Ariel Chavez

Boliviano Americano | Wanderlust Aficionado | Transitioned from Engineer to World Traveler & Travel Advisor | Pashpashqtwa | River Cruises & All Inclusives

[David Axelrod @davidaxelrod]

After Watergate, a flood of rules, laws & norms were put in place to rein in corruption--including the Office of Inspector General.
This president seems intent on smashing all of them and any independent source of accountability.
He wants all green lights. Anything goes.

[Liz Cheney @Liz_Cheney]

The Special Counsel’s 1/6 Report, made public last night, confirms the unavoidable facts of 1/6 yet again. DOJ’s exhaustive and independent investigation reached the same essential conclusions as the Select Committee. All this DOJ evidence must be preserved. But most important now, as the Senate considers confirming Trump’s Justice Department nominees: if those nominees cooperated with Trump’s deceit to overturn the 2020 election, they cannot now be entrusted with the responsibility to preserve the rule of law and protect our Republic. As our framers knew, our institutions only hold when those in office are not compromised by personal loyalty to a tyrant. So this question is now paramount for Republicans: Will you faithfully perform the duties the framers assigned to you and do what the Constitution requires? Or do you lack the courage?

[Rick Steves @RickSteves]

I miss the Grand Old Party (GOP) and long for the day when we can return to healthy and principled partisan debates. (We idealistic hippies sometimes need to be reined in by practical conservatism.) But this election is different… and much deeper than D versus R and left versus right. It’s a clear choice, and the survival of our democracy is on the line.

The world needs not the chaos of Trump but the stability of Kamala Harris. The world needs America.

[Sarah Longwell @SarahLongwell25]

If you claim to be a leader in any way—political leader, thought-leader, business leader, religious leader—and you don’t stand up and say clearly that America must keep this man away from power, then you’re no kind of leader at all.

[Geoff Duncan @GeoffDuncanGA]

To the “whisper caucus”, the decision is yours. Choose wisely, because your vote will make the difference. Read my latest piece in the @ajc: https://t.co/QMSFVN6kgD

[Sarah Longwell @SarahLongwell25]

Nothing more depressing than watching venerable institutions pre-surrender.

[Sarah Longwell @SarahLongwell25]

Oh.

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

Donald Trump is the tyrant George Washington feared—and his reelection threatens to unmake the nation that the first president helped create, @RadioFreeTom writes in our new cover story. https://t.co/FlrlmCxp6P

[NBC 15 News @mynbc15]

NBC News spoke to four Trump allies, all of whom speculated that the former president may be prepared to pull a repeat of 2020 and quickly declare he is the victor on election night when that is not yet certain. https://t.co/efkQJMjKeT

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

You’ve heard Trump say these things before. But not like this.

[Sarah Longwell @SarahLongwell25]

Hypocrisy, thy name is Elon.

[Fareed Zakaria @FareedZakaria]

If the US turns inward, we risk going back to a pre-1945 world of war, conquest and closed economies.

Some closing thoughts from “America First,” my @CNN special on US isolationism, in case you missed it Sunday night:

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

“I need the kind of generals that Hitler had”: In the closing days of his presidency and the years since, Donald Trump has grown more enamored of the advantages of dictatorship, and the control over the military he believes that it would deliver, @jeffreygoldberg reports: https://t.co/oXRxe6eKoF

[Ariel Chavez @iFrontierTravel]

@BulwarkOnline Stereotypical gay, Hispanic, immigrant Bolivian guy here in an interracial marriage living in Alabama. Meeting @SarahLongwell25 and exchanging a few words with her in New Orleans last year was a very special day for me. Drove 260 miles to see her, & would do it again! #TeamSarah

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

"On Liz Cheney: I was wrong. I can’t say this often enough. When Cheney broke with Donald Trump after January 6, I was dismissive....But as she methodically blew up her own career in order to defend our democracy, I realized I’d underestimated her."
https://t.co/SUK0F4QtHf

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

"In watching Harris and Cheney, one could see glimpses of a better future, a future superior to the politics of recent decades, in which ossified ideologies would begin to break apart...that we are fighting not just against something, but for something."
https://t.co/hhATzr2K7V

[Maverick @MaverickCenter]

.@SarahLongwell25 made us proud today!

[Liz Cheney @Liz_Cheney]

I’m a Reagan conservative. I have never voted for a Democrat, but this year, I am proudly voting for @KamalaHarris. Donald Trump is too dangerous ever to hold power again. We must put love of country above politics and unite to defeat him on Nov 5.

[Business Leaders for Harris @BizforHarris]

.@mcuban on how Trump’s business practices make him unfit to lead the country: “[Michael Cohen] testified about how Donald Trump asked him to short pay vendors…When you rip off hard-working Americans, you are not qualified to be president of the United States of America.”

[Republican Accountability @AccountableGOP]

When Americans were dying by the hundreds, Trump was busy sending Covid test kits to Putin.

Americans died while Trump was appeasing a dictator. This is unforgivable.

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