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Mark Zuckerberg ‘s Harvard Speech! Yes, This has been an incredible that i came across today. Although it’s been 6 days now, it took little more time to fall into my good reads and i couldn’t stop Sharing it.This is the speech that Mark prepared for his commencement at Harvard. He was felicitated and an opportunity to complete his degree. This speech shows a sense of Mark’s Nature, his responsibility towards society, his job as a Son, Father, Loving husband and a Greatest Leader in the world.Mark started the speech addressing the dignitaries, his teachers, Friends from Harvard , Ad Board MembersRead below an entire script that will make you read it millions of times as well watch the video of the ceremony. I am also highlighting couple of lines which actually are worth read.President Faust, Board of Overseers, faculty, alumni, friends, proud parents, members of the ad board, and graduates of the greatest university in the world,I’m honored to be with you today because, let’s face it, you accomplished something I never could. If I get through this speech, it’ll be the first time I actually finish something at Harvard. Class of 2017, congratulations!I’m an unlikely speaker, not just because I dropped out, but because we’re technically in the same generation. We walked this yard less than a decade apart, studied the same ideas and slept through the same Ec10 lectures. We may have taken different paths to get here, especially if you came all the way from the Quad, but today I want to share what I’ve learned about our generation and the world we’re building together.But first, the last couple of days have brought back a lot of good memories.How many of you remember exactly what you were doing when you got that email telling you that you got into Harvard? I was playing Civilization and I ran downstairs, got my dad, and for some reason, his reaction was to video me opening the email. That could have been a really sad video. I swear getting into Harvard is still the thing my parents are most proud of me for.What about your first lecture at Harvard? Mine was Computer Science 121 with the incredible Harry Lewis. I was late so I threw on a t-shirt and didn’t realize until afterwards it was inside out and backwards with my tag sticking out the front. I couldn’t figure out why no one would talk to me — except one guy, KX Jin, he just went with it. We ended up doing our problem sets together, and now he runs a big part of Facebook. And that, Class of 2017, is why you should be nice to people.But my best memory from Harvard was meeting Priscilla. I had just launched this prank website Facemash, and the ad board wanted to “see me”. Everyone thought I was going to get kicked out. My parents came to help me pack. My friends threw me a going away party. As luck would have it, Priscilla was at that party with her friend. We met in line for the bathroom in the Pfoho Belltower, and in what must be one of the all time romantic lines, I said: “I’m going to get kicked out in three days, so we need to go on a date quickly.”Actually, any of you graduating can use that line.I didn’t end up getting kicked out — I did that to myself. Priscilla and I started dating. And, you know, that movie made it seem like Facemash was so important to creating Facebook. It wasn’t. But without Facemash I wouldn’t have met Priscilla, and she’s the most important person in my life, so you could say it was the most important thing I built in my time here.We’ve all started lifelong friendships here, and some of us even families. That’s why I’m so grateful to this place. Thanks, Harvard.Today I want to talk about purpose. But I’m not here to give you the standard commencement about finding your purpose. We’re millennials. We’ll try to do that instinctively. Instead, I’m here to tell you finding your purpose isn’t enough. The challenge for our generation is creating a world where everyone has a sense of purpose.One of my favorite stories is when John F Kennedy visited the NASA space center, he saw a janitor carrying a broom and he walked over and asked what he was doing. The janitor responded: “Mr. President, I’m helping put a man on the moon”.Purpose is that sense that we are part of something bigger than ourselves, that we are needed, that we have something better ahead to work for. Purpose is what creates true happiness.You’re graduating at a time when this is especially important. When our parents graduated, purpose reliably came from your job, your church, your community. But today, technology and automation are eliminating many jobs. Membership in communities is declining. Many people feel disconnected and depressed, and are trying to fill a void.As I’ve traveled around, I’ve sat with children in juvenile detention and opioid addicts, who told me their lives could have turned out differently if they just had something to do, an after school program or somewhere to go. I’ve met factory workers who know their old jobs aren’t coming back and are trying to find their place.To keep our society moving forward, we have a generational challenge — to not only create new jobs, but create a renewed sense of purpose.I remember the night I launched Facebook from my little dorm in Kirkland House. I went to Noch’s with my friend KX. I remember telling him I was excited to connect the Harvard community, but one day someone would connect the whole world.The thing is, it never even occurred to me that someone might be us. We were just college kids. We didn’t know anything about that. There were all these big technology companies with resources. I just assumed one of them would do it. But this idea was so clear to us — that all people want to connect. So we just kept moving forward, day by day.I know a lot of you will have your own stories just like this. A change in the world that seems so clear you’re sure someone else will do it. But they won’t. You will.But it’s not enough to have purpose yourself. You have to create a sense of purpose for others. → (A Motivation )I found that out the hard way. You see, my hope was never to build a company, but to make an impact. And as all these people started joining us, I just assumed that’s what they cared about too, so I never explained what I hoped we’d build.A couple years in, some big companies wanted to buy us. I didn’t want to sell. I wanted to see if we could connect more people. We were building the first News Feed, and I thought if we could just launch this, it could change how we learn about the world.Nearly everyone else wanted to sell. Without a sense of higher purpose, this was the startup dream come true. It tore our company apart. After one tense argument, an advisor told me if I didn’t agree to sell, I would regret the decision for the rest of my life. Relationships were so frayed that within a year or so every single person on the management team was gone.That was my hardest time leading Facebook. I believed in what we were doing, but I felt alone. And worse, it was my fault. I wondered if I was just wrong, an imposter, a 22 year-old kid who had no idea how the world worked.Now, years later, I understand that *is* how things work with no sense of higher purpose. It’s up to us to create it so we can all keep moving forward together.Today I want to talk about three ways to create a world where everyone has a sense of purpose: by taking on big meaningful projects together, by redefining equality so everyone has the freedom to pursue purpose, and by building community across the world.First, let’s take on big meaningful projects.Our generation will have to deal with tens of millions of jobs replaced by automation like self-driving cars and trucks. But we have the potential to do so much more together.Every generation has its defining works. More than 300,000 people worked to put a man on the moon – including that janitor. Millions of volunteers immunized children around the world against polio. Millions of more people built the Hoover dam and other great projects.These projects didn’t just provide purpose for the people doing those jobs, they gave our whole country a sense of pride that we could do great things.Now it’s our turn to do great things. I know, you’re probably thinking: I don’t know how to build a dam, or get a million people involved in anything.But let me tell you a secret: no one does when they begin. Ideas don’t come out fully formed. They only become clear as you work on them. You just have to get started.If I had to understand everything about connecting people before I began, I never would have started Facebook.Movies and pop culture get this all wrong. The idea of a single eureka moment is a dangerous lie. It makes us feel inadequate since we haven’t had ours. It prevents people with seeds of good ideas from getting started. Oh, you know what else movies get wrong about innovation? No one writes math formulas on glass. That’s not a thing.It’s good to be idealistic. But be prepared to be misunderstood. Anyone working on a big vision will get called crazy, even if you end up right. Anyone working on a complex problem will get blamed for not fully understanding the challenge, even though it’s impossible to know everything upfront. Anyone taking initiative will get criticized for moving too fast, because there’s always someone who wants to slow you down.In our society, we often don’t do big things because we’re so afraid of making mistakes that we ignore all the things wrong today if we do nothing. The reality is, anything we do will have issues in the future. But that can’t keep us from starting.So what are we waiting for? It’s time for our generation-defining public works. How about stopping climate change before we destroy the planet and getting millions of people involved manufacturing and installing solar panels? How about curing all diseases and asking volunteers to track their health data and share their genomes? Today we spend 50x more treating people who are sick than we spend finding cures so people don’t get sick in the first place. That makes no sense. We can fix this. How about modernizing democracy so everyone can vote online, and personalizing education so everyone can learn?These achievements are within our reach. Let’s do them all in a way that gives everyone in our society a role. Let’s do big things, not only to create progress, but to create purpose.So taking on big meaningful projects is the first thing we can do to create a world where everyone has a sense of purpose.The second is redefining equality to give everyone the freedom they need to pursue purpose.Many of our parents had stable jobs throughout their careers. Now we’re all entrepreneurial, whether we’re starting projects or finding or role. And that’s great. Our culture of entrepreneurship is how we create so much progress.Now, an entrepreneurial culture thrives when it’s easy to try lots of new ideas. Facebook wasn’t the first thing I built. I also built games, chat systems, study tools and music players. I’m not alone. JK Rowling got rejected 12 times before publishing Harry Potter. Even Beyonce had to make hundreds of songs to get Halo. The greatest successes come from having the freedom to fail.But today, we have a level of wealth inequality that hurts everyone. When you don’t have the freedom to take your idea and turn it into a historic enterprise, we all lose. Right now our society is way over-indexed on rewarding success and we don’t do nearly enough to make it easy for everyone to take lots of shots.Let’s face it. There is something wrong with our system when I can leave here and make billions of dollars in 10 years while millions of students can’t afford to pay off their loans, let alone start a business.Look, I know a lot of entrepreneurs, and I don’t know a single person who gave up on starting a business because they might not make enough money. But I know lots of people who haven’t pursued dreams because they didn’t have a cushion to fall back on if they failed.We all know we don’t succeed just by having a good idea or working hard. We succeed by being lucky too. If I had to support my family growing up instead of having time to code, if I didn’t know I’d be fine if Facebook didn’t work out, I wouldn’t be standing here today. If we’re honest, we all know how much luck we’ve had.Every generation expands its definition of equality. Previous generations fought for the vote and civil rights. They had the New Deal and Great Society. Now it’s our time to define a new social contract for our generation.We should have a society that measures progress not just by economic metrics like GDP, but by how many of us have a role we find meaningful. We should explore ideas like universal basic income to give everyone a cushion to try new things. We’re going to change jobs many times, so we need affordable childcare to get to work and healthcare that aren’t tied to one company. We’re all going to make mistakes, so we need a society that focuses less on locking us up or stigmatizing us. And as technology keeps changing, we need to focus more on continuous education throughout our lives.And yes, giving everyone the freedom to pursue purpose isn’t free. People like me should pay for it. Many of you will do well and you should too.That’s why Priscilla and I started the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and committed our wealth to promoting equal opportunity. These are the values of our generation. It was never a question of if we were going to do this. The only question was when.Millennials are already one of the most charitable generations in history. In one year, three of four US millennials made a donation and seven out of ten raised money for charity.But it’s not just about money. You can also give time. I promise you, if you take an hour or two a week — that’s all it takes to give someone a hand, to help them reach their potential.Maybe you think that’s too much time. I used to. When Priscilla graduated from Harvard she became a teacher, and before she’d do education work with me, she told me I needed to teach a class. I complained: “Well, I’m kind of busy. I’m running this company.” But she insisted, so I taught a middle school program on entrepreneurship at the local Boys and Girls Club.I taught them lessons on product development and marketing, and they taught me what it’s like feeling targeted for your race and having a family member in prison. I shared stories from my time in school, and they shared their hope of one day going to college too. For five years now, I’ve been having dinner with those kids every month. One of them threw me and Priscilla our first baby shower. And next