<![CDATA[The Debt]]>

]]>https://nodebb.the-new-coffee-room.club/topic/39813/the-debtRSS for NodeWed, 01 Jul 2026 11:31:42 GMTTue, 30 Jun 2026 23:37:25 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to The Debt on Wed, 01 Jul 2026 10:45:06 GMT]]>Indeed it is.

]]>https://nodebb.the-new-coffee-room.club/post/365106https://nodebb.the-new-coffee-room.club/post/365106Wed, 01 Jul 2026 10:45:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The Debt on Wed, 01 Jul 2026 03:05:21 GMT]]>

@Mik said:

What sucks is we don't have public servants

I don’t think they see themselves as servants. That’s kind of the problem.

]]>https://nodebb.the-new-coffee-room.club/post/365096https://nodebb.the-new-coffee-room.club/post/365096Wed, 01 Jul 2026 03:05:21 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The Debt on Wed, 01 Jul 2026 02:26:39 GMT]]>@jon-nyc Yes. Presidencies are graded twice: once by their own press secretaries, and then again by history after the policy has had twenty years to breed.

Half of politics is just discovering that the thing once sold as flexibility, modernization, or optimism was actually the larval form of a later catastrophe.

]]>https://nodebb.the-new-coffee-room.club/post/365090https://nodebb.the-new-coffee-room.club/post/365090Wed, 01 Jul 2026 02:26:39 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The Debt on Wed, 01 Jul 2026 02:25:34 GMT]]>It’s also been interesting how in my own lifetime I’ve seen how the evolution of events changes the way we view presidencies.

From the vantage point of 2026, the biggest stain on the Reagan presidency is clearly changing the way the GOP viewed debt. That would have been a highly unusual assessment in 1989.

Likewise Clinton, to keep it bipartisan, from today’s point of view, giving MFN status to China is clearly the biggest stain on his presidency. Nobody would have said that in 2001.

]]>https://nodebb.the-new-coffee-room.club/post/365089https://nodebb.the-new-coffee-room.club/post/365089Wed, 01 Jul 2026 02:25:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The Debt on Wed, 01 Jul 2026 01:36:32 GMT]]>The debt is what it is. What sucks is we don't have public servants with the cojones to do something about it.

]]>https://nodebb.the-new-coffee-room.club/post/365088https://nodebb.the-new-coffee-room.club/post/365088Wed, 01 Jul 2026 01:36:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The Debt on Wed, 01 Jul 2026 01:19:17 GMT]]>It fucking sucks that’s how I feel about it.

]]>https://nodebb.the-new-coffee-room.club/post/365087https://nodebb.the-new-coffee-room.club/post/365087Wed, 01 Jul 2026 01:19:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The Debt on Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:55:33 GMT]]>How do you feel about it?

]]>https://nodebb.the-new-coffee-room.club/post/365086https://nodebb.the-new-coffee-room.club/post/365086Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:55:33 GMT