Our problem is apathy. It is much more of us than them.

If we succeed and still have democracy the laws can be reverted, but as I mentioned the apathy is the biggest problem and the reason how we got where we are.

This is not end of the world, history is full of bad moments and we got out of them.

We need people to join protests to help change things, not kill themselves. If we accept that we have no power, we will have no power.

https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/

https://fiftyfifty.one/

https://maydaymovementusa.org/

The Largest Upward Transfer of Wealth in American History

House Republicans voted to advance a bill that would offer lavish tax cuts for the rich while slashing benefits for the poor. By Jonathan Chait House Speaker Mike Johnson Kevin Dietsch / Getty May 22, 2025, 9:21 AM ET

House Republicans worked through the night to advance a massive piece of legislation that might, if enacted, carry out the largest upward transfer of wealth in American history.

That is not a side effect of the legislation, but its central purpose. The “big, beautiful bill” would pair huge cuts to food assistance and health insurance for low-income Americans with even larger tax cuts for affluent ones.

Hakeem Jeffries, the House minority leader, warned that the bill’s passage, by a 215–214 margin, would mark the moment the Republicans ensured the loss of their majority in the midterm elections. That may be so. But the Republicans have not pursued this bill for political reasons. They are employing a majority that they suspect is temporary to enact deep changes to the social compact.

The minority party always complains that the majority is “jamming through” major legislation, however deliberate the process may be. (During the year-long debate over the Affordable Care Act, Republicans farcically bemoaned the “rushed” process that consumed months of public hearings.) In this case, however, the indictment is undeniable. The House cemented the bill’s majority support with a series of last-minute changes whose effects have not been digested. The Congressional Budget Office has not even had time to calculate how many millions of Americans would lose health insurance, nor by how many trillions of dollars the deficit would increase.

The heedlessness of the process is an indication of its underlying fanaticism. The members of the Republican majority are behaving not like traditional conservatives but like revolutionaries who, having seized power, believe they must smash up the old order as quickly as possible before the country recognizes what is happening.

House Republicans are fully aware of the political and economic risks of this endeavor. Cutting taxes for the affluent is unpopular, and cutting Medicaid is even more so. That is why, instead of proudly proclaiming what the bill will accomplish, they are pretending it will do neither. House Republicans spent months warning of the political dangers of cutting Medicaid, a program that many of their own constituents rely on. The party’s response is to fall back on wordplay, pretending that their scheme of imposing complex work requirements, which are designed to cull eligible recipients who cannot navigate the paperwork burden, will not throw people off the program—when that is precisely the effect they are counting on to produce the necessary savings.

The less predictable dangers of their plan are macroeconomic. The bill spikes the deficit, largely because it devotes more money to lining the pockets of lawyers and CEOs than it saves by immiserating fast-food employees and ride-share drivers. Massive deficit spending is not always bad, and in some circumstances (emergencies, or recessions) it can be smart and responsible. In the middle of an economic expansion, with a large structural deficit already built into the budget, it is deeply irresponsible.

In recent years, deficit spending has been a political free ride. With interest rates high and rising, the situation has changed. Higher deficits oblige Washington to borrow more money, which can force it to pay investors higher interest rates to take on its debt, which in turn increases the deficit even more, as interest payments (now approaching $1 trillion a year) swell. The market could absorb a new equilibrium with a higher deficit, but that resolution is hardly assured. The compounding effect of higher debt leading to higher interest rates leading to higher debt can spin out of control.

House Republicans have made clear they are aware of both the political and the economic dangers of their plan, because in the recent past, they have repeatedly warned about both. Their willingness to take them on is a measure of their profound commitment.

And while the content of their beliefs can be questioned, the seriousness of their purpose cannot. Congressional Republicans are willing to endanger their hold on power to enact policy changes they believe in. And what they believe—what has been the party’s core moral foundation for decades—is that the government takes too much from the rich, and gives too much to the poor.

Trump taking about Taylor Swift, congeess passing ridiculous bills, they are trying to distract that SCOTUS ruled that trump can’t use Aliens Enemies Act to deport people.

It isn’t even supply side Jesus anymore, they are more and more brazen that trump is their god.

Kimberly Guilfoyle also looked attractive before. It’s something with those people that think this is an attractive look.

The only time when “love and unity” isn’t the correct answer he uses it.

