mr. avlon, you are first. the company is facing its first default. republicans know this could be catastrophic, but they re still refusing to blink. do they care what this could do to the country, or do you think is all about making democrats look bad? well, as mitch mcconnell said in the previous debt ceiling and crisis, this is a hostage they re willing to ransom. but that of course is a very dangerous game by its nature. here we are tricycling towards a fiscal cliff yet again. default would be disastrous not just to our economy, but the world economy because we re the world s reserve currency. we re the only major industrialized nation in the world that does this to ourselves. this is a self-inflicted crisis. we need to get rid of the debt ceiling. we ve raised the debt ceiling 31 times under republican presidents since 1980. mitch mcconnell has voted for debt ceiling increases dramatically under the debt. this is designed to pay for things the republican congress alread
the gop led election audit in arizona was concluded. not surprisingly, not only did the quote, unquote, audit not change the results, but president biden actually widened his lead. you got to hand it to donald trump. the man just keeps losing. and it doesn t look like his luck will change any time soon. the house select committee to investigate the january 6th attack issued its first four subpoenas this week. and they all went to trump loyalists including his most recent chief of staff mark meadows. in texas, the migrant crisis along the southern border continues to escalate, and it s not just republicans condemning the biden administration s response to the thousands of haitians seeking an escape from their ravaged country. after this photo went viral of a border patrol agent on horse back grabbing a migrant, the reaction from prominent democrats including the vice president was swift. i m pissed. i m unhappy. and i m not just unhappy with the cowboys. with the administrat
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Has become the stupid party and proud of it, proud of being stupid. what is that all about? talk to me about that. well, this was sort of inspired by a press release that congresswoman lauren boebert of colorado sent out a couple weeks ago, calling on congress to imeach. it was supposed to be impeach biden, but she had imeach biden in giant letters across the top. i thought it was kind of symbolic of where the gop is today, both in the combination of political fanaticism and extreme partisanship, but also in this contempt not just for political norms but for spelling norms and kind of basic rules of grammar. you know, this is something that donald trump perfected where, you know, his twitter feed was notorious not just for all sorts of lies but really just stupid, obvious misspellings. people even thought he was putting that in there on purpose