What will you do with your measly $600 stimulus check?

More than I would do without it. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth OP.

I've got some ideas.

R1 I know it’s better than nothing but come on... $600? Really? I wonder how many millions Joel Osteen will get again? Or the Dumps?

Like last time, use it to pay my taxes again.

A really nice leather Jacket or a down payment on a high end graphics PC. Both should last for at least 5 years.

It’ll be absorbed into my student loan debt. So nothing.

Drugs and hookers.

Donations to the two hospitals who provide the bulk of my medical care.

They need it (and million$ more) to cover the shortfalls to their budgets due to COVID.

Prepare supplies to hideout from the 2021 Purge & Revolution

I am on Social Security so the pandemic really hasn't hurt me financially. With the $1200 stimulus I gave $300 to the food bank and while I hate the idea of so many people being food insecure, I can't help but wonder how many of these people in Indiana would help a food insecure gay man or woman if the tables were reversed. I will probably give a portion of it again to the food bank, but I haven't decided yet.

Buy booze.

Won’t get anything. Too rich grift from the Democrats, too poor to grift from the Republicans. I’ll just keep feeding the beast with my tax dollars.

Sad, R12.

It’s not sad R13. My only emotional attachment to the situation is a little envy. If I think enough about it, the envy even disappears. I only posted to give a different perspective.

Sad.

I’m one of the poors. Going toward a new hot water heater.

I got my husband the Iphone 12 Pro for christmas so the 600 will help to offset that.

I was going to buy a cat when it was $1200. But, $600?!? That’s not even enough to buy the fucking CAT I wanted...

I guess I’ll use it to pay taxes like the last one.

Light bill

Are the income cut offs the same as last time?

Dentist......

Dentist if necessary. New speakers from Bowers & Wilkins if not.

Days Inn and disco lights.

R18, kittens are free where I live.

House taxes.

People complaining about receiving money they did no work for to earn it. Disgusting.

The people who have the right to complain are the ones who pay federal income tax yet will get nothing.

R10 Me too, I'm on disability and the husband is on SS and retired so not much difference for us. It's the unemployed that needs it, not us. We will spend it though so it will go back into someone's pocket. We give to the local food bank too and when going out which is rare now we tip really well.

Also like you I always wonder if the WWII veterans they trot out here all the time in redneck Deploraville would say they went to war for a gay person, I bet they would say, hell no not for queers.

Last one, I donated $500 to Jon Ossoff's campaign. Paid down a bill with the rest.

It’s become the aMErican way, R26.

I do think that those who lost wages or had to close their businesses should be compensated. No one should be hungry or go without healthcare. I do have a problem with people using the money that I was forced to surrender to the government to buy frivolous things that I do without. It’s hard to prevent this from happening though.

Caftans, lavalieres, and Hummel figurines!

Thanks, r30!

I will save it

The bill isn't public yet R20, but I would bet on it. I wouldn't be surprised if they were even stricter.

Which is kind of bullshit. If you made $80,000 in 2019 but have been laid off since May ...

I'll donate $100 bucks and the rest goes to student loans.

R26 I work full time bitch and pay federal taxes. When the $600 weekly payments were going out, I was getting less money per week to work compared to people who lost their jobs. I’m glad they reduced it to $300 per week. I’m so sorry you make too much money. $1,200 or $600 is probably nothing for you.

I see only the poors have come to this thread. Salivating over 600 fucking dollars.

Y'all bitches should be investing that along with that paltry1,200 you blew your wads to earlier this year.

1,800 today could be 5,000+ in 5 years. Meanwhile, all the shit you are jizzing over will be in a dumpster by then.

R35 choke on your father’s cock and shit in your mother’s cunt

Add it to my travel fund to use whenever it becomes safe to travel again.

Hire a Rentmen escort I've been drooling over.

If received before Jan. 5, $300 to Raphael Warnock and $300 to Jon Ossoff.

Fuck you McConnell.

Penis reduction surgery.

Put the $600 into the savings account and transfer $200 to the checking account each month, for 3 months, to cover my lost bank interest due to the drop in interest rates because of the virus.

Buy a new CPAP machine

Hire another willing pool boy. The last one chewed through the restraints and never came back. Sigh . . .

Go crazy on OnlyFans subscriptions

But only at half price

Whores work better when they’re desperate

Dental insurance.

My dog needs another echocardiogram in the spring ($450.00 every time) so I will use it for that

Books!

[quote] If received before Jan. 5,

BWA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA.

Is this for real? $600

R49 That's one day of work for most professionals here in the Bay Area. 1/4 of the month's rent, 1 month payment on the Tesla, 2-maybe-3 fancy dinners.

Nothing really taken against the amount of money wasted to wrestle out this deal and implement these payments.

Where are all the "think of the public good" stay home, mask up queens? Virtue signaling about how Americans can't think of doing what's right for everyone in the long run, They should be saying "no, no keep the money for the public good."

But they won't

I've blocked all the poor people on here, as well as those who went to state schools and those who drain their pasta.

r35 sounds like a lovely person.

That's exactly why giving money to working class people is so helpful r35. That money goes directly back in the economy. People of greater means don't need to spend it so the return for the economy is lower.

R53 You mean mostly the corporations so many here despise? The logic of DLers is so simple at times.

The 1200 payment was not to help the economy, it was a bribe from Trump. Real economic aid should be going to targeted plans to help businesses clearly stuck by this economy and devising roadmaps for recovery.

You think your $600 in purchases (if that) are going to help the Mom and Pops who have dealt with probably 50% income losses (likely more and ongoing) pay back the months' worth of back rent they owe??? They need a plan, not handouts.

The people like r26 who ignore how most of the wealth and property in this country was inherited by do-nothings who continue to hoard are disgusting.

And pretty much everyone pays back into the system with taxes. If they stay alive. The Republicans who waged a $4 trillion unnecessary war in Iraq, 2009 corporate bailout welfare and $3 trillion COVID-19 relief effort but won't ever ask anyone to pay taxes for it are disgusting.

The Republican-led, $30 trillion national debt is disgusting.

[Quote]Real economic aid should be going to targeted plans to help businesses clearly stuck by this economy

Hon, there was tons of money devoted to helping small businesses and giving money to industries in the stimulus bill.

I'm headin' to Sam's Club to by $600 worth of TP, for the upcoming civil war!

Out of the $900 billion bill that was just passed, we only get $600. The bastards!

Just the basics - Caviar and champagne!

R56 Ask the small businesses how far the last round helped... or the employees who still got laid off.

But you're getting your $600, hon, so God Bless the USA.

Medical bills

Is anyone else realizing what an illusion money and the financial system is, because of all of this?

Republicans and democrats are trash. Fuck em When it comes to giving trillions of dollars away way to Israel and corporations, they can get that passed stat with no questions or concerns.

If Dems win the Senate there may be another round, and Republicans will suddenly be “very concerned”about the debt.

Some will be spent on champagne for Inauguration Day.

It will pay for 2.5 weeks of health insurance.

R66, that's pretty much how I think about "extra" money. I'm not wealthy, but I have what I need. So windfalls (non-life-changing) go towards stuff like that.

I’m too rich to get one!

R66 snd R67 are smart in realizing that this $600 is really nothing to celebrate.

Airlines need it more than you, you selfish bitches!

Airlines need it more than you, you selfish bitches!

Those fucking Democrats don’t know how to fight. Millions to Republican sponsored corporate welfare socialists on the taxpayers dime. Nothing for the people who had to sit on their asses for almost a year because the world is shut down.

Installing a guillotine in front of R35's McMansion.

When the $1200 checks went out, I got $300. So this time I guess I should expect $75. Hardly life changing. I'll probably just spend it at the grocery store.

Hotdogs and wine!

I wonder how much our members of Congress (aka servants of the people) will be receiving from the lobbyists as a Christmas gift. It certainly will not be $600. and I also wonder if the price for their votes will increase in 2021...

Someone posted on another forum the amount of money various country's were giving to their population. Australia headed the list with $3,500.

