2020 Presidential Race

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volfanhill said:
I know a guy who is ceo of a tech firm. His company is very small. He won a contract with Amazon a few years ago. He will tell you it was bc he was the only presenter who didn’t bust out a power point. Pitched his company and fielded questions. Now he’s introducing a new cloud based allocation system for tracking profitability across multiple platforms. Wouldn’t shock me if this guy is worth hundreds of millions of dollars in the next year.
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Kudos to that guy!
 
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luthervol said:
Indeed it should be.
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I do find humor that the current front runner is an old, white guy with a history of racially insensitive remarks, inappropriate touching, and now potential corruption with the Ukrainians.

I find it humorous because it is yet another demonstration that the Democratic Party is a fraud.
 
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DC_Vol said:
I do find humor that the current front runner is an old, white guy with a history of racially insensitive remarks, inappropriate touching, and now potential corruption with the Ukrainians.

I find it humorous because it is yet another demonstration that the Democratic Party is a fraud.
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Isn't corruption with Ukraine the reason Manafort went down? Is Biden's son registered as an agent for a foreign country?
 
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I found this on another forum I read, and thought ya'll might find it interesting. Not sure of the origin or anything like that, but regardless of who actually wrote it, it is a pretty good read.

This is a well written pieces written by a 26 year old in a coffee shop to her fellow millennials.

By Alyssa Ahlgren, April 6, 2019



I’m sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of Democratic candidates calling for policies to “fix” the so-called injustices of capitalism I put my phone down and continue to look around. I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook’s, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we’ve become completely blind to it. Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose. These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don’t give them a second thought. We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty. One. Times. Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful.



Our unappreciation is evident as the popularity of socialist policies among my generation continues to grow. Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial generation, "An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity."



Never saw American prosperity. Let that sink in. When I first read that statement, I thought to myself, that was quite literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I’ve ever heard in my 26 years on this earth. Now, I’m not attributing Miss Ocasio-Cortez’s words to outright dishonesty. I do think she whole-heartedly believes the words she said to be true. Many young people agree with her, which is entirely misguided. My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity. I know this first hand, I went to college, let’s just say I didn’t have the popular opinion, but I digress.



Let me lay down some universal truths really quick. The United States of America has lifted more people out of abject poverty, spread more freedom and democracy, and has created more innovation in technology and medicine than any other nation in human history. Not only that but our citizenry continually breaks world records with charitable donations, the rags to riches story is not only possible in America but not uncommon, we have the strongest purchasing power on earth, and we encompass 25% of the world’s GDP. The list goes on. However, these universal truths don’t matter. We are told that income inequality is an existential crisis (even though this is not an indicator of prosperity, some of the poorest countries in the world have low-income inequality), we are told that we are oppressed by capitalism (even though it’s brought about more freedom and wealth to the most people than any other system in world history), we are told that the only way we will acquire the benefits of true prosperity is through socialism and centralization of federal power (even though history has proven time and again this only brings tyranny and suffering).



Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity? We have people who are dying to get into our country. People around the world destitute and truly impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they’ve never seen prosperity, and as a result, elect politicians dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism. Why? The answer is this, my generation has ONLY seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn’t live in the great depression, or live through two world wars, or see the rise and fall of socialism and communism. We don’t know what it’s like not to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don’t have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it’s spreading like a plague.



With the current political climate giving rise to the misguided idea of a socialist utopia, will we see the light? Or will we have to lose it all to realize that what we have now is true prosperity? Destroying the free market will undo what millions of people have died to achieve.



My generation is becoming the largest voting bloc in the country. We have an opportunity to continue to propel us forward with the gifts capitalism and democracy has given us. The other option is that we can fall into the trap of entitlement and relapse into restrictive socialist destitution. The choice doesn’t seem too hard, does it?
 
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I found this on another forum I read, and thought ya'll might find it interesting. Not sure of the origin or anything like that, but regardless of who actually wrote it, it is a pretty good read.

