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‘Well Camp we’re on the eve of the 4th of July, America’s national holiday, and they are celebrating the Trump led revolution of the rich against the poor. As now enshrined in his ‘Big Beautiful Bill’, which just narrowly was passed by a divided congress. It will add trillions of dollars to the national deficit and deny millions of the poorest people basic support.’ 

‘Yes, it is a big beautiful fairy tale bill devised by the wonks and hawks in the White House fantasyland. Do you know how many zeros in a trillion? A trillion has one million million and 12 zeros.’ Camp said.

‘It’s a big beautiful number. ‘

 ‘This bill basically extends existing, lavish, deficit-financed tax cuts well into the future, as well as boosting spending on defence and immigration enforcement. It offsets some of the cost by cancelling green subsidies and cutting health care and welfare for the poor.’

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            ‘As the Guardian so eloquently pointed out after the Signal chat fiasco and J.D. Vance’s disrespectful visit to Greenland we are now in a different world. Above all, the hubris, arrogance, amateurishness and irresponsibility revealed by both episodes is truly shocking – and a chilling warning to the world.’

            Camp shook his head of unruly white curls and stared into the far distance. ‘And Trump’s Rose Garden performance with his tariff poster full of flawed economics, wrong history and madcap calculations will be remembered as ‘ruination day’ as Zany Milton from the economist calls it. It will cost Americans the most.’

            ‘As it is, the radical corrupt steal that is going on under Trump and his cabal of oligarchs and conspirators will eventually galvanize enough people to start a sea of change in the apathy of the US voters, especially when it hits their own pocket book.’

‘The Fight Oligarchy tour by Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio is drawing record crowds, even in republican strongholds like Arizona. Maybe there is a light at the end of the tunnel.’

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