Stuff 'N' Junk In the News

The last time I posted about the what's going on in the world was last Monday, May 22nd and that story is still with us.  The United States' debt ceiling crisis is still a thing.  

OK, there may be a deal but....  more on that in a moment.  

Basically, the Republicans think we're borrowing too much money and that is not an unreasonable assessment. 

And the Republicans think we wouldn't have to borrow so much money is we spend less and that too is also a sensible assessment. 

But the only spending Republicans are proposing to cut involves programs that provide food and health care to poor people and well, that seems a bit... mean? 

What about the bloated military budget? Republicans are not gonna touch that. 

Reversing excessive tax cuts on the wealthy that significantly reduced income to the government that helped drive up the debt? Republican response to that: oh hell no. In fact, the House GOP are working on legislation for even more tax cuts when this debt ceiling mess is done. 

President Joe Biden is against screwing over poor people so good for him. Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy is all "fuck poor people" who didn't give him his job as Speaker of the House.  If McCarthy delivers any deal on the debt ceiling that even seems like the smallest of capitulations to Biden, his own party will oust him as Speaker. 

So it seems there's some kind of agreement between Biden & McCarthy and we'll see how that shakes out today.  Basically the news sources on Sunday all say what I expected:

The Democrats are pissed that Biden agreed to cuts that could hurt the poor.

The Republicans are pissed that McCarthy agreed to... anything. 

Last week, Ron DeSantis, die Führer und Florida, made it official he's running for President. There was a big roll out on Elon Musk's Twitter Space which went very badly with audio echoes, frozen screens and somehow a velociraptor got loose and ate some kids? I don't know, it was a mess.  

DeSantis' objective as President is to put us to sleep because he's still railing against things that are "woke".  

"Woke" is whatever offends the die Führer und Florida.

And as always Donald Trump was up to stupid shit. I'm tired and I don't feel like going into details. Quite frankly, I lose track.

And that is all for that for today.

Tomorrow we're back with the Tuesday TV Touchbase. 

Until next time, remember to be good to one another.