OvenToaster
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OvenToaster
4mo ago
you should select someone that's capable of making credible promises to other leaders!
That just leaves the candidate with the brain worm.
OvenToaster
4mo ago
How can you make sure of that when Biden also has the pardon power?
OvenToaster
5mo ago
For what it's worth, I don't wish to convince anyone this isn't porkbarrel politics. I think it is.
I simply take issue with the framing here that the Biden administration is ignoring and overriding the supreme court with this recent loan forgiveness.
Plenty of bad executive actions are perfectly legal.
And sometimes a first attempt at a goal is struck down, and a later, different attempt at the same goal is not. Trump's early travel restrictions in particular come to mind.
Perhaps 120, but maybe less. Those other programs might be constitutional as well. You assumed the full 167 wasn't, and look where that got you. Maybe we should look at the specific programs and the justifications behind their implementation by the executive rather than just assume whatever provides us with righteous anger.
I guess that would take too much time.
Edit: I think the original loan forgiveness program was a stupid, regressive waste. But your effort to draft is quite offputting. Doesn't feel like an honest sales pitch.
OvenToaster
5mo ago
Of the $7.7 billion in recent forgiveness announced in OP's press release, $5.2 billion is based on a law passed during GWB's administration, and the first grants of forgiveness would have gone out during Trump's administration. So sure, precedent, but also statutory grounding.
If this surprises you, perhaps you should consider whether OP's post faithfully characterized the situation.
OvenToaster
5mo ago
OP's press release announced $7.7 billion of new forgiveness, $5.2 billion of which was PLSF.
I doubt PLSF represents 67% of the cumulative amount of forgiveness, but it doesn't seem to me like a "small sliver" based on the only evidence cited here.
OP says $167 billion have been cumulatively forgiven. My 2nd google result suggests that $53 billion had been forgiven based on the PLSF program by January 2024. So at worst 30% of the forgiveness, which is not a "small sliver".
https://americorps.gov/blogs/2024-01-12/five-things-know-about-public-service-loan-forgiveness
OvenToaster
5mo ago
Your proposal is starting to sound like an expansion of the EITC that excludes those with college loans.
That sounds like something Democrats might support and Republicans would never support.
OvenToaster
5mo ago
The government gave out 167 billion dollars in free money entirely based on executive fiat.
The Public Service Loan Forgiveness program was authorized by congress in 2007.
OvenToaster
5mo ago
The loan forgiveness discussed in the press release are based on different programs than the loan forgiveness struck down by the supremes.
For example, the press release is announcing $7.7 billion more in loan forgiveness. $5.2 billion of that are based on the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program (basically requires making payments for 10 years while working a government job, with the balance forgiven at the end of the 10 years), a program expressly authorized by statute with some administrative adjustments implemented by the Biden administration.
That is in contrast to the program the supremes struck down(basically a flat $10-20 thousand in forgiveness if your income is below some threshold).
It should not be surprising that striking down the latter does not effect the former.
OvenToaster
6mo ago
okay, so you knew she had justified her speculation
No more so than Otis Eugene Ray. Rank speculation is not justification. Your definition may differ.
If you believe that this story is more than wishcasting you should ask yourself why real conservative media outlets aren't repeating it.
OvenToaster
6mo ago
No one else in the media se3ms to think she has justified herself. Foxnews and OAN haven't jumped on this. It's wishcasting.
OvenToaster
6mo ago
I agree that this would be really, really bad.
But I dont see any reason to believe its true beyond wanting to believe its true.
Julie Kelly does not justify her assertion.
OvenToaster
6mo ago
The DOJ's Doctored Crime Scene Photo of Mar-a-Lago Raid
Did you read this link?
The author doesn't justify they assertion at all. They take this snippet:
"[If] the investigative team found a document with classification markings, it removed the document, segregated it, and replaced it with a placeholder sheet. The investigative team used classified cover sheets for that purpose.”
And assert that the photo is using those placeholder sheets.
But the quote doesn't say that. And the filing doesn't say that.
Can anyone else justify this assertion that the photo includes cover sheets provided by the FBI?
I would find it disturbing if true, but I see no reason to accept this reporter's assertion as fact.
OvenToaster
6mo ago
Perhaps not.
But they do believe Biden will end the country.
"a continuation of the Biden administration is national suicide" - Bill Barr
OvenToaster
9mo ago
Were you aware that your own link says that there were 134 republicans in the room during counting?
"can be argued" is a poor standard here.
The point is that if this was a false flag operation to make the right look bad, it would have been more effective had there only been a DNC bomb.
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