• finallymadeanaccount
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    2 hours ago

    Yet they haven’t even started on the 3-sided shack where Uncle Cletus whittles his toenails for $500 per photo. You just know it’s Biden’s fault.

    • LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      12 hours ago

      Because it might actually improve someone’s life, and not just make insanely wealthy people more insanely wealthy.

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      10 hours ago

      Because he’s not progressive and came up with an insanely complex idea that failed rather than exercise the power given to the president by Congress to forgive any and all student loans at will.

      • Zaktor@sopuli.xyz
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        No, he did try to do that. He just set the payment point super far in the future so the Supreme Court had plenty of time to block it. Because they’re also just conservative tools who will rule based on their personal political preferences rather than the law.

        He didn’t do it well, but Biden (presumably after considerable lobbying by progressives) did at least try to exercise that power that was given to him explicitly by law. The SC just made up a new doctrine to say “the text of the law doesn’t matter if we feel like it”.

  • Zaktor@sopuli.xyz
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    14 hours ago

    Lawyers for the preservation group accused the White House of trying to “outrun the courts” by accelerating construction.

    And Roberts said “on it”.

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    14 hours ago

    Trump needs it to be complete before the 2028 election. That’s his bunker and he will hole up there, forcing us to extract him.

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    14 hours ago

    Trump’s never kept a project under budget, and now it’s government contractors…

    $3 billion. At least.

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    10 hours ago

    It needs to keep looking like this during the next presidential election

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      15 hours ago

      Hell, if Trump ordered it Roberts would sign off on it.

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    14 hours ago

    If it survives it will be as a museum for the victims. He’ll probably have to reichstag it at some point though.