Ignoring the Recent Supreme Court Ruling That He Cannot Forgive Federal Student Debt Without Congressional Authorization, Biden Moves to Cancel $39 Billion in Debt Anyway

The man who unleashed the worst inflation in history and who has caused budget deficits to soar to impossible levels again claims he can spend $39 billion of taxpayer money without any actual law authorizing it.

Is the nation just floating on piles of cash that we're desperate to give away, rather than pay the storage costs for? Apparently not! The government is borrowing five billion per day.

Feds borrowing over $5 billion per day as programs face insolvency
The U.S. Congressional Budget Office released a report earlier this year projecting the national debt will be nearly twice as large as the U.S. economy in 30 years.
Budget groups continue to release dire forecasts for the explosive growth of the U.S. national debt.
The U.S. Treasury reported a $1.4 trillion deficit so far nine months into fiscal year 2023.
"Three-quarters into the fiscal year and we're borrowing an astounding $5.1 billion per day," said Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. "If that isn't a sign that we need a wake-up call, maybe it should be the fact that the deficit for this fiscal year is now larger than all of last year's deficit -- and there's still three months to go.
The U.S. Congressional Budget Office released a report earlier this year projecting the national debt will be nearly twice as large as the U.S. economy in 30 years.

Biden says, "Hold my beer."

Just weeks removed from a Supreme Court ruling that declared its student loan forgiveness program unconstitutional, the Biden administration on Friday announced new relief for students that will cancel $39 billion in debt for more than 804,000 past students.
"For far too long, borrowers fell through the cracks of a broken system that failed to keep accurate track of their progress towards forgiveness," Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said in a statement. "By fixing past administrative failures, we are ensuring everyone gets the forgiveness they deserve."
Cardona said the new program is justified by adjusting payment schedules in student loan programs to recognize some qualifying payments "should have moved borrowers closer to forgiveness were not accounted for."

They're just going to keep pushing slight variations of previous initiatives, claiming each time that the Supreme Court didn't invalidate this particular attempt to spend without Congressional authorization.

If you can believe it, citizen trust in democracyis plummeting.

Only about 1 in 10 U.S. adults give high ratings to the way democracy is working in the United States or how well it represents the interests of most Americans, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
Majorities of adults say U.S. laws and policies do a poor job of representing what most Americans want on issues ranging from the economy and government spending to gun policy, immigration and abortion. The poll shows 53% say Congress is doing a bad job of upholding democratic values, compared with just 16% who say it's doing a good job.
The findings illustrate widespread political alienation as a polarized country limps out of the pandemic and into a recovery haunted by inflation and fears of a recession.

Meanwhile, Republicans look to cut one billion from the budget of the Democrat Stasi group the FBI, and also press other reforms. Such as forbidding the FBI from withholding the salaries of its whistleblowers, attempting to starve them into submission with the FBI party line.

Republicans on the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies on Friday advanced legislation to reduce funding for the FBI by $1 billion.
The committee advanced the 9% budget cut in a party line vote, the Washington Examiner reported. The bureau's 2024 budget would fall from $11.3 billion in 2023 to $10.3 billion under the plan.
It would further require the FBI to conduct politically sensitive investigations under the oversight of a bipartisan group of Department of Justice staff while also forbidding the bureau from withholding the salaries of its whistleblowers.

Jonathan Turley on the FBI. He notes that Wray blames the FBI's abuse of FISA on his predecessor -- ignoring the fact that the actual people who approved the illegal wiretap requests are all still in power, and still violating the law.

And they just keep saying "Whoops! Whoopsie!"

Posted by: Ace at 04:47 PM

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1 First!

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 17, 2023 04:48 PM (eYoxG)

2 I'll believe the FBI budget cuts when I see them.

Posted by: 496 at July 17, 2023 04:48 PM (eSg7d)

3 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 17, 2023 04:48 PM (+sD5M)

4 2 I'll believe the FBI budget cuts when I see them.
Posted by: 496 at July 17, 2023 04:48 PM (eSg7d)

Same.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 17, 2023 04:48 PM (/iWhV)

5 Well, sure!

Posted by: SFGoth at July 17, 2023 04:48 PM (KAi1n)

6 He wipes his ass with your silly laws.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 17, 2023 04:49 PM (+sD5M)

7 "Our Democracy" is neither a Democracy, nor ours.

Posted by: Zek at July 17, 2023 04:49 PM (5FPX4)

8 I feel like the new willow, I'm always on the previous thread trying to catch up.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 17, 2023 04:49 PM (l3Uxg)

9 This mother f**ker will do nothing to crash the American economy as he gets money from Ukraine and China.

F this guy in particular.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at July 17, 2023 04:49 PM (bkUtD)

10 Welcome to the Weimar Republic v2.0

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 17, 2023 04:50 PM (ufFY8)

11 Eh, only "The Right" is expected to abide by court decisions that go against them and treat those as established law. Such has been the way in American politics for decades now.

Posted by: Bete at July 17, 2023 04:50 PM (PYoBO)

12 biden is giving a big fat fvck you finger to the Supreme Court.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 17, 2023 04:50 PM (ncXxy)

13 4 2 I'll believe the FBI budget cuts when I see them.
Posted by: 496 at July 17, 2023 04:48 PM (eSg7d)

Same.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 17, 2023 04:48 PM (/iWhV)

Yup.. this.

Posted by: Inogame at July 17, 2023 04:50 PM (53oGX)

14 Joe Biden's Deadbeat America.

Posted by: Regular joe at July 17, 2023 04:50 PM (nnp+f)

15 He doesn't agree with the SC decision, so he's gonna do it anyway.

Elections have consequences, bitches. He's got a pen and a phone.

Posted by: Barack Owebama at July 17, 2023 04:50 PM (+sD5M)

16 The Republic is d.e.a.d. dead.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at July 17, 2023 04:51 PM (jgJfd)

17 I'll believe the FBI budget cuts when I see them.
Posted by: 496 at July 17, 2023 04:48 PM (eSg7d)

Heh. Safe bet, bub.

Posted by: Mitch McConnell at July 17, 2023 04:52 PM (+sD5M)

18 8 On. I was hoping for the new Willow to be like the show now about lesbians, but not so much the canceled part or rest of its trash. Mostly just more lesbians.

Posted by: Bete at July 17, 2023 04:52 PM (PYoBO)

19 Hmmm...I guess following laws doesn't matter any more.

Fuckers better watch out then.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 17, 2023 04:52 PM (ufFY8)

20 Feds borrowing over $5 billion per day as programs face insolvency
........

FedGub, the largest employer in the world is $32 trillion in debt.
This will not end well.

Posted by: guy who always says "This will not end well" at July 17, 2023 04:52 PM (v0R5T)

21 There are no laws, only power

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 17, 2023 04:52 PM (xcxpd)

22 FBI is Asshoe.

Posted by: garrett at July 17, 2023 04:52 PM (xChBq)

23 Rape by any other word is still rape.

Hide yo wives, hide yo husbands, hide yo chirruns...

Joe Biden is raping errbody up in here.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 17, 2023 04:52 PM (b+YaX)

24 He forgot the Supreme Court even ruled, and his Puppeteers couldn't care less if they did.

Posted by: Skip at July 17, 2023 04:53 PM (xhxe8)

25 23 Rape by any other word is still rape.

Hide yo wives, hide yo husbands, hide yo chirruns...

Joe Biden is raping errbody up in here.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 17, 2023 04:52 PM (b+YaX)

It's only a nibble here, nibble there...

Posted by: Whoopie at July 17, 2023 04:53 PM (53oGX)

26 So what exactly does SCOTUS do if the Federal Government just flat out ignores one of their decisions?

Are we in "British Bobby" territory here? "Stop! Or I shall say 'Stop!' again!" ?

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 17, 2023 04:53 PM (nRMeC)

27
Joe Biden is raping errbody up in here.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 17, 2023 04:52 PM (b+YaX)

Family tradition.

Posted by: Hunter Biden at July 17, 2023 04:53 PM (+sD5M)

28 26 So what exactly does SCOTUS do if the Federal Government just flat out ignores one of their decisions?

Are we in "British Bobby" territory here? "Stop! Or I shall say 'Stop!' again!" ?
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 17, 2023 04:53 PM (nRMeC)

A previous Democrat president already showed the way there: Andrew Jackson

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 17, 2023 04:54 PM (xcxpd)

29 Joe Biden is raping errbody up in here.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 17, 2023 04:52 PM (b+YaX)

Family tradition.
Posted by: Hunter Biden at July 17, 2023 04:53 PM (+sD5M)

He likes rpae

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 17, 2023 04:54 PM (NtVYv)

30 ""For far too long, borrowers fell through the cracks of a broken system that failed to keep accurate track of their progress towards forgiveness," Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said in a statement. "By fixing past administrative failures, we are ensuring everyone gets the forgiveness they deserve.""

I'm shocked. A not-inaccurate statement from a Biden regime functionary.

Sounds like he's talking about the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, through which you could get your balance forgiven if you'd made... IDK... 10 years worth of qualifying payments, working in a government or government adjacent job.

Of course they "fell through the cracks" because Congress kept changing the requirements and because... well... it was administered by government functionaries.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 17, 2023 04:54 PM (ou9hh)

31 So what exactly does SCOTUS do if the Federal Government just flat out ignores one of their decisions?

Are we in "British Bobby" territory here? "Stop! Or I shall say 'Stop!' again!" ?
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 17, 2023 04:53 PM (nRMeC)
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I've been wondering the same thing. SCOTUS says, "NO! You can't do that!"

FedGov shrugs its shoulders and asks, "How many armored divisions does SCOTUS have?"

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 17, 2023 04:55 PM (YIVH2)

32 Meanwhile, Republicans look to cut one billion from the budget of the Democrat Stasi group the FBI, and also press other reforms. Such as forbidding the FBI from withholding the salaries of its whistleblowers, attempting to starve them into submission with the FBI party line.
____

Aren't there laws protecting whistleblowers already? What good is passing new laws if they are going to be ignored anyway?

Also, Dr Evil was mocked for attempting to blackmail the world for $1mm. $1b is the new $1mm. If congress reduces spending by $1t, then maybe it will actually start being helpful.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 17, 2023 04:55 PM (fs1hN)

33 Debt has consumed and taken over our country. It is how the Dems stay in power: promise free stuff to the nonproductive and tax the productive in to oblivion.

Everyone is in debt and no one seems to care or understand that it cannot go on much longer.

And then things will get very interesting.

The Revolution is coming.

Posted by: Czech Chick at July 17, 2023 04:55 PM (6Tc2R)

34 Joe is the historic first Sociopath-American President.

Posted by: Zek at July 17, 2023 04:55 PM (5FPX4)

35 Biden is waiting for the Army of SCOTUS to force him to abide by the Constitution and their rulings.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 17, 2023 04:55 PM (ynpvh)

36 I know. Let's impeach him.

But the Senate will probably let him off.

Posted by: Speaker McCarthy at July 17, 2023 04:55 PM (jgJfd)

37 The cutting of FBI funding is ‘Defunding the Police’ according to the Dem propaganda . It’s the Republicans who are defunding law enforcement!

Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2023 04:56 PM (MNhXM)

38 I only wish college was free for anyone who wants to go and can make their grades. It would help the country to have a much smarter population!

GOP loves the poorly educated. They are easier to control with lies and conspiracy theories

If we'd stop spending so much damned money on missiles and war and chose to invest in our own people, we'd have healthcare, dental care, and free college, because an educated labor force betters the entire society. Our society operates in a profit-over-people mode (by legal doctrine - see 1919 MI Supreme Court ruling against Henry Ford).

You sound like a job killing socialist! Everyone knows we have to give more money to the wealthiest so they can create jobs (SARCASM)

The people who were helped need to vote for President Biden next year. Period. That's an extraordinary gift to receive. Congratulations. I was told my loan was forgiven last year, at that point I only had about 1800 left. I tried to slow walk it, but I'm on autopay and don't really keep track. Now I'm down to 731 owed. I wonder if the previous email still applies.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 17, 2023 04:56 PM (JCZqz)

39 So, a different thing from the "Everybody gets their balances reduced by $10K!" thing they started out with.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 17, 2023 04:56 PM (ou9hh)

40 How many Divisions does the Supreme Court have??

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at July 17, 2023 04:56 PM (krqg6)

41 What tough guys.

The cost of open and defiant treason--illegally spying on a candidate and a president, clearly violating the first Amendment-- is .... nothing.

