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Now The GOP House Republicans listen:Former President Donald Trump is known for stiffing his contractors. He does not pay his bills. This same man who filed for six bankruptcies went to his flailing Truth Social platform to demand that Republicans refuse to raise the debt ceiling on President Biden's watch unless they get "everything they want," even though Republicans voted to raise the debt ceiling three times when Trump was President, with no preconditions.
"REPUBLICANS SHOULD NOT MAKE A DEAL ON THE DEBT CEILING UNLESS THEY GET EVERYTHING THEY WANT (Including the "kitchen sink" ," he wrote in shouty caps. "THAT'S THE WAY THE DEMOCRATS HAVE ALWAYS DEALT WITH US. DO NOT FOLD!!!"
Republicans voted to lift the debt ceiling, without spending cuts, during the Trump administration, but they're demanding harsh spending cuts with Biden in office. Go figure.
https://crooksandliars.com/2023/05/man-who-doesnt-pay-his-bills-says-us
Trump wants to destroy the US economy on President Biden's watch.
FalloutShelter
(11,922 posts)TIFG wants to destroy the WORLD economy and the dollar , at the same time destroying the position of the US as a global leader .
He is a TRAITOR, and so are those in his party.
Diamond_Dog
(32,213 posts)They would love to see the USA crash and burn .
Irish_Dem
(48,177 posts)To destroy the US.
Putin and Trump are quite successful.
He had a job, and he did it as often and as hard as he could.
to take the country and the world apart.
Irish_Dem
(48,177 posts)He won't stop until someone stops him.
Just like Putin in Ukraine.
live love laugh
(13,228 posts)pandr32
(11,646 posts)RKP5637
(67,112 posts)Irish_Dem
(48,177 posts)RKP5637
(67,112 posts)dchill
(38,641 posts)barbtries
(28,824 posts)and if he can, he'll take literally everything with him. talk about a menace to society. i normally don't say this out loud but i do wish he would die already
Walleye
(31,162 posts)CrispyQ
(36,581 posts)Just like when he got rid of the pandemic preparedness stuff cuz we did'n' need it at the time & he stupidly thinks you can create & outfit a pandemic team in a few weeks, as if even a few weeks doesn't make a huge difference in an emergency. These people are reactionaries. They don't think things through. They don't plan. They just react.
Chainfire
(17,757 posts)jmowreader
(50,603 posts)Imagine you want to buy John Smiths factory. Hes willing to sell it but he wants $200 million. You certainly dont want to pay that much for it.
If you can get the economy collapsed and force John into bankruptcy, you might be able to get it for $25 million.
They pulled that shit during the Bush collapse when they picked up all those foreclosed houses for cheap and turned them into rentals.
Chainfire
(17,757 posts)country out in a blaze of Fascist glory. Then, Trump almighty can come zooming in, cape blowing in the wind, to rescue the nation from the problems that they have caused. They see wrecking the economy as the modern Reichstag fire from which they will emerge with permanent single party power.
Axelrods_Typewriter
(297 posts)If they wreck it, they may as well have the amount of power an assistant shift manager at McDonalds has. But either they haven't thought it through (can they even do that?) or they have and they're still proceeding because they're ruthless power and control addicts.
House of Roberts
(5,200 posts)would be worse than defaulting on the debt.
pazzyanne
(6,560 posts)roamer65
(36,748 posts)The post-WW1 collapse of the German mark and the resulting hyperinflation is what helped bring Hitler to power in Germany.
LetMyPeopleVote
(146,021 posts)Skittles
(153,321 posts)he's a fucking liar as usual