StrangeSox

Imagine we'll see a repeat of this in Alabama

Lyman's the reporter, quoting Zeigler.

Trump's bodyguard testified that the Russians offered Trump five prostitutes when he was in Moscow in 2013, but swears he turned them down. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-...ed-down-n819386 Trump absolutely does that type of stuff. Piss tape is real.

what the f*** is it with these guys and jerking off in front of women who don't want to be there

"what's the big deal about child molestation?" Family Values Evangelicals are going to stick behind Moore just like they stuck behind Trump

Alabama has a sore-loser law so Strange can't even run as a write-in.

Louis C.K. Crossed a Line Into Sexual Misconduct, 5 Women Say https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/09/arts/tel...l?smid=tw-share

Portman's put out the strongest of the GOP statements thus far: The rest of them have all said "if true" without clearly stating, like Portman does here, that they believe the allegations are true or are likely to be true. WaPo's got 3 people on the record and 30+ sources. One thing to keep in mind is that Moore is a crazy fundamentalist asshole that nobody in the Senate, D or R, wants to actually deal with. Especially McConnell. They can't remove him from the ballot, but maybe they launch a Luther Strange write-in campaign? It's still a huge longshot, but a D taking Sessions' seat would be Peak 2017.

Alabama law doesn't allow Moore to step down at this point, not that he would. Murkowski is allegedly talking to Strange about running a write-in campaign.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/eco...omepage%2Fstory The GOP Senate is about to unveil it's own tax plan. It delays the corporate tax cuts until 2019, eliminates the state and local tax deductions*, and keeps the mortgage interest deduction. *for people. businesses still get to deduct them.

sounds like there's some allegations coming down the pipe about Louis C.K.

Breitbart's already defending him

Even then, we're barely a month away from the biggest mass shooting in US history and only a few days off of another one of 25+. How can you say "one a year" in November 2017? Or maybe people really have forgotten Las Vegas that quickly.

WaPo found this woman while reporting on another story. She's a Republican Trump voter. And it's not just one.

It's unfortunate that they haven't bothered to enforce antitrust laws against vertical integration in decades, but it does make this one particular instance stick out especially when they're allowing the Sinclair-Tribune deal to sail through that will bring sub-Fox News level of right wing propaganda to your local news.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Nov 9, 2017 -> 12:22 PM) The Evangelicals will find an excuse to ignore this. See: all of the incest molestation s*** with the Duggars

Roy Moore, the twice-removed Alabama SC Justice fundamentalist Christian bigot, likes 'em young Woman says Roy Moore initiated sexual encounter when she was 14, he was 32

So Much Winning

Reminder that John Kelly is an awful person who wants to deport as many people as possible and allow in "between 0 and 1" refugees. White House chief of staff tried to pressure acting DHS secretary to expel thousands of Hondurans, officials say

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Nov 9, 2017 -> 08:30 AM) Gary Cohn: ‘The Most Excited Group Out There Are Big CEOs, About Our Tax Plan’ He's also unironically using the term "trickle down," which was a pejorative aimed at Reagan's nonsense tax policies. Gary Cohn: Trickle-down is good for the economy "trickle down" does not actually work, and Harwood does a pretty good job throughout the interview of pointing out how badly they're lying about who the tax plan really benefits. This part highlights that Gary Cohn has no idea how marginal tax rates actually work The rest of it is pretty good and strong pushback on how heavily this tax cut plan is targeted towards the very wealthy, despite their protestations otherwise, and how basically every objective economist is calling bulls*** on their projections of how much it'll cost and how much it'll impact wages and jobs.

It doesn't even make sense. If this were somehow impacting people who actually are taking out tens or hundreds of thousands in loans for grad school, maybe it makes sense to talk about disincentivizing that somehow (but they're already taking out huge amounts, why would this tax increase discourage them from taking out just a bit more?) But this is specifically about taxing people who aren't paying tuition for grad school, and who are being paid by the school for their work there as a TA. There's lots of things broken in higher ed with an over reliance on overworked TA's and now adjunct "lecturers," but this will only make things worse. Instead of the bright young kid who got a fully funded PhD program spot at MIT, they're going to have to turn it down because they can't afford to pay taxes on that $60k tuition waiver. Or they'll have to take out loans to pay the taxes, the exact opposite of what we should want. edit: wonder if this would apply to athletic scholarships, too

Breaking with longstanding US Presidential tradition of taking questions from the press in China as a message about free speech and free media, Trump lets China dictate that no questions be asked. https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/928494673668296704 Remember when he was going to get so tough on China, declare them a currency manipulator and kick off a trade war?

This is specifically taxing tuition waivers for grad students who wouldn't be piling up debt because they have tuition waivers. These are for funded grad positions, not people taking out six figure loans. This makes grad school much more expensive, impossibly so for many people, and cuts off one of the few avenues for real economic mobility. I dunno, I think intentionally crippling our institutions of higher learning is really, really bad idea that's going to bite this country in the ass hard in the coming decades.

....why?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Nov 3, 2017 -> 03:14 PM) This would also be a gigantic tax increase (10-20% of total income increase) on every graduate student in the country. Huge cost to higher education. I didn't realize exactly how bad this was until this morning. It's not just taxing whatever stipend you get for being a TA, maybe $15k a year. It's taxing tuition waivers, too. So if you're going to grad school that'd normally cost $30k but that is waived for various reasons, you're now going to be taxed on that $30k. This is going to make going to grad school essentially impossible for a lot of people. e.g. Graduate Students Say GOP Tax Plan Could Increase Their Taxes by Nearly 300% That's on top of eliminating student loan interest deductions. Gotta keep that carried interest loophole and cut estate taxes, though! Cartoon villainy.