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Big Beautiful Billโ€™s Trickle Down Theory Questioned

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Republicans have for decades advanced this theory that if you give tax cuts to the wealthy (business owners), the wealth they โ€œcreateโ€ would eventually trickles down to the middle and lower classโ€”the so-called โ€œtrickle-downโ€ economic theory.

History however has proven time and time again that the trickle down economic theory never works as promised, and instead, only widens the gap between the rich and the poor. This topic came up in an interesting segment of MSNBCโ€™s Morning Joe show (06/03/25), and as you can tell from the heavy reaction, Americans appear to have caught up to the trickle down lie, as Republicans yet again push the Big Beautiful Bill.

Hell, even Grok sided with opponents of the trickle down theory

It will be interesting to see how Republicans progress with the Big Beautiful Bill, now that the trickle down lie has been exposed.

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Rand Paul Says Military Industrial Complex Advocates Behind The Big Beautiful Bill

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Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) appeared on CBSโ€™ Face The Nation (06/01/25) where he dropped a bombshell telling host Margaret Brennan that President Trumpโ€™s signature legislative proposalโ€”so called โ€œBig Beatiful Billโ€, was essentially a ploy by military industrial complex advocates to increase military spending.

There have been many criticisms of the Big Beatiful Bill by congressional Democrats and some Republicans (including Sen Paul), but this is the first time Iโ€™ve heard the military industrial complex angle thrown into the mix.

It will be interesting to see how Democrats โ€œpick up the batonโ€ from Sen Paul, and run with this new military industrial complex angle, as they try to derail Trumpโ€™s Big Beautiful Bill.

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House Speaker Grilled Over โ€œBig Beautiful Billโ€

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House Speaker Mike Johnson appeared on CBSโ€™ Face The Nation (05/25/25) to discuss among other things, the recent House passage of the Trump administrationโ€™s budget billโ€”dubbed โ€œBig Beautiful Billโ€. The Billโ€™s fate now lies with the Republican majority in the U.S. Senate.

Among the issues raising concerns with the budget bill, is that it is projected to increase the national debt significantly, something Republican lawmakers lamented throughout the Biden administration. The bill also makes significant cuts to Medicaid and food stamps(SNAP), programs crucial for working families generally, and specifically, the working poor.

Speaker Mike Johnsonโ€™s Louisiana is one of the poorest states in the nation, so cuts to Medicaid and food stamps are bound to have relatively more disastrous effects on families there. Asked by host Margaret Brennan how he can justify pushing such cuts knowing full well that his state is one of the poorest in the nation, Speaker Johnson responded that all the bill cuts is waste, fraud and abuse.

It will be interesting to see how Speaker Johnson and other House Republicans use this excuse once their poor constituents start complaining about the cuts. Even more interesting, will be the way Republicans defend this tricky position as we approach the 2026 midterm elections. 

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Is Corruption The Dem Ticket To Victory In 2026?

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Ever since President Trump beat his Democratic challenger Kamala Harris in the 2024 U.S. presidential election, Democrats have been in disarray, struggling to find a compelling narrative with which to challenge the new Trump administration.

Corruption is slowly becoming the galvanizing issue that is uniting Democrats in their opposition to the Trump administration. My posts on X(formerly Twitter) referencing these corruption stories generate a lot of engagement(retweets, likes, comments) which supports my assertion that corruption is clearly a hot topic for Democrats as we approach the 2026 midterms. Below are examples of such posts.

Will Democrats capitalize on this corruption issue to victory in the 2026 midterms? Only time will tell.

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President Trumpโ€™s Interview On MTP 050425

President Trump sat down for an extensive interview with NBC Meet The Pressโ€™ Kristen Welker on 05/04/25. As expected the interview covered all the major topics of the dayโ€”economy, immigration, military, foreign affairs, and in typical Trump fashion, even some humorous moments. Hey, heโ€™s not a tv ratings magnet for nothing.๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿคทโ€โ™€๏ธ

One of the most humorous moments for me, came when host Kristen Welker asked him when problems in the economy can be attributed to his actionsโ€”ostensibly referring to the damage the tariffs are doing to the economy. President Trump responded by saying that when the economy does good, he should get the credit, and when it struggles, his predecessor Biden should bare the blame.๐Ÿ˜‚

It will be interesting to see how this position holds, as the effects of tariffs become visibly evident from the empty store shelves. Will MAGA blame the empty shelves on Bidenโ€™s economic policies? Hmm, as Trump famously says, โ€œWeโ€™ll see what happens.โ€

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DOGE Accused Of Amassing Massive Data For Political Dosiers

Bombshell report on the 04/30/25 edition of the Rachel Maddow Show (citing the NY times) says that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is amassing massive amounts of people’s private data from various government agencies in an effort to create a central database that could potentially be used/abused to create “dossiers” of political opponents of President Trump.

Yours Truly captured part of Maddow’s commentary in the tweet below (X below if you like๐Ÿ™„๐Ÿ˜‚).

NY Times’ Julia Angwin told host Maddow that this [dossier politics] is very common in authoritarian countries, especially China. She specifically said: “China is sort of the example that does this. They have these master files that they have on every citizen, everything that they’ve ever done, it’s called social credit score, and they use it to punish dissent.”

Importantly, and quite scaringly, Angwin says compared to other Western nations, America’s privacy laws are the worst equipped to dealing with the dangers of such a centralized database. She adds that our system was designed based on this notion that government officials will always be acting in good faith, and thus tread carefully re the private data of citizens.

