WEBVTT - The Genocide Budget (And How to Stop It) 0:00:01.720 --> 0:00:04.960 Call Zone Media. 0:00:06.160 --> 0:00:08.799 Welcome Dick it appened here a podcast that is now 0:00:08.840 --> 0:00:12.520 more than ever about the world crumbling and what you 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:14.480 can do about it. I am your host Bio Wong 0:00:14.600 --> 0:00:16.040 and with me as Karison Davis. 0:00:16.320 --> 0:00:21.000 Hello, Happy big, beautiful Bill Day. So today we are 0:00:21.000 --> 0:00:21.400 here to. 0:00:21.360 --> 0:00:24.200 Talk about the Genocide Budget. I am calling it the 0:00:24.200 --> 0:00:27.320 genocide budget because that is what this budget is designed 0:00:27.360 --> 0:00:31.640 to do. It is designed to create the apparatus that 0:00:31.760 --> 0:00:36.000 will allow the Republican Party to carry out mass deportations 0:00:36.000 --> 0:00:40.080 on a scale that be unlike anything else in American history. 0:00:41.040 --> 0:00:44.239 But Comma, and I want to be very clear about this. 0:00:44.280 --> 0:00:47.680 There has been a lot of talk about the new budgets, 0:00:47.720 --> 0:00:50.519 deportation procedures and the funding of it, and it's important 0:00:50.560 --> 0:00:54.040 to note a few things. From the get go right, 0:00:54.480 --> 0:00:56.080 you have been hearing a lot of numbers, and I 0:00:56.120 --> 0:00:57.960 have been saying this too, because it's true with the 0:00:57.960 --> 0:01:01.520 total amount of funding for order provisions is one hundred 0:01:01.520 --> 0:01:04.039 and seventy billion dollars, which is larger, like a third 0:01:04.360 --> 0:01:08.480 larger than the military budget of Russia. This is true, However, 0:01:09.160 --> 0:01:12.440 com that money is not all going to one agency. 0:01:12.520 --> 0:01:14.000 I see a lot of people who think that all 0:01:14.000 --> 0:01:16.840 of that money is going to ICE. That is not true. 0:01:16.920 --> 0:01:19.959 It is dispersed along a bunch of different kinds of things. 0:01:20.440 --> 0:01:22.080 I'm going to do a little bit of a breakdown 0:01:22.240 --> 0:01:25.039 of where that money is going, because it's not all 0:01:25.200 --> 0:01:29.600 just going to like here's the deportation thing. I'm again 0:01:29.680 --> 0:01:32.679 going to be relying on the American Immigration Council's figures 0:01:32.680 --> 0:01:35.360 because they are very good. So of this one hundred 0:01:35.360 --> 0:01:38.440 and seventy billion, about fifty one billion, almost fifty two 0:01:38.480 --> 0:01:41.720 billion is going to quote, construction and maintenance of border walls, 0:01:41.760 --> 0:01:46.560 CPD checkpoints, and CPB facilities. About seven point eight billion 0:01:46.680 --> 0:01:49.640 is going to This is the part that is one 0:01:49.640 --> 0:01:51.960 of the parts that's really fucking scary, is going towards 0:01:52.080 --> 0:01:56.280 hiring more border patrol agents and doing like training for 0:01:56.440 --> 0:02:01.279 law enforcements and doing training center improvements. There's about forty 0:02:01.320 --> 0:02:04.320 five billion that's going into making more attention centers and 0:02:04.320 --> 0:02:07.640 putting more beds in attention centers. That's fucking terrifying. There 0:02:07.760 --> 0:02:11.880 is about thirty billion going into hiring ICE agents, and 0:02:12.280 --> 0:02:15.160 that's just like directly, this is the part that's removing people, 0:02:15.240 --> 0:02:19.280 hiring ICE agents deporting people. There's about a billion for 0:02:19.440 --> 0:02:22.400 the Department of Defense to like help with all of this. 0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:26.400 There's thirteen and a half billion for state immigration and 0:02:26.680 --> 0:02:30.200 border enforcements like cost fu imbursement stuff, so state programs 0:02:30.760 --> 0:02:32.640 can can do things, and there's money for the federal 0:02:32.680 --> 0:02:34.919 government to reimburse the states for doing their own programs, 0:02:35.520 --> 0:02:37.400 a lot of which will be used. But this is 0:02:37.400 --> 0:02:39.239 not all going to one department. A lot of it's 0:02:39.240 --> 0:02:42.079 going to a bunch of different places, and a lot 0:02:42.080 --> 0:02:45.280 