Die Staatsverschuldung hat gerade die 39-Billionen-Dollar-Grenze überschritten – und hat sich damit fast verdoppelt, seit Trump geschworen hat, sie zu tilgen

…and the next time Democrats are in power, sPeNdiNg will become a concern again, and a gigantic chunk of our public will go along with it, and this is why we can’t have nice things.

Remember the Tea Party? Surely they have something to say now. /s

feeling very deranged today

Hey man they defunded PBS though so they’re .01% there to balancing it!

I also remember very well how Trump said he was such a good businessman that he would make America debt-free within eight years. Unfortunately, by the end of his first term, the national debt was already higher than it had been at the start. But despite that, American voters re-elected him. Americans seem to love believing in miracles.

Meanwhile, just to show how completely unserious Republicans are, tomorrow they’re forcing a vote in the Senate on transgender issues while Democrats are forcing a vote on funding TSA.

The divide could not be any more stark.

Remember, beautiful tariffs are going to make it so there’s no deficit, no federal income tax!

“You’re gonna have so much money, you’re not gonna know what to do with it!”

-Trump, 2025

There is no plan to pay off the national debt. There never was. That’s the thing.

A quick way to tackle debt is reducing underemployment and unemployment. So many people have given up on their future and its driving extremism. 21 million prime age Americans are not in the work force and don’t have a feasible way to start a career. Over half of college grads are underemployed. The 1% and their corporations are destroying this country.

From 2011:

> But as proposals and programs for deficit cutting at the expense of social programs proliferate, no one is discussing how creating jobs for the 25 million currently unemployed would essentially resolve the budget deficit and eliminate altogether the need to cut Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and other programs.

> One of the major causes of current high, chronic levels of unemployment in the United States is offshoring by U.S. corporations. Less well known, however, is that these same multinational corporations are a significant cause of not only millions of lost jobs, but of **trillions of dollars of lost tax revenue** as well — thus contributing significantly to current and future budget deficits.

>A recent report by the U.S. Commerce Dept., a pro-business source, indicated that big multinationals like General Electric, Caterpillar, and big tech and drug companies over the past decade reduced their American work forces by 2.9 million while increasing their jobs offshore by 2.4 million. Apart from the harm inflicted on US working families, this development has resulted in the loss of huge amounts of tax revenue to the federal government, contributing in a major way to the country’s current budget deficit and rising government debt levels.

[https://inthesetimes.com/article/the-real-deficit-culprits-offshoring-and-corporate-tax-evasion](https://inthesetimes.com/article/the-real-deficit-culprits-offshoring-and-corporate-tax-evasion)

He is responsible for a full 20% of this nation’s debt.

Another tax cut for corporations and the wealthy will pay it off

~republicans for the last 50 years

This isn’t a new playbook. We’ve seen it before. Trump Taj Mahal. Trump Plaza. Trump Airlines. Trump University. Trump Steaks. The pattern is always the same: take over something with existing value, leverage it to the hilt, extract as much as possible for yourself and your insiders, then walk away from the wreckage protected by a bankruptcy filing while everyone else absorbs the loss. He didn’t fail at business. He succeeded at a very specific kind of business. The failure was always someone else’s problem. For him, failure became the option.

Now he’s doing it to a country.

Think about what the playbook actually looks like at scale. You inherit an asset, in this case the most powerful economy in human history. You immediately start running up debt at a pace that would make any CFO quit on the spot. You implement policies that look chaotic from the outside but consistently redirect wealth upward, to insiders, to allies, to people who knew which exemptions were coming before the announcements hit the wire. You weaken the institutions that would normally catch this kind of looting, the regulatory bodies, the oversight mechanisms, the civil servants who ask inconvenient questions. And then you frame the entire operation as patriotism.

The debt crossing $39 trillion isn’t a failure of the plan. It is the plan. A business you intend to drain doesn’t need a healthy balance sheet. It needs leverage. It needs to keep operating just long enough for the extraction to be complete. And when it finally collapses, the guy at the top doesn’t go to jail. He holds a press conference and blames the previous management.

The cruelest part of vulture capitalism is that it’s technically legal. You didn’t steal anything. You just made decisions that happened to benefit you while everything around you burned. Trump has six bankruptcies and is somehow a billionaire. The banks and bondholders and contractors and employees who didn’t get paid learned an expensive lesson about who the rules actually protect.

America is currently in the leverage phase. The question is whether enough people recognize what comes​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​.