As Meidas Graphic Shows, GOP Attacks On Student Loans About Racism & Favoritism

Republicans are cool giving out govt $, just has to be to the "right..or should I say *white* people. They took millions in forgivable PPP, fought to let Medicare rip off seniors, let Trump screw us by quadrupling charges for Secret Service at his bedbug resorts. Cliff provides breakdown & takedown.

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so the usual republican crying complaining whining white resentment anger you know anything that that they do when money isn't going directly into their pockets like the trumps from the defense department for stopping off in scotland this stupid resort and you know numerous other members of congress who insider traded and and you know got rich off of knowledge that way give some people who are in over their heads with college debt a little bit of relief ten thousand dollars and holding the principal down uh if they pay on time which is huge by the way and they just can't stand it remember they hated the ppp loans too so i want to thank my friends from the meidastouch for this might as touch matt gaetz got 476 thousand dollars in forgivable ppp loans marjorie taylor greene 180 000 greg pence 79441 vern buchanan 2.8 million kevin hern 1 million 70 000 ralph norman 306 000 ralph abraham 38 000 mike kelly's nine hundred seventy four thousand vicki hartzler 451 thousand two hundred carol miller the one who compared uh who said that that nazis must have had been on to something because hitler youth were really strong they had the youth on their side she was forgiven 3.1 million dollars um roger williams i don't think i said him 1.43 million dollars oh brett guthrie from kentucky there's a good one 4.3 million dollars uh i didn't major in math so i'm not going to sit there and add this all up oh mike kelly from pennsylvania 974 000. in any case these people got hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars in ppp loans because of fake businesses that's not true some of them actually had small businesses of course they they wanted to be bailed out um when they should have been we had covet and people couldn't conduct business i had trouble too but they of course only wanted themselves to be bailed out they never wanted anybody else and by themselves it starts with white and then it goes towards christian and republican and they start sort of othering everybody but it again you know for folks that weren't around when the stimulus checks were handed out back in the day by obama and republicans would say those are terrible and then they'd show up in their districts holding them up look when i got you they did it again with biden with the coveted stimulus and pretended they were for it when they all voted against it a number of them recently came out said oh we're in favor of veterans nice that's why i support them and they voted against protecting uh getting health care from veterans who are suffering from diseases from those burning pits in iraq and afghanistan until they're shamed by jon stewart among many others um you know i think honestly the dishonesty and the hypocrisy at this point it's purposeful i mean that's what fascism is that's what authoritarianism is it's showing you that you don't get to follow the same rules as them they make rules for you because they're your bettors they're your superiors you have to follow them they don't i really think we're at that phase now where the hypocrisy is actually built in and it's sort of an f you it's a nice little middle finger in your face because here we have these people some of which might have been legitimate many of them were not who got hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars in ppp loans and i'd like to tell you by the way folks i applied and i didn't get anything um and now they're complaining because kids uh who got in over their heads who are told that college was the only way to have the kind of future they wanted and my friend will bunch by the way has written a book you should all check out on the the scam that upper that higher education has become everybody has to go get a degree but then you come out and you have huge loans because we stopped giving people things like you know we stopped being as generous with the gi bill and other forms of payment and tuitions went through the roof as colleges decided that it became about fundraising and building new real estate and i'm sure all sorts of people were profiting but that money wasn't going to tuition it wasn't going to giving kids breaks you needed to who couldn't afford to go to school um and so we're trying to rectify that whatever side of whether you think the the entire thing should be forgiven or whatever what bind just it is groundbreaking and incredible as payments will not go up if people miss some of them the principal will not and they will um and they will get ten thousand dollars off which is is a big deal actually it's a big