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Not just after moving in…we had lived together for 6 years. Married for 4. But this thing that surprised me turned out to be the undoing of our relationship as well as the undoing of my sanity. I'm still picking up the pieces 6 years later.I should have seen it coming when, on our wedding night, she said “we're married now, we're not supposed to have sex as often”…I hoped it was a joke, so I took it that way.Little did I know….So four years later, we have a son and another on the way. I wait on her hand and foot and do everything willingly at her beck and call. She is always snappy about something, nothing is ever right. Now I figure out she was doing this to keep my self-esteem low. By this point, she has started fights with everyone in my family, distancing me from them. She has long since ran off any friends I had from teenage years and early 20s, calling them “no good" and “bad for you". I am completely isolated from any friendly energy that she doesn't provide. And she only provides it when I am visibly and undeniably doing something for her.At some point during this time, the sex conversation comes up again. Her response: “Oh, you're mine now, I don't have to do that anymore…”All the while she knew from the start, I don't believe in divorce. She tells me, “I would probably want it more often if you never mentioned it…”So I stop. I stopped expecting any sort of physical affection after about 6 months later. Our relationship was like indentured servitude…I had to do what she wanted at all times or I was a piece of shit failure of a human who didn't deserve to live, much less be with someone as fantastic as her who could have men lined up around the block wanting to be in my position…I was in school for software engineering (no easy courses, even freshman level. I am great at math and physics, and a solid programmer, but the coursework amounted to a full-time job worth of outside work, plus I had to keep a full time job to keep us afloat). We had a trailer my family had bought for me to stay in while in college, but it was in bad shape. Rent was $200 per month for the lot.She says: “either we are moving out and into a nicer place or I am taking the kids and leaving…”The cheapest rent in auburn for a 2-bedroom place (she wouldn't move into another trailer) was $850. Thus resulting in a need for two jobs, since she couldn't be bothered to work.So that's what I did. I wanted my kids to grow up in a normal home so I did everything I could to keep her appeased so she didn't act like the world was crashing down on us.It was around this time I first read about narcissism. It described her up and down, top to bottom, eerily exacting in every description. She frequently would use her friends or her mother to triangulate me and validate her abuse.But now the world was crashing down on me. I had about 9 classes left before I got my BS in software engineering with a minor in mathematics (had already finished the math minor), and I ran into a class that had major outside projects due every week. The subject was C++ programming, which is easy enough, but it also required the use of Linux systems thru a VM, required detailed and explicit documentation and testing of EVERY SINGLE LINE of code, as well has having quite difficult objectives from the start, with no direction of how to accomplish the task. This means I would spend many hours with paper, building flowcharts, and lots of time staring at a computer screen and thinking. To her, this looked like I wasn't all that busy. She would often interrupt my thought process to ask me to do something, be it major or trivial. I would say I'm busy, but she would retort, “you can come right back to it…” any programmer will tell you, even someone talking to you while you're in the middle of mentally simulating a program can sometimes set you back 30 minutes of thought. If you get up and walk away from the code, it takes another 30 minutes to find the piece of the program you were getting hung up on and then 10 more to figure out where to start back up again.So I fell behind. Being behind in the one course led to me focusing more on that course to no avail, and eventually falling behind in the others. I only passed one class that semester, when up until that point I had maintained a 3.4 GPA. My financial aid eligibility was now gone. I would have to pay back the university for the 3 classes I failed (around $7,000) before I could enroll in another class. I was having to borrow money from family that I would never be able to pay back until graduation (hah!) EVERY SINGLE MONTH even working two jobs just to keep us in our house.So then I got a third job, hoping maybe I could eventually pay the school back and get finished.About this time, Uber came to Auburn. I started driving for them. I kept the app on 24 hours a day, 7 days a week where it let me. (It made you sign off after 12 hours online, but I figured out if I sign off and back on every couple hours or so, it would never make me sign off). I was nearly making enough to save a little bit here and there.Then she decided she needed a new car. She justified it because since I drive for Uber, we could write off 75% of the payments every year on taxes, which I saw as a good point. She wanted a third row, which would make me eligible for UberXL and potentially more money. She somehow convinced me of this… by threatening to take the kids and leave. I told her in a few choice words that this was abuse and she was being a selfish brat.. So she got up and punched me in the face, and yelled “I fucking dare you to hit me back and go to fucking jail" and then she decided she was leaving. I caught her right at the door, tried to hug her, crying. She shoved me, and not wanting to let go I wound up on the floor holding her left leg. She kicked my face with her right foot like she was kicking a field goal. I thought I was going to die there on that floor. I could only see white, and couldn't feel anything from the rest of my body.30 minutes later, she comes back and acts like nothing happened. Three days later I got a half-ass apology. We bought a new Ford explorer, and started tracking the expenses to claim on taxes.Then one day, I got hit by a drunk driver. Totaled the new explorer exactly 6 months after signing the papers. I had to call her to come get me. When she finds out what happened, it was immediately my fault. I got punched in the face four times that night before I pushed her off of me and called the cop who was working my accident to try to have him explain to her what happened and that it wasn't my fault. She told him that if I called him again, he better hurry and come to our house because she was going to kill me. She was not arrested and nothing happened to her. I stayed for the kids.Uber said that since the accident wasn't my fault, there was nothing to worry about and I wouldn't be terminated (deactivated, in uber terminology)…will come back to this.Insurance paid for the Explorer. We were back where we started. Now she wants to go buy another one. This one will have a lower price tag, she says, since they're older now…by 6 months. But my credit is lower than before, so the payments are higher. She promises me in the dealership that she will get a job. Two weeks later, she got a job. Awesome. For two weeks. Then she got fired over an altercation with her manager.This is a woman who was banned from 3 different restaurants in the area for showing her ass. In one she even flipped a tea machine over the counter and onto an employee. I WON'T GO ANYWHERE WITH THIS CRAZY BITCH because she is highly likely to embarrass me with her actions.She doesn't get another job…Then one day, about 6 months after the accident, uber decides that since I