People forget about the extra unemployment money that was part of the stimulus. There was more money given to the people than just the 1200.

R78 that is just people qualified for unemployment.

We'll get $1200 so I'll invest it and in 5 years I can see it grow to $0 when Wall Street decides to sweep all our money and houses off the board and into its pockets again.

A lifetime subscription to DL.

R80 Then you must be a horrible investor.

Most stocks have rebounded since February when this mess started. Even better than 5 years ago.

But its easier to be a victim as an American these days. None of that bootstraps stuff, the world owes them everything.

R82 choke on your father’s cock and shit in your mother’s cunt

R83 = typical bitter American poor, waiting for that check

R84 I don’t qualify for the check, I’m just not a cunt like you.

Nothing. Put it in my savings account.

How's your pet, OP?

R87 in remission from lymphoma. Thanks for asking. That’s pretty decent of you.

R82 has never invested in anything weightier than a bag of Cheetos.

R82 wants at least 5 million more Americans dead from COVID and 60 million more living bellow the poverty level while social distancing, quarantines and home sheltering continue trying to save lives.

When the corporate predators’ sales continue to plummet as people die and a Depression sets in, r82 will continue to be unemployed but take down the Republican Party and its fat cat sponsors with him. Even the richest Republicans will withdraw their support from the GOP and try to save human life and the economy.

There won’t be another boom until Republicans lose control of the Senate.

Boom and bust are the Fred and Ginger of unchecked capitalism. Until we get gov't oversight, anti-trust and unions back, the middle class the white rhino of America.

[quote]Going toward a new hot water heater.

Seems wasteful to buy a device to heat water that's already hot.

[quote] Are the income cut offs the same as last time?

R20, they just said on the news that if you got a check last time you will get a check this time. Take that for what you will.

I earn above the threshold for receiving a stimulus check, but I wish it were more than $600. It's better than nothing, but what the stimulus bill was whittled down by the Republicans from $ 3.4 trillion to $2.2 trillion, to $1.4 trillion to now probably just under $1 trillion. The tax breaks they gave to the rich and the big corporations which supposedly was estimated to cost $1T will according to economist cost the US over $2.5T, but they didn't mind giving that away. Welfare for the rich and crumbs for the middle class and poor when they are struggling.

Maybe the first week of Jan.

According to Rep. Adam Schiff, the repugs didn’t want to give $1,200 because...any guesses?

YES! You win the prize. The “deficit.”

Fuck if they aren’t consistent.

Re: r96.

Pay the IRS the remainder of my estimated taxes for 2020 due by January 15.

Those of us who are on Social Security and Federal pensions are getting an increase beginning next month. Yay!

That's me, R99 -- it's a big 1.3%! But I have no trouble living within my means, so I don't need this $600 and plan to give it to a friend whose business has been closed for months during the lockdown in our city/county/state. I gave her the $1,200 stimulus payment that I received awhile ago and she used it to pay rent and buy food, so she'll do the same with this. She'd rather be able to open her business and earn money but that's beyond her control until the pandemic subsides.

Bitch, you bought the biggest Walmart TV the check could buy.

Credit card payments.

Vegas, baby! I'm putting the whole thing on black at the roulette table. If it doubles I'm getting a $1200 escort.

If you bought bitcoin with the first $1200, you'd now have $4264.57.

I used to be taken aback by the totals and ask "how is the government going to pay for that?" But I've realized there's myriad ways to pay for it. All we here about is deficits and debt loads, but only to to block particular spending initiatives - especially direct payments to people who might need it. Deficit talk disappears when talking about tax cuts for the wealthy, military spending, corporate give backs.

Put it in my savings account.

I'm in need of some nice sheets for my bed. I suppose I will use it for that...Any suggestions of a good quality brand?

[quote] Don't look a gift horse in the mouth OP.

I have to. I took vows.

also, you forget that almost everyone (unless you make too much) got the 1200 checks in USA...I think in other countries, only people who lost jobs from the virus got the $$$.

R104, where do you buy it from? Coin base?

R104, I still don't know wtf Bitcoin is.

R109 = fucking asshole

[quote]1,800 today could be 5,000+ in 5 years.

Oh, Please, do tell how you make such a profit off from so little in 5 years? In what the fuck can you invest just that much and more than double it in that time frame? Try 20 year you arrogant a-hole.

R113 Bitcoin.

R90 That same tired you must be a Republican tirade again. Yawn... come up with something new.

Someone must triggered. Nothing more satisying that triggering little bitches.

R113 Really?

That's a a gain of 178%. You know how many stocks have beat that in the last three years alone, global pandemic and all?

Zoom = 456% gain since Jan Shopify = 240% gain since April

That's just 2020. Countless stocks have easily made 178% in 5 years.

Lord the stupidity of DLers on basic finances is embarassing for the gay community.

I hear Dipshit Jr. and the Trumps are developing their own bitcoin. Perhaps R104 should invest there.

Maybe some of you queens should lay off the cliche Dump train and start learning about finances. Obsessingly hating him is only driving you deeper into the poor house.

He's laughing all the way to the bank and ain't a damn thing you can say or do to stop him.

Put it on my credit card where I charge all my prescriptions.

Instead of giving idle people a fish, the government should send them a copy of the want ads and a book on how to save money and live frugally.

Can't take the snark R118?

Snark is original. Tired is not, R121

Spend $300 on an escort from rentmen

[quote]What will you do with your measly $600 stimulus check?

Apply it toward a piece of significant art.

$600 won't cover a cremation for a relative killed by Trump.

Merry Christmas.

I know it’s late in the game but putting $200 of it in Bitcoin isn’t a bad idea. One thousand dollars spent on Bitcoin 7 years ago would be worth $240,000 today. Just wait till the price goes down before you buy.

I will use de moneez to restart my old business. Dooching, biknees wax, sums anal bleach my hole for the dikes who likes to fuck dez ass with strap-on and call me Mel.

Be Best!

The "it's not a hot water heater, it's just a water heater" troll is one of our weirder trolls.

This $600 is the best Pelosi could do. And...this is all each of us deserve!

"He's laughing all the way to the bank and ain't a damn thing you can say or do to stop him."

R118, hunty, ol' Dump is hardly laughing these days--more like imploding--and actually, the voters, four state courts, and the Supreme Court have stopped him. Read the news much?

I'm the one who's LMFAO!

R118 is a TrumpTurd apologist.

Books and fine booze.

R132 Please Trump thinks all of this is a game. You think he thinks he really lost? He's a hero to basicaly half the country if you didn't see. Literally winning by hairs.

Americans get played again.

Collect your 600 dollar consolation prize, with his signature most likely.

I won't qualify.

[quote]All we here about is deficits and debt loads,

Oh, dear!

I'm socking it away in savings. I hope most of this package goes to common people, not Raytheon and Wells Fargo.

It won't, R136.

The Republicans made sure of that: things like 15 billion for American Airlines, $600 for you.

Why the fuck do airlines always get bailed out? FFS!

R138 I think it has something to do with the fact that airlines are one of the most capital intensive industries -- why many countries had to have (or still do have) government-owned airlines.

With all the money we’ve given them, we here also have a damn government-owned airline.

I think this time Trump is feeling the pain. He's a loser and there's nothing he can do about it. Put his picture and his name on the checks. Who cares?

OP, since you're insulted by the "measly" amount, do you plan to return it, PHONY ?????

Yes r142 I’m just going to send it to the airlines, heaven knows they need it badly

R141 Approx 75,000,000 people care. Don't think because Trump is gone your woes are over. Y'all think Biden taking seat next month is going to change things.

It'll change things as much as $600 handouts will help the economy.

Lol R46 your dog doesn’t need an echocardiogram, your vet has tricked you into believing that. My colleague’s dog “needs acupuncture twice a month” for stress according to her vet. That’s who you are. Get a new vet & second opinion with the $600.

R141 I crossed-out Dump's name on the last stimulus check and wrote in "U.S. Taxpayers".

Junk food

R146 And he got that much more of your time and energy.

