• Treczoks@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    Well, things like that happen when you throw money at billionaires instead of collecting taxes from them.

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    When a dem is in power, the deficit is the most important topic. When a repub is in power, anything goes.

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    “Let’s run the country like a business!” Also, “let’s cut our revenue by the most ever seen in history”.

    Our debt is going up! (surprised Pikachu face)

    This is the liberals fault!

    No business owner would voluntary cut their revenue. They’re not businessmen, they’re con artists turned tyrants.

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    Seriously?

    What idiot thought it would take a trillion years for the US to rack up $37 in debt?

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    What happens when someone uses an entire country as collateral while stuffing their own pockets. Watch it happen, now!

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      There’s a world in which the US is carrying $37T, everyone lives in a spacious public condo, rides the UltraMax train around town to their 30 hour/week jobs or publicly financed doctor’s appointments or state financed university classes or luxury public park and spa.

      And I think that would be money well spent.

      Shame we don’t live in that country

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        “Sure, basically all available economic data suggests that society would become far more productive and stable if the neediest people were given enough stability to develop into contributing members of society, but if I don’t see people I don’t like suffering terribly then I will feel there is no right and wrong in the world and I might as well go have sex with a child like we all secretly want to.” - social conservatives (actually)

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    Solution: sacrifice the richest people until their wealth adds up to $37 trillion and maybe a few more rich people just for extra security

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      History repeats itself indeed, it’s sounding more and more like the pre revolution France, a tone deaf dictator, cooking the books because the numbers weren’t so good, the poor suffering more and more etc etc

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      At the rate the USD is declining against other currencies, I’d say it’s going to happen before the midterm. His only hope for prolonging this is to replace Jerome Powell and bandaid it until it’s someone else’s problem. Or start a war.

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        I think he will go all in on a DOGEcoin, get rid of Powell, start a war with Mexico, Greenland, and Canada simultaneously, pull out of NATO, ally with Russia without getting anything in return, Nuke California, and try to assassinate Zohran the Destroyer.

        It will be a shitshow, and EVERYBODY is on the stage.

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    I’m waiting for the inevitable response executive order: “Nuh uh - Donald J Trump”

    (And then all the Republicans clapped)

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      “Biiiiiiiiiiden’s economy!?!”

      “Hey… I found a dollar in the seat cushions!”

      “TRUMP’S ECONOMY! TRUMP’S ECONOMYYY!!!”

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    I hope foreign nations blacklist the American elite from migrating to their shores and owning anything in their territories. The wealthy are parasites that inevitably kill the host.