The Police State, Supercharged

If you liked masked, unidentified men snatching people off the street—
get ready for OBBBA to put that on steroids.

This bill funnels more money into militarized enforcement and unaccountable federal agents, while gutting civil rights protections and expanding surveillance powers. It turns fear into policy and treats dissent like a threat.

We’ve seen the dry run:
Unmarked vans. No badges. No names. Just force.

Now they want to make it permanent.

This isn’t security. It’s authoritarianism wrapped in stars and stripes.
If you believe in freedom, if you care about your neighbors—oppose this bill.

Before it turns protest into peril.

Trickle Down Economics is a Cruel Hoax

From Robert Reich, influential economist and former Department of Labor Secretary:

Contrary to what you hear from Republicans and Fox News, this bill will NOT help the economy. Over the last 50 years, Congress has passed four major tax cuts, and every single one proved that “trickle-down economics” is nothing but a cruel hoax.

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office confirms that if this bill becomes law, those in the bottom tenth of the income distribution will end up poorer, while the top tenth will be substantially richer.

Never before in the history of this nation has such a large redistribution of income been directed upward, for no reason at all except to benefit those with wealth and power.

Senate Chamber Feels Like a “Crime Scene”

After passage of the One Big Brutal Bill Act, which takes benefits and wealth from the vast majority of the American people to give it to the very wealthy and corporations, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) said this on the floor of the Senate:

This place feels to me, today, like a crime scene. Get some of that yellow tape and put it around this chamber. This piece of legislation is corrupt. This piece of legislation is crooked. This piece of legislation is a rotten racket. This bill cooked up in back rooms, dropped at midnight, cloaked in fake numbers with huge handouts to big Republican donors. It loots our country for some of the least deserving people you could imagine. When I first got here, this chamber filled me with awe and wonderment. Today, I feel disgust.