Current Affairs General US politics (ie, not POTUS related)

[DanEFC92]

 

[tsubaki]

Your campaign manager leaving within a week of lauch is a pretty big red flag.

I would still wager a handful of beans that her campaign runs better than Harris' or (especially) Bookers'.

 

[summerisle]

Get your DNA checked.

 

[verreauxi]

Get your DNA checked.

This is brilliant!!!

 

[verreauxi]

Looks like Virginia’s (Democrat) governor is heading for a resignation

https://www.washingtonpost.com/gdpr...db0c92dc17_story.html?&utm_term=.95b02e482209

 

[wm02]

Looks like Virginia’s (Democrat) governor is heading for a resignation

https://www.washingtonpost.com/gdpr-consent/?destination=/local/virginia-politics/va-gov-northams-medical-school-yearbook-page-shows-men-in-blackface-kkk-robe/2019/02/01/517a43ee-265f-11e9-90cd-dedb0c92dc17_story.html?&utm_term=.95b02e482209

Yup. I’d be surprised if he makes it to next Friday. He reminds me so much of a guy who lived in my freshman hall in college who has advanced quite far in the Democratic Party in Virginia and would spout the most vile racist nonsense. God help us if he becomes Governor someday

 

[devogue]

Get your DNA checked.

Look at the state of those scruffs

 

[mezzrow]

Yup. I’d be surprised if he makes it to next Friday. He reminds me so much of a guy who lived in my freshman hall in college who has advanced quite far in the Democratic Party in Virginia and would spout the most vile racist nonsense. God help us if he becomes Governor someday

 

[Rook]

Desperate And In Debt: 30% Of Millennials Would Sell An Organ To Get Rid Of Student Loans

 

[verreauxi]

Desperate And In Debt: 30% Of Millennials Would Sell An Organ To Get Rid Of Student Loans

The state of higher education in the USA is deplorable. Administrators and football coaches make up to 1 million a year, while students accrue 100K debt for a Political Science degree.

 

[Rook]

The state of higher education in the USA is deplorable. Administrators and football coaches make up to 1 million a year, while students accrue 100K debt for a Political Science degree.

1 million for a coach? Try 3-8M/year for the top 60 football schools. Assistant coaches make 1M/year (a few 2M/year).

 

[mezzrow]

This just keeps getting better. Straight from Zero Hedge, so it must be truth, da?

Reference the gif above as a guide.

Here's the buried lede:
If Northam, Fairfax and Herring step down, the governor's chair would fall to the Republican Speaker of the House, Kirk Cox.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019...ginia-democrat-admits-wearing-blackface-party

 

[mezzrow]

 

[BlueTX]

1 million for a coach? Try 3-8M/year for the top 60 football schools. Assistant coaches make 1M/year (a few 2M/year).

To be fair, the top 60 football schools generate enough revenue from athletics to support paying coaches such salaries. But I certainly understand the larger point.

Here in Texas the issue for students has been an unwillingness by the government to continue subsidizing tuition as they did before. When I was in school the state subsidized all public universities to the tune of around 80% of the cost and the state set rates for tuition. Now the schools set their own rates and subsidy has shrunk to a fraction of what it once was. My son's final semester tuition was 15 times what I paid in the 80s. Even so, it is still relatively inexpensive to attend college in Texas v most state schools. He had several friends paying out of state tuition rates of $35,000 per year (before housing costs) because it was cheaper than in-state rates back home.

Criminally stupid public policy.

 

[riddick]

This just keeps getting better. Straight from Zero Hedge, so it must be truth, da?

Reference the gif above as a guide.

Here's the buried lede:
If Northam, Fairfax and Herring step down, the governor's chair would fall to the Republican Speaker of the House, Kirk Cox.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019...ginia-democrat-admits-wearing-blackface-party

I don't think Fairfax will step down.