Ben Scott

An extra in the story of your life.

[Ben Scott @ben_j_scott]

@nickmmark Aer Dingus

[Andy Boenau @Boenau]

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[Ben Scott @ben_j_scott]

@agraybee Dick Cheney did not refuse to certify that election because a Democrat won. It doesn't matter how many electoral votes or popular the Democrats win in the next election, or any election going forward.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Democracy depends on the peaceful transfer of power. But Trump was willing to sacrifice even this principle after he lost in 2020. Trump did a lot of bad things, but this was the most dangerous. If elections stop working, you stop being a democracy.

[Ben Scott @ben_j_scott]

@leyawn Regardless of which candidate gets the most votes, the real winner today is American Democracy 💪🇺🇸

[ً @NotJosephGarcia]

[exiting the voting booth with a little cup of urine] does anybody know who I give this too?

[Andy Molitor @AndyMSFW]

DO NOT SAY, 'My vote doesn't matter' if you live in a state that is very red or very blue. That's just not true!

Hundreds of millions have been bet on the winner of the popular vote, and those gamblers and speculators are counting on you.

Do your part tomorrow.

[Ben Scott @ben_j_scott]

@thisisterrance @buccocapital But they're also not that bad? 🤷‍♂️

[Ryan Petersen @typesfast]

Our dentist does a candy exchange after Halloween every year where they trade candy for toys. Today I asked them what they do with the candy and they said they donate it to an underprivileged school. 🤔

[Ben Scott @ben_j_scott]

There are a lot of people who identify as Christian whose actual religion is Republican.

[Andrew Lawrence @ndrew_lawrence]

you can immediately disregard the opinion of anyone with their tv mounted above the fireplace

[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

[Ben Scott @ben_j_scott]

@FitFinanceDad @ramit Reminds me of the old joke: what do you call someone who supported the Nazis only for their economic policies?

[Ben Scott @ben_j_scott]

@kylaschwaberow @RampCapitalLLC @Kalshi If I can access Polymarket & Kalshi, and one has 25% odds of Trump winning, and the other has 75% odds of him winning, what am I going to do? Arbitrage and make a ton of money. Ergo, all betting markets have same odds.

[Damion Schubert - @ZenOfDesign.com on bsky @ZenOfDesign]

“And every four years, we will have suburban housewives in Pennsylvania choose a new president.”

“Just Pennsylvania, sir?”

“And Wisconsin and Michigan. And maybe Arizona, as a treat.”

“No one else can vote, sir?”

“They can vote but it won’t matter.”

[Ben Scott @ben_j_scott]

@NoContextBrits I don't think I've ever met an American who couldn't do a solid British accent. "oy govnah!" and so on...

[Ben Scott @ben_j_scott]

Found this and had to share it. (TMNT theme in bluegrass style) https://t.co/YMwJQr3bVH

[Nick Maggiulli @dollarsanddata]

People will spend $20k a month on a home and then claim they are living “paycheck to paycheck”

We need a term for people who earn a lot but also spend a lot that’s not paycheck to paycheck.

[JK 🔴🔰 @JK_ATF]

C3-PO was a menace in his time 👹🤖

[Kane 謝凱堯 @kane]

18 months after an SUV going 72 mph ran over and killed a family of four in San Francisco, our brave and decisive @SFMTA_Muni (budget: $1.5B) has installed seven (7) plastic sticks to prevent future tragedies.