have a recent accident on my background check, I'm not allowed to work for them anymore. I dropped off a passenger and a notification came up on the app that “You need to activate your driver account before you can go online.” All of my driver information was gone. They acted like I was never approved to be a driver in the first place. I went to Atlanta, the nearest uber hub, to plead my case. They couldn't find me in the system, so they wouldn't even talk to me.So now I have to find 3 new jobs to make up for that income. My savings depletes over the next 3–4 weeks. I'm back to borrowing money I can never repay from my family that has started to lose respect for me for staying with this woman.Then one day, my wallet disappears. With a money order for our rent inside it.She “knew something like this was going to happen, now we're going to be homeless and it's all your fucking fault". The landlord wasn't too upset or worried, he was going to work with us. But she triangulates me with her mother, and arranges for us to move in with her while we save money to get back on our feet. There is a small problem with that: her mother lives in Clay county, AL. Just go and Google jobs in Clay County AL. There aren't any. There are barely any houses in Clay County. So I go to the only place there to work, a cabinet factory. They pay $11 per hour. $22k per year. She gets a job there too, but with her lesser qualifications they put her on the sanding line for $9 per hour. A combined $40k….if only.After 5 weeks (a new record), the whole factory is abuzz about some girl yelling about discrimination (she's white, BTW, and so was everyone else working there in her department) and cussing out her manager and even the plant supervisor. Of course, she was let go by the company.So now she has nowhere to work. She pissed off the only employer for 40 miles in any direction. Back to $22k, still with a $640/month car payment. We can't save money, even without rent.Eventually, I find a job back in opelika. I have to drive an hour and 15 minutes each way, but it was $15/hour plus commission, and I was REALLY good at the job. I made twice as much in commission as I did in hourly pay. Things were looking up. 6 months into this job, we have enough to move back to Opelika(just outside of Auburn, I'm still goal-oriented on graduating). So she tells me about this guy who has a trailer for rent. I go and meet him, everything looks good except the rent was still a bit higher than I wanted. Whatever, it gets me out of the triangle of abuse between her and her mother. I sign the lease.Two days later, I get a phone call…it's that guy's ex-wife. Come to find out, he doesn't actually own that trailer, she does. So we need a new lease. My wife met with her and signed it, and I thought nothing of it. We move in. Everything starts looking better for a bit. A very short bit. Like a week. Suddenly she won't let me into the bed. She says it's because I smell like a cigarette. (She smokes too). So I start sleeping in the camper. (She got some money from her father passing away, and immediately spent it all on a 4 wheeler (not too mad about that, it was for the kids), an ATV that also had a lawnmower attachment (it wasn't even our lawn, and the landowner cut it every other week, plus the damn thing broke after using it 5 times, which we couldn't afford to fix), and this raggedy ass camper trailer that would start to fall apart if you pulled it down the road. It was too heavy for our truck to even pull safely. Pure stupidity. But she said “That's MY MONEY and I'll do what I want with it.”) Whatever…thats where I sleep at this point.The guy I met to sign the first lease has been in jail since we moved in, the neighbors say it's because he beat the fuck out of his girlfriend, chased her around the yard in an ATV trying to kill her, and then beat the hell out of his mother when she tried to stop him.One day he gets out. I think nothing of it and continue working and trying to avoid conflict around the kids.She tells me one day that he offered her a job working in his office, cleaning and keeping things organized. (He runs a painting company). I'm just happy she wants to contribute. So cool…She's with him very frequently in the following weeks. That's her job, so I think nothing of it. She also is shopping a lot more frequently than I think an office assistant would be…and not contributing much to our situation. One day I come home on lunch break, something I didn't always do. His truck is at the end of the driveway, and she's leaning on the drivers side window. She looks at me and I see a look of fear on her face. When you're with someone for 9 years, you know these looks. So I ignore her. I act like I didn't notice. I walk up on the porch and see her phone. I picked it up and opened her texts.“I can't wait to cuddle up in the bed with you"“Is your husband home?”“No, hurry and come over"“That was fun, we should do that more often"All the while my kids are there watching this. And she knows the stories of how crazy he is and how dangerous he can be.She walks up. I show her the text messages. She tries to tell me “it's not what you think"…yeah fuckin right.She is distraught. Terribly upset and crying. She gets no pity from me. So she says, “I need some alcohol", and leaves me there. I have my stepson, who was 14, watch the two younger boys, and I go out to the motherfucker's office. I see my $640/month truck there (which she never paid a cent on), and her hugging up against him. I take pictures. She comes back pissed: “did you get the picture you wanted?!? I hope you're fucking happy!”All the while I sit there stunned….now she's the victim somehow. She takes off again. I take my two boys, drive 2.5 hours to my dad's house, and block her number. She sends the police there, telling them I have drugs and am going to kill myself and all kinds of crazy shit, but they can't do anything because they're my kids and I'm laughing when they tell me what she told them.But, in order to keep moving forward, I had to keep working.One day at work, I come out and my car is gone. She stole it.The cops can't do anything because we aren't divorced yet, and it's “marital property".Also, come to find out, my name isn't on the lease that she went and signed without me. For the house that I was paying for…Now my kids are 2.5 hours away and I can't get to them. But she didn't think of that…she only thought about herself. So now I have to call her. I have to play her game to get back to them. She wants to talk and figure things out. So I do. She tells me she didn't have sex with him until I had taken the kids and left. She said she got really drunk that night and he took advantage of her. I say bull fucking shit. You are lying thru your teeth. Not having it. She says it doesn't matter, the kids are what's important. And that, I agree with.She keeps telling me I'm trying to take them away from her and this and that, and I said from day one I just want split custody, not to take them from her. But as a man in Alabama, the only way that will happen is if I showed the initiative. So that's why I did what I did. I told her if she wanted to work it out we were going to move out immediately and she would not have a cell phone for the next month. She reluctantly agreed.We took the camper and stayed a week at a campground, never touching or kissing or anything. No peaceful conversation ensued. At the end of the week when it came time to renew the spot, she says, “I'm going home, I miss my bed.” And pulls the camper out to go back there.At this point I am DONE. I'm not living there next to him to be reminded of her disrespect and utter disregard for our family. For her to continue sneaking behind my back and telling me I'm crazy when I see the signs. Not