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Laterite posted:Here's an NPR article as well, but, yes. In at least one of the articles on this it's later clarified that 800k would potentially be affected by this (assuming that each and every one of those people had not already consolidated their otherwise-ineligible loans), not 4 million, which is a little better. The bigger problem here is how incredibly confusing and convoluted this whole thing is. Everything else about student loans is, though, so I guess I can't expect forgiveness of them to be different.
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They should just ban these crime guns imo, guns should only be used for sport.
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I work at a gas station in Oregon and one thing I keep hearing from my coworkers and the customers (who all skew conservative) is that the reason why gas prices started going down a bit back was because the US gov opened up their military reserves to lower gas prices (and the recent spike in prices was the reserves running out). Is this bullshit or not? I never heard these threads ever bring it up, which is why I'm thinking it might be bullshit. Edit: duh of course I could've just looked it up myself and see that it's mostly true (though obviously it's being framed differently that what's probably a more accurate way to frame it) Digamma-F-Wau fucked around with this message at 02:35 on Oct 1, 2022 |
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Crossposted with the Ukraine war thread, as it's certainly something under both topics. CPAC went full mask-off Russian asset today, as a tweet that announced Russia's annexation of "Ukranian-occupied territories" and called for Biden and congress to stop giving stuff to the Ukraine. https://twitter.com/amandacarpenter/status/1576032894778474496 (the tweet referenced above is now down, but it was up for 12 hours today)
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Justice has made a motion to expedite their Cannon appeal The initial schedule was
They note throughout their document that the stay was narrowly tailored for the most essential relief but they believe the same reasoning used to grant the stay is applicable to essentially everything else.
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SirFozzie posted:Crossposted with the Ukraine war thread, as it's certainly something under both topics. uh... https://twitter.com/amandacarpenter/status/1576038914586218497
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Kalit posted:In unsurprising news: What's the historical reason for firearms being lumped together with alcohol and tobacco
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:What's the historical reason for firearms being lumped together with alcohol and tobacco The org was created as part of the treasury department that handled regulation of these things when they were all major lines for organized crime, dating back to prohibition. For a long time it was sort of the top anti-organized crime entity at IRS. vvvv tbf looking at the wikipedia entry I forgot all about the pre-Volstead stuff Discendo Vox fucked around with this message at 03:38 on Oct 2, 2022 |
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Looking at Wikipedia, it was bundled with Tobacco and Alcohol in 1968 after Congress passed a gun control law through the Interstate Commerce clause, because of its similar regulatory actions edit: vox'd
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Why, no, of course I don't want to help any people in my state that got hosed over by a major hurricane https://news.yahoo.com/matt-gaetz-votes-no-relief-042534442.html Matt Gaetz Votes No On Relief Money As Florida Grapples With Hurricane Ian Aftermath quote:Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), a Florida native and lawmaker, voted against a measure to free up millions of dollars in disaster relief for the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Yeah, the "agenda" of helping out thousands of people in your home state who've had their life bascially ruined but "need to get immediately back to work!" at their flattened/flooded places of employment. God I hate this prick. And I hate his dumb loving face and fake, smug, dishonest poo poo eating grin.  I'm not usually one to judge people on their physical appearance but this dude is straight out of central casting for Cheesy Dishonest Creepy Date Rapist Megachurch Car Salesman Amway Embezzlement Habitual Lying Asskissing Suckup Guy. He reminds me of that actor that played Shooter McGavin in Happy Gilmore and Thelma's husband in Thelma and Louise, where he just oozes "slime" on sight. And he creeps me out.
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BiggerBoat posted:And he creeps me out. Because of his looks or because of trafficking and raping underage girls?
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BiggerBoat posted:Why, no, of course I don't want to help any people in my state that got hosed over by a major hurricane
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Matt Gaetz looked like if someone tried to make a quote unquote "cgi based photorealistic muppet" but stopped midway because the results were horrifying
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Matt Gaetz makes people actively wonder what primus music video he escaped from
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Staluigi posted:Matt Gaetz looked like if someone tried to make a quote unquote "cgi based photorealistic muppet" but stopped midway because the results were horrifying
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Matt Gaetz is eternally freeze framed at the first moment in the original total recall where someone got depressurized and their face is just beginning to grotesquely inflate and bug out
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Matt Gaetz is not actually wearing a suit in the picture those are just his poison colors
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It wasn’t a minor storm so Gaetz wasn’t interested in it.
