▪️This is a common, but flawed rationalization. Of course raising the debt ceiling increases federal debt, that’s its entire purpose! If it wasn’t increased the federal debt couldn’t be raised and the government would be confined within current tax revenue.
▪️Raising it doesn’t necessitate increasing spending, but in practice it does. No one ever says, “we’re going to raise the debt ceiling one more time to pay the bills, but that’s it! Then we’ll live within our means and cut spending.” They just trot out the same line every time the limit is reached.
▪️The fact that they admit the government would default if the limit isn’t raised is an admission that spending will never be cut. They are saying if they are faced with default or cutting spending, they will choose default. Eventually, holders of US Treasuries will take note of that.
Just incredible. After posting a meme blaming Charlie Kirk for his own murder, they post another a few hours later applauding Democrats for their civility.
Also, if you look at the Occupy Democrats timeline, their posts “denouncing political violence” were variations on “no one should be shot…BUT here’s a quote from Kirk showing he’s a terrible person.” Or sometimes they’d leave the first part out altogether and just attack him. There are no posts denouncing violence without qualifiers trying to gin up their base.
