Matt Smith

Space Camp Alumni (Cum Laude); He/Him

[Matt Smith @GungaDin]

😧

[Jennifer Epstein @jeneps]

On CNN, @davidplouffe said that after reviewing latest EV data, ED projections & how undecideds are breaking, “we have a credible pathway to all 7 states" to go for Harris, "but we think they’re all going to be close.”
You think you could win all 7?
“Yes," Plouffe said.

[SummerClub @sumerclub]

This is for all of you who don’t plan on voting

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

We ran the numbers. Even if all 7 swing states are actually tied, there's only a ~1 in 9.5 trillion chance~ that so many polls would show such a close race. 🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑

[Matt Smith @GungaDin]

Jesus Christ

[Allan Smith @akarl_smith]

A Harris campaign official in Pennsylvania says their volunteer team is averaging 2,000 door-knocks per minute across the state on Saturday as of 12:54 pm

(Average during typical door-knocking hours)

[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

[Brian Schatz @brianschatz]

For the next seven days we have to reflect the optimism, the patriotism, the toughness, and the clarity that Kamala showed tonight. She did her job. Let’s do ours.

[aaron navarro @aaronlarnavarro]

After the rally, Mark Ruffalo is asked about Gaza, a topic he’s been outspoken about.

“There’s no perfect candidate right now, but we know what Trump will do.”

“Our chances of changing her positions inside the White House, are better than they’ll ever be with Trump.”

[Luke Barnett @LukeBarnett]

Hear me out. No more $200M movies. For every $200M, the studio makes one massive $100M action movie, two $25M thrillers, three $10M dramas, and four $5M horror or comedies.

[Matt Smith @GungaDin]

Sounds like Bezos doesn’t want Trump to win then………?

[Robert McCartney @McCartneyWP]

There are reports that The Washington Post may decline to endorse anyone for president. It would be first time that’s happened since 1988. There’s speculation in newsroom that owner Jeff Bezos may want to avoid risk of endangering Amazon’s government contracts if Trump wins.

[Matt Smith @GungaDin]

God this ruled

[National Women’s Soccer League @NWSL]

BANGER ALERT! @weareangelcity forward Alyssa Thompson scores her first goal for the @USWNT! 🚨🇺🇸

[Matt Smith @GungaDin]

Angle Kitty

[Taylor Vincent @tayvincent6]

The #BayFC win eliminates both #AngelCityFC and #URFC from playoffs

For Angel City, losing those three points on the league disciplinary actions + the amount of points lost from a winning position really tells the story of their 2024 season

[Matt Smith @GungaDin]

There’s a lot of diminishing returns thinking going into studio movies at the moment. Fresh, new ideas and scrappy innovation is always more valuable than throwing ungodly sums of money at decaying interest in endless IP.

[Matt Smith @GungaDin]

Easy to jump into cynical discourse about the industry because of the current state of things.

What matters is that movies generally succeed. When the nonstop mega budget blockbuster train stops producing big regular hits, Hollywood will change to make money in other ways.

[Matt Smith @GungaDin]

Hang this tweet in the Louvre.

[Matt Smith @GungaDin]

@robcesternino

[Matt Smith @GungaDin]

It’s weird that the nuance of Travis’s argument got lost on the internet and use-to-be-twitter dot com!

He is right, though. Electoral power is about building as broad a sustainable coalition as possible. If they were better with this demographic, it would help Dems win!

[Dana Goldberg @DGComedy]

The fact that the NRA got community noted on how to use a gun safely, should tell you everything you need to know about the NRA.

[Matt Smith @GungaDin]

Put him in front of all the cameras.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Q: Given the amount of the mounting evidence of climate change, do you still believe it's a hoax?

Trump: I get awards environmental awards for the way I build it for the water, the way I use the water, the sand, the mixing of the sand and the water, I mean, many different, but I've had many awards over the years for environmental, the way I've built because you know about building, that's what you do. It's very important to me… The real global warming that we have to worry about is nuclear. The water is coming up an eighth of an inch over 300 years, the ocean is gonna rise and, you know, nobody knows if that's true or not, but they're worried about the ocean rising an eighth of an inch or a quarter of an inch in 300 years

[Matt Smith @GungaDin]

Petition for AMC Burbank 16 to show literally any other movie in their IMAX screen this coming week. Totally wasted on Joker II.

(The 6:45p Saturday currently has one seat sold, 8th row on the far right aisle. Lol.)

[Matt Smith @GungaDin]

Look the other three are probably better films, but it has to be Star Wars.

[All The Right Movies @ATRightMovies]

You have a time machine. Which of these classics are you seeing opening night?