I'm not sure what difference it makes if the sale was approved before or after these events, this is nothing new

5/18/2021 6:45:36 PM

In all practical terms, you're right, it doesn't make one bit of a difference, but daave is a far left radical socialist that does more to undermine and harm the progressive movement than he does to help since he incessantly regurgitates extremely biased/one-sided talking points. Shit's weak and annoying.

5/18/2021 7:27:16 PM

And you're a radical centrist who insists on maintaining the status quo and defending the powerful

It's wild you think one guy on college message board with 20 users can "harm" anything

[Edited on May 18, 2021 at 8:30 PM. Reason : E]

5/18/2021 8:29:59 PM

both sides-ing things doesn’t make you more balanced or correct - it makes you a rube and torch-carrier for the status quo

5/18/2021 8:36:43 PM

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"President Joe Biden made an unscheduled stop at the Ford Rouge Electric Vehicle Center on Tuesday to test drive the new Ford F-150 electric truck, but when asked about #Israel, this is what he had to say. https://t.co/h1xTTCZvjf"

Man I don't know why Biden is in a Ford commercial in the first place but that is a very strange "joke" to tell in 2021. Imagine this same sequence with Trump.

5/19/2021 12:24:49 PM

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"Scoop: White House budget will NOT include key Biden campaign pledges -- such as the public option, prescription drugs reform, or student debt relief, per sources WH squarely focused on $4T in jobs/infrastructure + "families" plans W/ @tylerpager https://t.co/3DJIQfYPi6"

5/24/2021 3:02:39 PM

UJustWait84 a centrist? Wow.

5/25/2021 8:22:35 AM

A RADICAL centrist!

5/25/2021 11:04:20 AM

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" Imagine this same sequence with Trump."

I imagine it would have been worse with Trump simply because Trump would have acted worse.

Trump likely would have told any reporter that asked a hard question that they were the enemy of the people right before he joked about running them over and would have at no point said he was just kidding. What someone does before and after an act provides context, which is incredibly important.

So, yes, I have imagined it and agree Trump would have been treated differently. Where I suspect we disagree is that I believe Trump would have been treated worse because he would have acted worse not because he is a republican.

5/25/2021 11:33:19 AM

The semester is OVER and I won't have shit to do all day but fear for my life until summer school starts, but I do I have some things I'd like to say about our current "Preisident', Joel o'Biden.

As a "radical centrist,' fearfully living in the *Oakland/SF Bay Area* amidst a plague, no...epidemic (pandemic?) of chaos and senseless rassist gun violence [NOTE: attacks on Asian and Asian American citizens are no joke, yo], I feel the need to chime in. Or, opine if you will since we're being academic , and give 'ole sleepy Joel Biden an honest report card.


*--a land plagued with more gun violence per capita than Gaza where that fucker daaaaaave would consider a statistically [CITATION FROM A SCHOLARLY SOURCE NEEDED!!) comparable war zone, [DELETE/REVISE/EMBARRASSING???] that's basically an apartheid cesspool if you wanna think about it. I mean it is, so the fuck what? Fuck Isreal. Yeah, I said it. Wanna fight about it?!

OK, ok so On the one hand he's got Covid right by the balls like he likes 'em. 50% nationwide vax rate aint no joke yall,. And did he catch covid or not like that total loser Trump? HUH?DID HE!? [DELETE{

On the other one he's a boring centrist piece of shit thats gonna let Putin take Belarus and the Youuuukraine and China take *Mynamwar [*BURMA, go with BURMA easier spell) and fuckin Taiwain because he's in bed with the Israelis' AND the Bolsanaros.

Anyway, C+

5/26/2021 5:36:04 PM

C+ is fair.

5/26/2021 11:33:30 PM

Drunk at 2:30pm on a Wednesday?

5/27/2021 10:31:11 AM

It's more likely than you think!