Still cashed that check, I bet.

R35 It is more likely that in 5+ years $1,800 will be worth $600. You have it backwards.

R148 the issue isn’t getting relief. Most people (apparently not you) need assistance. The level of assistance being offered in “the greatest nation on earth” and “the wealthiest country on earth” seems disgustingly inappropriate.

I’m saving it for my moving out of Georgia fund.

R149 Back that up with some facts. Not the usual piss poor DL rhetoric against financial planning. Anyone with a brain can turn $1800 into 5k in 5 years.

All the bitchiness wasted on you queens. You'd rather be shop bottom hourly wage slaves for the rest of your lives.

More natural for you all that stepping outside your comfort zones and educating yourselves.

Enjoy these handouts, it seems you're all content to throw whatever scraps Capitol Hill will send your way.

Pay taxes

It's a terrible bill that they should vote no one. There is too much pork giveaway and no enough for those American people hurting. $600 probably doesn't even cover half a months rent for some people.

*not

Booze and dope.

R152 girl chill out there’s no need to get upset over it. Live and let live.

I put in Barron college fund. Poosey get old and tired now, not bring so much money.

If you live with mom and have four kids and a bf, your household will rake-in $4,200. Not too shabby.

R159 So, most gay men are on the short stick again.

$600 and by most accounts enough for the queens here.

Pathetic.

I work at a plastics plant that produces a substance called polypropylene (it’s used in making N95 masks) so with the exception of Thanksgiving week I’ve been getting 12 to 24 hours of overtime a week since March.

I gave my $1200 stimulus check to the Biden/Harris campaign. That was the first time I gave money to any political candidate.

I’ll give my $600 stimulus check to another Democratic candidate.

I just paid $1700 to an arborist to prune the trees in my yard, so the stimulus payment will help cover that bill for me.

I think I'm going to buy a new, pricey vacuum cleaner with it. Thinking about a Dyson unless someone can recommend something better?

Nice to see so many queens throw it back to the corporations they detest.

[eyes roll]

Pennywhistles and moon pies!

Dyson is overrated

The $600 stimulus payment is only for individuals who earn less than $75,000 annually. I would hope no one here is eligible for that money.

Welp, there goes my new vacuum cleaner. I couldn't commit to a brand anyway.

R167 no one who’s making upwards of $75,000 refers to those that makes less as “the poors”

[quote] The $600 stimulus payment is only for individuals who earn less than $75,000 annually.

As usual, the government punishes those who succeed the most. There will be millions of people who will receive the $600 who have steady jobs and savings in the bank, so it’s a lie to say it is only going to people who “need” it. The government is inefficient and unfair in how it distributes benefits. Instead of $600 to everyone below the limit indiscriminately, it could have given handouts of $1200 or more only to people who are unemployed or who have lost their business due to Covid.

Unemployed are getting way more than $600. For those who qualify it is $300/wk plus whatever they receive in weekly UI benefits times 11 weeks. At minimum for many that is bit over four thousand dollars.

One reason Pelsoi et al pushed for $600 was because many who are unemployed do not get benefits (read illegal aliens). This time Pelosi and Schumer got republicans to agree to allow more immigrants to get stimulus checks. Long as one married partner is a US citizen the couple can get $600 x 2, plus each minor child who as a SSN also will receive money.

Will credit it wasn't best of things, but was best that was going to happen as this congress limps towards its closure. Only reason why Mitch McConnell moved at all was he is nervously eyeing next month's runoff elections in Georgia.

If we win the two seats in Ga. you can be assured of getting another payout after Biden takes over. Hell, you might even get one if we don't win those two seats. I have a feeling McTurtle is going to take a different tact with Biden than he took with Obama and he'll probably be somewhat more cooperative. But if he's not the majority leader after Biden, fuck the GOP right in the ass I hope the Dems rake their asses over the coals and bankrupt the treasury for a while to give money to the people the Republicans have been fucking over for years. We've come back from worse.

[quote]that's a a gain of 178%. You know how many stocks have beat that in the last three years alone, global pandemic and all?, Zoom = 456% gain since Jan Shopify = 240% gain since April, That's just 2020. Countless stocks have easily made 178% in 5 years. Lord the stupidity of DLers on basic finances is embarassing for the gay community.

You stupid Queen, for every Apple or Zoom or Shopify, there were 1,000 failures on the stock market. You might as well could have taken that money and bought lottery tickets because someone will win the big one. Even people who invest large sums of money don't throw it all in a risky stock. You sound like an entitled cunt who already has millions in the bank and see the $600 as play money and cant for the life of you understand why people of average means would not consider putting it all on red with no concern for loss if it comes up black.

Nancy Pelosi needs to fucking go. We could have gotten 1,200 months ago a but she fucked it up. Stupid old cunt.

[quote] I’ll give my $600 stimulus check to another Democratic candidate.

R161, give it to the 2 Senate run-off candidates in Georgia, so the Dems will have a chance to control the Senate.

[quote]I have a feeling McTurtle is going to take a different tact with Biden

Oh, dear.

I’m gonna buy a sex machine to build up my tolerance.

Oh! News to me! I get $1200. Woot! I guess I will save it.

How'd you get $1200, r178?

R179: $600 for me + $600 for my kid

Nestor, can you come here for a sec!

If you live in NYC and you qualify for the stimulus you must surely be impoverished. But hell, I know people who live there and make over 200 g's a year and they live paycheck to paycheck.

How many rent boys can you get for $600 the days?

2-2.5, r183.

I mean, ya know, I’ve heard. Through the grapevine. Nothing personal, you see.

Donald J. Trump Airport and Storm Door Company. That'll just about cover the cost of building and maintaining it.

R184 in Mississippi you get 4!

Bump up the advertising for my lampshade business.

R182: I do alright.

With a $110k salary you won’t get your $1,200.

I'll donate half of it and save the other.

R189: Yes I will. Head of Household is 112,500 max - I just made it

Yes misread it, Techie. It doesn’t say you give head IN the household.

R192: LOL. Unfortunately, none of that during CV, but the $1200 is a nice consolation prize🙂

I thought it staggered lower than the HUGE $600 after a certain income level.

It should be $600 a month til everyone is vaccinated. It's not our fault they fucked this up.

It should be $2000 a month like in Europe.

what country in Europe is giving all its citizens 2000 a month?

R12---fuck you! I paid 12 times the federal taxes Don the Con paid, WHEN he paid taxes, and I am well under the $75K earnings to qualify for this shitty subsidy that the assholes in Congress completely begrudge us. That's MY money they are arguing about reallocating, it belongs to me and to all the working people that pay their fucking taxes while rich bastards and corporations loophole their ways out of paying their fair share. All the money going to the military, the fucking border wall and other bullshit enterprises of Congress belongs to me and people like me who get hosed for taxes and are expected to be grateful when a tiny increment is dangled in front of us in the guise of "Stimulus Theater."

Oh shit, rant above ^^^ directed to R26, dunno how I typed 12.

SORRY, R12!

It will pay almost a third of my January rent.

Sick. The rich get richer and the rest of the USA gets crumbs.

I saw this on twitter and thought it was great.

Fox News Rich people paying Rich people to tell Middle Class people to blame Poor people

We’re all going to be living the glamorous life with our $600 check!

Takeout, since we're on lockdown until at least January 10th.

Forgot about the double space rule

If you want to live like a Republican, vote Democrat. We can expect to see the economy recover and working people make some tiny progress, just in time for some Republican to get in and spend it all and fuck things up yet again.

I'm investing it all in Canadian Allied Petroleum.

Not in any way limited to his forum but all these comments about "not needing" stimulus checks may have reached certain ears. That could explain why Mitch McConnell and most republicans just don't see the need nor urgency.

Anyone who “needs” $600 is basically street trash. What’s astonishing is that the people who receive the money will blow it on lottery tickets and beer instead of putting it in the bank for a rainy day.

Where the hell do you get your garbage R209? The people that need $600 need it for groceries, electric bill, etc.

