President Joe Biden might fancy himself a great uniter and he may yet be as the American people let him hear what they had to think about his suggestion they “don’t get to” attack his administration.
With corporate media in your back corner every step of the way, big tech pulling the strings on content moderation and global organizations uniting to sell a progressive dream billed as “Build Back Better,” it’s safe to assume that the administration thought they were going to coast through the midterms and grow their control in Congress.
The reality of Election Day eve was not so sunny and the official Twitter account of the president was caught venting some frustration Monday night with an authoritarian-style false equivalency.
“You don’t get to accept hundreds of thousands of dollars in pandemic loans and then attack my Administration for helping working folks get some relief,” the President tweeted in a truly tone-deaf fashion.
You don’t get to accept hundreds of thousands of dollars in pandemic loans and then attack my Administration for helping working folks get some relief.
— President Biden (@POTUS) November 7, 2022
Perhaps the most impressive part of the tweet was how wrong one statement could be with so few words, starting with the basic principle that Democrats have been pushing back against for years; Freedom of Speech.
We’ll ‘get’ to question whatever we like under the First Amendment, pal.
— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) November 8, 2022
Wrong. Anyone who wants to call your administration out for anything, at any time has every right to do so. You don’t get to tell us what we can or cannot call you out on, PERIOD!
— JessBlane1122 (@blane1122) November 8, 2022
Actually you do, it’s called “free speech” it’s in this thing you haven’t read called The Constitution.
— Rosie Memos (@almostjingo) November 7, 2022
Now it’s clear that Biden was actually trying to make a case about hypocrisy here, but even that point failed miserably as Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans were by no way equivalent to the 11th-hour voter bribe of student loan forgiveness.
Mike Davis laid it out matter-of-factly as he reminded that borrowers were also taken care of during the pandemic, prospective students were not coerced to take loans unlike businesses that were given no choice but to shutdown, and PPP loans were approved by Congress not the stroke of a pen from a tyrant handing out favors to loyalists.
4. Congress passed PPP and the President signed it into law.
No President of the United States has any unilateral power to decide to force hard-working Americans to payoff anyone else’s student loans.
Why didn’t you have your Democrat-controlled Congress pass it into law?
— 🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸 (@mrddmia) November 8, 2022
Contributing editor for The Spectator Stephen Miller put it another way when he joined the nearly 30,000 replies to state, “Am I to understand that the president’s Twitter account is telling people who had their business forcibly shut down by the government he runs is also now telling people they ‘don’t get to’ speak out against him because of it?”
“I thought we were done with mean tweets,” added another user.
I thought we were done with mean tweets.
— Atop Greene's Hill (@atopgreeneshill) November 8, 2022
Working folks? It’s your extraordinarily-tyrannical & counterproductive policies, reflected by similar COVID policies of blue-state governors, which destroyed so many jobs & lives thus necessitating those loans & COVID checks. We STILL have historic inflation for that very reason
— Trump’sConscience (@c3t1p99) November 8, 2022
Yeah we do, you forced people to close down. Nobody forced them to go to college. I don’t have student loan debt and am not about to take on loan debt because of mooches. Grift elsewhere
— The KC Purge (@KC4RealNews) November 7, 2022
If u dole out trillions in “relief” which causes 40-year high inflation, I don’t think you really helped the people you were trying to help. #economics
— Larry Kim (@larrykim) November 8, 2022
— Damin Toell (@damintoell) November 8, 2022
Along with thousands more comments in the same vein, others pointed out the myriad forms of wasteful spending the president had engaged in like the never-ending funding of Ukraine without a clearly defined use of those monies or any suggestion of an end to that gravy train.
You’re the one stealing US tax payers money through Ukraine. Put America first for a change.
— aka (@akafacehots) November 7, 2022
Working folks? It’s your extraordinarily-tyrannical & counterproductive policies, reflected by similar COVID policies of blue-state governors, which destroyed so many jobs & lives thus necessitating those loans & COVID checks. We STILL have historic inflation for that very reason
— Trump’sConscience (@c3t1p99) November 8, 2022
You gave us back our money as a loan
Taxation is theft— Nerdrotic (@Nerdrotics) November 8, 2022
Much like past remarks about Republicans wanting to “put y’all back in chains,” the pander was evident in the post as Democrats remain desperate to up voter turnout to combat the anticipated red wave. Biden’s temper, conveyed by an intern or otherwise, only gave further witness to why his approval rating has suffered and how the left dug themselves into their hole in the first place.
ahhhh. Are you “losing patience” with people again?
— Nick Freitas (@NickForVA) November 8, 2022
Beyond non sequitur & dictatorial command “silence,” this means that since I didn’t accept a penny in pandemic loan relief and worked my tail off to pay for college & pay off loans, I can attack your Administration for violating constitutional separations of powers to buy votes.
— Margot Cleveland (@ProfMJCleveland) November 8, 2022
— Kenny (@graceand_truth) November 7, 2022
— Israel75 (@IFNY2775) November 7, 2022
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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