The billion they cut? That's the extra fucking billion they gave them in 2021!

Oh, we're supposed to forget the extra billion they gave them to illegally prosecute J6?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 17, 2023 04:56 PM (m25NS)

42 33 Debt has consumed and taken over our country. It is how the Dems stay in power: promise free stuff to the nonproductive and tax the productive in to oblivion.

Everyone is in debt and no one seems to care or understand that it cannot go on much longer.

And then things will get very interesting.

The Revolution is coming.

Posted by: Czech Chick at July 17, 2023 04:55 PM (6Tc2R)

It can only go on until it can't.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 17, 2023 04:56 PM (ynpvh)

43 Joe is the historic first Sociopath-American President.

You don't remember Obama?

Posted by: Speaker McCarthy at July 17, 2023 04:56 PM (jgJfd)

44
FedGov shrugs its shoulders and asks, "How many armored divisions does SCOTUS have?"
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 17, 2023 04:55 PM (YIVH2)

"Nukes FTW"

- - - - - Eric Swalwell

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 17, 2023 04:56 PM (+sD5M)

45 Five billion per day...

Are we talking real money yet?

Posted by: Theoretically, zombie Everett Dirksen at July 17, 2023 04:56 PM (ufFY8)

46 off RINO sock.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at July 17, 2023 04:57 PM (jgJfd)

47 40 How many Divisions does the Supreme Court have??

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at July 17, 2023 04:56 PM (krqg6)

That's a complex issue on imaginary numbers. No need to be irrational about this.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 17, 2023 04:57 PM (ynpvh)

48 We added 8 trillion to the debt during the Trump administration.

Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2023 04:57 PM (MNhXM)

49 It can only go on until it can't.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 17, 2023 04:56 PM (ynpvh)

Gradually, then suddenly

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 17, 2023 04:58 PM (NtVYv)

50 45 Five billion per day...

Are we talking real money yet?

Posted by: Theoretically, zombie Everett Dirksen at July 17, 2023 04:56 PM (ufFY

Same as in town.

Posted by: Washington D.C. at July 17, 2023 04:58 PM (ynpvh)

51 Eh, what's $5 billion a day amongst friends?

Posted by: Comrade Zelenskyy at July 17, 2023 04:58 PM (Xrfse)

52 I just love the fact that we paid off our student loans . . . in January of 2020. *Slaps post-it with "loser" written on it to forehead*

Posted by: Catherine at July 17, 2023 04:59 PM (ZSsrh)

53 Congratulations. I was told my loan was forgiven last year, at that point I only had about 1800 left. I tried to slow walk it, but I'm on autopay and don't really keep track. Now I'm down to 731 owed. I wonder if the previous email still applies.
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If this person hustles and sells a few more cups of coffee, he could probably pay off his loans in the next 10 years...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 17, 2023 04:59 PM (YIVH2)

54 44
FedGov shrugs its shoulders and asks, "How many armored divisions does SCOTUS have?"
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 17, 2023 04:55 PM (YIVH2)

"Nukes FTW"

- - - - - Eric Swalwell

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 17, 2023 04:56 PM (+sD5M)

Or just wait for someone to light his ass up.

Posted by: Washington D.C. at July 17, 2023 04:59 PM (ynpvh)

55 "You don't remember Obama?"

Why yes. Yes I do. As a committed Marxist he was 100% wrong in his principles and as honest as a snake. But at least he had his principles.

Posted by: Zek at July 17, 2023 04:59 PM (5FPX4)

56 off evil, putrid, swampy sock.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 17, 2023 04:59 PM (ynpvh)

57 Keep the spice flowing, Uncle Joe!

Posted by: Comrade Zelenskyy at July 17, 2023 04:59 PM (Xrfse)

58 GOP loves the poorly educated. They are easier to control with lies and conspiracy theories
____

Yes! We must kick out all the GOP operating all those big city public schools and replace them with progressive teachers and administrators. What those evil GOP are doing to those poor children is criminal!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 17, 2023 05:00 PM (fs1hN)

59 As much as the imbeciles are printing, it's all monopoly money.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 17, 2023 05:00 PM (llON8)

60 26 So what exactly does SCOTUS do if the Federal Government just flat out ignores one of their decisions?

Are we in "British Bobby" territory here? "Stop! Or I shall say 'Stop!' again!" ?
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 17, 2023 04:53 PM (nRMeC)

They already are ignoring the Supremes, and Courts are doing the same.

In Oregon a Fed Judge said that requiring people to get training AND total gun registration, was in line with Historic gun laws in the US. Not sure what History He/She/It read... but...

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 17, 2023 05:00 PM (oHd/0)

61 Leftists only love the Court when they win. When they don't they ignore them

Posted by: Skip at July 17, 2023 05:00 PM (xhxe8)

62 cut from 11 to 10 billion?
Oh my heavens! How can they survive?

Posted by: Bosk of Port Kar at July 17, 2023 05:00 PM (VMFAF)

63 So it'll become the PIIGSUS countries. Fan. Fucking. Tastic.

Can't wait to maraud the wasteland.

Posted by: Or USPIIGS at July 17, 2023 05:00 PM (uoAlb)

64 At $5B a day, the payoff is only a little over a week's worth of new debt. Would you deny these wandering souls what they want... I mean what they NEED... to quibble over this paltry sum?

I'm sure we can get around to balancing the budget next week...

Posted by: Guardian B at July 17, 2023 05:01 PM (mI323)

65 {52} I just love the fact that we paid off our student loans . . . in January of 2020. *Slaps post-it with "loser" written on it to forehead*

Posted by: Catherine at July 17, 2023 04:59 PM (ZSsrh)

You can't put a price on integrity. You did the right thing. In a sane world, everyone would respect you for this.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 17, 2023 05:01 PM (nRMeC)

66 >>>biden is giving a big fat fvck you finger to the Supreme Court.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS)

I'm certain the judge will hold Biden in contempt.

LOLOLOLOL

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at July 17, 2023 05:01 PM (bkUtD)

67 57 Keep the spice flowing, Uncle Joe!

Posted by: Comrade Zelenskyy at July 17, 2023 04:59 PM (Xrfse)

Yeah, Pa. After all, the SS took my afternoon pick-me-up...

Posted by: Hunter at July 17, 2023 05:01 PM (ynpvh)

68 I don’t know if Buddy Rich is the best but I know he could kick every other drummers ass . Literally.

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I saw him on Johnny Carson one night with an obviously drunken Jack Palance. Jack said something Buddy didn't like and I thought they'd have to hose Jack off the stage.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 17, 2023 05:01 PM (FVME7)

69 48 We added 8 trillion to the debt during the Trump administration.
Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2023 04:57 PM (MNhXM)

A lot due to a fake Emergency called Covid.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 17, 2023 05:01 PM (oHd/0)

70 53 ...I'm on autopay and don't really keep track. Now I'm down to 731 owed.
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If this person hustles and sells a few more cups of coffee, he could probably pay off his loans in the next 10 years...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 17, 2023 04:59 PM

Yes, we need to forgive student loans because it's an unbearable burden that crushes young people...which is why it's an autopayment they don't track for their remaining $800. Even "First World Problems" memes cringe in embarrassment.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 17, 2023 05:02 PM (JCZqz)

71 Dementia Joe will sign whatever his handlers tell him to sign.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 17, 2023 05:02 PM (Keyt1)

72 The man who unleashed the worst inflation in history and who has caused budget deficits to soar to impossible levels again claims he can spend $39 billion of taxpayer money without any actual law authorizing it.

When is Biden just going to sit in the oval office cutting ten figure checks to whoever he wants to?

And who is going to stop him from doing so?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 17, 2023 05:02 PM (p8A+W)

73 >>>You can't put a price on integrity. You did the right thing. In a sane world, everyone would respect you for this.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant

It took me years, but I paid every cent of my student loans.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at July 17, 2023 05:02 PM (bkUtD)

74 Its nice to see the GOP in congress actually try something. It won't get past the senate or even if it does, the president but still; at least they are giving it a shot

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 17, 2023 05:02 PM (0hOvj)

75 66 >>>biden is giving a big fat fvck you finger to the Supreme Court.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS)

I'm certain the judge will hold Biden in contempt.

LOLOLOLOL

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at July 17, 2023 05:01 PM (bkUtD)

Biden IS a contemptible person, so there.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 17, 2023 05:02 PM (ynpvh)

76 63 So it'll become the PIIGSUS countries. Fan. Fucking. Tastic.

Can't wait to maraud the wasteland.
Posted by: Or USPIIGS at July 17, 2023 05:00 PM (uoAlb)

War PIGS?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 17, 2023 05:02 PM (xcxpd)

77 Where in the hell are my dammed tanks?

Posted by: Comrade Zelenskyy at July 17, 2023 05:02 PM (Xrfse)

78 We added 8 trillion to the debt during the Trump administration.
Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2023 04:57 PM (MNhXM)

A lot due to a fake Emergency called Covid.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 17, 2023 05:01 PM (oHd/0)

Yes. I think you can attribute at least 4 trillion to that.

Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2023 05:03 PM (MNhXM)

79 The saddest part is JFB will cause mass unemployment of telemarketers in India just trying to sell student loan consolidation.

Posted by: Zek at July 17, 2023 05:03 PM (5FPX4)

80 Stalin horde mind!

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at July 17, 2023 05:03 PM (krqg6)

81 " I just love the fact that we paid off our student loans . . . in January of 2020. *Slaps post-it with "loser" written on it to forehead*"

On the plus side, Congress can't now slap you with retroactive interest on your outstanding balance, like they were threatening a couple months back.

And I'm sure the If Biden had succeeded in dropping everyone's balances, some chucklehead would have decided that you had to pay back that money anyway.

Honestly, being in debt to the Fed is such a bad situation to be in, you're better off to be rid of that debt no matter how you accomplish it.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 17, 2023 05:03 PM (ou9hh)

82 65 {52} I just love the fact that we paid off our student loans . . . in January of 2020. *Slaps post-it with "loser" written on it to forehead*

Posted by: Catherine at July 17, 2023 04:59 PM (ZSsrh)

You can't put a price on integrity. You did the right thing. In a sane world, everyone would respect you for this.
Posted by: Grumpy

This is how I have to look at it. Finally paid mine off in 2021.

Posted by: Infidel at July 17, 2023 05:03 PM (0zJ6Q)

83 >>>Biden IS a contemptible person, so there.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Good point. Hell, if he kept the Ukraine money here, maybe we would have the money to cancel student loans.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at July 17, 2023 05:04 PM (bkUtD)

84 "If we'd stop spending so much damned money on missiles and war and chose to invest in our own people, we'd have healthcare, dental care, and free college, because an educated labor force betters the entire society."

This isn't totally off-base.

Posted by: SFGoth at July 17, 2023 05:04 PM (KAi1n)

85 70 53 ...I'm on autopay and don't really keep track. Now I'm down to 731 owed.
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If this person hustles and sells a few more cups of coffee, he could probably pay off his loans in the next 10 years...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 17, 2023 04:59 PM

Yes, we need to forgive student loans because it's an unbearable burden that crushes young people...which is why it's an autopayment they don't track for their remaining $800. Even "First World Problems" memes cringe in embarrassment.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 17, 2023 05:02 PM (JCZqz)

Hold universities and colleges that charge so much for a useless thing with false advertising. They have deep pockets (endowments, etc). make them pay for the useless paper they print.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 17, 2023 05:04 PM (ynpvh)

86 Are we in "British Bobby" territory here? "Stop! Or I shall say 'Stop!' again!" ?
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 17, 2023 04:53 PM (nRMeC)

I really want to see Justice Thomas walk into the oval office and slap the crap outta Biden. I really do.

Posted by: tcn in AK, hail to the thief at July 17, 2023 05:04 PM (okGHj)

87 Its nice to see the GOP in congress actually try something. It won't get past the senate or even if it does, the president but still; at least they are giving it a shot

The McGOP is going to pass a veto-proof law that orders Biden to stop doing what is already unlawful and unconstitutional?

Lets say this happens. Biden just ignores that law too?