of it's going towards border wall construction, which is very bad, 0:02:45.320 --> 0:02:47.600 but it's also like a third of well it's like 0:02:47.639 --> 0:02:50.840 a quarter roughly of the budget is going to that. 0:02:51.720 --> 0:02:53.799 It's also worth noting that these numbers are all over 0:02:53.800 --> 0:02:56.640 the course of a decade, right. This stuff doesn't just 0:02:56.800 --> 0:02:59.919 like instantly appear. They have to build all of that 0:03:00.120 --> 0:03:05.320 apparatus up, and that means they can be stopped now, right, 0:03:05.639 --> 0:03:07.560 because it's going to take a fucking decade for them 0:03:07.560 --> 0:03:09.760 to get all of this up and running. And that means, 0:03:09.800 --> 0:03:12.080 on the one hand, the longer we wait to resist 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:14.880 them and to basically neutralize ices and Border Patrol's capacity 0:03:14.919 --> 0:03:18.160 to do this stuff, the worse it gets. But also 0:03:18.320 --> 0:03:20.840 they have to be in power for a fucking decade 0:03:21.440 --> 0:03:23.520 for all of this shit to kick in, and if 0:03:23.560 --> 0:03:25.680 they're still in power in a decade, we have quite 0:03:25.680 --> 0:03:29.640 frankly larger problems here. So that's just the initial stuff 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:30.960 that I want to I want to make sure people 0:03:31.040 --> 0:03:34.720 understand about this, because there's a lot of not good 0:03:34.760 --> 0:03:37.320 reporting happening about it that doesn't break the stuff down. 0:03:37.880 --> 0:03:41.120 So the downside, again, as I said, one hundred and 0:03:41.120 --> 0:03:44.760 seventy billion dollars just directly to the deportation engine in 0:03:44.880 --> 0:03:48.920 various forms and to the border wall. ICE's total tension 0:03:49.000 --> 0:03:52.560 budget goes too, and this is again from the American 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:57.040 Immigration Council. ICE's total detention budget goes at minimum to 0:03:57.120 --> 0:04:01.200 fourteen billion a year. This is and I this amount 0:04:01.240 --> 0:04:04.320 would represent a three hundred and eight percent increase on 0:04:04.400 --> 0:04:08.280 an annual basis over ICE's twenty twenty four detention budget. 0:04:08.520 --> 0:04:11.480 By comparison, the entire Federal Bureau of Prisons budget was 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:15.120 eight point six billion. So they're trying to do a 0:04:15.160 --> 0:04:18.720 yearly detention budget that is significantly larger than the entire 0:04:18.720 --> 0:04:20.880 detension budget of the federal prison system. 0:04:21.120 --> 0:04:24.920 I mean, they're just creating a whole separate prison system. Yeah, 0:04:24.960 --> 0:04:27.200 a lot of the extra funding for DHS is essentially 0:04:27.360 --> 0:04:31.000 creating a second army that is allowed to operate on 0:04:31.120 --> 0:04:34.320 domestic soil with way less strings attached. 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:34.880 Yep, yep. 0:04:35.000 --> 0:04:38.520 And that's like the primary ten year plan. You can 0:04:38.560 --> 0:04:40.320 see what they tried to do in Los Angeles and 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:42.720 what they did do in Los Angeles like a few 0:04:42.760 --> 0:04:46.800 weeks ago. They're gonna want to do that everywhere, but 0:04:46.960 --> 0:04:50.880 with their own DHS military, with their own DHS prisons 0:04:51.279 --> 0:04:53.960 completely siloed away from the rest of the government. 0:04:54.200 --> 0:04:54.440 Yep. 0:04:54.520 --> 0:04:56.320 And there's also and this is something that goes for 0:04:56.800 --> 0:05:00.600 most of this bill, there is very very little straints 0:05:00.640 --> 0:05:03.960 on how this money can be spent. These groups have 0:05:04.000 --> 0:05:06.000 a lot of latitude on it now. It is also 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:07.320 worth noting a lot of this is going to be 0:05:07.360 --> 0:05:10.880 spent on absolutely just incredibly stupid bullshit, Like they're going 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:13.479 to spend a bunch of money on border wall shit 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:15.279 that's going to go to a bunch of like contract grifts. 