Weekly Skews - Weekly Skews 8/30/22 – Debt Jubilee

Episode Date: August 31, 2022

Tonight we’ll be discussing the backlash to Biden's student loan policy, i.e. we'll be making fun of just how furious Republicans are at the prospect of millions of Americans receiving some debt relief. Join us. Support the show

Hey, everybody. Welcome back. Happy Skews Day to you. It is August 30th, 2020. I'm Trey Crowder, and that's Mark Aegee. What's up, Mark? Not in Trey, I spent a large part of the day going through a wormhole, a rabbit hole, about, you know, it happens constantly, but libertarians try to start their own countries, but they always fail because they forget to do it. stuff like Bill Rhodes and shit. Yeah. There's a hot new one off the coast of Honduras called Prospero. And it's a bunch of fail sons like Ronald Reagan's kids, a bunch of people that work from the Nixon administration and a sign of the Habsburg line, you know, the Crooked Jaw people from the medieval times.

And they're mainly using it to do Bitcoin mining, have a call center, and do some off the book's gene splicing research that the libs in the healthcare industry won't me do. You know, you know how the woke libs won't you like you splice like dark frog DNA anti-human babies. Sure. Whatever, whatever. Yeah, it's a classic liberal platform right there.

What's the, what are they trying to do? They're trying to create like, you know, I don't know, where conservative or like Uber conservatives or something? Build a perfect soldier. Anti-Antifa Super Soldiers. They can survive on nothing but rainwater, human flesh, and they're coming for taxes. I don't know. Well, that sounds fun.

Yeah. At least those never work out, like you said. No, it turns out to build a society, you have to actually have a society. So it's like that society don't hit for them. Society has shut like age of consent law. running water so before I get to the show so DeSantis

fell on his step on his own dick this week a little bit in a way it's going to ruin two dozen people's lives but so his election integrity cops which he started because of all you know the voter fraud sure they stayed a bunch of early morning swat raids on people who voted these were that'll show them

yeah these were remember a couple years ago they had a ballot an issue one of the few things Koch brothers are good about is they're for giving felons a right to vote back on some libertarian stuff.

But so voters passed a ballot initiative but it did not hit for Republicans because they're going to give everybody the right if they'd serve their time, they could vote again without it they weren't murderers or sex offenders. Right. Yeah. So these people were felons like, hey, am I allowed to vote? And the county said, yeah, you can vote.

Here's your voter registration. So then they voted. And then the state says, no, actually, they didn't go through the full process. They went to the house and arrest of them. Probably thought they could railroad them and make a big show of their arrests, which they did. But also, um, you usually force poor people to plea out,

but a bunch of election, like rights lawyers got involved and represent these people pro bono. And the law explicitly states you have to knowingly, illegally vote. So the government's got no case here. Right. It's fucking gross, man. Yeah.

Florida. Yeah. Anybody thinks of the Sanchez is better than Trump is wrong, in my opinion. Um, for sure. I mean, he's like, you know, uh, he's the thing I feel like we've been talking about for years where it's like, you know, the next Trump not being as much of a clown as him or having like some degree of competency or whatever, but being just as terrible. So I mean, yeah, not looking forward to the, you know, DeSantis rise. So desantis is definitely going to lose this, which is great because today we're going to be talking about a lot of winning and winning making assholes very, very mad. And the last. And the last. thing before we get to the show is one of the private, one of the special elections last Tuesday and a pretty Trumpy district in western New York, this guy named Pat Ryan, who's a Democrat, won by being explicitly hardcore pro-abortion, pro-choice. And like, I want to watch this ad and think about how cowardly other Democrats are. They run away from this issue sometimes.

When our country called, he served. Pat Ryan graduated from West Point and risked his life in combat he fought for our families for our freedom and freedom includes a woman's right to choose how can we be a free country if the government tries to control women's bodies

that's not the country I fought to defend I'm Pat Ryan and I approve this message because in Congress I'll fight to protect all of our freedoms Yeah. So cable news people were freaking out because this is a pretty important bellwether because it was like a Trump plus 12 district and this guy won it in a low turnout election, which is usually good for Republicans. Right. So he's like the first Republican to go all in with anti-abortion message. And this is a huge test case for the party straight to the midterm. So that's good. Hi.

Yeah. Was it the message or was it the classic like, oh, hello there. I'm Pat Ryan that he did. it a couple of times. The complete lack of charisma. Yeah, right. Like of charisma still pulled it off, baby. So I think it's, uh, that's important. Fired up. Women are pissed off.

Dads are pissed off. Everybody's fucking pissed off. And for once, they're pissed off with the right people where the people that are emiserating their children and making their lives worse. So yay. Hell yeah. Everybody's rowed in the same direction for once.

I like it. Right on. Okay. Well, let's get into it. Well, this is always this producer, Matt. This is weekly skews. I do want to remind you, of course, of two things real quick. Number one, if you'd like to see me perform live, you can go to traycrowder.com.

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Either way it works, sign up on there, get some more skews in your life. Okay, as for the show tonight, just after last week's episode, Joe Biden, of course, announced this big student loan forgiveness plan, offering much-needed debt relief to millions of Americans, a move which has naturally incensed. the American right wing, we'll talk about their ensuing meltdown as we go through the show. But first, of course, we begin with The Daily Dumbass. Matt, graphic, please. Tonight's D.D., me and Mark, for clearly choosing the wrong majors in college. Let's hear from who else, Lauren Bobert.

How the heck can Joe Biden call America First Conservatives a threat to democracy with a straight face and a dry diaper. He's the one who has allowed millions to invade our southern border. He's the one who is robbing, hardworking Americans to pay for Karen's daughter's degree in lesbian dance theory. Lesbian dance theory. Normally they go with like, you know, the basket weaving or the whatever type thing, you know, which I know we got some of that later.

But yeah, this one, I don't know. I feel like that's a degree with legs right there. You know, I feel like there's a market, mount market out there for, She brought up the underwater basket weaving thing, which does come up later in the show. I looked up the origin of it, and there's a whole Wikipedia page dedicated to that old joke. And I was like, where did it come from? The first known mentions are like newspaper editorials in the 1950s. They've been doing this bit about how kids are getting meaningless college degrees since our grand, our me-maws were townies fucking the college boys.

