Republican Grinches Everywhere, Please Say Something Positive
To all Republicans, everywhere:
“You’re a mean one, Mr. Grinch
You really are a heel,
You’re as cuddly as a cactus,
You’re as charming as an eel, Mr. Grinch,
You’re a bad banana with a greasy black peel!
“You’re a monster, Mister Grinch,
Your heart’s an empty hole,
Your brain is full of spiders,
You have garlic in your soul, Mr. Grinch,
I wouldn’t touch you with a thirty-nine & a half foot pole!
“You’re a foul one, Mister Grinch,
You have termites in your smile,
You have all the tender sweetness
Of a seasick crocodile, Mr. Grinch,
Given a choice between the two of you
I’d take the seasick crocodile!
“You’re a rotter, Mister Grinch,
You’re the king of sinful sots,
Your heart’s a dead tomato
Splotched with moldy purple spots, Mr. Grinch,
You’re a three decker sauerkraut
And toadstool sandwich with arsenic sauce!
“You nauseate me, Mister Grinch,
With a nauseous super ‘naus’!
You’re a crooked dirty jockey
And you drive a crooked hoss, Mr. Grinch,
Your soul is an appalling dump heap overflowing with the most disgraceful
Assortment of rubbish imaginable mangled up in tangled up knots!
“You’re a foul one, Mister Grinch,
You’re a nasty wasty skunk,
Your heart is full of unwashed socks
Your soul is full of gunk, Mr. Grinch,
The three words that best describe you are as follows, and I quote
‘Stink, stank, stunk’!
Why are Republicans so mean? I would hate to have a Republican father. If I came home with all “A’s” he would probably criticize me for not making the football team. If I started a charity to help homeless, elderly women, he would say I was being a chauvinist.
Excuse me for sounding so negative but why are Republicans always so negative and mean and small-minded and obsessed with revenge.
Trump brought the hatred factor to astronomical levels because he understood that everybody needs somebody to hate. Of course he hated Democrats; he hated immigrants; he hated the LGBTQ community; he hated African countries; he hated unattractive people, women in particular; he hated Obamacare; he hated science; he hated China; he hated Muslims; he hated NATO; he hated efforts to stem climate change; he really, really hates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and Joe Biden and Hunter Biden; and most of all, he hates anyone who disagreed with him. About the only thing that the world’s most flagrant narcissist didn’t hate was himself.
There is a very long list of things that Republicans generally have opposed and few subjects they actually supported other than to say they support white militias.
Republicans are against teaching sex education; they are against taxing the uber rich; they are against the media; they are against “pedophile” Democrats; they are against 12 year old girls who seek to have an abortion after they have been raped by a stepfather.
Trump is the champ but he is by means alone in his negativity. The latest calculated and altogether predictable target of Republican ire is President Biden’s cancellation of student debt for an estimated 8 million Americans, many typically first-generation college students from lower-income families, who now see a way to finally crawl out from under their mountainous, suffocating, seemingly endless college debt. To be sure, most of those who will benefit are hard working people who knew they could never afford the absurd cost of college without borrowing on their futures.
Biden also announced up to $20,000 in student-loan forgiveness for Pell Grant recipients making under $125,000 a year, and $10,000 in relief for other federal borrowers under the same income cap. A Pell Grant is a grant the federal government provides for students with financial need, who have not earned their first bachelor’s degree, or who are enrolled in certain post-baccalaureate programs, through participating institutions. Most Pell Grant recipients come from families making under $60,000 a year and 98 percent make less than $100,000 a year, according to public reports.
Nationwide, the average federal student loan debt balance is $37,667, an amount that 83 percent of non-homeowners said is preventing them from buying a home, according to the National Association of Realtors.
Federal student loans for undergraduates have an interest rate of 4.99 percent for the 2022–23 school year, while graduate students have interest rates of 6.54 percent or 7.54 percent for unsubsidized and PLUS loans. Comparatively, the average interest rate for a new car is 4.07 percent and the average interest on a 15-year fixed rate mortgage is 5.08 percent.
That font of negativity, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said cancellation of debt is a socialist giveaway to those who refuse to live up to the terms of their debt and is a slap in the face of those hard-working Americans who found a way to repay loans. That’s rich coming from Cruz who earns at least $174,000 per year as a senator and who earned money from his 2015 book and teaching stints. His estimated net worth of $4 million is likely much more because of his wife, Heidi Cruz, who is a managing director at Goldman Sachs. Yes this is the same icon of fair play who skedaddled to Cancun in 2021 while a winter storm that left millions in his state without power and water.
