Trump to bribe seniors to vote for him

[FuzzyRabbit]

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/09/trump-announces-hes-mailing-33-million-seniors-200-cash-cards-before-2020-election/

I'm going to send my $200 to the Biden campaign. What are you going to do with yours?

[Blue Owl]

1. tRumpy's stunted pea-brain probably thinks they just fell off the turnip truck

n/t

[grumpyduck]

2. First I would find out if the card is legit.

And if it is, yeah, send it to Joe.

[Thekaspervote]

3. I'm with you, gonna give it to Biden

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[Ritabert]

4. Chump change

Since he wants to end payroll taxes funding SS and Medicare this is a slap in the face.

[TruckFump]

5. I think I will take my bestie to lunch...a long expensive lunch.

We need this...we really need this!!

[Andy823]

6. What I want to know is

When? Will it be like every thing else, in two weeks then, and then another two weeks....?

I don't believe a word he says.

[underpants]

7. Hey Myrtle! We got weed money!!!

A. I would not at all be surprised if this gets screwed up completely
B. Packaging will be key. There are so many credit card offers that I get, and I’m sure order people do too, that when I feel a card in an envelope it goes directly into the trash.

[C_U_L8R]

8. He's robbing the treasury for a dumb campaign stunt.

What's next, a chicken on every doorstep?

[Blue_true]

24. Yep. The guy is a real scumbag.

Never in my life have I seen a more dishonest person, and believe me, I have seen plenty over my life.

[BigmanPigman]

9. "It is unclear what authority Trump is invoking to enact this giveaway"....

HA! Con man 100%!

[mvd]

10. Trump could send my mom and me

$1 million each and we wouldn’t vote for him! And how is he getting these cards out with no money source?

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

11. Same!

Even if it was his own damn money, which he will do everything to pretend, but which it would never be, though many idiots will believe it is.

[mcar]

12. $200 is one prescription for many seniors

Big woo.

[zipplewrath]

14. Half

That be half of one prescription we have.

[mcar]

16. I know Part D doesn't cover them all

[zipplewrath]

18. Tier's

There's various tier levels and depending upon which tier, they cover more, or less of the cost. Tier 3 is bad.

[mcar]

20. When my MIL moved to FL near us in 2006, I helped her

with selecting Part D. I felt like I needed a PhD in Medicare options to wade through it.

I have no idea how older people, who are less computer savvy, could handle the mess that is the Medicare website.

Still, we were able to select a good plan for her - one that covered her many medications. It was about $35/month.

Next year, the premium doubled but it was still the best option - given our rural area. So, she stayed with it.

In January that 2ND year, the plan wrote and informed her that her non-generic prescriptions would no longer be covered. IOW, she would be paying $75/month for the privilege of getting 3 $5 prescriptions a month for free. The other 2 cost a total of about $300/month.

There was nothing she could do, as I'm sure you know.

Fortunately, the pharma cos. that manufactured those 2 scrips had a medical need program and we were able to get her those meds for free through that. We dropped Part D and were able to stick with those programs for 6 years (more people need to know about them - that was the easy part). But, It was a ridiculous amount of work and hoops to go through.

A bit of karma, though: she never got a bill from the Part D provider those first couple of years. I asked her a few times if she was paying for it and she'd say, "I guess it's coming out of my Social Security like my Medicare is." It wasn't. Some kind of glitch on their end. So, during year 2 she suddenly gets this big bill for all the back payments! She called and they, to give them credit, said "our bad, pay us $5/month till you pay it off." That's what she did, until she died a few years after that.

They never got close to the premium costs.

[Blue_true]

26. I have been lucky. The most I have ever paid at one time at the drug counter is $40.

I don’t need serious drugs that cost a lot.

[liberalla]

13. WTH? I can't believe he's going to send them to registered Democrats!

This is another fantasy of his. He says things before he thinks them.

[HAB911]

15. BIDEN

[dhill926]

17. guess I could add this to the stimulus check money...

that is going to dem candidates....

[moonscape]

19. Will buy some wine to weather the time between

when I vote for Biden and the country returns right side up.

$200 will hardly get me there, but it's a contribution!

[sanatanadharma]

21. U$S 6.6 Billion with a B

Apparently dear leader is going to divert 6,600,000,000 dollars from the hamberder-budget.

[Buns_of_Fire]

22. "If you can't win their hearts, bribe their asses."

Sorry, Spanky. My ass requires a lot more zeroes between the "2" and the decimal point to get its attention.

But hey, thanks for the two bills. It'll get me a couple cartons of cigarettes and several bottles of medicinal spirits which I will use to get nicely lubricated while watching you and yours go down in flames.

[Totally Tunsie]

23. One more donation to Joe.

It will serve it's intended purpose - to lessen some medical pain. If that $200 helps Joe to win, a bunch of us will be saving big bucks on future headache meds...our biggest headache will be gone.

[MissMillie]

25. Using the mail???? The USPS??? Wouldn't that make this new program...

...wide open to fraud????

[sinkingfeeling]

27. Where's the money coming from?