Aloha Eric (He/Him/Dad) 🇺🇸 🌎 🤙

Purpose driven entrepreneur: Nonprofit Marketing & Fundraising @Mediacause, Social Justice @RallyStarters, Podcast Host @ Fancy Parker. White belt.

[Aloha Eric (He/Him/Dad) 🇺🇸 🌎 🤙 @ericfacas]

Today is a great day to support Asian owned businesses! MY OFFER: I will buy 10 people lunch or dinner at a local Asian restaurant on @PostMates or @UberEats. NO STRINGS ATTACHED. DM me the details and I'll send you a meal of your choice.

#StopAsianHate #Atlanta #PayItForward

[Aloha Eric (He/Him/Dad) 🇺🇸 🌎 🤙 @ericfacas]

@SenBrianSchatz Please reject Bill HR 9495! Protect nonprofits from unchecked power & political misuse. Our justice demands fair, transparent processes. Stand for fairness!
https://t.co/XCG3ELKujE

[Aloha Eric (He/Him/Dad) 🇺🇸 🌎 🤙 @ericfacas]

@MazieHirono Please reject Bill HR 9495! Protect nonprofits from unchecked power & political misuse. Our justice demands fair, transparent processes. Stand for fairness!
https://t.co/XCG3ELKujE

[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.

[Aloha Eric (He/Him/Dad) 🇺🇸 🌎 🤙 @ericfacas]

@allenanalysis

[Aloha Eric (He/Him/Dad) 🇺🇸 🌎 🤙 @ericfacas]

@allenanalysis Politics aside, did Trump kill Epstein, is a very reasonable question to ask based on the evidence. HOLY SHIT!

[Van Jones @VanJones68]

Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are not taking the same exam.

He gets to be LAWLESS. She has to be FLAWLESS.

Whether she articulates them perfectly every time, she actually HAS policies she is fighting for. He is out here talking about PENISES !!!!!

This double standard is starting to piss people off — and for good reason.

[Aloha Eric (He/Him/Dad) 🇺🇸 🌎 🤙 @ericfacas]

@JoaquinCastrotx How is this not a bigger story?

[Aloha Eric (He/Him/Dad) 🇺🇸 🌎 🤙 @ericfacas]

#TrumpHatesAmerica

[Aloha Eric (He/Him/Dad) 🇺🇸 🌎 🤙 @ericfacas]

@ClementDelangue @elonmusk I used to take screenshots of the dozen tweets i was served from Elon or about Elon each day just in case people didn't believe me that it was really happening. And then I blocked him.

[Aloha Eric (He/Him/Dad) 🇺🇸 🌎 🤙 @ericfacas]

PSA 👇

[Aloha Eric (He/Him/Dad) 🇺🇸 🌎 🤙 @ericfacas]

@yashar @jennycohn1 This is not democracy! #EndCitizensUnited

[Aloha Eric (He/Him/Dad) 🇺🇸 🌎 🤙 @ericfacas]

Can Reporters + interviewers PLEASE ask Trump why he's actively back channeling to slow down vote counting in swing states? Have we not learned anything from Insurrection 1.0?!?

Stop waiting for #StopTheSteal2 and start calling Trump out for the crimes he's about to commit!

[Rolling Stone Politics @RSPolitics]

Trump and his allies have worked to make sure 2024 mail-in ballots are counted slowly, so he can again demand officials “stop the count”

https://t.co/Vn4ZZxjiQL

[Rolling Stone Politics @RSPolitics]

Trump and his allies have worked to make sure 2024 mail-in ballots are counted slowly, so he can again demand officials “stop the count”

https://t.co/Vn4ZZxjiQL

[Aloha Eric (He/Him/Dad) 🇺🇸 🌎 🤙 @ericfacas]

Someone please put this tweet on billboards in swing states 👇

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

Former President Trump had 44 cabinet secretaries. 40 of them don’t support his 2024 campaign.

Neither does his Vice President nor any of his former chiefs of staff.

[Aloha Eric (He/Him/Dad) 🇺🇸 🌎 🤙 @ericfacas]

@kenklippenstein He still broke election interference laws tho...

[Billy Baldwin @BillyBaldwin]

If Eric Adams is guilty... Democrats want him to resign.

If Donald Trump is guilty... Republicans want him to become the 47th President.

[Isiah Whitlock Jr. @IsiahWhitlockJr]

If New York needs a new Mayor, I’m ready.

[Aloha Eric (He/Him/Dad) 🇺🇸 🌎 🤙 @ericfacas]

@prchovanec How can we show this video to all undecided voter in America?

Trump calling his advisors fucking losers while trying to deploy the US Army w/ orders to shoot American protestors is 100% disqualifying. I don't care what your politics are. How could any sane person vote for him?

[Aloha Eric (He/Him/Dad) 🇺🇸 🌎 🤙 @ericfacas]

.@KamalaHarris should do a primetime presser calling out Trump/Vance for spreading rumors about Haitian immigrants eating pets + highlight how their lies lead to violence. She can call for unity/support for the Haitian community while holding MAGA accountable for hate and chaos.

[Aloha Eric (He/Him/Dad) 🇺🇸 🌎 🤙 @ericfacas]

Unless Elon is trying to offer Taylor 1 of his 12 kids as a gift and hiring security guards to protect her cats when she's out of town, I'm pretty sure @tkelce is going to kick his ass.