Thanks to those of you who have become Premium subscribers to The Warning podcast. One of the benefits of being a Premium subscriber is that you get to “ask me anything” (AMA). I recorded my first AMA session this week, and it’s now available for Premium podcast subscribers. Thank you to those who submitted questions. I wasn’t able to get to all of them, but I was able to respond to seven questions.
I’m not surprised that the MAGAts have chosen this path. Their hero and chosen god has never paid a bill in his life, leaving suppliers and employees destitute. Their attitude is “look how successful he is”. It doesn’t matter, someone else will pick up the check.
There is a large segment of the population that loves Mr. MAGAt simply because if they could get away with the lying, cheating and thievery that he has gotten away with, they would do it themselves.
We need Joe to channel LBJ and play as dirty politics against MAGA as they are playing against the country. They claim they want spending cuts, cut every penny going to their districts.
There will be no default. These events leading up to the edge of the cliff conclusion are a staged temper tantrum to further bludgeon the hearts and minds of a fearful, beleaguered american public. As you stated, the intent is purely political -kabuki theater to influence the 2024 vote.
There will be no default. And I will tell you why....
Because not only would it beggar the majority of americans, but it would suffer the coffers of the megarich, the corporations, the political donors - who are the ones truly in control - pulling the strings of the corrupt maga (maggot infested) leaders. It will be at the last (they hope - nail biting) moment. But there will be no default.
Maybe there won't be a default, but the chaos and the constant need to attend to disasters boiling over isn't the way to success as an organism. The fact our Supreme Court is MAGA-nuts, too, is more than troubling.
I greatly fear “what comes next?” (after the default). And, I am infuriated that the MAGA party has cynically decided that a default is politically advantageous (in that they have calculated that voters will blame the President and Democrats more), and so saddened that they are most likely correct in that belief.
The media should start calling these MAGA Republicans, insurrectionists. That’s what they are. They are filthy Fifth Columnists inside our democratic elected government working every day to overthrow American democracy and replace it with a White Christian Nationalist dictatorship. That’s where this is all headed. Just like the NAZI Party in Germany in the 1920s and early 1930s they will take over without ever exceeding 40 percent of the vote in a national election.
The Republican Party is not a serious organization when lunatics such as Donald TRump Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene et al Get within a thousand miles of seat of influence. It deserves to be decimtaed in 2024 and beyond
Yesterday I was reading comments on Twitter from people desperate for their Social Security checks in June. They are so afraid. While I tend to believe this default will not happen, that MAGA is installing fear in the American people is an outrage. I would like to think that those voting Republican would not vote that way again, I have learned that they will.
I have no idea what Biden’s game plan is, but I wish it included a prime time address to the nation, explaining. We are hearing from McCarthy, continuously. I just want our President to offset that.
Steve, I disagree with one thing you said, specifically, “ There is no comparable event that has ever occurred when the nation’s elected officials have acted with absolute premeditation to cause cataclysmic damage to America’s prestige, standing and power.” Many of the folks who supported secession were elected or appointed officials, and they deliberately broke up the Union, albeit after having the decency to resign, first. Come to think of it, it would be great if we could convince the MAGAts to resign, en masse, within the next day or two. Then, the rest of the House of Representatives could vote to raise the debt ceiling. Of course, I’m being facetious, but I find it revolting in both senses of the word that elected officials would deliberately sabotage the United States.
My dad was a staff sergeant in the Army-Air Corps stationed in Labrador during WWII. His unit is the one that predicted bad weather for June 5th. I know that he's turning in his grave watching this ignorant and morally-bankrupt MAGA group toy with America's future. Haven't any of them run a household? At the beginning of your adult life you probably have a car and possibly a payment. Then you might meet a life partner and buy a house. If you add children to the mix, you may upgrade to a larger house, another car, etc. You try to increase your income to cover all your debt but you probably incur a mortgage and car payments. America consists of many households. As our population swells the expenses go up so you try to increase your income (usually through tax revenue) to cover them. Cutting expenses is like telling the homeowner to stuff their 4 kids into one bedroom because they shouldn't take on a larger mortgage for a bigger house. Home Ec(onomics) is no longer taught in schools which was a great preparation for understanding the national budget.
Wouldn’t it behoove the MAGA congressional members to allow default and economic catastrophe so they could spin the narrative that the economy tanked under Biden? The masses don’t understand what is going on and they believe whatever they are told on FOX, talk radio and social media.
This would clear the path for the orange knight to ride in on the backs of his down trodden people to save the day.
I agree with @Susan Mackey that Biden needs to tell the story now.
The degree to which a political party has plummeted into a bottomless ravine of absurd depravity and crass stupidity simply boggles every sense. We need to abruptly cease the charade of treating this group as credible to any degree, and simply laugh boisterously as the House Dems when Madge attempted to call them to order.
Unfortunately it is now in another "Time of war" to save our Democracy that is not the least understood or believed.
Each and every citizen and youth of our next generation must unite and stand against the cancer that has been thrust upon us by Mr. Magat.
No amount of shouting from our rooftops must be spared! Warn, warn, warn of the coming disaster if the Republicans are not stopped in their tracks towards destruction by a vote in '24 giving the next Democratic President a super majority!
The MAGA extremists behind this are vatnicks promoting the interests of Russia. See vatniksoup.com compiled by the excellent Finnish researcher Pekka. Check out "Radicalized Pod" for a great interview with him. This isn't the first rodeo for the Russians. People in Eastern Europe, the Baltics, and Scandinavia have been experiencing this infiltration for years and many there are more savvy than we are here.
I wouldn't be surprised if some of the "maggots" dark money is funded by Putin. He has everything to gain with the US in chaos. Worst case scenario, the global economy would topple as well. All good for Putin who is currently struggling to survive. What is your opinion?
