Hey guys put aside your transgender paranoia for just a minute. Unlike that subject, this one might just affect you personally, along with everyone you know. 
  The Republicans are going to hold up the debt ceiling unless Democrats agree to major spending cuts. At this moment we don’t know what those cuts are, but we suspect they would eviscerate Biden’s entire program of the last few years. Which is a really stupid thing to demand because Biden will never agree to it.  Meanwhile Biden and the Democrats refuse to negotiate at all which is just as stupid if not more so. And to make things even worse, conservative hardliners have threatened to veto ANY compromise agreement that might eventually emerge between Biden and McCarthy and oust McCarthy from power if he budges at all- and yes they have the votes within the Republican caucus to veto anything they want. 
  In this game of chicken there are no winners, and the losers appear to be the American public. Buckle up.