You overestimate the intelligence of the American voter. Psychologically, I think that's very powerful.

That's valid. But the voters seeing President Harris running against Former President Trump Carries much more weight.

I hadn't thought of that, but I still think they are ahead as President Harris.

Trumps team requesting Biden drop out is a tactical error. If he does, she is now the president, and acting as such. Running against The vp and running against the president acting in that capacity are vastly different.

The fact that Biden didn't resign, is a deliberate and vindictive choice.

Yes. I'm suggesting exactly that it's ludicrous. Believing it is bordering on psychosis.

And again, believing the fbi had anything to do with this and the shooter didn't act alone is more frighteningly dumb than flat earthers.

#125 I am at a loss for words. You actually believe he intentionally killed a supporter and injured more, by staging an attempt.

Please tell me you are kidding.

It's literally the stupidest possible thing any conspiracy theory moron could believe. It's actually dumber than flat earthers.

There is a 0% chance that happened.

No person within a million miles of sanity would ever voluntarily allow someone to shoot a rifle at them with intent of them nicking their ear. The thought of it is so utterly stupid, as to be laughable.

Anyone that believes even remotely that he volunteered for this is a lost cause of stupidity and insanity.

The concussive wave being pushed by a bullet would have rocked his whole head to the side of it has been what struck him, and very like removed much more of his ear. I firmly believe it was shards from the teleprompter, but ... .

I'm also not privy to the evidence being researched and analyzed. I'll wait for the final report before I am convinced either way definitively.

Also: anyone that believes this was staged is the absolute height of "pizza place pedo basement" lineage. Maybe even worse.

I just hope he pardons anyone and everyone that Trump might possibly be aggrieved with. That way there is no scorched earth if he wins and maybe it doesn't get totally bonkers.

I honestly believe Michelle Obama would wipe the floor with him.

Not resigning and handing over power to Kamala is a very specific choice. If he had, there is a world of difference between someone that has been the president these last 100 days before the election, and the vp running.

That had to be purposeful. And to me it feels spiteful.

Bull. The system, completely screwed up by the government ... . Caused a problem. Since they caused it, they have to fix it.

It's really simple

All forgiving student loan debt did, was have the government take less money from some people. Does that sound familiar? It should. It's a tax break in another form.

Remember when republicans believed the government should take less money from people? I do.

Why is it always so great to blame the victim?

Blame the system that is set up intentionally to force people into unimaginable debt. It shouldn't be designed this way to be worse after ten years.

Completely agree. I will never understand how people look at Western Europe who have better marks than we do in: education, happiness, healthcare, stress, retirement, worker protections, vacation days, economic mobility (getting yourself out of poverty) and think:

"That sucks! I don't want that!"

America is literally in the middle of the pack or LOWER in every one of those categories. The one that surprises most people is that we're not even close to the most economically mobile country.

We're only number 1 in gun deaths, medical induced bankruptcy , and per capita prison population. Yet somehow are #1! Western Europe sucks!!!

Everyone thinks we are taxed lower than Western Europe. And we just aren't. If you include income, property, state, road and use, gasoline, fica ... . AND what we pay per year for our own healthcare, we pay almost exactly as much as Western Europe does in taxes.

But we get nothing in return except corruption. Western Europe gets something in return for their taxes so they don't stress about them as much. They pay them without a thought and move on.

This country doesn't have the stomach for universal healthcare. Because god forbid a poor person gets care that the collective paid for. Something that is just seen as a right in Western Europe and no one bats an eye at paying to taxes to ensure that others worse off from them don't have to choose between ramen noodles and getting their cancer cured.

It's cruel, evil and insane. But, it also means we will never have the stomach for unscrewing higher education.

97. I agree. I like the European model. Much better. Be super selective on who goes to college, have the state pay most of it, and pump out good, hard working kids. The rest? They don't feel regret for not going because college indent seen as the be all and end all of working. Trades are huge and highly encouraged and rewarded. I was shocked when I was in Ireland and a family we met said the Trinity college, one of the best learning institutions in the planet costs an Irish student 5k a year including books, fees, and tuition.

What we've done is take a bad way of doing things and implement it in the worst possible way.

Worse. I saw several interviews where people had been paying on time every month for years ... . And still owed more than they borrowed. Again. Insane, and the system is a complete failure.

I saw a story about student loan debt a year ago. A kid at nyu was getting an art history degree. He was 270k in debt already. He was about to graduate and "couldn't find a job and didn't know what to do".

