I am astonished every day at the number of people STILL thinking Trump is out to save them. He is only out for himself. The Republicans will not feel the effects of this bill because they get lifetime free healthcare and insider stock information. How they can look themselves in the mirror and sleep at night astounds me.
It just makes me so mad that there are that many haters in our country. It is all people who have grown up around the people who look the same and think the same. They watch shows and read news that teaches them to fear people other than them. This is why people in cities tend to be more Liberal. We know we are all more alike than different. We like people to look, eat, think differently.
"Everything Trump Touches Dies". He, his Corrupt regime, and the Project 2025 Republicans and the Roberts Court are burning America to the ground. For what? Money, Power, Control and to HELL with everyone else in America. They are ALL TRAITORS to America and should be treated as such. Modern day Benedict Arnold's. They do NOT care one bit about anyone or anything except themselves and their greed. Drive them all out for good.
Nuremberg Trials for them ALL with everyone they have hurt and injured testifying against them and jail with NO parole..........and a life spent paying back those they hurt.......
Uh 😒 … I appreciate how so many of the journalists and contributors are focused on pointing out how this bill will affect us financially. Here’s the thing that TERRIFIES me: This tax bill the 🍊🦇💩🤪🫏🤡 & his cadre of MAGAretRUMPlicans just passed in the House (it goes to the Senate now and they better filibuster the F out of it!) has buried in it a piece of legislation that will allow government officials to ignore court orders/decisions so that they can’t be held in contempt for noncompliance/defiance. So remember SCOTUS told the WH you have to bring Abrego Garcia back. And there have been a number of decisions from federal courts ruling against tRump and ICE. If they pass this and that POS signs it into law how will anyone in authority be held accountable for violating anyone’s constitutional rights anymore?
Should this heinous bill pass, it would turn this country into a state of law by monarchical decree, like before the Magna Carta was enacted, and the power of the despot to lop heads would become real. To think that someone with such a limited brain could be voted in only to bring on such devastation is unfathomable. How much have humans advanced in 20,000 years, really?
That well may be, Blazze, yet I suspect drumpster to have been a Nazi even before he was kicked out of military school. He would have to love Hitler to try to pull off all his bullshit.
Pamela, yes, but I think that drumpf already considers himself to be greater than Putin, as great as the Sun and worshipped by his cultists. He is crazy enough to commit mass slaughter on those who speak out.
That's exactly right and the courts are, literally, the only thing that is reining him in at all. And they're not being very successful at that. He's even arguing with the Supreme Court now.
It explains why the 🍊🦇💩🤪🫏🤡 has been reticent &/defiant of the court orders/decisions against him to date. He’s just waiting for legislation that will make the courts/judiciary toothless except to carry out his own (😒 really the Heritage Foundation’s racist xenophobic bigoted misogynistic patriarchal kleptocratic theocratic) unconstitutional AGENDA . And the narcissistic individualism inherent in racist patriarchal capitalism and our biased education system that deliberately fudged uncomfortable truths about America is what facilitated this corrupt result: an authoritarian regime!
Beyond what Project 2025 envisions in what way? Their mandate for leadership even attacks the policy that prohibits Black owned homes to be appraised lower than white owned homes in the same neighborhood. Why rescind a protection for BIPOC like that? What amazes me still (and I’m not assuming you in this statement) is when I ask people if they read Project 2025 they answer, “No.” This despite all the press coverage about it being the agenda of another tRump administration last year. Why? But it explains why so many Americans are still surprised by each authoritarian power move.
What about the line item that removes the power of federal judges to hold federal officials in contempt for defying court orders. To me, this does away with the last restraint on Trump's power and ends the Democratic rule of law. If this budget passes, it will effectively crown Trump king.
What about the part of the bill that limits the federal courts’ reach? That is most scary because T will get away with everything and the courts’ hands are tied….or am I understanding this wrong?
I'm imagining a national strike that calls for the billionaires and millionaires to publicly tell Trump to cancel the tax cuts because their tax cut is not worth millions upon millions of Americans losing their health insurance and other programs vital to their economic security. It's time for the wealthy to stand up for those who are not wealthy instead of just taking more for themselves. Time for them to learn what it means to be a true patriot. Time for them to learn what it means to be a mensch!
They are not decent people. Their wealth has estranged them from the rest of us and they view us as their enemies that must be controlled. We do not live close to their world. So it is easy for them to hide out of our sight and sound.
I'm going to throw out a contrary thought about the "Wealthy" and who they mostly are. We tend to point at wealthy people who are known personalities. But in terms of actual dollars of wealth there is a largely unnoticed population of people in the USA who are extremely wealthy due strictly to inheriting large estates and hiring professional managers to direct the growth of that wealth in the fast growing economy of a first world nation. These become multi generational clans of people who have gotten rich not through their own talents but by simply being the offspring of the original creator of that wealth rather than the kind of person with exceptional talent who made the fortune in the first place. It's like look at a yacht harbor full of expensive boats. Are they all owned by talented billionaires? I don't think so. If you wonder where a lot of the money that supports the election of right wing politicians at the state level I think that is the source.