Yeah fuck you r209. How dare you insult those less fortunate as “street trash”. Some of us could use anything right now. $600 is a massive slap in the face to those who have been keeping your supply chain of food, medicine and essential services going. Go kill yourself.

I'll use part of it to pay off the credit card charges for Chaturbate tokens. I'm a newby and behaved like a kid in a candy store.

Think some of you are missing the larger picture. Pelosi and Schumer in their weakened state (democrats didn't have their Blue Wave in November's elections), had to deal with conditions on political ground as it were.

Mitch McConnell and conservative republicans insisted on keeping this stimulus bill even lower than one trillion (USD) they were floating before November, so with only $900 or so billion to play around with something had to give.

No, the stimulus checks of $600 aren't great, but then again since large numbers of you seem not to need it anyway.....

But OTOH all parts of unemployment were extended including coverage for gig workers/self-employed. True they're only getting $300 extra per week instead of $600, but some other good bits were added. Those who have both W-2 and 1099 income may qualify for an additional $100 on top of $300.

As it relates to this group many of our sisters and brothers in performing arts/entertainment got hit last time with UI because they had just that, both income from W-2 and side gigs, sadly many states calculated their UI bennies using the lower self-employed number so they got less. No, it's not huge, but that extra $400 on top of regular UI will help many of those who actually need the money.

There is also a nice pot of money earmarked to performing arts, comedy and other entertainment venues. All have been hit badly with people out of work for almost a year now in many instances.

[quote] with only $900 or so billion to play around with something had to give.

I wouldn’t have complained too much if the corporate bailouts in this package were the things that “had to give.”

R214

Both you and I know that is just never going to happen. Just as democrats look out for their own when money is on the table, so do republicans.

Why the fuck DT pushed for restoration of "three martini lunch" tax deduction is known only to himself and that twisted mind of his. Only people I know who still pull those long booze and rich food lunches are old geezers who thanks to various factors can still submit huge expense account tabs and not get the side eye. Everyone else even younger bros pulling down same or close money don't take those sort of lunches even when courting clients or whatever.

R173 Oh woe is you. Cry me a river. All those Americans of average means struggling to live better than most of the world.

Cry me a river.

Plenty of people of "average means" manage to discipline themselves to save and learn how to invest. It takes discipline and determination and desire.

Excuse me if I'm disgusted by the handout victim mentality.

That sounds like you because you are the stupid sounding one by your posts. Clearly incapable of turning a buck into 10. Much less 600.

Enjoy your government handout.

R182 I was thinking the same thing.

What kind of NYC Techie earns less than $75,000?

Here is SF the tech marketing sluts make more than that.

[quote] Clearly incapable of turning a buck into 10. Much less 600.

So show us how, o wise one.

It's called Trickle Down Theory, I started this whole gravy train 50 years ago as President. You reward the rich with money and eventually the money trickles down through magical thinking of job creating and high wages. Except we forgot to trickle down part, we just reinvest in our selves. Boomer Econ 101.

Still a very popular Republican idea thanks to our lord and savior Ronald Regan. How is that working out for you America?

R218 Spoken like a true DL poor "show me how." Another extension of the new American "handout" mentality.

If you all spent half as much time whining and crying here about your pathetic need to pay bills with a handout none of you were promised to begin with, you'd know.

So do you get $600 per kid? Cha-Ching! Octomom is laughing all the way to the bank!

If you'd bought $1200 of Bitcoin with the first stimulus check in April, it would now be worth $4200.

What an a-hole r220 sounds like, glad I don't know him. Ever hear the phrase about teaching a man to fish? I guess not. Your mentality it climb on the boat and pull the ladder up behind you. You sound like a typical Me, Me, Me Boomer.

[quote]If you'd bought $1200 of Bitcoin with the first stimulus check in April, it would now be worth $4200.

That's a crap idea. If you bought Bitcoin in 2012 it would still be the same in 2016. Bitcoin is unstable and you could have easily lost it all. It's basically digital gambling. At some point it's going to crash. Bad advice to tell people to put all their money in that.

R222 Oh my god that's so risky! Reminds me of the time my Aunt Leonore received lottery tickets for Christmas. She won $6 in scratchers and like a fool exchanged them for more tickets. She never was able to get three zebras to line up again and all that money lost forever!

I prefer to be a prudent saver and sock it in my mattress.

You never know with that there stock market and all those big city slickers. Nuthin good ever came out of investing.

Reminds me of my Uncle Willmore's story....

R224 No one is telling anyone to "put all there money" in Bitcoin. R222 said "if you put in 1200," and this post is about the $600 stimulus amount. How you derive putting all your money into stocks from all that is perplexing.

Let's be real, most people in this thread are not single mothers in the Bronx feeding 3 children on their own or 60 year olds just laid off from their plant in the Rust Belt.

People are buying vacuums, paying arborists, and donating to politicians. For many, this is supplemental income. Seriously investing it, with a modicum of research, could make you more money down the road.

It's not rocket science or the lottery.

" Bad advice to tell people to put all their money in that. " I haven't told anyone to do anything. It was simply a factual statement.

And the price rose considerably between 2012 and 2016. Christmas 2017 was the mania phase of the last cycle and that exubernace unwound over the next couple of years. But it's clearly trended higher over time.

What's different now compared to 2017 is that Bitcoin has gained greater acceptance among some financial institutions and corporates as an asset class. In recent months, Microstrategy bought $1billion of Bitcoin, MassMutual $100mn, Square $50mn, Paypal too.

22nd Dec 2012: $13 22nd Dec 2013: $639 22nd Dec 2014: $335 22nd Dec 2015: $437 22nd Dec 2016: $860 22nd Dec 2017: $13665 22nd Dec 2018: $3994 22nd Dec 2019: $7495 22nd Dec 2020: $23,823

Hell if someone put their $1200 stimulus check into Peloton in April, it'd be $6,000 today.

I plan to give a bigger bonus to my housekeeper and pay off the bills from Christmas.

R228 the 99% of Americans who received that money are not equipped to put all that money into one stock.

Well Trump now says that he won't sign anyhow, so there!

What about ethereum?

Performing arts $15 billion share of stimulus package...

R228 are you sure about that? Even if that's true, which I doubt, let's talk about the 1% who could.

Seriously, rather than immediate gratification, they could have invested it and seen some return by now or not too far from now.

What's the aversion to the concept of making money work for you? It's how the rich do it, yet you're convinced it's a fool's game.

Some of you cunts in this thread are just taking the piss...

OP I will fill my hope with it

Dump will veto this out of spite to get his revenge on the Republitards, so this is really a wasted discussion. We'll get more when he's gone in January.

i got 600 last time and it looks like i'm not getting anything this time. They lower the income range.

That fucking bill is a joke. All that money for foreign countries like border security in Jordan while Americans are losing their businesses left and right. Disgraceful.

The Covid relief bill includes money for "two unique Smithsonian museums, one dedicated to Latinx history and the other to women's history."

Now that make sense, doesn't it?

Way to go Nancy!

It appears that the Senate and House passed the bill with such a large majority that it doesn't matter if Trump veto's it or not. One more comment on how far Trump has fallen.

it will go through xmas presents and my debt x

Hungry Americans.

It’s amusing how some of my fellow Americans are getting excited about a $600 check. It’s all just a distraction from a political shitshow. I spent that much on a dinner last Saturday night consisting of Tomahawk steak, a seafood tower and a couple bottles of Camus for me and 2 friends. It’s nothing.

Caftans.

Eaarings

Golden Girls Deluxe Edition Box Set of DVDs!!!

I knew it!

I predicted two weeks ago that Trump would at least publicly threaten a veto of the Covid legislation.

He's going to veto the bill under feigned concern that the $600 is too low. It isn't enough money, but he doesn't truly care about that. He's going to veto it because he can and to punish Americans for not voting for him. People are fucked.

r248, what you posted is exactly why I predicted this- pure spite and one last power play as the President.

If Congress has the votes to override, Trump may go out as the only US President in history to have a veto override in the last two weeks of the Presidency.

