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Trump's niece says he threatened to disown Junior had he joined the military. How is that respect for the military?

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I have way more money and progeny than 4 years ago, which is great, but have deteriorated physical health due to high workaholism and borderline alcoholism, so it's a wash?

As a rich person I tend to see my personal betterment to be uncorrelated to the overall health of the country. I think that querying the oppressed underclass is a better indicator of such matters. Sort of like how the advancement of women's rights directly correlates to a nation's prosperity.

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You should lead the charge by giving up anything you make above $50K per year to fix those issues.

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You go first. I'm tired of this stupid argument, when Christians openly support a president who flouts every principle of following Jesus, starting with the basics of treating other people the way you would have them treat you and definitely including caring for the "least of these."

If you want others to lead by example, do it yourself first. Until then, stfu.

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I'm not a Christian and I believe everyone should keep more of the money they make. You are barking up the wrong tree. Username checks out claims that work needs to be done to help the poor, but he is self-proclaimed rich. So that means he clearly isn't doing his part if that's what he believes. Why don't you call him out and not be a hypocrite for once in your life? And stop trying to put everyone in a box. You can't find a box for me.

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So you are saying Jinx should call herself out? How does that work?

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EZ, she logs in as RD2WINAGNBEAR86.

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It is simple.

I am much better off financially than four years ago, but the occupant of the White House had nothing to do with it.

In order for more people to enjoy the kind of freedoms I currently enjoy, and to expand on those, I'll be choosing from the excluded Yellow column: Jo Jorgensen.

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I have no idea if that is Brooks or not but if it is, I can tell you first hand, he is a great guy. About as brainwashed left from a lifetime in academia as they come but as a human he is a good one. And if he recently got "rich" (and who knows what the definition of that is) then I need to get further south so he can buy dinner.

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Negative ghostrider, but apparently those two must have had quite the interpersonal relationship for the Aggie to be so hung affixed.

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I have way more money and progeny than 4 years ago, which is great, but have deteriorated physical health due to high workaholism and borderline alcoholism, so it's a wash?

As a rich person I tend to see my personal betterment to be uncorrelated to the overall health of the country. I think that querying the oppressed underclass is a better indicator of such matters. Sort of like how the advancement of women's rights directly correlates to a nation's prosperity.

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You should lead the charge by giving up anything you make above $50K per year to fix those issues.

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Why? Do you act against your own self-interests too?

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Jinx 2 = Username checks out. Same poster

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Wait a second, I thought I was some other poster's fixation. You all need to circle up and figure out how far you'd like to take this reductionist thinking.

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I have way more money and progeny than 4 years ago, which is great, but have deteriorated physical health due to high workaholism and borderline alcoholism, so it's a wash?

As a rich person I tend to see my personal betterment to be uncorrelated to the overall health of the country. I think that querying the oppressed underclass is a better indicator of such matters. Sort of like how the advancement of women's rights directly correlates to a nation's prosperity.

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You should lead the charge by giving up anything you make above $50K per year to fix those issues.

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You go first. I'm tired of this stupid argument, when Christians openly support a president who flouts every principle of following Jesus, starting with the basics of treating other people the way you would have them treat you and definitely including caring for the "least of these."

If you want others to lead by example, do it yourself first. Until then, stfu.

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I'm not a Christian and I believe everyone should keep more of the money they make. You are barking up the wrong tree. Username checks out claims that work needs to be done to help the poor, but he is self-proclaimed rich. So that means he clearly isn't doing his part if that's what he believes. Why don't you call him out and not be a hypocrite for once in your life? And stop trying to put everyone in a box. You can't find a box for me.

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I pay quite a bit in taxes, possibly even more than the president of the united states. So can you tell me why I should pay more than I'm legally required?

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Jinx 2 = Username checks out. Same poster

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Wait a second, I thought I was some other poster's fixation. You all need to circle up and figure out how far you'd like to take this reductionist thinking.

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You are a poser. Please do not address any of your posts to me. You are just playing a role. You are not real.

Now all of a sudden you pay more taxes than Donald Trump. LOLOLOL!!!

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I have way more money and progeny than 4 years ago, which is great, but have deteriorated physical health due to high workaholism and borderline alcoholism, so it's a wash?

As a rich person I tend to see my personal betterment to be uncorrelated to the overall health of the country. I think that querying the oppressed underclass is a better indicator of such matters. Sort of like how the advancement of women's rights directly correlates to a nation's prosperity.

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You should lead the charge by giving up anything you make above $50K per year to fix those issues.

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You go first. I'm tired of this stupid argument, when Christians openly support a president who flouts every principle of following Jesus, starting with the basics of treating other people the way you would have them treat you and definitely including caring for the "least of these."

If you want others to lead by example, do it yourself first. Until then, stfu.

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Tells people to treat others like they would want to be treated, then tells people to shut the fruck up. Seems legit.

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Wow you had me at the smiles and frowns, who cares about the veracity of the text.

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I have way more money and progeny than 4 years ago, which is great, but have deteriorated physical health due to high workaholism and borderline alcoholism, so it's a wash?

As a rich person I tend to see my personal betterment to be uncorrelated to the overall health of the country. I think that querying the oppressed underclass is a better indicator of such matters. Sort of like how the advancement of women's rights directly correlates to a nation's prosperity.

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You should lead the charge by giving up anything you make above $50K per year to fix those issues.

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You go first. I'm tired of this stupid argument, when Christians openly support a president who flouts every principle of following Jesus, starting with the basics of treating other people the way you would have them treat you and definitely including caring for the "least of these."

If you want others to lead by example, do it yourself first. Until then, stfu.

