My Final Plea To EVERY Voter:
I come from the populist GOP base. I voted for Trump in 2016. When I publicly turned against Trump in 2018, I took a blowtorch to my career. I lost everything. But I did it bcuz I believe Trump is everything our Founders feared. He lies every time he opens his mouth, he believes he's above the law, he wants to be an authoritarian, and he's humanly incapable of putting the country's interests first.
I'm not asking you to take a blowtorch to your career. But I am asking you to put your country's interests ahead of your own partisan interests.
Every day for the past 6 yrs, Republicans have told me, "Yes Joe, Trump is a bad guy, but...but the economy, but my taxes, but the Dems are communists, but...whatever."
Trump is way worse than a "bad guy." He's someone you would never work with or work for, someone you would never trust your wife or daughters with, yet you'd put him in the White House?
Start with his lying. NO OTHER POLITICIAN lies as much as Trump. He lies every time he opens his mouth. How can you allow your country to be led by someone who lies like that?
He has never believed the law applies to him. It's why he took classified docs and obstructed the search for them, and why he committed crimes trying to overthrow the 2020 election. He believes he's above the law. How can you vote for someone who believes he's above the law?
He wants to be a dictator. He's pledged to use the military to go after his political opponents, to shut down media outlets he doesn't like, to jail people who burn the American flag...the list goes on & on. A dictator is anathema to America. How can you vote for someone who pledges to be a dictator?
Finally, Trump is humanly incapable of putting the country's interests first. He is capable of acting ONLY in his own interests. It's why he so fucked up our response to Covid. He couldn't do what was best for the country when Covid hit. So many Americans died bcuz Trump was only capable of thinking about Trump. It's why when he lost the 2020 election, he couldn't accept the loss & concede. Because HE WAS CAPABLE OF ONLY CARING ABOUT HIMSELF. He couldn't put the country first.
How can you vote for someone FOR PRESIDENT who is humanly incapable of putting the country's interests first?
And how can you vote for someone who will NEVER concede when he loses an election? He wonāt concede again if he loses this year. How can you support someone who refuses to accept the decision of the American people?
Trump is the EXACT OPPOSITE of how you raised your children. How can you vote for someone who you told your children NOT to be like in every way?
I'm not asking you to do what I did & take a blowtorch to your career. I'm just asking you to put your country's interests ahead of your own. Voting against Trump won't kill YOUR career. Our economy is doing fine right now under Biden/Harris. Crime is down right now. You're doing better financially now than you were when Biden/Harris got elected 4yrs ago, and you know it.
All I'm asking u to do is put your country first. Don't put a horrible human being back in the White House. Don't put the chaotic Trump shit show back in the White House.
I'm asking you to rise above your own selfish interests. I'm asking you to think beyond yourself. Your personal finances will be just fine. I'm asking you to set an example for your children. Do u really want them to have to ask you one day why you voted for a guy who actually tried to overthrow an American election? Really?
Kamala Harris loves this country, she'll defend our democracy, she'll abide by the rule of law, she'll focus on the American people and not herself, and she'll govern from the common sense center. You'll be just fine with her in the White House.
6yrs ago, I took a blowtorch to my career for doing the right thing. But you know what? I'm still standing. I'm okay.
Do the right thing. Rise above your partisan interests and do the right thing. You'll be okay too.
Just reminding you itās been a year of the Palestinians about to run out of electricityā¦
ā¦didnāt happen
Itās been a year of them about to run out of fuelā¦
ā¦didnāt happen
Itās been a year of them about to run out of foodā¦
ā¦didnāt happen
Itās been a year of them being genocided
ā¦didnāt happen
All it has been is a year of lies and bullshit, a year of them not releasing the hostages, a year of them keeping the war going at all costs whilst simulating victimhood to a credulous western audience
I was going to vote for Kamala Harris because Trump is an existential threat to the nation, but then he closed down a McDonalds and pretended to make French fries...and now I'm not sure.
New FEC filings show that James Murdoch -- son of Newscorp and Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch -- and his wife Kathyrn together gave $1 million to the leading pro-Kamala Harris super PAC, FF PAC, in September
Again:
Iran attacked a US base and wounded over 100 Americans while Trump was President.
He didnāt do a goddamn thing about it.
Stop quoting his rambling lies as if theyāre facts.
Feels important to note that the president of the union leading the port strike has a long-standing relationship with Trump and is causing major damage to a roaring economy five weeks before the election.
Jimmy Carter has spent his post-presidential years building houses for working class families and pushing for world peace
Donald Trump has spent his post-presidential years tearing apart America, leading a coup against the government, and conspiring with war criminals
Republicans have only won the popular vote ONCE since 1988, and that was in 2004 when they used 9-11 and the fear of another terrorist attack to scare soccer moms into voting red. They thrive off of violence and chaos, and we'll have 4 years of both if Trump wins.
Iāll say it again for the people in the back, President Biden activated emergency aid and services for states impacted by category 4 Hurricane Helene, he didnāt withhold aid from states who didnāt vote for him and he didnāt throw paper towels at hurricane victims.
So far, it is mostly our enemies who trot out historical āinevitabilitiesā to justify a century of sustained failure.
What looks to Nassim like Israel ākilling more and more people to stay in the same placeā isnāt a function of Israeli weakness, as his theory of historical inevitability would have it, but of catastrophic Arab collapse. The Middle East is imploding around us and handing growing swaths of itself to mass-murdering non-state or conquering imperialist forces.
The rate of Arabs killing Arabs is rising faster than Israeli-Arab death tolls, which were in the past and remain today fairly low in regional terms.
Itās a tragedy that those regional terms are rising so precipitously, and that Israeli-Arab death tolls are doing the same.
It is also a tragedy, albeit a smaller one, that Nassim so insistently tries to sell yet another Arab generation on more of the same self-validating tropes and blindnesses to Arab failure and culpability.
Alas, as long as the Arab world remains Jew-free, antisemitic, tyrannical and routinely swept by spasms of religious war, no theory of historical inevitability will be enough to fell Zionism.
Itās curious that he doesnāt ask this question about the very existence of Hezbollah, whose primary function is to impose Iranās will on Israel, or about Hezbollahās 11-month campaign to empty and demolish the Israeli north in service to Iranās will.
If Iranās proxies in Lebanon can set the terms of Israelisā lives, Israel can set the terms by which Iranian proxies must exist in Lebanon.
As for legality, Iranian planes will resupply Hezbollah. Thereās zero chance that they wonāt. And thatās no longer a militarily tolerable option.
Mehdi, do us all a favor. Tell the gutless cowards who now rule Iran that if they donāt like it, they can come out from behind Arab civilian populations and fight their own damn wars. Enough innocent people have died for their machinations.