happening.But she got the kids back out of this fucking switcheroo she pulled…so I had to follow.The next day, she tried to kick me out. I was about to leave, and then she pulled the fuses out of my car (the ones under the hood that control everything from the starter to the abs system, everything). So I couldn't go anywhere. Then she pulls out a tazer and tries to take my wallet. I pull out my phone and start filming, and suddenly she starts yelling, “don't touch me, stop trying to hurt me, don't ever put your hands on me again" like I was the aggressor….fucking dirtbag…Then she leaves me and the kids there with no way to go anywhere, nothing for them to drink, and no uber or lyft within range. This was around 11am.She comes back at 3am, screaming. She raises a frying pan at me and tells me to “get the fuck out of my house" (which she never paid a cent of rent for).She puts a couple of the fuses back (still missing 3 or 4 of them) so that I can go. She also puts her Marijuana paraphernalia into my backseat while I was packing up my shit, thinking I wouldn't notice. I threw it out at the end of the driveway. I was pulled over not 3 miles down the road and searched top to bottom. She wanted me to get arrested so she could get full custody. This whole time she had been talking about how I'm going to have to pay her alimony because she didn't work the whole 9 years we were married….yeah, not for a cheating bitch I won't…So I leave. I couldn't get ahold of her to hear about the kids for 5 days. So I went and picked up her prescription (she loves her drugs), since I'm still legally her husband. Suddenly, she wants to talk to me. She calls me with the cops on speakerphone and I tell her yes I got her pills and exactly why. I told her the cops could get them but I didn't want to see her. I didn't want her to figure out some way to have me arrested. But I want to know how the kids are. She tells me they're fine. That hero (my stepson) is upset because he feels like he should have been able to help somehow. Just guilt-tripping all around.I had already filed for divorce and filed a protection from abuse order against her on behalf of the kids. Come to find out, she had done the same against me. She had her mother and her aunt come to court to testify that I was a “drug addict" and “abusive" and a threat to their safety. I was alone in court.So my dad took out a loan to hire the best lawyer we could find….$8,000.The judge didn't like her attitude very much, and I was very quiet and reserved. He dismissed both protection orders and pointedly told my soon-to-be ex-wife that she better figure out a way for me to see those boys or this would not end well for her. She suddenly flips a switch…”I want him to see the boys, they need their daddy and I want them to spend as much time with him as possible…”.W.T.F. ……So that day I get to hang out with my boys. It was awesome. I was ecstatic.But that day I learned that she had put anything that was mine or had pictures of me or my family in, on, or near it, out by the side of the road….two weeks ago. The trash company had picked it up, of course. I lost everything but the bag of clothes I got the night she tried to hit me with the frying pan.Also, every time I went to pick up the kids, the dickhead landlord's car was there. Got plenty of footage for court.She kept her “I want to do what is right” attitude for the rest of the divorce proceedings, resulting in an uncontested divorce, something that could have been done for $200.00 instead of $8,000.Now, she isn't following the divorce agreement.She told me the kids can't come visit me until I sign over full custody to her. She moved to Florida, and signed a paper saying she would do everything reasonable to make coparenting possible…We had agreed to each claim one child on income taxes. She claimed them both. Even though she didn't even support herself for 2019. I paid for everything except her dumb ass camper and those raggedy ATV's. So now if I had E-filed, I would have wound up having to PAY IN to the government instead of getting a roughly $5,000 return. Because I had to file by mail, I still haven't gotten a fucking stimulus check. Meanwhile she gets a $7500 tax return and her stimulus check at the same time, another $2200 because she claimed both.So I sent the IRS my divorce agreement and my paper tax return. God knows when they will look at it, due to COVID.MEANWHILE…My job decides to cut commissions. They veil it as a good thing, since certain types of sales will have more commission. But MOST sales will have less commission. It turns out to lower my pay by almost 90%, since I was making more in commission than in hourly pay. I could no longer afford my rent, even with a new girlfriend who was helping (she worked with me, got a pay cut too…) and before you ask, she was not in the picture until I was divorced. In fact, the first thing I remember her saying to me (other than asking questions in the training class that I was teaching) was, “I heard you were getting divorced… “So now I'm facing being homeless and still have child support due every month. We are moving in with my girlfriend's family in Texas, even further from my boys. I found a job there, and it should work out, I hope. The good news is my girlfriend is studying to be a brain surgeon so she is great at helping me work thru my traumatic experience as it comes and she has been in an abusive relationship also, so just being able to talk to each other about that is very therapeutic.Once we have our own place, I'm going to start taking the legal avenues available to enforce the divorce agreement. Right now, I have nowhere to lay my own head, much less theirs.Update: Dickhead landlord drugged and anal raped her. While my kids were in the house. She told me all about it over a phone call that I have recorded.For now I keep putting my nose to the grindstone, in hopes that one day I can look up and be where I want to be. I am still living in a small room with my girlfriend's parents. Hoping to get out by November.Sorry for the long story, I'll write a book someday…but it would probably be rejected because it's too far out there…

Here you go, here’s why I’m excited about Trump:1. Trump is the Opposite of Racist, a Nationalist. Nationalism was conceived as a means of overcoming tribal racism, of uniting diverse peoples with a mutually supportive, overarching national identity. Does dividing us by races, ethnicities, and identities and prevent us from being united as Americans? E Pluribus Unum – from the many, one people.And yes, he has denounced white supremacists: Trump condemns 'racism, bigotry and white supremacy' in speech after mass shootings kill 31 and 'Racism Is Evil': Trump Denounces The KKK, Neo-Nazis And White Supremacists and Frank Macera's answer to Has Trump denounced white supremacy? and President Trump Releases The Platinum Plan for Black Americans: Opportunity, Security, Prosperity, and Fairness)The Chairman of the Proud Boys, Enrique Tarrio, is both black and Hispanic.Trump receiving the Ellis Island Award along with Rosa Parks:Lowest black and Hispanic unemployment in our history.Support for historically black colleges. “Provided long-term funding for historically black colleges and universities in his three years in office, and has helped redirect resources to opportunity zones, or low-income areas where new investments may be eligible for tax breaks.Criminal Justice Reform with the First Step Act has released 1,000’s of non-violent offenders.First Step Act, landmark criminal justice reform legislation enacted by an 87-12 vote in the Senate on December 18 and a 356-36 vote in the House on December 20. President Donald Trump signed the bill into law on December 21.”First Step Act Was This Past Year's Second Example Of