GET WOKE, GO BROKE: Thanks to Woke, World’s 2nd Largest Theater Chain Talks Bankruptcy.

Cineworld is the planet’s second-largest theater chain. Here in the U.S., it’s known as Regal Theaters. And now, due to several factors — one being the woke pandemic — talk of “bankruptcy” is in the air.

Yes, one of those factors is the anti-science China Flu lockdowns. There’s also global and U.S. recession. Add to that the last few months of 2022, which looks pretty barren as far as blockbusters go—which leads me to Hollywood’s woke problem.

First, some background:

To be sure, moviegoers have streamed back into theaters this year to see blockbusters like “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” “Top Gun: Maverick,” and ”Jurassic World: Dominion.” …

But this summer’s $3.3 billion in ticket sales is still running nearly 20% behind the summer of 2019, before the pandemic, as of Sunday, according to data firm Comscore. And there don’t seem to be any big hits on the immediate horizon to make those numbers much better.

Cineworld said its admissions levels have recently been below expectations. And with a “limited film slate,” it expects the lower levels to continue until November. That would mean an additional crunch to its finances.

So, we have two issues to explore here. The first is a post-pandemic 2022 box office running 20 percent behind the pre-pandemic box office. The second is a lack of blockbusters between now and November.

Well, why?

Why is that?

Why is 2022 running 20 percent behind 2019?

No wonder “David Zaslav, the CEO of the merged Warner Discovery, is swinging his Mighty Ax.”

GREAT MOMENTS IN PROJECTION: President Joe Biden says ‘it’s like semi-fascism’ that underpins the whole MAGA movement.

Related:

● Majority see FBI as Biden’s ‘personal Gestapo’ after Trump raid.

● Zuckerberg Alleges FBI Warned Facebook of ‘Russian Propaganda’ Before Hunter Laptop Story Broke.

● The ‘cabal’ that bragged of foisting Joe Biden on us must answer for his failed presidency.

WOULD IT NOT BE SIMPLER IF THE GOVERNMENT SIMPLY DISSOLVED THE PEOPLE AND ELECTED ANOTHER? Kathy Hochul’s call for 5.4M Republicans to leave New York is dangerous and disgusting. “‘Just jump on a bus and head down to Florida where you belong, OK?’ she said. ‘You are not New Yorkers.’”

QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED: Watch: The Priceless Reaction of Ron DeSantis When He’s Asked About Crist Calling Him a Dictator.

Reporter to Governor DeSantis: "[Charlie Crist] says you're a dictator. How do you respond to that?"

His reaction is priceless 🤣 pic.twitter.com/ta6uiRmSEn

— DeSantis War Room 🐊 (@DeSantisWarRoom) August 25, 2022

CHANGE: Zaslav Cancels Woke Ellen DeGeneres Cartoon Aimed At Children.

David Zaslav, the CEO of the merged Warner Discovery, is swinging his Mighty Ax, and he’s swinging it at a lot of Charity Projects that do not bring in money.

Stuff that was never designed to earn money, but just earn Woke Points.

David Zaslav can give a rat’s ass about Woke Points.

As Ellen DeGeneres, The Nicest Woman in Hollywood, has just been informed.

HBO Max Cancels Ellen DeGeneres Woke Animated Series Aimed At Preschoolers

In yet another sign that the times are a-changin’, HBO Max just canceled several animated shows aimed at kids that focus on hyper-radical Woke content and sexual programming/indoctrination of underage children. This includes Cartoonito’s Little Ellen, produced by comedienne Ellen DeGeneres, most famous for accusations of abusing employees working on her daytime talk show.

[P]undits on both Right and Left see it as HBO Max stepping away from the divisive and costly failures of producing Woke entertainment, not to mention the ensuing backlash which began when corporate giant Disney began meddling in the affairs of Florida’s anti-grooming bill.

Little Ellen got the chop despite twenty unreleased episodes still produced and ready to go, which is a strong signal that the company is starting to rethink its approach to content….

Also cut: the new Batman: Caped Crusader animated show from Bruce Timm, Matt Reeves, and, um, J.J. Abrams.

Now, that may sound like a loss, but maybe not. Ethan Van Sciver pointed out this Bounding Into Comics article from last year, in which Bruce Timm — who, frankly, has not been associated with quality for a while — bragged that the new show would be “diverse,” “inclusive,” and “adult.”

