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Politics girl - is the US bankrupt? (Original Post) Figarosmom 17 hrs ago OP
The US is morally bankrupt, yes. Irish_Dem 17 hrs ago #1
Well, if debt exceeds income... GiqueCee 15 hrs ago #3
There is enough blame to go around. Irish_Dem 15 hrs ago #4
My fingers... GiqueCee 15 hrs ago #5
I agree. The list of traitors is the largest in US history. Irish_Dem 15 hrs ago #6
Well, there's you and me... GiqueCee 15 hrs ago #7
Yes let's start with the important names like ours. Irish_Dem 15 hrs ago #8
That's Inaccurate ProfessorGAC 14 hrs ago #12
All the debt would disappear if they reversed Trump's Billionaire Tax Cuts bucolic_frolic 17 hrs ago #2
We absolutely need to cut and balance budget starting with defense. Melon 15 hrs ago #9
Too much winning. Please Mr. President stop I'm sick of winning so much. Trump, We will keep on winning. Botany 14 hrs ago #10
Yes, and we'd better be annexed to Russia, today. NOT usonian 14 hrs ago #11

Irish_Dem

(82,708 posts)
1. The US is morally bankrupt, yes.
Sun May 31, 2026, 01:42 PM
17 hrs ago

Led by a crime syndicate.

Yes it will eventually face financial bankruptcy as well.

GiqueCee

(4,865 posts)
3. Well, if debt exceeds income...
Sun May 31, 2026, 03:26 PM
15 hrs ago

... as experts have said has already happened, then, yeah, the national treasury is bankrupt. And the money that wasn't squandered on vanity projects has been stolen by the worst thing to happen to this country since the Civil War: President Donald J. Trump.
The Republican rank and file have a LOT to answer for, but the shot callers at the top, like Mitch McConnell and dozens of others, deserve to spend the rest of their days in an ICE detention center. The billionaires that instigated this horror show deserve even worse. Russell Vought and Nosferatu Miller should lead the way in chains.
Trump could never have done all the harm he so delightedly inflicted on the country if it wasn't for these rat fuckers and the despicable treachery of John Roberts and the rest of the Sinister Six defiling the Supreme Court.

Irish_Dem

(82,708 posts)
4. There is enough blame to go around.
Sun May 31, 2026, 03:32 PM
15 hrs ago

Courts, congress, corporations, legal profession, MAGAs, media.

They all folded like lawn chairs for a dictator.

And we are a democracy.

The buck stops with WE THE PEOPLE.

GiqueCee

(4,865 posts)
5. My fingers...
Sun May 31, 2026, 03:39 PM
15 hrs ago

... would be bloody stumps before I could type all the names that deserve blame for this travesty, so I just mentioned some of my favorites.

Irish_Dem

(82,708 posts)
6. I agree. The list of traitors is the largest in US history.
Sun May 31, 2026, 03:40 PM
15 hrs ago

It would be far easier to list the good decent loyal Americans.

ProfessorGAC

(77,392 posts)
12. That's Inaccurate
Sun May 31, 2026, 04:40 PM
14 hrs ago

Bankruptcy occurs when debt exceeds assets.
The total asset base, public & private, of the United States is nearly 10x the National Debt.
This "we're insolvent" theme has been a rock in my show for a couple weeks because it's wrong but it's being accepted as fact.
If debt exceeding revenue meant bankruptcy, 95+% of all homebuyers we're bankrupt the first several years of their mortgage. But, they weren't because that's not what defines bankruptcy.

Melon

(1,779 posts)
9. We absolutely need to cut and balance budget starting with defense.
Sun May 31, 2026, 03:50 PM
15 hrs ago

We are robbing every generate with debt. Our interest payment exceeds $1 trillion dollars and exceeds any singular line item. Clinton was the last president to have a balanced budget. This can’t continue without dire consequences.

usonian

(26,704 posts)
11. Yes, and we'd better be annexed to Russia, today. NOT
Sun May 31, 2026, 04:23 PM
14 hrs ago

But that's the Trump agenda.

Destroy the US on Putin's behalf.

Get those (literally) damning videos in exchange.

Transactional.

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