{"id":64527,"date":"2024-12-30T13:55:38","date_gmt":"2024-12-30T21:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=64527"},"modified":"2024-12-30T13:55:38","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T21:55:38","slug":"trump-is-terrified-of-being-blamed-for-extending-the-debt-ceiling-that-he-is-trying-to-extend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=64527","title":{"rendered":"Trump is Terrified of Being Blamed for Extending the Debt Ceiling – That He is Trying to Extend"},"content":{"rendered":"

Donald Trump is a walking encyclopedia of psychoses. He suffers from a mind-boggling array of mental maladies ranging from malignant narcissism, to paranoid personality disorder, to delusions of grandeur, to sadistic sociopathy, to substance use disorder, to pathological lying, to generalized anxiety, to senile dementia, to the dreaded Cartoon Brain Syndrome.<\/p>\n

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A common characteristic of many of these disorders is a crippling fear of events that trigger exaggerated defensive responses. The result is that the sufferer is in a near constant state of terror that something awful has occurred, or is about to. Consequently, Trump is perpetually on guard against imaginary threats and lashes out with wild preemptive strikes against his perceived foes.<\/p>\n

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Trump supplied a prime example of this behavior in a post to his failing Twitter ripoff, Truth Social<\/a><\/strong>, on Sunday evening. He threw a hissy fit because Congress had passed a bipartisan Continuing Resolution to keep the government from shutting down that included an extension of the debt ceiling until the beginning of next year. He raged in part<\/a><\/strong> that…<\/p>\n

“The extension of the Debt Ceiling by a previous Speaker of the House…will go down as one of the dumbest political decisions made in years. There was no reason to do it – NOTHING WAS GAINED, and we got nothing for it. […] The Democrats must be forced to take a vote on this treacherous issue NOW, during the Biden Administration, and not in June. They should be blamed for this potential disaster, not the Republicans!”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Trump’s rant began with a swipe at former GOP speaker Kevin McCarthy for agreeing to a compromise bill that relied on Democratic support to pass. Without the Democrats there would have been no bill and the the government would have had to shutdown, causing millions of people – especially seniors and soldiers – significant hardship. The avoidance of that hardship is what Trump calls “one of the dumbest decisions made in years.”<\/em> Trump went on to complain that “we got nothing for it,”<\/em> because everything in Trump’s mind is transactional. To heck with the American people. If he isn’t paid some sort of tribute, it wasn’t worth doing.<\/p>\n

In closing, Trump demanded that a new vote be held immediately to extend the debt ceiling so that the bill and the blame would be recorded during President Biden’s term. Notice that Trump’s argument has nothing to do with what is in the best interests of the nation or the people. The only thing he cares about is the appearances and who he thinks will get the blame. And he is mortified that he will be blamed for the debt ceiling extension.<\/p>\n

Let that sink in. Trump is afraid that he will be blamed for extending the debt ceiling that he himself is insisting be extended as soon as possible. Which must make perfect sense if you have the ghastly psychological profile described above.<\/p>\n

To make matters worse, the criticism that Trump is casting is actually falling on his fellow Republicans who are in the majority in the House of representatives. And his attack on former Speaker McCarthy is comically hypocritical. Because in another insanely long, rambling, and grossly dishonest Sunday evening post<\/a><\/strong>, Trump shows that he is a profoundly deranged sore winner.<\/p>\n

In that post, and nearly two months after his narrow victory, Trump is still whining about the election. He’s also lying, saying that he won by a landslide when, in fact, it was one of the closest races in modern history. And he alleges that there was “large scale voter fraud”<\/em> without a shred of evidence. Then he closes with his trademark “Complete & Total Endorsement”<\/em> of Speaker Mike Johnson, whose prospects of being reelected to the post are hanging by a thread.<\/p>\n

Never mind that Johnson also pushed through a Continuing Resolution, with the help of Democrats, that was similar to the one McCarthy negotiated. But in Trump’s mind, McCarthy’s bill was “one of the dumbest”<\/em> in years, while Johnson’s earned him a hearty endorsement. You figure it out.<\/p>\n

Clearly Trump is frightened that he will be saddled with responsibility for the debt ceiling increase that he himself is actually demanding. And he’s clinging to Johnson as Speaker because he’s afraid of igniting another Speaker battle that goes on for three weeks into his next term. And if this is how his next term is starting, it’s going to be a long four years.<\/p>\n

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