i'd vaguely heard about the US election in 2000 actually being "stolen" and i looked it up and it seems consensus is
- the entire US election came down to florida
- the difference in votes was <0.1%, not statistically significant
- polling machine had hardware issues way higher than <0.1%
- florida could have decided to actually and properly hand count the votes
- the state's highest supreme court decided to do that
- bush asked the supreme court to intervene in a state's free & independent ability to run its own elections
- the voting was exactly on partisan lines: the 5 republican judges declared bush the winner
- they cited reasoning that competes for one of the most transparently dishonest rulings of all time
- the single most comprehensive study after the fact found that if the votes had been properly counted, gore would have won
- this is not factoring in a calculated, well-documented attempt by republican governor of florida to suppress thousands of votes, in black counties for al gore, by the official US election commission
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
Twitter is a cesspool of curated extremism and if you still use this for a majority of your news and interactions, you are being gas lit into thinking the worst of the world and its people.
Lmao alternative media is just as compromised as mainstream media the difference is there are libel laws and standards for funding that the mainstream have to abide by. Dont be so open minded your brain falls out.
A new DoJ indictment alleges that RT employees "covertly fund[ed] and direct[ed]" a US company with $10m in order to push pro-Russia content. The company is based in Tennessee.
There is one media company based in Tennessee with the same phrase listed in the indictment...
X is a curate hate pit that churns out extremism as if its the actual lay of the land. Do yourself a favor and get off this as much as you can. There is no public square, there is no exchange of ideas, your ego will survive.
@TimothyELewis https://t.co/cOur4fOGAh
Here is more partial information. Rfk is not the first to run into this. Bush and cheney did as well and had to adjust. Your man can make mistakes, like he did here.
Smh of course the vaccines cause autism man endorses the orange lol instead of the party that demonstrated one of the hallmarks of democracy by stepping away from power, the go for a literal racist rapist campaigning on the Epstein jet lmfao
@TimothyELewis Respectfully rfk did not file his papers correctly and acting like its the fault of the accuser for pointing out hes essentially committing fraud and attempting to violate the 12th amendment to gain gov office is part of the democratic process doesnt make sense.
@TimothyELewis His choice was abandoning fundamental issues, approach to gov, and leadership philosophy for power. Rfk decided the racist, rapist, felon flying around in the most notorious rape vehicle in history was better to put his name behind than *checks notes* an old cali DA…or no one
@TimothyELewis Instead, sold out in the same way he tried to trash everyone else for doing. In the end he wanted to get in a position of power more than he wanted to hold fast to his beliefs. There are many other things to take from this good and bad but that is one of them.
@TimothyELewis I am of the position that rfk was unable to prove in court that he was a resident. We’ll see how his appeal goes. They should’ve prepared for this better tbh a room in a friends crib you never paid for until someone mentioned it doesnt help his case lol