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e_blazer

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The Republicans will wear this piece of crappy legislation around their necks like a millstone. Crippling financial and health impacts on the poorest of our population all to benefit the richest of the rich. The GOP's traditional (if bullshit) claims to be the defender of sound fiscal policy gets made an even bigger mockery than it historically is with the addition of trillions of dollars to the national debt. And their traditional answer about everything being okay because of the HUGE economic growth impacts will be shown to be BS once Trump's tariffs become the economic disaster that all respectable economists predict.

As I see it, the only good thing that may come from this is the total ruination of MAGA and the GOP.

I say this as a former Republican who is embarrassed to have ever been associated with these asshats.
 
Our government is now an embarrassment to us and the world...it's geared towards ethnic cleansing and white supremacy as well as fundamentalist Christian domination of policy. Civil rights and equal rights and the constitution have been thrown out the door. The GOP is the party of monarchy or dictatorship. Accountability is no longer the rule of law. I think that America is going to further fragment and succession is entirely possible between red and blue states.
 
I would have loved to hear their prayer. I can't imagine what you'd be praying/asking/saying to God to pass that bill.

 
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SlyPokerDog said:
I would have loved to hear their prayer. I can't imagine what you'd be praying/asking/saying to God to pass that bill.

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Probably something along the lines of, "Thank you Lord, for all the money about to be put in our pockets."
 
Chris Craig said:
Probably something along the lines of, "Thank you Lord, for all the money about to be out in our pockets."
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Maybe something like, “Trump made us do it! Trump made us do it! Please don’t turn us into pillars of salt!”
 
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You don't have to wonder. Pastor who led prayer said government should not provide for poor. Only individual charity. Also he is outspoken anti-Semite who promoted blood libel against Jews. But Republicans care about anti-Semitism, just like they care about women's sports and veterans.
 
AOC pointed out how phony the no tax on tips. First, it caps at $25,000 a year, practically starvation wages. Second, it only applies to tips paid in cash. How many people go to restaurant and pay cash? The quarters we drop in tips jar at Starbucks won't be taxed. Whoopee
 
Am I incorrect in assuming this bill takes away food stamps and healthcare for a large amount of people experiencing homelessness? Is this just a purge? It’s literally pure evil.
 
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DaLong said:
Am I incorrect in assuming this bill takes away food stamps and healthcare for every person experiencing homelessness? Is this just a purge? It’s literally pure evil.
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And the ICE budget will be bigger than the entire military budgets of all but 10 countries.

"There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always— do not forget this, Winston— always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless.
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face— forever."

-- 1984, George Orwell
 
I hate to say "I told you so" on all of this shit, but knowing I was right may be the only joy I'll get for the foreseeable future.

Good luck in fascist America to all the "patriots" out there who didn't believe us when we warned you.
 
DaLong said:
Am I incorrect in assuming this bill takes away food stamps and healthcare for every person experiencing homelessness? Is this just a purge? It’s literally pure evil.
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I don't think directly although I could be wrong, but they have to check in every six months and fill out boatload of paperwork. If a person has no formal address they won't receive notifications. And the people most in need have hardest time jumping through hoops.
 
e_blazer said:
Maybe something like, “Trump made us do it! Trump made us do it! Please don’t turn us into pillars of salt!”
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I would bet that these pieces of shit wouldn't even understand what you're referencing here.
 
Not enough attention paid to big ugly bill resets starting point. Let me explain. Best case scenario, talking reasonable best case, Republicans don't succeed in keeping wrong people from voting and Democrats take House and Senate in 2026 and presidency in 2028. And new president is not a total tool. Instead of fighting to expand health care and clean energy and for equitable tax code, they will have to fight like hell to get back to 2024. Which looks like paradise compared to impact of big ugly bill but in reality wasn't great. And probably won't even be able to achieve that.

This bill sets us back generations.
 
crandc said:
Not enough attention paid to big ugly bill resets starting point. Let me explain. Best case scenario, talking reasonable best case, Republicans don't succeed in keeping wrong people from voting and Democrats take House and Senate in 2026 and presidency in 2028. And new president is not a total tool. Instead of fighting to expand health care and clean energy and for equitable tax code, they will have to fight like hell to get back to 2024. Which looks like paradise compared to impact of big ugly bill but in reality wasn't great. And probably won't even be able to achieve that.

This bill sets us back generations.
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You ain't seen nothin' yet, the BBB2 is this fall and the BBB3 is the first of next year.
 
Trump’s tax bill would send an iconic Smithsonian spacecraft to Texas
The Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum could lose the iconic Discovery space shuttle to Houston if a pair of Texas senators get their way.

President Donald Trump’s massive tax and immigration billpassed the Senate on Tuesday with language effectivelyordering the shuttle’s move to Texas.It would set aside $85 million to transport Discovery and construct a home for it at Space Center Houston, the official visitor center for NASA’s Johnson Space Center — which itself oversaw more than 100 shuttle launches over three decades.

But the Smithsonian, which has housed the shuttle at its Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Northern Virginia since 2012, estimated that the true cost would be north of $300 million. That includes the cost of the transfer, thenew facility to house it, prep for an alternative museum display at the Smithsonian and other related costs.

The House approved the bill on Thursday afternoon, and Trump is expected to sign it into law.

More than a dozen years ago, NASA chose the final resting places of Discovery and its three siblings after the agency ended the space shuttle program. Notably, none of the four winning sites were in Texas — a decision that was decried as a “snub” by 16 members of Texas’s congressional delegation at the time and continues to rankle the state’s Senate Republicans, Ted Cruz and John Cornyn, who backed the new provision.

Cornyn said in a statement thathe looks “forward to welcoming Discovery to Houston and righting this egregious wrong.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/07/03/space-shuttle-texas-smithsonian-congress/
 
IMHO most who voted for big ugly bill have contempt for poor people who get Medicaid and SNAP. What's wrong with them? They must lack intelligence, work ethic, ambition or they wouldn't be poor. Rich successful people like Congresspeople and Senators themselves deserve government benefits, lazy poor people don't. Same with AID. Those countries have been poor for generations. Why should they get handout? They lack the American spirit that made this country great (conveniently ignoring the fact this country was built by slaves on land stolen from indigenous people).

Those who really have work ethic, ambition, initiative are immigrants. Yet these same Republicans positively salivate at poor Brown people dragged away in chains. Like WWE, it's entertainment.
 
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