“THE PLAINTIFF IN a lawsuit seeking to overturn President Joe Biden’s student debt forgiveness program has herself been a beneficiary of debt cancellation, in the form of a Paycheck Protection Program business loan worth over twice the maximum amount covered under Biden’s program.
Myra Brown, one of two plaintiffs in the Texas lawsuit, owns Desert Star Enterprises Inc. Desert Star, which appears to be a sign-making business, was granted a $48,000 loan, of which $47,996 was forgiven on April 27, 2022. ”
Wanna know the truth, tr0ll? That's exactly what I think. Give the people what they need. You wanna cry about wHo'S g0nNa PaY f0r It? Make the goddam military go begging for once. Stop funding killing machines. Make corporations, and the uber-rich pay their fair share. Now go peddle your butthurt somewhere that cares about your snowflake fee-fees and leave us the fuck alone.
The moment Republicans packed the Court with partisans, a horde of imaginary thought experiment suits crawled out of the woodwork and up SCOTUS’s butt.
Their hope was that with new partisan justices, they could just make up shit like they do on twitter and get free unconstitutional candy from SCOTUS due to the prejudice they bought.
In my day tuition cost me $30/credit and you could earn that by shoveling snow for a few days in the winter. (Yes, back in the day (pre-climate-disaster) it snowed all winter so you could be unemployed and still make tuition.)I also had a good paying straight job so life was well financed..
The interpretation they wanted to use of the HEA -- that the Secretary has plenary authority to cancel debt -- was rejected as being incompatible with the history of the HEA. Congress has repeatedly authorized debt cancellation programs, which would be completely unnecessary if Congress had given the Secretary plenary authority to do so.
As someone who qualified for loan forgiveness, I’d like to once again personally thank all of the purity ponies who stayed home or voted for Jill Stein in 2016. You’re just as much to blame for this current court as the MAGAts are.
And special thanks for those purity ponies in MI, WI, and my home state of PA.
Conservative lawmakers and justices are plainly doing all they can to destroy education in the U.S. Donald Trump had an additional personal reason for hating education (and he'd never have put Betsy DeVos in charge of the department of education unless he hated it and wanted to destroy it). Any educated person of even average intelligence could expose Trump's grotesque ignorance.Conservatives want people ignorant because only the ignorant are likely to vote for them, or believe their garbage for a second. Uneducated people are easier to control. Indoctrination is not educat-ion, least of all religious indoctrination.It's worth remembering that back in the days of black chattel slavery, slave states were not slow to make educating slaves in even basic literacy illegal. A Washington lawyer named Caldwell was completely unabashed about it. He said, " ... the more you cultivate their minds, the more miserable you make them ... if they must remain in their present situation, keep them in the lowest state of degradation and ignorance."Any comment on that seems superfluous.
More: the Supreme Court ruling is not the end of the student-loan relief. https://nymag.com/intellige... The plan had three parts: onetime debt wipeout, a free community-college tuition program, and a plan to expand access to other relief and grant programs that already existed. That last one is much bigger than any one-time grant.andJohn Roberts Is Already Frustrated With the Response to SCOTUS Killing Student Debt Relief https://slate.com/news-and-...The Supreme Court struck down Joe Biden’s student debt relief plan in a 6–3 decision on Friday that rewrites federal law to create a bespoke, extra-textual prohibition on the large-scale cancellation of student debt. Chief Justice John Roberts’ decision in Biden v. Nebraska blazed past a clearly insurmountable standing problem to scold the president for even trying to use the law according to its own plain terms in order to offer mass debt relief in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. He also chastised Justice Elena Kagan for her “disturbing” suggestion, in dissent, that the majority had gone “beyond the proper role of the judiciary.” The decision boils down to the chief justice’s obvious disdain for student debt relief—which is perhaps why he interpreted Kagan’s criticism as, in his words, a “personal” affront.
revoke al debt cancellations for republicans. WITH interest!
Corrupt Con Justices are VIPs on my hexing shitlist. Enough is enough. Burn, you rotten motherfuckers.
