Reddit Politics Summary Saturday Nov 18th 17

What is this?

This is a digest of the top posts on reddit/r/politics over the last 24 hours.
Once a day my bot wakes up and summarizes each post and puts this message into steem. If you like it please vote :)

The one man in America who continues to be “safe” from sexual harassment allegations is the president

(26611) (comments)

• How many predatory local politicians or minor business magnates are safe because, like Trump, someone needs them? How many more men are safe because they’re so obscure that nobody cares but their victims? And what happens when the #MeToo movement starts to lose steam, as it inevitably will? Yes, the ground has shifted. Senate leader Mitch McConnell said this week, "I believe the women" who accused Moore, and that he "should step aside." But asked if he believes the women who accused Trump, McConnell refused to answer. This was published in the weekend edition of the Quartz Daily Brief, our news summary that’s tailored for morning delivery in Asia, Europe and Africa, or the Americas.

Most Americans blame Donald Trump for Obamacare problems, poll finds

(16927) (comments)

Trump About to Be Hit With a Legal Tidal Wave

(7132) (comments)

• The people involved in selling those units for Trump have been accused and in several cases convicted of everything from pimping to working in the human slave trade to kidnapping to laundering money for South American drug kingpins. If you haven’t already, you should set aside some time to read about the blockbuster from NBC News and Reuters on the astounding criminality surrounding the Trump Ocean Club International Hotel and Tower project in Panama City.
• But the other, more innocent explanation is that they’re, as Gerson puts it, "a group of people for whom truth, political honor, ethics and integrity mean nothing." In other words, they’re collectively so divorced from normal standards of ethics and legality that they’re incapable of imagining how to behave in an innocent manner, even when they didn’t actually have the competence to pull off some grand conspiracy.
• The one question everyone wants to know the answer to is why Donald Trump treats Vladimir Putin so kindly and everyone else in the world with so little respect.

Graduate students face alarming tax hike that will undermine US research and economy.

(3780) (comments)

• The bill would also eliminate a tax benefit that allows people with low incomes to deduct student-loan interest from their taxable income.Higher taxes could be one more disincentive to pursuing an advanced degree, given the already bleak prospects in an oversaturated academic job market and the flat budgets at science-funding agencies. Rhetoric about valuing US competitiveness and entrepreneurship is undermined by actions that do not account for the realities of how those dreams are achieved.The current effort to overhaul the US tax system, if successful, would mark the first major tax reform since 1986. While classmates enter the workforce and start putting money into retirement plans, students who enrol in graduate school face many years of long hours, teaching requirements and weekends running experiments that can’t wait. PDF version US Speaker of the House, Republican Paul Ryan, speaks at a news conference on tax reform.Credit: Alex Wong/Getty Doing a PhD is a classic exercise in delayed gratification. This example is extreme — most graduate schools’ tuition fees are closer to $16,000 — but it is safe to say that many students could see their tax rate rise. But if the result penalizes bright, underpaid young people, what will be "cut, cut, cut" will include the positive economic and social impact of scientific research in the United States.

Anti-LGBTQ Lawmaker Caught in His Office Having Extremely Pro-LGBTQ Sex With a Man

(2402) (comments)

• Wes Goodman in his Columbus, Ohio, office at the Riffe Center, planting his flag having consensual sex with a man who was not an employee. The person told the Ohio House chief of staff, who told the Speaker of the House Cliff Rosenberger.

As We Rethink Old Harassers, Let’s Talk About Clarence Thomas

(2057) (comments)

Russian mega yacht docks at Port of Palm Beach during Trump visit

(1891) (comments)

Trump advisers only show him polls to make him feel good: report

(1575) (comments)

r/politics Against Malaria and for charity - Subreddits Against Malaria Foundation fundraising drive

(758) (comments)

• If you have a favorite charity or cause that you'd like to give a shout out to, now is the time! For our purposes, non-partisan means anything classified in the vein of a US 501 - that means no organizations that endorse political candidates, conduct political lobbying or are otherwise are actively engaged in the political process.
• AMF has received the 'Top Charity' rating from GiveWell in five of the last six years, as well as 'Top Charity' ratings from Giving What We Can and The Life You Can Save for six years running.
• There were times when he would be out for a week or two at a time because he would get so sick to not be able to function.

Saturday Morning Political Cartoon Thread

(144) (comments)

• You are obviously correct that not everyone in Alabama thinks like that, but when you're top elected representative says it, they are representing the state's opinion.
• If it were Garrison, every missile would have a label, Putin's tie would have a label, the diaper would have a label, the power cord would have a label, and Trump would be twenty feet tall and ripped like Arnold in the 70s.
• Tweedle seemed to go into detail then would go "whatever, anyway" like telling a story of a jokingly bad date who sucked in bed type level.