Post AVpiSfK4vH97EGl040 by tom4okstate@masto.ai
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 (DIR) Post #AVpfypKIxu0xevVVD6 by lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org
       2023-05-20T02:38:10Z
       
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       I'll put it this way to avoid being too technical: On the debt ceiling talks, my considered opinion is that Biden should tell McCarthy and his cronies to jump in a lake.
       
 (DIR) Post #AVpgoe6Zvn8vumnPOK by rrb@qoto.org
       2023-05-20T02:47:34Z
       
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       @lauren I always thought they should stop spending money in the congressional districts of the people fighting for defaults. No social security checks, or FAA keeping airports open. Leave open the districts that approve of paying bills. I think these people would change their minds quickly.
       
 (DIR) Post #AVpgs3NuOnNVBdWjCK by lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org
       2023-05-20T02:48:13Z
       
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       @rrb Don't penalize people in those districts who didn't vote for those politicians.
       
 (DIR) Post #AVpiSfK4vH97EGl040 by tom4okstate@masto.ai
       2023-05-20T03:05:55Z
       
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       @lauren If something isn't done to alter the trajectory of this country's politics, by which I mean dissuading right wing hostage taking like this, a debt default is all but a certainty at some point, be it now or in the not too distant future.Realistically, sooner or later some Democratic President is 100% going to have to try the Coin or the 14th Amendment option.  Might as well get it over with.
       
 (DIR) Post #AVpnLrosYrE5jNk1tA by bigbee@techhub.social
       2023-05-20T04:00:49Z
       
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       @lauren Biden needs to watch Pacino's "My offer is nothing" scene in The Godfather and then keep saying that throughout every meeting.
       
 (DIR) Post #AVz30G10Pao1qSb4dc by rrb@qoto.org
       2023-05-24T15:08:30Z
       
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       @lauren I just think that if instead of getting a Social security check, the voters get a letter from Social Security telling them that they can not get paid because their congressman is not authorizing the debt ceiling, the congressman will get deluged with angry voters and cave quickly. Or, imagine the impact  on GA and TX when ATL and DFW close. It would make the consequences of the detb default very real, very quickly. I am weighing the consequences for that minority in those districts vs the consequences for the country as a whole.The other side is disingenuous 100% of the time. I think they should face the consequences of their stupidity sometimes.
       
 (DIR) Post #AVzAeEdLfQ7ip4XdCa by lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org
       2023-05-24T16:34:16Z
       
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       @rrb NO. They can't eat the letters instead of food. No way.