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It not only needs to be killed but the dems need to be preparing an alternative. Why are they just sitting back and waiting for the republicans to present an "updated" version that ****s people over in other ways while conceding just enough to get the votes? Why don't we see a full-on fully-prepared and actualized alternative from the dems right now? Why the **** are they not taking positive action right now, in so many ways? Yes they get some good sound bites in their speeches in the chamber but what does it actually DO? Hopefully it turns the vote, but we already saw that people want to vote FOR something, not AGAINST something. So give them something to vote for, for ****'s sake.
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Because then the Dems will end up being blasted by the media and the rich people who own the media. You’d swear that Zohran was in the White House running roughshod over democracy by the attention he’s gotten over the past week. I didn’t even know who he was a week ago but now he’s receiving a ton of attentions for campaigning on stuff. I can only imagine the hell a black woman or gay man might get for daring to impeach Trump, raise taxes on billionaires, or offer universal health care. Remember the **** Biden got for wanting to forgive student loans? “How will we pay for this handout? Kamala’s voice triggers me. Demmycrats want socialism and that words scawy.” Meanwhile Trump and the gop…
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Maybe because when they do they get attacked by the ****ing president and most of this country just doesn’t give a **** that the president openly talks about imprisoning and deporting his political opponents. Like at this point, what would Dems be fighting over? What sane person would want to attempt to govern this insane country? A country whose electorate is so lazy and stupid that they don’t have any problem with this **** leading it? A president talking like this should outrage millions of Americans, no matter their partisan leanings. Yet, most of the population couldn’t give AF
Don’t get me wrong, I want to see outrage from Dems, rich, poor, business owners, etc. But when such a large segment of the population doesn’t give a ****/likes this ****, what is there to do? What are we actually fighting over? Personally, I think we’re entering a dark time and it won’t be until things get really bad. I don’t know what that looks like either. We had Covid which killed off millions and we still didn’t snap out of it. If anything, even more of our population became trumpist
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Heeeeeeee haaaa! This right here is my dun president! He dun makes me so proud!
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Heeeeeeee haaaa! This right here is my dun president! He dun makes me so proud!
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Have any of anyone’s friends or family who were “furious” over inflation last summer spoken out against Trump and his crappy inflation?
It’s almost like that issue disappeared for some reason when Trump was inaugurated. Almost like it was an issue completely manufactured by a media obsessed with making Trump president again for all the crazy *** books and clicks they’d be able to get with him back in power.
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They Didn’t Have to Do This
By passing Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, congressional Republicans have talked themselves into an incomprehensibly reckless plan.
www.theatlantic.com
In their heedless rush to enact a deficit-exploding tax bill so massive that they barely understand it, Senate Republicans call to mind a scene in The Sopranos. A group of young aspiring gangsters decides to stick up a Mafia card game in hopes of gaining the mobsters’ respect and being brought into the crew. At the last moment, the guys briefly reconsider, before one of them supplies the decisive argument in favor of proceeding: “Let’s do it before the crank wears off.” After that, things go as you might expect.
Like the Mafia wannabes, congressional Republicans have talked themselves into a plan so incomprehensibly reckless that to describe it is to question its authors’ sanity. As of today’s 50–50 Senate vote, with Vice President J. D. Vance breaking the tie, the House and Senate have passed their own versions of the bill. The final details still have to be negotiated, but the foundational elements are clear enough. Congress is about to impose immense harm on tens of millions of Americans—taking away their health insurance, reducing welfare benefits, raising energy costs, and more—in order to benefit a handful of other Americans who least need the help. The bill almost seems designed to generate a political backlash.
Given that President Donald Trump and the GOP, unlike the morons in TheSopranos, are not collectively under the influence of crystal meth, the question naturally arises: Why are they doing this?
Republicans have historically been hesitant to pay for their tax cuts via offsetting cuts to government spending. This is politically rational in the short term. Reductions to government programs affect a much larger group of voters than the slice of wealthy Americans who benefit from GOP tax cuts. To avoid that backlash, congressional Republicans typically finance their tax bills with increased borrowing rather than reduced spending. The goal is to put the costs off to the distant future.
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act employs this technique, adding some $3 trillion to the national debt. But because the cost of the tax cuts is so massive, and the budget deficit already so large, Republicans could not put the entire cost on the credit card this time. Instead, they plan to pay for a portion of the cost with budget cuts. This will expose them to a kind of blowback they have never experienced before.
Polling shows that the megabill is about 20 points underwater, reflecting the fact that its basic outline—a regressive tax cut paired with reduced spending on Medicaid—violates the public’s moral intuitions. And however much voters oppose the legislation in the abstract, they will hate it far more once it takes effect.
Republicans have mostly brushed off this brutal reality with happy talk. During a pep rally to psych up Congress to push the bill through before the crank wears off, Trump tried to reassure nervous legislators that the voters wouldn’t mind. “We’re cutting $1.7 trillion in this bill, and you’re not going to feel any of it,” he explained.
