Frustrated that Biden did not answer the 2nd to last question (on the $10K student loan write-off)

[Celerity]

42. As I said to another poster, I am now on the 'he will not even try to do it' camp for the first time

I was OTT with my FUD allegations, I apologise, sincerely.

He should not have made it such a big part of his campaign pitch, especially to us younger voters, IMHO.

I have said about as much as I am going to on the subject. I think it is going to hurt us in 2022 and 2024. I am sure some here (not saying you btw) will vociferously disagree.

I will be fully open, as you are a good faith poster, always have been from what I seen over my time here. I am fucking burnt out trying to be a go-to Dem/US overall morale booster for my off-DU life. The negative feedback I get almost daily would make heads explode here, and this is NOT from any RWer types at all. I cannot overstate the hatred for Manchin and Sinema that I am exposed to, it is exhausting, but the frustration is far beyond just them (they are just a focal point).

I got fucking blindsided on probably the biggest area of concern in my social set, climate change/green legislation/actions by this:

Revealed: Biden administration was not legally bound to auction gulf drilling rights

Justice department admits a previous ruling did not force the detonation of what environmentalists call ‘huge carbon bomb’

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/dec/13/revealed-biden-administration-was-not-legally-bound-to-auction-gulf-drilling-rights

The Biden administration admitted that a court decision did not compel it to lease vast tracts of the Gulf of Mexico for oil and gas drilling, shortly before claiming it was legally obliged to do so when announcing the sell-off, the Guardian can reveal.

Last month, the US government held the largest-ever auction of oil and gas drilling leases in the Gulf of Mexico’s history, offering up more than 80m acres of the gulf’s seabed for fossil fuel extraction. The enormous sale, which took place just four days after crucial UN climate talks in Scotland, represented a spectacular about-turn from Joe Biden’s previous promise to halt offshore drilling and was denounced by outraged environmental groups as a “huge carbon bomb”.

The president’s administration insisted it was obliged to hold the lease sale due to a court ruling in favor of a dozen states that sued to lift a blanket pause placed on new drilling permits by Biden.

But a memo filed by the US Department of Justice before the lease sale acknowledges that this judgement does not force the government to auction off drilling rights to the gulf.

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smdh