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@BillAckman Your criticism doesn't pass the smell test as there are several urban areas with higher grand larceny thresholds not affected by mass shoplifting. Different root cause is likely, and the oversimplification doesn't hold.

@BillAckman 6) Larceny (misdemeanor) and grand-larceny (felony) are both crimes and thresholds for each is determined by the state. The penalty for a misdemeanor or felony and any mitigating (hunger, mental health) or aggravating (reincidence) circumstances is up to the states to decide...

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, (25) 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, (26) 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, (27) do 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, (28) convince our minority youth that they are victims of a rigged system and that the American dream is not available to them, (29) fail to provide adequate Secret Service protection for alternative presidential candidates, (30) litigate 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, (31) select the Democratic nominee for president in a backroom process by undisclosed party leaders without allowing Americans to choose between candidates in an open primary, (32) choose an inferior candidate for the presidency when other much more qualified candidates are available and interested to serve, (33) 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. I welcome your thoughts.

@BillAckman 5) Bail reform is mostly a state issue. Bail is in place as financial coercion to show up to court when charged, otherwise you lose bail money and a warrant for arrest is issued. Removing freedom for non-violent charges (without a conviction) only due to lack of funds is unjust.

@BillAckman 4) We need a sensible and non-political risk/opportunity tradeoff amd competitive analysis and overhaul of regulatory framework to unleash competitiveness without haphazardly dismantling most regulations. We also need to strengthen laws to curb abuses as part of risk mitigation.

@BillAckman @realDonaldTrump 3) Withdrawal/abandonment and date was negotiated by Trump with Taliban (Doha Accord). Read past admin's generals/advisors criticism of how it went down. The poor execution the natural result of bad "poison pill" negotiation with albatross dates new admin had to swallow.

@akafacehots @harris_wins 270towin.com/maps/8KEJw Very obvious path to victory for Dems thru VA, NH, PA, MI, WI... maybe even AZ as a bonus. As stretch goals, GA, NC, and NV might still be in play. Time will tell. You not seeing any path at all with a 0% chance of victory is blind MAGA zealot talk.

@harris_wins Lol if it makes you sleep at night.. I don't see any path to victory for Kamala right now. If the protesters crash the DNC convention consider the election over right there.

BREAKING: New leaks indicate Speaker Mike Johnson and other high-ranking Republicans have begun to question whether Donald Trump can win and whether Trump will drag down Republicans down ballot. This is a huge developing story.

@holte @elonmusk @CommunityNotes Some speech is not protected: defamation, fraud, incitement, fighting words, true threats, speech integral to criminal conduct, child pornography. Those can lead to criminal/civil liability. Other speech you shouldn't fear government consequences for exercising your right.

Arrested for making comments on Facebook! Is this Britain or the Soviet Union? Is this accurate @CommunityNotes?

@holte @elonmusk @CommunityNotes Freedom from consequences (punishment, retaliation, or interference) from the government is exactly what it means... if not that, then what kind of freedom is it?

@jonesgarethp royalacademy.org.uk/article/video-…

This is what it's like in London these days.

@DavidYeshua4 @elonmusk today.umd.edu/new-voter-id-l…

Fidias is right. Super important decision.

@elonmusk More regulation/restrictions to exercise our right to vote despite no evidence of widespread abuse, and yet less regulation/restrictions to own a semiautomatic riflle with a bump stock? that seems very backwards to most logical thinkers

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@Amberlove05x @greg16676935420 Probably works for a simpler tax code. Ours allows us to itemize and deduct taxes from a large purcahase (boat, car), medical expenses, child care expenses, charitable contributions, theft/casualty losses. It's not a flat percentage of income for all humans, there are nuances.

@CatArrow @greg16676935420 Employer doesnt need to know anything, they enroll in a payroll scheme and then apply the tax codes they are told to apply and make the deductions they need to based on those codes

IRS: you owe us taxes Me: how much do I owe? IRS: you get to figure that out Me: can I just pay what I want? IRS: no we know exactly how much you owe but you have to guess the number too Me: what if I guess wrong? IRS: jail

@Amberlove05x @greg16676935420 They do withhold taxes from earnings. However, your employer doesn't know your mortgage situation (mortgage interest deduction), medical expenses, other income streams, etc. What was deducted in year from earnings and what ACTUALLY had to be paid needs to be balanced by April 15.

I’ve never understood why america doesn’t do the exact same as most other places and deduct tax from your earnings, through your employer. It’s such an easier way of going about things. I guess thats what happens when companies like turbotax spend millions lobbying their government 🤷‍♀️

@elonmusk Fake news. For 2020 census illegal immigration (including illegal minor children) redistributes 3 house seats from OH, AL (red states), and MN (blue) to TX (red), NY and CA (blue) for a net blue gain of 1 house seat/electoral college vote. cis.org/Report/Impact-…

This is important

@CerosWhaley You are an interesting character my man... stay true

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@elonmusk Asymmetric efforts invested into minimizing "unvetted" (booked, very much documented asylum seeker entry) thru walls and other means and not enough into increasing legal immigration (dreamers, work visa to permanent resident) are suspect in their motives until proven otherwise.

As a reminder, I am very much PRO increasing legal immigration significantly. I’m not anti-immigration, I’m just against a massive number of unvetted people flooding into America, which any rational person should be.

@JohnnaCrider1 A non-white that grew up homeless in and out of shelters and followed your steps, statistically speaking, statically expected to achieve worse outcomes. Controlling for similar conditions, effort, talent, etc. and worse across the board beyond random luck the root of the issue.

I’m white. I grew up homeless and in and out of homeless shelters. Took care of my mother while working 2 jobs and living on the streets in my 20s. Had someone tell me I need to check my white privilege—all the while they went home and I went to Public Storage to change clothes because at the time, it was the only safe place for me to do so. Yea, white privilege and racial discrimination do exist. But not every white person is wealthy at the expense other those who aren’t white. Let’s stop making everything about race and find better ways to love one another despite the differences of skin color.

@BartolomePujals De dónde sale la necesidad/requerimiento de certificado QHIO/DxF? Un estándar de California que no tiene valor intrínseco fuera de ahí. Es una falsa necesidad para eliminar de la competencia a las 5 otras entidades certificados QHIN/TEFCA en perjuicio de RD e ignora FHIR. !Genios

Informe aclaratorio. Comprometidos con la transparencia y la rendición de cuentas, proporcionamos la siguiente información sobre el procedimiento de compras OGTIC-CCC-PEPU-2023-0016 para la “Adquisición de Plataforma de Red de Datos en Salud”. Accede a: bit.ly/Informe-aclara…

@HazimNoelia @MNunezHerrera

Entonces Miguel Antonio Núñez Herrera, titular de la empresa Health Gorilla que ganó una licitación de 306 millones a solo dos meses de su creación es HIJO de la asistente principal y directora del despacho presidencial Lourdes Herrera y también es director de un gabinete en el MIREX. Que cosas estás… 💅🏻