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Paul Yeager's avatar

What a great read…loved it, oh and thanks for including my comment…I feel honored

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Jim Davidson's avatar

Okay, mathematics! Yay!!! Three hundred thirty-five million (335,000,000) is the alleged number from the people in gooferment who pretend to be able to count. Can they count? I don't know, but a $36 trillion debt makes it seem like they can't do maths.

The same cretins assert that 258.3 million Americans are adults. Did they all vote? They did not.

According to a thing calling itself "popular vote tracker" there were allegedly 74,394,444 votes for the Harris Walz, which is a strange dance not performed on the Blue Danube. Same site asserts 76,901,177 for the Trump-Vance ticket. Huh. I worked with a Bill Vance in Houston back in my space launch days.

Then there are the "third party" candidates like Jill Stein, Bobby Kennedy Jr., and Chase Oliver. These three got 775,173; 748,219; and 639,244 respectively. Roughly 220,000 other presidential candidate votes. Did not see a number for Emmanuel Pastreich. I note for the record that the wicked cia wikipedia has roughly the same totals for Donald and Kamala, but slightly fewer. No idea the methodology in either case. And, remember that I don't believe anyone in the gooferment knows how to count. Doubly so for those purporting to count votes in elections.

So I am using the largest values for which I have data, because why not? Feel free to run your own calculation if you don't like mine. It's not much, just arithmetic. Any spreadsheet will do. I prefer OpenOffice because I don't like the extraneous privacy invasive code Microserf has been adding to their stuff for decades. ymmv

Okay, the total is: 153,678,257 voters. Which means that: 59.5% of the adult population voted. It also means that on the close order of 45.9% of the total population voted.

Which means that more people didn't vote (including those who weren't allowed to vote because the state believes in taxation without representation and hates children in a profound variety of ways). So, half the country is *not* for your favourite candidate, whomsoever that might be.

It also means that the largest "block" of the voting age eligible public, a total of 104.6 million persons did not vote. More Americans who were eligible to vote chose not to vote FOR ANY OF THESE CANDIDATES than voted for any one of them.

Why not? I don't choose to speak for others, but I didn't vote and have not voted in a presidential election since 1988 (for Ron Paul as the Libertarian candidate that year, thankyouverramuch) because voting is a really stupid way of taking choices, because I don't consent to be governed (and have not since at least 1993), because I don't believe my vote would be counted, because cheating has been a major aspect of every election since 1788, because none of these candidates even vaguely represents my views on anything, and because I don't believe the system is decent, good, nor God-fearing. I think it is sinful to vote, and yes I disagree with Lysander Spooner who contended that voting is not consent to be governed but a way of defending against the worst cretins who might become office holders. I think voting is really bad.

I am not your judge. Jesus Christ is your judge. I don't condemn you if you voted, nor do I condemn you for voting for a particular candidate. But if you think you are going to vote your way to freedom, please tell me: who counted the votes?!

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