The Left had to have some sort of comeback for criticism of President Joe Biden’s student loan cancellation plan, and it finally stumbled on one: PPP loans. And why not? A student loan was one you voluntarily took out so that you could attend college or graduate school; a PPP loan was one to allow you to keep payroll while the government shut down your business without your consent … exactly the same thing. As we reported earlier, Ben Shapiro was reportedly “owned” by someone who found that he’d accepted $20,000 in PPP loan forgiveness — the only problem is that they got the wrong Ben Shapiro.
What’s most disturbing about the White House tweeting out the names of members of Congress who had PPP loans forgiven is that the White House apparently follows Acyn, who falls just below Aaron Rupar in taking videos out of context.
How petty is this?
Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene had $183,504 in PPP loans forgiven.https://t.co/4FoCymt8TB
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) August 25, 2022
Congressman Vern Buchanan had over $2.3 million in PPP loans forgiven.https://t.co/bXpwJlWRm4
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) August 25, 2022
Congressman Mike Kelly had $987,237 in PPP loans forgiven.https://t.co/Syb5Oe8gDG
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) August 25, 2022
Congressman Matt Gaetz had $482,321 in PPP loans forgiven.https://t.co/XPgC0pETkp
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) August 25, 2022
They’re really doing this, huh?
So it is now the White House's position that if the government forces you to shut down your business and provides you just compensation to keep people employed, that's the same thing as you failing to pay the college loans you voluntarily undertook. Geniuses. pic.twitter.com/omisWPetaY
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) August 25, 2022
The government made it illegal for your business to be open, authorized payments to keep you out of bankruptcy, and then dunked on your ass for accepting them. Owned. https://t.co/xlVkF4T73a
— Foster (@foster_type) August 25, 2022
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You know the difference between PPP loans that become grants upon certain conditions that she met, and student loans that legally never become grants. You are deliberately misleading people. Again. It’s the only thing that you do competently. https://t.co/EOudFCYQUn
— Ken Gardner (@KenGardner11) August 25, 2022
While the WH is having a Twitter meltdown comparing Student Debt to PPP:
1. PPP was a law passed by Congress vs. an unconstitutional Presidential decree.
2. PPP was for businesses to survive while the government shut them down.
3. Student loans were a choice. The pandemic wasn’t. https://t.co/eiI96jNAsa— TheRightWingM 🇺🇸🇺🇦 (@TheRightWingM) August 25, 2022
4) PPP expressly allowed for debt to be forgiven if the loans were used to keep staff employed.
— Rounds (@RoundsR) August 25, 2022
This is such an incredibly stupid comparison.
Forgivable loans passed by congress to save jobs when the govt shut down the economy in a pandemic are NOT comparable to illegally bailing out Harvard Law students’ debt by executive authority when you’re touting historic employment. https://t.co/TQgmXgpyYD
— Matt Whitlock (@mattdizwhitlock) August 25, 2022
A ridiculous comparison that will no doubt fool the Dem base. PPP were loans to help maintain payroll after the government forced the economy to a halt. Nobody forced anyone to go to college, and even then, degrees by and large more than pay for themselves https://t.co/Ggkx46Bkzs
— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) August 25, 2022
This is so stupid and cynical that I may lose my mind. The whole POINT of the PPP program was that if you got a loan and used it to keep payroll rather than lay off employees it would be rolled into a grant. https://t.co/ivGriCCV7f
— Andrew Egger (@EggerDC) August 25, 2022
You taking PPP money to try to reopen your business that was forcibly shut down to pay your employees is just like a student taking out a loan to get a worthless degree and go on vacation.
Why can’t you see they’re the same??
— Dr Strangetweet or How I Learned to Love the RT (@lone_rides) August 25, 2022
Apparently PPP loans were only meant for Democrats
— Carlos (@BAJAF0X) August 25, 2022
The fact that the White House is tweeting this is wildly inappropriate.
— Freddie Frillman (@12fcf28) August 25, 2022
But they both have the word "loan"!
They have to be the same thing!
Geniuses indeed…— The Brothers Tao (@TheBrothersTao) August 25, 2022
…and why would the White House respond on Twitter to this?!! shows you how petty this admin is.
— RP (@RobPoznanski) August 25, 2022
Every time I think, there’s no way for this White House to stoop any lower… pic.twitter.com/0VI3jQFvgP
— undergroundresistance.substack.com💀 (@UndergResistan1) August 25, 2022
I assume the “White House” is going to release the PPP loan info for all members of Congress
— Mike W (@mwales6622) August 25, 2022
Paul Pelosi had MILLIONS forgiven! GOOGLE IT! Crickets from the White house and the MSM!
— Billy Hager (@billy_hager20) August 25, 2022
https://twitter.com/fg4fun/status/1562920582496354304
Every thing is equal in the minds of the left. Every debt is the same. No context. No logic. Just talking points.
— Ankitesh (@Nerdkinganki) August 25, 2022
It is also now the Biden regimes position that it is perfectly fine to disclose personal financial information
— jimmyjammy1818 (@jimmyjammy1818) August 25, 2022
Obviously someone passed around a memo deciding to compare PPP to student loans when the programs have entirely different purposes…
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) August 25, 2022
Now they're shifting to using it to rebut criticism of Ukraine spending. What does PPP have to do with Ukraine spending? pic.twitter.com/oTOtwtWthS
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) August 25, 2022
I hate this administration
— Cincinnatus III (@cincinnatusiii) August 25, 2022
Who do you think is the genius behind this thread? Does Ron Klein have a bunch of interns looking up every Republican? Or was it somebody else? It’s incredibly petty. And besides, wasn’t Biden’s workaround for student loan forgiveness the ongoing “state of emergency” about the COVID pandemic? Well, how does that compare to loans given out during the actual COVID pandemic?
P.S. Shout-out to all the dopes in the replies posting that screenshot of “Ben Shapiro’s” loan and asking, “This you?” No, it’s not him.
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Ben Shapiro demands retraction of an article claiming he had more than $20,000 in PPP loan debt forgiven https://t.co/TzQ4Ed8L5A
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) August 25, 2022
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