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I'm not a Christian and I believe everyone should keep more of the money they make. You are barking up the wrong tree. Username checks out claims that work needs to be done to help the poor, but he is self-proclaimed rich. So that means he clearly isn't doing his part if that's what he believes. Why don't you call him out and not be a hypocrite for once in your life? And stop trying to put everyone in a box. You can't find a box for me.

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Are you not religious? Or do you practice another faith? This is not a particularly friendly forum for non-believers, so I'm surprised you have so matter-of-factly announced that you're "not a Christian." But I suspect that your reliably conservative views will net you forgiveness for that sin, egregious as it's considered by some.

I'm tired of corporations that socialize their costs, including pensions and unemployment, and privatize their profits. When they start giving everything THEY make above a certain very low threshold ($75K is supposedly the minimum family income in this country where money is not a constant worry) for the beterment of society, you can start pointing at individuals to contribute in a similar fashion. But you should never ask other people to do something you aren't willing to do yourself, whether it's pick up dog poop or pay more taxes or take reasonably public health precautions to reduce the spread of COVID 19).

Let's be clear: You don't have a screaming idea of what username or anyone else on this forum does to help the poor, so your statement that "he clearly isn't doing his part" has no basis in fact you can verify in any way. You read a lot more into his post than he put there, and you lambasted him for "not doing his part" when you don't even know what his part IS, much less whether he's doing it or not. And YOU claim to be the fact-based, objecive poster here. Wow.

What he does say is that he's worked really hard in the last 4 years and made a lot of money doing it. You state in the post I'm responding to directly that you "believe everyone should keep more of the money they make." So what's your problem?

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Reading rants like this from Jinxy always makes me wonder about the length of her prescription med list .

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I have way more money and progeny than 4 years ago, which is great, but have deteriorated physical health due to high workaholism and borderline alcoholism, so it's a wash?

As a rich person I tend to see my personal betterment to be uncorrelated to the overall health of the country. I think that querying the oppressed underclass is a better indicator of such matters. Sort of like how the advancement of women's rights directly correlates to a nation's prosperity.

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You should lead the charge by giving up anything you make above $50K per year to fix those issues.

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You go first. I'm tired of this stupid argument, when Christians openly support a president who flouts every principle of following Jesus, starting with the basics of treating other people the way you would have them treat you and definitely including caring for the "least of these."

If you want others to lead by example, do it yourself first. Until then, stfu.

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I'm not a Christian and I believe everyone should keep more of the money they make. You are barking up the wrong tree. Username checks out claims that work needs to be done to help the poor, but he is self-proclaimed rich. So that means he clearly isn't doing his part if that's what he believes. Why don't you call him out and not be a hypocrite for once in your life? And stop trying to put everyone in a box. You can't find a box for me.

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I pay quite a bit in taxes, possibly even more than the president of the united states. So can you tell me why I should pay more than I'm legally required?

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Graduate assistantships must be paying really well these days .

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Jinx 2 = Username checks out. Same poster

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Wait a second, I thought I was some other poster's fixation. You all need to circle up and figure out how far you'd like to take this reductionist thinking.

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You are a poser. Please do not address any of your posts to me. You are just playing a role. You are not real.

Now all of a sudden you pay more taxes than Donald Trump. LOLOLOL!!!

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Well we will probably find out that everybody who pays $1 or more pays more than trump, but you might have missed that in the supreme court docket today.

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I have way more money and progeny than 4 years ago, which is great, but have deteriorated physical health due to high workaholism and borderline alcoholism, so it's a wash?

As a rich person I tend to see my personal betterment to be uncorrelated to the overall health of the country. I think that querying the oppressed underclass is a better indicator of such matters. Sort of like how the advancement of women's rights directly correlates to a nation's prosperity.

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You should lead the charge by giving up anything you make above $50K per year to fix those issues.

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You go first. I'm tired of this stupid argument, when Christians openly support a president who flouts every principle of following Jesus, starting with the basics of treating other people the way you would have them treat you and definitely including caring for the "least of these."

If you want others to lead by example, do it yourself first. Until then, stfu.

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I'm not a Christian and I believe everyone should keep more of the money they make. You are barking up the wrong tree. Username checks out claims that work needs to be done to help the poor, but he is self-proclaimed rich. So that means he clearly isn't doing his part if that's what he believes. Why don't you call him out and not be a hypocrite for once in your life? And stop trying to put everyone in a box. You can't find a box for me.

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I pay quite a bit in taxes, possibly even more than the president of the united states. So can you tell me why I should pay more than I'm legally required?

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Graduate assistantships must be paying really well these days .

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The thing that I really like about this dig is that it highlights your phobia of people with higher levels of education, notoriously unfavorable towards trumpist ideology.

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Wait a second, I thought I was some other poster's fixation. You all need to circle up and figure out how far you'd like to take this reductionist thinking.

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You are a poser. Please do not address any of your posts to me. You are just playing a role. You are not real.

Now all of a sudden you pay more taxes than Donald Trump. LOLOLOL!!!

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Well we will probably find out that everybody who pays $1 or more pays more than trump, but you might have missed that in the supreme court docket today.

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So the Supreme Court rules Congress cannot see Trump's tax returns yet you are privy to them? My, my Jinx, you are one amazing lady. I would love to see them. Please post them when you get a chance.

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I have way more money and progeny than 4 years ago, which is great, but have deteriorated physical health due to high workaholism and borderline alcoholism, so it's a wash?

As a rich person I tend to see my personal betterment to be uncorrelated to the overall health of the country. I think that querying the oppressed underclass is a better indicator of such matters. Sort of like how the advancement of women's rights directly correlates to a nation's prosperity.

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You should lead the charge by giving up anything you make above $50K per year to fix those issues.

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You go first. I'm tired of this stupid argument, when Christians openly support a president who flouts every principle of following Jesus, starting with the basics of treating other people the way you would have them treat you and definitely including caring for the "least of these."

