One other thing: I think Trump owes the American people an explanation of the bill: spending like a drunken sailor, like the dollar is going out of style.
Uh...like the dollar is going out of style. Check.
I've been giving Trump the benefit of the doubt, thinking
(1)He needs to keep the economy out of recession in order to win the 2026 elections (and keep the House)
and/or
(2) He needs to be able to invest MASSIVELY in infrastructure if his re-industrializatio n of the US is to have any chance, while racing against dollar reserve-currency collapse.
China and other countries have put trillions into infrastructure over decades, while the US has pissed all tens of trillions away on pure pork.
If we are supposed to compete with them in manufacturing we need to be either (a) the low cost producer, (b) the highest quality producer, (c) the ONLY producer, or some combination of the above.
And right now, starting from a WOKE, unfit, lazy, spoiled, high-minimum-wage, UNDER-educated base (arguably low average IQ), we are not looking like even a top 3 contender for any of those trophy categories.
(Except, arguably rocket ships, where Space-X seems to be a decade ahead of any other company in any other country...so it kind of takes the 2(c) prize.)
But I can only guess what Trump and his advisors are thinking. So I gave benefit of the doubt.
But now Musk is, at least, implying that HE was not privy to the strategy...and thought the game plan was only to slow down the deficit spending????? But, surely Musk would have known that would contract GDP over the next year and, almost certainly, throw the broad US in a recession...and likely a particularly bad one. And THAT would likely cost the 2026 election.
So, now I am more confused than ever. And I know a lot of other Americans must be as well...including more than a few MAGA-types.
Anyway, I don't think the PorkFest Bill is likely to pass the Senate. There were, already, a number of Tea-Party Senators who are certainly not going to support it. And now there will be more.
So where does this leave Trump -- amd whatever plan he might have had?
Fascinating.
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