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"Why is the media and everyone else going along with calling it the "Big Beautiful Bill"? Oh yeah, idiocracy."

It's literally called the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Of course it's stupid, but what are we supposed to call it?

6/30/2025 1:04:29 PM

I don't know... the Budget Bill? Do those always have specific names attached to them?

6/30/2025 1:14:23 PM

Why is the media playing into it though? They should refuse to call it that.

6/30/2025 2:00:55 PM

Worked so well with the current goon squad and the former Gulf of Mexico.

6/30/2025 2:04:01 PM

Build back better turned into inflation reduction act. Both those names were lame too

6/30/2025 2:21:00 PM

What no tax on overtime will mean for me. Wonder how much other things go up and whether it will he a net positive or negative.

7/1/2025 4:12:59 PM

TDS was kind of a thing among some people in 2016-17, but it's laughable whenever you see MAGA bring it up now. It isn't even hate for Trump, people are just tired of the bullshit, it's like a sick joke at this point

This administration is a joke

I don't see how anyone with any inkling of hope for the future or anyone who's a forward thinker, even someone who may support deportations and be against illegal immigrants, can have their heart in supporting these guys

Clean energy jobs? Republican senators: NO!
Alligator Alcatraz jobs? YES! BRING IT TO MY STATE TOO MR. PRESIDENT

They're making Alligator Alcatraz merchandise... wtf?

It isn't just what their goals are, it's how idiotic their way of doing it is. One day all these enablers in Fox News and other places, who are so caught up in the present, are going to look back and be shocked by what they allowed to happen

[Edited on July 2, 2025 at 4:59 AM. Reason : Honestly, maybe some of this is our penance for the Covid lockdowns. Made everyone more antisocial]

7/2/2025 4:58:56 AM

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/opinion/trump-republican-big-bill.html?unlocked_article_code=1.TU8.hw44.GPYVRySrL4fE&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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" Now Can We Stop Talking About What a Maverick Trump Is? Perhaps the most underappreciated fact about President Trump is that he is a Republican. People know he is a Republican, of course, but this is often treated as incidental to his political persona. He is a Republican, sure, but he’s not a Republican in the way that Speaker Mike Johnson or John Thune, the Senate majority leader, are Republicans. As nearly every commentator under the sun has observed for the past decade, Trump is unique — and to his critics, transgressive — in ways that defy traditional categorization. And yet, as an actual office holder, the most salient detail about Trump is that he is a Republican politician committed to the success of the Republican Party and its ideological vision. In this way, he is little more than a vehicle for the policy agenda of the most conservative Republicans, willing to sign whatever they might bring to his desk."

[Edited on July 2, 2025 at 9:03 AM. Reason : .]

7/2/2025 9:03:09 AM

^ Thats all true. But for me personally and I think a lot of other people, calling him different than other republicans Is meant to be an off ramp for average republican voters. MAGA is an evil ideology but we can’t survive if 50% of the country is embracing evil.

7/2/2025 10:28:23 AM

average republican voters are MAGA voters

we’re 10 years into this

7/2/2025 11:11:09 AM

Yeah, I mean, I don't exactly have the experience of being there, but it doesn't really seem like the Republicans have wanted to do anything new other than work against what there is and what there could be for quite some time now.

My beliefs on things are pretty simple, no matter what you do, you have to be forward thinking. Just to balance the scales, we say that we need "conservatives" to make sure we go don't go "too far", but in reality that's not what the Republicans are at all. The same for when we say "oh what happened to those Republicans like [old middle aged veteran in a suit with a red tie]", but what we're referring to isn't any better other than the lack of profanity and vulgarity -- it was that which led to this and is that which is enabling it.

The current Republican party is just there by the virtue of being there: they don't deserve to be. Imagine if we had a party that actually was what the Republican party said it was, it would be pretty great actually -- despite whatever disagreements I may have with some of those ideas. The parties don't mean anything, they're groups of interests and teams tagged together. Sure, the Democrats may also have special interests... but at least they also have some vision.

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"we’re 10 years into this"

My life significantly changed around the time Trump came into the scene. And it will significantly change in the next 2-3 years. This whole segment started and will end with him being there. I can actually think of different parts of it and how fast things have changed in terms of what the sentiment was on his administration at the time or what stage he was at.

