Trump promises $5k payout to U.S. adults if Republicans win election(www.reuters.com)
23 pointsby nateb20225 hours ago11 comments
  • euroderf3 hours ago
    "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.

  • SomeHacker444 hours ago
    Good way to spend $1.3T that this party of fiscal responsibility doesn't have.
    • MisterMower3 hours ago
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      • ryan_lane3 hours ago
        > Democrats have historically been the party of “vote for me for more free stuff,"

        Democrats are more fiscally responsible than Republicans, consistently, for decades. You're perpetuating a myth, pushed by conservatives, that liberals are "tax and spend".

        > these vote buying schemes from both parties

        Where do you see vote buying schemes from the Democrat side? The only examples I've seen so far of this in reality are this current scheme, and Elon Musk's scheme last election.

        "Both sides" are not equal. Republicans have given up on the rule of law and are actively aiming to eliminate democracy.

  • anonym00se14 hours ago
    An incredible stain on the history of the US.
    • mathisfun1234 hours ago
      just one question: is it a deeper or shallower stain than slavery, trail of tears, lynchings, nuking japan, vietnam, 1 million dead in the second gulf war, etc etc etc?

      lol

      • anon7000an hour ago
        It’s a stain precisely because it proves Americans don’t learn from those past stains
      • bigyabai4 hours ago
        It's too early to say, it depends on how the Iran conundrum wraps up.
  • rzzzwilson3 hours ago
    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.
    • asdfasvea2 hours ago
      Been impeached twice. What do you envision a third doing?
      • cmurfan hour ago
        Conviction. Removal from office.

        Third time’s the charm?

        By all means let Senators defend and protect him. Maybe they don't care about their historical reputation

  • theGeatZhopa2 hours ago
    I try use my brain to logically approach it:

    - 5k are promised in case of x to u.s. adults

    Risk: too much adults to divide 5k equally amongst.

  • k3103 hours ago
    Confederate dollars.
  • pogue4 hours ago
    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...

    Catherine Rampell / The Bulwark via Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/crampell.bsky.social/post/3mv4z7az4...

  • bmitc4 hours ago
    I would ask how this is legal, but then again, we wouldn't even be here if something being legal or not mattered.
    • wmf4 hours ago
      It's no different than promises to increase welfare or cut taxes that politicians routinely make.
      • bmitc3 hours ago
        This is much different than that. It's basically a direct bribe.
      • nichos4 hours ago
        Or pay off student loan debt, it's all crooked, both sides.
        • alyeska23 hours ago
          "Both sides" is such an absurd claim these days.

          It's like saying that a murderer and a jaywalker are both criminals, so they're basically the same.

          • mathisfun1233 hours ago
            Lol I see you've never met a stallman type (ie your average hn disposition)
          • MisterMower3 hours ago
            You’re right, the “both sides” claim really doesn’t work here.

            Biden’s student loan forgiveness would have amounted to a gift of potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars to his most ardent supporters: young, college educated, poor people.

            Trump’s proposal is a fraction of that, and all Americans would be eligible. If he’s trying to buy votes, he’s going to need to try a lot harder. This proposal is nothing like Biden’s vote buying scheme.

            • bmitc2 hours ago
              Have you missed where Trump himself and many of the wealthiest people in the U.S. have had integer multiples of their wealth over just the past couple of years?

              > young, college educated, poor people

              Oh yea, you're correct, who needs those? Let's feed the 0.01%.

        • ggm4 hours ago
          Please beware the false moral equivalence. Both sides is a position which advantages the incumbency.

          What is your intent, beyond cynicism?

  • BoggleOhYeah3 hours ago
    This guy loves inflation.
    • cmurfan hour ago
      It wouldn’t just monetize the national debt. By inflating away his own debts he might actually become a billionaire.
  • exabrial3 hours ago
    Everyone wants to know why groceries are so damn expensive, here's your answer. Along with fighting wars that aren't ours.

    I really wish Libertarians would actually win.

    • Synthetic73462 hours ago
      Libertarians are just conservatives who like weed
  • HDBaseT4 hours ago
    "The only caveat I have is that the dividend that we're making must be spent in the United States of America."