MAGA by building the biggest, most beautiful prison/police state ever
Harry Enten
"The amount of disapproval for this bill -- holy cow, my goodness gracious! We're talking about 29 points underwater ... we're talking about a negative 41 net favorability rating among independents. You rarely ever see proposed pieces of legislation as unpopular"
lots of pork for farmers and red states in the reconciliation bill
Getting less media attention are the wasteful spending hikes in the bill, for example, a $57 billion boost to farm subsidies over 10 years.https://www.cato.org/blog/gop-bill-hikes-farm-subsidiesFarm-state legislators have been maneuvering to jack up agricultural subsidies for two years. Now they’ve seized their chance and jammed a treasure trove of giveaways into the GOP’s fast-track reconciliation bill—a type of bill that is supposed to be used for spending reductions.
Here is a brief summary of the proposed subsidy increases, based on analyses by EWG, farmdocdaily, and the Farm Bureau:
- Increased price guarantees. The reconciliation bill would raise guaranteed prices by 10 to 21 percent for covered crops. The lion’s share of farm subsidies goes to the largest producers of corn, soybeans, wheat, cotton, peanuts, and rice. In this bill, the biggest windfalls go to the latter three crops in the Southern states.
- Increased acres. The bill would allow crop farmers to get subsidies for 30 million additional acres of land—a 12 percent increase.
- Increased aid for wealthy families. Some farm subsidy programs have payment limits, which the bill would raise from $125,000 to $155,000 per person. But there are ways around the limits, such as including many family members as business partners. EWG identified 16 rice farming businesses that have received more than $10 million each in subsidies over the years.
- Increased insurance subsidies. The bill increases subsidies to the 14 companies that make high profits administering farm insurance. Federal crop insurance subsidies go to billionaire farmers.
- Increased trade promotion subsidies. The bill would greatly boost subsidies for marketing US farm products abroad, which is ironic because the Trump administration seems intent on damaging foreign markets for US goods with its tariff wars.
- Increased scope of subsidies. The bill spreads subsidies far and wide to specialty crops, dairy, poultry, forestry, biofuel, rural schools, and other activities. The strategy is to buttress political support for passing the massive subsidies for corn, soybeans, wheat, cotton, peanuts, and rice.
way underwater on right track/wrong track and overall favorability
https://d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.ne...rt_CyorzxR.pdf
selling off US public lands so rich folks can have a few more treats
(and development opportunities)
https://wessiler.substack.com/p/lee-...-land-sell-offWhile Mike Lee and Steve Daines' Senate Natural Resources Committee amendment to the budget reconciliation package mandates the sale of up to 3.3 million acres of public land, what most people miss is that it also authorizes the sale of 258 million acres. That's 40 percent of all public land
Congress passed a law about it
SCOTUS upheld it
Trump is ignoring it
Tik TACO
when you can find utmost truth in the most tiest of places...we are ed...
Good one.
AI is insane, lmao.
taco
*beating of war drums
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/iran-isr...clear-d2ac6ef0The President can reverse Biden’s Afghan legacy by helping Israel eliminate Tehran’s nuclear threat.
These are the strategic stakes as the U.S. President contemplates whether to assist Israel in bombing Iran’s nuclear sites.
If Trump can start a war with Iran with no Congressional approval, then we have to question why we even have a Congress anymore.
JD, when your politics are rooted in bigotry, racism, attempting to erase the history of minorities, and just plain old trying to take this country to an extremist right-wing and white supremacist dictatorship, you're claim that it is based on common sense completely goes out the window.
Safe Space
Where have you been the last 22 years?
You're a warmonger.Safe Space
Oh, and religious, I forgot to mention religious, right-wing, dictatorship. Not that there is anything wrong with believing in God, IN AND OF ITSELF.Safe Space
The right-wing dominates the fudge outta most of the social media and video sharing mediums, but it irks the fudge outta them when we win out (barely) on platforms like Reddit, as well as have our "safe spaces" like Blue Sky, etc.
They would make those outlets illegal if the cuffs were COMPLETELY removed. North ing Korea, if the cuffs were COMPLETELY removed. Can you imagine people like Stephen Miller running this country EXACTLY how they'd want? That is ing terrifying.
radical, redistributionist right wing policy
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/19/trum...r-90-days.htmlTrump extends TikTok ban deadline by another 90 days
...
Top Trump officials were confident the app would sell but after sweeping tariffs were placed on China, no deal was made. Trump then gave the app another 90 days, which was set to expire on Thursday.
Under the law, ByteDance must sell TikTok to a U.S.-based buyer. ByteDance previously said it would not sell TikTok and has been quiet on whether it has decided to make a deal.
A spokesperson for TikTok did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The position to keep TikTok in the United States is an about face from Trump’s first term, during which he signed an executive order banning it. That ban was later overturned by the courts.
The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld the Biden era law banning the app unless it is sold to an American owner.
this is like the new DHS congressional oversight guidance, they think they can set aside US laws at a whim, even ones SCOTUS has upheld THIS YEAR
I've been in America complaining about it.Where have you been the last 22 years?
You're a warmonger.
I know I wish had fewer days off
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