Biden cancels up to $20K in student loans for Pell Grant recipients, $10K for millions of others
The Biden administration is cancelling up to $20,000 in student debt for Pell Grant recipients, up to $10,000 for individual borrowers who make under $125,000 per year and extending the pause on repayments by four months, the White House announced on Wednesday.
Why it matters: The decision — which comes days before the Aug. 31 deadline, when loan repayments were set to resume after a series of pandemic pauses—is expected to alleviate some of the debt burdens of 43 million Americans while also fulfilling a key campaign promise.
Driving the news: Approximately 20 million Americans could have their debt completely cancelled under Biden’s announcement.
The debt forgiveness for Pell recipients is in addition to the cancellation of up to $10,000 in student debt for other borrowers.
Critically, the Biden administration is taking steps to make the student loan system more manageable for future borrowers.
It will cut monthly payments in half for future borrowers taking out undergraduate loans and hold schools accountable when they hike prices, according to congressional guidance reviewed by Axios.
The $10,000 in debt relief also applies to households that earn $250,000 a year or less.
Hey, responsible people… GO FUCK YOURSELF. You paid off you student loan? SUCKER! Now pay off everyone else’s as well. Joe is buying votes with your money, votes he didn’t have to pay for in the first place. And those academics that hate you so much? Why, they’re laughing their fucking fat asses off at you.
More go fuck yourself:
"Is this unfair to people who paid their student loans or chose to not take out loans?"
Biden: "Is it fair to people who in fact do not own multi-billion dollar businesses? See how these guys give them all a tax break. Is that fair? What do you think?"pic.twitter.com/4wpcbMAvDG
— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) August 24, 2022
Women Are Warning Each Other That Brock Turner Is Out and About in Ohio
Brock Turner, the former Stanford student who was convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman in 2016, seems to be leading a fairly average life for a 27-year-old Ohio resident. He’s gainfully employed, appears to maintain a home in Dayton, and according to social media posts, enjoys an active social life. However, those posts aren’t innocent accounts of a night out. They’re warnings that are currently reverberating even beyond the state Turner has lived in since he was released from prison.
“Brock Turner has apparently moved back to OH, specifically the Kettering/Oakwood area & has been frequenting local bars,” reads a Facebook post from Casey Laroo, who does not live in Ohio but received the information from a friend who does, and did some Googling to confirm whether how likely it was. “If you see him out, inform the bartenders who he is, inform the women in the bar who he is, do not let anyone intoxicated walk away with him alone.”
“The criminal justice system has proven that crimes against women don’t matter, therefore we don’t matter,” Laroo wrote. “Women are forced to stick together and help each other out because if we don’t do it, no one else will.”
Her post has been shared over 18,000 times and amassed over a thousand comments, but Laroo isn’t the only woman sounding the alarm about Turner’s whereabouts in the Dayton area. Vice reported on scores of similarly worded disclaimers emerging on Facebook and TikTok.
“He has allegedly been stopped from leaving bars…with heavily intoxicated young ladies. He is also [allegedly living] 10 minutes from [University of Dayton] student housing,” reads another Facebook post, “so UD ladies you especially need to stay vigilant especially since we know has assaulted college aged women before and he views intoxication and loss of consciousness as an invitation for sexual assault.”
I’m pretty OK with this sort of shunning. By the way, referring to the last post, one of Brock Turner’s defenses was that he wasn’t attempting to rape his victim, but only attempting to have “outercourse” with her. “I didn’t mean to rape her, I was just going to frottage her unconscious body as it lay behind that dumpster.” You’re a prince, Brock.
U.S. Representative Nadler wins tight incumbent-vs-incumbent primary in New York https://t.co/HCApyzwr6u pic.twitter.com/ZvJKQLYFa3
— Reuters (@Reuters) August 24, 2022
“With GAWD as my witness, I will shit myself on the floor of Congress again!”
Artist: Wilco
Song: “She’s A Jar”
Album: Summerteeth (1999)
She’s a jar
With a heavy lid
My pop quiz kid
A sleepy kisser
A pretty war
With feelings hid
She begs me not to miss her
She says forever
To light a fuse
We could use
A hand full of wheel
And a day off
On a bruised road
However you might feel
Tonight is real
When I forget how to talk I sing
Won’t you please
Bring that flash to shine
And turn my eyes red
Unless they close
When you click
And my face gets sick
Stuck
Like a question unposed
Just climb aboard
The tracks of a train’s arm
In my fragile family tree
And watch me floating inches above
The people underneath
Please beware the quiet front yard
I warned you
Before there were water skies
I warned you not to drive
Dry your eyes, you poor devil
Are there really ones like these
The ones I dream
Float like leaves
And freeze to spread skeleton wings
I passed through before I knew you
I believe it’s just because
Daddy’s payday is not enough
Oh, I believe it’s all because
Daddy’s payday is not enough
Just climb aboard
The tracks of a train’s arm
In my fragile family tree
And watch me floating inches above
The people under me
She’s a jar
With a heavy lid
My pop quiz kid
A sleepy kisser
A pretty war
With feelings hid
You know she begs me not to hit her
” “Is it fair to people who in fact do not own multi-billion dollar businesses? See how these guys give them all a tax break. Is that fair? What do you think?””
