Gitmo wasn’t exactly a shinning moment for the Bush administration.

Carney is the PM. He is not a Premier.

I guess the big argument is that giving a bunch of money to the wealthy will stimulate the economy. Although, that’s an argument that many nations, including the US, have 50 years of data on, and there isn’t much to support that argument. Trickle down economics hasn’t been shown to work.

I also, if you’re in the camp that doesn’t believe in climate change and or thinks poor people are poor because of character flaws, then you probably like this thing. Or if you’re a wealthy person who donated a lot of money to republican politicians, you probably like this thing, because it’s a return on investment.

It’s not particularly great. Many people on the right only voted for it because they’re afraid Trump will primary them, and end their political careers, if they oppose.

The bill give massive tax cuts to the extremely rich, and it attempts to pay for part of that by:

• kicking many low income and disabled people off of federally funded health insurance
• closes poor rural hospitals that depend on Medicaid money
• cutting subsidies for manufacturing jobs that make emerging green tech, like EVs
• food and child care assistance will disappear for many poor families.
• and there is a bunch of weird little sneaky things hidden in it that people hope don’t get noticed because the bill is 200+ pages

When you do the math, the rich will get a lot of money, the very poor will have lose money, the and middle class will break even but many will be put on unemployment.

And it costs an extra $4,000,000,000,000, which is fucking bonkers.

Publicly, Elon said Trump’s bill was full of pork and would increase spending and debt by a lot.

Voters on the right were already waking up to how shitty Trump’s bill was, and Musk just used his megaphone to let even more of Trump’s base know that it sucked.

Privately, Musk is probably pissed that Trump’s bill didn’t help his companies. These are two greedy assholes. It all comes down to money and ego at the end of the day.