This bill is sickening and heartbreaking. I remind myself every day that so many people voted for this. They chose… this: cruelty, indifference, suffering.
The House remains insolent when it should care; Blind because it chooses not to see; Distant because those around them comfort and beguiles each one.
Celebrate their DC party circuit, ad infinitum as half the country slurries more and more into the gutter of disdain; while Crypto-cash mined and minted by djt skyrocket many if not all into calumny and disdain.
You remembered those classic Schoolhouse Rock vids that ran during the Saturday morning cartoon line-up of the 1970s!
"Unless you are Musk (and if you are, fuck you),"
Omgs, Michelle!!! That's not like you!
Then again, no one deserves to have a personal fortune of $400 billion in a post-Industrial world where we possess the technological capacity to produce an abundance for everyone. Yet the vast majority of us are struggling simply to survive while a tiny handful of narcissistic pricks enjoy wealth on an obscene level, far more money than anyone can possibly spend. But enough to enable them to literally buy the loyalty of governments.
Now, let's point out the only aspect of blame that we can lay at the feet of the working class: The fact that the vast majority of us continue to either vote for millionaires and billionaires running for office and affluent congresspeople accepting funding from these plutocratic parasites by continuing to support one of the two wings of the Capitalist Duopoly -- or opting out of voting & political activism altogether. Let us agree, en masse, to stop voting for these bastards and therefore stop voting to sustain the system that puts most of us in a desperate economic situation.
"Prepare to bring them home to your house. Even if your elders were always fairly well off, it doesn’t take long to burn through assets when you’re paying more than $10K per month for a nursing home. You say you can’t take care of them because you work full time? Not MAGA’s problem."
Oh, it's totally MAGA's problem, because most MAGA people are members of the working class and many of them are on Medicaid, SNAP, and other such programs. And this is why there is actually a faction within the GOP that opposes Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" -- they know the GOP could easily lose a huge proportion of support from MAGA workers whose lives would be affected in the way you describe in your article. And not only them but also the working class in general
outside of MAGA who voted them in after the failure of the Democrats to do anything economically for the working class and for putting far more emphasis on divisive Culture War issues than unifying bread and butter issues. And our ability to afford to make a living is a *huge* bread and butter issue.
This is why even GOP personages like Steve Bannon and Thomas Massie are opposing cuts to Medicaid and SNAP as presented by Trump. Check these out, courtesy of Classical Left channels by Jimmy Dore and the guys at Due Dissidence:
This is why I often ask our fellow class warriors, particularly those of us on the Left who fully acknowledge the class rule integral to the capitalist system, to embrace unity across class rather than unity based on party -- especially if said parties happen to be funded and tenanted by billionaires. If so, then the likes of Musk and Bezos et al are going to *own* them and, for the most part, dictate their economic policies.
But the realization by *some* in both wings of the Duopoly that bread and butter issues are by far the most important to the working class is causing a rift when it comes to blatantly corporate policies can also be used to our advantage. We need to tell both major parties that if either of them pass policies that go against the interests of the working class we will *not* vote for them. It has to be that simple.
I often feel like the rich are laughing at us, but the name of this bill takes it to new heights. I might be on the other side of the world, but from here, it still looks like a horror movie.
Amazing how cheap souls are going for these days.
This bill is sickening and heartbreaking. I remind myself every day that so many people voted for this. They chose… this: cruelty, indifference, suffering.
And many of them said, "Oh, I don't follow politics!"
The House remains insolent when it should care; Blind because it chooses not to see; Distant because those around them comfort and beguiles each one.
Celebrate their DC party circuit, ad infinitum as half the country slurries more and more into the gutter of disdain; while Crypto-cash mined and minted by djt skyrocket many if not all into calumny and disdain.
By the unrest of the rest of us(a) and the world.
Thank you for another great article, Michelle.
You remembered those classic Schoolhouse Rock vids that ran during the Saturday morning cartoon line-up of the 1970s!
"Unless you are Musk (and if you are, fuck you),"
Omgs, Michelle!!! That's not like you!
Then again, no one deserves to have a personal fortune of $400 billion in a post-Industrial world where we possess the technological capacity to produce an abundance for everyone. Yet the vast majority of us are struggling simply to survive while a tiny handful of narcissistic pricks enjoy wealth on an obscene level, far more money than anyone can possibly spend. But enough to enable them to literally buy the loyalty of governments.
Now, let's point out the only aspect of blame that we can lay at the feet of the working class: The fact that the vast majority of us continue to either vote for millionaires and billionaires running for office and affluent congresspeople accepting funding from these plutocratic parasites by continuing to support one of the two wings of the Capitalist Duopoly -- or opting out of voting & political activism altogether. Let us agree, en masse, to stop voting for these bastards and therefore stop voting to sustain the system that puts most of us in a desperate economic situation.
"Prepare to bring them home to your house. Even if your elders were always fairly well off, it doesn’t take long to burn through assets when you’re paying more than $10K per month for a nursing home. You say you can’t take care of them because you work full time? Not MAGA’s problem."
Oh, it's totally MAGA's problem, because most MAGA people are members of the working class and many of them are on Medicaid, SNAP, and other such programs. And this is why there is actually a faction within the GOP that opposes Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" -- they know the GOP could easily lose a huge proportion of support from MAGA workers whose lives would be affected in the way you describe in your article. And not only them but also the working class in general
outside of MAGA who voted them in after the failure of the Democrats to do anything economically for the working class and for putting far more emphasis on divisive Culture War issues than unifying bread and butter issues. And our ability to afford to make a living is a *huge* bread and butter issue.
This is why even GOP personages like Steve Bannon and Thomas Massie are opposing cuts to Medicaid and SNAP as presented by Trump. Check these out, courtesy of Classical Left channels by Jimmy Dore and the guys at Due Dissidence:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7u8xMMbVfQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL02OUa3f-g
This is why I often ask our fellow class warriors, particularly those of us on the Left who fully acknowledge the class rule integral to the capitalist system, to embrace unity across class rather than unity based on party -- especially if said parties happen to be funded and tenanted by billionaires. If so, then the likes of Musk and Bezos et al are going to *own* them and, for the most part, dictate their economic policies.
But the realization by *some* in both wings of the Duopoly that bread and butter issues are by far the most important to the working class is causing a rift when it comes to blatantly corporate policies can also be used to our advantage. We need to tell both major parties that if either of them pass policies that go against the interests of the working class we will *not* vote for them. It has to be that simple.
And this is ABSOLUTELY the MOTHERFUCKING truth.
(And I do mean that literally. We're literally fucking our own mothers passing this shit.)
They don’t care. It’s by design and we are expendable
“How can we take these people seriously when they name a bill this way? It makes us look like a nation of imbeciles.”
And your point is . . . ?
I often feel like the rich are laughing at us, but the name of this bill takes it to new heights. I might be on the other side of the world, but from here, it still looks like a horror movie.