Comment on Just to get this straight. If I stand outside a voting center and give each person 500 bucks to vote for me. That is illegal? But if I am a Dipshit In Chief and offer 5k that is 100 percent legal?

• FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Totally man.

  Wasn’t Biden out here promising $2000 checks. Nope. No sir-ee.

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨49⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Biden has also been very well known for 40+ years for not paying contractors, so we should have known his word wasn’t good.

    Oh wait now hold on…

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  • Lasherz12@lemmy.world ⁨51⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    I don’t think you read your own article. Joe was already picked and he was referring to the runoffs. The actual situation was that Trump was promising the checks and then when he lost the Republicans blocked the funds for it as punishment for not electing him again. Biden supporting them and needed a majority to overcome the block. The first part of the checks was released under Trump still in December, but no more disbursement was being allowed by congress.

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  • workerONE@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    These stimulus checks were approved by Trump but blocked by the Republican controlled Senate. Biden wasn’t offering them as a reward for voting a certain way. He was warning that if those seats were lost Republicans would block the checks.

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  • SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That article was from Jan 5, 2021.

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