Today's News: This you?

Its sorta hysterical, really. 

So yesterday Biden announced $10,000 student-loan forgiveness policies, which are a great thing that will help millions of people. 

And predictably, some Republicans went nuts about how irresponsible Biden was to just wipe out indebtedness with the stroke of a pen. 

And, also predictably, Twitter then started checking on whether any of those Republicans had also borrowed money and been forgiven for the loans. 

And, shore nuff, many had. They had  taken hundreds of thousands in Covid salary protection loans which were then also forgiven totally, including the interest. 

So "Republican" can now also be spelled h-y-p-o-c-r-i-t-e.

The last 24 hours of this app has just been people posting stuff like, "Let me get this straight: the urinal cleaners of my community owe hipsters $10,000 now?" and then a reply that says, "This you?" and it's a PPP loan receipt for their podcast Reassessing Franco.

— Michael Arria (@michaelarria) August 25, 2022

The 10k is nice. But the repayment caps are huge game changers. 5% of income, 20 years of payments max.

Way to go Joe.

— Trevor Burns (@BurnsieMN) August 24, 2022

The internet's dunking on student loan debt complainers with PPP loan receipts
Beware of the 'this you?' https://t.co/DxhiSFHNvy

— Biff Rendar (@biffrendar) August 25, 2022

If you need a laugh, check out a bunch of conservative a-holes getting "this you?"'d in the 🧵below: https://t.co/38C33x4dZW

— Wesker’s Wifey (Shanny) (@weskers_wifey) August 25, 2022

Even the White House got into the act:

They do and it's glorious:https://t.co/LHuJ8pH1dB

— John Amussen 💛🐝 (@JRA81) August 25, 2022

Dark Brandon has the password to the White House Twitter account https://t.co/oscEuZwJZi

— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) August 25, 2022

The White House fully embracing Dark Brandon and letting their social media go wild is exactly what I am here for

— Santiago Mayer (@santiagomayer_) August 25, 2022

The White House Twitter account has gone goblin mode pic.twitter.com/Th3YI5Zs3m

— Ahmed Baba (@AhmedBaba_) August 25, 2022

The White House is throwing lightning bolts all over Twitter like it’s freakin’ ZEUS, I love it

— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) August 25, 2022

Wow. The White House just called out Marjorie Taylor Greene for having $183,504 in PPP loans forgiven. Biden tolerated MAGA for as long as any man could — but now he’s fed up with their lies and blatant hypocrisy. Thank you, White House, for putting Marjorie Greene in her place.

— Dash Dobrofsky (@DashDobrofsky) August 25, 2022

iconic @megancoyne23 purr 💅🏾(h/t @mattbc) https://t.co/RJZX0SKhGf

— maybe: diane (@dianelyssa) August 26, 2022

Actually its "freezing rain", but "this you?" must be a close second by now!

— Cathie from Canada 🇨🇦 😷🏳️‍🌈 (@CathieCanada) August 25, 2022

if you have a problem with the student loan cancellation because you already paid off your loans, just pretend its a tax cut for the rich that you also never got but mysteriously didn't complain about.

— Katelyn Burns (@transscribe) August 24, 2022

Preemptively posting this. pic.twitter.com/3xSCANnBGg

— Anthony Michael Kreis (@AnthonyMKreis) August 24, 2022

Today's News: Updates from all over

Uvalde Massacre update: 

The Uvalde preliminary report is out and it is damning.

pic.twitter.com/1pIjB5hVwX

— mrs.LHS 🇺🇦🍀🌻☮️ (@ABPC84) July 18, 2022

We’ve gutted education financing to fund police departments just so nearly 400 Uvalde cops in full military gear could stand around while 19 children and 2 teachers were killed and Texas police chiefs are still blaming the school for not having a better fence and locked doors. pic.twitter.com/JjhG1rm8jI

— Andrew Wortman 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸 (@AmoneyResists) July 17, 2022

They're talking about the Interim Report 2022 on the Uvalde massacre in May. 

In spite of all the talk in the report about school fences and unlocked doors, Lawrence O'Donnell at MSNBC pinpoints the key sentences, on page 73: 

There was no legal impediment to the attacker buying two AR-15-style rifles, 60 magazines, and over 2,000 rounds of ammunition when he turned 18. The ATF was not required to notify the local sheriff of the multiple purchases. 

As O'Donnell noted in his commentary, it was fear of this armament that prevented almost 400 police from trying to stop the mayhem sooner.

Nothing says ban assault rifles like 5 school officers, 8 federal DEA officers, 13 U.S. Marshals, 16 sheriff’s deputies, 25 Uvalde officers, 69 officers of nearby law enforcement, 91 state police officers plus 149 U.S. Border Patrol agents being scared of 1 shooter with an AR-15.

— Andrea Junker (@Strandjunker) July 18, 2022

We also had news about this self-serving BS.

A document prepared by Uvalde officials and labeled “narrative” was obtained by @nytimes after a FOIA request. It lays out a desired telling of events after the mass shooting that praised officers for rushing toward gunfire and saving hundreds of children.https://t.co/2BVWeFe9sm

— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) July 17, 2022

And now even more stuff is coming out:

Days after Texas Public Safety Director Steve McCraw criticized the way law enforcement handled the Robb Elementary shooting, officials sought a more positive portrayal of the police response, according to a memo obtained by ABC News. @ABCMireya reports. https://t.co/6cN1DC7Ycp pic.twitter.com/X7khJdnuhx

— World News Tonight (@ABCWorldNews) July 19, 2022

On a side note, this just may result in more realistic views of police:

In private, many police officers are told “No matter what, the goal is to get yourself home.” Anything that’s a threat to that is either to be eliminated or avoided. It also elevates what they might see as a threat, hence why the first move for many is to shoot. /3

— Marcelius Braxton (@Marcelius_B) July 18, 2022

Years ago, I read of a sociologist who studied police. He wrote a paper saying that police mostly stopped cars full of young men & figured out something to charge them with.
The sociologist was shocked when his police buddies got mad about this observation.

— Cathie from Canada 🇨🇦 😷🏳️‍🌈 (@CathieCanada) July 19, 2022

The people of Uvalde are strong, and getting stronger:

The saddest display of books in a public library is in Uvalde, Texas. pic.twitter.com/C7aRaImsMs

— nancypjohnson (@nancypjohnson) July 18, 2022

The Uvalde community really finding their voices tonight.Speaking out tonight at the school board meeting. Demanding the school board clean house.Demanding Pete Arredondo be fired by noon tomorrow. They say they are prepared to keep their kids out of school until changes are made

— Shimon Prokupecz (@ShimonPro) July 18, 2022

The failure in Uvalde took many forms. We still need a lot more answers. But let’s be clear. It began with a culture that accepts gun violence as just a part of modern life.

— Dan Rather (@DanRather) July 18, 2022