“Because of tariffs, we are taking in hundreds of billions of dollars of profits,” he said. “It’s one of the reasons I can offer, if Republicans win the House and the Senate, $5,000 to every adult. And we can do it and the Democrats can’t, because the Democrats don’t have any income, and they’re gonna drive us in[to] a depression. They won’t have any money.”
Bitch you already promised us a tariff refund check.
His so-called logic is so bad it makes my head hurt.
How do people actually fall for this shit? How?!
Also, Dems winning does not make this supposed money go away. If they are taking in these “hundreds of billions”, that belongs to the government, not the Republicans.
Exactly. He cannot grasp the idea of the public trust. In his blind that’s his money, he stole it so it’s his to do what he wants with.
Never mind that actual tariff revenues are a tiny fraction of the 1.3Tn this deranged bribe scheme would cost.
Measles have returned because people believe vaccines cause autism. That’s your answer.
Will this be the first infectious disease to be both eradicated and reintroduced? Damn, we’re good.
Anybody know where we can get ahold of some small pox? /s
In 1993 Michael Crichton introduces us to the wonders of de-extinction and we all dreamed of dinosaurs in zoos. 33 years later and all we get is rebooted viruses.
Dengue fever too: https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/dengue-fever-florida-virus-threat-rcna600286
54% of adults have a literacy below a 6th-grade level (20% are below 5th-grade level)
And yet
91.4% of Americans aged 25 years and older have attained at least a high school diploma; 38.3% are college graduates.
TLDR; we live in a Idiocracy.
Some children were left behind
Yeah, there is a Reason Education Sucks.
Oh we have us an optimist here. We aren’t even lucky enough to have a president Dwayne Elizando Mountain Dew Camacho.
Idiocracy would be a step up. We are in a full-on kakistocracy.
At least in that fictional narrative they knew enough to reward someone smarter than them.
The way it typically works is to have the dumbest declare that their vibes overrule expertise.
Yep that’s why I say that I would much rather be in an idiocracy situation right now. It was truly an optimistic look at the future. If you look back now.
You’re right, but I wish people would stop using a movie that preaches eugenics as a point of reference.
Many people “Reason” emotionally. The words don’t matter so much as the feelings.
It’s like the people going on vibes toward the end of 2024 and deciding that voting for donnie would improve their lot. Even though virtually every economic indicator was pointed in the right direction at that point.
Meanwhile, lots of the chattering class kept flogging anyone pointing this out, saying it negated people’s feelings to point out the facts of an economy that was on the right track.