5/27/2021 1:21:07 PM

Quote :

"DHS/Border Patrol is using helicopter rotor wash to try to clear out activists out from an occupied #Line3 pump station north of Park Rapids. More than 24 activists are locked down to equipment inside. @MPRnews https://t.co/ArTN6FAqwC"

Fun

6/7/2021 8:08:40 PM

NPR: Biden DOJ Plans To Continue To Defend Trump In E. Jean Carroll's Defamation Lawsuit.

https://www.npr.org/2021/06/08/1004340386/biden-doj-plans-to-continue-to-defend-trump-in-e-jean-carrolls-defamation-lawsui

6/8/2021 2:28:35 PM

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"how it started / how it's going https://t.co/SdkhXLG8fV"

[Edited on June 10, 2021 at 8:41 PM. Reason : E]

6/10/2021 8:40:16 PM

Not really sure why parents would want to put their children in a school/church where they weren't wanted.

Unless they're just trying to make headlines.

6/11/2021 11:14:07 AM

"Not sure why black people would want to go to a store where they aren't wanted."

6/11/2021 12:08:04 PM

Because of vouchers and lagging public funding, there are many areas where the religious private school is the best option.

6/11/2021 12:22:25 PM

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" Unless they're just trying to make headlines."

this isn’t a thing

willing to assume that you don’t have anyone in your life who tries to make headlines

I know I don’t

6/11/2021 4:01:20 PM

But sometimes they just try to do it for the lulz.

6/11/2021 11:22:57 PM

I feel like I had long arguments last summer about whether Biden was going to upfund the police, I guess we know now

6/24/2021 12:25:50 PM

Idk what people were confused about - he said he wanted to give them more money during his campaign

6/24/2021 1:33:27 PM

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"The Biden administration’s decision to back an oil pipeline in Minnesota and Wisconsin over tribal and environmental groups’ objections is the latest action that sides with Trump-era oil and gas decisions, despite the president’s pledge to cut emissions. https://t.co/tSdDZQZwHt"

Just refuse to carry out what they run on

6/25/2021 9:06:23 AM

He doesn't sound very credible here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQScXgQ5PO0

6/26/2021 2:53:47 PM

You know what, shame on ME for clicking that link

6/26/2021 3:53:29 PM

Approval dropping off with independents

Quote :

"These ipsos numbers for independents and biden are pretty striking if borne out by other polls https://t.co/2Jd4AdOAJD"

7/2/2021 9:56:23 AM

Nice to mix in something good every now and then

Quote :

"???? Biden is about to order the FTC to ban non-compete clauses which trap workers in abusive, low-paying, or just bad jobs. Noncompetes have become increasingly common for restaurant workers, retail workers, journalists, and day care providers. https://t.co/AkyrU4gaOw "

7/7/2021 4:48:05 PM

https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/biden-launches-sweeping-action-on

Seems like lots of good. Even the traditional republican cattlemen's association giving praise.

7/11/2021 12:55:44 PM

same/worse than Trump on Cuba

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/22/biden-sanctions-cuba-500534

7/22/2021 11:26:34 AM

fuck this guy

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/biden-says-just-beginning-cuba-sanctions-crackdown-protests-2021-07-22/

7/22/2021 3:32:01 PM

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/biden-shift-mask-politics/2021/07/28/906383ba-ef14-11eb-81d2-ffae0f931b8f_story.html

+1, although it's pretty damn late in the game...

7/28/2021 4:53:21 PM

Can we get some student debt cancellation up in this motherfucker?

7/28/2021 5:40:57 PM

^While I agree that it's super important (and FWIW I have quite a bit of debt myself), the pause on payments doesn't end until October 1. It would be great if he just went ahead and cancelled it today, but he can extend it again later, and he probably will until January 2022 at the earliest (just a guess).

Right now, I think mandating the vaccine and passing infrastructure are more dire, as shitty as that sounds.

7/28/2021 8:08:48 PM

I would hope we could expect the president and their massive staff to be able to multi-task

7/29/2021 7:03:14 AM

These things are highly intricate and any additional topic requires added focus that distracts from completing an existing priority either timely, well, or both.

I'd rather have a candidate who focused hard on doing a few things well and quickly rather than be all over the place and ineffective.

One can only fight on so many fronts.

7/29/2021 11:16:22 AM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_100_days_of_Franklin_D._Roosevelt%27s_presidency

7/29/2021 11:42:21 AM

If our massive government can only focus on one issue at a time maybe I'm an advocate for small government.

