Caroline in the City

ATL. US Senate Alum. @ElonUniversity grad. Lupus Patient. NatGas person. Now at the State capitol. Opinions are my own. #teamisakson

[Caroline in the City @DCLion]

I'm on the cover of the fall issue of @LupusOrg's magazine. Subscribe! #fightlupus #lupusislame

[Caroline in the City @DCLion]

@MerriamWebster Ka-jamas (Pajamas), Lemolade (Lemonade), Lellow (yellow)

[Elmo @elmo]

This has been the longest week of Elmo's life.

[Greg Bluestein @bluestein]

Patty Durand, a former Democratic Public Service Commission candidate, was arrested Tuesday at the commission’s downtown Atlanta headquarters and charged with theft of trade secrets. #gapol https://t.co/rmt8IfIsRv

[John Podhoretz @jpodhoretz]

Here's the danger of social media. It allows people to publish their internal monologues. Our internal monologues and fantasies are often incredibly ugly. People go to therapists because they feel so guilty about them, and one of the tasks of a therapist is to explain that 1/

[Sr. Miriam James @onegroovynun]

We have an AMERICAN POPE!!!

[ATLSCOOP @ATL_SCOOP]

Treat yourself like I-285 and never stop working on yourself no matter how inconvenient it is for everyone else ❤️

[NWS Atlanta @NWSAtlanta]

🚨5 AM Wednesday (1/8) Update🚨
❄️A Winter Storm Watch has been issued for most of north GA from 7 AM Friday to 7 AM Saturday.
⚠️Expect significant accumulations of snow, sleet, and freezing rain that will lead to hazardous travel conditions! #gawx

[GaPolBot @GaPolBot]

#gapol Georgia legislature meeting: 2025-01-13: House FLOOR SESSION (LD1)... https://t.co/iF0utvWVdG

[Elizabeth Nolan Brown @ENBrown]

"Because the SSA does not check SSNs for histories of fraud before issuing them, the agency is regularly assigning babies numbers that have histories of fraud and crime, damaging their credit from infancy." https://t.co/Rut391dsWe

[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

[GaDeptPublicHealth @GaDPH]

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[Caroline in the City @DCLion]

Atlanta friends take note!

[Brad Panovich @wxbrad]

#Helene has the potential to be Atlanta's Hugo. An inland hurricane winds over a major metro similar to what happened in Charlotte in 1989.

[Caroline in the City @DCLion]

@wxbrad What can we do here in Atlanta to best prepare? Stocked up on shelf safe items, batteries....

[Caroline in the City @DCLion]

@ericfisher Me reading this from ATL.

[Richard Belcher @R_A_Belcher]

How should the business owners who got clobbered by the 2 Cheshire Bridge Rd. closures feel about this $5 million the mayor wants to hand out to businesses affected by the water snafu? If the city provided them anything to cushion the blow, I don’t recall it.

[Caroline in the City @DCLion]

@NWSAtlanta 👀👀🧐

[Patricia Murphy @MurphyAJC]

While DC is spiraling, the rest of the country is dealing with its own problems. My latest column—> OPINION: Your kindergartner just had an active shooter drill. Thank a Georgia lawmaker. https://t.co/naWSPQFdXp

[Caroline in the City @DCLion]

@rkevans186 Perfect quote 😭

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

Whenever we're having a bad day, we look at the synonyms for 'doodad,' and we feel a little better.

[Dan @TractorLaw]

My daughter (now 14) has cancer. I want to talk about one of the most frustrating, painful, angering, parts of that experience. Not nausea, or hair loss, or even our health insurance. I'm talking, of course, about @MakeAWish, the worst charity I've ever dealt with.

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