>>3755509

From bread #4771 Nov 6 morning on social media's WalkOutToVote

Leftist encourage students to walk out of class in order to vote.

OpEd in USAToday "Walkout to Vote protest is pointless: Students can vote after school if they're old enough"

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/11/06/vote-midterm-election-walkout-protest-students-school-polls-activism-column/1893490002/

This Election Day, students are planning to skip school to vote instead of waiting for the bell to ring, but the 'protest' is just an attention grab.

This Election Day, students at more than 500 high schools and colleges are planning on walking out of their classrooms to vote. Why? It isn’t because schools block 18-year-old high school seniors and college students from voting.

Across the country, polling places stay open well after high school classes let out for the day. And college students are free to go to the polls whenever they aren’t in class. There’s no need to walk out of classes other than as a cry for attention.

As a whole, students shouldn’t be allowed to leave school to go to the ballot box.

Lane Murdock, the founder of National School Walkout, which encouraged thousands of students to walk out of class earlier this year over gun violence in schools, explained the motivation behind the demonstration: “Last spring, youth across the country discovered their voices by walking out of class. But this time we’re not just walking away from something, we are walking to something. All our voices together at the polls will make an impact like we’ve never seen.”

Are students unable to vote after school is out?

Shooting-survivor-turned-activist David Hogg also rationalized the scheduled truancy: "The voice of young people in this country will be heard loud and clear when we cast our ballots together.”

“You will hear us marching to the polls, and you will see the impact we have when we cast our ballots,” Hogg continued. “And we’ll make this impact because we’re not afraid to work together to make it happen. The youth movement isn’t about one issue or one group. It’s about working together for a better future.”

So the point of the demonstrations, in their own words, is to “make an impact” by skipping school in order to vote. Activism itself isn’t wrong, and Hogg’s leadership after the tragedy he and his classmates endured in Parkland, Florida, is certainly heroic.

But are the lines of the polling places so long students can’t make it after school en masse? As somebody on Twitter put it cagily, “So ummmmm polls close pretty late at night after school ends but ok.” The tweet gets to the root of the problem: Students are prioritizing activism over school. Students could simply go after school because most polls close after 6:00 p.m, with some as late as 9:00 p.m. That way, they don’t have to skip out on education opportunities.

Perhaps the demonstration would be more viable if it were intended to lower the voting age, because most high school students like Murdock, 16, simply aren’t old enough to participate in the voting process. The walkout’s website presciently counters this point by encouraging those not of legal age “to lead and participate in the walkout to help make our message heard.”

This protest is a fruitless call for attention

Thus, Murdock’s lofty goals of “walking to something” instead of away from it apply only to the relatively small percentage of high school students actually old enough to vote. The rest are just walking away.

Parents, teachers and principals of students across America must emphasize the importance of education in democracy before activism. This particular protest is a fruitless call for attention without any real or unifying goal, so students should not be allowed out of school when they can simply go after the bell rings.

Hogg’s vision of a “better future” is built on activism for activism’s sake, and the so-called youth movement seems unable to get past trying to flex its junior varsity muscles rather than striving for meaningful change. The best future is based on educated citizens and the nonpartisan preservation of peace and order rather than needless demonstrations that disrupt the pace of a normal school day.

Students need to stay in school instead of drawing attention to themselves and vote when they’re old enough, or at least after school lets out. Until then, do your civics homework.

Oil sinks after Trump grants Iran sanctions waivers

Oil held near the lowest level in seven months Tuesday as concerns over a supply crunch eased after the U.S. granted waivers to eight governments on purchases of Iranian crude.

Futures in New York slid as much as 2 percent, extending a drop of about 7 percent in the past six sessions. More details emerged on the amount of Iranian crude some nations can buy under American sanctions, after Secretary of State Michael Pompeo confirmed on Monday that China, India, Italy, Greece, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Turkey have been given temporary exemptions from the restrictions. Meanwhile, U.S. crude inventories are forecast to have risen a seventh week.

Crude has fallen more than 17 percent from a four-year high last month as American crude stockpiles continued to expand and chances grew for the Trump administration to grant waivers, lowering gasoline prices ahead of Tuesday’s U.S. midterm elections. Meanwhile, a trade dispute between Washington and Beijing stoked concerns over slowing global growth that underpins energy consumption.

“The U.S. has for now given a lifeline to Iran,” said Olivier Jakob, managing director at consultants Petromatrix GmbH in Zug, Switzerland. “The end result of the sanctions is softer than expected. The final outcome of the sanctions also confirms the political fear of high gasoline prices.”

U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude ended Tuesday’s session down 89 cents, or 1.4 percent, to $62.21 a barrel. At the session low, WTI touched $61.31, down more than 20 percent from last month’s nearly four-year-high level of $76.90. International Brent crude futures were down $1.27, or 1.7 percent, at $71.90 a barrel. The contract touched a nearly three-month low of $71.18, roughly 18 percent below last month’s four-year high of $86.74.

The waivers awarded allow China to purchase up to 360,000 barrels a day for the next six months, India to buy up to 300,000 a day, and South Korea as much as 200,000 a day, according to people familiar with the matter who declined to be identified. Japan’s biggest refiner, JXTG Holdings Inc., said it’s considering resuming Iranian imports after the country also received a waiver.

As criticism increased from some American conservatives who didn’t think Donald Trump should have issued any waivers, the U.S. president defended the move by saying he didn’t want to shock energy markets by forcing all buyers to halt Iranian oil purchases. The exemptions were only temporary measures to ease buyers’ transition and avoid destabilizing the market, Pompeo also reiterated.

Meanwhile, U.S. crude stockpiles probably rose by 2 million barrels last week, according to a Bloomberg survey before the Energy Information Administration releases data Wednesday. That would be the longest streak of increases since March 2017.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/oil-sinks-after-trump-grants-iran-sanctions-waivers/ar-BBPoKtM?li=BBnb7Kz

Also the Dow closed up +173, SP500 up +13 >President Trump WINS for We The People and Keeping America Great!

>>3763585

From the lack of news, I think many 18 yr old students rejected having social media think for them and attend class during the day. Hopefully many of them will show up at the polls and vote RED after school.

Crumb began as a minor newspaper story but an anon's research into the organization's sponsors showed the Left loves to hide facts.

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