“Big, beautiful bill”
It’s certainly big (nearly 900 pages) but why are we falling in line with his “beautiful” branding? This bill is not beautiful for the millions losing health care or other funding sources or facing increased fears over the massive funds now going to ICE—all of this of course to further our favorite corporate pastime of making the rich richer.
Familiarity and repetition make us more likely to believe something. Let’s not feed the lie machine that converted the affordable care act into “obamacare” (yes, this was intended as a pejorative by republicans who were opposed to the ACA). Let’s be better then the news stations I see blindly
Below are screenshots of all of the “breaking news” videos shown on my YouTube home page tonight. While some get closer to the core of the matter calling it a “budget bill,” it’s clear that the headlines are mostly eating up his language rather than calling it out for what it is.
Here are some options they can use for free: big wealth transfer bill. Big ice budget bill. Big Medicaid cuts bill. Big bad bill (this one might imply the existence of 3 little pig bills).
I realize that in the grand scheme of things what we call it isn’t as harmful as the very real devastation it will cause in areas ranging from hospitals to student loans to deportations. But we need to choose our words carefully. Stop giving them free publicity by parroting their language. They are not “re-truthing” posts. Stop calling it truth social. Stop calling it a beautiful bill.
Now let’s get on up and keep fighting!
idk what 3 little pig bills would imply, but I just know it's better than what we're getting now