GUEST POST BY DAVE MILLER

Where's Your Outrage Now? 

Where are you, Ms. Z? Where are you, Mustang? Where are you Sam Huntington, -FJ, Baysider, Jess, Jeffery, and the rest of you living souls who are part of the group of bloggers that frequents Geeez? Are any of you awake? 

For years you’ve decried the Democrats for trying to bribe voters with low-cost medical care, welfare for poor people, and loads of other “free stuff.” All of you have prattled on for years about how “buying votes” with giveaways would be the death of America. 

For years you’ve called the American people stupid for falling for such craven bribery, and you’ve gone on and on about low-IQ voters falling for such chicanery. “How can we afford such giveaways?” you always asked. Well, where are you now? Never in the history of our republic has a president of the United States been so brazen as to openly promise Americans cash if his party wins an election. Until now. 

Here’s what our president, the man you all helped put in office, had to say: “If Republicans win the House of Representatives and the Senate in the 2026 Midterm Elections, I’m going to give all adult citizens in the United States of America, $5,000! Thank you for your attention to this matter, and I look forward to signing those checks!” And it’s not the first time he’s said it, so let’s be honest. 

He means it. 

Because in September, he said essentially the same thing. Back then, we could have dismissed it as another off-the-cuff Trump promise. But now he’s repeated it. So let me ask you: Is President Trump selling America down the river by saddling us with more than $1 trillion in additional spending just to buy an election? Are Republicans so stupid, as you’ve all called Democrats over the years, that they’ll vote for the GOP in November just to get their checks? 

Where’s your outrage now? Where’s your disgust? Where are your furious blog posts, angry with a president and political party that care more about winning than America? 

Patriotic America lovers. That’s how you all portray yourselves. Well, here’s your chance to prove it. Here’s your chance to show us all that your values and your words are not simply tied to a party or favored candidate. 

This election, here’s what America needs you to do: Skip voting in the House and Senate races. Go ahead and vote Republican in all your local races, but skip the House and Senate races. If your words over the years have meant anything, if you meant it when you said bribing Americans to get their votes was an assault on the freedoms of America, you simply cannot vote for the GOP in the House and Senate races. Because every vote for a Republican House or Senate candidate is a vote to enable more than $1 trillion in additional federal spending for the USA. 

Each vote for a House or Senate GOP candidate says you are, in fact, okay with buying votes. And it says you are not the patriots and America lovers you’ve always called yourselves. In fact, it says you are nothing more than craven partisans, willing to sacrifice your long-held values just to win an election and hopefully get a $5,000 check. 

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I agree with Dave on this, and, in fact, I add this to his post:

Every time Trump promises to send Americans money in exchange for their votes, we have to do the math, because that is where the promise immediately falls apart. 

There are roughly 245 million adults in this country. That is $1.20 trillion. The president does not have the authority to just send out checks on a whim, and he certainly can’t spend more than a trillion dollars without approval. That is not even taking into account the practical side of things, like where the money would come from. 

Donald Trump also promised $2,000 tariff dividend checks. Those never came, and these never will either. He knows that, and he also knows that there is almost no realistic path for Republicans to hold both chambers of Congress. So the excuse and the scapegoat are already built in for when the checks are never sent. He will blame the Democrats. He will say he wanted to send the checks, but the radical left “Dumocrats” blocked him from sending them. 

He will use this as another reason to further divide us.