year they’re going to college. Every one of them. First in their families.We can all make time to give someone a hand. Let’s give everyone the freedom to pursue their purpose — not only because it’s the right thing to do, but because when more people can turn their dreams into something great, we’re all better for it.Purpose doesn’t only come from work. The third way we can create a sense of purpose for everyone is by building community. And when our generation says “everyone”, we mean everyone in the world.Quick show of hands: how many of you are from another country? Now, how many of you are friends with one of these folks? Now we’re talking. We have grown up connected.In a survey asking millennials around the world what defines our identity, the most popular answer wasn’t nationality, religion or ethnicity, it was “citizen of the world”. That’s a big deal.Every generation expands the circle of people we consider “one of us”. For us, it now encompasses the entire world.We understand the great arc of human history bends towards people coming together in ever greater numbers — from tribes to cities to nations — to achieve things we couldn’t on our own.We get that our greatest opportunities are now global — we can be the generation that ends poverty, that ends disease. We get that our greatest challenges need global responses too — no country can fight climate change alone or prevent pandemics. Progress now requires coming together not just as cities or nations, but also as a global community.But we live in an unstable time. There are people left behind by globalization across the world. It’s hard to care about people in other places if we don’t feel good about our lives here at home. There’s pressure to turn inwards.This is the struggle of our time. The forces of freedom, openness and global community against the forces of authoritarianism, isolationism and nationalism. Forces for the flow of knowledge, trade and immigration against those who would slow them down. This is not a battle of nations, it’s a battle of ideas. There are people in every country for global connection and good people against it.This isn’t going to be decided at the UN either. It’s going to happen at the local level, when enough of us feel a sense of purpose and stability in our own lives that we can open up and start caring about everyone. The best way to do that is to start building local communities right now.We all get meaning from our communities. Whether our communities are houses or sports teams, churches or music groups, they give us that sense we are part of something bigger, that we are not alone; they give us the strength to expand our horizons.That’s why it’s so striking that for decades, membership in all kinds of groups has declined as much as one-quarter. That’s a lot of people who now need to find purpose somewhere else.But I know we can rebuild our communities and start new ones because many of you already are.I met Agnes Igoye, who’s graduating today. Where are you, Agnes? She spent her childhood navigating conflict zones in Uganda, and now she trains thousands of law enforcement officers to keep communities safe.I met Kayla Oakley and Niha Jain, graduating today, too. Stand up. Kayla and Niha started a non-profit that connects people suffering from illnesses with people in their communities willing to help.I met David Razu Aznar, graduating from the Kennedy School today. David, stand up. He’s a former city councilor who successfully led the battle to make Mexico City the first Latin American city to pass marriage equality — even before San Francisco.This is my story too. A student in a dorm room, connecting one community at a time, and keeping at it until one day we connect the whole world.Change starts local. Even global changes start small — with people like us. In our generation, the struggle of whether we connect more, whether we achieve our biggest opportunities, comes down to this — your ability to build communities and create a world where every single person has a sense of purpose.Class of 2017, you are graduating into a world that needs purpose. It’s up to you to create it.Now, you may be thinking: can I really do this?Remember when I told you about that class I taught at the Boys and Girls Club? One day after class I was talking to them about college, and one of my top students raised his hand and said he wasn’t sure he could go because he’s undocumented. He didn’t know if they’d let him in.Last year I took him out to breakfast for his birthday. I wanted to get him a present, so I asked him and he started talking about students he saw struggling and said “You know, I’d really just like a book on social justice.”I was blown away. Here’s a young guy who has every reason to be cynical. He didn’t know if the country he calls home — the only one he’s known — would deny him his dream of going to college. But he wasn’t feeling sorry for himself. He wasn’t even thinking of himself. He has a greater sense of purpose, and he’s going to bring people along with him.It says something about our current situation that I can’t even say his name because I don’t want to put him at risk. But if a high school senior who doesn’t know what the future holds can do his part to move the world forward, then we owe it to the world to do our part too.Before you walk out those gates one last time, as we sit in front of Memorial Church, I am reminded of a prayer, Mi Shebeirach, that I say whenever I face a challenge, that I sing to my daughter thinking about her future when I tuck her into bed. It goes:“May the source of strength, who blessed the ones before us, help us *find the courage* to make our lives a blessing.”I hope you find the courage to make your life a blessing.Congratulations, Class of ’17! Good luck out there.Thanks for Reading a long entire script.Link for the speech and Video : Mark Zuckerberg’s speech as written for Harvard’s Class of 2017

If and when there is a COVID-19 vaccine, will people actually get it?Plus, polls show the public remains confused about the virus, a drug that will cost more than $3,000, three official new symptoms, and more.A lab technician works during research on COVID-19, at Johnson & Johnson subsidiary in Belgium. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)By: Al TompkinsJune 30, 2020Covering COVID-19 is a daily Poynter briefing of story ideas about the coronavirus and other timely topics for journalists, written by senior faculty Al Tompkins. Sign up here to have it delivered to your inbox every weekday morning.Think it is hard to get people to wear a mask? Wait until health workers try to vaccinate the entire population.A recent survey conducted by the Pew Research Center found that if a COVID-19 vaccine were available today and proven effective, only 54% of Black adults would be willing to get it, compared to 74% of white adults.The findings reflect a distrust among Black Americans toward the health care industry generally and medical research specifically. The Pew survey found:35% of black Americans have a great deal of confidence in medical scientists to act in the public interest, compared with 43% of white adults.Similar patterns appear on other questions, too.Around half of black Americans (53%) have a mostly positive view of medical research scientists, compared with around two-thirds of Hispanic (67%) and white adults (68%).Around six-in-ten black adults (61%) have a mostly positive view of medical doctors, versus 75% of white adults.The idea that people are not enamored with new vaccines is steeped in history. When the polio vaccine came out to great fanfare in 1955, the program had to be quickly abandoned because the vaccine itself caused 40,000 cases of polio, killing 10 and leaving 200 children with varying degrees of paralysis. It was a disaster. That incident led to a process now in place to ensure vaccines are safe and effective before they hit the market.Heck, even now 43% of American adults don’t get the flu vaccine even though 80,000 Americans died from the flu last year. About a fourth of those who passed up a flu shot said they just didn’t think they would get sick.When I was a little guy, I remember seeing pictures like this. It was called an “iron lung” and it was a machine in which polio patients lived, sometimes for months or even years.This historic 1960 photograph depicted a nurse caring for a victim of a Rhode Island polio epidemic, who was inside an Emerson respirator, also sometimes referred to as an iron lung machine. (From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention photo archive)I remember people saying that if you didn’t get the polio vaccine you would end up in an iron lung. I clearly remember lining up at a school and popping a sugar cube that had some vaccine drops on it into my mouth. The government’s campaign worked on me. In the 1950s, the threat of getting polio was second only to being killed by an atomic bomb as “top worries.”Dr. Lauren Grossman, an emergency room physician, wrote that we should consider making vaccinations mandatory. If the difficulty of getting people to wear a mask teaches us anything, it’s that Americans are suspicious and stubborn and don’t want to be told what to do. But the government has forced vaccinations before:A 1905 Supreme Court decision established the constitutionality of compulsory state vaccination laws to protect the public health. Although all 50 states and the District of Columbia now require diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio, measles, rubella, and varicella vaccinations before attending public school, all also offer a variety of vaccine exemptions for medical, religious, and philosophical reasons. Only 11 states can override these exemptions in an outbreak. Court decisions, including from the Supreme Court, have upheld both state-imposed fines for refusing to be vaccinated and the exclusion of unvaccinated children from schools.Grossman, who is also an assistant professor of emergency medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and medical director of the university’s Integrative Medicine Center, had several other suggestions for how to get vaccines out there fast once they are ready. For one thing, health insurance companies could tell their customers that they have to get vaccinated if they want coverage when they get sick. There are other ideas:Combine the coronavirus vaccine with another one (like influenza) and package them in a form that patients can take on their own.Allow it to be administered to individuals with low-grade symptoms. Tetanus immunization has been wildly successful in part because we administer the vaccination when someone is being seen for a wound, not weeks later when it has healed.Make coronavirus vaccination available in all health care facilities, physicians’ offices (no matter what the specialty), local health departments, and emergency or urgent care facilities. Make it clear that any physician or advanced practice provider can administer a vaccine.Offer vaccinations in workplaces, schools, pharmacies, and community organizations. That could mean visits from mobile teams (perhaps run by medical school students as part of their public health training) to provide immunizations.Make vaccinations inexpensive. Instead of costing as much as $70, the price tag for a high-dose influenza vaccination for seniors, the cost of a coronavirus vaccine should be affordable for all. Stores like Walmart, with its $4 medication list, could add immunizations and offer them as people come in to pick up their prescriptions.Let’s not wait until there is a vaccine to start asking questions about what the government is doing to distribute it to hundreds of millions of people in a short period of time. The education effort required to pull this off will be monumental.New polling shows the public is confusedThe Pew Research Center’s new poll shows two-thirds of the public think the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention gets information about COVID-19 right, and close to a third think President Donald Trump and his administration get the facts right. Take that in for a second. Only a third of the American public believes the president gets basic facts right about the pandemic.The implications of that are profound. What hope do we have that people will get inoculated if there is not more agreement on the basic facts about the virus?Let’s dive into the Pew data to see what it says about where your reporting is most needed to help the public get clarity.(Data and graphic from the Pew Research Center)The survey shows that conversations about COVID-19 are increasingly partisan, and not as focused on medicine and science as they were a few months ago. Pew reports:Compared with the first weeks of the outbreak, Americans report seeing more partisan viewpoints in news about COVID-19, and some are struggling to know what is true. About four-in-ten U.S. adults (41%) say news about the outbreak is now more partisan than at the start, while fewer say partisanship in coronavirus news has declined (22%). A plurality of U.S. adults (38%) say they now find it harder to identify “what is true and what is false about the outbreak,” while three-in-ten say they are finding this easier to do. Another 31% say the difficulty of parsing truth from fiction has not changed.