America needs YOU to stand up against fascism
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America needs YOU to stand up against fascism
As we head into the final weekend before Election Day, I’ve tried to make a compelling argument for why Americans should vote for Kamala Harris and against Donald Trump. Please share it with your family and friends — especially those who still remain undecided, or who don’t plan to vote — if you think it might convince them to get out and vote:
Steve, I keep coming back to election night 2020 and your appearance on Nicolle Wallace’s show. At the time, she asked for your prediction, and you said “I trust the American people”.
Do you still? 😭😭.
Steve, I have followed your page and videos every day. You have gone out of your way to inform and guide us. Thank you. Today, I tried to put all my reasoning for not even coming close to voting for Trump down on digital paper. I ran out of energy. It all started with his statement about him protecting women, "whether they want it or not." But here is the bare bones of why the Harris/Walz ticket is the only logical choice for me.
Voting for Harris and Walz is critical to securing our Constitutional Freedoms and the future prosperity and health of everyday working people and their families—not just here but in democracies around the world.
I, for one, do not want an orange despot who says he will protect women “whether we like it or not” — he is a cheap womanizer and convicted sexual abuser.
He is the one who has no religious faith yet welcomes the power and money of Christian nationalist organizations to fill his coffers and shape “his” Supreme Court — he and they, in turn, stripped women of our bodily rights and then they gave him the power of a dictator should he become president again.
He is the one who says he has “a concept of a plan” for our healthcare— he tried to kill our Affordable Healthcare 100 times while in office — Johnson, his puppy in Congress, says they will do it this time. And you can kiss our Social Security, as we know it, goodbye because they have a “concept of a plan” for that, too.
He is the one who threw away the Obama administration’s Infectious Disease Playbook (Playbook for Early Response to High-Consequence Emerging Infectious Disease Threats and Biological Incidents). Consequently, over a million Americans died of COVID-19 under his watch, and the great economy that the Obama administration left him sank — he spent most of his time blaming it all on the Chinese, pushing snake oil cures, and saying it would go away, “Just like that, it will go away.”
He is the one who claims to be a “great” businessman and has offered the multi-billionaire X-man Musk the job of driving our country back into another tariff-driven Great Depression of 1929–39 — he was just a made-up TV actor who got famous for saying, “You’re fired.” In real life, he lost the millions his daddy gave him and filed for bankruptcy six times; he stole money from his bogus charity and screwed thousands of students out of their money for his Trump University scam. He lost three lawsuits against the scam and had to pay $25 million after he was elected in November of 2016. Now, to pay his ongoing legal fees, he’s selling $99 NFT digital trading cards featuring him as various superheroes, worthless $499 gold-colored sneakers, $60, Made in China, God Bless the USA Bibles, $800–$100,000 cheap watches and $100 self-designed, silver coins. Vote him into office again and he'll sell ripoffs of the Resolute desk and then put his picture on the Presidential seal to make and sell refrigerator magnets that White House visitors can buy.
He is the one who buys the vote of billionaires with promises of billion-dollar contracts, financial and environmental deregulation, and lower taxes — he was convicted of 34 felony counts for falsifying business records in the spring of 2024. Two co-conspirators related to that case served time in jail, so should he.
He is the one who dodged the Vietnam War and called those who served and were killed or captured “suckers and losers” and wants “HIS GENERALS” to be like those who served Hitler — he has said that he will send “his” military into the streets of America to stop, by any means, those of us who might practice our right to peacefully protest. Remember the peaceful protest of June 20, 2020, in Washington D.C. He had “his” National Guard deployed with tear gas, mounted horsemen, and rubber bullets to forcefully clear the area so that he could walk across the street for a photo op of himself holding an upside-down bible in front of a church sign. General Mark A. Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, apologized for his role in the photo op. His new generals wouldn’t apologize — their oath would be to him and not the Constitution.
He is the one who promises to round up and deport millions of innocent men, women, and children just because he and his minions hate the color of their skin or the religion they practice, or the “shit hole” countries they came from — he uses lies, conspiracy theories, and fake rage on his stage to fuel the flames of racism and fear of “others, them, they, the enemy within.”
He is the one who told “his” speaker of the house not to allow a vote on a bipartisan bill that would have helped solve the border problem—just so he could pound his lies, division, and racist ideology into the minds of those living in the towns and cities across our country, day in and day out, relentlessly for months on end.
He is the one who does everything in his power to get his face and words on the national news — then declares that he will sue publishers and shut them down, and lock the journalists up for the truths they tell about him.
He is the one who hates the term “Climate Change,” being deaf, dumb, and blinded by his greed for wealth and power. If elected, his administration would dismantle the National Weather Service and NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration). — Knowing about hurricanes or tornados is bad for business. — He has promised to pull the US out of the Paris Agreement, a legally binding international treaty on climate change. And he would “drill baby, drill,” and encourage the building of big, beautiful new condos on the new beaches created by the rising seas that washed away the old beaches and the homes and lives of those who once lived there.
He is the one who spent six days spreading lies about the Hurricane Helene response efforts — the lives of FIMA and other rescue workers were threatened by those who believed his lies and, in some cases, refused the help that was offered to them.
He is the one who would turn his back on our democratic allies and kiss the hand of Putin and other dictators because he wants to join their club — he is a lying, cowardly traitor who has been charged with 40 felony counts for refusing to return and trying to hide classified, top secret documents that he took from the white house. The case, which was dismissed by one of his appointed judges, is pending an appeal by the Justice Department.
A vote for Harris is for a better world, our freedoms, and Democracy.
A vote for Him is for a world of hurt like one of his rally hellscapes — Garbage in, garbage out.