Well that cant be good for the budget. I wonder why. The conservatives aren’t outraged by this. Because they are a Bunch of two faced hypocritical assholes that why.
Oh man, this must be that FiScAl ReSpOnSiBiLiTy I keep hearing about from the
reichrightEven years ago, you could tell how honest the Tea Party people were by asking if they’d defund the police or military.
As a solitary meat popsicle with limited understanding of fucked up shit, at what “level” of fucked up shit is the US finally and officially “perma-fucked”?
Every time my meat popsicle brain thinks “That’s probably the last straw” they find thousands more straws somewhere AND I DON’T GET IT.That was back at the moment when Trump threw around enough tariffs to make countries with longstanding enmity sign direct trade deals with each other, cutting us out as the middleman. Those will never, ever come back (they were mostly forged in the wake of WWII, when the US had the only functional economy)
As for when we’ll see it? I think we have a “oh shit” world stage moment if the US tries to attack Greenland, as Denmark will then have to defend - and then by chain of treaties WWIII kicks off.
If we avoid that fate somehow, then there probably won’t be a specific moment - the US will over twenty or so years just slowly collapse in on itself and other countries will quietly start ignoring US while publicly paying lip service. … - There will probably be an event when we publicly can’t afford the giant military we have which will be an existential crisis for a news cycle.
That’s my attempt to read the tea leaves in the crystal ball.
I’m going to start fantasizing about 15 years from now being invaded by Canada and running out into the street to thank them for it
May the streets run red with maple leaves
Hey hoser, I’ll be happy t’a meet ya there with a brewski.
We’ll exchange brewskis, insult each others’ brands, and shakes hands abouts it.
Sounds like a plan!
Uggg this old trope.
It’s not really “borrowing” when they print the money.
It’s just another wealth transfer from the poor to the extremely privileged.
M2 money supply actually had not increased for a while and only recently surpassed the previous peak in 2022. Meanwhile US debt and debt to GDP ratio increased modestly (and is in fact down from the COVID era peak ‘thanks’ to inflation) meaning that it’s mostly the treasuries market that was funding the new debt (i.e. borrowing)
With quantitative easing, the two are more similar than different
My esteemed congratulations to 1930’s history enthusiasts.
You’re about to relive it
I’d say that history rhymes, first as a tragedy, then as a farce, but I know enough of the 30s to understand it was clown shoes then too
What do you mean bread costs 2 million riechdollars. I got a wheel barrel ready for my trump bucks
It’s not like the USA economy is bad, and now it’s dead, but dead dead.
Sounds like there needs to be some sort of efficiency department set up
We can call it the Department Of Grifting Everyone
so rather than just pay a tax like a socialist country would up front, US is now only just surviving on tariffing …which is paid … by their own people ….as a tax. On top of whatever tax you already pay ……while digging more deficits.
You know, I used to think that “our children will have to pay for it” only applied to the working class.
Now I’m wondering if the people in power recognize how this might end badly for their offspring. I hope it does.
There’s a 0% chance I’m going to slave away while some rich family’s children live like gods.
Man says he’ll never do the thing he’s been doing is whole adult life.
That’s what you think.
Not everyone got trapped in wage slavery, just the majority of you. Those of us who didn’t still care tho. We want you to have a drug dealers life style without having to sell drugs ❤️
Unless you’re part of the owner class you’re a wage slave too comrade.
Class consciousness is the only way out of this.
I mean, there is the petite-bourgeoisie which can own their means of production and perhaps afford to pay a few others to work with per but are otherwise still oppressed by capitalism, albeit in a smaller way
I mean what’s the owner class? I own my house and my car. I own my own farm and water. I farm my own food/tobacco/pot. I own assets and participate in capital markets. I have never earned a wage from a capitalist so idk. We can have solidarity and want the same thing, but like I said not all of us are ‘wage slaves’. I used to have employees and none of them were wage slaves. All my employees paid off their college loans and bought houses, and still had disposable income to party.
all while essential services dry up and wither at every level of government…
Overseen by man with significant history of refusing to repay loans.
Hahahahaha
Ah, Republicans. They make a huge deal about spending any time they are not in power and then spending like a drunk Sailor when in power.
Its a deliberate strategy they’ve used for the past 50 years. Its called the Two Santa’s Strategy.