0:05:15.279 --> 0:05:18.000 They're going to spend like an unbelievable portion of this 0:05:18.080 --> 0:05:21.040 money somehow is going to go to like extremely stupid 0:05:21.040 --> 0:05:25.960 AI startups. But yeah, it's very, very fucking bad. There 0:05:26.080 --> 0:05:28.120 is also again a lot of money for state and 0:05:28.160 --> 0:05:32.240 local governments to spend working with ICE. They estimate that 0:05:32.320 --> 0:05:34.560 this could lead to one hundred and twenty five thousand 0:05:34.800 --> 0:05:37.200 beds for holding people, which is again only slightly less 0:05:37.200 --> 0:05:40.120 than the entire federal prison system. So yeah, they want 0:05:40.160 --> 0:05:43.599 to make a second prison system specifically to do these 0:05:43.680 --> 0:05:47.880 these fucking this deportation like ethnic cleansing, genocide, and just 0:05:48.000 --> 0:05:51.640 directly under the control of Stephen Miller, like Stephen Miller 0:05:51.720 --> 0:05:56.080 gets his own military and his own prisons. And Trump 0:05:56.200 --> 0:05:58.839 is on the record saying that Stephen Miller, if Stephen 0:05:58.839 --> 0:06:00.840 Miller had his way, they would be hundred million people 0:06:00.839 --> 0:06:03.120 in the US and they would all look like Stephen Miller, right, 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:05.479 Like they want to get rid of like every non 0:06:05.480 --> 0:06:07.560 white person in the US. That is like the end 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:10.479 goal of someone like Steven Miller. Billions must ball. But 0:06:10.560 --> 0:06:13.280 the exception, and this is also something that's worth noting, 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:17.080 is that recently Trump has been talking about like this 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:20.080 like system where you'd have farm workers who were like 0:06:20.160 --> 0:06:24.480 quote unquote the responsibility of the farm owners. So they're 0:06:24.520 --> 0:06:27.040 talking about slavery, right, And people like Curtis Jarvin are 0:06:27.080 --> 0:06:29.760 like very explicitly being like h I wonder if there's 0:06:29.760 --> 0:06:32.640 another domestic population that could do ag your cultural labor. 0:06:32.680 --> 0:06:35.120 So like, yeah, they want the non white population in 0:06:35.160 --> 0:06:39.240 the US to do slavery, right, This is just explicitly 0:06:39.279 --> 0:06:42.480 what they're talking about. Also, they want to hire ten 0:06:42.520 --> 0:06:44.880 thousand more iceations. But it's also worth noting, and I 0:06:44.880 --> 0:06:48.280 think this is very important. Even ten thousand more ICE 0:06:48.320 --> 0:06:51.200 agents is not enough to do the thing they're trying 0:06:51.240 --> 0:06:53.919 to do. Like, it's just not right. There's three hundred 0:06:53.920 --> 0:06:56.360 million people in this country, like threefty million people in scody, 0:06:56.440 --> 0:07:00.560 Like ten thousand more iations can't do this, right, and 0:07:00.600 --> 0:07:03.040 they especially can't do this if they're being resisted at 0:07:03.040 --> 0:07:06.440 every turn. And you can look at what they've been 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:10.160 forced to do in la and how they've been forced 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:12.800 to change tactics as a sign of this, right, where 0:07:12.840 --> 0:07:15.320 like at the very beginning, they were rolling up with 0:07:15.360 --> 0:07:19.160 like these giant like fucking convoys and like everyone's in 0:07:19.320 --> 0:07:22.800 fucking like but like a bunch of guys carrying rifles, 0:07:22.800 --> 0:07:24.760 and they were doing these giant raids and they had 0:07:24.760 --> 0:07:28.360 to stop because when they were assembling on mass in places, 0:07:28.720 --> 0:07:30.840 people would just fucking show up and throw shit at them. 0:07:30.920 --> 0:07:32.640 And so they had to stop doing that because it 0:07:32.720 --> 0:07:34.320 was it was it was hindering their ability to do 0:07:34.360 --> 0:07:36.920 this shit. And this is a mirror, interestingly, of what's 