Yeah, we're all Millenials who can be patronized to cuz we don't know any better.

[TalkingDog]

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https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/631538115514007553

HRC Tweet: How does your student loan debt make you feel? Tell us in 3 emojis or less.


Hint HRC, a lot of people who are still paying off student loans are in their 30's 40's 50's and beyond. Instead of a flippant one off, how about you ask a substantial adult question on the subject and maybe we all can have an grown up conversation?


If this needs to go to Primaries, feel free to move.

[hatrack]

1. Well, that was a less-than-stellar effort on her campaign's part . . . wince-inducing

I'm sure there'll be an intern's head on a pike by this time tomorrow.

[Juicy_Bellows]

2. Say what?

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

3. Are those your three emojis? nt

[Juicy_Bellows]

5. I have no student debt and I'm a gen xer.

It was my quick take on using DU emojis to try and convey the horseshit that is that tweet.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

6. Ditto here, but

my housemate still has more student loan debt than I've got left on the mortgage. So it's definitely not just a millennials issue.

[Juicy_Bellows]

7. Oh yeah. I hear that.

It was all around tone deaf.

[Cleita]

4. Showing herself to be out of touch with

with the real world of the people who might vote for her.

[Beartracks]

8. Yes to the 30s, 40s, and 50s...

I know people who had to defer so long, their loans are like 4 and 5 times the original borrowed amount now.

Even on income-based repayment plans, which are helpful, the balance owed keeps increasing. At least after 30 years of that, the remaining balance is forgiven, but that's still a long time to have that sword hanging over one's head.

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[LiberalElite]

9. Holy Fucking Flippant!

[backscatter712]

10. Yep. Definitely a campaign social media fail.

Oh, what we wouldn't do for a candidate that gets it, instead of a candidate that pretends to get it, and fails.

[elleng]

11. Martin O'Malley: I addressed student debt in MD—today I announced a plan for the nation.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12811386

[seveneyes]

12. It's all going to the dogs

[LiberalElite]

13. I clicked on the link and tweeted a sarcastic response and then -

scrolled down and found some were actually tweeting three emojis.

[alcibiades_mystery]

20. You're not going to like the actual primary election results either

[LiberalElite]

21. I do believe the tables will be turned. You will need different emojis then. nt

[alcibiades_mystery]

22. We shall see, my homie

We shall see.

[Warren DeMontague]

14. If boomers think of you at all, they imagine you wearing diapers and sucking your texting thumbs.

After all, those who can still remember Dylan plugging in at Newport Folk festival don't REALLY want to be reminded that the "kids" graduating High School this year were born the year The Notorious B.I.G. released "mo money mo problems".

Don't feel bad, my generation is hitting early middle age and they still think we're goatee and nose ring-wearing starbucks slackers who listen to "that Nirvana" all day.

You have one advantage on us, though, and that's sheer demographic size:




The Boomers may not realize it- or like it- but sooner or later they will need to take you seriously, which is one piece of respect we never got from them.

[Rockyj]

15. NOT JUST MILLENNIALS!

I'm A BOOMER! 80's Undergraduate loan & 2000 graduate loans = $28,664! Since 2007 I've paid $288 per month BUT still owe $45,033! Yes I had some deferments and forbearance (I was a single parent of two daughters) & have been making payments off & on since 1991,however, I'VE made every monthly payment since 2007 & NOTHING HAS GONE TOWARDS THE PRINCIPLE!
I CAN NEVER OWN A HOME or RETIRE, OR LEAVE ANYTHING FOR MY DAUGHTERS!

[bobclark86]

16. (sad face) (explosion) (gun) is a good start

Sums it up for sadly far too many.

[UTUSN]

17. Well, I didn't incur student debt by selling 4yrs of life into military.

My now-discredited hero was Charlie RANGEL, who said that the reason minorities went into the military was because they couldn't get jobs or school.

[dsc]

24. Doesn't your post kind of prove his point

He didn't say the couldn't get into schools it was that they couldn't pay for them. And yes, for a minority with just a high school diploma the job market is likely pretty crappy.

[PoliticAverse]

18. Some of the responses are hilarious. n/t

[irisblue]

19. I liked this one

How does it feel that your Donors are responsible for the crippling student debt? Tell us in 3 emojis or less. @HillaryClinton

[Calista241]

23. I just hope she realizes that MOST millennials aren't going to college

and need well paying jobs more than anything.

[Egnever]

25. In her defense

Pretty hard to do a substantial adult question in 150 chars or less.

[MADem]

26. You need to move it. The hosts do not have the ability to move posts. nt

[IVoteDFL]

28. My 3 Emojis

[TexasTowelie]

29. Locking thread.

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