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skylined! posted:Unless it's changed recently a portion of collected student loans goes to pay for the Affordable Care Act. This is part of the reason they kinda have to resume collection, because they haven't shifted resources to cover the money that student loans cover. this just pisses me off even more because the health insurance my job offers is absolute horse poo poo that i cannot afford (250 a month with a $6500 deductible), i do not qualify for assistance in buying better, actually useful healthcare because apparently 16.50 an hour is too much for that, and i have $63000 in student loan debt that i get to start repaying in january. my student loans going towards a program that has done jack loving poo poo to actually fix a healthcare situation that has gotten actively worse in many ways since the aca passed just makes me hate the democrats and this fuckin idiotic insistence on restarting student loan repayments that much more.
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So I know everyone's supply of "what the loving gently caress, courts?!!?" is likely exhausted from the Rittenhouse stuff, but how is this guy not going to jail after confessing to raping 4 women? https://www.cbsnews.com/news/christopher-belter-mm-rape-victim-probation/ quote:But Judge Matthew Murphy ruled that "incarceration … isn't appropriate" and Belter would be sentenced to eight years of probation.
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Meatball posted:And why would they ask trump voters why they liked Biden? Does hot like cold? Better yet, why would you post the results and sincerely say "doesn't look good for Biden"
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Darkrenown posted:So I know everyone's supply of "what the loving gently caress, courts?!!?" is likely exhausted from the Rittenhouse stuff, but how is this guy not going to jail after confessing to raping 4 women? "But do you REALLY want to ruin his life after he made a few minor incidents?" I believe is the usual line touted out in defense of rapists. Because these people don't think women are actually people, would be my guess.
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Fallom posted:Better yet, why would you post the results and sincerely say "doesn't look good for Biden" My recollection of the democrats' party's strategy is to punch left and court right. I'd be worried about these numbers if that were my strategy too.
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https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1461682195857293317?t=q6XbdTz72Q1NcvKhahPWBQ&s=19 Curious that Biden is doing this now, after all the protests that he simply can't even start the process of getting rid of DeJoy. If you were going to do it, why wait almost an entire year?
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Epic High Five posted:Its gotta be "for cause" so did Bloom gently caress up or humiliate themselves recently? For cause the big spending bill sucks so he's gotta do something. Maybe if you can afford to ship a Christmas gift to someone this year it'll arrive on time! America's back, baby!
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Fallom posted:Better yet, why would you post the results and sincerely say "doesn't look good for Biden" Seems like they were being sarcastic and didn't really believe that Trump voters disapproving was sincerely bad. Epic High Five posted:Its gotta be "for cause" so did Bloom gently caress up or humiliate themselves recently? He's not "firing" him because he needs cause to do that. His term expires on December 9th and Biden has told Bloom that he will not be re-nominating him. Leon Trotsky 2012 fucked around with this message at 14:44 on Nov 19, 2021 |
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rscott posted:https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1461682195857293317?t=q6XbdTz72Q1NcvKhahPWBQ&s=19 There might be a reason why Biden can't bend the folds of time to make December 8th, 2021 happen earlier in the year.
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Randalor posted:"But do you REALLY want to ruin his life after he made a few minor incidents?" I believe is the usual line touted out in defense of rapists. Because these people don't think women are actually people, would be my guess. Yeah, a lot of these regressive fucks think that assaulting a woman is still merely property damage.
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rscott posted:https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1461682195857293317?t=q6XbdTz72Q1NcvKhahPWBQ&s=19 How's Biden gonna focus on Presidenting and being on the USPS board at the same time?
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Failed Imagineer posted:How's Biden gonna focus on Presidenting and being on the USPS board at the same time? Definitely reads like Biden is senile enough they’re just sending him down to the mail room lmao
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Voting for BBB happening now. https://live.house.gov/
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Eric Cantonese posted:David Brooks just made me nauseous again. David Brooks must be the loneliest man in America right now. By now his ilk of conservatives must be outnumbered by Never Nudes even. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/11/scary-future-american-right-national-conservatism-conference/620746/ This whole article is him pulling a  while trying to act like your friendly neighborhood David Brooks.
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https://twitter.com/Grace_Segers/status/1461531913609523200 And yet, the House - for better or worse - always moves much faster than the Senate and produces legislation more in-line with what the majority caucus wants. Maybe a legislative body that requires 100 out of 100 people to be friends acting in good faith or else it devolves into an incredibly slow brutal legislative grind is... bad?
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Smeef posted:David Brooks must be the loneliest man in America right now.  oh no
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Epic High Five posted:Its gotta be "for cause" so did Bloom gently caress up or humiliate themselves recently? I still haven't heard an adequate explanation why DeJoy deliberately trying to destroy the post office and sell it off to competitors isn't cause in the first place. If I were a factory manager who could only be fired for cause and I went "ok we're going to make the production line run as inefficiently as possible and give sweetheart contracts to the other companies whose boards I'm on, because my friends and I will profit big when this place falls apart ka-ching!" that would seem like cause idk
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:And yet, the House - for better or worse - always moves much faster than the Senate and produces legislation more in-line with what the majority caucus wants. that's literally the entire point
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VitalSigns posted:I still haven't heard an adequate explanation why DeJoy deliberately trying to destroy the post office and sell it off to competitors isn't cause in the first place. You say that like running businesses into the ground openly and on purpose isn't one of the most profitable and popular things for executives to do.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:You say that like running businesses into the ground openly and on purpose isn't one of the most profitable and popular things for executives to do. But it's against the rules???? How can they just, tank a business like that? Fiduciary duty! THE RULES!!!!!