If you want others to lead by example, do it yourself first. Until then, stfu.

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I'm not a Christian and I believe everyone should keep more of the money they make. You are barking up the wrong tree. Username checks out claims that work needs to be done to help the poor, but he is self-proclaimed rich. So that means he clearly isn't doing his part if that's what he believes. Why don't you call him out and not be a hypocrite for once in your life? And stop trying to put everyone in a box. You can't find a box for me.

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I pay quite a bit in taxes, possibly even more than the president of the united states. So can you tell me why I should pay more than I'm legally required?

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Graduate assistantships must be paying really well these days .

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The thing that I really like about this dig is that it highlights your phobia of people with higher levels of education, notoriously unfavorable towards trumpist ideology.

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Strongly doubt you have me beat in any category.

But it is amusing to watch you constantly draw into a busted flush .

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This! And everything Biden says now is in direct contradiction of what he said 20 years ago. Pathetic human being!

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This! And everything Biden says now is in direct contradiction of what he said 20 years ago. Pathetic human being!

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Although I don't pretend that a career politician like Biden doesnt relentlessly pander to the greatest common denominator in the electorate, your point highlights how conservatives are limited fundamentally in being unable to grasp that a person can evolve in their personal beliefs. Except for apparently their ability to tolerate atrocious personal conduct from the commander-in-chief. Conservatives couldn't stand that in the 90s but seem to have well adjusted to it in the 2020s.

So only conservatives have that limitation? Give me a break.

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This! And everything Biden says now is in direct contradiction of what he said 20 years ago. Pathetic human being!

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As opposed to Trump, who has tweets from six years ago to contradict what he says now.
There's a whole subreddit called "there's always a tweet".

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So only conservatives have that limitation? Give me a break.

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My personal political shift from right-wing to centrist is driven directly by the intransigent nature of conservatives. It's as though there's some badge of honor in those circles for whose mind can be the least malleable. I have found the leftist intelligentsia types to be among the best capable at listening and self-examining beliefs, which makes me far more interested in their party, even if don't fully buy into their ideas.

I appreciate the response. It doesn't mirror my experience at all.

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So only conservatives have that limitation? Give me a break.

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My personal political shift from right-wing to centrist is driven directly by the intransigent nature of conservatives. It's as though there's some badge of honor in those circles for whose mind can be the least malleable. I have found the leftist intelligentsia types to be among the best capable at listening and self-examining beliefs, which makes me far more interested in their party, even if don't fully buy into their ideas.

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another liberal pretending not to be liberal. Wow, never seen that one before

* Trump recently signed 3 bills to benefit Native people. One gives compensation to the Spokane tribe for loss of their lands in the mid-1900s, one funds Native language programs, and the third gives federal recognition to the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians in Montana.

* Trump finalized the creation of Space Force as our 6th Military branch.

* Trump signed a law to make cruelty to animals a federal felony so that animal abusers face tougher consequences.

* Violent crime has fallen every year he's been in office after rising during the 2 years before he was elected.

* Trump signed a bill making CBD and Hemp legal

* Trump's EPA gave $100 million to fix the water infrastructure problem in Flint, Michigan.

* Under Trump's leadership, in 2018 the U.S. surpassed Russia and Saudi Arabia to become the world's largest producer of crude oil.

* Trump signed a law ending the gag orders on Pharmacists that prevented them from sharing money-saving information.

* Trump signed the "Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act" (FOSTA), which includes the "Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act" (SESTA) which both give law enforcement and victims new tools to fight sex trafficking

* Trump signed a bill to require airports to provide spaces for breastfeeding Moms.

* The 25% lowest-paid Americans enjoyed a 4.5% income boost in November 2019, which outpaces a 2.9% gain in earnings for the country's highest-paid workers.

* Low-wage workers are benefiting from higher minimum wages and from corporations that are increasing entry-level pay.

* Trump signed the biggest wilderness protection & conservation bill in a decade and designated 375,000 acres as protected land.

* Trump signed the Save our Seas Act which funds $10 million per year to clean tons of plastic & garbage from the ocean.

* He signed a bill this year allowing some drug imports from Canada so that prescription prices would go down.

* Trump signed an executive order this year that forces all healthcare providers to disclose the cost of their services so that Americans can comparison shop and know how much less providers charge insurance companies.

* When signing that bill he said no American should be blindsided by bills for medical services they never agreed to in advance.

* Hospitals will now be required to post their standard charges for services, which include the discounted price a hospital is willing to accept.

* In the eight years prior to President Trump's inauguration, prescription drug prices increased by an average of 3.6% per year. Under Trump, drug prices have seen year-over-year declines in nine of the last ten months, with a 1.1% drop as of the most recent month.

* He created a White House VA Hotline to help veterans and principally staffed it with veterans and direct family members of veterans.

* VA employees are being held accountable for poor performance, with more than 4,000 VA employees removed, demoted, and suspended so far.

* Issued an executive order requiring the Secretaries of Defense, Homeland Security, and Veterans Affairs to submit a joint plan to provide veterans access to access to mental health treatment as they transition to civilian life.

* Because of a bill signed and championed by Trump, In 2020, most federal employees will see their pay increase by an average of 3.1% the largest raise in more than 10 years.

* Trump signed into a law up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave for millions of federal workers.

* Trump administration will provide HIV prevention drugs for free to 200,000 uninsured patients per year for 11 years.

* All-time record sales during the 2019 holidays.

* Trump signed an order allowing small businesses to group together when buying insurance to get a better price

* President Trump signed the Preventing Maternal Deaths Act that provides funding for states to develop maternal mortality reviews to better understand maternal complications and identify solutions & largely focuses on reducing the higher mortality rates for Black Americans.

