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 I voted for president today.  I did a write-in ballot for Bill Gates.

Yes, that means I “threw away” my vote.  What I like about Bill Gates is he’s everything Trump claims to be, the difference is Gates is the real deal:

First and foremost, Gates, unlike Trump, actually HAS made great business transactions.  Trump would have been better off if he simply invested in an index fund than these “business deals” he keeps making.  Trump went from 1 billion to 4 billion between 1988 and now.  That sounds nice, except again, he’d have made more than that by just investing an in an index fund.  And any dumbass can do that.  And it’s certainly no comparison to Bill Gates going from 1 billion to a whopping 80 billion in the same period.

Trump has sent businesses to bankruptcy.  Trump has bribed politicians to give him “fair” deals.  This link is one example of many.

Second, Trump is claiming to be the “family values” candidate to get the vote of evangelical Christians.  This is the same man who has had 3 different wives, each younger and hotter than the last.  This is a man that likes to grab women “by the pussy” and thinks he’s entitled to any woman he comes across… even married ones.

Bill Gates could easily keep divorcing and consistently be married to a 20something super model, but he has been faithful to the same wife his entire life.  The Bill and Melinda Gates charity foundation has also done countless good things.  He doesn’t say things one tenth as offensive as Trump, either… and he’s not even running for President of the United States.  You would think people running for President would at least clean their act while they are running.

Bill Gates is not running for President, probably because he isn’t hungry for more power.  This in and of itself is precisely why he’d probably be a good president. 

Those who seek power are not worthy of that power- Plato. 

Trump supporters like Trump because he ‘says it as it is,’ but this is dubious for two reasons.  First, check out this.  He lies more than almost anyone else.  Second, I am someone who never sugarcoats anything, but I am a much more decent human being than Donald Trump. 

…And the best part of it all is Gates is a wealthy, white, heterosexual male.  So when Trump supporters say I can’t handle Trump because I’m a “social justice warrior” I can laugh in their face.  In fact, Gates is much richer (and therefore more “privileged” than Trump himself.  The difference is Gates actually had to work hard for his money, so he does not have the smug arrogance of someone who inherited almost all of it from rich daddy.  Trump is, at best, a glorified version of Paris Hilton.

I can definitely understand why people want a president that, 1) had to work hard for everything he’s got.  2) Is a successful businessman. 3) has Christian, family values.  4) Is outside the political establishment.

I just think Bill Gates meets this criteria WAY more than Donald Trump.

But what about Hillary Clinton?  It’s 1:30 at night as I write this so this is going to be lazier than the Trump section, but I’ll summarize.

Hillary is a war hawk.  Her “experience” as secretary of state has already demonstrated that she doesn’t mind destabilizing the entire middle east.  She has supported things such as NAFTA which has damaged the middle class.  She and her husband have accepted over 100 million dollars in “speeches.”  Supposedly she’s only getting paid for the speech itself, and not for influence.  Yeah right.  She supported her husband’s “tough on crime” laws in the 90’s which paved the way for African Americans to disproportionately be sent to jail.  She voted as a senator to support the Iraq war, which I personally find unforgivable. 

My father came here from a middle eastern country, and I’ve got blood relatives living in that part of the world that I care very much about.  But even if I didn’t, those people are still human beings.  There’s no way I could, in good faith, vote for Hillary Clinton.

Some Hillary supporters say “look at her official website and things like that.  She agrees with your position on most of the issues.”  Technically she does.  Her ‘official stance’ on the issues are decent.  However, saying you will be decent and actually being decent is different.  When you look at her voting record, her corruption, her ‘experience’ as Secretary of State (which is more embarrassing than something to be proud of) you will see she is not decent.  Bill Cosby ‘supported my positions on the issues’ for decades.  Irrelevant.  What he was actually doing was far worse.

And don’t make me laugh with the ‘you won’t vote for Hillary just because she’s a woman’ bullshit. You might as well say everyone who doesn’t support Bernie Sanders is anti-semitic, as is Jewish.

“But you’re a cis white male!  What about all the minorities?  Your vote is very selfish!”

Actually, I am not.  I am of middle eastern heritage myself, and my father comes from a middle eastern country.  Trump’s presidency has actually affected my own life, as well as that of my family members in Iran.  But even if I were ‘a cis white male’ that doesn’t mean I’m not entitled to my vote just as much as everyone else.  If the Hillary people are saying everyone who didn’t vote for her is either a bigot or ‘privileged,’ no wonder you lost.

Also, voting for Bill Gates (even if this is effectively throwing away my vote) is NOT the same as voting for Donald Trump.  If Hillary won, the Trump people would be telling me that by ‘throwing away my vote,’ I mainly voted for her.

In some ways I’m conservative, and in other ways I’m liberal.  Very liberal on foreign policy and equality for minorities.  Conservative on free trade and that socialism doesn’t work.  That said, thank God we have a REAL businessman who can help guide Trump.  Hopefully, he listens…

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