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At 10:19 last night, White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller posted on social media: “Stand with ICE. Pass the B[ig] B[eautiful] B[ill].”

And there it is. The Republicans’ “One Big, Beautiful Bill” is the MAGA regime’s attempt to replace the American government we’ve had since the 1930s with one that reflects the antidemocratic values of Project 2025. The measure is unpopular. According to a new CBS News/YouGov poll, 60% of Americans think the bill will help wealthy people, while 54% think it will hurt poor people. Forty-seven percent think it will hurt the middle class, while only 31% think it will help the middle class. As Simon Rosenberg of Hopium Chronicles noted, it’s “[s]tunning how badly Trump and the Rs have lost the debate on what their reconciliation bill will do.”

The measure changes the nature of the American government by extending tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations and adding significantly more money to immigration enforcement and defense spending. According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, the measure will add as much as $2.4 trillion to the deficit over ten years; with interest costs of that new debt, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget concluded the measure would increase the debt by nearly $3 trillion.

At the same time that it moves money upward and into the white nationalist project of expelling immigrants, the measure guts federal policies and agencies that serve the American people, apparently with the goal of pushing such policies and agencies to the states. The CBO estimates that as many as 13.7 million Americans will lose healthcare coverage if the measure passes, and cuts of nearly $300 billion from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program will mean cuts of about 30% to the programs on which millions of Americans depend.

Miller’s post underscores the administration’s need to change the conversation around the measure, whose 1,000-plus pages lay out the MAGA vision for the United States. “Don’t kid yourself,” Senator Brian Schatz (D-HI) posted. “[T]hey know they are absolutely getting cooked politically w[ith] their terrible bill and rising prices, and they want to create a violent spectacle to feed their content machine. It’s time for the mainstream media to describe this authoritarian madness accurately.”

Maanvi Singh of The Guardian put the right lens on events in Los Angeles today, noting “Trump’s dramatic escalation” and his vow “to crush opposition to his immigration raids.” Singh identified the administration’s escalation as the trigger for “a roaring backlash.”

Singh noted federal agents carried out arrests in L.A. without judicial warrants and that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been holding families in the basements of federal buildings, refusing them access to lawyers and family members. Agents in riot gear attacked protesters with tear gas and flash-bang grenades, turning peaceful protests into clashes.

Trump, Vice President J.D. Vance, and White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller called the protests an “insurrection,” and last night Trump activated at least 2,000 members of California’s National Guard over the protests of California governor Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass. Just after midnight this morning, Trump posted: “Looking really bad in L.A. BRING IN THE TROOPS!!!”

Administration officials are continuing their emphasis on spectacle and performance to try to bring popular opinion back their way. CNN’s Brian Stelter reported today that television personality Dr. Phil McGraw and his camera crew were embedded with ICE during the raids.

According to Dr. Phil’s right-wing TV channel, he was there “to get a first-hand look at the targeted operations.” He also had “exclusive” access to Tom Homan, the man known as Trump’s “border czar,” and recorded interviews with him before and after the L.A. sweeps.

But that, too, is spectacle. As Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo notes, Homan and Miller are the public face of border enforcement and anti-immigrant policies. But Homan is not part of ICE. He is a White House advisor, working in a civilian capacity. And yet, as Marshall records, he has taken to showing up before the cameras “in either faux military uniforms or, in most cases, civilian garb clearly meant to appear like military-style fatigues along with a ever-changing run of camo or olive drab baseball caps.

Heather Cox Richardson
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-9...


On Saturday, Homan threatened to arrest anyone who obstructed immigration enforcement, refusing to exempt L.A. mayor Bass or California governor Gavin Newsom. Newsom responded: “What the hell is this guy? Come after me, arrest me. Let’s just get it over with. Tough guy. You know? I don’t give a damn, but I care about my community. I care about this community. The hell are they doing? These guys need to grow up, they need to stop, and we need to push back, and I’m sorry to be so clear, but—that kind of bloviating is exhausting. So, Tom, arrest me. Let’s go.”


Indeed, Gov. Newsome.
Fuck Tom Homan.

IT'S lovely that it's gotten to this point.

I would've never thought........


PS: these are still the good ol days.

PS: these are still the good ol days.

The good ol days are still ahead of us. But first, we have to get through this authoritarian nonsense being perpetrated by Trump and his flying monkeys. It might get rough.

