Well butter my butt and call me a biscuit

Trump Admin: Cap interest rates at 10%, but also we repeal the thirteenth amendment.

Democrats: No! What is wrong with you?!

Republicans: DEMONRATS WON'T WORK WITH US TO CAP INTEREST RATES AND ALSO THEY DRINK SMOOTHIES MADE OF BABIES!

Republican Voting Base: [Thunderous applause. 90% voter turnout. 99% voter loyalty.]

Everyone Else: I dunno, both parties seem the same. [Sub-50% voter turnout. Interfactional backstabbing intensifies.]

It's not polite, it's calling him out. Trump will say/lie about anything. At one point Trump said exactly this. He didn't mean it, he just said some shit.

Bernie is repeating his own words because occasionally Trump says something good without any intent to follow up.

So Bernie is taking him at his word. He knows Trump will never do it, but if he can call the hypocrite out and trick him into agreeing, why not?

To want to talk about 4D Chess? There it is.

I'd consider taking one beating vs 25% interest forever.

I'm thinking they want to put discharging debt on the chopping block.

What about this makes you think they aren't? Let's be real, Trump hasn't even had a chance to renege on this promise yet, since he won't be president for another two months.

Since trump's party controls the entire gov right now he is going to be pissed when he learns he can't blame his failures on the dems for most of the country.

I hope you are wrong

I don't see that as a real problem. Because as it is now, credit cards are something poor people should avoid at all costs.

Considering how many Americans have crippling credit card debt, especially poor people, would that be worse? I'm sure they'd still offer those credit builder cards with low limits that you have to deposit collateral for the limit.

Actually asking, not rhetorical: if poor people are already getting charged based on what they can afford, would this policy exert a downward force on prices?

So way less financing options, slightly more buying outright?

Sure, if we presuppose that credit cards exist as a way for a middleman company to make a huge profit and pay their CEO tens of millions of dollars annually. If we instead consider them a regulatable utility, the necessary rates for viable operation go pretty far down. The business model of “convenience is free or even costs less than cash for those who already have plenty, and this convenience is funded by the destitute who are being held down by the exact same people” is also suspect to begin with, and I’d rather DiSrUpT tHe EcOnOmY than remain complicit, which I am

Doubt.

No. He's calling trump out.

Yeah. One never can tell which way old men with possible dementia will twitch.

Hell, maybe he'll have a stroke and wake up with integrity and a conscience. Weirder things have happened to nicer people, after all.

Just like all that election fraud stuff. Totally joking guys. Got you good eh?

Bernie can’t even get a joke!

I hope you are joking.

Room temperature butter is superior in both sound and splatter.

Go on...

I'm not sure I want to imagine that in this context. Other contexts, no problemo. Just not this one.

You don't?

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Compare that to the ~30% I've seen, that's sadly an amazing shift (lol, which won't ever happen with the fascist caucus), but I commend Bernie for trying.

I'd never heard of this, how do the banks make any money on the card, annual fees or something?

Which country has interest free credit cards due to religious purposes? I googled it but did not find anything.

If Dems all act eager to act on Trump's actually good promises (untaxed tips for instance), it'll bite the GOP that much more when he backs out of those promises

We need to convince Trump that the way to win a legacy is to deliver something like universal health care. Present it as a display of personal power and his unique talents, and as a branding moment like no other (beyond Obamacare). 'The Democrats couldn't do it in 50 years, but I rammed it through in 2. Got the chair of Cigna on the phone and fired him personally. Now we all have Trumpcare and even Hillary has to praise it through gritted teeth...."

The GOP tied themselves so tightly to his star that they'd have to own the pivot, or find some way to retract their allegiance. And the rest of us could at least enjoy the historic worst-person-you-know-makes-a-greatipoint moment.

I'm sure he has some evil son of a removed on staff whose sole job is to ensure that nothing positive that trump lies about ever accidentally comes true.

Populists promise lots of good things; it’s just that most ring-wing populists tend to have their fingers crossed behind their back.

I work blue collar, and lots of us are hopeful he will do the tax free overtime. I think he was just saying that, and I didn't vote for him, but that would be game changer.

What good things that Trump did promise?

Flying cars.

I'm not joking.

You forgot the butter.

I agree with you, but I can't stop the mental image of Trump pacing back and forth worrying about his credit card debt only to concoct a scheme to become president to lower his own debts interest rate. Obviously, that's not what happened but the thought is just so funny to me in the moment.

Didn't Democrats literally just take him to court over fleecing those bankers by overvaluing his own properties in order to qualify for a lower interest rate? What exactly makes you think he's in bed with them?

I read this more as “put up or shut up”. The donvict spews forth floods of verbal diarrhea, hoping no one is willing to look too closely or even remember the specific colors and chunks. This is Bernie fishing out a juicy chunk and saying: let’s go

I know right?

Goodbye. Now give me the 10%.

They shouldn't exist in the first place.

The space for them exists within the monology over transactions that shouldn't generate margins that high.

If the mechanism by which I get 1% cash back is that it directly comes from the poor...good. this is a good thing. You are a bad person if you think it's not.

Nah. Rewards cards live and die on transaction fees. They generally go to people with credit knowledge that know to pay off the card at the end of the month.

I mean that's certainly a possibility but if it helps some people get out of debt, I won't be mad about it.

I don’t understand, why don’t they just eat cake?

The interest rate is charged if you don't make your payments. Otherwise, you get rewards each time you spend which makes things a little cheaper.

Starve now, or later?

Because it's very difficult to live in our society without a credit history.

I use my credit card all the time, and it's set to auto pay off all of it every month, so there is never any interest charged. It basically delays the time my money leaves my bank account from the time of purchase to up to a month later, with no downside, while building credit history. The interest may be 300%, I don't care because I'm never charged it.