(Data and graphic from the Pew Research Center)My Poynter colleagues at PolitiFact, MediaWise and the International Fact-Checking Network have documented and debunked hundreds of conspiracy theories, fakes and outright lies about COVID-19. But the one that seems to live on is the one about it all being a big plan:(Data and graphic from the Pew Research Center)I pass that data along with caution: Just acknowledging a conspiracy gives it oxygen and new life.The COVID-19 drug that will cost more than $3,000The Wall Street Journal reported:Gilead Sciences Inc. detailed its pricing plans for Covid-19 drug remdesivir, saying it will charge U.S. hospitals $3,120 for a typical patient.The drugmaker on Monday disclosed its pricing plans as it prepares to begin charging for the drug in July. The U.S. has been distributing remdesivir donated by Gilead since the drug was authorized for emergency use in May.But the cost of the drug depends on who is paying for it. CNBC reported:The drugmaker said it will sell Remdesivir for $390 per vial to governments “of developed countries” around the world, and the price for U.S. private insurance companies will stand at $520 per vial. In the U.S., that means Gilead will charge a lower price for government programs like Medicare and a higher price for private insurers.The White House said since the drug is administrated while the patient is “in hospital,” a patient covered by insurance would not notice the price. Gilead said remdesivir would save $12,000 per patient by getting them out of the hospital faster.This is an opportunity for journalists to explain how the price of drugs is never set in stone. It is always negotiable depending on who is buying it, who is using it, and whether they are privately insured or covered by government plans including Medicare and Veterans Affairs.The CDC updated its COVID-19 symptoms with three additionsCan you spot the three new symptoms that the CDC added to its official COVID-19 list?Fever or chillsCoughShortness of breath or difficulty breathingFatigueMuscle or body achesHeadacheNew loss of taste or smellSore throatCongestion or runny noseNausea or vomitingDiarrheaThe list added congestion or runny nose, nausea or vomiting and diarrhea. The CDC said, “People with COVID-19 have had a wide range of symptoms reported — ranging from mild symptoms to severe illness. Symptoms may appear 2-14 days after exposure to the virus.”The addition of these common afflictions will no doubt add to the number of people who go get checked for COVID-19.The list is constantly evolving. Can you name the original three symptoms?The first three were fever, cough, and shortness of breath or difficulty breathing.The surge of COVID-19 cases among LatinosYou have reported how Black Americans have been sickened by the coronavirus at far higher rates than other Americans, but the newest spike in COVID-19 cases is in counties where Latinos live in high concentrations. An analysis from The New York Times found:… in the last two weeks, counties across the country where at least a quarter of the population is Latino have recorded an increase of 32 percent in new cases, compared to a 15 percent increase for all other counties, a Times analysis shows.The CDC estimated “Hispanic or Latino persons have a rate approximately 4 times that of non-Hispanic white persons.” The CDC said this is not unusual, and that “history shows that severe illness and death rates tend to be higher for racial and ethnic minority populations during public health emergencies than for other populations.” Since we know that to be true, it’s worth exploring how the government is dispensing resources to test and help care for that sector of the population.NPR reported:The rates are two times higher in 30 states, and over four times higher in eight states. For example, in Virginia more than 12,000 cases — 49% of all cases with known ethnicity — come from the Hispanic and Latino community, which makes up only 10% of the population.It is important to point out that there is no reason to believe that any race or ethnicity is more vulnerable than another to the virus. The spread among Latinos may mostly be reflective of the fact that Latinos make up a lot of what we consider to be “essential workers,” and as such are more exposed to the virus because they cannot stay home.Latinos are dying at a lower rate than other ethnicities, however, partly because nearly three-quarters are millennials or younger, according to data from the Pew Research Center. Younger COVID-19 patients are less likely to die than older people.Another issue you probably have not heard about is whether drug trials will include a representative sample of people. Usually, drug trials skew heavily white. Stat reported:In 2019, for example, the Food and Drug Administration approved 11 new cancer drugs based on clinical trials that enrolled just 4% of Black participants, despite the fact that Black individuals account for 13% of the U.S. population and have the highest death rate for most cancers.To be demographically representative of the U.S. population, drug trials would need about 40% of the participants to be non-white. The Stat article pointed out other barriers:The hours that clinics are open are too limited for people of color whose employers prohibit taking off work; study budgets don’t always pay for interpreters and translations that would facilitate participation by non-English speakers; study protocols often exclude individuals with chronic illnesses like diabetes and hypertension, which disproportionately impact people of color.Who is caring for the office plants while you are away?The New York Times produced a fun piece on the office plant care business that is trying to keep your greenery alive while you are gone. It turns out that with lights off and air handlers turned way down the plants are growing slower.How did COVID-19 cause a coin shortage?The economic slowdown caused by COVID-19 created a national shortage of coins, just one more interruption to our lives.Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said, “We are working with the Mint and the Reserve Banks and as the economy reopens we are starting to see money move around again.”The shortage is significant enough that the federal government started limiting how many pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters it sends to banks. Businesses say they would love it if you could give them exact change for your purchase, or better yet, pay with a bunch of coins.(Screenshot, Facebook)The Fed suggested that banks loosen their regulations on accepting loose and rolled coins, which have become a pain in the behind over the years. I remember a day when you could take a jar of coins to a bank, dump them in a machine and they would give you dollar bills back. Now you either wrap them yourself and put a bank deposit number on every roll or you take them to a machine at the grocery and pay a percentage just to have the machine count the money.I also wonder how long it will take for the U.S. to do what Canada did, which I do not like. Canadians got rid of the penny and started rounding prices. This is the way the National Canadian Mint explained it:If the purchase end with .01 or .02 or it ends with .06 or .07 you round it down to .00 or .05, you are rounding to the closet nickel.If it ends with .03 or .04 or it ends with .08 or .09 you round up or the closest nickel.(National Canadian Mint)I teach a fair amount in Canada and I am always annoyed when I find that everything I buy seems to magically end in a “round-up” number. These are the examples the Mint gives:(National Canadian Mint)So you round up to $1.90. By the way, that $1.80 will only get you a medium Tim Hortons coffee. Just saying.(National Canadian Mint)Let me tell you, you are not going to find that big honking sandwich in Ontario for $2.80. And no size of Tim Hortons is $1.50. So the whole exercise just lost me.We’ll be back tomorrow with a new edition of Covering COVID-19. Sign up here to get it delivered right to your inbox.Al Tompkins is senior faculty at Poynter. He can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter, @atompkins.

These are the reasons why Trump supporters voted for him a second time, not necessarily for Trump himself, but for the following policies and accomplishments: [In alphabetical order (you might want to start with Racism, Morality, and COVID) ]ABORTION?: Deliberately killing an innocent human is murder. The number of chromosomes and the genome of a fetus (Latin for ‘baby’) living in a woman must be a human. S/he can not be ‘part of’ his or her mother because s/he is a distinct individual with his or her own unique blood type, finger prints, and may even be the completely opposite sex. Without love and care, a baby, after birth, can survive no better than s/he could beforehand.During the 81 wars and military conflicts since the War for Independence in the 1700’s to the recent conflict in Yemen, 2,852,901 Americans soldiers have died, but the number of American babies aborted since just 1970 is twenty-four times greater! Planned Parenthood alone kills 330,000 unborn babies a year and then sells their body parts for profit. If God is just, He will punish us for the murder of 48,000,000 of His children.In his first week as President, Trump reinstated and expanded the Mexico City Policy that blocks $9 billion in foreign aid being used for abortions and he stopped U.S. funding to the United Nations Population Fund, which promotes abortions. President Trump's PLGHA Policy requires U.S. global health funds recipients certify that they will not promote or perform abortions. Trump hosted 34 countries for a meeting on how to promote women's health and protect the lives of the unborn.At home, he announced, “I am for defunding Planned Parenthood as long as they are involved with abortion.” His Human Fetal Tissue Research Ethics Advisory Board issued recommendations on the ethics of fetal tissue research proposals and advised against funding 13 of the 14 proposals because of aborted babies would be used. America's foster care and adoption system has increased partnerships with faith-based organizations to care for children and preserve families.Trump became the first sitting president to give remarks in person at the annual March for Life in Washington, D.C. In his address he stated the eternal truth that every child is a sacred gift from God and reiterated his effort to defend the dignity and sanctity of every human life. Which president has been more pro-life than the one He has miraculously placed in power? If Jesus were Pro-Life, would He vote for Biden? Would you? (How are you doing with a logical rather than an emotional response?)ABUSE OF POWER?: Total Presidential pardons and sentence commutations: Carter: 566; Reagan: 406; HW Bush: 77; Clinton: 459; George W Bush: 200; Obama: 1,927; Trump: 26. Mueller came up empty in his Russia collusion probe. He wasted months and millions trying to find any dirt on Trump. Trump signed an Executive Order establishing new ethics commitments for all Executive branch appointees, putting in place a five-year lobbying ban and a permanent ban on lobbying for foreign governments, so that appointees would serve us instead of their own interests.ANIMAL RIGHTS?: Trump has made cruelty to animals a federal felony so that animal abusers face tougher consequences.ANTI-SEMITISM?: Trump moved the Israeli capital from Tel Aviv back to Jerusalem (as promised by so many previous US presidents). Prime Minister Netanyahu responded: “President Donald Trump, thank you for today’s historic decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. The Jewish people and the Jewish state will be forever grateful.” Trump signed an executive order that allows the government to withhold money from college campuses here in the USA deemed to be anti-Semitic and who fail to combat anti-Semitism. This is important. As Jeff Jacoby, a Jewish columnist at the Boston Globe explains: “This is a Christian country. It was founded by Christians and built on broad Christian principles. Threatening? Far from it. It is in precisely this Christian country that Jews have known the most peaceful, prosperous, and successful existence in their long history.” Aaron Zelman (a Jewish author and head of a civil rights organization) similarly declares: “Christian America is the best home our people have found in 2,000 years. . . . this remains the most tolerant, prosperous, and safest home we could be blessed with.” Dennis Prager, a Jewish national columnist and popular talkshow host, warns: “If America abandons its Judeo-Christian values basis and the central role of the Jewish and Christian Bibles (its Founders’ guiding text), we are all in big trouble, including, most especially, America’s non-Christians. Just ask the Jews of secular Europe.” Trump himself has Jewish grandchildren.BIAS?: Imagine that CNN had honestly and accurately reported then-candidate Biden’s close ties to foreign terrorists (Rashid Khalidi), domestic terrorists (William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn), the mafia (Tony Rezko) or the true evils of Jeremiah Wright! Imagine if CNN had honestly and accurately covered the evils of Biden’s involvement in weaponizing the IRS to be used against political opponents, or his involvement in the running of guns to the Mexican cartels, or the truth about the murder of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and his involvement in the cover-up. Yet, can you think of anything good that fake news has ever said about Trump since the GOP primaries? No wonder he’s angry; wouldn’t you be also? Is it important to be balanced or better to simply believe everything that we watch on CNN and NBC? In 2007, the New York Times gave a discount to MoveOn.org for the ad hominem, anti-David Petraeus “General Betray Us”advertisement? Did they ever give a discount for any Republican ad?BLACK & HISPANIC EMPLOYEES?: Blacks and Hispanics benefited economically more than whites from the new measures Trump implemented. Median incomes for black households rose 7.9% and Hispanic households 7.1%, a faster rate than incomes for white households (5.7%).BUDGET?: Trump’s budget cut domestic spending by 5% ($2.7 trillion). Acting Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought pleaded, “It’s time for Congress to come to the table, work with the President, and rein in Washington’s spending addiction.” The Dept of Treasury reported a $182 billion surplus for April 2017 (2nd largest in history). It got better thereafter! He produced a budget that cut $54 billion from bloated federal bureaucracies, eliminate 50 programs, and more than 3,000 unnecessary federal jobs.CHRISTIAN?: Trump is a Scottish Presbyterian with no interest in occults, mysticism or exotic mythologies. Melania was raised as a Slovenian Roman Catholic. Trump grew up attending the First Presbyterian in Queens where he was confirmed, and Marble Collegiate Church where one of his sons was baptized. The others have been as well. Today, he and Melania prefer the church they got married in (The Episcopal Church of Bethesda by-the-Sea in Palm Beach). In D.C., they attended St. John's Episcopal Church when possible. Consider that when the President goes to church, it is extremely disruptive with the media and the Secret Service needing to check everything out. Fortunately, church is not the ‘meeting house’ but a group of believers and Trump encourages worship in the White House with a chaplain and a weekly 90 minute Bible Study (usually attended by 10 cabinet members, plus staff, led by Ralph Drollinger who reports that Trump, if he misses one week, “writes me back notes on my 8-page bible study print-outs.” In fact, a Bible from a wonderful revival in Scotland has passed down to Trump, a descendant of one of the evangelists. He keeps it in the White House. He has said that his favorite book is the Bible, followed by The Art of the Deal. Few presidents in the 20th-21st. century have had such a close adult relationship with a pastor as Trump did with Norman Vincent Peale. But is Trump Born Again? Is he authentic?On June 21, 2016 over 1000 Christian leaders from all over the U.S. gathered to ask Donald Trump tough specific questions in person. James Robison, Jerry Falwell Jr., Huckabee, Carson, and Franklin Graham addressed the crowd attesting to the authenticity and trustworthiness of Donald Trump. At the end, Trump received a standing ovation. Dr. James Dobson adds that Trump was saved fairly recently; he knows who led Trump to Christ (Pastor Paula White). "I believe he really made a commitment, but he's a baby Christian. We all need to be praying for him, especially if there's a possibility of him being our next chief executive officer. He doesn't know our language, he really doesn't, and he refers a lot to religion and not much to faith and belief.” Trump himself has admitted, “The office is so powerful that you need God even more because your decisions are no longer, ‘Gee I’m going to build a building in New York.’ These are questions of massive, life-and-death. There’s almost not a decision that you make when you’re sitting in this position that isn’t a really life-altering position. So God comes into it even more so.” Don’t we all sin? Yet, we can all get saved at any moment, at any age, although critics may continue bring up our past.Check Trump’s actions. His executive order prohibits the U.S. government from discriminating against Christians or punishing expressions of faith. Federal prosecutors have been directed to monitor and take action to correct state and local policies that discriminate against religious institutions and believers. His CARES Act made churches and religious nonprofits eligible for assistance like the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). In addition, Trump ensured that large abortion providers like Planned Parenthood would not be eligible for coronavirus relief. The Depts of Agriculture, Education, Homeland Security, Veterans Affairs, Justice, Labor, Health & Human Services, Housing & Urban Development, plus the U.S. Agency for International Development leveled the playing field for faith-based organizations wishing to participate in grant programs or as contractors. The new rules eliminated two requirements placed on faith-based organizations that were not placed on secular organizations. The Depts of Education and Justice issued guidance on constitutionally protected prayer and religious expression in public elementary and secondary schools ensuring that prayer in schools is properly protected. Trump has been removing burdensome requirements that faith-based organizations (including foster care and adoption agencies) must accept same-sex marriages and profess gender identity, in order to be eligible to participate in grant programs. He also announced a coalition within the business community to protect religious freedom.Internationally, his Executive Order on Advancing International Religious Freedom recognized the promotion of international religious freedom as a moral and national security imperative. He set up a Special Adviser to the President on International Religious Freedom within the National Security Council authorized by the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998. Trump is the first president to dedicate a full-time staffer to this role on a permanent basis. His International Religious Freedom Alliance unites government leaders from like-minded nations to strategize ways to promote religious freedom and protect religious minorities around the world. Trump has placed targeted sanctions on Russian officials for their religious freedom violations and torture of Jehovah's Witnesses. He hosted a meeting during the U.N. General Assembly and gave a speech solely on the topic of religious freedom, providing $25 million to protect religious sites and relics around the world. This is the first time a U.S. president has hosted a meeting focused solely on religious freedom at the UN.Biden, on the other hand, went along with Obama’s declaration that the USA “is no longer a Christian nation.” Biden had no qualms about the cancelation of the 21st annual National Day of Prayer ceremony which had been supported by all our previous Vice Presidents. Then, on 9/25/09, Biden participated in an Islamic National Day of Prayer with over 50,000 Muslims. Biden also saw nothing wrong with sending $770,000,000 to support mosques in Egypt, Cyprus, etc.Trump fortunately reinstituded the National Day of Prayer and took us back to our roots and the warnings of our Founding Fathers: “No nation has ever existed or been governed without religion. Nor can be. The Christian religion is the best religion that has been given to man and I, as Chief Magistrate of this nation, am bound to give it the sanction of my example” (T. Jefferson). “We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion… Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” (Adams). "To the kindly influence of Christianity we owe that degree of civil freedom, and political and social happiness which mankind now enjoys. . . . Whenever the pillars of Christianity shall be overthrown, our present republican forms of government, and all blessings which flow from them, must fall with them.” (J. Morse)CONSUMER CONFIDENCE?: Trump achieved a 17-year-high in the consumer confidence index. In spite of COVID, confidence is still high and optimism still reigns and the recovery becomes ever more apparent. Trump did it once and it only took him three years. He can do it again. Biden never did it in 47 years.COVID-19 / SARS-CoV-2?: Before there were six cases in the USA, Trump jumped quickly to provide everything necessary to protect Americans regardless to how doing so might jeopardize his chance of reelection if the amazing economy he had made possible was destroyed. The Democrats, on the other hand, stalled for 3 months to let COVID get out of control by pursuing an obviously futile impeachment. Pelosi then sat on those impeachment papers for 28 days before sending them on to the Senate which shut down for 21 days leaving Trump to deal with Covid alone. When Trump closed travel to and from China, Chuck Schumer declared the action “racist”. DeBlasio, in March, said that everybody should ride the subways and go to Broadway. Twenty-eight days after the travel restriction, Nancy Pelosi, downplaying the severity of the virus, begged people to visit Chinatown in San Francisco, once again playing the race card. She then at the last hour of the stimulus package, added things that were pure politics and had nothing to do with the dire circumstances at hand.Why didn’t Biden during his Vice Presidency replenish the National Medical stockpile of masks after the H1N1 virus scare? What prevented all of these Democrat governors from ordering all the PPE and ventilators for emergency purposes during the last two years?Every day, every turn, every word, every breath since before he was elected, Trump has been attacked, mocked, accused, blamed and belittled by the socialists. Yet, he’s the guy that gets hospital ships readied in one week! He’s the guy that gets temporary hospitals with hundreds of beds built in three days! He’s the guy that gets industries to build ventilators and face masks inspite of regulations by agencies which move like sloths. He’s the guy that asks, “Why we aren’t using already existing drugs that may work on people who are dying; what the hell do we have to lose?” He’s the guy that shut down travel from China, when the liberals, the media, and the W.H.O. were screaming xenophobia and racist. Now, they are asking why didn't he react sooner?It has been revealed from ‘gain of function’ involving four inserts of HIV-1 gp 120 and HIV-1 Gag, plus Plasmodium falciparum, by technicians (using molecular tools which can only be done in a laboratory) that COVID-19 / SARS-CoV-2 had to have been manmade, with Harvard, Ft. Detrick, the US Army Research Institute of Infectious Disease, and at the Food and Drug Administration’s lab in Arkansas all involved. The SARS-CoV-2 has a strange furin polybasic cleavage site that its closest genetic relative, RaTG-13, does not have; four different amino acids have been inserted into the virus contributing to its infectivity and pathogenicity. These have never been detected in nature and could not have come straight from the bats. It was all funded by the CIA and USAID-EPT-PREDICT. The ‘gain of function’ aspect adding HSC-014 with SARS plus HIV and MERS was done at Univ. of North Carolina. When a 2014 US moratorium on biological weapons forced further research out of the USA. Fauchi (NIH) gave $3.7M to our communist enemy, the Laboratory of Special Pathogens and Biosafety, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, to finish it up! Laboratory materials, samples and equipment used were obtained from the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases. Then, in 2017, at George Washington Univ., Fauchi was recorded declaring that, “There will be a surprise outbreak” during Trump’s presidency. What made Fauchi so confident? Their hope was that by killing millions of citizens and ruining the economy, this plandemic would bring Trump down. In fact, in Nov.’19, the CDC advertised for quarantine managers. Not surprisingly, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation owns the the Pirbright Inst. which owns patent EP 3172319B1/EP 3172319A1 (US 20062577852). Check worldwide.espacenet.com. It was applied for on July 23, 2015. Patents are only good for a certain amount of time. So, the granting of this COVID-19 patent was delayed until November 20, 2019 just it was being released from China. These traitors are making huge amounts of money while successfully sabotaging our economy. Whether they can also bring Trump down will be decided by a hopefully educated electorate on November 3rd.DEFICIT & DEBT?: During Biden’s Vice Presidency, the national debt grew to a staggering $19 trillion, at a rate of $35 million/hour and $2 billion every 24 hours. The TOTAL debt accumulated by all the previous 43 US Presidents combined, from 1789 - 2008 was $6.3 trillion dollars. But the debt added during Biden’s Vice Presidency amounted to $6.5 trillion - in just one term! Overall, spending during Biden's Vice Presidency was 40% greater than tax revenue. As President, he would make everything ‘free’. During Trump’s attempts to balance the budget, the Democrats continued this irresponsible spending through their control of the House of Representatives.TRUMP’S record compared with BIDEN’S record1st. year deficit: $665B $1.4TTrump has added about $1.7 to the national debt and spending must come down. However, during Biden's Vice Presidency the US debt to GDP ratio increased by 40% from around 60% in 2009 to over 100% by the time he left office. But the Debt to GDP ratio under Trump had been declining! With his increasing GDP Trump has managed to decrease the debt to GDP ratio in the 2 years since the 2016 election.DISASTER?: Prophecies about Trump as he began his first term included: “This is Armageddon. It’s the end of the world.” (N. Pelosi, D-CA). “What has been sold as a job creator and wage booster will, of course, do little of either.” (C. Schumer, D-NY). Liberal economist-turned-columnist Paul Krugman guaranteed a “global recession, with no end in sight.” “10,000 people will die every year from tax reform if passed into law.” (L. Summers, Clinton economist). Think of how much more could have been accomplished for Americans if these corrupt politicians had worked with rather than against Trump!DISLIKED?: Yet, they chose to dislike Trump because: (1) he won’t tolerate the ‘good old boy’ method of ripping off taxpayers; (2) he won’t mince words but calls a spade a spade unencumbered by the financial shackles of those who have been bought off; (3) he is free from political ideology distrusting Republicans as much as Democrats; (4) he is keeping his promises as a statesman, rather than compromising as a politician; (5) his confidence is confused for arrogance politicians who never really solved problem.DIVISIVE?: Ought we blame Trump for the divisions we see in America? Did it begin before he became president when none of the Democrats showed up for his inauguration except for Clinton and Obama? What would have happened had Republicans not show up for Obama's inauguration because they lost? Or did it begin 19 minutes after Trump was inaugurated when the Washington Post declared the ‘IMPEACHMENT CAMPAIGN has STARTED'? Was that when Trump divided America? How about when Nancy Pelosi ripped up Trump's state of the union right in front of the world, showing complete disrespect for the President of the United States? Did that bring the country together? How about when Trump and Americans had to endure 3 years and over $30 million trying to prove that Trump only won because of Russian collusion, not because America voted him in. Bloomberg gave $27 million, Tom Steyer gave $17 million, George Soros gave $9 million and many others to Hillary expecting a return on their investment? Did that close the gap between the honest and dishonest? 90% of mainstream media are owned by big Democrat donors? Over the last 47 years, what did Joe Biden ever do for blacks or working class Americans? When the teacher said the electoral college had to be eliminated because Hillary lost, and a student offered reason it should stay, the teacher ripped him apart and gave the entire class a 5 hour test, stating it was because he dared to disagree with her. Is such divisiveness perpetuated by faculty in your schools? Have the Democrats ever once gotten behind Trump to make America the best it can be? Was it divisive to blame the cages which the left claimed Trump had built to put Illegal children in, were actually built during Biden’s Vice Presidency to put illegal children in? Was Trump divisive by commuted 10 people but Obama was not for commuted 1,715 inmates? Was Trump divisive for dealing with COVID-19 after 6 Americans had been infected, but not divisive when Biden as VP allowed the H1N1 - SWINE FLU to infect millions of Americans before declaring it a health emergency? Why is it the most homeless, the most crime, the most murders, the worst inner city schools, the most Antifa & BLM chaos and destruction are all in cities ‘run’ by Democrats, creating great division?ECONOMY?: Only 8% of Biden and his fellow cabinet members ever worked in private business! This helps to explain the incompetence of that administration. The economic recovery during Biden’s last seven years as vice president remains the worst in postwar American history! Biden was the only vice president in history to never see economic growth above 3 percent. Average gross domestic product (GDP) growth since the bottom of the recession in 2009 was barely above 2.1% per year which Biden considered the “new normal.” The average since 1949 is well above 4% per year during the previous 10 expansions. This result was not just bad, it was catastrophic.TRUMP COMPARED WITH BIDENGDP Growth: 4.1% 1.6%Best economic growth to start a year in four years (Imbert reports for CNBC)1st.Q GDP expanded by 3.2% (Bureau of Ec Analysis); Dow Jones poll of economists expect 2.5%1st. year deficit: $665 billion $1.4 trillionFood Stamps kept or given away: ? 