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And the GOP is busy making sure it hits in the worse way possible. F*ck them.
Irreparable harm to the United States has been the goal of the GOP since the election of Donald Trump. >

Long before that. >

Try Reagan and "trickle down" economics.
Bankrupt the people so they are beholden to the rich and have to take what is left over. The rich buy the government, which implodes due to the infighting and corruption, then call for a GEOTUS to get them out of the mess. >

It really kind of goes back to Nixon. >

ok so we agree everything since the new deal was crap >

More or less. >

No better way to create a complete financial disaster, usher in an entirely new level of inflation and reverse gdp growth than defaulting on our debt. >

I think people dramatically underestimate the impact of defaulting on our debt.
Default implies severe, long-lasting financial downsides no current American citizen will outlive >

Nah, if we default even they aren’t going to the bank. They’re gonna eventually raise the debt ceiling but they’re gonna try to extract all sorts of conditions like cuts to the IRS, Medicare, social security etc.
If they can they might try to tie it to a national abortion ban, because they know when the clock strikes midnight a bill has to be signed >

Really makes me wish we had a law that every bill had to be a clean bill. >

When the U.S. goes into default, just make sure everyone is certain the blame falls on the Republican Party.
Something needs to happen that will keep these assholes out of power for a generation or two. >

Dems need to respond with: "Here, the entitlements are fine, but the Trump tax cuts are gone."
"This would not be a problem if you had not caused it on purpose."
or, in the immortal words of Liz Cheney, "You f%\^in did this, Kevin." >

Interesting.  Would directly effect me because I am self employed, but an excellent tactic.
Need to emphasize that any restructuring will protect Social Security and Medicare.  I am tired of paying into a system that I am told will not be there for me. >

With control of the House, the Senate and the Presidency Republicans managed to have the longest shutdown in US history. You know if you give them one of the three what they're going to do. They can't be allowed any. >

Weird how this comes up every time the GOP get a House majority and the ceiling gets raised each and every time. 
We're going to see the usual suspects on Twitter acting like the sky is falling and blaming democrats for the GOP legislation that caused the debt issues. >

Could the treasury say for example just say "fuck it" and keep doing business as usual and blow right past the debt ceiling?  Kinda seems like the only think keeping us from doing that is some words on paper. >

They could, yes.  And they'd have he 14th Amendment, section 4 backing them.  The Constitution says we can't default.  So by saying 'fuck it' they are following the Constitution.  Constitution trumps law when the 2 are at odds. >

The constitution is the highest form of written law in the United States. >

And somehow, this will get spun so hard to make it all seem like the Dems bankrupted the country, when in fact, the snowball escalated with Reagan and continued with every R we’ve had in office since. The debt never stopped with them. >

It's called the Two Santas Strategy, and along with Trickle-Down Economics and the Laffer Curve, it has been the way our government has been functioning to cut both taxes and services for the past 40 years:

Here’s how it works, laid it out in simple summary:  
First, when Republicans control the federal government, and particularly the White House, spend money like a drunken sailor and run up the US debt as far and as fast as possible.  This produces three results – it stimulates the economy thus making people think that the GOP can produce a good economy, it raises the debt dramatically, and it makes people think that Republicans are the “tax-cut Santa Claus.”  
Second, when a Democrat is in the White House, scream about the national debt as loudly and frantically as possible, freaking out about how “our children will have to pay for it!” and “we have to cut spending to solve the crisis!” This will force the Democrats in power to cut their own social safety net programs, thus shooting their welfare-of-the-American-people Santa Claus.  
Think back to Ronald Reagan, who more than tripled the US debt from a mere $800 billion to $2.6 trillion in his 8 years. That spending produced a massive stimulus to the economy, and the biggest non-wartime increase in the debt in history. Nary a peep from Republicans about that 218% increase in our debt; they were just fine with it.  
And then along came Bill Clinton. The screams and squeals from the GOP about the “unsustainable debt” of nearly $3 trillion were loud, constant, and echoed incessantly by media from CBS to NPR.  Newt Gingrich rode the wave of “unsustainable debt” hysteria into power, as the GOP took control of the House for the first time lasting more than a term since 1930, even though the increase in our national debt under Clinton was only about 37%.  
The GOP “debt freakout” was so widely and effectively amplified by the media that Clinton himself bought into it and began to cut spending, taking the axe to numerous welfare programs (“It’s the end of welfare as we know it” he famously said, and “The era of big government is over”).  Clinton also did something no Republican has done in our lifetimes: he supported several balanced budgets and handed a budget surplus to George W. Bush.  
When George W. Bush was given the White House by the Supreme Court (Gore won the popular vote by over a half-million votes) he reverted to Reagan’s strategy and again nearly doubled the national debt, adding a trillion in borrowed money to pay for his tax cut for GOP-funding billionaires, and tossing in two unfunded wars for good measure, which also added at least (long term) another $5 to $7 trillion.  
There was not a peep about the debt from any high-profile in-the-know Republicans then; in fact, Dick Cheney famously said, essentially ratifying Wanniski’s strategy, “Reagan proved deficits don't matter. We won the midterms [because of those tax cuts]. This is our due.” Bush and Cheney raised the debt by 86% to over $10 trillion (although the war debt wasn’t put on the books until Obama entered office).  
Then comes Democratic President Barack Obama, and suddenly the GOP is hysterical about the debt again.  So much so that they convinced a sitting Democratic president to propose a cut to Social Security (the “chained CPI”). Obama nearly shot the Democrats biggest Santa Claus program.  And, Republican squeals notwithstanding, Obama only raised the debt by 34%.

Fortunately younger people (Millennials and Zoomers) are catching wise to this and other bull-crap the GOP rolls around in and increasingly hate conservatives with a passion. 
Hopefully democracy will hold in the U.S. long enough for younger generations to overtake Baby Boomers in voting numbers and reverse the course towards fascism that conservatives set all those years ago. >

Yeah, the Putin-controlled house is going to yank money for Ukraine. There will be towns and cities slaughtered while the US cant pay for more equipment. >

Ya, but Boebert will be able to tweet some dumbass bullshit, so on balance it’s a net win. /s >

Our debt "limit" is softer than my drinking "limit" on new years. why even call it a limit >

Because if it isn't raised the US starts to default, the price of the dollar tanks, the stock market crashes, the rest of the world looks for a new reserve currency, and things go to hell in a hand-basket with the poor, middle class, lower upper class, and poorly diversified upper class taking the brunt of the pain. >

Sounds amazing. This country needs a good, hard kick in the ass. Maybe that'll knock some sense into people. >

My dad lived through The Great Depression. 
There are few Americans today who didn't immigrate from other nations, who have the slightest concept of what a total economic destitution looks like. 
Things are kind of hanging on by a thread in many aspects of the global economy. A push isn't needed, and a "good, hard kick in the ass," is a death sentence to millions. >

I mean, honest question: what can Biden and the Dems about this? I know people talk about minting that trillion dollar coin, but is that even likely? What else can be done? >

That's one option.
Another is to ignore the limit and just borrow more anyways.
The 14th Amendment basically says that we can't default.  So Biden must borrow more to avoid default.
If there's a law (the debt limit) that says we can't borrow more, Biden has to chose between following the law, and following the Constitution.  It basically becomes a "This law is unconstitutional" issue.  You can't follow both. >

No, it's still a huge issue.  It would be taken to the Supreme Court.  Likely taking weeks/months, with potential economic catastrophe in the meantime. >

Thursday?
She could have said something Earlier. >

Why didn’t democrats take care of this before the end of last year?