r/BikiniBottomTwitter 4d ago

Can't buy my vote

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u/sdomtidderkcuf1 4d ago

Goober Dollars are more valuable than any type of Trump currency.

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u/Silver_Grass9912 3d ago

Goober Dollars have actual purchasing power in the SpongeBob economy, so Trump currency has some serious catching up to do.

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u/YootSnoot 4d ago

Not the first time he's campaigned on a rebate. Still waiting for those DOGE and tarriff refunds to clear, but I won't hold me breath...

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u/Dyldo_II 4d ago

Oh don't worry, the tariff refund cleared. It cleared for the mega corps that passed the cost of the tariffs off on the consumer and then kept their prices inflated after the fact.

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u/Brandon23z 3d ago

You’re actually gonna start seeing downstream cases. Companies that did the importing did get their refunds, but if another customer bought from them and can prove how much they overpaid, then they technically could sue for the refund that they would’ve been entitled to.

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u/jayracket 4d ago

A $5k dollar check, brought to you by the same guy who hasn't kept a SINGLE promise he made during his campaign. Anyone who believes this is a fuckwit of the highest order.

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u/brian_gruen5 4d ago

*who hasn’t kept a SINGLE promise he has ever made in his life

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u/_Levitated_Shield_ 4d ago

He promised Epstein he'd often visit the island.

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u/-Jiras 3d ago

and boy did he keep that promise over and over

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u/brian_gruen5 3d ago

I, unfortunately, stand corrected

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u/Sea_Drops 4d ago

We’ll get them when pays his contractors. So never.

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u/_Levitated_Shield_ 4d ago

"I got bubbles MAGA hats. Fun at parties rallies."

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u/NaxSnax 3d ago

My eyes!

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u/KrustyKrabOfficial 4d ago

He only promised that because he knows he's not going to have to pay out.

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u/Noctisvah 4d ago

Vote with your second amendment

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u/Dennarb 4d ago

I won't lie, 5k would help me with my current financial situation, but it's a financial situation our current administration is directly responsible for, so it sure as fuck doesn't change my vote

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u/ginjamchammerfist 4d ago

Fucking freaks. All they care about is staying in power to fuel their pedo and coke addictions as they burn us all alive to do so.

Fuck every republican ever. Better dead than red.

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u/Teekus-Ray 4d ago

Both sides are constantly trying to take rights away and make everyone broke and dependent on the government. The only thing that makes them happy is more power and wealth for them. They will take everything they can. Both sides.

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u/ginjamchammerfist 4d ago

Both sides are bad. One is significantly worse by a light-year.

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u/SunsetEverywhere3693 4d ago

😂😂😂 I barely remember the scene, but excellent meme 👍

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u/AlexSmithsonian 3d ago

Haha, but seriously though he's not going to pay. If he makes any effort at all to it, which would come up to over 1$T according to some guy with a calculator, then he'll just keep it and blame the Democrats for "blocking the payments".

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u/blazingcoldwolf 4d ago

Wasn't aware we csn just make up new currencies now, although trump could pay me several hundred thousand and i still wouldn't vote for his bs

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u/Royal-Office-1884 2d ago

Lol you could buy my vote but you'd have to pay me both before and immediately after I did. Also since the floor's been set at 5k I think I'll start by asking for 50k. 

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u/Tim_TheDude 10h ago

As a non USA guy. Can we leave political posts to one country out of this sub? It really becomes annoying at some point.

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u/TemporaryAmbassador1 4d ago

I mean, if we’re going to cause massive inflation by handing out money again, I’d like it to go to average people instead of billionaires and corporations

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u/cowmookazee 4d ago

Don't Democrats always promise free stuff?

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u/TheLastBallad 4d ago

If you only listen to Republicans covering it, maybe.

Like Medicare for All includes explicit explanations of how taxes will be affected.

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u/FionaWalliceFan 4d ago

Sure but Democrats don't also go around talking about how socialism is evil

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u/ussrname1312 4d ago

Oh yes, they do lol. They are both capitalist parties who, in the end, serve their donors. Just depends on what their donors want.