CWAA
Seems legit. Biden is only a multi-multi-millionaire, right?
Funny, there’s all this trash talk about billionaires, but most of the billionaires I know about are the WEF crowd. No way anyone in the US government is “going after” those guys. Unless it’s to give them another fat check.
Shhhhhh!!! You’re not supposed to notice that!
No matter how many times I read that quote I still don’t understand his point. I can’t make sense of it at all. What “people”, who are “these guys” and “them”? Despite that, agreed on the CWAA.
Is it fair, that congress creates tax laws while I only get to waive my hand and cancel student debt?
The talking point that has gone out is that bailing out the banks means that no one can object to student loan debt forgiveness.
Because everyone that doesn’t have a student loan is a high-flying investment banker.
Are these loans from the federal government, or from banks? Because if they are from banks, they’re bailing out the banks again.
They’re guaranteed, or just owned, by the government.
I don’t know details, but my loans were taken over back then and just this year were transferred from fedloan to something called Nelnet.
Under Obamacare, the Feds took over the Student Loan Program. They did this so that the “profits” from the Student Loan program would offset the “costs” of Obamacare to satisfy the rules for avoiding CBO oversight. To the best of my recollection.
That’s some instapot accounting.
Interesting. Last I checked, it takes a college degree to become an investment banker. In fact, I’m pretty sure that almost every single banking and financial executive in the country has one.
Dude. I can translate from moron but I can’t make it make sense.
True. Though we appreciate you for somehow making it entertaining.
Yikes.
Oh, because everyone was just peachy keen hunky dory about the bank, auto manufacturer, etc. bailouts… *cough* Tea Party! *cough*
Not that I think it is relevant… but that’s a pretty crappy talking point anyway.
And my favorite talking point I saw today was that they’re claiming they can do this because of some post-9/11 bill that talked about student loan modification in “time of war or national emergency” (presumably to either help NYC college students disrupted in the attack or ones that went into the Guard or something). And of course, they’re saying COVID == “national emergency!”. Assholes.
I can’t wait for his answer on how this reconciles with the Inflation Reduction Act.
Narrator: It doesn’t.
You know that incredible Inflation Reduction Act debt reduction which will absolutely happen because reasons? Well that is gone.
He really is a gigantic asshole, isn’t he? Like not just in the conventional sense, but like world-historical levels of douchebaggery.
It is too bad he isn’t lucid enough to realize how badly his administration is/will be viewed by people.
So the question with moderates is which motivates you more, Roe being rescinded or Biden shitting on you?
I’m so glad that since I didn’t go to college I apparently have a multi-million dollar business.
/looks around for a banana stand
That’s multi-BILLION. What kind of riff-raff do you think we allow here? /adjusts monocle
Don’t worry, big guy, you’ll be a millionaire before this regime ends. Why, I’ll have to push over a wheelbarrow full of
Zimbabwean dollarsnear-worthless greenbacks, just to buy the speckliest ‘nanner from your half-price basket. [money-printing machine whirs portentously in background]There’s always money IN THE BANANA STAND!
John Cena was due to visit my local supermarket the other day to promote a hooch that he and Sarah Jessica Parker endorse. I honestly was more intrigued at first, thinking of Michael Cera.
Talk about a waste of marketing dollars. You can’t even see him!
You’re thinking of Buster. He went to that school to not be seen.
Buster so excelled at being neither seen nor heard that he remained at the school undetected for a full semester after graduation.
“I’m pretty OK with this sort of shunning.”
Who knows what really happened?
A friend of mine was involved with Turner’s defense case. Per his perspective, the public perception of what happened and what actually happened were incredibly different. The kid wasn’t blameless, but he also wasn’t a modern day Jack the Ripper. My friend thought the sentence was appropriate given the facts, but the mob will never be appeased,and this guy will be looking over his shoulder for the rest of his days, no doubt. As will the judge who gave the “light” sentence, then as a result losing his bench, and is still harassed regularly, including being prevented from coaching his granddaughter’s sports team by still-angry folks from miles away.
Yet, those same people will say we live in a “rape culture”.
Turner is a white guy with a WASP-sounding name involved in a much publicized trial. Hence the shunning.
You paid off you student loan? SUCKER!
That’s right losers!
But seriously I see no reason to take advantage of a policy even if I disagree with it.
I would too. But the smugness of the laptop class makes me want to see them drowning in debt forever.
*sobs into laptop keys*
Seriously though, I have to work with those people, and I couldn’t agree more.
