Republicans are holding the first midterm convention in modern history this week, headlined by Trump and JD Vance. It will only hurt their candidates in tough races.
It would only be a bribe if he actually paid up, and that isn't every going to happen. It clearly is an attempted bribe, but like all he says it is nothing but bullshit and they money if it showed up would probably be less useful than Monopoly money.
he knows that the GOP is going to lose and he knows that his "bribe" will never be paid. He will say afterwards that "not enough of you losers voted for me so you don't get the money!"
Sally S - Agree. Considering that he has already promised $2,000, $5,000 and $1,000 (tariffs, doge, ACA) before this pathetic buy-off pledge, that hasn’t been fulfilled I doubt he will fulfill this promise either. It would add over a trillion dollars to the deficit if he did. The republicans already control congress so if he really wanted to he could have already done it. However, that would take away from all of the money that he is already spending on himself to make monuments to himself and slap his name on everything while destroying our history (and nation).
Sally S - And the guy, Walt, who schlepped his boxes to Florida only got $25,000. Still want to know if he paid them with his own money or he used taxpayer money. Aren’t there rules about federal employees accepting “gifts”? I’m sure they are way over the threshold.
Amazing that the tRUMP empire is releasing $5k to everyone to vote for the failing republican party. /S/ Nope, it's our tax money. I'll take it and donate all to more worthy causes in the NGO world like stopping the sale of OUR public lands so the Tech Bros. can build their data centers and drain our aquifers, destroy productive farm land, raise our utility rates, and leave eye sores scattered across the US. And I won't be voting for a single republican.
Kari - Funny (not) how they rant about solar panels and other green energy projects making the land look ugly but they are all in for destroying our planet with data centers and giving oil companies our land. Not to mention the wall through a national park and the possibility of roads. We all know why but it’s the hypocrisy that gets to a person.
Now the demented old POS is trying to buy the election using taxpayer money. Who believes he could stoop any lower. Put this old fool out of his misery
I had an interesting observation yesterday. My hubby and I went to a store to buy a gift for our niece. In a strip store area that usually has a very full parking lot, there was barely a car in the lot! One end of the lot, where there are a few restaurants, there were the usual number of cars. At the other end, where there is a home improvement store, there were lots of cars. But, for the store we were shopping in and the rest of the strip, a small scattering of cars in the lot and very few customers browsing through the aisles. As to our current economy, I think this says it all. What is so sad is that all of this has been caused by ONE ugly, demented, lying, twice convicted felon (not all the illegal stuff is completed yet), psychopatic idiot who thinks he's more important than any other human on earth. Let's make sure we show him just how wrong he is!!!
Maybe I'm just fearful, but this feels like the last few months before November 2016, when people thought Trump was a joke and would never be elected president. It's also reminiscent of 2024, when Trump was spewing hatred and divisiveness, talking about Haitians eating pets, and making wild promises. One thing we can't do is disregard his influence or count the GOP "down and out." Can economic stress overcome racism and other social divisions in our country? Will Americans unite and vote against Republicans in 2026? If the past is precedent, many of us could be severely disappointed again, but I sincerely hope not...
I don't believe Americans are fools; they knew exactly who Trump was after his first term, and they voted for him again anyway. That's the sad part--the truthful part we're not facing.😕
‘Some’ Americans are MAGA, and considered by many to be ‘fools’.
— one young man said he voted for Trump because ‘Melania is hot’ for example
Some low-info & first-time voters feel that they WERE bamboozled by Trump,
— and def. intend to vote Dem in future.
Excerpt from The Atlantic:
— Not only are Democrats leading in polls of the generic House ballot and gaining in several Senate forecasts, but 🔹GOP voters are less enthusiastic than their Democratic counterparts. The problems are particularly acute among young voters. Although that group is typically heavily Democratic, Trump nearly matched Kamala Harris’s showing with the demographic in 2024, for which Turning Point received a great deal of credit. Today, however, 🔹young voters disapprove of Trump by wide margins—even greater than the general population. Young people who voted for Trump are also more likely to 🔹regret their vote than older ones, a recent Navigator poll found. 🔹Young men have turned against the president more than almost any other group has.”
* Despite Trump’s dumpalooza musclemen fights & roadster racing etc.
