No loans, but still absolute dread. I suspect a lot of people are going to die preventably in the next 4-12 years.
Maybe that will take your mind off of all the additional problems Trump is going to create from global warming, nuclear weapons proliferation from the New World Disorder, fallout from Fascism, destruction of health department, and increase in national debt from huge tax cuts for the rich etc.
Don't worry, most of those deaths are no longer preventable at this point, maybe they were preventable 10 or 20 years ago, but we're past multiple points of no return now.
Diseases, definitely. But I'm also thinking of friends and allies who will be shot to death when we pull our support out of places like Ukraine and Taiwan, innocent people trying to make a better life for themselves drowning in the Rio Grande, or committing suicide due to being banned from healthcare when they require lifesaving medications they can no longer get. Not to mention climate-related weather that Trump will slow walk support for, or will make worse through industrial deregulation or weakening of FEMA and NOAA.
The picture looks grim for many going forward.
You guys are acting like Trump is going to be driving around in a tank gunning down people that didn't vote for him.
By and large your life will not change much day-to-day. The worst thing you can do is give energy to something you cannot control. You voted and it doesn't work out. Now you focus on your daily happiness and don't try to let the big picture drag you down. There not much you can do about it anyway. May as well invest that energy into having something positive instead of dread.
son, you must have fallen down and hit your head, and missed the last go around from 2016 to 2020 when over One Million Fucking Americans died, bad, from a sandbagged and purposefully inept Trump led Federal Global Pandemic response, that saw The United States post higher numbers per capita of infections, hospitalizations, and death that any other countries in the world besides Russia, North Korea, and China. You aren't confusing any of the rest of us who lived through that horrorshow, and know he's going to make those numbers seem insignificant this time around. Go away. You're a trash troll.
As someone who belongs to several minority and marginalized groups and relies on benefits and support to be able to live, yes my life will change day to day. You're either very self centered and feeling like you're part of the "in group" or just uninformed. It's not unreasonable to think that my life could be totally upended for reasons completely out of my control by the end of the year. This is all completely ignoring the shift in the culture and the possibility of my blue state going red. Things are about to get bad for many people, very fast.
Presidents always choose people to die. He's been a *dick about disaster aid to states that didn’t vote for him and he’s made it very clear he's going to be worse this time around. He and his morally decaying party have made it clear they’re okay with women dying instead of allowing them necessary healthcare. They’re number on priority is targeting the trans community. His cabinet is a bunch of exorbitantly rich people and it’s primed to give ore money to billionaires. His secretary of defense is a psychopath, and they’ve pro-Israel and anti-Ukraine. RFK wants to get rid of vaccines which could kill or seriously maim hundreds of thousands maybe more. I could probably go on but I’ll let you raise any point other than downplaying people's legitimate fears.
By and large your life will not change much day-to-day.
Maybe if you're a middle-aged straight white guy...
Your second paragraph makes sense from my demographic too. I'm a cis white married father that has an education, a career, and a house in a reasonable cost of living area that's not prone to natural disasters. I am also on the rural-raised end of the white male computer nerd spectrum, so I wouldn't exactly get beaten up at a trump rally.
I have a pragmatic approach to happiness and life fulfillment, and yeah my little corner of the world here will probably be stable. Probably. But it has been a long time since I realized that giving a shit about the quality of life of other people is one of the most important things about finding some purpose and happiness in the world. Leading a life where you focus on helping others rather than focus on getting ahead of others will genuinely produce better results for oneself.
Before anybody asks, the arbiter of what constitutes "better results" is 90 year old me laying in bed thinking about my life.
So I am fortunate, and I am grateful for that. I think being ungrateful in my situation is not only ignorant, but insulting to those who society punches down on who would absolutely be grateful to have what I do. That's not being grateful to white Jesus for making me one of the chosen, btw, it's just appreciating that it's a good thing to use your dumb luck to improve the world rather than being yet another miserable rugged individualist born on second base and admiring those born on third and throwing rocks at everybody at bat.
The point of all this is that while I should be fine, and there will be bad things I can't change that I won't dwell on constantly, to put my head in the sand and live completely in my little bubble and ignore the others in the world would make my life worse.
I think the bigger problem are the people from within. We have some very bad people. We have some sick people, radical-left lunatics. And I think… and it should be very easily handled by, if necessary, by National Guard or if really necessary by the military, because they can't let that happen. -- Trump 2024
I'm fortunate. I worked two full-time jobs while going through full-time university. I got out with with minimal debt, which I paid off in about five years.
My sister's fortunate, too. She had multiple degrees and a lot of student debt, but she died of covid. The loans that my mom co-signed for might have lived on after my sister's death, except my mom died before my sister, so all her loans died with her. Student loan processors hate this one weird trick!
I really miss my family - yet at the same time, I'm really glad they're not around to see what's happened to the country.
My sister's fortunate, too. She had multiple degrees and a lot of student debt, but she died of covid
I was not expecting that turn.
I believe you and I define the word fortunate differently.
What's "parent loans"?
I'm guessing loans the parents took out for the child
From reading a lot of AITA, those parents loans are on the parents to pay back not the student.
Obviously the student could help the parents pay it back if they make enough but there were many posts about parents who didn't tell the kid about the loan then expect them to pay it back.
Nope. I still have 20+K in loans and just turned 40.
Thrilled to be at this place as it was over 100K. I got suckered with private loans for college but it let me get out of an even worse place/situation so it’s still a win.
Still I have absolute dread for what is to come.
My biggest concern was my birth control being outlawed because that would have the biggest impact on my daily life, but I just got approved for a hysterectomy so that worry is gone. My surgeon told me that I won't have any trouble getting the procedure done and hinted that she knows how to play the system. I'm having the procedure in the summer, so I just gotta wait at this point. I'll get an exact date next week.
Now my biggest fear (other than me existing as a gay woman in a very red area) is that my student loan payments, even with the SAVE plan, will be too much for me to afford.
Can someone please help me understand the reason? What action has Trump (or anyone) hinted at that will resolve around student loans, and how would paying them off early help with what they were saying?
Republicans in general are, as I would put it, in the pockets of banks, and someone more sympathetic to them would put it, "fiscally responsible." (An epithet I consider risible, but anyway...)
They have vocally and legally and through the legislature opposed and prevented, rolled back and increased the requirements to forgive student loans. A sympathetic person to their cause would say this is a moral choice because you should "repay what you owe," me, I don't buy that and would argue they get lots of donations from big banks to keep their cash cow alive.
Due to them being so ideologically opposed to so-called "debt forgiveness" (a misnomer to me as you can have paid back your loan multiplicatively but still be charged for it for the rest of your life due to interest and fees) makes people worry they will continue that beyond simply annuling Biden's administration's efforts and further push it to roll back decades-old protections and programmes.
Why? Well, as mentioned, a sympathetic viewer might call it "The right thing to do" if you believe that, say, if someone takes out loans to become a teacher, and there is a forgiveness programme that says if you teach for 10 years, teaching is so valuable and so understaffed that as a reward they'll forgive your loans, and you believe that is an unconsciable burden on the financial institutions that service the loans, and They Should Have Thought About That before taking up their profession- then you would take steps to eliminate such a program and ensure that those rascally teachers pay back their full debt that is owed, plus interest and fees.
Would that negatively affect education? Yes, but there are many (many!) people who believe that is an unfortunate but necessary side effect.
"But that sounds illogicial"
Within living memory we had the red scare, the lavender/pink scare, Jim Crow and segregation. All of which were considered legal and "moral" (by some) at the time.
