| ▲ | sharemywin 8 hours ago |
| good thing the current administration was basically elected to fix it. how's that going? |
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| ▲ | 0cf8612b2e1e 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Well they lowered taxes on the richest (reduced income) and have increased spending (defense, ICE, ballrooms, what have you). So, exactly as predicted. |
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| ▲ | oa335 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| the current administration was elected to protect the interests of white christian americans (masses) and hardline israeli zionists (elite donors). The masses
don't really care about national debt, they just care that themselves and their in-group can exclusively collect govt benefits; and to some degree
the elite donors benefit from a large budget deficit (deficit spending generally leads to asset inflation). whining about deficits
is something every opposition party has done for the last 30 years, but once in power they conveniently forget about it. the only folks who actually care are pencil-necked technocrats, not the virile dynamic political leaders who are currently popular. |
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| ▲ | bonesss an hour ago | parent [-] | | Kushner is neck deep in Saudi money, Trump is taking plane-bribes from the Qataris, and their crypto schemes pave an open road into their wallets… obviously the problem is Zionists. Pay no attention to who has oil, how American oil interests — much less obvious ones as ancient as Bushes and Cheney — shape policy, forget the size of the economies or how many billionaires are in each category, openly splashing cash at POTUS. Numbers, boo. Forget 9/11, do not look at Afghanistan the US was never there, ignore bribes from regional powers. Zionism is the real threat. You see, The Elders from the malaria ridden unwanted leftover chunks of Jordan’s immaculate creation are pulling the strings of Great Satan. They do it through ‘elite donors’, donors so elite the Heritage Foundation has taken over an entire branch of the American government and in parallel obfuscated foreign funding to “elite” Universities has plagiarist anti-semites with deplorable ideologies smirking in Congress while explaining why The Intifada needs to be more present in American cities and schools. Natural conclusions of The Zionist plot. o_o The interesting thing about name calling is that where attention is being pointed away from is often more important than the target. Logs and splinters… you know, from that Bible people used to pretend to have read, about an uppity Jew. | | |
| ▲ | Dig1t 30 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Zionism is indeed the real threat. Miriam Adelson, Sheldon Adelson, Larry Ellison gave Trump hundreds of millions during his campaign to ensure this war happened. Netanyahu visited Trump 7 times leading up to this war in Iran. Every geopolitical expert on this topic has weighed in on it concluding it was obviously a move that only benefits Israel and weakens the US on the global stage. There were 2 checks on Israel’s power in the Middle East: Iraq and Iran. It is no coincidence that the USA has invaded both. After Iran falls, Israel is the only nuclear power in the Middle East. They have ambitions to dominate the entire region, including Lebanon, Syria, and parts of Egypt. Just Google “greater Israel project”. |
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| ▲ | QuarterReptile 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Deficit spending is one place where the major parties are in complete agreement. So it just wastes political capital, unless you see Thomas Massie somehow amassing a majority of Congressmen interested in his issues. |
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| ▲ | mrguyorama 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Absolutely insane. The data has been clear since at least Reagan that Democrats tax and spend, while Republicans just spend. Several trillion dollars of the debt comes just from Trump reducing taxes for rich people and companies. |
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| ▲ | bix6 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| It’s going great for them! |
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| ▲ | rayiner 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| The Associated Press doesn’t list that as one of his key campaign promises: https://apnews.com/projects/trump-campaign-promise-tracker/ It also doesn’t appear on the ALL CAPS list of campaign priorities: https://rncplatform.donaldjtrump.com/. The word “debt” doesn’t appear anywhere in the document. And the word “deficit” appears just once in the context of the trade deficit. Trump was the first candidate to release a list of itemized priorities in small words and ALL CAPS so the average dumbass could understand. There are many, many things you can say about this list. But it’s very hard to inject ambiguity into what he was running on. |
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| ▲ | UltraSane 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Republicans love to increase national debt while in power and then use it as a weapon when not. |
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| ▲ | lifestyleguru 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Just one more $25 Billion for this tiny war and then they'll start working on it. |