[Edited on July 2, 2025 at 12:41 PM. Reason : TGL3]

7/2/2025 12:38:02 PM

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"New: During a meeting with Mods in the WH, Trump told members that if they want to win elections, they shouldn’t touch: Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security “But we’re touching Medicaid in this bill,” one member responded to Trump, per 3 sources."

https://www.notus.org/congress/reconciliation-timeline-slipping-trump

Would be funny if it wasn't true. Just spent months/years talking about Biden's fitness and this fucking guy doesn't even know what's in his signature bill.

[Edited on July 2, 2025 at 8:23 PM. Reason : S]

7/2/2025 8:23:07 PM

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"Reporter: Why was the national weather service not pinging their phones before 7.. Was it a fundamental failure of the federal government’s responsibility to keep us safe? Noem: Trump is currently upgrading the technology in the national weather service..

https://bsky.app/profile/acyn.bsky.social/post/3ltao2lguoo2w

Regarding the flooding in Texas

7/5/2025 10:23:07 PM

I’m sure it will be ready in two weeks

7/5/2025 10:36:44 PM

A President illegally impounding congressionally mandated funds winding up contributing to people’s death seems actually impeachable

7/6/2025 12:21:13 AM

Yeah dems, go that route. Die on that hill

7/6/2025 12:45:17 AM

This is the impeachable offense the administration commits probably once a week: the president does not have constitutional authority to hold back funds authorized by congress

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/trump-public-school-funding-cut-07c752e0

7/7/2025 11:43:18 PM

Elon must have been right, Trump must be on that Epstein list.

7/8/2025 3:14:46 PM

I guess we'll never see it.

7/8/2025 6:53:48 PM

https://nypost.com/2025/07/08/us-news/trump-threatens-federal-takeover-of-nyc-if-communist-mamdani-wins-mayoral-race

I would love to see this.

7/8/2025 9:43:39 PM

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"President Trump interjected to offer to allow Bondi to side-step the topic entirely asking: “Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein? This guy’s been talked about for years.” “And are people still talking about this guy, this creep? That is unbelievable. Do you want to waste the time?” Trump asked the AG. “I mean, I can’t believe you’re asking a question on Epstein at a time like this, where we’re having some of the greatest success and also tragedy, with what happened in Texas. It just seems like a desecration.”"

Sure, pedo.

7/8/2025 9:56:17 PM

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"Gallup has new polling on immigration. Topline findings: -Americans hate Trump's immigration policy (35% approve, 62% disapprove) -Share who say immigration is a "good thing" for the country just hit an all-time high (79%) https://news.gallup.com/poll/692522/surge-concern-immigration-abated.aspx "

Where’s Congress

7/11/2025 10:28:18 AM

Out on summer break after the hard work of bankrupting the country.

7/11/2025 11:23:49 AM

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"On July 5, as floodwaters were starting to recede, FEMA received 3,027 calls from disaster survivors and answered 3,018, or roughly 99.7 percent, the documents show. Contractors with four call center companies answered the vast majority of the calls. That evening, however, Ms. Noem did not renew the contracts with the four companies and hundreds of contractors were fired, according to the documents and the person briefed on the matter. The next day, July 6, FEMA received 2,363 calls and answered 846, or roughly 35.8 percent, according to the documents. And on Monday, July 7, the agency fielded 16,419 calls and answered 2,613, or around 15.9 percent, the documents show. "

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/climate/fema-missed-calls-texas-floods.html?rsrc=ss

This is the most incompetent thing I’ve ever heard of any government doing I think. Wow

7/11/2025 10:26:11 PM

lol, loudly booed at the FIFA Club World Cup

7/14/2025 12:55:17 PM

saw that live

7/14/2025 1:04:30 PM

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"Where’s Congress"

cashing checks and all convinced they have a room in the bunker

7/14/2025 1:05:25 PM

I don't understand why he was there

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/article/donald-trump-accused-hijacking-soccer-072154336.html

7/14/2025 2:46:49 PM

FIFA gave him both the Club trophy and the World Cup trophy

they’re both criminal syndicates

7/14/2025 6:58:27 PM

https://awfulannouncing.com/soccer/donald-trump-executive-order-called-football.html

7/15/2025 12:48:07 PM

^I won’t necessarily disagree with that one.

7/15/2025 2:04:47 PM

as long as it's pronounced fyoot-bowl and spelled futbol. don't b treddin on my pig skinz.

7/15/2025 2:10:27 PM

^^ come on, man

7/15/2025 5:52:27 PM

Man I just don't get the epstein thing. I had no idea how important that was to people. Have to agree with Trump on this one

7/15/2025 10:56:17 PM

Dude... MAGA lost their shit over Epstein. It's a significant part of their base, for fuck's sake. QAnon conspiracy theories are built around the idea that Trump is taking down the child paedo rings run by Democrats... 3 of the biggest players in that world are in now in charge of the investigations and are coming back with "welp, there's nothing..."

