• 1D10@lemmy.world
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    Oh another morality test for America, the last one was " will you vote for a corrupt rapist who has proven they are bad for the country, or a woman". This one is " knowing exactly how fucked everything you care about will become, will you still vote for it if a corrupt liar says they will give you money that they literally cannot give you"

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    A promise from the always does lies man!

    Also, you’ve spent that and more on lost savings, higher gas, groceries, restaurants, fucking everything he broke.

    Shoots you in the toe, cuts off both feet and then announces, “if you keep me around, everyone gets a single shoe!”

    And if you’re a loyal cult member all this time, do you have any issue with the gate here? Like… Why isn’t he just giving you $5k today, or for the last election and and all the fascism you enabled? Almost sounds like he’s full of shit and only a moron would believe anything he says.

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    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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    A classic anti-democratic and anti-socialist right wing argument is that people vote for the left because the left promises them government benefits.

    Mitt Romney :

    “There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president [Obama] no matter what… who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it… My job is not to worry about those people. I’ll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives.”

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    Republicans when talking about min wage: “We can’t give out money, or else inflation happens, learn something!

    Republicans when voting comes up: “HAVE FREE MONEY!”

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    on the one hand this is stupid, on the other hand he was elected by stupid people, so upon reflection it will probably work as a motivation.

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      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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    Democrats should counter that they’ll pay double whatever the Republicans pledge (min $10k, max $30k), paid entirely by a wealth tax on assets over $1 billion if they win a filibuster-proof supermajority.

    Billionaires actually have enough assets to get to $30.6k per person, so Democrats wouldn’t even have to tax their assets above $1 billion at 100% to get there.

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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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        Investigated? Prosecuted? Yea, and like his felonies, at the end they’ll say he’s not gunna be punished in case that makes his job of being a super criminal while in charge of that country difficult.