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Cassi Patterson's avatar

Thank you for breaking this all out. Itโ€™s heartbreaking and tragic stuff. Reading and listening to activists like you keep me from feeling hopeless.

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Richard's avatar

Then having now seen that it passed, very depressing

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Wendy๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ๐ŸŒˆ's avatar

Extremely. Now ICE/INS is , funding wise, larger than the FBI, the CIA, and the VA combined.

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Connie Meyer's avatar

Thank you for sharing the details of the Big Ugly Bill. Most Americans only know what the propaganda machine spouts out. We must all rise up in protest!

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Millicent's avatar

The bill embodies a philosophy where freedom means the freedom to die quietly if you can't afford to live loudly.

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Mark Hayes's avatar

Nope, theyโ€™re gonna give the billionaires a blowjob and fuck MAGA (and everyone else)โ€ฆ

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Pia Paints's avatar

Thank you Wendy ๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿ’™ for laying out this horrendous and hideous legislation. How do we fight back? If BBB goes through it will be radically reflected at the ballot box. However in my opinion we need to act with urgency, protests need to evolve to a resistance organized by leaders for democracy, and should be unified in scope: such as not flying, not driving, and not paying taxes, basically choking off the economy (boycotting red states: do not spend money at Disneyland). It will hurt short time, but if this government thinks they can lambast us and destroy our rights and freedom, and force us to pay until we bleed, then we have the right to form a resistance to protect our democracy. We are beyond the tipping point. For fuck sake they just built a concentration camp in Florida. ๐Ÿ‘บTeam Evil: Miller, Thiel, Vaught, Vance, Bondi follow the waving two handed jerk off demented leader, who is Putinโ€™s personal dildo, like this is the norm of governing. Our lawmakers in DC have failed us and do not care about right and wrong, but are far more worried about getting a mean text and losing their jobs, instead of protecting their constituents. We witnessed Lisa Murkowskiโ€™s complete head dive into the shallow end of a pool when she changed her mind last minute on the BBB and voted yes. Itโ€™s disgusting and fucking infuriating. If politicians donโ€™t stand up for the people, The People will rise up against the politicians ๐Ÿคฌ๐Ÿคฌ๐Ÿคฌ ๐Ÿคฌ๐Ÿคฌ๐Ÿคฌ

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Wendy Parker's avatar

History will speak of this as the darkest of hours for America.

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Susan Crabtree's avatar

This work will be remembered in ages to come. Either hidden, if they succeed or framed in gold if WE SUCCEED!!

Iโ€™m proud to stand with you. Whether I live or die, I stand for our freedom, our rights and our sovereign land.

God Bless you and all your writings!

IN GOD WE TRUST! IN ONE ANOTHER WE STAND AGAINST THIS BULLSHIT!!

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Marguerite Foster's avatar

Thanks for keeping us informed. I appreciate you. ๐Ÿ’™

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Jan Moon's avatar

Which part of BEAUTIFUL do they understand? Oh, wait, they don't understand any of it nor do they give a flying fig.

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siegfried59's avatar

Oh, they've been Sucking the sweaty end of the snot stick for some time.

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Wendy's avatar

That is hilariously disgusting.

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Mark Hayes's avatar

Hilarious + Disgusting = FTW!

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Tess's avatar

Wow! Thank you Wendy for sharing this!

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Wendy๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ๐ŸŒˆ's avatar

Always, tess.

Its not great, but if they pass it, then its GONNA suck.

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Lynda Phoenix's avatar

Damn, Wendy, you really laid it on the line. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer! And the rich aren't even aware enough to be embarrassed. Look at Bozo's decadent, entitled wedding. Who buys a whole city in Europe for a wedding and thinks nothing of the optics of selfishness and greed? This is one big spiritual bruise on our democracy (not to mention an actual, physical gut punch to the American people). If the relatively healthy and mentally sound people don't march, who is going to save the sick and handicapped? (We need to turn those handicaps into arrows for justice). I keep thinking back to the French Resistance. Maybe because I was born in Bastille Day (and France celebrates my birthday, unbeknownst to them) and our precious Statue of Liberty was gifted from them, I keep coming back to their example of resistance. We could lay down and let the tanks roll over us (as the regime would like us to do) or we can fight back with whatever means is available to us. Thanks, Wendy, for being brave.

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Wendy๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ๐ŸŒˆ's avatar

Its not great, and honestly, my constitution is a little less for having had to read it, cover it, and write it.

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Wendy's avatar

Count me among those who are grateful that you do. I do feel dumber for having read a great summary of the monstrosity, so I can't imagine reading it in order to report it. It really sucks to live amongst people who refuse to see the writing on the wall and/or cheer the abject cruelty coming at us like a freight train.

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Looks to future's avatar

You go girl!! Keep telling it in language the uneducated can understand!

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