I guarantee the administration is currently working on more than Infrastructure and vaccine mandates. They haven't out out a student loans EO bc they don't want to.

7/29/2021 11:45:18 AM

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"They haven't out out a student loans EO bc they don't want to."

Exactly, and I don't see how anyone could believe otherwise when the Democratic speaker of the house (who sits politically to the left of the president) just said as much other day.

[Edited on July 29, 2021 at 11:49 AM. Reason : .]

7/29/2021 11:48:28 AM

Disagree that it's because they don't want to and would counter that it is the issue is not a priority as compared to other things, such as lifting people (largely women of color) out of poverty to provide them and their descendants more opportunity and reducing carbon emissions, so we have a planet several years from now.

This isn't hard to imagine and the policies implemented touch so many areas that it's necessary to account for what would turn out to be unintended consequences. Unintended consequences can both reduce the effectiveness of a policy and create barriers to passing legislation.

7/30/2021 11:38:49 AM

He already cancelled a small amount of debt, so it's clearly not an issue of priorities. He can cancel more with the stroke of a pen. Also black women hold more debt on average, by quite a bit, than any other race/gender combination.

It's weird that you brought up two things that they're also doing jack shit about

[Edited on July 30, 2021 at 12:55 PM. Reason : .]

7/30/2021 12:55:14 PM

Could do with a stroke of a pen, but that could also impact congress' willingness to collaborate on other legislation. I shouldn't have to explain this, but priorities are layered and sequenced rather than all or none. One can say that they absolutely need x to be addressed in a particular agenda item but view the marginal return on anything past that part as not worth it and thus continuing to invest in that effort is no longer a priority.

By definition, removing student debt is relatively (as compared to overall poverty and impact on affording basic needs between college debt holders vs the fundamentally impoverished) low compared to helping the generally impoverished. Seems to me Biden has his eyes on larger impact (the impoverished and planet) rather than marginal returns in areas where he has already made improvements.

Interesting that you say Biden isn't doing jack in those areas. I'd conclude that the increased child credits, increased minimum wage for certain employees and the other proposed investments within the infrastructure plan (childcare, education affordance, broadband access, etc) and the reconciliation plans specifically help POC, especially women.

I'd also reason that the infrastructure plan and reconciliation, with their focus on charging stations, green credits, investment in climate science, etc, are directly aimed at saving a struggling planet.

Can you back up your assertion that he isn't doing jack in these areas in light of these items where the administration is spending considerable time, effort, and political capital to achieve?

7/30/2021 1:44:34 PM

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2021/08/06/biden-extends-student-loan-repayment-suspension/

8/6/2021 4:58:31 PM

Wow, how did he find the time

8/6/2021 5:22:12 PM

Wow, you still seem to think politics/policy in Washington move at "warp speed"

All jokes aside, you're continuing to make yourself miserable having unrealistic expectations for...Joe Biden.

I suggest you scale them back a bit and be glad that antivaxxers are getting wrekt left and right-- by the virus and pesky corporations and state governments who think they're bad for business

8/6/2021 5:32:34 PM

So what about the ppl that have continued to make payments?

8/6/2021 6:04:06 PM

What about all the people who've been paying rent in cities with a COVID moratorium?

I guess congrats for being fortunate enough to be able to be on top of your finances and pay down your debts during a global pandemic?

IDK man; aint nobody but rich people having a good and easy time during this pandemic.

8/6/2021 6:10:23 PM

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" aint nobody but rich people having a good and easy time during this pandemic."

Gtfo lol

8/6/2021 6:51:43 PM

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"having unrealistic expectations for...Joe Biden."

I mean it's the credibility watch, abandoning campaign promises affects credibility

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" be glad that antivaxxers are getting wrekt left and right-- by the virus "

Wtf

8/6/2021 7:06:15 PM

I am nearing 10kin debt? Should i just not pay and hope biden wipes it out? Or not pay til interest starts back up? My 200/month could go toward new car or cc debt, but i still been paying it

8/6/2021 9:12:26 PM