There’s someone who knows history!!
Every accusation a confession
I didn’t know the US was going to med school. That thing was expensive!
Then you won’t believe this: it’s the Phil McGraw School of Medicine at RFK Jr. University. The dean is Dr. Mehmet Oz.
For healthcare? Education? Can’t possibly imagine what …
Maybe they are secretly building a super efficient and expansive social safety net behind our backs and making it a surprise!!!
You are more likely to become soylent green.
Dammit! Now you made me hungry again.
Just nibble on your finger, Food!
From blood bag to sack lunch: the life & times of a pre-wasteland pleb.
No they are building a space ray to shoot down some planet we never heard of.
Probably earth honestly.
Well don’t blame me, I voted for kodos.
Abortions for some, miniature American flags for others!
space wall, but the aliens are paying.
Are they paying directly for the space wall or are we collecting via tariffs again?
Poor Pluto. I’ve heard of you, baby.
Urectum
It’ll be ready in just two weeks.
I hope so, for your sake.
You gotta be willing to spend if you want to build the biggest and best ballroom ever made.
Good thing the fiscally responsible party is in power
Gotta spend money to make genocides
I just saw a study that said if Trump continued on at this rate, he will be responsible for 55% of the national debt. And that was BEFORE the Iran War.
When we get these psychopaths out, and start to rebuild, we already know that they’ll suddenly get fiscally conservative, and they’ll pretend to be concerned about spending.
When that happens, just take theirs away. THEY are responsible for the debt, so if it bothers them so much, they should be the ones to make the sacrifice to pay it back.
They already pretended to care about spending and then some guy called Big Balls helped Elon Musk harvest all our data
I hate how that is not even a little taken out of context or exaggerated.
remember russia hacked the moment doge got access to the SS/ and other data.
Link to study please please please
I kinda suspect that debts to people and companies within the US would mostly get erased. Because at the end of the day, money is a fictional thing we invented to make it easier to conduct trade. Odds are that we would take away the real valuables from the former elites - their buildings, land, assets, and finding jobs for honest workers at places that don’t suck donkey.
We might be able to beg foreign nations to delay or restructure debts. Maybe. Depends on whether the diddler in chief presses the nuclear button.
Historically this is always solved through inflation. Always.
When we get these psychopaths out, and start to rebuild
Lmfao, I hope you’re not setting your calendars for 2 years from now.
Because that’s not gonna happen.
Oh, yes it is.
Republican administration completely fucks up the budget, leaves office with massive deficit
Democrat administration spends the next 4 years cleaning up that clusterfuck
GOP tells it’s dumbfuck base that it’s all the Dems fault that their 1996 Dodge Ram 3500 gets 8 mpg and they’re gonna fix everything
Dumbfuck republican voters fall for it, yet again, because they never passed the 9th grade and have been huffing diesel exhaust for the past 20 years
Dumbfuck masses rally and vote in another Republican administration
That cycle has gone on repeat over and over and over again for literally my entire lifetime. It’s all I know. That has been my experience with with the US government, for my whole life.
I’m tired, boss.
Dumbfucks will always dumbfuck. Trick is to get the voters who stayed home. The numbers I found with a quick search …
Trump won 49.8% of the popular vote.
Of the 65.3% of the eligible voters who voted.
Which means actually only 32.5% of Americans voted for him, in the sense of “could be arsed to get off the couch and cast a ballot”.
That’s an encouraging number to work with.
It’s the Two Santa Strategy, they have been doing that since Reagan.
Maybe if more people showed up and voted instead of bitching about the choices available, we wouldn’t get a broligarch blowing republican in office every 4-8 years. Less than 70% of voters ever show up, so those of us who don’t show up are also responsible for letting the republicans win every other cycle or so.
Democrats meanwhile are incapable of appealing to a lot of voters.
assume the dems are going to get in, given the recent events i dont see how some of them will get elected, with people like schumer/hakeems and the other dinos, NEWSOM is pretty unattractive right now . they are complicit to the GOP agenda, only AOC, bernie, and maybe some other is fighting it.
are people even going to remember what hakeem and schumer did in the next election, who they tried to shield when voting for the shutdown.
And the pendulum swings harder every time…
i’m starting to worry if lisa will actually be able to fix all this after he’s gone… i do not have much confidence in secretary millhouse