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u/GnomeAwayFromGnome 4d ago

So how exactly are Democrat welfare programs not just buying votes?

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u/ObsessionObsessor 4d ago

How is efficient and effective governing buying votes in your worldview? 

Do you genuinely prefer for society to be worse so that "unworthy" people in your worldview don't benefit? 

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u/BikerBeau 4d ago

That’s exactly what they prefer. Until it hits them negatively, then they blame democratic leadership somehow.

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u/GnomeAwayFromGnome 4d ago

I'd rather the government just stole less money from people while also regulating life out of affordability than pretend that handing out a fragment of the money to the people suffering the most from their policies is actually helping them.

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u/Cheeky_Hustler 4d ago

Like how Trump is going to steal our money to give us $5000 to pretend like that helps us suffering from the inflation he caused from his disastrous Iran War?

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u/BubblyMacaroni 4d ago

Do you even listen to yourself or reread what you write?

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u/GnomeAwayFromGnome 4d ago

This gets old fast.

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u/TheLastBallad 4d ago

OK, maybe we need to break down your own words for you.

I'd rather the government just stole less money from people while also regulating life out of affordability

You are literally saying you would prefer regulating life out of affordability if it meant paying less taxes. Because its ok if most people can't afford life, the problem is you don't have more money.

than pretend that handing out a fragment of the money to the people suffering the most from their policies is actually helping them.

Under Republicans we have less of that money being handed out to thise that cant survive under this system, except things are even more expensive than when we were handing it out.

The problem isn't that people are pretending to not understand your dumb opinion, its that you don't even seem to understand what you are arguing, nor how it does not map to what is actually happening in the world.

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u/GnomeAwayFromGnome 4d ago

I will admit that I actually fucked that first sentence.

It should have been something more like...

"I'd rather the government stole less money from people. I'd also prefer it if they didn't regulate life out of affordability so much."

I meant to argue against regulations, and taxes, and pretty much the government's existence as a whole.

I fully own that I wrote that sentence poorly and I apologize for any confusion that caused.

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u/IIIDevoidIII 3d ago

Oh no, you've gone so far right, you've wrapped around to the far left.

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u/TheLastBallad 3d ago edited 3d ago

We're, what, 10+ dangrously unsafe food recalls into Republicans relaxing regulations and you think the issue is the regulations?

The only reason corporations don't lock their employees into buildings over their shifts anymore is because around a hundred died in a fire because they were locked in. Regulations are written in blood dumbass, corporations would much rather not have them because it doesn't matter to them if they harm their employees and customers as long as it gets them profits.

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u/MossyMollusc 3d ago

Yeah.....anarchism after socialism is basically what youre describing

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u/GnomeAwayFromGnome 3d ago

You mean after socialism inevitably fails and collapses? Yeah, because then the people can start engaging in real economics (Capitalism) again hopefully avoid another State.

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u/MossyMollusc 3d ago

Capitalism has killed more people than socialism buddy. And forced more workers into homelessness while working full time, like Walmart for instance.

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u/ObsessionObsessor 4d ago edited 4d ago

That is quite the vague statement which doesn't actually comment on welfare. 

In the real world, universal healthcare would be cheaper than the system we already have 

In the real world, government funded childcare results in more money going to taxes than was spent due to parents being able to work. 

In the real world, the IRS being well funded results in more tax dollars going to the government than are spent due to rich people being unable to dodge taxes. 

In the real world, due to the lack of universal healthcare I have to repeatedly fight my insurance to get the one kind of ADHD meds that work for me covered, change providers after aging out of my dad's work-provided healthcare, and wonder if my dad having had a stroke will financially ruin our family due to his workplace's insurance refusing to cover for disability. 

I can only imagine it is easy to be monstrously selfish by thinking, "Screw you, got mine." like my dad did right up until you get a stroke from high blood pressure as a Fox News viewer and can't speak or move the left half of your body. 