We don't have a government. We have Leviathan.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 17, 2023 05:05 PM (p8A+W)

88 77 Where in the hell are my dammed tanks?
Posted by: Comrade Zelenskyy at July 17, 2023 05:02 PM

38 If we'd stop spending so much damned money on missiles and war and chose to invest in our own people...

It almost sounds like the Left has no longterm plan or concept of resource management...

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 17, 2023 05:05 PM (JCZqz)

89 Impeach!

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA! I crack myself up.

Posted by: Darth Randall at July 17, 2023 05:05 PM (f1kZG)

90 Feds borrowing over $5 billion per day as programs face insolvency
........
As the Boomers retire, they're converting their 401ks into "safe" T Bill.

You know, loaning the government money to fund their retirement.
You know, a smart 5% safe return--that increases the money supply and holds inflation over 10%.

So that's like what, cutting the value of their retirement in half every 5 to 7 years?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 17, 2023 05:05 PM (m25NS)

91 Hope I die before I get old.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 17, 2023 05:06 PM (Dm8we)

92 If this keeps up, Bartertown will be the north American continent.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 17, 2023 05:06 PM (ufFY8)

93 91 Hope I die before I get old.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 17, 2023 05:06 PM (Dm8we)

Too late for many of us.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 17, 2023 05:06 PM (ynpvh)

94 They're just going to keep pushing slight variations of previous initiatives, claiming each time that the Supreme Court didn't invalidate this particular attempt to spend without Congressional authorization.

I'm fine with this. Our Imperial Court ought to be challenged more often, and if the public doesn't like a particular challenge, it can vote accordingly.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at July 17, 2023 05:06 PM (ppBhU)

95 So why can't Congress fire the guys who made all the "oopsies"? What kind of oversight is it if the junta can still protect them?

Posted by: Iris at July 17, 2023 05:06 PM (n3DL0)

96 we'd stop spending so much damned money on missiles and war and chose to invest in our own people, we'd have healthcare, dental care, and free college, because an educated labor force betters the entire society."

This isn't totally off-base.
Posted by: SFGoth at July 17, 2023 05:04 PM (KAi1n

We are the super power we are because we built those missiles and waged those wars.

That said , it’s the Left that like to misuse it,

Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2023 05:06 PM (MNhXM)

97 I'll glady pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today.

Posted by: wth at July 17, 2023 05:06 PM (v0R5T)

98 Lol. The gop also swore up and down they’d claw back the 87k new IRS armed goons that will be hired. And how did they work out? Oh yeah 87k armed IRS goons are still on track to be hired.

Posted by: Montec at July 17, 2023 05:06 PM (S2RnY)

99 {86} I really want to see Justice Thomas walk into the oval office and slap the crap outta Biden. I really do.

Posted by: tcn in AK, hail to the thief at July 17, 2023 05:04 PM (okGHj)

I'd buy THAT for a dollar.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 17, 2023 05:06 PM (nRMeC)

100 Here's a person that, if the Dems fake or fraudulently record over 100M votes for Punchy in 2024, would just shrug and say "hey, I told you Trump was unpopular!"

You cannot fix stupid and these NT are just the most pretend stupid there is - this whole article is intellectually embarrassing:

https://tinyurl.com/3vurv6cx

Posted by: Boswell at July 17, 2023 05:07 PM (K+UlC)

101 I am NOT a patient man, Uncle Joe. IYKWIM.

Posted by: Comrade Zelenskyy at July 17, 2023 05:07 PM (Xrfse)

102 Yes, we need to forgive student loans because it's an unbearable burden that crushes young people...

Yeah, just increase the tax on tips the single-mother waitress working double-shifts at the Waffle House in North Dakota to pay off the debts of people with college degrees who mock her status.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 17, 2023 05:07 PM (p8A+W)

103 "This is how I have to look at it. Finally paid mine off in 2021."

I'm still paying mine off.

And will continue to do so, because the Feral Gummint's promises are like words written on wind.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 17, 2023 05:07 PM (ou9hh)

104 97 I'll glady pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today.

Posted by: wth at July 17, 2023 05:06 PM (v0R5T)

$20, same as in town.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 17, 2023 05:07 PM (ynpvh)

105 Demoncrats know that nothing short of a bullet can stop them from doing whatever the hell they want, no matter who tells them otherwise.

Posted by: XTC at July 17, 2023 05:07 PM (UnA8+)

106 If you subsidize it you get more of it. In this case useless degrees and entitled, ignorant and confrontational "college graduates" who don't know jack about fuck all but are sure they must "tear down the systems of oppression" to replace it with the equivalent of a squatters camp.

Posted by: Zek at July 17, 2023 05:07 PM (5FPX4)

107 If your degree doesn't hold enough value for you to pay it off, why do you think it holds enough value for strangers to pay it off?

Posted by: rickb223 at July 17, 2023 05:07 PM (ZVVGW)

108 "For far too long, borrowers fell through the cracks of a broken system that failed to keep accurate track of their progress towards forgiveness," Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said in a statement. "By fixing past administrative failures, we are ensuring everyone gets the forgiveness they deserve."

Bullshit. The whole thing was a money grab and laundering operation to get as much money in the hands of liberal academia as possible. And it had the also desirable effect, if you're a progressive, of placing graduates behind the 8-ball and less likely to be economically upwardly mobile.

Posted by: It's all bullshit at July 17, 2023 05:08 PM (uoAlb)

109 Does the senile pedophile do ANYTHING legal?

Posted by: uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the Children They Don't Kill at July 17, 2023 05:08 PM (0q+t6)

110 Any of these overeducated baristas can sign up for a plumbing apprenticeship at any time, and pay off those loans lickety-split.

Posted by: tcn in AK, hail to the thief at July 17, 2023 05:08 PM (okGHj)

111 Debt has consumed and taken over our country. It is how the Dems stay in power: promise free stuff to the nonproductive and tax the productive in to oblivion.

Everyone is in debt and no one seems to care or understand that it cannot go on much longer.

And then things will get very interesting.

The Revolution is coming.

Posted by: Czech Chick at July 17, 2023 04:55 PM

Other than that little burp back in 2008 which the Federal government pretty much bailed out all of the major players, there have not been any consequences for carrying tremendous debt in this Country.

Until there are serious consequences to carrying huge debt loads nothing is going to happen until the entire system collapses.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 17, 2023 05:08 PM (ncXxy)

112 107 If your degree doesn't hold enough value for you to pay it off, why do you think it holds enough value for strangers to pay it off?

Posted by: rickb223 at July 17, 2023 05:07 PM (ZVVGW)

Yup. You've been had. Snookered. Taken in.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 17, 2023 05:08 PM (ynpvh)

113 109 Does the senile pedophile do ANYTHING legal?

Posted by: uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the Children They Don't Kill at July 17, 2023 05:08 PM (0q+t6)

Fall up stairs and fill his depends?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 17, 2023 05:09 PM (ynpvh)

114 I really do think the government should seize Harvard's endowment as a "Tax" to pay for the student loan forgiveness.

Posted by: Iris at July 17, 2023 05:09 PM (n3DL0)

115 So, this is what a post-Constitutional country looks like.

It will only get more extreme, more disgusting.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at July 17, 2023 05:09 PM (i+mOk)

116 I really want to see Justice Thomas walk into the oval office and slap the crap outta Biden. I really do.
------------
Like Sisco and Q!

"I ain't Picard, mother-fucker!"

[I think that's what he said, at least.]

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at July 17, 2023 05:09 PM (krqg6)

117 Yup. You've been had. Snookered. Taken in.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 17, 2023 05:08 PM (ynpvh)

Gaslit.
Conned.
Taken for a ride.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 17, 2023 05:09 PM (ufFY8)

118 If you can believe it, citizen trust in democracy is plummeting.

-----------------

Perhaps a country of 335 million people can't be governed democratically, especially when the average "representative" has 770,000 citizens to represent.

I think a random selection process would yield better results.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 17, 2023 05:10 PM (cMXNt)

119 I thought student loans were federalized to pay for Obamacare? So if we're forgiving the debt, who's paying for healthcare?

Posted by: Iris at July 17, 2023 05:10 PM (n3DL0)

120 If your degree doesn't hold enough value for you to pay it off, why do you think it holds enough value for strangers to pay it off?
Posted by: rickb223 at July 17, 2023 05:07 PM (ZVVGW)

If I recall correctly, one of the very first things Jugears did was to "nationalize" student loans. Shit Midas, indeed.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at July 17, 2023 05:10 PM (AiZBA)

121 I believe my mortgage debt should be forgiven.... I'm waiting

Posted by: It's me donna at July 17, 2023 05:10 PM (bs+z0)

122 on tips the single-mother waitress working double-shifts at the Waffle House in North Dakota

—

Except that non-existent waitress wouldn’t pay taxes even if she did exist. Remember the 47% comment by Romney? It’s up to well over 50% now. Which is why Dems can get away with this shit. More than 1/2 the country pays nothing so is fine with all the giveaways and tax increases on the small minority that contributes.

Posted by: Montec at July 17, 2023 05:10 PM (S2RnY)

123 Does Joe actually know anything about this?

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at July 17, 2023 05:10 PM (VdGjU)

124 So basically, a lot of Boomers who thought they were not only going to retire comfortably and have a bunch left over for their kids are actually accelerating inflation by funding increased government spending.

And most won't have any money in 20 years.

Factor in the coming housing crash where they can't afford the taxes on their McMansion with their fixed income and can't sell it for what it's worth today.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 17, 2023 05:10 PM (m25NS)

125 I got my Master's degree in 1985. I paid off my loans, at that time $35K, in six years. That was a lot of money back then, but it was possible. It's called being responsible, working while in college, working every summer, paying what you can up front, and then getting a decent job when you are done.

None of these idiots did any of that.

Posted by: tcn in AK, hail to the thief at July 17, 2023 05:10 PM (okGHj)

126 I'll glady pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today.

Posted by: wth at July 17, 2023 05:06 PM (v0R5T)

$20, same as in town.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 17, 2023 05:07 PM (ynpvh)
........

The check is in the mail.

Posted by: wth at July 17, 2023 05:11 PM (v0R5T)

127 Dementia Joe will sign whatever his handlers tell him to sign.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 17, 2023 05:02 PM (Keyt1)

Yup. Joe is nothing but a meat popsicle president.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 17, 2023 05:11 PM (BdMk6)

128 66 >>>biden is giving a big fat fvck you finger to the Supreme Court.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS)

yeah, I don't hear the left screaming constitutional crisis

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 17, 2023 05:11 PM (NtVYv)

129 You know, loaning the government money to fund their retirement.

I have thought about this quite a bit, if I ended up with some real money, how the heck would I invest it for the future? Banks are shaky and sketchy as well. Stock market will crash. Government investments will be looted and the dollar will be worthless. Property? How do you keep it and claim its worth in face colander times?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 17, 2023 05:11 PM (0hOvj)

130 119 I thought student loans were federalized to pay for Obamacare? So if we're forgiving the debt, who's paying for healthcare?

Iris, I think my brain just exploded!

great question!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 17, 2023 05:12 PM (AcWfM)

131 IN today's dollars that's 99K in debt. I paid it.

Posted by: tcn in AK, hail to the thief at July 17, 2023 05:12 PM (okGHj)

132 Hope I die before I get old.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 17, 2023 05:06 PM (Dm8we)

Too late for many of us.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
__________

Lapped 29 myself. But g-g-generation Z better be thinking it.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 17, 2023 05:12 PM (Dm8we)

133 bamboozled
hornswaggled

Posted by: wth at July 17, 2023 05:12 PM (v0R5T)

134 ...I'm on autopay and don't really keep track. Now I'm down to 731 owed.
---
If this person hustles and sells a few more cups of coffee, he could probably pay off his loans in the next 10 years...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 17, 2023 04:59 PM

Yes, we need to forgive student loans because it's an unbearable burden that crushes young people...which is why it's an autopayment they don't track for their remaining $800. Even "First World Problems" memes cringe in embarrassment.
Posted by: Intercepted DU

I can't pay off my student loans which I used to vacation on Aruba yearly.
~a freeloading asshoe

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 17, 2023 05:12 PM (xyh5O)

135 Even a multi billion giveaway, the Bureaucracy grows, someone needs to be the giveaway Czar earning hundreds or thousands a year, they need thousands of minions to facilitate the giveaway. Lawyers will rake in money in fees for people to navigate the paperwork.

