And those are great! But he promised wider debt relief and I know it's anecdotal but my friends with private loans are still very upset about it. He's gotta mention mechanisms or explain how he can do this on his own without Congress if he wants it to stick. Biden's trustworthiness ratings are bad, and even pretty realistic policies could sound too good to be true if there's not anything more said behind them
Biden has implied that because Alito and Thomas are both approaching their 80's "it's very likely they both retire within the next four years and the next president will get to select at least two new SCOTUS justices". Which is hilarious given the context and reasoning.
Good call, it's time for presidents to stop announcing policy agendas because the Supreme Court will just stomp them. Remember that next time someone whines about how they need something inspiring to make them want vote for someone, and not just against someone
I mean they do have policies. Rounding up millions of immigrants into camps for deportation is a policy. Levying 100% tariffs on Chinese imports is a policy. Rescinding FDA approval of mifepristone in order to effectively ban 50% of abortions nationwide is a policy.
I'm referring to their 2024 GOP Platform to be clear not Project 2025. I'm very aware that Project 2025 is their actual agenda. But their policies and platform that they will be championing at the RNC only has two policies which are: same day voting and banning early voting nationwide, and "the largest deportation operation of illegal immigrants in history".
He also announced plans to allow all us citizens to enroll in the same plan they have offered to seniors a true public option that caps expenses for medicine at a max of $2000 a year and allows the govt to more effectively negotiate lower drug prices for everyone
Even if he could only get about as far as he's gotten (at present) with student loan debt and only wiped out medical debt for 4.75 million Americans, that's 4.75 million people whose lives are forever changed for the better.
I love tapping the Jim Himes sign, it's my favorite sign
Say it again for the people in the back.
It is far more than anyone thought he'd be able to get forgiven and it's not the end. It's actually quite unprecedented and something that affects millions of younger people in a positive way. You can't go "Well that's only 9%" while ignoring how that's an incredibly impressive accomplishment that's still ongoing mind you. Like you have to actively put your head in the sand and ignore how the US has treated student debt to go "That's only 9% tho."
You're not looking at the framing of that motivation and the previously offered motivation
Biden never promised to cancel all student debt universally and was pretty open about his skepticism toward cancelling, for instance, debt accrued through grad school. What he specifically promised during the campaign was to cancel 10k of federal student debt — something he did try to deliver on and only didn't because of the court, not because of inaction or lying on his part.
Yeah I can read. "We went down this road with student debt" yes he made a promise, tried to deliver on it, and when was prevented from doing so he continued chipping away at the problem.
That's why the third paragraph that you didn't include said "this is a good seed to plant" and said they need to include specifics if they want this to stick going forward
I don't see a path to the Senate because Tester will lose in MT. Who is the 50th if Tester loses his election in MT? Of course, that's hypothetical but I'm just going based off the polls.
I think that's because it's not cancelled for everyone so the people who "strongly disapprove" of his handling are probably upset or feel it's unfair that other people got their debt cancelled but they still have theirs.As a reminder, here's the polling on Biden's handling on student debt relief
A dream term if we somehow cop all three. It's crazy to think about how much good shit he'd get done with that power considering what he was able to do while limited over the past 3.5 years.
100%. Should have had a platform rather than just accomplishments that you're running on before the debate. The Economist pre-debate specifically criticized him on this.
He also created a new student loan repayment program that's dramatically reducing payments adding more opportunities for forgiveness and shortening the timeline to forgiveness for the vast majority of borrowers. How about you stop trying to minimize something he has been incredibly successful at doing and continues to push harder and harder to forgive more loans for more students every single month.
He already did that in his first term. It doesn't affect your credit score anymore. For his second term, he is talking about ending medical debt itself, that is made clear both in the wording from his speech and in the tweet itself.
Yeah I interpret the numbers the same way. That's why I think messaging on medical debt needs to be careful to make it stick. Because I genuinely believe it's a much more attainable program based on my state's own success with a similar program. And I don't want it dismissed by swing voters based on the feelings towards the earlier, much more difficult promises around student debt
So we agree that expecting him to drop the nuanced, long-form policy plan in a campaign rally is a ludicrous expectation.
Oh for sure, I just want this to stick in voters' minds as an attainable program. Because it is, much more so than student debt relief
If it's as much as the student debt forgiveness that would be amazing
It could be exactly that, nearly ten percent of all medical debt gone, and folks would still say there was a game being run cause it wasn't all of it.