Federalism At Its FinestEven Obama adviser Van Jones says Trump doesn't get credit for the good things he has done for the black community.Lowest black and Hispanic unemployment in our history.Support for historically black colleges. “Provided long-term funding for historically black colleges and universities in his three years in office, and has helped redirect resources to opportunity zones, or low-income areas where new investments may be eligible for tax breaks.Criminal Justice Reform with the First Step Act has released 1,000’s of non-violent offenders.First Step Act, landmark criminal justice reform legislation enacted by an 87-12 vote in the Senate on December 18 and a 356-36 vote in the House on December 20. President Donald Trump signed the bill into law on December 21.”First Step Act Was This Past Year's Second Example Of Federalism At Its FinestEven Obama adviser Van Jones says Trump doesn't get credit for the good things he has done for the black community.Van Jones says Trump 'doesn't get credit' for helping black people2. Covid-19:Jan. 31. Trump restricts travel by anyone who had been to China within 2 weeks to returning citizens and authorizes screening and quarantine as needed:“The entry into the United States, as immigrants or nonimmigrants, of all aliens who were physically present within the People’s Republic of China, excluding the Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and Macau, during the 14-day period preceding their entry or attempted entry into the United States is hereby suspended and limited subject to section 2 of this proclamation. I have also determined that the United States should take all necessary and appropriate measures to facilitate orderly medical screening and, where appropriate, quarantine of persons allowed to enter the United States who may have been exposed to this virus.”Feb. 1 Biden calls Trump a xenophobe and fear-monger and offers no plan of his own. Apparently, it would have been a lot worse if Biden were president. “We are in the midst of a crisis with the coronavirus. We need to lead the way with science — not Donald Trump’s record of hysteria, xenophobia, and fear-mongering. He is the worst possible person to lead our country through a global health emergency.” – Joe Biden @JoeBiden 4:01 PM · Feb 1, 2020·TweetDeck?Biden was a United States Senator with 47 years in politics and a national platform. What new anti-virus policies is he endorsing? Is criticizing Trump enough to end the virus?De Blasio’s actions in New York were responsible for the majority of the spread in the United States:Feb. 9 De Blasio urged the 500,000 person Chinese New Year celebration to go forward with tourists from all over the country and the world, especially Europe. This resulted in nearly half of all the early cases, and all those tourists going home and initiating the spread in a number of places around the country.New York Chinese New Year Feb. 20203. Apprenticeship training - Apprenticeship.gov4. School Choice. Why shouldn’t hard working poor kids be able to join others of like mind and get a good education? Public school isn’t always the best choice: Ted Kord's answer to Shouldn’t well-behaved students have a right to a peaceful and safe environment in which to learn? Restorative justice in my kids’ schools is making my kids miserable and inhibiting their learning.5. Block education grants allow local districts to spend money the way it makes sense in their district instead of the current “knowledge isn’t important” and “no discipline” philosophy coming out of Washington. Our spending has risen dramatically in the last decades, yet test scores haven’t gone up and teachers complain about their salaries. Shouldn’t we try another way?6. Lowest black and Hispanic unemployment in our history.7. Lower foreign student enrollment to make room for our own children.8. Tax code that stopped subsidizing the rich with $10,000 maximum local tax deduction. I paid more myself, but I think it’s fair. Individual tax receipts were higher in 2018 than 2017. Middle and lower incomes paid less, with childcare credit doubled to $2,000, standard deduction raised to $12,000, and tax brackets lowered, so where did the money come from to pay for these cuts? People with expensive houses paid for it.9. Big companies like Apple and Goldman no longer allowed to transfer income overseas to avoid taxes. This cost Goldman $5 billion in 2018.Goldman Sachs Is Taking a $5 Billion Hit From the Republican Tax Bill10. Equalized corporate taxes between the US and the developed world. Britain is 19%, China 20%, Sweden 21%, and now the US is 21%. How can we keep our jobs if we don’t at least avoid adding higher taxes to the incentives to leave? Apple announced building their first computer plant in America Jan. 1, 2018, the same day Trump allowed them to bring their billions home from China at 15% tax instead of 40%. They had been planning since 2013, and were just waiting for the tax to be lowered. Apple expands in Austin11. Fighting to prevent Chinese technology theft. Tariffs have already caused movement away from China to countries without state-sponsored technology theft. Blocking Huawei will spur more US component manufacture and send other business to Nokia and Ericsson who respect our laws.12. Net neutrality. Remember when charging based on data usage was going to censor the internet? Now everything is running better than ever, as promised.13. Ended Obamacare tax on poor who cannot afford health insurance even with subsidies.14. Drug pricing – Companies like GoodRx have shown us disclosing and comparing pricing caused drug prices to drop so much I’ve been able to drop my drug insurance. The pharmacy benefit manager middle men and drug stores had large markups, and now we’re reaping the benefits of competitive capitalism with lower prices. Epi pens were up to $600 under the previous administration, now the price is down to $110 at CVS and Target. Unlike single payer or insurance, you can get any drug cash pay with no hassles. Adrenaclick Prices, Coupons & Savings Tips - GoodRx15. Competitive, efficient hospital pricing. Actual hospital pricing will be disclosed starting Jan 1, 2020. This will rationalize and lower healthcare cost in the US. All the paid hours that go into our labyrinth of hidden pricing and negotiation, and multitudinous paperwork is expensive, and it prevents people from making informed decisions. Administration is about 1/4 of every healthcare dollar. All that paperwork and process costs a lot, there are separate contracts for every insurance company and fees are individually negotiated for each patient, all hidden and protected from competition. Straight forward healthcare pricing will save a bundle on administrative cost.My recent X-rays were billed at $1736. The insurance discount $1528, insurance payment $168, my payment $42. Obviously, I have to have insurance for the discount. But what if the X-rays were just billed at $210 cash pay? I wouldn’t need $1500/month insurance for ordinary care, I could have low cost catastrophic insurance, and pay cash for everything else. This would save a lot of administrative expense, and the more healthcare delivered per dollar, the more we’ll all have. The only way we can afford to provide healthcare for everyone is get that cost down. Total healthcare spending in 2018 was $3.65 trillion.Hospitals Sued to Keep Prices Secret. They Lost.Trump scores court win on hospital price transparencyU.S. Health Care Costs Skyrocketed to $3.65 Trillion in 2018 - A new analysis from U.S. federal government actuaries, the U.K., Mexico, Spain, and Canada.16. Defeated the ISIS Caliphate in short order by empowering military leaders to “seize the initiative and win,” reducing the need for a White House sign off on every