She can’t actually because the charitable write off isn’t a penny for penny deduction. She can take half of it as a write. And it depends on exactly how it’s issued to her. If it comes as income for her then she can deduct half of it and carry it forward. However she typically makes less than $300k so the next year…

No she doesn’t. Her financials showed her earnings as a bit below $300k. So she can only deduct half that. She can carry it forward but she’d need 56 years before she could write it all off.

I totally agree that we should not act as though Trump’s behavior is the bar for acceptable. We should be better than him.

Actually I’ve only seen it being floated by either apologists who say this is why Barron and Melania have to stay in NYC or liberal who say “well if he is autistic then I can understand the concern.” I haven’t seen anyone throwing it out like it’s an insult.

Educated white men still went for him something like 56%. And educated white women were like 38% I think? Clinto got 54% but he didn’t get all the rest. Now yes he cleaned up with uneducated whites with 62% of uneducated white women and a whopping 72% of uneducated white men. But he did pretty well among white people…

Well 100 million+ are too young to vote so there’s that. So it’s really more like about 140 million voted out of 200 million. It’s not fantastic, but it’s better than half.

Yeah those same predictions showed the whole map if only women voted and of course we know how that turned out. :-/ The October 25th maps were terribly wrong. Now she got 55% of the millennial vote and 50% of the 30-44 vote. But those are pretty small margins.

Yes exactly that. They can’t handle anything extra at all.

Yes it’s an issue a lot of my friends have had as well with their teens who have mental health issues and medical conditions. It’s just a whole new level. When her school called me and told me they needed me to take her to be evaluated the first thing I thought was “oh holy shit how are they going to manage this?” My…

I think perhaps you misunderstood the situation. She was medically stable. That was not a concern. She also did not require medical treatment for the self harm she had done. She was taking additional doses of her regular prescribed medications in hopes of dying. Fortunately she did not actually harm herself by doing…

The thing is that’s not even true. It looks true because of the winner takes all system. But I live in MS, we’re usually considered pretty red, maybe you’ve heard. Even here Hillary got 40% of the vote and Trump got 58%. And that’s the case in a lot of “red” states. Sure he won them, even won them comfortably, but not…

It was really disasterous. To make things worse they said in front of my child that if I cared for her I would do this. Screamed it at me in fact. I would never have left her had they not made certain assurances which it turned out they were totally unable to keep. Then they simultaneously blamed me for her attitude…

I’ll join the “it depends” chorus. My child was recently hosptialized for depression and self harm. They also have a severe medical condition that needs constant monitoring and care. They were basically completely unequipped to handle my child’s medical needs. She knew it and it was both freaking her out and she was…

Actually she went even farther and said she thought Clinton would be worse than Trump. They continued to use that extremist language right up until the end as well. So I’m right there with you, I think she’s now thinking perhaps she was mistaken in that whole “worse than Trump” thing after watching a couple of weeks…

I first checked in when she was still quite a bit below $2 million (I think around $1.75 mill) and that language was already there. I can’t swear what it said right at the beginning but at that point it was clear that $2.5 mill would only cover filing fees and that more would be needed. It didn’t seem dodgy at all.

I agree with your overall thought but Persnickety says not much could have been done since the SCOTUS struck down those protections. Also worth noting that many of the areas with crucial minority vote suppression efforts were in rust belt/midwest states that were never under those protections to begin with.

Well that’s just crazy Jill. Johnson maybe. I think more of his were Republicans who couldn’t stand to vote for a democrat and couldn’t stand to vote for Trump either. But he’s a Libertarian, that makes sense. Jill Stein was a Clinton alternative, not a Trump alternative.

1.3 million votes? They’re separated by just over 27k votes.

That’s because they are going to do a recount, but none have taken place. The first request was filed today.

Ah I had missed that since it just happened. :/