There’s controversy ahead for the Trump administration. His “Big Beautiful Bill,” that is going to slash funding for Medicaid and take away medical care for hundreds of thousands of Americans. He’s bungled and botched the Israel/Iran affair with the expertise of a Keystone Cop. He’s been forced to rebuke his own intel community regarding the success of the strikes. His anti-immigration policies have proven unpopular with everyone outside of his MAGA cult. I.C.E. operates under a cloak that leaves them answerable to no one. Reports have risen about men impersonating I.C.E attempting to abduct people off the streets. Recently, authorities under Trump’s command ran rough shot over peacefully pretesting priest and church members who called Trump’s treatment of immigrants. And J.D. Vance, forever looking to put his foot in his mouth, proclaimed that cuts in Medicaid were “Immaterial” and smugly proclaiming that instead of feeding the poor that in the long run, it’s better to use that money to fund I.C.E. As Vance continued to spread the falsehood that millions of illegal immigrants were collecting welfare. Even though doing so would expose them to law enforcement and assure deportation, Vance, with zero facts to back up his statement, continued to parrot a debunked MAGA talking point.
So, what is a disgraced leader of a nation to do when things go haywire? Stage a phony social media war with Elon Musk! It’s worked before. Trump has shown in the past he’s not above staging entertaining social media wars and other events to distract from everything falling around him. Musk, who may or may not have legit grievances regarding the “Big Beautiful Bill”, has threatened to personally fund candidates to run against anyone who votes for the bill. Trump, not to be outdone, has proclaimed he will rally his base to vote out anyone who votes against it. And meanwhile, Republicans flounder around, asking what they should two. With these two opposing forces in motion, they are damned if they do, and damned if they don’t. Now, if only any of them had a backbone.
Hey, this is America, and Americans love theater over everything else. They love the sizzle if not the steak. Americans are just so easily distracted by shiny beads and swallow flattery. So, Musk and Trump will continue their staged spat, making it more outrageous with each passing day. They’ll get the news media and social media influences to gobble it up, and they’ll chat on the phone with each other, marveling on how easy it was to work the crowd.
And while the focus is on what two multi-millionaires are saying and threatening each other with, everything else will be easy. Americans will lose rights without knowing it. The poor will be made worse off by this fascist administration, the middle class will get stuck with the bill. And the wealthy 1%, they’ll buy another yacht or sixth home with the money they’ll save with the newest tax breaks. Hey, grandma needs surgery on her kidneys? Sorry, that’s no longer covered under your plan. Better start that Go Fund Me page. Wait, you mean small children have lost funding for their breakfast program before school? That sucks, but hey, it won’t hurt the kids to miss a meal or two…. or three…. or four. Starvation will help them build character. Quite the interesting take from the pro-life crowd.
All jokes aside. The “Big Beautiful Bill” will cut $186 billion from food programs, and $1.1 trillion from Medicaid over the next decade. This to offset the $2.2 billion in tax cuts that Musk and others are going to receive during that same time frame, according to the Joint Committee on Taxation and the non-partisan (a term Trump doesn’t know the meaning of) Congressional Budget Office.
It’s always interested by that when it comes time to cutting from the budget, it’s always the poor and middle class that lose out. They’re sold the lie that taxing the rich is a form of punishment, yet are made blind to the fact that so-called “punishment” is being inflicted on them. In reality, Republicans believe that wealth relieves you from the burden of having to pay taxes. And hey, if you continue to pay taxes, maybe one day, you’ll win the lotto and be rich, and not have to pay taxes anymore. Amusing that when it comes to budget cuts, you don’t see any elected leader saying that they should take a pay cut. Tom Brady never took a pay cut, per say, but he deferred monies and never sought to be the highest paid player in the league. His cap friendly mentality (and the fact he knew he could make that revenue up doing commercials) played a huge role in the New England Patriots have a near 20-year dynasty.
Elected officials are never taking pay cuts, the wealthy will never pay their fair share, and the middle class will bare the burden of everything. And it will be that way as long as Americans are distracted. Distracted by staged social media wars, shiny beads, and shallow flattery.
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