Republicans will ultimately pass this horrendous bill simply because they have the numbers, and they have the numbers because voters gave them to them. There is no upside to Republicans being in power and we don’t have to keep trading majorities with them back and forth every so many years. Voters have to do a better job. People who need these services being cut and can’t vote rely on you. The idea of putting Republicans in on purpose so things will get worse is the idea of a selfish ass.

This bill is going to undo a good chunk of the major achievements of the last two Democratic presidents (drastic Medicaid cuts, gut the ACA, and the green energy stuff Biden did for starters.) If the libs did it/were for it, they have to destroy it. But voters don’t show them proper consequences, so they have no incentive to stop. Put Trump back in and the message isn’t “America wants a more progressive government.” The message they got is “destroy everything good that was built and die.” .

Basically the GOP bill: “Bloodlust and hatred of immigrants is more important than healthcare coverage for millions of Americans.” We live in such stupid times, governed by the stupidest and cruelest amongst us and 77 million people voted for it. What's in the ‘Big, Beautiful Bill?' Medicaid cuts, money for ICE and more as Senate voting continues:

Did the ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ pass? Latest version and what’s in it – NBC Chicago

Eggs were somehow considered too expensive so Americans voted to totally destroy our disaster emergency response services, our National Parks, Medicaid, energy development, and cancer research services. It’s completely and utterly insane. “When is cancer political?" Medical researchers, patients decry Trump admin's layoffs, budget cuts - CBS News:

"When is cancer political?" Medical researchers, patients decry Trump admin

Scientists conducting medical research are facing an existential crisis: Layoffs and budget cuts pushed by President Trump that, they say, jeopardi...

Democrats spent an entire 4 day convention and many hours of ads, campaign speeches, and media appearances telling everyone that Project 2025 was real. The nominee spoke of it on the campaign trail daily. Joe Biden passed real climate legislation. A majority of voters either didn't vote, voted 3rd party or voted for Trump. The willingness of voters to cut off their noses to spite their faces won’t end well. Trump's Big Beautiful Bill Will Destroy U.S. Climate Progress:

Trump's Big Beautiful Bill Will Destroy U.S. Climate Progress

Donald Trump and Republicans are using the "Big Beautiful Bill" to roll back climate provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act.

Probably worth mentioning that when more people are uninsured, the cost of health insurance for people with coverage goes up. So, when you pass a bill that punts 10 million plus off Medicaid you're also spiking premiums for yourself and/or others. Collective action actually takes things like benefiting everyone as a whole into consideration, so a lot of pragmatist progressive voters will have a very difficult time trusting people who encouraged voters to ignore what was very well known.

This is absolutely tiresome because we told you all in 2016 this would happen if Trump won and too many decided not to believe it or care.

Are we allowed to point out that SCOTUS's birthright citizenship decision seemed totally unaffected by lighting Teslas on fire but voting for Democrats would have prevented a right wing SCOTUS? I hope so.

Trump's executive order is unconstitutional. What the Court did do is allow Trump, or any other future president, to deny birthright citizenship to any group they shall choose. This is likely to happen. Think of the number of refugees in the US that will have citizenship stripped: Haitians, Cubans, Somalis, Sudanese, Ukrainians, Arabs, etc. This gives Trump more autocratic power. US supreme court limits judges’ power on nationwide injunctions in apparent win for Trump:

the Guardian

US supreme court limits federal judges’ power to block Trump orders

Ruling to limit nationwide injunctions could see president’s order to ban birthright citizenship partially implemented

And by the way, everyone saying one city’s primary is the defining moment of our lifetimes for the Democratic Party are almost all the same people who told me that some privileged kid murdering a healthcare CEO would make a massive U.S. movement on universal healthcare happen. So excuse my skepticism.