Thread by @Coyoteblog

Uh, wut?

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1317057909927325700

What I tell people every election about my choices:

R: OK on fiscal & business, warmongers, suck on civil rights
D: OK on civil rights, bringing awful CA biz environment to rest of US
L: Brave, reasonable soul who has no chance of getting elected in 2-party system

What my choices actually are:

R: fiscal mess, mixed bag on regulation, suck on some civil rights, sometimes warmongers
D: fiscal bigger mess, awful on regulation, suck on other civil rights, sometimes warmongers
L: Weird dude last seen shouting at pigeons in a skate park

Fortunately we are still all unified by continued bipartisan support for our 3rd amendment rights. Though the 2020 version is "we won't quarter troops in your home but we may forcibly quarter you in it for 6 months"

I think about this election & am just exhausted at the thought of four more years of Trump. But I can tell you I am also exhausted by my business experience in California. Literally every month at least one new regulation is passed in CA that substantially affects our business

I have spoken before about what I call the regulation singularity where new regulations come so fast that a business cannot restructure processes and re-train their people fast enough to keep up with new government business mandates. We are very close to that point in CA.

The thought of bringing this regulation approach to the rest of the country is terrifying to me -- The Democrats talk about being for the little guy but it will be impossible for any company without a billion $ in sales and lobbyists in DC to survive in the world they create

Should I vote for the lunatic who coarsens our public spaces, whose in-the-moment responses are often horrifying & who treats certain classes of individuals like shit -- but, whose damage to me personally would likely be less than from the other, more mainstream candidate?

I sat with a group of women the other day who talked of themselves as essentially one issue voters (abortion rights). The interesting thing in my experience about one-issue voters is that they are all for one-issue voting until your one issue is different from theirs

I told them they should'nt try to make me into a one-issue voter, because if they did I might vote for Trump. I find the whole package of Trump to be unsupportable, but if you told me to vote narrowly on my personal short-term interests, I would have a hard time voting for Harris

Anyway, this is all a long way of saying that I am not going to react well to folks who tell me I am throwing away my vote on the libertarian candidate.