In a pledge that is not his to make, Trump makes outlandish promises at the GOP Midterm Convention.
$5,000 Dividend Checks
The New York Times reports Trump Floats $5,000 Checks to Americans if Republicans Win Midterms
President Trump cast the midterms as a referendum on his presidency in an address Wednesday night at the Republican convention in Dallas, where he defended his decision to go to war with Iran and said that he would give a $5,000 “dividend” to every adult citizen if Republicans win the House and Senate in November.
It was not clear how he would go about that. His promise to offer a dividend only if one party wins could raise legal questions and would be enormously costly, likely exceeding $1 trillion.
His speech, during which he described the crowd as “packed” despite large sections of empty seats, closed the first night of an unusual two-day convention that he has engineered to try to help Republicans and burnish his image.
“I am asking you to pretend that I’m on the ballot,” said Mr. Trump, who faces low approval ratings as the unpopular war in Iran has driven up gas prices.
Republican Senate Candidates Avoid Tariffs and the Iran War
At the convention, Republican Senate Candidates Avoid Tariffs and the Iran War
When Republican Senate candidates took the stage at President Trump’s convention on Wednesday, they steered clear of two big subjects: The war with Iran and tariffs.
Those topics, which have been at the center of Mr. Trump’s presidency, have been politically difficult for Republican candidates in battleground races, with polls reflecting voter frustration, particularly with rising prices that have resulted from Mr. Trump’s decisions.
Trump has calibrated this speech for this crowd, in this arena — his MAGA base. A typical convention is a rare opportunity to potentially reach independent voters. But it is not at all clear how big the audience will be for this unusual midterm convention, or this speech, beyond the most engaged Republican voters.
Projected Cost
Spending the Money Before You Even Collect It
Even Fox News Calls Out The BS
Complaint Department
Empty Seats
Thought of the Day
A Referendum on Trump
Trump wants to make the midterm elections a referendum on him.
That would cost Republicans six Senate seats easily.
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This just in: Trumpstien wants to give EVERY liberal in AMERICA $5000!
I love it when somebody offers to pay me with my own money
Great (and true) insight!!! If more Americans could see through Trump’s grifting and deceiving, we wouldn’t have fallen below Banana Republic standards.
Just Like Biden deferring and forgiving student loans
Odious as Biden was, I do not recall him promising a student loan deferment, contingent upon voters giving him a Team D Congress.
Got a link?
Biden had his faults, but he never was a moron (or is it dementia?) like Trump.
Buying votes. Yet this has been done by both parties for a very long time. Some is just more visible. The D’s have been buying votes for a long time considering all the free stuff they give out. I wish i saw some kind of solution to all this, but it seems we will just try and inflate ourselves out of it, kick the can down the road, revalue currency and the like. I am conservative and very socialist in some areas. I do like the common sense road and working and earning. Working to me involves producing a commodity or service that is valuable to the community.
First pay me. Then I vote.
The really depressing fact coming out of Trump’s “dividend” announcement is that the mainstream press treats it as a serious policy announcement rather than a clear indication of early dementia.
“early dementia” naw simply age related dementia. Trump is an 80 year old body with a 10 year olds sense of reality
Vlad and Xi are not going to stoop to stop this sh-t show.
Maybe the Trump family and Zionist friends are buying oil futures to pay the 5k … Diesel proxy B4NI.de up 4+% thus far today … equivalent to 16 cents at the pumps.
The midterms political distillate:
“It’s the Iran (and trade) war, stupid.”
The mass insanity and chaos will continue as is; might as well take the money….
What everyone here, in government on both sides of the aisle and the pundit world in general gets wrong about money and debt is that using the RECIPROCAL nature of doube entry bookkeeping’s operations of equal debits and credits that sum to zero and implementing a 50% Discount/Rebate policy at the various points of retail sale WITH PLAIN OLD MONEY INSTEAD OF MONEY THAT IS DEBT…RESOLVES THE DEEPEST PROBLEMS OF MODERN ECONOMIES AND ALSO MAKES DIVIDEND CHECKS, UBI, AND GENERAL PROFITABILITY A REALITY.
