"Because of tariffs, we are taking in hundreds of billions of dollars of profits," he said. "It's one of the reasons I can offer, if Republicans win the House and the Senate, $5,000 to every adult. And we can do it and the Democrats can't, because the Democrats don't have any income, and they're gonna drive us in[to] a depression. They won't have any money."

Bitch you already promised us a tariff refund check.

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"Because of tariffs, we are taking in hundreds of billions of dollars of profits," he said. "It's one of the reasons I can offer, if Republicans win the House and the Senate, $5,000 to every adult. And we can do it and the Democrats can't, because the Democrats don't have any income, and they're gonna drive us in[to] a depression. They won't have any money."

His so-called logic is so bad it makes my head hurt.

  1. You already control both chambers. You could pass it now if it wasn't an obvious bribe to get people to vote for your party.
  2. Nothing about the Dems winning midterms stops the tariffs being in place. Literally your entire legal argument is that you don't need Congress to approve them, so logically the Dems controlling Congress wouldn't stop them if that was true. So they'd still have the money.

How do people actually fall for this shit? How?!

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  • [–] 75 points 2 days ago (3 children)

    Measles have returned because people believe vaccines cause autism. That's your answer.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 days ago* (1 child)

    Will this be the first infectious disease to be both eradicated and reintroduced? Damn, we're good.

    Anybody know where we can get ahold of some small pox? /s

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    Oh we have us an optimist here. We aren't even lucky enough to have a president Dwayne Elizando Mountain Dew Camacho.

    Idiocracy would be a step up. We are in a full-on kakistocracy.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    At least in that fictional narrative they knew enough to reward someone smarter than them.

    The way it typically works is to have the dumbest declare that their vibes overrule expertise.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    Also, Dems winning does not make this supposed money go away. If they are taking in these "hundreds of billions", that belongs to the government, not the Republicans.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago

    Exactly. He cannot grasp the idea of the public trust. In his blind that's his money, he stole it so it's his to do what he wants with.

    Never mind that actual tariff revenues are a tiny fraction of the 1.3Tn this deranged bribe scheme would cost.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    How do people actually fall for this shit? How?!

    Many people "Reason" emotionally. The words don't matter so much as the feelings.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 days ago

    It's like the people going on vibes toward the end of 2024 and deciding that voting for donnie would improve their lot. Even though virtually every economic indicator was pointed in the right direction at that point.

    Meanwhile, lots of the chattering class kept flogging anyone pointing this out, saying it negated people's feelings to point out the facts of an economy that was on the right track.

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