I’m not surprised that the MAGAts have chosen this path. Their hero and chosen god has never paid a bill in his life, leaving suppliers and employees destitute. Their attitude is “look how successful he is”. It doesn’t matter, someone else will pick up the check.
There is a large segment of the population that loves Mr. MAGAt simply because if they could get away with the lying, cheating and thievery that he has gotten away with, they would do it themselves.
We need Joe to channel LBJ and play as dirty politics against MAGA as they are playing against the country. They claim they want spending cuts, cut every penny going to their districts.
It is slash and burn the MAGAts time.
There will be no default. These events leading up to the edge of the cliff conclusion are a staged temper tantrum to further bludgeon the hearts and minds of a fearful, beleaguered american public. As you stated, the intent is purely political -kabuki theater to influence the 2024 vote.
There will be no default. And I will tell you why....
Because not only would it beggar the majority of americans, but it would suffer the coffers of the megarich, the corporations, the political donors - who are the ones truly in control - pulling the strings of the corrupt maga (maggot infested) leaders. It will be at the last (they hope - nail biting) moment. But there will be no default.
Maybe there won't be a default, but the chaos and the constant need to attend to disasters boiling over isn't the way to success as an organism. The fact our Supreme Court is MAGA-nuts, too, is more than troubling.
I greatly fear “what comes next?” (after the default). And, I am infuriated that the MAGA party has cynically decided that a default is politically advantageous (in that they have calculated that voters will blame the President and Democrats more), and so saddened that they are most likely correct in that belief.
The media should start calling these MAGA Republicans, insurrectionists. That’s what they are. They are filthy Fifth Columnists inside our democratic elected government working every day to overthrow American democracy and replace it with a White Christian Nationalist dictatorship. That’s where this is all headed. Just like the NAZI Party in Germany in the 1920s and early 1930s they will take over without ever exceeding 40 percent of the vote in a national election.
The Republican Party is not a serious organization when lunatics such as Donald TRump Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene et al Get within a thousand miles of seat of influence. It deserves to be decimtaed in 2024 and beyond
Yesterday I was reading comments on Twitter from people desperate for their Social Security checks in June. They are so afraid. While I tend to believe this default will not happen, that MAGA is installing fear in the American people is an outrage. I would like to think that those voting Republican would not vote that way again, I have learned that they will.
I have no idea what Biden’s game plan is, but I wish it included a prime time address to the nation, explaining. We are hearing from McCarthy, continuously. I just want our President to offset that.
Steve, I disagree with one thing you said, specifically, “ There is no comparable event that has ever occurred when the nation’s elected officials have acted with absolute premeditation to cause cataclysmic damage to America’s prestige, standing and power.” Many of the folks who supported secession were elected or appointed officials, and they deliberately broke up the Union, albeit after having the decency to resign, first. Come to think of it, it would be great if we could convince the MAGAts to resign, en masse, within the next day or two. Then, the rest of the House of Representatives could vote to raise the debt ceiling. Of course, I’m being facetious, but I find it revolting in both senses of the word that elected officials would deliberately sabotage the United States.
Looks like McCarthy just ate a persimmon. Kev leaves a bad taste in my mouth too.
My dad was a staff sergeant in the Army-Air Corps stationed in Labrador during WWII. His unit is the one that predicted bad weather for June 5th. I know that he's turning in his grave watching this ignorant and morally-bankrupt MAGA group toy with America's future. Haven't any of them run a household? At the beginning of your adult life you probably have a car and possibly a payment. Then you might meet a life partner and buy a house. If you add children to the mix, you may upgrade to a larger house, another car, etc. You try to increase your income to cover all your debt but you probably incur a mortgage and car payments. America consists of many households. As our population swells the expenses go up so you try to increase your income (usually through tax revenue) to cover them. Cutting expenses is like telling the homeowner to stuff their 4 kids into one bedroom because they shouldn't take on a larger mortgage for a bigger house. Home Ec(onomics) is no longer taught in schools which was a great preparation for understanding the national budget.
Wouldn’t it behoove the MAGA congressional members to allow default and economic catastrophe so they could spin the narrative that the economy tanked under Biden? The masses don’t understand what is going on and they believe whatever they are told on FOX, talk radio and social media.
This would clear the path for the orange knight to ride in on the backs of his down trodden people to save the day.
I agree with @Susan Mackey that Biden needs to tell the story now.
What an illustration of stark contrasts.
The degree to which a political party has plummeted into a bottomless ravine of absurd depravity and crass stupidity simply boggles every sense. We need to abruptly cease the charade of treating this group as credible to any degree, and simply laugh boisterously as the House Dems when Madge attempted to call them to order.
Unfortunately it is now in another "Time of war" to save our Democracy that is not the least understood or believed.
Each and every citizen and youth of our next generation must unite and stand against the cancer that has been thrust upon us by Mr. Magat.
No amount of shouting from our rooftops must be spared! Warn, warn, warn of the coming disaster if the Republicans are not stopped in their tracks towards destruction by a vote in '24 giving the next Democratic President a super majority!
I loved your answer to the second question.
The MAGA extremists behind this are vatnicks promoting the interests of Russia. See vatniksoup.com compiled by the excellent Finnish researcher Pekka. Check out "Radicalized Pod" for a great interview with him. This isn't the first rodeo for the Russians. People in Eastern Europe, the Baltics, and Scandinavia have been experiencing this infiltration for years and many there are more savvy than we are here.
I wouldn't be surprised if some of the "maggots" dark money is funded by Putin. He has everything to gain with the US in chaos. Worst case scenario, the global economy would topple as well. All good for Putin who is currently struggling to survive. What is your opinion?