It will go down in history as the “Bah! Humbug!” address.
But this was not an address by a self-confident man dishing out Christmas presents to the nation. It smacked of desperation from one who can feel the December windchill of opinion polls – a Reuters/ Ipsos poll on Tuesday showed just 33% of US adults approve of how Trump has handled the economy – dissent in his own Republican ranks and the Jeffrey Epstein files looming on Friday.
The speech also revealed Trump’s need for a reliable foil. Over the years Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have been useful nemeses for a man and movement defined less by what they are for than what they are against.
First, it won’t happen because he talks out his ass by default. A more important second though, how insulting is it that he thinks a token payment is going to buy him the loyalty of the military? I’m strikingly reminded of Caligula in the movie promising ‘10 gold pieces to every man’.
Weren’t tariff dividends meant to be sent to every American below certain income? So now he’s just trying to bribe the military, because fuck those civilians protesting against him.
So now we’re up to:
And of course the true amount of the $8,776 people will see…. $0
Maybe someone explained to him that there wasn’t enough money for the previous plan. Or maybe he doesn’t remember there was a previous plan.
Or it’s even more simple than that, and he was just straight lying about the previous plan.
Why not both?
Keep the ones happy who will enforce national gestapo and an at-home war on dissenters. That’s what this is. A bribe.
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Last I understood as of like a week ago, they are no longer sending a straight check for $2k but instead the money will be given to you in the form of a tax refund. Which sounds to me like just a perfect way to do nothing and then say you sent it to everyone. Then when no one sees any difference just tell them they owed more taxes than they thought or filed wrong or whatever. But call me a negative Nancy I guess 🤷
Sadly a token payment works on an alarming percentage of people.
It will happen, just like it has for years except this is Demented Donnie’s con/grift/lie.
Cute, so claiming credit for other’s work as usual. The way it’s phrased is made to sound like some novel thing he specifically is doing.