Look up at the sky at night and you see a few bright stars. What you don't see are many more stars that are not very bright. America's wealth is like that view of the sky.
And while dems and independents fought ineffectivley to "save Medicaid", NO ONE had the smarts to go on the offensive and counter demand: MEDICARE FOR ALL. Has the entire party gone soft in the head? The best defence is often a strong offense.........
Trump has instilled the FEAR of DEATH to those Republicans who dare to speak up! These complete cowards are feeding the TRUMP BULLY PSYCHOPATHIC/NARCISSIST…Trump will become even more cruel & maniacal EVERY. SINGLE. DAY!
$390,000 increase in wealth per year, from tax cuts for the morbidly wealthy! Just $390,000 per year! That's pocket change for them, if they actually carried cash. They won't notice the difference. Because they wouldn't actually notice if $390,000 a year went missing from their incomes. All that pain and hardship imposed on the rest of the people of America for just $390,000 per year.
My husband and I, on the other hand would live like kings on $390 000 a year! We could travel all we wanted. We could pay property taxes, household maintenance, prescriptions drug costs, etc and have money left over. I could make bigger charitable contributions.
The morbidly rich are parasites! The orange blight is a National Disgrace. The Republican Party has committed treason! Putin is our deadliest enemy. Elon Musk is stealing our identies for fun and profit. And I am mad as hell! 8647
I have no words to explain how I feel right now and people are willingly allowing this destruction of our country. This is a very sad and depressing day. I hope the people who voted for him realize what they have done!
Doubt it. Maybe if mommy is kicked out of her nursing home and has to move in with them, in the middle of a hurricane or tornado with no help from FEMA.
We can make a lot of noise if that makes us feel better. But if we want to save ourselves, we must think deeply about how and why we lost and what we can do to overcome the dark side of our species. Study their inherent weaknesses and use them to our advantage.
It's worse than all that monetary impact! The Big Ugly Bill has the following provision:
“No court of the United States may use appropriated funds to enforce a contempt citation for failure to comply with an injunction or temporary restraining order if no security was given when the injunction or order was issued….”
I thought these reconciliation bills could only include budget items. Knee capping the courts is not budget related. Democrats need to fight or amend this out of existence.
Please remember that this Big Beautiful Bill would not have passed the house if trump had not thrown his weight behind it. So they (the House, the Senate and trump) are all responsible.
I am astonished every day at the number of people STILL thinking Trump is out to save them. He is only out for himself. The Republicans will not feel the effects of this bill because they get lifetime free healthcare and insider stock information. How they can look themselves in the mirror and sleep at night astounds me.
and their families support them???? all rotten to the bone.
Because Trump hates the same people they hate.
It just makes me so mad that there are that many haters in our country. It is all people who have grown up around the people who look the same and think the same. They watch shows and read news that teaches them to fear people other than them. This is why people in cities tend to be more Liberal. We know we are all more alike than different. We like people to look, eat, think differently.
What did Don save for them?
Illness?
Disease or another runaway pandemic?
Hunger?
High interest rates?
Unemployment?
Absent phone service at agencies that have half the workforce if any at all? fear of understaffed airports?
fear of clean water?
fear of safety checks for cars, children, food?
Nope—all those SAFETY NETS in 2022,2023, 2024 and more were abandoned or abolished or in the process of being destroyed.
Don tha Con is a FELON. He learned from OTHER FELONS. He is not a leader. He is a usurper, a criminal who only believes in himself and his brand.
Wake up!
They really do believe there is a bunch of fraud. This bill is too big and too obvious to misinterpret, however. Maybe people will wake up.
Except that is untrue! Once The Bunkerboy has their support, they can, in it's Alzheimer's-fueled words, "GO FUCK THEMSELVES!!!"
"Everything Trump Touches Dies". He, his Corrupt regime, and the Project 2025 Republicans and the Roberts Court are burning America to the ground. For what? Money, Power, Control and to HELL with everyone else in America. They are ALL TRAITORS to America and should be treated as such. Modern day Benedict Arnold's. They do NOT care one bit about anyone or anything except themselves and their greed. Drive them all out for good.
Murray..... And into prison!!!
Nuremberg Trials for them ALL with everyone they have hurt and injured testifying against them and jail with NO parole..........and a life spent paying back those they hurt.......
