Big Daddy’s Let Them Eat Cake Legislation… BBA
Quinnipiac polling conducted June 22 to 24 and released on Thursday found that 55% of voters oppose the bill, while 29% support it. Another 20% did not offer an opinion.
- The big, beautiful bill has a big image issue – Axios
By Gregg Wall 7-4-2025
Trump and his coterie of oligarchs & sycophants are celebrating this evening.
Congress passed Trump’s Big, Beautiful Abomination (BBA) and it’s a complete abortion. BBA of course, has the hallmarks of a banana republic and totalitarian dictatorship: funding for ICE and a police state that rivals the entire defense budgets of nation states, check; a catalyst for the explosive growth in the ICE incarceration state, yes; financed tax cuts and corporate welfare for the rich, check; trillions more added to the national debt, deficits, and the trashing of the once proud and almighty dollar, double check; the gutting of social services, healthcare (Medicaid), and food assistance (SNAP) that barely kept America’s working poor alive in a necro-economic & necro-political twilight, triple check; Big Daddy setting the table for crypto’s continued rise, as the dollar is increasingly debased, yes again; and there’s so much more. Like immigrants, Trump and his posse will soon be coming for you; like Medicaid, they’ll soon be coming for Medicare and Social Security. BBA is just one more signpost on America’s highway to authoritarian hell.
What? You think that’s a reach, the US walking away from its debts and obligations? Trashing the currency so as to justify walking away from Medicare and Social Security? A coup at the FED? It’s happened before, see Weimar Germany. Where the German establishment did just that: printed money like it was going out of style until it became worthless. Ultimately, reneged on its negotiated obligations from the Treaty of Versailles. Set off hyperinflation and then a deep dark recession, the catalyst a global crash which started on Wall St. German retirees and workers holding a currency, German marks, that had become worthless. This of course, is the same Trump, who was said to have kept a copy of Hitler speeches & German history by his nightstand. The very same Big Daddy that ran up $8 trillion in national debt in his first term, plus another $4 trillion in funny money to bailout Wall St, yet again. The godfather of bankruptcy and debt, Donald Trump… trash the dollar, leave Social Security & Medicare for dead, screw over Americans who hold their savings and retirement money in U.S. dollars? Trump, billionaires, and Wall St would never do that, although it wouldn’t be out of character and Medicaid appears to be just the beginning.
Perhaps both programs, Social Security and Medicare, will ultimately survive in some privatized form, administered by BlackRock and Blackstone? What could possibly go wrong?
Just like America’s predatory elite would never offshore the U.S. economy, offshore American jobs & the tax base, take advantage of labor from the Global South, and dump indentured labor and slave labor manufactured products on U.S. shores. Just like America’s bankers and Wall St. wouldn’t trash the economy in 2008, kick Americans out of their homes and investments in real estate, after Wall St had been bailed out with trillions in taxpayer money, the banks further consolidated, made more powerful, leaving Americans with the IOU and absurd sums of debt. The American mafia would do none of these things, certainly not plot to destroy Medicare and Social Security… the same mafia that is presently tearing up trade agreements and shaking down allies and purported enemies alike… and doing its damnedest to force Canada, Greenland, and Panama to become American colonies, protectorates. The same two-party system & SCOTUS that has shredded the Constitution and is kicking in doors, shoving Americans and immigrants into unmarked vans w/out explanation, identification, or warrants, and sending legal residents and immigrants to El Salvador and coming soon, Alligator Alcatraz. If there’s not a social credit score for everyone, there soon will be… thanks to Palantir.
After all, El Comandante Trump is a righteous dude. Notice, amidst the wreckage and ruin of BBA and soaring national debt, there’s never enough money for the empire, an unaudited DOD, war contractors, our military base in the Middle East, the State of Israel (and the billions in welfare and weaponry our colonial outpost hoovers up). Socialized housing, free college, free medical care… that’s perfectly unacceptable for the American people. Why, why… that’s socialism… the same socialism American multinationals and oligarchs avail themselves to constantly, continuously, and under BBA (to wit, the endless transfer of taxpayer wealth into the hands of a predatory few). The very same socialism, redistribution of wealth that Israel is addicted to and depends upon, that is the socialized housing, free college, and the free medical care Americans are denied.
And why was this abortion of a bill passed through the house & senate in record time? Trump is sinking in the polls, losing his base, losing America… Trump has failed on all his major promises and desperately needed a win: affordability, inflation, reining in corporate greed, ending wars, and genocide. Bid Daddy desperately needed a victory (even if it is pyric in nature). Trump’s time, his window of opportunity, appears remarkably short, which explains the extraordinary powers granted him by BBA and SCOTUS and the steady erosion civil liberties and freedoms surrendered by the public. Hence, the need to pass the Big Beautiful Abortion now, all the better to get the for-profit concentration camps & gulags built, before the Dems get another at bat and do absolutely nothing about BBA.
