Libs: Is this harm reduction
Huh. I bet it would be a lot easier for the Executive branch to abolish “student loan default” as a thing that affects your credit score a lot easier than actually cancelling the debt. Then the banks wouldn’t have any recourse. I wonder if there’s any precedent for anything like that, like if the fed can just declare it and force Congress to try and pass a law to overturn it.
cancel my debt asshole
Blame the supreme Court and the assholes that brought the challenge to the supreme Court.
oh shit oh fuck i tried to but “Supreme Court” wasn’t listed on the ballot? wtf do i do my mom’s going to be home in an hour and she is going to be PISSED about all my debt and lack of reproductive rights
The challenge that was made possible because of the Democrats and the Biden admin’s intentional incompetence? They don’t want to forgive student debt anymore than the Republicans do. Democrats are are just in the unfortunate position of playing the good cop and having a voting base that wants stuff like student debt forgiveness.
Key members of the progressive caucus, moderate progressivss like Ro Khanna even, were calling on Biden to expand the court with liberals.
Leftist voices, even socdem mags like Jacobin were calling for him to find alternative avenues.
Biden could have canceled student loans if he’d wanted to. He chose not to.
Blame the supreme Court
Hasn’t Biden been on the judiciary committee since the 80s? Didn’t he vote a bunch of the current bench out of committee rather than blocking them, like McConnell has done?
Famously he pushed through Clarence Thomas despite the extremely credible sexual harassments claims from Anita Hill.
He tried to “apologize” to her in 2020 IIRC as a publicity stunt but she didn’t find it satisfactory.
The President when SCOTUS says don’t genocide native Americans: “John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it.”
The President when the supreme Court says to keep students in debt-slavery: “Oh no, my hands are tied!”
It’s the same good-cop-bad-cop theater that always placates libs. Meanwhile Trump publicly questioned the legitimacy of judges any time they didn’t demonstrate loyalty.
The DNC doesn’t want to fix this, they want to make a show of looking like they tried, but we’re stopped by higher forces. Rule of law is sacrosanct when fucking over the working class.
He literally did though. Do people forget that? It’s not like he asked the trumpanzee court to pull an uno reverse on him.
He did? Oh nice, that’s why I’m still making payments on my student loans then huh. Thanks Biden real useful. Thanks for doing it in a way that was always going to get challenged by, and struck down by, the supreme court. I know you had many other methods you could have tried, but I’m glad you chose the one that would never actually happen. Super useful, really feeling like that promise has been kept.
By the way Biden still owes me $600 from his promise of “$1200 checks out the door immediately.” Still waiting! I’m sure that’s another promise that will be kept any day now. That’s fine though, it’s better to try one tiny thing that was never going to work and pretend like that means you did it rather than to actually fight for something. That’s what we vote for, one piddly little attempt.
Oh by the way I think you dropped this
The Biden administration has multiple avenues to tackle student loan debt and they purposefully chose the one with the greatest chance of failure
They also chose not to try and pack the court with friendly judges or even find an avenue that could bypass the supreme court entirely
They’re also completely done with actually trying anything to actually live up to the initial promises they’ve made
It’s literally Flanders’ parents, but without the excuse of them being freaky beatniks
Now that’s a well reasoned take. I actually agree with everything you said.
He could have tried to pack the court and made them stop him, you know, act like he was putting in the effort.
Why are we even so concerned about the fucking court, they barely have anyone with guns who answers to them, send in the troops and do something good with them for once.
“No one is willing to take jobs that pay under $30,000 anymore”
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federation turned the dunk tank into something like a crab fishing pot except for libs, this comment section is proof
Love this tbh. It’s so nice to see well informed dunks push back against lib takes.
