Brain Droppings
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Brain Droppings
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Hasn't changed in 50 years
The CBO estimates that Trump's Big Ugly Bill, which is stuffed with tax cuts skewed to the wealthy, will explode the deficit by $2.4T and kick 10.9M people off their health insurance.

This has always been the GOP strategy: socialism for the rich, harsh capitalism for the rest.
June 5, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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The Medicaid cuts proposed by the GOP are awful on their own.

But they could also reduce economic activity — resulting in a loss of 850,000 jobs across the country in both the healthcare industry and beyond.

All for tax cuts that will mostly benefit the richest Americans.
House budget bill would kick 15 million people off health insurance and damage local economies
House Republicans wanted to find a way to defray the cost of the tax cuts they passed for the richest households in the
www.epi.org
June 4, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Rinse and Repeat!
This has always been the GOP's strategy:

1) Cut taxes for the wealthy & corporations by claiming they'll pay for themselves.

2) Explode the deficit.

3) Demand cuts to vital programs that help millions.

4) Repeat.

They're trying to get away with it again.
May 27, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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The GOP budget bill is 1,116 pages long but it boils down to this one simple fact:

Republicans are facilitating a massive transfer of wealth to the richest Americans while making cuts that would rip away healthcare and food from millions of people.

It's Robin Hood in reverse.
May 21, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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May 16, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Your Mother’s Day weekend reminder that the so-called “party of family values” has historically blocked:

-Paid family & medical leave
-Universal childcare
-Universal pre-K
-Expanded Child Tax Credit
-Programs to support reproductive health

Doesn’t sound very pro-family to me.
May 10, 2025 at 11:01 PM
"Either everyone has due process — or no one does."
If Trump can claim a "national emergency" to disappear U.S. residents without due process, what’s to stop him from doing the same to U.S. citizens who oppose him? 

Either everyone has due process — or no one does.
May 6, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Forget plunging consumer confidence or shrinking GDP.

The most surefire indicator that we’re heading for economic chaos?

Trump’s own officials are stockpiling basic goods in anticipation of increased prices brought on by his nonsensical tariffs. Hello?
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Spooked by Trade Wars, Trump Officials Hoard Supplies: 'It Would Be Stupid Not To!'
Donald Trump’s aides and administration officials are hoarding toilet paper, food, and household supplies before his tariffs cause prices to spike.
www.rollingstone.com
May 5, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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"Resist the US Empire! No War but Class War"
Subverted Star Wars billboard in Sydney
May 6, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Carlin urging us to focus on our similarities instead of or differences and things that bring us closer together. "United we stand, divided we fall"
#CarlinClassics #CriticalVoices #LegacyOfLaughter #WittyWisdom #SatireSpeaksTruth #TruthThroughHumor

youtu.be/cgps85scy1g?...
George Carlin on Our Similarities
YouTube video by CappyNJ
youtu.be
May 4, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Amen!
While planning to gut Medicaid and SNAP to pay for more tax cuts for the rich, Republicans are pushing to give the Pentagon an additional $150 billion in funding.

Trump has already promised a record $1 trillion military budget.

Their priorities couldn’t be more clear.
April 28, 2025 at 6:32 PM
"When you're born in this world you're given a ticket to the freak show, if you happen to be born in America, you're given a front row seat"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9Cj...

#CarlinClassics #GeorgeCarlinQuotes #SatiricalHumor #PropheticTruths #TheGeniusofCarlin #TruthThroughHumor
George Carlin on God, the planet, and "the freak show" - EMMYTVLEGENDS.ORG
YouTube video by FoundationINTERVIEWS
www.youtube.com
April 26, 2025 at 6:58 PM
If you don't speak out against this injustice you are complicit. Speak before it's too late!
By defying the Supreme Court’s order to return Abrego Garcia from El Salvador, Trump is laying the groundwork to do the same to U.S. citizens.

Now is the time to speak out — before there is no one left to speak.

We are on a path towards dictatorship.
April 20, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Amen!
If Trump can disappear legal residents without due process, what’s to stop him from doing the same to U.S. citizens who oppose him?

Either everyone has due process — or no one does.
April 20, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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The innocence of Abrego Garcia, Merwil Gutiérrez, and an estimated 90% of the people sent to El Salvador proves this was never about “criminals”.

It’s about racism.

It’s about state terror.

It’s about dehumanization.

Fascism takes hold when people stay silent. It’s up to all of us to speak up.
April 16, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both."

—Louis Brandeis
April 19, 2025 at 7:01 PM
"They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking.They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table to figure out how badly they’re getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fucking years ago"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nyvx...

#CarlinClassics
George Carlin - It's A BIG Club & You Ain't In It!
YouTube video by SkyEcho7
www.youtube.com
April 5, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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April 5, 2025 at 12:39 AM
"A man was sent to El Salvador due to 'administrative error' despite protected legal status"

An admin error? I never thought I'd live to see this scene play out in real life. #DystopianTimesinAmerica #SocialAwakening #PoliticalRevolution #StandUpForChange
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nvlw...
Brazil - Mr. Buttle's Arrest
YouTube video by Josh Morgan
www.youtube.com
April 2, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Obviously it was never about the economy. Or the price of eggs or any of that BullSh#T. So what was it really about?

Hint DEI
Trump administration screwing up the economy too www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
March 28, 2025 at 3:50 AM