- cross-posted to:
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- cross-posted to:
- usa@lemmy.ml
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.
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Or maybe the asshat wants to turn Elon Musk over to get the $1 trillion from him, which will be enough to pay two hundred million American adults $5,000 each while having him go from the world’s richest man to the world’s poorest man, and him going from being filthy rich to living in a filthy ditch due to all the DOGE and CYBERTRUCK failures.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Less than a year ago he promised $2k checks from his tariffs. MAGA has the attention span of a guppy.
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.
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.
Fuck that, even if my vote could be bought I know how often he stiffs his independent contractors.
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.
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.
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.
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 😆.
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
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.
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.
How’s the national debt and stagflation, Don?
Take your $5k and shove it up your ass. Tossing us crumbs to distract us from your total disaster of a presidency.
What an economic moron.
The real economic morons are the ones who are excited that they are getting $5k if the repubs stay in congress.
And this. $5k means nothing with stagflation and worsening conditions for workers, no plan to address climate change, massive economic inequality, out of control healthcare costs, ballooning deficit due to insane, needless military spending, disgusting fascism, blatant corruption. etc.
$5k is like two months rent for some people. Okay, what then? Back to the same old usual shit.
They won’t fucking get 5k
And that all assumes a complete change of heart from the GOP that hasn’t paid those doge checks or tarriff refunds.
Yeah $5k for every American with no new taxes is just a massive burst in inflation. It can be done strategically in a situation like covid where the economy needs to be maintained from collapse due to a temporary situation of no work, but that’s about it.
In a depression you spend money, but you do it by making jobs to get nice to haves.
We’re all just ignoring the blatant illegality of buying votes then and pretending this is normal and okay for a sitting president to do? Ok…. Cool.
Maybe he can get away with it using say the strategy pepsi tried for their millitary jet comercial etc… IE a “no reasonable person would believe it was a real offer”.
That did work in court. And no reasonable person would believe anything that comes out of Trump’s mouth.
He’s not buying anything if he never pays for it.
A bribe welched upon is still a bribe.
This is like that sketchy parent who gives you a big gift, but you don’t realize until much later they used your credit to do it, which is now trashed.
You’re also ignoring that you’re $40 trillion in debt and not doing so well economically.
This adds another trillion or two lol
Well, when the President does it, that means that it is not illegal, right? /S
Who’s ignoring? Do you mean the Republicans who control Congress well enough to prevent any impeachment?
Oh it’s illegal! Can’t do that then, sorry!
didn’t the supreme court give him total immunity?
He’s not really buying votes if he’s promising it to everybody. At that point it’s just a stimulus.
It’s a bribe because it’s conditional on Republicans holding congress. He’s buying votes. Whether or not he’d actually make good on the offer is an entirely separate matter.
I get where you’re coming from, but he could easily argue that he needs a Republican majority for the bill to pass, and that the conditional is referring to that.
He could. I still think it’s a textbook bribe, but ultimately it would have to be congress deciding, and I doubt they would judge based on the US code so much as they would be weighing their election chances with President Trump vs President Vance.
If it’s contingent upon people doing something that he wants, it’s a bribe. It doesn’t matter if it’s other things too. A bribe can take many forms.
