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Debt Ceiling: How and Why the True Conservatives/MAGINOs betrayed you
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2024 Dec 19, 10:34pm 69 views 7 comments
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AmericanKulak
2024 Dec 19, 10:49pm
AmericanKulak
2024 Dec 19, 10:49pm
Sharyl Attkisson 🕵️♂️💼🥋
@SharylAttkisson
Quick story about govt. shutdowns and the theatrics behind them. One year when I was reporting at CBS News during a govt. shutdown, I think 2013, we were sincerely searching for real life impact. When we couldn't find any, that should have been part of the story. Instead, we kept trying to create the appearance of an impact. It wasn't really trying to be dishonest.
It was, in my retrospective view, because the general editorial idea for the story was to show how bad the "Republican" shutdown was for ordinary Americans, and the answer simply couldn't be that it wasn't. I've written quite a bit about this but we, as journalists, too often "decide" the story in advance and shape the facts to fit our narrative, rather than gathering information and letting that tell the story, whatever it may be. Anyway, the Ds were blaming Rs for the shutdown, so we were calling Ds and the Obama administration for ideas to report what was the real impact. Taking our cue, these officials fabricated impact that we could report.
For example, they cordoned off outdoor public monuments in Washington DC. We knew and even discussed in the newsroom that this made no sense. These monuments weren't "manned" to begin with. The only reason to cordon them off from the public was so that visiting tourists would see the "impact" of the shutdowns and the news media would have something to take pictures of and interview people about. There are other examples but this is the one I remember the most.
https://x.com/SharylAttkisson/status/1869913284318519730
@SharylAttkisson
Quick story about govt. shutdowns and the theatrics behind them. One year when I was reporting at CBS News during a govt. shutdown, I think 2013, we were sincerely searching for real life impact. When we couldn't find any, that should have been part of the story. Instead, we kept trying to create the appearance of an impact. It wasn't really trying to be dishonest.
It was, in my retrospective view, because the general editorial idea for the story was to show how bad the "Republican" shutdown was for ordinary Americans, and the answer simply couldn't be that it wasn't. I've written quite a bit about this but we, as journalists, too often "decide" the story in advance and shape the facts to fit our narrative, rather than gathering information and letting that tell the story, whatever it may be. Anyway, the Ds were blaming Rs for the shutdown, so we were calling Ds and the Obama administration for ideas to report what was the real impact. Taking our cue, these officials fabricated impact that we could report.
For example, they cordoned off outdoor public monuments in Washington DC. We knew and even discussed in the newsroom that this made no sense. These monuments weren't "manned" to begin with. The only reason to cordon them off from the public was so that visiting tourists would see the "impact" of the shutdowns and the news media would have something to take pictures of and interview people about. There are other examples but this is the one I remember the most.
https://x.com/SharylAttkisson/status/1869913284318519730
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Misc
2024 Dec 19, 10:52pm
All government spending is paid with either taxes or inflation.
Unless you cut government spending, the taxpayers will pay the same.
Unless you cut government spending, the taxpayers will pay the same.
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AmericanKulak
2024 Dec 19, 11:05pm
AmericanKulak
2024 Dec 19, 11:05pm
“But Chip Roy is just a fiscally conservative Republican!”
-Supported Liz Cheney
-Supported George Floyd
-Thought Trump should be impeached
-Supported Pence on J6
-Worked for John Cornyn
-Wanted Ken Paxton impeached and removed from AG
-Certified election fraud in 2020
-Anti-Trump in 2016, 2020, and 2024
Chip is nothing but an establishment RINO who fakes “principled stands” if it means he can stop Trump and the MAGA movement All he wants is a salary increase and some Fox News airtime
https://x.com/DC_Draino/status/1869950447039263062
-Supported Liz Cheney
-Supported George Floyd
-Thought Trump should be impeached
-Supported Pence on J6
-Worked for John Cornyn
-Wanted Ken Paxton impeached and removed from AG
-Certified election fraud in 2020
-Anti-Trump in 2016, 2020, and 2024
Chip is nothing but an establishment RINO who fakes “principled stands” if it means he can stop Trump and the MAGA movement All he wants is a salary increase and some Fox News airtime
https://x.com/DC_Draino/status/1869950447039263062
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AmericanKulak
2024 Dec 19, 11:22pm
AmericanKulak
2024 Dec 19, 11:22pm
AmericanKulak says
The procedural vote breaker was none other than Massie.
And Massie refused to join Gaetz' rebellion and gave Biden the Debt Ceiling suspension.
Now Massie wants to reimpose it - just as Trump is about to take office.
"Nothing in politics is coincidence" - FDR. (paraphrased)
The debt ceiling was suspended back in Jun of 2023.
The procedural vote breaker was none other than Massie.
And Massie refused to join Gaetz' rebellion and gave Biden the Debt Ceiling suspension.
Now Massie wants to reimpose it - just as Trump is about to take office.
"Nothing in politics is coincidence" - FDR. (paraphrased)
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AmericanKulak
2024 Dec 19, 11:45pm
AmericanKulak
2024 Dec 19, 11:45pm
Don't let Mike Johnson and RINO Republicans lie to you ... they have the gavel.
They could write a short bill today with a clean 3-month CR, only adding hurricane relief, zero pork, and no raise.
Then if Democrats vote against it, they can honestly say they voted against hurricane relief victims.
It's that freaking simple.
They don't want to because they're used to getting themselves, their lobbyists, and their donors filthy rich off the backs of hardworking Americans.
ENOUGH !!!
https://x.com/catturd2/status/1869734276368859368
They could write a short bill today with a clean 3-month CR, only adding hurricane relief, zero pork, and no raise.
Then if Democrats vote against it, they can honestly say they voted against hurricane relief victims.
It's that freaking simple.
They don't want to because they're used to getting themselves, their lobbyists, and their donors filthy rich off the backs of hardworking Americans.
ENOUGH !!!
https://x.com/catturd2/status/1869734276368859368
@unseen1_unseen
Let me explain the debt ceiling to you since it's pretty clear most of you have no idea what is going on.
As of now, there is no debt ceiling.
Let me repeat that for all of those "true conservative" supporters. As of right now, there is no debt ceiling.
The debt ceiling was suspended back in Jun of 2023.
As things stand now, as of Jan 1st, 2025, the debt ceiling will return, and it will be whatever it was when it was suspended plus whatever spending Biden and the dems did since June of 2023. That new debt ceiling is estimated to be hit by June of 2025 if not earlier.
What the CR wanted to do is push the redemption of the debt ceiling back for 2 years.
This would allow massive tax cuts that Trump wants to make. Things like no tax on tips, no tax on social security, no tax on overtime, a 15% tax bracket for companies who built here, and to stop the Trump tax cuts from expiring.
You see, the government idiots consider tax cuts as government spending. So if you do $4 trillion in tax cuts, the government considers that $ 4 trillion in spending.
The debt ceiling redemption on Jan 1st will make Trump have to figure out how to pass the tax cuts without going over the debt ceiling and triggering a default. Do you get it now?
By not moving the non-existent debt ceiling back two more years, the "true conservatives" just stopped you from getting more of your money returned to you by tax cuts and they kept more money in the government for a bigger gov. In effect, they just voted for the exact opposite of what they tell you they want and don't for a second think they don't know that.
https://x.com/unseen1_unseen/status/1869926112349835331