• Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca
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    54 minutes ago

    President Camacho was far more qualified to be a leader than the sack of vomit you lot decided to elect twice.

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    2 hours ago

    But… giving everyone free money, that’s COMMUNISM!
    The Red TACO strikes again, mimicking his role model : Kim Jong-Un.

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    5 hours ago

    It’s already my money, asshole, where do you think it came from in the first place?

    Also, I’d rather have healthcare for all and robust social safety nets, which are far more valuable than a paltry one time 5k payment that he’ll weasel out of.

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      Just doing some quick napkin math, the $5k payouts would cost around $1.25 trillion, pretty much guarantee at least 4 more years of no Medicare for All, and lead to absolutely no systemic change. M4A is estimated to cost anywhere from $2.5-$3 trillion per year. So yeah, he’s almost certainly lying but also even if not it’s a huge bargain for the oligarch class.

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        Who wants to bet he pulled that number out of his ass, without checking with anyone, or looking into if they even can?

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          Why would he check if they can do it, he has no intention of actually doing it, he probably picked it because it sounds good

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    Surely everyone can see this is a lie? And if it isn’t, then it’s got to be illegally paying for votes. I can just see the SC ruling - ‘everyone should have known he was lying, so it doesn’t count as corruption’

    • elbucho@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

      It’s a clear violation of 18 USC 597: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/597

      Couple of interesting things about this: this covers both the supply side and the demand side of the bribe economy; it’s illegal to offer the bribe, and illegal to accept it. Both are punishable for up to 2 years imprisonment per count. So if the US actually were a nation of laws, that would mean approximately 360 million years of prison for the fat orange traitor, and up to 2 years in prison for everybody who votes Republican thinking they’re going to get $5,000 for it.

      Of course, we’re not a nation of laws. Clearly. I mean, Trump has violated the law pretty much every single day (sometimes multiple times per day) that he’s been in office, and nothing negative has happened to him. We’ve all just accepted that our president is a traitor, and that’s just the way things are.

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      Why does it need to be a lie? It conveniently is more money than anyone on SSI is supposed to have in their bank account, automatically resulting in kicking everyone off that program for having too much money.

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      I think they’ve made very clear that they use the Nixon rule. If the president does it, it’s not illegal