Uh 😒 … I appreciate how so many of the journalists and contributors are focused on pointing out how this bill will affect us financially. Here’s the thing that TERRIFIES me: This tax bill the 🍊🦇💩🤪🫏🤡 & his cadre of MAGAretRUMPlicans just passed in the House (it goes to the Senate now and they better filibuster the F out of it!) has buried in it a piece of legislation that will allow government officials to ignore court orders/decisions so that they can’t be held in contempt for noncompliance/defiance. So remember SCOTUS told the WH you have to bring Abrego Garcia back. And there have been a number of decisions from federal courts ruling against tRump and ICE. If they pass this and that POS signs it into law how will anyone in authority be held accountable for violating anyone’s constitutional rights anymore?
Yes, this stealth provision is horrible. And it's retroactive, which means that even if judges impose contempt sanctions now, they will be null and void. https://www.justsecurity.org/113529/terrible-idea-contempt-court/
Should this heinous bill pass, it would turn this country into a state of law by monarchical decree, like before the Magna Carta was enacted, and the power of the despot to lop heads would become real. To think that someone with such a limited brain could be voted in only to bring on such devastation is unfathomable. How much have humans advanced in 20,000 years, really?
every child starts from scratch, and Donald Trump never advanced beyond the elementary. His has plenty of company.
Frumpkin is not coming up with these nazi plans. It’s the assholes from project 2025 he is the puppet traitor.
That well may be, Blazze, yet I suspect drumpster to have been a Nazi even before he was kicked out of military school. He would have to love Hitler to try to pull off all his bullshit.
Dennis.....trump wants to be like Putin who poisons or has his enemies killed.
Pamela, yes, but I think that drumpf already considers himself to be greater than Putin, as great as the Sun and worshipped by his cultists. He is crazy enough to commit mass slaughter on those who speak out.
Not much.https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
That sums it up, Ruth
It can't be filibustered because it's a reconciliation bill, which requires only a simple majority. That was intentional.
Exactly. Seems to be the biggest thing to me—the least reversible piece of the Trump grift.
Well then we’re done if the Senate passes it!
Also disgusting: It guts federal support for clean energy initiatives
That's exactly right and the courts are, literally, the only thing that is reining him in at all. And they're not being very successful at that. He's even arguing with the Supreme Court now.
It explains why the 🍊🦇💩🤪🫏🤡 has been reticent &/defiant of the court orders/decisions against him to date. He’s just waiting for legislation that will make the courts/judiciary toothless except to carry out his own (😒 really the Heritage Foundation’s racist xenophobic bigoted misogynistic patriarchal kleptocratic theocratic) unconstitutional AGENDA . And the narcissistic individualism inherent in racist patriarchal capitalism and our biased education system that deliberately fudged uncomfortable truths about America is what facilitated this corrupt result: an authoritarian regime!
In attacking the judiciary Trump seems to be going beyond what Project 2025 envisions. It may (hopefully) backfire on him.
Beyond what Project 2025 envisions in what way? Their mandate for leadership even attacks the policy that prohibits Black owned homes to be appraised lower than white owned homes in the same neighborhood. Why rescind a protection for BIPOC like that? What amazes me still (and I’m not assuming you in this statement) is when I ask people if they read Project 2025 they answer, “No.” This despite all the press coverage about it being the agenda of another tRump administration last year. Why? But it explains why so many Americans are still surprised by each authoritarian power move.
Ugh! You’re right
They won't. That's the point. No accountability.
What about the line item that removes the power of federal judges to hold federal officials in contempt for defying court orders. To me, this does away with the last restraint on Trump's power and ends the Democratic rule of law. If this budget passes, it will effectively crown Trump king.
Republicans are on their way to create a Leviathan.
A cheater, a liar, and a con man walk into a bar. The bartender says, "What will you have, Donald?"
"A bigly beautiful glass of chocy milk!" Remember: it DOES have the a-brain of an 8 year old boy.
that old. I was thinking more like a 5 year old.
What about the part of the bill that limits the federal courts’ reach? That is most scary because T will get away with everything and the courts’ hands are tied….or am I understanding this wrong?
I'm imagining a national strike that calls for the billionaires and millionaires to publicly tell Trump to cancel the tax cuts because their tax cut is not worth millions upon millions of Americans losing their health insurance and other programs vital to their economic security. It's time for the wealthy to stand up for those who are not wealthy instead of just taking more for themselves. Time for them to learn what it means to be a true patriot. Time for them to learn what it means to be a mensch!
Fat chance!! 🙄
Start demanding it.
Where's Bill Gates when we need him???
Exactly. Where's Hollywood? Where are the sports stars? Where's Warren Buffett? We need a Just Say No to Tax Cuts movement by the millionaires.
Bill Gates is busy developing AI.
Inherited or not, they need to stand up and say NO to the tax cuts. They don't need the money. It's the decent thing to do.
