‘I will not make that happen’: Biden declines Democrats’ call to cancel $50K in student debt

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden said Tuesday that he would not eliminate $50,000 in student debt, shooting down a proposal that prominent Democrats introduced this month, but that he is open to some level of loan forgiveness.

“I will not make that happen,” Biden said at a CNN town hall in Milwaukee, his first event outside Washington since he took office, in response to an audience member who called on him to commit to cancel at least $50,000 in debt.

Biden, listing off the six-figure debts he said his children incurred attending private universities, said that he understood the burden of the student loan crisis but that he did not believe he could eliminate $50,000 on his own without congressional action.

And if they do any of this, they’ll pretend not to understand the anger of the voters who already paid off their loans. They will call the 2022 midterms “Black November.” And then that will be called “racist.”


 

It’s Getting Harder for Hallmark to Avoid Politics

There’s a large fan base of people who love to watch Hallmark movies, maybe a little ironically, or maybe with sincerity, or maybe sometimes a little bit of both. Tressie McMillan Cottom is one of them. She’s a sociologist who mostly studies serious stuff, but when it comes to Hallmark movies, she has a weak spot.

“Nobody ever asks me about something like Hallmark. I do this all day. All they ever want me to come and talk about is the end of the world. I’m like, ‘I would really much rather talk about Hallmark,’ ” Cottom says. “One of the things that Hallmark does give me is I get to turn my brain off.”

Hallmark has made hundreds of these movies, and it cranks out a few dozen more each holiday season. With every passing year, the Hallmark Movie Universe, as Cottom calls it, seems to get more cultural traction. It’s become the focus of adoring tweets and blog posts and podcasts. “Like every good cult, does anybody know when they signed up for the cult? Just one day, you live on the compound,” she says.

Too. Fucking. Bad. Welcome to the WokeMachine.


 

I really like New York City. Honestly. Food, nightlife, cabs. But shit like this makes it real hard, Ringo.


 

Look here Marsha, I’m not sayin’ this just to be nasty
I sincerely want to fuck the taste out of your mouth
Can you relate?