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Mickey wrote:Yeah it's pretty fucking smart, libs are going to whine about it but they're going to be called the Trump checks and that matters in November.
People who will have lost everything by then will really look back fondly on the 1200 bucks they had in their account for a few weeks in April. Election secured.
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If you want to make the bet that the electorate is going to have a rational, measured response to this crisis that filters through multiple causal vectors to assign blame on the Trump administration rather than, say, circling the wagons in a time of crisis and investing Trump with the aura of a smart businessman who can make the tough decisions and deliver on his promises (like the checks!), then by all fucking means, my Venmo is open.
VinylGuy wrote:its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.
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his roughly 38% that always supports him will remember that $1,200. The rest? Will be shacking up with their parents looking for work and social programs to get them back on their feet because that $1,200 barely, if at all, covered their rent for 1 month.
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tragabigzanda wrote:
Mickey wrote:If you want to make the bet that the electorate is going to have a rational, measured response to this crisis that filters through multiple causal vectors to assign blame on the Trump administration rather than, say, circling the wagons in a time of crisis and investing Trump with the aura of a smart businessman who can make the tough decisions and deliver on his promises (like the checks!), then by all fucking means, my Venmo is open.
Don't get me wrong, I fully expect Trump to win in 2020. But I don't think $1200 will mean jack shit to people by then.
It of course has nothing to do with the actual dollar amount and everything to do with the symbolic resonance of Trump being the one who tried to help but was constrained by the do-nothing Democrats. It's straight out of the Trump playbook of putting your name in gold on a bunch of shitty hotels so everyone thinks you're a billionaire mogul--and it uhh works.
VinylGuy wrote:its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.
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Got mine. How much blow does $1200 get you these days?
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cutuphalfdead wrote:Got mine. How much blow does $1200 get you these days?
You only need like $800 more to get a tiger, so start selling some records.
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Simple Torture wrote:
cutuphalfdead wrote:Got mine. How much blow does $1200 get you these days?
You only need like $800 more to get a tiger, so start selling some records.
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The money was deposited this morning. It was spent by lunchtime. :?
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Monkey_Driven wrote:The money was deposited this morning. It was spent by lunchtime. :?
:lol:

We got ours today as well.

It's in savings for now.
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durdencommatyler wrote:
Simple Torture wrote:
cutuphalfdead wrote:Got mine. How much blow does $1200 get you these days?
You only need like $800 more to get a tiger, so start selling some records.
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Monkey_Driven wrote:The money was deposited this morning. It was spent by lunchtime. :?
3 dozen Pro V1 and a new driver?
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durdencommatyler wrote:
Monkey_Driven wrote:The money was deposited this morning. It was spent by lunchtime. :?
:lol:

We got ours today as well.

It's in savings for now.
We had to get a new roof. It was replaced a few weeks ago, but decided to just use this to make the last payment.
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doug rr wrote:
Monkey_Driven wrote:The money was deposited this morning. It was spent by lunchtime. :?
3 dozen Pro V1 and a new driver?
I've only played once this year...
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We're gonna spend a few hundred of ours on some stupid shit. The rest is getting saved...along without our vacation rental refund. :/
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Hey we already have ten coronavirus threads, so they should all be locked except one, and then have a totally boneheaded poll added to it. Right mods? Right?!
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BurtReynolds wrote:Hey we already have ten coronavirus threads, so they should all be locked except one, and then have a totally boneheaded poll added to it. Right mods? Right?!
calm down burt
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Strat wrote:
BurtReynolds wrote:Hey we already have ten coronavirus threads, so they should all be locked except one, and then have a totally boneheaded poll added to it. Right mods? Right?!
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