Is there an echo in this room? Wasn’t Donald Trump promising to give us all a chunk of change back several months ago? Oh well, there was all that DOGE money that was coming. Remember that? That was going to get us at least $5,000 and that was the first check. We were led to believe we could depend on more. Then of course there is the massive prescription drug savings. That will result in many yuge checks, because Trump has promised as much as a 1,000% savings, meaning that we would actually be making money. And now, as the cherry on the sundae, Trump promises a $2,000 dividend checks on his tariffs. Man, pretty soon nobody will have to work and we’ll just let the government send us checks. Wait…isn’t that what Mitt Romney said 47% of us are already doing? You mean Trump will make us all Welfare Cadillac Queens?
Didn't promise $$ to everyone earlier this year which never happened?
— Solve4Zero (@Solve4Zero) November 9, 2025
As stated, we’re all still waiting for our five grand from DOGE. And I visit the pharmacy at least once a month, sometimes twice and I have yet to have a rebate check handed through the winow at me. So forgive me if I’m not too reassured that now I’m getting a dividends check from tariffs — particularly when tariffs are a tax I have to pay when I go to Walmart and buy flip flops or moo moos made in China.
That’s the wonder of all this to me, Trump’s recharacterization of what a tariff really is, not to mention his Bizarro World idea of its benefit. I get it that MAGA is “low propensity, low information voters.” Steve Bannon talks about that daily, so it would be hard to miss. But even a no information person can Google the word “tariffs” and get a short definition, “a tariff is a tax.” I guess it’s easier to just listen to the charismatic cult leader and believe his definition. Except what do you tell yourself when the next set of flip flops costs one and half times the price of the last set?
As to the use of the tariff in the overall economic scheme of things, you might as well start calling me Cassandra, because I stand here and scream daily, to myself certainly, or sometimes in print, “Will somebody remember the goddamn Smoot Hawley tariffs that sunk us during the Great Depression?” And I get it that Herbert Hoover thought it was a fine idea to tax foreign goods and thereby have all the money spent on domestic goods and help our farmers. But it didn’t work out that way, now will it? All I know is that the coupling of a bad recession with steep tariffs sank this country once and I do not want to see the experiment repeated.
And almost 100 years later we are far more of a globalist economy than we were then. This concept of Trump’s is sheer madness. But then again, maybe a Great Depression is something that comes in cycles very much like a global pandemic does, once per hundred years seems to be a guideline.
Maybe Trump is going to become the next Herbert Hoover. He’s set up to do it in record time, too. We already have a recession coming and he’s been in office nine months. Plus, I wonder what the landlord would say if I said, “I’ll pay the rent when i get my dividend checks from DOGE, tariffs, and Walgreens.” What do you think would happen?
Sure Donny Boy, “the check is in the mail” you say. Yeah, and you won’t cum in anyone’s mouth either!