* In 2018, President Trump signed the groundbreaking First Step Act, a criminal justice bill which enacted reforms that make our justice system fairer and help former inmates successfully return to society.

* The First Step Act's reforms addressed inequities in sentencing laws that disproportionately harmed Black Americans and reformed mandatory minimums that created unfair outcomes.

* The First Step Act expanded judicial discretion in sentencing of non-violent crimes.

* Over 90% of those benefiting from the retroactive sentencing reductions in the First Step Act are Black Americans.

* The First Step Act provides rehabilitative programs to inmates, helping them successfully rejoin society and not return to crime.

* Trump increased funding for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) by more than 14%.

* Trump signed legislation forgiving Hurricane Katrina debt that threatened HBCUs.

* New single-family home sales are up 31.6% in October 2019 compared to just one year ago.

* Made HBCUs a priority by creating the position of executive director of the White House Initiative on HBCUs.

* Trump received the Bipartisan Justice Award at a historically black college for his criminal justice reform accomplishments.

* The poverty rate fell to a 17-year low of 11.8% under the Trump administration as a result of a jobs-rich environment.

* Poverty rates for African-Americans and Hispanic-Americans have reached their lowest levels since the U.S. began collecting such data.

* President Trump signed a bill that creates five national monuments, expands several national parks, adds 1.3 million acres of wilderness, and permanently reauthorises the Land and Water Conservation Fund.

* Trump's USDA committed $124 Million to rebuild rural water infrastructure.

* Consumer confidence & small business confidence is at an all time high.

* More than 7 million jobs created since election.

* More Americans are now employed than ever recorded before in our history.

* More than 400,000 manufacturing jobs created since his election.

* Trump appointed 5 openly gay ambassadors.

* Trump ordered Ric Grenell, his openly gay ambassador to Germany, to lead a global initiative to decriminalise homosexuality across the globe.

* Through Trump's Anti-Trafficking Coordination Team (ACTeam) initiative, Federal law enforcement more than doubled convictions of human traffickers and increased the number of defendants charged by 75% in ACTeam districts.

* In 2018, the Department of Justice (DOJ) dismantled an organization that was the internet's leading source of prostitution-related advertisements resulting in sex trafficking.

* Trump's OMB published new anti-trafficking guidance for government procurement officials to more effectively combat human trafficking.

* Trump's Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations arrested 1,588 criminals associated with Human Trafficking.

* Trump's Department of Health and Human Services provided funding to support the National Human Trafficking Hotline to identify perpetrators and give victims the help they need.

* The hotline identified 16,862 potential human trafficking cases.

* Trump's DOJ provided grants to organizations that support human trafficking victims serving nearly 9,000 cases from July 1, 2017, to June 30, 2018.
* The Department of Homeland Security has hired more victim assistance specialists, helping victims get resources and support.

* President Trump has called on Congress to pass school choice legislation so that no child is trapped in a failing school because of his or her zip code.

* The President signed funding legislation in September 2018 that increased funding for school choice by $42 million.

* The tax cuts signed into law by President Trump promote school choice by allowing families to use 529 college savings plans for elementary and secondary education.

* Under his leadership ISIS has lost most of their territory and been largely dismantled.

* ISIS leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi was killed.

* Signed the first Perkins CTE reauthorizing since 2006, authorising more than $1 billion for states each year to fund vocational and career education programs.

* Executive order expanding apprenticeship opportunities for students and workers.

* Trump issued an Executive Order prohibiting the U.S. government from discriminating against Christians or punishing expressions of faith.

* Signed an executive order that allows the government to withhold money from college campuses deemed to be anti-Semitic and who fail to combat anti-Semitism.

* President Trump ordered a halt to U.S. tax money going to international organizations that fund or perform abortions.

* Trump imposed sanctions on the socialists in Venezuela who have killed their citizens.

* Finalised new trade agreement with South Korea.

* Made a deal with the European Union to increase U.S. energy exports to Europe.

* Withdrew the U.S. from the job killing TPP deal.

* Secured $250 billion in new trade and investment deals in China and $12 billion in Vietnam.

* Okay'd up to $12 billion in aid for farmers affected by unfair trade retaliation.

* Has had over a dozen US hostages freed, including those Obama could not get freed.

* Trump signed the Music Modernisation Act, the biggest change to copyright law in decades.

* Trump secured Billions that will fund the building of a wall at our southern border.

* The Trump Administration is promoting second chance hiring to give former inmates the opportunity to live crime-free lives and find meaningful employment.

* Trump's DOJ and the Board Of Prisons launched a new "Ready to Work Initiative" to help connect employers directly with former prisoners.

* President Trump's historic tax cut legislation included new Opportunity Zone Incentives to promote investment in low-income communities across the country.

* 8,764 communities across the country have been designated as Opportunity Zones.

* Opportunity Zones are expected to spur $100 billion in long-term private capital investment in economically distressed communities across the country.

* Trump directed the Education Secretary to end Common Core.

* Trump signed the 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund into law.

* Trump signed measure funding prevention programs for Veteran suicide.

* Companies have brought back over a TRILLION dollars from overseas because of the TCJA bill that Trump signed.

* Manufacturing jobs are growing at the fastest rate in more than 30 years.

* Stock Market has reached record highs.

* Median household income has hit highest level ever recorded.

* African-American unemployment is at an all time low.

* Hispanic-American unemployment is at an all time low.

* Asian-American unemployment is at an all time low.

* Women's unemployment rate is at a 65-year low.

* Youth unemployment is at a 50-year low.

* We have the lowest unemployment rate ever recorded.

* The Pledge to America's Workers has resulted in employers committing to train more than 4 million Americans.

* 95 percent of U.S. manufacturers are optimistic about the future the highest ever.

