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Now (sorry) I’m going to puke all over my Substack.
Sometimes you feel the need to just spew. It might be contagious. I hope not but, pardon me while I do just that. Trump is a gilded dolt being showered with gifts by a coalition of conservatives, evangelicals, and billionaires to undo FDR and the New Deal, LBJ and the War on Poverty and all liberal safety net systems designed for the “common good.”
These people are hiding behind laws that they’re breaking every day. They know that according to US laws, immigrants have rights to humane treatment, even undocumented immigrants. Rather than allowing immigrants to appear before the appropriate courts, ICE is arresting people who show up as scheduled. A stuffed Supreme Court backs what ICE is doing, and ICE is doing Trump’s bidding. In a recent article, Gregory Bovino told a reporter that he wants to be president in 2029, and he wants to deport 106 million Americans whose skin is not white enough. See, doesn’t that make you want to puke.
Money is the province of Congress, as we say, Congress holds the purse strings. In the Trump administration, this means that Mike Johnson, Trump’s cherubic “yes man”makes sure that Trump gets whatever budget items he asks for, even if it takes some time and some quasi-Constitutional shenanigans. (Gag.) Many funding bills have been passed by reconciliation which only requires votes of a single party, Republicans, since they hold a slim majority.
Off the top of my head, all about money:
1 billion dollars not for the ballroom, for security; a part of the 70 billion dollars for the Department of Homeland security to fund the Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement through 2029 passed on June 10, 2026.
Over 1 trillion dollars for the military was requested just two days ago while Republicans are asking for huge cuts in safety net programs. This has not passed yet. (Oh dear, excuse me for a moment. Urp. False alarm.)
Money to paint the reflecting pool blue.
Money for Trump’s birthday celebration and UFC cage fighting on the White House lawn.
Money for Trump’s Arc de Triomphe.
Money for the Iran War.
Money for lawsuits against Trump’s enemies that are on-going in federal courts.
And Trump’s 1.8 billion slush fund keeps popping up just when we think it’s dead.
(Oops. Still feeling a bit sick to my stomach.)
We are bleeding money for Trump’s every whim and social programs are not on his wish list, except perhaps for housing.
Who knew these folks could come up with so many creative ways to explain that they are not breaking any laws. They keep inventing work-a-rounds like using reconciliation to pass budget bills.
An analogy:
I have carpenter bees on my deck. They are big and they fly right at me, but they just intimidate. They don’t attack. They tunnel into the wood railing on my deck. They leave sawdust under the holes they make, and they lay eggs in the wood. Then they circle anxiously making it seem that I am in their way and that I don’t belong on my own deck.
Trump and his peeps are the nation’s carpenter bees.
If they can’t live with our ideologies and we can’t stomach theirs, what are we to do?
Trump is working diligently (if such a word applies) to “rig” the 2026 midterms while Democrats are counting on people’s dissatisfaction with Trump’s regime, launching plenty of candidates and keeping the polls open and accessible. So far, cheating has meant winning for Trump and the Republicans.
We should all be sick to our stomachs. If we can’t have a free and fair election in 2026, let’s get a divorce. We are not white nationalists. We don’t want religion in our schools or in our government. We don’t want “social Darwinism” that leaves us on our own in troubled times. Do we?
For a more fact-based view read Heather Cox Richardson’s post for Saturday, June 13.
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