He did not say where the money would come from.

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    Add that to all the other “your cheque is in the mail” gambits that trump throws out there and american citizens won’t need to work or contribute at all anymore! /s

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    In a functioning democracy such an election promise is a crime, but so are Super PACS and gerry-mandering and data scraping from voters via scam sites or abusing of entirely different public databases. Also, in a functioning democracy such crimes get prosecuted.

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    Reminder that 80% of people don’t read past the headline - most people will believe the lie even if they only see it here. News outlets know this, so the headline should be “Trump breaks the law and commits election fraud with false claims about payments to voters” or whatever.

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      I cannot understand how MAGAts don’t understand that. He just says random shit and hope it sticks enough to make him win.

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    11 hours ago

    He did not say where the money would come from.

    Same place the tariff rebates came from: nowhere.

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      Not to mention all the tariffs collected by him don’t add up to 250m americans x $5000, not even close. In a way, I hope the americans believe him, so that they don’t give the rest of the world any hope that the US can be reasonable, but on the other hand, jesus f christ we’ve all had enough of the sweaty tangerine

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    11 hours ago

    You know what’d be better? Electing DSA candidates all across the country, taxing all the billionaires and megacorps, and redistributing that wealth unconditionally to everyone as $5000 UBI checks every year

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    It reminds me of Batman the first Tim Burton one in 1989, in which the Joker promises to give away a ton of money in the town square (so he can kill them all with poison gas).

    I’m also reminded of the anti-union signs that suggest getting a game console instead of paying union dues.

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    10 hours ago

    The sky high gas prices this fucking piece of shit personally created have not only ravaged us at the pumps, but also ravaged every delivery driver… Driving ALL costs up

    This fucker owes us FAR more than 5k, man.