This is very true. Manchin would love to get the hell out of DC. He is very good about talking to everyone, too, so you better believe he'd call Mitch and tell him he better watch himself. To be honest, as a West Virginian, I can tell you that the current moment is sort of what he is set up his whole political career for.
Also I would just like to say how awesome it is that we have a president now who has already brought enough unity that there was not a response to my post after 28 minutes.
Great job by the writers if one the dudes we all suspected might be a traitor last season turns out to be hero.
Once science and the administration turn the corner on covid, these people will be the first to credit God
Oh I know. But as someone from WV, the fact that Manchin is EVEN THERE is a miracle. This isn't a Doug Jones anomaly, or even Georgia senators running against cartoon villains. Manchin is an extraordinarily gifted politician. Easy to reduce him to a meme, but provided that he won't go COAL COAL COAL all day long (which I think he won't especially now that Halliburton is even on the electrical grid with fracking exploration), he could be a wild card. Worst case, it's a McCain wild card, and you get something like he did with the ACA repeal. Best case, the ceiling is a lot higher.
Congrats ShuPoor Oklahoma lawmaker files bill for Bigfoot hunting season https://www.nwahomepage.com/news/na...BlJEs4lwf5wopXHJyXIaU4kUl1a2vj18VxxcjHZq99j2c
It should 100% be tied to some type of college tuition/loan reform. If not we'll be back in the situation in a decade or two.
Long been in favor of legislation that retroactively sets a max interest rate and forgives the interest that’s accumulated in excess of that. Predatory lending should be the first thing we address. Then look to reform the university system. I wish it was as simple as pulling the rug out from underneath them but we allow states to set the funding for their universities so in a place like Florida, if you don’t ramp up the government funding, you can’t reform the schools without driving them out of business. I’ve finally got my wife on board with the mentality that it’s okay that she won’t benefit from any sort of student loan forgiveness. Her $75k loans are less than $10k now and she has a direct comparison to a friend of hers that took out the same amount but is sitting on $120k+ now. That person will never get out from under that crushing debt without some sort of legislation so they are certainly not more fortunate than us.
Will someone please explain Schedule F to Nandor like he’s 5? It gets exhausting explaining things that the rest of us know.
It was a new employee classification that the Trump Administration was attempting to create for federal employees so they could more easily politicize and fire them. https://www.govexec.com/management/...-implementation-lawmakers-dont-get-it/170722/
Imagine if HRC or Michelle Obama shows up to the inauguration in a clearance item from Burlington Coat Factory, without styling their hair, and then sits cross armed with a scowl. The societal expectations and criticisms of women vs how men get a pass on appearances is absurd.
Schedule F is trump trying to strip civil service protection from a whole bunch of government employees
A Trump EO that converts hundreds of thousands of federal workers into at-will employees, essentially turning the civil service into a partisan machine where jobs can be doled out as rewards for political support and “disloyal” employees can be fired when the boss takes offense.
While I don’t disagree, your framing is bad. HRC/Michelle are and were on a much different level than Bernie. No one is commenting on what Elizabeth Warren was wearing (or if she was even there).
Never been an advocate for student loan forgiveness (cancellation), but I like your idea of a retroactive forgiveness above a certain level.
Don't forget that M4A won't work here because our country is somehow different than european countries' populations.
yeah shoulda added that he’s responding to a guy who laughs at poor people dying and is also a proud racist. apologies
I was hoping we were gonna let the driveby roll through without comment. Says TMB OG but never seen this poster’s name and I’ve read every post of this thread, the Trumpocalypse, and the election thread. Zero posts from any of those. Some UNC stuck up bitch who paid off his debt and says fuck you got mine, probably.
It feels like common sense. An 18 year old can understand principal but good luck trying to explain interest to them when 95% of the adult population doesn’t know what a loan amortization is. They inevitably feel cheated when they start committing their first real paychecks to servicing that debt and the principal balance doesn’t go down. Their best odds of beating the system they were betrothed to is being in a dual income household, living with roommates until they’re 35-40, or committing to an underpaid decade in public service or nonprofit work and praying the federal government doesn’t pull a gotcha card on them when 1 payment is a day off from the rest.
Guys, the F in Schedule F stands for “fucking.” Obviously, schedule F was Trump’s executive order that prohibited fucking children, and as predicted Biden has immediately reintroduced child sexual trafficking using federal resources. Q was right once again! Not my president!!! WWG1WGA!!!!
Is Q still planning arrests and mass executions this week? I need to know if traffic will be bad on my way home tonight.