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BBB passes the house, with both good (social spending, a modicum of climate provisions) and bad (salt deductions mostly for rich fuckers, left out a lot of good) things. It will go to the senate to be changed to satisfy Sinema and Manchin simultaneously, somehow, hopefully. 1 Democrat, Jared Golden out of Maine, votes no. A centrist, but rejected the SALT giveaways and lack of billionaire tax. No republican voted yes. https://twitter.com/RepGolden/status/1461641139065339908?s=20 Madison Cawthorn lips a huge wad of dip in the middle of the night. https://twitter.com/nycsouthpaw/status/1461610553370189825?s=20 A lovely rep out of Florida took the floor at the end of voting to vote no on behalf of other reps to grandstand, lol. As someone that grew up in Florida I feel like I know this person very well. skylined! fucked around with this message at 15:45 on Nov 19, 2021 |
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VitalSigns posted:I still haven't heard an adequate explanation why DeJoy deliberately trying to destroy the post office and sell it off to competitors isn't cause in the first place. It's because only the Postal Board of Governors can remove the Postmaster General, the Postmaster General also has a mandate to fully fund the Post Office without government subsidies, and no court is going to consider "voted to support someone who is meeting the mandate in a way that I don't like" as a criminal act or an abuse of office. skylined! posted:Madison Cawthorn lips a huge wad of dip in the middle of the night. I know Cawthorn is definitely not representative of the average person in his age group, but it still blows my mind that chewing tobacco of all things is making a huge comeback among the youth. Leon Trotsky 2012 fucked around with this message at 15:45 on Nov 19, 2021 |
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Ghost Leviathan posted:You say that like running businesses into the ground openly and on purpose isn't one of the most profitable and popular things for executives to do. ah gently caress you're right Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:It's because only the Postal Board of Governors can remove the Postmaster General, the Postmaster General also has a mandate to fully fund the Post Office without government subsidies, and no court is going to consider "voted to support someone who is meeting the mandate in a way that I don't like" as a criminal act or an abuse of office. Do we really have to pretend there's any doubt about what DeJoy is there to do VitalSigns fucked around with this message at 15:49 on Nov 19, 2021 |
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:I know Cawthorn is definitely not representative of the average person in his age group, but it still blows my mind that chewing tobacco of all things is making a huge comeback among the youth. Dip never went anywhere among southern teens and young men. Every Silverado in sight has a spitter in the cup holder.
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LeeMajors posted:Dip never went anywhere among southern teens and young men. For real. I spent 15 years working with redneck good ol boys who think dipping as much snuff as possible is a personality trait.
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the_steve posted:For real. I spent 15 years working with redneck good ol boys who think dipping as much snuff as possible is a personality trait. Dipping is also still huge in the military, our flight line (aircraft parking area) was always covered in spit from people who dipped, and there was always stray spit bottles laying around. Ugh.
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Mail has significantly slowed in a lot of places under DeJoy’s new plans, so I don’t see why Biden can’t take action since it’s affecting a lot of Social Security recipients. But in general I don’t expect much because Biden’s whole deal was ‘nothing will fundamentally change’
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On this historic day America has a woman president. https://twitter.com/DaniellaMicaela/status/1461702617789313025?s=20 Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:I know Cawthorn is definitely not representative of the average person in his age group, but it still blows my mind that chewing tobacco of all things is making a huge comeback among the youth. That poo poo was popular as hell on all my high school baseball teams in the early 2000's, but that was in coastal Florida. It confused the gently caress out of me then, too, but was unsurprised to see it still so prevalent in Tennessee and Georgia as I've moved around.
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VitalSigns posted:ah gently caress you're right He divested himself of his investments before he took the job, agreed to recuse himself from any votes on the companies he used to be invested in, and the Postal Ethics Board cleared him.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:I know Cawthorn is definitely not representative of the average person in his age group, but it still blows my mind that chewing tobacco of all things is making a huge comeback among the youth.
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BBBA passed the house, fancy that. Fingers crossed it goes through the senate with minimal changes.
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InsertPotPun posted:above all it just seems so performative. it's gum...for grown ups!!! It’s very common among the middle class fancy wannabe cowboys near where he grew up.
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FizFashizzle posted:It’s very common among the middle class fancy wannabe cowboys near where he grew up. Ya especially as a "workin' man's" aperitif. Everyone I knew who dipped in Knoxville was a white collar guy wanting a buzz at a bar, and I worked in the service industry.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:https://twitter.com/Grace_Segers/status/1461531913609523200 This probably has less to do with working relationships and more to do with the differing political structure of the two chambers. The House's shorter terms, larger headcount, smaller electorates, and shared election years tend to promote more ideological diversity in the chamber and also vastly reduce the chances of having an exact 50-50 split. Those same factors likely also have a lot to do with the difference in working relationships. Additionally, the House doesn't have the filibuster.
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Sodomy Hussein posted:If it helps, I don't think anyone important to the political process in modern America really gives a poo poo about newspaper editorials, if they've ever. David Brooks was literally Obama’s favorite columnist, got invited to the White House multiple times. But maybe he’s not hitting the threshold for anyone important 
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InsertPotPun posted:above all it just seems so performative. it's gum...for grown ups!!! Are congress critters allowed to step out for a smoke like a line cook during the lull?
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:He divested himself of his investments before he took the job, agreed to recuse himself from any votes on the companies he used to be invested in, and the Postal Ethics Board cleared him.  DeJoy maintains financial ties to former company as USPS awards it a new $120 million contract Washington Post posted:The U.S. Postal Service will pay $120 million over the next five years to a major logistics contractor that Postmaster General Louis DeJoy previously helped lead and with which his family maintains financial ties Is your position that you genuinely believe DeJoy is not there to sabotage the Post Office and profit from privatizing it, or are you just bored and being contrarian
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