wow! he canceled 8% of the student debt in convoluted, means-tested policies that only benefit 10% of those who were promised debt relief a year ago? what a hero! some of these plans have people continue making payments but it being forgiven in 20-25 years. absolute chefs-kiss of liberal policy.

The situation for kids and families at the border is vastly improved over what it was under Trump

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same user engages in some genocide denial in this thread

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  • WafflesTasteGood [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    45·
    1 year ago

    He didn’t cancel shit. He had just existing debt forgiveness programs prioritized and pushed for them to process the applications sooner.

    All the cancelled debt would’ve been cancelled regardless of anything Biden did.

        • the_itsb [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
          23·
          1 year ago

          I have to preface this with a fervent Fuck Joe Biden

          but

          my husband’s loans were totally forgiven last fall, years earlier than expected, just on a normal IDR/IBR plan, and (based on payment history) I think mine will probably get the same treatment later this year

          We don’t have public service jobs, just average capitalist wage-slave bullshit until we started doing our small engine stuff full-time last summer, so Derp Brandon did something for us.

          Was it nearly enough? Can I actually afford my house or groceries or medical expenses? No, absolutely not, Joe Bidet hasn’t helped me very much. But he did take a few tens of thousands of debt off our back, which I guess deserves acknowledgement.

          Tbqh, Trump’s elimination of the health insurance mandate helped us a fuckton more. We were getting absolutely fucked on premiums for insurance with deductibles so high we couldn’t afford to use it at all.

      • BobDole [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
        23·
        1 year ago

        How many more of these stinking, double-downer sideshows will we have to go through before we can get ourselves straight enough to put together some kind of national election that will give me and the at least 20 million people I tend to agree with a chance to vote FOR something, instead of always being faced with that old familiar choice between the lesser of two evils?

        • Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
  • Lovely_sombrero [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    30·
    1 year ago

    Most of Biden’s student debt cancellation is the result of him implementing cancellation policies that are already law. Like cancelling debt for government employees, that was IIRC signed into law by Bush. Trump cancelled some debt as well, he just implemented policies that he was already supposed to anyway.

  • Tovarisch Harv@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    10·
    1 year ago

    Liberals keep doing this. They still insist on touting Biden’s “accomplishment” of getting railroad workers a few days off per year (a fraction of what they wanted) (eight months later) (after denying their legal right to strike).

    Since Biden has no actual accomplishments, they have no choice but to spin his failures.

    • D61 [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      A guy owns 100% of 100 peoples debt and has the power to just… poof it out of existence with some scribbles on a piece of paper.

      In an act of generosity, the guy randomly chooses 10 of those 100 and poofs all or part of their debt away.

      Awesome… now do that, 10 more times.

    • NewLeaf@hexbear.netEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      This might come as a surprise, but we are well aware trump bad. We see democrats as a more immediate threat because they do nothing but enable the big, bad boogyman that they pretend to fight.

      If this was the most important vote of our lifetime (again) the Democrats should really start acting like it

  • ashinadash [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    Oh yeah I was full of shit :) that absolute loser deserved every bit of PPB they got.

    I figured, when you’re just denying or avoiding discussing the genocide that Biden is enabling and endorsing, you aren’t worth anyone’s time.

  • Great_Leader_Is_Dead [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    The situation for kids and families at the border is vastly improved over what it was under Trump

    This is the third time I’ve encountered Lib saying this but none of them ever have a fucking source, they seem to just assume it’s true cuz… vibes.