"The younger generation now tells me how tough things are—give me a break," said Biden, while speaking to Patt Morrison of the Los Angeles Times to promote his new book. "No, no, I have no empathy for it, give me a break."
Do not believe he gives a shit or is entertaining the thought of giving a shit. They're going to circulate the student loan forgiveness meme every 2 or 4 years to get your vote forever and pause/resume the payments like it's a payroll tax deduction for economic reasons.
My half-lib dad thinks they're saving it and marijuana legalization for right before the midterms. Literally playing with people's lives for political points. And I could see it backfiring for that reason.
Your dad fell for the trap.
I don't think he believes it's definitely going to happen, I think it's more "they could be doing this". He's even acknowledged that it's playing with people's lives. Basically just cope/hope.
Yup, legitimately underestimating that they've already broken multiple promises to the people who will likely be apathetic to any more "promises".
When it doesn't happen, do you think your half-lib dad will acknowledge it?
Yeah probably, but he'll be more focused on/worrying about the fact that the Democrats just lost. He flip flops a lot between correct takes like recognizing Democrats don't actually do anything and "but we still have to vote blue you Bernie bros" shit.
Before the primary he wanted Bernie to run third party and basically purposefully spoil the election. After the primary he had to vote for Biden in the general to stop Trump.
My lib dad thought they were gonna do a full lockdown, but they were waiting until after the election to talk about it.
Liberals are so brain wormed they can’t accept that as far as 80% of the country is concerned, Biden took things away.
"Well they're stupid for seeing it that way." - the only campaign slogan Liberals will ever have again.
Right? The answer is “you better fucking buy those votes with deeds. “
Liberals do not get it that most people will vote for whoever will do for them.
Exactly, if you aren't a terminally online political sicko, all you know is that under Trump you got $1,800 stimmy bux, paused student loans, eviction moratorium and enhanced unemployment payments. Under Biden, you got $1,400 (which was supposed to be $2K) plus all that other shit is gone. It's hard to sell "the republicans are worse" while taking away the few good things they allowed to happen.
electoral suicide and will be devastating even to their own goals of personal power and enrichment.
idk ive noticed that the democrats raise more money in years they dont control power than otherwise
legit they just want the donations. theyre even happy with the prospect of roe v wade being overturned cause theyll prob get more donations
Trump did not authorize the unemployment payments. Trump literally let them lapse for multiple months.
Yeah dude this is gonna be great. It probably will happen, literally the weakest possible good scenario.
We got it for a few minutes since the pandemic started (and continues raging on, almost as if nobody were even attempting to slow its spread).
Now it’s dangled as “about to expire”. Everything is in the shitter and they’re talking about restarting loan payments and even raising interest rates!
So, because they need to be able to say “things are on the up and up (except for trump rascals etc) yessiree whew glad we’re getting over with this pandemic” with a straight face, they can’t really really throw a wrench in their own money printer.
Instead, every single fucking day becomes a battle of epic proportions of hemming and hawing about whether the picture frame should be rotated 3.8°, to make a different edge line up properly (because the whole fucking thing is way out of skew so you gotta pick one)
That’s the “debt ceiling” fiasco that happens with increasing frequency now, as we watch contradictions flare up one after another, causing the whole rotten structure to sag and groan under the unimaginable weight of imperial plunder. It’s the Supreme Court, it’s police killings, its some fucking engineer “just following orders” in 19-whatever, as he designed the jet fuel tanks that are rotting away, threatening to leech fuel into native Hawaiian water sources. it’s all the usual death and destruction right in front of our eyes.
Democrats cough to cover up these little groans, while chuds howl at whatever they happen to be refining their rituals of hate on at any particular moment :frothingfash:
So. RGB died or whatever other dumb shit you care about, “sorry”. but look, we put a down payment on the smallest crumb of a decent thing, so come on—whaddya say?
Can't we all just howl at the moon and fix anything?
This is just like when FDR postponed the implementation of Social Security by one week.
It will either be means tested or they'll do it month to month, just to keep people on edge. Then when midterms role around libs will tout it as an accomplishment. Of course since this is the stupidest timeline, they will resume payments in October just so that they can get crushed in the midterms.
Edit: I was off by 60 days.
I feel like it will be month to month, last couple times were also near when it was going to expire.
hmmm
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complete loan forgiveness -> 50k down -> 30k down -> 10k down -> its gonna be restarted soon -> lol i'm restarting it tomorrow eat my shit, btw we'll garnish your wages now and itll go into bezos's pocket or something
Y’all. This is politician speak for “he’s already decided to do this and will announce it later.”
Listen Fat, you have to re-pay your loans or I’ll smell your daughters hair :biden-troll:
Simon says don’t suspend the restart of payment pauses :biden-troll:
