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Senate Republicans wallow in cruelty while trump sells perfume and threatens Musk [1]

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Date: 2025-07-01

The feud between trump and Musk escalated yesterday again as Musk railed against trump’s spending bill that will destroy the EV and green energy industry. It will also destroy lives and livelihoods of millions with the cuts in Medicaid, the social safety net, USAID and funding for science and scientists, but musk is not worried about any of that. Musk is threatening to start a new party, LoL.

trump knows how a tame a billionaire — threaten to cut off govt funding for his businesses. Even threatening to deport them.

From www.washingtonpost.com/...

“My old boss has come to two logical conclusions: First, MAGA has zero credibility on tackling the debt crisis,” said Rohan Patel, a former Tesla executive in Washington. “Second, MAGA is screwing over American high tech manufacturing and raising electricity prices for everyone with boneheaded energy policies and tariffs that will cede the AI and clean tech future of China.” TSLA stock price is down 7.4% today. finance.yahoo.com/...

Meanwhile the spending bill keeps morphing in the Senate into a monstrosity, as republicans stop every amendment offered by Democrats and keep adding stuff to bring a few republican intransigents into line. The theme common among all republicans — tax cuts for the wealthy, cruelty for the rest, death and debt for our children and grandchildren.

From www.nbcnews.com/… -

Tucked inside Republicans' massive domestic policy bill is an excise tax for wind and solar projects, a provision that came as a surprise not just to the renewable energy industry, but also to numerous senators who are crafting the legislation. In a twist, Republican senators insist they don't know how or why the tax was inserted into the bill they're rushing to pass. No senator is taking credit for or defending it. And at least one wants it removed. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., the Budget Committee chairman, who released the 940-page bill, said he doesn't know where that provision came from. "It's a secret, I guess," Graham told NBC News on Monday evening. "I don't know where it came from."

However, trump found time to peddle his new brand of perfumes and extract a few more dollars from his clueless MAGA base. Men’s cologne at $199 and women’s perfume at $249.

Meanwhile, the lawlessness and cruelty continues at ICE. That fact that people dying in custody and many more millions will die around the world as a result of trump’s policies seems to be a feature not a bug.

To be clear, Musk is not unhappy with the hundreds of provisions in the bill that raises cruelty towards to those less unfortunate than the billionaire class to a new level. He is freaking out mainly because it hurts his own businesses. But his word carries some weight among the MAGA faithfuls; so, let’s take advantage of it to put pressure on Senators and House republicans, to energize our base and to demoralize theirs.

We all know, that there is little to like about the trump spending bill, which is aimed at slashing government services to all but the extraordinarily rich and to kill the services and industries of the future, strangling science and education, so that a selected few can get richer drilling for fossil fuels, peddling quack medications, trading crypto currencies and building prison systems, while paying even lower taxes.

Let’s keep spreading the truth to our fellow citizens, including republicans, on how these policies will hurt everyone and will make America backward again.

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