mission. Trump has refused to get involved in any new wars, which is lovely.17. Criminal Justice Reform bill, “First Step Act” eliminated required minimum sentences. “More than 3,000 inmates have been released and another roughly 1,700 people convicted of crack cocaine offenses have seen their sentences reduced thanks to the First Step Act, according to data from the Federal Bureau of Prisons and the U.S. Sentencing Commission.” The First Step Act promised widespread reform. What has the criminal justice overhaul achieved so far?18. Recognized Jerusalem. Israel wasn’t going to give up their ancestral home, so it was a necessary condition for peace in the Middle East. Trump was right, the fears of violence were unfounded, and putting the recognition behind us paved the way for the UAE, Bahrain, and Sudan to recognize Israel for the first recognitions since Jordan in 1994. Egypt was first in the region in 1979.19. Improved the quality of VA care with the Veterans Accountability and Whistleblower Protection Act to allow senior officials in the Department of Veterans Affairs to fire failing employees and established safeguards for whistleblowers.Trump’s VA MISSION Act:• Strengthens VA’s ability to recruit and retain clinicians.• Authorizes “Anywhere to Anywhere” telehealth across state lines.• Empowers Veterans with increased access to community care.20. Did something about the 185,000 pages of conflicting overregulation. It isn’t even possible to meet all the regulations because different regulations call for different things. Here’s How Much Red Tape Trump Has Cut21. Rational EPA regulations. It doesn’t help the environment to let stock ponds turn black and stink and make the cattle drink it. You really do need to treat for invasive weeds and bacteria. I couldn’t treat the water in my tank to drinking water standard so the bacteria broke my skin out every time I ran my pump. Then, to add insult to injury, they said that water’s nasty so you have to spend $10,000 to have it disposed as hazardous material. Drinking water is hazardous to the environment?He plowed his field; now he faces a $2.8 million fine22. Great American Outdoors Act. “The fund must be used for priority deferred maintenance projects in specified systems that are administered by• the National Park Service,• the Forest Service,• the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,• the Bureau of Land Management, and• the Bureau of Indian Education.22. Brought stranded citizens back home:Here Are The 17 Prisoners Trump Has Freed Since He Took Office23. Expensive illegal immigration and the associated crime is being reduced. The cost of additional schools, healthcare, housing, and food benefits is substantial, especially when we’re spending over a $trillion/yr we don’t have. And there’s the gangs with their associated theft, murder, drugs, and sex slaves. Trump’s border wall construction:Trump Wall Construction - Track the Status of Trump's Border Wall!400th mile of border wall celebratedhttps://www.wfmz.com/news/livestream/watch-live-400th-mile-of-border-wall-celebrated/video_3c242b8a-19f7-11eb-91d9-1bdc61296a5c.htmlThen it turns out the major objections to Trump just aren’t true:1. Covid Mismanagement was Trump’s fault?List: 74 actions taken by Trump to fight virus and bolster economy.List: 74 actions taken by Trump to fight virus and bolster economy (List: 74 actions taken by Trump to fight virus and bolster economy)Jan. 31 Trump restricts travel to and from China, and those who had been to China:“The entry into the United States, as immigrants or nonimmigrants, of all aliens who were physically present within the People’s Republic of China, excluding the Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and Macau, during the 14-day period preceding their entry or attempted entry into the United States is hereby suspended and limited subject to section 2 of this proclamation. I have also determined that the United States should take all necessary and appropriate measures to facilitate orderly medical screening and, where appropriate, quarantine of persons allowed to enter the United States who may have been exposed to this virus.”https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/proclamation-suspension-entry-immigrants-nonimmigrants-persons-pose-risk-transmitting-2019-novel-coronavirus/Feb. 1 Biden calls Trump a xenophobe and fear-monger and offers no plan of his own. Apparently, it would have been a lot worse if Biden were president. “We are in the midst of a crisis with the coronavirus. We need to lead the way with science — not Donald Trump’s record of hysteria, xenophobia, and fear-mongering. He is the worst possible person to lead our country through a global health emergency.” – Joe Biden @JoeBiden 4:01 PM · Feb 1, 2020·TweetDeckDe Blasio’s actions in New York spread Covid in the United States:Feb. 9 De Blasio urged the 500,000 person Chinese New Year celebration to go forward with tourists from all over the country and the world, especially Europe. This resulted in nearly half of all the early cases, and all those tourists going home and initiating the spread in a number of places around the country.New York Chinese New Year Feb. 2020“NYC health officials were on high alert, on Jan. 23, as deadly Coronavirus spreads around globe. Yet they did not stop Chinese’s New Year parades, Feb. 9, in all 5 boroughs, that typically draw 500,000 people. “https://brooklyneagle.com/articles/2020/01/23/nyc-health-officials-on-high-alert-as-deadly-coronavirus-spreads-around-globe/Feb. 13: "There are ZERO confirmed cases of coronavirus in New York City, and hundreds of Chinese restaurants that need your business!" the New York City mayor's office tweets. "There is nothing to fear. Stop by any Chinatown for lunch or dinner!"Feb. 24 Pelosi does her own spreading: “Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi toured San Francisco's Chinatown Monday to send a message. She said there's no reason tourists or locals should be staying away from the area because of coronavirus concerns.https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/nancy-pelosi-visits-san-franciscos-chinatown/2240247/‘That’s what we’re trying to do today is to say everything is fine here,’ Pelosi said. "Come because precautions have been taken. The city is on top of the situation."March 13, 2020And then, even worse, they refuse to shut the schools until mid-MARCH. 1.2 Million kids spreading the virus and infecting parents and grandparents.“Cuomo, De Blasio Resist Calls to Close New York Schools”“New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said he does not see a need to close schools statewide and would leave such decisions to the localities.His statement comes as New York Mayor Bill de Blasio faces pressure from the leaders of the teacher’s union and the City Council to close schools as cases of the new coronavirus surge.”https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-13/de-blasio-says-nyc-schools-mass-transit-will-stay-openThis took place in 20 places across NYC in February.https://images.rove.me/w_1920,q_85/naujawgeoqdga3iored6/new-york-chinese-new-year.jpgAnd then, after we know that rest homes are vulnerable, Cuomo allows this:“Coronavirus spreads in a New York nursing home forced to take recovering patients” “It’s reckless and careless,” said the granddaughter of a 96-year-old man whose family withdrew him from a Long Island nursing home. “Over 1,700 more coronavirus deaths reported in New York nursing homes”https://nypost.com/2020/05/05/over-1700-more-deaths-reported-in-new-york-nursing-homes/https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/coronavirus-spreads-new-york-nursing-home-forced-take-recovering-patients-n1191811“New York refused to send nursing home’s COVID-19 patients to nearly empty USNS Comfort”https://nypost.com/2020/04/24/new-york-nursing-home-denied-requests-to-send-covid-19-patients-to-usns-comfort/“An NYC nursing home forced to take coronavirus patients was also sent a supply of body bags for when they died”https://www.businessinsider.com/nursing-home-given-body-bags-when-they-accepted-coronavirus-patients-2020-4And of course, Nancy Pelosi wants to investigate how the response was handled after she did the same thing as NYC in February.