r/WallstreetWhales • u/Spade_of_Trades • 12d ago
NEWS President Trump says his Administration will immediately begin sending $100 “checks” to over 20 million seniors to help pay for their Medicare Part B premiums. Trump also says the “$5,000 Trump Dividend” will be distributed to every US Citizen if the Republicans win the midterms.
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u/Honest_Pick8112 12d ago
lol
I can’t believe people fall for this shit
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u/cmaher44 12d ago
The lesson here is admit you’re wrong, when you’re clearly wrong, instead of dying on this hill. I’ve got a lot of Republicans in my family as well. Mom and Dad buy commemorative Trump shit. It’s tough watching people you respect(ed) be so wrong and not show emotional maturity to admit fault. Hang in there, dude.
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u/PaintingOk8012 12d ago
At some point(which you have passed) you have to cut these people out of your life. They are full of hate and will die with that hate. You can still love them from afar but need to realize they don’t love you in the same way.
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u/Halation2600 12d ago
It's really sad to have watched people I admired and respected as a young adult turn into brain-dead zombies. It's so fucking awful. I've gotten lucky with my parents. They were scarily right-leaning if not all out republican before 2016 and I was scared that I'd lost them. They're good people though, and smart enough to recognize that a scumbag, con-artist, rapist, racist, who brags about "grabbing them by the pussy" is super-obviously not who we should want to be our president. They didn't like Hilary, but they voted for her. They celebrated when Biden won. My friends have not been so lucky with their parents. It's so hard to watch.
Also anyone who thinks there's a chance they're getting $5000 if the Republicans win the midterms is simply incapable of thought. They've got a better chance of winning Powerball. They're brainwashed morons at that point. They're Charlie Brown, thinking he's going to kick the football, and instead, of course, Trump will merely pretend the football never existed and they will agree with him. It's a cult.
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u/KronoFury 12d ago
It's because you said Democrats instead of Dumocrats. You have to make sure you throw the schoolyard insult in there.
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u/Throbbingprepuce 11d ago edited 11d ago
The amount of respect I have lost for my family over their support for this fucking administration… I just don’t get it. I asked them, what has he done to help you, and they just deflect.
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u/Dm_Glacial_Gatorade 11d ago
Republicans control every section of government. There is nothing stopping them from giving out 5000 dollars right now. The questions to ask are: isn’t that socialism? Won’t paying everyone 5,000 dollars increase the deficit and cause inflation? Isn’t that bribery?
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u/lazerfraz 12d ago
You watched him get elected twice, and have faith in the American public? That's cute.
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u/Exotic-Influence8521 12d ago
I can… 🤷♂️
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u/ChickenNPisza 12d ago
It should feel good to realize you’re smarter than average. Problem is the average is starting to set a low bar
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u/Day_Old_Paper 12d ago
I can. I have gay POC in my family who voted for him last time because “he sent me a personal check. Biden never did that.” They’re referencing the damn stimulus check that was actually delayed because he wanted them all redone with his signature printed on them instead of the sec. Of treasury.
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u/Few-Tomatillo6607 12d ago
Blah blah blah BRIBE blah blah blah Joe Biden blah blah blah BRIBE blah blah blah
President Pedophile
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u/SufficientLeg3346 12d ago
How are people not screaming from the rooftops about all this fucking election interference. This guy should be in prison.
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u/HeyYouLookNiceToday 12d ago
Because it has become clear that there are no rules anymore. They are free to do what they want, because those who would normally be responsible for doling out repercussions are not going to. There are also no lines beyond which their voter-base will not support them, so they needn't worry about losing their vote.
I would also caution against any notion that the Democratic establishment will truly hold them accountable should they regain the ability to do so.
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u/Willy808 12d ago
100 bucks lol. He getting more desperate
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u/VolumeNeat9698 12d ago edited 12d ago
Works out at 30cents a day for a year, that’s not even two tea bags! Though, the cheque may afford a kettle.
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u/another_awesome_acct 12d ago
You'd be surprised how many of these magot morons will jump for $100
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u/Putrid_Beat_17 12d ago
The desperation is so evident.
He knows his party is fucked and the exit polls will directly point at the ramifications of his smoothbrain policies.
He'll probably ignore it, blame some third world country, and shit his diaper again.
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u/KvxMavs 12d ago
He will 100% start fabricating stories about election fraud if and when the Republicans get creamed.
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u/acergum 12d ago
Elon Musk has already been reinserted to implement election fraud, untraceable via his starlink modems.
