Marc Marin

Teacher, Writer, EdTech and Literacy Consultant, Recovered Administrator. “Not All Who Wander Are Lost” . @TCRWP, @USJCT, @CTTechHS

[Marc Marin @MarcJMarin]

@ChrisMurphyCT Time for you to step up to Majority Leader. You have been a persistent, credible, and measured counterbalance to the president. It would be a misread of the midterm to not expect a change in Senate leadership - and a mistake to leave the current one in place.

[Marc Marin @MarcJMarin]

@ChrisMurphyCT I ask the Dem Party to read the room. Focus on being the rational - not just the loud - voice in the room, be firm but civil, acknowledge the other side has a point and seek to improve. People want security, a working economy, and less partisanship. You got this!

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Thank you @KingJames for using your voice to make clear what’s at stake.

Listen to LeBron, make sure you vote.

[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

[Marc Marin @MarcJMarin]

It is time to bring Biden off the cross @ChrisMurphyCT He has done his part. If Dems cannot rally behind a new candidate who not only can get elected, but can carry out a 4-year term, then we get the outcome and democracy we deserve. It’s time for bold leadership and courage.

[Marc Marin @MarcJMarin]

@elonmuskADO Twitter. It’s awkward calling it “x”. Calling it a “tweet” also differentiates it from “posts” which happen on other platforms.
I understand wanting to rebrand. But you took over an icon and made confusion. Imagine if you did the same to “Coca-Cola” - you lose people. Good luck!

[Marc Marin @MarcJMarin]

@SpeakerMcCarthy This was political retribution and another shameful abuse of power. @RepAdamSchiff was a true patriot and scholar in his rightful work on the impeachment of he-who-shall-not-be-named. You are such a puppet of marginal and small-minded people.

[Marc Marin @MarcJMarin]

@SpeakerMcCarthy This shameful and self-serving political act with the debt ceiling may score some points, but will throw vulnerable people into harms way unnecessarily. Negotiate in good faith or move it outside this bill to work it out. People are going to get hurt.

[Marc Marin @MarcJMarin]

@ChrisMurphyCT National background checks and red flag laws are a good start. The prevalence of school gun violence against teachers is unnerving. Keep fighting!
Shame on @GreenwichRTC. You are already defending your border and profiling enough to protect yourselves. Look outside the bubble.

[Marc Marin @MarcJMarin]

@CommunityFlare Depends. I still haven’t received my distribution from @coinbase and as a result got screwed out of big money. A bit angry @FlareNetworks and @brian_armstrong for what I feel is deceit and trickery.

[No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen @NoLieWithBTC]

This is Abby Zwerner, a first grade teacher in Virginia who is in critical condition after being deliberately shot by one of her 6-year-old students.

A student brought bullets to school the previous week. This is the America the NRA has brought.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

Good morning.

If Republicans win control of Congress they are going to

❗️ban abortion

❗️cut Social Security

❗️give Ukraine to Putin

❗️install Trump as President even if he loses in 2024

Don’t sit this one out.

[Marc Marin @MarcJMarin]

@karalareau Sorry I was so unaware of this. I had no clue. I was dealing with the end of my parent’s divorce and navigating a new school as a sophomore. Their divorce was sudden and unexpected. The damage was different but just as deep. I wish I could have been a better friend.

[Marc Marin @MarcJMarin]

It is time for the nuclear option - kill the filibuster. Pass legislation on codifying Roe, banning AR-15s for 18 year old, and moving climate legislation front and center. No more playing nice. @ChrisMurphyCT @SenBlumenthal @GovNedLamont

[Marc Marin @MarcJMarin]

@NormOrnstein The presence of a gun is not an effective tool for creating an emotionally safe and positive learning environment. It is triggering, intimidating, and counter to what it means to be a teacher. Arming teachers is adding a powder keg and lighting a match. #MarchForOurLives

[Marc Marin @MarcJMarin]

@NPR @LizCheney has hit on the main issues for me - honor and doing what is right. I thank her for her patriotism. There is a social place in hell for those who deny, downplay, and dismiss the damage done to fellow Americans and our democracy. #January6thHearings

[Marc Marin @MarcJMarin]

@mr_Alsheimer Jonathan- I appreciate your optimism- truly. It is out of sync with what is happening now. Want to thank a teacher? Figure out a way to keep teens with assault weapons from killing them and little children. Teachers need to unite in this assault on our profession #schoolshooting

[Marc Marin @MarcJMarin]

Nurses and doctors have full PPE. Police have Kevlar. Teachers have paper masks and training that has us barricade and throw staplers. We are not superheroes who can raise test scores, magically heal ourselves, and takedown teens with assault weapons. #Teachers @ChrisMurphyCT

[Marc Marin @MarcJMarin]

@ChrisMurphyCT Teachers across America did the same calculus @ChrisMurphyCT . Will I offend a parent with my curriculum? Will an unvaccinated student get me sick? Will a teenager with a gun come in my room? Will I and other teachers only gain the respect if we are shot protecting our students?

[David Hogg 🟧 @davidhogg111]

Yeah this time is gonna be different. This is in front of the NRA convention in Houston.