cancel my debt asshole
He literally did though. Do people forget that? It’s not like he asked the trumpanzee court to pull an uno reverse on him.
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 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
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.
Blame the supreme Court and the assholes that brought the challenge to the supreme Court.
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.
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.
Then: A promise to cancel the debt.
Now: A proposal for slightly less odious repayment plans. The chuds are probably going to make sure it never happens.
Promises kept!
After spending so much time and effort to make them impossible to discharge through bankruptcy? Why would Biden do that?
Not much to say except: you voted for a GOP majority in the House of Representatives. You have no one to blame but yourself.
Ahahaha you really think they voted for republicans? This is a communist website you dingus. We hate Biden because he’s just as bad as Trump.
I’ve personally voted for biden 5 times, just because I wanted to get that dang Cheeto out - And I’m not even an American!
Riddle me this: the president is a dem, but shit happening is somehow still not his fault
It’s wild that every failure by the Democratic Party is considered a failure of its voters. Didn’t Trump already do student loan forgiveness for certain Veterans, which proves that the President is in fact capable of removing student loans from people in a legal way? Also, Biden can, under already existing legal frameworks, litterally order drone strikes on american citizens, so I really fucking doubt that Biden is suddenly incapable of saying "I’m removing all student loans from borrowers by the power vested in me by virtue of the US Air Force.
I didn’t vote for anyone, I’m a monarchist
USA should just admit it’s a failed experiment and accept king William III as it’s rightful ruler
As if it makes a difference. We’ve had a D super majority in California for fucking years with little to show for it. I mean we have like the world’s fifth of sixth largest economy, the means to make life changing improvements in the material conditions for fucking millions of people, yet we can’t even get a working high speed rail system online, among many, many other things, including shit that is right on the Democratic Party platform. Universal health care? Go fuck yourself. Free community college? Go fuck yourself. Student debt forgiveness? Go fuck yourself.
Canceling student loan debt does not require a Dem majority in the House. Biden has the ability, right now, this very second, to cancel all of the debt. Let that sink in. Biden has the power to cancel the debt and hasn’t. I’ll say that one more time so it’s clear to you. Joe Biden can cancel all of the student loan debt today and won’t. Do you understand that? He can, and won’t.
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.
I was listening to NPR today and some dipshit said it was a “Debt cancellation plan” then the idiot interviewer asked “But they still have to pay it all back right?” Dipshit said “Yes but with less interest so it’s still fulfilling Biden’s promise.”
I literally fucking screamed in my car. I have almost been killed by some drivers before but THIS is what caused me to flip my shit. I was so mad that I didn’t even feel bad when someone gave me a glare.
you don’t have to pay it all back. you pay for 20 or 25 years (less if you are in a qualify public sector), and the remainder is forgiven.
this is good.
federal loans forgiven after 20 years of qualifying payments [and 10 years after qualifying public service] has been the “deal” since at least 2010. except the department of education and the loan servicers have completely shit the bed at actually tracking and forgiving them when someone submits all the correct paperwork up until, supposedly, this exact moment.
“No one is willing to take jobs that pay under $30,000 anymore”
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