Indeed, Gov. Newsome.
Fuck Tom Homan.

LOL. Hair Gel is full of it.

All Homan said was, paraphrasing obviously: 'Don't break the law. You put your hands on my officers or impede them, you're getting arrested'.

But to libs? WHY THAT's tOTaLiTaRiAN!!!

We have to remember that libs are super-citizens...and their violence? That's totally free speech. Other people's free speech? That's literal violence yOu gUyS.

IT'S lovely that it's gotten to this point.

You're seeing the left's narcissism just bust out all over the place. Of course they're entitled to assault police officers, riot, burn and loot. That's just their free speech!

We have to remember that libs are super-citizens...and their violence? That's totally free speech. Other people's free speech? That's literal violence yOu gUyS.

Dope does his bad imitation of George Orwell, as interpreted through the looking glass.

You're seeing the left's narcissism just bust out all over the place. Of course they're entitled to assault police officers, riot, burn and loot. That's just their free speech!

More interpretive dance from Dope.

Dope does his bad imitation of George Orwell, as interpreted through the looking glass.

That's what you're doing. In your imagination there are stormtroopers on every street and Darth Vader is hunting the Noble Rebellion.

Reality is something else.

There's only one set of performance art going on, and it's not from the right.

That's what you're doing. In your imagination there are stormtroopers on every street and Darth Vader is hunting the Noble Rebellion.

You just can’t put down that looking glass, can you?

Reality is something else.

Indeed.

You just can’t put down that looking glass, can you?

Don't need one.
Yours is the side supporting the people out there "having fun watching cars burn". Meanwhile, the husk of a party you support slides further into irrelevance. Enjoy!

There's only one set of performance art going on

1. You are holding a copy of Time Magazine with Spankee's picture on the cover.
2. You are waiting for Spankee to arrive.
3. Spankee ARRIVES !!
3. You turn on the PPV channel for all to see.
4. THEN you two get to PERFORM !!! LIVE !!!

Ratings are 0.0000001% due to extremely bad performances.

Net profits are 38-cents, and Spankee takes it all.

You just can’t put down that looking glass, can you?

Don't need one.

You’re looking through one right now, as evidenced by your next words:

Yours is the side supporting the people out there "having fun watching cars burn"

Where do you come up with this horseshit, Dope?

Where do you come up with this horseshit, Dope?

By looking where the horse's ass is going, and avoiding stepping there.

By looking where the horse's ass is going, and avoiding stepping there.

The horse you are following is wearing a MAGA hat. But you’ve got your face so close to its ass that you probably can’t see that.

And avoiding where it poops doesn’t seem to be working that well for you.

LOL. Hair Gel is full of it.

Interesting description of Newsome, and to a certain extent, I share that negative description.

But now I’m curious dope. Using the same criterion of exaggeration aspects of personal appearance, how would you describe Donald Trump?

Interesting description of Newsome, and to a certain extent, I share that negative description.

How many pounds of it do you use per day?

Using the same criterion of exaggeration aspects of personal appearance, how would you describe Donald Trump?

You mean besides The Orange Man?

The horse you are following is wearing a MAGA hat. But you’ve got your face so close to its ass that you probably can’t see that.

And avoiding where it poops doesn’t seem to be working that well for you.

Nope.
Here's more video for you to ignore.

https://x.com/MattSeedorff/status/1932331319507538...

LOL@ "organic" protests.

Everything about the left is a lie.

How many pounds of it do you use per day?

I share that description of Gavin Newsom

As for myself, I don’t use hair spray, gel or any othe thing that a hair salon calls “product”.

You’re seeng the world thru those beer goggles again. Not that you drink; I have no idea. I doubt that you drink excessively in any case.

But I do love the descriptor……… beer goggles.

It’s so appropriate.

We have to remember that libs are super-citizens...and their violence? That's totally free speech. Other people's free speech? That's literal violence yOu gUyS.

Sometimes Dope I just have to say why don't you STFU.

Your orange savior instigated an assault on our nation's capitol and the GOP decided that was just OK.

Imagine spending your whole MAGA life cos-playing and fantasizing about fighting a federal government that sends troops against its own citizens,
only to root for the government when the day finally arrives!

MAGA: They don't know what they believe until Trump tells them.

