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[–] JayTwo@hexbear.net 123 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Was wondering who appointed the judge who made the decision just out of curiosity.
Wasn't Trump: obama

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 41 points 4 months ago

Thanks Obungler

[–] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 30 points 4 months ago

Obama really driving Joe into the earth lately

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 23 points 4 months ago

Playing the long con to cement his legacy as "The Only Good Democrat After Bush"

[–] ClimateChangeAnxiety@hexbear.net 118 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Just to be clear, it is perfectly legal for the president to drone strike the judge’s house

[–] ChestRockwell@hexbear.net 63 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Or the DOE complex with the servers and records...

Just saying.

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[–] jack@hexbear.net 48 points 4 months ago

Or just ignore them!

[–] ComradePlatypus@hexbear.net 38 points 4 months ago

A real leader would have black-bagged all the supreme court judges (maybe not the dissenting ones) the minute they made that judgement to prove a point.

[–] Black_Mald_Futures@hexbear.net 85 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Im never going to pay my fucking loans they're going to have to kill me

[–] roux@hexbear.net 58 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Like I literally can't pay mine. Can't afford to. Like at all. Fuck em.

[–] SoloboiNanook@hexbear.net 52 points 4 months ago (1 children)

When mine resumed they sent a letter being like "yeah so...400 a month sound good?"

Nah man absolutely not lmao

[–] roux@hexbear.net 49 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Mine are supposed to be about $800 a month and I make $0 a month. I'll let them figure it out.

[–] Teapot@hexbear.net 21 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Are you not signed up for PAYE? Your payment would be $0 and you wouldn't be in default and fucking your credit

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[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 20 points 4 months ago

Wonder if I can incorporate and then pay myself enough to stay under the amount that requires payment... if I ever make any real money.

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[–] Hohsia@hexbear.net 82 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This country is shit rotten and leaves you in different degrees of chains and has for centuries unless you’ve been a member of the oppressing class

Dear god how isn’t everyone a ML if you accept this reality

[–] SevenSkalls@hexbear.net 61 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Well, that takes understanding context, history, material conditions, class relations, some basic economics and philosophy.

Or, you can listen to the guy on the radio and the blonde on TV, who say it's the Mexican laborers, black thugs, Muslim terrorists, and Jewish bankers. Oh, and the gays. And liberal elite, college professors. And since everything in that list is easily categorizable as the one word "woke", it's clearly a simpler explanation.

[–] EmmaGoldman@hexbear.net 78 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (6 children)

So, that's literally everything now, right? Biden's administration has now officially done nothing over the last 4 years, aside from ending the COVID State of Emergency?

And of course propping up fascist regimes in Ukraine and Israel.

[–] Grandpa_garbagio@hexbear.net 38 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

People try to give him credit for ending afghanistan but then was technically trump lol. Trump started the pullout then left it for Biden to deal with the messy fallout

[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 33 points 4 months ago (2 children)

He signed a bill to build a huge water hungry microchip facility in the middle of the desert that might never break ground and briefly made it cheaper to buy electric cars

[–] Egon@hexbear.net 18 points 4 months ago

And then banned Chinese EVs

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[–] Doubledee@hexbear.net 26 points 4 months ago

Meaningful? Yes, nothing.

Technically between now and when the interest easement started some people have had less interest to pay and lower payments. But presumably that will stop too.

Thanks Joe.

[–] NewAcctWhoDis@hexbear.net 25 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Don't forget tariffs on Chinese goods, especially green energy products.

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[–] GVAGUY3@hexbear.net 66 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Doesn't the president have unlimited power now?

[–] Kuori@hexbear.net 71 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The P(R)esident has unlimited power. The Presi(D)ent is just an average Joe like you and me.

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[–] JayTwo@hexbear.net 54 points 4 months ago

Yeah but using it would be uncivil

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[–] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 52 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

How does standing work here? What "injury" are these state attorneys able to point to?

[–] Speaker@hexbear.net 61 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Standing is dead. Remember the woman who sued for the right to refuse to make wedding websites for gay couples before she even started making wedding websites and then the Supreme Court agreed?

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[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 50 points 4 months ago (1 children)

We need the emoji of charlie brown soaring backwards when he misses the kick

[–] Antiwork@hexbear.net 41 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)
[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 46 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's okay, lemmy libs have been taking credit for this for months at least, so it must have actually done good before this point, right?

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[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 45 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

And so they were arrested for threatening democracy by blocking what the people voted for...right?

[–] FungiDebord@hexbear.net 45 points 4 months ago (1 children)
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[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 41 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

"Oh you went to college and got into life crippling debt to do engineering or science? :smuglord: smh you should have taken up a trade instead of dreaming. You can learn your science from PragerU instead, peasants"

[–] Doubledee@hexbear.net 42 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm sure nobody being able to afford to learn advanced sciences will not affect the empire in the slightest.

xi-lib-tears

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 21 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This is a very thingy thing. "I don't have kids why should i pay taxes for schools" comes out of fash fairly regularly and there is a level of pig headedly foolish hyper-individualism there that is difficult to wrap my mind around.

[–] Doubledee@hexbear.net 23 points 4 months ago

Americans have a terminal case of coconut tree brain, and refuse to believe they live in the context. kamala-coconut-tree

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 37 points 4 months ago (1 children)

it would be very funny if the courts invalidate the entire 4 years of Biden's presidency, and Trump can run a third time because technically, we didn't have a 46th president.

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[–] solongbeengood@hexbear.net 33 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] take_five_seconds@hexbear.net 28 points 4 months ago

aint lookin great for me either tbh

[–] riseuppikmin@hexbear.net 30 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Would not surprise me to see this specific action resulting in some more attempted adventure time scenarios.

It could be naiivety, but I feel like the US populace is genuinely at a breaking point now and the added financial stress is ramping up domestic pressure even further.

[–] take_five_seconds@hexbear.net 21 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

man we been at the precipice for ages and nothing has happened. biggest thing this decade was trump getting winged.

i'm not saying 'nah never will happen' but many ppl been at the breaking point for awhile, it's hard to imagine atomised individual adventuristic violence will do anything at all

[–] emizeko@hexbear.net 29 points 4 months ago (3 children)

imo summer of 2020 was bigger than trump's near miss

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[–] peeonyou@hexbear.net 29 points 4 months ago

Thank god they've never blocked any payments to Ukraine or Isn'treal!

[–] Hohsia@hexbear.net 29 points 4 months ago

In authoritarian communism the people are slaves to the government+capitlalist corporations and have nowhere to go if they don’t make enough money to afford rent

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 23 points 4 months ago

Biden doing his best to throw the election.

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 19 points 4 months ago
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