“WHEN I WIN, those people that CHEATED will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the Law, which will include long term prison sentences so that this Depravity of Justice does not happen again,” Trump wrote on Saturday on his Truth Social platform. “We cannot let our Country further devolve into a Third World Nation, AND WE WON’T!”
— from a story by Amy Gardner, Colby Itkowitz and Mariana Alfaro on The Washington Post, September 8, 2024.
We should note that former President Trump didn’t say, “IF I WIN”… but rather “WHEN I WIN”.
That’s my kind of former President. A guy without any doubt or hesitation.
I assume “those people that CHEATED” who will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the Law, are the people who help steal the 2020 election? That is, the corrupt state officials who accepted the votes of dead people? Because you can’t prosecute the dead people themselves. They didn’t even know they were voting.
I’m fairly sure the former President is not talking about “people who CHEATED on their corporate bookkeeping, or tax filings.” That would be unpleasant for certain people, even if they really do deserve long prison sentences.
Of course, when you cheat on your takes, that’s really just a private matter, between you and the IRS. When you steal an election, you are stealing from the entire American population.
Or so it might seem. Except, I suppose, when you steal an election, you’re technically only stealing from the half who voted for Trump.
When you cheat the IRS, you’re cheating the entire American population of taxpayers. Which is more than half the population. So maybe that’s actually worse. Mathematically. But maybe not financially.
So that brings up the central question. If someone steals 11,000 votes (which might have happened in Georgia in 2020, for example) what is the monetary value of those votes?
I think a conservative price for a person’s vote would be $100. That’s how much I personally would charge for my vote, if someone wanted to buy it. That’s never happened to me, but we’re living in weird times. There were plenty of times in the not-so-distant past when political parties bought votes here in America. And vote-buying is apparently common in many other countries. In Thailand, for example, the Central Bank estimated that the amount of money circulating in Thailand increased by $52 billion during the most recent election season.
Which suggests that buying votes is actually good for the economy.
Voters in Thailand are typically offered between $10 and $90 for their vote. Since this is America, we should get more than $90 for our votes. So that’s how I came up with the $100 figure.
Which would set the value of the stolen votes in Georgia at about $1.1 million. Mere pocket change for most politicians. It’s less, even, than the $1.6 million that the Trump Organization was fined in 2022 for a long-running tax fraud scheme.
Like I said. Pocket change.
“We cannot let our Country further devolve into a Third World Nation, AND WE WON’T!” posted our former President. No doubt he was thinking about Thailand. Or a similar shithole country.
My main concern this year is, however, the dead people who are voting. Not only do they have no legal right to vote, but also, they cannot possibly be accepting bribes. Which means, no benefits to our economy.
Even if the dead people could accept the bribes, how would they spend the money? The bribes should go to living, breathing voters. In my humble opinion.
I imagine many Daily Post readers are, like me, getting a steady stream of requests from the two political parties, looking for donations going into the November election.
This is obviously backwards. The parties ought to be sending the money to us.
Underrated writer Louis Cannon grew up in the vast American West, although his ex-wife, given the slightest opportunity, will deny that he ever grew up at all.