Sir, might I press you for an anecdote?
There will be no frotting on the links.
*sighs
*walks away
Frots away, RJ.
Frots. Like a horse.
+1 Lesser of 2 Weevils
I’ve never had student loans. But I have a mortgage. Can it be reduced by $10k?
That would probably erase all of my non mortgage debts.
You’re a lot nicer than I am.
“But my education benefits society therefore society should pay. Sure, 99.9% of the benefit is to me personally, but society should still pay! Oh, would you like whipped cream on that?”
Is that like trickle down economics?
I’ve no doubt that exact argument is being offered sincerely on twitter at this very moment.
Well, for some values of “sincerely,” I guess.
Where do you think I got the idea from?
*not to take advantage…
As in I will continue not paying until I have to and will accept the $10k.
A few years ago I was grousing to my mom that I wish I had my tuition back to spend differently (travel? down payment?). Wiseacre that she can be, she replied, “I don’t think they’ll give it to you.”
Give me back half of it and I will accept an AA?
I will accept an AA?
So you were going to spend the money on booze?
I would trade my degree for half what it cost. I have “or X years experience” now.
I told the story about Altar Boy and his buddies sitting around my house bullshitting before. 4 of them were talking about how great loan foregiveness would be. Then their other buddy – who is a mechanic – asked why he should pay for their fun at college.
It actually made the others think about it. Even better, the mechanic already had a nice car and a nice apartment. Since all the others had (or would have) technical degrees, they will probably catch up economically with the mechanic. But not anytime soon.
On paper I should like Wilco, but I don’t.
Roger.
And he’s out.
Over.
What’s our vector Victor?
Do you like gladiator movies?
So for you it’s Wontco?
That joke’s been done.
That’s me and Rush.
That’s also me and Rush. The music is good. They’ve got some libertarian-ish lyrics (although they’ve distanced themselves from them). But fuck me, 30 seconds of Geddy Lee’s feline mating call and I’m out.
☝🏻
Im not a big Wilco fan, but I have a soft spot for Sky Blue Sky.
Relevant
On paper, I shouldn’t. But I love their first handful of records.
As expected, I talked to my forever-Democrat mom, and she’s excited that my two sisters, one with a masters in nursing and one with a doctorate in nursing, are getting some of their loans paid off. No word from my brother, who like me did not take out loans. (Spoiler alert, he will be pissed). Most of the people I know who would qualify are making more money than I am.
If they have graduate degrees in nursing they may not be under the 125K cap.
Did I read correctly that this is only a one-time gift?
And, therefore, an even more obvious ploy to buy votes than it would have been otherwise?
**Did I read correctly that this is only a one-time gift?**
Well, until they need to bribe them again, of course.
Don’t forget about the toothless “reforms”!
It is also nice that they extended the moratorium on repayments until just after the election.
A mere coincidence.
A potent war measure to be sure.
In July, members of the Ukrainian parliament decided to increase their salaries by 70 percent. It is unclear whether these additional government expenditures will be covered by international financial aid for the military.
On July 21, members of the Ukrainian parliament decided to increase their salaries by 70 percent raise. After the bill for this decision had only been submitted on July 18, the parliamentarians were able to carry out the vote unusually quickly, reported the Overton magazine. According to the magazine, this decision, which was unanimously approved by all the remaining parties, would have been possible so quickly in the absence of a lack of opposition.
You and I are paying their (now increased) salaries.
I’m sure we’re paying for that. Wasn’t one of the most recent payments for “support” or something vague like that?
I believe it was to help with “budget shortfalls” or similar.
Man, remember when the left had websites with daily body counts and a debt clock for Iraq?
Look Pat, people have MovedOn from that.
Back when they were opposed to TLAs
Well this is still up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lafayette_hillside_memorial
Next time I go by there I’ll have to check if the owner is flying a Ukrainian flag. I bet he is.
And because it’s Ukraine, they can openly and shamelessly talk about the graft. What are we gonna do, stop paying for it?
Evening, Glibs.
I hate all day meetings. Even if lunch is provided.
When lunch is provided, that means you get no break at all.
I didn’t even get to go back to my desk and browse Glibs.
Non smoker here. I take smoke breaks.
ding ding ding
“No, I just want to get away from you people for a few minutes!”
Just say you need to go dilate and you’ll never be questioned about it again.
The best part of not being dean anymore is that my calendar is gloriously empty.
I’m the only one left 🙁 My new supervisor doesn’t even give 25% of his time to the group, my direct reports are still being trained on the technology, and I have no peers in the infrastructure side of things.
Well, we’ve always considered you peerless around here.
https://youtu.be/26OGXpvGhAk?t=127
“Black pastor is set to file a discrimination lawsuit against the police after he was handcuffed for watering his neighbor’s flowers while they were out of town – despite a white woman stepping in and coming to his defense.