Yeah. And somehow society has survived with a nation-based. built in nothing but underwater basket weavers and lesbian dance theory majors, which anybody looks at what majors are in college campuses nowadays. It's all STEM stuff. And the fuck off degrees are like these sports. Right. So like, I don't.

Well, it's also just like, it's weird to, like, no one should buy the idea that the only people that have outside student loan debt are the ones who, you know, picked an odd degree or whatever. It's like, it's everybody. it's all the all the good degrees too all the engineering stem shit like you said like it's everybody because that's just how it works you know like I really don't get what their point is supposed to be when they bring those up and we're gonna get into all of it but like it's also like people people take out student loans to go to cosmetology school and like and get those commercial

driver's licenses and like it's this idea that plus a bunch of people don't finish college to go to two years and still leave with a bunch of debt um so it's just I don't know they got nothing to say about this stuff. And we got a bunch of more dumb asses saying dumb shit about this in the main segment. But I just want to give you guys a taste because this is what losing looks like is you're making fun of people that don't exist. So, all right, our first honorable mention is anybody who thought Gina Carrano's career was over after she got ousted from the Mandalorian for being hard right? Now, she's still going strong. Check out the trailer for her new film My Son Hunter

So I'll tell you what's going down You know who I am I told me you were VIP I'll connect you to the government What kind of a moron forgets to pick up This laptop at a repair shop You're a Biden Act like everything he built

Life I just ruined it all I want to know everything that's on that laptop That can ruin my erection My friends It's time to five So we talked about this movie on a Patreon episode a couple of weeks ago, but the trailer hadn't out yet. And I am very excited about this, about this trailer.

This is pure cinematic quality. The life and times of Hunter Biden partying is fucking out. They make it look like leaving Las Vegas. I know. It's like, it's just, we talked about this a little bit before the show, but it's like so often they seem to make us out to be, like, rad on accident, you know what I mean? It's like making liberals look, you know, cooler than they need to by talking about all the, like, you know, the Satan and party shit,

all the fucking, you know, sex parties and devil stuff. It's like, yeah, that, you know, sounds like a good time. I got way too little sex parties and devil stuff in my day planner, personally. I dislike, so that movies, there's also all these people are already suing each other that's happened after, but like apparently Robert Dobby, who's, you know, the actor from the Goonies directed this, but apparently he didn't actually direct that. He never actually showed up.

So, like, the director of photography actually directed to the movies. They're all suing each other for credits and stuff. So, uh, this movie, these people are going to sue each other for way more money that this movie's going to make, which is funny as shit to me. Turns out you can't trust people that are making... Right. That's what I... That's exactly what I was about to say. I can't believe the people involved

in this, uh, motion picture, you know, seem to lack scruples or integrity or, you know, an ability to work together. This is part of, like, the backlash against the student loan stuff, too, is, like, these people live in a universe of free money. Like, this movie's not going to make any money. I can appreciate what we're talking about, like, this is the right-wing donor is going

to prop this thing else. So Robert Dobby is going to get a bunch of free money as a Gina Carano, whatever, for an unprofitable bad idea. Lauren Bobert's husband, we just talked about her student loan thing. Lauren Bobber's husband I just saw has a no-show job as a consultant for Colorado oil and gas company. It makes half a million dollars a year. So when they're actually people to get jobs, just remember what all these people's actual jobs are, just being on some consultants, some, you know, commenters called Wingnut Welfare.

Like, for me and Trey Pivoted to make a right-wing content, some, some Koch brothers pass through would just give us a little cartoon. Yeah. Bill's coming to a fucking time. Yeah. I wouldn't mind one of them no-show jobs. You know, that sounds pretty, pretty sweet gig, but, you know, what are you going to do? I'm not the type to look for a handout, though. You know what I mean?

But yeah, no show consulting job. That'd be all right. Okay. Next arm will mention Joe Biden for starting to try and stuff, I guess. Let's just play this clip here. I'd say, whose side are you on? Whose side are you on? Compare the volume there with this measured line from the inaugural address.

The president said, we can join forces, stop the shouting, and lower the temperature. The president who said, on his first day, he thinks unity is the path forward, is now telling people instead to pick a side. Shannon? They never cease to amaze me. It's like these mother, the fucking, the fuck your feelings, you know, commie socialist, lib, turd, queer fucking people, all the shit that they've been saying forever.

talking about unity is truly something. Like they've, like we're the problem with unity in this country. You know, now they want to like, you know, join hands and sing kumbaya and shit. That's what we're supposed to believe, apparently. Yeah, Fox News has been a full-on meltdown all the week because Joe Biden in a speech a couple days ago called them the mega movement semi-fascist. And these are people who are calling Joe Biden a full-on-communist for forgiving $10,000 in student, don't they? are mad about being called fascists for trying to imprison their political enemies

and overthrow the democratic process. So, yeah, that clip really hit for me. I've quoted this idea before, but there was a piece I read that really stuck to me last year. I think the new republic called Democrats don't want to answer the question. And the question was,

whose side are you on? And there's Joe Biden picking a fucking side. And I like it. Because, like, politics is about who wields power. who gets to allocate resources. So, like, if you elect the other side, they're going to, like, give power to fascists and allocate resources to billionarily coal companies. If you elect us, we're going to be the side of the other 98% of people and allocate resources to help you do stuff like you offer your student loans and pay for school and pay for health care and so forth. There are sides.

Countries have sides. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Now, yeah. And again, just the, you know, the, they're like, that. name calling is like one of their number one jams, you know what I mean? And, you know, one of the most popular ones is snowflakes.

And then they get all up in arms and they get called one little name, like semi-fascists or whatever. But, yeah, I mean, it's ridiculous. But, you know, I mean, that's sort of their primary speed. I mean, what are you going to do? We just showed a clip where Lauren Boehbert made a joke about Joe Biden and sitting his pants, which is fine. I don't care. Yeah, I don't care. That was like one of Trump's big things was.

coming up with stupid middle school grade nicknames for the people he was pissed at. That's like a signature move of his. But yeah, we shouldn't be calling. When they're not calling Joe Biden evil like, you know, Sith Lord to call him sleepy. So I guess they got to pick aside which net, what's that? Evil or sleepy? Which one is like because it can't be evil and asleep. Yeah.

