Day of Fallacies, 37th of Summer, 525 M.E. (Castor): The Senate approved the Stable Genius' budget bill today. Three Republican senators - Susan Collins (Maine), Rand Paul (Kentucky), and Tom Tillis (North Carolina) - voted against it, and it took a tie-breaking vote by the VP JD  to pass it. It now goes back to the House for reconciliation, where it's expected to pass. 

On top of recent Supreme Court rulings, this is another win for the Stable Genius. "You're going to get sick of winning," the SG predicted on the 2016 campaign trail, and he was right (at least the part about getting sick). The bill will add at least $3.3 trillion to the nation’s debt over the next 10 years, making it among the most expensive bills in a generation, and will also reduce the amount of tax revenue the country collects for decades. Such a shortfall could begin a seismic shift in the nation’s fiscal trajectory and raise the risk of a debt crisis.

To be blunt about it, it destroys this country. But to the oligarchs and billionaires who'll benefit, that's a price worth paying. Who needs America when you can own a second megayacht? 

The rest of us will have to scrape by, tooth and nail, among the increased heat, the police oppression, the pervasive hunger, and the endemic sickness, to survive as best we can. On the positive side, it's been noted that the arts and spirituality tend to flourish during difficult times. 

I think we're in for a veritable renaissance in the arts and spirituality.