Mark Millimet 🏳️‍🌈

Air Traffic Controller | Self Proclaimed Cook | Country Music is the Only Music | Travel Anywhere & Everywhere | Statements are mine ≠ those of my employer

[Taylor Nation @taylornation13]

Meet us under the mistletoe in one hour! 😘🎁 https://t.co/ZSGtuHSAkb

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

🚨NEW: Senator Elizabeth Warren has called on Senate Democrats to confirm a flurry of federal judges and regulators prior to Republicans retaking the majority.

RETWEET if you agree with @SenWarren!

[John Pavlovitz Official @johnpavlovitz]

Enthusiasm for Kamala Harris among Democrats was near Obama levels.

And yet, we're supposed to believe that yielded 15 million fewer votes than in Biden got in 2020.

Madness.

And we'll never know what happened, except that hatred won.

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

I voted for the qualified black woman - and I’m proud as hell that I did.

RETWEET if you’re proud too!

[Elizabeth Warren @ewarren]

My message about the election results:

[Pam Keith, Esq. @PamKeithFL]

20 or so million votes are unaccounted for.

Turn out and vote counts are not aligning.

Something is VERY wrong.

[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.

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

Not too sure that Republicans going from calling Puerto Ricans garbage to calling a woman garbage is the whiz-bang political chess move they think it is

[Kamala Harris @KamalaHarris]

It’s time to turn the page.

[Tom Zohar @TomZohar]

My generalized anxiety teaming up with my current very specific anxiety:

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

NEW AD: Tomorrow is our chance to reclaim the American dream and restore the promise of freedom.

Let’s rise.

[Keith Edwards @keithedwards]

Wait... @PeteButtigieg debated 25 undecided Michigan voters?!

WHAT

Is there anything he won't do? this man is fearless

[ABC News @ABC]

At a rally in East Lansing, Michigan, Kamala Harris addressed Gaza at the top of her speech, saying as president she "would do everything in my power to end the war" and "ensure the Palestinian people can realize their right to dignity, freedom, security and self-determination."

[Nick Knudsen 🇺🇸 @NickKnudsenUS]

🚨 BREAKING:

Wow. This heart-rending ad, when tested, moves swing-state men 2.5 points away from Trump.

Massive.

Please share everywhere.

Women are dying NOW in states with extreme bans. If Republicans win, a national abortion ban is next. Don't look away. #MAGAAbortionBan

[Andy Cohen @Andy]

LISTEN UP MISSOURI! this man is a Patriot! he will fight for MO!

[Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen]

My God @LucasKunceMO just steamrolled Josh Hawley.

[Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen]

Stop what you're doing and watch this. @LucasKunceMO deserves to be in the US Senate.

[Acyn @Acyn]

McGowan: I think it's weird that we're asking Kamala to answer for what Joe Biden said, but we're not asking Trump to answer for what Trump says..

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

.@gracieabrams: It's easy to be discouraged, but we know better. We know that unless we vote for Kamala Harris and keep our democracy intact, there is nothing we will be able to do to fix it when it is our turn

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