Donald Trump pledged Wednesday to send every American adult $5,000 if Republicans retain control of the House and Senate in the midterm elections, an extraordinary gambit to reverse his party’s sagging fortunes in November.
The dubious promise would likely cost more than $1 trillion and require congressional approval, and would further exacerbate the country’s nearly $1.8 trillion annual budget deficit and concerns about inflation.
Multiple problems with this.
For one thing, it’s blatant corruption. Attempting to bribe the voters with taxpayer dollars? Using federal funds for partisan activity?
Aside from that, didn’t he make promises like that last time, which he never delivered on? How stupid could his base really be? (please don’t answer that. I know they’re dumb as hell).
Lastly, if we look back to his last term when he used federal money to write checks to every american adult, the effect it had on inflation as well as the national debt was enormous.
So yeah, fuck this with a rusty spoon.
Just making the offer of money for votes is a federal crime. You don’t even have to actual do it. But of course no one in power has the balls to do anything.
Would end a Democratic administration (at any level of government, by the way, not just federal).
Yet Republicans can do whatever the fuck they want I guess.
Very illegal… By the way, anyone who accepts and receives that payment is also guilty.
End Game: Every American who accepts bribe is locked up. I refuse and I am free to run around and do whatever I want.
I feel like my odds would be better with the lottery.
Lottery ticket is 2 bucks. Trump is costing the average American several hundred a month at this point. Buying a ticket for yesterday’s drawing is a better use of your money.
But will it work? The only question that matters when no rules are enforced. Absent law, how the American people act will determine the fae of their nation.
Note that he never promised those dollars to be US dollars. Re-watch it if you don’t believe me. It could be e.g. 5000 Guyanese Dollar. They even have a nice 5000 dollar note, which would buy you a McDonalds “meal”.
Finding some “well actually” loophole is a 2000s kind of lie. In today’s post truth society you just make false statements and ignore people who call you out on it
Doesn’t matter, because he’s lying.
I would take 250,000. Isn’t that the buy in for a pardon? Except I would do what he does. I would double cross him.
Fuck that, even if my vote could be bought I know how often he stiffs his independent contractors.
This asshat raised my taxes $8500 a year and wants to give me $5000 one time? Yea, sure. Sadly MAGAts will fall for it again.
Less than a year ago he promised $2k checks from his tariffs. MAGA has the attention span of a guppy.
They bought his cheap made in China maga clothes
They bought his $500 dollar gold sneakers which turned out to be trash
They bought his expensive ecd knife which turned out to be gas-station-knife quality
They bought his crypto which turned out to be pump&dump and lost money
They bought gold phone which turned out to be plastic and 2 years out of date
They’re buying the minted coin which they lose money on
Something tells me they’ll still fall for this one thinking it will be the one that’s genuine.
To be fair, a lot of Trumpty schemes are just ways to either grift or get bribes.
They bought his $500 dollar gold sneakers which turned out to be trash
who does he think he is, Michael Johnson?
I think you mean Mike Basketball.
You might be a little young for this reference
Michael Johnson was an Olympic sprinter known for wearing gold shoes. Shit I knew people, grown adults, who spray painted their runners gold after he won.
Oh, okay, never really followed much of that stuff. Thank you for the link.
no worries. i knew i was making an obscure reference but i didn’t know how obscure.
Something tells me they’ll still fall for this one thinking it will be the one that’s genuine.
No idea how you came up with such a radical idea. Seems like a long shot to me.
/s
Sorry, I’m apparently unfamiliar with how democracy works. You are allowed to pay people to vote for you?
Short answer : no.
Long answer : legal doesn’t really matter when Congress and the SC are in your pocket and refuse to hold you accountable for explicitly breaking the rules over and over again.
Yes, but it depends on how you do it. For the USA, if it were following its own laws, which it’s not, Trump can not give every person $5000 if the Republican party holds a majority in the House and Senate. That’s because following the laws the House would need to appropriate the funds first, pass that, send it through the Senate, have it pass there, then be signed by the president. In a normal America, the President can say they will pressure Congress to appropriate the funds and pass it but it can’t be a unilateral decision.
Yep. This is how Doug Ford is Premiere of Ontario. He literally went into low income housing and gave out $20 bills.
I guess technically he’s just running on a “give every American adult 5k” platform ? Of course I wouldn’t put it past him to try to only give them to GOP voters
he’s already run on “give every american adult $2k” twice and it worked once
Let’s be real. No one would get actually get it.
Funding only available in safe red districts.
You are allowed to pay people to vote for you?
No, and this is a violation. Either paying $5k dividend is a good or bad idea. Congress will vote on it. You can’t say that it is only a good idea if Nazis keep control of congress.
If you convince enough wealthy people apparently “democracy” means you can just do whatever you feel like.
Yeah, democracy, according to the Americans . They also allow their “leader” to make “executive” decisions like a dictator 😆.
Like he was going to end the war on Ukraine in 24 hours and release the Epstein files?
Like Iran would take a week?
Like Mexico would be paying for that wall?
Like America would be great again?
Still waiting for a replacement for the ACA, which was supposed to be so easy to do in the first week… Of his first term.
Not even Trump has enough child prostitutes to offer up to the wealthy stakeholders to make this happen.
I’m all for it honestly, after $40 trillion in debt the least they can do is start giving everyone else some of it before the whole thing collapses
People would end up burning their banknotes for warmth, because it would be worthless at that point.
D E S P E R A T E
And fucking liar, he will not send anyone a check period even if they did win. But fuck that vote folks are lives at stake here.
Still waiting for my DOGE and tariff rebate checks that he promised.
I mean, Trump’s entire life could be described as writing checks with his mouth that he can’t actually cash.
He literally loves going bankrupt.
https://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/trump-king-of-debt-224642
“I’m the king of debt. I’m great with debt. Nobody knows debt better than me,” Trump told Norah O’Donnell in an interview that aired on “CBS This Morning.” “I’ve made a fortune by using debt, and if things don’t work out I renegotiate the debt. I mean, that’s a smart thing, not a stupid thing.”
“How do you renegotiate the debt?” O’Donnell followed up.
“You go back and you say, hey guess what, the economy crashed,” Trump replied. “I’m going to give you back half.”
Clinton blasted Trump’s economic views in a speech on Tuesday, accusing him of gambling with the full faith and credit of the United States by flirting with a default on the debt.
“That could cause an economic catastrophe, and it would break 225 years of ironclad trust that the American economy has with Americans and with the rest of the world,” Clinton said. “Alexander Hamilton would be rolling in his grave. You see, we pay our debts.”
I mean, rare Hillary W, but uh yeah, we’ve known for 10 years what his plan here was… it’s been really obvious the whole time, actually.
Anytime a Republian mentions fiscal responsibilty, you have my permission to do debt collection for the tooth fairy, from their face.
