If you weren’t already super psyched for the Big Beautiful Bill borrowing caps making law school unaffordable for many, get ready to learn that most lawyerly public service is no longer getting loan forgiveness. Because public service itself is going to “illegal.”
The Trump administration’s ongoing war on the legal profession continues with the Department of Education releasing its finalized Public Service Loan Forgiveness rule — a process kicked off in March when Trump issued his Restoring Public Service Loan Forgiveness Executive Order — and while its impact will be felt across education, the new rule is especially brutal for law school graduates, with the DOE cutting off forgiveness to those causes it deems to be supporting “illegal activity.” And, if you hadn’t already guessed what it means to support “illegal” activity in this regime, they mean jobs like “representing immigrants” and “advocating for transgender rights.”
If Biden had actually fixed this shit when Dems had the numbers, trump never would have had a second term…
You can’t promise voters one thing in a campaign, call them stupid while in office for thinking it would happen, then promise in the next campaign you’ll actually do it and expect to get re-elected.
Hell, trump doing that to his voters is the whole reason Biden finally got in the oval ~40 years after his first attempt.
If I leave my door open and someone robs me, that’s a little bit my fault. But it’s a lot the robber’s fault.
The Republicans have agency. They choose to be human shaped trash bags. They deserve the majority of the blame and scorn. They are the worst people on earth.
What if someone else is in charge of the door and we all say “Hey I think those robbers are coming back, can we close and lock the door?” Then that person makes the door a little bit less ajar but still open and tells you to thank them. And you say “The door is still open, can we close it?” Then the door person walks away.
Yes, it’s the robber doing the robbing, but it’s also very much the fault of the person who chose to only address the problem in a superficial way.
I mean, kind of, but the robber is the root cause. They have agency and choose to rob. If it was flood protection, yeah, can’t blame the water.
The Republicans deserve the bulk of the blame
agreed but Pepperidge Farms remembers trumps supreme court blocked Biden loan forgiveness more than 3 times. so come on.
Does pepper ridge farms remember how it became Trump’s SC?
You have to go back a decade, these days it’s a big ask…
Spoiler:
Neoliberals and Obama wouldn’t push Obama’s pick thru so it could be used as a stick to get people to vote Hillary.
They bet the country’s future and lost. Like, it most likely hurt more than helped. It motivated republicans to vote, and it turned off potential Dem voters.
So again:
If they had done what they were elected to, trump never would have won that election.
That Obama pick? Merrick Garland. It wouldn’t have mattered bro.
To be fair, Obama’s pick fucking sucked and also helped fuck over democracy by slow-walking Trump’s prosecution.
That’s another example of what I was saying the other day, about how it’s not so much that Obama was fucking up at being progressive, but instead that he was succeeding at being neoliberal controlled opposition.
Nope. Just a big request.
Yes, let’s talking about the dems every fucking time trump does something nazi or shitty.
But yes, somehow, let’s talk about the dems.
The point is not to shift blame to the democrats. The point is to make light of the fact that the dems are controlled opposition, and they still serve the same capitalist class that maga does.
Until we abandon the capitalist, bourgeois parties, the descent into fascism will continue - as the democrats ensured after waffling each time they were in power these past few decades. No amount of lesser evilism or electoralism will get us out of this.
None of that would be happening if the dems hadn’t put oligarchs and a foreign genocidal nation before their constituents.
Sure we could pat them on the back and tell them none of it is their fault, but each time we give them slack, they hang themselves with it. Better to keep up the pressure, especially when it’s justified. Maybe we might even get 2 cents of change out of it if we are lucky.
Biden couldn’t do shit for student loans via SCOTUS, what makes you think he could prevent this? The damn game is rigged against common sense.
SCOTUS told us it isn’t illegal if the president does it. He literally could have mandated all data on federal student loans be forgiven. Biden sat on his hands for 4 years and expected people to just support his designated successor.
No they didn’t. They said they were the arbiters of what a president could and couldn’t legally do and they wouldn’t tell you what those were ahead of time.
They said it, you’re just ignorant of it and opinionated …
https://lawandcrime.com/supreme-court/we-lack-the-power-justice-barrett-basically-admits-scotus-can-do-nothing-if-trump-violates-rulings/
I couldn’t bake a cake this morning, because I didnt bother to put in the effort.
Biden couldn’t forgive student loans, because he didn’t bother to put in the effort.
No disagreement, just curious why you think a literal lifetime politician like Biden who in 2020 couldn’t shut up about wanting to work with Republicans again wasn’t one of the ones rigging it…
He ain’t one of us, he never was.