Pastor Michael Jennings was arrested in May outside his neighbor’s yard in Childersburg, Alabama, after police received a complaint about a strange man and vehicle on the property.
Jennings, who was seen in the clip watering the flowers with a hose, had just returned from Sunday service. He told police his long-term neighbor asked him to look after his shrubbery while he was out of town.
But despite his good intentions and other residents vouching for him, Jennings was taken to jail and later charged with obstruction of government operation.
After insisting that he was just calmly gardening in the front yard, police asked Jennings: ‘How do we know that’s the truth?’
The baffled pastor, who lives in the house across the street, responded: ‘I had the water hose in my hand! I was watering the flowers.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11141851/Black-pastor-files-lawsuit-handcuffed-watering-neighbors-flowers.html
‘I had the water hose in my hand! I was watering the flowers.’
These euphemisms… No wonder he got arrested, he’s lucky he wasn’t hung.
They said you was hung.
::summons all her strength to resist making obvious joke::
Too much to tackle there, GT?
Sounds like a cock and bull story to me.
“and they was right!”
If the Left confined their whining about ‘structural racism’ to rural southern law enforcement, I’d be right there with ’em.
Did he have proper license to use that hose? Was the serial number clearly visible of was it a dangerous Ghost Hose?
Is it wrong that I wanted nadler to win? He had 2 good votes like 30 years ago.
Did you want Nadler to win or Maloney to lose?
Yes. Yes, it is.
We all know who swims in the shart infested waters of congress.
Nadler was probably the first politico with TDS, long before OMB became
emperorpresident.https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/12/trump-nadler-new-york-real-estate-television-city.html
“Antifa is just an idea. It’s not real.”
Now I feel bad. Thanks, maybe they’ll both lose of there is some sort of miracle.
You should feel bad. Nadler is one of the worst creatures of the lot of them.
And no, there won’t be a miracle arriving from the other side.
Fuck it, money is fake and has been for generations. Give more away, cancel taxes, fuck it, who gives a shit, make it more fake. I have a fixed-rate mortgage, I’m invincible to hyperinflation.
Just wait until the government redefines fixed-rate mortgages…
The bigger risk is the government will redefine 401k, annuities and the like.
That’s one day to cause the massive die-off they seem to be looking for.
Once the automatic enrollments become mandatory contribution amounts, that won’t matter.
*insert “To the moon” meme here along with glittery bitcoin gifs*
It seems the theme of the Biden administration is “Rob from the poor, give to the rich”. But any Robin Hood that shows up will end up arrested for domestic terrorism.
“Stupid bitch…” 🎵
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2nrqgb
Your lupins or your life.
https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/dc/multiple-people-shot-northwest-dc-roads-closed-police-investigate/65-5e848807-ebaa-4136-b4fc-72a6fefcc3ce
What a shit hole.
Check that address on a map. That’s a fairly nice part of town. DC has that problem, same as Baltimore.
Also, this is the first time I’ve heard the term ‘open-air drug market’ since the 90’s…
You don’t live in a big city, do you. The “open-air drug market” has made a big comeback since woke, pro-crime DAs were elected in most of them.
So does that mean I can go there and get discount blood pressure medicine and penicillin? Cool!
The Wire taught us Hamsterdam is the solution.
Would you prefer they were stabbed?
I’ve wondered why Tesla chargers were at Sheetz having charged there driving my son to Gettysburg College.
How Sheetz Partnered With Tesla and Brought EV Charging to Rural America
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2022-tesla-electric-car-charging-stations-road-trip-sheetz/
So you could defeat your range anxiety while eating a Walker Breakfast Ranger
I don’t really worry about range for most uses. And since they added an actual charger at Gettysburg proper it adds flexibility.
There is also public parking in Gettysburg that has low speed AC charging so if we stay overnight it adds even more options.
That said I’m happy we have an ICE SUV for real road trips.
If I had taken out student loans, I wouldn’t have had to spend my college years playing in a band and getting lots of drugs and girls.
Fixed.
And I typo-ed. Edit fairy?
I could have started at 18 instead of 22.
Crist just had his basket of deplorables moment
Also am I wrong, or is Crist looking like a dehydrated Art Alexakis? I hadn’t seen a picture of him since the last time he was governor of Florida.
I assume “having hate in your heart” is defined as disagreeing with Charlie Crist.
Failing to completely kow-tow to the far left woke agenda is hate.
Ladies and Gentlemen, we have a new definition for the acronym CWAA.
1) As a Florida voter, I have ‘hate’ in my heart for Crist. My days of not liking that greasy fuck are definitely coming to a middle.
2) He may well be a desiccated Alexakis. He’s certainly telling people everything will be wonderful again.
He’s always been a less smooth Gavin Newsome, fooling those who want to be fooled or else working in a good environment by having opponents like Dracula von Martinez.
Oops. Crist never ran against Martinez. He ran against Marco Rubio, and people found Rubio to be more honest.
