• The $1,200,000,000,000-plus price of this little boondoggle would be paid for by—you guessed it—you. That’s right, “You vote Trumpublican; I pay you five grand of your own money that you can’t afford because I’ve already tanked our economy.”
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| CARTOON: Joseph Mirachi, in the New Yorker |
• His Royal Lie-ness has promised bribes before. In just the last year or so, it was $2,000 from the “trillions of dollars” in tariff revenue he said his administration had collected (revenue that has not materialized). And the $5,000-a-person “DOGE dividend” from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, whose wack-a-mole flailings have proved ineffective.
• And if you think TinyHands’s payola would, indeed go to every voting-eligible American as he promises, I’ve got some shares in Trump University to sell you. What you should bet on is that the con man of our generation will find a way to deny the payoff to democrat voters and call it an heroic cost-saving measure. (Why else do you think his regime’s so hell-bent on appropriating confidential voter information?)• Oh, and there’s that pesky legality thing. Here’s the law, as spelled out in 18 U.S. Code § 597:
Whoever makes or offers to make an expenditure to any person, either to vote or
withhold his vote, or to vote for or against any candidate; and
Whoever solicits, accepts, or receives any such expenditure in consideration of
his vote or the withholding of his vote—
Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; and
if the violation was willful, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more
than two years, or both.
withhold his vote, or to vote for or against any candidate; and
Whoever solicits, accepts, or receives any such expenditure in consideration of
his vote or the withholding of his vote—
Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; and
if the violation was willful, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more
than two years, or both.
Even the most addlebrained MAGA loyalist should be able to fathom at least one of these cautions, right?
Right?
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