0:07:36.920 --> 0:07:39.280 of what's been happening to protesters right where like protesters 0:07:39.320 --> 0:07:42.880 also have been in in LA have not been just 0:07:43.000 --> 0:07:45.640 gathering in one spot because then like the force of 0:07:45.720 --> 0:07:47.880 the police can just come down and hammer you. We've 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:51.000 done the same thing to Ice, Like they can't do 0:07:51.080 --> 0:07:54.400 these like giant gatherings in one place because like the 0:07:54.480 --> 0:07:57.080 community will descend on them. So what they've been forced 0:07:57.120 --> 0:07:59.520 to do is, like you know, they've become incredibly mobile. 0:07:59.520 --> 0:08:01.520 Theyir deployed and just like a parking lot for a 0:08:01.520 --> 0:08:04.200 small amount of time, doing hidden run strikes on civilians. 0:08:04.240 --> 0:08:07.000 And this is also partially why they're not in uniform, 0:08:07.440 --> 0:08:10.320 because if they show up in uniform, like everyone can 0:08:10.400 --> 0:08:13.760 just immediately fucking show up and fight them. Right. And 0:08:13.840 --> 0:08:15.800 so this is something that I don't think is understood 0:08:15.880 --> 0:08:18.520 very well, which is that their tactics have been forced 0:08:18.520 --> 0:08:21.840 to evolve based on what we're doing to them, and 0:08:22.000 --> 0:08:24.640 even the increases in budget they're doing. Yeah, the attention 0:08:24.680 --> 0:08:28.400 facility stuff is extremely bad. Even with ten thousand more agents, 0:08:28.480 --> 0:08:31.800 they don't have enough people to like fundamentally change the 0:08:31.880 --> 0:08:35.600 numbers game here. Right, this is all very bad. It 0:08:35.720 --> 0:08:39.400 is just straight up evil. It is like hideously destructive 0:08:39.440 --> 0:08:41.559 and painful. That is the point of this is to 0:08:41.559 --> 0:08:45.840 be hideously destructive and painful. But every single day, every 0:08:45.840 --> 0:08:48.000 single day, in places like Los Angeles, there are a 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:51.280 bunch of ordinary people who every time fucking eye shows up, 0:08:51.360 --> 0:08:53.680 a whole bunch of like messages go out and people 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:57.439 start putting up fucking wheat posts of shit on telephone poles, 0:08:57.480 --> 0:08:59.240 and suddenly a bunch of people show up to try 0:08:59.240 --> 0:09:02.000 to resist these people. And if we keep doing that, 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:04.640 and if we intensify that, that none of the worst 0:09:04.679 --> 0:09:07.240 case scenario shit from this budget has to happen. I 0:09:07.240 --> 0:09:09.960 want to make that very clear before we go to break. 0:09:09.960 --> 0:09:11.320 I want to get through a little bit more of 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:14.640 the just like straight cruelty stuff, because there's just stuff 0:09:14.640 --> 0:09:16.960 in here that's just like they just hate immigrants, like 0:09:17.080 --> 0:09:19.400 they want everyone to suffer, and they also want you 0:09:19.480 --> 0:09:23.600 to just suffer in bureaucratic hell. So one of the 0:09:23.600 --> 0:09:25.559 things that they're doing is they're setting a cap. This 0:09:25.559 --> 0:09:27.920 this bill sets a cap on the number of immigration 0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:30.600 judges in the country at eight hundred, So there's only 0:09:30.640 --> 0:09:33.880 seven hundred right now. Right seven hundred immigration judges is 0:09:33.920 --> 0:09:37.640 not enough immigration judges to process everyone. They want people 0:09:37.720 --> 0:09:39.600 to go on process, and they want to be able 0:09:39.640 --> 0:09:41.439 to just fucking grab those people and kick them out. 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:44.280 They want people stuck in this process forever. They are 0:09:44.280 --> 0:09:47.640 trying to create a backlog. They are also massively increasing 0:09:47.720 --> 0:09:51.319 the application fees for every single stage of the immigration process. 