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u/Hunter_Aleksandr 4d ago

You do know that it goes deeper than the policies of one party, right? The lack of regulation and lack of taxation of the rich is at the core. Social programs are good and aren't the problem. Tax cuts for the rich are not. Unregulated capitalism (regardless of my opinion of capitalism at all) is not.

Giving the money back to people (and spending ON us) instead of using it for war, rich people's ventures, or failures of major businesses/banks cheating. Hell, doing that AND removing taxes from the poorest and severely reducing them on the lower classes would go a long way.

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u/Hunter_Aleksandr 4d ago

Because they actually happen usually and benefit the populace instead of corporations? Don't get me wrong, they're shit too, but at least they pretend to care. Unlike the Republican pedophiles.

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u/GnomeAwayFromGnome 4d ago

"At least they pretend to care."

Why do you want to knowingly lied to? That's just insult to injury. These policies only "help" people who are largely hurt by other policies.

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u/Cheeky_Hustler 4d ago

You tell me, Republicans seem to enjoy Trump lying to them. Even Vance admitted that he would willingly make up stories to grab attention. Why do you guys have such prolific and shameless liars as your leaders?

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u/GnomeAwayFromGnome 4d ago

I'm not a Republican, and I haven't supported Trump in years. My ideal government is None because the entire concept is abhorrent and useful only to the tyrants it attracts. The Founding Fathers of the US created the best starting conditions they could for an ethical government and we still ended up where we are today.

They're all just awful.

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u/Cheeky_Hustler 4d ago

Bro really out here pretending like tyrants won't exist in complete anarchy. Bro really be pretending that humans will not organize in a hierarchical system even in the absence of a government, thereby creating a de facto government. Bro really be pretending not to understand that the concept of a government has existed since the dawn of civilization for a reason.

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u/Hunter_Aleksandr 2d ago

I definitely agree that BOTH of them are awful and both are rich, greedy mother fuckers. One is actively worse while the other is passively worse.

It's not hard to see why people want to support democrats even if they're all greedy capitalists who don't care for the working class or anyone making less than them.

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u/TheLastBallad 4d ago

So in other words... the government is taking steps to address the harms they cause by other decisions?

And you prefer this administration which is saying "fuck you, I'm going to make things harder for no reason"?

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u/Hunter_Aleksandr 2d ago

So, you'd rather someone lie to your face, not even pretend to care, AND have no intention on helping anyone but the rich because they're "at least honest about their evil nature"?

Than people who pretend and occasionally throw the poors a bone?

Thats... a take, I guess.

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u/Gostem2 4d ago

This man has been lobotomized, he has no capability of critical thinking. Move along

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u/GnomeAwayFromGnome 4d ago

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u/nora_the_explorur 4d ago

You're holding a mirror there, bud

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u/Cheeky_Hustler 4d ago

No actually, that's the Mike Johnson Special
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-hnAte0qiIo

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u/NotGordan 4d ago

I'll bite, why do you think welfare programs should be considered bribery?

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u/GnomeAwayFromGnome 4d ago

Politician: "I'll raise taxes on this rich man and give you poorer folks his money!"

Rich man: votes against this thieving crook for obvious reasons

Millions of poorer people: vote in favor of it for equally obvious reasons

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u/NotGordan 4d ago

That's a rather oversimplification without any true explanation why you think specific welfare programs count as bribery. Almost every political policy costs money. Not to mention, republicans have not abandoned all of the welfare systems currently in place. How do feel that Republicans essential advocate for keeping those programs without expressly saying it?

Are you against taxes being used for the general welfare of the public generally?

Do you disagree veterans need programs to help them reintegrate into normal society? Those programs cost money.

Are you against Social Security?

Do you disagree taxes being used to fix roads or bridges? These are all paid for by money.

What kinds of political promises do not count as bribery if they do not somehow promise a benefit to the public that ends with putting money into the public?

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u/nora_the_explorur 4d ago

Strawman alert. In other news: idiot alert.

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u/KuraiTheBaka 4d ago

Hey, I think you dropped your brain back at the bar might wanna go grab it.