The following is an adaptation from “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1096-woke-news-outlet-is-not-sure-if-gay-incest-is-wrong-2">The Michael Knowles Show.</a>”
The Democrats are catering to a radical minority of the American people on virtually every issue, from immigration and the structure of our society to drag queen story hour and gender bathrooms. The Democrats are not speaking as the voice of the majority of the American people. They are speaking to a fringe minority.
All the while, they ignore mainstream bread-and-butter issues — not only those that conservatives in the rural parts of the middle of the country care about but also regular, urgent issues that even liberals living in cities care about. Issues such as crime.
Karine Jean-Pierre, the president’s spokesman, was asked in <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/2022/09/26/press-briefing-by-press-secretary-karine-jean-pierre-september-26-2022/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a press conference</a> on September 26 if Joe Biden believes that in Biden’s America our big cities are safe. Not only did she pretend not to understand the question, but she also asserted that the issue of crime is ‘complicated’ and then denied that there is any problem at all. She suggested that the rise in crime does not make any sense because Biden has enacted wise policies to fix crime. Never mind that those policies have failed and in fact only exacerbated the problem in reality.
There seems to be a disagreement between the theory that the Democrats peddle and the effect of those policies in the real world. When disagreement exists between reality and theory, the normal, sane response is to throw out the theory. Democrats, however, attempt to discard reality.
After two quarters of negative GDP growth, the economy is in recession. The American people experience the reality of that recession every day. But Democrats promised that their economic policies would avoid recession. So rather than admit failure, they have sought to change the definition of recession.
Goods cost at least 8.5% more today than they did last year despite Democrats’ promises that their policies would stave off inflation. But rather than admit failure, Democrats have sought to redefine inflation. President Biden went so far as to boast of <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/08/10/biden-wh-claims-us-has-zero-inflation-despite-high-rate/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“zero percent” inflation</a> as Americans struggle to fill their gas tanks and feed their families.
As crime spikes around the nation, President Biden touts his funding of law enforcement. But no matter how merited or dubious Biden’s anti-crime credibility may be, his policies have not worked. For most people, the most important political issues do not include industrial policy or immigration or even abortion. But for all people, safety is one of the top priorities. People want to know if their neighborhood is safe, if their family is safe, if their property is safe. The White House responds by telling the American people to ignore that by denying reality.
And what of the deeper questions: What is a man? What is a woman? What is human life? Should we kill more or fewer babies? Are we going to let men use girls’ bathroom? Are we going to sell our sovereignty to transnational organizations? Are we going to allow woke corporations to serve as enforcement mechanisms for what the Biden administration is not legally permitted to do, like censor their opponents in the public square?
Liberals lob the first culture war assaults on all these issues, and their views are out of step with both public opinion and the American tradition. They promote radical policies. But even on the bread-and-butter issues — like if you can safely leave your home — they fail.
The dismal state of the country on virtually every metric suggests that no normal person could support these people, and Biden’s pitiful poll numbers bear that suggestion out. The people who continue to support Biden are the established radicals in the court of liberalism and their jesters, the professional, squish “conservatives.” But in conflicts between reality and delusion, there can be no neutrality, and reasonable minds cannot agree to disagree.

