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Don’t do it, Joe…

Well…damn, Joe, don’t you remember raising your kids? You didn’t give your kids what they were throwing a tantrum about and you don’t give the repubs what they want as they hold the world hostage to give more tax cuts to the rich. It’s as simple as that…and yet news reports out there say that you are giving in to these terrorists just because you want to look bipartisan…if you do this, you are going to lose the entire dem caucus in the House as they have been begging you to just ignore mccarthy’s threats and let him crash the economy…and I would give up my SS payments for a few weeks if you just put a stop to this right now and do an address to the country telling us that it is the repubs who are going to crash the economy unless we hurt the poor and retired…that would play to the country and make your chance of re-election better…but that’s not even the point…negotiating at all just guarantees that the repubs will do it again…after all, you get the behavior you reward…and you’re rewarding mccarthy by just talking to him….geez…

Glad I saved some money…

Well…with the news today that the idiot mccarthy is sending congress on a long vacation until the 5th of June…conveniently after the deadline for the debt ceiling essentially guaranteeing that the US will default on it’s debts and the one big thing that will happen is they will stop paying social security benefits and lots of older people who are almost broke all the time will go broke and many of them will be evicted…and yet these old people still keep voting for repubs…I wonder if this time will break them of that habit? I’m glad I’ve saved a lot of money that would get me through almost two years if SS stops….but I still feel for those who haven’t been able to do that because of high health care costs or other expenses….one other thing that this is going to impact is Medicare so I’ll have to put my cancer treatment on hold until the damn repubs stop trying to take this country hostage to give more money to the rich and corporations…and that is exactly what they plan to do…they already have a plan to be revealed in two weeks that will add trillions more to the debt by cutting those taxes again and they plan on paying for it by cutting everything that normal Americans depend on….and yet the old folks will continue to vote for them and put the entire world in peril from these idiots…geez…

Joe, just pay the bills…

Well…with the repub morons intent on crashing the economy unless Joe Biden pays the ransom of cutting everything that normal Americans depend on to live, I have just one thing to say to Joe: just pay the bills and ignore the repubs…you have it written right into the 14th amendment that the US WILL pay it’s bills…it doesn’t say you have to say pretty please to the hostage takers…and the debt ceiling is just a construct…it’s not in the constitution anywhere…it’s just an accounting mirage that is a courtesy, not a law…and the repubs raised it 4 times during the idiot trump’s term with no hostage taking and no cuts to anything…so, Joe, just ignore them and pay the bills and then let’s let the SC tell us that the plain language of the amendment is not what it is…and they will…geez…

Joe needs to go it alone on the debt ceiling…

Well…if there is anything that we learned from January 6th, it’s that the repubs will do anything to try to take control of the entire country…and that is why they are not going to raise the debt ceiling…they think that allowing the nation to default on it’s debts and crash the US and world economy is a good tool to use to damage Joe Biden for 2024….but that doesn’t mean that Joe can’t do anything about it…there have been a few ideas out there like minting a one trillion dollar coin and depositing it at the fed to draw from…which would work but I’m sure the repubs would sue to stop it, and with the right wing assholes on the SC, they would certainly have the suit upheld…but thew other thing Joe could do is just cite the 14th amendment which requires the US to pay all of it’s debts and it is written into the constitution so it can’t be ruled unconstitutional by the court…and I think this needs to be the attack that Joe makes…can you imagine the ads the dems could write? The repubs are killing grandma by not funding SS…and there are many, many more that should drive any independent to our side since we are the only adults left in the room….so, get on it Joe…paint the repubs for what they are…and do it now….

That’s it, Joe…

Well…with the debt ceiling being held hostage by the moron repubs in the House, Joe Biden came out yesterday and essentially say that any of the cuts that mccarthy wants as ransom for not crashing the world economy are not going to happen…and the polls support what Joe and the dems have to say…and that’s the US shouldn’t default on it’s debt…to the tune of 70% of the people polled…and mccarthy has to remember the last time the repubs got us so close to default that our credit rating was crashed for the first time in our history…and the repubs lost in a bloodbath in the next election…but the stupid bomb throwers in the repub caucus just don’t care…unless everything that Joe has done is reversed, they will crash the economy…I think that every one of the dems that get in front of a microphone have to do is hammer the point home that it is the repubs who are holding the world hostage and they will be the ones responsible if there is a default…we need to get better at messaging and make sure the blame fall squarely on mccarthy’s head….geez…