Related:Too Fun to Check: Is Warner/Discovery’s libertarian investor imposing an ideological agenda on CNN?

WHITE HOUSE TROLLS MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE FOR STUDENT LOAN CRITICISM: ‘She had $183k in PPP loans repaid.’

The White House called out congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene on Thursday, after the Georgia Republican criticised the Biden administration’s student loan debt plan as unfair despite getting more than $183,000 in federal loan forgiveness herself.

Ms Greene has been a vocal critic of the president’s plan to forgive up to $10,000 in federal student loan debt, dismissing it as an unfair policy and a partisan ploy because Democrats “need votes in November.”

“For our government just to say, well OK, your debt is completely forgiven, obviously they have an agenda for that,” she said in a recent appearance on Newsmax. “They need votes in November so the timing is pure coincidence there as well. It’s completely unfair.”

“Taxpayers all over the country, taxpayers that never took out a student loan, taxpayers that pay their bills and maybe even never went to college, just hard-working people, they shouldn’t have to pay off the great big student loan debt for some college student that piled up massive debt going to some Ivy League school,” she added.

On Thursday, the White House noted in a tweet that Ms Greene herself received $183,504 in federal loan forgiveness as part of the pandemic-inspired Paycheck Protection Program, which she used for funds for her construction company, according to public records.

In addition to Greene, the White House also called out “Reps. Vern Buchanan (Fla.), Markwayne Mullin (Okla.), Kevin Hern (Okla.), Mike Kelly (Pa.) and Matt Gaetz (Fla.),” according to the Politico.

This isn’t the dunk that the White House thinks it is:

Additionally, PPP loans were passed by Congress, unlike Biden’s student loan scheme.

Related: Oops: Biden’s student debt bailout is even more expensive than we thought, analysis reveals.

NATE SILVER: Liberal Elites May Have Pressured Pfizer to Delay Vaccine — Until After 2020 Election.

FiveThirtyEight editor-in-chief Nate Silver made a claim on Twitter that’s getting a lot of attention, quite understandably.

Silver was commenting on Twitter on a Politico article about the Trump Administration pushing for fast-track approval of the COVID vaccine in 2020. It makes perfect sense that you would want to fast-track it, to help people as soon as it was possible.

Silver said, “‘Trump pushed for vaccine approvals too fast’ is the worst possible critique of the Trump administration’s COVID policy. That probably saved a lot of lives. If anything approval should have been faster.”

His next comment, though, was the barn burner. He said that “liberal public health elites” pressured Pfizer to “change its original protocols” and delay that vaccine approval, which “had the convenient side-effect of delaying any vaccine announcement until after the election” That action “deserves more scrutiny,” Silver declared.

President Donald Trump was thus denied the political “win” of the vaccine before the election.

Back in December, when Silver made similar comments, Tyler Cowen added: “No, this was not a conspiracy in the strictest, most intentional sense (it didn’t need to be!), but it did kill thousands of people and manipulate our politics. . . . C’mon, people, let’s not be afraid to admit this one.”

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Related: The ‘cabal’ that bragged of foisting Joe Biden on us must answer for his failed presidency.

K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: DC Mayor Says No Virtual Learning, Giving Unvaccinated Black Teens Zero Alternative Options.

OH THE HUMANITY: A podcasting conference issued a pathetic multiple-tweet apology because Ben Shapiro happened to swing by for a few minutes.

More reaction to a podcast conference getting the vapors over Shapiro here: Blue-checked podcasting consortium apologizes ‘for the harm done’ by Ben Shapiro showing up at expo where ‘dangerous’ Daily Wire had booth.

UPDATE: Trigger warning: Someone got a photo of the dangerous Ben Shapiro inside podcasting convention. “If you were wondering what reason the Ben Shapiro meltdown is over, check this thread,” whose creator has since gone into lockdown mode:

“As a trans person, as a queer person, as someone with a uterus, this does not make me feel welcome. This does not make me feel safe.”

As a person of pronouns:

Exit quote: “@starplanes, if someone’s opposing viewpoints or mere presence makes you feel unsafe, then you are, by definition, a weak person. And, your weakness does nothing to help the LGBTQ+ community. The gays at Stonewall stood up to the cops, you can’t stand up to a fast talking Jew?”

