#and like idk I think it's in poor taste to be bitching about Biden and student loans when Trump is freezing FASFA

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I'm not going to go in on all your points here but I want to talk about the student loans thing quick. Basically, Biden's stance on the student loan forgiveness was about the Public Student Loan Forgiveness program (PSLF) which is a program where if you do public service for 10 years and make all payments on time for all 10 years then you can have your qualifying loans forgiven.

This program was around before Trump and, when Trump got into office, people who were following the requirements of the PSLF and were at their 10 years to get their loans forgiven were suddenly getting denied in huge numbers. It was an extremely low percentage of people who were getting approved for their student loans to be forgiven. And, while they were waiting to be denied, they still had to pay their student loans. And then they would get denied. So lots of people were wasting 10+ years and a lot more money for these student loans to be forgiven.

So Biden's student loan promise wasn't about forgiving everyone's student loans en masse. It was actually about the PSLF and the people who were being denied when they followed every step under Trump and still had to stay at a lower income job while paying these loans off in the hope that they could get approved for their loans to be forgiven. When Biden got into office the number of approvals skyrocketed. So, a lot of student loans did get forgiven, just not in the way you knew because you didn't know the exact details of the issue that he was campaigning for.

And that's with all of his points. Biden actually is one of our most progressive presidents who did accomplish a lot of things. You just don't read the correct news sources.

im gonna be honest it's kind of hard to watch all the shit trump and his admin are pulling without getting even madder at biden for doing jack shit about his campaign promises. student loans, minimum wage, reproductive rights... and i know some picrew icon who voted for the first time last year is already rushing to the reblog button to write a YA protagonist monologue about how those would have been/were blocked by congress/the senate/inclement weather/etc. but the thing is that at this point i literally do not care about "established legal and political processes" and "working within the system", i just want my views enacted into law. which would be childish if it wasn't the exact strategy that has been working unbelievably well for republicans for the last decade!

i want to grab a democrat career politician by the shoulders and scream in their face: do something good for once in your god damn life! fuck "checks and balances", fuck "legal precedent", just keep packing the courts and gerrymandering districts and throwing shit at the wall until something sticks! fucking fight back god dammit! where's your dignity? your rage? your humanity? you're playing checkers against someone eating your pieces while adding their own to the board and you're trying to give an impassioned speech about how "they go low we go high" while they simultaneously piss on you and shoot your dog!