Only in the land of the free and liberal democracy can an unelected board overturn the one meager democratic action (non-politically of course)
Yes, the law is stuff that is made up. Yes, granting standing to Missouri in this case is a bit weird. Yes, SCOTUS is not objective, instead it is just people voting with their ideological preferences. Also yes, SCOTUS should be abolished.
That being said, using the HEROES act for student debt relief is incredibly bad, it is almost like you want your law to be struck down. The law doesn't give the president that authority (it just says that any debt forgiveness during the Covid emergency declaration being active is tax-free) and most of HEROES act is only valid during a Covid emergency. The Biden administration specifically went out of their way to declare the Covid emergency officially over months ago.
The Biden administration has a much older law that grants it explicit authority to cancel student debt (Higher Education Act) and they decided to just... not use it. And this is now even more urgent, since the Biden administration officially ends Trump's student debt repayment pause in like 2 months. I'm glad that Biden said that everyone should leave SCOTUS alone and "not politicize the court"... YESTERDAY.
SAD!
I agree, using the HEROES act was baffling. Although I think it did have a provision to forgive debt as well
That being said, using the HEROES act for student debt relief is incredibly bad, it is almost like you want your law to be struck down
I think it is insane that some people think it is good that it is unpopular because it isn't supposed to be be
That's what happens when civic education in the US is reading fuckers like Madison and Hamilton and being told that they were sages.
All words no content. Those figures are taught as though they were talking about civic principles in a vacuum. As we know, that's fucking bullshit, and they were in actuality creating a system with a very specific minority in mind in need of protecting: the rich and wealthy. As ever, history without materialism yields even less understanding than complete ignorance. You cannot divorce those ideas from the class relations at the time, state of people's lives and organization of society, and the fact that the constitution was written by and for literal slavers. There is very little beauty behind those ideas when placed within their appropriate material context.
Even worse, sometimes they did write with a little more context, in which case what they said was repugnant and blatantly anti-democratic. Blocking debt forgiveness was a stated purpose of the Senate since before there was a Senate.
Sorry, I meant that of course what those ghouls wrote was awful. All you have to do is actually read their fucking words to see that.
But Americans are just taught the cliff notes version, or select texts considered "most important"... Those conveniently leave out all the stuff that might get the noggin joggin.
Oh no, I'm with you! What you said does apply to things they wrote and especially to what people like John Locke wrote, I just wanted to mention that there are also slightly more specific "beware mob rule" brainworms too.
Well, yeah. This gives us a reason to get out the vote like with Dobbs
Republicans to sue and to wrangle up some mid term votes
We'll see an overturning of Obergefell by their next session I'm sure.
I knew this was going to happen the moment it was announced, and am somehow still angry and disappointed.
I would have rather they not done anything.
You can prepare yourself for something bad, but when it happens, it still will suck
They release this shit on Friday bc they know what they are doing is wrong
Skip town then shit on the floor
Man I wish I was born without critical thinking skills. CHUDs are just so damn happy all the time, and they always get what they want.
I wish I was stupid enough to be a conservative. Imagine a life where you ALWAYS win politically, where you're ALWAYS on the winning side of EVERY issue.
Oh no don't worry
Their entire project is to take people who should be happy they're always getting what they want, and make them wildly paranoid and miserable including just lying to them and saying they didn't get anything they wanted. I have met retired business owners who think Portland Oregon looks like Verdun right now.
Just watch, CHUDs are going to say that affirmative action is still happening but SECRETLY
In good country the government can just deny what the people voted for
But you did have the option to vote for something in an election that has the exact form required by American law. Therefore it is democracy. A beacon of democracy, in fact.
Lol the reddit news post is locked and the politics megathread is easily the best content of the year. Seeing the countless way libs are trying to imagine Biden coming in to save the day is hilarious. Would be sad if this wasn't predictable from the start.
have they been paying attention? The GOP are always one step ahead of him since day 1. If I'm being honest, the fash have always been one step ahead of us period.
They're only a step ahead because the liberal class exists to shield them from getting bashed (remember that phrases such as "bash the fash" are to violent from liberal to use).
Easy to always be one step ahead of Biden when he's been at a standstill since the 80s
so much its unreal, unironically need to GTFO this shithole."Let's make college a luxury for the rich and bar non-college grads from white collar work. The poors will do all the blue collar work that fucks up your body."
Maybe the third-worldists are right, there is a Labor aristocracy. There are quite literally luxury jobs that only the rich can have a hope of qualifying for.
Even with a degree jobs don't give a shit about me. Cruelty is the point
The precedence set is kind of insane. The government is now no longer able to act in a way that could *possibly cost a private firm cash. Literally what democracy
Not really. It’s not saying the government can’t cancel student loans, it’s saying the president can’t. Congress has always had control of spending and this just reaffirms that.
It sucks but it’s very expected. Canceling loans always was going to need democrats controlling the senate, house and presidency.
GOSH IF ONLY THEY HAD JUST THAT
and then fucked around and lost their chance
Then the old coot should did it when they had all 3 branch of congress. What a scammer
If the chief executive stopped collecting debts there's nothing anyone could do about it. Am I correct? It would be up to the next president to decide if they want to be the assholes. We already have policy options constrained by rightwingers who just say they won't implement or enforce policies they don't like. It would be cool if someone did that for workers.
This court has already set the precedent that precedent doesn't matter.
Also it turns out mohela would gain money from this, not lose money. The plaintiffs simply lied
Gonna take out a ppp loan and use it to pay back my loans, then get the ppp loan forgiven for reasons
I'm even gonna take out more than I need to because I want some left over
Or change your name to Zelensky and apply for loan. They probably give you as grant instead.
I'm telling you folks, it's all about the wood chipper, let's chip that wood
it's the guillotine of the 21st century! who needs a single clean chop when you can have a spray of homogenized gore?
Maybe we can save on cleanup by having the next guy clean up the last guy.
i mean, i knew this was gonna happen. but i double knew it as soon as the "student loan forgiveness" part of the debt ceiling "compromise" was let through. he gutted everything, IRS funding, COVID funds, SNAP, capped all non-defense spending (while there is insane inflation), expedites a fossil fuel pipeline. but for some reason, the republicans didn't make the student loan forgiveness promise part of the deal.
and god, all the headlines were like, "biden totally took the GOP to school on that deal."
what a fucking country.
Biden on expanding the court: "The judgment was that doesn't make sense because it can become so politicized in the future."
Show
NEWS FLASH ASSHOLE. IT'S BEEN POLITICAL THE WHOLE TIME!
https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/ep-163-the-media-manufactured-mystique-of-the-us-courtsystem
Edit: Realized I should link the actual episode and not just assume everyone knows it already!
I don't care who's with me, I'm officially on a debtors strike.
What are they going to do, tank my credit score? HA. I CAN'T AFFORD A HOUSE OR A CAR ANYWAY!
