Someone made a stupid tweet, that happens!
Sure, it's a verified account... and they bothered to put it in a meme generator... but still.
O-oh, almost the exact same argument was made against Obamacare? Is, is this a joke?
I can understand someone missing it in a TV interview though, those are high stress situations where it makes sense to assume nonsensical details were simply misheard or misstated! What are the odds they're really asking such a stupid question?
...pretty high when the interviewers somehow missed the problem themselves, some-freakin-how.
Dividing 500 million by 327 million yielded 1.529, which rounds to 1.53 to the nearest cent
Of course he probably wouldn't want to give that money to *everyone* in America. Young children, felons, foreigners... The joke is that he'd be bribing the voters, so we could use the number of registered voters: 153 million (in 2018). That's about 3 dollars and a quarter! But why is he spending money in states he had no chance in? I'm not going to do the math for focusing on swing states, but I think we're talking 5-10$ per voter.
In the
primary.
Of course, bribing voters that way is impossible because we're not allowed to photograph our ballots. But it goes to show how much money is spent on influencing our votes. It's an expensive industry, which is why almost every candidate owes favors to PACs. In many democracies this is illegal, for some reason...
Edit: A more positive takeaway: Our votes are valuable.
That's why they're attempting voter suppression No! Positive takeaway!
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