My Take — 08

The fight over the Debt Ceiling. It’s not about “the budget”.

The WHITE Trumpublican 42% is at war with the rest of America. They don’t just want control of the “Old America”. They want to create a “New America”.

SO,

I think the Republicans are going to force a default on the National Debt. I don’t think they are going to budge from their position. Because, they aren’t looking at a default, or “14th Amendment” last minute save by Biden, as losing.

They don’t care if things get worse. They want things to get worse. They are making ENDGAME moves.

This was a game I played a LOT of, when it came out in 1990.

I LOVE GAMES.

When I was eleven I started going through my Father’s things. I had always had problems with “property rights” and “boundaries” as a child. He had a LOT of books I wanted to read and he wouldn’t let me. They were “too old” for me.

#The first thing I read was “Stranger in a Strange Land”, there’s sex in it.

So, I just picked the lock on my parents bedroom and helped myself. I wanted to read “adult” sci-fi, I was tired of Andre Norton and YA stuff like a “Wrinkle in Time” and “Witch Mountain”. I wanted to move “to the next level”.

Once I started down that road, I picked all the locks in the house. Using a newly learned…