• BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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    13 hours ago

    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.

    • FosterMolasses@leminal.space
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      3 hours ago

      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.

    • RandallFlagg@lemmy.world
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      9 hours ago

      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.

      • Passerby6497@lemmy.world
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        19 seconds ago

        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.

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        3 hours ago

        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.

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        9 hours ago

        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.

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      13 hours ago

      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.