Well, that's another classic thing they do. It's like, you know, we're limp-risted, you know, soy boys. You can't get anything done. but also fucking Antifa Super Commanders who are bringing society to its knees or whatever. Like, you know, doesn't make any sense. But again, they're not really in the sense making business. Speaking of which, our next honorable mention for Daily Domain. Your transition.

Is bikes for being bent sometimes or not anyway, it's Herschel Walker. Herschel Walker is still standing. My bike is not bent, so anyone can ride my bike. Like, he seemed to have Chuck Schumer and Joe Biden ride in his bike because he seemed to be voting for whatever they say. Okay. What? I have no idea. I basically, yeah.

So, Warnock, we showed that Tim, that Pat Ryan at earlier. And I just wanted to say that, like, I think Warnock's fucking up his campaign because he's running as himself. And I like Raphael Warnock. He's a nice, kindly old minister dude, but he's running the kitchen table. We're going to get your insulin prices down 20% sort of campaign. Meanwhile, Herschel Walker is a mean asshole who literally put a gun to his ex-wife's head. And his own head, to be fair, Mark, also his own head many times. I think if you explicitly go after people hard, it's a better campaign strategy.

But I guess it's not Warnock personality, or he's getting bad. information from consultants because right now he's holding behind Herschel Walker who says shit like my bike's not bent. That's not good. Yeah, I know. I don't even know why I'm wasting breath trying to parse that, but it's like he said, my bike's not bent so anyone can ride my bike

and then he shits on Warnock for having people riding his bike, evidently. So I'm not sure where he stands on bikes. He needs to quit flip-flopping on bikes, all right? Pick aside, Mark. Pro-bent or anti-bent bikes. I don't know what to

fuck is going on anymore. Anyway, our next honorable mention Donald Trump for not being stupid enough to commit

crimes. Hit it, Matt. But before we go to our great guests, let me ask you a question. If you're going to commit a crime, you

keep the video home on 24-7? I don't know. Would you? It seems kind of stupid, doesn't it? Uh-huh.

Well, would you do it in front of the service? I don't know. That seems kind of stupid, doesn't it? Well, that's what you're expected to believe. It's like, it's such a great example. That thing they do sometimes where it's like they say something, you know, and you're just sitting there like, right, yeah. Yeah.

It does, it does seem kind of stupid, but that's exactly why it's easy for us to believe, you know, on account of stupid shit. I know the sick of service is largely a law enforcement agency, but they're explicitly not tasked to enforce the law on the people, then they're protectives. Like, Hunter Biden is surrounded by sick of service while he's smoking crack and having sex or prostitutes. It's not their business to fucking get involved in this. It's a job to keep their mouths shut as the Praetorian Guard for our political elite. So, yeah, they're not going to, like, be like, hey, that box doesn't go there. Shame on you, Mr. President.

Yeah, not really their thing. No. All right. Also, we got Trump for hiding stealth bomber plans in Melania's underwear drawer, apparently. Another clip here. They went outside the four corners of what that warrant authorized them to do. Including Melania's closet. Right.

And eventually, they'll be, you know, trophy photos will show up. We're going to find out that FBI agents are sitting there, you know, holding up her lingerie or whatever. And those photos will come out eventually. It might be, you know, 10 years from now, but they'll be out. Clean point. All right. So, yeah, this guy definitely just has been to watch the Sopranos and just got to the episode where after Chris gets made, they're see specific to random searches and Polly goes through Adriano's underwear drawer.

So I love that I can tell exactly where it was out of the Sopranos Ben's Watch. But they've been making, like, again, we're talking about like this is what losing looks like. There's no fucking excuse. There's just nothing that can say. It's all so stupid. right and literally all they have is threats of violence which is what lindsay graham said this shit yeah we just remember lindzy graham used to be sort of sane he was like best friends with uh john mccain and was a lawyer in the air force yeah lindsay graham's got like a very sane and honestly like

respectable backgrounds uh and then which is why you know it's a shame yeah he'd be now uh including shit like this. If there's a prosecution of Donald Trump for mishandling classified information, after the Clinton debacle, which you presided over and did a hell of a good job, there'll be riots in the streets.

Lansing threatening. The always threatening and imposing Lindsey Graham, prophesying wrath in the face of us expecting, you know, accountability for anyone. I don't doubt that the scene out

outside the courthouse and trumps whatever trial would, the hypothetical trial that probably never happened would be a scene. But some of the how the fascist brain works for a minute, fascists are encouraged by apathy and by winning. Their leader getting arrested would not cause and would not motivate fascists. It would dispirate them, right? They're also not used to play in this game. It took them months to plan January 6th.

They did it out in the open, but nobody was paying. attention, and the whole FBI and Secret Service was caught flat-footed as was the Capitol Police. They will not be caught flat-footed a second time. And so I don't think that would be the reaction. I think some systematic terrorism, I think some assassination attempts on prosecutors would be likely maybe a bomb threat against the judge. But it's also just such a wild thing to openly say, just like threatening violence, you know, in response to, like I said,

the idea of accountability or like the law mattering, you know what I mean? It's like you guys have to learn to, you know, turn your heads to this type of shit and just let us do it. Because if you don't, we're going to take to the streets and burn everything down. God damn it. Yeah. It's essentially exactly what he's saying. And that's just, that's a wild thing for a sitting senator to be saying openly. But yeah.

If you, here's the thing. If you take out more money that you can pay back in student loans, fuck you. You did the crime. You do the time. You try to over to the government and keep plans for the stealth bomber next to wet eggs at a breakfast bubble. Then we get to get away with it because fuck you, right? Yeah, right. Exactly.

So what's this thing you have in here about him going, Trump going full cue? Oh, so people are paying less attention to Trump, which is largely good. But also, one thing no one's noticing is getting more and more explicitly crazy. So he had a shitstorm on truth social this morning When he posted like 60 times in an hour And most of it was retrups Which is there retweeting of like explicitly Q content Now before when he retweeted Q content

Was more like dog whistles he might have not noticed Like maybe the name was like like Where we go go one, we go all which is what's the Qon on catchphrase or whatever But this is like explicitly the storm is coming I am Q type stuff He also posted a statement of the day about how he was going to to be reinstated as president, which people reported he thought that, but then he denied it because it's crazy.