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Matt Gaetz's face is American Sign Language for date rapist (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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wasnt there some images going round of what Gaetz used to look like before he min-maxxed his douche appearance for maximal appeal to Fox news slugs? IIRC he looked reaosnably human, I was surprised
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He escaped from the Black Hole Sun video
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Failed Imagineer posted:wasnt there some images going round of what Gaetz used to look like before he min-maxxed his douche appearance for maximal appeal to Fox news slugs? IIRC he looked reaosnably human, I was surprised Yeah, I did a post on it: Kith posted:It's because of how he presents himself. He constantly does the Slimy Politician Smile that's all teeth and no warmth, he deliberately wears a "Power Hairstyle" straight off of the Sleazy Businessman character from Futurama, and he frequently tries to dress in "Power Blue" suits that are associated with "trying to look professional" - usually for a misleading reason, aka Used Car Salesman. If you take those away from him, he looks like a relatively normal person:
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I wanna get in on this. Matt Gaetz looks like the kind of person who you would expect to do Matt Gaetz kind of things.
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stop or make a thread about it in GBS or something idk
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Kith posted:Yeah, I did a post on it: It's uncanny how often Republican politicians end up cosplaying The Smiler to appeal to their base.
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What's going on with Credit Suisse? Is it Lehman Brothers 2.0 this week like some people are alluding to?
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Staluigi posted:Matt Gaetz's face is American Sign Language for date rapist Staluigi’s posts were based and truepilled and he didn’t deserve the probate. 💯💯👍👍🙏 (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Staluigi posted:Matt Gaetz's face is American Sign Language for date rapist no his face is american sign language for sex trafficking minors and failing to get indicted because of political connections (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Spoondick posted:no his face is american sign language for sex trafficking minors and failing to get indicted because of political connections I feel like "date rapist" is also in that job description. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Zotix posted:What's going on with Credit Suisse? Is it Lehman Brothers 2.0 this week like some people are alluding to? I don't think anyone knows for sure. High level information from The Street (no paywall). Could it be Lehman Bros. 2.0? Absolutely - Credit Suisse appears to have lost a shitload of money and now be overleveraged as a result. However, they supposedly have a plan to be unveiled on 10/27. If they can keep their head above water that long, with the help of either central banks and/or other private banks, they could survive in some form. If they're allowed to collapse, I don't know. The major unanswered question is what the Swiss National Bank will do to prevent the failure - I have no idea what they're authorized and/or willing to do. While the ECB doesn't have any direct authority over CS, you can bet they're on a lot of these calls because any failure there impacts the rest of Europe in a big way. Nobody wants a repeat of 2008. Edit: To be clear, right now CS has admitted they are looking at asset sales and divestitures, meaning they're looking for deals with other partners to bolster their balance sheet. They have publicly said that they are not currently looking to raise new capital.
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if your joke shitposting is far lamer and less funny than the dude who caught a sixer you should consider not posting edit: to sound less cranky, this is actually good and informative: Kith posted:It's because of how he presents himself. He constantly does the Slimy Politician Smile that's all teeth and no warmth, he deliberately wears a "Power Hairstyle" straight off of the Sleazy Businessman character from Futurama, and he frequently tries to dress in "Power Blue" suits that are associated with "trying to look professional" - usually for a misleading reason, aka Used Car Salesman. If you take those away from him, he looks like a relatively normal person: riffing on "what does Matt Gaetz face look like??" is legitimately a GBS thread idea and might have some legs! Fritz the Horse fucked around with this message at 05:46 on Oct 3, 2022 |
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Automata 10 Pack posted:Staluigi’s posts were based and truepilled and he didn’t deserve the probate. 💯💯👍👍🙏 I deserve every probation and justice is swift to come for me, unlike for matt gaetz, who I use as a barometer for how significantly the American legal system has built in an effective class of inaccountability and immunity for people like him He has been so very very very incisively and obviously guilty at literally sex trafficking minors to rape, this has been evident for years, and so far as of yet he has experienced less effective consequences from the American legal system (or the accountability processes of his own party) than if he had posted somewhere fritz the horse could have chain probed him
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Staluigi posted:I deserve every probation and justice is swift to come for me, unlike for matt gaetz, who I use as a barometer for how significantly the American legal system has built in an effective class of inaccountability and immunity for people like him and yet the DOJ has indicated that they wont prosecute. Maybe they have access to information of which you are unaware. Patience, young padawan, all will be revealed in time  (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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He does look sales-y. Americans of all political bents like salesmen. Being a good salesman is an important aspect of being an elected government official.
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BIG-DICK-BUTT-gently caress posted:and yet the DOJ has indicated that they wont prosecute. Maybe they have access to information of which you are unaware. Just like Jimmy Saville.
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