GOP and Dem cruelty and lies know no limits, they both serve money, themselves, and kleptocracy, and the American people and country don’t even register. The American people increasingly, being little more than something to be controlled, exploited, manipulated in a necro-economic & political experiment. Which begs the question, if the powers that be are willing to trash Medicaid & SNAP, how long before they dispense with crony democracy, the congress, the senate?
What’s so interesting & stunning about the Medicaid & SNAP cuts that billionaires & corporations obviously lobbied for … so that the wealthy could receive more tax cuts & corporate welfare … is that many corporations grossly & deliberately underpaid and failed to provide healthcare programs for their employees; and instead, relied upon the gov to feed & provide Medicaid for their employees. You know, to keep the workforce alive. This was a direct subsidy to corporate bottom lines, PURE PROFIT. Now, with SNAP & Medicaid gone for millions… wealthy employers will likely face higher absenteeism, employee turnover, higher training costs & expense… as their employees literally drop dead or underperform from lack of food, shelter, & healthcare. Perhaps many CEOs are gambling on AI, immigrants, offshored labor to pick up the slack?
The complete opposite of Trump’s stated aims? Something about making America great again? A restoration of the middle class, a chicken in every pot? That’s not happening. Trump, the GOP, and the kleptocracy for which they stand are making millions of Americans poverty stricken again, as in Depression level, 1930s Great Depression era mass poverty, again. That certainly appears to be the trajectory were on. Most likely for ease of control and manipulation. Best to keep the slaves down. Many Americans are already there, living out of their cars. Poverty is a useful to tool in the hands of psychopaths.
Workplace injuries & illness will likely skyrocket, as a result of Trump’s Big, Beautiful Abomination… As workers are pushed to the limit & with no recourse in regards healthcare, utilize workers’ compensation insurance. Fifty percent of Americans could not access quality healthcare before BBA, American for-profit healthcare is the number one cause of bankruptcy. And with that uptick in uninsured workers, huge increases in workers’ compensation premiums & rates will undoubtedly follow, as again - Americans avail themselves to the only accessible form of health insurance available.
So, why would American and foreign capital return to the United States to set up shop… to build factories? When Americans increasingly, can’t afford health insurance or are kicked off Medicaid by their own government. When Trump’s tariffs are likely to set off more inflation and as likely, subsequently, a technical recession? With Trump jacking tariffs to the moon one day, only to go full TACO the next, or vice versa?
For such a transactional individual and alleged genius… who has our back… it’s strange that Trump has not billed and charged the beneficiaries of America’s empire and obscene military spending. Why hasn’t the U.S. charged the banks, big oil & gas cos, corporations, defense contractors & Wall Street firms, who benefit & profit immensely from having the US military in the Middle East and around the globe, as well as, a never ending river of military funding for Israel and the Ukraine? Why indeed? Americans certainly aren’t the beneficiaries of empire, quite the opposite. The empire means endless austerity, grossly underfunded public education & services, for-profit healthcare, never enough money to fund programs like SNAP… and an early grave for millions and millions of Americans. The empire is a death sentence for democracy and the United States.
And of course, there’s the ultimate money pit, Israel. If the empire & U.S. military are nothing but the enforcer & muscle for corporate America, NATO, & the State of Israel, why hasn’t Trump issued a bill to corporate America, NATO, the State of Israel, and Wall St.?
Perhaps that’s coming with the pending shakedown, the Mar Lago Plaza Accords, and the imposition of unsustainable American debt upon the world?
It’s like America is trapped in a time warp… stuck in the 80s… with the greed is good ethos and forty-five years of Reagan. You’d think we’d learn by now. Obscene sums of capital & oligarchy have delivered nothing for America but poverty, gentrification, a police state, wage and wealth inequality, a failed two party system - wholly unresponsive to the nation's real needs, catastrophic national debt… and the decimation & elimination of what made America truly great, a life worth living, a civil rights movement, a flawed but functioning government, a single earner wage that paid for the American dream, affordable housing and food, hope for a better nation, and a once thriving middle class (that was just starting to extend the economic & political franchise to those Americans, who have been badly abused, since the nation’s founding).
At this point, the many that still believe billionaires walk on water and are something to look up to, appear defective, suffering both a deficit in logic and reason. Capital, greed, and oligarchy are repugnant… its ranks filled with evil, venal men & women.
The lesson learned from the last forty-five years: taxing concentrated wealth and power out of existence is key and crucial, if America is ever to regain or obtain its freedom. Ending the empire and our alliances with Israel and NATO, again, critical, if America is ever to achieve its democratic ideals. And the same can be said of exorbitant privilege, but these reforms are not likely to be enacted unless Americans demand them. These simple reforms could likely stave off a possible revolution. Adults are willing to accept all manner of abuse, but something transformative often happens when they see their children go hungry & suffer.
If America’s power elite didn’t believe a revolution was possible… as a direct result of the class warfare they wage daily… why the mass incarceration state, the police state, the surveillance state, and panopticon of digital surveillance? Why the cop cities and gator concentration camps?
Why is the oligarchy so afraid? Perhaps for the same reason too many caucasians are fearful of brown and black skinned people?
Happy Birthday, America.
Copyright JM Hamilton Publishing 2025
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