If he grudgingly signs it, it will only be because he sees a benefit to himself.

R241

Orange Man is busy doing other things, remember even a wounded tiger can strike and kill.

Even an empty threat to veto would go down badly with people in Georgia who need the $600 and the expanded unemployment benefits NOW -- if they don't starve to death before the runoff election, I hope they'll express their displeasure at the polls.

The Senate cleared the package by a 92-6 vote after the House approved it by another lopsided vote, 359-53. Those votes totals would be enough to override a veto should Trump decide to take that step.

Boomer Econ? Reagan was "Greatest Gen" although he didn't bother to fight the war.

Wow so American citizens get $600 and illegal immigrants get $1800?

Disgusting

I don’t understand why education in Pakistan and giving money to Egypt is bundled into this bill. I’m not getting a penny from it, but my taxes go to funding it. I’d rather it all go to small business owners and people who need money to buy food.

Where does it say illegal immigrants are getting 1800?

Do we have to dance for it? This feels so sleazy. So cheap.

Meanwhile they shovel billions at billionaires.

[quote] The Senate cleared the package by a 92-6 vote after the House approved it by another lopsided vote, 359-53. Those votes totals would be enough to override a veto should Trump decide to take that step.

They could validly claim ignorance of what was in the bill when they originally passed it, because they only had a few hours with the text before they voted. Now that the horrors of the bill have become public, it will be more difficult to vote for it.

Oh look the 1%ers are here telling how we should not use the money on frivolous things like food and shelter and should have invested in Bitcoin. Thanks for the advice Gramps, but that's not play money or a "6 dollar lottery ticket" to the 99% of us.

You don't have to be a broke housewife with 3 kids in the Bronx to need the money Grandpa.

R259 - You assign the moniker “Grandpa” to me as if it’s an insult. I’m attempting to help you peasants improve your financial situation. Instead of purchasing disposable impulse items in your backwoods Walmart checkout line, try investing and growing your “windfall.” Systematic investment and compounding will significantly increase the dollar amount of your financial portfolio.

[quote]Boomer Econ? Reagan was "Greatest Gen"

Yes but 90% of his voters were younger and were Boomers at that point. The largest voting block. Seniors his age were not the ones that put him into the White House.

[quote] Yes but 90% of his voters were younger and were Boomers at that point. The largest voting block. Seniors his age were not the ones that put him into the White House.

That is false. The oldest Baby Boomer was only 34 when Reagan was elected. The majority of Reagan’s voters in 1980 were over the age of 35, according to the exit poll.

[R259] I mentioned Bitcoin. I'm not the 1%, just interested in emerging technology. It's also a bit strange to call me Grandpa, since that's not the age-group that's typically interested in Bitcoin. I'm about 30 years too young to be a Grandpa.

[quote] No one is telling anyone to "put all there money" in Bitcoin.

Oh, dear!

At least if you’re going to quote the guy, get the spelling correct.

[quote] it doesn't matter if Trump veto's it

Oh, dear!

The Bitcoin / Tomahawk Steak troll is hilarious.

And you’re all falling for his provocations.

A+ trolling.

What’s Tomahawk Steak?

So, this is dead in the water thanks to Turtle, right?

R259 doesn't get it. But I'm not surprised. Purportedly needs $600 that has been up in the air for months, I mean, literally since September! for food or whatever or other.

At the same time feverishly serves up cuntiness at every sligjt suggestion that maybe, just maybe, a different way of using that $600 might actually serve him better in the long run.

And for your information, I came to this country with NOTHiNG and I mean NOTHINg. No silver spoon, no connections, no trust fund, nada. Just watched and learned how every day people made smart financial decisions.

But you queens are too focused on being tedious cunts and grammar queens. Enjoy being part of the losing 99% with your mindsets. Looks miserable.

R268 Maybe you should brush up on how bills work in this country as opposed to gossip and caftan talk while waiting for your measly government handouts.

Our Save vs Spend Asshole Troll is pretty heavily invested in something. Prolly hasn't got a pot to piss in but he has 26 posts on the thread, all critical of anyone who dares to disagree with him because, of course, you're all so stupid and he's so fucking brilliant. What a nasty piece of work and just in time for the holidays.

He tells us he came here with nothing, claims success, and still appears to have zero common sense but hey: he can still be happy. He has the bone from that Tomahawk steak to stick up his ass.

271 Thats's right.

Yes, it pisses me off that so many gay men are going to remain chronically poor due to their own stupidity. That should piss you off. Just like you should be pissed off at Republicans, COVIDidiots, etc.

But yeah, I have no common sense.

Lawdy, go back to central america and be a millionaire!

R273 Why, when I'm on track to do that here in the great ole racist USA, land of hundreds of millions of stupid white voters who are just so engraged someone called out their welfare ways ***drooling*** over 1,800.

Laughing all the way to the bank!

A nice silver thimble for my Lady in Waiting.

The tomahawk steak troll may be a troll, but he has a point. You should know your worth. It’s like parents who teach their daughters to get a good job and “not depend on a man” because then you’re a slave to that man. Don’t be a slave to the fuckers running our government. Learn the rules and learn to play by them to get ahead.

There’s no reason anyone without a SERIOUS physical or intellectual disability is making under $150,000/year in the US. If you are, that is by choice. Yes, bad things happen, but if you’ve been saving and preparing for a disaster, you wouldn’t need those $600. If you made the choice to have an unstable job, I hope you are enjoying your life, but you can’t expect others to subsidize your good time.

R276 is an even more ridiculous dipshit troll than the Tomahawk steak troll

I'm in the same situation as r12. Nothing last time, won't get anything this time.

R276 This is the tomahawk steak troll (but oddly enough not the Tomahawk/Camus poster - both are too gaudy and consumerist for me). You speak the truth but it is lost on the queens in this thread. You are truly speaking to the 1% now.

I turned on the troll when some queen had the audacity the dare me to explain how to turn the stimulus payments into $5,000 in 5 years, calling me an arrogant and then ***correcting*** me by positing I should have stated that goal should take 20 years!!!!! LOL. Then, when confronted with actual evidence of how even in 2020 alone one could have more than doubled the stimulus payments , went off the rails. Further, when another poster explained Bitcoin, said poster or someone just as idiotic, had the stupidity to argue Bitcoin 2012 was the same as Bitcoin 2016 (when it wasn't) and Bitcoin 2020 has gone through the roof!

How can you not troll such financially-illiterate (agreed, by choice) queens who populate these stimulus threads? Solutions are literally presented to them and all they have to offer are "Fuck off and go to Central America, Grandpa and Cunt!!!"

And.... I still don't believe any of these queens are starving and/or months past due on rent/bills and ***truly*** need $600. GTFO.

Some of the extra pork belly favorite sons money in the bill should have been ditched.

ONE BILL that included stimulus payments, unemployment & rent funds, and small business relief would have been fine.

But Congress doesn't know how to work for JUST THE PEOPLE who voted for them and who gave them the money to begin with.

They only know how to CONGRESS and keep the grift and graft trains rolling.

Nancy Pelosi is the engineer on that train.....

[quote]It’s amusing how some of my fellow Americans are getting excited about a $600 check. It’s all just a distraction from a political shitshow. I spent that much on a dinner last Saturday night consisting of Tomahawk steak, a seafood tower and a couple bottles of Camus for me and 2 friends. It’s nothing.

Amusing? Christ, the cuntery on this thread

[quote]What’s Tomahawk Steak?

Another thing for the SJWs to cancel.

[quote] The largest voting block.

The word is BLOC.

R281 That's not cuntery, that's fatassery.

Only Flyover middle class braggarts revel in Tomahawk Steaks and Seafood Towers.

If one wasn't gaudy enough, both? At the same meal? Yuck.

Some of the richest people you could meet you would never know how much they are worth because they don't flaunt it. They don't brag about how much they spent on dinner or anything else. As a matter of fact it is considered ill-mannered to talk about money.

What are all the poor queens in this thread going to do now that POTUS may veto the bill?

