Republicans to Trump: No $2,000 tariff checks
So, after tarrifs were declared an illegal tax and the money now needing to be refunded, I guess they'll just give it to the businesses who will have a nice boon in revenue, won't reduce the prices, and we all can just eat shit?
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My son worked with a young guy whose parents were legal immigrants, and they LOVE Trump unconditionally.
During his first term, when he sent out Covid checks, he insisted the checks have his signature on them. My son's friend's parents literally thought that Trump sent them that money out of his own bank account. They were so grateful that he was sacrificing his own fortune to save America. I would have thought that was ridiculous, but Trump knew that many people would respond that way to his signature on that check. Mine was direct deposited so I never fell for it (yeah, that's why).
So now that his approvals are plunging by the week, he is is desperate to bribe people into loving him again. I'll gladly take his money, laugh in his face, and continue to despise him as much as ever.
This is the way.
but it's our money, not his ... taxes?
Yeah definitely more of a get my money back scenario
If I was rich, I'd give the money to my favorite Socialist candidates, but I can always use a couple grand to remain alive.
That's why our wages have been so stagnant for so long.
The employers take the money they would have given you in wage increases, keep a big chunk of it for the shareholders, but use some of it to bribe politicians into keeping wages low. Do that a few times and you have a "strong" ecconomy to attract foreign investors, which will drive up your share peices even more. On top of that, there is no counter force that can afford to counter-bribe the politicians. That ultimately becomes a feedback loop, which is how and why we're in this position now.
The politicians don't work for us, they work for the donors.
I understand, thanks for the explanation like I'm 5.
I used the word "Him" because he's making it happen, nobody else wants or is asking for this, so I referred to it rhetorically as "his" money. You shouldn't be baffled by literary license, just go with it.
“Take the money” should have been the phrase.
Every immigrant is a legal immigrant. People can't be illegal
Valid. They were documented.
You sound fun...
What does that mean though?
In the weirdest timeline, his meeting yesterday with Mamdani has turned him progressive
He may not be a Republican in ideology but his actions absolutely align with Republican policies. That's why they keep him as their puppet figurehead.
MTG announced that she's retiring from Congress.
My guess is that she sees the shitstorm coming and wants to be able to run as an "outsider" in 2028.
Good riddance. Hopefully now I'll be less confused when reading news about Magic: The Gathering
Took me a second.
There's a very real chance she believed all the shit she said about "the far left" being just as bad, until she pissed off the far right
Think of how they bitch and moan about peaceful protestors, and then the whiplash of pissing off the right and getting legitimate death threats.
She's still a piece of shit, but that's a hell of a wake up call.
You're imagining people imagining that though...
No is saying she's a better person, I explicitly said the opposite:
How did you read my comment and reach the conclusion you did?
The word you were looking for is "anyone"
Another classic case of Republican fuck everyone until it happens to me!!!
The Republican mascot should be a stick figure pulling up a ladder.
She's "retiring" 3 days after her pension kicks in.
The more I think about it, the more it looks like she's a really smart politician who is good at playing dumb. She made herself a household name with the 'Jewish space lasers' and now she's ducking out before the AI bubble bursts. She'll write a book, go on tour, and be rested and ready in 2028.
Historical note. After Nixon lost in 1960, he tried to run for the senate. After he lost that race everyone wrote him off. Except Nixon was smart. He went out and busted his hump helping every GOP candidate he could find. By the time 1968 rolled around he had a giant following in the Party. I expect she'll be doing something similar.
She is also saving herself from the inevitable Epstein fallout. Every day the files aren’t released is another voter that potentially moves left or farther right. Get out before the files are released, let the sitting members take the heat, then run for senate or president in ‘28
If she fights Trump now she loses a lot of votes. If she steps away 'gracefully' she is in a much better position.
"I trusted Donald Trump, and I was mistaken. But MAGA is bigger than any one man."
Maybe he can sell some of his assets then. We used to get a 10k tax return every year but not since his stupid ass started messing everything up.
Or we can sell off the
bribesgifts thay he's been getting.What is a 10k tax return? Are you referring to a refund from overpayment?
Actually it was from deductions that he stripped from the working classes
He has and had no intention of issuing "tariff checks", any more than he would "DOGE dividends". It's bullshit he came up with to try to pressure the courts into not invalidating his tariffs, or to rile up the gullible and use them to threaten judges after they do so.
Pretty much. Suck up as much wealth as possible.
The fakest fake news... Does anyone truly believe there's enough actual tariff profit that he'd deliver on this? How could anyone be so naive lol
Watch the tax cuts on the super-rich,
Hmmm a promise of $2,000 checks, where have I heard that before…
I got one from my state (not the fed) a few years back. That's how I bought my PS5. 🤷♂️
Bush handed them out and I used my $1500 to help fund Colombian narco trafficking
COCAINE!!!!!!!!!
Does this political party have ANY idea what it's doing anymore?
Yes. It's funneling more money from the working poor up to the party's donors. Seems to be working as intended.
But can we just UBI instead?
We do UBI, but only for the rich donors.
People to Trump..."make it ten thousand.".
-Republicans led by the tRump administration, probably
That was always how it was going to go down.
I mean, the Constitution still meant anything maybe....
Fuck if they don't want it, give me theirs. 🤷♂️
Screw these politicians saying we should rather pay down national dept than get 2000$. Thats bullshit! Fuck that debt! They did that shit not us! We need a piece of the action too!
Dear lord I pray Trump gives us money from DOGE savings, and tariffs, and closing pointless government agencies.