Posted by: Skip at July 17, 2023 05:12 PM (xhxe8)

136 107 If your degree doesn't hold enough value for you to pay it off, why do you think it holds enough value for strangers to pay it off?
Posted by: rickb223 at July 17, 2023 05:07 PM (ZVVGW)

I'd like to see universities start facing class action suits for fraud and deceptive and unfair trade practices. It's all one big scam.

Posted by: It's all bullshit redux at July 17, 2023 05:13 PM (uoAlb)

137
Factor in the coming housing crash where they can't afford the taxes on their McMansion with their fixed income and can't sell it for what it's worth today.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 17, 2023 05:10 PM (m25NS)

A housing crash would benefit them in your scenario since a decrease in home prices leads to a decrease in property taxes. Or at least slows down the increase.

Posted by: Montec at July 17, 2023 05:13 PM (S2RnY)

138 I never have had debt I couldn’t cover immediately and worked very hard to keep it that way. I don’t mind others being in the red because it’s the rule not the exception and their business. What I don’t like is having to pay for someone else’s debt.

Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2023 05:13 PM (MNhXM)

139 {118} ... I think a random selection process would yield better results.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 17, 2023 05:10 PM (cMXNt)

I have heard something like this before. "435 House Reps. 100 Senators. 1 President, 1 VP. 9 Supreme Court Justices. 335 million people to select from. And this is the best you can select?!"

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 17, 2023 05:13 PM (nRMeC)

140 116 I really want to see Justice Thomas walk into the oval office and slap the crap outta Biden. I really do.
------------
Like Sisco and Q!

"I ain't Picard, mother-fucker!"

[I think that's what he said, at least.]

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at July 17, 2023 05:09 PM (krqg6)

https://youtu.be/Etc8qdqiR5k

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 17, 2023 05:13 PM (ynpvh)

141 It's fraud all the way down.

@zerohedge 11m
*BLACKROCK NAMES ARAMCO CEO AMIN NASSER TO ITS BOARD

LOL ESG

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 17, 2023 05:14 PM (jzzG8)

142 I thought student loans were federalized to pay for Obamacare? So if we're forgiving the debt, who's paying for healthcare?
Posted by: Iris at July 17, 2023 05:10 PM (n3DL0)

Take a guess.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 17, 2023 05:14 PM (BdMk6)

143 118 If you can believe it, citizen trust in democracy is plummeting.

-----------------

Perhaps a country of 335 million people can't be governed democratically, especially when the average "representative" has 770,000 citizens to represent.

I think a random selection process would yield better results.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 17, 2023 05:10 PM (cMXNt)

Who would do the random selection? Dominion?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 17, 2023 05:14 PM (ynpvh)

144 Simply put, the government has far too much of our money to play with. $39 billion is a rounding error to them at this point. They are completely off the rails as to what our taxes are for.

Posted by: DJ at July 17, 2023 05:15 PM (uosPt)

145 Yup. You've been had. Snookered. Taken in.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 17, 2023 05:08 PM (ynpvh)

I heartily disagree. People who go into majors such as 'Ethnic Lesbian Poetry Studies' do not know the difference between a sine and a secant. They can't do math, which means they can't create anything really useful, which means they aren't really useful. But they just can't admit that to themselves because they have a degree. The Tyranny of the Credentialed.

Posted by: RickZ at July 17, 2023 05:15 PM (emlEe)

146 I see the "blame it on the boomers" guy has arrived.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 17, 2023 05:15 PM (ncXxy)

147 Greatest sports players ever
Jordan
Woods
Ali
Djokovic
Ruth
Gretzky
Brown
Payton
Brady
Rice
Ohtani
Montana
Chamberlain

Add any others you'd like.

Posted by: JmT at July 17, 2023 05:15 PM (18RTj)

148 I thought student loans were federalized to pay for Obamacare? So if we're forgiving the debt, who's paying for healthcare?
......

Um... err... ahh...
I think KJP could answer this one.

Posted by: wth at July 17, 2023 05:15 PM (v0R5T)

149 8 On. I was hoping for the new Willow to be like the show now about lesbians, but not so much the canceled part or rest of its trash. Mostly just more lesbians.
Posted by: Bete at July 17, 2023 04:52 PM (PYoBO)

Only feminists could imagine that when the idea of putting lesbians in movies came up the idea was to show the bickering part and not the steamy sex part.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2023 05:15 PM (eoQWY)

150 {126} The check is in the mail.

Posted by: wth at July 17, 2023 05:11 PM (v0R5T)

Heard that in Jack Burton's voice.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 17, 2023 05:15 PM (nRMeC)

151 Saw the White House Monkey Pox Czar makes almost what the President Ernst and is probably a no work job

Posted by: Skip at July 17, 2023 05:15 PM (xhxe8)

152 Hope I die before I get old.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 17, 2023 05:06 PM (Dm8we)

Too late for many of us.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia

I want to be 99 in my booby trapped house set to blow when the commies come to arrest me.

Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2023 05:16 PM (MNhXM)

153 If the gop were smart - yeah I know, I know / they’d start paying off mortgages for people. But Taylor it so that it disproportionally benefits Republican voters. But the gop doesn’t know how to, or doesn’t care to play politics. So it will never do that. In 2017 when they cut taxes?
The biggest beneficiaries where Democrat billionaires. That’s how stupid the Stupid Party truly is.

Posted by: Montec at July 17, 2023 05:16 PM (S2RnY)

154 Hold universities and colleges that charge so much for a useless thing with false advertising. They have deep pockets (endowments, etc). make them pay for the useless paper they print.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 17, 2023 05:04 PM (ynpvh)

------------------

If we must have student loans then they should be targeted to students going in certain professions in which there is a demonstrated shortage of workers.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 17, 2023 05:16 PM (cMXNt)

155 145 Yup. You've been had. Snookered. Taken in.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 17, 2023 05:08 PM (ynpvh)

I heartily disagree. People who go into majors such as 'Ethnic Lesbian Poetry Studies' do not know the difference between a sine and a secant. They can't do math, which means they can't create anything really useful, which means they aren't really useful. But they just can't admit that to themselves because they have a degree. The Tyranny of the Credentialed.

Posted by: RickZ at July 17, 2023 05:15 PM (emlEe)

They would still end up working as a waiter/waitress without all the debt.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 17, 2023 05:17 PM (ynpvh)

156 Whoops! Whoopsie!

Posted by: Wrong Hole at July 17, 2023 05:17 PM (Phd8w)

157 Perhaps a country of 335 million people can't be governed democratically, especially when the average "representative" has 770,000 citizens to represent.

Particularly when the Founders started with a 1:5000 ratio of reps to voters.

They only represent Party stewards and the top ten lobbyists/donors.

Long past due to undo the 17th Amendment.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 17, 2023 05:17 PM (p8A+W)

158 152
'I want to be 99 in my booby trapped house set to blow when the commies come to arrest me.'

I want to be watching your house then.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 17, 2023 05:17 PM (roH4R)

159 79 The saddest part is JFB will cause mass unemployment of telemarketers in India just trying to sell student loan consolidation.

for camp lejeune water, press 1
for extended car warranty, press 2
for student loan consolidation, press 3

Posted by: peasant scum anachronda at July 17, 2023 05:17 PM (sGtp+)

160 Property? How do you keep it and claim its worth in face colander times?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 17, 2023 05:11 PM (0hOvj)

Private property is the first thing communists confiscate.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 17, 2023 05:17 PM (BdMk6)

161 I want to be 99 in my booby trapped house set to blow when the commies come to arrest me.
Posted by: polynikes
___________

I was hoping to be 102, shot in the back going out the window by a jealous husband.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 17, 2023 05:18 PM (Dm8we)

162 Seen recently a blog article people were borrowing cash and expected it would all be forgiven by Sundowner

Posted by: Skip at July 17, 2023 05:18 PM (xhxe8)

163 Greatest sports players ever
Jordan
Woods
Ali
Djokovic
Ruth
Gretzky
Brown
Payton
Brady
Rice
Ohtani
Montana
Chamberlain
===
Bo Jackson
Jim Thorpe
Pele

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 17, 2023 05:18 PM (0hOvj)

164 "Debt has consumed and taken over our country. It is how the Dems stay in power: promise free stuff to the nonproductive and tax the productive in to oblivion."

The promise to help the poor is sad, but all the bailouts for billionaires is evil. We just saw that yet again with Silicon Valley Bank, full of the rich (and many ties to China) that just didn't want to lose money, so Uncle Sugar bailed them out with the working stiff's money.

But small banks are not promised those bailouts, so small banks are stressed because they can't match what BigGov pays in interest, and can't offer that "over $250K will be insured, because we are special" that the big guys can offer.

Posted by: illiniwek at July 17, 2023 05:18 PM (Cus5s)

165 Why was 435 capped? There was no limit imposed in the constitution, it was enacted at some point after the fact. Time to get riding that and vastly increase that 435. At least double it.

Posted by: Montec at July 17, 2023 05:19 PM (S2RnY)

166 OT-Just a touching story about a dying woman who gets to the see the horse she loved and raised for the last time:

https://tinyurl.com/b357hn9s

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 17, 2023 05:19 PM (Keyt1)

167 161 I want to be 99 in my booby trapped house set to blow when the commies come to arrest me.
Posted by: polynikes
___________

I was hoping to be 102, shot in the back going out the window by a jealous husband.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 17, 2023 05:18 PM (Dm8we)

In this day and age, you have to specify if that husband is gay or not.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 17, 2023 05:19 PM (ynpvh)

168 In 2017 when they cut taxes?
The biggest beneficiaries where Democrat billionaires. That’s how stupid the Stupid Party truly is.
Posted by: Montec at July 17, 2023 05:16 PM (S2RnY)

-----------------

They did limit allowable deductions for state taxes to $10,000. That was a smart move.

That reminds me, isn't the cuts to the individual tax rates set to expire soon?

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 17, 2023 05:19 PM (cMXNt)

169 Well, Trump was burning $8.3 billion every day for all of 2020. Along with that, Trump destroyed approximately $16 billion everyday in gross domestic product throughout the year.

Yeah, Biden sucks, but picking Trump for 2024 is a desire for disaster. Pick another Republican. Someone that is not a proven Chump.

Posted by: astonerii at July 17, 2023 05:19 PM (B9VxK)

170 Hey, you know what?!?! The Democrats have no respect for our laws or political institutions! None.

Maybe somebody could have, you know, clued a guy in? I mean, I went out of my way to support these criminals. No one thought to mention any of this to me?

Posted by: Jonah Goldberg at July 17, 2023 05:19 PM (ppwwy)

171 Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Don't feed the troll.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 17, 2023 05:21 PM (xyh5O)

172 Yeah, Biden sucks, but picking Trump for 2024 is a desire for disaster. Pick another Republican. Someone that is not a proven Chump.
Posted by: astonerii at July 17, 2023 05:19 PM (B9VxK)

Yeah, Mike Fucking Pence will make things right...

... For Ukraine.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at July 17, 2023 05:21 PM (AiZBA)

173 They did limit allowable deductions for state taxes to $10,000. That was a smart move.

—

It may have hurt some left coast Dems. But it didn’t help their voters. Dems specifically give their voters free shit. Reps never do that.

Posted by: Montec at July 17, 2023 05:21 PM (S2RnY)

174 Here's my student load reform. Colleges must provide them from their endowments and if the person doesn't get a job from that degree it has to eat the money. Thus vague garbage degrees would be less likely to be offered since they lose money. If the number of defaults rises above a certain percentage the college administration is fired and tenure is negated for poorly performing branches.

So if lefthanded wmymns studies pay back their loans, fine. If they can't, the subject goes under along with all the staff.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2023 05:22 PM (eoQWY)

175 2017 when they cut taxes?
The biggest beneficiaries where Democrat billionaires. That’s how stupid the Stupid Party truly is.
Posted by: Montec at July 17, 2023 05:16 PM (S2RnY)

Republican billionaires weren’t?

Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2023 05:22 PM (MNhXM)

176 https://tinyurl.com/b357hn9s

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 17, 2023 05:19 PM (Keyt1)

A lot of dust in this room all of a sudden.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 17, 2023 05:22 PM (nRMeC)

177 They would still end up working as a waiter/waitress without all the debt.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 17, 2023 05:17 PM (ynpvh)

Indeed. The "you cannot get anywhere in life without a college degree" is part of a long con.

