'33 reasons for Trump vote)'

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'A number of my good friends and family have been surprised about my
decision to support @realDonaldTrump for president. They have been
surprised because my political giving history has been mostly to
Democrats, my voting registration has typically been Democrat (in NY,
you must be registered to the party in order to vote in the primary, and
usually the Republican candidate has no chance to win), and many of our
philanthropic initiatives have supported issues that are consistent with
Democratic priorities.

All of the above said, I have always considered myself to be a centrist
and/or moderate, and I have voted for the candidate and supported the
issues and policies that I believe are in the best interest of the
country. Some have accused me of supporting Trump because doing so will
somehow benefit me financially. Fortunately, I do not need any financial
benefits as I and my family have well more than we need. I have also
committed to give away the substantial majority of my resources at or by
the time I am no longer, so I don't consider personal financial benefits
in the determination of whom I support for office.

Some have suggested that I am supporting Trump because I am seeking a
position in his administration. To be clear, I haven't been offered one
and I wouldn't take a job in the administration (I love my job and it is
the wrong time in my life to work in an administration). I will,
however, do everything else I can to help the president succeed in
helping our country and its citizens.

All of the above said, I am an investor who manages funds that own some
of the best, principally American, businesses in the world. In a better
governed and managed America, these business will do better and increase
in value faster. One might therefore argue that being 'long' America is
somehow a conflict, so I thought to disclose this potential 'conflict'
here.

Some of my friends and family who support @KamalaHarris are ok with my
supporting Trump, but don't want me to attempt to convince others to
support him. Because I strongly believe that a Trump administration will
be better for the country and the world than a Harris administration, I
think it is important to share my thinking to the extent it helps others
come to the right conclusion.

Three months ago, when I endorsed Trump on the day of the first
assassination attempt, I promised to share my thinking about why I came
to this conclusion in a future more detailed post. I intend to do so in
possibly more than one post, with the first, this one, explaining the
actions and policies of the Biden/Harris administration and Democratic
Party that were the catalysts for my losing total confidence in the
administration and the Party.

To be clear, my decision to vote for Trump is not an endorsement of
everything he has done or will do because he is an imperfect man. Unlike
a marriage or a business partnership where there are effectively
unlimited alternatives, in this election, we have only two viable
choices. Of the two, I believe that Trump is by far the superior
candidate despite his flaws and mistakes he has made in the past.

As always, I welcome your feedback on how I could be wrong and on how
the below actions and policies I outline below might actually have been
good for America. I have always believed that the best way to get to the
truth is to hear the best arguments on all sides of an issue.

While the 33 actions I describe below are those of the Democratic Party
and the Biden/Harris administration, they are also the actions and
policies that unfortunately our most aggressive adversaries would likely
implement if they wanted to destroy America from within, and had the
ability to take control of our leadership.

These are the 33:

(1) open the borders to millions of immigrants who were not screened for
their risk to the country, dumping them into communities where the new
immigrants overwhelm existing communities and the infrastructure to
support the new entrants, at the expense of the historic residents,

(2) introduce economic policies and massively increase spending without
regard to their impact on inflation and the consequences for low-income
Americans and the increase in our deficit and national debt,

(3) withdraw from Afghanistan, abandoning our local partners and the
civilians who worked alongside us in an unprepared, overnight withdrawal
that led to American casualties and destroyed the lives of Afghani women
and girls for generations, against the strong advice of our military
leadership, and thereafter not showing appropriate respect for their
loss at a memorial ceremony in their honor,

(4) introduce thousands of new and unnecessary regulations in light of
the existing regulatory regime that interfere with our businesses’
ability to compete, restraining the development of desperately needed
housing, infrastructure, and energy production with the associated
inflationary effects,

(5) modify the bail system so that violent criminals are released
without bail,

(6) destroy our street retailers and communities and promote lawlessness
by making shoplifting (except above large thresholds) no longer a
criminal offense,

(7) limit and/or attempt to limit or ban fracking and LNG so that U.S.
energy costs increase substantially and the U.S. loses its energy
independence,

(8) promote DEI ideologies that award jobs, awards, and university
admissions on the basis of race, sexual identity and gender criteria,
and teach our students and citizens that the world can only be
understood as an unfair battle between oppressors and the oppressed,
where the oppressors are only successful due to structural racism or a
rigged system and the oppressed are simply victims of an unfair system
and world,

(9) educate our elementary children that gender is fluid, something to
be chosen by a child, and promote hormone blockers and gender
reassignment surgeries to our youth without regard to the longer-term
consequences to their mental and physical health, and allow biological
boys and men to compete in girls and women's sports, depriving girls and
women of scholarships, awards, and other opportunities that they would
have rightly earned otherwise,

(10) encourage and celebrate massive protests and riots that lead to the
burning and destruction of local retail and business establishments
while at the same time requiring schools to be shuttered because of the
risk of Covid-19 spreading during large gatherings,

(11) encourage and celebrate anti-American and anti-Israel protests and
flag burning on campuses around the country with no consequences for the
protesters who violate laws or university codes and policies,

(12) allow antisemitism to explode with no serious efforts from the
administration to quell this hatred,

(13) mandate vaccines that have not been adequately tested nor have
their risks been properly considered compared with the potential
benefits adjusted for the age and health of the individual, censoring
the contrary advice of top scientists around the world,

(14) shut down free speech in media and on social media platforms that
is inconsistent with government policies and objectives,

(15) use the U.S., state, and local legal systems to attack and attempt
to jail, take off the campaign trail, and/or massively fine candidates
for the presidency without regard to the merits or precedential issues
of the case,

(16) seek to defund the police and promote anti-police rhetoric causing
a loss of confidence in those who are charged with protecting us,

(17) use government funds to subsidize auto companies and internet
providers with vastly more expensive, dated and/or lower-quality
technology when greatly superior and cheaper alternatives are available
from companies that are owned and/or managed by individuals not favored
by the current administration,

(18) mandate in legislation and otherwise government solutions to
problems when the private sector can do a vastly better, faster, and
cheaper job,

(19) seek to ban gas-powered cars and stoves without regard to the
economic and practical consequences of doing so,

(20) take no serious actions when 45 American citizens are killed by
terrorists and 12 are taken hostage,

(21) hold back armaments and weaponry from our most important ally in
the Middle East in the midst of their hostage negotiations, hostages who
include American citizens who have now been held for more than one year,

(22) eliminate sanctions on one of our most dangerous enemies enabling
them to generate $150 billion+ of cash reserves from oil sales, which
they can then use to fund terrorist proxy organizations who attack us
and our allies. Exchange five American hostages held by Iran for five
Iranians plus $6 billion of cash in the worst hostage negotiation in
history setting a disastrous and dangerous precedent,

(23) remove known terrorist organizations from the terrorist list so we
can provide aid to their people, and allow them to shoot rockets at U.S.
assets and military bases with little if any military response from us,

(24) lie to the American people about the cognitive health of the
president and accuse those who provide video evidence of his decline of
sharing doctored videos and being right wing conspirators,