by Joseph DeMaio, ©2023
(Jul. 1, 2023) — Sometimes, the lunatic depravity of Brandon and his apparatchiks collides with that bulwark against governmental overreach: the Constitution. Case in point: the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Biden v. Nebraska, declaring as unconstitutional his unilateral end-around-run on Congress and the Constitution to forgive perhaps as much as a half trillion dollars in college and university student loan debt. For once, Chief Justice John Roberts gets it right. Brandon, of course, violently disagrees with Roberts’ opinion and gravitates instead to the confused dissents of Justices Kagan, Sotomayor and Jackson, while vowing to “find another way” to violate the Constitution and get away with it.
Brandon’s autocratic, unconstitutional and just plain garden-variety stupid efforts to shift the burden for repayment of the loans from destitute “students” over to the nation’s taxpayers reeks of class warfare and gives spectacular new meaning to the term “hypocrisy.” Indeed, George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley correctly identifies Brandon’s “denial psychosis,” then lobotomizes it, adding that he needs to understand that “denial is not just a river in Africa.”
Perhaps the best part of Chief Justice Roberts’ opinion – other than the result, of course – is his reliance as part of the decision on the words of the Wretch of San Crapcisco, Nancy Pelosi, when she was Speaker of the House. The opinion quotes her at p. 23: “People think that the President of the United States has the power for debt forgiveness. He does not. He can postpone. He can delay. But he does not have that power. That has to be an act of Congress.” Press Conference, Office of the Speaker of the House (July 28, 2021).”
Perfect. Few things are more satisfying than ramming up Brandon’s nose the truth embodied in the Court’s decision than the words of the Wretch while the Goof squatted in the Oval Office.
One frequently overlooked fact associated with Brandon’s plan now smoldering (thankfully) on the tarmac is that, as originally foisted on the electorate, it included a provision purporting to deem the loan amounts being forgiven as entitled to exemption from federal income taxation.
That’s right, Virginia, under the internal revenue code applicable to everyone – except, perhaps, Brandon’s ne’er-do-well offspring Hunter – the forgiveness of debt is generally treated, subject to some exceptions, as “ordinary income” subject to taxation. But Brandon claimed that, purportedly under the provisions of the “American Rescue Plan Act” – intended to address the impact of the Covid-19 scare perpetrated on the nation by Herr Fauci, the CDC, the FDA and Big Pharma – the forgiven amounts would “not be treated as taxable income for the [sic] federal income tax purposes.”
How great was that? Not only would the horribly impoverished “students” at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Duke, Perdue, Vanderbilt, MIT, CalTech, Stanford, Berkeley and nearly everywhere else have their loans eradicated, they would not have to fret about being taxed on the amounts being forgiven. An ice cream sundae and a cherry on top. Sweeeet.
Brandon has been “hoisted on his own petard,” assisted by the Wretch’s comments now forever memorialized in the Court’s decision. It could not happen to a more deserving, if addled, psychotic.