"Elon Musk's influence over President-elect Donald Trump has made him the true "president-elect," according to David Axelrod, ex-adviser to former President Barack Obama.

"So will President-elect Musk join the budget negotiations now?" Axelrod wrote on X, formerly Twitter."

Raising the Debt Limit allows for bigger cuts for billionares like himself and his Oligarch friends... who apparently haven't learned the lesson of Oligarchs in Russia who are now afraid for their very lives.

I mean, DJT can't get all the money for huge tax cuts just by cutting social security and medicare, no can he?

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"And in a post on X, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) accused Trump of wanting Democrats "to agree to raise the debt ceiling so he can pass his massive corporate and billionaire tax cut without a problem."

"Shorter version: tax cut for billionaires or the government shuts down for Christmas," he added.

The debt ceiling puts a limit on how much money the Treasury can owe to cover the country's bills. The national debt currently stands at more than $36 trillion."

- Less than 2% of people are transgender?

It's something like .5 percent of adults and less than 1.5 percent of teens.

It's obviously problematic, it's just not something worth being distracted from our new Fascist Government leaders; from the Oligarchy being put in charge of the Government by rwingers, which is the very definition of Fascism.

Besides which:

Trump Is Getting Scarier

"Such IS life" lol

BJ

If drinking tea was all you got out of that lunch with strangers who's language you really don't speak is all you got out of that video.... then I don't know what to tell you, boy.

I was in Linares Mexico once, college days with a friend from that town and another Texan.

At a party I was introduced to a couple of the aunts who didn't speak English, but after we were a bit frustrated by it, she said what were apparently the few words of English she knew... she said, "Such if life!", sounding like some little Jewish mother.

And that was memorable. It was a vibe.

- It's for each community to decide.

"Communist!!"

Next you'll be approving of public sidewalks... and God Forbid, public roads, schools, library, police, emt, fire... the next thing you know, you would have... all the things Trumpers appear to hate about America.

I mean, Trump's not stocking the Swamp with regular people with experience and competence.

Him heap big shrimp dip!

Obviously he has no retort to the article at all, just a big whine.

But then, a cult member would have a difficult time grokking the similarities between, "the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with belligerent nationalism." as the headlines we see today that look just like the 30's in Germany, when their cult leader brought in all the Oligarchs to run the government just the way Trump is doing.

- their ratings prove it.

This a sort of, 'might makes right', or 'people believe it so it must be true' irrational thought pattern. OK, not actual thought, but in that direction.

This is fun:

10 Completely False 'Facts' Everyone Knows

Muslims have great vibes... here's some now in Iraq:

"In the marble halls of the battle dome of American lawfare on December 4, Tennessee's deputy solicitor general performed a brazen act of legal gymnastics:

He argued to the Supreme Court that protecting transgender children requires denying them health care.

That same day, UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson"architect of an AI-powered claims denial system with a reported 90 percent error rate"was shot, allegedly by a man driven to desperation by America's predatory and labyrinthine health care system, which causes as many as 66.5 percent of American bankruptcies.

The grim symmetry was impossible to ignore.

The parallel path of these two events perfectly encapsulates the cynical sleight of hand at the heart of the American establishment's current political strategy.

While millions struggle under the weight of medical debt and economic precarity, our political class has masterfully redirected public anger toward a manufactured crisis:

the supposed threat of transgender Americans."

the article isn't long, but worth the full read

- Her solution was to cut to her children out of her life and go blind to own the libs.

What's her handle here?

Robson? Belldragger?

- there "will be some cuts" to Social Security and Medicare

Well, duh!

Of course there will be cuts; where else would Trumpers get the money to pay for Elon and Peter's tax cuts?

Which are obviously more important.

- You have to go out of your way to be so consistently wrong as you are.

He certainly puts in the effort... or perhaps it's a natural gift.

#4

Precisely. Unfortunately.

Trumpism is a disease from which there is scarce immunity... he's a cancer on the Constitution and the Country.

#7

Not an argument, a grunt. Maybe a belch/fart.

Historical facts are gaslighting in 1NutWorld?

So, so.... unsurprising.

video version of the article

"When Putin took over Russia, he essentially said to the richest of the Russian oligarchs,

"You can be with me or against me, but there is no middle ground."

Ditto for Hungarian strongman Viktor Orbn (who met with Trump in Florida last week), Turkey's dictator Recep Tayyip Erdoan (who Trump praised this week), and history's fascist strongmen from Tojo, Franco, Hitler, and Mussolini to more recent versions like Pinochet, el-Sisi, and Ceau'escu.

And now America. Soon to be the newest fascist state in the world."

lots more at the link

Obviously, she's not the one who is claiming some great mandate, that would be your Hero.

I'm sure you could have come up with that on your own.

I even have a Christmas present for you:

"By nearly every metric, Bidenomics was a roaring success.

It would be a mistake to ignore or forget the lessons that can be gleaned from the administration's robust economic policy. Their present discontent notwithstanding, Americans will undoubtedly miss this economy when it's gone.

The seeds of Bidenomics were planted in 2009 when Jared Bernstein, the current chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, or CEA, was hired as the chief economist to then-Vice President Biden. "

Our first conversation was about this, and it never left me," Bernstein recalled. Biden's economic worldview, as he put it that day, was: "If you're helping to bake the pie, you ought to get a fair slice."

That's the heart of Bidenomics, Bernstein said. "The fact is that almost every program and policy that we have promoted can find a connection to that assertion.""

much more at the link WARNING TO TRUMPERS: there are FACTS in the article... try not to cry.

- a disingenuous stat.

That's hilarious. Obviously you missed your calling in comedy.

"Trump falls just below 50% in popular vote"

Most of those 7 million were not in swing states, so...

"Expert says '121,000 votes in 3 swing states' were key in Harris' defeat

Shift in these votes across Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin " all swing states " would have produced a different outcome with Harris winning over Trump, says David Schultz."

Musk will do for 'Murica what he's done for Twitter.