Friday, January 20, 2023

Debt To America

House of Preventatives

January 20, 2023

It’s all suddenly clear.

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.

Angry little shits currently in charge of the House of Preventatives

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.

Benghazi, Hillary’s emails, imaginary voter fraud, critical
race theory, and Hunter Biden’s laptop in drag…
Oops, that’s actually “George Santos”* in 2008
Or is it JuPaul?

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.

Debt to America!

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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