Jenna Danyew 🌱

Fantasy Writer 🖊️
Vermonter ⛰️ Bookseller 📚 she/her
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[Jenna Danyew 🌱 @Damnyew]

@Joanne_A_mason Hate to report that the emails are in fact being sent today 🥲

[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.

[Jenna Danyew 🌱 @Damnyew]

Eight years ago I voted in my very first presidential election. I was emotional to be voting for the first female president. What an honor!

It's going to work this time.

[Blue Georgia @BlueGeorgia]

John Oliver's brilliant take on why he's voting for Kamala Harris. And he featured Georgia State Rep. Ruwa Romman.

[Jenna Danyew 🌱 @Damnyew]

@KaitlynAbdou Also consider a booksellers guide! I know it's a different sort of niche and possibly the same as a readers guide but helpful none the less!

[Jen Ippensen @jippensen]

Vote. Fight. Win.

[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

[Jenna Danyew 🌱 @Damnyew]

@authorBBLorik I was SO intimidated by unhinged pit but had so much fun! Forever fan of these things no matter how they turn out

[Jenna Danyew 🌱 @Damnyew]

My secret favorite part of pitch contests is finding new incredible writers to follow and also wanting to throw myself off a cliff because I can't read their books yet

[Jenna Danyew 🌱 @Damnyew]

@smolcatwrites It's so incredible! 🤞🤞🤞 Fingers crossed for you!

[Jenna Danyew 🌱 @Damnyew]

Adult CORALINE x OUR CROOKED HEARTS 💚

Opal spends too much time in antique stores trying to get possessed by her mother.

When Opal finally makes contact, she lets herself get pulled through. But is it just her mother waiting for her?

MOTHERS OF MALACHITE
#PitDark #FA #A #MR

[Jenna Danyew 🌱 @Damnyew]

@maressa_kate People are BRILLIANT!

[Jenna Danyew 🌱 @Damnyew]

@notonlyicarus They're just all phenomenal!!

[Jenna Danyew 🌱 @Damnyew]

Opal followed the clues stitched into reality by her missing (trapped?) mother, but now her shoulder is dislocated while she's sucked to hell through a mini golf hole.

MOTHERS OF MALACHITE - contemporary #A #FA for fans of portal fantasy and Coraline, all grown up.
#PitDark

[Jenna Danyew 🌱 @Damnyew]

@KiaraMars_ God, yes! I love Bluebeard!!!

[Jenna Danyew 🌱 @Damnyew]

@sanchez_m_m oh my GOD this sounds phenomenal?!?!?!

[Jenna Danyew 🌱 @Damnyew]

@carlyalexdiaz I LOVE

[Jenna Danyew 🌱 @Damnyew]

@renae_rhoads She's very cool but I'll be honest, her mom might be cooler

[Jenna Danyew 🌱 @Damnyew]

Adult CORALINE x OUR CROOKED HEARTS 💚

Opal spends too much time in antique stores trying to get possessed by her mother.

When Opal finally makes contact, she lets herself get pulled through. But is it just her mother waiting for her?

MOTHERS OF MALACHITE
#PitDark #FA #A #MR

[Jenna Danyew 🌱 @Damnyew]

@kathleengraeme YES PLEASE 🙌📚⚔️🤞

[Jenna Danyew 🌱 @Damnyew]

@antares_jason Forever waiting to see this on shelves 📚🤞