They are not decent people. Their wealth has estranged them from the rest of us and they view us as their enemies that must be controlled. We do not live close to their world. So it is easy for them to hide out of our sight and sound.
Exactly. My reply was to point out the obvious.
I'm going to throw out a contrary thought about the "Wealthy" and who they mostly are. We tend to point at wealthy people who are known personalities. But in terms of actual dollars of wealth there is a largely unnoticed population of people in the USA who are extremely wealthy due strictly to inheriting large estates and hiring professional managers to direct the growth of that wealth in the fast growing economy of a first world nation. These become multi generational clans of people who have gotten rich not through their own talents but by simply being the offspring of the original creator of that wealth rather than the kind of person with exceptional talent who made the fortune in the first place. It's like look at a yacht harbor full of expensive boats. Are they all owned by talented billionaires? I don't think so. If you wonder where a lot of the money that supports the election of right wing politicians at the state level I think that is the source.
Look up at the sky at night and you see a few bright stars. What you don't see are many more stars that are not very bright. America's wealth is like that view of the sky.
And while dems and independents fought ineffectivley to "save Medicaid", NO ONE had the smarts to go on the offensive and counter demand: MEDICARE FOR ALL. Has the entire party gone soft in the head? The best defence is often a strong offense.........
Trump has instilled the FEAR of DEATH to those Republicans who dare to speak up! These complete cowards are feeding the TRUMP BULLY PSYCHOPATHIC/NARCISSIST…Trump will become even more cruel & maniacal EVERY. SINGLE. DAY!
ORGANIZE ORGANIZE ORGANIZE!!!!!
ORGANIZE OVER THE COMMON GOOD DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM. JUST READ THE PLATFORM BULLET POINTS. ORGANIZE!!!!
ALLEGIANCE TO OUR PLATFORM AND THE CANDIDATE THAT PROMOTES OUR PLATFORM!
GOOGLE YOUR STATES DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM TO READ IT!
MAKE AMERICA GRATEFUL AGAIN!
June 14th is coming soon! Let's make it the biggest ground swell of ordinary people that America and the world has ever seen!!!
I would like Democrats know what their Platform is and promote it as a means to Organize. It is already written out.
$390,000 increase in wealth per year, from tax cuts for the morbidly wealthy! Just $390,000 per year! That's pocket change for them, if they actually carried cash. They won't notice the difference. Because they wouldn't actually notice if $390,000 a year went missing from their incomes. All that pain and hardship imposed on the rest of the people of America for just $390,000 per year.
My husband and I, on the other hand would live like kings on $390 000 a year! We could travel all we wanted. We could pay property taxes, household maintenance, prescriptions drug costs, etc and have money left over. I could make bigger charitable contributions.
The morbidly rich are parasites! The orange blight is a National Disgrace. The Republican Party has committed treason! Putin is our deadliest enemy. Elon Musk is stealing our identies for fun and profit. And I am mad as hell! 8647
Now that Survivor is done, I’m considering canceling my Paramount account over what Redstone is doing. Time for another boycott…
I think it is time for major boycotts and strikes. We need to find the pinch points and use them.
She is a perfect example of why we need wealth caps. The pursuit of vast wealth and power is a disease.
This makes me so angry,Mr Reich 😡 No Words, but, Thank you for keeping me off the ledge, and will reStack ASAP 🙏💯👍
I have no words to explain how I feel right now and people are willingly allowing this destruction of our country. This is a very sad and depressing day. I hope the people who voted for him realize what they have done!
they are too stupid to understand......but when mommy dies because no medicaid, it might start to make them understand.
Doubt it. Maybe if mommy is kicked out of her nursing home and has to move in with them, in the middle of a hurricane or tornado with no help from FEMA.
Why isn’t Trump in prison???
Because we lost the 2024 election.
We can make a lot of noise if that makes us feel better. But if we want to save ourselves, we must think deeply about how and why we lost and what we can do to overcome the dark side of our species. Study their inherent weaknesses and use them to our advantage.
It's worse than all that monetary impact! The Big Ugly Bill has the following provision:
“No court of the United States may use appropriated funds to enforce a contempt citation for failure to comply with an injunction or temporary restraining order if no security was given when the injunction or order was issued….”
Knee-capping the Judiciary!
I thought these reconciliation bills could only include budget items. Knee capping the courts is not budget related. Democrats need to fight or amend this out of existence.
Remember the SC said that if trump was doing something in his role as president it was legal. They brought this on themselves and on us.
This is his Republican House (now in the hands of his Republican Senate). Ergo, it's not the President doing this - it's our Congress.
Please remember that this Big Beautiful Bill would not have passed the house if trump had not thrown his weight behind it. So they (the House, the Senate and trump) are all responsible.
That should (will) be ruled unconstitutional
How? If it's enacted, it's the law...
I passed Robert’s test with a 100%