Trump doesn’t know this, but he knows he’s in big trouble in the mid terms so he’ll float MONETARY GIFTING to try to negate the negative trend…and then drop it exactly like he has before.
Whichever party recognizes the new monetary paradigm of gifting could win a greater political coalition than The New Deal. Just open your mind to the policy effects. It won’t kill you.
What doesn’t kill you will make you stronger?
More like broke!
Monetary Grifting. Now I get it!
So, as a business owner knowing that my customer wants my product and the government is going to pay half; why wouldn’t I just double the price? If there is free money to be had, why would I let it go in your pocket when it could go in mine?
Because one of the rules of opting into th 50% Discount/Rebate policy is you the merchant agree not to raise your prices more than 2% per annum, and if you break that agreement any revenue you may get from the additional price increase will taxed at a rate of at least 100%. If you commit the economic vice of greed flation despite receiving the benefit of a doubling of the demand for your goods and services which is what the 50% Discount/Rebate does for you…then you deserve to be penalized. Ethics needs to FINALLY be rationally enforced in economics.
this just sounds like a plot to create shortages and encourage black markets.
But Executive Order 11110 did get someone killed.
Steve Keen, is that you?
He doesn’t have to pay me to vote against the crooked dems here in my blue state.
But he’s corrupt enough that he would
Corrupt, Crooked and crazy or just crooked. You pick.
and don’t worry he won’t pay either way.
Voting against corruption-
By voting for the party led by the man who gave us the TrumpCoin? The guy offering a cash bribe?
Crack is wack.
Simpin’ for the pedo…
Trump is great at making outlandish statements. He throws everything at the wall to see what sticks.
He’s done this with:
Tarriffs
Withdrawing from NATO
The Israeli/Palestinian war
The Iranian war.
Takeover of Alberta, Canada
Takeover of Iceland
Takeover of Greenland
Takeover of all North and Central America
Renaming the Gulf of Mexico
Renaming Lake Ontario
Bomb Iran to smithereens
Close the Straight of Hormuz
Open the Straignt of Hormuz
It would be nice if he spent some actual time on the day-to-day problems affecting Americans rather than bloviating about the new Whitehouse ballroom, the Trump-class battleship, Trump name added to the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, Trump photo on passports, etc. etc. Trump has ‘jumped the shark’.
The War On Russia.
pro tip. when in an evil empire, it is better if the crown prince of pax dumbfuckistan is bloviating rather than doing. when he does do things little school girls get murdered. by our child killing military. just following orders. double tapped too. to make sure their momma’s get whacked, too.
Trump might be worse if he was ruthlessly competent and focused like Stalin. He is like an old man fiddling with the TV controls (dangerous as they theoretically might be). At least there is some relatively useless randomness mixed in.
you would trade a moron grifter like trump for stalin? my lord. public schooled i presume? i’d suggest a trip to russia someday and ask some folks. or just go down to brighton beach brooklyn. btw the women there sunbathe topless. don’t clutch your pearls too tight.
Why would Trump care about the problems facing Americans?
“In a pledge that is not his to make, Trump makes outlandish promises”
Like every politician ever. Name one who hasn’t.
So every politician since time immemorial has offered voters a flat-out cash bribe to vote his way?
Do tell….
Correct
Should be easy to provide examples, then.
Every politician.
Flat-out cash bribe.
Maybe you could tell me the “outlandish” promises made by, Sanders, Warren, AOC, Obama, Clinton and Clinton, etc. My guess, what you consider outlandish will tell me much more about you than the pols.
It is not a binary. There are matters of degree, at worst.
Not if you’re sufficiently stupid.
The 25th. Then throw out all the people that have been his bootlickers and sycophants.
His bootlickers and sycophants would be the people who would have to remove him. Not gonna happen.
Bootlickers and sycophants who improperly lined their pockets should have more done legally than simply throwing out. Some are family members,
The fact that this corrupt bully (Trump) is being allowed to behave the way he is and do what he is doing simply speaks to the real problem, which is that CONGress has been fully bought by the zionist corporations. Sorry folks, capital and talent are leaving the U.S. Things will continue to get worse for the average American. Nothing but circuses now as the supply chain for the bread has broken down. LOL!
US citizens will receive $5,000 if Republicans win midterms, Trump claims in lengthy convention speech
Another option: outbid him.
