Forget the Medicaid cuts for a second. There’s a silent bomb ticking inside Trump’s 1,100-page “Big Beautiful Bill” — and it’s not about budgets. It’s about power. Permanent, unchecked, authoritarian
Good observations. The BBB is a the epitome of Stephen Miller's "flood the zone" strategy - do so many evil things at once that the good guys, with their strapped resources, will be distracted by the most eye-catching evils and let others go ahead. That is why Medicare cuts is what everyone is focusing on - but the items you mention are just as damaging to our country. After all, funding can be restored by a future administration, but a competent, apolitical civil service takes decades to build, and a hollowed out judiciary puts our freedoms in serious danger. I hope we keep these less sexy, much more technocratic evils in mind as we fight against Trump.
Also… funding ice and building detention centers! trumps immigration strategies are wildly unpopular and yet the bill super-size funds all of it!! Help!!!
Yep, this bill passes and Rick Wilson says we’re going to be a police state. There is NOTHING good for the country or the American people in these pages of rot.
Every time I read about the Bill from Hell another passage has been quietly dropped into it adding one more way to disempower and impoverish ordinary Americans. Silencers on guns to be completely legal? Money for the ultra wealthy to be drawn from extra taxes from the poorest people? When will the Hunger Games start?
This bill, and the fact that it’s even on the agenda, instantly changes this country from a republic to a feudal system. I hope everyone who votes for it dies soon, to be reborn as a peon.
Now how is it the budget tax cuts in the first administration were also made permanent and now this budget Bill makes the 2.8 trillion dollars in tax cuts for the wealthy the 1% are permanent and yet we as a country couldn't make a roe v Wade permanent we couldn't make our health care ACA program permanent we couldn't make social security or Medicare benefits permanent for the other 330 million people in this country instead permanent meaning never going to go away... PERMANENT.. which transcends my generations children's generations grandchildren's generations and they will grow up and say what the hell!
Good observations. The BBB is a the epitome of Stephen Miller's "flood the zone" strategy - do so many evil things at once that the good guys, with their strapped resources, will be distracted by the most eye-catching evils and let others go ahead. That is why Medicare cuts is what everyone is focusing on - but the items you mention are just as damaging to our country. After all, funding can be restored by a future administration, but a competent, apolitical civil service takes decades to build, and a hollowed out judiciary puts our freedoms in serious danger. I hope we keep these less sexy, much more technocratic evils in mind as we fight against Trump.
Excellent summary of the problem. They’re definitely flooding the zone. It’s exhausting.
Also… funding ice and building detention centers! trumps immigration strategies are wildly unpopular and yet the bill super-size funds all of it!! Help!!!
Yep, this bill passes and Rick Wilson says we’re going to be a police state. There is NOTHING good for the country or the American people in these pages of rot.
Every time I read about the Bill from Hell another passage has been quietly dropped into it adding one more way to disempower and impoverish ordinary Americans. Silencers on guns to be completely legal? Money for the ultra wealthy to be drawn from extra taxes from the poorest people? When will the Hunger Games start?
This bill, and the fact that it’s even on the agenda, instantly changes this country from a republic to a feudal system. I hope everyone who votes for it dies soon, to be reborn as a peon.
Now how is it the budget tax cuts in the first administration were also made permanent and now this budget Bill makes the 2.8 trillion dollars in tax cuts for the wealthy the 1% are permanent and yet we as a country couldn't make a roe v Wade permanent we couldn't make our health care ACA program permanent we couldn't make social security or Medicare benefits permanent for the other 330 million people in this country instead permanent meaning never going to go away... PERMANENT.. which transcends my generations children's generations grandchildren's generations and they will grow up and say what the hell!