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[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 88 points 7 months ago (1 children)

$1.5 billion

Could have fed and housed so many people with that money

Instead, she ate shit

pain

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 65 points 7 months 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.

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 41 points 7 months 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

[–] miz@hexbear.net 36 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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

[–] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 32 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] glimmer_twin@hexbear.net 16 points 7 months ago

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

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 20 points 7 months 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.

[–] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 13 points 7 months 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.

[–] supafuzz@hexbear.net 67 points 7 months ago

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

[–] Adkml@hexbear.net 65 points 7 months 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.

[–] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 61 points 7 months 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.

[–] FloridaBoi@hexbear.net 40 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I would’ve settled for a large bag of Cheetos

[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 42 points 7 months ago (1 children)

instead he's in the got dang white house!

[–] FloridaBoi@hexbear.net 27 points 7 months ago

so I guess I got what I wanted

[–] Adkml@hexbear.net 39 points 7 months 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.

[–] Lussy@hexbear.net 31 points 7 months ago

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

[–] JustSo@hexbear.net 57 points 7 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] AmericaDelendaEst@hexbear.net 18 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] REEEEvolution@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 7 months ago

Whomst among us...

[–] sourquincelog@hexbear.net 13 points 7 months ago

Also known as ONE DAY worth of spending lmao

[–] stink@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 7 months 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.

[–] kristina@hexbear.net 54 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Utter_Karate@hexbear.net 37 points 7 months 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.

[–] Piment@hexbear.net 16 points 7 months 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.

[–] Utter_Karate@hexbear.net 15 points 7 months 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.

[–] ihaveibs@hexbear.net 45 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Real_User@hexbear.net 42 points 7 months ago

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

[–] FnordPrefect@hexbear.net 33 points 7 months 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

[–] Babs@hexbear.net 20 points 7 months ago

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

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 27 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] MayoPete@hexbear.net 20 points 7 months ago

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

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 22 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

she has pressed for more cash since the election

They're just doing the E1 episode

[–] MarxOverflow@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] REEEEvolution@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 7 months ago

Her faildayn were hard at work.

[–] notthenameiwant@hexbear.net 16 points 7 months ago

Twice the 2008 Obama campaign for reference.