Make everything wonderful again? Florida is pretty damned wonderful now under DeSantis. Is he perfect? No. Nobody is. But the state is booming and he owns his critics in a most amusing way.
Wasn’t Crist gov. when the D’s had full cheating power in that state?
I just saw Everclear live this past Sunday. Art Alexakis looks like a dehydrated Art Alexakis. I didnt know that he had MS.
Shit, I didn’t know that either. He seems like kind of a dick in real life, but I wouldn’t wish that on him.
Sparkle and Fade and So Much for the Afterglow are supremely nostalgic for me, but I gave up after Songs From An American Movie.
As someone who has MS, I wouldn’t wish it on anyone either.
But the dragon is made of paper. Maybe.
The People’s Republic of China is preparing to go to war, and it is not trying to hide its efforts. Amendments to the National Defense Law, effective the first day of last year, transfer powers from civilian to military officials.
In general, the amendments reduce the role of the central government’s State Council by shifting power to the CMC, the Communist Party’s Central Military Commission. Specifically, the State Council will no longer supervise the mobilization of the People’s Liberation Army.
As Zeng Zhiping of Soochow University told Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post,
“The CMC is now formally in charge of making national defense policy and principles, while the State Council becomes a mere implementing agency to provide support for the military.”
Unpossible. Everybody knows that economic interdependence with totalitarian commies produces peace. Trading partners don’t go to war.
We aren’t a trading partner with China.
Correct. We are a giving partner. They are a taking partner.
I hired another employee today.
Yay me.
Yay you! What, unconfident?
Ermahgerd! I’m gonna be driving right through there on my way home from the salon tonight! And I’ll be driving right through the UD ghetto too! Someone please get me an armed escort! 😱
***YAWWWN***
What, is your trigger finger broken all the sudden? 😉
Isn’t he fairly attractive? Maybe you’ll get lucky.
Thoughts and prayers.
Let them eat snails.
Emmanuel #Macron warned of sacrifices ahead and foreshadowed the “end of abundance” at his first cabinet meeting following the summer break.
“What we are living through is a time of great upheaval.”
The #French president also emphasised the importance of unity ahead of these trying times during Wednesday’s cabinet meeting.
He called again for energy sobriety ahead of what looks to be a difficult winter, reports FRANCE 24’s reporter @LukeShrago
*points and laughs*
Ah, yes “we” must sacrifice for the common good.What will Emmanuel be sacrificing?
He’s sacrificed enough. Married to a woman older than my mom when he’s younger than me.
Elle est une petite ortolan…
Hah! I didn’t know this expression.
Its up there with “petit mort”
The French people, apparently.
Watch as Robby “law-n-order” Soave receives a stern womansplaining about crime and punishment. Trigger warning: Video of a violent serial offender cold-cocking an elderly passerby kicks off the clip.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYNlC25OmoQ
Maybe Soave’s debate counterparts aren’t the best spokespeople for criminal justice reform.
I skipped around but at the 12 minute mark she says if mental health facilities were nice places we wouldn’t have to force people to go in them.
Fuck, when you have lost Kasparian, the liberal position is toast.
Soave’s looks of exasperation are priceless. Claiming that there’s a credible movement to dismantle Western Civilization sounds goofy to some, but there it is.
re: The student loan partial forgiveness, payment capping, and extension of the payment suspension.
Here is a link to the The Chump Effect: Progressive policies penalize those who play by the rules and shower benefits on those who don’t. It’s a long read but this is the single most useful article for explaining to people at the breaking point how their feelings are legit. (h/t to Rhywun who first linked this here IIRC)
I remember this one. It bears repeating.
It’s a goto for me when people express indignation at the wealth distribution largesse.
Yup, good article.
And it’s gotten much worse since just two years ago.
If only you knew how bad things really are
There Is No National Teacher Shortage
I’m sure there’s a shortage of qualified STEM teachers. Regular education degree teachers, not so much.
Blame Canada: In case you wondering about the source of pineapple on pizza…
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220818-why-is-ham-and-pineapple-pizza-so-controversial?
Thank you Canada.
Sam Panopoulos should have a statue.
Godspeed, visionary!
My daughters love pineapple on pizza, so it has been a Friday night staple now for about a year now. My anti-pineapple on pizza stance has waned and I now approve. /I must be soft.
I prefer it to have pineapple, ham, bacon, and jalapeno though.
pineapple, ham, bacon, and jalapeno
Would eat
I prefer it to have pineapple, ham, bacon, and jalapeno though.
Yes.
My local does a pineapple, bacon, red onions, and prosciutto pizza. It is transcendental.
If you like the jalapeno and pineapple combo, I have a pineapple/serrano/jalapeno sauce that’s killer on chicken, if that might interest you. You can freeze it into a wonderful sorbet/Italian ice kind of thing that’s wonderfully refreshing in the summers.