This is a well written pieces written by a 26 year old in a coffee shop to her fellow millennials.

By Alyssa Ahlgren, April 6, 2019



I’m sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of Democratic candidates calling for policies to “fix” the so-called injustices of capitalism I put my phone down and continue to look around. I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook’s, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we’ve become completely blind to it. Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose. These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don’t give them a second thought. We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty. One. Times. Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful.



Our unappreciation is evident as the popularity of socialist policies among my generation continues to grow. Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial generation, "An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity."



Never saw American prosperity. Let that sink in. When I first read that statement, I thought to myself, that was quite literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I’ve ever heard in my 26 years on this earth. Now, I’m not attributing Miss Ocasio-Cortez’s words to outright dishonesty. I do think she whole-heartedly believes the words she said to be true. Many young people agree with her, which is entirely misguided. My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity. I know this first hand, I went to college, let’s just say I didn’t have the popular opinion, but I digress.



Let me lay down some universal truths really quick. The United States of America has lifted more people out of abject poverty, spread more freedom and democracy, and has created more innovation in technology and medicine than any other nation in human history. Not only that but our citizenry continually breaks world records with charitable donations, the rags to riches story is not only possible in America but not uncommon, we have the strongest purchasing power on earth, and we encompass 25% of the world’s GDP. The list goes on. However, these universal truths don’t matter. We are told that income inequality is an existential crisis (even though this is not an indicator of prosperity, some of the poorest countries in the world have low-income inequality), we are told that we are oppressed by capitalism (even though it’s brought about more freedom and wealth to the most people than any other system in world history), we are told that the only way we will acquire the benefits of true prosperity is through socialism and centralization of federal power (even though history has proven time and again this only brings tyranny and suffering).



Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity? We have people who are dying to get into our country. People around the world destitute and truly impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they’ve never seen prosperity, and as a result, elect politicians dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism. Why? The answer is this, my generation has ONLY seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn’t live in the great depression, or live through two world wars, or see the rise and fall of socialism and communism. We don’t know what it’s like not to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don’t have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it’s spreading like a plague.



With the current political climate giving rise to the misguided idea of a socialist utopia, will we see the light? Or will we have to lose it all to realize that what we have now is true prosperity? Destroying the free market will undo what millions of people have died to achieve.



My generation is becoming the largest voting bloc in the country. We have an opportunity to continue to propel us forward with the gifts capitalism and democracy has given us. The other option is that we can fall into the trap of entitlement and relapse into restrictive socialist destitution. The choice doesn’t seem too hard, does it?
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Will somebody, anybody, read this out loud to luther?
 
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SpaceCoastVol said:
I found this on another forum I read, and thought ya'll might find it interesting. Not sure of the origin or anything like that, but regardless of who actually wrote it, it is a pretty good read.

This is a well written pieces written by a 26 year old in a coffee shop to her fellow millennials.

By Alyssa Ahlgren, April 6, 2019



I’m sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of Democratic candidates calling for policies to “fix” the so-called injustices of capitalism I put my phone down and continue to look around. I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook’s, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we’ve become completely blind to it. Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose. These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don’t give them a second thought. We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty. One. Times. Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful.



Our unappreciation is evident as the popularity of socialist policies among my generation continues to grow. Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial generation, "An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity."



Never saw American prosperity. Let that sink in. When I first read that statement, I thought to myself, that was quite literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I’ve ever heard in my 26 years on this earth. Now, I’m not attributing Miss Ocasio-Cortez’s words to outright dishonesty. I do think she whole-heartedly believes the words she said to be true. Many young people agree with her, which is entirely misguided. My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity. I know this first hand, I went to college, let’s just say I didn’t have the popular opinion, but I digress.