- Ted A. Brewster and Cal Stowe2. Trump was not responsible for “ripping babies from their mother’s arms”, in fact it was a Democrat policy ended by Trump. It was the propaganda coup of the century to turn a noble fight to get illegal children treated the same way as citizens into something evil and hang it on Trump.In September 2018, the Trump Administration proposed regulations that sought to end the practice of forcing children to be “ripped from their mother’s arms” by the Flores Agreement won by liberal lawsuits. Democrats voted it down, saying “ripping children from their mother’s arms” is actually “legal safeguards for children”, in order to keep the practice and blame it on Trump. Trump officially ended the practice with an executive order in June 2018 - https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/20/full-text-trump-executive-order-family-separations-transcript-658639 .Citizen children are always separated from parents in childcare centers, jail not being considered a suitable environment for children, but historically illegals were considered a special case, and children stayed with their parents. There was a problem with unaccompanied minors, and a suit was filed on the behalf of JENNY LISETTE FLORES. Negotiations and court proceedings dragged on for nine years, spanning three presidencies. This resulted in the Flores Settlement in 1997. In short, unaccompanied illegal children were to be detained in the same facilities and subject to the same rules as citizen children.In 2016, liberal activists got the 9th U.S. Circus of Appeals to extend the 1997 Flores Settlement from unaccompanied illegal minors to children detained with their parents. Children were ordered to be separated from the parents detained under immigration law. Trump put the children in childcare centers as the law requires, and Democrats claimed he was “ripping them from their mother’s arms” and “throwing children in cages”. This was widely believed, a testament to the propaganda power of the media. Pelosi, to her credit, backed a bipartisan bill to avoid all this, but the other Democrats would not have it.2016 Ruling, see page 13 I. The Settlement Applies to Accompanied Minors. “We agree with the district court that “[t]he plain language of the Agreement clearly encompasses accompanied minors.”https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2016/07/06/15-56434.pdfFlores Agreement – Janet Reno under Clinton 1997https://cliniclegal.org/sites/default/files/attachments/flores_v._reno_settlement_agreement_1.pdfThe Flores settlement, the court order Trump blames for family separation, explainedU.S. must release child migrants held in family detention, court says - :~:text=S. must release child migrants held in family,the Rio Grande into Texas. %28John MooreCourt: Illegal immigrant parents can be detained, children must be released - :~:text=Court%3A Illegal immigrant parents can be detained, children,on June 25, 2014. %28Associated Press%29 more >3. Tax Cuts for the Rich? No, the new tax code stopped subsidizing the rich with $10,000 maximum local tax deduction. I paid more myself, but I think it’s fair. Let’s and look at the results:a) Individual tax receipts were higher in 2018 than 2017. Middle and lower incomes paid less, with childcare credit doubled to $2,000, standard deduction raised to $12,000, and tax brackets lowered, so where did the money come from to pay for these cuts? People with expensive houses paid for it.b) State and local tax deductions permanently limited to $10,000. Ordinary tax payers have been subsidizing the wealthy for a long time, by letting them deduct their local tax from income for federal tax. This accounted for the majority of the tax increase on the wealthy, and spurred migration out of New York and California. Not to mention the slump in high end real estate prices.“The SALT-tax [cap] was incredibly damaging to the market, and the additional mansion and transfer taxes have also caused people to pause,” said Pam Liebman, president and CEO of the Corcoran Group brokerage.”Manhattan home prices in ‘near free fall’ as median dips below $1M“changes to the tax law that have hit high-tax states hardest and sellers who are still clinging to 2014 prices.”Real estate in the Hamptons had its worst spring quarter in 8 yearsc) On average, the top 6% paid more tax in most states, and the top 9% paid more in California, New York, and New Jersey.d) Maximum deductible mortgage size was lowered from $1 million to $750,000.e) Truly wealthy hedge fund managers like Goldman and international companies like, Apple, Big Pharma, etc. avoid tax by shifting income overseas to low tax countries. Now they have to pay 15% even on overseas income from foreign subsidiaries. This cost Goldman $5 billion in 2018.Tax overhaul costs Goldman Sachs $5 billion

Here you go, this is why I’m excited about Trump:1. The Opposite of Racist, a Nationalist. The purpose of nationalism to the defeat racism, to unite diverse peoples in a mutually supportive, national identity. Trump is a devout nationalist, while Democrats oddly strive to eliminate racism by focusing on our differences rather than what we have in common as Americans. Bizzare how people who claim to be against racism are so committed to dividing us into identities and preventing Trump from uniting the nation as Americans. E Pluribus Unum – from the many, one people.And yes, he has denounced white supremacists: Trump condemns 'racism, bigotry and white supremacy' in speech after mass shootings kill 31 and 'Racism Is Evil': Trump Denounces The KKK, Neo-Nazis And White Supremacists President Trump Releases The Platinum Plan for Black Americans: Opportunity, Security, Prosperity, and Fairness)The Chairman of the Proud Boys, Enrique Tarrio, is both black and Hispanic.Trump receiving the Ellis Island Award for diversity along with Rosa Parks:2. Covid. Democrats claim Trump hasn’t handled Covid, yet Trump restricted travel by anyone who had been to China returning citizens Jan. 31. In response, on Feb. 1, Biden calls this xenophobic and fear-mongering, and offers no plan of his own. Then it was too much and now it wasn’t enough. Apparently it would have been far worse if Biden was president. “We are in the midst of a crisis with the coronavirus. We need to lead the way with science — not Donald Trump’s record of hysteria, xenophobia, and fear-mongering. He is the worst possible person to lead our country through a global health emergency.” – Joe Biden @JoeBiden 4:01 PM · Feb 1, 2020·TweetDeck Not the worst, Joe, how much did insulting Trump accomplish?On Feb. 9 De Blasio urged the 500,000 person Chinese New Year celebration to go forward with tourists from all over the country and the world, especially Europe. New York is responsible for the majority of Covid spread.Chinese New Year celebration, New York City 2020Super spreader De Blasio defeated any effort to contain it, so now the most important measure is deaths per case, as we will all be exposed sooner or later. The US is doing very well under Trump, 53rd in world in deaths per case. Mortality Analyses - Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center3. Apprenticeship training - Apprenticeship.gov4. School Choice. Why shouldn’t hard working poor kids be able to join others of like mind and