Right. Yeah, I saw I'm saying, yeah, the only option was to throw out the results of the election and have a brand new one right now, today, whole new election, where, you know, the right person would win. Also, didn't he frame that, if I'm remembering correctly about, was that the thing where he was saying, like, the fact that they ignored Hunter Biden's laptop right before the election because they knew that it would give Trump the victory. And that's why he deserves a new election,

which is like kind of what really did happen to Hillary Clinton right before his election when the investigation was opened into our emails or whatever. Anyway, I don't know why. Yeah, so they were set aflame by Mark Zuckerberg went on Joe Rogan's podcast and said that the FBI came to them and asked them to bury, kind of sort of bury the Hunter Biden laptop story because it was Russian dissimple as if, like, Hunter Biden's laptop existing, which no one's ever said anything as bad as on it.

And the do of a Hunter Biden's laptop existing, what if swung the election of Trump therefore the election doesn't count. So. Okay. Yeah. Who knows? All right. Our final honorable mention of her Daily Dumbass, anybody who thought Rudy couldn't go like a big boy?

That's right. Here tells us right here. So here they're saying things like there's going to be a big dump and, and, and, you know, And there was a big dump. I put out the big dump to the New York Post. Yeah. At least he don't have the poop water on his face anymore, you know. Yeah.

It's one of those ones is, I think he's talking about like election fraud information. Yeah, right. They called it. That was like the terminology they were using right at the time. A big dump of fraudulent votes or whatever it was supposed to be. I don't remember. But dump was their nomenclature. for it. Yeah. There's no big

takeaways from that one. That was just... It's just funny. It just Rudy sounds like he's talking about pooping and poop stuff, which is always a good time. I enjoyed it too. All right. Well, let's get into it. The debt Jubilee. All right. So Joe Biden

canceled a fairly token amount of student debt. It'll make a pretty big difference in a lot of people's lives, but also it won't be enough for a lot of people. And some people, like I paid off my student loans. I won't get any relief, which is fucking fine. These people that are like I didn't get it. So you didn't get it.

I don't understand. No, I know. I don't either. Last week I made one of my videos about the student loan thing, and that's one of the things I brought up. That shit drives me crazy because, like I said in the video, so, you know, my dad died of pancreatic cancer, right? He's gone. Been gone since 2013. If they announced a miracle cure for pancreatic cancer, one of the worst cancers out there tomorrow, I'm not going to be like, oh, okay.

So all these like entitled cancer havers out here. just get to go on being alive. Is that it? Is that how it works in Joe Biden's America? Like, I just don't, I just don't understand that. I mean, it's just fucking, like, selfishness and pettiness and whatever. It's not like it's that difficult to understand, but it's just so baldly shitty that it's wild made of people don't realize it's when they're saying stuff like that. It's just sorry.

Yeah. I think this is a pretty, I think it's a good policy that doesn't go far enough, which is pretty much the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the. The Democrat's slogan is, it's pretty good. It's all, which are you going to get. Whatever. It's better.

Pretty good is better than nothing. Fucking each shit. Yeah, absolutely. But it's also a pretty funny moment in U.S. politics because Biden did something good. They won't really affect anyone else. Like they're trying to spin this and like it means, oh, taxpayers to pay it off. It's not true. It's not.

The government does not have to pay back its debt. It just does not. So a lot of these student debts wouldn't have been paid back anyway. People would have died in debt. And a 10 grand would still be on. the book. All it does is affect their credit rating and increase their chances of one day being able to pay it off. But it's still like, but Republicans still salted the earth over this middling just pretty good policy that it doesn't affect anybody else other than the

people who have their death forgiven and made themselves with like total clowns. And I saw a bunch of centrist saying this, this is pun, saying this would cause electoral backlash, but I really don't understand how. And if it does, like that's scarcity mindset we're just talking about where I didn't get it so you can't get it. We're so far gone. If that's I don't know how we continue being a fucking society. I don't get like an electoral backlash against the Democrats, they mean, in response to this. But like, yeah, I don't understand that either. It feels to me like it would be the opposite.

It felt like, you know, a move to, you know, help fire up the base further. Like, people that are, I just, I don't get it. I feel like there's bound to be plenty of people. Maybe they're on the fence who have student loans, you know, that this will help out that might, you know, influence them to be more pro-democrat, but I feel like all the people that are like truly pissed off by this because, oh, it's unfair and fucking lazy basket weavers and all that shit. Like, I don't think they were like going to be a factor for the Democrats. Like, they were probably pretty locked in.

I don't understand how that's supposed to work. And this is, this applies to 40 million Americans, 40 million whose lives has got better. And it's not just those 40 million. And those 40 million are also married to people who don't have college yet. They're brothers and sisters that people don't have college debt. They're sons and daughters of people that don't have college debt. So the people that are positively going to like this are way more than the 40 million. Yeah.

But it's still like it was so funny because centrists were saying that this is going to cause electoral backlash. It's a bad idea for Biden to do. And the Republicans are saying this is Joe Biden buying votes. I know. That's what right. That's what I'm saying. That's what I mean. I didn't know.

I hadn't heard the, I didn't realize there were people. people saying, oh, this is going to cause a big backlash. Because, like I said, I had seen the opposite. Like you said, it was like, yeah, it's like a bribe. It's like, oh, it's so transparent what they're doing with the midterms coming up. They think they can just help a bunch of people and just get away with it, you know, or whatever. I mean, I thought that was stupid, too, but I definitely thought that was the primary argument. It's like it's just a bargaining chip or whatever.

But is there no more Democrat reaction, like centrist Democrat reaction, then Democrats doing something to help people and Republicans being like, oh, no, we lost this one. People are going to like being helped and they're going to want more help. And then Central Democrats being like, oh, no, we won. This sucks for us. Now we're going to lose. Yeah, I know. Yeah, I don't get it.

So the $10,000 of $20,000, which is like for Pell Grants. You have to apply for this. It's going to be a probate. So like, you're just not going to be automatic grant into you. You've got to fill out forms and shit. So if you're listening to this, you think you just got it. No, go Google how to get into it, right? But he's not just for giving a set amount of dealt. He also enacted a new policy to exceed the ends excess interest rates in student loans.

