Could someone explain to me why folks at M$Greedia keep repeating crap like 'big beautiful bill'

[malaise]

They are normalizing fuckery. I have never heard a budget described this way.

[Celerity]

1. Because that is its official name.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Big_Beautiful_Bill_Act

The proposed One Big Beautiful Bill Act, also referred to as OBBBA, OBBB, BBB or OB3, is a budget reconciliation bill in the 119th United States Congress. OBBBA passed the House of Representatives on May 22, 2025, in a largely party-line vote of 215–214–1.

[malaise]

9. Is there precedent for this?

Thanks

[Celerity]

16. Bills/Acts have had troll names before.

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/3810917-the-seven-quirkiest-bill-names-using-acronyms/

The STABLE GENIUS Act

The COVFEFE Act

The CONFUCIUS Act

The ACRONYM Act

GIVE MILK Act

The ZOMBIE Act

The CRACK Act

[malaise]

20. Even the Affordable Care Act but have any been the entire budget bill? n/t

[Moostache]

2. I wondered the same thing...

Apparently it is the ACTUAL NAME of the bill (so I have heard)... the legislation is literally tilted after an aliteration from nursery rhyme children's books by the Bernastein Bears (the B Book)...

Sad state of affairs indeed. And 40% of this country STILL thinks this is OK and normal and no problem...

[Celerity]

7. Berenstain Bears

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berenstain_Bears

[PatSeg]

17. I think Trump wanted a bill where the acronym is

the same as Joe's Build Back Better. BBB - he is definitely THAT petty.

[SheltieLover]

3. Because they want voters to swallow their bullshit hook, line, and sinker.

If they would only tell the fucking truth about ANYTHING. Just once.

But they won't.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. I think we're being played.

Face it, Krasnov is FDR in reverse. The 100 Days is now BBB. They'll keep it this way until we tag it as satire.

But, remember, strength is weakness, patriotism is treason, insurrection is tourists. Every time they commit to these things they label it something else and Democrats can't tell the truth because M$M is owned and paid by the GOP.

[malaise]

8. You think?

😂😂😂🥺

[gab13by13]

6. They don't call it that

on freespeechtv.org.

[Mike Nelson]

10. Republicans are much better at naming things...

... "Big Beautiful Bill" - "Partial-Birth Abortion" - "Weapons of Mass Destruction" - "Family Values" - "FOX News" and so on... very deceptive names and phrases, though.

[unblock]

14. It's easy to be great p.r. when the media never punishes you for it.

The media uses the official name here, because "of course, that makes sense".

But when republicans don't want the official name, the media uses a different standard.

Democrats never called the ACA "Obamacare". That was the republican's derisive insulting name for it, always said with a sneer and implying some kind of big brother government control crap.

Did the media insist on using the official name then? Of course not.

They always give preference to whatever the right wing wants.

[spanone]

12. How about this one....AP: Trump remakes the White House with new flagpoles

Two flag poles REMAKE the White House?

https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-flagpoles-a0928efcdcb6d1362a0e1827e96d0344

[malaise]

23. Crazy shit

Rec

[unblock]

13. The msm believe they have a "responsibility" to always portray the right-wing talking points

as perfectly normal and reasonable, with no worse than equal standing to the alternative, whether the alternative is the democratic view or simply the truth, normality, the constitution, the law, previously universally agreed ethics, etc.

The right-wing view is that if the truth or any reasonable journalistic coverage is at odds with their interests, then it's "radical left biased" to do anything other than the above, presenting the right-wing views with equal standing.

And the media, of course, agrees 100%. They briefly mention the facts that should raise 5-alarm outrage and scandal, but instead they do it indifferently and quickly move on to the next story.

He's a felon running the country like a corrupt, lawless dictator, yet the media will *never* treat him as badly as they dumped on gore for boasting about helping fund the internet or Hillary just doing her job efficiently.

[Johonny]

15. The owners all billionaires that save huge money

And they don't give a crap about their audience. Not one crap.

[gulliver]

18. They hurt their cause with that "too cute" name.

They thought it would evoke "Trump-iness" vibes. But it's too Trumpy. It plays as cult pandering for hidden purposes of gulling. It has a very detectable smell.

[GoodRaisin]

19. It is the media normalizing unprecedented greed.

They want it to seem perfectly normal for the oligarchs in control of the government to openly steal from the rest of us. They make their own rules so they get lucrative tax breaks while the non-rich get nothing but an increase in the debt of 3.5T on all of us; plus, eliminating our health care.

On top of already regressive tax from Krasnov tariffs.

It’s a big beautiful bill for oligarchs and a big shit sandwich for everyone else. We should call it “The Big Shit Sandwich” every time they call ot a big beautiful bill.

[mvd]

22. Well said

The corporations that own the mainstream media benefit from the tax cuts for the rich. Too much corporate control is not good for democracy in general.

[Silent Type]

21. Much prefered the substance/projects in Biden's BBB. But "Build Back Better" was not really a good name. I think Big

Beautiful Bill is very trumpian. People who support trump or his policies like it. Those of us who don't, would oppose it no matter what it's called.

[soldierant]

24. I have been trying to think of a more accurate descriptor which also starts with "B"

I've seen :"Big Bad Bill" used a lot, but it's so reminiscent of the three little pigs that it doesn't have the impact.

But Moms Rising has done it. It is now the "Big Betrayal Bill." yo me.

[NewEnglandAutumn]

25. Because not enough of us

Take the time to write them and complain and contact their sponsors as well

[ancianita]

26. You mean you've not been pellucidly clear that pro-right corporate media are dittoheads? That corporate hype sells?

That when the felon comes up with lying hype they just sane-washingly pass it along? Like Obama says, Come ON!

[jrthin]

27. Malaise, they're on his team. Their bosses are the oligarchs and billionaires attempting

to destroy this democracy. They are complicit. This is why I firmly believe, we as consumers of the news should boycott all of them!

[orangecrush]

28. Because they think Trump

Tastes like vanilla pudding.