StrangeSox

QUOTE (bmags @ Feb 28, 2017 -> 03:15 PM) It's really hard to win the "doctors deserve to be paid less" argument, though. It's especially tough given the huge amounts of student loans they can point to. $500k isn't uncommon for someone at the end of residency.

President Trump suggests anti-Semitic threats across U.S. are coming from within Jewish community w

Betsy DeVos's understanding of HBCU's seems a bit lacking, and trying to use them to push "school choice" is pretty bizarre.

Leaping to West Coast: 29 Bomb Threats Against Jewish Targets Across U.S. in Fifth Wave

Even more troubling, though: Adrian Carrasquillo ✔ @Carrasquillo The Trump administration is said to want to avoid lawsuits on sanctuary cities and wants to overwhelm w/ enforcement https://www.buzzfeed.com/adriancarrasquillo...erm=.tfKRynXWMA … 3:48 PM - 23 Feb 2017 · Washington, DC

"It can't happen here" "It can't happen here" I continue to insist as liberal democracy is undermined and the country transforms into authoritarian regime. e: buzzfeed news and politico were also kept out of the briefing

Trump lawyer pushed pro-Russia deal for Ukraine, politician claims Meanwhile, turns out the White House contacted the FBI to ask that they deny all these stories about Trump's connections to Russia: and Trump continues to all but confirm that the allegations are real with his addled early morning tweets

Steve bannon spoke today about his daily war to destroy the federal government. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/top...b643_story.html

ICE manhunt forces passengers on domestic flight to show their papers to exit flight. https://news.vice.com/story/ice-manhunt-for...domestic-flight

That is the scariest, but the most "wtf?" was the guy who is saying that Trump "got him a job" even though he's still unemployed but decided to enroll in a fundamentalist university. What?

"It's the Power That Does Something to Me" Dispatches from the Saturday night Trump rally. What do you do when a good portion of the country has completely and willfully deluded themselves?

Trump Team’s Growth Forecasts Far Rosier Than Those of CBO, Private Economists

The AP has posted the full "deportation squad" memo http://interactives.ap.org/2017/nat-guard-...=AP_Interactive

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Feb 17, 2017 -> 12:14 PM) I have a Utah 529 and just stick it in an age allocated fund. Put it on a monthly withdrawal for both kids. Figure start while they are young. At some point as the asset pool grows, I'll probably pull away and keep other assets in my name (but in an earmarked account for them) for the pure reason I don't want too much risk in the sense that if something were to happen to them or they ended up not going to college? Obviously funds could then get used for grand kids, etc. I know one thing...I want my kids to be responsible and work hard and be kind (and obviously be healthy), but I also want them to not to have to start their post-education life with a bunch of debt. I want them to have the best opportunity to succeed...this doesn't mean they shouldn't learn the value of the dollar (as that will be critical) and I'll want them to work through and build up that work ethic from a young age, but I don't want them graduating with college debt. why Utah?

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Feb 17, 2017 -> 12:14 PM) Of course Nixon had an insane final year but we were simply dealing with criminal behavior. With this guy, it's surreal. He cannot even answer a straightforward question. It's almost as if we grabbed some random, angry, old man from someone's basement with a 7th-grade level education and asked him to be our president. Nixon was pretty much insane and drunk very often towards the end of his Presidency. That was the end, though, when everything was 100% definitely crashing down around him. Not the end of his first month.

It's pretty insane to see people who's reaction to the press conference yesterday is that Trump somehow came away from it looking good and the media looking bad. There's a sizable core of his supporters who are apparently immune to reality, and the conservative media as a whole just reinforces it.

my boss's 2yo is super into nature documentaries, we're hoping to replicate that somehow

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Feb 17, 2017 -> 10:06 AM) AP () — — Trump administration considers mobilizing as many as 100,000 National Guard troops to round up unauthorized immigrants. The only word here is kristallnacht https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/fe...-national-guard This is extremely f***ed up. The White House is denying it, but having hard documents and sources describing it being circulated indicates they're just flatly lying again.

Not sure if this is the right thread, but what are people doing for college savings? Are 529 plans worth it? Anything else we should be considering?

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Feb 17, 2017 -> 08:04 AM) I cannot believe this poll exists. I can't wait to see the data that's cherry picked off of it. It'll be email addresses and nothing else. It's a crappy push poll to build up donor rolls.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Feb 14, 2017 -> 09:21 AM) DARK ESSAYS BY WHITE HOUSE STAFFER ARE THE INTELLECTUAL SOURCE CODE OF TRUMPISM On February 2, the guessing ended when the Weekly Standard revealed Anton as the author. More crucially, the magazine also revealed that Anton had just been hired as the senior director of strategic communications at the NSC and accurately described him as “the leading conservative intellectual to argue for the election of Donald Trump.” This cast Anton’s five-month-old essay, as well as other articles he has written, in a new light — they are virtually the only attempt by a Trump insider to present a holistic explanation of what his presidency stands for and seeks to accomplish. The outing of Anton has inadvertently exposed the intellectual source code of Trumpism. Of course, Trump and his senior aides have issued a steady outpouring of startling statements and tweets about the administration’s ideas and plans. There’s also been a flurry of radical executive orders and appointments of cabinet officers whose backgrounds — as billionaires or Christian warriors or civil rights opponents — provide alarming data points. A number of officials have written crude and inflammatory books in years past, such as Michael Flynn, the retired general who heads the NSC. And, yes, there’s the case of Steve Bannon, the former Breitbart executive who is Trump’s senior adviser. But nobody in the administration has drawn up a real-time ideological blueprint to explain the intentional chaos of what’s happening under Trump — except, as it now turns out, Michael Anton, whose radical theories have been compared to those of a German philosopher named Carl Schmitt, who helped lay the legal foundations of the Nazi Party. Turns out he's a big racist too, shocking I know. https://www.yahoo.com/news/michael-anton-is...-211930901.html

It's probably just a form to gather contact info, nobody is going to look at the actual responses

ADL's statement on Trump's avoidance of antisemitism questions ATTN: BRETT!!! We're officially kicking off the 2020 campaign on Saturday, so no more appointments for Trump!

NYT has a full transcript and video up https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/16/us/polit...yp=cur&_r=0

I don't know if it's getting lost in the sea of insanity that was today's press conference, but Trump's answer to the black reporter who asked him about meeting with the CBC was pretty disgusting https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedNews/status/832...src=twsrc%5Etfw