get a good education? Public school is going off the rails, it’s shouldn’t be hard to best it. Ted Kord's answer to Shouldn’t well-behaved students have a right to a peaceful and safe environment in which to learn? Restorative justice in my kids’ schools is making my kids miserable and inhibiting their learning.5. Block education grants allow local districts to spend money the way it makes sense instead of the current “knowledge isn’t important” philosophy coming out of Washington. Our spending has risen dramatically yet test scores haven’t gone up and teachers don’t make much money. Why is that?6. Lowest black and Hispanic unemployment in our history.7. Lower foreign student enrollment so the taxes we pay can educate our own children.8. Tax code that stopped subsidizing the rich with $10,000 max local tax deduction. I got bit myself, but I think it’s fair. Individual tax receipts were higher in 2018 than 2017. Middle and lower incomes paid less, with childcare credit doubled to $2,000, standard deduction raised to $12,000, and tax brackets lowered, so where did the money come from to pay for their cut? The rich paid for it.9. Big companies like Apple and Goldman no longer allowed to transfer income overseas to avoid taxes. This cost Goldman $5 billion in 2018.Goldman Sachs Is Taking a $5 Billion Hit From the Republican Tax Bill10. Equalized corporate taxes between the US and the developed world. Britain is 19%, China 20%, Sweden 21%, and now the US is 21%. How are we supposed to keep our jobs if we don’t even give our companies an even break? Apple announced building their first computer plant in America Jan. 1, 2018, the same day Trump allowed them to bring their billions home from China at 15% tax instead of 40%. They had been planning since 2013, and were just waiting for the tax to be reduced. Apple expands in Austin11. Fighting to prevent Chinese technology theft, and tariffs have already caused movement away from China to countries without state-sponsored technology theft. Blocking Huawei will spur more US component manufacture and send our business to Nokia and Ericsson who respect our laws.12. Net neutrality. Remember when charging based on data usage was going to censor the internet, and end the world as we know it? It was all just lies folks, and everything is running better than ever, as promised.13. Ended Obamacare tax on poor who cannot afford health insurance even with subsidies.14. Drug pricing – Companies like GoodRx have shown us just disclosing pricing caused drug prices to drop so much I’ve dropped my drug insurance. The pharmacy benefit manager middle men and drug stores were marking up a lot, now competitive capitalism is operating, and we’re reaping the benefits. Epi pens were up to $600 under the previous administration, now the price down to $110 at CVS and Target. Unlike single payer, or insurance, you can get any drug cash pay. Adrenaclick Prices, Coupons & Savings Tips - GoodRx15. Competitive, efficient hospital pricing. Actual hospital pricing will be disclosed starting Jan 1, 2020. This will rationalize and revolutionize healthcare in the US. There is nothing inexpensive about a labyrinth of hidden pricing and negotiation. It takes a lot of paid hours, and prevents people from making informed decisions. Administration is about 1/3 of every healthcare dollar. This is all because pricing is different for every insurance company, and individually negotiated for each patient, all hidden and protected from competition. Straight forward healthcare pricing will save a bundle on healthcare during Trump’s next term.I’m excited, my recent Xrays were $1736, insurance discount $1528, insurance payment $168, my payment $42. Obviously, I have to have the insurance for the discount. But what if the Xrays were just billed at $210? I wouldn’t need $1500/month insurance for ordinary care, I could just have low cost catastrophic insurance, and pay cash for everything else. This would save a lot of paid hours dealing with insurance and billing, and the more healthcare delivered per dollar, the more we’ll all have. The only way we can afford to provide healthcare for everyone is reduce the administrative cost. Total healthcare spending 2018 $3.65 trillionHospitals Sued to Keep Prices Secret. They Lost.Trump scores court win on hospital price transparencyU.S. Health Care Costs Skyrocketed to $3.65 Trillion in 2018 - :~:text=A new analysis from U.S. federal government actuaries,the U.K., Mexico, Spain, and Canada. The level16. Defeated the ISIS Caliphate in short order by letting the generals run the military, instead of micromanaging like the previous administration. Has refused to get involved in any new wars.17. Criminal Justice Reform bill, “First Step Act” eliminating required minimum sentences. “More than 3,000 inmates have been released and another roughly 1,700 people convicted of crack cocaine offenses have seen their sentences reduced thanks to the First Step Act, according to data from the Federal Bureau of Prisons and the U.S. Sentencing Commission.” The First Step Act promised widespread reform. What has the criminal justice overhaul achieved so far?18. Recognized Jerusalem, everyone knew Israel had to have Jerusalem for peace in the Middle East, and all the wailing about war breaking out proved a lie, as usual. This paved the way for the UAE and Bahrain to recognize Israel for the first time in history.19. Allowed poor VA employees to be let go, ending decades of laziness and incompetence. Trump’s VA MISSION Act:• Strengthens VA’s ability to recruit and retain clinicians.• Authorizes “Anywhere to Anywhere” telehealth across state lines.• Empowers Veterans with increased access to community care.20. Did something about the 185,000 pages of insane conflicting regulations. It isn’t even possible to meet all regulation, because there are conflicting regulations for the same thing. Here’s How Much Red Tape Trump Has Cut21. Rational EPA regulations. No, it’s doesn’t help the environment to let stock ponds turn black and stink and make the cattle drink it. You really do need to treat for invasive weeds and bacteria. I couldn’t treat the water in my tank to drinking water standard so the bacteria broke my skin out. Then, to add insult to injury they said this water’s nasty and you have spend $10,000 to have it disposed as hazardous material. Drinking water is hazardous to the environment? Irrational hippie idiots.22. Great American Outdoors Act. “The fund must be used for priority deferred maintenance projects in specified systems that are administered by• the National Park Service,• the Forest Service,• the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,• the Bureau of Land Management, and• the Bureau of Indian Education.22. Brought stranded citizens back home23. Reducing expensive illegal immigration and associated crime in my city. The cost of additional schools, healthcare, housing, and food benefits is substantial, especially when we’re spending over a $trillion/yr we don’t have. Then there’s the gangs with associated theft, murder, drugs, and sex slaves.Then there’s the liberal lies:1. Covid Mismanagement was Trump’s fault.List: 74 actions taken by Trump to fight virus and bolster economy.List: 74 actions taken by Trump to fight virus and bolster economy (List: 74 actions taken by Trump to fight virus and bolster economy)Want to know who FAILED? look no further than NYC:Jan. 31 Trump restricts travel to and from China, and those who had been to China. -“The entry into the United States, as immigrants or nonimmigrants, of all aliens who were physically present within the People’s Republic of China, excluding the Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and Macau, during the 14-day period preceding their entry or attempted entry into the United States is hereby suspended and limited subject to section 2 of this proclamation.”https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/proclamation-suspension-entry-immigrants-nonimmigrants-persons-pose-risk-transmitting-2019-novel-coronavirus/Feb. 13: "There are ZERO confirmed cases of coronavirus in New York City, and hundreds of Chinese restaurants that need your business!" the New York City mayor's office tweets. "There is nothing to fear. Stop by any Chinatown for lunch or dinner!"