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Demovictory9's JournalTrump makes childlike statements about today's shootings
The president added that “the world is a violent world.”
“You think when you’re over it, it just goes away,” Trump said. “But then it comes back in the form of a mad man—a whacko.”
Trump added that prior to taking office he “watched instances like this,” calling it a “shame.”
“But it’s even tougher when you’re the president of the United States,” Trump said. “You have to watch this kind of a thing happen, and it’s so sad to see.”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-calls-for-death-penalty-protection-inside-synagogue-after-shooting
These Americans fled the country to escape their giant student debt
These Americans fled the country to escape their giant student debt
He left for Ukraine, she's in Japan and another lives in a jungle in India.
These borrowers point to their student debt as the reason they couldn't make it in America.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/26/he-moved-to-a-jungle-in-india-to-escape-his-student-debt--and-hes-not-alone-.html
Chad Haag considered living in a cave to escape his student debt. He had a friend doing it. But after some plotting, he settled on what he considered a less risky plan. This year, he relocated to a jungle in India. "I've put America behind me," Haag, 29, said.
He now lives in a concrete house in the village of Uchakkada for $50 a month. His backyard is filled with coconut trees and chickens. "I saw four elephants just yesterday," he said, adding that he hopes to never set foot in a Walmart again.
His debt is currently on its way to default. But more than 9,000 miles away from Colorado, Haag said, his student loans don't feel real anymore.
"It's kind of like, if a tree falls in the woods and no one hears it, does it really exist?" he said.
The philosophy major concedes that his student loan balance of around $20,000 isn't as large as the burden shouldered by many other borrowers, but he said his difficultly finding a college-level job in the U.S. has made that debt oppressive nonetheless. "If you're not making a living wage," Haag said, "$20,000 in debt is devastating."
He struggled to come up with the $300 a month he owed. The first work he found after he graduated from the University of Northern Colorado in 2011 — when the recession's effects were still palpable — was on-again, off-again hours at a factory, unloading trucks and constructing toy rockets on an assembly line. He then went back to school to pursue a master's degree in comparative literature at the University of Colorado Boulder. After that, he tried to make it as an adjunct professor, but still he could barely scrape a living together with the one class a semester he was assigned.
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Moving to another country to escape student debt is risky, experts say. If the person wants or needs to return to the United States, they'll find their loan balance has only grown while they were gone, thanks to compound interest, collection charges and late fees.
Although the Education Department typically can't garnish someone's wages if they're working for a company outside of the United States, it can take up to 15 percent of their Social Security benefits when they start collecting.
"The loans do not disappear when you become an expat," said Mark Kantrowitz, a student loan expert.
Blasey Ford's quotes from Kavanaugh testimony spray-painted across Yale campus
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/christine-blasey-ford-yale-law-school-graffiti_us_5bcdf677e4b0d38b587abe4c“There’s still a lot of anger and disappointment in the halls” over Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation, a student there said.
https://twitter.com/RayOfLaurel/status/1054729306046451713
Later on Monday, it appeared that the paint was washed away, but other quotes from Ford’s testimony were spotted cropping up elsewhere on the Yale campus:
https://twitter.com/pabloescobarnes/status/1054444930322579462
Raymond said that since the hearings, the walls inside the law school “have been papered with fliers that people have filled out with why they’re ‘demanding better:’ better from the judiciary, better from [Yale Law School], better from our leaders, better for survivors.”
“But this is different. Something about the permanence of paint speaks to how deeply betrayed and disappointed people feel,” she went on. “There’s still a lot of anger and disappointment in the halls of [Yale Law]. I think in particular, a lot of female students feel very fundamentally betrayed. But also very determined to change things for the better.”
“One thing you learn in law school is that process affects results,” Raymond said, adding that the past few weeks have been “a reminder that the processes that put people in power aren’t equally accessible and don’t value people —women, people of color, and people from non-elite backgrounds particularly — equally.”
Republicans are mischaracterizing nearly all their major policies. Why?
da. The question is why. If they genuinely believe their policies are correct, why not defend them on the merits?
Consider the GOP tax cuts. Last year, Republicans said their bill would primarily benefit the middle class, pay for itself and raise President Trump’s taxes, among other claims.
Not one of these contentions is remotely true.
A more honest defense — and one occasionally revealed via accidentally-told-the-truth Kinsley gaffes — might have been something like: We want to let rich people keep more of their money, regardless of the cost to Uncle Sam. We want this both because we (unlike most of the public) think that’s fair, and also because our donors are demanding a return on their investment in us. Plus, maybe it’s a good thing to reduce government revenue; that gives us motivation to “starve the beast” and cut the safety net, which we think is a drag on the economy that protects people from the consequences of their poor life choices.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/republicans-are-mischaracterizing-nearly-all-their-major-policies-why/2018/10/25/138dff92-d891-11e8-a10f-b51546b10756_story.html?utm_term=.179f018444a1
Pile of leaves. Pile of leaves.
https://twitter.com/ClintFalin/status/1055538301845864449DeSantis keeps referring to Gillum as "Andrew".
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1055561205971066880YES
I listened to the whole Gillum/DeSantis debate wondering why Rudy Giuliani is still "Mr. Mayor" 20 years later but a black man is "Andrew" when he's currently mayor of Florida's capital citySeth Abramson added,
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Gillum calls on DeSantis to stop calling him "Andrew" and show him more "respect"
http://hill.cm/2xwptpF
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