It’s bullshit. There is no debt ceiling crisis. Not really.
Let me debunk some shit that literally none of the mainstream media media will educate you on.
Fact #1: No corporate owned politician will allow the debt ceiling to be breached. Why? Because their owner/donors have literally everything to lose. Approximately 90% of our politicians are wholly owned subsidiaries of corporations. That includes Biden and McCarthy. The other 10% are funded entirely by grass roots donations. All but one of those are progressives. The progressives don’t want the debt ceiling to be breached because they’re progressive and the mere discussion of tanking the world economy (that part of the media narrative isn’t bullshit) is unconscionable.
Fact #2: Anytime there’s a “debt ceiling crisis”, the president has all the power. It doesn’t matter if the opposing party controls both chambers of congress. Unless the opposing party has a super majority in both chambers, the president has 100% of the power in this situation. Why? See fact #1.
If the president refuses to negotiate over raising the debt ceiling, congress is completely powerless. They have to raise it. Their owner/donors won’t let them tank the economy.
There is no crisis unless the president creates one. That is an empirical fact.
When Obama, and now Biden agreed to negotiate with republicans, they created a crisis. And they did it by breaking a stated tenet of the US government; we don’t negotiate with terrorists.
Yes democrats – I understand your compulsion to blame McCarthy for this but you’re just wrong. Let me repeat: the president never has to engage in negotiations because the terrorists have no leverage.
Have you ever asked yourselves why democrats never deploy the same tactics that republicans win with? Do you think it’s because they’re the “good guys”? If you do, that’s a pretty flawed opinion because “good guys” should be doing everything they can to do good things.
No, democrats are getting paid to lose. They’re getting paid to lose by the same owner/donors that pay republicans to win. They have been cast in the role of well meaning but hapless in the political theater that we’ve been treated to for the past four decades.
Remember when democrats “tried” to pass a $15 federal minimum wage under reconciliation and the senate parliamentarian said “no”? Remember? Remember how they gave up after that because, what could they do? Raising the minimum wage was something democrats really wanted to do but their hands were tied, right? Oh wait, would you look at that; twenty years earlier, when the then senate parliamentarian stood in the way of W’s tax cuts for the rich, republicans fired him and passed the tax cuts.
Huh. Maybe democrats just didn’t know they could do that because none of them have been in office for that long? No, come to think of it, Biden was in the senate when republicans fired the senate parliamentarian.
Hmmmm. Maybe there’s another explanation I haven’t thought of that doesn’t involve democrats profoundly sucking. I’d love it if someone can point me to that explanation.
Make no mistake: this debt ceiling crisis is 100% Biden manufactured and you are definitely going to end up on the losing end of these unnecessary negotiations.
I am flummoxed as to how anyone can still buy into this “good guy” and “bad guy” narrative that has been created in order to get voters to enthusiastically vote against their own self interests. If you’re not looking long and hard at your primary candidate options, you’re part of the problem. If you have even dismissed a candidate because “they’re not viable”, you have bought into the corporate media narrative that keeps you voting against your own self interest.
I don’t vote for a corporate owned democrat until I don’t have a choice. When it’s general election time and my options are between a democrat and a republican, I vote for the democrat because I know that they will be slightly less shitty than the republican. Slightly. That’s the reality.
I just wish that the rest of the electorate would wise up and put me in that unpleasant situation less often.