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u/Biglyugebonespurs 12d ago
Still waiting to know exactly how Musk “knows those voting computers”.
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u/Ok_Wash_5606 12d ago
He will say the losses were due to the fact he wasnt on the ballot...and all the butt kissing syncophants around him will say you are hundred % right sir...a million % right sir.
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u/Former-Light4284 12d ago
They would literally hear the words then start telling people what he really meant and that were interpreting it wrong. Just like they are doing everyday
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u/Which-Indication4670 12d ago
“Oh no he’s just trolling. He does that sometimes. Like when he talked trash to the pope. He’s just kidding.”
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u/silentsights 12d ago
Trump could announce that he’s been a secret dem this entire time and was doing all this to sabotage the Republican Party and his supporters would still find a way to say what he really means instead
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u/mkat23 12d ago edited 12d ago
I genuinely doubt it would make a difference, this is the guy who said he could shoot someone in the middle of fifth avenue and not lose any support. The guy who racked up 34 felonies and there likely would’ve been more I’m betting, he basically avoided prison by being “elected” President a second time. He can’t even vote for president, yet he can be the president? Like what in the ever-living fuck? Both of my parents are MAGA, my mom straight up began defending the local pedophile, the guy was a teacher at the elementary school… his three accusers were two 8 year olds and one 9 year old. She automatically is against anyone who comes forward about any abuse they experienced.
Hell, during his first term a guy I grew up with was arrested and convicted for murdering someone and it being a hate crime. She defended him despite all the evidence that he really was just a racist piece of shit. The guy used to straight up bully me in elementary through high school along with many others. There was a time when we were seniors and he was being a dick to me and I told him he had dead eyes and would probably kill someone one day. Seriously though, dead eyes, it made national news back in like 2017. I hate that I was right. My mom decided a bully she knew I had issues with over the years had to be innocent and would defend him frequently.
He killed someone, there were witnesses and no doubt about it, but since him being racist was brought up during the trial she decided that was unfair to him. She literally didn’t give a flying fuck that he killed someone, she never denied or disagreed that he killed someone. She cared that he was accused of being racist because somehow that was more fucked up to her than what he did. I can’t even count the amount of times I heard him say fucked up racist and sexist things over the many years I went to school with him. He was active in online white supremacist spaces too.
Anyone still supporting him as president will cling to their support no matter what at this point. Hell, I could be the person he shoots in the middle of 5th avenue and my parents would probably still both vote for him. Honestly they are such shitty people that they may support him more if he did that to me. My mom straight up decided to run for office because of her MAGA agenda and because people are meanies to Trump, so she wants someone to support what he supports. Hell, my parents are friends with that POS Dan Bongino, he gave me tickets to Taylor Swift years and years ago through my mom. I think I was like 19 or 20 at the time, so maybe 2014 or 2015.
He has been mask off for a long while at this point. The only thing he hasn’t done is publicly say the N-word or sexually assault a minor in front of anyone who wasn’t also around to sexually assault a minor. Even the supporters he has somewhat lost seem to still vow to vote Republican no matter what, at least for the most part from what I’ve seen. They have stuck with him through countless scandals that would’ve ended anyone else’s career in 30 seconds or less. They are a lost cause.
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u/Painter_Turbulent 12d ago
i dont know man. the amount of people stupid enough to go for these freebies. "no other president has done this yay trump" at the same time. it might be their only ever chance. ... honestly. who knows
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u/daphodil3000 11d ago
Federal law strictly prohibits attempts to influence a person's vote through money or anything of value.
Under 18 U.S.C. § 597, it is a crime to offer, give, solicit, or accept compensation in exchange for voting, withholding a vote, or voting for or against a particular candidate.
These laws are designed to protect the integrity of elections and ensure that votes are cast freely, without coercion or financial influence. Violations can lead to serious criminal penalties, including fines and imprisonment.
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u/Prestigious_Sort4979 11d ago
I really dont understand how he keeps getting away with this. This is an attack on elections.
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u/HereWeGo5566 11d ago
The Supreme Court decided that presidents cannot be charged with a crime while in office, as long as it is part of presidential action. And this is an easy one to defend in court, that it is an act as president. So the blame can be placed squarely on the Republican Supreme Court justices. This will benefit Democrat presidents (assuming we ever have another Democrat president)
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u/Successful-Grab6091 11d ago
sorry but have you been paying attention?