How on earth are they going to feed themselves and pay rent during Christmas time without that $600 THEY SO DESPERATELY NEED.

We'll find out tomorrow, and they day after that, when they come back to bitch about people who know how to grow their money so they aren't waiting for measly government handouts.

Well, you are a retard, r286. He can't veto it.

Go troll on Reddit.

R286, I am glad he did. I actually agreed with most of what he said last night and I hate his fucking guys. That Bill is a disaster and not for the American people at all. Now we will most likely get a better “second offer”.

R287 Well you must be getting your info from Reddit, because he can veto it. The veto ***can*** be overridden, which is likely.

But you are missing the point -- what about all the DL POOR QUEENS? WHEN ARE THEY GOING TO GET THEIR CHEX??? They need every last dollar, STAT!

why is this the only thread you have ever commented on? hmmmm...?

[quote] Bitcoin 2012 was the same as Bitcoin 2016 (when it wasn't) and Bitcoin 2020 has gone through the roof!

Bitcoin also CRASHED during that time too you loon. In 2018 fell by over 80% from its peak!

Spare me the "it recovered over time" bull shit. The point is, it's very risky and should only be done with money you are willing to lose. Most people are not willing to throw their 600 or 1,2000 check on a roulette wheel except for those who don't really need it anyway.

Crypoto is NOT INSURED. If you put money in a US bank and it goes under you are insured up to 250,000. If you invest in the stock market with a brokerage firm and they go under, it's insured up to 500,000.

Just last year in 2019 Binance Cryptocurrency was hacked and they stole $40 Million dollars worth of currency. Guess what, none of those people got their money back. No insurance.

"Spare me the its recovered over time bull shit" = spare me FACTS

Fell in 2018 from its peak =/= where it is, today 12/22/21

Most people =/= The ones who know how to get ahead financially

Roulette wheel =/= Cryptocurrency, or stocks that you can research and make informed choices about

Crypto's not insured =/= then invest in something else

Except for those who don't really need it anyway =/= Every single person getting a check, and what's "really need it" mean anyway

No insurance =/= not an excuse not to learn how to invest

Just admit you're too lazy to learn how to make money grow for you. Or too much of a pussy. Or both.

You're exhausting and an idiot R292.

That's all you got? R293 Hahahaha!

I don't need it, don't want it, it should go to people who really need it.

[quote]But you are missing the point -- what about all the DL POOR QUEENS? WHEN ARE THEY GOING TO GET THEIR CHEX??? They need every last dollar, STAT!

You're not only a cunt, [r289], you're a tiresome cunt.

[R291]. Yes, keeping Bitcoin on an exchange means you are vulnerable to losing it if hacked. That's why you shouldn't keep Bitcoin on an exchange. Store it offline using a cold storage wallet.

Voracious credit card.

R125. Lobbyist lunches. That's why.

R240. I dare say that "LatinX" (a manufactured word that Latinos & Latinas hate) and women would much rather have money to pay their rent, bills, and buy food than some museum asshattery in this Covid-19 moment.

R233 Well, at least that part is good!

So what do you guys think, checks totally not happening or do Republicans buckle under Trump and begrudgingly go with the 2,000?

There isn't a snowball's chance in Hell Mitch McConnell much less majority of republicans in senate are going to roll over and give $2k/month or whatever. Forget it, just won't happen, end of discussion.

At this point DT is just fucking with American people and members of republican party who aren't on Team Trump. He is a lame duck president constantly humiliating himself as he grasps for straws to remain in office. He could have pushed for this huge payments last March or April, but now he comes in at last minute with less than 20 days in office....

While am not happy saying this sort of am happy Mitch McConnell and Pelosi are in charge. They've forgotten more about politics and how congress works than DT ever knew. They will figure something out some how.

I think they will have a hard time passing this $600 bullshit now. They need a Bill that covers only Covid relief. Not a laundry list of crap during a major crisis.

I think they will have a hard time passing this $600 bullshit now. They need a Bill that covers only Covid relief. Not a laundry list of crap during a major crisis.

My tax return decreased each year of our Dear Leader's presidency, so I look at these Covid stimulus checks as if they're part of the tax return I was supposed to get in the first place.

I actually think Mitch McTurtle will buckle, not because he is afraid of Trump, but because his trumpeter army has now been teased with 2,000 and they only see the world in black and white. You are either team Trump or you are a radical leftist, elitist, socialist dictator. Lets be honest, the money is there, it's only a small portion of what Republicans are giving away to corporations and the wealthy.

R304

Stimulus bill passed earlier this week, That Orange Man thus far has not signed it so things are stuck in a holding pattern.

DT did veto defense bill setting up major drama for early next week when Congress will decide if it will (or can) override.

R307

If Mitch McConnell and his core conservative republicans in senate didn't budge previously on much lower amounts of UI money, what makes you think they are going to blink now?

Unlike DT Mitch McConnell won his reelection bid, and thus lives to fight another day in January. Whereas the Idiot in Chief will be gone in a little under four weeks.

If worse comes to worse nothing will get done until Biden arrives after 20th January. At that time Congress will have to come up with another new bill, or try to get the previous one passed. Good thing about this is Biden can move to have much of the excess like DT's restoration of three martini lunch deduction scrapped.

Yes, people will lose out of four or more weeks of UI, but that can easily be compensated by making payments retroactive to 2 January 2021.

The problem R308 is a lot of people need that money to pay rent, utilities, food, etc. I realize you can negotiate with the utility company and I would imagine where it is cold they can't, by law, turn off your utilities, but you can't negotiate with the grocery store. Either have the money for food or you don't.

I think the COVID bill will die because of the pocket veto. No COVID relief because they won’t be able to negotiate a new bill in the time left. So Trump’s legacy will be chaos and misery born out of rage. Only 26 days to go and we’ll be rid of him.

R309

Yes, one realizes scenario outlined may cause some households financial hardship, but at this point what do you suggest?

There is an out here: if a POTUS does not sign a bill within ten (10) days, and Congress is in session it becomes law. DT could also go with a "pocket veto" which happens when Congress adjourns before those ten days and bill still hasn't been signed.

Let’s be honest. $600 doesn’t go far for anyone, no matter how poor you are. Americans have every right to be pissed off, on both sides, by the table scraps being presented. Come back with a better offer!

Also even if stimulus bill was passed early this week it would be likely late January or into February before states began sending out UI payments to eligible claimants.

DOL has to write rules and guidance that is sent down to states. State departments of labor have to interpret those rules and guidance and then program their often ancient computers for another new unemployment program. In most states thanks to those old computer systems when a program ends, it is over. They simply cannot continue say giving people who were still getting federal UI payments as of 26 December whatever the new bill entitles them to receive.

The stimulus checks are another matter, but Munchin stated earliest those could go out is by middle of January, which is several days before he's out of a job. Yellen or whoever is acting head of Treasury would be tasked with rolling out program.

[quote] My tax return decreased each year of our Dear Leader's presidency, so I look at these Covid stimulus checks as if they're part of the tax return I was supposed to get in the first place.

R306, when you say "return", do you mean "refund"? A tax "return" is the form you file that shows whether you owe taxes or are entitled to receive money back from the government in the form of a "refund" for having overpaid taxes in the past.

While we’re discussing taxes, you do realize you can no longer write off a home office as a deduction anymore thanks to the Dump Tax Bill? Unless you’re an independent contractor, that is not available to millions who have to work from home.

Again think real issue GOP and some others have with handing out huge stimulus checks is not everyone is hurting financially. In fact a good number aren't just doing fine, but thriving.

All my friends in nursing for instance are making money hand over fist. OTOH my IT friends and some others are working from home (or only going in to office a few times a month at this rate), still making same money and also enjoying all this new found freedom and time off.

Do understand however there isn't an easy way to square that circle; unless you start making every household earning < $80k per year ($160 for married couples) file some sort of need statement, some are going to get money that is surplus to requirements.

We do know from economic reports that large numbers of people regardless of "need" went out and spent all that stimulus money, so in the end that is really what matters. Be it rent, credit card debt, or a new something from Gucci, it is all money pumped back into economy.