Posted by: Hoodwinked. Bamboozled. Runamok. at July 17, 2023 05:22 PM (uoAlb)

178 Maybe the Supreme Court needs their own squadron of F-16s and a nuke or two.

After all, Biden seems to think using our F-16s to attack regular Americans is AOK.

Posted by: GnuBreed at July 17, 2023 05:22 PM (zHuJr)

179 169
Why would I listen to the advice from a proven chump about who's a proven chump?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 17, 2023 05:23 PM (roH4R)

180 https://youtu.be/Etc8qdqiR5k
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 17, 2023 05:13 PM (ynpvh)

Hey, I didn't know Vash showed up in a Deep Space Nine episode! Was she in more than one?

Ah, Vash ...

Posted by: spindrift at July 17, 2023 05:24 PM (iG1Nf)

181 As the Boomers retire, they're converting their 401ks into "safe" T Bill.

You know, loaning the government money to fund their retirement.
You know, a smart 5% safe return--that increases the money supply and holds inflation over 10%.

So that's like what, cutting the value of their retirement in half every 5 to 7 years?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 17, 2023 05:05 PM (m25NS)

------------------

I'm a Gen Xer I am seriously looking into substantially equal period payments from my 401k. I'm 53 and I'm wonder if that isn't be best way to go considering the most likely scenario is my 401k savings being evaporated by inflation.

Substantially Equal Periodic Payment (SEPP) is a method of distributing funds from an individual retirement account (IRA) or other qualified retirement plans (unless you still work for your employer) prior to the age of 59½ that avoids incurring IRS penalties for the withdrawals.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 17, 2023 05:24 PM (cMXNt)

182 Maybe the Supreme Court needs their own squadron of F-16s and a nuke or two.
Posted by: GnuBreed

Strike Force SCOTUS does have a ring to it.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 17, 2023 05:24 PM (jzzG8)

183 Thomas should challenge JFB to settle their differences over a game of tic tac toe.

Posted by: Zek at July 17, 2023 05:24 PM (5FPX4)

184 The "you cannot get anywhere in life without a college degree" is part of a long con.

Sadly, the black community has bought into this con 25138%

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 17, 2023 05:24 PM (0hOvj)

185 A lot of dust in this room all of a sudden.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 17, 2023 05:22 PM (nRMeC)

Here too

Posted by: It's me donna at July 17, 2023 05:25 PM (bs+z0)

186 It is only a matter of time before the FBI rounds up the Justices, throws them in the DC gulag, and in a year or two charges them with insurrection, seditious conspiracy, and parading.

/no joke

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 17, 2023 05:25 PM (ga8qR)

187
I used to laugh at preppers. Not laughing anymore.

Stolen elections have huge consequences. Fvck Mike Pence with the pineapple of love. Sideways.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 17, 2023 05:25 PM (enJYY)

188 Why was 435 capped? There was no limit imposed in the constitution, it was enacted at some point after the fact. Time to get riding that and vastly increase that 435. At least double it.
Posted by: Montec at July 17, 2023 05:19 PM (S2RnY)

It was capped because the number of people in it was harming the ability of the body to do anything. The House as the seat of deliberations was waning in the early 1830s and yielding to the house as the 200 or so were too many and the Senate was about 60 or so. Now the Senate also is too big and neither side does any debating or speaking on issues of any kind.

If anything we should cut the size down even more.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2023 05:26 PM (eoQWY)

189 186 It is only a matter of time before the FBI rounds up the Justices, throws them in the DC gulag, and in a year or two charges them with insurrection, seditious conspiracy, and parading.

/no joke
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 17, 2023 05:25 PM (ga8qR)

Not all of them....

Posted by: It's me donna at July 17, 2023 05:26 PM (bs+z0)

190 182 Maybe the Supreme Court needs their own squadron of F-16s and a nuke or two.
Posted by: GnuBreed

Strike Force SCOTUS does have a ring to it.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 17, 2023 05:24 PM (jzzG

What does this red button do?

Posted by: Wise Latina at July 17, 2023 05:26 PM (Phd8w)

191 178 Maybe the Supreme Court needs their own squadron of F-16s and a nuke or two.

After all, Biden seems to think using our F-16s to attack regular Americans is AOK.
Posted by: GnuBreed at July 17, 2023 05:22 PM (zHuJr)

---------------

Give Congress nukes too. Then Congress, the Executive and the Supreme Court could have a little nuclear war in DC!

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 17, 2023 05:26 PM (cMXNt)

192
Not all of them....
Posted by: It's me donna at July 17, 2023 05:26 PM (bs+z0)

The 3 tokens will remain.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 17, 2023 05:26 PM (+sD5M)

193 The only reform I am interested is burning the FBI to the ground and salting the earth.

Posted by: Mark in South Jordan Utah at July 17, 2023 05:27 PM (W9xoM)

194 193 The only reform I am interested is burning the FBI to the ground and salting the earth.
Posted by: Mark in South Jordan Utah at July 17, 2023 05:27 PM (W9xoM)

Enjoy a little stone scattering too.

Posted by: Roy at July 17, 2023 05:27 PM (Phd8w)

195 The only reform I am interested is burning the FBI to the ground and salting the earth.
Posted by: Mark in South Jordan Utah at July 17, 2023 05:27 PM (W9xoM)

Enjoy a little stone scattering too.
Posted by: Roy at July 17, 2023 05:27 PM (Phd8w)

We miss AllenG.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 17, 2023 05:28 PM (+sD5M)

196 We're less Weimar Republic and more pre revolutionary France.

Posted by: Wonkish Rogue at July 17, 2023 05:28 PM (vJRHj)

197
The 3 tokens will remain.
Posted by: Sponge

Affirmative Action Jackson for life!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 17, 2023 05:28 PM (xyh5O)

198
What does this red button do?
Posted by: Wise Latina at July 17, 2023 05:26 PM (Phd8w)

Press it and lets find out!

Posted by: The Lickalotapus at July 17, 2023 05:28 PM (+sD5M)

199 180 Hey, I didn't know Vash showed up in a Deep Space Nine episode! Was she in more than one?

Ah, Vash ...

vash the stampede?

Posted by: peasant scum anachronda at July 17, 2023 05:29 PM (sGtp+)

200 Hey, I didn't know Vash showed up in a Deep Space Nine episode! Was she in more than one?

Ah, Vash ...
Posted by: spindrift at July 17, 2023 05:24 PM (iG1Nf)

The Humanoid Typhoon? With a $$60,000,000,000 bounty on his head?

Posted by: Searching for the elusive mayfly of love? at July 17, 2023 05:29 PM (uoAlb)

201 174 Here's my student load reform. Colleges must provide them from their endowments and if the person doesn't get a job from that degree it has to eat the money. Thus vague garbage degrees would be less likely to be offered since they lose money. If the number of defaults rises above a certain percentage the college administration is fired and tenure is negated for poorly performing branches.

So if lefthanded wmymns studies pay back their loans, fine. If they can't, the subject goes under along with all the staff.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2023 05:22 PM (eoQWY)

This is a good start but you know how the left just funds all these nonprofits to "raise awareness" and agitate and all that crap. The useless degree people would probably get MORE jobs.

But I do think that loans should be funded out of the endowments and students should be able to default on them.

Posted by: Iris at July 17, 2023 05:29 PM (n3DL0)

202 WeiMerica.

Stole this from WRSA, I think.

Posted by: RI Red at July 17, 2023 05:29 PM (mp9e7)

203 I used to laugh at preppers. Not laughing anymore.

Posted by: Divide by Zero
___________

They stood there laughing
They're not laughing anymore
The walls came down
Uh huh

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 17, 2023 05:29 PM (Dm8we)

204 Is it a movie thread now?

Posted by: I gotta ask at July 17, 2023 05:30 PM (NBVIP)

205 "The committee advanced the 9% budget cut in a party line vote,"

Wow. So Democrats, the party of Defund the Police and Riot Until they Are", is totes OK with law enforcement when they ignore law and Constitution to serve their cult. Weird.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 17, 2023 05:30 PM (x7plP)

206 Is it a movie thread now?
Posted by: I gotta ask at July 17, 2023 05:30 PM (NBVIP)

Boobs.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 17, 2023 05:30 PM (+sD5M)

207 So when Ray Epps sues Fox for "defamation" will he claim that being accused of working for the FBI is per se defamatory? That no one in the "Insurrectionist" movement will hire him now?

Posted by: Zek at July 17, 2023 05:30 PM (5FPX4)

208 Fat, dumb, and broke ain't no way to live.

Posted by: Eromero at July 17, 2023 05:30 PM (Uv0D2)

209 If anything we should cut the size down even more.

There's good argument to be had on either side. Too big becomes unwieldy, but each individual legislator is more accountable to fewer people; it also makes bribery more problematic. Too few because too easy to control and bribe, but more functional and tends to weed out the really crazy extremists.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 17, 2023 05:31 PM (0hOvj)

210 Fat, dumb, and broke ain't no way to live.
Posted by: Eromero at July 17, 2023 05:30 PM (Uv0D2)

Tell me about it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 17, 2023 05:31 PM (+sD5M)

211 208 Fat, dumb, and broke ain't no way to live.
Posted by: Eromero at July 17, 2023 05:30 PM (Uv0D2)

*self-assesses*

One out of three ain't bad.

Posted by: Show me the money at July 17, 2023 05:32 PM (uoAlb)

212 Biden obviously needs to be stopped here also with Loan Forgiveness 2.0, but it' still a victory that he had to take a 90% haircut considering what he tried to do.

Had the SC not stopped him, Biden would have done an even bigger student loan bailout before the election.

Posted by: Blago at July 17, 2023 05:32 PM (FwPC5)

213 Too big becomes unwieldy, but each individual legislator is more accountable to fewer people; it also makes bribery more problematic.

Also makes hanging them all an even more time and resource intensive process.

Posted by: When in the course of human eventf at July 17, 2023 05:34 PM (uoAlb)

214 We're less Weimar Republic and more pre revolutionary France.
Posted by: Wonkish Rogue at July 17, 2023 05:28 PM (vJRHj)

We're neither. We're totally corruptocrats. I don't even know
what we are now. The Corruption has beyond Rome. It's a new level.

Posted by: JmT at July 17, 2023 05:34 PM (18RTj)

215 Has anyone filed to stop this unconstitutional loan forgiveness yet? One would think that could be expedited to SCOTUS. The article didn't indicate.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 17, 2023 05:34 PM (x7plP)

216 Only about 1 in 10 U.S. adults give high ratings to the way democracy is working in the United States or how well it represents the interests of most Americans, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

Maybe we could dissolve the Republican Party, mass-arrest evangelical church leaders, revert to one official state-run news source, arrest video bloggers in their pajamas, completely lock down the internet and lob cluster-munitions at 2/3rds of the country to preserve this precious f*cking democracy.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 17, 2023 05:34 PM (xlFab)

217 Don't feed the trolls.
-----
Fixed for the new arrivals.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at July 17, 2023 05:34 PM (krqg6)

218 The market is up on the hoax that inflation is better than expected. Idiots.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at July 17, 2023 05:35 PM (oWBc3)

219 Who would do the random selection? Dominion?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 17, 2023 05:14 PM (ynpvh)

=-------------

Ping pong balls ala the lottery on national TV.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 17, 2023 05:35 PM (cMXNt)

220 Ultimately the best way to fix politics is to have a better culture. We get people in office who reflect the culture they live in. Remember, this system only works for a virtuous people.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 17, 2023 05:35 PM (0hOvj)

221 "Biden Moves" nothing but his bowels - call for The Steward of the Stool !

Posted by: Next2Nothing at July 17, 2023 05:35 PM (tA1/w)

222 "If we'd stop spending so much damned money on missiles and war and chose to invest in our own people, we'd have healthcare, dental care, and free college, because an educated labor force betters the entire society."

This isn't totally off-base.
Posted by: SFGoth at July 17, 2023 05:04 PM (KAi1n)

At least the Military has a real function aside from oppressing its citizens. This cant' be said for almost all of the rest of government.

