Results: A Hedge Fund Manager's Rationale For Disapproving of Joe Biden's Presidency and Opposing Kamala Harris For US President
Published on 10/28/2024
The following questions are based on an X post made by Perhsing Square Capital Management founder Peter Ackman. a former Democrat voter, regarding his support for a second Donald Trump presidential term and opposing to a Kama Harris presidency. The post on which I'm basing the great deal of copying and pasting below may be seen at https://x.com/billackman/status/1844802469680873747
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With which of these actions and platform planks of the Joe Biden/Kamala Harris presidency that will likely or definitely be furthered by a Harris-Tim Walz adminstration as cited by byhedge fund founder and manager Bill Ackman to support Donald Trump and oppose Kamala Harris for president (as excerpted or adapted from Ackman's post on X) do you agree?
(They )litigate to make it illegal for states to require proof of citizenship, voter ID, and/or residence in order to vote at a time when many Americans have lost confidence in the accuracy and trustworthiness of our voting system
11%
224 votes
(Biden and his fellow Democrat elites have chosen) an inferior candidate for the presidency when other much more qualified candidates are available and interested to serve
13%
275 votes
(Biden and his fellow Democrat elites have selected) the Democratic nominee for president in a backroom process by undisclosed party leaders without allowing Americans to choose between candidates in an open primary,
11%
236 votes
(The Biden admn has) tigate(d) to prevent alternative candidates from getting on the ballot, and take other anti-competitive steps including threatening political consultants who wish to work for alternative candidates for the presidency, and limit the potential media access for other candidates by threatening the networks' future access to the administration and access to 'scoops' if they platform an alternative candidate
7%
154 votes
(The Biden admin has) fai(ed)l to provide adequate Secret Service protection for alternative presidential candidates (that would be Donald Trump)
9%
180 votes
(The Biden admin has attempted to) convince our minority youth that they are victims of a rigged system and that the American dream is not available to them
7%
141 votes
(The Biden has) do(ne) nothing about the continued exemption from liability for the pharma industry that has led to a proliferation of mandatory vaccines for children without considering the potential cumulative effects of the now mandated 72-shot regime
6%
130 votes
All the above
13%
269 votes
Not Applicable
66%
1389 votes
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2.
Which of these points Ackman makes regarding Biden, Harris, and Democrats generally do you agree (no more parenthetical addtions, but I'll be directly quoting from Ackman's post)? ...do nothing about the proliferation of new vaccines that are not properly analyzed for their risk versus the potential benefit for healthy children who are mandated to receive them
7%
142 votes
...do nothing about the deteriorating health of our citizens driven by the food industrial complex, the fraudulent USDA food pyramid, and the inclusion of ingredients in our food that are banned by other countries around the world which are more protective of their citizens,
9%
183 votes
...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
9%
187 votes
...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
7%
139 votes
...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
7%
155 votes
...hold back armaments and weaponry from our most important ally in the Middle East (Israel)in the midst of their hostage negotiations, hostages who include American citizens who have now been held for more than one year
6%
124 votes
... take no serious actions when 45 American citizens are killed by terrorists and 12 are taken hostage (speaking of Israel again)
6%
121 votes
All the above
13%
265 votes
Not Applicable
68%
1430 votes
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3.
Which among these of Ackman's 33 indictments against Biden, Harris, and other Dems do you agree?
seek to ban gas-powered cars and stoves without regard to the economic and practical consequences of doing so
11%
238 votes
mandate in legislation and otherwise government solutions to problems when the private sector can do a vastly better, faster, and cheaper job
11%
240 votes
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 (I beierve Ackman's referiencng Elon Musk, perhaps among others, here)
12%
255 votes
seek to defund the police and promote anti-police rhetoric causing a loss of confidence in those who are charged with protecting us
11%
233 votes
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
9%
194 votes
shut down free speech in media and on social media platforms that is inconsistent with government policies and objectives
9%
195 votes
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 (I believe Ackaman's primatily going on about COViD-19 shots here)
10%
204 votes
Not Applicable
74%
1557 votes
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4.
Among these accusations against Biden, Harris, Tim Walz, and other Democrats, which do you see as valid?
allow antisemitism to explode with no serious efforts from the administration to quell this hatred
8%
164 votes
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
9%
184 votes
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
9%
195 votes
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
9%
199 votes
promote DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) 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%
189 votes
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,
6%
124 votes
destroy our street retailers and communities and promote lawlessness by making shoplifting (except above large thresholds) no longer a criminal offense
6%
120 votes
All the above
11%
226 votes
Not Applicable
72%
1507 votes
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Which of these final five of Ackman's charges against the current Democrat regime do you see as reasons to oppose its continued presence in the presdientioal of the U.S. governent (and, presumably and by extension. other federal and more localized levels of governance) ?
modify the bail system so that violent criminals are released without bail
7%
143 votes
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
8%
178 votes
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
9%
199 votes
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
8%
162 votes
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
7%
143 votes
All the above
12%
249 votes
Not Applicable
72%
1506 votes
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