Well the repubs just blocked the $2000 and now the house is going home for the holidays.

There was no way senate republicans were going to roll with $2k, Pelosi and everyone else knew it, including DT.

Saving grace from this hot mess is it helps two democrats in that Georgia senate run off race.

Republicans like democrats likely are going to get an earful from consitutients while home for Christmas. Here's hoping they return next week ready to take on the Orange Monster.

R316, you don’t seem to understand why governments do stimulus checks (hint: look at the first word). This is to keep the economy moving so that we still have an economy when the pandemic eases. It would be nice to target the money, but more important to get it out there. People at these income levels tend to spend right away, just like people on unemployment. That’s the point of the checks, even if helping those in need is a wanted feature.

Congress better get on board with $2,000 or they’re going to start a massive public movement against them. Both sides are pissed off, not just one party.

It’s already over R320. They’re going home for the holidays and the government shuts down on Monday. Trump purposely blew up the bill. How everyone is surprised by this makes me lol. The bill was never going to happen while he was President. He HATES America as much as we hate him.

It’s “over” for 96 hours. Both the House and Senate will reconvene on Monday and override Trump’s vetos.

Only true if Trump vetoes it. If he does nothing things will get complicated.

hey, which websites should I go to for more bitcoin/crypto info? TIA! I want to diversify.

Sucker^

Onlyfans and chaturbate whores

Well nobody is getting one.

[quote] Well nobody is getting one.

There goes my HOT water heater!!!!

[quote] The problem [R308] is a lot of people need that money to pay rent, utilities, food, etc

Then why isn’t there a bill to give money only to people in need and not also to people who don’t need it or to foreigners?

You want to waste time going through 200M Americans names to find out if they need it or not? Instead of just taking an income cutoff?

Besides, who’s to say who “needs” it? My mother is retired and her washer and dryer just broke. She’s going to have to buy new ones. On a fixed income that’s hard, but a stimulus check would be a tremendous help. Yet, it could be argued she doesn’t “need” this stimulus because, being retired, she didn’t lose any income, except for that in her retirement portfolio.

[quote] If worse comes to worse

Oh, dear!

R330, can you give your mom a ride to the laundromat? Or help her pay for her new appliances?

Yes.

In fact, I was going to buy her a new set. She’ll fight me tooth and nail on it, but what do I care? I just have to “spring” it on her and make sure I get the ones she wants.

I’ve only been to her house outside except for the summer when I put in her air conditioners and the fall to remove them (window units) masked up while she was masked and stayed in another room. I’m too nervous and don’t want to inoculate her so she’ll have to do her research. I know the chances of a bad situation is probably like 100:1, but it’s that “1” that concerns me. I’d never forgive myself.

Thank you, r332. That was nice of you.

What about my teeth? My dentist won't work for free! Dammit!

It's going to be a hard candy Christmas!

[quote] What about my teeth? My dentist won't work for free! Dammit!

Wear a mask and you won’t have to worry about them.

Bitcoin just reached a new all time high this morning. Just sayin.

Pay one-third of my monthly rent.

So did Trump finally sign it? When are we getting those checks?

R339 never. There will have to be another Bill... are you tired of waiting? It’s only been 9 months.

[quote] Bitcoin just reached a new all time high this morning.

Coincidentally, so did I.

R338 - “pay one third of my monthly rent.”

You type poor. $600 is 1/6 of my monthly housing expense.

You're a fucking asshole R342.

^Here, here. And, pretty obviously, an alcoholic.

You ain’t gettin’ nothin’!

[quote] Here, here.

Where? Where?

Oh, dear!

Looks like we are getting nothing and liking it.

Apparently nothing since we aren’t even getting $600 now.🤬

Bitcoin broke through $25,000 this morning, a new high. Just sayin.

give it to someone that really needs it, I don't

I hope it comes in time for the red carpet season. I need to buy some new boas and cha cha heels.

He signed the bill bitches, looks like it's $600.

GOP = The Party of Misers

[quote]Bitcoin broke through $25,000 this morning, a new high. Just sayin.

Bitcoin is now taxed now by the IRS so anyone thinking this is money under the table should be aware of that. All your info will be sent to them when you buy and sell. Just like stocks. It's also seen as an asset so it can be confiscated in a lawsuit just like any bank account.

And that's called wealth, R353. WTF is wrong with any of that?

My point R354, is that until about 2 years ago, the Bitcoin was a haven for illegal money transfers, laundering and crime. It was annoyances and virtual the perfect storm for criminals to do business. Now that the IRS is receiving user data, all I was saying is that its not a place to hide your money anymore which is what a lot of people were doing.

Line my parrot's cage.

I was hoping for the $1500.00 so I could buy this.

r357, I love that sculpture. Like Mondrian meets cubism...

I plan on checking it out sometime next week R358. It's a pretty big sculpture. I want to know what materials were used to make it. It is on my wishlist to hopefully be able to buy it in the future.

Not quite sure what to do with it at the moment, but it's in my account...

Unless the US Treasury is sending me $600 for something else.

If I become a right wing evangelical church, could I receive millions instead?

R360, Where do you live?

I’m gonna squander it!

Have house taxes to pay, L.I. beach house. but will will send $200 to E.H. food pantry. Some locals haven't worked for nine months.

I’m gonna take the check and get $600 one dollar bills. This Saturday night I’m going to my favorite dick dancer joint and going to distribute my stimulus into the working community dependent upon dick size, masculinity, and ability to shake that ass.

R362, Massachusetts, but the bank’s in New York

My 600 just posted to Wells Fargo.

^^Bitch.

Nothing yet

My friend got her check electronically deposited last night, available on January 4th

Got mine this morning. My bank made it immediately available.

Car maintenance - tires and brakes.

Still waiting on mine. Several friends have already received it. Getting antsy.

Wells fargo is the worst bank in the world!!!

I can’t imagine anyone on this forum actually needing $600. Am I that out of touch? I just envision us as a higher class of intelligent people that would never need such a paltry amount of cash. It’s a silly political distraction from the government. I would be so embarrassed to be asking for any amount of a handout - whether it be $600 or $2000. It means admitting failure if you need it.

Anyone who tips sex workers in ones is a cheap fuck to avoid!

And yet, that is the position of over half of the American people that r374 has helped the 1 percent put them in.

I have Wells Fargo but the payment has not arrived yet.

Your troll has not been successful r374

R357 = Kathy Bowman

You R379 are a person of no taste. I can afford to buy it now, which you can't.

RR374 That's shitty to say, many people are hurting and struggling and need help and may have lost their jobs. It's not their fault a pandemic happened. Go rape yourself with a broken bottle please.

Got mine deposited today. Paid my credit card bills and it's all gone.

Pay for my online medicine that my DR. prescribed, but the U.S. government forbids.

Well, you can't have that, but if you're an American citizen you are entitled to:

a heated kidney shaped pool,

a microwave oven--don't watch the food cook,

a Dyna-Gym--I'll personally demonstrate it in the privacy of your own home,

a kingsize Titanic unsinkable Molly Brown waterbed with polybendum,

a foolproof plan and an airtight alibi,

real simulated Indian jewelry,

a Gucci shoetree,

a year's supply of antibiotics,

a personally autographed picture of Randy Mantooth and Bob Dylan's new unlisted phone number,

a beautifully restored 3rd Reich swizzle stick,

Rosemary's baby,

a dream date in kneepads with Paul Williams,

a new Matador,

a new mastadon,

a Maverick,

a Mustang,

a Montego,

a Merc Montclair,

a Mark IV,

a meteor,

a Mercedes,

an MG,

or a Malibu,

a Mort Moriarty,

a Maserati,

a Mac truck,

a Mazda,

a new MONZA!!

or a moped,

a Winnebago--Hell, a herd of Winnebago's we're giving 'em away,

or how about a McCulloch chainsaw,

a Las Vegas wedding,

a Mexican divorce,

a solid gold Kama Sutra coffee pot,

or a baby's arm holding an apple?

