The Boredwalk Podcast Episode 254: Big Beautiful Boondoggle

This week on the Boredwalk Podcast Tess Menzies, Gabe Sanchez, and Boredwalk co-founder Meredith Erin discuss the GOP's reckless "Big Beautiful Bill" (AKA "Big Bloated Bill"). MAGA Republicans are adding to the federal deficit at unprecedented scale to fund their racist attacks on immigrants and Latinos while simultaneously actively harming U.S. citizens more broadly via Medicaid cuts that have already led to hospital & clinic closures in rural areas. We talk about the obscene spending on Trump's "Alligator Alcatraz" concentration camp (AKA Alligator Auschwitz) and the human rights atrocities being committed with our tax dollars. The regime's decision to use FEMA funds meant to help Americans in times of natural disasters, instead being diverted to fund torture prisons. The land has been stolen from Florida's indigenous people and will be used to keep immigrants in deplorable conditions with inadequate food, water, medical care, or sanitation. We also discuss the nonsensical nature of these decisions from an economic perspective, the decreasing value of the U.S. dollar, the unnecessary tax cuts for the rich, and staggering MAGA Republican wealth transfer from the poorest Americans to the richest. Immigrants grow the economy and provide tremendous value to society, removing them from communities does economic harm. Trump and his MAGA cult continue to try to normalize fascism, kidnappings, and human rights violations. These people lack decency and empathy. We must continue to resist. Our co-hosts wrap things up on a lighter note by taking turns answering questions from Boredwalk's Delve Deck conversation card sets! They answered the questions "what's the worst advice you've ever received?", "what is something you ate regularly as a kid that you wouldn't touch now?", and "what is a quality in others that you admire?" Thanks for stopping by to hang out, commiserate, and laugh with us! And if you'd like to have conversations as interesting and insightful as this one, head on over to Boredwalk.com to pick up your own Delve Decks! FOLLOW US: FACEBOOK ► facebook.com/boredwalktshirts INSTAGRAM ► instagram.com/boredwalk THREADS ► threads.com/boredwalktees YOUTUBE ► youtube.com/boredwalk.los.angeles BLUESKY ► bsky.app/profile/boredwalk.com TIKTOK ► tiktok.com/@boredwalk.lol