Let me lay down some universal truths really quick. The United States of America has lifted more people out of abject poverty, spread more freedom and democracy, and has created more innovation in technology and medicine than any other nation in human history. Not only that but our citizenry continually breaks world records with charitable donations, the rags to riches story is not only possible in America but not uncommon, we have the strongest purchasing power on earth, and we encompass 25% of the world’s GDP. The list goes on. However, these universal truths don’t matter. We are told that income inequality is an existential crisis (even though this is not an indicator of prosperity, some of the poorest countries in the world have low-income inequality), we are told that we are oppressed by capitalism (even though it’s brought about more freedom and wealth to the most people than any other system in world history), we are told that the only way we will acquire the benefits of true prosperity is through socialism and centralization of federal power (even though history has proven time and again this only brings tyranny and suffering).



Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity? We have people who are dying to get into our country. People around the world destitute and truly impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they’ve never seen prosperity, and as a result, elect politicians dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism. Why? The answer is this, my generation has ONLY seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn’t live in the great depression, or live through two world wars, or see the rise and fall of socialism and communism. We don’t know what it’s like not to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don’t have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it’s spreading like a plague.



With the current political climate giving rise to the misguided idea of a socialist utopia, will we see the light? Or will we have to lose it all to realize that what we have now is true prosperity? Destroying the free market will undo what millions of people have died to achieve.



My generation is becoming the largest voting bloc in the country. We have an opportunity to continue to propel us forward with the gifts capitalism and democracy has given us. The other option is that we can fall into the trap of entitlement and relapse into restrictive socialist destitution. The choice doesn’t seem too hard, does it?
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Nailed it.
 
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SpaceCoastVol said:
I found this on another forum I read, and thought ya'll might find it interesting. Not sure of the origin or anything like that, but regardless of who actually wrote it, it is a pretty good read.

This is a well written pieces written by a 26 year old in a coffee shop to her fellow millennials.

By Alyssa Ahlgren, April 6, 2019



I’m sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of Democratic candidates calling for policies to “fix” the so-called injustices of capitalism I put my phone down and continue to look around. I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook’s, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we’ve become completely blind to it. Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose. These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don’t give them a second thought. We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty. One. Times. Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful.



Our unappreciation is evident as the popularity of socialist policies among my generation continues to grow. Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial generation, "An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity."



Never saw American prosperity. Let that sink in. When I first read that statement, I thought to myself, that was quite literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I’ve ever heard in my 26 years on this earth. Now, I’m not attributing Miss Ocasio-Cortez’s words to outright dishonesty. I do think she whole-heartedly believes the words she said to be true. Many young people agree with her, which is entirely misguided. My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity. I know this first hand, I went to college, let’s just say I didn’t have the popular opinion, but I digress.



Let me lay down some universal truths really quick. The United States of America has lifted more people out of abject poverty, spread more freedom and democracy, and has created more innovation in technology and medicine than any other nation in human history. Not only that but our citizenry continually breaks world records with charitable donations, the rags to riches story is not only possible in America but not uncommon, we have the strongest purchasing power on earth, and we encompass 25% of the world’s GDP. The list goes on. However, these universal truths don’t matter. We are told that income inequality is an existential crisis (even though this is not an indicator of prosperity, some of the poorest countries in the world have low-income inequality), we are told that we are oppressed by capitalism (even though it’s brought about more freedom and wealth to the most people than any other system in world history), we are told that the only way we will acquire the benefits of true prosperity is through socialism and centralization of federal power (even though history has proven time and again this only brings tyranny and suffering).



Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity? We have people who are dying to get into our country. People around the world destitute and truly impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they’ve never seen prosperity, and as a result, elect politicians dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism. Why? The answer is this, my generation has ONLY seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn’t live in the great depression, or live through two world wars, or see the rise and fall of socialism and communism. We don’t know what it’s like not to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don’t have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it’s spreading like a plague.



With the current political climate giving rise to the misguided idea of a socialist utopia, will we see the light? Or will we have to lose it all to realize that what we have now is true prosperity? Destroying the free market will undo what millions of people have died to achieve.



