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if the usa defaults, it will be a lot worse than a recession
just get rid of it. fuckin useless. only a political cudgel at this point >

All it ever was. >

i mean, in ww1, it had its use as a temporary measure, but they should have closed that up after the armistice was signed >

No one. Republicans don't even know what they want and the only thing they have to negotiate with is plunging the nation headlong into a recession. It's the equivalent of as someone else said, a terrorist parading around a hostage in a bomb vest and yelling about how they want to win but not saying what they want. You don't deal with a person like that.