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Two more legal challenges emerged last week against the <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/biden-administration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biden administration</a> for its policy to cancel up to $10,000 in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/student-loans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">student debt</a> for millions of borrowers.
The student loan cancellation plan, which <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-biden-announces-details-of-student-loan-cancellation-plan">applies</a> to individuals earning less than $125,000 annually, faced its first lawsuit on September 27 from the Pacific Legal Foundation, which argued that the White House <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/flagrantly-illegal-lawsuit-hits-biden-over-student-debt-cancellation">illegally bypassed</a> Congress by invoking a law meant to aid Iraq War veterans and their families. Two days later, multiple Republican state attorneys general filed a <a href="https://content.govdelivery.com/attachments/ARAG/2022/09/29/file_attachments/2283559/09.29.22%20Complaint%20-%20Neb.%20v.%20Biden%20Student%20Loan.pdf">complaint</a> advancing the same argument.
“In addition to being economically unwise and downright unfair, the Biden Administration’s Mass Debt Cancellation is yet another example in a long line of unlawful regulatory actions,” the complaint said. “No statute permits President Biden to unilaterally relieve millions of individuals from their obligation to pay loans they voluntarily assumed.”
The complaint highlighted opposition to the student debt relief from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/this-cpac-footage-is-nuts-progressives-blast-pelosi-for-saying-student-debt-forgiveness-is-a-bad-idea">argued</a> last year that any action on loan cancellation must come from “an act of Congress.” In the wake of Biden’s announcement of the cancellation policy, however, Pelosi appeared to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pelosi-agreed-with-devos-biden-cant-forgive-student-loans-she-just-caved">pivot</a> before declaring that the commander-in-chief’s “bold action is a strong step in Democrats’ fight to expand access to higher education.”
The attorneys general likewise pointed to the Supreme Court’s recent opinion in West Virginia v. EPA, which <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/supreme-court-rules-against-bidens-epa-says-agency-does-not-have-authority-to-regulate-carbon-dioxide-emissions">explained</a> that federal agencies cannot assert “highly consequential power beyond what Congress could reasonably be understood to have granted.” A separate <a href="https://www.azag.gov/press-release/attorney-general-mark-brnovich-sues-over-biden-administrations-student-loan">lawsuit</a> from Attorney General Mark Brnovich (R-AZ) invoked the same ruling and argued that the “mass debt forgiveness program is fundamentally unfair, unconstitutional, and unwise.”
“The fact that the Biden Administration has chosen to usurp the role of Congress and the power of the purse is particularly harmful because nearly every prior bailout of an industry by Congress has also extracted sorely needed reforms from the affected industry,” the lawsuit said. “Here, the presence of half a trillion dollars of student debt cancellation is a clear admission that the higher education industry needs structural reforms, but contains no reforms whatsoever such as requiring colleges to reduce costs, or be more transparent about the low job prospects of certain courses of study.”
Beyond canceling $10,000 in student loans per borrower, Biden also decided to extend the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nationwide-pause-on-student-loan-debt-set-to-expire-biden-officials-expected-to-update-borrowers-soon">pause</a> on federal student loan repayment to January 2023 and will permit borrowers with undergraduate loans to cap payments at 5% of monthly income. Students who paid for college via Pell Grant will receive $20,000 in debt cancellation.
Eliminating $10,000 of student loans per borrower will cost $298 billion in 2022 and a total of $329 billion by 2031 if the policy is renewed each year, according to a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bidens-student-loan-cancellation-would-cost-330-billion-and-largely-help-the-wealthy">nonpartisan analysis</a> from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, which also found that 42% of the benefit would help Americans already earning more than $82,400 per year. Another <a href="https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2022-09/58494-Student-Loans.pdf">estimate</a> from the Congressional Budget Office predicts that the overall cost will be $400 billion, with another $20 billion incurred by the extended pause on repayments.
The lawsuit from the Pacific Legal Foundation contended that the student loan cancellation is largely an “election year ploy” — marking the most severe abuse of power since former President Donald Trump imposed an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cdc-extends-eviction-moratorium-claims-final-extension-as-landlords-continue-to-struggle">eviction moratorium</a> before the election of 2020 through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Many vulnerable Democrats in swing states nevertheless <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/vulnerable-democrats-in-swing-states-distance-themselves-from-biden-on-student-debt-cancellation">distanced themselves</a> from the debt cancellation policy, which many Americans <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/clear-majority-of-americans-worried-about-more-inflation-as-biden-mulls-canceling-student-debt">suspect will worsen</a> inflationary pressures.

President Biden Speaks In Pennsylvania On Reducing Crime And The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act

‘Unfair, Unconstitutional, And Unwise’: Two More Lawsuits Hit Biden Over Student Debt Cancellation

Republican State Attorneys General File Suit Against Biden Student Loan Cancellation

