The Dept of Education did a report on Biden's ability to cancel student debt so Biden just redacted the entire thing, how is this real lmao
I dont know if everyone knew this or not, but yes, the Dept of Education can just X out that debt with the stroke of a pen. 90% convinced that was the real motivating factor behind the DNCs consildation against Bernie in the primaries: stop the populist wave of debt resentment, because thats something we could have actually materially affected.
This is what the redacted document was talking about using. They left one part of the report unredacted and that's what it mentioned.
Is student debt that big of a money maker compared to other ghoulish sports? Like why the obsession with it? Maybe it has more to do with potential money versus actual money I guess. Are they just pretending that all that money is going to somehow materialize into their purses?
The debt itself isn’t. But it’s already been proven that people with high debt we’re the ones taking minimum wage jobs. And the economy needs those fuckers back.
Is it that planned though? That's pretty high level manipulation from the geriatrics.
Not really. The feds found that peoooe with high debt that use to work low income jobs remained out of them during the debt relief.
Realize that’s the main reason economy is tanking
And decided not to end debt.
It’s simple even for them.
The management of the debt is a huge money maker. Private companies administer payments and fees and they make bank on delinquency. So in addition to the grand sweeping incentives and moral imperatives imposed by the lizard people, there are direct financial incentives behind it as well.
if Biden was smart he would've strategically uncensored some words like this
The Department of Education █████████████
███████████ has ██████████ no ██
█████ authority ███████ to ████████
████████████ cancel ███████████
█ student loand debt ████████████████
If they don’t cancel it it’s gonna be a national security threat anyway. One way we know that the CIA isn’t completely bullshitting when they claim they don’t have hegemonic control of domestic matters is that they’re much more efficient and knowledgeable about how to deal with grievance-based social movements during their coups of foreign governments. I’m no expert but I’ve read enough to know what happens when you squeeze people harder when they’ve already shown they’re willing to hit the streets. And based on the actions of the CIA, they know this too.
MSNBC talking head national security expert "A reprehensible comment on the net went viral lampooning efforts at keeping the public safe. I cannot stress this enough that it is a matter of national security. If the report on the student debt information was public - Russia would..."
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That's not... I don't want... Now I can't... Ewww....
How low do election participation numbers need to get before the US government just reverts to like a Roman senatorial system instead of being a “democracy”
I think next year's elections will be a depressing joke. Before, during, and after the elections - the GOP will use every means it can (legal, quasi-legal, and illegal) to win. Average dem voters will start to say "If vote might not count and the dems aren't going to fight to protect democracy - why vote?"
Dem pols and lib pundits won't have much to work with to spin. They'll be forced to say people must vote because it's patriotic which - of course - is a shit answer. Biden will be a half-term president and he'll be the last real president. The GOP (including their judges and justices) simply won't allow a democrat to be president.
The nano-thin silver lining of the 2024 election horrorshow aftermath and then GOP fascism will be libs learning words like "electorialism".
I bet some bigwig dem consultant got a plum gig for his son (or daughter) as Biden's tech person. They get paid $50,000 a year and they work about 20 minutes a day on average helping the most powerful man in the free world to do such things as attach a vid in gmail.
They left a bit of the memo unredacted:
which the benefits provided to borrowers with Department-held loans under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act ("CARES Act"), Pub. L. 116-136, are effective. The use of the HEROES Act to effectuate those waivers and modifications in 2020 is consistent with the Department's past practice. The HEROES Act was enacted by Congress in 2003, and the Department issued its first Notice of waivers and modifications pursuant to the HEROES Act that same year. 68 Fed. Reg. 69,312 (Dec. 12, 2003). In the more than 17 intervening years, the Department has continued to use this authority without legal challenge.
For context, this isn't the Covid HEROES act from last year, but the one from 2003 that specifically allows the department to waive debt at will " in times of war or military operation or national emergency". The crux of their idea laid out in the redacted document was to use this act to just wipe out everyone's debt because of that "national emergency" part of the language.
LOL this is retirement home shit. Share the inheritance gramps you can't take it with you!
It's bipartisanship. The GOP is trying hard to win by any means possible. And the dems are imploding to help them.
Seriously though - I'd love to hear a DC dem pol explain how killing the child tax credit and not cancelling students loans in a goddamned election year is good actually.
I haven’t listened to the PodJons in a couple of years, but I’d love to hear their neoliberal Sorkin-verse take.
If the dems were a political thriller movie - it would do about $500 of box office. Their level of idiocy doesn't even make sense in fifth-rate storytelling.
I'm no lawyer but I assume the only actual viable voting rights reform would have to happen long before the elections or it'll be challenged in court and the dems will lose big on the law and lose everywhere. It would be pretty funny if they passed legislation around May anyway, the GOP gleefully stole elections everywhere and got away with a lot of it. Then some of the malfeasance went to the courts.
The MSNBC legal experts would first say "The courts should rule that..." And then lower expectations "The courts could .." And then "It's possible the courts might .." And then "It's possible that some courts might .." And then after the rulings come out which are nearly all wins for the GOP - the experts say "Some of these rulings are surprising and - quite frankly - shocking..."
Sure, surprising and shocking. Who could have predicted that?
Wasn’t this discovered months ago? I think the debt collective posted about it
