The Big Beautiful Backstab

Art by JD Crowe

The Big Ugly-Ass Nazi bill just passed.  Happy fucking 4th of July to us.  🧨 🎇

The bill offers MORE tax breaks to billionaires on top of the massive tax breaks & other corporate welfare they already receive.  It strips poor and elderly people of their health insurance, which is estimated to result in 50,000 additional, unnecessary deaths annually.  (This is on top of the 45,000 who already die annually due to lack of coverage, and the untold number who suffer & die because their private insurance pulls the "Delay, Deny, Defend" card when they actually need to use their insurance).  Rural hospitals, nursing homes & other institutions that rely on Medicaid/Medicare funding will close or be stretched beyond their limits.  Hungry children will have food snatched out of their mouths, research into green energy sources will be stripped away.... the federal deficit will be increased by TRILLIONS.  Can you comprehend how much a trillion is?  Most people can't.  

In case you needed a visual aid on just how bad the OBBBA is, the vast majority of FOX News watchers gave it a thumbs down.  FOX News caters specifically to Republicans/conservatives.  

Massively unpopular yet still managed to pass.

The lack of support from the public is far stronger and more drastic than the support for it in Washington, where it passed by a slim margin of 215-214-1.  Now it's the law of the land.  I know we're not math geniuses in the U.S. but this proves one thing:  our representatives are nothing of the sort.  They don't give a single fuck about the will of the People and go 100% rogue once they have your vote, which they'll tell you any-damn-thing to obtain before pulling the rug out.  Poor red states like Alabama, Oklahoma, Arkansas & Louisiana will be harmed most by this, but nobody is immune to the shitstorm that's coming.  Brace yourselves.  🌀

To be clear, unless you earn over a million dollars annually, this bill will fuck you right up the ass sans lube.  There's not a single provision in it that will help Americans, the working class, poor people, the elderly who've paid into Social Security all their lives or anyone else.  It's an egregious example of politicians doing evil shit strictly to pay back the billionaire donors who financed their campaigns.  Until Citizens United is revoked or ended, there will be plenty more where that came from. 

I hope to see many cities on 🔥 at the No Kings rally tomorrow.  Since violence is the only language these monsters understand.  The Big Beautiful bill is perhaps the most potent soft kill measure ever enacted on U.S. soil--it IS violence personified.  So don't fucking whine when "protesters turn violent" or another Lu1gi Mang1one pops up & pulls a pew-pew on a politician or billionaire CEO.  It won't be me or anyone I associate with, but just remember this day when it happens.  You can't starve people to death, push them out of their homes via price hikes/gentrification, strip them of health coverage which is a basic human right and expect anything less. 

And all you Trump supporters who swear he's some political outsider hero who's "for the little guy" and is doing all this "presidential stuff" out of the goodness of his heart:  you're 100% to blame.  The signs were always there--the fact that Trump IS a member of the billionaire class is a big one--but you preferred your delusions to the cold, hard reality.  Oh well.  Nobody will have any sympathy for you losing your Medicaid/Medicare or your actual lives due to this bill.  You made your own bed, shat in it and are now gonna be forced to roll around in the filthy stench for all eternity.  Enjoy that.  And to the Democrats who continue running center-right brunch liberal candidates who are pro-Israel, pro-capitalist members of the billionaire class themselves:  you're equally to blame.  This bill is perhaps the most depressingly stark reminder that nobody represents the 333 million people who live and work here, pay taxes & hold this country together.  As long as dark money and PACs are allowed to fund elections, there's no point in voting. 



Drowning in Delusion 

The problem is that so many working class & blue collar Americans refuse to see themselves as "poor".  Until they're able to cope with reality on reality's terms, we're all screwed.  In their minds, they're temporarily embarrassed millionaires who expect to become rich by osmosis via licking the assholes of billionaires like Bezos, Musk & Zuckerberg.  How's that working out for ya?  Did those "American jobs" ever come back?  Do we have a thriving economy, a booming auto industry in the North, profitable farming jobs in the South, first-in-the-world education/healthcare again or anything else that defines a "developed" 1st world nation?  No?  Then maybe it's time to come out of your trance and start living in reality.  Your Black, disabled, gay, liberal or poor neighbor isn't your enemy.  That Mexican immigrant down the street isn't "taking your job"--it's being GIVEN away by greedy fucks at the top who would rather pay Pedro pennies while soaking him in pesticides daily than paying you a living wage.   The people responsible are you and those you proudly vote for every few years like the slow learners you are.  It is a choice and it can change, but only once you come to grips with reality & make a different decision to see the world through a whole new filter.  

Look around honestly at your living conditions: the decrepit roads/bridges & buildings surrounding you.  The amount taken out of your paycheck monthly for private insurance which is the biggest scam since Charles Ponzi came on the scene as well as Social Security, which they're also in the process of bleeding dry.  The amount of federal taxes you struggle to pay yearly while those most able to pay don't contribute a dime.  I hope it makes you depressed, but mostly angry.  And I hope you direct that anger at those responsible: your own representatives. 

I hope you wake up and see the Hell you're living in and that it is, at least to a great extent, of your own making.  I hope you do more than writing your representative or "voting" about it.  Instead, realize once and for all that these cocksuckers don't represent you, me or anyone but the billionaire class, which you're definitely not a part of.  Look back at your town, city or neighborhood in the 1990s, '80s, '70s, or whenever you were a kid.  How much has it changed?  How badly has it gone downhill?  The buildings, businesses, housing, schools, hospitals (if you're lucky enough to have one nearby).  The people.  The homelessness, addiction, mental illness & mostly the seething rage flowing through every driver on the road; every mass shooter in the past & those yet to be.  HOW MUCH HAS IT ALL CHANGED?  What has been lost not to the normal passage of time but to the systematic dismantling of our institutions in the name of upward transfer of wealth?  What kind of world, if any, will you leave your kids?

Whether elephant or donkey, the 2 party system has led us to this point.  We've currently got a dangerous aging narcissist in power but the 'other side' is equally responsible.  Quit buying into the political theatre bullshit illusion that Republicans and Democrats are mortal enemies & realize they're all in this together.  No matter who wins, they still keep their socialized healthcare, huge salaries & other perks.  No matter who wins, we lose.  And we just lost perhaps the biggest amount of ground in modern history.  This bill, if not the final nail in the coffin of our country, will undoubtedly trigger the domino fall that leads us to where the Soviet Union was in its final days.  Just remember that myself & other lone doom-prophecy forecasters like Chris Hedges have been screaming it for YEARS.