NOW, after inviting those events to the White House lawn … he complains that someone has ‘sabotaged my lawn’ — as if all this activity cd happen without a little grass trampling. 🙄
"House Speaker Mike Johnson gave away the real message when he described this fall’s elections as “a competition against communism,” a line meant to animate otherwise disheartened GOP voters."
Neofascism is the logical endpoint of neoliberalism (even the founders of neoliberalism ended up admitting that "capitalism and democracy are incompatible). From the very beginning, neoliberalism was created to destroy the New Deal, BECAUSE they feared that it was a form of communism.
As long as the USSR existed, the concept of "communism" could be associated with "fascism" in the sense that the USSR was a brutal totalitarian regime. But anyone who read Marx knows that that was never the original meaning of the word. Similarly, neoliberals weren't truly afraid of fascism, they were afraid of democracy and its ability to empower the 99% to adopt measures that would limit the freedom of the 1%. THAT, in their minds, was enough to fear the New Deal and then use the word "communism" to make sure everyone became afraid of it.
Later, "communism" and "socialism" became labels disconnected from their real meaning and used to describe any democratic attempt to use the government to benefit the 99%. The idea behind neoliberalism/neofascism is always the same: the most important political value is letting the wealthiest do whatever they want, not just in their private lives but also for the country as a whole. To hide that fact, the GOP calls anything else "communism" or "socialism", knowing full well that they're lying.
Also, if the GOP still believed in real competition, why are they constantly trying to gerrymander mid-decade, use the USPS to throw out non-GOP voters, and rig elections in countless other ways? Fact is, even that was a lie.
My guess is that Trump will be remembered, but not kindly. He will likely manage to be impeached at least once more and the monuments he is trying to build to himself will be stripped of his name. Very few of his EOs will remain intact and rather than relying upon executive action going forward, congress will pass laws to protect government from such adventurism in the future. Any number of these laws, passed in an effort to rebuild the institutions he has torn up, are likely to be named something like "The Donald J. Trump Repudiation and Reconstruction Act". A deserving and durable recognition of his self-serving "public service".
I can rename things too, so I will echo your thought that lying President Epstein’s circus appearance in Dallas will not save the midterms for the Republican agenda. GOTV and make him a lame duck for two years.
You have to pay $25,000 of your own campaign money to go...Someone else is always footing the bill for these Republicans. Saying you will get $5000 if you vote Republican and they win, that seems to be pretty illegal to me...like a bribe. Thank you Adam, thank you for being in the fight.
Americans will receive a $5,000 check as a reward if the GOP retakes control of the House and Senate in the midterms.
So, paying for votes because he knows he's going to lose the house and possibly the senate. Oh wait, he doesn't intend to pay anybody so it's just his normal promise them anything, give them nothing. Where's our DOGE checks, where are our tariff rebate checks? He already owes us about $3600 each. How convenient that the money wouldn't be paid until AFTER the election. Remember, he doesn't care about you, he only wants your vote to keep his fat ass out of prison.
Giving people $5k if republicans win??!! It’s our tax dollars. He’s such a loser, pathetic and more!!! 😝
It's an outright bribe for votes. Disgusting.
It would only be a bribe if he actually paid up, and that isn't every going to happen. It clearly is an attempted bribe, but like all he says it is nothing but bullshit and they money if it showed up would probably be less useful than Monopoly money.
he knows that the GOP is going to lose and he knows that his "bribe" will never be paid. He will say afterwards that "not enough of you losers voted for me so you don't get the money!"
Tack on the tariff rebates he promised. Keep the chaos coming, so we forget the promises and Epstein.
FOR TRUMP, AND MANY REPUBLICANS, E[STEIN IS LIKE A BAD STD, "THE GIFT THAT KEEPS ON GIVING".
IT AIN'T GONNA GO AWAY.
Don't forget out DOGE dividends!
OH BUT WE WON'T!!!
And the DOGE money.
He wouldn't follow through. Plus, it's a bribe.
You think?! He’s a pathetic liar
Sally S - Agree. Considering that he has already promised $2,000, $5,000 and $1,000 (tariffs, doge, ACA) before this pathetic buy-off pledge, that hasn’t been fulfilled I doubt he will fulfill this promise either. It would add over a trillion dollars to the deficit if he did. The republicans already control congress so if he really wanted to he could have already done it. However, that would take away from all of the money that he is already spending on himself to make monuments to himself and slap his name on everything while destroying our history (and nation).