Right. And as long as far as pays their minimum monthly payment, which is not got only 5% of their income. Their balance will no longer increase. That's probably a bigger deal than a 10 and $20,000. No, I know. Yeah. That's, it's wild to me that that had, I mean, I've seen it brought up, but it felt like it should have been more of a headline to me. Because like you said, it's like, yeah, there's a lot of people with much more than, you know, 10K or 20K or whatever.

But this like applies, you know, to everybody pretty much. If you're in a position where it's really hurting you or strapping you, regardless of how much of it there is in total, this is still going to be hugely beneficial. So it's like, you know, it's even more far reaching than people thought because of that. I do want to say when I talk about it not being the 10,000, not being that huge of a deal. I don't mean just in those people's lives or not being a helpful thing. I mean, in context of U.S. government spending, I think this costs like half a billion dollars, which is a penny pennies for the federal government. and the government gives away much more money

to a bunch of other people that no one ever cares they also do a bunch of debt relief stuff they just Joe Biden's forgiven a bunch of other student loans they sort of forgave billions of dollars and loans to the people got for profit schools or essentially ripoffs

like they've already forgiven other classes of student debt no one made a big deal about they forgive PPP loans we're going to talk about and so this is why the people's reactions are so stupid So let's talk about some dumb-ass reactions to this shit. Let's have some fun.

Please. Here's Don Jr.'s fiancé, Kimberly Guilfoil. People that are working hard, enough of this nonsense. I mean, paying offload for people that don't want, they want to have some bizarre basket weaving, you know, a degree. There it is. All of us, people watching across this country, hardworking men and women to subsidize their laziness

and their inability to even try to contribute to society. so there it is if you have student loans you don't have a job I guess is the message I do want to point out this is a woman who's big genius stroke in her career was marrying Gavin Newsom and then trying to marry Don Jr

and going on Fox News she also got paid $180,000 for a no-show job for the Trump campaign and got $60,000 to do a 90-second speech in January 6th we talk about these people live in a world where free money falls into their lap this is what I'm talking about right and also

So it's the law she did the underwater basket we can do it. So, and I saw on there, she's like, her organization's called MAGA again, which like, I do, I get it. I do understand it, but it's still funny to me. It's make America great again again. Yeah. This thing's appropriate. They should do like an attorney's general thing where it's like make America's great again or something. That would have it for me.

This is a guy, this guy was working in the George Dutters, sneering contempt for this asshole has for everyone. else in America who's working and can't afford to pay their odds. I think many important and smart things have been said at this table. So I'll just add a couple. I feel like we've reached the Joker phase of the Biden presidency. Oh, we're lacking now. Hell yeah. He's riding a parade float down Pennsylvania Avenue, just tossing money out the window here.

Again, it's totally lawless. Sounds pretty sweet. It completely is in violation of our norm. You got a president. I want to go to a money parade with Biden in a purple suit and shit. know. Sounds wild to me. It's funny you started that out with like, there's been a lot of important and truly smart things out on this table. So I'm going to, I'm going to do a couple more real quick. I got a couple more smart and important things for you.

Do you much free media you got you would get if Joe Biden really did this? Took a, took like, like $10 million of Democratic campaign cash. Instead of spending it on ads and consultants to do dumb shit, just literally had a parade in a purple suit and threw money out, that would get you more votes. That one hits so fucking hard. All right. Now, one of the most annoying one of these, here's

Marco Rubio, almost called Rick Rubio. There's no reform. Let's start with this. I talked about the fact we need to reform student loans. I owed over $100,000 in student loans. The day I got elected to the Senate, I had over $100,000 still in student loans that I was able to pay off because I wrote a book

and from that money I was able to pay. If not, I'd still do paying. okay so that's not about i did the student loan thing in america as a big problem it's broken it used to be fixed it used to be reformed and i have bipartisan ideas that you can get it bad yeah so it's important to note here when these guys write books these are those are schemes nobody read marco rubio's book i know i was thinking that when he said it i was like i bet that surely didn't sell well so he paid a ghostwriter mark salters or also ghost wrote all john mccain's books um to to write this book

and he probably Marksaltors probably did it on spec and then the money came on the back end and what happens is these books always in on the bestsellers list because Republican donors just buy them in bulk or they can't

like Ruby's campaign campaign Marco Rubio but they can buy 100,000 copies of Marco Rubio's book to hand out his campaign literature right? So it's just naked corruption where he says I wrote a book but he says scare yourself up by your bootstraps

right? He also So in his case, his book had 100,000 copies bought by the billionaire whose pet he is. Right. So this is just a fucking joke. It's also just how, and I know he's right, he's about to pivot and talk about how this isn't the right way to address it or whatever. But it's just funny that he like, he comes to this whole thing establishing that he, you know, should understand the burden that this has on people. Do you know what I mean? He's like, look, I've been there.

I know how difficult it is. It's a huge problem. You know, it's like, right, well, we're trying to address that problem. He's like, yeah, but that ain't it. No, what you got to do is get your self-elected to the Senate. And there's only 100 of those jobs in America, but we don't take turns. You're yourself elected to the Senate. Have someone else pay a ghostwriter to write a book for you.

You don't do any fucking work on. So maybe give some notes. And then a billionaire will come along and just recoup your advance for you. And then you got to see. It's kind of like, I mean, I've, I paid off my student loans, and I did it mostly all at once, and it was after I went viral and started to her. And actually, I sold a book now that I think about it. And I paid off, but like, and I would never, ever, you know, be like, why don't all y'all just do that shit? Just go viral.

