Der schlimmste Teil von Trumps Big Bill bekommt fast keine Aufmerksamkeit

>The bill is a tax break for the rich. It will kick millions of people off Medicaid and food stamps. It will explode the federal deficit.

>All of this is true. But the Democrats have been largely silent on perhaps the bill’s most ominous characteristic: an orgy of resources for Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller’s shock troops to carry out President Trump’s indiscriminate crackdown on immigration and protest.

Do they still have in the part about having to post a huge bond in order to sue the government? Essentially making it harder to stop Trump’s bullshit?

let’s tell you that something horrible is being overlooked and put it behind a gate/paywall….

Selling off public lands. Thats the worst part of it to me. If they try to take public lands from the people we’ll all have to resort to a different set of tactics to protect them.

To me it’s the part where he can ignore the judicial branch and do whatever the fuck he wants. The rest of the bill is distraction

The media will not willingly incur the wrath of Trump, they don’t want to be shut down over any pretense, flimsy or not.

They will not cover these issues properly.

I agree, the monstrosity of a bill passed by Mike ‚Jebus‘ Johnson’s congress on a party line vote is financing tyranny. They know what they put in there, they don’t want it covered by the press. So while we are (righteously) outraged over the tax cuts for the rich the MAGA Republican leadership are at least relieved we are not being informed about the rest of the bill.

The worst part of the bill is the whole damn thing!

But one aspect that especially galls me is that It breaks the ability of any court to check executive powers unless you are rich and NOT A SINGLE ONE of the major news media is covering that aspect of it.

Thanks TNR. Great to see a small fraction of our political media doing analysis of this bill that will affect all of us for years to come, while most of the corp media just replays footage of the LA protests or invites old generals to bloviate about the dangers of Iran.

It’s also going to cripple healthcare even further – anyone associated with abortion care in ANY way will no longer be able to be reimbursed for medicaid. Planned Parenthood in particular is gonna be fucked over. Say hello to astronomical STI rates when clinics shut down!

What is the liberal media doing? Honest question, wtf are they doing. It’s like they are enabling this road we are going.

Clickbait headlines suck.

> Democrats have been largely silent on perhaps the bill’s most ominous characteristic: an orgy of resources for Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller’s shock troops to carry out President Trump’s indiscriminate crackdown on immigration and protest.

> My sense is that Democrats are used to their Republican counterparts (and some within their own ranks) pushing for increased “border security” and immigration enforcement funding during budget negotiations and think the public will view it as old hat. This is a sort of learned defeatism, but it also ignores that we are talking about an entirely different scale here. Taking into account previously allocated funding this fiscal year, we’re looking at some $200 billion in spending on immigration enforcement, far above what’s allocated to any other federal law enforcement function and more than has ever been spent on immigration enforcement.

The worst part is removing the power of judicial review.

Please call your senators and ask them to vote no on BBB.

Democrats are also interested in preserving the status quo, or at least inhibiting social reform, concerning the economy.

This displays the priorities of the collective federal government well:

“*The Cato Institute estimates that immigration and border funding would equal about eight times the FBI’s entire budget and 36 times more than tax and financial crimes enforcement*.”

They’re both fighting for control of donor dollars. It’s like the capitalist, ‘race to the bottom,’ but within the government. Another sign of regulatory capture, or whatever the next rung up from that is. Legislative and judicial capture, I guess.

The duopoly in action. Coke or Pepsi? It’s ‘cooperative competition.’

> the Democrats have been largely silent on perhaps the bill’s most ominous characteristic: an orgy of resources for Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller’s shock troops to carry out President Trump’s indiscriminate crackdown on immigration and protest.

> My sense is that Democrats are used to their Republican counterparts (and some within their own ranks) pushing for increased “border security” and immigration enforcement funding during budget negotiations and think the public will view it as old hat. This is a sort of learned defeatism, but it also ignores that we are talking about an entirely different scale here. Taking into account previously allocated funding this fiscal year, we’re looking at some $200 billion in spending on immigration enforcement, far above what’s allocated to any other federal law enforcement function and more than has ever been spent on immigration enforcement.

> The bill is effectively a blank check, funding pretty much every aspect of the administration’s ramp-up of enforcement, detention, and surveillance: hiring nearly 20,000 additional immigration agents across Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection, constructing more border walls, building detention facilities for tens of thousands of additional people, and so on.

the problem it seems is that the established democrats really dont care. they might use it as talking points, a rallying call, etc, but they wont do what they can to actually stop it. why? because they want to ride this train till election day next year. they want trump and the GOP to do as many harmful things as possible so more people are pissed off and will vote out the GOP. thats their strategy. even if it works though, they arent going to do anything to fix the problems. too many of their own members will still benefit, they got power again, so they dont have anything else to gain immediately. and while if they flip all of congress, they may well try to impeach trump, they know that if they fail, trump will veto anything they try to pass while claiming its their fault.

The worst part of the Become Bankrupt Bill? The accounting rat-fuckery that the Republicans are using to use the reconciliation process to pass a bill that adds trillions to the deficit using a process that is supposed to be debt neutral. Doing so gives every future administration a way to continue to bankrupt the nation.

This is the plot from 1923