Nikki 🌻🇺🇦Слава Україні🇺🇦🌻

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[TrumpWillLookGreatinOrange #resist🇺🇸🦅 #FBR @BDNTWLGIO]

@MuellerSheWrote Multiple other states had similar crossover. I don’t buy it; it’s too dramatic

[TurningOverTables ☮️ @OverTables]

Do we have a Federal Elections Commission anymore?

Where did 20 million votes go when turnout was record-breaking?

There is no reasonable scenario in which we had record turnout for voting but there are 20 million votes missing. Both cannot be true.

[ethel cain's fly @ethelfiles]

ethel cain on the election:

"if you voted for trump, i hope that peace never finds you. instead, i hope clarity strikes you someday like a clap of lightning and you have to live the rest of your life with the knowledge and guilt of what you've done and who you are as a person."

[American Veteran @amvetsupport]

I do not want to be a bad loser, but there is something very weird about the numbers.

The Republicans had approximately the same votes as in 2020., The Democrats had 15,000,000 less votes with a higher registration than in 2020. That, on the surface seems impossible.

[RoadTrippingCat🌊🌊🌊 @colonialcountr3]

@johnpavlovitz Record registration. Record turn out. Record lines wrapping around polling places...but 20 million less votes than 2020??? It does defy understanding. Something does not add up and is very wrong with these results...

[John Pavlovitz Official @johnpavlovitz]

I'm afraid that one day we're going to find out that this election was horribly compromised, and it will be long after it will be able to help save the democracy we're losing or the people imperiled because of it.

[AskAubry 🦋 🐆🦝 @ask_aubry]

So the Trump administration after getting the Latino vote is going to go after those have Naturalized Citizenship.

Leopards Eating Face

[Jack Cocchiarella 🌹 @JDCocchiarella]

If you ever feel useless at work or bad at your job just remember Merrick Garland exists

[sreeky @sreekyshooter]

people hated food prices in Biden's economy so much they voted for a guy who wants to impose massive tariffs and deport a million farm workers

[Hannah @queen_meghan14]

Last thought before attempting to go to bed: if Americans are willing to reelect Trump after everything he’s said in the past three months, there’s nothing Harris could’ve done.

[Telvin Griffin @TelvinGriffin]

If I’m the Harris campaign I’m asking for a full investigation into this election because something is off and it doesn’t feel right that Russia literally called bomb threats to black polling districts in Georgia today which could’ve impacted voters. @KamalaHQ

[The Hoarse Whisperer @TheRealHoarse]

Boy, it sure would have been nice to have had an attorney general these last four years.

[Nikki 🌻🇺🇦Слава Україні🇺🇦🌻 @knitarina]

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[Aja Raden @AjaRaden]

I strongly suggest that tomorrow President Biden call Ukraine and tell them they can blow up any part of Russia they want.

[Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman]

Just would like to point out that an incredibly "likable" woman ran this time, and it's still really close with that awful, unintelligent monster of a man.

It was never about Hillary's "likability." A lot of people just prefer hateful, ignorant men over smart women.

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

Buenos días ☕️ this is the energy

[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.