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?

tired_n_bored@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• DrQuickbeam@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s not illegal. He gave out those COVID dividend checks and it was the most popular thing he’s ever done. It’s just a gross incentive for votes. The government needs that money for governance activities. It’s like ripping the bathtub out of someone’s house and gifting it to them “for free!”

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  • DrQuickbeam@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I mean it’s probably not typically allowed under any normal laws and regulations, but they can always find a loop hole to do something like that in a legalish manner (like under a state of emergency, or with an executive order SCOTUS upholds, or hijacking a program meant for something else).

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    • tired_n_bored@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      We’re fucked

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• TheNextMuon@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I hate the orange turd and your observation is about 100% wrong. He will not pay anyone. He will keep the money himself.

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  • tired_n_bored@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I didn’t mean he’d give a dime to anybody given the fact that he’s a pathological liar but he didn’t say “I will give 5000$ to those who vote for me” but “I will give 5000$ to everyone”

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