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Trump announces $90 payments for seniors on Medicare ahead of midterm elections for premium costs (apnews.com)
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Donald Trump is promising more payments to voters just ahead of the Nov. 3 midterm elections — this time, to more than 20 million seniors, giving them $90 each to help pay for Medicare premiums.

The announcement, made late Friday night by Trump on social media, comes after the president last month said about 1 million people would get rebate checks of $500 for Affordable Care Act premiums. He has also promised on the campaign trail to send every American adult $5,000 if Republicans retain control of the House and Senate in the midterm elections.

That pledge — which would require approval from Congress — would likely cost more than $1 trillion, adding to the deficit and worsening inflation.

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[–] 5 points 4 hours ago (1 child)

No, they are not.

If they were, they would not have elected a blatant con artist TWICE.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 hours ago*

    The average American voter usually votes off vibes they get from the one or two direct exposures to candidates one or two weeks before an election.

    And that's ONLY in the 5-10 states in the US that actually have campaign ads running because that state is actually close enough to have a chance of being contested.

    40-45 of the states in each presidential election are essentially fueling a politics of indifference.

    That feeling of indifference disappears when the material effects of politics actually impact people's lives. People suddenly care when they start realizing that all that stupid political shit is making their lives worse.

    The average voter is not spending each day listening to the news, listening to political discourse, you are "weird" for even commenting about politics. You and I are weird. We look at politics and care about the impact it has on the lives of others and that don't impact us directly. We are weird.

    Why do you think suddenly Trump has lost popularity with 40% of the people that once supported him? If you're going to criticize their stupidity; you need to acknowledge their newfound "intelligence".

    Sure, I think it should be 100%. But you're acting like it's 0%.

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