And yet…how frightening was Shapiro’s appearance? So horrific that his own company is warning viewers before they watch video of it:

Absolutely terrifying https://t.co/m2nt6cgnBn

— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) August 25, 2022

(Updated and bumped.)

ZUCKERBERG ALLEGES FBI WARNED FACEBOOK OF ‘RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA’ BEFORE HUNTER LAPTOP STORY BROKE:

Mark Zuckerberg alleged Thursday on “The Joe Rogan Experience” that the FBI warned Facebook of a “Russian propaganda” dump just before the Hunter Biden laptop story broke.

The exchange began when Rogan asked how Facebook handled the Hunter Biden laptop story, with Zuckerberg responding that his company took a different path after the FBI warned of misinformation.

“The FBI basically came to us and some folks on our team and said, ‘Hey, just so you know, you should be on high alert, we thought there was a lot of Russian propaganda in the 2016 election and we have noticed that basically there’s about to be some kind of dump that’s similar to that, so be vigilant.’”

Zuckerberg said he can’t recall whether the FBI specifically mentioned the Hunter Biden laptop story but said it fit “the pattern.”

Earlier: Majority see FBI as Biden’s ‘personal Gestapo’ after Trump raid.

UPDATE: “‘For the five or seven days when it was basically being determined whether it was false, the distribution on Facebook was decreased, but people were still allowed to share it,’ Zuckerberg added. ‘You could still share it, you could still consume it.’”

Related: The ‘cabal’ that bragged of foisting Joe Biden on us must answer for his failed presidency.

THE GODFATHER AT 50:

Is there any midlife moment more poignant, painful even, than when a father introduces his teenage son to The Godfather, and the reaction is “Little slow”?

Slow? We’re talking about the greatest movie of all time here! Not just a cinematic masterpiece, but for my generation, a touchstone of masculinity, what with Sonny’s tinder-box machismo, Clemenza’s murderous avuncularity, and Michael’s transformation from sensitive idealist to heart of stone. The Godfather isn’t just a movie. It’s something to be passed down, the way Don Corleone passes on his wisdom to his sons: “Never tell anyone outside the family what you’re thinking again.” At least that’s what I want The Godfather to be. But is it?

Celebrating 50 years since its release in 1972, Francis Ford Coppola’s epic achievement is back in the pop-cultural consciousness. A new edition of Mario Puzo’s bestseller has been released with an intro by Coppola, along with a “50th Anniversary Edition” of The Godfather, The Godfather: Part II, and The Godfather: Part III (the latter being the critical flop Coppola tried to salvage last year by editing it a little and rebranding it The Death of Michael Corleone). Paramount+, the streaming arm of the studio that made The Godfather, recently aired The Offer, a series about the making of the movie, built around its unlikely producer Albert S. Ruddy, an ex–Rand Corporation card-puncher whose principal credit had been the World War II POW camp sitcom Hogan’s Heroes. Most recently, the death of James Caan generated fond memories of his legendary turn as Sonny.

I can’t get enough of any of it. Have you seen Robert De Niro’s audition for the role of Sonny? Or Caan reading with Diane Keaton to play Michael? These auditions were filmed by the wife of Coppola’s disciple George Lucas. “Give it to Al Pacino,” she said: “He undresses you with his eyes.” Keaton also thought Al was cute. I happily dive down all those rabbit holes. If I’m scrolling through channels and land on The Godfather, I still can’t stop watching it all the way to the end no matter how many times I’ve seen it.

So what is this magic that gives Coppola’s masterpiece its enduring appeal—well beyond, say, the movie that won eight Oscars in the year The Godfather won only three? (That movie was Cabaret.)

Robert Evans—the garmento-turned-actor-turned– studio head who ran Paramount and got The Godfather made against considerable odds—says in his memoir The Kid Stays in the Picture that good movies don’t come out of everyone getting along. Passion, and the conflict that goes with it, is what makes a great film.