I don’t know what’s crazier. The fact that they let undergrads write government system or that they believe AI will somehow remediate these issues.

The fact that this government used LLM to generate that insane tariff policy or uses LLM to revoke stay for US citizens tells me how dumb all those people are.

It is also a lesson that being smart is definitively not a prerequisite to be a billionaire and likely quite the opposite.

My fear is that’s the plan all along. The tariffs created such a mess that it is nearly impossible to even follow the law and pay exactly as much is required.

It’s possible that the idea is the businesses will get exemptions for cooperating with the government.

Maybe won’t, but the effects of tariffs didn’t hit ordinary people yet. Reports say that it will take about 3 weeks.

Actually all news I see, including most of people were know about, including many human trafficked to CECOT were starting here legally.

Abrego Garcia for example came illegally, but since 2019 he actually was documented, he even had work permit and he had yearly checkups with ICE.

Many were in the process of applying for asylum, again that was the proper and legal way.

Those people were caught, because it was the easiest, as they had opening cases in courts and weren’t hiding anything.

MAGA claimed that they had problem with undocumented ones from gangs, but are cheering when people who put all the effort are being deleted or worse sent to gulag.

Absolutely this. LLM basically is trained to be good at fooling us into thinking it is intelligent, and it is very good at it.

It doesn’t demonstrate how good it is in what it is doing, it demonstrates how easy it is to fool us.

My company provides copilot for software engineering and I use it in my IDE.

The problem is that it produces code that looks accurate, but it often isn’t. I frequently tend to disable it. I think it might help in area where I don’t know what I’m doing, so it can get some working code, but it is a double edged sword, because if I don’t know what I’m doing I will not be able to catch issues.

I also noticed that what it produces when correct, I can frequently write a simpler and shorter version that fits my use case. It looks very likely like code you see students put on GitHub when they post their homework assignment, and I guess that’s what it was trained on.

And trump admin used LLM to generate tariff policy and also to decide who should lose their visa and get deported. And I’m sure there’s more.

The whole AI craze is showing that billionaires really got fooled what LLM is, and also shows us that to be a billionaire the requirement isn’t to be smart, but to be born to already a wealthy family and be a psychopath.

They paid to keep him in prison there. Doesn’t sound like deportation to me.

It wasn’t about cutting spending, DOGE has three objectives:

• seize control over our institutions
• collect data that could be used to blackmail people
• cut pesky investigations that were bothering elon

It’s hilarious when they started doing counter protests and filling Tesla stores area with gas guzzling trucks.

That was my first reaction, but apparently the letters were placed there to explain the tattoos “meaning”.

Supposedly:

Marijuana stands for M Smiley face stands for S Cross stands for 1 for some reason Skull stands for 3 for some reason

They forgot that:

• wouldn’t the text be in Spanish and not English?
• MS 13 hand members are proud of being in it, they put giant letters on their chests, backs, face, if he wanted to hide it, why even bother having a tattoos? Wouldn’t other gang members get upset that he is hiding it?

I also couldn’t find pictures of anyone else from MS13 who was using such cryptic tattoos.

Also with the interpretation is that you can literally assign any meaning to it for example:

• Pot
• Ecstatic
• “t”
• Afterlife

This shows that Abrego Garcia is actually an animal lover and supports PETA.

But this is beside the point. The problem is he had no due process, and wasn’t deported but human trafficked to a prison in 3rd world country.

If they have undeniable proof give it to the court and then either deport him or put him in US jail if he committed a crime.

His friend claims to be autistic and is the richest man in the world trying to take over the most powerful government.

Though, looks like he is right about not paying taxes or not being able to hold onto a relationship.

This is surprising as they are total lapdogs, perhaps indeed the pressure worked.

Remember though that trump doesn’t need them to invoke the act, but having them mention he should would help with legitimacy.

Fascists also love meanings behind numbers, for example the invasion of Ukraine in 2014 and 2022 both happened on February 24.

April 19 is 250th anniversary of beginning of American Revolution (remember when President of heritage foundation talked about “bloodless revolution (if the left allows it to be)”? April 20 also has some meaning in their hearts.

If we give up, you are right, there won’t be any.

But we also can’t just wait and think everything will be fine by next election.

The current administration wants us to be a dictatorship. When they talk about third term, they wants us to hey used to the fact that he will stay in power until his death.