And I believe it’s illegal. Not that laws have ever slowed him down.
If rump gave away $45k like he gave his female aides this week he might get a few more votes. 😂
Sally S - And the guy, Walt, who schlepped his boxes to Florida only got $25,000. Still want to know if he paid them with his own money or he used taxpayer money. Aren’t there rules about federal employees accepting “gifts”? I’m sure they are way over the threshold.
Yes there are rules but who will enforce them if rump is involved?!
Amazing that the tRUMP empire is releasing $5k to everyone to vote for the failing republican party. /S/ Nope, it's our tax money. I'll take it and donate all to more worthy causes in the NGO world like stopping the sale of OUR public lands so the Tech Bros. can build their data centers and drain our aquifers, destroy productive farm land, raise our utility rates, and leave eye sores scattered across the US. And I won't be voting for a single republican.
Kari - Funny (not) how they rant about solar panels and other green energy projects making the land look ugly but they are all in for destroying our planet with data centers and giving oil companies our land. Not to mention the wall through a national park and the possibility of roads. We all know why but it’s the hypocrisy that gets to a person.
Ha! Americans are still waiting on our Doge checks. He's such a incompetent, disgraceful liar.
💙🌊🇺🇲
Now the demented old POS is trying to buy the election using taxpayer money. Who believes he could stoop any lower. Put this old fool out of his misery
JUST PUT HIM OUT.
Put him out of his and our misery 🤪🤪
I had an interesting observation yesterday. My hubby and I went to a store to buy a gift for our niece. In a strip store area that usually has a very full parking lot, there was barely a car in the lot! One end of the lot, where there are a few restaurants, there were the usual number of cars. At the other end, where there is a home improvement store, there were lots of cars. But, for the store we were shopping in and the rest of the strip, a small scattering of cars in the lot and very few customers browsing through the aisles. As to our current economy, I think this says it all. What is so sad is that all of this has been caused by ONE ugly, demented, lying, twice convicted felon (not all the illegal stuff is completed yet), psychopatic idiot who thinks he's more important than any other human on earth. Let's make sure we show him just how wrong he is!!!
Oh, please everyone ride the BLUE wave 🌊 🌊🌊🌊🌊
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a fight against communism??? it's a fight against trump and for Democracy
It's a fight against a neofascist GOP. One single (and weak) man cannot possibly destroy a two-decades old democracy.
Read Project 2025. This is the GOP's doing, Trump is merely their clown in chief, there to distract us 24/7.
They're so desperate that they're trying tactics from the 1950s.
Maybe I'm just fearful, but this feels like the last few months before November 2016, when people thought Trump was a joke and would never be elected president. It's also reminiscent of 2024, when Trump was spewing hatred and divisiveness, talking about Haitians eating pets, and making wild promises. One thing we can't do is disregard his influence or count the GOP "down and out." Can economic stress overcome racism and other social divisions in our country? Will Americans unite and vote against Republicans in 2026? If the past is precedent, many of us could be severely disappointed again, but I sincerely hope not...
The DIFFERENCE is … Americans have experienced the RESULTS of this poor choice.
— and it’s painful to be ruled so incompetently by such a fool.
Trump’s Smoke & Mirrors fool fewer fools these days.
I don't believe Americans are fools; they knew exactly who Trump was after his first term, and they voted for him again anyway. That's the sad part--the truthful part we're not facing.😕
‘Some’ Americans are MAGA, and considered by many to be ‘fools’.
— one young man said he voted for Trump because ‘Melania is hot’ for example
Some low-info & first-time voters feel that they WERE bamboozled by Trump,
— and def. intend to vote Dem in future.
Excerpt from The Atlantic:
— Not only are Democrats leading in polls of the generic House ballot and gaining in several Senate forecasts, but 🔹GOP voters are less enthusiastic than their Democratic counterparts. The problems are particularly acute among young voters. Although that group is typically heavily Democratic, Trump nearly matched Kamala Harris’s showing with the demographic in 2024, for which Turning Point received a great deal of credit. Today, however, 🔹young voters disapprove of Trump by wide margins—even greater than the general population. Young people who voted for Trump are also more likely to 🔹regret their vote than older ones, a recent Navigator poll found. 🔹Young men have turned against the president more than almost any other group has.”
