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They would absolutely be willing to use this type of power but only to do bad things their donors want
Yeah Biden literally did it when he sent weapons to Israel. Overruled a bunch of checks that were supposedly supposed to stop weapons from going to countries committing war crimes.
Now imagine if he had done something for student loans, might’ve saved the election for the democrats.
sorry the sweaty the senate parliamentarian(whose 'rulings' can be legally ignored) said no :(
Yeah love how the mystical parliamentarian prevented a bunch under Biden but the first time they tried to stop Trump he just ignored them and we found out that it was always allowed but the dems didn’t because of “decorum”.
It was known to us the entire time that they were doing the parliamentarian shtick that they could be ignored and replaced at will. They're a powerless Rules Nerd who is there to go "um akshually the rules state..." but that's literally fucking it, they have less authority than a schoolteacher.
But liberals are blueMAGA so when their guy in office and their guys on TV tell them the sky is red they hoot and holler in the ecstasy of the truth. With a Democrat president liberals have part of their brains entirely disengaged such that they are unable to even formulate the concept of a question, much less ask one or investigate whether they're being lied to
Same thing happened under the Bush administration. Parliamentarian tried to get in the way and they just fired him
I literally owe interest on my loans almost equal to the loans at this point
Charging interest on loans for education is crazy too, feel like the bare minimum they could do is just set the interest rates to 0%.
What's fucking crazy is there are a million and a half compromises that we could have had that would have ameliorated the extremity of capitalism's depredations but we are denied even the mildest and most milquetoast reform. And people like me are seen as the crazy, radical extremists even though I'd be totally stoked for something as small as a zero interest loan. Something mutualist anarchists were talking about in America in the fucking 1800s. Well, more like 0.5% interest in their case to pay for the administrative wages and shit to service the loan, but still
didnt he try and the conservative supreme court struck it down? of course we can talk how the SC got conservative but thats a history lesson.
he tried to do some means-tested half-ass thing instead of just forgiving the federally held loans which would not have been stopped by the court
The SC ruled he could drone strike the SC and send in Navy SEALs to kill any survivors, but Biden didn't do that because he's a coward.
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i don't have the sources handy, but apparently the "approach" to loan forgiveness that the democrats went with was the one that was a lot less tenable and more easy to be struck down. There were other parliamentary approaches they could/should have gone with (if they actually gave a shit) that were more solidly supported
yea of course they could have done quite a bit when they had power, but it's a broken system that is broken on purpose. "Oh no we can't do that because Joe fucking Lieberman exists." WELL THEN KICK HIM OUT OF THE PARTY. Fuck.