The Offer makes the Evans-Coppola dynamic seem like a lovefest. (They are superbly played by Matthew Goode and Dan Fogler.) But this was hardly the case. Although it was Evans who recruited the young, arty Coppola to direct, their feuding started early in the process and continued almost to Evans’s death in 2019. The first major battle was over casting. Coppola wanted Pacino. “That shrimp,” as Evans called him, was a respected but little-known New York stage actor. He had starred in Israel Horovitz’s play The Indian Wants the Bronx with John Cazale, who would play Fredo in Godfathers I and II. But prior to The Godfather, Pacino’s only film credit was Panic in Needle Park, a downer from 1971. In Evans’s mind, he was no movie star. He wanted Ryan O’Neal, newly famous from the Paramount blockbuster Love Story, or Robert Redford. In The Offer, there’s a scene with Evans and his wife, Ali McGraw—O’Neal’s co-star in Love Story—watching Panic in Needle Park. McGraw is mesmerized by Pacino: “I can’t take my eyes off him.” Evans relents.

The Offer has some fun moments, but it’s also highly fictionalized history, and more than a little cliched. As I wrote in June: ‘The Godfather’ at 50: Skip ‘The Offer,’ Take ‘The Cannoli.’

THAT’S CRAZY TALK! America Isn’t Responsible For My Student Loans. I Am.

JIM CROW GOES WOKE:

#HIMTOO? George Foreman Sued, Allegedly Sexually Abused Two Minors In His 20s.

Curious that they waited almost half a century to sue Foreman.

LET ME JUST GET OUT AHEAD OF THE STORY AND SAY THAT GHISLAINE MAXWELL DID NOT COMMIT SUICIDE: Jeffrey Epstein associate and one-time New York Post owner Steven Hoffenberg dies aged 77: Disgraced financier was found dead in his Connecticut bedroom a month after testing positive for Omicron.

ROGER KIMBALL: Liz Cheney: the self-appointed moral center of the GOP.

For reasons known only to herself, Liz Cheney appears to believe that she has been invested with the authority to tell us who may and who may not serve as president of the United States. She keeps droning on about the Constitution and the “constitutional” structure. But here is what the Constitution says about one’s fitness to be president. One must be a “natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution.” Moreover, one must have “attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.” C’est tout. That’s it. Nothing about not being Donald Trump. Nothing about earning Liz Cheney’s approval.

That must come as a disappointment to the embryonic CNN hostess, almost as much of a disappointment as not being Abraham Lincoln or Ulysses S. Grant.

Read the whole thing.

IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROPHECY: Hard-Working Plumber Looking Forward To Paying For His Neighbor’s Gender Studies Degree.

CHRISTOPHER CALDWELL: Why Are We in Ukraine?

Never has an official non-belligerent been more implicated in a war. Russia and its sympathizers assert that the U.S. attempt to turn Ukraine into an armed anti-Russian camp is what the war is about in the first place. Even those who dismiss this view will agree that the United States has made itself a central player in the conflict. It is pursuing a three-pronged strategy to defeat Russia through every means short of entering the war—which, of course, raises the risk that the United States will enter the war. One prong is the state-of-the-art weaponry it is supplying to Ukraine. Since June, thousands of computer-guided artillery rockets have been wreaking havoc behind Russian lines. A second prong is sanctions. With western European help, Washington has used its control of the choke points of the global marketplace to impoverish Russians, in hopes of punishing Russia. Finally, the U.S. seeks to rally the world’s peoples to a culture war against an enemy whose traditionalism, even if it does not constitute the whole of his evil, is at least a symbol of it.

It would be foolish to bet against the United States, a mighty global hegemon with a military budget 12 times Russia’s. Yet something is going badly off track. Russia’s military tenacity was to be expected—bloodying and defeating more technologically advanced armies has been a hallmark of Russian civilization for 600 years. But the economic sanctions, far from bringing about the collapse Blinken gloated over, have driven up the price of the energy Russia sells, strengthened the ruble, and threatened America’s western European allies with frostbite, shortages, and recession. The culture war has found few proponents outside of the West’s richest latte neighborhoods. Indeed, cultural self-defense may be part of the reason India, China, and other rising countries have conspicuously declined to cut economic ties with the Russians.

There have been signs for years that a new Iron Curtain was about to drop on the European continent. In 2008, the U.S. announced plans to bring certain non-Baltic republics of the former Soviet Union—notably Ukraine and Georgia—into NATO and the American sphere of influence. Should Ukraine prevail in this proxy war the U.S. will have succeeded, in a way. But it will have done so at an almost unspeakable price. It will have undermined the international economic architecture on which rests its control of global markets (and its ability to safely run government deficits). It will have carried out a shotgun wedding of Russia and China, forcing the most natural-resource-rich country on the planet into the arms of the West’s most dangerous adversary. Should Ukraine fail, the Ukraine policy of the Bush, Obama, Trump, and Biden administrations will be counted among the significant foreign policy blunders in American history.

