US US Politics General - Discussion of President Biden and other politicians

 

[IAmNotAlpharius]

He's wearing a BART beanie? I mean, BART is a discount IRT/BMT that debuted with computers already obsolete by the time it opened. Say what you will about the NYC Subway and its antiquated tech but it runs well, and runs all night, the only subway in the world that does.

Even Mexico City does the subway better than SF/Bay Area. That should tell you all you need to know about SF, and this doofus as well.

I legitimately felt safer in every Latin American city I’ve been to than I did in San Francisco. It’s a shithole beyond compare.

 

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Much worse for the dems, "If CNN is lying so much about this, what else have they lied to me about?"

That sounds awful familiar, because that is word for word a common refrain in GamerGate. Expanding upon it: "If Salon / The Guardian / Kotaku / etc is lying to my face about what we're going through with these SJW lunatics and Anita Sarkeesian... what else have they lied about?"

I know, "GG caused Trump lol" is the meme and common lament of the Progressive, but there's a kernel of truth to it -- GamerGate, and the completely unhinged attempts to silence anyone who disagreed the narrative or god forbid, tried to talk to the heretics, drove a lot of people away from blindly following lefty orthodoxy. The wiser progressives realize they have lost a grip of the 4chan types, the tech savvy gamer types that they kinda need, who were so happy to make political memes (modern day political cartoons) against the left, but they're still progressives so this realizing is filtered through 6 layers of too-online batshit and twitterisms. Much like every other instance of what we've seen in the past 8 years (50 if you go back to the Days of Rage), the left pulled their "gamers are dead" switch well before they had the support needed for it and it fell apart due to not everyone being a crazy eyed true believer like them.

Same thing as in Kenosha. I have absolutely no doubt that the left literally doesn't believe the people in Kenosha should have any problem with a bunch of peaceful protestors demonstrating in their city, and all the property damage and violence is just something they should have been happy to embrace as the language of the unheard. All those pictures of burning buildings and parking lots full of destroyed cars? The Kenoshans should just ignore that, or wear it as a badge of pride. "You have insurance!" Besides, CNN said it never happened so stop talking about right wing conspiracy theories or else.

The media has fallen into the same epistemic closure trap that the progressives have -- they have no idea when their manipulations aren't working, they can't even grasp the concept of a person that disagrees with them that isn't a cartoonish supervillain, and almost no one believes them anymore. And much like the progressives, the fact that they aren't course correcting is doing more damage than their opposition ever could hope to.

 

[AnotherPleb]

I know Snowden and GG was what woke my ass up.

 

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The media has fallen into the same epistemic closure trap that the progressives have -- they have no idea when their manipulations aren't working, they can't even grasp the concept of a person that disagrees with them that isn't a cartoonish supervillain, and almost no one believes them anymore. And much like the progressives, the fact that they aren't course correcting is doing more damage than their opposition ever could hope to.

I don't think they are completely floundering. The media/tech war on "disinformation" and "hate speech" after 2016, was able to stem the bleeding. And then the CIA decided to get into the meme game.



I wonder if some of the horrible convoluted and ripoff pro-Ukraine memes might be coming out of the CIA.

 

[KoopsInk]

I don't think they are completely floundering. The media/tech war on "disinformation" and "hate speech" after 2016, was able to stem the bleeding. And then the CIA decided to get into the meme game.

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I wonder if some of the horrible convoluted and ripoff pro-Ukraine memes might be coming out of the CIA.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

 

[Pig Cups]

RELEASE IT, FAGGOT. It would be nice to have some more pics/vids of Black Sheep Biden disgracing his family. Y’all saw the one with him getting his cock sucked while smoking crack, right?

Imagine how utterly wild it would be if part of the trove included CP (worse, starring Hunter). Think about the enjoyment in watching the Brandon Admin squirm and try to contain the fallout, while Psaki plays apologist and tries to spin it to look less horrible (in all honesty, she’d dip just as the scandal was emerging- she don’t need to get caught up in that shit). Not a happy or dignifying moment for a person/family/politician.

If the material is truly salacious, and this guy threatens to leak, TPTB might use it as a way to coax Biden into a resignation “for health reasons” in exchange for an arrangement where the material is not released and Hunter doesn’t face prosecution. However, they’re ridin’ with Biden, and the political ramifications of a Harris presidency, as well as merely changing incumbents, are pretty fucking dire.

