trumpmeltdown

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Say hello to your next Vice President, Tim Walz, Governor of MN, Agricultural Committee member, Army National Guard veteran, fmr football coach, fmr geography teacher, church-goer, butter carver, car fixer, animal lover, coiner of "weird Republicans", and respects couches.

[Reverend Al Sharpton @TheRevAl]

Councilman Yusef Salaam, one of five Black and Latino teenagers wrongfully convicted of a 1989 rape in Central Park known as the exonerated Central Park 5, spoke with me about former President Donald Trump’s recent trial and felony conviction. Trump famously took out a full-page newspaper ad in 1989 calling for the execution of Salaam and the other wrongfully convicted boys.

#PoliticsNation