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am_Unition  ·  1736 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Trump supports Sen. Mitt Romney’s pitch to give checks to every American

This timeline is bankrupting the treasury to buy an election. Trump & co. might be convinced they can pull it off, but no one gives a shit about $2k if gramps kicks the bucket.

I don’t think the general public can be trusted to spend the $2k responsibly. Especially if it were to show up in their bank accounts tomorrow. Can we spend it on emergency hospital construction and nurses/doctors instead? Or medical supplies!

Pelosi and the dems agreeing to this probably means that they calculate Trump’s demise anyway. The fact that none of them are pushing for a more medically-oriented response sickens me. I think they threw a little less than $10 billion at that side of things. Somewhere between one and two orders of magnitude too low, imho.

But yeah, fucking socialism! I don’t really know what the word means, but omg do I hate socialists