Building my silly machines to destroy my silly archenemy
COOL SEX TIGER
knight/lord ships are like. what if i would die for you. what if i wanted you to live for me. what if i wanted to touch you but could only be satisfied with being near you. what if i could touch you but only through the safety of our gloves. what if i couldn’t stop thinking about you right next to me. what if i bloodied my hands for you and never looked back at the wreckage. what then
what if i wasn’t allowed to love you. what if i loved you anyway. what if you knew and i knew but we wouldn’t dare to take that step. what if we made meaningful eye contact as i knelt at your feet and devoted my whole being to you. what if i whispered your name for only you to hear
“my lord” is actually something that can be so personal
what if i said “my lord” but i actually meant “my love”
Thanks!
The face of a true hero
Biden’s rambling justification of the status quo was peppered with straw men, invocations of false scarcity and non-solutions. He pitted working-class Americans against each other, implying that people who attend private schools aren’t worthy of relief, as though poor students don’t also attend such schools. He said that money would be better spent on early childhood education instead of debt cancellation, as if educators aren’t themselves drowning in student debt, and as if we can’t address both concerns at once. He suggested relying on parents or selling a home at a profit to settle your debt, a luxury those without intergenerational wealth or property cannot afford. And he touted various programs, including Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF), that have totally failed borrowers: over 95% of PSLF applicants have been denied.
In contrast to Biden’s smug comments, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley recently revealed that she defaulted on her student loans. Similarly, at a recent Debt Collective event, congressional hopeful Nina Turner said that she and her son owe a combined $100,000. Former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams has, of course, proudly confessed to being in debt, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has said that becoming a congressperson was easier than paying off her debt. Philadelphia councilmember Kendra Brooks (who is planning to introduce a city resolution calling on the Biden administration to cancel all student debt) has also spoken out about her own struggles as a borrower. Their experience and candor – and commitment to real solutions including cancellation – demonstrate why we need debtors, not millionaires, in our public offices.
Let’s be clear about another thing. Biden ABSOLUTELY has the legal authority to use executive power to cancel all federal student debt. Congress granted this authority decades ago as part of the Higher Education Act. It’s even been put to the test: in response to the Covid pandemic, Donald Trump and his former education secretary, Betsy DeVos, used that authority three times to suspend payments and student loan interest.
Biden owes this country debt relief not only because he campaigned on it, but because he helped cause the problem. A former senator from Delaware, the credit card capital of the world, he spent decades carrying water for financial interests and expanding access to student loans while limiting borrower protections.
Instead of acknowledging this generational disparity, Biden reiterated a common criticism of more generous forms of student debt cancellation – that it would help the privileged, specifically the minuscule subset of debt-holders who attended the Ivy League. But as Ocasio-Cortez tweeted in response: “Very wealthy people already have a student loan forgiveness program. It’s called their parents.” As things stand, poor and working people typically pay more for the same degrees than their affluent counterparts due to years or decades of monthly payments and accumulating interest. Our debt-financed higher education system is a tax on poor people who dare pursue a better life.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/feb/25/joe-biden-student-debt-american-students
Biden has no intention of fixing a problem he caused. He's a loyal piece of filth to his donors.
Biden's backers do not care that 45 M people will have money to spend. BUT if we point out that the wealthy could get another Trillion or more into their off shore accounts, they might be more open to the idea, especially as they will still get the original loan money even quicker. I still have difficulty understanding resistance to the student loan write down.
Hey, @iammyfather look on the bright side: Biden broke his campaign promise about fighting for $2,000 checks in the Coronavirus relief package, and he lied about fighting to cancel student debt (which he himself caused). And no, he isn’t going push for the single payer healthcare option. And no, he isn’t going to try to stop prescription drug companies from price gouging (he helped create that problem too). And no, he isn’t going to decriminalize marijuana. And no, he isn’t going to fight to end mass incarceration of BIPOC (oh look, another problem he helped create). And no, he isn’t eliminating kids in cages. And no, he isn’t ending mass deportations. And no, he damn sure isn’t fighting for a $15 minimum wage ……… But hey, at least he *checks notes* banned menthol cigarettes?? Hm ….. I don’t seem to recall that being a campaign promise.
I can already hear CNN, MSNBC and DNC sycophants blaming progressives for the inevitable midterm losses coming in 2022. But he’s doing it to himself. People are hurting and Biden is governing like a 1990s “moderate” Republican, telling everyone to get back to work. And centrist neoliberals still think that “but things could be worse” is a winning campaign slogan.