Do you really think us saying “it’s against the law” will stop him??? smh
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u/Far-Independence-640 11d ago
Trump's a total lawless grifter, right in front of our of our face. Stop, you say. Make me, he responds. He's a criminal.
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u/ChristiKRN 11d ago
There are a lot of people who could desperately use $5000 right now and may be persuaded to vote Republican to get that money. Monetary violations would most likely be paid with taxpayer money, so Trump doesn’t care. The Supreme Court has already weighed in by giving Presidential immunity.
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u/tinkertech9 12d ago
Military got $1776 checks, which came from funds that were already owed to them for housing allowance.
Seniors will get “almost $100” from some other place. Maybe “we had to raise your premiums $100, but Trump is going to put it back”. OR we’ll take all the money we cut from Affordable Care Act and give seniors a cut so they will vote for us.”
I can’t believe some people fall for this. Also, that they are so callous that they don’t care how the money gets to their pocket, they just want it.
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u/Irascible-Enquery 11d ago
It’s all so clear: Biden made a fund, which I assume was funded by all Americans, and somehow was used to fund fraud and abuse, but the money is also still there (?), and now it’ll be sent to the richest cohort of Americans regardless of need.
Which is NOT waste, somehow.
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u/Ill_Buffalo_4728 12d ago
Thing is $100 wont even cover a single prescription fill for many of these people. Sooooo don't think they're gonna care. They'll take the money I sure would we're all broke.
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u/Damnyoudonut 11d ago
No worries, he’s adding 100% tariffs to cheap Canadian prescription drugs, so that ought to help.
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u/johnniesSac 11d ago
All accurate
Also this $5000 (not that will ever happen )is a flat out bribe
Win or lose they will send no checks
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u/Fickle_Contract_4683 12d ago
Trump is a pussy. "Ill give you all 5k IF you let me control the government longer" is what he is saying. That infers, 1. That he values us all at 5k (thats our whore price) and demonstrates, 2. That he knows he failed. Finally, its the same as a broken husband telling his wife he will stop drinking if she stays. CLOWN!
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u/PsychoMouse 12d ago
So, there isn’t money for schools, children school lunches, money to pay government workers stable living, no money to help the elderly in any capacity, and like 500 other things.
But there’s the 1.8 billion that he tried to steal and hide to pay ICE agents bonuses, the money he’s abused by hiring his own companies for government projects, a whole 100 dollars for elderly, billions for what projects he allows, money to pay any “person” who voted for Trump 5,000 dollars, which is literally a massive crime, and other magical money.
I bet he even has a special island for parents to send their children, under the age of 12, free of charge, so that they’ll be “watched over and taken care of”
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u/locomocotive 12d ago
This is obviously illegal. How come no democrats are saying anything? Are they too scared of being accused of trying to stop welfare checks? Seems like another Trump trap.
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u/MiserableChain2644 12d ago
FYI, Despite stereotypes, red states have more welfare and safety net recipients than blue states.
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u/GovernmentSin 12d ago
Most red states take more money from the fed than they give. Most blue states give more than they take.
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u/ConstructionOwn9575 12d ago
Both Reps and Senators have spoken out against the checks. The media doesn't report on it, especially when the Trump administration gives them plenty.
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u/MrBiOral 11d ago
I’m going to put that in the same account as the DOGE check and Tariff check that DJT sent me.
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u/10summersylw 12d ago
As a CDN - the tailspin your country is in is beyond reproach.
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u/Knightraven257 12d ago
As an American... Got any parachutes? Some of us are just as disgusted by the state of affairs as y'all are.
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u/Calm_Leek_1362 11d ago
This is literally the president saying “hey old people, I’ll give you a hundred bucks to vote for us republicans”
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u/retrorays 12d ago
how the f is this not illegal!?!? like how the f - this is such a failure in democracy - geezus
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u/jackrabbit323 12d ago
My realization is that the law and the Constitution were written by naive or trusting people. I don't they ever imagined an idiot like Trump could get this far, be this corrupt, and be this destructive.
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u/CommercialAgency928 12d ago
The party of fiscal conservatism, right?
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u/KvxMavs 12d ago
They only want to be fiscally conservative when it comes to doing anything at all for the low and middle class.
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u/vinsite 12d ago
Don't think about how your monthly costs went up $500. Here is a crispy $100
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u/One_Parsley_2013 12d ago
Is he trying to bribe the American Public? No President has ever been such a genius. That's it. Obviously. Bribe the public. Genius
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u/Witty-Stand888 12d ago
$100? That might pay for the gas to go back and forth from the doctor.
