Trump’s budget (BBB) passed by only one vote, sending it to the Senate. Let’s look at one person who might have changed the outcome of the bill:
Nebraska District 1, U.S. Representative, Republican Mike Flood, who is provided a $174,000 salary and lifetime benefits, paid for by taxpayers, voted yes to pass the bill.
What is in the bill?
- It adds $3.3 trillion to the deficit over ten years is not cost saving.
- 13.7 million people will be dropped from their health insurance.
- 90,000 will lose food assistance.
What does BBB stand for? Trump calls it his “Big Beautiful Bill but I have other thoughts.
- This bill benefits those with Bulging Bank Balances, (billionaires.)
This week, Representative Mike Flood held a Town Hall in his district. His constituents bombarded him with angry questions about the cuts his constituents would suffer. He admitted he had not read the bill. He voted yes, to pass the bill that will strip his constituents of healthcare and food assistance, but couldn’t be bothered to read it first.
How does someone this apathetic succeed in life? I don’t know about the rest of his story, but his political career took off with the help of Donald Trump and gerrymandering. Flood’s win wasn’t close. In Seward County, winning re-election in that red district with 77.6% of the county’s votes in November — that exceeded Trump’s, who won 72.2% of that precinct. It seems his constituents have buyer’s remorse.
Republican Rep. Mike Flood grilled during town hall
MAGA Congress votes as ordered, so let’s not assume Rep Flood’s knowledge of the bill would have changed his decision. He is a hard MAGA asset. Either way, his vote will kill people. He needs to go.
And, more than that:
The Bill isn’t faring well in the Senate so far. The republican majority Senate has a problem with seven points in the bill: Tax-cut accounting, (how tax-cuts for the rich are presented) AI regulations, judicial powers, Gun regulations, Farm-bill provisions, Planned Parenthood, and Energy permitting. They have no objections with cuts to funding Medicaid and SNAP.
https://apple.news/AOYyd9sdwRJ66wJvnyzpPrA
What else is happening in Trumpville this week? Pardons. These are Trump’s latest batch of pardons:
✅ Sheriff Scott Jenkins took $70,000 in bribes to appoint donors as deputies. Trump pardoned him.
✅ Reality TV stars Todd and Julie Chrisley, who were convicted of bank fraud and tax evasion, were pardoned.
✅ A millionaire, Paul Walczak, son of a major Trump donor, stole from nursing home staff. Trump pardoned him.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-pardoned-man-1-month-164345653.html
Just one more week of corruption.
A lot from Lydia 
It feels to me like the Good Ole Perverts who don’t like the Big Budget Bomb almost all want it to be more brutal toward poor people.
I’ve wondered, since so very many of them call themselves “Christian” whether a social media campaign (like the GOP talking points brigade) could be organized to put Bible quotes (listing chapter and verse) from Jesus actual teachings (There’s some great ones apropos what is being done and said right now) in the comment sections of GOP content. If the comments get taken down religious persecution of Christians can be loudly proclaimed: “You’re trying to silence Jesus!”.
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I’d love to jump on that bandwagon. I’ve taken part in Bible study groups and have read the book. That was over twenty years ago, but finding appropriate verses in a search engine is straightforward.
I don’t think many of them can say the same; do they read at all? I remember an interviewer told Trump, “I know you say the Bible is your favorite book. I wonder if you could name one or two of your favorite verses.” He said, “well, I wouldn’t want to get into it because it’s very personal.”
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Anyway, I love responding to self proclaimed “Christians” (on Twitter) with Bible quotes that negate their views. They usually ignore me.
My problem with Twitter is that Elon’s crew “Ghost Banned” me. Despite having thousands of followers, only a handful see what I post, and those are probably trolls looking for a reason to delete my account.
Everyone on Social Media should comment on their hypocrisy.
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Is this BS or what?! Can’t name a favorite verse. Old Testament or New? Both. He has no freaking idea about anything to do with the Bible. This is so frustrating to listen to and know that ‘Christians’ are nodding their heads and saying, “Bless that man.”
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It could be that some or many ‘Christians’ even find inconvenient, if not plainly annoying, trying to reconcile the conspicuous inconsistency in the fundamental nature of the New Testament’s Jesus with the wrathful, vengeful and even jealous nature of the Old Testament’s God.
But for many of us, Godly greatness need not be defined as the ability to destroy and harshly punish, as opposed to the willingness and compacity for compassionate forgiveness, non-violence and humility.
… I’ve noticed that many people take their claim of being Christian a bit too lightly. If I even deem it relevant to the point I’m trying to make, I’ll describe myself as being “a big fan of Christ’s unmistakable miracles and fundamental message”, since it’s easy and counterproductive to say that oneself is a Christian, only to be seen/caught behaving non-Christ-like.
