BLACK LIVES MATTER

he/him - Socialist (or a baby Anarcho Syndaclist?) - Proud Wobblie (@iww | - "Bullet wrapped in a Twinkie" - 3rd Place in "Weird Al" Jeopardy!

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@LaComtesseJamie

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I'm done with this site. Moving to a slightly less fash-y one. You can find me at @zombiewski.bsky.social

[Beth Huang 🌹 @bphuang12]

We live in a bad country with a bad political system and a large number of bad people.

[delani ❤️‍🔥 @delaniraeann]

i think we need to be meaner. i’m tired of tiptoeing. if you voted for him you’re a bad person. people who voted for harris are better than you. they’re smarter than you. if you voted for him you lack empathy, you’re unintelligent, you’re weird, and you’re a bad person. period.

[BLACK LIVES MATTER @Zombiewski]

@LordKrondor9000 @phillipsb58 @drmistercody What untapped voter bases? Genuine question.

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@PWCJC @drmistercody Genuine question, how is targeting small businesses and saying to people you want to help them buy a house not appealing to the average American?

[Hannah @queen_meghan14]

Last thought before attempting to go to bed: if Americans are willing to reelect Trump after everything he’s said in the past three months, there’s nothing Harris could’ve done.

[Abbie Richards @abbieasr]

Can we skip the think pieces about how the Democrats failed?

We had a referendum on racism, sexism, and ethnic cleansing and the American people voted in favor of those things.

It’s not a campaign strategy failure. Americans chose the campaign running on cruelty. That’s it.

[thenoasletter news and updates @thenoasletter]

i feel so stupid for being even cautiously optimistic

[BLACK LIVES MATTER @Zombiewski]

I don’t want to give in to conspiratorial thinking, but you’re telling me Hillary CLINTON won the popular vote, but not Harris?

If that’s the data that’s the data, but I am baffled by this point alone.

[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.

[BLACK LIVES MATTER @Zombiewski]

@CrossingBroad That's funny. Looked to me like the phone just flew out of that guy's hand. Kelce was nowhere around.

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@SMAshleyRenee @PopBase If the cops ask, I didn't see a thing and neither did you.

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@MandelaFace Both times they misunderstood what was said...but both times the misunderstanding was correct.

If you vote for Trump you are deplorable and garbage. I don't know what else to tell you.

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@drvolts They say the system's rigged against him, that he didn't do the things he did, doesn't mean the things he say (except for THESE things, which he absolutely means).

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@GalvinAlmanza I was under the impression I had to sign up for it, so it was an extra step when I was already registered. But this tweet made me check and I *DON'T* have to sign up, I can just go. Might just do that.

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@LaComtesseJamie Literally thought it was him at first.

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@LaComtesseJamie I cannot begin to describe how much I hated this one.

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@LaComtesseJamie My own contribution was Arthur Pigglebutt.

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@PedsIrving @ItsDeanBlundell At least Hanoi Hannah had principles.