• 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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    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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    I’m sad there are no repercussions. This shouldn’t be allowed. Its not okay. Even saying it isn’t okay.

    Election meddling isn’t okay.

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      “You’ve made your ruling, let’s see you enforce it”

      Where does political power come from?

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          As Congress has chosen to allow the President to exert Congressional power, so We the People, with the assistance of decades of fascist propaganda, have allowed the oligarchs to exert… Peoplenal? power. Shaddup, lemme have that one, okay? But seriously, the power of the people is in the hands of the oligarchs.

          Unless we take it back.

          But a third of us actively have chosen to depart from reality, logic, sanity; another third are too poor and tired to care, and the last third have enough energy to vote but that’s about it.

          So basically, we’re fucked.

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        Doesn’t matter if you pay or not the attempt to sway votes with gifts, prizes or money is specifically illegal.

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          There is a lot of stuff people say is illegal but if no one is willing to enforce it then the legality of anything not enforced is pointless.

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            No one had to enforce anything. The international community is what matters and they don’t enforce that they just judge you by it.

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                We’re losing gdp hand over fist, losing trade deals, getting pushed out as the oil currency, multiple countries have already divested their good reserves from us shores. We are losing in every single measurable metric so yes it has helped.

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          Of course, but you’d need to be missing part of your brain to ever think he WOULD pay. Also, what is illegal for a working yank is not illegal for the epstien class

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            Doesn’t matter, it calls to question the legitimacy of the election and no international body that isn’t directly corrupt would accept them as legit leadership.

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              Huh what does any international body have to do with anything. Most countries are bending down and sucking Trumps cock.

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                  … so you think other nations are going to stop interacting with the United States if the US legislature is installed via bribery and corruption?

                  Has that happened for any other country? Let’s look at the 2025 Corruption Perceptions Index list, and you tell me which countries are getting kicked out of the UN or cut off from international diplomacy.

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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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    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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      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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        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.