George Takei  🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽

We consider AZ one of our adopted home states with a place in Show Low that we love. Happy to see we will have sanity in the AZ Attorney General's office with these final recount results. But wow, what a close race.

Every vote counts. Every single one.

Dec 29, 2022 at 5:36pmWeb
Show threadLonewolfDec 29, 2022
@georgetakei musta been rigged 🙄
Show threadJaneGrayDec 29, 2022
@georgetakei
Omigod.
When you think of what a nightmare Hamadeh would have been.
Show threadArio2022 (She/Her)Dec 29, 2022
@georgetakei Can't tell you how dismayed I am by how close these races are. What is happening to us??
Show threadIαn has moved accountDec 29, 2022
@Ario2022 @georgetakei
A 2 party system. That's what. It merges the extremes into the mainstream. They just spread some nasty rumour about the other party and they win. This is only going to get worse, with more hate and more desperation to win at all costs, unless the US switches to proportional representation voting. Which will bring a whole set of new and varying political parties. 'Choice' is missing today.
Show threadArio2022 (She/Her)Dec 29, 2022
@ianp5a @georgetakei We've had a 2 party system in this country since 1828. Until 2016/2020 it has worked fine. So much has changed in the past 7 years and it's not all good. And then there's the EC. We need a democracy. No question. 💁‍♀️
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@Ario2022 @georgetakei
Right. But it's a powerful first principle, not some tactical difference. Over the years it affected the parties first. Then spread to the people, who eventually come to think of the 2 sides as normal. As right! From outside the US it's noticeable that US people talk and think in the 'us and them' all the time now. And only now, when tested, that division is becoming a hard division. This broken first principle is causing your culture wars, and letting down the US people.
Show threadArio2022 (She/Her)Dec 29, 2022
@ianp5a @georgetakei It's become a dog-eat-dog state in the U.S. over politics for the past 7 years due to extremists who are allowed to freely roam the countryside. And they're quick to project their shortcomings and values to the other side. 🙄
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@Ario2022 @georgetakei
That's a symptom of the problem. Yes.

We have extremists too. But they don't get votes to control a main party. That's because they are,... well, at the extremes.

Show threadArio2022 (She/Her)Dec 30, 2022
@ianp5a @georgetakei In our case, extremists are being nurtured by our conservative party instead of being disciplined bc "they" want power over all else. It's a heinous state of affairs. We have 2 more days before things change...again...and many of us are taking a gamble that things will work out for the best. 🙄 😬 (I'm not a gambler)
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@Ario2022 @georgetakei
Yes. It's seems to be a huge mess on all levels. I wish you the best of luck fighting the battles. But to win the war, something big needs to change.
The UK has a similar 2 party system, and are sliding down the same dark path as the US. People there are being told "the 'other' party will take away your <any topic>". Also this is being stirred up by certain foreign powers investing in bots and troll farms.
Show threadArio2022 (She/Her)Jan 1, 2023
@ianp5a @georgetakei Thank you. It's going to be a long difficult fight (I imagine) but fascism is my and my fellow citizens' enemy (at least those with common sense and the need to express an opinion). I imagine it's already 2023 on your side of the globe! Happy New Year!
Show threadIαn has moved accountJan 1, 2023
@Ario2022 @georgetakei
yes.
Happy New year.
We are celebrating while people suffer. That's the west's superpower.
Show threadIαn has moved accountJan 1, 2023
@Ario2022 @georgetakei
Yes.
Happy New year, 2 hours ago here.
We are celebrating while people suffer. That's the west's superpower.
Show threadArio2022 (She/Her)Jan 3, 2023
@ianp5a @georgetakei I think our superpower is being generous to others when needed. 😉
Show threadSupportive Tree-based lifeformDec 29, 2022
@Ario2022
I would place the civil war in the "L" column for the 2 party system.
@ianp5a @georgetakei
Show threadArio2022 (She/Her)Jan 6, 2023
@georgetakei I used the word "dismayed" but now rereading it...should have been "disgusted".
Show threadmary angela perna✅Dec 29, 2022
@georgetakei we cannot take a single election for granted. Raise your hand if there were *some* elections you skipped or blew off Downballot? I know I have. since we’re, for the most part, voting in droves, we expanded the senate, house lost by only a few seats. Flipped gov mansions! Keep voting!!
Show threadDimestorehaloDec 29, 2022
@georgetakei even though we have a Trump store right on the Deuce 
Show threadApplemaskDec 29, 2022
@georgetakei Merry Kris Mayes
Show threadKR00KDec 29, 2022
@georgetakei This, and I will add - we cannot allow the separate issues that each one of us hold dear undermine solidarity in opposition to right wing oppression and fascism.
Show threadRichard ReisigDec 29, 2022
@georgetakei I wonder how much Covid & Vaccine hesitancy played into tight races like this.
Show threadZerda Dec 29, 2022
@georgetakei wow, by the skin of our teeth! I am even more excited to call AZ my home, I am finally seeing political representation. Although I am a registered independent, I vibe with the party that wants to give me rights rather than see me perish. 
Show threadJames GuilfordDec 29, 2022
@georgetakei When people think their ONE vote won't make a difference....
Show threadThrabalenDec 29, 2022
@georgetakei A lesson for anyone who doesn't think every vote is important.
Show threadOld Man MikeDec 29, 2022
@georgetakei the fact that these results are so close makes me concerned about the next election cycle, if leftist progressives don’t get off the bird site they leave the fate of their political management and voter engagement in the hands of the MAGAt emperor Musk
Show threadDoug A.Dec 29, 2022
@georgetakei 280 vote margin. That’s why you should show up and vote in every election.
Show threadt o d d w a r n e rDec 29, 2022
@georgetakei Geez. Why in the world do 50% of Americans ... hate America? Insane. Just insane.
Show threadJohn WilsonDec 29, 2022
@georgetakei I spent a year one night in Show Low.
Show threadKevin Troy Darling Dec 30, 2022
@georgetakei the people here are as purple as the sage
Show threadJeffDec 30, 2022
@georgetakei no more Arizona
Show threadder.hansDec 30, 2022

@georgetakei Thank you for loving Arizona!

Thanks also for supporting good news like this final result

Show threadRandoMuseDec 30, 2022
@georgetakei please screenshot this and save it to post a few days before Election Day 2024. You know more than most how quickly people forget unpleasant topics…they need reminders!🧡
Show threadTampa-NickDec 30, 2022
@georgetakei it’s disappointing the numbers are that close!
Show threadOgie Ogilthorpe ✅Dec 31, 2022
@georgetakei Due to circumstances beyond my control, I have been stuck in this godforsaken state for a while now.
My soul yearns for the ocean, but my pocketbook tells me that I maybe yearning for the ocean forever.
Show threadOgie Ogilthorpe ✅Dec 31, 2022
@georgetakei Also, I’ve been to ShoLo plenty of times, the beeline is a beautiful drive. I still live in NAZ.