Nothing Else Madders 🎯

Progressive. Crazy about Tottenham Hotspur

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

President Biden should resign as an act of protest tomorrow so Kamala Harris could be sworn in as the first female president until January.

That would make Trump 48 and ruin that stupid hat of his.

Can we get this trending.

[Laura Bassett @LEBassett]

Russia calling in bomb threats to polling places in liberal districts across the country should be bigger news right now. They’re interfering for Trump right in the open, right in front of our faces

[Ronni🧂Salt-WhoWroteGunnawahYeahThatOne @RonniSalt]

Case in point. @FergusonNews happily promoting Trump's lies, as if she's never heard of this thing called misinformation spreading and how it works.

The post on the right is the type the American journos are doing - which highlights how appalling Aust's political journalism is.

[Tony @TonyIKnow]

Dear MAGA voters:

In Australia, it's already 'tomorrow', so we already know the result

You lost = Don't bother voting

#USElection2024

[Nothing Else Madders 🎯 @Spurzilla]

@thespursweb Paulinho

[Nothing Else Madders 🎯 @Spurzilla]

@NickKnudsenUS Not forgetting that Bush appointed John Roberts to the Supreme Court. Imagine if Gore had the opportunity to appoint a SC Justice? Would Citizens United and Dodds have materialised?

[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.

[Restoring Your Faith in Humanity @HumanityChad]

I truly love seeing kindness in action... Love it ❤️

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

BREAKING: @PsychoPAC24 just released their last ad featuring Trump’s sexual assault victims telling their stories.

Please share far and wide!

[The Shallow State @OurShallowState]

Trump, whose earlier rallies had an embarrassing number of empty seats, tells the crowd at his currently rally that Harris has empty seats. Trump's small crowds were photo'd all over the net, so Trump says Harris' small crowds are all over the net. Trump's crowd left early. So, Trump said Harris' crowd left early. All this, even though her rally hasn't yet started.
Projector. Prevaricator. Putz.

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

OK this is objectively bonkers, but it’s also intentionally designed to incite genocidal violence. Here’s how.

Tucker & Bannon are programming people that it’s been a “spiritual war” so far—but now it’s manifesting in the physical world. The message is: “This is a holy war. It transcends politics & human laws. The demons are coming for your kids, that’s more important than anything the government says.”

The good news is that this is a clear signal they know they are going to lose by the vote. The bad news is that they are openly using tactics copied from ISIS to get ready for the aftermath, because they need a lot of people to break the law—like J6.

A “spiritual war” is exactly what suicide bombers are taught to believe in. It’s the false premise behind the vast majority of genocides over millennia. Bannon and Tucker are teaching people that America itself is evil — because of the bomb, abortion, or whatever other scapegoats they choose.

They are telling people directly there are now literal, physical demons on Earth that must be destroyed. It’s only one step to identifying individuals or groups of people as demons. Remember Satanic Hillary? Remember the Salem Witch Trials?

At the risk of overusing this quote:
“Those who can make you believe absurdities, are those who can make you commit atrocities.” — Voltaire

Part of the reason for the separation of church and state in the Constitution is that the Founders knew the combination of political, or geopolitical motivations with a supernatural belief system has historically led to very, very bad results.

Which is why if they can’t get the results they want at the polls, then “bad results” are Plan B. This is American ISIS, led by two of its most practiced commanders. It’s going to get much worse when they lose.

Steady as she goes. VOTE. 🇺🇸

[The Saurus @TheSaurus831]

Really is a tough call.

On one hand - every Nobel prize winning economist is adamantly stating that Harris has a significantly better economic plan

But on the other hand - the dumbest people I’ve ever interacted with say Trump is a good businessman

Quite the dilemma

[The Project @theprojecttv]

Bob Geldof has always used his platform for world causes, and he gives us his very honest opinion on the US election nominees.

[The Shallow State @OurShallowState]

Trump's supporters are more silent than I've ever heard them be. Some of them have confused looks on their faces. Others are conferring with each other while he speaks - probably asking what's wrong with him. His stamina is gone. His energy is weak. His disjointed rant moves from hating the press to something about Venezuela to hating McConnell. He doesn't know what city he's in. He probably doesn't know what day this is.
This opens up the new possibility that when he declares victory on Tuesday, it might not be a planned lie - it might be because he actually thinks he's Kamala Harris.

[MAGA Cult Slayer @MAGACult2]

We don’t just want to win. We want to run up the score. We need to send a goddamn message that will reverberate through the annals of time. They need to know that allowing fascism into their party is what ended the GOP. Leave no doubt! #USDemocracy

[Ben Phillips @benphillips76]

the guy who just mansplained The Handmaid’s Tale to the author of The Handmaid’s Tale

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

🚨BREAKING: In a new leaked tape, Jeffrey Epstein says he was Donald Trump’s “closest friend” for 10 years.

Epstein also revealed that the first time Donald Trump slept with Melania was on his “Lolita Express” private jet.

[MFWitches @MFWitches]

How the fuck do we live in a place where the same people who oppose us welcoming asylum seekers because “we should be helping our own citizens first” also strongly oppose actually helping our own citizens first by feeding hungry school kids, reducing student HECS, or funding way more social housing?

#NewsCorpse

[ProPublica @propublica]

Trump’s social media company outsourced jobs to workers in Mexico even as the former president publicly railed against outsourcing on the campaign trail and threatened to levy heavy tariffs on businesses that send jobs south of the border.
https://t.co/0NvXqBQe3T