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This is a cheap post but only getting 17% of the country to support you sending them five thousand dollars is a sign that you haven’t just lost your fastball, you’ve lost the entire strike zone

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Support For Trump's Proposed $5000 Check: Oppose: 63% Support: 17% Ipsos / Sept 14, 2026

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Trump has also promised DOGE checks, tariff checks, and a couple other payouts and delivered on none of them. Even his hard core death cult members are starting to realize he’s full of shit.

To be clear - I don’t think this is a sign that voters understand second order effects, I think they’re looking at Trump and going “that guy is clearly full of shit”, which is way worse for him

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I do think it would be wildly hypocritical of them to constantly complain about government spending and the national debt and then celebrate these checks but they think hypocrisy is a flex so who knows.

I think a fair amount of them know that Trump could have done this at any point in the past year and a half and has not, so why would he do it now?

100%. Even voters who have the understanding necessary to make the connection probably aren’t going to do the value calculation in the middle of a poll. This is respondents actually answering whether they believe it will happen at all.

Yes. It’s like the scene from Winter Soldier: Pierce: What if Pakistan marched into Mumbai tomorrow, and you knew they were going to drag your daughter into a soccer stadium for execution, and you could stop it with a flick of a switch- wouldn't you? Singh: Not if it's your switch