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[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (40 children)

This is like a sitcom husband calling a restaurant on Valentines afternoon for an appointment, obviously getting turned away, and then claiming to the sitcom wife it's not his fault and she has to now pretend that he took her out to a fancy dinner after she cooks for him with zero notice.

Because he tried.

With a bare minimum of effort, knowing it wouldnt work.

If you know a woman in that situation in real life, you'd explain what gaslighting is.

But for some reason we still can't criticize Biden, because he's not trump, even tho he's also not running.

Almost like neoliberals will always scream and moan that there's some bullshit reason you can't judge their strategies when they never work. They want us to just keep beating our head against a wall, because when Republicans win, so do the corporations that donate to them and neoliberals.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 10 months ago (13 children)

Congress (i.e. the GOP) won't budge on this issue and this is at least the 3rd attempt he's made to forgive loans. Only thing left to do is invoke his "King powers" to do it anyway.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So you thought there was a chance the third time he did the same thing it would work?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It wasn't the same thing, all three of them were different plans using different justifications based on different laws. One was a blanket forgiveness based on laws allowing for adjustments of student loans in emergencies. One is need based or other circumstance based forgiveness based on a much earlier law giving the department of education wide latitude to make adjustments. And one was adjustments to the income based repayment plans based on the laws establishing those (this has happened many times in the past, such as the establishment of the PAYE and REPAYE plans).

It's especially egregious that judges are blocking the SAVE plan, as many similar adjustments have been made to income based repayment plans previously with no one taking any issue.

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