Posted on 06/03/2025 10:45:40 AM PDT by thegagline
President Trump rounded on Sen. Rand Paul Tuesday over the Republican lawmaker’s opposition to the House-passed One Big Beautiful Bill Act due to its impact on the debt.
“Rand votes NO on everything, but never has any practical or constructive ideas,” Trump groused on Truth Social. “His ideas are actually crazy (losers!). The people of Kentucky can’t stand him. This is a BIG GROWTH BILL!”
In an earlier post, Trump, 78, had complained that Paul “has very little understanding of the BBB, especially the tremendous GROWTH that is coming. He loves voting ‘NO’ on everything, he thinks it’s good politics, but it’s not. The BBB is a big WINNER!!!
Paul (R-Ky.), Trump’s former 2016 primary foe and a critic of the president’s tariff policies, was unmoved by the attack.
“I want to see the tax cuts made permanent, but I also want to see the $5 trillion in new debt removed from the bill,” the 62-year-old wrote on X shortly after Trump’s swipe. “At least 4 of us in the Senate feel this way.”
Sens. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and Rick Scott (R-Fla.) have all publicly raised concerns about the debt ceiling extension as well. The identity of the fourth senator Paul referenced was not immediately clear.
The House-passed version of the bill hikes the nation’s debt limit by $4 trillion, while a blueprint passed by the Senate earlier this year calls for a $5 trillion increase.
“The math doesn’t add up. I’m not supporting a bill that increases the debt by $5T. I refuse to support maintaining Biden spending levels,” Paul added on X.
Paul has previously indicated he could support the One Big Beautiful Bill Act if the debt limit provision gets cut out, noting that he’s “pretty much open to compromise on everything else in the bill.”**/
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Rand’s a liar and an idiot. Increasing the debt ceiling is not increasing the debt. Also, most of the spending cuts for DOGE have to done in a recission bill per the rules of reconciliation. But all you Rand fans know that...
https://www.deseret.com/politics/2025/05/28/mike-lee-wants-to-codify-doge-cuts/
Fiscal conservatism in a situation like we are in - 40 trillion in debt and not able to keep up with the rising cost and just paying partial interest with no hope in sight is like scrimping at the supermarket with a $60 k credit card bill at 29% interest
It’s not only crazy it’s obstructionist when a finance expert comes in to try to herd this group of ants
Rand Paul is an obstruction in the ass. He always has been
i wish Senator Paul had said that he wants far far FAR larger cuts in the tax burden ... with a plan to terminate the destructive federal income tax.
Being opposed to raising the debt limit sounds fine and dandy. But, we all know it is a phoney limit anyway... after puffing and huffing Congress ALWAYS raises it to cover its big spending schemes. Thus, it is a vacuous (worthless) argument...not pointless but worthless since the debt limit doesn’t mean a da*ned thing anyway
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Little Paul never accomplishes anything. He just spends his days complaining about those who do.
Wow Rand, did you say that there were FOUR of you in the Senate? Way to whip it, Rand.
TRY READING! https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/06/the_real_problem_with_trump_s_big_beautiful_bill.html
Wow Rand, did you say that there were FOUR of you in the Senate? Way to whip it, Rand.
Admittedly the other 3 aren’t willing to vote their consciences, and all four probably have significant issues.
The Supreme court is in far better shape, with 2 of 9 generally solid and public about it.
The House is likely mid-way between these two branches.
I can see why Caligula appointed his horse.
A Republic, if you can keep it.
Friends get things done, not pose.
$21 trillion, found in 1990s. Not even, Elon found this much.
