Ukraine and the “End of the Rope”

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So I watched this press briefing from Wednesday. You’ve got John Kirby. John Kirby, he’s the spokesperson for the White House on all things military, and he was talking about this $200 million arms package that’s going to the Ukraine. Where did the money come from? I don’t know, we’re told that there was some sort of accounting error.

It’s like we’re playing bloody monopoly here. Banker in your favor, send Ukraine $200 million. Whatever. Again, no normal business company runs their books like the United States government. I don’t know how they come up with this stuff. But again, in this was fascinating. He said something, and I kind of try to hear between things when I listen to people.

In the near term, we’ve got appropriations and authorities for Ukraine and for Israel, but you don’t wanna be trying to bake in long-term support when you’re at the end of the rope. End of that, I found that, end of the rope. That’s a saying, that’s the word I’m looking for, idiom. Idiom that might be used as if you’re at the end of one’s rope.

When you use that phrase, what does it mean? I’m at the end of my rope. I’m tired, I can’t stand it, I can’t take it anymore. I’m at the end of my rope, I’m running out of patience. That idiom is not normally used when you’re saying that, we’re running out of money. So almost to me, it almost sounded like John Kirby is seeing the writing on the wall when it comes to Congress. And that funding might be gone sooner rather than later. Watchdog on wallstreet.com.