0:09:51.440 --> 0:09:55.720 AIC calculates it would quote result in at least fifteen 0:09:55.800 --> 0:09:58.760 hundred dollars in filing fees during the five year weight 0:09:59.600 --> 0:10:03.000 And like, these people have no fucking money, right, Like, 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:05.439 that's why they're coming here. And we talked about this, 0:10:05.559 --> 0:10:08.480 James talked about the Nadarian series. Most of these people 0:10:08.520 --> 0:10:11.679 have used all of their money just getting to the 0:10:11.840 --> 0:10:15.880 US because it's incredibly expensive and dangerous, and these policies 0:10:15.880 --> 0:10:18.600 don't generate a significant amount of revenue. It's just inflicting 0:10:18.600 --> 0:10:20.960 hardship and suffering on people who want to live in 0:10:20.960 --> 0:10:26.560 this place. Yeah, do you know who else wants to 0:10:26.559 --> 0:10:27.440 live in this place? 0:10:27.800 --> 0:10:28.640 I don't like that. 0:10:29.040 --> 0:10:31.360 I couldn't come up with the transition there. It's too bleak. 0:10:32.000 --> 0:10:45.520 I don't know products and services go. We are back 0:10:45.600 --> 0:10:52.920 speaking of things being terrible. Let's talk Medicaid. So Medicaid 0:10:52.960 --> 0:10:55.040 is getting a trillion dollars of cuts over the next 0:10:55.040 --> 0:10:58.760 ten years. They are imposing an eighty hour a month 0:10:58.840 --> 0:11:01.720 work requirement from Medicaid in food stamps. This is going 0:11:01.760 --> 0:11:05.480 to kick off unbelievable numbers of people. The Congressional Budget 0:11:05.480 --> 0:11:08.800 Office estimates in the next nine years it will kick 0:11:08.800 --> 0:11:13.599 off eighteen point three million people. This is particularly devastating 0:11:13.640 --> 0:11:16.800 to people with disabilities because again there are lots of 0:11:16.840 --> 0:11:20.800 people who can't work that number of hours, and again 0:11:20.840 --> 0:11:24.920 it's devastating people who can't find jobs is a fucking horrific, 0:11:25.559 --> 0:11:29.600 horrific thing. This is also particularly bad for trans people 0:11:29.640 --> 0:11:32.280 because that work requirement is also now applied to food stamps. 0:11:32.320 --> 0:11:34.720 So like, if you just fucking can't find a job, 0:11:35.280 --> 0:11:37.880 like fucking eat shit, they're kicking you off of Medicaid 0:11:38.040 --> 0:11:41.640 and food stamps. They're estimating about three million people get 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:45.560 kicked off of SNAP. And again, trans people use Medicaid 0:11:45.559 --> 0:11:48.760 and SNAP at enormous rates, significantly higher form the general 0:11:48.800 --> 0:11:51.840 population because our poverty rates are much much higher. And 0:11:51.880 --> 0:11:54.400 this is something we talked about in the last executive disorder. 0:11:54.400 --> 0:11:57.880 But like, this is going to just destroy vast swaths 0:11:57.920 --> 0:12:01.920 of the Royal hospital system because again, one in four 0:12:02.800 --> 0:12:05.800 people in rural areas get their healthcare paid for by Medicaid. 0:12:06.160 --> 0:12:08.679 Kaiser Family Foundation is estimating that it's going to be 0:12:08.720 --> 0:12:11.360 one hundred and fifty five billion dollars decrease in rural 0:12:11.360 --> 0:12:14.960 regions over the next decade. These hospitals have already been closing. 0:12:15.559 --> 0:12:18.040 My estimates on this is I think it's actually the 0:12:18.080 --> 0:12:21.320 actual damage to healthcare in these communities is going to 0:12:21.320 --> 0:12:24.679 be significantly worse than what's being projected right now because 0:12:24.679 --> 0:12:28.680 hospital margins are absolutely terrible and they're just built to 0:12:28.679 --> 0:12:31.960 be increasingly more profit extractive. You know, this is creating 0:12:32.000 --> 0:12:36.400 a system where if you are rich and in urban areas, 0:12:37.080 --> 0:12:40.200 you can get health care, but if you're fucking poor 0:12:40.240 --> 0:12:42.480 in urban areas, eat shit. And if you're in rural 0:12:42.520 --> 0:12:45.800 areas and you don't have the money to like fucking 0:12:45.880 --> 0:12:48.840 take a private jet or some shit, or you can't 0:12:48.880 --> 0:12:52.320 pay for like verys private medical care, they're leaving you 