Meanwhile, the husk of a party you support slides further into irrelevance. Enjoy!

Yep, pass the popcorn, sitting back while watching FOX NEWS where you see what is really happening in LA.
The Dem party is supporting the riots and rioters and they will soon be as you said, irrelevant.

Maybe Present Trump should call in a battalion of tanks, that will clear out Biden’s illegal alien criminal rioters in short order. 😄

Present Trump should call in a battalion of tanks

Spankee spews that much sewage per MINUTE.

Imagine spending your whole MAGA life cos-playing and fantasizing about fighting a federal government that sends troops against its own citizens,
only to root for the government when the day finally arrives!

MAGA: They don't know what they believe until Trump tells them.

God, the nonsense we endured during the military exercise known as Jade Helm!

FEMA Camps!
Jackbooted thugs!
Obama is a dictator and he wasn’t even born here!

The ravings of Alex Jones…,

But all the gun toting self styled sheepdogs told us not to worry because they supported the 2nd amendment.

They were off the rails, even then


Well, the jack booted thugs are mostly ICE. The national guard and marines are crammed in federal facilities, mostly sidelined.


Threats to crush demonstrators and arrest the governor of California.


And where are all the “sheepdogs”? Cheering for a full measure of state violence, carried out by jackbooted thugs.

FEMA Camps!
Jackbooted thugs!
Obama is a dictator and he wasn’t even born here!

The ravings of Alex Jones…,

But all the gun toting self styled sheepdogs told us not to worry because they supported the 2nd amendment.

They were off the rails, even then


Well, the jack booted thugs are mostly ICE. The national guard and marines are crammed in federal facilities, mostly sidelined.


Threats to crush demonstrators and arrest the governor of California.


And where are all the “sheepdogs”? Cheering for a full measure of state violence, carried out by jackbooted thugs.

LOL!
What hysterical nonsense.
Those jackboot thugs ICE as you called them (shame on you) were attempting to arrest illegal criminal aliens and their likewise criminal aliens tried to stop ICE.
The dems and the left cheer on the alien invasion who are waving flags of foreign countries and
burning Americans Flags.

President Trump will not stand for this and neither do the majority of Americans who back Trump and love their Country.

Why do you hate America?

Reality is something else.

Well, it seems strange to deploy the National Guard for riots where they have no policing power, so they stand, no rounds chambered, and the local police do all the policing. I've seen pictures of them sleeping on the floor, so planning seems wanting. Are they doing anything so far? There are riots there. It doesn't seem like they are needed, so to buttress that we call in the Marines for riots and there are no rounds chambered either. Wonder where they are sleeping?

I would've honored all deals made before me as President, and just concentrated on the criminal element. Easy enough, only 25% of the people picked up so far don't have criminal records. I'd have asked for the extra border/immigrant money separately, and not continued the tax breaks. Al the billionaires that gave me money would feel cheated. I'd have not implemented this agenda 2025. But I wouldn't get elected cause I can't stand politicking even though I'm a decent public speaker.

This talk about Canada being the 51st state? Where did that come from? I never heard it before. Is it part of Project 2025? Why are we bothering our more civilized neighbors to the north? If it wasn't mentioned before, why did Trump lead out with this insulting childish crap? I think he's damaged goods, but an astute politician. Too bad.

Why do you hate America?


This is your brain on FOXNews.

Any questions?

This is your brain on FOXNews.

Any questions?

Yes, Why do you love Biden’s invasion of rapists, murderers and other assorted trash
from foreign countries who are rioting in the streets of LA, burning the American Flag
while living off the dole from American taxpayers?

Well, it seems strange to deploy the National Guard for riots where they have no policing power, so they stand, no rounds chambered, and the local police do all the policing.

No it doesn’t. They’re there to protect federal property and federal personnel. The local cops can then go out and make arrests.

This, btw, is why Newsom will lose in court.

Yes, Why do you love Biden’s invasion of rapists, murderers and other assorted trash
from foreign countries who are rioting in the streets of LA, burning the American Flag
while living off the dole from American taxpayers?

I don’t even know where to begin……

concentrated on the criminal element.

Removed Spankee and his followers. All deported to El Salvador.

So much ignorance and hate. So sad.

So much ignorance and hate. So sad.

Yes, I agree.
The hate and ignorance hurled at President Trump is beyond normal
from the left and democrats.

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