According to published reports, Cruz and his wife listed assets ranging from $2 million to $5 million, including stocks, mutual funds and a loan made to Cruz’s 2012 Senate campaign, which is unlikely to be repaid under federal campaign finance laws.
Cruz said student-loan forgiveness will benefit the “slacker barista” who got a “useless” degree. In his regular podcast, he insinuated that the loan forgiveness is nothing more than a political ploy to win over young voters in the November elections.
“If you are that slacker barista who wasted seven years in college studying completely useless things, now has loans and can’t get a job, Joe Biden just gave you 20 grand,” Cruz said on the podcast. “You know, maybe you weren’t gonna vote in November, and suddenly you just got 20 grand!”
Yes, you know who you are, you slacking baristas who earn $12.49 an hour, the media wage as of 2021 for food and beverage workers, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
“What President Biden has, in effect, decided to do is to take from working-class people, to take from truck drivers and construction workers right now, thousands of dollars in taxes in order to redistribute it to college graduates who have student loans,” Cruz said.
Jamelle Bouie, a columnist for the NY. Times, pointed out in his column that to work as a truck driver or a medical technician or a home inspector or any number of other similar blue-collar jobs, you need training, licenses, certifications.
“People go to school to meet these requirements. They apply for the same federal student loans and take on the same debt as someone going to college. And many of these Americans labor under the burden of that debt because of high costs and lower-than-expected earnings,” Bouie wrote.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kent., called the loan forgiveness “astonishingly unfair.” McConnell participated in none of this socialism and got no such debt relief when he graduated from University of Louisville, when tuition was $330 a year. You can’t buy a pencil today for $330.
“President Biden’s student loan socialism is a slap in the face to every family who sacrificed to save for college, every graduate who paid their debt, and every American who chose a certain career path or volunteered to serve in our Armed Forces in order to avoid taking on debt,” McConnell said, and to paraphrase, “the hell with all of you who got loans because it was the only way you’d ever get to college and you have worked your assess off only to feel suffocated by the depth of the loans. Go scratch.”
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., said student debt cancellation is “unfair” and boasted that he paid off his own $100,000 in student loans. Of course, Rubio got the money from an $800,000 advance on his book “An American Son: A Memoir” and most graduates don’t write books. Throw in the stew that Rubio has been making $174,000 a year as a senator since 2011.
I can’t fathom why anybody cares what Kimberly Guilfoyle says but Donald Trump Jr.’s girlfriend had the gall to chime in that the loan forgiveness pays for “bizarre basket weaving” degrees and rewards “laziness.” I beg to differ as my son has outstanding college loans and he has never weaved a basket, not even one.
“Enough of this nonsense! I mean, paying off loans for people that don’t want to — they wanna have some bizarre basket-weaving degree,” Guilfoyle, the self-annointed economic expert, said on the right wing Newsmax channel. “And they want all of us, people watching across this country, hard-working men and women, to subsidize their laziness and their inability to even try to contribute to society.”
Many of the loudest, loudmouths have benefited mightily when the government cancelled their Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans. PPP loans were part of the $2.2 trillion CARES Act, which was signed into law at the end of March 2020. The loans were meant to help businesses as the country locked down to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Borrowers may be eligible for loan forgiveness if the funds were used for eligible payroll costs, payments on business mortgage interest payments, rent, or utilities during either the 8- or 24-week period after disbursement.
The seven granite hypocrites, whose loans were forgiven, include Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Fla., Rep. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., Rep. Kevin Stern, R-Okla., Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Pa., and Rep. Matt Gaetz.
Greene, a believer in Jewish funded space lasers, said student loan forgiveness was “completely unfair” to “taxpayers that never took out a student loan.” The Small Business Administration reported that Greene’s business had $183,504 in PPP loans forgiven, which included the original loan of $182,300 and accrued interest.
Buchanan said the student-loan forgiveness plan was “reckless” and “unfair” to Americans without student-loan debt “who played by the rules.”
Buchanan rules include his $50 million stake in one company that had more than $2.3 million in PPP loans forgiven, according to published reports.
Mullin was a downright angry Okie when he said “We do not need farmers and ranchers, small business owners, and teachers in Oklahoma paying the debts of Ivy League lawyers and doctors across the U.S.” Companies that are owned by Mullin had more than $1.4 million in PPP loans forgiven.