https://unbekoming.substack.com/p/the-great-poisoning-decoding-the
In the late 1990s, as Catherine Austin Fitts navigated the corridors of Washington’s financial elite, she uncovered a staggering $21 trillion in undocumentable adjustments missing from U.S. government accounts, a revelation that crystallized her understanding of a financial coup d’état. This systematic siphoning, detailed in her explosive interview with Danny Jones, as passionately endorsed by health freedom advocate Jason Christoff, exposed a “breakaway civilization” funded by mortgage fraud and black budgets, operating beyond democratic oversight. Fitts, a former Assistant Secretary of Housing, connects this theft to a 500-year-old central banking warfare model, where printed money, backed by military force, sustains global dominance—a system now faltering as BRICS nations challenge the dollar’s reign. Yet, as she argues in The Invisible Corral: How Central Banking Enables a Control Grid, this financial architecture is but one facet of a broader control grid, integrating digital IDs, cashless systems, and AI-driven social credit mechanisms to enforce compliance. Christoff, that I have also interviewed in Interview with Jason Christoff, lauds Fitts’ clarity, asserting her insights channel a “divine intelligence” that unveils both the mechanisms of control and pathways to resist them. Her critique, sharper here than in her discussion with Tucker Carlson, frames the Trump administration’s acceleration of this grid—through Real ID and stable coins under the Genius Act—as a betrayal of liberty, a point she delivers with unyielding precision despite Jones’ underprepared questions.
Parallel to this financial predation runs what Fitts terms the “Great Poisoning,” a deliberate assault on human health through vaccines, contaminated food, pharmaceuticals, and environmental spraying, as explored in The Poisoning. This slow-kill strategy, she contends, serves dual purposes: reducing life expectancy to ease government benefit burdens and generating profits for industries that poison and then treat the afflicted. Since the 1995 budget deal’s failure, U.S. life expectancy has plummeted, a divergence from other industrial nations that Fitts links to fiscal policy’s grim arithmetic—fewer retirees mean fewer payouts. Her analysis, uniquely tying biological harm to financial motives, resonates with the author’s prior reflections on systemic poisoning. Fitts’ reference to Joseph Farrell’s work, that I have also highlighted in Babylon’s Banksters and Financial Vipers of Venice, grounds this poisoning in historical context, tracing its roots to Venetian banking models and post-WWII Nazi integrations into global power structures. Farrell’s scholarship, which Fitts amplifies, reveals a breakaway civilization wielding advanced technology, funded by stolen trillions, that considers itself above humanity. Yet, as Fitts notes, their technological supremacy is a facade, vulnerable to collective withdrawal of consent.
This interplay of financial extraction, biological sabotage, and spiritual warfare forms the crux of Fitts’ paradigm-shifting narrative, which Christoff heralds as potentially “the most important interview” of our time. She posits a universe alive with intelligent plasma, inherently resistant to centralized control, as Robert Temple’s work suggests, and influenced by interdimensional forces—demonic intelligences driving anti-human policies versus divine ones empowering freedom. Her call to action, rooted in Farrell’s cultural preservation ethos, urges individuals to redirect money from criminal banks like JP Morgan Chase to local institutions, as detailed in her building wealth curriculum. “Freedom is an all-or-nothing thing,” she declares, a sentiment echoed in [Babylon’s Banksters], where Farrell underscores the power of collective righteousness. By weaving state-level constitutional resistance with personal economic choices, Fitts offers a blueprint for dismantling the control grid, inviting readers to question the legitimacy of institutions masquerading as protectors. This article, building on her interview, unravels these threads, exposing the mechanisms that enslave and the moral courage required to reclaim sovereignty.
This is a necessarily long article.
With thanks to Catherine Austin Fitts.
I’m with Rand. Actually I’m in the middle. Left, right, Dem or Rep, our government is insane and it hates us.
Wow Rand, did you say that there were FOUR of you in the Senate?
Yup, Rand at this point is just an obstructionist.
check
Thank you
Rand doesn’t understand the difference between a Reconciliation bill vs. a Budget bill.
If he wants more overall spending cuts it becomes a Budget bill that can be filibustered. Does he think 7 Dems or more will vote for it? Moronic.
This BBB actually cuts, in full, 1.9 trillion in cuts. Not over 10 years.
He is stupid enough to buy CBO BS scoring.
For example, the full depreciation of manufacturing equipment in the first year. The CBO scores that as spending since it lowers the net income taxed by corporation income taxes (which are stupid).
They score tax rate cuts as deficit spending because they erroneously think it lowers tax revenue. Static scoring is stupid.
And they always lowball economic growth.
Rand would be better off trying to kill that animal on his head.
No, they don’t know or care.
I liken the debt ceiling increase to my credit card limit going up. Doesn’t mean I’ll spend it.
Of course, I get told I’m stupid.
That is an apt analogy.
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