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Another major Biden failure.

 

Biden acts like he thinks trump fucking won in 2020 too

 

Biden should do student loan forgiveness for real this time. Just cancel all of it and delete all the records. It's not like he can go to prison or anything.

Trump wants to get rid of the Department of Ed anyway, just one last thing he has to worry about there.

 

Trump did win in 2020 and so his election this time is an unconstitutional third term. JFK Jr. is going to appear on inauguration day to oust him and install Kamala as the rightful 47th president.

At least that's what I heard from the resistance wine moms coming out of pilates.

 

the very least the fucking guy could do is literally anything & everything he has time for before trump takes over, even if some of it ultimately gets overturned, some of it will get thru & stick

plus he should consider that trump has no principles and just wants everyone to like him, so there is the chance that if some of what Biden hypothetically pushes thru right now is resoundingly popular trump just tries to take credit for it as opposed to overturning it

anyone who truly thought democracy was on the line this time would be acting this way

 

RCV failed almost everywhere (did Alaska get called yet?) it was on the ballot last Tuesday. Dems and GOP will team up to scare voters into thinking it’s bad. Here in CO they kept telling people it would allow rich people to buy their way into elections (as if it doesn’t already happen??) and that the jungle primary system is flawed (even though that’s what makes RCV truly work!!).

 

well fuck me

starting to think both sides here might be bad

 

can Biden fix my car I dropped it off to fix the tire and they came back with a thousand dollars worth of repairs it needs lmao

 

listening to me materially improves all your lives

 

I do love all the takes that I agree with that are like, Biden should do all the things he is ideologically against doing!!! I agree!

 

Has it been talked about with if he gets rid of Department of Ed what happens to the loans? I think in Project 2025 it talks about moving them to the Treasury Department but not sure how the fuck all that will work.

 

I don’t think anyone knows anything about how any of this would work tbh

 

Mostly what removing the Department of Ed will do is move its functions to other departments, not eliminate those functions. Eliminating those functions would require congress to repeal laws or pass new laws removing those functions, which probably won't happen.

In the meantime, it just creates a mess for the people and schools that rely on those services and functions and costs the federal government a lot more money cleaning up the mess they made. Or, as it's otherwise known in politics, "fiscal responsibility".

 

Oh ok a lot of the fear around DOE going away for people I was seeing was around parents of special needs kids and SpedEd teachers worried about DOE's funding to the program's that help those kids getting cut.

 

That funding comes from Congress, through the IDEA Act, and issues grants to state and local education authorities. The Dept of Ed can't unilaterally decide not to administer that funding and if it didn't exist, Congress would likely be forced to administer the funding in some other fashion.

 

Lol apparently she’s a GOP hill staffer and worked for George Santos:

 

I also think the department was created by Congress so would have to be eliminated by Congress. And even moving its functions to other agencies would likely require affirmative acts of Congress because most of the laws specifically authorize the Department of Ed to administer them.

Basically, Trump can't just snap his fingers and eliminate the department. And even eliminating it wouldn't do much to substantively affect the programs it administers, it would just create a lot of chaos and confusion as those functions are moved to other departments (which would likely happen over a multi-year phase-out period).

 

I don't think children should be making permanent decisions about their bodies. Some effects of puberty blockers are non-reversible.

 

Yeah and during that confusion you’d almost definitely have an interruption of services provided, which would obviously be a disaster to kids with special needs