'Who in the hell do they think they are?' Biden picks fight with Cruz and Taylor Greene over student loans

President Joe Biden took aim at a few of his favorite targets Friday night in a speech at Delaware State University.

Flanked by risers full of black students to his right and left, he poured disdain on Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), and Rep. Vern Buchanan (R-Fla.), for their vocal opposition to the student loan forgiveness plan that Biden hopes will rescue Democrats’ dim midterm hopes.

Biden was at the school to tout his young voter turnout plan, which would forgive $10,000 in debt for borrowers making less than $125,000 a year. One wonders if the faculty, students and administration would even allow Greene or Ted Cruz to speak there.

Hampered only by the Botox that has made a caricature of his face, Biden wore pained and condescending facial expressions as he read from a script and improvised with the kind of bogus anecdotes that have made him famous.

“Their outrage is wrong and it is hypocritical,” said the president. “But you know, we’re not letting them get away with it. They’ve been fighting us in the courts. But just yesterday, state court and the Supreme Court said no, we’re on Biden’s side.”

Biden: I don’t want to hear it from Maga Republicans who had hundreds of thousands of dollars of debts, even millions of dollars in pandemic relief loans forgiven. Marjorie Taylor Greene, she and her husband got over $180,000 in business loans pic.twitter.com/WS9TPXIB2x

— Acyn (@Acyn) October 21, 2022

Someone must have told Biden, or at least put it in his speech to read, that on Thursday, Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett denied (without explanation) an emergency petition from Wisconsin that sought to block the program. For the record, there was no statement that the court was “on Biden’s side.”

Biden then referred to the fact that Republicans did not turn aside the assistance they were offered by the Paycheck Protection Plan when the federal government canceled their ability to go to work in 2020.

“I don’t want to hear it from MAGA Republicans, officials who had hundreds of thousands of dollars of debts, even millions of dollars in pandemic relief loans forgiven, who now are attacking me for helping working-class and middle-class Americans,” said Biden disdainfully.

“Marjorie Taylor Greene, she and her husband got $180,000 in business loans forgiven from the PPP program,” Biden said. “She said it’s completely unfair for us to forgive student loans for working and middle-class Americans.”

The difference between the programs, for starters, is that PPP and the CARES Act reimbursed people for the government’s reckless response to Covid, while student loan forgiveness would reimburse people for loans they took on voluntarily.

“Representative Buchanan of Florida said our plan was reckless. Guess how much he got in that program forgiven? Two million, three hundred thousand dollars,” he continued. There was no mention of the fact that Buchanan’s businesses would have made more than that if it had been allowed to stay open. Also, no mention that Biden’s wealth, amassed in part from corrupt practices and foreign entanglements, was unaffected by the shutdowns.

“Ted Cruz, the great senator from Texas,” Biden said. “He said [the program is] for slackers, quote, ‘slackers’ who don’t deserve relief. Who in the hell do they think they are?”

It is kind of fun to imagine the Biden team strategizing about where to hold this speech. Perhaps it would be advantageous, they spitballed, to have it in an area where Congressional seats are being hotly contested. No, said a naysayer, let’s have it somewhere that he is welcome – a Biden stronghold in a country bereft of such places. How about the University of Delaware?

Was the Biden team thinking to itself, hey, you know what we should do? We should preach to the choir! I think we can really convince those students at UD that they should support this plan! And the room erupted in cheers.

And we should put black students in the background, they went on. Wait, someone said, the University of Delaware is less than 6% black. Nah, said another, we’ll make it look like Grambling State University.

It’s reminiscent of the Geico ad set in a horror movie – “Let’s hide behind those chainsaws” says one daft young corpse-in-waiting. “Yeah, that’s smart,” says another.

Ever since Biden’s D-O-T gaffe, online memes have relentlessly made comparisons to Will Ferrell’s Ron Burgundy character. This tweet includes a picture of another dimwitted Ferrell character, Ricky Bobby:

Breaking news Biden 2 appear college 2 speech about student loan forgiveness!! Harvard Yale Princeton? No Delaware JC? Next he will appear @ Shawshank to offer bank robber forgiveness pic.twitter.com/EpfQwMJ14B

— jlf (@mrjimjim) October 21, 2022

Conservative commentators have repeatedly observed three things about the student loan “forgiveness” program, other than the fact that it is a socialist plan. First, it will make inflation worse. Second, it will only reward worthless degree programs and increase tuition costs. Third, it will cost taxpayers over $2,000 EACH!

If American taxpayers were allowed to vote on whether every legal citizen should write a check for $2,000 to help students pay off part of their debt, what are the chances it would pass? If you said 0%, you are likely off by a few percentage points, once you allow for voter fraud. Yes, that’s next-level election denying – that of an election that never happened.

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