Thursday on Lincoln Square: Rick Wilson Roasts Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill'
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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, Rick Wilson writes.
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.
The ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Is an Economic IED
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.
Lisa Senecal and Andra Watkins discuss how Sen. Mike Lee and Rep. Mary Miller (R-Ill.) have introduced the “Interstate Obscenity Definition Act.” It’s a White Christian Nationalist’s wet dream (sorry). It seeks to redefine and standardize the legal definition of obscenity across all states.
Any guesses what kinds of things Mike Lee finds obscene?
This should scare the hell out of anyone who has an art book on their coffee table, or any woman who decides to wear something flattering — really, anyone other than straight married couples should be raging against this effort (not that straight married couples are safe from it…they aren’t).
Lisa Senecal & Andra Watkins on Mike Lee's Porn Problem
Mike Lee wants to make it illegal for you — LITERALLY YOU, THE PERSON READING THIS — to titillate him.
And … a special message from Lincoln Square's new CEO and Executive Editor, Susan J. Demas:
Whether it’s ICE violently holding a young girl’s face to the ground as her mother was arrested in Massachusetts or progressive streamer Hasan Piker being detained by border agents after aggressively criticizing Trump, the message from his regime is clear: Dissent will not be tolerated. And it also can be prosecuted.
The reason Trump keeps deploying these authoritarian tactics of censorship and brute force is simple: He’s afraid.
He’s afraid of books and ideas he doesn’t understand. But most of all, he’s afraid of us — the American people. He wants to rule over us. He wants to decide what we read and what we do. He wants to decide how many pencils we get or how many dolls our daughters are entitled to.
Trump’s Agenda: Ban Books. Ban Porn. Silence the Loyal Opposition.
Trump is at it again. Faced with falling poll numbers — which hurt his fragile ego — he’s desperately trying to silence anyone who opposes his cruel policies and gross incompetence.
There is growing pessimism about the global financial system and the current geopolitical situation is a symptom of the financial system Word to the wise get out of credit ie countries currency and into gold or silver for wealth preservation
"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" Worst is yet to come. Donald "The Beast" Trump is building a wall once again. Colossal tariff wall that is the beginning of the end for the system of down. At first the beast will pull the plug out of the global economy. The worst financial crisis of human history will pull a swarm of the banks underwater and the bank run begins. Then the beast will collapse a mountain of debt shattering the backbone of the monetary system causing a systemic risk to realize. Finally the beast will cast American citizens into a system slavery under the name of Ronald Wilson Reagan, just to "honor his legacy" count the number. After the destruction a new world order will be established in the US. And the Golden Age begins from the ruins of the world wide collapse. All of the system slaves will love it. No more cash - just digital transactions. No more traditional criminal activity. No more tax evasion. No more transactions without the "all seeing eye". Outcasts will hate the world without freedom, hope and privacy. To cover up the mess and distract the public by smoke and mirrors, the beast will engage in a war with Iran. Lies and deceit, corruption and decay, dancing on the graves will continue. Until; Black hole sun, won't you come, won't you come... I want to play a game. Time has come to opt out of the empire of filth. Live or die...