Read the whole thing,

CSPAN REPORTER ASKS JAMES O’KEEFE IF USING ‘DECEPTION’ DURING AN INVESTIGATION IS OK, AND HIS RESPONSE IS PERFECT: “O’Keefe quoted ethicist Lous Hodges who argues that journalists have a moral imperative to deceive their subjects if they intend to do investigative reporting. He added that it is a worse deception to claim to do investigative reporting when the journalist wants to read off of a teleprompter and believe everything the subject says.”

Video at link.

GOODER AND HARDER, CALIFORNIA:

Shot: California will ban new gas-powered vehicles sales starting in 2035.

—The Verge, today.

Chaser: California Issues ‘Flex Alert’ to Combat Rolling Blackouts, Energy Plan Failing.

California — under the illustrious leadership of Gov. Gavin Newsom — has asked its residents to avoid their air conditioners in the midst of a heat wave to prevent rolling blackouts, again.

Sounds like California is indeed the fifth largest economy…in the third world.

—Outkick the Coverage, Friday.

MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE SWATTED: 911 Caller Was ‘Upset’ Over MTG’s Stance on ‘Transgender Youth Rights.’

UH OH: Some Dems nervously condemn Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan.

Biden knows the regressive aspects of the policy are a huge problem potentially for the party and had a snappy answer ready today when asked about it:

REPORTER: Is this unfair to people who paid their student loans or chose not to take out loans?

BIDEN: Is it fair to people who, in fact, do not own multi-billion-dollar businesses if they see one of these guys getting all the tax breaks? Is that fair? What do you think?

That’s super, but the reason Americans tolerate tax breaks for mega-billionaires and their companies is a combination of fatalism and optimism. Fatalism: The rich always get away with murder and have the wherewithal to rig the game in their favor. It’s not fair but it’s life, as inevitable as gravity. Optimism: Tax breaks for corporations benefit everyone in theory by maximizing the ability of those businesses to expand, which in turn means more jobs for the local community. States don’t compete with each other to offer perks to Tesla and Amazon because they enjoy online shopping or think EVs are cool. They do it because having a major corporation blow into town means lots of hires, and lots of hires means lots of economic growth.

Telling an average joe that the guy next to him deserves 10,000 bucks just because he went to college and took out some loans to pay for it is much harder to defend. I suppose one could say that debt forgiveness is a form of stimulus for the (already overstimulated) economy, but then you’re stuck having to explain why we don’t just give everyone ten grand instead. Lots of stimulus! The student loan debtors can use the money for their loans and the rest of us who aren’t in debt can invest or enjoy the money as we see fit. There’s simply no good moral or fiscal reason to randomly select this group of people for an enormous federal giveaway while cutting everyone else out of the action, including and especially those who behaved more responsibly than the recipients. Democrats deserve to get wrecked for it. And Ryan, Pappas, and Bennet know it.

Which brings us to: Student Loan Forgiveness Is Left-Wing Trickle-Down Economics.

I’m a blue-collar worker, and when I talk to other blue collar workers about student loan forgiveness, it’s one of those subjects where no one disagrees. It gets a resounding, 100 percent “Hell no!” every time it comes up.

This isn’t because we’re anti-college. Most of the folks I work with and talk to have kids in college or have kids that graduated college. But if you ask if college students’ loans should be paid off by taxpayers, the answer is always the same: No way.

Unlike progressives, we don’t see student debt cancelation as an avenue out of poverty. We see it as a tax on those of us who chose not to go to college, who now have to pay for those who already got a big advantage in the labor market by way of their degree.

Maybe the college degree didn’t give them the job they wanted. But when it all comes down to it, before taking out a big loan, it’s on you to know what you’re getting into. It’s on you to do your due diligence. Big decisions like taking on thousands of dollars in debt have consequences. Why should that burden fall to taxpayers?

And it does fall on taxpayers. Calling it “canceling student loans” is just as dishonest as calling government funded health care or education “free.” None of this is free; it’s taxpayer funded. It’s not cancelation; it’s taking money from the taxpayer and putting it toward paying off student debt held by borrowers.

