House of Preventatives
January 20, 2023
There
is a perfectly sensible reason why the Ratpublican Party latched onto disgraced,
twice-impeached, failed insurrection leader and Fifth-Amendment-dependent
ex-one-term-president Donald Trump (before he was a disgraced, twice-impeached,
failed insurrection leader and Fifth-Amendment-dependent ex-one-term-president,
though they still cling like dingleberries to his ill-fitting pant leg) like a starving tick. Both Trump and Ratpublicans have
the same way of handling their finances, in particular, debt. There is only a
slight difference. I’ll get to that in a minute. Ratpublicans repeatedly threaten
to default on the federal debt ceiling. No country in its right mind even has a
non-risk-free debt ceiling that has to be voted on regularly, or ever for that
matter.
Passing the debt ceiling used to be almost as ceremonial an occasion as the vice president certifying the Electoral College (something else no country in its right mind has) after a presidential election. Oops.
The
American debt ceiling is in reality a mythical creature, but Ratpublicans love
to use it to hold America hostage while they throw a tantrum trying to get
their way (which always involves damaging the lives of everyday Americans while
enriching the lives of the overly enriched). In the words of White House Press
Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, “Congressional Republicans are threatening to
hold the nation’s full faith and credit – a mandate of the Constitution – hostage
to their demands to cut Social Security, to cut Medicare and to cut Medicaid.” Very
fine people.
Ratpublicans
predictably ignore the debt ceiling (and pretty much everything else) when one
of their own rides the Electoral College or the Supreme Court into the White
House. As soon as the people’s voices are actually heard and a Democrat is
president, the debt ceiling suddenly becomes more interesting than Benghazi,
Hillary’s emails, imaginary voter fraud, critical race theory, and Hunter Biden’s
laptop in drag.
The debt
ceiling is simply about paying debts already incurred. Not paying those debts
makes a country look like a douchebag deadbeat. Sound like anyone you know?
For his
part, prospective 2024 presidential candidate Trump has been breaking with Ratpublican
orthodoxy. Trump has been promising not to make any cuts to Medicaid, Medicare
or Social Security. Lest we forget, Donald Trump is a shameless, inveterate, pathological liar. Who apparently cannot tell the difference between a photo of
one of his rape victims from one of his marriage victims.
As
everyone knows, Trump, while not technically holding anyone hostage (that we
know of), is well known for not paying for services that have already been
rendered. I venture to guess that whatever money he does actually have is
mostly a result of him not paying thousands of people over the decades.
The
only real difference, as mentioned above, is that Trump has repeatedly declared
bankruptcy, which in some ways serves the same function of writing off debt. In
fact, Trump has said out loud, in public, “I'm the king of debt. I'm great with
debt. Nobody knows debt better than me.” No one that is, except anyone who has
ever done work for him and expected to get paid. However, if the Federal
Government ever declared bankruptcy, the world economy would likely collapse.
If you don’t believe me, just re-elect Donald Trump in 2024 and we will all find out very quickly. And very powerfully. Believe me.
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*Probably not his real name.
I. Mangrey
reporting. Just callin’ ‘em the way I see ‘em.
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