No worries. Vance on Fox claimed that the tariffs were already paying off the national debt!
Hahahahahaha!
And Trump claimed that “immediately” after the election, the war in Iran will end, and gas prices will plunge.
Wonder what’s next? Vote republican and the tooth fairy will replace every MAGA voter’s missing teeth?
What has 15 teeth and an IQ of 50?………. The front row of a MAGA convention.
And hey, what about all that investment! Trillions and trillions of dollars! “No one’s ever seen anything like it”, and no one ever will…
The leader of my province played that same shell game before our 2024 election.
A cost of living relief cheque if his party formed government again…they won enough seats to form government but reneged on the $1000 Eby-bate citing budgeting problems and threats of tariffs.
Easy come–easy go
Trump and Gavin used this bribery during Covid. Gavin blew up the budget surplus with remarkable speed. Trump seems to have been installed to enact the collapse of the country with his budget killing moves and braindead ideas
I want the $5000 before the election and then I promise to give the republicans every consideration.
Trump reneging on deals is part of his whole strategy in life.
If this “convention” was supposed to ease fears of a blue wave, it wasn’t very effective. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a party more desperate in my life. Empty seats, promises so impossible even retarded GOP voters are raising an eyebrow, and more promises to rename New Mexico to New America.
Whew laddie! It’s like if Dems were able to possess the bodies of Republicans somehow to destroy their PR.
This is classic Trump. He does many of the same thing politicians have been doing for years, he just openly admits it. Not only does have no shame, he brags about what he does.
This will not be the last outrageous attempt he makes to prevent congress from turning blue and making his life miserable. Expect him to do anything and everything he can to prevent it, regardless of any issue of legality, morality, decency, or any other quality that humans care about.
Is Kalshi or Polymarket or someone offering odds on whether we’ll ever get this mythopoetic check?
Every last fool and his dog knows it won’t happen.
Gold tennis shoes, a $Trump meme coin, Trump steaks and a Trump Bible or it’s no deal!
As stupid as this proposal is, I doubt any of you have every called out democrats for doing the same thing. Free stuff is literally the entire platform.
Can we get an example of a time Democrats offered a check to voters like this? Surely you’re not trying to equate healthcare and education to this kind a dunce, so they must have offered $5,000 checks at some point right?
Running on free healthcare, free college, student loan forgiveness, reparations, UBI, down payment assistance, etc, etc, etc is the same thing.
Loathsome as Team D is, I am yet to see a promise of a cash bribe for voting their way.
Or even “If Congress turns democrat, you all get free medical procedures for a month!”
I was told, for the cost of the “global war on terror,” we could have all had medical care paid for, for that time period. It would have been interesting if that choice was offered to the American people. What we got was a useless expensive fight abroad, and a haranguing battle over health care at home. And a leg down in our prestige, historic loss of wealth and glob al position, and increasing national debt: the GWOT was funded with borrowing (at the time of tax cuts). Talk about incompetence and waste.
No see you don’t get it! Americans need to live like feudal peasants in 18th century Russia to pay down Grandpa’s wild spending. If you don’t like that you’re a communist loony, and you wouldn’t want to be that would you?
The government using my taxes to fix roads and make healthcare workable = handouts for the lazy
The government using my taxes to pay for a war we lost already = wise and sound
The government using my taxes to pay for their bad choices, giving me nothing in return = even better!
In other news centrists baffled at DSA wins, can’t understand why people would expect their government to work like literally any other place in the civilized world. “You will own nothing, pay down my debts, and be happy damn it!” What a great slogan!
lol.
about 2/3 of the people here bitch about Dem spending, if not more.
And Mexico (or my donors) will pay for it …
It wasn’t de Tocqueville. It was a paraphrase of Alexander Tytler.
Another Trump idea way below Banana Republican standard.
I’m still waiting for my tariff rebate check.
At least he’s up front with it. Democrats have been buying votes for decades.
So benefits go unduly to the rabble or to oligarchs. Both were what the Founders were striving to avoid.
How far the GOP has fallen. Millions of us never Trumper Republicans will never vote for a Republican again. I’ll be voting for moderate to conservative democrats from now on, or not at all.
