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    That’s what a conman as leader of your country will get you. Fired half the government workforce, still spent more money than the last guy and he’s only been in office for 6 months. It only goes down from here folks, hope you enjoyed the ride. This is your last stop.

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    So what happens when the US defaults? Just asking for those that are curious to see where this slowmotion trainwreck is heading

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      They aren’t actually borrowing from anybody, the debt is to themselves. It basically just means the US Federal Government spends more than it collects every year since POTUS Clinton was in charge.

      They do set an upper limit to the debt / annual deficit and if they fail to resolve it by raising the limit then the federal government goes into shutdown: no new laws passed, no federal employees get paid, etc. But they pretty much always raise the limit. The last time the limit was raised it was a bipartisan push to keep the government running, during which the DNC members who joined with the Republicans received a lot of criticism for doing what the Republicans wanted, but TBH I don’t really think things would have been much better off if the government had shut down again.

      Next time, though, it’s become clear that the Senate will keep stripping rights and not allow a single bit of progress to be made no matter how far into fascism this nation falls, so definitely should shut down.

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          I never mentioned fault I just said Clinton was the last POTUS to create surplus. I blame Reagan for cutting taxes.

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          They mention Clinton because when he left office, the federal government was running at a surplus and was paying down the national debt. However, that changed after Bush came to office and passed tax cuts before starting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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      History repeats itself indeed, it’s sounding more and more like the pre revolution France, a tone deaf dictator, cooking the books because the numbers weren’t so good, the poor suffering more and more etc etc

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      At the rate the USD is declining against other currencies, I’d say it’s going to happen before the midterm. His only hope for prolonging this is to replace Jerome Powell and bandaid it until it’s someone else’s problem. Or start a war.

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    What happens when someone uses an entire country as collateral while stuffing their own pockets. Watch it happen, now!

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    I’m waiting for the inevitable response executive order: “Nuh uh - Donald J Trump”

    (And then all the Republicans clapped)

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      “Biiiiiiiiiiden’s economy!?!”

      “Hey… I found a dollar in the seat cushions!”

      “TRUMP’S ECONOMY! TRUMP’S ECONOMYYY!!!”

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      There’s a world in which the US is carrying $37T, everyone lives in a spacious public condo, rides the UltraMax train around town to their 30 hour/week jobs or publicly financed doctor’s appointments or state financed university classes or luxury public park and spa.

      And I think that would be money well spent.

      Shame we don’t live in that country

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        “Sure, basically all available economic data suggests that society would become far more productive and stable if the neediest people were given enough stability to develop into contributing members of society, but if I don’t see people I don’t like suffering terribly then I will feel there is no right and wrong in the world and I might as well go have sex with a child like we all secretly want to.” - social conservatives (actually)

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    Buy gold, the U.S. dollar isn’t going to be worth the paper it’s printed on in a few years time.

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    “Let’s run the country like a business!” Also, “let’s cut our revenue by the most ever seen in history”.

    Our debt is going up! (surprised Pikachu face)

    This is the liberals fault!

    No business owner would voluntary cut their revenue. They’re not businessmen, they’re con artists turned tyrants.

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    I hope foreign nations blacklist the American elite from migrating to their shores and owning anything in their territories. The wealthy are parasites that inevitably kill the host.