Try pineapple and prosciutto.
Changed my life. ’Specially if the prosciutto’s thin and gets all brown and crispy around the edges. If the pineapple partially caramelizes, bonus!
I can’t believe that album is 23 years old. So damn good, though.
This is another good one.
Thanks, Sug!
It has a sort of timeless Americana feel that I just can’t resist. Just like The Hold Steady does, but with the fake-sloppy bar band aesthetic.
Love the HS, too. They had their start as Lifter Puller in the Twin Cities.
Another band I can’t resist.
fake-sloppy bar band aesthetic
This, exactly.
I saw Hold Steady a few weeks ago, and have the entire Lifter Puller catalog. Americana (I’ve probably posted this before)….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxOUxJfsYi0
Excellent.
Thank you, BP!
Didn’t he die of alcohol poisoning?
Sucks if so.
Something like that. Jason Molina had a tough go of it.
International Strange Music Day promotes expanding musical horizons
Don’t let this occasion go to waste. Post some weird shit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0
https://youtu.be/ugKmELkglh8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5bY4YNJJUc&ab_channel=DreadZeppelinVEVO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLrnkK2YEcE
How about some Negativland?
If you want something a little more accessible, how about a one album wonder from Michigan?
OK. Here’s a typically sappy pop tune from Chicago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1soGncyUFg
Chicago
LOL. Of course, that track was from their first album, not the second.
This shit’s weird, man.
Absolute normies the lot of you
And here’s a non-meme answer that’s actually in my library
Wierd French music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVL5_I4CvTc
I guess throat singing is mainstream now, and has blown my hipster cred, but this album by matan maman (מתן ממן) is a full on banger.
https://youtu.be/KAkmPpAGkGo
I used to be a full on /mu/tant, so i listened to all kinds of crap other people would turn their noses up at, found some really cool stuff…and some garbage. Who’s posting
broken refrigerator noisesSunn O)))) ?~’08-’12 /mu/ was a riot. I still pop in there from time to time for sharethreads.
Yeah i think theres some overlap of when I was there, I think mostly around 05-11ish was when I was really, really into it. Back when I had free time!
When my hdd died with all my share stuff and they went after Mega I was done. I used to have a ton of music, all gone.
An oldie…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsEz1OAUBBM
Another oldie…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcrjb-b9oPg
The criminal justice system has proven that crimes against women don’t matter
I smell horseshit.
Remember when it took an act of Congress to waste $300 billion?
Biden To Forgive $10k In Student Loans — In Unrelated News, Nation’s Colleges Raise Tuition By $10k
Tag fail!
https://babylonbee.com/news/biden-to-forgive-10k-in-student-loans-in-unrelated-news-nations-colleges-raise-tuition-by-10k
Not even satire. Didn’t a couple of car companies raise their prices by 8K after the FuckRegularAmericansAct was passed?
Yep – Ford did it on their absurd e-truck.
FuckRegularAmericansAct
That could be any of 30,000 or so acts. Please be more specific.
This shit’s weird, man.
oops. Meant for the weird music thread.
Unless it’s just my immediate family sitting there, I can’t say ANYTHING about student loans without pissing someone off. So I’m sure the bullets below will as well, but I’m in the mood to just throw them out there today:
– Unless you’re on a very definite path of a degree in a professional trade (real Engineer or Doctor or Welder or something), then student loans are and always have been STOOPID.
– Even for those situations, they should be last resort.
– If you’re a young lady, a student loan probably makes you un-marriageable. One of the “rules of life” is to make yourself an asset, not a liability.
– Accepting Brandon’s “forgiveness” makes you a thief, every bit as much as if you’d run off with the cash drawer from the local store.
deadhead – this may interest you as a participant in weird foot races
https://youtu.be/BzNsfDwhZLM
Business owner tells NYC to fuck right off
https://youtu.be/37Em68uLcoY
Isn’t he the right to repair guy who also shits all over Apple routinely? Moderately based.
Just had a memory from high school. There was an end-of-year art show for seniors.
This one guy stood there the entire time – like, over an hour – only looking at his own work.
Evil outsiders descend on Minneapolis to wreck our schools!
The fun way to fuck with these shitheads would be to make them enforce that contract. But point out that the SCIENCE says the teacher of color has to match the students. That would result in a lot more Hmong teachers being kept on. I would think that Mpls/St. Paul has more asian kids counting as minorities than black kids.
Also, you would need to bus all kids around to make things more efficient. I mean, you couldn’t expect a white school nurse to tend to black kids could you? Nope. You need a separate school for black kids (and to be safe, you better have one for the Somalis and one for the other black kids). Another school for the Hmong.
The real problem will be gay kids of color. I don’t know if you can scrape up enough of them to justify a school.
Asians are ceremonially white for affirmative action purposes.
Not Hmong.
Jungle Asian, not fancy Asian.