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/desantis-havent-heard-back-from-biden-on-if-hell-reimburse-florida-for-storm-damage-put-politics-aside/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">President Joe Biden</a> personally thanked a Coast Guardsman for saving a 94-year-old woman in the aftermath of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/thousands-of-florida-households-facing-financial-ruin-in-wake-of-hurricane-ian/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hurricane Ian</a>, but the hero expects to be fired within days for rejecting the COVID vaccine.
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Aviation Survival Technician Second Class Zach Loesch earned praise in a Friday phone call from the commander in chief for kicking in a wall to save a trapped, wheelchair-bound woman and her husband. The guardsman hoisted the woman in her wheelchair to a waiting helicopter, <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/10/01/biden-thanks-coast-guard-rescue-swimmer-hes-kicking-out-vaccine-mandate/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to Breitbart</a>, which interviewed him.
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“I told him how proud of him I was and thanked him for all the work he and his Coasties are doing to save lives,” Biden said in a <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/09/30/readout-of-president-joe-bidens-call-with-lieutenant-commander-christopher-hooper-and-aviation-survival-technician-second-class-zach-loesch-of-the-u-s-coast-guard/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press release from the White House</a> that thanked Loesch and Lieutenant Commander Christopher Hooper “for the heroic work that they and their Coast Guard colleagues have performed during search and rescue operations in response to Hurricane Ian.”
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Zach Loesch is an American hero saving lives in Florida and the Biden Administration is kicking him out of the Coast Guard for refusing the jab.
Call your congressman <a href="https://t.co/zXKcz1QDtN">pic.twitter.com/zXKcz1QDtN</a>
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Biden said Hooper’s team also saved a one-month-old baby. It was not clear where the rescues occurred.
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But the next time Loesch hears from a federal official, it could be to learn his career is over. Loesch told the news outlet he had applied for a religious exemption to avoid taking the COVID vaccine but does not expect it to be honored.
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“If I had asked any of the people I saved yesterday if they wanted to come with me even though I am unvaccinated, every single one of them would have said ‘yes,’” he said.
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Loesch, who also saved several pets, said he did not mention his vaccination status or anticipated dismissal in the call with Biden, saying it would not have been appropriate.
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“It just sucks that he thanked me yet the vaccine mandate is what’s kicking me out,” he said. “I just love my job and I’m really good at it. It sucks. I feel like this is the job that I was born to do.”
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As of Saturday afternoon, the Coast Guard had rescued or aided 442 people and 89 pets in Florida and South Carolina.
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More than 2,600 members of the U.S. Coast Guard and thousands more from other military branches remain unvaccinated. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin last year made the COVID vaccine mandatory for all service members, including those at the military academies. Most of the servicemembers who have refused the jab have been given general discharges, meaning they can receive benefits and rejoin the military if they get the vaccine, according to <a href="https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2022/04/27/the-vast-majority-of-troops-kicked-out-for-covid-vaccine-refusal-received-general-discharges/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the Military Times</a>.
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There are multiple lawsuits challenging the mandate, including two in South Carolina and Texas involving Coast Guard Academy cadets who were kicked out for refusing the vaccine.
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Vice President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kamala-harris" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kamala Harris</a> (D) was called out Friday evening by entrepreneur Elon Musk after saying that the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/biden-administration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biden administration</a> was prioritizing giving disaster relief to minorities for the sake of “equity” because the administration wants everyone to end up “in an equal place.”
Harris made the remarks during a discussion with leftist Priyanka Chopra at the Democratic National Committee’s Women’s Leadership Forum in Washington, D.C.
“It is our lowest income communities and our communities of color that are most impacted by these extreme conditions and impacted by issues that are not of their own making,” Harris claimed. “And so we have to address this in a way that is about giving resources based on equity, understanding that we fight for equality, but we also need to fight for equity, understanding not everyone starts out at the same place.”
She added, “And if we want people to be in an equal place, sometimes we have to take into account those disparities and do that work.”
&#8220;Should be according to greatest need, not race or anything else,&#8221; Musk responded.
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Should be according to greatest need, not race or anything else
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Musk made news this week when he suggested that he was potentially interested in working with an alternative platform to YouTube after the left-wing tech company reportedly censored actor Russell Brand.
Brand claimed he was “officially censored by YouTube” for promoting misinformation related to the coronavirus pandemic, to which he responded by showing clips of leftist media personalities making false claims related to the pandemic and YouTube not taking action against their accounts.
Brand also claimed in the video that the reason YouTube does not take action against these personalities is because YouTube is actually part of the mainstream media. Musk responded to Brand’s video saying, “Good point.”
Rumble’s founder, Chris Pavlovksi, pleaded with Musk on Twitter, writing, “Elon, I founded Rumble and forever wanted to work with you.”
“Below is from 2010 when I visited SpaceX. I was ready 12 years ago, and I’m ready 12 years from now. Whenever you’re ready 🚀,” he tweeted. “In the meantime, let’s peer our datacenters with Starlink to secure free speech 🙂”
Musk responded, “Maybe worth talking at some point.”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/desantis-campaign-nukes-kamala-harris-over-racial-remarks-about-natural-disasters" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DeSantis Campaign Nukes Kamala Harris Over Racial Remarks About Natural Disasters</a>

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Elon Musk Slams Kamala Harris For Racial Remarks About Distributing Disaster Assistance

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Vice President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kamala-harris" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kamala Harris</a> (D) faced backlash online Friday afternoon after saying that the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/biden-administration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biden administration</a> was prioritizing giving disaster relief to minorities for the sake of &#8220;equity&#8221; because the administration wants everyone to end up &#8220;in an equal place.&#8221;
Harris made the remarks during a discussion with leftist Priyanka Chopra at the Democratic National Committee’s Women’s Leadership Forum in Washington, D.C.
&#8220;It is our lowest income communities and our communities of color that are most impacted by these extreme conditions and impacted by issues that are not of their own making,&#8221; Harris claimed. &#8220;And so we have to address this in a way that is about giving resources based on equity, understanding that we fight for equality, but we also need to fight for equity, understanding not everyone starts out at the same place.&#8221;
She added, &#8220;And if we want people to be in an equal place, sometimes we have to take into account those disparities and do that work.&#8221;
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The Biden administration will focus on “giving resources based on equity” by directing funds to “communities of color” <a href="https://t.co/uixPpyQWdU">pic.twitter.com/uixPpyQWdU</a>
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AEI fellow Sadanand Dhume responded, &#8220;Why do they make everything about race and gender?&#8221;
&#8220;If a hurricane hits a state, we should expect the government to help all those affected: black, brown white, purple, green,&#8221; he added. &#8220;And there’s no such thing as &#8216;communities of color.&#8217; Real people don’t talk like this.&#8221;
Political commentator Ken Gardner tweeted: &#8220;This has to violate at least a dozen federal and state anti-discrimination laws. Not to mention the 14th Amendment.&#8221;
&#8220;Again, it’s not that we have moronic, insane, despicable people. Every nation has those,&#8221; radio host Jesse Kelly tweeted. &#8220;It’s that our worst people now lead all our institutions. Honestly not sure how a nation can survive that.&#8221;
&#8220;This is pretty much the definition of racism. . .&#8221; American Majority CEO Ned Ryun tweeted.
&#8220;If journalists were any good at doing their jobs they&#8217;d be hammering Kamala Harris on the remarks she made today about how white families affected by Hurricane Ian won&#8217;t be getting any federal funds because the money will be diverted to &#8216;communities of color&#8217; before all else,&#8221; writer Ian Miles Cheong tweeted.

