# What are you doing with your $5k? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [September 10, 2026, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-doing-with-your-5k/1032962 "2026-09-10T12:16:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2026, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-doing-with-your-5k/1032962/81 "2026-09-11T23:44:34Z")
The morons like JD, Lutfish, Bisquick all know it’s not feasible; but here they are, toadies all, chickenhawks like their perfect master. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2026, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-doing-with-your-5k/1032962/82 "2026-09-11T23:52:53Z")
Yeah. A trillion here and trillion there, and pretty soon you are talking real money! ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2026, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-doing-with-your-5k/1032962/83 "2026-09-12T00:04:51Z")
Y’know if he funded it with a wealth tax and made it annual … ---
**Author:** ![Dissonance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dissonance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dissonance)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2026, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-doing-with-your-5k/1032962/84 "2026-09-12T02:46:27Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > The first thing I’ll do is check with a lawyer. I know it’s a federal crime to offer people money to influence their vote, like Donald Trump was just recorded doing. But I want to know if it’s a federal crime to cash the check. What’s funny is way back in the dark ages, I heard that someone I went to high school with took out a personal ad in his then city paper offering to sell his vote in the 1992 presidential election. The Feds didn’t think it was funny, and IIRC he was charged and given probation. I ran into him years later at a bar, asked him about it, and bought him a drink for doing what I considered at the time to be one of the most punk rock things I’d ever heard. Just out of high school, young kid, **one vote** which he (probably) wasn’t actually serious about. It was enough to become a literal Federal issue. POTUS offers to bribe 270 million voters _at the fucking Republican National Convention_. Oh wait, sorry, 34-time convicted felon POTUS offers to bribe 270 million voters. Nothing is going to happen to him because of it. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2026, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-doing-with-your-5k/1032962/85 "2026-09-12T03:01:58Z")
Speaker Johnson, fed up with all these shenanigans, will call the House back in session to consider articles of impeachment against Donnie Trump. Thereafter, the Senate, with Mitch the deciding vote (a McCain thumbs down) removes the loser in a stunning rebuke to executive overreach. about as much chance of this happening as a $5000 check getting issued ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2026, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-doing-with-your-5k/1032962/86 "2026-09-12T03:37:38Z")
Speaker Johnson will be too busy this week authorizing Trump’s Congressional Medal of Honor. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2026, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-doing-with-your-5k/1032962/87 "2026-09-12T04:17:28Z")
$5k? Throw it on the pile of the other spare change. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-doing-with-your-5k/1032962.md?page=4)