You can’t write a script like this. From where I’m sitting Emperor Numbus Nuttes’s Big Beautiful bill has the life expectancy of a trout-stream-may-fly-hatchling from this point on out
It almost died in vitro in the GOP’s bill lab in the House. Believe it or not, for all of their bombast and clownish ramblings, there actually is a bloc of GOP House Republicans that actually give a sh*t about reducing the federal deficit, like Chip Roy, and a price tag of increasing the deficit by $1.4 trillion over 10 years was a bitter pill to swallow to take one for the team. The current Senate boondoggle will increase the deficit by $3.5 trillion over the same time frame. Good luck with that if it ever gets back to the House.
And that’s looking less and less likely by the minute. Here’s the funny part you might not even realize. After a marathon session, the GOP Senate passed the procedural to send the bill to the floor for debate. and as we speak they’re in the middle of the Vote-a-rama, voting on an almost endless assortment of proposed amendments to the bill. And here’s the punch line. The f*cking thing isn’t even written yet! There are large chunks of the GOP Senate version that are still under construction while GOP Senators spit and bicker with each other, and the Senate Parliamentarian stands with a pen poised to erase the unconstitutional stuff.
The Democrats have found their vehicle in this struggle, and it’s an Abrams tank that they’re gleefully driving over the bodies of the GOP Senators. They pulled a neat parliamentary trick in forcing the entire 940-page bill to be read into the record, taking most of a night. A good chunk of the amendments being offered today are Democratic amendments, highlighting out the more odious cuts to healthcare and food assistance, and then carving out exceptions to poor families with children, and forcing GOP Senators to publicly vote on the record to let their own constituents starve.
And the best part is that this kind of thing is expected from the Democrats, it’s the GOP caucus that is coming apart at the seams, arguing and bickering over details, and even the grand bill itself. MSNBC reported tonight that some of the arguments in corridors have become so heated they’ve almost come to blows. As always, Traitor Tot is the ultimate stress point. The soulless sycophants want to follow him off the cliff and expect everybody else to fall in line. But with a 33% popularity rating, more sane members, especially the ones due up in 2026, seem finally ready to split with Trump on this bill, leaving all the other GOP Senators with egg on their faces.
Tom Tillis of North Carolina is the unlikely standard bearer in this burgeoning protest movement. In a closed-door meeting, he sternly advised the caucus that if they went down this thistle path, 2026 for the GOP would be a replay of Obama’s 2014 second midterm, when the Democrats lost 60+ House seats, and Obama had to admit that the Democrats got shellacked. When the card carrying Trombies kept whacking him with sticks, he flipped them double barrel birds, announcing that he wasn’t running in 2026, and opposed to the bill.
There are more. Many more. The numbers for the GOP are not good. John Thune can afford to lose 3 votes and have the Hillbilly imbecile cast the winning vote. But Tillis and Rand Paul are already hard NO’s, and there are, by MSNBC’s count at least 7 more GOP Senators leaning no, including AK’s Lisa Murkowski, ME’s Susan Collins, and MO’s Josh Hawley, are among the doubtful. If Thune loses two of those, the bill is dead in the water in the Senate.
The two I’m watching more closely are Murkowski and Hawley. Squeaky Collins is world renowned ruffling her feathers before returning to the nest when it counts. Hawley just got reelected in 2024, he’s as safe as houses. And Thune tried a con job on Murkowski that fell apart. He offered to expand Medicaid to AK and HI in return for her vote. But the Parliamentarian ruled that they couldn’t expand Medicaid into new states while reducing it to everybody else. Murkowski has no reason to vote for this bill.
As always, the devils is in the details, and in this case the devil is the blatant raping of the Medicaid and SNAP benefits. The largely rural states are the backbone of the GOP. And even neutral GOP leaning analysts predict that a gutting of Medicaid would bring about a basic collapse of the rural healthcare system. Rural hospitals would start closing within 18 months, leaving residents with a 90-140 mile trip to the nearest hospital. And considering the fact that in some remoter areas, that nutritious free lunch at school is the only nutritious meal the child receives all day, juvenile malnutrition may become an epidemic. Politicians can always change their rhetoric, but what they can’t change is their constituents.
This bill is a bright shining light for the GOP about the pathetic advisors surrounding His Lowness. It is well known that Il Douche is world renowned for listening to the last person in the room. And when that person is an economic crank with an agenda, Trump lacks the political savvy to realize the potential to his party and his majorities. Don’t touch that dial.
I thank you for the privilege of your time.
I AM SICK AND TIRED OF THE BS ABOUT THE SPENDING WHEN IN THAT BILL LIES SECTION 70302… LET’S SEE WHAT GROK SAYS ABOUT IT AND IT’S HONEST ASSESSMENT OF THE POWER THAT GIVES TRUMP AND WHOEVER REPLACES HIM.
If the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” passes with Section 70302, federal courts could lose power to enforce injunctions without bonds, weakening their ability to check executive actions. This could disrupt civil rights, immigration, and other cases, limiting access to justice. Senate may revise or reject it. #Judiciary #RuleOfLaw
https://medium.com/@pan64672011/im-assuming-you-re-referring-to-the-one-big-beautiful-bill-act-mentioned-in-recent-discussions-b2d153fa04fb
This bill is a bright shining light for the GOP about the pathetic advisors surrounding His Lowness. It is well known that Il Douche is world renowned for listening to the last person in the room. And when that person is an economic crank with an agenda, Trump lacks the political savvy to realize the potential to his party and his majorities. Don’t touch that dial.
Does anyone really think the racists in GOP controlled states care if black kids go hungry? Hell, if you are poor they don’t care about you either.
The problem is that many of the *rural* states mentioned don’t have that many Black kids to start with.
Iowa, for instance, is only about 5% Black. Nebraska is also about 5% Black. The Dakotas are each about 3% Black. Montana, Idaho and Wyoming are less than 1% Black each. Kansas is about 6% Black.
Most of the Red States with large Black populations (notably Texas, Florida and Georgia) find most of them concentrated in large population centers (in Texas, mostly Houston and Dallas; in Florida, Miami, Tampa and Jacksonville; in Georgia, mostly Atlanta). In other parts of the Deep South, Black populations are somewhat split but they still tend to be found in urban areas (Mississippi may be a bit of an outlier as most of the Mississippi River counties are largely Black and incredibly poor compared to the rest of the state). And, there’s the fact that most of these states have already been closing rural hospitals over the past decade because they didn’t take advantage of the Affordable Care Act’s expansion of Medicaid to start with so the rather limited funds they were getting from the Feds had to be allocated “better” (which, unfortunately, meant hospitals that served communities under certain population figures were closed; most of the people still living in those communities are actually among the people who need them the most–the elderly and other long-time residents who simply can’t afford to move to larger towns or cities).
Of course, if the Blue States started cutting back on services to “red” parts of their states, you know the right-wing propaganda networks would lose their proverbial sh*t, claiming the leaders are “weaponizing” funds against “conservative voters” but, these same networks don’t seem to have any problem when the Red States do the same thing to “blue” parts of their states–no, in that case, it’s seen as “responsible government” (even though, in the Blue States’ case, it’s simply a matter of “giving the voters what they voted for”–when “red” voters want “less/limited government” and “more fiscal responsibility,” they only mean they want that for the “undeserving” and the “wastrels”–not the “good, hard-working folks” who, for some reason, aren’t really “working” if they need government assistance).
Hypocrisy is their true God.