Wow, someone else maths!

From another thread:

So far, there has been $200B collected in tariffs as of September. Some estimates are saying $300B by end of year.

https://www.crfb.org/blogs/tariff-revenue-soars-fy-2025-amid-legal-uncertainty

The current estimated US population is 340 million.

https://www.census.gov/popclock/

Take off 10% for “the wealthy”, that leaves 306,000,000.

I can’t imagine Trump giving $2,000 to kids, so knock off anyone under 18, that’s another 73 million off the list.

https://datacenter.aecf.org/data/tables/101-child-population-by-age-group#detailed/1/any/false/1096,2545,1095,2048,574,1729,37,871,870,573/62,63,64,6,4693/419,420

So round about 233,000,000 people getting $2,000 checks?

$466 billion. Oops. Hey Donnie, you’re short somewhere between $166 and $266 billion.

So how much COULD people get?

$200B / 233M = $858.37
$300B / 233M = $1,287.55

Not awful, until you realize that’s how much these taxes soaked you for in the first place. 😉

I dropped Tmobile when I was on a business trip and they sent me an update that bricked my phone and refused responsibility.

With no support for anyone + street lined with redhats yelling at you. But only redhats.

2025 elections said what? 🤔

It’s a little bit more than that… In multiple jurisdictions Republicans have passed laws prohibiting counting mail in ballots until after election day.

This is barring them from being counted after election day.

So, really, they just don’t want mail in ballots counted, full stop.

That’s true, but Pelosi aint THAT old. 😉

Again, your headline stated that they banned prayer in “federal facilities”, implying all federal facilities, which was not true.

They banned it in this one, specific, facility as prayer was being used as a form of protest.

It’s clearly stated in rule #1:

“Post only links to articles, Title must fairly describe link contents. If your title differs from the site’s, it should only be to add context or be more descriptive. Do not post entire articles in the body or in the comments.”

In your case, the submitted title stated the exact opposite of the original.

Somebody said something about that, didn’t they? 🤔

Scratches brain…

“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money”

-Alexis De Tocqueville

So far, there has been $200B collected in tariffs as of September. Some estimates are saying $300B by end of year.

https://www.crfb.org/blogs/tariff-revenue-soars-fy-2025-amid-legal-uncertainty

The current estimated US population is 340 million.

https://www.census.gov/popclock/

Take off 10% for “the wealthy”, that leaves 306,000,000.

I can’t imagine Trump giving $2,000 to kids, so knock off anyone under 18, that’s another 73 million off the list.

https://datacenter.aecf.org/data/tables/101-child-population-by-age-group#detailed/1/any/false/1096,2545,1095,2048,574,1729,37,871,870,573/62,63,64,6,4693/419,420

So round about 233,000,000 people getting $2,000 checks?

$466 billion. Oops. Hey Donnie, you’re short somewhere between $166 and $266 billion.

So how much COULD people get?

$200B / 233M = $858.37
$300B / 233M = $1,287.55

Not awful, until you realize that’s how much these taxes soaked you for in the first place. 😉

Don’t have to thanks to our screwed up voting system. Bill Clinton didn’t either.

You have more faith in the voting public than I do. 🤣 This is the same bunch that elected Trump twice, a second time after 34 felony convictions.

Not opposed to option 1, but I’d rather see it being part of the RICO act, round them all up as domestic enemies of the Constitution.

Option 2 may be worse than what we have currently. 🤣 You’d have people with no knowledge of the law making legal decisions and in a way where they are completely uninformed.

You want “Idiocracy”? Because that’s how you get “Idiocracy”. 😉

Packing the court isn’t an option unless you also make it impossible for anyone else to pack the court.

Let’s say a Democrat wins in '28 and decides to expand the court from 9 to 13. +4. That flips the 6-3 majority to a 7-6 majority.

The next elected Republican will just expand it to 15, flipping it back.

We could lock it in with a Constitutional Amendment saying that the Supreme Court must be made up of one member from each Circuit Court, of which there are currently 13. The numbered courts 1-11, plus DC and the Fed.

Maybe even add age limits and term limits while we’re at it.

But man, the bar on an amendment is too high to pass now. 2/3rds of the House and Senate, then ratification from 38 states.

If Trump convinces Thomas and Alito to retire the way he did Kennedy, that gives him 5 Supreme Court picks and locks in a 6-3 majority for the rest of our lives.

Yet. Expect Trump to “ask” Thomas and Alito to step down so he can replace them the way he did Kennedy and lock in a 6-3 majority for the rest of our lifetimes.

For folks who don’t know the Kennedy angle:

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/06/donald-trump-justice-anthony-kennedy-retirement?srsltid=AfmBOooejc73_8m6isq0pxf4X8QM_rE1YX1Go9q-1iwFi8Uo62t4hef3