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[–] [email protected] 18 points 14 hours ago

Twice the 2008 Obama campaign for reference.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

You could legit solve homelessness instead of flushing that down the drain to a bunch of ad companies

[–] [email protected] 36 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

And probably earn more votes. A lot more votes. No campaigning or anything, just funneling all the campaign funds into something that actually helps people. Social media would have done all the work. Sooner or later someone will remember the "bread" part of "bread and circuses" and they will rule completely unchecked. It will probably be terrible.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I feel like we're so far past bread it would be viewed on an equal level as Elon giving a million to a random person for voting, a candidate that used their campaign funds to help people would probably get investigated and somehow disqualified from running.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 16 hours ago

No, I think we will see it in our lifetimes. Not in any actually benevolent way, just a brief respite from the worst this world has to offer in exchange for the power to to literally anything.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

So much spent on celebrity appearances too

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 hours ago

Who could she possibly be convincing by bringing in Oprah? The wine moms are already voting for her.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 20 hours ago

Trump gets 500 million, keeps half of it personally and wins the election.

Kamala gets three times that much, loses, and didn't even make her self unbelievably rich in the process.

Who's really the dumb one.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

That is a comfortable lifetime's worth of money for thousands of people. Fucking gross

[–] [email protected] 46 points 18 hours ago

Fwiw it probably did become a lifetime worth of money for a few thousand consultants

[–] [email protected] 26 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

she has pressed for more cash since the election

They're just doing the E1 episode

[–] [email protected] 87 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

$1.5 billion

Could have fed and housed so many people with that money

Instead, she ate shit

pain

[–] [email protected] 66 points 22 hours ago (4 children)

$20 billion

The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) estimates that it would cost $20 billion to end homelessness.

You can easily get the rest from just pulling from the military or even better seizing the obscene wealth of the billionaire class and fix this overnight but noooooooooo billion dollar vanity projects.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Off-topic, but that number is one of the things that made/makes me absolutely hate the billionaires in this world. People like Bezos, Buffett, or Musk could end homelessness or world hunger tomorrow while not even really noticing the hit to their wealth, but they all choose instead to spend it on destroying the planet instead.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 13 hours ago

Homelessness and world hunger is the source of their power, they use it as leverage to force other people to enact their will. Ending hunger will diminish their power, and so they will never do it.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Even ending homelessness for 1/20 people who are homeless would've been objectively better as a campaign strategy too

[–] [email protected] 15 points 17 hours ago

Nah it wouldn’t, like 95% of Americans give 0 fucks about the homeless

[–] [email protected] 38 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

first put every real estate developer and landlord into a camp or they will ~~start~~ increase arming domestic paramilitary death squads

[–] [email protected] 41 points 22 hours ago

At least my billion dollar vanity project, building Castle Von ThunderCastle, would provide countless jobs and a place to live for all those willing to join my ruthless terrorist organization

[–] [email protected] 63 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

what, they don't have any math magicians at the NYT.

you spend 1.5 billion in 15 weeks by spending 100 million every week for 15 weeks.

I'm assuming they did something even less intelligent or beneficial than buying every American with a car a gallon of gasoline and a warm can of Pepsi.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

$5 to every American no questions asked and we actually fucling give it to you this time would unironically have been a better use of funds.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 19 hours ago

1.5 k to 1 million in key swing states, instead of paying hollywood turds, would have actually done something lol

[–] [email protected] 40 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I would’ve settled for a large bag of Cheetos

[–] [email protected] 43 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

instead he's in the got dang white house!

[–] [email protected] 28 points 20 hours ago

so I guess I got what I wanted

[–] [email protected] 23 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Well there were 2 assassination attempts on Trump after she gained the nomination so...

[–] [email protected] 19 points 16 hours ago

Her faildayn were hard at work.

[–] [email protected] 67 points 22 hours ago

huh it's almost like this was the scam all along and winning was at best secondary

[–] [email protected] 57 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

I read earlier they actually finished up $20mil in debt lmao.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 hours ago

In that same article some DNC spokesperson was like "we are separate from her campaign and we're very healthy financially now!"

So much proof they don't care about the election as much as their funding.

Also apparently her campaign is still getting donations... imagine the libs donating to her still.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

"Woops i accidentally over drafted the account by 20 million dollars"

[–] [email protected] 10 points 16 hours ago

Whomst among us...

[–] [email protected] 14 points 17 hours ago

Also known as ONE DAY worth of spending lmao

[–] [email protected] 35 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

the-democrat 🎶 Springtime for MAGA and 'Murica! Winter for Gaza and Chad 🎶

PS I don't really know what's going on in Chad, it was just the single syllable country having the hardest time. I'll remove if I posted something offensive

[–] [email protected] 23 points 20 hours ago

Chad is in the tropics, I don't think they have winters there.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 23 points 21 hours ago

The Cheneys too while you're at it... wait