* As a result of the Republican tax bill, small businesses will have the lowest top marginal tax rate in more than 80 years.

* Record number of regulations eliminated that hurt small businesses.

* Signed welfare reform requiring able-bodied adults who don't have children to work or look for work if they're on welfare.

* Under Trump, the FDA approved more affordable generic drugs than ever before in history.

* Reformed Medicare program to stop hospitals from overcharging low-income seniors on their drugssaving seniors 100's of millions of $$$ this year alone.

* Signed Right-To-Try legislation allowing terminally ill patients to try experimental treatment that wasn't allowed before.

* Secured $6 billion in new funding to fight the opioid epidemic.

* Signed VA Choice Act and VA Accountability Act, expanded VA telehealth services, walk-in-clinics, and same-day urgent primary and mental health care.
* U.S. oil production recently reached all-time high so we are less dependent on oil from the Middle East.

* The U.S. is a net natural gas exporter for the first time since 1957.

* NATO allies increased their defense spending because of his pressure campaign.

* Withdrew the United States from the job-killing Paris Climate Accord in 2017 and that same year the U.S. still led the world by having the largest reduction in Carbon emissions.

* Has his circuit court judge nominees being confirmed faster than any other new administration.

* Had his Supreme Court Justice's Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh confirmed.

* Moved U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.

* Agreed to a new trade deal with Mexico & Canada that will increase jobs here and $$$ coming in.

* Reached a breakthrough agreement with the E.U. to increase U.S. exports.

* Imposed tariffs on China in response to China's forced technology transfer, intellectual property theft, and their chronically abusive trade practices, has agreed to a Part One trade deal with China.

* Signed legislation to improve the National Suicide Hotline.

* Signed the most comprehensive childhood cancer legislation ever into law, which will advance childhood cancer research and improve treatments.

* The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act signed into law by Trump doubled the maximum amount of the child tax credit available to parents and lifted the income limits so more people could claim it.

* It also created a new tax credit for other dependents.

* In 2018, President Trump signed into law a $2.4 billion funding increase for the Child Care and Development Fund, providing a total of $8.1 billion to States to fund child care for low-income families.

* The Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit (CDCTC) signed into law by Trump provides a tax credit equal to 20-35% of child care expenses, $3,000 per child & $6,000 per family + Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) allow you to set aside up to $5,000 in pre-tax $ to use for child care.

* In 2019 President Donald Trump signed the Autism Collaboration, Accountability, Research, Education and Support Act (CARES) into law which allocates $1.8 billion in funding over the next five years to help people with autism spectrum disorder and to help their families.

* In 2019 President Trump signed into law two funding packages providing nearly $19 million in new funding for Lupus specific research and education programs, as well an additional $41.7 billion in funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the most Lupus funding EVER.

* Another upcoming accomplishment to add: In the next week or two Trump will be signing the first major anti-robocall law in decades called the TRACED Act (Telephone Robocall Abuse Criminal Enforcement and Deterrence.) Once it's thelaw, the TRACED Act will extend the period of time the FCC has to catch & punish those who intentionally break telemarketing restrictions. The bill also requires voice service providers to develop a framework to verify calls are legitimate before they reach your phone.

* US stock market continually hits all-time record highs. (Until Covid conveniently hit).

Vote for Biden and you will see more of this take over a city near you

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* Trump recently signed 3 bills to benefit Native people. One gives compensation to the Spokane tribe for loss of their lands in the mid-1900s, one funds Native language programs, and the third gives federal recognition to the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians in Montana.

* Trump finalized the creation of Space Force as our 6th Military branch.

* Trump signed a law to make cruelty to animals a federal felony so that animal abusers face tougher consequences.

* Violent crime has fallen every year he's been in office after rising during the 2 years before he was elected.

* Trump signed a bill making CBD and Hemp legal

* Trump's EPA gave $100 million to fix the water infrastructure problem in Flint, Michigan.

* Under Trump's leadership, in 2018 the U.S. surpassed Russia and Saudi Arabia to become the world's largest producer of crude oil.

* Trump signed a law ending the gag orders on Pharmacists that prevented them from sharing money-saving information.

* Trump signed the "Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act" (FOSTA), which includes the "Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act" (SESTA) which both give law enforcement and victims new tools to fight sex trafficking

* Trump signed a bill to require airports to provide spaces for breastfeeding Moms.

* The 25% lowest-paid Americans enjoyed a 4.5% income boost in November 2019, which outpaces a 2.9% gain in earnings for the country's highest-paid workers.

* Low-wage workers are benefiting from higher minimum wages and from corporations that are increasing entry-level pay.

* Trump signed the biggest wilderness protection & conservation bill in a decade and designated 375,000 acres as protected land.

* Trump signed the Save our Seas Act which funds $10 million per year to clean tons of plastic & garbage from the ocean.

* He signed a bill this year allowing some drug imports from Canada so that prescription prices would go down.

* Trump signed an executive order this year that forces all healthcare providers to disclose the cost of their services so that Americans can comparison shop and know how much less providers charge insurance companies.

* When signing that bill he said no American should be blindsided by bills for medical services they never agreed to in advance.

* Hospitals will now be required to post their standard charges for services, which include the discounted price a hospital is willing to accept.

* In the eight years prior to President Trump's inauguration, prescription drug prices increased by an average of 3.6% per year. Under Trump, drug prices have seen year-over-year declines in nine of the last ten months, with a 1.1% drop as of the most recent month.

* He created a White House VA Hotline to help veterans and principally staffed it with veterans and direct family members of veterans.

* VA employees are being held accountable for poor performance, with more than 4,000 VA employees removed, demoted, and suspended so far.

