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The CBO errs greatly in its analysis of the Big Beautiful Bill. Their starting point misses $1.5 trillion in the first 2 years.
1) First CBO overlooks that the first 2 years will be impacted by budget additions with no offset until the 2028 tax year. The annual deficit will be $2.5 trillion over each of the next 2 years. They estimated those deficits to be $1.8 and 1.7 trillion, instead of $5 trillion that must be borrowed at higher interest rates than CBO uses.
2) CBO uses 3.5% interest on Treasury bonds. That is far below the 4.91% that we current “enjoy” due to falling worldwide buyer-investor confidence.
3) CBO says inflation will be calculated at 2% when it now 2.4%. Tariffs will hit inflation hard!
4) That is how they get to saying hogwash like $2 trillion ADDED over 10 years.
5) CBO did not tell you they are talking about ADDED to their $52 Trillion estimate for 2035.
6) They see $54 trillion as our total outstanding deficit in 2035. I see $56 trillion if Republicans cut $13 trillion with the Big Beautiful Bill.
We need a tax cut like we need a hole in the head. The fiscal irresponsibility is unfathomable. Republicans have lost their minds.
https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/the-25-trillion-annual-deficit-plan?r=3m1bs
Great information, thank you for posting it!
All the Republicans in Congress and the Administration are RINOs.
Well they certainly aren’t democrats. Your point?
My point is these people are fake Republicans who have stolen the GOP.
Crypto is nothing more than a money laundering scam!
Leo—well sunshine is the best disinfectant.
Trump only ran to stay out of jail and is now insulting at the end his locked up. But manipulating laws, unconstitutionally, to ensure he’s never measured for a jumpsuit, and thinking we’re all stupid. All Masterminded by the Cretan Steven Miller, who IMO — is too small for a jumpsuit, just use a can of RAID! He’s a bug in need of squashing!!
As a woman—no man, legislative or otherwise, get a say of what goes on between my legs without an invitation!! We’re not going BACK!
I think his portrait is quite appropriate. Dark, menacing, destructive. Perfect for his "legacy".
He doesn’t look stupid enough in the new portrait.. like everything else—he is lying.
Hope they take it down in shame but it IS history. One of the distasteful parts
I have a young, newly married friend in Arkansas who is now choosing not to have children because of the reversal of Roe v. Wade and the heinous new laws that keep popping up. The GOP claims that birth rates are down and they’re trying to offer ridiculous incentives to get people to have children, but it’s not gonna happen while they’re passing these horrid laws. If you want couples to have children, support them in pregnancy, support them in childbirth, support them in raising their young children.
Sorry for the typo. He sits in the Oval Office as a convicted FELON not DELI. I hate auto correct.
No need as far as I'm concerned. We all know what you meant!!!!!!!!!!
A 34 count felon who eats too much deli (fat boy); a felon who’s big as a deli.
Can you sue the psychophants for crimes against humanity?
So sorry Popok for your loss of yiur dear Mother ❤️ 💙 💜
Sorry for the loss of your mother. Thank you for what you do!
Makes sense now that MTG is against something in the BUB that data regulation is being challenged somehow? I still don’t understand her reasoning, there has to be some self serving reason because she was insider trading.
My sympathies - it's hard to lose a parent.
Donnie’s portrait looks to be a twin of Don Imus at the end of his generous life—doubt our president will generously fund a hospital facility benefiting inner-city dwellers!!!!! But he ‘could’ do this and have a legitimate legacy——NAH…
Thank you for explaining in regular English how the law effects us daily especially as it refers to DJT and his minions.
That tells us something with $signs they are thieves and crooked criminals.
Sorry for your loss Popok. You and Meidas Touch are always spot on. Keep up the good work 💪
The Police State is Coming
Alex Karp, Peter Thiel, JD Vance, Curtis Yarvin are names you may or may not recognize but they are behind the scenes creating and privatizing a Fed database that is committed to produce a civilian surveillance system using AI eliminating loss of civilian privacy Illegal? Hell yes!!! How to create a vast civilian database so they can manipulate us
The above cast of characters are the minds behind this system that will have the potential to corrupt elections for good since they will have the data on all of us From the “burn it all down and start over” Yarvin to financier Thiel and government supporter and idealogue Vance to Karp who oversees the Palantir software, they all are playing the role as participants in trying to turn the US into the Third Reich And they’re acting fast….blitzkrieg if you will
With the use of the AI Palantir software the techbros are on a path to create a technoauthoritarian surveillance state meant to destroy the democratic republic and install their 21st century Nazi style of governing
But AI is a scam meant to veil the sinister underpinnings of this movement which they claim is Christian Remember “We tolerate no one in our ranks who attacks the ideas of Christianity. Our movement is Christian.” Adolph Hitler 1928
Americans can do something about this by standing up and protest protest protest against this government takeover This is the way WE the People defeat fascism and this kind of fascist takeover Join the Resistance Lab
See https://bit.ly/3FGOreX Stewart interview of Cadwallader
Actually, the police (Nazi Germany) state IS here already.......
