Matt Whitehouse

Iowa State Alum/Senior Technical Lead at Belcan Corporation

[Katelyn Burns @transscribe]

I don't have any earthly idea how to fix this

[Sarah Trone Garriott @SarahforIowa]

update johnson co just handed just made their list public. Dallas Co?!

[Sarah Trone Garriott @SarahforIowa]

and surprise, surprise, of the secret list challenged voters in Johnson Co, they are nearly all highly likely to vote Democratic.

[aimée 🇮🇪🇵🇸 @sapphyreblayze]

One of these people is a published professor of medicine. The other caused a measles outbreak in Samoa that killed 83 people.

[Sarah Trone Garriott @SarahforIowa]

recount update: The Dallas County Auditor has 19 absentee ballots in my district that the SoS has challenged per their secret list. These votes are not being counted unless voters bring extra information—but these folks may have no idea.🧵

[KerrBear 🪷 @MPLSKerrBear]

People can analyze, hypothesize, blame Dems till they are blue in the face. None of it matters.

This is the game right here.

Misinformation works. Those that believed misinformation voted Trump. Those that believed the truth voted Harris.

There is NO candidate that can change this.

Republicans have a well oiled propaganda machine that spans all media platforms and we do not.

Period.

[Cactus @antenacactus]

He’s right and Dems should never shut up about it

[Keenan Crow @KF_Crow]

So a published professor of medicine vs a lawyer who denies that HIV causes AIDS. Yeah idk.

[Matt Whitehouse @PrezWhitehouse]

@travisclones @Staroxvia I wholeheartedly agree, but it feels like a macabre version of “I missed my flight by arriving late at the airport but at least I’m early for the next flight in 16 hours.”

[R🔅x 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈 (Sun Cult Priestess) 🌹🖕🧊 @Staroxvia]

democrats fixed inflation and were punished for it by voters whose primary concern was inflation

how do you even begin to build a campaign in an environment like this

[Josh Ellis @jzellis]

5. You don't actually know what communism or socialism are. You think it means everybody wears gray and can't have their own car, which is actually Maoism/Leninism, but you don't know what that means either and mistrust anyone who does know.

[Alex Gookin @_AlexGookin]

Biggest takeaway from the election is the fallout from the pandemic (affected two presidencies) was put solely on the shoulders of the administration that had to do most of the cleanup. Ironically, the next administration will inherit one of the healthiest economies in the world.

[VikeClones (❍⁠_⚆⁠⁠) @VikeClones]

You fucking morons voted to end the abortion ban but didn’t vote for the person who would codify it into law. You people are the dumbest assholes on the planet.

[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

And again, Democrats fix the economy and hand it over to Republicans to destroy. Each and every time.

[david ehrlich @davidehrlich]

god it must feel so good not to give a shit about other people — to be liberated from the burden of defending even your own self-interest.

[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.

[Matt Whitehouse @PrezWhitehouse]

Please vote. Vote for your daughters, sisters, wives, friends, and neighbors. Vote for a better society, not fueled by hate. After today my wife and I may be unable to continue growing our family. Not safely. Please vote for Harris.

[Alex Gookin @_AlexGookin]

Vote.

I voted to protect my right to my family through IVF, my wife and sister’s rights, my brother and his husband’s rights, and an economic plan backed by 23 Nobel Prize-winning economists who know better than me. You should vote too!