* Issued an executive order requiring the Secretaries of Defense, Homeland Security, and Veterans Affairs to submit a joint plan to provide veterans access to access to mental health treatment as they transition to civilian life.

* Because of a bill signed and championed by Trump, In 2020, most federal employees will see their pay increase by an average of 3.1% the largest raise in more than 10 years.

* Trump signed into a law up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave for millions of federal workers.

* Trump administration will provide HIV prevention drugs for free to 200,000 uninsured patients per year for 11 years.

* All-time record sales during the 2019 holidays.

* Trump signed an order allowing small businesses to group together when buying insurance to get a better price

* President Trump signed the Preventing Maternal Deaths Act that provides funding for states to develop maternal mortality reviews to better understand maternal complications and identify solutions & largely focuses on reducing the higher mortality rates for Black Americans.

* In 2018, President Trump signed the groundbreaking First Step Act, a criminal justice bill which enacted reforms that make our justice system fairer and help former inmates successfully return to society.

* The First Step Act's reforms addressed inequities in sentencing laws that disproportionately harmed Black Americans and reformed mandatory minimums that created unfair outcomes.

* The First Step Act expanded judicial discretion in sentencing of non-violent crimes.

* Over 90% of those benefiting from the retroactive sentencing reductions in the First Step Act are Black Americans.

* The First Step Act provides rehabilitative programs to inmates, helping them successfully rejoin society and not return to crime.

* Trump increased funding for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) by more than 14%.

* Trump signed legislation forgiving Hurricane Katrina debt that threatened HBCUs.

* New single-family home sales are up 31.6% in October 2019 compared to just one year ago.

* Made HBCUs a priority by creating the position of executive director of the White House Initiative on HBCUs.

* Trump received the Bipartisan Justice Award at a historically black college for his criminal justice reform accomplishments.

* The poverty rate fell to a 17-year low of 11.8% under the Trump administration as a result of a jobs-rich environment.

* Poverty rates for African-Americans and Hispanic-Americans have reached their lowest levels since the U.S. began collecting such data.

* President Trump signed a bill that creates five national monuments, expands several national parks, adds 1.3 million acres of wilderness, and permanently reauthorises the Land and Water Conservation Fund.

* Trump's USDA committed $124 Million to rebuild rural water infrastructure.

* Consumer confidence & small business confidence is at an all time high.

* More than 7 million jobs created since election.

* More Americans are now employed than ever recorded before in our history.

* More than 400,000 manufacturing jobs created since his election.

* Trump appointed 5 openly gay ambassadors.

* Trump ordered Ric Grenell, his openly gay ambassador to Germany, to lead a global initiative to decriminalise homosexuality across the globe.

* Through Trump's Anti-Trafficking Coordination Team (ACTeam) initiative, Federal law enforcement more than doubled convictions of human traffickers and increased the number of defendants charged by 75% in ACTeam districts.

* In 2018, the Department of Justice (DOJ) dismantled an organization that was the internet's leading source of prostitution-related advertisements resulting in sex trafficking.

* Trump's OMB published new anti-trafficking guidance for government procurement officials to more effectively combat human trafficking.

* Trump's Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations arrested 1,588 criminals associated with Human Trafficking.

* Trump's Department of Health and Human Services provided funding to support the National Human Trafficking Hotline to identify perpetrators and give victims the help they need.

* The hotline identified 16,862 potential human trafficking cases.

* Trump's DOJ provided grants to organizations that support human trafficking victims serving nearly 9,000 cases from July 1, 2017, to June 30, 2018.
* The Department of Homeland Security has hired more victim assistance specialists, helping victims get resources and support.

* President Trump has called on Congress to pass school choice legislation so that no child is trapped in a failing school because of his or her zip code.

* The President signed funding legislation in September 2018 that increased funding for school choice by $42 million.

* The tax cuts signed into law by President Trump promote school choice by allowing families to use 529 college savings plans for elementary and secondary education.

* Under his leadership ISIS has lost most of their territory and been largely dismantled.

* ISIS leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi was killed.

* Signed the first Perkins CTE reauthorizing since 2006, authorising more than $1 billion for states each year to fund vocational and career education programs.

* Executive order expanding apprenticeship opportunities for students and workers.

* Trump issued an Executive Order prohibiting the U.S. government from discriminating against Christians or punishing expressions of faith.

* Signed an executive order that allows the government to withhold money from college campuses deemed to be anti-Semitic and who fail to combat anti-Semitism.

* President Trump ordered a halt to U.S. tax money going to international organizations that fund or perform abortions.

* Trump imposed sanctions on the socialists in Venezuela who have killed their citizens.

* Finalised new trade agreement with South Korea.

* Made a deal with the European Union to increase U.S. energy exports to Europe.

* Withdrew the U.S. from the job killing TPP deal.

* Secured $250 billion in new trade and investment deals in China and $12 billion in Vietnam.

* Okay'd up to $12 billion in aid for farmers affected by unfair trade retaliation.

* Has had over a dozen US hostages freed, including those Obama could not get freed.

* Trump signed the Music Modernisation Act, the biggest change to copyright law in decades.

* Trump secured Billions that will fund the building of a wall at our southern border.

* The Trump Administration is promoting second chance hiring to give former inmates the opportunity to live crime-free lives and find meaningful employment.

* Trump's DOJ and the Board Of Prisons launched a new "Ready to Work Initiative" to help connect employers directly with former prisoners.

* President Trump's historic tax cut legislation included new Opportunity Zone Incentives to promote investment in low-income communities across the country.

* 8,764 communities across the country have been designated as Opportunity Zones.

* Opportunity Zones are expected to spur $100 billion in long-term private capital investment in economically distressed communities across the country.

* Trump directed the Education Secretary to end Common Core.

* Trump signed the 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund into law.

