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I'll be blunt:
Why the hell are we getting this worked up about the budget bill that was passed this weekend?
I recall having similar questions last year when GAW had a practical collective meltdown over similar spending bills. It seems that the forum was too consumed by emotion to be the effective researchers we are called to be.
My opinion is that the spending bills is a colossal distraction on what we should really focus on.
Take Trump for example: I have noticed that, not even once in recent memory, neither he nor his team ever consider attacking the spending bill. Not this time, and not before. Seems to be that Trump and his team is signaling that we have far more important things to look at that a spending bill that we have no realistic chance at stopping forever.
Also, I have the feeling that we are getting gaslit into getting too emotional over this bill, from our enemies riling us up to cause our anger to overpower our reason, to our "influencers" like Catturd and Posobeic, whose income and reputation is dependent on how angry and fearful the MAGA base is (and independent on how critically thinking the base is).
We have far more important things to worry on, like making sure Trump gets into power. If we have to punish Johnson, that will need to be done after Trump takes office.
It is kind of pointless to boot him out if election day is less than seven months away. We need to focus on energies accordingly.
I have not yet seen a link here on GAW to the actual Bill that was passed yet.
Your comments are astute.