Monday On Turtle Island

6 Replies to “Monday On Turtle Island”

1. The Biden administration continues its illegal efforts to influence the 2024 presidential election via student loan forgiveness.
   1 in every 8 Americans (43 million of them) has a student loan, and Biden has been promising them relief from those loans since he was elected in 2020. This is one of the key pieces of his campaign for re-election.
   There is something remarkably communist about a campaign commitment that goes like this: “Vote for me, and I’ll screw 7 of your neighbors.”

   Roughly 1 in 8 Americans would be impacted by this decision
   By Cory Turner

   Posted June 30, 2023 at 8:11 AM EDT

   President Biden’s plan would provide relief to most federal student loan borrowers — as many as 43 million people. That’s roughly 1 in 8 Americans. Nearly half of those borrowers, roughly 20 million, could have their student loans erased completely.

   Whatever you think of Biden’s proposal, at this moment, the potential for collective disappointment and perhaps disillusionment for so many Americans is palpable and worth acknowledging.

   “I feel like it’s back to business as usual,” borrower Kurt Panton told NPR on the prospect of loan forgiveness ending. “What else can I do? Go back to paying the student loan that I have been paying for 20-plus years.”

   Panton took out federal student loans to pay his way through college and dutifully made monthly payments from late 2003 until March 2020, when the pandemic payment pause began.

   “There is this mental weight that you carry with a student loan, knowing that [it’ll be with you] as far as you can go into your foreseeable future,” he says.

   Panton, who became a father late last year, says the money he has saved not paying down his loans over the pause has helped support his young family. “I haven’t been having crazy parties for the last three years because I’m not paying back my student loans. You know, I’m not eating a goose for dinner every night.”

2. Come and Get It.
   https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/putin-stokes-tensions-with-us-declares-1867-sale-of-alaska-illegal/ar-BB1h1lcT?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=EDGEXST&cvid=81bdb58f465e40a7add1a9c3ed4b51e1&ei=26

   1. Poor Putin. Go ahead and try to take Alaska back. You can barely beat Ukraine.

3. I’d rather hear a “Hang Turdeau” chant.
   I think it would be far more effective.

   I didn’t know there was an infestation in Vermont.

   1. The infestation is world wide Buddy. The cleansing will be difficult and bloody.

   2. I think they were just urging on a member of Justin’s cabinet.