* Trump signed measure funding prevention programs for Veteran suicide.

* Companies have brought back over a TRILLION dollars from overseas because of the TCJA bill that Trump signed.

* Manufacturing jobs are growing at the fastest rate in more than 30 years.

* Stock Market has reached record highs.

* Median household income has hit highest level ever recorded.

* African-American unemployment is at an all time low.

* Hispanic-American unemployment is at an all time low.

* Asian-American unemployment is at an all time low.

* Women's unemployment rate is at a 65-year low.

* Youth unemployment is at a 50-year low.

* We have the lowest unemployment rate ever recorded.

* The Pledge to America's Workers has resulted in employers committing to train more than 4 million Americans.

* 95 percent of U.S. manufacturers are optimistic about the future the highest ever.

* As a result of the Republican tax bill, small businesses will have the lowest top marginal tax rate in more than 80 years.

* Record number of regulations eliminated that hurt small businesses.

* Signed welfare reform requiring able-bodied adults who don't have children to work or look for work if they're on welfare.

* Under Trump, the FDA approved more affordable generic drugs than ever before in history.

* Reformed Medicare program to stop hospitals from overcharging low-income seniors on their drugssaving seniors 100's of millions of $$$ this year alone.

* Signed Right-To-Try legislation allowing terminally ill patients to try experimental treatment that wasn't allowed before.

* Secured $6 billion in new funding to fight the opioid epidemic.

* Signed VA Choice Act and VA Accountability Act, expanded VA telehealth services, walk-in-clinics, and same-day urgent primary and mental health care.
* U.S. oil production recently reached all-time high so we are less dependent on oil from the Middle East.

* The U.S. is a net natural gas exporter for the first time since 1957.

* NATO allies increased their defense spending because of his pressure campaign.

* Withdrew the United States from the job-killing Paris Climate Accord in 2017 and that same year the U.S. still led the world by having the largest reduction in Carbon emissions.

* Has his circuit court judge nominees being confirmed faster than any other new administration.

* Had his Supreme Court Justice's Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh confirmed.

* Moved U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.

* Agreed to a new trade deal with Mexico & Canada that will increase jobs here and $$$ coming in.

* Reached a breakthrough agreement with the E.U. to increase U.S. exports.

* Imposed tariffs on China in response to China's forced technology transfer, intellectual property theft, and their chronically abusive trade practices, has agreed to a Part One trade deal with China.

* Signed legislation to improve the National Suicide Hotline.

* Signed the most comprehensive childhood cancer legislation ever into law, which will advance childhood cancer research and improve treatments.

* The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act signed into law by Trump doubled the maximum amount of the child tax credit available to parents and lifted the income limits so more people could claim it.

* It also created a new tax credit for other dependents.

* In 2018, President Trump signed into law a $2.4 billion funding increase for the Child Care and Development Fund, providing a total of $8.1 billion to States to fund child care for low-income families.

* The Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit (CDCTC) signed into law by Trump provides a tax credit equal to 20-35% of child care expenses, $3,000 per child & $6,000 per family + Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) allow you to set aside up to $5,000 in pre-tax $ to use for child care.

* In 2019 President Donald Trump signed the Autism Collaboration, Accountability, Research, Education and Support Act (CARES) into law which allocates $1.8 billion in funding over the next five years to help people with autism spectrum disorder and to help their families.

* In 2019 President Trump signed into law two funding packages providing nearly $19 million in new funding for Lupus specific research and education programs, as well an additional $41.7 billion in funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the most Lupus funding EVER.

* Another upcoming accomplishment to add: In the next week or two Trump will be signing the first major anti-robocall law in decades called the TRACED Act (Telephone Robocall Abuse Criminal Enforcement and Deterrence.) Once it's thelaw, the TRACED Act will extend the period of time the FCC has to catch & punish those who intentionally break telemarketing restrictions. The bill also requires voice service providers to develop a framework to verify calls are legitimate before they reach your phone.

* US stock market continually hits all-time record highs. (Until Covid conveniently hit).

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Thank you - I bet most libs on this board didn't know 10% of this and I didn't even know several of these.

If you are a liberal who watches CNN or MSNBC you would think Trump has been tweeting playing golf and hanging out w/ Putin the last 3 years. The amazing thing is even w/ all the crazy distractions by the libs w/ impeachment & Mueller and the press he's still done an incredible amount of positive things that help people on both sides.

Copied and pasted...but I'm sure cinque can come up with a comparable list of accomplishments for Biden.

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Vote for Biden and you will see more of this take over a city near you

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Incredible

How is it no one has brought suit for such flagrant anti white racism in the work place ?

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Copied and pasted...but I'm sure cinque can come up with a comparable list of accomplishments for Biden.

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Well biden did get up today... although he brushed his teeth with his comb and combed his hair with a fork

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I have way more money and progeny than 4 years ago, which is great, but have deteriorated physical health due to high workaholism and borderline alcoholism, so it's a wash?

As a rich person I tend to see my personal betterment to be uncorrelated to the overall health of the country. I think that querying the oppressed underclass is a better indicator of such matters. Sort of like how the advancement of women's rights directly correlates to a nation's prosperity.

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You should lead the charge by giving up anything you make above $50K per year to fix those issues.

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You go first. I'm tired of this stupid argument, when Christians openly support a president who flouts every principle of following Jesus, starting with the basics of treating other people the way you would have them treat you and definitely including caring for the "least of these."

If you want others to lead by example, do it yourself first. Until then, stfu.

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I'm not a Christian and I believe everyone should keep more of the money they make. You are barking up the wrong tree. Username checks out claims that work needs to be done to help the poor, but he is self-proclaimed rich. So that means he clearly isn't doing his part if that's what he believes. Why don't you call him out and not be a hypocrite for once in your life? And stop trying to put everyone in a box. You can't find a box for me.