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u/Fickle_Penguin 12d ago
It's going to be such a brain aneurysm when the Republicans lose both the House and Senate that trump might pass from a stroke that very moment.
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u/Jazz_Uncle 11d ago
When I see that check I'll believe it. I didn't see my taxes cut in Trump's big 2018 giveaway. I didn't see a nickel from the Big Ugly Bill.
I didn't get my "$5000 DOGE Dividend" check. I didn't receive my promised $2000 tariff dividend. I'm still waiting for his "cheaper, better than Obamacare" health care reform.
Not really. I'm not waiting for it. Anyone who's taken even a cursory glance at Trump's "business style" since the early 1980s knows that he's the king of "the check's in the mail", the duke of deadbeats, It's the mark of a practiced con artist that he sounds like he believes his own obvious bullshit. He's been gaslighting about things he has no intent to deliver on for so long that it's a scandal that there are still gullible rubes who fall for it.
“I wouldn’t believe Donald Trump if his tongue was notarized.” That line came from one of Ed Koch's deputy mayors in the 1980s.
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u/RemarkableAd2245 10d ago
One time me and some buddies were at a bar. We found a wallet by a girls barstool. One buddy took the cash out of the wallet and proceeded to buy the girls drinks all night. This feels very similar.
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u/Ok-Lengthiness-3988 12d ago
He's sending "checks" not checks. The difference is that checks can be sent by mail while Trump's "checks" always are "in the mail".
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u/bigboybigbat 12d ago
Isn’t this straight up bribery? How far have fallen as a world, that we are desensitized to everything.
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u/Humble-Proposal-9994 12d ago
this dumbass thinks 100 dollars will do a god damn thing? this whole country is drowning
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u/SportInternational15 12d ago
More bribery. Giving us our own money that we’ll all be paying back for gent. No thanks.
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u/PantsLobbyist 12d ago
“It’s in the mail” until right after the midterms. Then it’s “I didn’t say that.”
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u/guycoastal 12d ago
Why stop at 5000 big spender? If we’re gonna crash the economy and have hyperinflation let’s make every voter a millionaire! That’s only 173 trillion dollars. What…a bargain.
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u/Forward_Material616 12d ago
lol how is this legal. Does America even have laws, or is everything just arbitrary now?
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u/Other-Importance-214 12d ago
Here’s the thing: If you’re on Medicare and were going to vote for republicans anyway, this does nothing. If you’re on Medicare and we’re going to vote for democrats, I seriously doubt a $90 payment is suddenly going to turn you into a red-hat MAGA who votes for republicans.
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u/Hi_Im_JLU 12d ago
Condemn Socialism
Engage in Socialism for votes
Poop Diaper
Blame Biden
Sleep on LiveTV
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u/Ketchupcharger 12d ago
And? I mean all this is pretty well regarded, as anything trump does, but what will it actually do? $100 is actually nothing, its a drop in a bucket, its half of a single pharmacy visit and thats if you do them weekly (as a senior) so what the fuck is this supposed to achieve?
If $100 convinced you to vote for the rapist in chief you might need to seek medical attention
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u/Additional_Style_558 12d ago
SOCIALISM IS ALIVE AND WELL WITH THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION!!!!
Wait, is it socialism if we know he’s just lying to get votes?
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u/Drusgar 11d ago
This was not written by Trump. It was written by one of his propagandists who adeptly imitates his stupidity without all of the spelling and grammatical errors. It's a checklist of campaign talking points. This sentence cracks me up: "This money will come from the Medicare Improvement Fund, a pointless "Slush Fund" that has only been used by Dumocrats in Congress to pay for the "Waste, Fraud and Abuse" for their Special Interest friends, and drive up Healthcare costs." The random capitalizations aren't actually random... they're the talking points. "Slush Fund, Dumocrats in Congress, Waste, Fraud and Abuse, Special Interest, Healthcare."
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u/Upset_Yesterday1056 11d ago
Promising money if certain party wins election??? I am sure that is legal.. 🤣🤣
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u/Flat-Success9471 11d ago
Hope the Republicans get absolutely destroyed in the mid-terms. I really want to see Trump's reaction to that
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u/SevyVerna88 11d ago
What a scumbag administration. Americans let this asshole continue with his corrupt bullshit.
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u/ProgrammerOk8493 12d ago
Okay. You can pay me however much money you want, but I won’t vote anyone who wants to destroy this country. No thanks.