This is as childish and foolish as it gets, voters should realize that they fund the government that would write the checks. If Trump gives them $5,000, then he must first tax it, borrow it, or print it, all ultimately taking from taxpayers or their offspring.
What a mess.
If it gets Trump the Congress he wants, what happens to future generations will be someone else’s problem.
Trump is a “patrimonial” type of leader – he sees the government’s property as belonging to his family.
This “dividend” is a perfect example. He thinks the government’s revenue is his.
Trump thinks everybody’s everything is his.
If only he were on the November ballot and we could get rid of him now.
Who would you replace him with?
If, in 2016, Team D had grabbed some random woman waiting at a bus stop, cleaned her up, put her in a suit, and coached her to recite Team D talking points, that random would have probably won in a landslide.
That random D team woman was Kamala Harris. That did not work. She lost in a landslide.
who do you like in 28?
Willie Brown’s former mistress was hardly some random waiting for her bus.
Are you sure about that? She is still waiting on her fabulous yellow electric bus.
Except she wasn’t random, she was a VP trying to carry the mantle of an unpopular president who refused to step down while boasting of how great things were to people who knew better.
For 28 I’m willing to bet it gets a lot more progressive since the progressive wing looks to be doing well for itself. People are tired of Epstein class Democrats just as much as they are Donald “island hopper” Trump.
How about AI?
Good chance AI has no worthwhile ROI and most of those AI companies will go bankrupt or continue on as smaller, weaker companies with other products/services. On the other hand AGI may take over the world so it will not matter.
Chuckles the clown is available since Ringling Brothers let him go…….
King Log as in Aesop’s Fables.
He kinda is. Impeachment looms, unfortunately too many Rethug Senators will remain to obtain a conviction and removal.
PPI 5.4%…Lol! And that’s the suckers and losers PPI, the real number probably a lot worse. Oh well, you get what you vote for…..
The Producer Price Index for final demand moved up 0.4 percent in August, seasonally adjusted, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Final demand prices rose 0.1 percent in July and decreased 0.1 percent in June. (See table A.) On an unadjusted basis, the index for final demand increased 5.4 percent for the 12 months ended in August.
I’m going to have a fabulous dinner for under $10 tonight to celebrate the golden age.
I hope you enjoy your box of cheese macaroni. You probably need to enjoy it today because it will be 12 bucks tomorrow.
Nope, it will be a very nice dinner as I’m on the other side of the world. But for you, yeah mac & cheese or maybe Ensure with a Metamucil chaser.
I love Ensure. lol
So Asia?
We will see if my forecast comes true. Price controls before the election.
In the early 70s, Nixon too came up with various fragile gimmicks aimed at the electorate. But Nixon could at least sometimes accomplish great things. Now, apart from the Bessent treasuries gimmick, Trump just verbalizes some spontaneous contemptuous drivel, and his base and the entire GOP eat it right up. Trump missed a chance to pre-sign customers to commit $5k to his merch.
And the fed is shown to be behind again. Rates need to be higher, and congress needs to cut spending below revenue, very simple no more gimmicks that do not work.
That would be like cutting grain to the inhabitants of ancient Rome. What do you suppose might happen? Like, that very day?
When the SHTF it will not matter the path, there will be pain and what you are asking might happen, is inevitable. We cannot escape the consequences of the past decades of fiscal malfeasance.
(1) We Aren’t Magically Growing Our Way Out of Debt
It is a good article, but the two charts tell the story quickly, trend is upper left to lower right. One can also see the effects of stimulus during the 2008 financial crises and Covid response. Trumps election bribe would have the same effect if implemented.
I am offering my $5000 in advance to Lutnick if he can pay me $2000 right now!
The last time handouts in this range happened, inflation took off. Trump had the first installment in 2020, Biden the second, but the GOP was always better at hanging such things around the necks of the Dems. Biden did want to write free checks for everything to everybody.
In a Weimar hyperinflation scenario, I would gladly pay you next Tuesday the $5,000 it will cost then, for a $2,000 hamburger today. And we know what kind of strongman leadership that ushered in. We shuddered when Trump appeared, but that could be just a prelude. Trump pretends to obey some laws, at least.
