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Trump promises every US adult $5,000 if Republicans win the midterm elections
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This reeks of desperation, that means he's scared. Don't let up, get out and VOTE!
It's not desperation, its not his money and if it actually happened, it would hamstring the incoming Dem president in 2028:
And not only wouldn't it be his money, it wouldn't even be "real" money. There's not a trillion dollars laying around for this (literally what it would cost).
Since Trump's first term in 2016, the debt has doubled from 19 trillion to 40 trillion. This will get tacked on and the debt will be used as an excuse not to fund social programs.
With the US adult (over 18) population at about 269-270 million, $5000 each would be about $1.3 Trillion imaginary dollars.
The dollars would be real, the value would not.
Trump is ruling like a particular type of typical dictator--protectionists tarriffs and printing money. Expect Argentina-style inflation in a few years. Don't denominate your savings in dollars, guys.
What’s savings?
It's an old-fashioned word, like 'groceries'.
They’ll find a way to only pay republican voters. Possibly while looking to expel anyone who isn’t at the same time.
US Population yesterday was just under 349M
21.07% of the population is under 18
Leaving just over 270.5M eligible adults in the US.
Even shaving off a generous 500,000 people as illegal, that makes it $1.35T this would cost.
so you are pretty damn close @RaoulDook@lemmy.world
It is absolutely desperation. Why do you think they threw a mid term rally in Texas in the first place?
When people say an act is of desperation, they mean someone willing to throw away anything besides their most important thing.
This isn't an act of desperation, because even if he "pays up" it doesn't negatively effect them.
It's like if you were robbing me, so I said "wait, if you don't take my stuff, you can rob the neighbor!"
An act of desperation is if a home invader had a gun to your head and you said "take all my stuff just don't kill me"
I know I can be pedantic, but this clearly isn't an act of desperation because trump isn't offering anything he owns.
Trump should be afraid of what losing the majority will do to his dictatorship.
Also don’t forget that he has dementia and likely thinks of values from the early 80s, when $5000 still bought a decent new car, and the average income was 25k (median around 20k).
Ironically, you could almost argue that what he's proposing is a sort of social programーjust an extremely clunky and ill-conceived (and likely illegal) one.
It is wildly illegal. Would be great if this crime finally did him in.
Elon didn't get jail time or fined. When you're famous, they let you do it, as he said.
I've argued before that people would be more likely to vote if it came with a small tax break
Isn’t this UBI?
Nah, UBI is a steady monthly payment you can count on.
This is just a straight up one time promise of a bribe that likely won't happen and burn Republicans even harder.
trump should have lost trust decades ago, but he's actually lost a lot in the last two years
You thought PPP inflation was bad?
The really infuriating part is that there an absolute shitload of feckless imbeciles who will be swayed by this
But as stupid as Trump voters are in the first place, they are bound to believe him. Regardless that the promised DOGE checks have somehow disappeared...
I don't doubt that you're correct, but it's all the more reason to vote.
Do you really believe someone who voted for Trump to be smart enough to recognize this as a scam?
Although, I just saw the snippet of his promise on TV, and noticed that he said 'dollars', not 'US dollars'. So it could be 'Guyanese dollars'. They even have a nice 5000 Dollar note: https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/KLAAAeSwd8Vqf7s7/s-l1200.jpg
It would still be aboutish 24 us dollars each.