We need a lottery that abolishes entire departments, dumping all the workers into the productive side of the economy. Let its function, if any, be absorbed into another one. Then go into the remainder and fire 10 percent of the people there at all levels. 10 percent of janitors, paper shufflers, admin types... if your department cant' explain its job to a jury of regular people in 10 sentences, it is abolished and you are fired. No government pensions or unions. The government is all wise and never makes a mistake.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2023 05:35 PM (eoQWY)

223 re student loans.

From what I gather, he is redefining the terms in this way:
If you pay off the loan for 20 years and still have a balance, it is supposed to be forgiven (which is an insane provision, but it is what is is.)

If you do not pay it off, no forgiveness. Missed payments, etc. mean the 20 year term is extended.

Biden is giving these people credit for partial and attempted payments. That means --"Hey, just stop paying and in 20 years it will be dropped."

That means $39B is a lowball, and in reality he just gave away the whole treasury.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at July 17, 2023 05:35 PM (y80Qb)

224 Don't worry, we can keep accumulating debt like this for years. The number of years might even have two digits.

Posted by: These Fish Sticks Are Hard As Tits at July 17, 2023 05:35 PM (iOt02)

225 The Ray Epps thing is.... weird. Now that he's a target the entire MSM has stopped referring to J6 as an insurrection. It's now a 'protest.' I'd like to see how the FBI and the insurrection brigade spin that one.

So, does that mean the political prisoners being held in D.C. dungeons get out? *

* rhetorical

Of course not. It adds another 50 years to their charges.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 17, 2023 05:35 PM (Q4IgG)

226 We're less Weimar Republic and more pre revolutionary France.
Posted by: Wonkish Rogue at July 17, 2023 05:28 PM

Pre revolutionary France. The money is becoming worthless, inflation is hitting poor peoples ability to keep food on the table and the "ruling class" doesn't give a fvck about anything except keeping power for themselves.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 17, 2023 05:35 PM (ncXxy)

227 Greatest sports players ever
Jordan
Woods
Ali
Djokovic
Ruth
Gretzky
Brown
Payton
Brady
Rice
Ohtani
Montana
Chamberlain

Add any others you'd like.

Posted by: JmT at July 17, 2023 05:15 PM (18RTj)

Jim Thorpe

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 17, 2023 05:35 PM (NtVYv)

228 It was capped because the number of people in it was harming the ability of the body to do anything. The House as the seat of deliberations was waning in the early 1830s and yielding to the house as the 200 or so were too many and the Senate was about 60 or so. Now the Senate also is too big and neither side does any debating or speaking on issues of any kind.

If anything we should cut the size down even more.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2023 05:26 PM (eoQWY)

Is there evidence that speeches have changed any votes? (I have no idea how the sausage making of laws works). Because we have all these Congressional Hearings and nothing in the Deep State gets changed. Maybe each committee is 435 members and then all 100,000 Representatives vote on the bill at the end. Would that just make each seat that much easier for Soros to buy? Or would it free them from super expensive elections?

Posted by: Iris at July 17, 2023 05:36 PM (n3DL0)

229
Joe is using his double secret emergency powers, a little known codicil in the US Constitution.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 17, 2023 05:36 PM (MoZTd)

230 The market is up on the hoax that inflation is better than expected. Idiots.
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at July 17, 2023 05:35 PM (oWBc3)

Yeah, that's like saying the rpae was better than expected

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 17, 2023 05:37 PM (NtVYv)

231 This averages out to $50 k per deadbeat. Nice work if you can get it.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at July 17, 2023 05:37 PM (oWBc3)

232
Add any others you'd like.

Posted by: JmT at July 17, 2023 05:15 PM (18RTj)

If Peyton is Manning on this list, you're wrong. NOT one of the greatest in his sport ever.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 17, 2023 05:37 PM (+sD5M)

233 212 Biden obviously needs to be stopped here also with Loan Forgiveness 2.0, but it' still a victory that he had to take a 90% haircut considering what he tried to do.
Posted by: Blag

Seem my comment #223

He is using a back door to total forgiveness.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at July 17, 2023 05:37 PM (y80Qb)

234 "Everyone is in debt and no one seems to care or understand that it cannot go on much longer.

And then things will get very interesting.

Posted by: Czech Chick"

Not quite everyone. I made a huge,extended effort a few years back and got completely out of debt. I'm expecting the govt. to punish me for my efforts with punitive taxes and seizing my SS when I am eligible, if it is still a round. Assholes.

Posted by: Ripley at July 17, 2023 05:38 PM (KrJTL)

235 229
Joe is using his double secret emergency powers, a little known codicil in the US Constitution.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 17, 2023 05:36 PM (MoZTd)

Do not take Codicil if you are allergic to Codicil.

Posted by: Or any of its ingredients! Which we won't list. Proprietary info. at July 17, 2023 05:38 PM (uoAlb)

236 Only about 1 in 10 U.S. adults give high ratings to the way democracy is working in the United States or how well it represents the interests of most Americans, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

Maybe we could dissolve the Republican Party, mass-arrest evangelical church leaders, revert to one official state-run news source, arrest video bloggers in their pajamas, completely lock down the internet and lob cluster-munitions at 2/3rds of the country to preserve this precious f*cking democracy.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 17, 2023 05:34 PM (xlFab)

Democracy is not any part of the functioning or working of any part of the Federal, State, or local governments for any place in this nation aside from a handful of small towns.

We are a constitutional Republic.

This public affairs Research council is dumber than who they are polling.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2023 05:38 PM (eoQWY)

237 "If we'd stop spending so much damned money on missiles and war and chose to invest in our own people, we'd have healthcare, dental care, and free college, because an educated labor force betters the entire society."

Ask Norway how that works out

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 17, 2023 05:38 PM (0hOvj)

238 Impeachment isn't enough for this dementia-addled kid-sniffing grifter. He and his entire family need to go to prison for the rest of their natural lives.

Posted by: acethepug at July 17, 2023 05:38 PM (XOnAI)

239 From what I gather, he is redefining the terms in this way:
If you pay off the loan for 20 years and still have a balance, it is supposed to be forgiven (which is an insane provision, but it is what is is.)

Posted by: Gentlemen,
___

My guess is, he'll also lose here as it's just semantics for another bailout that never went through Congress.

But I have to concede that if I had a student loan, I would go out of my way to never pay a penny of it off. That's a big reason why so many have loans ope, because there's always hope. So many of these could have easily been paid off by these people.

If my kids go to college, even though I can pay the tuition, I plan to take out loans and play games.

I'm not going to be the sucker here.

Posted by: Blago at July 17, 2023 05:38 PM (FwPC5)

240 227 Greatest sports player ever

Clemente

Proud black man that didn't take racism kindly. Died bringing relief supplies to poor earthquake victims.

Posted by: Next2Nothing at July 17, 2023 05:38 PM (tA1/w)

241 Ultimately the best way to fix politics is to have a better culture. We get people in office who reflect the culture they live in. Remember, this system only works for a virtuous people.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 17, 2023 05:35 PM (0hOvj)

This is true, unfortunately.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 17, 2023 05:38 PM (BdMk6)

242
Add any others you'd like.

Posted by: JmT at July 17, 2023 05:15 PM (18RTj)

Sir Don Bradman
Pelé
Secretariat

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 17, 2023 05:39 PM (MoZTd)

243 Remember, this system only works for a virtuous people.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 17, 2023 05:35 PM (0hOvj)

There is no system.

There is a dying body of a system with every sh*t eating bottom feeder ripping chunks off the corpse.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 17, 2023 05:39 PM (xlFab)

244 Somebody better call Ratched

An aggressive sea otter in California is hassling locals by riding boards she stole from surfers in the lineup.

Steamer Lane is a legendary point break nestled along the rocky shores of Santa Cruz, home to swaths of experienced surfers, as well as a 5-year-old female sea otter with a growing reputation for repeatedly confronting surfers and kayakers.

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 17, 2023 05:39 PM (NtVYv)

245 Not quite everyone. I made a huge,extended effort a few years back and got completely out of debt. I'm expecting the govt. to punish me for my efforts with punitive taxes and seizing my SS when I am eligible, if it is still a round. Assholes.
Posted by: Ripley at July 17, 2023 05:38 PM (KrJTL)

I grew up in the late 70s. I have never expected to get a dime of SS and will be shocked at every loaf of bread I might get out of it.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2023 05:39 PM (eoQWY)

246 Joe's numbers with the youngsters are plummeting.

Time to give them a little more fake hope.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2023 05:39 PM (ZLI7S)

247 It's way too early to hang the Mission Accomplished sign for defeating inflation. Anybody who believes those numbers will hold along with the CPI is an idiot. I'm positioning a hedge that will look for a correction on that number and a steady drumbeat at the current level.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 17, 2023 05:39 PM (x7plP)

248 238 Impeachment isn't enough for this dementia-addled kid-sniffing grifter. He and his entire family need to go to prison for the rest of their natural lives.
Posted by: acethepug at July 17, 2023 05:38 PM (XOnAI)

They need the Captain Sternn treatment.

Posted by: Calling Hanover Fiste! at July 17, 2023 05:39 PM (uoAlb)

249 223
'That means $39B is a lowball, and in reality he just gave away the whole treasury.'
Hell. Since it's unconstitutional anyway just revoke it if we ever get power back. The only people that will care are our enemies anyway.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 17, 2023 05:40 PM (roH4R)

250 Invest in our own people. What absolute communist rubbish - that's not what the government is designed for. FFS, I need a drink.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at July 17, 2023 05:40 PM (oWBc3)

251
Ty Cobb
Honus Wagner
Maurice Richard

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 17, 2023 05:41 PM (MoZTd)

252 That means $39B is a lowball, and in reality he just gave away the whole treasury.
---
I can't find it now, but I read somewhere that one of the big business schools--Wharton, maybe--estimated the 10-year cost at $475B.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at July 17, 2023 05:41 PM (sWM8x)

253
Pretty sure the only way to guarantee a (R) victory in 2024 is to send a huge check to Joe Manchin, Cornel West, and an equally huge third party out-of-state check that has a punch hole through it and stamped 'NSF' to the RNC.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 17, 2023 05:41 PM (enJYY)

254 Greatest sports players ever

Add any others you'd like.

Posted by: JmT at July 17, 2023 05:15 PM (18RTj)

Jim Thorpe
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 17, 2023 05:35 PM (NtVYv)

Marilyn Chambers

Posted by: BifBewalski at July 17, 2023 05:41 PM (3CCua)

255 241 Ultimately the best way to fix politics is to have a better culture. We get people in office who reflect the culture they live in. Remember, this system only works for a virtuous people.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 17, 2023 05:35 PM (0hOvj)

That would be part of it. But also restoration of the checks and balances. As someone mentioned if only 50% are paying taxes and the rest have the ability to vote for free stuff for themselves, something needs to be fixed there.

Posted by: Iris at July 17, 2023 05:41 PM (n3DL0)

256 It's way too early to hang the Mission Accomplished sign for defeating inflation. Anybody who believes those numbers will hold along with the CPI is an idiot. I'm positioning a hedge that will look for a correction on that number and a steady drumbeat at the current level.
Posted by: Marcus T
____

It's sort of like when gas goes to $4 a gallon instead of $5. It' still a huge headwind for consumers, but it's no longer viewed as a crisis.

The damage though has already been done. I would say the dollar is worth about 40% less pre versus post-Covid. Imagine if everyone's 401k got cut in half and stayed there and that's pretty close to what happened in terms of our purchasing power because of all the bullshit stimulus.

Posted by: Blago at July 17, 2023 05:42 PM (FwPC5)

257
As I've seen somewhere: We punish some people for things years ago they did not do. We don't punish other people for stuff they did today.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 17, 2023 05:43 PM (MoZTd)

258 What it comes down to is that the only way to stop the chief executive is to impeach him.

And Biden knows he has done far worse without being impeached so why shouldn't he just write checks to people whose votes he wants to buy? Who will stop him? The Republicans?

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

Posted by: Thatch at July 17, 2023 05:43 PM (Ih6Ve)

259 So it is to be the Weimar Republic then.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 17, 2023 05:43 PM (rLnxi)

260 I was watching the Tucker interviews last night, and it was deeply disappointing.

- Yes, assholes, the elections are state business. BUT the feds are paying for the equipment and are responsible for the whole switch to electronic bullshit. Fine, leave it up to the states, but make them destroy all the dominion crap they feds bought them.