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Obligatory photo anytime Reich is brought up. He is, indeed, a very small man. Let’s all laugh at this manlet, who further debases what remains of his intellectual reputation every time he opens his mouth.

 

[tehpope]

Robert Reich is basically a dwarf. Its medically defined as 4ft10, but Reich is 4ft11. Manlet is usually over 5ft. Under 5ft5 IMO.

 

[Mega Man II Intro - GB]

The "Biden laptop material" will never be released. Just another in a long line of supposed smoking guns that won't result in anything. Even when a smoking gun is released (all the election fraud info from multiple states) everyone just pretends it doesn't exist and moves on. And the right is all too happy to forget about these failures and proclaim the next "wait for it" moment to be the True Big One.

 

[Some Badger]

A day late, but I just saw this and wasn't near my computer most of the day yesterday

Article: https://longisland.news12.com/white-house-to-extend-student-loan-pause-through-august
Archive: https://archive.ph/dmyDv
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White House to extend student loan pause through August

The Biden administration plans to freeze federal student loan payments through Aug. 31, extending a moratorium that has allowed millions of Americans to postpone payments during the coronavirus pandemic, according to an administration official familiar with the White House's decision-making.

Student loan payments were scheduled to resume May 1 after being halted since early in the pandemic. But following calls from Democrats in Congress, the White House plans to give borrowers additional time to prepare for payments.

The action applies to more than 43 million Americans who owe a combined $1.6 trillion in student debt held by the federal government, according to the latest data from the Education Department. That includes more than 7 million borrowers who have defaulted on student loans, meaning they are at least 270 days late on payments.

Borrowers will not be asked to make payments until after Aug. 31, and interest rates are expected to remain at 0% during that period.

The extension was first reported Tuesday by Bloomberg.

Democrats on education panels in the House and Senate recently urged President Joe Biden to extend the moratorium through the end of the year, citing continued economic upheaval.

Sen. Patty Murray said more time is needed to help Americans prepare for repayment and to rethink the government’s existing system for repaying student debt.

“It is ruining lives and holding people back,” she said in a statement last month. “Borrowers are struggling with rising costs, struggling to get their feet back under them after public health and economic crises, and struggling with a broken student loan system - and all this is felt especially hard by borrowers of color.”

Murray called on the Biden administration to lift all borrowers out of default to provide a “fresh start” following the pandemic.

The decision is being made amid rising concern that large numbers of Americans would quickly fall behind if payments restarted in May.

In March, the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank warned that resuming loan payments could place a heavy burden on borrowers who faced financial hardship during the pandemic. It said the impact would be hardest on Black families, who are more likely to rely on student loans to pay for college.

“Serious delinquency rates for student debt could snap back from historic lows to their previous highs in which 10% or more of the debt was past due,” the bank said.

The Trump administration initially gave Americans the option to suspend loan payments in March 2020, and Congress made it automatic soon after. The pause was extended twice by the Trump administration and twice more under Biden.

It remains in question whether Biden will pursue widespread debt forgiveness to reduce the nation’s student debt. Some Democrats in Congress have pressed Biden to use executive action to cancel $50,000 for all student loan borrowers, saying it would jumpstart the economy and help Black Americans who on average face higher levels of student debt.

Last year, Biden asked the Education and Justice departments to review the legality of widespread debt cancellation, but no decision has been announced. Biden previously said he supports canceling up to $10,000, but he argued it should be done through congressional action.
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Not gonna go full Alex Jones and say the feds are expecting the dollar to devalue by summertime, but I feel like something is happening behind the scenes that warrants this that doesn’t have anything to do with the job market in relation to the pandemic, since everything is more or less fully reopened at this point. What I suspect is that forgiving the debts of students unilaterally will cause colleges everywhere to lose money they were banking on being repaid to them and the mass closures of universities that can’t stay afloat from private endowments will cost jobs. I'm not talking about just academics either (though most of them deserve to lose their tenure imo), but hospitality staff, janitors, greensmen, etc. It's an unfortunate fact of modern life that colleges, especially private universities are an immense benefit to local economies everywhere.