0:12:52.360 --> 0:12:55.599 to die. This is going to just absolutely devastate the 0:12:55.679 --> 0:12:59.160 rural economy. And also that's not even the only sort 0:12:59.200 --> 0:13:03.040 of like devastation healthcare thing. Center for American Progress wrote 0:13:03.040 --> 0:13:07.000 a good article about this. This bill also is very 0:13:07.120 --> 0:13:10.480 very laser targeted at defunding Planned Parenthood. It has a 0:13:10.520 --> 0:13:14.320 ban on using Medicaid at any clinic that provides abortions, 0:13:15.160 --> 0:13:18.160 so that money already can't go to abortions, right, that's 0:13:18.160 --> 0:13:21.560 the High Amendment. It fucking sucks, we hate it. It's terrible. 0:13:22.440 --> 0:13:25.319 But this is just a ban on any clinic that 0:13:25.480 --> 0:13:28.520 provides abortions taking Medicaid, which is just like, you know, 0:13:28.600 --> 0:13:31.200 just annihilates Planned Parenthood. It makes it really really fucking 0:13:31.240 --> 0:13:34.760 hard to do abortions. Planned Parenthood is estimating that they're 0:13:34.800 --> 0:13:37.880 going to have to close two hundred clinics, largely in 0:13:38.160 --> 0:13:40.440 blue states, in urban areas there are a lot of people. 0:13:40.480 --> 0:13:42.360 And this is also again trans people who get their 0:13:42.360 --> 0:13:47.240 coverage from Plant Parenthood. It's really really, really fucking bad. 0:13:47.920 --> 0:13:50.080 And it's yeah, I mean that Plant Parenthood is calling 0:13:50.120 --> 0:13:52.720 it like a crypto abortion ban, which it kind of 0:13:52.840 --> 0:13:55.760 is in a lot of ways, because they're just going 0:13:55.800 --> 0:13:58.800 after the ability to actually like fund. 0:13:58.559 --> 0:14:00.640 Clinics, runa function in clinic. 0:14:00.880 --> 0:14:04.400 Yeah, and this is again, you know, like the strategies 0:14:04.440 --> 0:14:06.760 they use against trans healthcare, the strategies they use against 0:14:06.800 --> 0:14:10.200 abortion care. Yeah, and so you know, we're seeing all 0:14:10.200 --> 0:14:13.440 of these things combined together as like this budget bill 0:14:13.480 --> 0:14:15.079 and like a lot of what this budget bill is. 0:14:15.320 --> 0:14:17.800 I mean, there's obviously always policy shit in budget bills, 0:14:17.800 --> 0:14:19.680 but this is a budget bill full of just shit 0:14:19.760 --> 0:14:22.400 that like could never get passed normally, like would just 0:14:22.440 --> 0:14:24.560 impossible to pass through Congress. But they're just sort of 0:14:24.600 --> 0:14:28.240 like ramming through these a bunch of like hideously unpopular 0:14:28.280 --> 0:14:33.360 procedures like in this in this fucking bill, because it's reconciliation. 0:14:33.440 --> 0:14:35.120 You can't fill a buster it. They're just like putting 0:14:35.120 --> 0:14:38.400 all of this shit in. They've also eliminated programs that 0:14:38.440 --> 0:14:41.120 made it easier to enroll in medicaid because they want 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:44.360 you to be stuck in bureaucracy forever, both on just 0:14:44.400 --> 0:14:46.840 the level of like if you're stuck in bureaucracy forever, 0:14:46.880 --> 0:14:50.640 you can't actually access medicaid, and then also the more 0:14:50.840 --> 0:14:53.320 stuck in bureaucracy you are, the easier it is to 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:57.320 sell these like conservative like anti bureaucracy budget cut things. 0:14:57.640 --> 0:15:00.560 So it's this like spiraling thing of like everyone in 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:04.040 the world is increasingly trapped in these bureaucratic hellholes trying 0:15:04.080 --> 0:15:06.680 to get literally anything out of the state, which is 0:15:06.720 --> 0:15:08.600 that and the only critique of this is from the right, 0:15:08.640 --> 0:15:10.440 And because the only critique of this is from the right, 0:15:10.880 --> 0:15:13.000 they use it to build their power while making everyone 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:17.480 else's fucking lives miserable. There's also a provision in this 0:15:17.600 --> 0:15:20.760 that says that if you make the federal poverty line 0:15:20.800 --> 0:15:22.400 to one hundred and