Thanks for your info.
I saw that interview yesterday. Scary stuff.
recently learned about a section of the Budget reconciliation bill. It is labeled Section 70302. This provision would severely restrict federal courts’ authority to hold government officials in contempt if they violate judicial orders. Please talk about this part of the bill. I have tried to contact some of the Senators. I called Susan Collins because I am from Maine. I also called Josh Hawley and talked to someone in his office. Ditto John Thune. When they asked if I was from their state I said I was a citizen of the United States. I told them not to vote for this bill because of that provision.
This needs press. If you have not already discussed this, please give it some attention.
Best
Jo Trafford
Portland Maine
https://campaignlegal.org/update/these-hidden-provisions-budget-bill-undermine-our-democracy
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/column-how-an-obscure-budget-provision-could-upend-judges-contempt-power-2025-05-29/
https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/109768/what-does-sec-70302-of-the-big-beautiful-bill-actually-do
I thought I saw someone was talking about removing it. I think it was the AF lawyer.
I'm living this Substack! No YouTube interruptions.
Apparently, young men like toughness and think dems are weak. So he's posing for his peeps.
Another dynamic and fabulous report, MP!!!
Hahaha Rogue President for sure!!
Very Cool Intersection, I would say!
Monday, May 26th Year of 2025.
Proposal HR1526 hidden somewhere in the Big Beautiful Bill that is awaiting amendments and approval in the Senate. It is an open attack on the Judicial system, the only branch that is holding back Trump from consolidating all power in the executive branch right now.
It is a threat to the Constitition. The US government will continue but it will not be a Constititional Democracy as we know it today.
The name you give it doesn't matter. What the government WILL BE, does matter.
Can you PLEASE speak about this legally?
Love the new title! Keep speaking about the corruption/crypto! I hope your prediction about the Senate stripping the judiciary/contempt provision from the disaster bill is correct!
If the bags under his eyes get any bigger he will need a bra for the bags!!!!
That's funny! I needed the laugh--especially during these miserable times thanks to the Dump.
I think I like Dump better 😂.
I loved the new Intersection !!! Keep up the GREAT work...keeping us informed on all these topics
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I am sorry about the loss of your Mom. Peace.🙏
Thanks Popok. I think crypto should just go away period! It's full of corruption and destructive to the environment. Also, these pardons that will cost Americans a billion $, that's corruption within itself.
Now I finally understand how crypto/bit/whatever works. It's so very stupid. Thank you :)
It is very stupid and very corrupt. You gotta love 'em though. How many people can you sell thin air to for billions of dollars? That is why We The People will get our Country back - it may have some dents and dings, and a smashed in fender, and maybe some of the air bags will have deployed to keep us safe, but we will rebuild after this is over.
Yes, we certainly will. Because those of us who will prevail will not have air between our ears after the air bags deploy and good fortune and proper attitudes assist us. It is truly amazing how gullible some are and how shamelessly greedy others are. I've got faith. Hang in there friend.
That Dump pic shows a mean, nasty, cruel, prejudice, psycho "GOTCHA" expression. Nothing's changed with this dictator and his attitude/actions.
Popok for President.
Re: Trump administration claiming they can’t bring anyone back from El Salvador (which is bogus). The US could just not pay the $6 million El Salvador requires to keep the prisoners out of reach. That is the flippant response to Trump’s lie.
Pathetic how Trump bragged about his 2 billion dollar deals as if it was for the betterment of Americans who were too gullible to realize those were just his personal grifts.
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"Trump’s latest unbelievable crypto scandal; Trump’s “breakup” with the Federalist Society and what it means;" Worst is yet to come. Donald "The Beast" Trump is building a wall once again. Colossal tariff wall that is the beginning of the end for the system of down. At first the beast will pull the plug out of the global economy. The worst financial crisis of human history will pull a swarm of the banks underwater and the bank run begins. Then the beast will collapse a mountain of debt shattering the backbone of the monetary system causing a systemic risk to realize. Finally the beast will cast American citizens into a system slavery under the name of Ronald Wilson Reagan, just to "honor his legacy" count the number. After the destruction a new world order will be established in the US. And the Golden Age begins from the ruins of the world wide collapse. All of the system slaves will love it. No more cash - just digital transactions. No more traditional criminal activity. No more tax evasion. No more transactions without the "all seeing eye". Outcasts will hate the world without freedom, hope and privacy. To cover up the mess and distract the public by smoke and mirrors, the beast will engage in a war with Iran. Lies and deceit, corruption and decay, dancing on the graves will continue. Until; Black hole sun, won't you come, won't you come... I want to play a game. Time has come to opt out of the empire of filth. Live or die...
Damn straight.
Thank you for bringing in Melba Pearson. Straight foward, cut to the chase, fact-packed explanations. I want more Resident Legal Diva (and I love her gorgeous green nails along with all the brilliance she brings). Kudos, LEGAL AF 😎
Damn how f'ing maddening it's wrong how do we fight against it??