“THE PLAINTIFF IN a lawsuit seeking to overturn President Joe Biden’s student debt forgiveness program has herself been a beneficiary of debt cancellation, in the form of a Paycheck Protection Program business loan worth over twice the maximum amount covered under Biden’s program.
Myra Brown, one of two plaintiffs in the Texas lawsuit, owns Desert Star Enterprises Inc. Desert Star, which appears to be a sign-making business, was granted a $48,000 loan, of which $47,996 was forgiven on April 27, 2022. ”
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Huh. All of a sudden I can't read tweets anymore without signing in, and I don't have an account (nor do I want one).
I'm so sorry.
Wanna know the truth, tr0ll? That's exactly what I think. Give the people what they need. You wanna cry about wHo'S g0nNa PaY f0r It? Make the goddam military go begging for once. Stop funding killing machines. Make corporations, and the uber-rich pay their fair share. Now go peddle your butthurt somewhere that cares about your snowflake fee-fees and leave us the fuck alone.
Do you say that to all the billionaires, or are we just special to you?
The issue of standing is revealing.
The moment Republicans packed the Court with partisans, a horde of imaginary thought experiment suits crawled out of the woodwork and up SCOTUS’s butt.
Their hope was that with new partisan justices, they could just make up shit like they do on twitter and get free unconstitutional candy from SCOTUS due to the prejudice they bought.
And they’re right.
Me too. F'k 'em.
In my day tuition cost me $30/credit and you could earn that by shoveling snow for a few days in the winter. (Yes, back in the day (pre-climate-disaster) it snowed all winter so you could be unemployed and still make tuition.)I also had a good paying straight job so life was well financed..
The interpretation they wanted to use of the HEA -- that the Secretary has plenary authority to cancel debt -- was rejected as being incompatible with the history of the HEA. Congress has repeatedly authorized debt cancellation programs, which would be completely unnecessary if Congress had given the Secretary plenary authority to do so.
As someone who qualified for loan forgiveness, I’d like to once again personally thank all of the purity ponies who stayed home or voted for Jill Stein in 2016. You’re just as much to blame for this current court as the MAGAts are.
And special thanks for those purity ponies in MI, WI, and my home state of PA.
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Conservative lawmakers and justices are plainly doing all they can to destroy education in the U.S. Donald Trump had an additional personal reason for hating education (and he'd never have put Betsy DeVos in charge of the department of education unless he hated it and wanted to destroy it). Any educated person of even average intelligence could expose Trump's grotesque ignorance.Conservatives want people ignorant because only the ignorant are likely to vote for them, or believe their garbage for a second. Uneducated people are easier to control. Indoctrination is not educat-ion, least of all religious indoctrination.It's worth remembering that back in the days of black chattel slavery, slave states were not slow to make educating slaves in even basic literacy illegal. A Washington lawyer named Caldwell was completely unabashed about it. He said, " ... the more you cultivate their minds, the more miserable you make them ... if they must remain in their present situation, keep them in the lowest state of degradation and ignorance."Any comment on that seems superfluous.
I would totally dump him in whatever home Medicare/caid pays for, ie the cheapest one in town.
More: the Supreme Court ruling is not the end of the student-loan relief. https://nymag.com/intellige... The plan had three parts: onetime debt wipeout, a free community-college tuition program, and a plan to expand access to other relief and grant programs that already existed. That last one is much bigger than any one-time grant.andJohn Roberts Is Already Frustrated With the Response to SCOTUS Killing Student Debt Relief https://slate.com/news-and-...The Supreme Court struck down Joe Biden’s student debt relief plan in a 6–3 decision on Friday that rewrites federal law to create a bespoke, extra-textual prohibition on the large-scale cancellation of student debt. Chief Justice John Roberts’ decision in Biden v. Nebraska blazed past a clearly insurmountable standing problem to scold the president for even trying to use the law according to its own plain terms in order to offer mass debt relief in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. He also chastised Justice Elena Kagan for her “disturbing” suggestion, in dissent, that the majority had gone “beyond the proper role of the judiciary.” The decision boils down to the chief justice’s obvious disdain for student debt relief—which is perhaps why he interpreted Kagan’s criticism as, in his words, a “personal” affront.