The mainstream media, and other assorted far-left hucksters, consider President Trump’s promise to send a $5,000 check to every adult in the nation if the Republicans win the midterm elections in November an outrageous attempt at bribing the American people.
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However, that is not the case. Even the far-left New York Times admits that. There is no quid pro quo, he is not telling any individual that they need to do anything in specific in order to get the money. Indeed, those who didn’t vote at all — or who voted for “Democratic” candidates, even Democratic-Socialists of America candidates — would ostensibly still receive the payment, as far as is currently known.
What these self-same leftists never point out, however, is that everything Democrats — and especially the Democratic Socialists of America Democrats — promise and do is essentially a bribe. Bigger government itself is a bribe. “Elect us and we will provide government-subsidized grocery stores, free buses, free Medicare, free higher education, free health care, and free everything else to boot. Hell, we’ll even throw in “free Palestine!”
Worse still, some have started implying — and in some cases outright stating — that if you don’t openly agree with them and their proposed policies, actions, and beliefs, they might cancel, attack, or kill you. (See also Charlie Kirk, three assassination attempts on Trump, etc., etc.) So they have added coercion and threats to their attempts to bribe.
And what do you think today’s welfare is? It is one massive bribe presented as a much-needed social contract, albeit one that requires you to vote a certain way if you’d like to maximize your benefits, ill-gotten or not.
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All that said, I’m not a big fan of Trump’s plan.
After all, we are $40 trillion in debt. Perhaps a tax refund would be a better way to go. And he had to know Democrats and their media sycophants would go ballistic and use his assertion as yet another cudgel against him, not that one more would matter. (If he and his advisers didn’t anticipate that reaction, that would be concerning.)
But everyone who was predisposed to hate Trump already hates him. (Here’s looking at you fake news media.) And maybe this will resonate with some people, especially “independents,” and get them to think about inflation and taxes during the reign of the previous administration.
At this time no one knows what any eligibility criteria might look like. But if, for example, the homeless on the mean streets of cities like L.A. and Portland can be bribed to vote for “progressive” candidates for a chance to “earn” 2 or 3 bucks, as has been documented, might not the thought of five grand be a motivating factor?
Sure, Trump can be a bit of a blowhard … but Democrats are hypocrites, liars, and frauds. And they pose a far greater danger to the country than Trump ever could.
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