Juxtapositions
...Alligator Alcatraz and Auschwitz...IN OUR NAME
Trump and MAGA were celebrating yesterday…the Senate passed — on the Veep’s tiebreaking vote — a “budget reconcilation” bill that will strip healthcare coverage from as many as 12-17 million people (many of them will be unwitting MAGA voters) in order to give massive tax breaks to the 1%…someone once said, we get the government we deserve…dunno about that, but we gotta live with the government that 49+% voted for…and see abominations like the “Alligator Alcatraz” scenes below committed IN OUR NAME.
In addition to cutting health care for the poor and providing tax relief for the rich, the legislation provided massive funding increases for the federal agencies carrying out the Trump administration’s anti-immigrant obsession. The bill adds a total of $170.7 billion to immigration enforcement. It roughly triples the annual detention and enforcement budgets for the masked men of Immigration and Customs Enforcement over the next four years.
And according to our vice president, JD Vance, this was the point of it all: “Everything else—the CBO score, the proper baseline, the minutiae of the Medicaid policy—is immaterial compared to the ICE money and immigration enforcement provisions.” — Bill Kristol, in The Bulwark
From the Official White House account….really.
I'm speechless.. They're also hawking Alligator Alcatraz T- Shirts...It's so dark and so surreal.