Stern, another esteemed representative of the Sooner State, said it was just wrong for working-class Americans to “pay for other people’s college degrees.” Unless its Mullin’s company. A corporation that he controlled had more than $1 million in PPP loans forgiven.
Kelly said canceling student loans was “bad policy” and “unfair,” and that it amounted to asking “plumbers and carpenters to pay off the loans of Wall Street advisors and lawyers.” Multiple companies that are owned by Kelly had at least $715,000 forgiven. The White House said Kelly had more than $987,000 forgiven, but the higher amount was not confirmed by published reports.
Gaetz, the target of a probe into sexual trafficking, had an idea. He said that “instead of wiping away student loan debt with a presidential executive order, we ought to allow people who are victims of predatory systems to declare bankruptcy.”
“It would shatter the foundation of higher-ed finance,” Gaetz said.
A company Gaetz has reported being a shareholder of had $482,321 in PPP loans forgiven.
But for something really productive and important for the nation, a handful of the most conservative, nutcases in Congress said that if the Republicans take the majority in the House, their first order of business will be to impeach Biden. The lawmakers who still burn from trump’s two impeachments for legitimate reasons, accuse Biden of committing “high crimes” in his approach to of issues like border enforcement, the COVID-19 pandemic and the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan.
Those yapping about impeachment include Rep. Bob Good, R-Va., who said he has “consistently said President Biden should be impeached for intentionally opening our border and making Americans less safe.”
Good, 57, called for the repeal of the Affordable Care Act and was against public-health measures to combat the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. Good promoted trump’s lie about voter fraud and he went to a Virginia militia muster, saying he was with “proud patriots and constitutional conservatives who are doing their part to help strengthen our nation and to fight for the things that we believe in.”
“Nearly everything that plagues our society can be attributed to a failure to follow God’s laws for morality and his rules for and definition of marriage and family,” said the misnamed, Good.
Greene, the Georgia QAnon baby, is lead sponsor of four pending impeachment resolutions. Greene, 48, a Christian nationalist who will follow trump to her grave, if need be. Before running for Congress, she supported calls to execute Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. She compared the Democratic Party with Nazis and said COVID-19 safety measures were just like the persecution of Jews during the Holocaust. During the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Greene promoted Russian propaganda and praised Vladimir Putin.
Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., called Biden “unfit to serve as president,” but held off on endorsing impeachment. Stefanik is a brazen trumper and claimed that Speaker Nancy Pelosi was responsible for the Jan. 6 insurrection. She has been accused of promoting the “replacement theory” that Democrats are bringing in immigrant people of color to tip the scales toward Democrats. She also endorsed Carl Paladino for congress despite Paladino’s history of making anti-Semitic comments.
Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., has endorsed multiple impeachment resolutions and said Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and Attorney General Merick Garland have “purposefully made our country less safe, politicized their departments, and violated the rule of law.”
In 1993, Biggs won $10 million in the American Family Publishers sweepstakes and used the dough to fund his run for office. In 2020, Biggs joined Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., in a video falsely claiming there was widespread voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election.
After the Jan. 6 insurrection, Biggs’s brothers William and Daniel wrote a letter to the editor of The Arizona Republic berating Biggs and saying that Biggs is “at least partially to blame” for the Capitol storming.
Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., has endorsed two impeachment resolutions because of Biden’s decisions regarding the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan. Norman, 69, has represented South Carolina’s in Congress since 2017. At an election debate on Sept. 20, 2018, Norman joked about sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
“Did y’all hear this latest late-breaking news on the Kavanaugh hearings? …Ruth Bader Ginsburg came out saying she was groped by Abraham Lincoln,” Norman joked.
Norman called for reinstating Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, to House committees after King lost his committee positions because of a series of racist and white nationalist remarks. King was not reinstated. Norman, btw, voted against a bill providing $2.1 billion for Afghan visas and Capitol Hill security.
Rep. Mary Miller, R-Ill., said Biden should be removed “for purposely ignoring our immigration laws.” Miller, 63, a farmer, started her term in the House on Jan. 3, 2021. She has agreed with trump that the 2020 election was “tainted.” This past May, the Washington Examiner criticized Miller for employing Bradley Graven, “a man convicted of soliciting sex with a minor, to assist with her re-election campaign.”
Miller is a member of the ultra conservative Freedom Caucus and in June 2021, she voted against giving Congressional Gold Medals to police officers who defended the Capitol on Jan. 6. Miller has called for the return of the role of God in public schools and supports Christian nationalism.