thirty eight percent of the federal 0:15:22.400 --> 0:15:24.960 poverty line, so that's like fifteen thousand, six hundred a 0:15:25.080 --> 0:15:27.600 year of fifteen thousand and six fifty a year to 0:15:27.720 --> 0:15:31.720 like eighteen thousands for a single person, there's like a 0:15:31.760 --> 0:15:36.280 mandatory copay increase for each time you'd like visit a doctor, 0:15:37.200 --> 0:15:39.800 like up to thirty five dollars, which is fucking hideous 0:15:39.840 --> 0:15:43.800 because like again, the people on Medicaid, like in a 0:15:43.800 --> 0:15:45.800 lot of places, it's been possible to use Medicaid without 0:15:45.840 --> 0:15:48.640 paying any money for a visit, right, and that makes 0:15:48.640 --> 0:15:52.040 people go to the doctor. But if you have to 0:15:52.080 --> 0:15:55.200 pay any money, because the people who are this fucking poor, 0:15:55.520 --> 0:15:59.200 like you don't have thirty five dollars like fucking laying 0:15:59.240 --> 0:16:03.000 around to go to the hospital, you fucking defer, and 0:16:03.040 --> 0:16:05.080 you defer, you defer, and you defer in your healthcare 0:16:05.160 --> 0:16:08.160 until it becomes until you hit something that either kills 0:16:08.200 --> 0:16:10.120 you or is so devastating you have to go to 0:16:10.160 --> 0:16:14.560 the hospital. And that's the situation that the GOP wants here, Like, 0:16:14.600 --> 0:16:17.200 these cuts are not about saving money, they're about just 0:16:18.080 --> 0:16:23.280 inflicting incredible cruelty on people. And yeah, this is just 0:16:23.320 --> 0:16:28.640 another absolutely devastating sort of outcome of this bill. So 0:16:28.720 --> 0:16:32.080 there's also a whole bunch of rollbacks of like all 0:16:32.120 --> 0:16:34.400 of the existing climate policy we've had, which has never 0:16:34.480 --> 0:16:37.480 been like super good but was like something. But they've 0:16:37.480 --> 0:16:40.720 eliminated the tax credit for electric cars. There's now tax 0:16:40.760 --> 0:16:44.280 credits for like auto loans and shit in very like 0:16:44.280 --> 0:16:46.960 you can like write off auto loans in very weird ways. 0:16:47.080 --> 0:16:51.040 Wait are you serious to some extent, Yeah, it's fucking weird. 0:16:51.520 --> 0:16:56.840 Finally, finally I'm gonna get that Mazda Miata. It's finally happening. Oh, 0:16:56.880 --> 0:16:59.920 thank goodness, thank you, thank you Trump, Sorry Elon, thank 0:16:59.920 --> 0:17:00.800 you you Trump. 0:17:01.520 --> 0:17:03.600 It's interesting because there's like one or two things that 0:17:03.640 --> 0:17:07.560 are like kind of okay, like okay, But my favorite 0:17:07.560 --> 0:17:08.800 one is one of the things they gets a lot 0:17:08.800 --> 0:17:11.160 of press is is like, oh, there's no taxes on tips, 0:17:11.160 --> 0:17:12.680 but that's only a temporary. 0:17:12.160 --> 0:17:14.840 Thing that goes for like the next what four years. 0:17:14.920 --> 0:17:17.920 Yeah yeah, but then it just expires. Yeah, so it's 0:17:17.960 --> 0:17:19.760 just like literally a payoff. 0:17:19.359 --> 0:17:23.040 You know based Actually, I think tips should be tax 0:17:23.119 --> 0:17:23.760 low key. 0:17:23.720 --> 0:17:26.560 Yeah wow wow petit bourgeois garrison. 0:17:27.480 --> 0:17:28.040 That's right. 0:17:30.200 --> 0:17:32.880 Yeah. So one of the provisions of this is that 0:17:32.920 --> 0:17:35.320 like the Medicaid cuts like only go into effect in 0:17:35.400 --> 0:17:36.600 twenty twenty seven. 0:17:36.520 --> 0:17:38.880 Which is very curious because if you think about it, 0:17:39.119 --> 0:17:41.040 so much of this bill is just trying to like 0:17:41.280 --> 0:17:44.719 midterms proof the GOP m hm. So as soon as 0:17:44.720 --> 0:17:47.840 the midterms happen, and they expect the Democrats to do 0:17:48.200 --> 0:17:51.280 very well despite the broken state of the Democratic Party currently, 0:17:51.320 --> 0:17:54.520 but that's that's probably still what they're forecasting. But this 0:17:54.560 --> 0:17:58.520 bill is built so that the Medicaid cuts only go 0:17:58.560 --> 0:18:01.680 into effect after the mid yep, yep, yep. They're trying 0:18:01.720 --> 0:18:04.080 to make sure it won't hurt them during mid terms. 