I mean, this would be like if Trump lambasted a world leader in the Oval office on live TV for saying Putin can't be trusted, only for Trump to later come out and say Putin can't be trusted

[Edited on July 15, 2025 at 11:04 PM. Reason : ]

7/15/2025 11:02:42 PM

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"Have to agree with Trump on this one"

I bet Phill doesn't

7/15/2025 11:20:49 PM

I wouldn't be surprised if Trump starts talking about Fauci again to win back the base lol

7/15/2025 11:23:14 PM

I would be surprised if the Epstein thing is a sticking point a month or two from now, just based on him getting out of everything, but I dunno if people will completely get over this. They might still vote straight R and stuff, but I think this is just yet another thing that give some of his supporters a wake up call about who he is

7/15/2025 11:38:06 PM

I agree that it won't be a big story in a few months, and that the maga will vote straight R.

7/15/2025 11:56:43 PM

For me the big deal is the flip.

How many MAGAs, for years, hinted that Epstein was killed because Clinton (or the Clintons) were on the list?

Now it’s a nothingburger? Bullshit. They need to stand by what they said and release whatever there is. Let Ghislaine talk.

[Edited on July 16, 2025 at 8:15 AM. Reason : And why would it be so bad to call it futbal?]

7/16/2025 8:14:56 AM

^ i have seen both sides:

some MAGAts are pissed with trump and co for denying there is anything to see and sweeping it under the rug. i have seen videos of people burning their MAGA hats. those with platforms are calling him out on their channels. i hope they keep bringing the issue up and never forget about it.

then there are others (hardcore QAnon believers) who say it's part of an 8D chess game he is playing. they say if he releases the list now, people will scramble, run away, destroy evidence, etc. so, trump's goons are going around arresting pedos in the background when they least expect it.

oh, i forgot: there are some who think there is stuff to be revealed, but that trump shouldn't reveal it because if all the biggest people from politics, industry, and other sectors are there, and if they are arrested, it will ruin the country, as in, bring it to a standstill.

when you are so stupid (and immoral) that your stupidity spouts its own ultra-stupidity....

7/16/2025 9:58:47 AM

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"Media reports, citing White House officials, indicate the US president is likely soon to fire the head of the central bank, which is supposed to be independent within the federal government. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-16/trump-likely-to-fire-powell-soon-white-house-official-says "

We’re speed running the fall of rome. This is immediately existential to America more than anything trump has done so far.

Trump telling reporters he has no immediate plans but hasn’t ruled anything out

[Edited on July 16, 2025 at 12:02 PM. Reason : ]

7/16/2025 11:41:43 AM

^^ I honestly don’t even think it’s that complex. I think Trump supporters will just be cool with whatever he says. If he says it’s old news and nothing to worry about now then I think the vast majority of his people will believe that. It doesn’t haven’t to be 8D chess or whatever. People believe what he says. Conservative media and social media will just parrot his talking points. And his supporters that consume that shit won’t care that it contradicts what they believed a few months ago.

7/16/2025 12:57:48 PM

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" And why would it be so bad to call it futbal?"

how much “Gulf of America” merch do you own?

7/16/2025 1:31:19 PM

I don't think the Epstein thing is a big deal for Trump, because he's always personally kept his distance from the whole thing (largely because he's been balls deep in it for decades). Trump can pivot away from it easily, and the MAGA base will accept it.

The folks who will have a hard time pivoting away from it are those who were harping on it so loud, Ka$h, Bongino, etc, because they are now the ones running it and are flipping on the things that basically made them famous. They are the ones who are screwed. It'd be like if Elizabeth Warren was made head of the CFPB and started approving everything every bank asked of her and dropped all outstanding investigations into wrongdoings by financial institutions.

7/16/2025 2:00:13 PM

^^I own zero MAGA or Gulf Of Murica merch.

Explain to me why you have a problem with calling a sport by its proper name? What’s the beef here?

7/16/2025 2:45:17 PM

because you ventured into pop culture and he has exclusive domain there

7/16/2025 3:12:18 PM

can’t wait for his executive orders mandating that chips now be called crisps and apartments called flats

7/16/2025 3:32:36 PM

this is definitely more important than like him firing the fed chair or something.

7/16/2025 3:51:56 PM

If you think a different discussion is worthwhile why don't you kick off that discussion.

7/16/2025 4:20:48 PM