I’m imagining someone buying The Lorax, to own the Libs, sitting down, actually reading, and realizing that “This is some Commie trash!” Read more

It’s stupid, not particularly funny and is definitely outdated, but Swift absolutely had to know what her rabid fanbase was going to do once she sent out that tweet. She just created her own Streisand Effect giving global attention to a dumb joke, dredging up the last decade of gossip about her love life, and… Read more

This is like a weird variation on the Streisand Effect, right? Nobody would’ve said a single word about this joke or this show if Taylor Swift hadn’t said anything first? Now this show’s probably gonna get a MASSIVE boost in viewership and pop-culture relevance because of it. I don’t know if its been renewed for a… Read more

Bruhhh this is so embarrassing. Imagine being as rich and successful as this and still giving a shit about a throwaway line from a not very good netflix show. Just go take a bath in diamonds or something, Taylor.  Read more

She should know by now that her extremely earnest, extremely devoted, extremely online fanbase will go into attack mode over things like this and therefore directed her ire - if she felt like she had to say anything at all, which evidently she did - either in private or at the appropriate person namely the writer, or… Read more

Note to self: Just be single, childless, and friendless if ever I run for office. Read more

Her naïveté and bad judgment through all this is striking. A political spouse of 10+ years really ought to know better than to participate in bad optics. Even if he had suggested it, the job of political families is to try to minimize and anticipate any embarrassing exposures for their political family member. Read more

Alternate perspective: The group chat does indeed know loyalty. They are loyal to their friend Heidi and united with the rest of the nation in hating her husband.  Read more

I don’t know when, or even if, Dems will learn this lesson. After everything, they still want to play by Queensberry Rules, when the opposition is using memetic warfare, shivs implanted into shoe heels and satellite-based missile strikes.  Read more

That’s true but I think most Ivy institutions offer need-based scholarships making their 50-75k/year tuition closer to 10k or less. My twin applied to Cornell University in the mid 2000s and was accepted; however, he chose not to go b/c our high school counselor told him how expensive the school was. When we were… Read more

I graduated from high school in the early aughts from a southern school where my guidance counselor never remembered my name despite me doing the best I could to apply for scholarships and get info on art schools. I was poor, the only member of my family to apply for college at that point, the only internet we had… Read more

And let’s not forget that student loans have grown at the exact same time that state funding for schools has dropped. So the state taxpayer has enjoyed some good cuts on the state level and subsidized those cuts by farming it out to college students in the form of loans they can’t really discharge. Read more

You’re not alone. I walked out of law school with a grand total of $200k in student debt, which then capitalized up to $300k because I passed the Bar in 2009 when law firms basically stopped hiring anyone but the top 5% for associates’ jobs. I just had to sit there and watch the principal get bigger and bigger every… Read more

Well, they would still have to save money to buy a house, no one would have debt relieved then go buy a house the next day. Read more

Which results in even less access to private and ivy league education and the benefits that brings for those who can’t afford it. Read more

People who are against any sort of student debt forgiveness (who largely, but not entirely vote Republican) will hate him for even talking about student debt relief, regardless of whether or not it comes to pass. Read more

Being against college debt relief seems so short sighted, especially for the type of republican who only thinks about the “economy” Relieving student debt can only be good for the economy. People who were drowning in debt they would never pay off could fully participate, buy homes, buy other stuff, start a family, but… Read more

I grew up poor, religious, white trash and my only way out was college. I was independent at 18 but my waitress salary was too much for me to get any aid other than student loans. I have much more than 50k in student loan dept from a public university (BA and MA) and I will never pay it off. It is a huge burden, and I… Read more

also worth mentioning that Joe Biden specifically helped create this problem with his 2005 Bankruptcy Bill that made it nearly impossible to discharge student loan debt via bankruptcy. Read more