• BuckFutter@timeyak.com
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    28 days ago

    Weren’t we supposed to get huuuuge tariff rebate checks as well…so yah…this isn’t happening. Smells like desperation.

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      28 days ago

      These are the same people who would kill their children to save their souls.

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      I mean, they’re right, though I wouldn’t use the word “saving”. I’d rather be “saved” from raw, unbridled capitalism.

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      I know it sounds stupid to a lot of people here, but I do think this is a potentially winning angle with a lot of voters. People have been trained for decades to believe that socialism is equivalent to Soviet style communism and that once you start down the path, there’s no turning back.

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      At least…gotta bankrupt the country so the rich tech bros can buy it up and make their little city-states

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      Couldn’t have said it better myself.

      What would be nice is if this very illegal offer was actually investigated and prosecuted.

      Edit:

      After I thought about this for a minute it’s not much different then:

      • “Elect us and we’ll cut your taxes by $5,000.”
      • “Vote for us and we’ll cancel $10,000 in student debt.”
      • “Give us Congress and we’ll increase Social Security benefits.”

      But I guess coming from him everything seems illegal and grifty.

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        No, it isn’t like those things at all. Those are promoting changes to how the government works. This is a direct bribe explicitly for voting.

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      28 days ago

      “You’ve made your ruling, let’s see you enforce it”

      Where does political power come from?

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        Doesn’t matter if you pay or not the attempt to sway votes with gifts, prizes or money is specifically illegal.

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          Of course, but you’d need to be missing part of your brain to ever think he WOULD pay. Also, what is illegal for a working yank is not illegal for the epstien class

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            Doesn’t matter, it calls to question the legitimacy of the election and no international body that isn’t directly corrupt would accept them as legit leadership.

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                  … so you think other nations are going to stop interacting with the United States if the US legislature is installed via bribery and corruption?

                  Has that happened for any other country? Let’s look at the 2025 Corruption Perceptions Index list, and you tell me which countries are getting kicked out of the UN or cut off from international diplomacy.

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    Assuming there are about 250M adults in the US, $5K for everyone would ring up a bill of at least $1.25T. Im sure the party of no handouts and fiscal responsibility did this math though.

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    Trump is the most predictable human to ever have lived because if he’s speaking you can be sure he’s not telling the truth. It’s a 100% guarantee.

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      well, there was that one time recently where he admitted that he was building his own monuments now because “Nobody will do it once I’m gone. When I leave here, nobody will.”

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    It’s a low-ball figure. $5000 would last us about a month. Rent, Utilities, Food & more, it all adds up. The election is for a period of 24 months, not 1 month. A reasonable monetary figure that isn’t a lowball would be $120,000 —> $5000 a month for 24 months.