Kamala Harris Blasted For Pushing ‘Racist’ Policy In Response To Hurricane Damage

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House Speaker <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/nancy-pelosi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nancy Pelosi</a> (D-CA) was accused of exploiting migrants for cheap labor after she declared at a press conference Friday morning that they were needed to &#8220;pick the crops.&#8221;
Pelosi&#8217;s comments were in apparent reference to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) sending 50 illegal aliens to Martha&#8217;s Vineyard earlier this month, a move that enraged the political Left.
“Right now, the best thing that we can do for our economy is comprehensive immigration reform,” Pelosi said. “We have a shortage of workers in our country, and you see even in Florida, some of the farmers and the growers saying: ‘Why are you shipping these immigrants up north? We need them to pick the crops down here.’”
Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) slammed Pelosi on Twitter, accusing her trying to exploit migrants and saying that she was a racist.
&#8220;It&#8217;s clear Pelosi and Democrats are exploiting illegal aliens and only view them as cheap labor,&#8221; Biggs tweeted. &#8220;This is what real racism looks like.&#8221;
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Pelosi: &quot;We have a shortage of workers in our country. In Florida, some of the farmers and the growers are saying &#39;why are you shipping these immigrants up North? We need them to pick the crops down here.&#39;&quot; <a href="https://t.co/uCXgz0AXSB">pic.twitter.com/uCXgz0AXSB</a>
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When pressed by Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin over whether the U.S.-Mexico border is secure, Pelosi claimed, &#8220;Well, I believe that we have to have a secure border and I think that the president has a plan to address that.&#8221;
“We have a responsibility to secure our border,” Pelosi said. “We also have a responsibility to recognize the importance of newcomers to our nation. Right now, the best thing we can do for our economy is to have comprehensive immigration reform.”
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&quot;Do you believe the border is secure?&quot;
NANCY PELOSI: &quot;Well I believe that we have to have a secure border and I think that the president has a plan to address that.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/mkhoEnxifl">pic.twitter.com/mkhoEnxifl</a>
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Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-footage-released-of-nancy-pelosis-husband-being-arrested" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WATCH: Footage Released Of Nancy Pelosi’s Husband Being Arrested </a>

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/schumer-curses-republicans-opposing-bidens-student-loan-cancellation-plan/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biden administration</a> quietly changed the fine print of it <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/like-a-band-aid-on-gangrene-why-forgiving-student-loans-is-unconstitutional/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">student loan debt</a> forgiveness plan Thursday, cutting hundreds of thousands of borrowers out of the sweeping program.
The change to the Department of Education website, made without announcement amid legal challenges, leaves out Federal Family Education Loans, which included the once-popular Perkins loans. Those loans were issued by private banks but guaranteed by the government under a program that the Obama administration ended in 2010. The site previously advised those borrowers to consolidate the loans into the federal Direct Loan program in order to be eligible for up to $20,000 of relief.
“As of Sept. 29, 2022, borrowers with federal student loans not held by ED cannot obtain one-time debt relief by consolidating those loans into Direct Loans,” the site now advises, although it says borrowers who consolidated and applied before September 29 remain eligible for relief.
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JUST IN: In a remarkable reversal that will affect the fortunes of millions of student loan borrowers, the U.S. Department of Education quietly changed its rules on who is eligible for President Biden&#39;s comprehensive student debt relief program. <a href="https://t.co/Hsg5CSkBII">https://t.co/Hsg5CSkBII</a>
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More than 4 million borrowers still have commercially-held FFEL loans, but officials said only about 800,000 are expected to be affected. That’s because many either are not eligible for relief under income guidelines or have other outstanding student loans that are eligible to be forgiven.
The reversal follows legal challenges to the Biden administration’s sweeping plan, which the <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/biden-admins-student-loan-forgiveness-213605539.html?soc_src=social-sh&amp;amp;soc_trk=tw&amp;amp;tsrc=twtr">Congressional Budget Office estimates</a> will cost $400 billion.
The Pacific Legal Foundation earlier this week sued, arguing that student-loan borrowers in states including Indiana, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Arkansas, and North Carolina, would be unfairly taxed to fund the program. The foundation argued that because those states do not tax loans forgiven under the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, and enrollees are automatically covered by the Biden administration’s program which does tax the debt relief, recipients would be hit with an unjust tax.
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The Biden admin. changed conditions for student loan relief — disqualifying millions of people.
Borrowers with federal loans owned by private banks through FFEL no longer qualify, unless they applied to consolidate them into Direct Loans owned by the Dept. of Ed before Sept. 29. <a href="https://t.co/3vTdLOWbLQ">pic.twitter.com/3vTdLOWbLQ</a>
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On Thursday, Six Republican attorneys general from Nebraska, Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas, Iowa, and South Carolina sued, arguing that the unilateral order to erase student loan debt is unconstitutional.
NPR reported that the reversal could also be linked to concerns private banks who hold FFEL loans could also sue, claiming the plan would cost them business when borrowers consolidate their old loans into federal Direct Loans, the outlet reported.