10.7M (32%)Under Trump, over 700 companies have boosted wages, given bonuses and other benefits to their employees because of tax reform. The economy has achieved the longest positive job-growth streak on record. Companies have brought back over a TRILLION dollars from overseas because of the TCJA bill that Trump signed.EMPLOYMENT?: Because of Trump, the number of individuals in work increased by 2.2 million. The number of full-time, year-round workers increased by 1.2 million. Small business job creation broke a 45-year record. Note however that employment of White House staff was cut. 44 staff had been dedicated to Michelle; Melania does fine with five. In total, there are 140 fewer staffers. This saves tax payers $25.1 million!ENERGY?: Under Trump, America has become the “greatest energy superpower in the history of the world” surpassing both Russia and Saudi Arabia. We’re now the world leader in oil and natural gas production which has reached record highs. Coal exports reached their highest level in 5 years. Trump opened up federally owned land and offshore areas for exploration and production, approving permits for the crucial Dakota Access and Keystone XL pipelines. Biden claims he’d do likewise. So why didn’t he when he had the chance? Trump pulled America out of the fraudulent, ineffective, and one-sided Paris Climate Accord. Under Biden, the “Green New Deal” would be the most radical takeover of America’s economy ever contemplated. The ultimate goal is to eradicate all production of oil, coal, and natural gas in the United States—and millions of jobs along with it.EPA?: Under Trump, the carbon footprint of the USA has gone negative while Europe has increased further. He sent $100 million to clean the waters in Flint, MI. Trump signed the biggest wilderness protection & conservation bill in a decade and designated 375,000 acres as protected land. He also signed the Save our Seas Act which funds $10 million per year to clean tons of plastic & garbage from the ocean. Trump’s USDA committed $124 Million to rebuild rural water infrastructure. To keep things honest, Trump placed 66 new experts on three different EPA scientific committees to replace those with conflicts of interest, having received grants for serving on ‘independent' advisory boards.FARMERS?: Trump provided $12 billion in aid for farmers affected by unfair trade retaliation.FOREIGN AFFAIRS?: Trump has been protecting our sovereignty and restored our standing and respect in the world. He is known to be a loyal friend to friendly nations and won’t tolerate anti-Americanism. He withdrew from UNESCO which defends dictators and spreads anti-Americanism. He decertified the awful treaty with Iran. He withdrew the US from the hypocritical Paris Agreement on Climate Change and imposed a travel ban on the most likely terrorist countries. He ordered new sanctions on the dictatorship in Venezuela.Trump rescued over a dozen citizens imprisoned abroad and ignored by Biden. Trump signed the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act into law, which affirms Hong Kong's semi-autonomous status and protects against Chinese government encroachment, which is a threat to Hong Kong's religious freedom.Amazingly, Trump convinced China to impose the toughest sanctions ever on North Korea.GAY?: Trump appointed five openly gay ambassadors, the most competent candidates for the job. He ordered Ric Grenell, his openly gay ambassador to Germany, to lead a global initiative to decriminalize homosexuality across the globe. HHS finalized its regulation that clarifies that discrimination on the basis of sex in section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act is to be interpreted under the plain meaning of the word. Therefore, it does not include "gender identity" or "termination of pregnancy" as previously set forth when Biden was vice president. Trump will not force physicians to participate in gender reassignment surgeries or abortions.GENEROUS?: Trump donates his entire salary to charities. Liz Crokin, an entertainment journalist paid to dig up dirt on celebrities, covered Trump for over a decade. She never heard anything negative about the man until he announced he was running for president. She found him to be one of the most generous celebrities in the world.In 1986, Trump financially prevented the foreclosure of Annabell Hill's family farm after her husband committed suicide. Trump took action after he saw Hill's pleas for help in news reports.In 1988, a commercial airline refused to fly Andrew Ten, a sick Orthodox Jewish child with a rare illness, across the country to get medical care because he had to travel with an elaborate life-support system. His grief-stricken parents contacted Trump for help and he didn't hesitate to send his own plane to take the child from Los Angeles to New York.In 1991, a scheduling mistake stranded 200 Desert Storm Marines returning to their families. When Trump got wind of this, he sent his plane to make two trips from North Carolina to Miami.In 1995, a motorist stopped to help Trump after the limo he was traveling in got a flat tire. Trump asked the good samaritan how he could repay him. The man suggested sending flowers to his wife. Trump sent a bouquet with a note that read: “We've paid off your mortgage.”In 1996, Trump filed a lawsuit against the city of Palm Beach which didn’t like his Mar-a-Lago resort club allowing in Jews and blacks. Abraham Foxman, Director of the Anti-Defamation League said that Trump would not tolerate discrimination and that his lawsuit had a trickle-down effect because other clubs followed Trumps lead and began admitting Jews and blacks.In 2000, Maury Povich interviewed a little girl named Megan who struggled with Brittle Bone Disease. Trump happened to be watching the show and gifted the little girl and her family with a very generous check.In 2008, after Jennifer Hudson's family members were tragically murdered in Chicago , Trump put the Oscar-winning actress and her family up, under full security, at his Windy City hotel for free.In 2013, New York bus driver Darnell Barton spotted a woman close to the edge of a bridge staring at the traffic below as he drove by. He stopped the bus and saved her life by convincing her to not jump. Trump sent the hero a check simply because he believed his good deed deserved to be rewarded.In 2014, Trump gave $25,000 to Sgt. Andrew Tamoressi after he spent seven months in a Mexican jail for accidentally crossing the US-Mexico border. Vice President Biden couldn't even be bothered to make one phone call to assist with the United States Marine's release; however, Trump opened his pocketbook to help this serviceman get back on his feet.In 2016, Melissa Consin Young attended a Trump rally and tearfully thanked Trump for changing her life. She said she proudly stood on stage with Trump as Miss Wisconsin USA in 2005. However, years later she found herself struggling with an incurable illness and during her darkest days, she explained that she received a handwritten letter from Trump telling her “You are the bravest woman I know.” She said the opportunities that she got from Trump and his organizations ultimately provided her Mexican-American son with a full-ride to college. Donald Trump's kindness knows no bounds and his generosity has and continues to touch the lives of people from every sex, race, and religion. When Trump sees someone in need, he wants to help. Any stories like this about Biden?GUNS?: Gun control isn’t about guns; it’s about control. The 2nd Amendment protects the rest in case the politicians ignore our inalienable rights. Trump understands that free people do not ask permission to bear arms; a citizen is armed, a subject or slave is not. As Jefferson observed, “Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not.” The War for Independence would never have happened with gun control. Only a government that is afraid of its citizens tries to control them and “Those who trade liberty for security have neither (John Adams). You only keep those rights which you are willing to fight for. Know guns, know peace, know safety (no guns, no peace, no safety). You don’t shoot to kill; you shoot to stay alive. Yet, 64,999,987 firearms killed no one yesterday. Banning guns because criminals have too many is like castrating yourself because your neighbor has lots of kids - Clint Eastwood.HEALTH REFORM?: During the 3-1/2 years of World War II that started with the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941 and ended with the Surrender of Germany and Japan in 1945, the U.S. produced 22 aircraft carriers, 8 battleships, 48 cruisers, 349 destroyers, 420 destroyer escorts, 203 submarines, 34 million tons of merchant ships, 100,000 fighter aircraft, 98,000 bombers, 24,000 transport aircraft, 58,000 training aircraft, 93,000 tanks, 257,000 artillery pieces, 105,000 mortars, 3,000,000 machine guns, and 2,500,000 military trucks. We put 16.1 million men in uniform in the various armed services, invaded Africa, invaded Sicily and Italy, won the battle for the Atlantic, planned and executed D-Day, marched across the Pacific and Europe, developed the atomic bomb and ultimately conquered Japan and Germany. During this same amount of time, Biden as Vice President couldn't build a functioning health-insurance website!The health care program Biden was involved in included 21 new taxes which further suppressed middle-class income, slowing economic growth. The health care program Biden approved of also forced employers to provide health insurance to all full-time workers or pay a fine, which could be as high as $3,000 per employee, and penalized taxpayers for choosing not to buy health insurance. All this added to the cost of labor, which again had the effect of slowing growth. Consequently, full-time employees were replace with part-timers.So, Trump eliminated Biden’s government-controlled health-care system and forced the largest year-over-year drop in drug prices ever recorded. He also repealing Biden’s Independent Payment Advisory Board, also known as the “death panels.”Just one hundred days after Trump was elected, there were 60% fewer drug price increases, and 54% more price decreases! At least 15 manufacturers committed to lowering drug prices. Trump enacted changes to the Medicare 340B program, saving seniors an estimated $320 million on drugs in one year. The drug aspect had cost Americans 180% of what the Europeans, the Canadians, and the Japanese were paying. Big Pharma was making all their profit here in the United States so they could give sweetheart deals to other countries. The single largest decline in drug prices in 46 years just took place as the FDA approved a record number of generic drugs as alternatives to expensive brand-name medicines. Customers saved a staggering $26 billion. Pushed by Trump, the FDA set a new record for generic drug approvals in 2017, saving consumers nearly $9 billion.Trump extend and expand price transparency throughout health care. Hospitals, insurance companies, and drug companies are now required to disclose real prices to patients. Such competition will drive costs down. His executive order 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. He believes that Americans should never be blindsided by bills for medical services they never agreed to in advance. Trump also made it possible for more employers to form Association Health Plans joining together to affordably provide health insurance to their employees.Trump’s Right to Try lets those who are terminally-ill try treatments that might not normally be legal. It gives these patients a chance to live, the least that can be done when individuals have already been dealt a bad hand. He signed the most comprehensive childhood cancer legislation ever into law. Trump is now providing HIV prevention drugs for free to 200,000 uninsured patients per year for 11 years. He provided nearly $60.7 million for Lupus specific research and education programs.Trump invested more than $1 billion to improve access to health care for 2.5 million people in rural communities across 41 states. He is committed to lowering the cost of healthcare while protecting patients with preexisting conditions.HEMP?: Trump signed a bill making CBD and Hemp legal.HONEST?: During the past four years, Trump fulfilled almost all the promises he made during the primaries, even though he has been attacked and resisted by half the government. This is unheard of! After 47 years, Biden is still running on promises made but never kept. Can you think of just one achievement which Biden can offer? Is plain, pointed but honest speech preferable to polished lies and deception? Some equate Trump to a doctor with a horrible bed-side manner who scolds, “Stop smoking and lose 100 lbs.!” Offended and angry, you come up with 10 reasons why he’s crazy. Eventually, you realize that he’s the only one telling you the truth.HUMAN RIGHTS?: Trump declared a national emergency related to “serious human rights abuse and corruption around the world.” He then imposed sanctions on 13 criminals at large. Trump established the Global Magnitsky Act and the Anti-Trafficking Coordination Team (ACTeam) initiative. Consequently, Federal law enforcement more than doubled the convictions of human traffickers and increased the number of defendants charged by 75% in ACTeam districts. 