Parker

Denver Cloud Engineer - Trinity '21

[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

[Braidon Nourse @BraidonNourse]

TOLD YOU

[Charles Boehm @cboehm]

"Up the f*ckin' 'Pids!" quoth Djordje Mihailovic on live Apple TV after his Colorado Rapids knock off Club América on penalties in the Leagues Cup quarters, their fourth consecutive win over Liga MX opposition.

[Parker @agent00snail]

@ColoradoRapids Loved the Rubio player profile - fun to get to know the man who kept banging them in over the last few seasons!

[Colorado Rapids @ColoradoRapids]

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[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

Let’s be clear that this is an absolutely unhealthy and toxic way of working as there’s no real reason to do so.

This is not a startup running out of money, about to go bankrupt if not for this manic sprint.

It’s the worlds richest person doing this because he can. So he does.

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

At least it’s clear what you can expect if you work at one of Elon’s companies. It’s not just Twitter employees working over the weekend: the 50+ Tesla engineers as well.

Hard to find any other company that pushes people this crazy, for no real reason. Oh, plus some firings.

[Parker @agent00snail]

10th Valentine’s Day together? Suppose it’s a good time for an updated pic of our little family ❤️ Here’s to 10 more :) ⁦@_tarrrraa⁩

[Dan Olson @FoldableHuman]

Line Goes Up - The Problem With NFTs

https://t.co/cnkdlnZTYL

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: Stephen Sondheim is dead at 91. One of Broadway’s most revered songwriters, he set the standard for the American musical. https://t.co/U6f5QeP5H9

[Colorado Rapids @ColoradoRapids]

Could not be a more perfect Colorado morning ☀️

#COLvPOR

[Stephen Green @PDXStephenG]

With the Kyle Rittenhouse ruling my mind immediately goes to "how would I explain this to a 7yr old?" How do you tell a kid that the law & justice really depends on your skin color, gender & the state you are in. Also heartbreaking knowing that this will embolden the next Kyle😞

[Parker @agent00snail]

@godzillapurnota I definitely thought I had somehow forgotten liking 10+ songs before I checked that and I was a little concerned about how that could’ve happened lmao

[Parker @agent00snail]

@godzillapurnota I genuinely think Spotify has a UI bug with liking right now. I was listening to my discover and everything looked like it was liked for some reason, then when I tapped to “unlike” the pop up said “Added to Liked Songs” and it showed up in liked

[Parker @agent00snail]

@_tarrrraa TIL I can’t pin retweets that’s tragic

[Parker @agent00snail]

@_tarrrraa Perfect thing to make my new pinned tweet don’t you think

[Parker @agent00snail]

Sometimes my fiancée gets in “tweet everything” mode and the best course of action appears to just be not saying anything

[Parker @agent00snail]

@JackyBoyBeach I want to say it should be useful for programming but literally every time I could have used it I forgot it was there

[Page @octo_page]

Teaching today was brutal. My first class of the day is a normally radiant & full-of-life 6th grade class. Today was heavy. We talked about Adam and being 13. Here's their collective poem