Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” slashes $930B from Medicaid, balloons the deficit, and sanctifies cruelty. A gospel written in debt—and delivered in blood.
This is the most hideous bill ever written. It will cause thousands to die. There will be no healthcare, no food stamps, no heating or cooling .It will close nursing and rural hospitals among other things. It is a killer bill that tears apart our social safety net. And the poorest among us will suffer most.
That’s the truth, and it deserves to be said exactly as you said it. This bill isn’t just cruel—it’s calculated. It doesn’t fail the poor by accident. It targets them. Thank you for naming the cost so clearly.
Absolutely. It’s austerity disguised as virtue and sabotage sold as strategy. Cruelty isn’t a side effect here—it’s the business model. Grateful you see it clearly.
I've been following the bill religiously since the first couple of midnight sessions in the House. I cannot believe it even passed there. This piece perfectly sums up the superficial propitiations fascinated to the bill in a lackluster attempt to distract from the heretical and egregious heist of prosperity of and wealth from the lower-middle class. I don't know exactly how close we are to what Marx and Engels discussed with scientific precision, but things are feeling very divided among class and rapidly devolving. An upheaval could be even worse, but for now we all can do nothing but watch as one of the most controversial pieces of American legislation causes a mass redistribution of wealth while slashing social services and suffocating the country in their greed and toxic emissions. Prepare for the worst, fight for the best, expect something in the middle.
This is one of the most incisive reflections I’ve read—thank you. You’re absolutely right: what’s unfolding isn’t just legislative malpractice, it’s a ritualized extraction of wealth, masked in ornamental populism. The bill doesn’t just hollow out social services—it spiritualizes greed, rewrites cruelty as discipline, and leaves the rest of us watching through the smoke. Your final line belongs etched on every Capitol wall: Prepare for the worst, fight for the best, expect something in the middle.
Donny, your description of this brutal attack on anything that smacks of concern and provision for the less well-off is downright poetic. As every day passes it becomes more difficult to comprehend the mindset and motives of the authors of this mongrel piece of legislation. Obviously, outrageous greed is one factor, but the seeming cruelty, bitterness, nastiness and vengefulness are damned hard to process. With spineless, cowed legislators and an increasingly stacked judiciary, all there is left, apparently, is to continue calling it out for what it is and set to organising ongoing 'No Kings' type protests, with the emphasis on ongoing. As in relentless. And that itself will be challenging with potentially violent and armed ICE operatives, and their mates in Proud Boys 'militias' keeping the peace, allegedly.
This reads like a dispatch from the conscience we’re all trying to keep intact—thank you. You’ve nailed it: greed may be the scaffolding, but what animates this bill is something darker—vindictive, not merely extractive. And yes, what’s required now is something relentless, unignorable, and brave: a resistance that doesn’t just protest the policy, but the theology behind it. No kings. No gods of cruelty. Just a republic worth defending.
That means a lot—thank you. If the only sane response is a stunned headshake, then maybe we’re still sane after all. Grateful you took the time to read. 💙
Which is priority? Medical Care for the elderly, Disabled, & under paid or more $$$$ for billionaires? Americans take care of our neighbors. Billionaires are not our neighbors.
This is the most hideous bill ever written. It will cause thousands to die. There will be no healthcare, no food stamps, no heating or cooling .It will close nursing and rural hospitals among other things. It is a killer bill that tears apart our social safety net. And the poorest among us will suffer most.
That’s the truth, and it deserves to be said exactly as you said it. This bill isn’t just cruel—it’s calculated. It doesn’t fail the poor by accident. It targets them. Thank you for naming the cost so clearly.
I agree- hideous, callous and without empathy. It’s also economic suicide.
Absolutely. It’s austerity disguised as virtue and sabotage sold as strategy. Cruelty isn’t a side effect here—it’s the business model. Grateful you see it clearly.
I've been following the bill religiously since the first couple of midnight sessions in the House. I cannot believe it even passed there. This piece perfectly sums up the superficial propitiations fascinated to the bill in a lackluster attempt to distract from the heretical and egregious heist of prosperity of and wealth from the lower-middle class. I don't know exactly how close we are to what Marx and Engels discussed with scientific precision, but things are feeling very divided among class and rapidly devolving. An upheaval could be even worse, but for now we all can do nothing but watch as one of the most controversial pieces of American legislation causes a mass redistribution of wealth while slashing social services and suffocating the country in their greed and toxic emissions. Prepare for the worst, fight for the best, expect something in the middle.
This is one of the most incisive reflections I’ve read—thank you. You’re absolutely right: what’s unfolding isn’t just legislative malpractice, it’s a ritualized extraction of wealth, masked in ornamental populism. The bill doesn’t just hollow out social services—it spiritualizes greed, rewrites cruelty as discipline, and leaves the rest of us watching through the smoke. Your final line belongs etched on every Capitol wall: Prepare for the worst, fight for the best, expect something in the middle.
Donny, your description of this brutal attack on anything that smacks of concern and provision for the less well-off is downright poetic. As every day passes it becomes more difficult to comprehend the mindset and motives of the authors of this mongrel piece of legislation. Obviously, outrageous greed is one factor, but the seeming cruelty, bitterness, nastiness and vengefulness are damned hard to process. With spineless, cowed legislators and an increasingly stacked judiciary, all there is left, apparently, is to continue calling it out for what it is and set to organising ongoing 'No Kings' type protests, with the emphasis on ongoing. As in relentless. And that itself will be challenging with potentially violent and armed ICE operatives, and their mates in Proud Boys 'militias' keeping the peace, allegedly.
This reads like a dispatch from the conscience we’re all trying to keep intact—thank you. You’ve nailed it: greed may be the scaffolding, but what animates this bill is something darker—vindictive, not merely extractive. And yes, what’s required now is something relentless, unignorable, and brave: a resistance that doesn’t just protest the policy, but the theology behind it. No kings. No gods of cruelty. Just a republic worth defending.
Beautifully said!
Thank you—that means a great deal. I only wish the subject weren’t so ugly. Grateful you’re here and reading. 🙏
After I read it, I just said….”Wow”as I shook my head back and forth. Great piece!
That means a lot—thank you. If the only sane response is a stunned headshake, then maybe we’re still sane after all. Grateful you took the time to read. 💙
Which is priority? Medical Care for the elderly, Disabled, & under paid or more $$$$ for billionaires? Americans take care of our neighbors. Billionaires are not our neighbors.
Appreciate that. When policy masquerades as gospel, heresy might be the only honest word left. Thanks for reading—and resisting. ✊