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Biden’s Stealth Change To Student Loan Forgiveness Scheme Could Cut Out Millions Of Borrowers

Biden's Stealth Change To Student Loan Forgiveness Scheme Could Cut Out Millions Of Borrowers

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Vice President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kamala-harris" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kamala Harris</a> (D) faced mockery Thursday over a series of events that unfolded during her trip to South Korea.
The top negative story involving Harris came when she was giving a speech at the Korean Peninsula&#8217;s Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) and she praised America&#8217;s relationship with North Korea, which is a hostile foreign nation.
“The United States shares a very important relationship, which is an alliance with the Republic of North Korea,&#8221; Harris said. &#8220;And it is an alliance that is strong and enduring.&#8221;
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&#8220;If the Dems decide Biden isn’t their guy in 2024, they won’t be looking to Kamala Harris as the candidate,&#8221; columnist Brian Lilley said. &#8220;This is something straight out of an episode of Veep &#8211; praising the U.S. alliance with North Korea?&#8221;
&#8220;Biden looked around a room for a dead person,&#8221; media strategist Greg Price said. &#8220;Kamala is saying we have an alliance and important relationship with Kim Jong-Un. What an absolute disaster.&#8221;
Nile Gardiner, former aide to Margaret Thatcher responded: &#8220;Kamala Harris is monumentally unfit to be Vice President of the United States.&#8221;
&#8220;Her sheer ignorance on the international stage, complete lack of policy knowledge, and frequent gaffes are an embarrassment to the world&#8217;s superpower,&#8221; he added.
&#8220;Our President sees dead people,&#8221; radio host Erick Erickson said. &#8220;This Vice President sees North Korea as an ally, and the media is all &#8216;Well, they&#8217;re not Trump so it&#8217;s all okay.’”
Retired U.S. diplomat Alberto Miguel Fernandez responded, &#8220;Diplomacy is back, baby. Evidently we switched sides in Korea under the Biden Administration and nobody told us. Unlike her boss, she can&#8217;t claim advanced old age as a defense.&#8221;
&#8220;USA &#8211; Kamala Harris in South Korea announces &#8211; they have formed an alliance with erm… [North] Korea,&#8221; another account stated on Twitter. &#8220;It’s just embarrassing now.&#8221;
Harris started the day by visiting Camp Bonifas Dining Facility and thanking U.S. soldiers. She visited the DMZ where she then tried to talk about matters unrelated to her visit and effectively posed for photographs while looking through binoculars.
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Kamala Harris at the DMZ: &quot;Have you seen the photographs from the Webb telescope?&quot; <a href="https://t.co/gTZNvn7K3S">pic.twitter.com/gTZNvn7K3S</a>
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Kamala Harris reacts to seeing the DMZ: &quot;It&#39;s so close!&quot;
&quot;It&#39;s 50 meters away, ma&#39;am.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/d20qwb5XhR">pic.twitter.com/d20qwb5XhR</a>
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&#8220;When will &#8216;border czar&#8217; Kamala Harris visit our own southern border?&#8221; the Republican National Committee tweeted.
&#8220;Kamala Harris talking in an uninformed way about cool stuff going on in outer space to a group of people who aren&#8217;t remotely interested,&#8221; Daily Wire host Matt Walsh tweeted. &#8220;This is the first time I&#8217;ve ever found her relatable.&#8221;
&#8220;The guy on the left is thinking &#8216;MAN, is she dumb!’” radio host Chris Krok tweeted.

