• If there is a bias it's pro-Trump, not anti-Trump
  
• That was already clear from the fact that before the 2016 election FBI director reopened the investigation against Hillary Clinton weeks before the election whilst remaining silent on the investigation against Trump (which contained much more serious charges)
  

• Trump believes US should default if White House doesn't agree to spending cuts in the CNN townhall
  
• Matt Gaetz says the quit part aloud, it's hostage taking
  
• Republican chairperson Ronna McDaniel says defaulting on the debt would be a boon for Republicans
  
• Hard-line Republicans furious at possible compromise
  

• Republicans raised the debt limit three times during Trump's presidency
  
• They also massively raised the public deficit and debt during the Trump presidency
  
• Democrats never made an issue out of the debt limit when they weren't in the White House
  

• Ignore the limit by declaring it unconstitutional on the basis of The 14th Amendment
  
• Minting platinum coins and issuing them to the Fed
  
• Issuing perpetual bonds
  

• Trump argued for years he can't reveal his tax returns because they are audited (which is nonsense in any case, there was nothing stopping him to publish his tax returns)
  
• As a president, he should have been under audit but wasn't, only when that became public knowledge did the audit begin.
  
• The reason he wasn't audited is because the IRS is severely underfunded which is especially beneficial for rich people with very complex tax returns, like Trump and the billionaire donors of the GOP.
  
• And surely enough, they want to keep it that way in the first bill they pass as a House majority party.
  

• Executing drug dealers
  
• Moving the homeless to tent cities outside
  
• Deploy Federal force against crime, unrest, protest
  
• Strip job protections from Federal workers
  
• Eliminate the Education Department
  
• Restrict voting to one-day paper ballot
  

• A point lost in the noise..
  
• But there is more:
  

Quote:Trump’s Republican allies say the search violates the tenets of American exceptionalism. We just don’t do that here, said US Senator Marco Rubio. “Using government power to persecute political opponents is something we have seen many times from 3rd world Marxist dictatorships.” That might sound like a principled warning, but it’s garbage. No one ever said that American exceptionalism was cover for criming. Don’t let your love of country get in the way of your love of equal justice. The president’s allies are also issuing threats. Without knowing anything more than that Trump’s gaudy residence was searched by lawful warrant, they are vowing to investigate US Attorney General Merrick Garland. Here’s House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy. “The Department of Justice has reached an intolerable state of weaponized politicization,” he said last night. “When Republicans take back the House, we will conduct immediate oversight of this department, follow the facts and leave no stone unturned.” Again, McCarthy hopes people see this as a principled position without noticing that there’s no probable cause. There’s no concrete reason to suspect a crime – unless McCarthy means that a lawful warrant is an unlawful act deserving of a congressional investigation...

Rubio, too, issued threats. In doing so, he told us exactly who the Republicans are. If they have to break the law to hurt their enemies, that’s what they’ll do, he said in so many words. “Biden is playing with fire by using a document dispute to get the @TheJusticeDept to persecute a likely future election opponent,” Rubio said today. “Because one day what goes around is going to come around.” In other words, Rubio is telling Biden – who had nothing to do with a federal judge authorizing a search warrant – that he should not do something that Rubio says is wrong or the GOP will do the same thing. But instead of being wrong, as he says it is now, it will be right.

Quote:The Texas Republican Party adopted a new platform declaring that the 2020 election violated the Constitution and President Biden “was not legitimately elected.” The Texas GOP adopted the 40-page platform at its biennial convention in Houston, which concluded this weekend. “We reject the certified results of the 2020 presidential election, and we hold that acting President Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. was not legitimately elected by the people of the United States,” the platform reads.

Quote:Hungary’s nationalist leader, Viktor Orbán, will be the star speaker at an extraordinary session of America’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) to be held in Hungary this week, in an effort to cement bonds between the radical right on both sides of the Atlantic under the banner of the “great replacement” ideology. In a speech on Monday, Orbán made explicit reference to the ideology, which claims there is a liberal plot to dilute the white populations of the US and European countries through immigration. Increasingly widespread among US Republicans, the creed was cited by the killer who opened fire on Saturday in a supermarket in a predominantly black area of Buffalo, New York.