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Are you not religious? Or do you practice another faith? This is not a particularly friendly forum for non-believers, so I'm surprised you have so matter-of-factly announced that you're "not a Christian." But I suspect that your reliably conservative views will net you forgiveness for that sin, egregious as it's considered by some.

I'm tired of corporations that socialize their costs, including pensions and unemployment, and privatize their profits. When they start giving everything THEY make above a certain very low threshold ($75K is supposedly the minimum family income in this country where money is not a constant worry) for the beterment of society, you can start pointing at individuals to contribute in a similar fashion. But you should never ask other people to do something you aren't willing to do yourself, whether it's pick up dog poop or pay more taxes or take reasonably public health precautions to reduce the spread of COVID 19).

Let's be clear: You don't have a screaming idea of what username or anyone else on this forum does to help the poor, so your statement that "he clearly isn't doing his part" has no basis in fact you can verify in any way. You read a lot more into his post than he put there, and you lambasted him for "not doing his part" when you don't even know what his part IS, much less whether he's doing it or not. And YOU claim to be the fact-based, objecive poster here. Wow.

What he does say is that he's worked really hard in the last 4 years and made a lot of money doing it. You state in the post I'm responding to directly that you "believe everyone should keep more of the money they make." So what's your problem?

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I'm not going to get into my faith with some psycho on a message board. I'm just saying I'm not a Christian. With that said, I don't attack people for their faith. That's the difference between me and the others that are non-Christians on here. My point was, don't assume just because I sometimes agree with the conservatives on here (I also agree with the Democrats on here quite a bit) that I'm closed-minded and that I'm a Christian. You are trying to put labels on me when you have no idea who I am or what I stand for.

Username said he was wealthy. If he is wealthy, he is not giving away enough of his money to the poor. He very well may be some to help the poor, but if he is wealthy, he isn't doing as much as he could. So again, you need to call him out before you call out anyone else. But I know that won't happen because you agree with Username on many ideologies.

That's the difference between you and me. I'm not afraid to disagree with people I sometimes agree with on some issues. If someone is being intellectually inconsistent, I'm going to call them out for it. You should try being consistent once in a while and not predetermine your opinions based on what political stance an individual has, you might find yourself to be free and it may help you with that multiple personality issue you have.

to answer the original question......NO I'm not better off. I'm just in the 2 worst businesses Rona-Wise. Oil and Gas and Multifamily. And, I don't blame Trump for that. Certainly , he could of done a much, much better job in his response to Rona, when it happened and today, but, he caught and unlucky break with Rona and the economy as he bet the farm on the economy, which no-one can disagree that it was on fire pre Rona. Unfortunately, for him, he is such a horrible person that folks at the ballot box will give him no sack if the economy is good. He is most certainly done in November.

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to answer the original question......NO I'm not better off. I'm just in the 2 worst businesses Rona-Wise. Oil and Gas and Multifamily. And, I don't blame Trump for that. Certainly , he could of done a much, much better job in his response to Rona, when it happened and today, but, he caught and unlucky break with Rona and the economy as he bet the farm on the economy, which no-one can disagree that it was on fire pre Rona. Unfortunately, for him, he is such a horrible person that folks at the ballot box will give him no sack if the economy is good. He is most certainly done in November.

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Possibly

In that event whomever is handling Biden are going to drastically raise our taxes, attack the oil and gas industry, provide free medical care for illegals ( in the middle of a pandemic no less.....imagine the flood coming from central America with THAT deal ), eliminate ICE, slash military spending, resume Obama's litigation against the Christian community, tax corporations to the point of job loss, appoint more liberals to the Supreme Court and support the absolute destruction of our country's culture .

Think about whats really at stake .

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I have way more money and progeny than 4 years ago, which is great, but have deteriorated physical health due to high workaholism and borderline alcoholism, so it's a wash?

As a rich person I tend to see my personal betterment to be uncorrelated to the overall health of the country. I think that querying the oppressed underclass is a better indicator of such matters. Sort of like how the advancement of women's rights directly correlates to a nation's prosperity.

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You should lead the charge by giving up anything you make above $50K per year to fix those issues.

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You go first. I'm tired of this stupid argument, when Christians openly support a president who flouts every principle of following Jesus, starting with the basics of treating other people the way you would have them treat you and definitely including caring for the "least of these."

If you want others to lead by example, do it yourself first. Until then, stfu.

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You still support murdering babies? If so, stfu about "the least of these". If not, never mind.

Trump. Because abortion. Yeah, we get it.

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I have way more money and progeny than 4 years ago, which is great, but have deteriorated physical health due to high workaholism and borderline alcoholism, so it's a wash?

As a rich person I tend to see my personal betterment to be uncorrelated to the overall health of the country. I think that querying the oppressed underclass is a better indicator of such matters. Sort of like how the advancement of women's rights directly correlates to a nation's prosperity.

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You should lead the charge by giving up anything you make above $50K per year to fix those issues.

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You go first. I'm tired of this stupid argument, when Christians openly support a president who flouts every principle of following Jesus, starting with the basics of treating other people the way you would have them treat you and definitely including caring for the "least of these."

If you want others to lead by example, do it yourself first. Until then, stfu.

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You still support murdering babies? If so, stfu about "the least of these". If not, never mind.

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Terrified of Global Warming .....flies constantly on vacations

Hates 'white privilege '.....lives in an upscale white neighborhood

Claims to be an atheist....goes to Church for the music .

Complains about vicious comments ....leads the board in their use.

Detests sexism ...yet is the worst misandry I have ever read

Accuses individuals of racism ....when she is 2nd only to 'cingue' in its toxicity .



Gotta luv the internet.