New Hampshire Democratic primary day results and news

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38 minutes ago, ALFKAD said:

TDS refers people who hate him SO MUCH that they cannot see admit he has done much good for America.

Trump lives rent-free in the minds of many people suffering from TDS.

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1 minute ago, missileman said:

I just read that Bloomberg wants Hillary as his VP....🤣🤣.

She is the most qualified

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1 minute ago, Boiler said:

She is the most qualified

Maybe....but there is a trust factor which cost her the 2016 election.......It would make for an interesting race, for sure.

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1 hour ago, Orangesapples said:

I actually like orange things, see my name. I think Trump is a complete idiot though. 

He is definitely a twitter troll, and not a very well-spoken man.  But you cannot argue that he has done more good for America in 3 years than Obama did in 8.  Unless your TDS gets in the way of reality, that is.

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4 minutes ago, ALFKAD said:

He is definitely a twitter troll, and not a very well-spoken man.  But you cannot argue that he has done more good for America in 3 years than Obama did in 8.  Unless your TDS gets in the way of reality, that is.

I can argue exactly that but I'm not going to waste my time. 

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Just now, Orangesapples said:

I can argue exactly that but I'm not going to waste my time. 

Of course you cannot.  But it's ok.

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6 minutes ago, ALFKAD said:

Of course you cannot.  But it's ok.

Have a good day. 

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6 minutes ago, Orangesapples said:

Have a good day. 

I do every day.  Mostly because I have an awesome life, but in small part due to all the good that Trump has accomplished on behalf of we the people.  You really should learn to embrace it and reap the rewards.

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3 minutes ago, ALFKAD said:

I do every day.  Mostly because I have an awesome life, but in small part due to all the good that Trump has accomplished on behalf of we the people.  You really should learn to embrace it and reap the rewards.

 

  What significant change(s) occurred in your life because of Trump? Just curious, since you seem to be asking for specifics, but then you countered with a fairly generic response.  

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10 minutes ago, ALFKAD said:

I do every day.  Mostly because I have an awesome life, but in small part due to all the good that Trump has accomplished on behalf of we the people.  You really should learn to embrace it and reap the rewards.

I don't think there's any point in arguing when the other person won't change their mind but this was hilarious. It sounds like something a loyal North Korean would say. Thank you cracking me up. 

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31 minutes ago, Steeleballz said:

 

  What significant change(s) occurred in your life because of Trump? Just curious, since you seem to be asking for specifics, but then you countered with a fairly generic response.  

For me personally?  I now pay less taxes than I did in recent years, even though I make more money today.

 

And while many of the below items don't apply to me directly, they are good for America overall.  I particularly like that 4,000 VA employees are being held accountable for poor performance.  Just a drop in the bucket, but much better than was done previously. 

 

 

 

•This week Trump signed 3 bills for 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 other gives federal recognition to the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians in Montana

•This month Trump finalized the creation of Space Force as our 6th Military branch

•This month 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 the 2 years before he was elected

•Trump signed 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, that outpaces a 2.9% gain in earnings for the country's highest-paid workers

•Low-wage workers are benefiting from higher minimum wages and 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.

•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 drug 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

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

•Trump’s USDA committed $124 Million to rebuild rural water infrastructure

•Consumer confidence & small business confidence 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 his openly gay ambassador to Germany, Ric Grenell to lead a global initiative to decriminalize 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 reauthorization since 2006, authorizing more than $1 billion for states each year to fund vocational and career education programs

•Executive order expanding apprenticeship opportunities for students and workers

•President Trump’s 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

•Finalized 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

•OK’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 Modernization 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 BOP 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 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 for

•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 drugs—saving 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 judges 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 1 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

Another couple of accomplishments to add to the list:

•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

 

 

 

 

 

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38 minutes ago, Orangesapples said:

I don't think there's any point in arguing when the other person won't change their mind but this was hilarious. It sounds like something a loyal North Korean would say. Thank you cracking me up. 

How would you know this?  Have you ever in your life heard what a North Korean said?  Have you ever even been to, or lived in, Korea?

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4 minutes ago, ALFKAD said:

For me personally?  I now pay less taxes than I did in recent years, even though I make more money today.

Bingo!!!   The Trump initiated tax cut has made a significant improvement in my tax situation.......and the US government is STILL receiving a record amount of tax revenue.......a win-win... 

 

EDIT:  My wife and I both have income.  Now, thanks to the Trump tax cut, we both can keep more of OUR money in OUR pockets.....

Edited February 15, 2020 by missileman

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2 minutes ago, ALFKAD said:

For me personally?  I now pay less taxes than I did in recent years, even though I make more money today.

 

And while many of the below items don't apply to me directly, they are good for America overall.  I particularly like that 4,000 VA employees are being held accountable for poor performance.  Just a drop in the bucket, but much better than was done previously. 

 

 

 

 

 

   So your answer is lower taxes and a copy and paste of Robby Starbucks tweet? I think we could do a copy paste of the fanboys like this for any president.

 

  Tax cuts were marginal for me. I came out worse last year. Came out better this year because I stopped doing some things that I would have deducted by itemizing before. Ultimately, without a corresponding lowering the federal budget, there is an unknown side to tax cuts that won't be apparent until it's time to pass the buck.

 

  Trumps accomplishments and failures, IMO, are about the same as any other presidents. He hasn't done anything great and he hasn't screwed anything up any more than any other president. He is a generic, run of the mill leader with an excessive ego and a lot more detractors than he should have had. He would have got more done if he wasn't deliberately trying to humiliate or put down everyone he needs to work with, and if he didn't have the almost pathological need to look like he won every negotiation. That will be his legacy.

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On 2/12/2020 at 7:03 PM, Burnt Reynolds said:

She's not alone, they're all desperate to make lofty promises they can't deliver on. What I've noticed is, Tulsi is able to position herself via the marketed "authenticity" (and use her status as military) to moderates and people leaning right who are allegedly anti-establishment. I've seen people on the left make fun of it because the "Tulsi=moderate" angle is mostly a 20-35 year old male segment. It's that obvious. I really want to like Tulsi, she's very attractive, is a good speaker with an authentic swagger, she has a handful of views I personally happen to agree with (though conservatives would not like some of them), but I've seen sufficient evidence (including focus group studies as she and her strategists were researching whether to angle herself as a leftist or a moderate) as I first began to weigh her as a candidate last year that there's too much difference between her policy (how she's voted, led, who she's around in respect to how it influences her policy choices) and "perception" (what she's trying to tell people she is). This is why I stress "policy" over "perception", even though people are more likely to follow the perception carrot. If they've gotten you to bite on perception, they can change policy on a whim and abracadabra, you don't notice or don't care.

 

On 2/12/2020 at 7:26 PM, Boiler said:

Sadly she falls in to the same category as Bernie, no way the Swamp will let her be the candidate.

I completely agree with your assessment @Burnt Reynolds. She likes to portray herself as a Moderate but many of her domestic policies are almost as far Left as Bernie's. But her foreign policy is on point to be honest with you. She has actually seen Combat all the while Mayo Pete ain't seen anything at all.