Mountain Man. Did you read the other posts here? I will admit Biden is a fuckup when someone brings me PROOF. If he's such a fuckup there must be lots of proof. I don't listen to halfass inuendos. Why should I admit to something that is not obvious at all. Is he showing his age? Yes, absolutely. However, I reserve the right to measure his performance to the last Clown who did the following:

the Trump administration, with this not-even-remotely-exhaustive list of weird and bad stuff he attempted while in office:

Tried to buy Greenland.

Wanted to nuke hurricanes.

Doctored a hurricane forecast map with a Sharpie.

Attempted a coup to stay in power.

Absconded with thousands of classified documents, lied about it and refused to give them back when the feds asked nicely.

Sent unidentified federal officers to Portland, Oregon, to abduct protesters and spark a conflagration that could be used as a pretense for implementing martial law.

Ordered peaceful protesters tear-gassed so he could pose for a photo-op with a Bible outside a church.

Tried to blackmail Ukraine into manufacturing dirt for his 2020 campaign.

Asked Russia for help in his 2016 campaign — and got it.

Had a weird affinity for Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Remember the Helsinki summit?)

Invited Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to an in-person meeting in the Oval Office, where he accidentally revealed top-secret intelligence.

Wanted to withdraw the U.S. from NATO.

Separated migrant parents from their children, locked the kids in cages and then failed to reunite them.

Insisted that “raking” would prevent forest fires because “you’ve got to take care of the floors. You know the floors of the forest, very important.”

Covered for Saudi Arabia after Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the gruesome murder and dismemberment of a U.S. journalist with a bone saw. (Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, owes Saudi Arabia $2 billion, and the crown prince has reportedly bragged about having Kushner “in his pocket.”)

Intervened to get Kushner top-secret clearance after he was denied over concerns about foreign influence.

Put Kushner in charge of Middle East peace.

Embraced rampant nepotism.

Touted injecting disinfectant as a COVID-19 cure.

Touted ultraviolet light as a COVID-19 cure.

Touted hydroxychloroquine as a COVID-19 cure.

Touted ivermectin as a COVID-19 cure.

Told people not to wear face masks to cut down the spread of COVID-19, even though they work.

Actively discouraged COVID-19 testing.

Refused to send federal aid to New York City amid the first COVID-19 wave because the virus was hitting Democratic-voting states hardest.

“Jokingly” said on multiple occasions that he deserved to be president for more than two terms.

Thought climate change was a Chinese hoax.

Built an incomplete border wall that doesn’t work, wasn’t needed and wasn’t paid for by Mexico.

Started a trade war with China that mainly hurt U.S. consumers.

Threw food when angry.

Saw no problem with his vice president potentially being hanged by a violent mob he’d summoned and sent to the U.S. Capitol to disrupt the peaceful transition of power.

Stared directly at the sun.

That's true, the government can continue to borrow, but the reaction is devaluation of money, aka inflation. In the case of the US, going bankrupt is virtually impossible, because the US controls the dollar, which mostly controls the global economy. The US can create debt that would bankrupt most other countries, create a massive global crisis, collapse the economy to almost nothing, and no one would dare to declare bankruptcy on the US, because that would create an even bigger crisis.

Some people only care about inflation, when the 'other side' is creating it,
no matter the reason for the government's borrowing.
It's however possible to care about the debt and inflation and still support
the government's borrowing, if the money is used as investments,
to improve the lives of people short term or long term.

Not raising the debt ceiling (again) would have horrible results.
The budget projects a $1.2 trillion deficit in fiscal 2023, a significant drop
from the last two years. It would be easy to get that down, without doing
too much damage, but that's exactly everything that the Republicans and
the corporate Democrats oppose, because it would require getting the money from the people who can miss it the most, which are their wealthy donors.

I was replying to phart that where I live tons of people got fraudulent covid money while their relatives voted from the grave. Throwing punches? How?