This. Also laying a seedbed for re-election in 2024 possibly.
Almost certainly. Would be especially amazing if he reinvents himself as anti-McConnell/anti-establishment-GOP for a second time after the first time going anti-Bush managed to win him the whole thing, and then somehow wins reelection. It's going to be weird as fuck though since if Trump does go 2024 mode for the next four years, you can guarantee that various lawsuits and even criminal charges will be filed at least at the New York state level, if not at the federal level outright. And then the cycle goes from "Obama/Biden spied on Trump's campaign, illegal!" to "Trump directed agencies to sabotage Biden's campaign, impeach!" back to "Biden/Harris is trying to ban the Trump campaign, illegal!", with some Don Jr/Kushner and Hunter Biden shit serving as the undercard. Best fucking political system in the world.
Can't wait for China to finally win in full and start lifting our economy out of the shitter, maybe first by destroying our reserve currency status, second by outsourcing their manufacturing to our weakened-dollar cheapened-labor base, third by giving us the Africa treatment building new infrastructure in exchange for our oil.
Trump doesn't give two shits about giving people money. He's doing this to fuck McConnell because McConnell acknowledged Biden's win.
Trump could have done this earlier, but he waits until now? Don't get me wrong, I'm all for more money to people who need it--but this isn't about helping anyone except himself.
I also agree--if he had done this sooner (i.e. if he'd had any kind of conscience toward the people suffering financially) he would have won reelection.
Trump did push for new checks before Nov 4, it was McConnell who blocked him out of fiscal concern, and Trump held his tongue, probably also in part because he needed McConnell to secure ACB to the Supreme Court. That being said, Trump signed every other omnibus before this one with sometimes a mild complaint but never bothering to actually veto things, so the fault still rests on Trump for not sticking to the message that got him elected to begin with.
But frankly, being only 40k votes behind in three swing states means doing anything a little better could have won him reelection. If he didn't pick Fauci to be his wuflu spokesman, or kept his mouth shut over dumb shit like "disinfectant" and "it will go away soon", he probably would have won. Though I enjoyed his first debate against Biden quite a lot and don't put too much weight into them, it's possible that the shitflinging there did manage to knock him down just enough to lose. If he had dedicated himself to attacking the various media platforms that conspired against him in 2020, instead of wasting time on dumb peace deal photo ops, he likely would have won. Even the stupid Platinum Plan could very well have cost him critical white votes. Basically he always does just enough right to get in striking distance, and sometimes it takes him just far enough, sometimes it doesn't.
It's the same shit, right? He's ignoring that two bills passed and is not including the weekly unemployment payments all in order to cause some populist hysteria about overthrowing the system because it doesn't care about you.
Which two bills are you referring to? I thought most unemployment has been handled state-side anyways and is drying up for people now, wasn't aware of weekly federally-backed unemployment payments.
EDIT: Was reading some other stuff and I think I found what you were referring to?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimwan...efit-no-one-is-talking-about/?sh=37be49991d12
Apparently that expired a couple months ago, though fwiw I can agree that these mail-out checks are basically just silly populist garbage, and when you consider that many states have pre-wuflu unemployment levels now, it's especially silly.
