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Welcome to this special edition of the Og Pod!
Instead of the usual news and headlines and caustic wit, we’re digging into the horrific nightmare of the GOP’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” so named because Donald Trump is a fucking toddler leading a cult of simpletons.
This bill is loaded with cruelty and evil, and we wanted to make sure to document it in detail for now and for October of 2026, when the legacy press will have long buried it, so voters won’t take it into consideration before the midterms.
This episode is a time capsule meant to remind you, our beloved audience, of exactly what the GOP did so you can remind others and they can vote accordingly.
The Ogre Nation Deep Dive
7:40 - 10:20 Republicans attacked renewables and drove up the price of electricity.
10:21 - 12:15 Republicans attacked the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and removed one of the main watchdogs of the deeply corrupt financial industry.
12:16 - 13:10 Republicans made it harder to enroll in the Medicare Savings Program, making Medicare more expensive
13:11 - 22:16 Republicans cut $1 TRILLION dollars from Medicaid and added work requirements they know for a fact do nothing but strip people of their healthcare.
22:17 - 24:05 Republicans have built in delays to some of the worst cuts to government programs until AFTER the midterms so people don’t see what the GOP has stolen from them until they’ve already voted.
24:06 - 27:25 Republicans cut subsidies for the ACA, making healthcare premiums skyrocket.
27:26 - 28:27 Republicans cut hundreds of billions from SNAP so millions of children, seniors, disabled Americans, and the working poor will go hungry.
28:28 - 38:20 Republicans gutted student loan programs and made it far harder for parents to help put their kids through college.
38:21 - 39:20 Trump is building a monument to himself
39:21 - 49:07 Florida Woman and The Ogre go on an epic rant of how the only good Nazi is a dead Nazi.
49:08 - 51:32 Russell Vought, the Christian Nationalist behind Project 2025, has given himself a $100 million slush fund. I’m sure he won’t abuse that.
51:33 - 1:00:31 ICE, CBP, and DHS all have massive increases to their budgets to hire thousands of new white nationalist agents who will be under the control of Stephen Miller, the rabid Nazi in the White House. What could go wrong?
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