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- This guy loves inflation.by BoggleOhYeah
- The sooner this guy is impeached the better. That's better than letting his term just run out as it offers more of a warning to other fruitcakes out there: the system _eventually_ works.by rzzzwilson
- Since becoming president again, Trump has promised: -$5000 stimulus checks via "DOGE dividend" -$2000 stimulus checks via "tariff dividend" -$1000+ checks via "savings" from expiring ACA subsidies -$5000 "dividend" if Rs win midterms No checks have been issued https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-magically-disappearing-st...
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by pogue - I would ask how this is legal, but then again, we wouldn't even be here if something being legal or not mattered.by bmitc
- An incredible stain on the history of the US.by anonym00se1
- Good way to spend $1.3T that this party of fiscal responsibility doesn't have.by SomeHacker44
- Glad the law doesn’t count for the King, otherwise he would be in trouble.
The president’s Autopen though is going into overdrive signing all the pardons for every American who actually took the 5k.
Whoever makes or offers to make an expenditure to any person, either to vote or withhold his vote, or to vote for or against any candidate; and
Whoever solicits, accepts, or receives any such expenditure in consideration of his vote or the withholding of his vote—
Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; and if the violation was wilful, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.
by Jamesbeam - "The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money." -Alexis De Tocqueville
But turns out it's a fun game for another branch of government too.
by euroderf