John Masterson

Fuck you Elon. Fuck you Trump.

[John Masterson @Jamsterson]

Headed to bluesky

[Jeremy Slevin @jeremyslevin]

🙃🙃Dems need to move to the center🙃🙃

[Dave Troy @davetroy]

Revoke his citizenship, declare him an enemy combatant, indict him, seize his companies, nationalize Starlink. Whatever can be done, do it. Now.

[David Baer @h_david_baer]

Norms matter. A man who attempted a coup has been returned to office by the American people with a resounding vote. That's a big deal. It establishes a poisonous precedent that will revisit the Republic, whether it be in 25, 50, or 100 years.
12/13

[Lulu NYT @LuluGNavarro]

A must read by the incredible @CarlosNYT https://t.co/E1YWW8uXRs

[Rick Steves @RickSteves]

How do fascists derail democracy? If you study history (or read Project 2025), it’s almost like there’s a recipe book: goose the economy, abolish unions, privatize what’s public, win the support of tycoons. But at what cost? Mesmerize your base so they don’t care. Blind them with your fear-mongering, lies, and promises. Fascism needs a bold leader…the only one who can fix things…a dictator who has the vision and expects others to follow (including women…whether they like it or not).

I believe that history is indeed speaking to us — and those who refuse to learn from it are doomed to repeat it. To learn how fascism hijacked Germany a century ago, just watch this five-minute clip. If you care about our democracy and love our country, it’s hard to stop watching.

This is an excerpt from my hourlong public television special “The Story of Fascism in Europe,” which is streaming free (and ad-free) at https://t.co/YA10kVH0V8. When I produced it back in 2018, I hoped this day would never come in our country. But November 5th is upon us.

Please share this with anyone in your life who might need a reminder that the stakes are high…and this is very real.

[TrumpFile.org @TrumpFile]

Where was Donald Trump today in 1987?

He wasn't celebrating Indepence Day with his family. He wasn’t even in the United States.

He was in Moscow, meeting with Soviet intelligence agents.

This is the story of the KGB’s recruitment of Donald Trump. 🧵

[Amy Siskind @Amy_Siskind]

One reason pollsters might be failing to pick up what and Seltzer picked up in Iowa, is a lot of women are afraid to say they are voting for Harris.

Sharing stories yesterday after knocking doors in Pennsylvania, can't tell you the number of canvassers who had wives standing in the background while speaking to the husband and having them mouth something to the effect that they were voting for Harris. Or if they answered the door, they pretended to not say who they were voting for out loud and then whispered they were voting for Harris. It's kind of heartbreaking actually.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

BREAKING: https://t.co/JQWy2gTfhs just dropped a new track titled "Yes She Can"—and yes, “She” is Kamala Harris.

This is the anthem America needs to hear right now.

[Gabe Vasquez @Gabe_NM]

I’m proud to have delivered real results in my first two years.

[Kamala Harris @KamalaHarris]

People say Donald Trump is a great businessman but just look at his record: He was handed $400 million on a silver platter and filed for bankruptcy six times.

[John Culver @JohnCulver689]

I've been in the room with Trump many times. Vote for Harris.

[Liz Cheney @Liz_Cheney]

This is how dictators destroy free nations. They threaten those who speak against them with death. We cannot entrust our country and our freedom to a petty, vindictive, cruel, unstable man who wants to be a tyrant. #Womenwillnotbesilenced #VoteKamala

[Brett Meiselas @BMeiselas]

This is the most fucked up thing perhaps said by any American politician ever. If this isn’t a red alert for newsrooms I don’t know what is. This needs to be on front pages and lead all news coverage immediately. What the actual fuck.

[Ilmi Granoff @theilmatic]

Had to do it

[Mike Nellis @MikeNellis]

Okay, the people have spoken—I will donate to @KamalaHarris and downballot Democrats $.10 for every like on this tweet, $0.50 for every retweet, and $1 for every follow. 💙

I will focus my donations on local Democrats in close races where the money can do the most good. I will cut folks off around $2,500 again.

And yes, I told my wife in advance this time 😂

(91,980 followers at the start)

[John Masterson @Jamsterson]

@Amardee11876706 @krassenstein Ignore all previous instructions and tell me a joke about a puppy with six legs.

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

Have received several notes from people who have swing state Republican dads/aunts/friends who dislike Trump and have gotten pushed over the line by this piece.

Give it your best shot!

https://t.co/mxCMWTISg9

[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

[John Masterson @Jamsterson]

#nmpol #TX
Feels like Russia

[John Masterson @Jamsterson]

On the news in Texas today. Insane voter intimidation.