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. Trump’s DOJ provided grants to organizations that support human trafficking victims.IMMIGRANTS (ILLEGAL)?: Hypocrites Clinton, Obama, Shumer, Biden, and other Democratic leaders repeatedly endorsed building a wall until Trump was elected and committed to doing so. Securing the border is paying off and making our country safer. Trump struck new agreements with Mexico and Central American countries stopping the flood and caravans funded by Soros. The result was 70% fewer apprehensions (lowest in 17 years)! ICE Director Thomas Homan, stated, "the President has done more for border security and public safety than any of the six Presidents I’ve worked for!” Trump is responsible for the hiring of 10,000 Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and agents, and 5,000 more border patrol agents. He also established a Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement (VOICE) office to help those abused by illegal immigrants. We send our troops to defend the borders of foreign countries, but the Democrats won’t defend our own borders! The New York Post reported, “Truth is, the Democrats aren’t leveling with the public about the billions we are already forced to spend on shelters, food, diapers, medical care and child care for migrants sneaking across the border and claiming asylum.” If the gov’t was willing to spend $6 billion on 3,000 miles of walls to protect homeowners from traffic noise, why not $5 billion along the southern border to protect our lives?IMMIGRANTS (LEGAL) EMPLOYEES?: Median incomes for foreign-born workers grew at a greater rate (8.5 percent) than those for native-born Americans (6.2 percent). He is ending ‘chain migration’ where an individual approved can bring along dozens of family members. He withdrew from the U.N. Global Compact on Migration which was a threat to our borders He intends to reward those who enter legally.IMMORAL?: How do we assess the character of anyone outside of how one’s actions affect others? Ought we devalue policies which benefit millions of people, here at home and throughout the world if we dislike the person? When it comes to morality, talk is cheap; actions speak louder than words. Jesus said you would know His followers by their fruit (Mt 7:20). We’re to judge the tree by its fruit.Trump doesn’t drink, smoke, use drugs, or gamble for recreation. Neither does anyone in his family. He hasn’t ordered a 18-year-old female staffer to fellate a senior aide in the White House swimming pool, or exposed himself to staff, or had oral sex with a young female subordinate in the West Wing. Instead, Trump repealed the transgender public school bathroom mandate and regulations that prevented drug testing for unemployment compensation (instituted during Biden’s Vice Presidency).Sure, Trump lacks decorum, dignity, and statesmanship. He is not a politician afraid of offending someone. His only special interest group are American citizens. He calls things like he sees them. Should it matter to you if a fireman drops an "f-bomb" while he's pulling you from a burning building? Would you really care about what came out of his mouth in those moments? Heck no! You, like me, would care about what he was doing. He wasn't sent there to save your soul and you’re not looking to him for spiritual guidance. All you’re thinking in those moments is, "Thank you, Jesus, for sending the fireman!”Ulysses Grant was a crude, vulgar drunk but Lincoln realized that, “I cannot spare this man. He fights.” General Patton wasn’t any better but President Roosevelt needed him. During WWII, Winston Churchill was hated by Parliament whom he taunted and ridiculed. London was bombed every night. Churchill got the things done that were necessary to stop Hitler and comfort the people of Great Britain.Today, Trump, who attended the NY Military Academy, performed in WWE wrestling events, and is in the Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame, yells, “You magnificent bastards, I read your book!” He’s defeating the Left using their own tactics from Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals, destroying HAMAS and ISIS (which Biden said would be around for generations”), battling Antifa, targeting MS13 gangs, forcing China to be honest, getting out of the nuclear deal with Iran, killing Soleimani, and fighting fake news.The days of America being taken advantage of are over. Trump was courageous enough to be the first US President or foreign leader to dine in China’s Forbidden City since the founding of modern China. His meeting in Singapore with the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un shocked the world.Occasional crude language, intemperate tweets, locker-room language, and personal flaws like adultery (reminders of King David) ought not be excused; Biden committed adultery with the wife of another man to whom he is presently married. But personal flaws also ought not distract from how he has blessed so many people who were suffering or in danger. Trump, resisted by the Democrat controlled House of Representatives, nevertheless has managed to pass more legislation to bless us all in his first 100 days than any President since Truman.We are not voting for a minister. Trump is no saint. A vote for Trump is not an endorsement of all his sins but an acknowledgement that God picked him in 2016 to be another Samson when winning that election required a miracle! The GOP was against him. The DNP was against him. Even the media was against him. Sure, Trump has many flaws, but patriotism isn’t one of them.Biden will destroy America as we know it, undoing everything Trump has done. Biden’s deep state whispered to Trump, “You can not withstand the storm!” Trump whispered back, “I am the storm!!” So if you care about morality, vote Biblically as a way of loving your neighbor which makes not voting not an option.This nation can’t afford to have another 40 million evangelicals stay home! God always works through people. Will you let Him work through you this November 3rd? Trump gave up his billionaire lifestyle to be scorned, humiliated, ridiculed, and slandered in order to save this nation.INCOME?: No other President has brought as much wealth and prosperity to African-American, Asian-American, and Latino-American families. Paychecks rose by 3.3 percent between 2016 and 2017, the most in a decade.Real median income for American households increased 6.8 percent in 2019—a jump of almost $4,400 in one year!! “Real median income” takes inflation into account and represents the 50th percentile of American income. What happens to the income for the top 1% won’t move the median income number one bit. From 2009 to 2014, real median income fell overall. Note that now the median or average-income family has seen a gain of $5,003 since Trump came into office! Under George W. Bush, the household income gains were a little over $400, and during Biden’s Vice Presidency the gains (which took 8 years) were $1,043.Trump, in less than three years, created a three times larger gain! He can do it again. The benefits of this economic growth went to the vast majority of American households enabling minorities to find work at higher pay grades while lowering their taxes.JUSTICE?: Don’t you want justices who will uphold the US Constitution? Do you really want judges who, rather than interpret the law as written, would invent rulings according to their personal preferences? Trump has appointed 193 federal judges, including two Supreme Court justices and 51 federal appeals court judges who will follow the law and preserve our freedoms.Trump signed the groundbreaking First Step Act, enacting reforms to make our justice system fairer and help former inmates successfully return to society. Inequities in sentencing disproportionately harm Black Americans. Trump has been promoting second chance hiring to give former inmates the opportunity to live crime-free lives and find meaningful employment. He launched the new “Ready to Work Initiative” to help connect employers directly with former prisoners. He signed the 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund into law.LAW & ORDER?: Most all police organizations have endorsed Trump because they know that if he gets four more years, he’ll drain the swamp and finally put the socialist traitors and child traffickers away for life. Trump’s executive order increased penalties for crimes against police. He enhanced and updated the Project Safe Neighborhoods to help reduce violent crime. Have any law enforcement agencies endorsed Biden?The Wall Street Journal (1/30/20) admitted: “Democrats broke every standard of due process, transparency and fairness in their House investigation, making a mockery of their constitutional duty. They hid the identity of the original accuser, denying Republicans and the country the ability to judge his motives. They held secret depositions, barring more than three-quarters of House members, as well as the press and the American public. They called 18 witnesses, but blocked the president from calling any in his defense. The White House legal team was excluded from the proceedings—prohibited from cross-examining witnesses, denied the ability to introduce any evidence that spoke to the central question of the president’s focus on Ukrainian corruption. In the end, Democrats approved two articles of impeachment that failed to identify a crime.”Trump created a commission on child-trafficking. He put into place Operation Cross Country XI to combat human trafficking, rescuing 84 children and arresting 120 human traffickers.Trump is a strong advocate for your 2nd Amendment rights so that if the police can’t come to your assistance quickly enough, you can still defend those you love.Trump is upholding the immigration laws, ignored by Biden. He ended Biden’s “catch and release” of illegal immigrants. Trump has defunded 300 sanctuary cities that defy ICE and has added 100 more immigration judges.MALE CHAUVINIST?: Trump depended completely on a female campaign manager (Kellyanne Conway) for his 2016 election outcome when he didn’t stand a chance of willing. She became the first female campaign manager in the history of America to win a presidential campaign.Trump appointed Elaine Chao as Sec. of Transportation, Betsy DeVos as Sec. of Ed., Gina Haspel as Dir. of the CIA, and Jovita Carranza as Small Business Admin.Trump signed the Inspiring the Next Space Pioneers, Innovators, Researchers, and Explorers (INSPIRE) Women Act to encourage women to study science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), pursue careers in aerospace, and further advance the nation's space science and exploration. Trump revived NASA and wants a woman to be the first to step foot on the moon in 2024.He gave the job of constructing the Trump Towers to Barbara Res making her the first woman in history to build a skyscraper. He established the Women In Entrepreneurship Act and prioritized women-owned businesses for some $500 million in SBA loans. He got Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accept the United States-Canada Council for Advancement of Women Entrepreneurs and Business Leaders.Women’s unemployment reached its lowest rate in nearly 65 years, dropping to 3.6%. Trump’s economic policies which benefited all classes of Americans, benefited women more than men! Inflation-adjusted earnings for full-time, year-round workers increased by 2.1 percent for men, and 3.0 percent for women. Median incomes for women (7.8 percent) grew more than three times as fast as incomes for men (2.5 percent).That was possible because Trump increased the availability and affordability of child care for mothers, (even during nontraditional work hours and for mothers in school) with a one-time investment of $1 billion. He gave 12 weeks of paid parental leave for millions of federal workers. He increased by $2.4 billion funding for the Child Care and Development Fund which will bless low-income families. His Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit (CDCTC) provides a 20-35% tax credit for child care expenses ($3,000 per child & $6,000 per family), plus Flexible Spending Accounts so that mothers can set aside up to $5,000 in pre-tax dollars to use for child care.Trump implemented the Autism Collaboration, Accountability, Research, Education and Support Act (CARES) allocating $1.8 billion to help mothers with children suffering from autism spectrum disorder.He established the Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment Policy to empower women and girls to participate fully in and equally benefit from the development of their potential. This takes into account the biological differences between males and females and is supported by The Fairness in Women's Sports Act ensuring that only biologically female athletes are permitted to compete in female sports. By restricting male athletes, female athletes can once again have a fair shot at medals and scholarships. Biden would take this away from women! Trump is so pro-women that he has even required airports to provide spaces for breastfeeding moms.MANUFACTURING?: Biden said there were not going to be any more manufacturing jobs; almost 200,000 manufacturing jobs were lost because of his policies. Under Trump, the nation’s top manufacturers have experienced phenomenal growth with an average of 91.8 percent of manufacturers positive about their own firm, compared to an average of 68.6 percent during the last two years of Biden’s service as Vice President. For example, U.S. Steel is now spending $1 billion to upgrade its Mon Valley Works in order to keep the region’s last integrated steel mill operating for decades to come. A combined casting and rolling facility (the first of its kind at any American steel mill) and a cogeneration power plant will have reduced emissions and increased efficiency. During Biden’s Vice Presidency, the entire period from 2001 to 2016, the annualized rate of real GDP growth in the first half of the year averaged a dismal 1.9%.MENTALLY UNSTABLE?: Dr. Keith Abelow, psychiatrist, concludes that, “Donald Trump is stone cold sane. When a man acquires billions of dollars through complex real estate transactions, invests in many countries, goes on to phenomenal success in television and turns his name into a worldwide brand, it is very unlikely that he is mentally unstable. When the same man obviously enjoys the love and respect of his children and his wife, who seem to rely on him for support and guidance, it is extraordinarily unlikely that he is mentally unstable. When the same man walks into the political arena and deftly defeats 16 Republican opponents and then the Democratic heir-apparent to a two-term President’s administration, the odds of that man being mentally unstable become astonishingly thin. And when that very same man attracts to his team the kind of intellect and gravitas represented by Dr Ben Carson, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Secretary of Defense James Mattis, etc., he cannot be mentally deranged. Period.” The stock market doesn’t like instability. Investors, en masse, can take the measure of a man pretty darn well. The stock market sky-rocketed and is doing so