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…
— Bill Ackman (@BillAckman) October 11, 2024
October 12, 2024
33 things "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."
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The man lays it all out and does it well. Thank you for this post!
Well put.
I don’t like the “what would our enemies do” framing that has been so popular the last few years since there are endless things our enemies might do, and some of them are bound to be things our opponents are doing—that’s why we don’t support them.
That said, the Democrat’s programs, if followed implemented, would doom us and the rest of the world with us. However much some people might prefer a weaker more humble US, the cold reality is a strong hegemon is the only thing keeping most of the world from going up in flames and if that hegemon is not the US, then it’s nobody.
Pretty much sums it up.
Ackman uses the subjunctive formulation "our most aggressive adversaries would implement" to eschew actually stating the inescapable conclusion to be drawn from the 33 bullet points: this is an intentional strategy to "destroy America from within" by the Democrats in power.
Exceptionally well stated. Also brave given the fact that he lives in NYC. Ackman has F.U. money and isn’t afraid of any blow back.
He has been paying attention, unlike many celebrity endorsers. Also he is not a member of the "Military-Industrial Complex."
The ones that are paying attention have specific arguments and a sense of vision of where & what things lead to. The ones who are desperate for the 'Status Quo' do not present arguments, suggesting that they are not paying attention or thinking for themselves. Instead, their arguments are mostly ad hominem condemnations, emotionally based, often exaggerated or even outright wrong.
He mentions being registered as a D, since the R in the general has no chance in NY. I have wondered if Rs need to stop registering as R and register D as everywhere. The R primary will still produce the most right leaning casndidate, but the D primary will then produce a more moderate/conservative D general nominee.
I think it might be more accurate to say that the Democratic Party has been taken over and weaponized by some of America's enemies. The "Democrats in power" are bought and paid for.
But where are we going to find that moderate/conservative D nominee? Especially now that they don’t bother wit primaries.
First off, why should anyone care who a Hedge Fund Manager is endorsing?
Secondly, isn't Bill Ackman the exact kind of elite egghead that you all contend is destroying the country? (legacy admission to Harvard, undergraduate degree in social studies, and the thing that should make MAGA run away, an MBA from Harvard)
Since Jimmy Carter saddled Afghanistan with the Taliban, it is just possible that the war there was the only justified war we have fought since WW2. It's a shame we quit before we undid that terrible thing of organizing, funding, and arming the Taliban there. And if you think that 9-11 was not too heavy a price to pay to reverse a communist coup there, when the commies all fell a decade later anyway, well, go ahead and say it out loud. At least the communists list equal rights for women as a fundamental tenant of their system, unlike the Taliban we put in power there.
I’m guessing all 33 points will be labeled misinformation/disinformation which should have been censored.
The day is coming soon where the cost of our debt service exceeds the cost of our military, and writing $4 trillion a year in hot checks will bring that day pretty soon, but hey! At least we will all have electric cars, which will be too dangerous to use as boat anchors.
And yet he was still cowed into apologizing for supporting Trump, and wrote the weakling's inevitable preamble about Trump's supposed imperfections while never a mention of Harris' many fatal flaws.
This is a symptom of how the propaganda of "The Good Guys!!!!" has permeated conventional wisdom. We who support Donald Trump personally and his pro-American agenda have to apologize and explain ourselves for defying the Party and its anti-American, anti-humanity ideology.
Shouldn't those who seek to erase our nation's borders and culture, release criminals among the innocent, kill babies and mutilate children, persecute political opponents and the citizens who support them, and engage in conspiracies to defraud and deceive the public be the ones to apologize and explain their behavior?
Niggle. Perhaps you word have quibbled with a word or two of the Declaration of Independence?
Don't be a fucking idiot Freder. It's a probabilistic phenomenon with the Ivies, not deterministic and we all know that. Except for perhaps you.
Repetition may not make an argument logically stronger, but it does make one more persuasive. They own the media firehose.
I don't think it's a strategy, I think it's magical thinking. Like Joe Biden just said a week ago, "There is nothing America can't do," including, apparently, the impossible.
I figured that comment would trigger you and you would whine like a hit dog about it. Grow up someday.
Here’s a like argument from another oldtimer lib…
https://x.com/redsteeze/status/1844956403342942219?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1844956403342942219%7Ctwgr%5E860b5d2c4f9945af3ebf4bbb691f6e9aedda0e77%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Finstapundit.com%2F677322%2F
My first read is that this forms an excellence basis for a second Declaration of Independence if the voting system fails us. And I mean that either way - if you are a Trump supporter, you cannot abide these acts the Democrats have visited upon the nation, it is probably time to leave if Harris wins. If you are a Democrat and want to keep going with the 33 items that can be continued, you may be advised to leave should Trump return to office. Easily as good a piece of writing as Martin Luther's 95 Theses, or Letter From Birmingham Jail in terms of defining a political moment. If a person can read these and still feel politically neutral, it may be time to consider a neurological visit to monitor potential cognitive decline.
Like many listicals, there were repeats. I disagreed with 15. It has just risen to the presidential level. Democrats have done similar things at other levels. Using Texas as an example, I point to the criminal charges and trials brought against Tom Delay, Rich Perry, and Ken Paxton.
X Premium could be a good deal if you've got a lot to say.
What Ackman doesn't consider is that maybe George Soros is just trying to give young people the great opportunity he's had -- to start out with absolutely nothing.
And there'll be plenty of bargains to pick up once the country goes splat.
Lookee Freder getting all gotcha MAGATS! Way to read the room boy.
MADA
Also, MAVA, not MASK.
MACA in the Founders' convention.
