BURNPIT: U.S. Politics, August 2022

Why won’t Biden get rid of these Trump appointees? This article also talks about how Congressional investigations of these appointees could help Biden by showing these guys are ineffective and bad .

From FBI Director Chris Wray’s hyper-surveillance of Black activists to IRS chief Charles Rettig’s refusal to disclose Trump’s tax returns to Louis DeJoy’s rejection of a zero-carbon Postal Service fleet and degradation of the mail service, it’s been easy to make the case for their replacement since day one, even setting blanket de-Trumpification aside.

Many agency weaknesses are the result of Trumpian malfeasance, as the Secret Service scandal demonstrates. The failed federal response to Hurricane Maria and the decline of the Postal Service under DeJoy are obvious targets for congressional scrutiny, but the list is long. Congress has an opportunity to create political momentum to root out incompetence and make government work better.

https://prospect.org/power/where-has-congress-been-on-trump-holdovers/

White House officials are leaning toward canceling up to $10,000 in student loan debt for borrowers who make less than $125,000, sources tell CNN. https://t.co/QmUN7RGR90

— CNN (@CNN) August 22, 2022

Why won’t Biden get rid of these Trump appointees?

https://i.imgur.com/C9VpfqA.jpg

I wonder if Republicans will start running on a "Make them pay it back!" platform, and promise to go after any debts Biden cancels.

Ssssssshhhhhh!

^^^

An elderly, ultra-secretive Chicago businessman has given the largest known donation to a political advocacy group in U.S. history — worth $1.6 billion — and the recipient is one of the prime architects of conservatives’ efforts to reshape the American judicial system, including the Supreme Court.

Christ, that's enough to cover Kavanaugh's gambling debts 8000 times over

wow, some rich asshole just funded an entire generation+ of rich assholes

how on earth can progressive politics compete with that kind of resource, it’s insane. i really do feel utterly hopeless about this sort of thing

Yeah but George Soros

Also progressives have UNION THUGS! TEACHER UNION THUGS! KINDERGARTEN TEACHER UNION THUGS!

Don't forget BLM rioters and Antifa supersoldiers

and they are all groomers

also we own the FBI now, I think

"Race hustlers"

Don't forget the Wokes

UPDATE: President Biden's long-awaited student loan announcement IS coming tomorrow, ppl tell me & @DaniDougPost

Parameters TBD but WH has been looking at $10K in cancelation per borrower under $125K/yr

(1st reported by @josh_wingrove & @nancook)

— Jeff Stein (@JStein_WaPo) August 23, 2022

As the president moves closer to a decision, both supporters and critics of canceling debt have made increasingly strident appeals for their side. On Friday, Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) — two strong proponents of canceling student debt — spoke again with White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain, according to two other people aware of the private conversation. Schumer and Warren reiterated requests they’ve made over the past two years that significant amounts of debt be forgiven, the people said. The NAACP has also been adamant that the administration cancel as much as $50,000 in student loans per borrower, citing the higher loan burdens of Black Americans.

“$10,000 alone is meager, to say the least — it won’t address the magnitude of the problem,” said Derrick Johnson, president of the NAACP, in an interview.

But centrist Democrats have begun pushing back strongly. Lawrence H. Summers and Jason Furman — two prominent Democratic economists who served in prior administrations — have stepped up their case against broad loan forgiveness, arguing it would exacerbate inflation by increasing overall spending. Summers and Furman, critics of the president’s $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan last year, were outspoken supporters of the Inflation Reduction Act negotiated with Manchin. But in a Twitter thread Monday, Summers argued that the administration should not contribute to inflation by offering “unreasonably generous student loan relief” or encourage colleges and universities to increase tuition.

from the WaPo.

ok how about this compromise: bump everyone's salary up to $125k per year and cancel zero student debt

lol The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a D.C.-based think tank that opposes loan forgiveness

arguing it would exacerbate inflation by increasing overall spending

jfc if Larry Summers wasn't already on my list of people to fire into the sun ...

"We'd like to make your life a little bit less punitive, but we're afraid you'll drive up the price of Pringles. Can't take the risk."

I never realized how much the economy relied on people being too broke to buy anything

things you should know

This is a mistake. I'm not saying he'll lose. He won't. But it's dumb as hell. It will live far into the future, and not how he expects. And it calls his broader political judgment into serious question. https://t.co/sIGcqAtTr8

— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) August 23, 2022

Love 2 see dumbfuck GOP cosplayers dragging everyone into their Civil War re-enactments

One hates to disagree with cosplay Richard Nixon but that ad will not “live far into the future.” It won’t even live into next month in anyone’s memory.

Love to run a Nixon "parody" account for years and never once have the guts to try to actually replicate his voice.

no that ad is dumb as hell

top guv? get bent

One hates to disagree with cosplay Richard Nixon but that ad will not “live far into the future.” It won’t even live into next month in anyone’s memory.

― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, August 23, 2022

I'm in Florida, man. Memes of this shit are gonna flood us worse than the Atlantic.

I first saw it as "Top Goy" and thought yeah that's probably a mistake

Roffle

Anyway

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/23/national-archives-letter-trump-security-00053250

Editors at @ThePlaindealer refused to abide by the ridiculous rules imposed on journalists trying to cover a rally for J.D. Vance featuring Ron DeSantis. https://t.co/lOapbD3Iz8 So they didn't write about or photograph it. But they did publish this graphic: white space with an X.

— Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) August 23, 2022

i'm so shocked the event was organized by Turning Point Action. good fucking lord that entire organization is creepy

Good for the Plain Dealer. That kind of shit is so idiotic, it makes them look weak and scared. Like so much of what the right confuses with strength, I guess.

it's getting to be more common, although maybe it's just happening wherever turning point and desantis show up

Turning Point Action is Charlie Kirk's organization?

Lmao

Dr Oz camp: "If John Fetterman had ever eaten a vegetable in his life, then maybe he wouldn't have had a major stroke”

👀 https://t.co/DyVqEH8Rno

— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) August 23, 2022

this isn't a Senate campaign it's an episode of Its Always Sunny

Also progressives have UNION THUGS!

my great grandpa used to come home from the picket line with blood on his shirt and just shrug and say "scabs"

every time these fuckin yahoo republicans are like “antifa are violent and they are organizing rebellion!” i’m like fuckin a, that is correct my friend. sorry for party rockin.

We’ve reached the “45 million Americans are bad people” stage of the counter-argument. pic.twitter.com/TWMtElqXgn

— Nina Turner (@ninaturner) August 23, 2022

People demanding politicians do the things they want, absolutely vile stuff. You should eat your pile of shit and thank your betters for it.

There was a time when I thought Yglesias was just the kind of stupid, blinkered asshole Ivy League colleges churn out on an assembly line. It wasn't until I found out that the foundation he "works" for paid off $400,000 of his own student dept that I realized what a piece of shit he truly is.

this isn't a Senate campaign it's an episode of Its Always Sunny

― frogbs, Tuesday, August 23, 2022 2:47 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

"if you vote me, i'm hot"

i might be wrong but i *think* Niskanen (which should be nuked btw) got 400k in PPP loans which they don't have to pay back, not that they paid off 400k of this ambulatory scrotum's student loans

I have a neighbor with a Trump/Pence sign who for a year now has been using blue marker to blot out Pence's name. after fading for the 3rd time he finally decided to use blue tape to cover it. what a fuckin' weirdo