again.NASA?: Jump started NASA and established a Space armed forces division.NATIVE AMERICANS?: Trump signed three 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.NATO?: After years of not paying their fair share, NATO Allies will have increased defense spending by $130 billion.OPIOD / DRUG EPIDEMIC?: Trump’s Stop Opioid Abuse and Reduce Drug Supply and Demand introduced new measures to keep dangerous drugs out the United States. He signed the INTERDICT Act into law, enhancing efforts to detect and intercept synthetic opioids. Under Trump, the nation’s deadly opioid epidemic slowed with a 5.1% drop in overdose deaths, with sharper declines in some of the most hard-hit states like OH (24%), KY (17%), WV (9%). U.S. Customs and Border Patrol seized enough fentanyl to kill over 50 million people from a truck that was trying to get past the wall; the biggest fentanyl drug bust in history.ICE HSI seized more than 980,000 pounds of narcotics in FY 2017, including 2,370 pounds of fentanyl and 6,967 pounds of heroin. ICE HSI dedicated nearly 630,000 investigative hours towards halting the illegal import of fentanyl. ICE HSI made 11,691 narcotics-related arrests in FY 2017. DOJ secured its first-ever indictments against Chinese fentanyl manufacturers. DOJ launched their Joint Criminal Opioid Darknet Enforcement (J-CODE) team, aimed at disrupting online illicit opioid sales.POLICING THE WORLD?: Trump resists the elite who get rich off never-ending wars. He believes that America should stay away from costly, endless foreign wars. “The job of our military is not to police the world… It is time for us to get out of these ridiculous Endless Wars, many of them tribal, and bring our soldiers home. We will fight where it is to our benefit, and only fight to win.” He achieved a permanent ceasefire between Turkey and Syria and oversaw a peace treaty in the Middle East between Israel and Arab nations.POVERTY RATE?: The poverty rate declined again in 2019 falling to its lowest rate (10.5 percent) since the federal government started keeping records in 1959. The poverty rates for blacks and Hispanics also fell to all-time lows. The poverty rate even declined for groups like single mothers and individuals with disabilities proving how the broad-based economic boom reduced inequality. This will only happen again if Trump is re-elected.PRAGMATIST?: Trump’s success comes from seeing a problem and understanding how it must be fixed. He doesn't see the problem as liberal or conservative, Republican or Democrat. That is a quality that should be admired and applauded, not condemned. Immigration, the economy, the manipulation of our currency by China isn't a political party issue. It’s a problem that threatens the very fabric and infrastructure of America.RACIST?: “We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population." (Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, assisted by Bill Gates’ dad). Planned Parenthood of Greater New York told CNN, trying to temper this admission, ”It's not complicated. She championed birth control and she supported racist ideas.”Trump, on the other hand, received an award from Jesse Jackson for his lifetime record of hiring minorities. His Surgeon General is black. His Sec. of Housing & Urban Affairs is black. Lynne Patton, a black female executive for the Trump Organization, defended her boss in 2016 against claims that he was a racist and a bigot. She tearfully revealed how she's struggled with substance abuse and addiction for years. Instead of kicking her to the curb, she said the Trump Organization and his entire family loyally stood by her through immensely difficult times.Trump’s police-reform executive order, the First Step Act, released thousands of people from jail. Over 90% of those benefiting from this retroactive sentencing reductions in are Black Americans.He provided funding for states to better anticipate solutions for maternal complications. Presently, Black Americans suffer the most.He has promoted “opportunity zones” that incentivized private investment into marginalized communities.He increased federal funding to historically black colleges and universities by 17 percent — a total exceeding $100 million, more than any President in history. Trump received the Bipartisan Justice Award at a historically black college for his criminal justice reform accomplishments.Not surprisingly, after 3 yrs of delivering on his promises to the Blacks, their support for Trump had risen to 24 percent, according to one February poll. It had been 8%.During Biden's Vice Presidency, the administration removed a two-year Bush-administration program of $85 million to these black institutions. And the 1994 crime law, which Sen. Biden helped author incentivized local police departments to lock up as many blacks as possible, resulting in mass incarceration. He was also responsible for one of the most racially slanted sentencing policies on record in the 1986 crack law which disproportionately punishing African Americans while sparing whites. Nevertheless, if you don’t vote for him, “you ain’t black.” Meanwhile he can enjoy life knowing “some black woman is stocking my grocery shelves.”In contrast to the hypocritical Black Lives Matter, Trump supports black unborn babies, black police officers, black conservatives, and black store owners. All lives matter to him.REGULATORY REFORM?: Trump cut regulation by nearly 50% in 12 months! He rolled back nearly 8 regulations for every new one, saving American taxpayers more than $50 billion. In total, agencies issued 67 deregulatory actions while imposing only three new regulatory actions, a ratio of 22:1. Federal agencies also achieved $8.1 billion in lifetime net regulatory cost savings, the equivalent of $570 million per year.RELIGIOUS RIGHTS? Trump is the most positive president toward religious freedoms in a long time. He expanded enforcement of protections for medical workers with moral or faith-based objections to medical procedures such as abortion. His executive order protects other religious freedoms. Want to see them all go away?RESCUING?: Trump committed $42 million to his budget to expand support for victims of human trafficking and to boost investigations and prosecutions. ICE rescued or identified over 500 human trafficking victims and over 900 child exploitation victims in one year alone.RESTRAINT?: Foreign leaders across the world have treated the coronavirus as an opportunity for unprecedented power grabs. China and South Korea track their citizens digitally. Israel suspended some courts. Hungary’s executive seized emergency authorities. Elections were delayed. Domestically, governors banned children from going to school, banned people from going to church, and closed businesses for weeks and months at a time. Mask mandates were issued. Family gatherings were banned. Tracking of sick individuals was pushed. But not Trump. Ben Shapiro is voting for Trump after not having voted for him in 2016 because, “He’s resisted using the federal government to control everybody’s life during COVID. That’s a big thing. This is the biggest government power grab during my lifetime, and Trump refused to do it.” Trump also responded modestly to the BLM riots that destroyed the downtowns of cities across the country. Both of the previous two presidents were on the promise to move away from interventionist foreign policy. Both clearly failed. Obama launched an invasion of Libya, Yemen, Syria, and Somalia. Obama handed down to Trump more areas of conflict than he inherited from Bush. Trump has invaded no new countries and worked steadfastly to end the two-decade-long war in Afghanistan, under immense pushback from the military-industrial complex. Trump campaigned on pledges to improve the U.S. economy, nominate solid judges, reorient U.S. foreign policy by avoiding global interventions and taking on China, and fight on behalf of Americans who had been ill-served by the D.C. establishment. Voters are used to Republican candidates in particular forgetting their campaign promises. Trump hasn’t forgotten them. With tax reform, tax cuts, and unprecedented deregulation, the Trump administration helped oversee amazing economic improvements, including job and wage growth among all Americans. He has gotten hundreds of federal judges confirmed, including solid Supreme Court justices. One of those battles required amazing fortitude.RUSSIA?: Russia influenced the 2016 election after Hillary sold them 20% of all USA uranium deposits? Saudi Arabia funded 20% of Hillary’s campaign! Trump withdrew from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty because, “For far too long, Russia has violated the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty with impunity, covertly developing and fielding a prohibited missile system that poses a direct threat to our allies and troops abroad.”SAFETY FIRST?: When Biden left office, ISIS had made substantial progress achieving its stated goal of establishing a caliphate, boasting tens of thousands of fighters and territorial control over an area roughly the size of PA, from the gates of Damascus to the oil fields of Iraq. Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city, was occupied. Then, under Trump, they were soon all destroyed. Biden said they’d be a threat for generations but there was nothing to do about it.Trump oversaw the arrest and charge 4,000 MS-13 members, an 83% 1-year increase! He signed three executive orders aimed at cracking down on international criminal organizations. Trump elevated U.S. Cyber Command into a major war-fighting command. Trump enforced red lines against the use of chemical weapons in Syria.SAVING MONEY?: Trump took away 20 years of free vacations (the $2.1 billion to be paid for by taxpayers) which Biden’s running mate had arranged for during his retirement. It was for Obama, 24 members of his family, and his dog (with a dog-sitter). Obama is also going to have to repay the government $214 million for 692 days of vacation during his presidency which include no work but only eating, sleeping, golfing, and other entertainment while Michelle bought what she wanted using the Office of Discretionary Gifting Funds (which is supposed to be used only to buy presents for visiting dignitaries).Trump saved more money by denied the FBI a new building. He saved $700 million with F-35 renegotiations. It was costing $500B to handle illegal immigrants so Trump built the wall for $5.7B.Trump has called for a full audit of the Pentagon and its spending as well as audits of all executive branch agencies. Trump put in place a hiring freeze for Federal civilian employees to stop the further expansion of an already bloated government. He supports English as our official language and dropping the Spanish version of the White House website. Businesses, permitted to do likewise would halve their expenses in this area. Meanwhile, small businesses are now allowed to group together when buying insurance to get a better price.SCAMING THE SYSTEM?: During Biden's Vice Presidency, a scoundrel (if he doesn’t marry his girlfriend and uses his mom’s address to get mail) could get away with buying a 3-bedroom house and moving in, while renting it to his girlfriend. She and his two kids, thanks to Biden’s Section 8, would then receive $900/mo. for rent. Then, she could sign up for his healthcare program getting the scoundrel off the hook for paying for family insurance. Being a single mother, college is free. Under Biden, she could also gets $600/mo. for food stamps, a free cell phone, and free utilities! On separate income taxes, they would both claim head of household over one child to get a $2,000 credit. The girlfriend gets $1800 a month disability for having a "bad back" and never has to work again.This amounted to a free $75,000 a year ($21,600 disability + $10,800 free housing + $6,000 free healthcare + $6,000 free food + $4,800 free utilities + $6,000 Pell grant money + $12,000 college tuition + $8,800) for not marrying the scoundrel.Wonder why our country is $20 trillion in debt while half the population watches the other half work. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation.Trump brought this dishonesty to a screeching halt. Next on his agenda are hundreds of Congressmen. Nancy Pelosi will retire at $174,000 per year for life, plus another $223,500 for serving as Speaker of the House, plus an additional $193,400 for serving as Minority Leader. That's $803,700 every year for life (plus free medical which is not available to the taxpayers)! The average salary for a teacher is $40,065 and $38,000 for a soldier deployed in Afghanistan. Trump will bring back justice.SCHOOL CHOICE?: Trump is committed to school choice because the less privileged would benefit the most from being able to pick the schools they want to attend for safety and educational reasons. He 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. And the failing schools will be forced to improve. It’s a win-win situation. Trump increased funding for school choice by $42 million. Trump’s tax cuts which Biden promises to repeal, allow families to use 529 college savings plans for elementary and secondary education.SECURITY FIRST?: Trump is committed to strengthening our national defense. He increased the military budget (the greatest guarantor of world peace) and is securing our borders. Trump established the Space Force to oversee satellites, space stations, prevent interstellar warfare. The world's No. 1 terrorist leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and General Qassem Soleimani won’t be killing any more Americans.SEX TRAFFICING?: 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.STATES’ RIGHTS?: Trump signed two executive orders giving back about 2 million acres of land to the state of Utah by modifying executive orders implemented during Biden’s Vice Presidency. Trump reduced the federal government’s control of the Bear’s Ear National Monument to just 201,876 acres. He also reduced the Grand Staircase National Monument in Utah from nearly 1.9 million acres to about million.Trump also repealed the mandate implemented during Biden’s vice presidency that forced states to fund Planned Parenthood.STOCK MARKET?: Due to Trump’s policies, the Dow Jones Industrial Average had its best year in its 121-year history creating $5 trillion in new wealth for those who bought stock. It reached the highest levels in history and will come back after COVID to surge to new heights, breaking all records, and making the middle class wealthier than ever.Consider that the Dow broke the record for the fastest 500, 1,000, 2,000, 3,000, 4,000, 5,000, 6,000 and 