(I have other rants, but this one seems relevant to the above comments.)

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at July 17, 2023 05:43 PM (y80Qb)

261 Not quite everyone. I made a huge,extended effort a few years back and got completely out of debt. I'm expecting the govt. to punish me for my efforts with punitive taxes and seizing my SS when I am eligible, if it is still a round. Assholes.

Posted by: Ripley at July 17, 2023 05:38 PM

We only have the mortgage left and then we will be debt free. We have been making extra payments on it since I turned 62 and got my social security.

We didn't need the money but our plan is to turn our 30 year mortgage into a 12 year mortgage instead of spending my SS $$$ on "stuff". We have a little over 4 years left.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 17, 2023 05:43 PM (ncXxy)

262 Lia Thomas
Austin Killips

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at July 17, 2023 05:43 PM (vN+oL)

263 That would be part of it. But also restoration of the checks and balances.

Virtuous people vote for better candidates. A change of culture would necessarily reduce corruption, increase honor, and emphasize honesty, and that would make a huge difference in all areas.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 17, 2023 05:43 PM (0hOvj)

264 Ultimately the best way to fix politics is to have a better culture. We get people in office who reflect the culture they live in. Remember, this system only works for a virtuous people.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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The problem is, how do you convert heathens? I would argue its easier to win elections than convert people en masse.

Posted by: Blago at July 17, 2023 05:43 PM (FwPC5)

265 Way too early for Ohtani.

He could still throw a Johnson rod, end his career.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 17, 2023 05:44 PM (Dm8we)

266 It was capped because the number of people in it was harming the ability of the body to do anything. The House as the seat of deliberations was waning in the early 1830s and yielding to the house as the 200 or so were too many and the Senate was about 60 or so. Now the Senate also is too big and neither side does any debating or speaking on issues of any kind.

If anything we should cut the size down even more.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2023 05:26 PM (eoQWY)

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So what you are describing is the upper functional limit for a representative democracy. Maybe somewhere around 20 million people. After that, it's just bullshit.

I'll mention as and aside that the average tenure of Senators was only 4 years in the antebellum period.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 17, 2023 05:45 PM (cMXNt)

267

the cities soak up so much of this money, it dead ends into the poor, especially blacks.

Blacks are used by the govt to run the budgets of so many departments.

Pure communism.

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at July 17, 2023 05:46 PM (UCNv1)

268 Feds take over elections its good night Irene

Posted by: Skip at July 17, 2023 05:46 PM (xhxe8)

269 Has David French explained why the corrupt, senile pervert defying the SCOTUS is pro constitution?

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at July 17, 2023 05:46 PM (VdGjU)

270 The problem is, how do you convert heathens?

Its very hard to do, practically takes an act of God. Demographics helps a lot, if there are many more people who live decent lives, the few who do not tend to be crushed out of the public sphere and lose influence.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 17, 2023 05:46 PM (0hOvj)

271 "The damage though has already been done. I would say the dollar is worth about 40% less pre versus post-Covid. Imagine if everyone's 401k got cut in half and stayed there and that's pretty close to what happened in terms of our purchasing power because of all the bullshit stimulus.
Posted by: Blago at July 17, 2023 05:42 PM (FwPC5)"

You can add to that a federal debt level that is unsustainable. That Biden is going around crowing about the economy is hilarious. Ditto this idea that you don't have to cut entitlement programs. If you look at the numbers sent is now rising disproportionately to revenue, which steadily ebbs and flows with economic activity. Debt on the other hand is way off its historical cycle and rising at an unsustainable rate. A lot of people may own that, but this addled old douchebag and his party of idiots has not only made it worse, but they're driving right off the cliff.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 17, 2023 05:46 PM (x7plP)

272 254 Greatest sports players ever

Add any others you'd like.

Posted by: JmT at July 17, 2023 05:15 PM (18RTj)

Jim Thorpe
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 17, 2023 05:35 PM (NtVYv)

Marilyn Chambers
Posted by: BifBewalski at July 17, 2023 05:41 PM (3CCua)

She certainly had a long career handling balls.

Posted by: Close enough at July 17, 2023 05:47 PM (uoAlb)

273 I'm a Gen Xer I am seriously looking into substantially equal period payments from my 401k. I'm 53 and I'm wonder if that isn't be best way to go considering the most likely scenario is my 401k savings being evaporated by inflation.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 17, 2023 05:24 PM (cMXNt)

And then do what with the money?

Posted by: clutch at July 17, 2023 05:47 PM (9UmRs)

274 Is there evidence that speeches have changed any votes? (I have no idea how the sausage making of laws works). Because we have all these Congressional Hearings and nothing in the Deep State gets changed. Maybe each committee is 435 members and then all 100,000 Representatives vote on the bill at the end. Would that just make each seat that much easier for Soros to buy? Or would it free them from super expensive elections?
Posted by: Iris at July 17, 2023 05:36 PM (n3DL0)

Perhaps make being a congressman like jury duty. You get a notice in the mail that you've been randomly chosen to be your district representative for a year. Failure to appear would be subject to imprisonment.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 17, 2023 05:47 PM (BdMk6)

275 Is there evidence that speeches have changed any votes? (I have no idea how the sausage making of laws works). Because we have all these Congressional Hearings and nothing in the Deep State gets changed. Maybe each committee is 435 members and then all 100,000 Representatives vote on the bill at the end. Would that just make each seat that much easier for Soros to buy? Or would it free them from super expensive elections?
Posted by: Iris at July 17, 2023 05:36 PM (n3DL0)

If you look pre-Civil War, sure, speeches did a lot and people like Calhoun, Henry Clay, Webster, Sumner were very influential in mobilizing public thought about the big issues debated in Congress. They were rock stars.

Lincoln Douglas Debates put hours of discussion by both sides of the question out in public and were listened to by many and read by even more. Douglas' relenting to his constituents aversion on slavery extension to win election in 1858 broke his support in the Deep South and assured that a Republican would win in 1860. Lincoln's speeches there, and in later tours around the country put him in the mix for being that president.

Those days are gone, of course.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2023 05:48 PM (eoQWY)

276 So what you are describing is the upper functional limit for a representative democracy. Maybe somewhere around 20 million people. After that, it's just bullshit.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken

Ha-ro!

Posted by: Japan at July 17, 2023 05:48 PM (y80Qb)

277 Has David French explained why the corrupt, senile pervert defying the SCOTUS is pro constitution?

"It is unChristian and hateful for the right wing to focus so much on justice and fairness. They should instead agree with the president that anything that gives people what they want is a higher good, just as Jesus did in Fantasians 3:11."
--David French

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 17, 2023 05:48 PM (0hOvj)

278 The problem is, how do you convert heathens?

Its very hard to do, practically takes an act of God. Demographics helps a lot, if there are many more people who live decent lives, the few who do not tend to be crushed out of the public sphere and lose influence.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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Especially hard if you believe in predestination.

Posted by: Blago at July 17, 2023 05:49 PM (FwPC5)

279 I never had a student loan. They were issued by banks back then and as a National Merit Scholar no bank thought I needed a thing. Total value of the National Merit Scholarship was $1000 because of family financial disclosure. And so I worked.

Had it crossed your wandering minds that this would be a great moment to lawyer up, contact your legal authorities, and enjoin the government from doing this thing? No. You came here to whimper. You're going to accept it. You can't figure out what to do next and so you wallow in your woe-is-me. And then you will go back to bed and dream of somebody -- somebody else -- starting a revolution and killing them all.

You have every intention of accepting it. Just bitching.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at July 17, 2023 05:49 PM (4PZHB)

280 Lia Thomas
Austin Killips
Peyton Manning

Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 17, 2023 05:49 PM (roH4R)

281 Perhaps make being a congressman like jury duty. You get a notice in the mail that you've been randomly chosen to be your district representative for a year. Failure to appear would be subject to imprisonment.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 17, 2023 05:47 PM (BdMk6)

This would likely throw too much power to a permanent staffer group, who already have too much now. Rome had a problem with short tours ruling the province, that the governor would need to steal enough in a short term to make his career for life. However a long term governor would be captured by entrenched interests and they would get oppressive.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2023 05:50 PM (eoQWY)

282 Especially hard if you believe in predestination.
Posted by: Blago
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So most Protestants. (And I grew up Lutheran).

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 17, 2023 05:51 PM (Dm8we)

283 273 I'm a Gen Xer I am seriously looking into substantially equal period payments from my 401k. I'm 53 and I'm wonder if that isn't be best way to go considering the most likely scenario is my 401k savings being evaporated by inflation.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 17, 2023 05:24 PM (cMXNt)

And then do what with the money?
Posted by: clutch at July 17, 2023 05:47 PM (9UmRs)

Hookers and blow. Duh.

Posted by: Do I have to think of EVERYTHING at July 17, 2023 05:51 PM (uoAlb)

284 I'm a Gen Xer I am seriously looking into substantially equal period payments from my 401k. I'm 53 and I'm wonder if that isn't be best way to go considering the most likely scenario is my 401k savings being evaporated by inflation.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken
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If you think a collapse is coming, it really doesn't matter what kind of account you have it in.

I'm not a gold bug, but physical gold is probably what you want if you think the game is about over.

The problem is, gold has been dead money for a long time if we don't have a collapse.

Posted by: Blago at July 17, 2023 05:51 PM (FwPC5)

285 Ultimately the best way to fix politics is to have a better culture. We get people in office who reflect the culture they live in. Remember, this system only works for a virtuous people.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 17, 2023 05:35 PM (0hOvj)

The founders said something like that. Unfortunately we no longer have as a people the virtues that made us a great nation. Sadly, is all in the past.

Posted by: JmT at July 17, 2023 05:52 PM (18RTj)

286 You have every intention of accepting it. Just bitching.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at July 17, 2023 05:49 PM (4PZHB)

Why you bitching?

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2023 05:52 PM (eoQWY)

287 My vote: keep tabs on biden college debt giveaways, and ding college endowments to cover the costs. They are sitting on $500B.

Posted by: Tom at July 17, 2023 05:52 PM (qBwsx)

288 Burn it all down.

Nothing is real.
It's all an op.

Love your families. Squeeze your spouse. Give skritches to your fur friends.

And have a drink.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 17, 2023 05:53 PM (UMF0j)

289 And then do what with the money?

Posted by: clutch at July 17, 2023 05:47 PM

That's our problem...pay off the mortgage early and then what do we do with that money. Gold and silver are out. The spot mark up on precious metals are through the roof and that ship has sailed. We are locked out of all of the popular retirement accounts because we are over 65 and retired. Putting money in a savings account at this time is a joke as you lose 5-8% of your $$$ value every year compounded year over year.

Real estate around us has hit the stratosphere as everyone with big money from the Dallas/Fort Worth area is buying up everything around us because we have two new lakes coming in. There is literally nothing of value we can invest our money in at this point*.

*We have adequate stocks of ammo and food.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 17, 2023 05:53 PM (ncXxy)

290 Especially hard if you believe in predestination.

Doesn't change anything. Believing God saves people through grace alone doesn't change what we do; none of us know who God has called or plans to.

Probably what you mean is the sovereignty of God, wherein there is not even one rogue molecule outside God's sovereign power, but even then, that doesn't change anything we do, because again we don't know what God plans or has in mind for the future. We only know what is right to do and what is wrong.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 17, 2023 05:53 PM (0hOvj)

291 "I only wish college was free for anyone who wants to go and can make their grades. It would help the country to have a much smarter population!"
- DU dummy

ROFLMAO

"...can make their grades." If college is free, EVERYONE will make or be given grades that will keep them enrolled for at least 4 years. To keep the Federal funding spice flowing, and flowing, and flowing, in ever-increasing quantities.

"Help the country have a much smarter population!" How, when everyone can party all day and all of the night on the FedGov dime for 4 years and get a diploma?

Posted by: Gref at July 17, 2023 05:53 PM (AMIL/)

292 I'm not a gold bug, but physical gold is probably what you want if you think the game is about over.

The problem is, gold has been dead money for a long time if we don't have a collapse.
Posted by: Blago at July 17, 2023 05:51 PM (FwPC5)

The country has already made holding gold illegal once, no reason it couldn't do it again.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2023 05:53 PM (eoQWY)

293 The damage though has already been done. I would say the dollar is worth about 40% less pre versus post-Covid. Imagine if everyone's 401k got cut in half and stayed there and that's pretty close to what happened in terms of our purchasing power because of all the bullshit stimulus.
Posted by: Blago at July 17, 2023 05:42 PM (FwPC5)

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Agree.

