I will not be celebrating Independence Day
Trump's disgusting budget bill lands on his desk tomorrow with a resounding thud
Well it’s all over but for the inevitable victory lap that Trump will make tomorrow once his Big Awful Bill lands on his desk and gets signed into law. All the performative debate nonsense, all the kabuki theater, all finished according to plan. Trump will sign a bill that strips 17 million Americans from Medicaid and rips away SNAP benefits from tens of millions of needy families all so a handful of billionaires can get even more tax cuts and grow even more obscenely wealthy.
I hate to say it but America as we know it will end on July 4th, 2025. Our 249 year experiment in democracy is finished. The only thing we have to look forward to from here on out is death, destruction, and human misery the likes of which this country has never experienced.
And there is nothing to celebrate tomorrow. No reason to fly Old Glory and fire up the BBQ and settle in for a night of fireworks. Because honestly, why bother?
Trump’s bill literally increases ICE’s budget by orders of magnitude. He promises tens of thousands of new faceless goons in unmarked vans wearing full battle rattle snatching people whose only crime was entering this country illegally off the streets. Less than ten percent of them are the “violent criminals” that Trump promised to ONLY snatch up.
The vast majority of them are hard working family men and women trying to navigate their way through an arcane immigration system that rewards the wealthy while punishing the poor. Most were escaping gang and cartel violence in their own countries and had no other way out. Many were legal asylum seekers whose cases were dropped by the DOJ just so they could be arrested on the spot.
And then there is this monstrosity:
Oh look, that just happens to almost precisely be the number of Hispanics living in America, according to the 2024 census data (the actual number is 66.5 million). So this is literally a call to ethnically cleanse EVERY SINGLE LATINO living in the USA right now. Because apparently THAT will make America “great” again.
Let’s be honest: MAGA is nothing but a white supremacist hate movement very much akin to Nazism. It is Christian Nationalism on steroids. The bill that Trump will sign tomorrow takes every racist proposal of Project 2025 and turns it into law. America will officially become a police state where EVERYONE will be forced to carry citizenship papers to prove that they “belong” here.
And they’re only getting started. The First Amendment will become a quaint notion as we will all be forced to kowtow to the MAGA ideal or we’ll lose our jobs, lose our livelihoods, become “undesirables” to be rounded up and sent to one of Trump’s new Alligator Alcatraz camps.
Oh look, they even made road signs. How utterly despicable.
Trump promises to build HUNDREDS of these camps all over the country. And they are LITERALLY concentration camps. I’m not even joking.
A concentration camp is a prison or other facility used for the internment of political prisoners or politically targeted demographics, such as members of national or ethnic minority groups, on the grounds of national security, or for exploitation or punishment.
Sound remotely like what they just built in Florida? And those sick fucks are literally SALIVATING at the idea of Latinos literally being EATEN by alligators. They’re buying up “Allgator Alcatraz” t-shirts, sweatshirts and beer cozies while the White House keeps putting out disgusting graphics like this one:
They voted for this. They voted to lose their healthcare, lose their rural hospitals, lose their SNAP benefits and their school lunches and their children’s education all so they could express their hatred towards people whose skin is darker than theirs, who speak a different language than they do, who eat different food than they do. They WANT America to be free of Latinos, queer people, Muslims, atheists, and anyone else they deem as unworthy of citizenship. They literally believe this country’s population should ONLY be 100 million all white Americans.
Of course they refuse to understand that the same people they hate also pick their fruits and vegetables, mow their lawns, cook their food, chop up their meat, pave their highways, and do all the hot dirty work that white Americans refuse to do. Farmers in California, for example, are already worried about the fact that their crops aren’t going to be harvested this year. Construction costs are going to go through the roof. You think housing is unaffordable now? Just wait.
Alligator Auschwitz, excuse me, Alcatraz just received its first detainees today, just in time for hurricane season. Ron DeSantis claims that those flimsy tents they put up in only 8 days will somehow withstand a Category 2 hurricane. Meanwhile a thunderstorm just left pools of water INSIDE the tents. And the only people with AC are going to be the staff. Anyone who has ever experienced Florida knows how oppressively hot it is there and those tents don’t look like they have any ventilation. Because the cruelty, as always, is the POINT.
America is about to join the ranks of Russia, Hungary, Iran, Turkey and North Korea in the pantheon of oppressive authoritarian regimes. Our light of Liberty has been snuffed out, potentially for a very, very long time. Millions of people are about to lose their Medicaid and potentially be cast out into the streets. Millions more will die of preventable diseases. Untold amounts of suffering are in this country’s future and I don’t think we’re prepared for what’s coming. Trump is a very sick individual in the throes of cognitive decline with intense paranoia, and his side ghoul Stephen Miller is calling all the shots. We are in the hands of a Mad King who has completely subjugated Congress AND the Supreme Court who continually give in to every sick desire that he wants.
And that is why I will not be celebrating America’s Independence tomorrow.
I will be protesting.