In this clip — an update on the debt limit — you can hear not only a museum-quality default to both sides mindlessness, but the sound of a news organization, NPR, utterly confounded by its subject, helpless and paralyzed, unable to think, unwilling to try.
https://www.npr.org/2023/05/09/1175071444/biden-holds-high-stakes-debt-ceiling-talks-that-include-gop-leaders
It's so surreal. They're still doing, "When will those squabbling politicians put aside partisanship and compromise for the greater good?" after all this.
Hat tip, npub19kr9jlq66y804t0a64adl39n5ztp3wunvaqv4q52k4cq3q685z2qu48m4r (npub19kr…8m4r)
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