My generation is becoming the largest voting bloc in the country. We have an opportunity to continue to propel us forward with the gifts capitalism and democracy has given us. The other option is that we can fall into the trap of entitlement and relapse into restrictive socialist destitution. The choice doesn’t seem too hard, does it?
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This young lady nailed it hard core.
 
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Rosario Dawson embraces her milestone 40th birthday by going Topless as she enjoys some time in the sun

The actress, who turned the big 4-0 on May 9, took to her Instagram on Saturday and shared a selfie snap and video of herself Topless while soaking up the sun.

Her boyfriend, Democratic 2020 hopeful Cory Booker, was in North Carolina on Saturday for a campaign event and not with the actress.



Rosario Dawson embraces her milestone 40th birthday by going topless as she soaks in the sun | Daily Mail Online
 
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Looks like the dim's platform is firmed up... Free-free-free... this should get even those lazy azzes (i.e., new voters) off the couch and headed north to the border.

Joe Biden was quick to fall in line with the radical left by saying that he wants illegal immigrants who have paid NOTHING into the system get the same Medicare and Medicaid coverage as Americans who have spent their entire working lives paying into the system.
So to sum up 2020 Democrats’ health care agenda: rip nearly 200 million people off of their current health insurance plans while making sure illegal immigrants are covered.
Biden’s plan is entirely unfair to the average American citizen who pays approximately $40,000in Medicare taxes by the time they are eligible to use the coverage they spent decades paying for.
This is not a fringe issue for Democrats. The Washington Post notes that Booker, Castro, Gillibrand, Harris, Sanders, Swalwell, Warren, and Yang all want illegal immigrants to get government run healthcare.
And hypocritical as ever, Pete Buttigieg is all for illegal immigrants getting government-run health care BUT don’t ask him if he is offering health care to his campaign staff.
 
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I may agree with most of what the long haired dude has to say, I have no idea as i have never listened to him.

Perhaps in an attempt to distance himself from Christians and their views, not likely he actually worships satan, as very few people do...but I am not listening to anyone who choses the mark of the beast as part of their "handle". Call me old fashioned i guess, just not interested in that. If a person doesnt worship the father of lies, then why use that number to identift themselves? If he is an atheist, then he doesnt believe in satan any more than he does God...so again, why choose that number? Just narrows the amount of folks willing to hear what he has to say, seems like a dumb decision.
 
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marcusluvsvols said:
I may agree with most of what the long haired dude has to say, I have no idea as i have never listened to him.

Perhaps in an attempt to distance himself from Christians and their views, not likely he actually worships satan, as very few people do...but I am not listening to anyone who choses the mark of the beast as part of their "handle". Call me old fashioned i guess, just not interested in that. If a person doesnt worship the father of lies, then why use that number to identift themselves? If he is an atheist, then he doesnt believe in satan any more than he does God...so again, why choose that number? Just narrows the amount of folks willing to hear what he has to say, seems like a dumb decision.
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Totally understand that point of view. He once said that he was Christian and went to Church with his mom but as he read more and more about other religions, he thought they all were similar and did not see any reason for any of it. He reasoned his way out. Who knows, he may be saved and has totally backslid but I don't know. His language is pretty bad at times and shows immaturity IMO. He does have good insight as to what is going on in the country politcally and I do hope he can one day see the truth in Christ. With that said, I totally understand and do not disagree with your statement. You're probably making the better call here.
 
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The next election will boil down to keeping your tax rate the same or increasing it 20% or more. You can say what you want, there will be millions of Democrats that will not pull that increased tax lever once they get in the booth. They will vote the opposite in public and in answer to polls. Its the worst possible platform you could run on..which is why they fought so hard to deny it.
 
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The next election will boil down to keeping your tax rate the same or increasing it 20% or more. You can say what you want, there will be millions of Democrats that will not pull that increased tax lever once they get in the booth. They will vote the opposite in public and in answer to polls. Its the worst possible platform you could run on..which is why they fought so hard to deny it.
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They will dance around it as always. They arent raising "your" taxes, they are just raising "their" taxes. And wont really define who the "their" is.
 
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