“NYC health officials were on high alert, on Jan. 23, as deadly Coronavirus spreads around globe. Yet they did not stop Chinese’s New Year parades, Feb. 9, in all 5 boroughs, that typically draw 500,000 people. “https://brooklyneagle.com/articles/2020/01/23/nyc-health-officials-on-high-alert-as-deadly-coronavirus-spreads-around-globe/And then, even worse, the fools refuse to shut the schools until mid-MARCH. 1.2 Million kids spreading the virus and infecting parents and grandparents. Criminal stupidity imo.“Cuomo, De Blasio Resist Calls to Close New York Schools”March 13, 2020“New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said he does not see a need to close schools statewide and would leave such decisions to the localities.His statement comes as New York Mayor Bill de Blasio faces pressure from the leaders of the teachers union and the City Council to close schools as cases of the new coronavirus surge.”https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-13/de-blasio-says-nyc-schools-mass-transit-will-stay-openTHIS should never have been allowed to take place in 20 places across NYC in Feb. This is why NYC is the epicenter for the cases and deaths in the UShttps://images.rove.me/w_1920,q_85/naujawgeoqdga3iored6/new-york-chinese-new-year.jpgAnd THEN, after we all know that rest homes and assisted living places are vulnerable , Cuomo allows this.“Coronavirus spreads in a New York nursing home forced to take recovering patients”“It’s reckless and careless,” said the granddaughter of a 96-year-old man whose family withdrew him from a Long Island nursing home.“Over 1,700 more coronavirus deaths reported in New York nursing homes”https://nypost.com/2020/05/05/over-1700-more-deaths-reported-in-new-york-nursing-homes/https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/coronavirus-spreads-new-york-nursing-home-forced-take-recovering-patients-n1191811“New York refused to send nursing home’s COVID-19 patients to nearly empty USNS Comfort”https://nypost.com/2020/04/24/new-york-nursing-home-denied-requests-to-send-covid-19-patients-to-usns-comfort/“An NYC nursing home forced to take coronavirus patients was also sent a supply of body bags for when they died”https://www.businessinsider.com/nursing-home-given-body-bags-when-they-accepted-coronavirus-patients-2020-4And, of course, Nancy Pelosi , who wants to “investigate” how the response was handled did the same thing NYC did in Feb.- Ted A. Brewster2. Trump was responsible for “ripping babies from their mother’s arms” when in fact in was a Democrat policy ended by Trump. Credit where credit is due, it was the propaganda coup of the century to turn their noble fight into something evil and hang it on Trump. How can otherwise intelligent people be so gullible? Bewildering.In September 2018, the Trump Administration proposed regulations that sought to end the practice of forcing children to be “ripped from their mother’s arms” by the Flores Agreement created by liberal lawsuits. Liberals said no, “ripping children from their mother’s arms” is actually “legal safeguards for children”, a brilliant propaganda coup to keep the practice and blame it on Trump. Trump officially ended the practice with an executive order in June 2018. ( Trump signs executive order to keep migrant families together ) You don’t hear much about that, do you?Citizen children are always “ripped from their mother’s arms”, jail not being considered a suitable environment for children, but historically illegals were considered a special case, and children stayed with their parents. There was a problem with unaccompanied minors, and a suit was filed on the behalf of JENNY LISETTE FLORES. Negotiations and court proceedings dragged on for nine years, spanning three presidencies. This resulted in the Flores Settlement in 1997. In short, unaccompanied illegal children were to be detained in the same facilities and subject to the same rules as citizen children.In 2016, liberal activists got the 9th U.S. Circus of Appeals to extend the 1997 Flores Settlement from unaccompanied illegal minors to children detained with their parents. Children were ordered to be “ripped from their mother’s arms” and the parents detained under immigration law. It was a political move to force Trump to break the law or endure endless demonization by useful idiots claiming or “ripped them from their mother’s arms” and “he threw children in cages”. Trump enforced the law to highlight the Democrat policy, but the propaganda machine was too strong for the truth to stick, and liberals blamed him for their own law, a propaganda testament to the power of the media. Pelosi, to her credit, backed a bipartisan bill to avoid all this, but the superficial minds would not have it.2016 Ruling, see page 13 I. The Settlement Applies to Accompanied Minors. “We agree with the district court that “[t]he plain language of the Agreement clearly encompasses accompanied minors.”https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2016/07/06/15-56434.pdfFlores Agreement – Janet Reno under Clinton 1997https://cliniclegal.org/sites/default/files/attachments/flores_v._reno_settlement_agreement_1.pdfhttps://www.vox.com/2018/6/20/17484546/executive-order-family-separation-flores-settlement-agreement-immigrationhttps://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-migrant-children-20160706-snap-story.html - :~:text=S. must release child migrants held in family,the Rio Grande into Texas. %28John Moorehttps://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jul/6/illegal-immigrant-parents-can-be-detained-children/ - :~:text=Court%3A Illegal immigrant parents can be detained, children,on June 25, 2014. %28Associated Press%29 more >3. Tax Cuts for the Rich? Easily debunked, bold-faced lie. Yup, all you have to do is read the tax code, and look at the results. Actually, Trump made the rich pay their fair share:a) Individual tax receipts were higher in 2018 than 2017. Middle and lower incomes paid less, with childcare credit doubled to $2,000, standard deduction raised to $12,000, and tax brackets lowered, so where did the money come from to pay for their cut? Hint: you can't get billions from people who don't have it.b) State and local tax deductions permanently limited to $10,000. Ordinary tax payers have been subsidizing the wealthy for a long time, by letting them deduct their local tax from income for federal tax. Not anymore. This accounted for the majority of the tax increase on the wealthy, and spurred migration out of New York and California. Not to mention the slump in high end real estate prices. Both California and New York have tried to call taxes donations to cheat on their taxes. Turns out those Democrats who said they wanted to help the poor, didn’t mean their money.c) On average, the top 6% paid more tax in most states, and the top 9% paid more in California, New York, and New Jersey.d) Maximum deductible mortgage size was lowered from $1 million to $750,000.e) Truly wealthy hedge fund managers like Goldman and international companies like, Apple, Big Pharma, etc. avoid tax by shifting income overseas to low tax countries. Now they have to pay 15% even on overseas income from foreign subsidiaries. This cost Goldman $5 billion in 2018.Fortune | Fortune (Fortune | Fortune)...