Cut, cut, cut…

Well…as we approach the chaos that will be defaulting on the debts of the US by the repub led House, there is no plan by the somewhat speaker to do anything about it but to propose cuts to everything…and the place he wants to cut the most is to food assistance for the poor that will throw 41 million Americans to the wolves…but he is also trying to cut Medicaid, Medicare, and SS just to make the cuts hurt the most people…and the thing I don’t understand is why poor old white people keep voting for repubs when they constantly try to hurt or even starve them to death. As they start to realize that the repubs are really going to crash the world economy so they can get rid of every social program, economists are starting to run around with their hair on fire and have started to pressure repubs to not be stupid…but when you have repubs like MTG in the House, they can only be stupid because they are stupid….even senate repubs have stated they won’t support the plan that mccarthy has floated so why the hell is he still trying and trying to get support for it…cripes, I don’t even think he can get enough votes in the house but he is just too damn dense to realize it…this is the problem when you put morons in charge of the House…geez…

Go get ‘em, Joe…

Well…I like the new Joe Biden…just today he attacked the repubs attempts to crash the economy so they can force cuts to SS and Medicare by releasing a fact sheet that shows that repub plans would increase the debt by 3 trillion dollars while Joe’s plans would cut it by almost two trillion…and that shows that the repubs using the debt for anything is just so much bullshit and lies…and Joe was blunt in a speech yesterday when he pointed out that the first bill the repubs passed would add 114 billion to the debt to protect tax cheats…and the 159 billion they would add to the debt by repealing reforms to medicare drug pricing…and they want to repeal corporate tax increases would add 269 billion to the debt….you get the picture…the repubs are willing to crash the world’s economy for the lie that they care about the debt when the only thing they care about is getting rid of Medicare and SS as they have since the start of them…but they won’t…for that they will need complete control of the country and that is not going to happen soon…I love the fact that Joe is getting aggressive in pointing out the truth…he needs to keep it up…geez…

This might be good for our side…

Well…with the dysfunction in the House driven by the repub morons being in charge and the news coverage of it, this just might be good for our side especially if the media starts calling them out and gets it right that all of the economic damage that is coming is the fault of the repubs…and I think that it is a mistake by Biden to even talk to mccarthy about the hostage taking they are doing about the debt ceiling….I really don’t think they even know what the debt ceiling is if you listen to mccarthy try to explain it…he thinks it’s like using a credit card to spend more when it is really just paying for what has already been spent…it’s that simple but they just don’t get it….one tiny little bright spot that may be a preview of things to come was from Chuck Todd of all people just blasting jim jordan on MTP Sunday and not letting him lie his way through the interview…now we need the rest of the media to do the same thing every time they have one of these liars on their shows…not really confident they will but I can hope…geez…

It’s about time…

Well…with the repubs doing what they always do, holding the world hostage by threatening to not raise the debt ceiling, I was happy the other day when leading dems just flatly refused to negotiate with them, saying that they are not giving the repubs a “cookie” to get them to do their damn jobs. I sure hope the dems stick with it this time and don’t cave to public pressure…the last time the repubs did this, there was a bloodbath of election losses in the next election and there will be again…and that would make McCarthy just another loser repub that couldn’t get anything done….and we need to get out in front of this right now…putting the blame right where it belongs and keep hammering it until 2024 when we will take back the house and keep the senate and it will help Biden get elected again if he runs…as the saying goes “you don’t negotiate with terrorists…and that is just what the repubs are…economic terrorists…geez…

Still late….

Well…damn, started the day off late and I’m still running late now and it’s almost 3…and I can’t find a topic, either…I could talk about the debt ceiling crisis that appears to be pushed back a couple of months with a deal that allows the government to function until the end of December…and I think that is bullshit and the dems always give in…they should have ended the filibuster for good and told McConnell to go to hell with his obstruction…after all, the debt ceiling being raised is to pay for the 7 trillion dollars of debt that ole mitch and the idiot boy saddled the country with by cutting taxes on the rich and corporations…it not to pay for anything that the country needs and that the dems are trying to get fixed…I think I’m too tired to care much about it, though….can’t work up the outrage I normally have for this kind of stuff…and the two rides I did today were probably the most brutal I’ve had in a long time…going into the wind that was blowing about 20 out of the east and my legs hurt the whole way….and they still hurt now just sitting here…okay, this one was pretty jumbled but that’s how my brain feels right now….