• ditty@lemm.ee
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    24 days ago

    Lmao the autopen issue is just that Biden used an electronic signature, so now the pardons are invalidated? Guess I don’t own my house then, I’m not an organ donor, my student loans should be invalidated, my medical procedures were never authorized, etc…

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        24 days ago

        Republicans canceling student loans would almost be cool but they’d probably find a way to destroy universities in the process if they could

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            That would indeed destroy them in the process.

            They sell the education, the loan is their payment. If the loan was rescinded out of the schools pockets it would instantly go bankrupt for offering services for negative income.

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          Probably wouldn’t do that, capitalists are heavily invested in Student Loan Asset-Backed Securities (SLABS), basically the same as '08’s famous Mortgage Backed Securities but backed by student loans instead of mortgages. Whatever they would do in regards to student loans would be much more malicious against those who owe them

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      Once he takes away the food stamps from his gravy seals (or similarly disenfranchises folks with nothing left to lose), hell accidentally unleash the crazies on himself.

      West Virginians are already fuming with Trump’s lack of help with their current floods (oddly missing from the news cycles). The sentiment among WV trump voters is being echoed in interviews statewide, “We showed up for him. He’d better show up for us soon.”

      West Virginians all unanimously reporting “We need to fund FEMA more.”

      This process will be slow, but what’s happening in WV right now looks like a potential sleeper flashpoint for the erosion of his base.

      I think it’s missing from news cycles to limit the spread of this damage to Trump’s base’s support for MAGA.

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        He’ll spin it that Biden did it in league with deep state drag queens and also Canada.

        And his base will accept it because they’re simple folk.

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          Red state captive here. The trumpanzees don’t give a shit. The individual feds that got axed by Trump are pretty upset, but the ones that weren’t directly targeted still just play damage control for the fucker any time you bring it up.

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    24 days ago

    If this gives precedents to one presidency removing pardons of another then hopefully Arpaio lives long enough to die in prison.

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    And there it is, another giant flag signaling they don’t intend to ever give up the presidency. Otherwise any sane president would instantly invalidate everything trump did and send him to jail along with most of the administration