$500-600 billion. He’s going to give out as much as he can to as many people as he can. I won’t be surprised if he tried to make it happen before Christmas, given that the tariffs will affect Christmas spending.
And it will be a check for $2,000 with his big-ass signature on it, complete with a letter mailed to every household.
He's going to make damned sure everybody knows it's his idea.
Only 200 million Americans? Nah, he's going to hit up as many people as possible. He needs distractions.
He didn't even talk to the Treasury Secretary, he just proclaimed it into existence.
Trump says he'll issue $2,000 tariff dividend to all except 'high-income people' - ABC News
The elderly freezing up and falling over, that's going to be some. Car crashes, airplane crashes, maybe somebody eating something chokes. Maybe the militaries of the world dropping a bunch of stuff trying to stop it at the last minute (that could certainly ratchet things up).
But yeah, that doesn't quite feel like almost a billion deaths. However, it could be that a bunch could not handle it and it killed them. Maybe that was by design, to eliminate those who couldn't handle the assimilation.
@PTINS you might find this interesting. This was mentioned a few hours ago, but geolocated apparently (see below). They just hit this thing a week ago (well not quite a week ago). They appear to be trying to put it completely out of action. Or scare any "ghost fleet" tankers away. It's also really interesting that the Russians don't seem to oh, I don't know, try and reinforce the defenses of already-vulnerable ports and infrastructure that the Ukrainians have shown they can hit. That's pretty wild - if you have a still functioning facility that's already been hit once, and you know the Ukrainians like to revisit such sites, you'd think they'd do something more than some dudes in a pickup truck with a machine gun.
Reported Ukrainian USV Explosion in Tuapse Harbour. POV ~ 44.104496, 39.068211
The outbreak probably began in Maryland (they showed the real-life US Army installation), but the Very Large Array (the radio telescopes that got the original signal) is just a few hours away from Albuquerque.
But it's Vince Gilligan. Could be either explanation.