Tuesday, May 10, 2016

j reacts to donald trump perpetuating the republican talking points on government debt

so, you're making the standard right-wing error of confusing personal debt with government debt. do you see what's happening, here?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f00njIl9iAM

ok. i read the article, and it points out that the united states cannot actually default, unless it does so on purpose - which is a correction of the error that the right-wing demagogues were pushing through as political theatre in the fiscal cliff non-issue.

but, it doesn't change the fact that this is something that trump can't actually do. his claim that he can default on sovereign debt is about as ridiculous as promising a peace dividend of unicorns.

the correct conclusion from yglesias is that what it exposes is total ignorance. you, on the other hand, are just parroting the same, stupid right-wing scare-mongering you hear from the right on a fairly regular basis.