Emma bo Bemma 😷

USA Today Bestselling Author of Regency-set romances. Engineer. Lover of @TheWKout, hot yoga & hot wings. The rain in the PNW is beautiful. Stage IV. She/Her

[Emma bo Bemma 😷 @EmmaLocke_]

#NewProfilePic #NewMe I’ve decided to start sharing my Opinions. Buckle Up!

[Aren LeBrun @arenrlebrun]

I cannot prepare you enough for how much this won’t happen.

[Emma bo Bemma 😷 @EmmaLocke_]

The genocide thing was bad

[Jordan Grimes (on Bluesky @cafedujord) @cafedujord]

Unlike in 2016 I genuinely don't know what she could have done differently, and that's really hard to take

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

The incredible part is that if she loses Democrats will blame the people who asked them to stop murdering children, instead of the people who refused to stop.

[kiyah ⁷ saw autumn leaves and paradise @fooIsjoon]

they burned ballots in georgia, lost over 3000 mail in ballots and made bomb threats all day which led to make polls closing early and people having no where else to go to vote. if this isn’t voter suppression idk what the fuck is

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Israeli media reporting that the IDF is declaring northern Gaza effectively ethnically cleansed, not event a hint of pretense now that its election day

[Emma bo Bemma 😷 @EmmaLocke_]

@landlawlahore No genocide

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Images like this should be front page news.

Western media largely ignores it because the killer is Israel, the weapons are American, and the victims are Palestinian.

[Zack Bornstein @ZackBornstein]

dude is a barely coherent convicted sex predator whose only platform is wanting to do more crimes, what is fucking happening

[Liam Martin @LiamFromBoston]

The biggest story of the night is Russia calling multiple bomb threats into Democratic strongholds across the country. This should shock every American to the core.

[Emma bo Bemma 😷 @EmmaLocke_]

@samlymatters He did hand me a pamphlet to vote the other way, so I know what he wanted.

[Emma bo Bemma 😷 @EmmaLocke_]

@samlymatters Hah! That happened to me. Guy knocked after having had to walk past my Kamala sign, saw me (I’m not a lesbian but I was in my painting/work clothes and I’m bald). He said, “How are you going to vote on Prop X?” I said, “Whichever way is the most Democratic.” Said ok &walked away.

[Emma bo Bemma 😷 @EmmaLocke_]

@flying_rodent The cognitive dissonance is off the charts with this one!

[Flying_Rodent @flying_rodent]

I like the bit where he says these children’s drawings promote hate, while pointing at a load of paintings that say “peace” and prominently feature doves.

[Nick Knudsen 🇺🇸 @NickKnudsenUS]

I have a confession and a plea to folks who are flirting with voting Jill Stein.

When I was a 20 year old college student in 2000, I voted for Ralph Nader instead of Al Gore. I loved the progressive message Nader offered, and Bush and Gore seemed kinda the same to someone who was paying peripheral attention.

I've regretted that vote for my entire adult life.

Ultimately, George Bush won by a margin of 500+ votes in the state of Florida over Gore. And that was the ballgame. Ralph Nader peeled 97,000+ votes away from Gore. If only 600 of those 90,000 had voted for the major party candidate that more aligned with their values, things would have been very different.

When I was in my senior year of college, 9/11 happened. The country and western world rallied around Bush's resolute response to the traumatizing terror attacks. I was in NY at the time, and it was a terrifying moment for the nation.

But the consequences of Bush being in office at that moment were immense.

Bush's disdain for his dad's nemesis, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, led him to invent a rationale to invade a country that literally had nothing to do with 9/11. End result? He killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqi people, thousands of American troops, and spent over a trillion dollars of taxpayer money in the process.

Beyond the completely immoral and indefensible Iraq War, Bush was a complete disaster as a president. His "No Child Left Behind" effort turned public schools into standardized testing centers. He tripled down on fossil fuels and ignored climate change. His tax cuts for the rich helped contribute to the 2008 economic downturn that led to the Great Recession.

He was a terrible president.

In an alternate reality, Al Gore would have been president in 2001 when terrorists attacked America. Would he have gone into Iraq? Absolutely not. Would he have ignored global warming? 100% no! Gore was perhaps the preeminent proponent of fighting climate change at that time. Would he have passed massive tax cuts for the wealthy? No way.

This is a sliding doors scenario. What would have happened? We can't be sure. But one thing is for sure: those votes for Ralph Nader (in Florida in particular) were EXCEPTIONALLY consequential for the lives of millions around the world. Gore would have offered a more forward-facing, environmentally conscious & peaceful presidency that wasn't so rooted in grievance and privilege.

My point is:

Either Kamala Harris or Donald Trump will win the election. That is a fact. You might feel the need to submit a "protest vote" as I did in 2000.

Just be ready to wear it when Donald Trump wins, strips away reproductive rights from all Americans, implements an economy-destroying tariff, dismantles the entire federal government, eliminates the Department of Education, prosecutes his perceived enemies, and devolves America into chaos.

There are no perfect choices. But rest assured, there are only two.

Trust me - I've been wearing my vote for a quarter century.

[Taleed El-Sabawi, JD, PhD @el_sabawi]

THEY. SHOT. tHE. NICU. BABIES!!!!!!!!!!!!

Read that again. And again.

[Heidi Matthews @Heidi__Matthews]

As a scholar of international law, I endorse @howserob assessment: Israel is “killing for the hell of it, slaughtering children for a lark [demonstrating] an extreme moral baseness not fully captured even by the legal language of genocide.”

[Emma bo Bemma 😷 @EmmaLocke_]

@RodLacroix @rfordham811 I read this, too, because there are a lot of articles right now about the pneumonia outbreaks. I came to say the same thing.