I have a pseudonymous X account bur have never posted, replied or even really get on it. Ackman’s post is the first time I’ve ever replied to someone’s Xtweet. #14 was the one I am concerned about over all others. Further, it’s the erosion of all our natural rights that I see happening before our eyes that is the most alarming. Good for Bill.
This is an outstanding and timely post. It's central theme, that the current policies and actions of the Democrats are those of an enemy of the United States and are intended to destroy the United States, is accurate and irrefutable. But let's hear our joyful leftist commenters attempt to respond to the author's request to offer an explanation of how any of these policies and actions are good for the wellbeing of this country and its citizens.
Yes, but it’s no good having the “moderate” Democrat win when the party itself has gone so far Left.
Note: the 33 are not the acts of merely Biden / Harris. The entire Democratic Party supports each and every one of them. Kamala is a poorer candidate than Generic Democrat, but Generic Democrat would still be a poor choice.
G-Pub
It isn’t about who he is, but what he said.
Exactly! We should be listening to Taylor Swift!
David Foster posted an unrolled version at Chicago Boyz
Secondly, isn't Bill Ackman the exact kind of elite egghead that you all contend is destroying the country?
So you're saying even some of them think we've gone too far?
I can see where you got confused. Rather than standing on his credentials and telling everyone to simply vote his recommendation, he laid out exactly why he was voting for Trump to allow reasonable people to both specifically object and to consider the arguments when coming to their own conclusions.
It's not like on the left where tens of "experts" sign on to someone else's pre-written statement, with threat of repercussions if they don't...
I read this right after reading a Politico article telling Kamala what she must do to win. It essentially said, "tell them how centrist you are." It was almost totally devoid of anything specific, since it's unstated assumption throughout was that she was not really centrist but should try to appear to be. Ackman's remarkable specificity and the Democrats' hiding and obfuscation are the central forces now driving this campaign.
Ackman has done a public service. Even so, his list is incomplete. Every social institution that would enable the next generation to appreciate its extraordinary good fortune, and to flourish by transmitting the best of our civilization to their successors, is under attack. The list could just keep going, though in fairness I must concede that the BidenHarris cabal has in many respects merely continued and amplified the obsessions of the woke mind virus that predated 2020.
For argument’s sake, let’s reject the They-Hate-America-and-wish-to-Destroy-It motivation. What is the better explanation? Is there One? Or are there 33 separate explanations? I prefer to think They-Love-America-but-are-Misguided-and-Stupid, but sometimes that explanation seems inadequate.
G-Pub
Except, there's no universe where Maher is voting R.
Secondly, isn't Bill Ackman the exact kind of elite egghead that you all contend is destroying the country?
Principles before principals, which by conservative convention acknowledge principals. Americans, by consensus, do not exercise liberal license to indulge Diversity dogma popular in progressive sects.
Economist Freder is even less intelligent that his Field Marshal app.
I think it does now.
"hold back armaments and weaponry from our most important ally in the Middle East". Ummm. Would that be who I think it is? How exactly are they an important ally? Seems like they are only an important ally against all the new enemies they have found for us. No Iranian ever called me goy.
Almost 100 years of disinformation was laundered through press, academic, and non-profit assets, until the ideology took root here and grew on its own.
The Jews never seized our embassy and held hostages for 444 days. The Jews never financed acts of terror against us. The Jews don't make a party of marching through the streets chanting "Death to America". So there's that.
Your criticism of me is more of a niggle than my criticism of that phrase. I criticize it because it's popular despite being wrong. It pretends to deeper meaning than it has.
Oso, don't trouble him with facts.
While not all, most of his points are individually an excellent reason to not vote for any Democrat. The fact that the Democrats are campaigning to enact an unrealized capital gains tax is more than sufficient to vote against any Democrat. If one wanted to destroy private retirement plans, personal wealth and the economy, this the way to do so. In 2008, the Obama campaign floated a balloon regarding nationalizing 401k plans and replacing them with a government plan. These communists are still at it. Take them seriously, the really mean it.
Freder types two sentences, and they are BOTH straight up ad hominems.
Ackman made 33 direct, explicit points. Freder addresses zero of them.
Quite a display of intellectual firepower!
The Dems are the enemies of the United States.
The Dems are the enemies of the United States.
"It will be a great day when the ... Democrat party has to hold a bake sale to pay the interest on the debt!"
The US will probably embark on an overall more nationalistic trade policy in 2025. The election will determine the degree and to some extent the kind — subsidies versus tariffs.
Most likely China will pursue a policy of outcompeting the Americans and the Europeans in third-country competition, particularly across the Global South. China will increase scale and competitiveness while the US and Europe give up on industrial scale while institutionalizing in monopoly and trade protected inflation increases. The choice for the US and Europe will be growth and inflation or stagnation and stable prices. Regional differences will grow inside both the US and Europe as centers of economic strength diverge from seats of voting strength. More gridlock.
More economic fracture will translate into a more polycentric geopolitics, both within the democratic alliance and across the Global South. The US will increase its over-investment in global military power. If China counters by investing in economic power across the Global South, it will fill in the vacuums across the higher growth regions of the new emerging global economy. Let the South China Sea go and take on the Indian Ocean and South Atlantic litorals? Time for the Chinese to read their Mahan!
Billionaire backs party that enjoys tax cuts for the wealthy.
The fact that this is considered news is mindboggling.
"“Bad Genes” said...
Billionaire backs party that enjoys tax cuts for the wealthy.
The fact that this is considered news is mindboggling."
Apparently a poor person has never given you a job. If you are on the government grift, can't get that sweet grift without other people's money. As for China, don't sweat it. They are contracting massively on their own. Worse than us. What we need to worry about the Democratic Party adopting CCP economic policies.
Great list from a very accomplished American. Didn’t do it by getting elected and riding the government gravy train. Did it by creating jobs.
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