Is he stupid? Yes. But the system also dramatically failed him.

Art history and the like are worthy pursuits. But we shouldn't be encouraging taking on 300k In debt at NYU (the most expensive school in the country) to get degrees like that.
If you want to secure grants and charities set up for the arts? No problem. But encouraging mountains of debt for a degree that will be largely useless, it's a losing proposition of "hard work poverty". Living paycheck to paycheck no saving to retire and just doing little else but paying it back.

I actually don't know about the forgiveness being aimed at those that never graduated. I never read that. What I did read is: to be eligible to MUST have repaid at least the amount borrowed, and made in time payments for ten years.

In other words, no one, not the taxpayer, not the banks, and not the government lost a single dime. And no one wrote a check to "pay off" anyone's debt. Future payments were forgiven. So no money needed to change hands.

That's a very important distinction.

In the end, if you didn't get your degree and had debt forgiven, under the above circumstances i have no issues with it, and don't understand why anyone would.

Currently with no discharge in bankruptcy, and federal backing ... it is impossible for banks to lose money. That incentivizes every investing fees and bloat.

If you don't think republicans are working hard to keep that status quo so banks make endless money, I don't know how to fix your stupidity.

Democrats continue to fight for the status q because it continues to look good on paper how many "minorities" are enrolling in college.

I'm but saying minority enrollment is a bad thing. It absolutely isn't. But, the way we go about it is the height of stupidity. Allowing anyone to saddle themselves with 100k in debt for mostly worthless degree in a major no one gives a crap about and calling it a win, is what's happening. " Statistics be damned, degrees for everyone!" Is the Democrat mantra, while the Republican mantra is "everyone gets paid! ... . Except of course the degree recipient ... . But who cares about them! Capitalism hell yeah!"

We need to be rewarding the hard sciences, management, busing and other high paying in demand jobs and letting charities and rich uncles help pile get degrees in areas with low rates of return.

One of the things I find unreal, is that to be s as teacher, it's a requirement in many places to have a masters degree, which represents tens of thousands in additional dollars spent on education ... .. for a job that on average, pays 50-60k a year. It's crazy.

Middle management security jobs at many companies pay 60-70k and require advanced degrees. We are requiring people leave their future with massive debt in the hopes of return, but mostly that return isn't there.

#59 very specifically, I said the loans should be based on likelihood of future earnings? Not familial assets. If you want to major in chemical engineering and borrow 70k to do it, your are very likely to be able to pay it back. Even if your family has a negative net worth.

Conversely, if you want to major in eastern Serbian architecture with a minor in women's studies ... good luck repaying any loan amount. Your family income should have no bearing.

That's how you normalize to hell the poor. It encourage them into careers with actual earning potential.

This country has done everything wrong with college. We've enacted a system where the government has guaranteed repayment with no discharge in bankruptcy. We've encouraged college for every profession regardless of whether or not it's needed. This created an environment rewarding unlimited growth. And not just in academics, but unlimited growth in administration too help provide more and more financial aid to students.

The answer is simple. Means test financial aid on future ability to repay. Not what your parents made last year, but what your finances are likely to repay. Yes this will decimate the financial aid available to a whole slew of the arts. While the arts are absolutely important, aid for those should be done through charities set up to fund them. They shouldn't be funded by massive loans unlikely to be repaid. Encourage the hard, physical sciences, business, law, medicine, nursing, all avenues that have a realistic expectation of income and repaying the loan.

Then ... . Make student loans discardable in bankruptcy, and end federal backing. Blacksher should take as hard a look at student loans as they do any other loan.

Add the money pool dries up, colleges will actually have to compete for dollars, and trim the bloat. It's unreal how much bloat there is right now in colleges.

I am not even going to talk about too much "wokeness" because that's just a lie and a stupid argument. They aren't teaching wokeness and turning kids into indoctrinated automatons. They just aren't.

//worthless not wireless

How do you figure anything I said was opinion? It's a fact that immunizations have NEVER been about 100% efficacy in preventing disease.

Ever.

SOME immunizations allow for true prevention of disease. But no two viruses are the same. Some don't allow for it, but can have their symptoms lessened by preparing the bodies immune systems to combat the infection, which, in turn, lessens the mortality rate and strength of their symptoms. Just because they can't teach 100% prevention never stopped production before.

This is just a fact. That you are too much of a hard hat wearing bus rider to recognize this and think it's either 100% prevention or wireless, doesn't mean everyone else dealing with actual facts is wrong.

In what room temperature iq world do you live in ?