As much as I want the university system to burn to the ground, I acknowledge that it would realistically require a soft dismantling, kinda like how Biden and co. are soft dismantling the entire economy. If it were up to me, most of these places would either shutter or transition to offering primarily trade cirriculums, making liberal arts programs exceedingly rare and reserved for upper middle class kids who are dumb enough to think they can get by with an English degree can afford to be mired in debt, assuming they don't pay sticker price.

It's all suspect as hell, but I welcome an additional interest-free five months.

 

[Puff]

Robert Reich is basically a dwarf. Its medically defined as 4ft10, but Reich is 4ft11. Manlet is usually over 5ft. Under 5ft5 IMO.

Under 5'10", manlet

 

[JoseRaulChupacabra]

Under 5'10", manlet

Anyone under 7'5" is a manlet, even the women.

 

[The Bovinian Derivative]

RELEASE IT, FAGGOT. It would be nice to have some more pics/vids of Black Sheep Biden disgracing his family. Y’all saw the one with him getting his cock sucked while smoking crack, right?
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Imagine how utterly wild it would be if part of the trove included CP (worse, starring Hunter). Think about the enjoyment in watching the Brandon Admin squirm and try to contain the fallout, while Psaki plays apologist and tries to spin it to look less horrible (in all honesty, she’d dip just as the scandal was emerging- she don’t need to get caught up in that shit). Not a happy or dignifying moment for a person/family/politician.

If the material is truly salacious, and this guy threatens to leak, TPTB might use it as a way to coax Biden into a resignation “for health reasons” in exchange for an arrangement where the material is not released and Hunter doesn’t face prosecution. However, they’re ridin’ with Biden, and the political ramifications of a Harris presidency, as well as merely changing incumbents, are pretty fucking dire.



Obligatory photo anytime Reich is brought up. He is, indeed, a very small man. Let’s all laugh at this manlet, who further debases what remains of his intellectual reputation every time he opens his mouth.
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I am pretty sure he stashed it next to McAfee's cache, ready to be released the moment they take Assange to prison.

 

[Sweet and Savoury]

I don't think we need to go all tinfoil hat in the student loans bit

The Dem's probaly want to/need to save that carrot for 2024. After all once the loans are forgiven that particular promise is useless. Best to push it off until it's absolutely needed.

 

[Vyse Inglebard]

RELEASE IT, FAGGOT.

I'm tired of this "I have tons of scandalous info on the Biden family but will I release it? Mayyyyybe" shit. You just KNOW that if they had even a fraction of this info on Drumpf's family, they'd be blasting it all over the news 24/7/365. Fucking do it, pussy. The time for diplomacy has long since passed.

 

[Jet Fuel Johnny]

I know Snowden and GG was what woke my ass up.

How CNN reported Desert Storm after the fact, in the followup months, was it for me.

Thanks, CNN, for chopping up and editing the video of the interview with me after Army public affairs said you could broadcast the interview, and making me look like a complete fucking lunatic.

 

[WhatInTheActualFuck]

I don't think we need to go all tinfoil hat in the student loans bit

The Dem's probaly want to/need to save that carrot for 2024. After all once the loans are forgiven that particular promise is useless. Best to push it off until it's absolutely needed.

Ah, yes. The tried and tested strategy of never doing anything because then you can't promise to do it later.

 

[Vyse Inglebard]

Thanks, CNN, for chopping up and editing the video of the interview with me after Army public affairs said you could broadcast the interview, and making me look like a complete fucking lunatic.

So, basically this IRL?

 

[mandatorylurk]

Hunter's been living a 30,000/month mansion in Malibu, on the Secret Services' dime.

Ace of Spades linked something from the Daily Mail that he might be there because he's back in rehab.

 

[Getting tard comed]

"What I suspect is that forgiving the debts of students unilaterally will cause colleges everywhere to lose money they were banking on being repaid to them and the mass closures of universities that can’t stay afloat from private endowments will cost jobs."

Aren't student loans through the goverment and not the school. Like your loan is paid back to a goverment agency, not your schools finance department. Forgiving them shouldn't effect any school directly. Indirectly it would be proof the education you recieved was so useless the debt for it had to be forgiven since it wasn't able to help you pay it off but that's already the case and people are still going.

No, they aren't being forgiven because the idea of debt being forgiven or removed is verboten to bankers and bankers run the country. That and the usual politics of dangling a carrot for people to vote for you.