You know a bill is bad when even Apartheid Clyde — the meme king of capitalism and Trump’s former efficiency czar — calls it out.
Apartheid Clyde took aim at the Republican-backed “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” (yes, that’s the actual name of the bill. No, I’m not shitting you.) It’s a monstrosity of legislation that somehow manages to combine massive tax cuts for the rich, bloated defense spending, Medicaid restrictions, and a fresh punch in the gut to clean energy. And just like that, Republicans have found a way to spend trillions while pretending they’re fiscally conservative.
Apartheid Clyde, who once led the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) under Trump, publicly slammed the bill for ballooning the deficit and betraying the message of DOGE. “It can be big or beautiful, not both,” Musk quipped, a rare moment of clarity from someone who once called himself a “free speech absolutist” while banning critics from Twitter (I’m still never calling it “X.”)
Let’s be real: Apartheid Clyde isn’t exactly a paragon of progressive virtue. This is the guy who spends his time playing CEO cosplay and beefing with journalists online. But when even he is sounding the alarm on a Republican spending bill, you know it’s not just ugly — it’s a Trojan horse stuffed with billionaire tax breaks and red meat for MAGA donors.
The Congressional Office Budget estimates this “beautiful” disaster will add $3.8 trillion to the national debt over the next decade. That’s more than the GDP of Germany, and somehow, the Republicans still claim we “can’t afford” student loan forgiveness or universal healthcare.
So why is Apartheid Clyde breaking ranks now? Simple. The bill fucks with his brand. It undercuts clean energy (bad for Tesla), bloats defense (bad for his whole “efficiency” thing), and makes him look like a sucker for ever aligning with Mango Mussolini in the first place. Self-interest is a hell of a drug.
Still, his critique opens a window: when even a techno-libertarian billionaire thinks the GOP has lost the plot, maybe it’s time to stop pretending they ever had one. The “Big Beautiful Bill” isn’t governance. It’s graft dressed up in patriotic drag.
If you’re pissed about this bill, don’t just laugh at Apartheid Clyde’s tweets. Organize. Disrupt. And remember: the people writing this legislation don’t care if you live, as long as they get paid.
Sisyphus Shrugged 
I’m surprised he and Trump have coexisted for such a long time, my enduring memory of Trump’s first term is him firing people he lauded after a couple of weeks. I get the impression that Clyde gave Trump the impression he was a genius as he does most simple minded rodents, and after Clyde’s usual amount of – it’s coming soon failed to materialise combined with all the President Clyde stuff Trump gave him the flick.
You have to admire the right, they’ve spent decades infiltrating the supreme court, buying out the media, conquering the mind-space of the average voter, making fear of brown people and abortion the only issue now they can openly ignore the law, the constitution and any pretence that they give a damn about the very people who voted them in. I’m surprised but not that all those prepers, tea-baggers and outraged pensioners are oddly quiet.
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Totally. Trump usually eats his own the second they stop feeding the ego-beast, and Clyde lasted way longer than expected — probably because he speaks fluent grift. He knows how to inflate expectations like a Tesla stock price, promise the moon, and then blame “the bureaucracy” when it never lands. Perfect guy for the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE): he did nothing, called it innovation, and got richer doing it.
But yeah, the right has been playing a long con while everyone else was fact-checking tweets and refreshing MSNBC. They stacked the courts, rewrote the rules, and now they don’t even pretend to care about democracy — just vibes, victimhood, and vengeance. The culture war was never the point. It was always a distraction while they looted the place.
The silence from the preppers, tea partiers, and retiree rage choir? That’s by design. They were fed fear for decades and now they’re too busy blaming immigrants and trans kids to notice the billionaire class they worship just siphoned off another few trillion. It’s not apathy — it’s programming.
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You make me think of Goya’s Saturn devouring his children.
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Lol! Thank you … I think?
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As K said, Trump betrays everyone in the end. Speaking of which, where is his wife Melanoma these days? Don’t say she’s accidently been deported back to Slovenia by Immigration and Customs? She could have been scooped up with a few hundred other fellow new Americans. Quite easily.
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