De Jure Unconstitutional – Article 1, section 8 of the Constitution grants Congress the sole power to coin money, tax and spend.
There isn’t 1.35T lying around in the Treasury account, either, so he’s talking about writing checks with insufficient funds.
A check kiter, law breaker, and a Lying Liar who lies, lies, lies ™.
To be fair, a Team R Congress is basically a Trump rubberstamp.
If you have enough disrespect for the language, intent and spirit of the laws, and Trump has clearly demonstrated he does, there are funds set aside at Treasury for things like national security/global financial imbalance necessities. These were used, for example, in the ’90s to bail out Mexico (OK, actually, to bail out US banks underwater there). But I’m not sure they would quite cover this astronomical bill.
Thinking voters know this will stoke inflation. Interest rates reflect long term inflation and growth expectations. Get ready for 1970 followed by 1929. This is aimed at the same low information voter who vote democrats for benefits. I can still hear the words from an Obama rally interviewee. “HE IS GOING TO PAY FOR MY PHONE, MY CAR, MY CHILDREN AND FOOD”.
The only thing worse than those democratic voters are MAGA welfare queens.
Exactly. It’s ALL socialism now in America, it’s just a question of who is the welfare queen of the week. It is the oil & gas industry? farmers? big tech? big pharma? God forbid it’s the poor on SNAP because that’s socialism!
The biggest budget leeches are seniors collecting social security and medicare. That’s the giant socialism elephant in the room.
https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/federal-spending/
Thank god I’m not having FICA pulled from my checks to feed leeches anymore. So long suckers.
taxes are for the little people. especially FICA. i would never have dreamt in my wildest dreams to actually have payed FICA. isn’t that what the poors do with their little salaries ?
Thank you for reminding us – AGAIN – you have moved to paradise. Bless your little heart, it sounds like you’re enjoying your 72 virgins and eating like king.
Don’t get why so many people here get triggered by me saying I left. There are nearly repetitive comments every day here of every type with most of them some form of “Trump sucks” but other repetitive topics include: elections stolen, debt bad, deficit bad, interest rates bad, tariffs good, tariffs bad, republicans bad, democrats good, or vice versa, etc.
I am eating like a king on a peasants coin, if you’re not doing the same then you need to start asking why. Perhaps that’s what is causing the triggering, cognitive dissonance? You want to believe one thing but reality keeps slapping you in the face. That’s a YOU problem not a me problem.
If you like your situation you can keep it, just like you can keep your doctor on Obamacare…Lol!
You’re clueless:
“I don’t have to worry about putting gas in my car. I won’t have to worry about paying my mortgage. You know, if I help him, he’s going to help me.”
He’s getting increasingly desperate now, I expect we’ll see alot more crazy over the next 8 weeks as it becomes clear Americans are suck of his clownshow
Tocqueville’s got some groovy sideburns. The 70’s would be proud.
He foresaw that and more. He is the most legit visionary writer I ever saw. Not sure about the attribution of this quote, though,.
Americans should asked Trump to pay up first before the votes. Nothing to worry for Trump if the Americans take the money but not vote for Republicans. He is in control and there are ways they can find out who voted which party candidates. The American voting system is not as transparent as you think anyway. And since he has total control, like a totalitarian regime, he can always find ways to claw back those money that were given to voters who didn’t keep their promise to vote republicans.
So make him pay up first!
The French had enough of democracy and begged for a monarchy. That was the Bourbon restoration. I don’t know that a king is the answer but serious restrictions on what these political criminals can do is called for. Take a look at big fat American with his credit card balance, unlimited appetite for free, his 75k pickup used for driving to work, NFL outfit and loud mouth. Is it any wonder we have “our democracy”.headed by the king grifter.
USA USA USA. funny we haven’t won a war since grenada. you’d think the goal was just endless war like the Project for the new amerikan century, outlined in the 1990s by the bush crime family’s think tank.
i see after over 2000 years of democracy since the ancient greeks and iroquois, it is still working perfectly well. the Rabbi Donald is a wonderfully great representative of the modern amerikan 21st century people. hat tip to those old boys way back in the good old days of BC.
