Boy, oh boy, Dean. Rump is just sticking "IT" to the American people with absolutely no shame, and these Republicans in Congress make me sick by passing his "Big, Ugly Bill"‼️ I'm so disappointed this morning ☕ But at least I've got you, my friend, and will reStack ASAP 🙏

Thank you, Dean. Your voice is important during this horrendous time. You call out the hypocrisy and outright cruelty of the GOP and this sitting POS president. Keep on keeping on!

The bill also kills free speech and the rule of law. No one can be found in contempt now by a judge.

My part D for Medicare knew this was coming, I take pain medication that I get from pain management so I’m used to getting a letter every year telling me that there are other options (that don’t work) like antidepressants or massage (that medicare doesn’t cover), and since I’m used to getting these letters I didn’t think too much of it.

But then I saw they added a paragraph that I’m not used to seeing, and it was letting me know that they can change the approved drugs on the formulary at any time. Maybe it’s always been that way and it just never happened to me mid year, but historically I’ve only seen them add or drop drugs from the formulary on January 1.

And since Wallgreens took the retail price off the drug information print out they staple to the bag I had to go onto my EOB to look at the cost of my pain medication.

Last year I know for a fact it was something like $40 because I remember thinking that if I lose healthcare coverage I can pay that, I don’t know how I’ll pay the specialist who writes the prescription every month, especially when I have to pay for urine tests regularly.

This year that same medication is being billed at $230. I would probably still pay that until I maxed out my credit cards and defaulted because I’m not going to go back to being bedbound. That is not a life I’m willing to live again.

Pathetically eking it out in the middle of the night, threatening dissenters, who unsurprisingly caved. The GOP is utterly spineless & complicit. All of them. I can never sing that lyric, “… and home of the brave” again.

Heritage Foundation, Federalist Society Project 2025 the real Deep State running this Oligarchy. Most of the trillions in tax cuts go to just 65 people and their Corporations. The Bill if passed in the Senate with it's poison pills will end Democracy making Trump a dictator.

It is hard for me to understand how a political party can be popular by clinging assiduously to the notion that what America needs is more suffering for the vast majority of its citizens so that a small coterie of privileged nincompoops can have anything they wish.

You got that Magat's? The guy YOU voted for, just cut aid in the form of Medicaid and SNAP so that he could get a bigger plane and hand tax cuts to the WEALTHY.

YOU DID THIS BY VOTING FOR HIM. Who's gonna provide the medical care for the bullet wound in your foot?

This bill also has a nationwide abortion and trans healthcare access ban and will erase all non-profits that MAGA doesn't like which means all LGBTQ non-profits will be banned. My literal life is in danger now. I'm on Medicaid and work for an LGBTQ non-profit.

Make the poor so desperate for food that they'll accept horrible working conditions, I guess.

Company scrip, company stores, child labor, unsafe factories, the whole lot.

The Let me eat cake lead to the guillotine

I would be so fucking embarrassed to admit that T. Rump is my president…if I lived in America.

One can't help but wondering what it is going to take to get rid of Trump and his outrageous robber barons before the lizard eyed snake destroys our democracy. Americans better wake up and rise up before it's too late!

Our country is just going to hell in a handbasket as they say. But this is what you get when uninformed people elect a game show host as their president versus someone who really wants to make things better for the American people.

It's always been about Trump and what's in it for Trump. I just got back from an overseas trip and it just reminded me what a great country we have. It's not perfect and still needs a lot of work but I'd like the MAGA cultists to go to other countries and see how others live. I guarantee you they'd realize how good they've got it compared to most people in the world

Regular billionaires are too ashamed to say this stuff out loud...not Trump. And that's why they love him.

The H.R.1 bill, called "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" passed the house of representatives in the wee hours of Thursday morning just after midnight by a vote of 215 to 214.

One Republican, Andy Harris of Maryland, abstained from voting, even though he was present for the vote. Maryland is home to many civil servants who work in Washington DC. The state has strong progressive values. Harris could have voted against H.R.1. and would have represented most of his constituents interests. He didn't want to piss off Trump, so he did a Poilivere.

Republican Ken Buck of Colorado and Democrat Al Green of Texas did not show up at all on Wednesday and into Thursday.

Ken Buck was present the day before and announced his early retirement to begin next week. Originally, he wasn't going to run again in the next election and intended to serve out his remaining term. Speaker Mike Johnson was surprised by the announcement as it further narrows the Republican majority in Congress.

Al Green was censured last March, when he stood up in congress and heckled Trump's state of the nation address. His attandence has been sporadic since then. It's hard to see why, maybe because he received little support from his fellow Democrats and it bothers him the house has become a clown show run by kids and an Alzheimer brain ridden madman.

But, Green was also a judge once, and he has mobility issues as evidenced by his use of a cane. Healthcare programs are a strong interest and priority for him. The H.R.1 bill has a trillion dollars in healthcare defunding that will hit his constituents hard.

More alarming is H.R.1 has a Department of Justice provision with a proposal that would expand prosecutorial authority over sitting lawmakers and candidates for office.

Specifically, it would allow political appointees within the DOJ to bring criminal charges against elected officials WITHOUT requiring external review from career prosecutors or independent oversight bodies.

Critics argue that this could open the door to politically motivated prosecutions, while supporters claim it would strengthen accountability for public officials.

The provision is buried deep within the bill’s justice reform section, making it one of the more controversial elements of the legislation.

The bill has to pass the Senate to become law. Senators opposed to H.R.1 have several strategies available to them to prevent its passage.

The biggest challenge is doing a fillibuster (more effective than a Poilivere). Simply, there is no end to the debate about the bill.

Senators can prolong debate indefinitely, preventing the bill from moving to a vote unless 60 members agree to end discussion. Such a vote to end the debate needs to be formally requested by at least 16 Senators.

Senators can also propose changes to H.R.1, each of which have to go back to the house of representatives for another vote to be accepted. The house can refuse to vote on them by asking for further modifications. But, the house cannot stop the Senate from making recommendations, and each one has to be reconsidered and voted on by the house. We are talking about 1,000 pages of material here.

If the house and Senate cannot agree on H.R.1, then a Conference Committee will be formed to renegotiate H.R.1 outside of Congress. The revised compromise will then be passed to the house for a vote, and then ratified by the Senate into law.

Otherwise, if all else fails, the bill is said to have stalled and will be scrapped to prevent the waste of any further resources.

Whether the future splits into a timeline of global dictatorships, a global war, or a humanitarian age of democracies and co-operation for the mutual benefit of all, will be seen to have been determined at this point in time.