Off topic: Popok, you are an eyewear addict, as am I. May I know how many non-SG pairs you have? I have 6 and 2 SGs. I believe you have me beat by many.
Elon is not gone. He's trying to recoup his tanking stocks.
He may have tanking stocks, but his net worth when up by 100 billion dollars over the past month or so. It was 330 billion when he was doing his worst with "doge" and it's 420 billion today. Of course all those contracts on Starlink that he got overseas when trump was extorting trade deals probably helped a lot. Going back to Tesla and Texas helped a lot, even though Tesla is still in the toilet. The new tax payer defense contracts helped a lot. The destruction of all the agencies that were investigating him also helped a lot.
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I love listening to you on Legal AF on Substack. You are so smart and I always feel better after I watch it. 2 things: 1) tRump’s picture is ugly and 2) I think this idiot is gonna spend his entire presidency in the courts. God, he’s so stupid!!
I guess it's time these hospitals, and Doctors step up! If they don't do it now kiss your United States of America the one you knew good-bye. Stand up to this 💩 regime! Enough is Enough!
Not very Presidential.
We all know what Donald Trump is what we wanna know is how to defeat him. Because what we’re doing I don’t know. Is it working?
Nothing looks different and they look more powerful than ever
Yes. It is working. Just off the top of my head, they have lost 96% of the court cases that have been brought. (https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/trump-lower-court-streak-legal-losses/) The "doge" bros are under a lawsuit that if we win that one, "doge" will have to reinstate all the stuff the destroyed. The State Department is actually working to bring back immigrants who were wrongfully deported - maybe they are dragging their feet - but at least they are no longer just ignoring the judges.
State Dept. Reports They Are Working On Getting Migrants Returned
Supposedly Marco Rubio is working on getting migrants returned who should never have been deported. The only fly in the ointment is Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia. You and I know that if trump asked, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele would put Garcia on the next plane. But trump has told him not to return him, so the U.S. is using Bukele as an excuse for not getting him back. They should all be arrested and sent there to rot. https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5329609-rubio-leading-negotiations-with-bukele-on-returning-migrants/
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if you want to see how we are fighting back and the wins, I report on them every day in my substack: https://substack.com/@bluesmurf
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Thank you, optimism is a rare commodity in our times.
Marvel character
Absolutely laughable. Liberals are the epitome of hypocrisy and stupidity. After the Obama scandals and crimes and then the treasonous Biden regime, liberals need to go lay down. Zero credibility with the flag burning left.
Who the hell are you? The king of scandals and treason sits in the Oval Office now as a convicted deli. And would have been found guilty of far worse had he not paid off or threatened the idiot federal judge in Florida, the Supreme Court, and the Atlanta Court. Dragged his feet through it all. He is a parasite. You are just dumb.
Are you LOCO 🤪, all that you say sounds more like the felon in office
I would like to see the links and proof of your supposition regarding Obama scandals and crimes. Do you have any documentation to prove any of it? Or are you just puking up talking points from the party where every statement is a confession?
I'm so sorry that you believe that you are a stupid hypocrite and that the trump regime is blanketed by scandals and crimes and treason. Maybe you should lie down. You seem to be having some kind of an episode. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I love this. Can I copy and paste it as a quick response when needed during discussions with MAGA?
Absolutely! You can even claim it if you want. I don't need the credit. Have fun! 😊😊😊😊😊 Tailor it to whatever they are saying. That will hit harder.
Google is your friend.
Spy gate
Russian collusion hoax
Fast and furious
Uranium one
Spying on the AP / media
Need more?
Those are just the right wing talking points. I do not see any scandal or crime OR any proof. Google can be your friend too! If you are doing anything other than being a troll, you will attempt to back up all your BS with actual crimes (include court docket numbers and indictments, please), the actual scandals, as you call them, and anything else with actual proof.
But you don't have any, now do you? Your TDS needs attention, perhaps you should go lie down again. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Big words for a MAGA!! If you are alluding to crimes name them so people know what you are talking about! Otherwise it is just lies to make you feel better
Go to hell
MAGA. You know that all they know how to do is reiterate the lies that they've been told. Some of them know that it's lies, some of them don't care that it's lies. They just like being able to speak their mind, even if it's wrong.
Thanks for sharing…but neither side is perfect, but I don’t see you hold an office, running for anything, but running from something. That’s your business.
I hear you, but I don't run for anything because I don't have the best of health. But I can read and I can stay informed, which is why I'm here.
Correct, neither side is perfect. I know that. I don't think they know that. But that's their business. It's just that they are under his sway and he's not a good man. His motivations are based on greed and power and he "runs over" anyone who gets in his way. Some MAGA are starting to see the cracks, like the MAGA people that live in rural areas because they're going to lose their healthcare unless they meet certain conditions, even though he said he wasn't going to touch it. Or Social Security, but he's touching both. It's just unfortunate. Some of us care for our fellow man and some people don't, so we operate from different points of view.