Nah, all colors except white are interchangeable.
I’m just about a month away from no longer being in the military…why am I still being tasked with anything like I’m going to be here to accomplish it? I just want to tell everyone to please don’t call me, email me, or even talk to me. I guess that’s too much to ask when no one else actually works around here.
I had to wait until my two week outprocessing, which only took a few days, before I only had to show up for formations.
I’m fine with showing up but “hey, MAJCOM leadership is going to be here in two weeks and we need you to put together and lead a decision brief on XYZ” is a tall order when my final out is shortly after that.
I was 10 days out and they demanded I was due for PT test….I skipped it and skipped reporting to the captain that was scheduled for the day after I flipped off the base gate guards as I left.
My last year in the reserves my first sergeant asked me if I intended to reenlist. When I gave an emphatic no he said when they did PT or other testing I would be a grader. I ended up getting a bar to reenlistment because I didn’t have a valid PT test. Didn’t stop the Army from involuntarily mobilizing me with only a couple months left. It was just a circle-X by the commander.
Does “fuck off, I’m so short I can limbo-dance under a door” not work any more?
I always forget how many vets we have here, but it makes sense. Seen the rot from the inside and being glib is basically required OJT.
I guess it’s time to start shopping for an attorney who specializes in real estate. The skeevy fuck seller’s agent is now trying to extort me. Oddly enough, the skeevy fuck just so happens to be the new owner of the parcel on the other side of the line in question.
Subdivision line on the property was drawn so that the existing drain field is cut off. He assured me it was no big deal to slap a drain field together on my side of the line. Two septic system installers have now told me that is complete bullshit, and the system will require a total replacement to be brought inside the property lines, and may even end up being unacceptably close to the well, meaning the well (which he DESPERATELY wants a part of- We HAFTA have a shared well agreement!)would be condemned (house is currently on municipal water).
*extort= he has graciously offered to sell me the drain field for $45k, which will go into HIS pocket instead of the old widder lady’s. Neat, huh?
What a clusterfuck. Asshole
That’s shady as fuck. Aren’t brokers legally obligated to disclose a conflict of interest like that?
I’m gonna have to see the math on that whole obsidian sphere thing.
Holy shit – Heaven 17 is playing at The Birchmere. That’s a name I’ve not heard since…
https://youtu.be/iaPFBADjTw4
Let meyou should go!Just got an email from the VA, the upcoming event schedule looks AWESOME.
Aug. 26, 2-3 p.m. – Women’s Equality Day Women Veteran Discussion
Aug. 30, 7-9 p.m. – VETtoCEO Program
Aug. 31, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. – Virtual Franchise Conference
Aug. 31, 12-4 p.m. – Virtual Job Fair
Aug. 31, 12-1 p.m. – The Diverse Experience of Military & Veteran Families of Color
Aug. 31, 3-4 p.m. – Heroes MAKE America – Heroes Connect
I auto-delete emails from our diversity team and avoid their slack channel.
With veteran homelessness, suicide, and sub-veterinary healthcare having been fixed, we have to spend that budget on *something*
They crossed out all the names on the waiting lists so they had nothing scheduled on their calendar.
Uffda. Air quality seems to be the proggies’ new hobby horse.
Wildfire smoke kills more Indians than Custer
But it ain’t just the Indians out in the woods (which is right next to Fourscore’s compound)! Urban city slickers are also all going to croak!!!!
Twin Cities residents far more likely to die of air pollution than homicide, study finds
No kidding.
They’re using it to push the Manhattan “congestion pricing” economy-killer.
They couldn’t get it done for decades but all of a sudden it’s going to cure all the poor people’s asthma so now it’s full-steam ahead. And if you reply that there aren’t any poor people living in the targeted area you’re racist or something.
I wonder if they figured smoking cigarettes (or anything else) into that equation.
So why are they pursuing policies that will see more people use things like wood to heat their homes?
Should have been a reply to Pope Jimbo, but whateva
RIP Len Dawson
You need a trigger warning with that! Us Viking fans are all curled up fetal style thinking of the Purple’s first Super Bowl choke job
Why, I’m sure I don’t know what you mean. 😎
That was a good Viking team. Could have used a real QB, though. Joe Kapp??
Curiously, Kapp is the only quarterback to start in a Rose Bowl, a Grey Cup, and a Super Bowl (Warren Moon has the first two, but never played in the SB).
In an era where quarterbacks were judged on “toughness” and “leadership” instead of arm strength and accuracy, he was considered top-notch.
This you?
Sadly, I am not that lucky. Not even my winning husband has managed a lottery win over $1,000.
Still better than a kick in the knees.
Overheard at the gym today:
“Joe Biden is a decent man who’s spent his life trying to craft legislation to help people.”
Said with sincerity not sarcasm.
I think he meant “Joe Biden is a decadent man who’s spent his life legislating graft to help his people.” Dyslexia is tough.
