JMHeffren

This year's fistful of awesome.

No American president has ever talked like this. Trump is so wrong on this. This approach to foreign policy will deeply damage American security interests.

I’ll never understand how someone as mediocre as Trump inspired a cult following. It still blows my mind.

I don’t really do endorsements. I’m not shy about sharing my views, but I hate politics and don’t trust most politicians. I also understand that people want to hear from me because I am not just a celebrity, I am a former Republican Governor. My time as Governor taught me to love policy and ignore politics. I’m proud of the work I did to help clean up our air, create jobs, balance the budget, make the biggest infrastructure investment in state history, and take power from the politicians and give it back to the people when it comes to our redistricting process and our primaries in California. That’s policy. It requires working with the other side, not insulting them to win your next election, and I know it isn’t sexy to most people, but I love it when I can help make people’s lives better with policies, like I still do through my institute at USC, where we fight for clean air and stripping the power from the politicians who rig the system against the people. Let me be honest with you: I don’t like either party right now. My Republicans have forgotten the beauty of the free market, driven up deficits, and rejected election results. Democrats aren’t any better at dealing with deficits, and I worry about their local policies hurting our cities with increased crime. It is probably not a surprise that I hate politics more than ever, which, if you are a normal person who isn’t addicted to this crap, you probably understand. I want to tune out. But I can’t. Because rejecting the results of an election is as un-American as it gets. To someone like me who talks to people all over the world and still knows America is the shining city on a hill, calling America is a trash can for the world is so unpatriotic, it makes me furious. And I will always be an American before I am a Republican. That’s why, this week, I am voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. I’m sharing it with all of you because I think there are a lot of you who feel like I do. You don’t recognize our country. And you are right to be furious. For decades, we’ve talked about the national debt. For decades, we’ve talked about comprehensive immigration reform that secures the border while fixing our broken immigration system. And Washington does nothing. The problems just keep rolling, and we all keep getting angrier, because the only people that benefit from problems aren’t you, the people. The only people that benefit from this crap are the politicians who prefer having talking points to win elections to the public service that will make Americans’ lives better. It is a just game to them. But it is life for my fellow Americans. We should be pissed! But a candidate who won’t respect your vote unless it is for him, a candidate who will send his followers to storm the Capitol while he watches with a Diet Coke, a candidate who has shown no ability to work to pass any policy besides a tax cut that helped his donors and other rich people like me but helped no one else else, a candidate who thinks Americans who disagree with him are the bigger enemies than China, Russia, or North Korea - that won’t solve our problems. It will just be four more years of bullshit with no results that makes us angrier and angrier, more divided, and more hateful. We need to close the door on this chapter of American history, and I know that former President Trump won’t do that. He will divide, he will insult, he will find new ways to be more un-American than he already has been, and we, the people, will get nothing but more anger. That’s enough reason for me to share my vote with all of you. I want to move forward as a country, and even though I have plenty of disagreements with their platform, I think the only way to do that is with Harris and Walz. Vote this week. Turn the page and put this junk behind us. And even if you disagree with me, vote, because that’s what we do as Americans. vote.org

@Zebster43 They both had frickin smug grins on their faces. And the one on the right looks like he's starting to make a case that what he did was okay because reasons. 🙄

@JMHeffren Never seen that before…ever. Could hurt someone

@Zebster43 Don't know if you watched the game last night, but here's a clip of some fine Yankees' fans in action. youtu.be/9vZVDUjWerI?si…

I have no insights into the details but there is nothing less American than the idea you would do something like this to your fellow Americans. It is an insult to our founders, to those who made the ultimate sacrifice for the nation, and for those around the world who would give just about anything to have the right to vote.

"I simply can’t seem to decide between the Dark Lord determined to return to power and stay there until shadows drown all of Arda, or the Elf Galadriel, who seems to be great and exceedingly normal, but I just wish I knew more about her." mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-an…

Reminds me of this gem.

Is Trump's affection for Hitler an ominous sign for American democracy? We talked to six federal judges at a secretive men's retreat hosted by Harlan Crow.

Trump's Hitler comments are forcing The History Channel to make some big changes

"So in an effort to highlight his claim that Kamala Harris never worked at McDonald’s, Trump pretended to work at a closed McDonald’s where he served pretend orders to supporters pretending to be customers" trib.al/yOz2ytJ

The fact that this is a real headline in my lifetime is unfuckingbelievable.

Two decades ago, amid the horror of 9-11, his comment to a reporter was to assert that he now owned the tallest building in New York. He hasn't changed. He will never change. He lives and dies as one of the most self-absorbed, soulless shitpieces to ever strut on our national stage.

In our survey of Trump voters, half thought that their tax dollars were paying for FEMA to seize farms while the other half thought their tax dollars were paying for sex change surgeries for jailed migrants. In reality, none of the respondents paid any federal income tax.

You know Trump is losing because Jared, Ivanka, and Melania are nowhere to be seen. If he was really ahead, they’d be all over the Campaign like jackals on a two day old gazelle corpse.

I’m prepared to fight the culture war on the ground that the Right has chosen - that Christopher Columbus and Confederate Generals were heroes. I’m very happy to be on the opposite side of that premise.

I deeply admire Gen. Milley, and we should all be grateful for his service to the nation and its Constitution, particularly in January 2021. But for the life of me I do not understand the position of a number of former senior military officers—people who were willing to take a bullet or worse for our country—who freely tell the truth about their experiences with and perceptions of Trump to journalists privately or in the occasional print interview, but won’t go on television or otherwise be more vocal about what they know and believe. They should be talking directly to the nation for which they were willing to sacrifice their lives. I say this with the utmost respect—but also with extreme puzzlement. I just don’t get it.

“The fact that  Marjorie Taylor Greene is not frequently struck by lightning is proof that the Democrats do not control the weather.” 😎 — Robert E. McGraw

Trump had 4 years to come up with a way to control the weather. Couldn’t figure it out. Biden/Harris pulled it off in 3 years. Vote Harris for President. Competence matters.

This.