Jeanine’s Memes
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34 responses to “Jeanine’s Memes”
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And the runners up are….
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Thanks to the miracles of modern chemistry and globalization the drug is Fentanyl with which just a little dab will kill ‘ya.
We’ve certainly made a lot of progress now that we’ve arrived here at the wonderful world of the future.
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Well, there was money in the Senate Border bill for highly advanced Fentanyl detection equipment. I wonder if the House will take it up?
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Glad to hear that there was anything in it other than money to process the illegals in faster. Of course with the Hispanic vote shifting the Dems are threatening to get a lesson in being careful in what you wish for.
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PPP loans were designed to keep people employed, the country moving and to be forgiven. Student loans on the other hand are only forgiven in election year campaigns to buy votes. Attempts to equate PPP with student loans are most charitably disingenuous.
Under legal reasoning currently on trial the cost should be counted as campaign expenditures and Joe charged with a felony for each student loan forgiven if not reported to the FEC as a contribution to his campaign.
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Good thing this is a meme thread…
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It is or things could be worse, we could all be eaten by demented old cannibals:)
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Do you really think so…?!
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It makes more sense as a meme than conflating student loans and PPP.
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Really…?! More sense…? Hmmmm…
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Absolutely no comparison, without a PPP Loan, workers would have been laid off, in a shutdown ordered by the Government.
Out of curiosity, I wondered if the Congressman personally had the PPP loan, or if it was a business. A quick search indicated it was a restaurant management company he co owned. That is even more of an apples to oranges comparison.
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It was not a PPP grant but a loan. Are you saying anytime employees could lose their jobs that taxpayers should be compelled to forgive business loans? Or is this a special case where the burden of these loans that the business entered into was just too large to be reasonably repayable through their future earnings potential…?
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It was not a PPP grant but a loan. Are you saying anytime employees could lose their jobs that taxpayers should be compelled to forgive business loans? Or is this a special case where the burden of these loans that the business entered into was just too large to be reasonably repayable through their future earnings potential…? Btw, in 2018, Kern was worth $40-90 million according to his financial statements and his McDonald franchises were worth $25-50 million of that. You don’t think he could repay a million bucks to taxpayers…?
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His net worth is irrelevant., at least he was a successful businessman before entering politics.
The PPP program, called paycheck protection program, was set up by the Government and described on the web site as a loan to help businesses keep their workforce employed during the COVID 19 crisis. The whole intent of the program was to allow the loan to be forgiven as long as the company met the requirements of the program.
Comparing this to a student loan is disingenuous. But this is all about red meat politics, isn’t it?
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“His net worth is irrelevant.”
Ummm… compared to students struggling to repay education debt? I think not.
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Its irrelevant because you are comparing a program set up by the Government to encourage businesses to continue to employ workers during a specific crisis, to a general loan program to students, usually if not always in conjunction with grants, which required it be repaid after the student graduates and enters the workforce .
Red meat politics at it’s worst
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Almost no McDonald shut down. The McDonalds did well because almost all of them have drive thru windows. The last business that needed a PPP loan would have been a Mcdonalds.
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The last business that needed a PPP loan? I have no idea what the financial situation of McDonalds franchised were. I do know many restaurants closed in my town that did take out, and never reopened, including a Burger King close to my home.
I wonder if at the time McDonalds workers would have shared that Monday morning quarterback opinion of yours.
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Don’t take it from me. Go find the interviews on CNBC from the executives of corporations like McDonalds, KFC, Popeyes, etc. Take out boomed during the pandemic and has remained higher than pre-pandemic. It is table service restaurants that are still having problems.
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My final point is that the PPP loans were designed and presented to businesses as a way to keep your company open and employees working during the COVID crisis. If you met conditions they laid out in advance, you could apply for debt forgiveness. Nobody knew on advance what was going to happen, nobody knew what kind of business was going to be successful. Many Tech companies also applied for PPP loans.
So to suggest he was a hypocrite or wrong because he is against changing the rules for student debt because a business he invested in followed the rules and applied for PPP debt forgiveness is apples to oranges.
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College debt: cartoon makes an excellent point.
Should taxes subsidize four years of reading poetry? Including for those who don’t bother, just drink beer and party?
Some things are good in themselves, observed Aristotle (who I read in college). Like reading poetry. Some things are good because they are useful. Like diesel trucks.
A liberal arts education, reading poetry was for a leisured upper class. But in modern democratic America we are middle class. Expected to do something useful, to earn our own living.
Its the usual mistake, thinking people in a democracy or near-democracy who are equal in one thing (the right to vote) should be equal in all things (going to college). Also, from Aristotle.
But having read Aristotle in college alas, is not very useful.
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You’re assuming people will have something to do.
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One will always fail in discussing policy is one creates a sham mental image of the median beneficiary. Very few people major in liberal arts.
Here are the top ten majors at Old Dominion:
Psychology 8.2%
Registered nursing/registered nurse 5.8%
Multi-/interdisciplinary studies 5.7%
Criminology 5.5%
Rhetoric and composition 5.5%
Biology/biological sciences 5.1%
Mental and social health services and allied professions 4.5%
Business administration and management 3.8%
Engineering technologies and engineering-related fields 3.7%
Health professions and related clinical sciences
3.2%
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Ah well,… “I was a soldier that my son might be a farmer and his son a poet.”
Mike Rowe is a great guy and a wonderful personality, but it was guys with degrees who built the electronic marvels of small cameras and satellite communications that allowed him a worldwide audience.
If newspapers were flourishing, you would not be reading this or anything on this forum. Bacon sizzles in the electronic forum replacement of the mimeograph and a street corner.
“… maybe get blister on your middle finger,..”
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Excellent. And it’s the uncensored version, which you will not hear on the radio any more.
Album trivia: Brothers in Arms was the first ‘DDD’ rock and roll album – digitally recorded, digitally mastered, and issued in digital form (on CD).
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DDD making drums sound absolutely primo.
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With all those blue shirts that looks more like Dems on the rare occasion Biden gets through a public appearance without doing something bizarre like claiming his uncle was eaten by cannibals.
And how many of those college debt holders are people who borrowed money for a for-profit trade school that they never finished?
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