Just go viral. Just fucking take your shirt off, yell at your phone, quit being a baby about it, you know? Like, yeah, it's just, it's ridiculous. Yeah, there is some Hairbrain takes This one is just Next one, this is a Republican named Jim Banks Who's a congressman from Indiana

He said the quiet part real out here This is a tweet Student Loan forgiveness undermines Whatever our military's greatest recruitment tools At a time of dangerously low enlistments If we don't make the only way to pay to college You get the leg blow it off in Iraq Yeah, right

Because we get the leg blow it off in Iraq Right. Yeah. It's like, you know, we we depend on these predatory practices that exploit low-income youth, you know, as a means of national security. God damn it. Don't you guys realize this is like a terrorist winning? It's also, weirdly enough, shitting on the military or the people in it. Because it's like being everyone in the Army is an idiot for joining because it's stupid to be in the Army. We can't force people. People to do it. No one's going to serve. No one's going to do it. Yeah. If we can't basically like blackmail or bribe them into doing it, then why would anyone ever do that? It's insane. You don't want to go over there and get shot and shit. No. We need to be able to give them, you know, free college or a signing bonus on a Dodge Charger, you know, one or the other or both. I would say that like the one person who would empathize with who would be mad about this would be a guy who volunteered for a wreck to pay for college and then lost a leg or an arm or got killed and be like, well, this. They could have done this before. But also, I think that person would be like, well, I'm glad nobody has to make that choice that they don't want to ever again. Yeah.

Yeah, well, it's just that thing where it's like, you know, no, like even with that guy, like, yeah, I mean, that sucks. But it's, you know, it doesn't have to be comparative. Do you know what I mean? It's like, yeah, dude, it's bullshit that that happened to you, you know, but it's also bullshit what's happening to millions of other Americans. Like, everybody's getting fucked. It's all bullshit. Yeah. You know, it doesn't have to be a competition.

but in case you think pull yourself up by your bootstraps is complicated. Dan Bungino went on Fox News and drew this really helpful diagram. What that is is a stick figure with a huge ass and he's drawn an arrow to what's saying rump and what's happening is to see the up arrow, the ass has gotten

itself up and another arrow is going to a job. Okay. Dude, I literally I saw this in the outline or whatever and I genuinely could not make heads or tails of this. I had no idea what he was. But so he's saying get up off your ass and go get a job and that's how you pay a loan okay yeah the unemployment rate is like

three percent right now by the way so everybody has fucking jobs except for three percent of people also look at him trying to take uh trying to take uh katie porter shine out here with the whiteboard i do enjoy that we i'm pretty bad at pictonary but we just learned that i could be you a Pictionary, which is a... Yeah, yeah, I was not following. We got to put some money on game night. Along that lines about everyone needing to student loan debt relief, including you know, my sister, who's a first grade teacher.

She's a lazy blood sucker, I guess. But Ted Cruz also has it in for people that work at coffee shops. Let's listen to Ted Cruz. There is a real risk. If you are that slacker barista who wasted seven years in college studying completely useless things now has loans and can't say underwater basket weaving july just gave you 20 grand like holy cow 20 grand that you know maybe you weren't going to vote in november and suddenly you just got 20 grand and you know if you can you know get off the

bong for a minute and and head down to the voting station uh or just sending your mail-in ballot that the democrats have helpfully sent you um it could drive the the abject contempt that they have for just regular working people. You know what I mean? Like this motherfucker don't go to coffee shops. I guarantee you he does. And I mean, of course, you know, that doesn't mean plenty of people go to coffee shops

think that the people at work at coffee shops are useless pieces of shit. I know because I was in the service industry for a while and I know how it goes. But, I mean, yeah, it's just wild. I mean, I don't know. You know, fucking regular Americans, working a job.

Go fuck yourself, you stupid piece of shit. That's what Ted Cruz thinks. It's worth pointing out that, like, one of the most rapidly unionizing workplaces in America right now is Starbucks, and part of the reasons why it's because it's not that great of a place to work, and they work you very, very hard, and you have to be there at 5 in the morning. And, like, one person who worked at the Starbucks is saying, like, some of them have wearables where, like, alarm goes off, and we're standing still for more than eight seconds. Oh, my God. Time to lean, time to clean. Time to, yeah, right. stobian degree.

That's so fine. So fuck Ted Cruz. Everybody that works at a, like, he's, he's moonlighting from his job at guy as a senator, which is a job where you work like 15 days a year as a fucking podcaster. The motherfucker hasn't worked a day and his whole life since he left. I guess the hardest job he ever has was Solicitor General in Texas, where he went to court to argue that there was no constitutional right to jerk off. I'm not kidding.

He tried to take that, no constitutional right to. the Jorkoff case, the Supreme Court, because Texas wanted to outlaw, sex toys. This guy, I want to talk about this guy, because I'll tell you the punch left this video after we play it, because it's pretty fucking hilarious. Here's Stephen Moore, who Trump tried to put on the Federal Reserve Board. Now, when I said that people were angry about this, Pete, what really makes people angry is that we, this isn't what America is about. You play by the rules and you get rewarded. If you're not paying your debts, you're a deadbeat. I mean, that's the term.

I'm going to say. All right. Cut it back. If you're not. If you're not paying your debts, you're a deadbeat. Trey, do you want to know why Trump was unable to successfully appoint him to the Federal Reserve? Please tell me, Mark. Because after he was nominated, and remember, if you don't pay your debt, you're a deadbeat, it came out that he shorted his wife $300,000 in child support,

and she had to take him to court to force him to fucking pay it. Literal deadbeat dad over here, calling people deadbeats. Yeah, that's wild. lack of self-awareness that they continuously exhibit, but also just the fuck in the middle of that, where he's like, you play by the rules and you're rewarded. It's like, no, you're not. No, you're fucking not.

Like, all these people are playing by the rules. The rules are fucked up. Like, it's just a straight up lie and people are tired of it. So we talked about a bunch of shameless liars flowing about for a message that makes sense. Let's talk about hypocrisy for a second, but Stephen Moore is not our only fucking entry in that field. but let's show Marco Rubio for a second to establish what we're talking about. This is illegal.

