lol the rest of that answer on student debt was worse, biden just outright lying about not having the authority to do it
i've said before that one of the fave defenses of pundits now is "you can't prove i'm lying or disingenous and not simply ignorant as hell" and politicians adopt it too when they don't wanna do shit that they absolutely can do
the other thing is the dems are STILL in on the "you don't want a RICH person to benefit, do you?" which is fucking rich coming from the exact same politicians that were present for, and pushed for, "you don't want a BAD poor person to benefit, do you?" welfare destruction
the exact same reaganite policies but since everybody and their grandma went broke since then, instead of "you don't wanna help those lazeabout poor people, do you?" they switched the justification to "you don't want rich people to have public utilities, do ya?"
lol and in the same town hall, he advocates for more money to the cops
everybody gets fucked but the already rich, the cops, and the army
anyway what's funny is fucking *schumer* has been pushing biden to forgive more debt and he just keeps going "nope, fuck you"
they're not listening to us, they're not even listening to their fellow corrupt ancient ass politicians, "push him left", lmao
dude showed up at a meeting with NAACP people who asked him why the fuck he picked vilsack and he answered "shut the fuck up about police brutality". you can't even get him to budge on agriculture and if criticized on the subject he tells you to cram it on another one
wait shit did he really suggest tying student debt forgiveness to public service lmaooooooooooo
1. that's horseshit
2. we already have several programs like that and curiously nobody ever seems to actually qualify for the debt forgiveness
democrat leadership truly is going to spend their 20+ years or so on earth making sure nobody gets to have anything good but themselves and then never even actually do anything fun with all that money and power they've hoarded
just these ancient fucking silent generation people who hold onto power and wealth for the sake of holding onto it, they don't even fucking do caligula shit with it. they sit around and make phone calls for more money and more power to make more phone calls for more money
god remember when those fuckers were on twitter begging US for money? for the fucking transition?
also everybody who has been saying "he's only been there for less than a month, these things take time"
has he not had enough time for someone to make clear whether or not he has the authority to cancel student debt
i was told this guy could hit the ground running
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me: cruella de vil comedy with cruella played by jessica walters
jessica walters should get to play whatever role she wants but goddamn i cannot deny how good she is at hilariously out of touch rich asshole
hell even if you wanted to stick with it as Commentary On Society stuff you could just have her say out loud all the terrible things she wants to/is doing and everyone applauds/gives her the benefit of the doubt and TV interviews. cruella by way of verhoeven
lrt yet again you can also see the huge difference between who gets their news from TV and who gets it from like, twitter livestreams of shit while they happen
people talk about fox and it's of course a huge fucking problem but msnbc and CNN will just tell people complete and total horseshit to an utterly locked in audience
notable too that the current president of CNN is the guy who made the apprentice
and it's not just "oh that tracks why CNN has such right wing lean" but also why CNN structures shit in a very TV drama or pro wrestling way. it's not about news, it's about what gets the ratings pop
*long enough for us to win the election, then we'll just go right back to the obama years and get back to fucking them over
i frequently come back to this bit of speech from bill clinton in 1992 after he won the dem primary which made crystal clear what the democrats were going to be doing from thereon out, as well as what their cover story for it would be
can't stop thinking about the texas shit and my mind going back to nafta cuz like. i've seen people going "why do people vote republican and not democrat?!" and ignoring vote suppression and dems also being corrupt
1. shit like NAFTA 2. never even admitting NAFTA did harm
one trend i've commented on constantly is that when dems want to win over conservatives, it's always over cultural issues. they throw minorities under the bus in a hurry. never works out for them.
and they never go "NAFTA fucked you and fucked everyone all for the rich"
the dems never issue a mea culpa for NAFTA, or for retreating entirely from the states that got fucked by it. the idea that they have ever made a mistake is verboten, especially when it comes to this.
thinking how earlier in the pandemic we had a mask shortage cuz we didn't have any factories that we could just use for that shit and now everything with texas and man nafta was really the last nail in the coffin in this country having any infrastructure or interest in it huh
nothing works, everything including your basic human needs breaks constantly, all basic public services are outsourced to whichever company we can do a mutual grift with on poor people, and everybody in leadership helped cause it in the first place
every week being infrastructure week. maybe one day you will actually get infrastructure instead of all of your tax money going to cops and military contractors
convinced that a lot of the people who they did interviews with - but also wouldn't let them see the whole game - who were concerned with it just being more Rah Rah America dogshit did those interviews only so they could use them as a shield against criticism
i mean not that manipulation of people for material this way is anything new but it's something to always be aware of, especially when you could be the one being targeted for that kind of manipulation
like just simply if a company's saying "we really are going to take this seriously and we're not just going to make more of the same shit" to you, you need to go "prove it. let me see the whole thing"