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I wonder what they think Christianity means. They say they’re Christian, include a cross, an American flag, maybe an eagle emoji, and add the word patriot. They idolize a horrible human being who has emboldened the ugliest part of society, name-calling like a middle school bullies, rejoicing at persecution without due process. They’ll take food from the hungry to give more money to the wealthy, who don’t need it.
Iowa’s U.S. Senator, Republican Joni Ernst, a Lutheran, specifically a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, held a town hall today and was bombarded with angry questions about cuts to Medicaid. When someone asserted that cutting Medicaid would kill people, she said, “Well, we all are going to die.”
Her lack of empathy is mind-blowing.
I have also commented that if Jesus walked the earth now, he’d be a progressive liberal. Or he might be in prison in Venezuela. (My opinion.) They don’t like that, but I don’t believe they’ve read the Bible. They are repeating talking points they’ve heard.
Kind of like the congressional representative I mentioned who didn’t read the bill he voted to pass.
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I like the way you think. That would be most interesting to see.
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Clearly, Donald Trump’s faithful followers who call themselves Christian need to do a major moral re-think as to which fundamental values taught and practiced by Jesus Christ they’re willing to uphold or ignore, personally though especially publicly.
While there are many Christians who have rejected Donald Trump and his politics (though mostly quietly), regardless of his tempting conservative politics and pro-life professions, there nonetheless remains a vocal and politically active ‘Christian’ element celebrating Trump conservatism. Trump’s extensive disgraceful conduct appears to take a muted back seat to, perhaps most notably, his successful nominations of three conservative justices for the U.S. Supreme Court; and, from my understanding, he was strategically doing likewise with a number of lower courts.
But Jesus fundamentally was about non-violence, genuine compassion, love, and non-wealth. His teachings and practices epitomize so much of the primary component of socialism — do not hoard morbidly gratuitous wealth in the midst of poverty. He clearly would not tolerate the accumulation of tens of billions of dollars by individual people, especially while so many others go hungry and homeless.
Thus I feel compelled to reiterate: Too many adherents of institutional Christianity — those ‘Christians’ most resistant to Christ’s fundamental nature, teachings and practices — are creating their Creator’s nature in their own fallible and often angry, vengeful image.
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And he says if Diddy is convicted (how could he not??) and sentenced to prison, he will pardon him, too. I gotta go, Lydia. My head is about to explode.
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I thought about Diddy too. I’ve seen pictures of them together.
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It is gross. Him, Epstein, Diddy, the Tate Brothers… And he wants to keep his favorite Bible verse private. I cannot even…
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Some of the best humanitarians that I, as a big fan of Christ’s unmistakable miracles and fundamental message, have met or heard about were/are atheists or agnostics who, quite ironically, would make better examples of many of Christ’s teachings/practices than too many ‘Christians’. Conversely, some of the worst human(e) beings I’ve met or heard about are the most devout believers/preachers of fundamental Biblical theology.
My larger point: It’s bad enough for the Donald Trump government to cut whatever minimal government support there is for poor people, especially children, lacking food and/or those without access to privately insured health care. But to do so in large part to redirect those funds via tax cuts to the superfluously very wealthy — including those who have no need for more money, and likely never will — is plain immoral.
Morally, the cut government-support funding should at least — at the very least — be redirected to other similarly worthy/in-need social and human(e) causes. It won’t be, of course. Instead, the money will mostly go towards an attempt to satiate the bottomless-pit greed of unlimited-growth capitalism and hoarded wealth. It’s morbidly shameful conduct by a supposedly Christian nation’s government, which is largely politically supported by institutional ‘Christianity’ in America.
I can understand corpocratically-inclined and extreme-wealth Americans supporting Trump’s soulless — hell, completely un-Christlike — bill. But there are so many voters and elected Republicans who claim to be Christian yet defend, or at least are noticeably quiet about, the bill despite its ultimate cutting of access to health services and food aid/supports for the poorest Americans.
After all, Jesus Christ was about compassion, charity and non-wealth. His teachings and practices epitomize so much of the primary component of socialism — do not hoard gratuitous resources, especially in the midst of great poverty. Yet, this is not practiced by a significant number of ‘Christians’, likely including many who idolize callous politicians standing for very little or nothing Jesus taught and represents.
They all should consider that the Biblical Jesus would not have rolled his eyes and sighed: ‘Oh, well. I’m against what the politician stands for, but what can you do when you dislike even more what his political competition stands for?’
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Well said! Thank you. 😊
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