The president doesn't have the authority to do this. He's not an emperor. He can't just with a stroke of a pen cancel $300,400,000, $400 billion worth of student loan. And number three, it's unfair. I wrote and passed a PPP program, which, by the way, is nothing like the student loan issue. It is like the student loan issue, and then it's free money from the government. Right. which is why

they left so fumbling. What he's trying to say about it being illegal is saying, well, PPP loan was passed an act of Congress, so we didn't pass an act of Congress to do this, except they did. It was under the Emergency Powers Act, emergency powers act passed after 9-11. They gave George W. Bush's administration the power to eliminate student loans

in times of national emergency. Now, the Supreme Court could say that COVID doesn't qualify and therefore Biden's move, but that's for the course to sort out. And by the way, Biden administration's backup plans of the court tries to do that, but just have to do it in a much more arduous and painstaking fashion that will take longer or more bureaucracy. But I don't doubt they're going to do that to punish Biden, but it doesn't mean there's

no legal authority. It's about what judges decide words mean. What's an emergency, Teret? Right. Yeah, I know. Well, I definitely don't trust this Supreme Court to not fuck the whole thing up, so it's good to know that there's a backup plan at the very least. But, yeah, the PPP thing, I know that that was a big thing.

with all this rhetoric, all these Republicans super pissed off about the notion of this who seemed to have no problem with getting some of that sweet, sweet government cash for themselves during COVID. Our biggest politics brains, because what the White House did was they took all these congresspeople's PPP loans that got forgiveness and just made a Twitter thread being like, oh, of them, their statements, and then compared to what their loans got forgiven. And so people like, oh, that's not fair. The two things aren't the same. And I understand the differences between the two. One was a once in a generation. things stop a pandemic and this is more of a systemic problem that we need to really reform the whole system but we'll get to that a little bit later but the the the this pure hypocrisy because there's no problem people just don't want people like the rest of us getting home forgiveness right right well business tyrants got it and I saw people like even Nate silver was like this is unfair comparison because I don't see why it's hypocritical because it's like oh

you say he didn't understand it's just hypocrisy people understand hypocrisy and makes a that like Joe Biden did a thing where they asked him as it unfair and he goes it unfair for billionaires to get tax breaks that the rest of us don't get everybody understands that it's a very easy pivot and these guys just don't fucking understand it I think it's unfair to criticize them for getting free money and I'm not against the PPP loans they were they were probably right get the entire economy for collapsing there was a bunch of fraud only like not as much of it got passed through to workers as it was supposed to that's a problem for like audits and shit that's not a problem for the ideals of the program but for people

people to complain about this shit just absolutely fucking piss me off. Like Tupper Carlson's been going off about this. Tucker Carlson had free businesses get a total of $1 million in PPP loans for debt. Marjor Taylor Green had $183,000 in PPP loans for given for a construction company. Here's a brief list. Matt Gates got half a million dollars in PPP loans for given. Byrne Buchanan, Republican of Florida, we talked about last week, got $2.8 million.

Look at a list. Brett Guthrie, Republican Kentucky, $4.3 million in loan for you. giving us. Ralph Norman, Republican, South Carolina, have $300,000. The list goes on and on and on. All these motherfuckers grab free mic themselves, pass a token amount of it to the workers and that are complaining about people getting their student loans, get a chunk lot off of that. I have no patience for these motherfuckers. No, me neither. So I want, so we've got, there's a whole bunch of these, you know, Republican meltdowns that we've got. And, you know, we have more. But I wanted to say, you know, if you want to. cherry pick, you know, what you want to do next in the rundown, then we should do that. And then also Matt, and I know Matt, if he queues up a video or whatever, but I'm just saying if you see like some comments or whatever relevant to this, you can throw them up there whenever. I'll skip to the wrap up here.

We'll talk about Reagan for a second because I think it's the most important part. And I think like it's important note how we got here because one thing that happens is different generations talk past each other because you all grew up in different eras of the American economy. Let me tell you what I'm talking about. Like, we could try and I call it ages a lot for making fun of boomers. And I'm not saying that every part of a boomer's life was easier. That's not, it's quite obviously not true. But school was a lot cheaper back in y'all's day.

The cost of tuition and fees at a four-year public universities was about $2,500 and $20,20 from the mid-60s to the mid-80s. That's, you could pay for college, but some are working a minimum wage job. You can't pay for college with summer working a minimum wage job anymore. Right. For example, I looked up what tuition is in my college. When I graduated in 2000, I had about $37,000 in student loan debt because my room and board and tuition totaled about $11,000 a year. Now it's about $30,000 a year. That's 22 years later, almost tripling price in 22 years.

That's not sustainable because wages haven't gone up that much. Right. Well, that's the case with like everything, right? I mean, they talk about how like just work hard or whatever. And that shit I was saying earlier about, you know, work hard. all the rules you'd be rewarded and it's not true. What used to be more true, I mean, as long as you were a white person, because during this period we were talking about, you know,

anybody that wasn't why it was getting ruthlessly fucked over all the time. Glad all that got fixed. Anyway, yeah, you know, you could get just a regular job, full-time job and have like a house with a two-car garage and be married with a wife who stays home with the kids and all that, you know, fucking Norman Rockwell shit and could work a part-time job in the summer and pay your way through college. that shit used to be true.

And it's like a lot of these people think that it's like they don't realize that it's not true anymore. So they think that kids today are just choosing to not do all that or something. No matter how many times they're, you know, it's screamed at them that it's just none of that's real anymore. It doesn't matter to them. They just can't see it beyond, you know, their own experience with it or something. It's fucking.

Yeah. It's also like we're pointing out that it's harder for. teens and college kids to get minimum wage jobs because they're taken up by retirees who got fucked by the housing market and the stock market collapse. So like boomers are also fucked by the same economy. They're the ones working at Walmart readers and cashiers and shit. Anyway, we need to fix all that stuff. But like I do want to do you wonder where the student loan debt basically didn't exist to

the 80s and someone dug up this speech given by a Reagan staffer when he was governor in California. There was a meme that took hold of the right after Vietnam. The one of the reasons we lost Vietnam besides the fact that it was unwinnable war, would you know from the Iran papers that got leaked to the Washington Post and the Pentagon papers.

They do it was unwittable way before we lost it. But they think we lost because of a student protest movement. Right. And in May 1970, Ronald Reagan shut down all 28 U.S. in Caltech campuses in the midst of student protests. He settled down just to the protest.

And his education advisor, Roger A. P. the press conference will defend them in which we said your engagement in an educated political area. That's dynamite. We have to be selective on who we allow to go

to college. Berkeley at that point was nearly free to attend for California residents, which now it's $4,000 a year. And it'd become a national center of organizing against the Vietnam War. Deep anxiety about this reached the highest levels of the U.S. government. John McCone, head of the CIA,

requested the meeting with Jayekar Hoover, discussed communist influence at Berkeley a situation that definitely required some corrective action. So basically, student loan debt was invented in the 80s under the Reagan administration to restrict and make college more expensive. It took away public finances for education. And this is the system they want. And they want everybody to not be able to be entrepreneurs and start their own jobs

and protest wars. So that's what I'm glad. So essentially, they were saying, you know, when regular people go to college, they turn into fucking commies who calls problems for us by not, liking our wars and shit, and that ain't good. So we need fewer regular people going to college, so we need to take corrective action, i.e. take away the public funding for college, make it more expensive for regular people, and that in turn led to them requiring student loans.