Kamala Harris Slammed Over ‘Embarrassing’ Trip To South Korea: ‘What An Absolute Disaster’

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There is something more-peculiar-than-normal about the Left&#8217;s defense of President Joe Biden&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/wheres-jackie-biden-asks-where-dead-congresswoman-is-at-white-house-conference" target="_blank" rel="noopener">unbelievable mistake</a> of calling out for the late representative <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jackie-walonski" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jackie Walorksi</a> on Wednesday.
It seems the going explanation is not that Biden&#8217;s out of it, he just doesn&#8217;t really care. Or maybe, more specifically, the Left just doesn&#8217;t care about Walorski nor Biden&#8217;s mental state.
Consider Whoopi Goldberg&#8217;s defense on ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View.&#8221;
&#8220;You know, my gosh, come on,” Goldberg <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/whoopi-blows-up-at-media-for-daring-to-question-bidens-mental-health" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> about conservative backlash. &#8220;You can’t go after him for, you know, not giving aid to Florida, or not tackling the infrastructure, and he’s giving aid to Ukraine, so you can’t go after him for that, but you can go after him for forgetting that someone has passed.&#8221;
&#8220;I mean, she passed last month not, like, a hundred years ago, okay?&#8221; she said.
Yeah, guys, I mean c&#8217;mon. How was the president supposed to know Walorski was killed in an automobile accident in August? It&#8217;s not like his office issued a statement commemorating her life of public service.
Except that is <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/08/03/statement-from-president-biden-on-the-passing-of-congresswoman-jackie-walorski-of-indiana/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">exactly what happened</a>.
Then there was White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre&#8217;s excuse. If you ask the official spokesperson for the Biden White House, the president looked around the room and asked &#8220;Where&#8217;s Jackie?&#8221; because she was &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/press-sec-digs-hole-even-deeper-after-biden-calls-for-dead-congresswoman" target="_blank" rel="noopener">at the top of his mind</a>.&#8221;
In other words, Jean-Pierre claimed that Biden led everybody to believe he thought Walorski was still alive because he was so looking forward to &#8220;honoring her legacy&#8221; and meeting her grieving family on Friday.
It was possibly the worst excuse of all time and skirted around the obvious: Biden is losing his marbles.
More folks in the media are falling into a similar blunder.
&#8220;I think what it really shows is this country is so ageist,&#8221; Sunny Hostin of “The View” proclaimed about criticism for Biden&#8217;s seance-that-wasn&#8217;t. &#8220;This country has a problem with age. You go to other countries and our elders are revered because of the knowledge that they have. I hate that about this country!&#8221;
From the ladies on “The View” to the official White House, the going explanation for Biden&#8217;s latest gaffe isn&#8217;t that he&#8217;s senile, it is that he just did not really care that much to properly honor Walorski&#8217;s legacy.
Yet, those closest to the situation know that&#8217;s laughable.
Walorski&#8217;s brother Keith seemed to understand that Biden isn&#8217;t all there.
“It’s par for the course,” Keith <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/09/28/late-gop-rep-jackie-walorskis-bro-biden-doing-best-he-can/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> the New York Post. “I feel sorry for him, really.”
Keith also said, &#8220;He made a phone call after my sister was killed and he was very sincere in his relaying the grief process because he’s been through that grief process, he knows all about it.&#8221;
“All I’m saying right now about the president is bless his heart for trying,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Yeah, it was a big mess-up today. Inexcusable? No. Unforgivable? No. I’m not gonna hold it against him. I just feel sorry for him.&#8221;
In other words, it is just obvious to Walorksi&#8217;s family that Biden is mentally incapacitated as it is to much of the country.
As pointed out by former Trump official and host of &#8220;This Is Your Country,&#8221; Paige Willey, Biden &#8220;wasn’t trying to be disrespectful—yet her family will never get an apology because the white house [sic] can’t admit how debilitated he is.&#8221;
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whole thing is so sad. feel terrible for her family and the spectacle being turned into a cheap punchline. in some ways it’s worse because biden wasn’t trying to be disrespectful—yet her family will never get an apology because the white house can’t admit how debilitated he is. <a href="https://t.co/wjBN0khfGQ">https://t.co/wjBN0khfGQ</a>
&mdash; paige willey (@midwesterneur) <a href="https://twitter.com/midwesterneur/status/1575264330416852993?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 28, 2022</a></blockquote>
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She&#8217;s right. Neither the White House, nor the Left, can admit it. So instead, they&#8217;ll unwittingly put forth the idea that Biden couldn&#8217;t be bothered to remember Walorski&#8217;s passing. What a rotten thing to do.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/question-if-joe-biden-were-your-dad-would-you-let-him-live-on-his-own" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Question: If Joe Biden Were Your Dad, Would You Let Him Live On His Own?</a>

