So on Tuesday, Brandon banged his sceptre on the floor of the palace and bade $20K to disappear from student loan balances, forthwith.
And his reasoning was the same, sober statesmanship we’ve come to expect from Brandon:
Unanswered – and, as far as I know, unasked by most of the media – does he actually have the authority to unilaterally erase loan balances and transfer it all to the deficit?
Of course not – not if you take enumerated powers seriously:
As of yet, Congress has provided no authorization for the executive branch to arbitrarily write off some of the money that borrowers owe to taxpayers. As of yet, Congress has passed no rules that allow down-on-their-luck presidents to throw money at people for political gain. As of yet, Congress has given no instruction that if the president’s friends might like a little more cash, he can raid the Treasury to give it to them. Certainly, Congress has set up a loan program. But the deal there is rather simple, all told: First you borrow, and then you pay back what you borrowed. There is no mention of “forgiveness” days or of “help” or of rolling Chekhovian jubilees, and by pretending otherwise, President Biden is making a mockery of his oath to uphold the Constitution.
To be fair and accurate, there’s never been any indication Biden understood that oath, even before his senescence.
But mark my words: colleges – their endowments untouched – will start telling prospective students “Borrow whatever you need – there’ll be another forgiveness soon”.
You and I, and our grandchildren, will be paying off the loans of these
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Let me try to get the thread back on topic.
The problem is that Slow Joe’s response to the unnamed reporter is wrong on several levels.
One is the idea that if congress passes legislation that Biden thinks is unfair (even if he actually voted for the legislation as a senator), it is okay for the executive to try to correct this, not with legislation, but by torturing past legislation so that he can claim that it is actually the job of the president to hand out hundreds of billions of dollars to a favored constituency.
Biden’s response doesn’t even match with his legislation-torturing. the legislation his exec order relies on specifies that the cause of the grief experienced by borrowers isn’t the fact that the tax code is unfair, but that a national emergency placed a special hardship on the borrower not experienced by others.
Biden’s justification for handing out hundreds of billions in taxpayer bux to his voters is a travesty of a mockery of a sham.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but Trump is now under investigation for tax fraud, election fraud, insurrection and violating the Espionage Act. And he’s the Republican frontrunner for 2024.
How fun if Trump, after committing extortion, blackmail, obstruction, witness tampering, sexual assault, insurrection, tax evasion, ….
were to go to jail for not returning library materials on time.
Trump is now under investigation for tax fraud, election fraud, insurrection and violating the Espionage Act.
The fear coming from the degenerates, and the neo-con status quo is so thick you can almost taste it. He’s an existential threat to the Deep State grifters.
If he’s re-elected, and he very well could be, the wrecking ball he’d swing through the offices of all the various fed bureaucracies and alphabet LEO agencies would be like Halley’s comet coming to ground.
If he’s taken into custody on any of these bogus charges, while memaw remains at large, the groundswell of outrage on the right might be enough to get the majority population to actually get involved.
It would be magnificent.
Even the violent opposition the degenerates would mount during the election would be wonderful to witness. Good times coming, Patriots!
“Correct me if I’m wrong, but Trump is now under investigation for…”
Which all reads like the ubiquitous ‘The seriousness of the charges dictates we must do…’ wherein you all just make up phony BS and stand there all solemn-like pretending as-if any of it is real.
Admit it, you’ve all been on a hunting expedition the moment Suit Pants lost the election.
If Democrats can’t keep Trump supporters from rioting in the streets, then I have not choice but to vote Republican this fall.
Emery, yes, Trump has been investigated by many people, and what’s very interesting to me–Comey, Mueller, others–is how many of his persecutors (“oops”, prosecutors) have themselves ended up either disgracing their office, or have been prosecuted themselves. It’s almost like the law tends to work against those who would use their office to target people without good evidence.
The Democrats can’t even stop their own supporters for rioting in the street.
Remember Michael Avanatti? Hero of the TDS-addled everywhere, and 2020 Democrat primary contender?
Michael Avenatti Is Winning the 2020 Democratic Primary
Now doing four years at FCI Terminal Island for betraying and ripping off his most famous client.