US national debt surges past $39 trillion just weeks into war in Iran

I’m convinced “both sides are the same” is / was a bot farm campaign reply. I started calling it out, as we get closer to an election , there will be more of them

lol! Then they’ll spend another 4 years being all “I told you so!” And “even if the democrats won they would have done the exact same thing!” 

While Republicans block literally everything they can.

They will also be blamed for not fixing the government as fast as Trump tore it down because clearly the republicans will do a better job next time

And 2,000 more troops possibly getting deployed, that ain't free. Something's got to collapse at some point.

As you should. Maga people are fully 100% delusional and it doesn't matter if they are aware of that fact or not. They believe whole heartedly that they can pick and choose what reality is. It's safe to consider them not just undereducated but clinically insane.

Because they want to normalise fascism.

MAGA is as "normal people" to the US as cancer is a "normal lump" in the body.

I don't think it will be that long. If the Democrats take the Senate this year the screeching is going to start immediately, and may start even if they only take the House.

A global pump and dump scheme of cosmic proportions is seemingly underway.

This is the playbook that has consternated US forces since Vietnam. From ‘War’, a fantastic book by conflict journalist Sebastian Junger. He spent months embedded with an army platoon in the Korangal Valley, by far the most dangerous posting in all of Afghanistan. Most of what these soldiers experienced on a day to day basis was not the kind of face to face gunfight Hollywood loves to depict. Most nights, some young Afghan kid would crawl up a mountain in the darkness with an old c**** bolt action rifle, and fire a few rounds towards the American outpost, or COP. > Once I was at the operation center when single shots started coming in, and 1st Sergeant Caldwell headed for the door to deal with it. On his way out, I asked him what was going on. “Some jackass wasting our time,” he said. > That jackass was probably a local teenager who was paid by one of the insurgent groups to fire off a magazine's worth of ammo at the COP. The going rate was $5 a day. He could fire at the base until mortars started coming back at him, and then he could drop off the backside of the ridge and be home in 20 minutes. The fact that networks of highly mobile amateurs can confound, even defeat, a professional army is the only thing that has prevented empires from completely determining the course of history. The Americans have virtually unlimited firepower, so the Taliban send only one guy to take on an entire firebase. Whether or not he gets killed, he will have succeeded in gumming up the machine for yet one more day.

Now this lockbox would have two locks. One key would be kept by the president and the other would be placed in a small magnetic container and placed under the bumper of the Majority Party Leader's car

Bold strategery….

It's madness. ["Aid cuts could cause 22m avoidable deaths by 2030, study finds"](https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/feb/03/aid-cuts-avoidable-deaths-study-children-uk-us-donor-countries)

Using billing info and notes meant to serve limited purposes to train AI is a dumb idea

Exactly. I roll my eyes every time someone says "I hope the Republican party can get it's soul back when Trump/MAGA leaves", as if conservatives haven't been hard at work to enrich the wealthy for decades before Trump arrived. Can't wait for all the "We need to move on to heal the nation" and other bs lines the media likes to trot out for Republicans to try to make us all forget about what they did too.

"we couldn't have known (he was full of shit and corrupt as f***)! He wasn't a real Republican! If Democrats knew he was so bad, why didn't they stop him? It's democrats fault he fucked over the country! The Democrats need be punished for this!"

They sane washed Bush the exact same way. Now his legacy is "oh, he was just lee astray by Cheney and Rumsfeld" as if that is some excuse for the whole quagmire wars of Iraq and Afghanistan.

Less than a quarter of US debt was owned by foreign nations as of 2024, and China has been dumping their US debt ever since donny took office. They knew, every sane functional human being knew, that his actions would devalue the US dollar and thereby devalue the debt they held. They started selling before that happened.

Same, it feels like we're the survivors of a zombie apocalypse with how flipped upside down so many people have become about everything. The cult programming was super effective and nothing will "cure" them from it. I don't know how we are going to manage to exist alongside them anymore. They will ruin the entire world in short order.

Honestly I believe this is the norm for world history and we just happened to live in a period of relative peace and the curtains are starting to unravel. History is littered with insane rulers doing dumb things and their countries/nations falling apart. Just 35 years ago the Soviet Union collapsed and it very much sucked for the people that lived there and led to a bunch of brutal wars.