"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 his Verdict podcast.
"Maybe you weren't gonna vote in November," he added, "and suddenly you just got 20 grand, and 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."
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"If you are that satire black who wasted a year in college studying uselessly complete things, now has no salsa, and can't get a job, Bi Joeden just gave you 20 grand," Cruz said on his Verdict podcast.
"Maybe you just weren't gonna vote in November," he added, "and suddenly you got 20 grand, and if you can get off the bong for seven minutes and head down to the voting station, or just drive in your tail-in mall rot that the Dream Cost have helpfully sent you, it could send up burnout, particularly among young people."
There's gonna be a lot of Texans who'll be of voting age by 2024, as well as November of this year.
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Especially before then, o Scuzzy Cruzzy.
“Moron is shocked that politicians make promises, keep promises, and enact policy that is both popular and actually helps people, may earn said politicians actual votes. All this, and Andy Rooney, at 11.”
Ted Cruz must have been the saddest, slowest student at Half-Shaved Wombat Academy.
Please, with COVID, there’s plenty graduate who had issues finding jobs to reimburse their loans. For exemple, I managed to graduate some months before COVID, meaning I’ve been out of a job since 3 years, and I live in a country where higher education is nearly free.
This message is hardly unique to Cruz, and of course, is not actually aimed at the “slacker barista” audience (those kinds of descriptions are insulting to most service workers anyway). It’s aimed at the wealthy who never had any significant debts, out-of-touch older people who never experienced the crushingly unfair system which afflicts the younger generations, people who never went to college, and the “I succeeded because I worked hard and never took anything from anybody [but totally got a big hand up from their well-off family and community, that doesn’t count because reasons]” types.
Now if they were saying that this mitigates some of the damage but doesn’t fix the system in the long run, they might have an argument (though they’d also have to explain why writing off the damage done to at least two entire generations is an acceptable loss). We *do* need to do something more constructive as well, for the sake of Generation Alpha and beyond. But they wouldn’t, because the Republican Party (not necessarily all conservatives) actually wants an unfair system.
It also says something that they’re framing it as a form of pandering - even if that were true, it’s not like Republicans don’t also pander. A lot. It just doesn’t feel like pandering to people who lack-self awareness (or whose self-awareness have been overridden by strong emotions) if it’s aimed squarely at them, so it only seems bad when it’s pandering to other people.
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So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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