Libs Defend Biden: He’s Not Out Of It, He Just Doesn’t Really Care

Libs Defend Biden: He's Not Out Of It, He Just Doesn't Really Care

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President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> (D) appeared to veer off course during a FEMA press conference Thursday afternoon after he finished making his remarks, prompting at least one official to try to grab his attention.
&#8220;Thank you,&#8221; Biden said as a reporter tried to ask him a question. &#8220;Thank you.&#8221;
Biden then walked over to a group of workers who started clapping for him.
FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell moved laterally and tried to briefly reach out and grab him as he walked to the group of workers.
&#8220;Mr. President,&#8221; Criswell said in trying to get his attention.
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NOW &#8211; &quot;Mr. President&#8230;?&quot;<a href="https://t.co/5UhQTbLdxC">pic.twitter.com/5UhQTbLdxC</a>
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The incident comes after Biden on Wednesday thanked a handful of bipartisan officials for putting together the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/white-house" target="_blank" rel="noopener">White House</a> Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health. During his acknowledgments, he asked, “Where’s Jackie?” confused as to why he did not see the woman he had just mentioned in his remarks.
Biden was referencing deceased Rep. Jackie Walorksi (R-IN), who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-u-s-congresswoman-killed-in-head-on-collision" target="_blank" rel="noopener">passed away</a> last month in an automobile accident.
“I want to thank all of you here, including bipartisan officials like Representative McGovern, Senator Braun, Senator Booker, Representative … Jackie, are you here? Where’s Jackie? … I think she must not be here,” Biden said while searching for Jackie.
White House Press Secretary <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/karine-jean-pierre" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Karine Jean-Pierre</a> was repeatedly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/karine-jean-pierre-repeatedly-grilled-over-her-lame-response-to-biden-looking-for-deceased-congresswoman">grilled</a> by numerous reporters during Wednesday’s press briefing over Biden looking for the deceased congresswoman and she repeatedly deflected answering reporters&#8217; questions by claiming that Biden was looking for the congresswoman because she was &#8220;top of mind.&#8221;
Tim Meads contributed to this report.

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Biden Appears To Get Off Course During Press Conference, Officials Try To Grab His Attention

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If President Joe Biden ever wanted to, he could easily blame all of his odd habits on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/question-if-joe-biden-were-your-dad-would-you-let-him-live-on-his-own" target="_blank" rel="noopener">senility</a>. Nobody would bat an eye. His <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kamala-harris" target="_blank" rel="noopener">vice president</a>, on the other hand, is more than twenty years his junior and such a claim would never be believable.
So, what is her excuse for her gaffes and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/is-there-any-hope-for-kamala-harris-word-salads" target="_blank" rel="noopener">word salads</a>?
On Thursday, Vice President Kamala Harris made a visit to the demilitarized zone in South Korea. While there, she <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kamala-harris-touts-strong-and-enduring-ties-with-republic-of-north-korea-in-latest-gaffe" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>, &#8220;The United States shares a very important relationship, which is an alliance with the Republic of North Korea. And it is an alliance that is strong and enduring.&#8221;
North Korea, of course, is run by a morbidly obese dictator nicknamed &#8220;Rocket Man&#8221; by former President Donald J. Trump. The U.S. is not an ally of Kim Jong Un. Harris, as the video shows, was speaking off note cards, adding to the confusion.
Harris&#8217; difficulty with the English language is about as well known as Biden&#8217;s difficulty exiting stages, but it&#8217;s always worth a trip down memory lane to remind ourselves that our nation&#8217;s second-in-command is number one in the word salad business.
For example, in December 2021, during an interview with NBC News’ Craig Melvin, she offered what was her most nonsensical answer up to that point. Melvin had asked for her update on the administration&#8217;s response to COVID.
“It is time for us to do what we have been doing,&#8221; Harris <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/is-there-any-hope-for-kamala-harris-word-salads" target="_blank" rel="noopener">explained</a>. &#8220;And that time is every day. Every day it is time for us to agree that there are things and tools that are available to us to slow this thing down. And so right now, we know we still have a number of people that that is in the millions of Americans who have not been vaccinated and could be vaccinated and we are urging them to get vaccinated because it will save their life.&#8221;
Then in Europe, Harris gave a bizarre geography lesson as she gave a speech on Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine.
“I am here, standing here on the northern flank, on the eastern flank, talking about what we have in terms of the eastern flank and our NATO allies, and what is at stake at this very moment. What is at stake this very moment are some of the guiding principles,&#8221; Harris said at the time.
On that note, Harris has also pondered the great mystery of time.  While promoting rural internet access, Harris remarked, &#8220;We were all doing a tour of the library here and talking about the significance of the passage of time, right? The significance of the passage of time. So when you think about it, there is great significance to the passage of time &#8230; There is such great significance to the passage of time when you think of a day in the life of our children.&#8221;
It should be mentioned that some have put forth the theory that Harris is being sabotaged with difficult tasks.
&#8220;As the VP wanders haplessly around the White House — and country — it looks very much like the Biden camp has overdone the sabotage,&#8221; columnist Sarah Baxter wrote after reports of complaints from within Harris&#8217; office surfaced, claiming that the administration had purposefully given her politically risky jobs like dealing with illegal immigration.
In other words, some speculate that Harris is being set up to fail. If that&#8217;s the case, should Americans expect U.S. relations with South Korea to sour? Likely not, but it can reasonably be assured that White House press secretary won&#8217;t explain away Harris&#8217; North Korea flub by saying the country was &#8220;the top of [her] mind&#8221; as she did with Biden&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/one-of-bidens-most-demented-days-ever" target="_blank" rel="noopener">séance</a> on Wednesday.
For her part, Harris&#8217;s camp may blame Biden for giving her treacherous duties in the first place, but that does not explain her incompetence.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Biden Can Blame Senility, But What’s Kamala’s Excuse?