Trump was nodding at the claim that cuts to health-care subsidies and food assistance would be limited to fraudulent beneficiaries and other waste. Not only is this nowhere close to true, but there is also no conceivable world in which it could be true. Even if $1.7 trillion worth of benefits really were going to undocumented immigrants or fraudsters, the cuts would still affect the doctors and hospitals who give them care, the farmers and grocers who sell them food, and so on.
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Totally fine. Republicans and their drooling zombies are totally fine with this. And it totally triggers “the other side.”
Such a cool country. So normal, not dysfunctional at all.
Such a cool country. So normal, not dysfunctional at all.
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If it’s really so unpopular it should result in a bloodbath for a generation. The GOP should lose bigly the next several election cycles. However, I doubt that’ll be the case as Americans have memories of goldfish, many voters dont Care about policy (just about revenge and tribalism, and the media loves the TeeVee President Reality Show. Democrats are too damn boring. Just look at how concerns over inflation has evaporated since Jan. Suddenly, voters don’t care about it. Yet… has inflation actually improved?They Didn’t Have to Do This
By passing Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, congressional Republicans have talked themselves into an incomprehensibly reckless plan.
In their heedless rush to enact a deficit-exploding tax bill so massive that they barely understand it, Senate Republicans call to mind a scene in The Sopranos. A group of young aspiring gangsters decides to stick up a Mafia card game in hopes of gaining the mobsters’ respect and being brought into the crew. At the last moment, the guys briefly reconsider, before one of them supplies the decisive argument in favor of proceeding: “Let’s do it before the crank wears off.” After that, things go as you might expect.
Like the Mafia wannabes, congressional Republicans have talked themselves into a plan so incomprehensibly reckless that to describe it is to question its authors’ sanity. As of today’s 50–50 Senate vote, with Vice President J. D. Vance breaking the tie, the House and Senate have passed their own versions of the bill. The final details still have to be negotiated, but the foundational elements are clear enough. Congress is about to impose immense harm on tens of millions of Americans—taking away their health insurance, reducing welfare benefits, raising energy costs, and more—in order to benefit a handful of other Americans who least need the help. The bill almost seems designed to generate a political backlash.
Given that President Donald Trump and the GOP, unlike the morons in TheSopranos, are not collectively under the influence of crystal meth, the question naturally arises: Why are they doing this?
Republicans have historically been hesitant to pay for their tax cuts via offsetting cuts to government spending. This is politically rational in the short term. Reductions to government programs affect a much larger group of voters than the slice of wealthy Americans who benefit from GOP tax cuts. To avoid that backlash, congressional Republicans typically finance their tax bills with increased borrowing rather than reduced spending. The goal is to put the costs off to the distant future.
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act employs this technique, adding some $3 trillion to the national debt. But because the cost of the tax cuts is so massive, and the budget deficit already so large, Republicans could not put the entire cost on the credit card this time. Instead, they plan to pay for a portion of the cost with budget cuts. This will expose them to a kind of blowback they have never experienced before.
Polling shows that the megabill is about 20 points underwater, reflecting the fact that its basic outline—a regressive tax cut paired with reduced spending on Medicaid—violates the public’s moral intuitions. And however much voters oppose the legislation in the abstract, they will hate it far more once it takes effect.
Republicans have mostly brushed off this brutal reality with happy talk. During a pep rally to psych up Congress to push the bill through before the crank wears off, Trump tried to reassure nervous legislators that the voters wouldn’t mind. “We’re cutting $1.7 trillion in this bill, and you’re not going to feel any of it,” he explained.
Trump was nodding at the claim that cuts to health-care subsidies and food assistance would be limited to fraudulent beneficiaries and other waste. Not only is this nowhere close to true, but there is also no conceivable world in which it could be true. Even if $1.7 trillion worth of benefits really were going to undocumented immigrants or fraudsters, the cuts would still affect the doctors and hospitals who give them care, the farmers and grocers who sell them food, and so on.
I’m pretty jaded because my entire adult life has been dominated by corrupt Republican leadership after corrupt Republican leadership. I can’t remember the last time they passed popular legislation. Yet, they keep winning. Democrats keep passing popular legislation and get rat****ed by the electorate. The ACA led to the bloody midterms In 2010. The competent and boring Obama economy and leadership led to Trump in 2016. Biden and his boring no drama leadership and legislation led to the GOP retaking the House in 2022 and retaking the Senate and White House in 2024.
What did the GOP do from 2021 to 2022 to deserve retaking the House? What did they do to retake the senate and White House in 2024? If we aren’t rewarding political parties for their leadership, then what’s the point of self-governance? Just appoint an entertaining dictator and call it good (which is what we’ve essentially done).
I don’t know what the GOP has to do to permanently lose power for a generation. Doesn’t seem like there’s a bottom. Meanwhile, I don’t know what Democrats have got to do to win the public’s favor. All they do is pass good legislation and lead boring and prosperous administrations. Yet, competent leadership isn’t a priority for a country bored to death.
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