0:18:04.160 --> 0:18:07.400 But also if Democrats do take power, then they can 0:18:07.520 --> 0:18:10.399 use the fact that medicaid is doing really bad to 0:18:10.480 --> 0:18:14.320 help Republicans in the next general which is insane because 0:18:14.320 --> 0:18:17.399 they're the ones that ruined Medicaid. So there's a lot 0:18:17.400 --> 0:18:19.040 of stuff like that in the bill where they're trying 0:18:19.080 --> 0:18:22.200 to make certain things go into effect specifically to help 0:18:22.280 --> 0:18:25.880 them in future elections and hurt Democrats in future elections, 0:18:26.359 --> 0:18:29.840 including the tax on tips thing. Yep. I will say 0:18:29.960 --> 0:18:32.800 it does give us a little bit of room to maneuver. Yeah, 0:18:32.800 --> 0:18:35.479 because this entire bill is a threat. 0:18:35.880 --> 0:18:37.640 Yeah, yeah, and they have to actualize it. 0:18:37.720 --> 0:18:40.480 And unless they follow through on the threat, then that's 0:18:40.520 --> 0:18:43.960 all it is. So people have to keep challenging them 0:18:44.000 --> 0:18:48.080 on this and defaying their ability to implement this. And 0:18:48.320 --> 0:18:50.920 we do have a year and a half to nullify 0:18:50.960 --> 0:18:53.440 at least some of the worst aspects of this bill, 0:18:54.359 --> 0:18:58.560 and that includes strengthening local healthcare systems, food stamps, but 0:18:58.880 --> 0:19:03.119 also continuing to mobilize popular resistance to ice and border patrol. 0:19:03.600 --> 0:19:05.800 We cannot afford to surrender here. 0:19:06.480 --> 0:19:09.040 No, no, And you know, back at the beginning of 0:19:09.080 --> 0:19:11.760 the administration, the phrase I was using could talk about 0:19:11.760 --> 0:19:14.159 what this is going to do. I think we were 0:19:14.200 --> 0:19:16.399 all sort of using this was like the state is 0:19:16.440 --> 0:19:18.800 going to retreat and become more hostile, and this is 0:19:18.880 --> 0:19:24.000 like the ten times mega like acceleration of this. Right, Yeah, yes, 0:19:24.080 --> 0:19:26.399 like the state is becoming a thing withoud that it 0:19:26.480 --> 0:19:30.280 exists only to like kill you. Right. But the thing is, 0:19:30.920 --> 0:19:33.520 it is also worth noting these programs are not just 0:19:33.680 --> 0:19:38.080 there because like they're good for people. They were there 0:19:38.200 --> 0:19:41.439 to buy people off, right, Like the carrot and the 0:19:41.480 --> 0:19:45.199 stick are both parts of maintaining each other. Right. The 0:19:45.240 --> 0:19:47.320 reason you can have the stick is because you have 0:19:47.359 --> 0:19:49.280 the carrot to pacify enough people to be able to 0:19:49.320 --> 0:19:53.120 deploy the stick. They seem to believe that they can 0:19:53.160 --> 0:19:56.360 only fucking use the stick now, and they can give 0:19:56.400 --> 0:19:59.120 you the tiniest fucking carrots that have ever existed. And 0:19:59.200 --> 0:20:00.840 we are going to get to see whether they can 0:20:00.880 --> 0:20:04.600 do that and whether our ability to like fucking produce 0:20:04.640 --> 0:20:07.960 our own carrots allows us to generate a situation where 0:20:08.000 --> 0:20:09.520 they fucking can't keep controlling you more. 0:20:10.040 --> 0:20:12.680 The other thing that they demonstrated the past few months 0:20:12.760 --> 0:20:16.120 is the unilateral ability to shut down government agency. 0:20:16.119 --> 0:20:18.120 Oh, we'll get to that. We'll get to that. 0:20:18.320 --> 0:20:21.400 And this is something that a smart future candidate could 0:20:21.480 --> 0:20:25.919 weaponize because Ice is younger than most people listening to 0:20:26.080 --> 0:20:27.919 this podcast, It's younger than me. 0:20:28.080 --> 0:20:31.479 Abolishing ICE is now the conservative position. If you are 0:20:31.560 --> 0:20:34.280 a moderate conservative, you are you now must be in 0:20:34.320 --> 0:20:38.040 favor of abolishing ice like that's that's that's simply where 0:20:38.040 --> 0:20:38.560 we are now. 0:20:38.800 --> 0:20:42.960 I was at this somewhat cursed Fourth of July party, 0:20:43.080 --> 0:20:47.320 I guess full of some of MEA's old Twitter enemies. 0:20:47.320 --> 0:20:51.320 Oh no, I will not name names, but multiple, multiple 0:20:51.359 --> 0:20:55.440