@SrRochardBunson
And don't forget there are Republicans TODAY who think "Child Labor" should be made legal again, actually arguing "it BENEFITS poor families having that extra income."

Of course, none of them considers for a microsecond how "not being in school" or "lower grades b/c a child is too tired to learn" condemns these same families into a cycle of poverty. 🤬

@MugsysRapSheet @SrRochardBunson

So many Republican policies can be seen through the lens of deliberate immiseration.

Keeping the poor as poor.
Thwarting social mobility.
Keeping people in their place.
Social stratification.
Class hierarchies.
Gender & racial isolationism.
Religious control.

Eroding the institutions that made the American middle class.
Homes. Public Education. College. Steady jobs. Living wages. Unions. Literacy. Public health. Libraries. Functional government. Voting.

@MugsysRapSheet @SrRochardBunson

Oil industry billionaires are funding Republicans to conduct hostage negotiations over the debt ceiling.

The same billionaires frying the planet.

https://www.salon.com/2023/05/20/mccarthy-pushes-us-to-brink-of-default-to-appease-energy-donors--but-biden-has-an-ace-up-his-sleeve/

@Npars01 @MugsysRapSheet @SrRochardBunson

Biden better use that ace now. He has allowed Qevin too much slack already, and if he does not see that no compromise is possible now, he’s digging his own grave.

Not one House Republican will cross over to raise the debt ceiling, and they need five.

Two weeks and ticking…

@lednabm @staidwinnow @Npars01 @SrRochardBunson
The problem with a last-minute #14thAmendment call is that you STILL have to wait for the sale of MILLIONS in T-bills/Bonds to raise the income to pay the bills, so for a few weeks to a few months, the U.S. will STILL be in default.

If/When Republicans finally agree to raise the #DebtCeiling (which will ding our Credit Rating again), THE NEXT DAY Biden needs to declare he's abolishing the practice & invoking the 14th "so it never happens again".

@MugsysRapSheet @lednabm @Npars01 @SrRochardBunson

One small glitch. Republicans won't agree to raise the #DebtCeiling without massive concessions. If/when they do, they'll ensure that they can take it hostage again, by only extending it far enough to last, say, six months.

If Biden is going to cave, *and then* announce he's using the 14th, might as well do it a day earlier and not doom the Democrats for 2024.