I don't get you. These tax cuts you voted for are very expensive.

And suddenly the left is worried about the national debt.

I agree that it would be nice if Trump began cutting the national debt that indeed grew by that amount during his first term and then exploded through the roof during the now defunct term of Biden-Harris.

In fact he and the GOP have got absolutely no excuse -- since now they control both the Executive and Legislative Branches -- not to begin repairing some of the damage done by both parties in the past.

would you agree that 1) most of the debt explosion since Jan 2021 was a response to the damage caused by the Pandemic, and 2) Biden's Deficit Reduction Act will allow a significant reduction of the debt as long as the act isn't torpedoed by Congress?

No. But thanks for asking.

Just because something is called "Deficit Reduction" doesn't mean it's really that. I could tell you that radiator fluid is kool aide but would you really drink it?

you're saying that radiator fluid might really be Kool-aid, but it's better to do tests with other people first?

Sure. If your stupid enough to drink it like you were for getting your untested vaccines. Your body, your choice.

ok, but when you say 'untested', do you mean 'tested'?

Well yeah. Tested on you and the unquestioning masses.

i find that comments on this stream aren't generally reliable, by which i mean they're generally unreliable. someone hears something from somone else, who claims that it's true, and then it feels true for the second person, even though it's complete BS. i thought you should know. here's some info from the CDC...

Like you unquestioningly accept the "safe and effective" bullshit and propaganda they used to try to convince everyone to take them. You truly are gullible.

you truly are foolish. everything is a risk in life. i had no good reason to disbelieve the CDC (they are generally well trained and well informed; i know because i trained some of them), and after almost dying from my first case of Covid, and knowing the basic biochemistry of how RNA vaccines work, it was a no-brainer to take the vaccine when it finally came out. the people who thought we were gullible and refused the vaccine, well, a lot of them died of Covid. serious side effects have been rare, so the intelligent decision was to risk the vaccine. i got my most recent booster yesterday and have been Covid-free since Spring 2020 with no significant side effects.

I've never had Covid. Know 74 year olds that had it in 2020. No special meds. Just 2 weeks to get over the super flu. Other young people I know got Myocaditis and Death after their vaccines. You keep on believing though.

most people survive Covid. only most. i was down for 3 and a half weeks, when there weren't any meds to take, and i was in excellent shape at the time. it's always possible that someone will develop a severe reaction to a foreign protein created by the vaccination, but since it's the same protein created by the virus, that person might have developed that same reaction once they were infected. people do have reactions to vaccines, sometimes deadly, but the virus killed over a million Americans. i truly wish you luck.

Your Dems gave away much of your tax base to Ukraine all while getting kickbacks and skimming off it. How do you think they get so rich in politics?

are you saying that the Dems enable profiteering by the Conservative arms manufacturers and dealers?!

No. I'm saying they commit large sums of money as "aide" and skim off of it on both ends because there was a lot of unaccounted for tax dollars suddenly disappeared on it's way to help the Ukraine.

and you think Conservatives who approved the aid had their hands in the pie as part of the deal to agree to it?

Possibly. Maybe that's why they voted for it or maybe they were just dumb but I doubt that. Seems all preplanned to just take that micron off the billions.

i've thought about running for Congress. MTG's seat is pretty available. all's i'd need to do is run as a Republican, say Republican-type things, and just seem WAY more intelligent than her. what do you think?

I can't say from your comments that you are "way more intelligent than her" at all. That's what I think.

duly noted. i am way more intelligent than she is, though, so your thinking says more about your judgment than it does about me.