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Nicholas Laureys
If he's a trust fund baby, sure. If he actually did intelligent and exponentially productive work to become a billionaire then, no, his absolutely masochistic and suicidal hiring choices CANNOT be due to ignorance of who's on the federal government roster. If he was truly an outsider then he owes no loyalty to the feds or bureaucrats and could chosen untainted appointees.
You are right that he isn't perfect but wrong that he's superior to the alternative of sitting out.
Can you imagine if numbers as high as the 10% presumed to have been Tea Partiers sat out this election (esp. when we know their voting turnout proportions are among the highest)?
Karl Denniger keep calling for a General Strike and IIRC his percentages to make this work are WAY lower than 10% (now, granted, that's only 10% of the working population, so it's a higher percentage of all eligible voters).
Nobody goes through with that because of the Prisoner's Dilemma but the social and financial costs of not voting are....nothing!
If Karl and Rip and Vox and all the other "Conservative" and New Media outlets had called for a voting strike rather than supporting the Least Bad Republican option, EVEN IF ONLY FOR THE PRIMARIES, what effect could that have had on the ruling class!?
I don't know if it's too late to start such a PAC but I would gladly contribute to a None of the Above group that would track how many people had committed to sitting out the election and then compare that to the falsified voter turnout numbers that would be posted the day after the race. It would be too difficult to fake the votes of even five percent of the voting population that voted None if the Above, though, right?? That's 2.4 million voters aka 5% of Texas's (510k), Alabama's (115k), Florida's (510k), Georgia's (250k), Indiana's (150k), North Carolina's (275k), and Tennessee's (153k) ballots cast in 2020.
If a General Strike is too personally harmful let's bring on a Voter's strike in 2024! Or, if we're all too pussified for a POTUS election, then we should at least None of the Above the midterm primaries and general in 2026.
We already legitimize these Evil people by going to work and paying federal taxes every day....why voluntarily help give them the illusion that our nation is not lipstick on a pig - an Economic Free Trade Zone with serfdom disguised as a Freeman's Constitutional Republic?