Republicans are now saying the quiet part out loud, threatening to "blow crap up" if they're not alowed to blow crap up.

Circling back to our recent coverage, the 14th Amendment solution is sometimes derided as a "gimmick," but it's rooted in a relatively straightforward reading of the constitutional text, which states that "the validity of the public debt of the United States ... shall not be questioned."

If it's up to the executive branch to honor the nation's financial obligations, then the administration would simply ignore the debt ceiling, note that the spending in question was already approved by the legislative branch through the appropriations process, and point to the 14th Amendment to say they have no choice but to follow the Constitution rather than allow republicans to destroy the creditworthiness of the U.S. and blow up the world economy.

Should Biden choose to use this legally questionable maneuver to avoid the GOP's ransom demands, they said they'll just blow crap up.

They know that if they go down that road with this 14th Amendment argument, we will blow crap up. I'm serious ' it will be just open warfare in terms of what we're going to deal with on the spending front if these SOBs try to go down this completely ... unconstitutional and stupid road.

Huh.

So, it's not stupid to hold the economy hostage to their demands -- despite increasing the debt ceiling three times for Trump with no such strings attached -- or to refuse to pay the bills for spending that Congress already approved and money that's already been spent?

Yes, it is stupid. As the con man said: "I love the poorly educated".

And they love him back.

Which is why we live in the stupidest timeline.