Posted on 05/07/2019 5:17:55 AM PDT by billorites
A crowd broke out into chants of "PowerPoint, PowerPoint, PowerPoint," at Democratic presidential hopeful and entrepreneur Andrew Yang's latest Seattle rally last week.
The chant broke out during a Friday rally at Gas Works Park in Seattle. Yang was reiterating his promise to become the first president to use PowerPoint in the State of the Union address when the audience responded by repeating "PowerPoint," according to GeekWire.
"I'm going to be the first president to use PowerPoint at the State of the Union, how do you feel about that?" Yang said. "Yes, this is the nerdiest presidential campaign in history!"
Yang is one of many contenders for the 2020 Democratic nomination and faces an uphill battle in the primary.
He is facing candidates with a much higher profile and whose campaigns are heavily funded, including former Vice President Joe Biden, Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) and former Rep. Beto O'Rourke (D-Texas).
Yang has called for universal basic income and lowering the voting age to 16 as part of his presidential platform.
Last week it was reported that Yang is working on a plan to give out $1,000 per month to two families in New Hampshire and Iowa as a way of demonstrating the benefits of his "Freedom Dividend" plan.
The example is intended to be humorous (I think). It's basically Lincoln's Gettysburg Address reduced to 2 PowerPoint slides.
No wonder Christianity got off to such a slow start ... no PowerPoint.
Yep. Powerpoint is about as boring as it gets. On the plus side, this is his “Please Clap” moment.
Millennials like power points as much as Michelle’s lunch program.
So, his plan is to give 16 year-olds a universal basic income ...
That ought not turn into a problem.
I have several bitter clingers of PowerPoint still around.
They insist on Lotus Notes being kept around too.
NPCs
No wonder Christianity got off to such a slow start ... no PowerPoint.
I’m a huge believer in images. A picture really is worth a thousand words. While talking about the dead sea scrolls, the background was a photo of the area and some of the cave entrances. It gives people something to help glue the knowledge to their brain.
That could be even worse!
Well done!
A good deal of time when I have sat through a PowerPoint presentation, they have problems getting the computer to connect with the projector. I hope President Yang’s people test that out beforehand.
There are several types of temperament. People with the rational/melancholy type of temperament appreciate figures and lists and other forms of order and organization of information. They would not find power point presentations boring or a waste of time.
“white board”
Do we remember blackboards and chalk?
Can relate on the fonts issue, that’s a pain in the butt.
Word is a whole ‘nother can of worms. Most people don’t know how to really use it. If you aren’t using styles rigorously in any serious document, and don’t edit with paragraph marks turned on (formatting is carried in the paragraph marks), you probably don’t know how to properly use Word. If I’m dealing with a document someone else has created, I can tell in about 2s how Word-adept they are, or are not, by turning paragraph marks on and doing a quick inspection.
Agree on Word vs. PowerPoint.
Death by Powerpoint - it’s a real saying.
What a bunch of weirdos!
What an idiot.
Sounds a lot like bribery to me.
I a traditionalist. I would use Harvard Graphics or WordPerfect Presentations.
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