And now, you know, 30, 40 years later, whatever, here we are, 50, 50, 50 years later. But yeah, yeah, I'd never heard any of that, but it's, I'm not at all surprised that, you know, Ronald Reagan is at the root of yet another, you know, massive turn for the worse in recent American history. Well, but scarcity mindset we talked about up top, it's really, it really is troubling because it's like, conservatives aren't wrong, but if you give, if you give people an opportunity to get less and less, they, they're forced to be more grateful for the scraps that they get. And also, you get mad at other people for getting stuff, but you didn't get it.

And we're talking about education here. Education is less than unlimited. Kids can read the same book over and over again. You don't have to take the books out of the library. You don't have to shut down the classes. education is the cheapest way to improve society, and they're trying to destroy it still. That's what this is up to. Anthony Webb says, loving that hat, Mark.

Hit the like button, everybody. Yes, thank you, Anthony. Like and subscribe and share and rate and review on the podcast version, all that good stuff. Yeah, that's a staple for Mark there that hat, I believe. Catherine Clark says, the White House on Twitter has a new social media person and she is killing it. Yeah, I saw that too, that she was the one that was credited with the PPP loan. thing that to Twitter, that was the new person running the White House's Twitter page, which she has good credentials, but it's

escaping me right now what they were. Was he some sort of comedy writer or like social media executive or something? Anyway, social media something or another, but anyway, yeah, Robert Mitchell says White House Twitter gave no fucks. Yeah. Wow. Yeah, they were like... Person. Yeah, the dark brand, they were like half a half a second away from tweeting out of dark brand in me and they were pretty on it, which is like that's who's online. to care to the online audience.

That's what John Federman does like a like a hand-to-hand, handshaky door knocking campaign in real life. But on Twitter, he's dunking all over Oz because that's what the internet's fucking for. So why not do it? Cynthia Marie says, say hard work. They imagine people

busting their asses, manual labor, mentally exhausting jobs, things that they never did. Yeah, if you're talking about the politicians and stuff, yeah, 100%. Absolutely. I mean, that's what we were saying. Like you said, They just, it's like, what are these people have so much trouble getting money? Like, don't they know that people just give you money for stuff?

Like, haven't they been around this country? Because that's how things do work for them. Actually, Mark had this in the rundown. We just were running long on everything. But Lucia Duncan says, don't forget the gifts given to farmers for set aside land and milk checks. I love farmers, but they've been subsidized for decades. Chuck Grassley in particular, right,

was one of those farmers who's received millions. and subsidies over the years who's ranting and raving about this. I got the numbers right here. He was complaining about student loan forgiveness, but his family's gotten $1.75 million in federal forum subsidies in the past 20 years. And also, remember when Trump's stupid trade where we're China, the Republicans gave $16 billion in cash to farmers, just straight up cash. This is just loan forgiveness.

Carter says, does he not realize Republicans can pay off 10 to 20K and student debt too? I know, that's what I was saying earlier. It's like, you know, there's going to be some, there has to, there's got to be a shit. I wonder what those people are thinking right now. Are they just like quietly being like, I mean, this is pretty suave. I'm like, you know, because yeah, there's got to be a shit load of, of Republicans who this also is helping. And I wonder how that's what that's going to do.

This comment's perfect. Jasmine Parker, Jasmine Parker on YouTube says, yes, politicians doing shit to make your life better to get you to vote for them is literally their fucking job. Right. Yeah, I know. How did we get away from that? I know from that. I know. They're like, oh, it's just a bargaining chip or whatever. It's like, okay, so when the Democrats offer political bargaining chip, it's a policy that helps millions of actual Americans. Like, I'm kind of fine with that. Like, is that supposed to bother me? Sounds pretty sweet. Mind grifter says, guaranteed Ted Cruz will never be able to visit a coffee shop in person ever again unless it's the Patriot Eagle Gun Coffee. Yeah, he's probably a Black Rifle Coffee. Isn't that what it's called? Do you know what I'm talking about, Mark? Yeah. Yeah. Black Rifle coffee coming.

Yeah. I think the coffee, coffee for people who like guns because your specific coffee is for your gun stance. Right. Eric Martinez says, why not forgive health care debt instead of student loans? I mean, you know. Because the federal government doesn't own it. I mean, I'd be favor of figuring out way to do that, but the federal government doesn't own health debt. So it's like, it's not easy.

This is a very straightforward legal thing. Assuming the courts agree if this is that COVID qualifies as a national emergency. Although, obviously, the government's actually like COVID's. over. So it's a little bit of bullshit, but it's bullshit that helps people. So real quick, Debbie Lynn Robinson says, why not both? Yeah, I agree. I mean, yeah, we definitely need to do something about the fucking health care dad, too.

Yeah. And just the future of that whole system. So real quick, because I found it. Megan Coyne is the girl's name who got the White House Twitter job. She had previously ran social media for the New Jersey governor's office. And apparently one person, when the New Jersey governor's account went live, someone said, who let New Jersey have a Twitter? And the response from the official New Jersey government account was your mom.

She got a little bit of sass. I don't know if the Twitter thread will change anybody's mind about anything, but the Republicans freaking out about it and showing their ass that makes them look weak and stupid. And that part was worth the pricing. Sure. Absolutely. All right. So yeah, let's see here. Yeah, thank you. I appreciate it. So reminder, go to traycrouter.com, get tickets. Come see me live. Remember some of those new dates are with Corey and Drew as well, the ones that say well read appropriately. And we're still adding more into 2023. So there'll be new ones coming soon. If you're not represented there, don't worry. We're working on it. I promise you. Number two, if you like this show, you want to support us. Go to weekly skews.com slash more. growing Patreon, look me up, $5 a month, get full-length bonus episodes, and we sure would appreciate it.

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