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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump Wants You Talking About Nonexistent Crime, Not His Medicaid Cuts
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/peter-certo/114676/trump-wants-you-talking-about-nonexistent-crime-not-his-medicaid-cutsTrump Wants You Talking About Nonexistent Crime, Not His Medicaid Cuts
by Peter Certo | August 20, 2025 - 4:56am
from OtherWords
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Perhaps most importantly, Americans really, really dont like the GOPs budget-busting Big Beautiful Bill, which Trump signed this summer. Its been called the largest redistribution from poor to rich in American history. Over 60 percent of Americans say they oppose it and the more they learn, the higher that figure climbs.
The law made historically deep cuts to Medicaid and SNAP to fund tax cuts for billionaires and corporations, plus enormous subsidies for for-profit Pentagon and ICE contractors. As a result, 17 million Americans will lose their health coverage, killing 51,000 people every year. Millions more will go without food, including children.
Needless to say, Trump and his allies would like to keep these embarrassing facts quiet. So hes tried a range of distractions. He flirted with filing treason charges against former President Barack Obama. He demanded the Cleveland Guardians go back to the Indians name. He fired off one unhinged post after another on social media.
It was only after these gambits and others failed that Trump deployed the troops in D.C., delivering a fact-free, all but explicitly racist screed about crime, bloodshed, bedlam, and squalor in the nations capital.
These claims dutifully echoed by Fox News and GOP members of Congress sounded a lot like stuff weve heard before. And each time, its been an effort to deflect attention from the misdeeds of the powerful and onto a poor, maligned minority.
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For every National Guard member dispatched to the streets, thousands of families will go to bed without the food or health care they need to stay alive. Thats the real story of Trumps America dont let him talk you out of it.
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Trump Wants You Talking About Nonexistent Crime, Not His Medicaid Cuts (Original Post)
babylonsister
Aug 20
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Lovie777
(19,939 posts)1. And not shithole's crimes..................
SheltieLover
(73,106 posts)2. EPSTEIN MAXWELL MALARIA

Six117
(277 posts)3. Epstein Epstein Epstein
Epstein.
Credibly accused child rapist don't get to bury that.
RVN VET71
(2,960 posts)4. Epstein would have been a better president
Epstein was a better American
Epstein raped fewer teenagers than Trump
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Trump will not survive his final and disastrous term in office.
And don't forget EPSTEIN!!!!!
UTUSN
(75,414 posts)5. K&R