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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.

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.

Less than a year ago he promised $2k checks from his tariffs. MAGA has the attention span of a guppy.

Sorry, I'm apparently unfamiliar with how democracy works. You are allowed to pay people to vote for you?

If you think you're going to receive $5,000 if Republicans win the 2026 election, then you don't realize who made you need the extra $5,000 in the first place.

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.

Nevermind the financial cost. He's literally offering to bribe the public in broad daylight, an impeachable offense under article 2 section 4 of the US constitution:

The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.

There's no interpretation of this section that can make Trump soliciting votes by way of bribery not an impeachable offense... But he'll get away with it again because his cronies in Congress will refuse to impeach him.

Man, between this, the $5000 DOGE checks that will never come, and the $2000 tariff checks that will ALSO never come? We're all rolling in it, boys!

It's raining imaginary money!

Fuck that, even if my vote could be bought I know how often he stiffs his independent contractors.

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.

Anyone get their Tariff refund?

Anyone get their DOGE check?

Any soldier’s families get their death benefit payout being killed in trump’s not-war against Iran?

How about the time he said “Food for everyone!” at a Miami restaruant, then walked out without paying the bill?

Once trump gets what he wants he doesn’t pay shit.

D E S P E R A T E

Like he was going to end the war on Ukraine in 24 hours and release the Epstein files?

Man I'm going to take this money and combine it with:

My DOGE dividend that divididnt.

My Tariff rebate check that is non existent.

Same song, same dance, same rubes.

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.

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.

The guy who never pays people what he owes them says once again that we’ll get a vague mystery check sometime soon? I’m going to go ahead and hold my breath for that.

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".

Trump’s proposal would be legal because the payment would go to everyone regardless of how they voted, or whether they voted at all, said New Mexico-based attorney John Day.

“This is a campaign promise,” Day said. “It’s not a payment to individuals to try to get them to vote in a particular way.”

Just going to ignore the "if Republicans retain control of the House and the Senate", huh, AP?

THAT'S BRIBERY

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.

Just like he promised no new wars.

Well he has a great reputation for paying people.

He also said the war would end right after the mid terms. Unclear if that is also "conditional" on GOP holding senate.

The big problem with the promises is why not do these now? Does he expect democrats to be the ones blocking ending the war, or "radical lunatic left" $5000 dividend cheques? There are no Republican stooge voices supporting either plan.

It's not as crazy as destroying global and US economy IF Federal reserve (fresh stooge appointed) doesn't decrease rates, but rates are going up mostly because of Trump senility and credibility problems. Yesterday's promises are just more threats to Americans if they don't behave.

Media GOP stooges, all of them, failing to press Trump and other stooges, on why make any of these policies conditional on election results is part of their corruption.

While relief for Americans will never happen, ending the war timing is extremely puzzling. To actually get gas on a path back down to $2/gallon, it needs to be a victory declaration that permits Iran to toll the free flow of oil from the region. That would help GOP in mid terms if done now. A much more violent end of the war, involves US military losses, and long term destruction of regional infrastructure, and ultra high oil prices for years, that would cause voter disapproval if done before elections.

The democrats should offer $7500.

Bid for my vote!

So Lech Wałęsa, during first democratic elections in Poland after the fall of communism in 1990, promised that if he wins every citizen will get 100.000.000PLN ($2.5k, lots of money in Poland in 1990). People laughed, there were songs about it but he did win the elections. Of course no one got 100M PLN.

Years later I saw some documentary about rural regions in Poland and they were talking with some farmer from a tiny village. He looked and talked like he could barely read...

Farmer: Wałęsa was not my President.

Reporter: So you didn't vote for him?

Farmer: I did because he promised me 100M PLN...

So yes, people can be that stupid. MAGA definitively is stupid enough to buy it.

Where the hell is my $2000 DOGE check? I'm starting to thing this guy is full of shit and not just in his diaper

And half the country will believe him. Because they’re that fucking stupid…still.

Give us medicaid instead

Not that anybody but billionaires will ever get paid

Each week the government said less about the findings of the board of inquiry which was to decide how the $5000 per person could be wangled. It became easier to answer malcontents with a cuff from a Minute Man than by repetitious statements from Washington.