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For a preview of how this game of chicken will go down, looky right here at Pennsylvania. Tom Wolfe and the Legislature have been fucking with us for close to three months now, and I'm fucked if I can get a job -- government hiring freeze, ya know.

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NB: Bank of China is getting out of T-bills ASAP. The trend is to paying for oil and gas, etc., with Chinese money, in exchange for letting Russia, eg, pay for Chinese manufactures with roubles. There are similar agreement with Iran and (I think) with India.

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Vote for Godzilla or Gamera, you get a monster either way. The contest isn't between good guys and bad guys, but between rival Mafia factions.

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You will need bootstraps and certain vainglory of local conflagration. I'm sure there's a church nearby. Outside of that, good luck. Really.

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It's a game for them. They don't care who gets hurt. See damn' I was going to say from St. Raygun on. I felt shallow in the depths of the depravity. Needs more depravity. I doubt there's more to be found!

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I really wish we would switch from the sovereign debt theory to modern monetary theory where the limit on spending is inflation-based instead of debt-based, if only so we could avoid this stupid brinksmanship crap every couple of months.

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If the US government shuts down, does that mean CIA, etc., will have to quit slaughtering people around the world? If so, shut it down!

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No. Essential service, that.

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WTF is up with the goddamn floating L'Oreal ad, Shy??!!!Won't play, won't go away, SHY WTF?

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No kidding! It's wiping out half my phone's screen

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Hell, print a couple extra and give us a cushion

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I can't see to not comment on here, as comments are not allowed, but I'd like to go back to being able to not comment!

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I thought the CIA ran their own cover businesses that make enough money that they don't need any from uncle sugar?

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Are we still selling treasury bills to banks that buy them with money they "borrowed" for next to nothing from the Fed, which just creates new money by changing some figures in a spreadsheet?

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Republicans should just voluntarily shut off their office lights and stop using their government credit cards. Problem solved.

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He could put Saul Alinsky's picture on the trillion dollar coin, that'll make 'em pop their corks!

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