It’s deeply disrespectful to the people they are trying to convince to help pay for their loans to misrepresent it.

Earlier, I quoted Iowahawk, who said, “Thank god we’re finally addressing the plight of America’s most disadvantaged community, Harvard Law graduates.”

But team Biden is finally addressing an even more disadvantaged community: Majority of White House Staffers Eligible for Biden’s Student-Loan ‘Forgiveness.’

A White House report that detailed the pay of more than 470 staffers last month showed that roughly half of current White House employees make $90,000 or less per year, with the other half making more than $100,000. More than 300 staffers on the list earn less than the $125,000 threshold.

It is not clear how many White House staffers have student-loan balances. One-in-five White House aides required to file a 2021 financial disclosure reported having student loans, according to disclosures reviewed by Bloomberg News. However, only senior or well-paid staffers have to file the disclosures, the report notes.

At least 30 senior White House staffers have student-loan balances, according to the report. However, the staffers mentioned by name in the report — press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and deputy director of the National Economic Council Bharat Ramamurti — make a yearly salary that exceeds the $125,000 cut off.

The 30 senior staffers collectively owe as much as $4.7 million, according to the report.

Washington, D.C., residents have more outstanding student-loan debt than residents of any other city in the country, according to a 2021 report from the business insurance research company AdvisorSmith, which found that the average D.C. borrower has $54,982 in unpaid student-loan debt and 16 percent of D.C. residents had unpaid student-loan debt.

As Erick Erickson tweets, “Republicans, Joe Biden has just handed you your general election issue. Like defunding the police, Democrats think making the responsible taxpayers pay the debts of irresponsible woke students is a winner. STFU about Mar-a-Lago and make the general election about this.”

ANALYSIS: TRUE. DeSantis has seen enough of Dr. Fauci: “Someone needs to grab that little elf and chuck him across the Potomac!”

THE 21st CENTURY IS NOT TURNING OUT HOW I HAD EXPECTED: Trans prisoner who impregnated two inmates tries to cut off testicles over being misgendered.

PAST PELOSI IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS: Pelosi Does Complete 180 as Biden WH Reveals Where Debt Relief ‘Authority’ Purportedly Comes From.

From the Tuesday memo:

For the past year and a half, the Office of General Counsel (“OGC”), in consultation with our colleagues at the Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel, has conducted a review of the Secretary’s legal authority to cancel student debt on a categorical basis. This review has included assessing the analysis outlined in a publicly disseminated January 2021 memorandum signed by a former Principal Deputy General Counsel. As detailed below, we have determined that the Higher Education Relief Opportunities for Students (“HEROES”) Act of 2003 grants the Secretary authority that could be used to effectuate a program of targeted loan cancellation directed at addressing the financial harms of the COVID-19 pandemic. We have thus determined that the January 2021 memorandum was substantively incorrect in its conclusions.

[…]

The HEROES Act, first enacted in the wake of the September 11 attacks, provides the Secretary broad authority to grant relief from student loan requirements during specific periods (a war, other military operation, or national emergency, such as the present COVID-19 pandemic) and for specific purposes (including to address the financial harms of such a war, other military operation, or emergency). The Secretary of Education has used this authority, under both this and every prior administration since the Act’s passage, to provide relief to borrowers in connection with a war, other military operation, or national emergency, including the ongoing moratorium on student loan payments and interest.

Isn’t it just amazing how they managed to override themselves on the legality of such a move just in time for Biden’s announcement? It’s like this power just magically appeared out of thin air – and conveniently just in time for the November midterms.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who said in April 2021 that Biden didn’t have the power to forgive student loans, has also done a convenient 180:

PELOSI IN APRIL: "People think that the President of the United States has the power for debt forgiveness. He does not."

PELOSI TODAY: Biden's move to cancel student debt "is a strong step in Democrats' fight to expand access to higher education." pic.twitter.com/zr3PRKHjk5

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) August 24, 2022

Given that for over a century, the Democrats’ organizing principle has been the Moral Equivalent of War, the connection between 9/11, COVID and stiffing the taxpayers for student debt it must have seemed logical in President Klain’s mind. In any case, as Iowahawk tweets, “Thank god we’re finally addressing the plight of America’s most disadvantaged community, Harvard Law graduates.”