If this reporting holds up, it looks like America is gearing up for the biggest civil liberties fight of her 400 year existence. I hate to be a Debbie Downer here, but given since the passage of the Patriot Act right after 09/11, we’ve witnessed increasing encroachments to our civil liberties, and privacy in particular. 

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, advances in technology have for all intents and purposes, rendered the 4thamendment moot. Consequently, there’s no privacy to defend. Congress has had numerous opportunities to deal with the problem, but abdicated at every turn. Too late to solve the problem now.๐Ÿคท. 

I’ve been quite consistent about this issue. This was me ranting and raving about very issue way back in 2019๐Ÿ˜ณ๐Ÿ‘‡When some big time MSMer starts bandwagoning over the issue, make sure to remind them that Yours Truly was already crying about this in 2019โ€ฆwhen MSM thought it was just another โ€œconspiracy theoryโ€.๐Ÿ™„

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Sen Rand Paul Promises Vigorous Oversight Of DHS

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In his opening remarks at the Senate confirmation hearings for incoming DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, GOP Senator Rand Paul, Chairman of the Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee, laid out brilliantly, the case as to why the behemoth that is DHS, begs for some serious oversight.

Senator Paul characterized DHS as a very powerful agency that was created after the 9/11 attacks to secure the homeland, but has since veered from its intended course, and into attacks against Americans simply exercising their free speech rights.

Sen Paul: “Think about it, an agency [DHS] commanding over $110 billion annually, can’t account for its own activities. This is not just bureaucratic incompetence, it’s emblematic of a deeper issue. An agency unsure of its own boundaries and commitments.”

He went on to add that DHS is increasingly focusing on peopleโ€™s social media posts, and even placing people on terrorism watchlists based on such postsโ€”a total travesty.

Bottom line folks, the criticisms Senator Paul levels at DHS are well founded and longstanding. The only question now is whether he’ll follow through, and use his position as Senate Homeland Security Chair, to provide the much-needed oversight DHS cries for.

Sadly, if the past is anything to go by, Sen Paul’s oversight promises might devolve into his just using his lofty committee chair perch to score political points by digging into, idk, Hunter Biden files. Let’s hope that doesn’t end up being the case, but I’ll readily admit, I would not be surprised.

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Maddow Fact Checks Trumpโ€™s SOTU Address

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On 03/04/25, President Donald Trump delivered the customary State of The Union address before a joint session of Congress. Per MSNBCโ€™s Rachel Maddow, this was the longest State of The Union speech ever delivered by a U.S. president.

Moments after President Trumpโ€™s address, Maddow delivered a blistering fact check to Trumpโ€™s address

Among the issues that Maddow fact checked President Trump on, was his assertion that he had spoken with the heads of U.S. auto manufacturers, and that they were happy with his proposed tariffs on the auto industry.

Maddow specifically said, “For the record, U.S. auto company CEOs are NOT psyched, and delighted, and sooo excited about Trump’s economic policies, including his tariffs.”

Less than 24 hours after Maddowโ€™s fact check, news broke that the Trump administration was pausing itโ€™s proposed tariffs on automakersโ€”a tacit admission that the said CEOs had never expressed optimism about the proposed auto tariffs, as the president had indicated on his State of The Union address.

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Maddow Draws Striking Parallel Between Hitler & Putin Assaults And The U.S. Reaction To Them

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In the 03/03/25 edition of MSNBC’ s Rachel Maddow Show, host Maddow pointed out the striking resemblance between how the U.S. dealt with Hitler’s assault on Europe, and the way the Trump administration is dealing with Putin’s current assault on Ukraine in particular, and Europe generally.

Maddow pointed out that by July 1940, Great Britain was the only European country left standing after Hitler’s forces had practically run over every other European country.

Then U.S. President Roosevelt was doing everything in his power to assist the Brits against Hitler’s forces. But interestingly, there was no consensus in the U.S. that the we should be assisting the Brits, which is quite similar to what we hear today from some leading Republican voices re Ukraine.

One of the leading Republican voices against Roosevelt assisting the Brits, was a U.S. Senator from Minnesota, one Ernest Lundeen.

Senator Lundeen apparently argued that Britain did not deserve America’s aid because it was not “grateful enough” for America’s past assistance(World War I, etc). He also argued, much like Republicans are arguing today, that Britain and other European allies needed to dig into their own mineral resources and pay America for its assistance–again, the same argument we are hearing today from leading Republicans.

It later came out, however, that during the entire time Senator Lundeen had been making these otherwise reasonable arguments against aid to Britain (on fiscal grounds), he was actually being paid by Hitler’s Germany to make their case from his lofty perch as a U.S. Senator.

The $1 million question now is, who is Putin paying to make his case in the U.S. Congress or even from a loftier perch, which I’ll leave to your imagination? Only time will tell.

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Dem Sen Murphy Accuses Trump-Vance Of Steering America Towards Kleptocracy

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U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) appeared on CNNSOTU (022825) where he dropped a bombshell, telling host Dana Bash that the shouting match we recently witnessed at the White House between President Trump, his VP Vance, and the President of Ukraine, was not an anomaly, but rather, a conscious effort by Trump-Vance to steer America towards kleptocracy.

The characterization by the mainstream media thus far, has been that the confrontation at the White House was just an unfortunate case of a good meeting gone badโ€”something that happened out of happenstance.

What Sen Murphy is saying however, is markedly different, and that is, this was a pre-meditated, conscious effort by Trump-Vance to humiliate the President of Ukraine for the benefit of Vladimir Putin. Furthermore, Sen Murphy adds that this is part of their larger effort to align America with dictators around the world, so as to make it easier for them to transform America into a kleptocratic oligarchy like Russia.

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