Student debt relief’s return to the forefront of American political theater has thrust a previously obscure operator into the limelight.
A sharp-eyed Twitter user brought the above convo to my attention on suspicion of witchery. One can be excused for thinking that a pair of usury defenders quoting Scripture to support oppressing fraud victims might be witches. This is where the rule to always do at least a surface-level check on anyone who’s being sold to you online comes in. The Witch Test exposes nonbelievers making bad-faith appeals to Christian morality in order to undermine Christianity. A quick search shows that Deace and Hallowell are professed Christians.
And that makes their public defense of massive usury only a little less bad than Death Cultists supporting debt relief in a cynical bid for the moral high ground. Doing the right thing for the wrong reason is worse than just doing the wrong thing. But it doesn’t turn a wrong into a right by comparison.
Here’s what else a few quick background checks turn up. Deace hosts a show on Blaze TV. That was the media outfit started by NeverTrumper Glenn Beck. In 2018 it merged with CRTV, whose editor-in-chief was Beck’s fellow NeverTrumper Mark Levin. It’s worth noting that the Blaze’s cadre of show hosts includes notorious butt marriage and embryo kidnapping proponent Dave Rubin.
And, oh yeah, Mr. Steven “Loan-Forgiveness-for-Me-But-Not-for-Thee” Crowder
But outing the Blaze gang as wolves in sheep’s clothing requires looking no further than their CEO. Before assuming leadership of TheBlaze, Morgan served as CEO of The Huffington Post, maybe the cultiest of Death Cult agitprop organs. She’s also a former banker and a graduate of Harvard Business School.
You know who else is a Harvard grad? Kent Smetters. He’s the ex-World Bank consultant cited by the eGirl fronting this bit of slop claiming that forgiving debts isn’t debt forgiveness.
Even a cursory look at these Con Inc. grifters’ backgrounds turns up an unusual number of Harvard alums. Guess who else gets invited to Harvard class reunions?
Shapiro is the flagship brand of that other leading Con Inc. media group The Daily Wire. The full story of his rise to superstardom is a twisted tale for another time. Let’s just say it involves the pastor of a Judaizing church who became a fracking billionaire, and a Hollywood producer who’s been caught co-opting a certain popular maxim.
And don’t discount the significance of Shapiro being a frequent guest on his fellow Harvard alum’s network.
To bring us full circle, remember that Billy Hallowell guy that Blaze TV host Steve Deace was signal boosting on Twitter? He works for Faithwire, a product of the Christian Broadcasting Network, whose managing editor is Glenn Beck’s former head writer Dan Andros.
It’s a big, incestuous club. You ain’t in it. And its sole purpose is gaslighting you into swallowing a narrative against your interests.
Con Inc’s whole business model is donning the devil horns so the Death Cult can look good in their morality plays.
Anyone who spreads the stealth wolves’ Christian Case for Usury is being duped. Even if you’re against college loan forgiveness, these guys are not waging effective resistance to student debt relief. They are broadcasting cynical, borderline blasphemous propaganda designed to smear all debt jubilee opponents by association.
The end result, as always, will be the Democrats getting what they want. Soon thereafter, the grifterCons will flip on their supporters to enshrine government control of higher ed as a Conservative principle. Just like they did with marriage desecration and immigration.
It’s the old joke about the two wolves and the lamb voting on dinner. We live under a rabid wolf government. It’s just that one wolf wears a sheep skinsuit.
And that sheepskin has “Harvard” stamped on it.
For what it is worth, I would be surprised if Deace failed a witch test. Some of these guys certainly are grifters but I think others are sheep caught up amongst the wolves. Likewise with Matt Walsh over at The Daily Wire.
That said, they are misguided on the debt forgiveness issue. Whether that is because they do not understand the way our economy works right now, or because they do not think society at large (and government in particular) has done millenials and zoomers wrong with pushing everyone to go into college — no matter the degree — I don’t know.
They’re not witches. What they are is wolves in sheep’s clothing.
I’ve been thinking about networking the witch test. How about a website where one can register and sign (or in some way witness) that one is not a witch – ie. affirm publicly that “Christ is God, He was crucified, died and was buried to forgive my sins, and rose from the dead on the third day”.
Plugins for different browsers could be developed to put a – say – red cross mark by the user names of those who have signed the witch test whenever they appear on social media, similar to the blue checkmarks on twitter and other websites.
It would certainly make it easier to skim read comments and discard the remarks of questionable or actual witches.
Now you have me imagining games made with the Apostle’s Creed in the EULA. It would be interesting to see what would come of that.
You can put almost anything in a contract.