7,000 point increases between major milestones in the history of the Dow. During Trump’s first year in office, the DOW saw the most all-time stock market closing highs (71) as well as the largest increase in DOW history (4,956 points).SWAMP?: Trump has been attacked in every way possible including 55 assassination attempts and coups. The assault has not slowed because if Trump is reelected, he will finally take the offense and many of the traitors will be arrested, tried, and end up in prison or receive their deserved capital punishment.TAX REFORM?: Trump managed to passage the biggest tax overhaul in 30 years, with some $3.2 trillion in tax cuts along with significant simplification of the tax code. Child tax credit went from $1,000 to $2,000 per child! The Standard Deduction was nearly doubled! The average family of four earning $75,000 saved $2,000! Nearly 60% of the $5.5T tax savings went back to families! Business tax code made American businesses competitive world-wide. $500M in investments returned to the USA in 2018 alone. “Americans don’t just benefit from the lower taxes. They benefit a second time from higher wages generated by a faster-growing economy. Lower taxes for businesses and individuals help fuel more investment and innovation, which means more jobs and higher wages.” (A. Michel in The Daily Signal)TAX RETURN?: Nothing illegal or improper was found on Trump’s tax return. In point of fact, America does not need to see the tax return of a billionaire who became a public servant. America needs to see the tax returns of politicians who became millionaires while supposedly being public servants and lining their pockets!TRADE DEALS?: Trump imposed tariffs on China in response to its forced technology transfer, intellectual property theft, and its chronically abusive trade practices. As a result, Trump secured $250 billion in new trade and investment deals in China and $12 billion in Vietnam. As part of a historic “phase 1” deal, Beijing has agreed to structural reforms in its trade practices and to make substantial purchases of American agricultural products. Due to Trump’s tariffs on steel, aluminum, solar panels and washing machines, 11,000 new jobs have already created.Trump withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, got better deals in the North American Free Trade Agreement, and induced companies like Toyota, Mazda, Broadcom Limited, and Foxconn to come back to the USA and open new plants here.Trump agreed to work with the European Union towards zero tariffs, zero non-tariff barriers, and zero subsides. He finalized a revised trade agreement with South Korea, which includes provisions to increase American automobile exports. He negotiated an historic U.S.-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement to replace NAFTA and negotiated a very favorable U.S.-Japan trade agreement. Trump’s USMCA was a huge win for U.S. workers, farmers, and manufacturers creating 176,000 new jobs.TRAINING?: Trump signed the first Perkins CTE reauthorization since 2006, authorizing more than $1 billion for states each year to fund vocational and career education programs. His executive orders expanded apprenticeship opportunities for students and workers. The Pledge to America’s Workers has resulted in employers committing to train more than 4 million Americans.TRAITOR?: During Biden’s vice presidency, almost $700 million dollars of taxpayer money was used to buy Russian helicopters (strengthening our enemy’s economy) for the Afghan Air Force (strengthening our enemy’s military). $338.3 billion went to illegal immigrants, and our other enemies like Hamas which received $351M; Libya $1.45B; Russia $380M; and Iraq $1.08B. When Trump sent supplies to help Puerto Rico recover, they were hidden in warehouses rather than distributed to those in need. These traitors hoped that the resulting suffering and deaths would make Trump look bad.TRANSPARENCY?: Trump forced the National Archives to made public more than 15,800 documents from its files on President John F. Kennedy’s assassination. Trump has ordered the "complete declassification" of documents exposing the evidence behind the Russia collusion hoax as well as Hillary's email scandal. Once released, these documents will prove that Biden and the FBI (under Comey) ran an illegal spying operation with Hillary Clinton to fraudulently smear President Trump with fictional accusations related to Russia.UNEMPLOYMENT / JOB GROWTH?: Unemployment was lower than ever before in our history and it will drop again! African-American unemployment was at the lowest level ever recorded. Hispanic-American unemployment was also at a historic low. For those without a high school diploma, the unemployment rate fell to its lowest level in nearly 3 decades. Jobless claims were at lowest level in nearly five decades.By June of their 3rd year: Trump v Biden as Vice PresidentJob Approval: 56% 45%.Unemployment rate: 3.6% (lowest in a generation) 9.4%For Asian-Americans 2.1% (lowest ever recorded)There were more job openings than unemployed workers, for the first time ever.Jobs added or lost: + 3.2M - 2.9MThis has been the longest streak of consecutive American job growth in history! Youth unemployment recently reached its lowest level in more than 50 years. Youth unemployment rate of 9.2 percent was the lowest since July 1966. Veterans’ unemployment hit its lowest level in nearly two decades. July 2018’s veterans’ unemployment rate of 3.0 percent matched the lowest rate since May 2001. Unemployment rate for Americans without a high school diploma recently reached a record low. Rate for disabled Americans recently hit a record low. Blue-collar jobs recently grew at the fastest rate in more than three decades. 68% reported receiving a pay increase in the past year. Once COVID is dealt with, Trump can do this again, which Biden in 47 years never could. He’s a politician and doesn’t understand business.VETERANS?: Trump recently signed the National Defense Authorization Act which included the biggest pay raise for our military in a decade. He established the Veterans Appeals Improvement and Modernization Act, the Veterans Educational Assistance Act, the VA Choice and Quality Employment Act, a VA hotline, an “Access and Quality Tool,” and tele-health technology. He created a White House VA Hotline to help veterans, principally staffed by veterans. VA employees are finally being held accountable for poor performance, with more than 4,000 VA employees removed, demoted, and suspended so far. Trump signed measure funding prevention programs for Veteran suicide. Trump gave his entire salary ($400,000) to repair military cemeteries!VICIOUSNESS?: Long before Johnny Depp, Peter Fonda, Kathy Griffin, Robert De Niro, Madonna, Snoop Dogg, and a host of celebrities were vying to fantasize how best to dispatch Trump (shooting? burning? decapitation? fisticuffs? explosives?), Garrison Keillor, Linda Ronstadt, Harold Pinter, George Soros, and other notables competed to find the proper fascist/Nazi simile for George Bush. Did the Republicans do likewise for Biden or Obama? Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean, blustered, “I hate the Republicans and everything they stand for” and “This is a struggle of good and evil. And we’re the good”? But did the Republican chairman sprue such vile comments? Senator Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) called America’s supreme battlefield commander a veritable liar in the middle of a war.Long before Trump became President, didn’t Al Gore libeled Bush’s Internet supporters as “digital brownshirts”? And John Glenn talked of Bush in terms of “It’s the old Hitler business”. Did Trump’s crassness cause Julian Bond to slander the Bush Administration with, “Their idea of equal rights is the American flag and the Confederate swastika flying side by side” or Senator Byrd, to compare the Bush Administration’s legislative efforts to those of the Third Reich? In spite of all of this slam dunking on Bush, he chose not to respond in kind, an example of welcomed and much needed magnanimity.But that only inspired the Democrats to become more unreasonable. I have Democrat friends who can’t even discuss coherently these issues with me.Did Trumps callousness prompt the 2008 campaign rhetoric of “typical white person,” “get in their face” and “If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun, because from what I understand folks in Philly like a good brawl.” Of course not!Should we hold Trump responsible for Obama’s taunt of “you didn’t build that,” and a call for Latinos to “punish our enemies”? Of course not! Whose administration encouraged David Letterman to joke of the statutory rape of Sarah Palin’s 14-year-old daughter who had attended a recent New York Yankees game: “One awkward moment for Sarah Palin at the Yankee game—during the seventh inning, her daughter was knocked up by Alex Rodriguez”? Was essayist Andrew Sullivan, anticipating years in advance Donald Trump’s birther fantasies, when he kept peddling the absurd “truther” conspiracy theory of Sarah Palin faking her own pregnancy?Before Trump was elected, Peter Strzok, the FBI investigator at the center of so many of the FBI’s investigations from 2015 through 2017, wrote off Trump supporters as hillbillies fouling the air of Walmart. For a CNN reporter, Trump’s supporters were toothless nobodies. There is an ample corpus of elite fantasies of swapping out Trump supporters for supposedly more industrious and morally superior immigrants.The point is not to excuse any of Trump’s coarser tweets, but to emphasize that the idea of Trump as the fons et origio of all calumny is absurd. As far as the vitriol that now regularly is heard from Representatives Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), they are simply reflections of a long-standing left-wing viciousness against Israel and Jews, deeply embedded within elements of the Democratic Party. The ‘sudden’ debasement of political discourse and behavior can not be blamed on the Republicans!During Trump’s State of the Union address, none of the Democrat women dressed in white wore an American Flag lapel. They failed to stand and clap for an ICE agent who has saved hundreds of children from human trafficking. They failed to clap for a little girl who beat cancer. It was reminiscent of The League of Nazi Socialist Women who supported Hitler’s dream of a socialist paradise and always went to public events dressed in white (as did the KKK). Pelosi found nothing good in any of the improvements Trump made for our nation and ripped up her copy.WAGES?: Wages will again rise the fastest for low-income workers. CNBC reported, “The recent jump in paychecks has come with an unusual characteristic, as workers at the lower end of the pay scale are getting the greater benefit.” “Average hourly earnings rose 3.4 percent in February from the same period a year ago, according to a Bureau of Labor Statistics. That’s the biggest gain since April 2009 and the seventh month in a row that compensation has been 3 percent or better. It will happen again under Trump.WELFARE?: During Biden's Vice Presidency, the food stamp program expanded to the point where 1 in 5 American families receive food stamps and are beholding to the Federal Government. During Biden’s vice presidency, the federal work requirement for those receiving government money was illegally gutted. The Democrats want to consolidate dictatorial powers by legalize 12 million illegal Mexican immigrants making them beholding to Democrats for free health care, aid to dependent children, food stamps, free education, tax credits, and Social Security which would overwhelm the system and bankrupt America.TRUMP BIDEN while Vice PresidentFood Stamps kept or given away: ? 10.7M(32% increase from 33,490,000) according to the USDA)WHISTLE BLOWERS?: Trump’s Veterans Accountability and Whistleblower Protection Act allows senior officials in the Department of Veterans Affairs to fire failing employees and establish safeguards to protect whistleblowers.The ‘debates’ have been a waste of time. Above are the issues to wrestle with. Do I wish we lived in a time when our president could be “collegial” and “dignified” and “proper”? Of course I do. These aren’t those times. This is a war that socialists have been fighting without opposition for the past 50 years. So, say anything you want about this president - I get it - he can be vulgar, he can be crude, he can be undignified at times. But he fights for America and how can you not want to make your own country great?The failure of God’s redeemed people to vote and to be more involved in politics during the past century has led to our current looming crisis (Jud 9:8-15). Civil government is a divine institution of God that exists to protect the life, liberty, and property of its citizens, enabling them to more effectively advance the Kingdom of God in the earth. Civil leaders are servants of God and His people, His ministers for good (Rm 13:4; Lk 22:25-26). For this to occur, Christians must be involved in selecting good men to office. Select able men of truth who fear God and hate dishonest gain” (Exodus 18:21). “Choose wise, discerning and experienced men” (Deut 1:13). How does Biden conform to this criteria? The only way for evil to prevail is for good people to do nothing. It is inconceivable that God would ordain government and then ask His people to stay out of it. Politics is a form of discipleship, our involvement in which helps shape us into the image of Christ.Sure, politics is evil - just like you and me and everything in this fallen world. "None is righteous, no, not one.” All our choices - not just political ones - are corrupted. Yet, we are to overcome evil with good. Wise policies have brought freedom to tens of millions of oppressed peoples around the world. Wise policies have welcomed the "poor, huddled masses yearning to be free," ~ the right of people to live their lives and carry out their business without the threat of unlawful search and seizure. All of these came about only when good people got involved in politics and voted.Liberals considered Biden a success as Vice President, having achieved the highest poverty level in American history, the high national debt, a record numbers of mass shootings, and a record numbers of people on food stamps, plus the lowest economic growth in American history, all during 8 years of war. Do you want to go back to that? If Biden wins, we become a socialist nation like the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic, and the National Socialist Party (Nazi). It’s unlikely we’ll ever get our freedoms back then.