I think we are on the same page on this subject. The lazy American loves free, maybe the 5k bribe will work? The trouble is nobody believes king grift anymore.
i would bet you anything there are plenty of MAGA cult members that still believe. flyover country from south brooklyn to eastern KY…….and beyond. plenty of morons. hence Trump. democracy works. we ain’t changing this empire overnight. the crumbling empire will take a good generation or two.
Just remembered a woman from WV who once said, after Trump’s 2020 loss, “We failed Him!” They were once great coal miners in WV. Some paid good money but you gotta be pretty dumb to go down a dark hole full of coal dust and methane gas.
Incitatus to the senate any day…
Why not, we already have legionnaires attacking the sea foam on a faraway coast.
Lindsay Graham’s sister is Incitatus. By her own embarrassing admission, she doesn’t know that foreign policy stuff,.
i lived in the low country of SC for a glorious decade. Charleston. Graham’s sister is really in the bell curve of much of the state of SC. a lethal mixture of ignorance and arrogance. lindsay too. who believes he was really killed by the Russians or Ukes ? gotta be some decent odds of that was the case.
You sure it wasn’t a jilted lover???
Yes I know I did not want to do that, you don’t do that to the handicapped….
How much of that $5,000 will my bank advance if I pledge my dividend as collateral?
Under Trump, your bank will be manufacturing crypto, so it makes no damn difference,. Unless one is seeking to leverage some money laundering or terrorist financing. It will all be so stirred into the US dollar, who cares anyway.
Trumps promises, as ridiculous as they are, ignite his base. They are to MAGA what the DSA’s promises are to the budding socialists in the Democratic Party. Bribery is the mother’s milk of politics.
Trump, the Thug life. His Presidency can be summed up by, lies, extortion and now what is clearly bribery. He doesn’t make Trade deals, he uses extortion, do what I tell you or I destroy your economy, that’s “The Art Of The Deal”.
I’m Conservative but the fact that any Republican still can’t see past this Grifter is amazing. Everything he has done that Republicans wanted done, Border Security, DEI nonsense in government etc would have been done by every other Republican candidate without all of the other never ending chaos Trump brings on a daily basis. He has made such a mockery of the Presidential Office, he has done so much damage to US relationships with other Countries. He runs the most powerful Nation on the planet yet I don’t think he takes any advice from anyone, he surrounds himself with people he knows will do nothing but massage his ego and never question or push back. Sad to say but Republicans get what they deserve with him.
You left out narcissism. That explains a lot of the behavior.
And there is a silver lining in what he has done. He is causing the US military to leave the ME. At least partially. Given the power of the MICC, that never would have been done willingly and there would have been another presidential assassination (Kennedy’s being the first) if any president had tried to do that.
Obviously, he is destroying our relationships with other countries along the way, all which will have to be rebuilt. Goodwill and friendship towards all, malice towards none.
And isn’t it amazing that there isn’t a single Republican elected official in Congress willing to stand up for the nation.
Is it not written that Team D hates its base. Team R fears its base?
They have sidelined in primaries.
“I’m Conservative but the fact that any Republican still can’t see past this Grifter is amazing.”
I suspect that many a Team R bigwig knows full well that Trump is a moron and a con artist who is also nuttier than a squirrel’s poop. However, they also know that their bases in all in for Trump, as “chugging down the Koolaid at Jonestown” level all-in.
So I no longer need to be an illegal immigrant or go through gender affirming castration to get government freebies. Sign me up!
I see we’re back to Schrodinger’s immigrant taking the jobs and the welfare at the same time again. I certainly wish we could get you signed up for castration, you and everyone else still trying to flog that dead horse. Luckily I’m sure your advanced age has done the trick for us.
Just got this dam thing attached. Now that I’m the gender I was born to be (and all my issues are gone)there is no way I’m chopping this thing off. But if I did I’d be a lefty superhero as a double trannie.
Yep you keep flogging that horse. I’m sure people will care about those evil trannies more than their groceries any day now!
Still waiting for the $2000 tariff check…..
I love it! On my paltry fixed income and embarrassingly bad investments, I need the money.
I’m definitely writing in Trump’s name on my mail-in ballots for the midterms.
Don’t forget to insert the word “F*ck” before Donald.
Exercise your right to free speech.