Originally published at: The Wheels Come Off Trump’s Attempt To Pass A ‘Big, Beautiful’ Bill - TPM – Talking Points Memo
The true extent of the confusion between the Trump White House and Republicans in Congress on Trump’s fiscal agenda came crashing out into the open this week. Amid brutal intraparty tensions over how exactly they will enact sweeping cuts to Medicaid, far-right members of the House Republican conference jammed things up substantially this week when…
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The headline should be:
In Shock Move, Republicans Consider Responding to Constituent’s Needs.
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Just a day later, he seemingly reversed course, saying in a Truth Social post that Republicans “should probably not” boost taxes on the country’s richest, but he’s “OK if they do!!!”
Reminds me of the double-talk he practiced during Iraq II
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Stupid but fair
Raise taxes on the rich to pay for tax cuts for the rich
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Well, if they cannot eliminate this valuable economic safety net, it might be a good idea not to reduce revenues. A radical concept, I know.
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That was my thought. They can’t contribute enough to matter.
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“Medicaid you’ve got to be careful, cause a lot of MAGA’s on Medicaid. I’m telling you. If you don’t think so, you’re dead wrong,” Bannon said earlier this year.
A lot of MAGAs’ parents and siblings are on Medicaid too.
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“White people use Medicaid?!!!” - Republicans (probably)
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I know Republicans are especially stupid when acting en mass, but this reasoning makes zero sense. Do they really think that it won’t hurt their election chances, or risk getting attacked by someone who lost a loved one due to Medicare cuts, if they just can conceal what they are doing before they do it? Do they go from being afraid of their constituents to “tough luck, suckers” the moment it becomes law? I don’t think so, but they may be stupid enough to think that we the people are just going to go away and die quietly of treatable illness. Republicans obviously have never had nothing left to lose but their lives.
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They pretend to be shocked to discover that people they know use Medicaid. Knowing full well they also use medicaid.
They pretend that they’d NEVER accept a “government handout” except, they all do.
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“How to DISCREETLY slash Medicaid” – When this is the problem your legislators are most anxious to solve, voters should probably take note that their concerns are no longer of any interest at all to said legislators.
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Trump is suddenly concerned that the little people might turn on him so he’s muddying the waters and laying the groundwork for another, “It wasn’t me that gutted your medicaid. It was them.” God, I hope this guy dies in a fire. Meanwhile, the donor class and the tea party bourgeoisie are planning to fuck the people that elected Trump. The working class have no voice here.
To complicate matters, the Washington Post reported Thursday that Trump has instructed Republican leadership to, confusingly, raise taxes on the wealthy. It appears to be an effort to assuage hardliners who are worked up about the deficit. Just a day later, he seemingly reversed course, saying in a Truth Social post that Republicans “should probably not” boost taxes on the country’s richest, but he’s “OK if they do!!!”
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Honestly, they may think Medicare is Medicaid for white people
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NAILED IT.
Before going further, it must be pointed out how dangerous this is to democracy and capitalism. What Trump and Republicans are doing, and have been doing since Reagan, is create a few superrich at the expense of the mostly White middle and working classes. The nature of being so rich gives these few outsized power which above any foreign power has the power to threaten American democracy and already has worsened most Americans way of life.
What needs to remember is the biggest part of Trump’s first term tax bill that Republicans are trying to extend and that the media falsely keeps referring to as a “cut” was more of a tax shift from billionaires, those in the top 1/10 of the top 1% of earners, to taxpayers in the top 70 to 99%.
To be sure, this has been true about the GOP since Reagan. Demonize the poor and minorities but noting that you cant squeeze blood from a turnup, reallocating wealth from the mostly White middle and upper classes to the ultra rich.
That is what is most important to remember about extending Trump’s tax bill from his first term is that for every taxpayer who received a $3,000 or more tax cut there 3 taxpayers who received a $3,000 or more tax increase.
From an economic prospective, and especially if you consider the ethics of hard work, what Trump did and is trying to extend makes passive income more valuable than earned income.
But I digress. The point is that while it is especially true about Trump, Republicans for over 40 years have actively reallocated America’s wealth, especially that of the White middle and working class, to a small number of billionaires who have gained outsized power that now threatens American democracy and our way of life.
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Big, Beautiful Bamboozle!
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You don’t need wheels when you’re already off the rails.
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This clusterfuck is precisely what you get when your primary abilities have nothing to do with providing competent governance that is responsive to constituent needs.
Have a nice time!
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The billionaires are stateless. They live outside the confines of any nation’s social details. The diaperload is also stateless. The GOP congressional dumb scum caucus is not quite there yet, and as a result they’re finding out that the corner they’re in is not going to be fun to be in. Especially when so many of them only know how to do performative stupid mean posts on social media. That’s all they know how to do.
The red-hats will be at the gates. The emperor will be golfing, denying any knowledge of why anything is the way it is. I will be grinning, mostly.
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