{"id":54410,"date":"2022-08-27T12:29:30","date_gmt":"2022-08-27T19:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=54410"},"modified":"2022-08-27T12:29:30","modified_gmt":"2022-08-27T19:29:30","slug":"ted-cruz-articulates-the-republican-partys-utter-disdain-for-education-and-young-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=54410","title":{"rendered":"Ted Cruz Articulates the Republican Party’s Utter Disdain for Education and Young Voters"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week President Biden fulfilled a campaign promise to address the problem of burdensome student college loans. The program provides forgiveness<\/a><\/strong> of $10,000 of outstanding loans – $20,000 for Pell grants – for people with incomes below $125,000 a year.<\/p>\n

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Within minutes of the announcement, Republicans and their conservative media mouthpieces began criticizing and lying about the program. They complained that it was a socialist handout that awarded deadbeats, loafers, and elitists.<\/p>\n

The right-wing reaction revealed just how contemptuous the GOP is of working class Americans. And topping the list of liars is one of the GOP’s most prolific prevaricators, Sen. Ted Cruz. When he isn’t demonstrating his animosity for his troubled Texas constituents by jetting off to Cancun while they were freezing to death<\/a><\/strong>, Cruz is groveling on Fox News for the affection of Donald Trump, Tucker Carlson, or some other MAGA martinet.<\/p>\n

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On Friday Cruz pontificated on his podcast about how despicable Americans are if they had the audacity to better themselves and their prospects for the future by attending college. Never mind that Cruz graduated from Princeton and Harvard Law. In his perverse mind today’s youth are a generation of vermin who deserve nothing but mockery and scorn. Cruz ranted that…<\/p>\n

“There is a real risk if you are that slacker barista who wasted seven years in college studying completely useless things, now has loans, and can\u2019t get a job, Joe Biden just gave you 20 grand. Like, holy cow, that 20 grand, you know, maybe you weren\u2019t gonna vote in November and suddenly, you just got 20 grand.<\/p>\n

“And you know, if you can get off the bong for a minute and head down to the voting station, or just send in your mail-in ballot that the Democrats have helpfully sent you, it could drive up turnout, particularly among young people.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) says there\u2019s a \u201creal risk\u201d Biden forgiving some student loan debt will help Democrats in the 2022 midterms:<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you are that slacker barista who wasted seven years in college \u2026 if you can get off the bong for a minute \u2026 it could drive up turnout.\u201d pic.twitter.com\/COjbho5tD9<\/a><\/p>\n

— The Recount (@therecount) August 26, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n