The Treasury just declared the U.S. insolvent. The media missed it

Or how the USPS was basically forced into the red by legislation that made zero sense and that no other agency was held to? Because before that they were doing alright. Email was a looming challenge, but not so bad that it would have caused their current issues.

The number of conservatives who would be immediately screwed over by a postal service run like a for-profit business is unfathomable. The postal service is vital in large part *because* they do shit that no normal delivery company would do without charging F*** You money. I know I’m preaching to the choir here but it’s frustrating how we have to practically fight people over things we all take for granted

Isn’t it also that the Post Office actually does run a profit but Congress saddled it with a law that made it so they have prefund retiree health benefits decades in advance.

They are just empty vessels for whatever talking point white house give to fix news

I don’t really understand (but to be fair, never really asked) where they think the profits are supposed to go. Who is profiting? Are we all supposed to get a check back for 95 cents a year? Or do the profits go into a slush fund for more wars?

And one of those services is supposed to be structure and predictability. Haven’t had that in a while

Capitalist propaganda and indoctrination.

I'm done holding my tongue in public

He bankrupted a c***** by embezzling money from it until he had sucked it dry for his own gain. Exactly how he is running the country now.

A vile lie! It was multiple casinos

Three. Three casinos. [All while stiffing his contractors and not paying any taxes](https://share.google/Bsb7QdjHkszdxRNDZ)

Intentionally bankrupted more than one, amongst his other intentionally corrupt actions in relation to his “businesses” and “charity”. When your public accounting firm declares a decade of your financials are unreliable, that’s a HUGE deal. And it was a blip on most everyone’s radar… except mine - I’m a CPA and have avidly followed this shitshow, his illicit financial dealings and patterns.

People need to start treating inaction as just as bad as wrong action. Because they are often the same thing.

Two Santa’s has been a strategy for decades. [THE TWO SANTAS STRATEGY: HOW THE GOP HAS USED AN ECONOMIC SCAM TO MANIPULATE AMERICANS FOR 40 YEARS](https://www.milwaukeeindependent.com/thom-hartmann/two-santas-strategy-gop-used-economic-scam-manipulate-americans-40-years/) > Here’s how it works, laid it out in simple summary: > First, the Two Santas strategy dictates, when Republicans control the White House they must spend money like a drunken Santa and cut taxes to run up the U.S. debt as far and as fast as possible. > This produces three results: it stimulates the economy thus making people think that the GOP can produce a good economy; it raises the debt dramatically; and it makes people think that Republicans are the “tax-cut Santa Clauses.” > Second, when a Democrat is in the White House, Republicans must scream about the national debt as loudly and frantically as possible, freaking out about how “our children will have to pay for it!” and “we have to cut spending to solve the crisis!” Shut down the government, crash the stock market, and damage US credibility around the world if necessary to stop Democrats from spending money. > This will force the Democrats in power to cut their own social safety net programs and even Social Security, thus shooting their welfare-of-the-American-people Santa Claus right in the face. > And, sure enough, here we are now with a Democrat in the White House. Following their Two Santas strategy, Republicans are again squealing about the national debt and refusing to raise the debt ceiling, imperiling Biden’s economic recovery as well as his Build Back Better plans. > And, once again, the media is covering it as a “Biden Crisis!” rather than what it really is: a cynical political and media strategy devised by Republicans in the 1970s, fine-tuned in the 1980s and 1990s, and rolled out every time a Democrat is in the White House. ******** > To make this work, the Republicans would first have to turn the classical world of economics — which had operated on a simple demand-driven equation for seven thousand years — on its head. Everybody understood that demand — “working-class wages” — drove economies because working people spent most of their money in the marketplace, producing “demand” for factory output goods and services. > To lay the ground for Two Santa Clauses, in 1974 Wanniski invented a new phrase — “Supply-Side Economics” — and said the reason economies grew wasn’t because people had good union jobs and thus enough money to buy things but, instead, because business made things available for sale, thus tantalizing people to part with their money. > The more products (supply) there were in the stores, he said, the faster the economy would grow. And the more money we gave rich people and their corporations (via tax cuts) the more stuff (supply) they’d generously produce for us to think about buying. At a glance, this move by the Republicans seems irrational, cynical and counterproductive. It certainly defies classic understandings of economics. But if you consider Jude Wanniski’s playbook, it makes complete sense.

> And if the GOP loses power, they will scream louder than ever about it. If the GOP stays in power, it won't be a problem. Yes, and likewise the so-called 'liberal media' will run stories every day about how terrible the debt and deficit situation is if/when the GOP are out of power, but they're all so strangely quiet about the issue when a Republican is at the helm..

Toddler governance

The oligarchs have [made it abundantly clear](https://theplotagainstamerica.com/) they have no interest in allowing our democracy to continue. It's upon the rest of us to ensure that doesn't happen.

They won't need to, most of their own base will blame them too. Unfortunately in our instant gratification, no attention span culture people expect immediate results from everything including governments. It's happening in Canada too - less than a year since our election and people are already like "Why the hell are things so expensive, f*** Carney"... um maybe because the entire global economy is collapsing and in the grand scheme of things Canada is actually doing quite well. The loudest detractors if the Dems win the midterms will be other Dems who don't understand that digging the US out of the hole the GOP has dug will take generations, if it can even be fixed at all.

Great news everyone!

No they're still hard at work cleansing the West Bank: [https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cew719w80g7o](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cew719w80g7o) I like how they're still called 'settlers' instead of 'religious terrorists'. At least the BBC calls them 'extremist'.

Every single person associated to the administration for even one minute should be forced to undergo something like this. That includes Musk, every kid he brought in for "DOGE", and everyone in-between. They've all stolen from us.

That’s why he’s putting a chunk of the stolen Venezuelan oil in Qatar. Although, at this point, they might be willing to freeze his assets

It wasn't just that, Bush said he wanted to "return the money to the people" and started all kinds of handouts back to tax payers which of course erased the budget surplus and then some that his party had fought for for 10 years previously. They only care about fiscal responsibility when a Democrat is president and that is so they can hamstring their agenda.

I'm sure he made plenty of money funneling teen pagaent contestants to Epstein.

They did it openly because of how much Republicans wanted it. Remember how much extra chick-fil-a Republicans ate to show support of the Heritage foundation, back during the boycotts after they succeeded in getting a "Kill the Gays" bill passed in Uganda? A massive turnout from the Republican party in support of the Heritage Foundation specifically. And people are just acting shocked now?

Ropes are eco friendly and won’t gunk up when dealing with wood to be disposed of.

The most beautiful chippers in terms of wood

Quite a few of us have to volunteer to die and hope that our deaths were beneficial to the cause. Right now, there's no indication our deaths would be followed by further action. See: 42% approval rating of a pedophile rapist convict currently operating concentration camps, killing citizens in the streets and waging a bungled war on behalf of a foreign country.

This is missed too much when people learn about the dissolution of the Soviet Union. You got oligarchs and dictators for a many of the republics (the Baltics got away easy compared).

Yup, this is why the tech-feudalists like Yarvin are so supportive of Trump's agenda. They want government land, they want government-dominated markets; they want all of us subservient to their whims and wishes. This isn't even a return to feudalism, where there were checks and controls on monarchs and lords. This is going back to pre-William the Conqueror, where thousands of tiny city-states battled eachother for resources at the expense of the peasant class.

Yup, the 1% will always try to maximize every last bit of profit from an empire in decline, which requires shifting the maximum amount of expenses to the 99% to deal with. Nothing new here.

The thing is what kind of country they want to build back

When you want to apply the shock doctrine, but you don't have a calamity at hand, so you get into government and manufacture one.