* Despite Trump’s dumpalooza musclemen fights & roadster racing etc.
NOW, after inviting those events to the White House lawn … he complains that someone has ‘sabotaged my lawn’ — as if all this activity cd happen without a little grass trampling. 🙄
Linda Lee - I worry about the same things as you do.
Oh God. I hope not too.
Trumpapalooza. Makes me think of something a Great Dane -- or an African Elephant -- would leave behind in your yard.
OMG. this is so funny. LOL. no kidding.
It’s Come To This - Made me laugh! Reminds me of a hippo shaking their tail to spread their crap far and wide.
"House Speaker Mike Johnson gave away the real message when he described this fall’s elections as “a competition against communism,” a line meant to animate otherwise disheartened GOP voters."
Neofascism is the logical endpoint of neoliberalism (even the founders of neoliberalism ended up admitting that "capitalism and democracy are incompatible). From the very beginning, neoliberalism was created to destroy the New Deal, BECAUSE they feared that it was a form of communism.
As long as the USSR existed, the concept of "communism" could be associated with "fascism" in the sense that the USSR was a brutal totalitarian regime. But anyone who read Marx knows that that was never the original meaning of the word. Similarly, neoliberals weren't truly afraid of fascism, they were afraid of democracy and its ability to empower the 99% to adopt measures that would limit the freedom of the 1%. THAT, in their minds, was enough to fear the New Deal and then use the word "communism" to make sure everyone became afraid of it.
Later, "communism" and "socialism" became labels disconnected from their real meaning and used to describe any democratic attempt to use the government to benefit the 99%. The idea behind neoliberalism/neofascism is always the same: the most important political value is letting the wealthiest do whatever they want, not just in their private lives but also for the country as a whole. To hide that fact, the GOP calls anything else "communism" or "socialism", knowing full well that they're lying.
Also, if the GOP still believed in real competition, why are they constantly trying to gerrymander mid-decade, use the USPS to throw out non-GOP voters, and rig elections in countless other ways? Fact is, even that was a lie.
EUWDTB - This and musk’s PAC is still using Vote Safe to redirect people to a site that steals your information and then sells/shares it with others.
USPS — a Judge has thrown that one out very recently! 💥
My guess is that Trump will be remembered, but not kindly. He will likely manage to be impeached at least once more and the monuments he is trying to build to himself will be stripped of his name. Very few of his EOs will remain intact and rather than relying upon executive action going forward, congress will pass laws to protect government from such adventurism in the future. Any number of these laws, passed in an effort to rebuild the institutions he has torn up, are likely to be named something like "The Donald J. Trump Repudiation and Reconstruction Act". A deserving and durable recognition of his self-serving "public service".
I can rename things too, so I will echo your thought that lying President Epstein’s circus appearance in Dallas will not save the midterms for the Republican agenda. GOTV and make him a lame duck for two years.
I CAN NAME THINGS TOO. IN MY HOMETOWN, WELCOME THE "DONALF J. TRUMP SEWAGE WORKS".
I like the one Canada did, renaming the Canadian geese, Donald Ducks, with the brown wig on their heads 🤡🤡🤡
The Donald J Trump Landfill.
You have to pay $25,000 of your own campaign money to go...Someone else is always footing the bill for these Republicans. Saying you will get $5000 if you vote Republican and they win, that seems to be pretty illegal to me...like a bribe. Thank you Adam, thank you for being in the fight.
"DRAGGING HIS OWN PARTY DOWN WITH HIM".
BRAVO AND ALLELUIA!
Trump has clearly lost his mind and anybody that doesn’t recognize that has lost theirs too.
Americans will receive a $5,000 check as a reward if the GOP retakes control of the House and Senate in the midterms.
So, paying for votes because he knows he's going to lose the house and possibly the senate. Oh wait, he doesn't intend to pay anybody so it's just his normal promise them anything, give them nothing. Where's our DOGE checks, where are our tariff rebate checks? He already owes us about $3600 each. How convenient that the money wouldn't be paid until AFTER the election. Remember, he doesn't care about you, he only wants your vote to keep his fat ass out of prison.