Also food prices and housing still haven't come down and are still inflating. The only reduction recently has been a slight reduction in gas prices from the weakening economy which really isn't a lowering of inflation but rather prices.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 17, 2023 05:54 PM (cMXNt)

294
I got a pile of food, you got a gold bar and are starving. Deal? No thanks.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 17, 2023 05:54 PM (enJYY)

295 Lia Thomas
Austin Killips
Peyton Manning
Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 17, 2023 05:49 PM (roH4R)

What are three thinks. I'll take faggots for $200 Alex.

- Pride Month Jepardy Candidate

Posted by: BifBewalski at July 17, 2023 05:54 PM (3CCua)

296 The founders said something like that. Unfortunately we no longer have as a people the virtues that made us a great nation. Sadly, is all in the past.

Posted by: JmT
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The thing is, we had some pretty bad people in politics even a long time ago when we were all on the same page culturally.

A president's kid getting a bribe is probably not as bad as raping a slave.

Posted by: Blago at July 17, 2023 05:54 PM (FwPC5)

297 The country has already made holding gold illegal once, no reason it couldn't do it again.

FDR did it a while but the courts threw that out. Not saying it couldn't be done again, just a bit harder now.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 17, 2023 05:55 PM (0hOvj)

298 "Help the country have a much smarter population!" How, when everyone can party all day and all of the night on the FedGov dime for 4 years and get a diploma?
Posted by: Gref at July 17, 2023 05:53 PM (AMIL/)

I'll take the partyers over the current dour, Jacobin political operators peddling a false religion and persecuting anyone that gets in their way that colleges produce now.

I have no confidence in a college degree any more, even in STEM.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2023 05:55 PM (eoQWY)

299 The country has already made holding gold illegal once, no reason it couldn't do it again.
Posted by: Oldcat

But they didn't dare enforce confiscation.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at July 17, 2023 05:56 PM (y80Qb)

300 I think Trump was our last chance at saving the republic. This is what it is like to live in a dictatorship, and without true elections and moral representatives we are boned.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 17, 2023 05:56 PM (8GBH4)

301 The problem with the "inflation is less" shout, which is technically accurate, is that inflation is still very high and it still is making things cost a lot more. So less high is still high, and does not help people much.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 17, 2023 05:56 PM (0hOvj)

302 If you think a collapse is coming, it really doesn't matter what kind of account you have it in.

I'm not a gold bug, but physical gold is probably what you want if you think the game is about over.

The problem is, gold has been dead money for a long time if we don't have a collapse.
Posted by: Blago at July 17, 2023 05:51 PM (FwPC5)

Plus, there's a chance the government will pull an FDR on gold and make it illegal to possess.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 17, 2023 05:57 PM (BdMk6)

303 I think Trump was our last chance at saving the republic.

Trump was a snag in the line that slowed the descent slightly.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 17, 2023 05:57 PM (0hOvj)

304 What are three twinks ~~thinks~~. I'll take faggots for $200 Alex.

- Pride Month Jepardy Candidate

Eff off autocucomber.

Posted by: BifBewalski at July 17, 2023 05:57 PM (3CCua)

305 The country has already made holding gold illegal once, no reason it couldn't do it again.

____

Obviously that's when you just embrace being an outlaw anyway.

But you can hide an absurd amount of money in a small package with gold. Something the size of a loaf of bread would be worth $1 million+

Posted by: Blago at July 17, 2023 05:57 PM (FwPC5)

306 Think about it. Federal debt is now almost 4% of GDP. That's going to be accelerating in the future. Meanwhile revenue is coming in above projections and within historical norms which rise and fall proportionately to GDP. Meanwhile entitlement programs are rising twice as fast as revenue. You can't raise taxes to solve this issue. You have a spending problem that's only going to be solved by lowering debt. Period.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 17, 2023 05:58 PM (x7plP)

307 The biggest beneficiaries where Democrat billionaires. That’s how stupid the Stupid Party truly is.
Posted by: Montec at July 17, 2023 05:16 PM (S2RnY)

Republican billionaires weren’t?
Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2

Lots more d billionaires than R billionaires. That’s what I meant.

Posted by: Montec at July 17, 2023 05:59 PM (Ld8nt)

308 Gold and silver are out. The spot mark up on precious metals are through the roof and that ship has sailed.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 17, 2023 05:53 PM (ncXxy)

When the currency collapses, those premiums on metals are insignificant.

Posted by: clutch at July 17, 2023 05:59 PM (9UmRs)

309 Well of COURSE you're going to start buying younger people's votes with free gummit money. After all, those folks relying on Social Security are going to die a whole lot sooner than fresh college graduates, and you gotta lock down those votes for the next few decades!

Posted by: Octochicken at July 17, 2023 05:59 PM (oCS0o)

310 Biden bucks, it's just like money, but worth less !

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 17, 2023 05:59 PM (NtVYv)

311 I got a pile of food, you got a gold bar and are starving. Deal? No thanks.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 17, 2023 05:54 PM (enJYY)

That would be a barter transaction, not gold.

Posted by: clutch at July 17, 2023 06:01 PM (9UmRs)

312 I'm a Gen Xer I am seriously looking into substantially equal period payments from my 401k. I'm 53 and I'm wonder if that isn't be best way to go considering the most likely scenario is my 401k savings being evaporated by inflation.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 17, 2023 05:24 PM (cMXNt)

And then do what with the money?
Posted by: clutch at July 17, 2023 05:47 PM (9UmRs)

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I'd probably have enough for all recurring monthly expenses: mortgage, electricity, network, cell phones, etc.

I'd probably semi-retire or travel more. I could potentially take out $24k a year.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 17, 2023 06:01 PM (cMXNt)

313
*We have adequate stocks of ammo and food.
Posted by: Mister Scott

There was some discussion in Weasel's thread yesterday.
Do you know anyone who has, taken care of their guns, and lost money on them?

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 17, 2023 06:01 PM (xyh5O)

314 > Steamer Lane is a legendary point break nestled along the rocky shores of Santa Cruz, home to swaths of experienced surfers, as well as a 5-year-old female sea otter with a growing reputation for repeatedly confronting surfers and kayakers.
___________

I know that biotch.

Posted by: Surfer Dude on Ludes at July 17, 2023 06:02 PM (Q4IgG)

315 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 17, 2023 06:03 PM (+sD5M)

316 Here is how inflation is going.

McDonald’s has the buy a McChicken get one for $1 deal. It’s been there for years. And I’m a sucker for those things and a bigger sucker for the $1 deal.

Used to be $1.99 for the first one. Then slowly started going up to $2.29 then $2.59. Recently it was increased again to $3.09. That’s 50% in maybe 2 years and about 20% in less than a year.

But yeah man inflation is like totally under control.

Posted by: Montec at July 17, 2023 06:04 PM (Ld8nt)

317
Plus, there's a chance the government will pull an FDR on gold and make it illegal to possess.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 17, 2023 05:57 PM

I could see pre-WW2 Jews using gold to bribe their way out of Germany (and I have out-laws who survived by doing just that). But I can't see a post apocalypse USA with border guards keeping people in. Food and water. Electricity. Heat.

Maybe Bill Gates will want your gold bars, but all he's gonna give you is Windows 12 beta.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 17, 2023 06:04 PM (enJYY)

318 So it is to be the Weimar Republic then.
Posted by: Dave in Fla

Needs more jazz.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 17, 2023 06:08 PM (ga8qR)

319 301 The problem with the "inflation is less" shout, which is technically accurate, is that inflation is still very high and it still is making things cost a lot more. So less high is still high, and does not help people much.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 17, 2023 05:56 PM (0hOvj)

The Junta wants the LIVs to believe that low inflation, solely due to Bidenomics, magically makes goods cheaper than they were last month or six months ago or at some past date that had 6-8 percent inflation! Yay! Vote for Joe! Especially after we lie and tell you your wages increased at a faster rate than inflation since Joe became dictator!

It's always smoke and mirrors from the left.

Posted by: Gref at July 17, 2023 06:09 PM (AMIL/)

320 "They're just going to keep pushing slight variations of previous initiatives, claiming each time that the Supreme Court didn't invalidate this particular attempt to spend without Congressional authorization."

If this specific effort is actually as-described (I know, I know...), then this would be legit. Even though you're not wrong on how they're just ignoring SCOTUS as they feel like.

Cliff notes summary: The feds told certain graduates, "hey, go work in shit public jobs for 10 years and we'll forgive your loan balance after 10 years' worth of qualifying payments". Then they nationalized the loans in 2009, contracted cronies to service them, and the cronies proceeded to "whoops! whoopsie!" fail to properly track the payments, AND failed to correct errors while fleecing borrowers.

The rejection rate for borrowers who submitted their paperwork after a decade-plus of teaching the the ghetto, etc, was hovering around 99%. It's absolutely disgusting. And also intentional, as they've "broken" educational lending post-2009 to justify further interventions and to create a wedge issue. Note they didn't seek to fix this first - they WANT you to complain about it.

Posted by: somedood at July 17, 2023 06:10 PM (BF5+T)

321 The Dems have basically teed up outrage vs. legit reforms by sending multiple trial balloons of bullshit out first to rile people up. Conservatives can't keep up and aren't paying close attention to what is actually going on and to what the real purpose of a particular prog maneuver is.

Posted by: somedood at July 17, 2023 06:12 PM (BF5+T)

322 >>> I think Trump was our last chance at saving the republic.

Too late - we deep into the plunder phase now.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 17, 2023 06:17 PM (ga8qR)

323 308: No. Gold and silver solve EVERYTHING. If you have physical gold and silver, YOU WILL NEVER DIE.

Besides, the banks WILL FAIL THIS TIME, guys.

Posted by: Every ad for precious metals investment ever at July 17, 2023 06:34 PM (LwmLF)

324 255: I think I can be tried too. That might help.

Posted by: Federalism at July 17, 2023 06:36 PM (LwmLF)

325 Biden says, "Hold my Bud Light."

(fixed that for you...)

Posted by: formerly known as at July 17, 2023 06:52 PM (OqSkY)

326 Voter ID laws began in 1950 as a way to limit black voters

Posted by: Paul at July 17, 2023 06:58 PM (mn/HW)

327 'Yeah, Mike Fucking Pence will make things right...

... For Ukraine.
Posted by: Napoleon XIV at July 17, 2023 05:21 PM (AiZBA)'

There several more choices. Mike Pence is a prior Trump employee, pretty much anyone directly associated with Trump is trash.

Posted by: astonerii at July 17, 2023 07:17 PM (B9VxK)

328 How to stop them once they've given $50k to teachers, more to administrators, and up to $350K to physicians through the Public Service Program & associated loan forgiveness?

There were 'professionals' calling into local radio shows complaining their public service counterparts were going to Europe and having their kitchens remodeled wuth big bucks & they want theirs, too. No more will grandma & Uncle Bob not be reimbursed for helping family with tuition.

How did O& Joe get away encouraging /demanding school loans be through the government & then forgiving them Carte Blanche? They played us. Thanks, again, Congress.

If this is to be our lives, no longer a system of checks and balances anywhere, no Send a of fairness, and losing what we worked so hard for, we don't need hundreds & hundreds of Congressional members & their tens of thousands staff members, MO only.

Posted by: L - Practice makes perfect. They know the enemy. at July 17, 2023 07:38 PM (GshMh)

329 Sense of fairness

Posted by: L - Practice makes perfect. They know the enemy. at July 17, 2023 07:40 PM (GshMh)

330 Under the Dark Brandon China which was our #1 trading partner has fallen to #3 behind Mexico and canada.
Looks like those "bribes" to o the Bidens didn't help

Posted by: Paul at July 17, 2023 08:14 PM (mn/HW)

331 Lol
Those are the whistleblowers who told us about the 27 tapes that somehow never appeared

Posted by: Paul at July 17, 2023 08:17 PM (mn/HW)

332 Just when you think Paul couldn't get more ignorant and stupid he goes ahead and tops himself

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 17, 2023 11:57 PM (0hOvj)

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