The ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Is an Economic IED

If you've been waiting for those Trump checks in the mail, well, good luck. Because for all his populist posturing, Trump's economic plan ain't for you.

You can always count on Donald Trump and Mike Johnson to deliver — if by "deliver" you mean setting fire to your kitchen while telling you they're cooking you a steak. Their latest legislative mutant hellspawn Frankenstein is the so-called “Big Beautiful Bill,” a name so dumb it sounds like it was focus-grouped by a meth lab in the Florida panhandle.

The sales pitch? It’s Trumpian Kabuki theater: tax cuts for the “forgotten man,” a bold economic vision, America First. The reality? It’s a con. A multi-trillion-dollar, gold-plated, diamond-encrusted reaming for working-class Americans disguised as populism.

Who Gets Benefits? Spoiler: Not You.

Let’s dispense with the lies and the Fox News spin. This $5.7 trillion boondoggle isn’t about you or your family. It’s about Trump’s buddies in Silicon Valley and Mar-a-Lago getting another yacht. It’s about Elon Musk doing a celebratory keg stand on the grave of your tax refund. It’s about billionaires paying less and blaming the deficit on some poor kid in Appalachia who eats with the help of SNAP.

And it gets worse. While corporations are busy dancing on their quarterly earnings calls, the bill guts Medicaid and Medicare — the very programs that prop up the health and dignity of millions of Americans, especially in the red-state, rural counties where MAGA voters live and vote and die.

Let Me Say it Louder for the MAGAs in the Back: YOU Are the Mark.

This isn’t theory. This isn’t lefty wishcasting. It’s math.

According to the Congressional Budget Office, the “Big Beautiful Bill” would torch $900 billion from Medicaid over 10 years. That’s not trimming fat. That’s amputating limbs. Over 7 million Americans could lose coverage. Medicare? Same song, second verse: means testing, eligibility caps, and premium hikes. Translation: "We love you, seniors … just not enough to keep you alive."

And in poll after poll — across party lines — cutting Medicare and Medicaid is political suicide. Even Republicans oppose it. A March 2024 Pew survey showed 79% of Americans — including 64% of Republicans — oppose cuts to Medicaid. Medicare? Untouchable. Even Karloine Leavitt couldn’t sell that one with a straight face.

The MAGA Base Just Got Trump University’d. Again.

Here’s the part that would be funny if it weren’t so grotesquely cynical: Trump’s most loyal supporters — the folks flying flags off their F-150s and writing Facebook screeds in all caps — are exactly the ones this bill hurts the most. If you’re 63, live in West Virginia, and need a hip replacement? Sorry, your sacrifice is necessary for Mark Zuckerberg to build his submarine volcano lair.

It’s like watching someone buy a timeshare from the guy who stole their truck last year. They’ll be left clutching a "Trump 2024" hat while their insulin co-pay triples.

And Just to Spice Things Up: Authoritarian Red Meat

Buried deep in the fine print of this disaster is a clause giving the IRS new powers to yank nonprofit status from organizations “supporting terrorism.”

Sounds reasonable — until you realize that “terrorism” in MAGA-speak means any group that’s ever criticized Donald Trump, Mike Johnson, or Dear Leader Elon Musk. Imagine your church, charity, or civil rights group stripped of its status because Fox News called them “Antifa-adjacent.” So much for the “First Amendment absolutists” who want to use the n-word on Twitter, but can’t take any political ideas to the left of Curtis Yarvin.

This Bill is an Economic IED

The “Big Beautiful Bill” is a Trojan horse. The extinct species of principled conservatives have been replaced by Wall Street and Silicon Valley bag men, grinning oligarchs, and MAGA bureaucrats licking their chops at the chance to dismantle the social contract and sell your kidneys on eBay.

This isn’t just bad policy. It’s political malpractice. It’s a kamikaze mission against the very people who still believe Trump gives a damn about anyone who can’t afford box seats at Mar-a-Lago.

If Democrats can’t run a truck through the gaping moral and fiscal hole this bill creates, they deserve to lose. But the real losers? The voters who trusted Trump — again — and are about to learn the hard way, again, that every “big beautiful” thing he touches dies.