I read it similarly. The brain autocorrects.
Nope. These two older women who swim and use the hot tub about the same time I do in the afternoon (I need to adjust my schedule). They’re like the central casting for white, upper-middle class women who know they are so much smarter than a lot of other people. They’re horrified, just horrified, by everything Trump has done.
I find it mildly informative as I figure hearing them for 5-10 minutes gives me a pretty good summary of NPR’s take on things.
Was this near the weight room, the cardio machines, or the yoga classes?
Hot tub actually.
Heat induced stroke
Did you punch the fucker?
Not a violation of NAP.
I was a decent man that gave 10k of my own money for college tuition to two nieces whose deadbeat dad ran out on them before they were even in kindergarten.
Now I’m a chump. But that is still infinitely more decent than anything joe Biden has ever done in his lifetime.
Biden is a corrupt liar with dementia, and a likely pedophile.
There is a weird part of me that want to put the “Biden is a nice guy” people in the same room as the “Trump is a family values guy” in the same room as see what happens.
“Joe Biden is a decent man who’s spent his life trying to craft legislation to help people.”
He’s helping people. alright.
I will be generous and call his family and friend people.
Is there some legal recourse here? , because Biden’s student loan forgiveness seems very illegal.
Recourse is right next to FY and TW
Pug rescue is coming to do a home visit next Wednesday!!
Sweet!
I’m really excited for you!
No Frenchie, though?
Frenchies don’t often come up in rescue because you don’t get the volume of backyard breeding that you see with other breeds.
Pugs are the best.
Biden: “Is it fair to people who in fact do not own multi-billion dollar businesses? See how these guys give them all a tax break. Is that fair? What do you think?”
My pidgin English to space alien translator must be on the fritz again. I can make neither heads nor tails of that.
Biden is a dementia-ridden stupid cunt who is already being sized up my Satan and Saddam Hussein for a threesome.
So be happy you can’t understand.
Here’s an uplifting story about a successful small businessman, in the original pidgin
Yeah, but you got to balance this gibberish against the fact this president doesn’t send out mean tweets.
This sounds like the kind of thing you would hear at an AA meeting.
On top of this federal bullshit, I’ve had multiple people knock on my door who want to talk about this envious bullshit.
One of the few good things about MA is the flat income tax. Let’s fuck that up by picking an arbitrary figure and really putting the screws to those people.
The morality of that aside, people seem to think that high-earners don’t have other options. Also, they’re so fucking retarded that they think “it’s for education and transportation!!!11!!”, as if budget money isn’t fungible.
I’m sure it’ll pass.
*grumble*
Guessing the pubsec unions were extra-generous in their Dem campaign donations this year. The beach parties next summer are gonna be lit.
The revenue would come from an additional tax on households with very high incomes—that’s why it’s also known as a “millionaire’s tax.”
The original federal income tax only applied to couples making more than $120,000 (2022) starting at 1%. Thresholds and rates move to chase the money.
There are a million flies in here today. I guess it could have something to do with windows with no screens (and living in a neighborhood with more horses and cows than people).
Gah!
No bueno.
I remember the one year I lived in California, they were similarly backwards.
Must be a NoCal thing. We always had screens in SoCal.
“Not in Utica no. It’s an Albany expression.”
Yes, NoCal.
The house I lived in in Germany – also no screens. I did not want to open a window.
They are a must everywhere else I have lived.
We had screens in Norcal.
Sounds shitty.
“Everything starts with the rainbow.
When kids see a rainbow it makes them feel happy and safe.
When kids see the rainbow flag they associate those feelings.
When predators and sex maniacs use the rainbow flag, then kids will also think those people are safe.
Psyop completed.”
https://twitter.com/againstrainbows/status/1562442661461577728
Sort of like back when we were told “The Policeman is Your Friend”???
Pro tip meet in a public place.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/man-held-hostage-hours-robbed-gunpoint-meeting-woman/story?id=88783770
But I’m doubting anyone here is high IQ.
Oh no, don’t throw me in that briar patch.
Briar patch
That’s a fun story.
Your daily dose of Sanford and son:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=znhibHCuir0
FIRST-O-MYTE!
https://www.nj.com/business/2022/08/kia-hyundai-recall-more-than-280k-cars-recalled-due-to-serious-malfunction.html
Spontaneous fires. NBD.
LOL. Big deal. They don’t have any to sell anyway.
As opposed to a frivolous malfunction.
Given the western MSM propaganda this is not the positive spin Reuters thinks.
https://www.reuters.com/world/just-over-half-americans-say-us-should-back-ukraine-until-russia-withdraws-2022-08-24/
Just over 1/2 of Americans have no fucking clue how much $ we’ve sent there.
Don’t you disrespect the new and improved Money Hole.
For those looking for the elusive Glibs HumpDay Zoom Link thingy, it’s here.