I think for this particular scenario, “pulling a Bugs Bunny” and “honey-trapping” should be combined into “Bunny trapping”, because for some reason the thought of these guys swooning Elmer Fudd-style over a woman who’s going to turn them over to the FBI cracks me up so hard.

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Schools and health care. Small local schools in my state are closing left and right, because it’s too expensive to have classes with, literally, 5 kids in an entire grade. So they are consolidating schools and bussing these kids great distances.

If they don’t want to actually lead or govern, they should shut the fuck up and follow. Or they can keep up with this shit until 2010 happens again.

To start, in modern America, a state with roughly 500,000 people should not have the same representation as a state with roughly 40,000,000. Think about the amount of influence that the average WY voter has over the Senate compared to that of the average CA voter. The Senate has always been used to protect the…

American “democracy” at its finest. With all due respect to the people of that fine state, some dude from Kentucky, who’s not the president (and who’s been at his job for far too long), should NEVER wield this much power. The filibuster needs to go. Term limits need to be added.

I’d be down for a series about an adult Harry Potter that’s struggling with his divorce from Ginny (and borderline alcoholism) while wrecking shop as a “working outside the lines” Auror.

LOL I see what you’re getting at but I suspect Trump will have a much different path than W. As pleasurable as it has been the past few weeks to not hear or see Dipshit’s fat ugly face, I imagine it has been driving him out of his fucking mind to be silenced like that, and that mental diarrhea has been building up to…

At this point, I’m pretty sure it’s safe to use this headline as a fill in the blank and be technically correct.

Yep. As much joy as this situation produces now, you can be sure it’s only a temporary setback. Would be great though if McEnany wound up working as a paralegal for a storefront ambulance chaser somewhere in desert dust of Oklahoma.

Call me a cynic, but I fully expect these assholes to all land on their feet eventually, because the world is unfair and annoyingly kind to mediocre white people.

The majority of what is being cancelled amounts to basically the interest. Most people have paid their tuition within a handful of years but end up fighting the debt for decades. This would be a far more valuable economic stimulus than a couple one time checks.

Just finished paying off all my loans this year 15 years removed from my graduation. I have 3 reasons why I’m in favor of cancelling debt. First is that if this helps other ordinary people who are struggling to pay bills, because I’ve definitely been there, then I consider that a good thing. I don’t wish this massive…

I worked through and paid off debt for both a BA and an MBA over the last decade and a half. The way I see it, getting some of this debt cleared for a huge lump of people will provide a major boost to the overall economy, which benefits us all in the end.

I look at it like this.

When social security was enacted in 1935, the elderly recipients who received aid didn’t pay a single dime into the program but everyone else lost income through the taxation to pay for it. Was that fair? No. But letting the elderly population languish in extreme poverty wasn’t good either. 

I have mixed feelings on this as well. I’m more for something like public service loan forgiveness getting expanded to others. Get on income based repayment, pay for 10 years, at that point debt is gone. You have some responsibility, but not a debilitating debt that you will never pay off.

Bingo bango. Nearly all of mine is paid off after years of busting my ass but I’ll also be the first to admit that the entire system is pretty goddamn predatory and have no problem with people getting much needed help.

To me denying future students debt cancellation because we had to work through it is the same kind of thinking that allows things like hazing rituals to continue: We had to suffer, so everyone else should as well.  Sure, it’s annoying that we missed or partly missed the chance (I’m half way through my student debt),…

The biggest problem with student debt forgiveness, in my opinion, is it does absolutely nothing to address the cost of higher education and what caused this in the first place.