The Supreme Court’s right-wing majority rejected President Joe Biden’s student loan debt relief plan Friday, the expected last day of its term.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1462033
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1462033
The next ProPublica drop, I hope is anytime now.
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In case anyone still needs reminding, these terrible Supreme Court decisions on religious-based discrimination against abortion and same-sex marriage, on affirmative action, the EPA and the legitimacy of government agencies, and student loan forgiveness are coming down for one and only one reason:
Hillary lost.
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Well, at least a solid talking point for re-election.
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Remember when the Repubs condemned legislating from the bench?? This is grotesque!!
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It needs to be more than a talking point - we need to start talking about expanding the court. I love Biden, but he needs to drop his rose-tinted glasses and see the court for what it is - an impediment to our very survival (regarding this court’s stance on the EPA this is not hyperbole).
Now is the time to start talking about this—these right-wing politicians masquerading as justices will not stop until they’ve turned this country back to the early 20th Century (pre-suffrage).
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We don’t want Black people or the Poors getting ahead
- Roberts court
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I really want to one day open my dormant Facebook account and document all the times I was accused on being a “fearmonger” for telling folks that the SCOTUS was on the line in 2016. I lost friends who couldn’t let go of Bernie and hated me for voting for Hillary. Had more people done what I did, we’d be a different country with a liberal majority for the first time in decades.
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2016 was always about the Supreme Court. Full stop.
Forest for the trees, tactics versus strategy, long-term thinking versus short-term gain are polite ways to deflect. In the end, it was the petulant tantrums because their candidate was unelectable and moronic understanding of big picture politics that got us here.
Whatever you want to call it, every decision by the Trump (FedSoc) Court that has rolled back the last century’s gains would’ve been avoided by choosing not to elect TFG. Any other Killery/Shillery/Bern it Down/Conscience excuse is lame BS. Everyone knew this would happen.
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And we’ll hear crickets from Nina Turner, Susan Sarandon, Killer Mike, and the whole #NeverHillary cabal just as we did after the Dobbs ruling.
Funny how B.S.'s bern it down campaign continued long after a woman had won enough delegates to secure the Democratic nomination in 2016 but he ended it early when a man did the exact same thing in 2020. Quite curious.
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So the SC is trying to get young folks to the voting booth… noted.
Joe, now is the time for saying these two words…
COURT REFORM
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She got paid for speeches to Wall Street.
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Exactly. See my post below. Everybody knew…. 
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And the butter emails.
sigh…
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Let America Be America Again
1901 –1967
Let America be America again.
Let it be the dream it used to be.
Let it be the pioneer on the plain
Seeking a home where he himself is free.
(America never was America to me.)
Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed—
Let it be that great strong land of love
Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme
That any man be crushed by one above.
(It never was America to me.)
O, let my land be a land where Liberty
Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath,
But opportunity is real, and life is free,
Equality is in the air we breathe.
(There’s never been equality for me,
Nor freedom in this “homeland of the free.”)
Say, who are you that mumbles in the dark?
And who are you that draws your veil across the stars?
I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart,
I am the Negro bearing slavery’s scars.
I am the red man driven from the land,
I am the immigrant clutching the hope I seek—
And finding only the same old stupid plan
Of dog eat dog, of mighty crush the weak.
I am the young man, full of strength and hope,
Tangled in that ancient endless chain
Of profit, power, gain, of grab the land!
Of grab the gold! Of grab the ways of satisfying need!
Of work the men! Of take the pay!
Of owning everything for one’s own greed!
I am the farmer, bondsman to the soil.
I am the worker sold to the machine.
I am the Negro, servant to you all.
I am the people, humble, hungry, mean—
Hungry yet today despite the dream.
Beaten yet today—O, Pioneers!
I am the man who never got ahead,
The poorest worker bartered through the years.
Yet I’m the one who dreamt our basic dream
In the Old World while still a serf of kings,
Who dreamt a dream so strong, so brave, so true,
That even yet its mighty daring sings
In every brick and stone, in every furrow turned
That’s made America the land it has become.
O, I’m the man who sailed those early seas
In search of what I meant to be my home—
For I’m the one who left dark Ireland’s shore,
And Poland’s plain, and England’s grassy lea,
And torn from Black Africa’s strand I came
To build a “homeland of the free.”
The free?
Who said the free? Not me?
Surely not me? The millions on relief today?
The millions shot down when we strike?
The millions who have nothing for our pay?
For all the dreams we’ve dreamed
And all the songs we’ve sung
And all the hopes we’ve held
And all the flags we’ve hung,
The millions who have nothing for our pay—
Except the dream that’s almost dead today.
O, let America be America again—
The land that never has been yet—
And yet must be—the land where every man is free.
The land that’s mine—the poor man’s, Indian’s, Negro’s, ME—
Who made America,
Whose sweat and blood, whose faith and pain,
Whose hand at the foundry, whose plow in the rain,
Must bring back our mighty dream again.
Sure, call me any ugly name you choose—
The steel of freedom does not stain.
From those who live like leeches on the people’s lives,
We must take back our land again,
America!
O, yes,
I say it plain,
America never was America to me,
And yet I swear this oath—
America will be!
Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death,
The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies,
We, the people, must redeem
The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers.
The mountains and the endless plain—
All, all the stretch of these great green states—
And make America again!
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This group will predictably continue to blame Sleepy Joe and the Feckless Dumbocrats for failing to “codify” abortion protections, student loan relief etc.
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The SCOTUS was on the line in 2014 too. F**k everyone who stayed home in 2014. I don’t give a shit what their excuse was either.
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I really hate these fuckers.
That is all.
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