Biden Can Blame Senility, But What's Kamala's Excuse?

Real gross domestic product (<a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/economy">GDP</a>) is confirmed to have shrunk at an annualized rate of 0.6% in the second quarter of 2022, according to a Thursday report from the Bureau of Economic Analysis.
New data from the agency confirms the figure, which had already been revised to 0.6% from an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-in-a-recession-after-second-straight-quarter-of-negative-growth">earlier estimate</a> of 0.9%. Output <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/united-states-economy-shrinks-in-the-first-part-of-2022">contracted</a> at a 1.6% annualized rate in the first quarter.
“The decrease in real GDP reflected decreases in private inventory investment, residential fixed investment, federal government spending, and state and local government spending, that were partly offset by increases in exports and consumer spending,” the Bureau of Economic Analysis explained. “Imports, which are a subtraction in the calculation of GDP, increased.”
The two consecutive quarters of negative growth places the United States into technical recession territory. Although the National Bureau of Economic Research, a nonprofit entity generally recognized as the country’s business cycle scorekeeper, defines a recession as “a significant decline in economic activity that is spread across the economy and lasts more than a few months,” the entity also examines more granular data in declaring periods of recession.
The Biden administration has leaned upon the lack of an official declaration while <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/white-house-does-preemptive-damage-control-as-economy-heads-toward-recession">spurning criticism</a> about the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bidenomics-how-inflation-got-out-of-control">outcomes</a> of its economic agenda.
“While some maintain that two consecutive quarters of falling real GDP constitute a recession, that is neither the official definition nor the way economists evaluate the state of the business cycle,” the White House said in a <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/cea/written-materials/2022/07/21/how-do-economists-determine-whether-the-economy-is-in-a-recession/">blog post</a>. “Instead, both official determinations of recessions and economists’ assessment of economic activity are based on a holistic look at the data — including the labor market, consumer and business spending, industrial production, and incomes.”
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has likewise <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/yellen-were-not-in-a-recession-were-in-a-transition-in-which-growth-is-slowing">denied</a> that the economy is “in recession.&#8221; Instead, she claimed two months ago that the nation is in a “period of transition in which growth is slowing,” which is “necessary and appropriate” following recovery from the lockdown-induced recession.
Beyond the first half of the year, the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/american-economy-shrank-in-the-first-two-quarters-and-will-likely-stagnate-in-the-third">predicts</a> that growth in the third quarter will occur at an annualized rate of 0.3%. As landmark reports regarding employment, inflation, private inventories, manufacturing output, and the housing market have been published over the past two months, analysts in Atlanta have <a href="https://www.atlantafed.org/-/media/documents/cqer/researchcq/gdpnow/RealGDPTrackingSlides.pdf">repeatedly downgraded</a> their growth forecast for the third quarter.
The United States has witnessed a lackluster economic recovery over the past two years under several disruptions — including <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/americans-continue-to-opt-out-of-the-workforce">labor shortages</a>, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/wee-hours-deal-reached-at-last-minute-to-avert-crippling-railroad-workers-strike">supply chain bottlenecks</a>, and the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/we-simply-have-to-step-back-the-realist-approach-to-war-in-ukraine-and-americas-european-allies">Russian invasion of Ukraine</a> — all of which have contributed to worsening <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/inflation">inflationary pressures</a>.
The phenomena have eroded Americans’ trust in the Democratic Party to handle economic policy, according to a recent <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-midterm-poll-spells-bad-news-for-democrats-on-the-economy">poll</a> from ABC News and The Washington Post. The economy and inflation are key issues among voters, with 84% considering the former to be a top factor on their minds. The Republicans lead the Democrats by a 16% margin and a 19% margin with respect to trust in handling the economy and inflation, respectively.
Price levels between August 2021 and August 2022 rose 8.3%, according to <a href="https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm">data</a> from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, marking a slight moderation from an 8.5% year-over-year increase in July and a 9.1% year-over-year increase in June. As core inflation continues to climb, the Federal Reserve responded last week by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/heres-what-the-federal-reserves-recent-rate-hike-means-for-the-economy">increasing</a> the target federal funds rate by 0.75% — a move that triggered a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/if-hes-elected-the-stock-market-will-crash-trumps-2020-warning-about-biden-comes-true">stock market selloff</a> and sent the Dow Jones more than 1,500 points lower than the level seen on the day of Biden’s inauguration.

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