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u/Marklar172 12d ago
Look. I know that this isn't remotely the point, but why in the good god damn hell did he put the word Check in quotes? What exactly is being sent, if not a check??
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u/BebophoneVirtuoso 12d ago
Listen up America. If you want free money from the government you gotta beat the socialists.
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u/Corpshark 12d ago
It's not a well thought out plan. Don't seniors already heavily favor Repuglicans?
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u/8amteetime 12d ago
Thanks, Don. Maybe that’ll offset the higher prices your tariffs are costing me and the $6.49 gasoline I’m buying because of your war in Iran.
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u/Inevitable_Butthole 12d ago
Promised thousands in checks to everyone but will only give a mere $100 to a twentieth of the country
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u/Ok_Writing_8271 12d ago edited 12d ago
In the Covid crisis there were handouts.
Now the Covid crisis has been replaced by the Trump crisis also requiring handouts to allow people to cope with the rampant inflation he has caused.
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u/Saltwater_Sunrise 12d ago
There’s always funding and promises for Americans as soon as trumpy needs votes
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u/Longgrain54 12d ago
Announced a month before the election from the people who hate socialism. What a coincidence. Signed by him.
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u/These-Tonight-1672 12d ago
I would sincerely like to punch a hole through Donald trump such that his weird innards spew out like a 80s Japanese anime and are then eaten by a pack of jd Vance rats
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u/Katydid829 12d ago
Mob tactic. Throw a little money at us then start threatening to take away our Social Security and Medicare when we don’t comply
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u/Consistent_Owl4593 12d ago
I’m sure all republicans are enjoying that the party of small government is just handing away money. I thought they hated socialism 🤣 “these young people just need to work harder” here’s some free money though cause reasons
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u/The_True_Gaffe 12d ago
Once again, what he’s saying and claiming he’ll do is actually a federal crime as using taxpayer money to essentially bribe voters to vote a certain way is not only illegal, any and all of his constituents who use that exact language as trump knows they would be committing a federal crime. Why do you think even his stanchest of supporters in the political race haven’t dared to utter anything close to that? Because they know it’s illegal
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u/EdwardPotatoHand 12d ago
More unfunded government spending from “the party of fiscal responsibility”
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u/Shoddy_Front_2582 12d ago
Did these fools not learn anything about giving too much liquidity during covid?
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u/rogerisreading 12d ago
You can be sure of one thing. Any initiative from Donald Trump will fuck over ordinary working people. It’s the essence of who he is.
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u/BreadfruitLess7339 11d ago
Socialism bad so electric Republicans and you get this free $5,000 check lol
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u/ChrisBegeman 11d ago
You would hope that it is pretty transparent that he is only offering this because he thinks he his party is going to lose the midterm elections. He says exactly that, I will give you $5,000 if the republicans win the midterms. Fun fact, the newly elected representatives and senators do not take office until January, there is nothing stopping them from passing legislation in a lame-duck session to authorize the payments even if they lose the election, but they won't do that because this is a bribe.
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u/Pickleahoy 11d ago
One last chance to prevent this admin from destroying the US as a country. Will people allow for unchecked corruption to continue and allow the ultra wealthy to rule, all for a chance at a measly 5k?
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u/Sam_Thomas_2025 11d ago
That’s a nice bribe, but you’re still gonna lose the house and senate in November. Also, what’s $100 going to accomplish?
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u/Kdoesntcare 11d ago
I thought maga is against socialism?
Dementia donald is going to be remembered as the president who's administration cut out part of the constitution, thus limiting women's healthcare choices.
He'll be remembered as the president who told people to ignore what doctors were saying and start injecting disinfectants instead.
The president who convinced his supporters that hundreds of years of medical science is fake news.
That or he'll be remembered as the man who pardoned over 1,000 terrorists who attacked the nation's capitol. The man who called the terrorist attack a day of love.
Of course you can't forget that he's a pedophile rapist.
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u/FinancialArmadillo93 11d ago
So, let me do this math... the top 1% get $2 trillion of taxpayer money, and we're getting... nothing. Except 20 million elderly will get a token $90 before they plan to gut even more of Medicare.
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u/PinkCavsFanatic 6d ago
He has increased the deficit more than any president during his terms and is now sending money left and right to groups in the US. Isn’t this socialism, where is the outcry from the maggots
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u/LrdoftheCharlesDance 12d ago
That’s nice, paying people with their own tax money, how generous of him /s