[quote]I can’t imagine anyone on this forum actually needing $600. Am I that out of touch?

YES.

If you had to ask the question, then you probably know the answer all along.

Fuck you, R374. You're blocked now, too. Bye.

I resent how Republicans want to dictate how we spend our money.

Most Americans blame McConnell, Trump, and the GOP for the shitty $600 check.

The Republicans doubled the national debt in the last four years, gave away trillions in tax cuts and are now giving wealthy corporations billions.

Steroids and pot seeds

[quote] R35 choke on your father’s cock and shit in your mother’s cunt

OMG - that’s quite graphic and way too fuck’n funny.

[quote] Drugs and hookers.

I think I’m going with booze and lube. Several Scruff FB are back in the city now and looking to ‘unload’ after spending time out in the hinterlands hibernating.

Looks like McTurtle had a little tagging going on last night. About time the real people he is supposed to represent sent him a little message. It would be terrible if this didn't stop just terrible. Like people yelling at him in a restaurant for example. Or anywhere he goes. And that little Chow too.

These are Trumpers not The left vandalizing. It's obvious. Pelosi wanted $2,000 checks. Trump hates Pelosi and he is at war with McConnell, and this is the result. Make no mistake. The people vandalizing and getting violent and "demonstrating" are Trump supporters.

I think more people hate McTurtle than dump at this point. $$$ talks!

Where was ADT? They're supposed to be home even when you're not.

Need new brake pads for my old car, I have an assessment due on my condo, and credit card debt I'd like to significantly reduce. So multiple choice. I wish we had $2000 to play with.

That will just cover my food bill for about1 month. I cook one meal every day, that's not dining out money.

A whore for 2x hours

A whore for 2x hours

put towards a down payment on a house

R397,

What are you cooking that your food bill is $600/month? I think I buy pretty quality ingredients in NYC and spend less than $100/week.

I am cooking for two R401 so it's really like 300 a month. And I am not buying that you live off less than 100 a week in NYC for all you food. Do you cook every single day? If you are not counting all those deliveries that go on your credit card then you full of crap with you shock at how much it costs to eat.

[quote] then you full of crap with you shock at how much it costs to eat.

Oh mutherfuckin dear!

I plan on treating two of my neighbors to dinner at a high-end steakhouse and contribute whatever is left to my local library.

How will that work, r404? I mean the treating your neighbors part.

I will apply the $600 to my quarterly estimated taxes that are due on January 15. The IRS giveth with one hand and taketh away with the other.

I’ll pay all my income taxes for a year. Course I’ll have to get an extra $150 from my cul...er, I mean supporters.

R405, I'm not R404 but I'll tell you what I do when I want to treat someone to a restaurant meal to celebrate an occasion (in this case, receipt of my stimulus check). Since they're neighbors, I could easily knock on their door and speak to them in person (otherwise, I might telephone or e-mail them). Then I invite them to accompany me, arrange a mutually convenient date and time, and then I pay the bill.

[quote] —is this hard?

In the middle of a pandemic, yes it is. That’s what I meant, you muppet, not how do you invite someone to dinner.

Getta load of R404.

Thanks, R408. what you described is exactly what I intend to do. R405, you didn't mention your pandemic concern in your post. I can address that: Many restaurants are open following CDC guidelines: Social distancing, reservations required, (if you have to wait, you're asked to wait in your car), all staff wear facemasks, paper disposable menus, tables and chairs are wiped down thoroughly, etc. etc.

In the San Francisco Bay area, restaurants are closed except for takeout -- but that's not the case everywhere in the USA (or the world).

Yeah, good luck with that steak house, hope they are still open when the pandemic is over. Our local one is having a public meltdown and is threatening to close permanently if this thing isn't over by March. They seem like greedy fucker. They are in the top 3 most expensive restaurants in the city, they have been in the same low rent location for 2 decades and during the pandemic when outside seating was allowed, they pushed it from 10 to 60 tables half way down the block. They should not be hurting for money. They should have millions of dollars in the bank by now. A typical dinner for two is never less than $250 and that's without wine or alcohol. I feel sorry for the staff, but the owners sound like greedy ass holes. Oh and did I mention they wont do take out?

R412 - All of our restaurants here in Houston are open. I don’t do takeout so I dine in and it’s been wonderful. Because of the lowered customer volume, I get great service, no waiting, and excellent food quality. For me, it’s silly to pay restaurant prices for their takeout. Eating in the restaurant dining room is the only way to fully enjoy the meal, direct from the chef.

R412 - Same here. Plus, I enjoy the new table placements and not being crowded like sardines. It's nice being able to have a great dinner and conversation with friends.

I was going to the dentist - but then last week I was wearing my mask and fogged up my glasses and ran into the side the carport.

Now I have to use the money to get my car fixed.

Mine is scheduled to be mailed tomorrow.......go here and scroll down to Get My Payment and you might be able to find out about yours.

This is the message I’m seeing:

[quote] We are unable to provide the status of your payment right now because: We don't have enough information yet (we're working on this), or You're not eligible for a payment.

Me and I got mine as one of the first previously.

[quote]last week I was wearing my mask and fogged up my glasses and ran into the side the carport.

Why were you wearing a mask in your car?

I got that yesterday, too. Make sure you enter ALL your information again each day - don't let the system enter it for you or use info that is already entered there.

I don't think it's a good idea to wear a mask while driving. Even if you don't wear eyeglasses, you may have to put on sunglasses to avoid glare and then the fogging can be dangerous.

I usually don't R421, but my sister was with me and she's had some health problems.

R422 thanks for answering.

R422, your sister should try to get the N95 masks, which protect the wearer -- or at least a multiple layer fabric mask with insert(s) to keep particles from entering.

BUY BEER

Buy thank you cards to send to Congress.

R424 I'll tell her you said so, but I don't expect it to go well.

[quote] I was going to the dentist - but then last week I was wearing my mask and fogged up my glasses and ran into the side the carport.

I’m sorry. I really am, but I’d be lying if I didn’t say I laughed when I read this. I’m still laughing.

What? Why is everyone looking at me? At least I admitted I laughed.

All this pissing and moaning and Pelosi and McConnell both knew all the American poors would be checking their puny bank accounts and mailboxes every 5 seconds.

Pathetic really. Agreed. Anyone who ***needs*** this $600 is a mess.

Troll better next time ^

Various animal charities.

Entitled much R429? You asked the question earlier and it was answered, YES YOU ARE OUT OF TOUCH. Let's see, you dont know anyone who needs the money and if they do they are losers. Donald, is that you?

It is an anonymous board. I just think those putting others down are projecting their sad lives. We should be a community...unfortunately there are those that want to divide us.

R433 wanna go on a cute date?

No stimulus check yet, but my unemployment was deposited into my account with the extra $300. Whoopee! I was expecting problems, because Drumpf delayed signing the bill.

Well, it looks like a lot more will be coming based on the election results. I hear Bernie will be in charge of the money. LOL This is going to be delicious.

IRS website says my $600 check will be mailed today (Jan. 6) -- does anyone know where they're mailed from? I'm in the San Francisco Bay area (our IRS returns are mailed to the Fresno IRS collection center, if that's relevant).

The stimulus should be $1200 retroactive to May - Jan. $10,800.

Mine was also mailed today.....last time it took two days......so Friday or Saturday. Of course with the new Trump Pony Express, it may take more time.

Are any of you who have received a second payment on Social Security?

My mother is, r440. Do you have a question? I’ll try to help if I know.

R441, I was just curious since mine hasn't arrived yet and thought that might be the reason. Thanks.

No, r442, that’s not the reason. She received hers on Sunday but it was direct deposited because that’s how she does her taxes.

R440 I'm on SS and the stimulus check was directly deposited in my checking account.

Yet again checks have Donald Trump's name printed on them, friend wanted to cross it out be advised best not in case bank wouldn't accept a defaced instrument.

Really? How is that possible? I thought he wasn't involved this time.

R446

Did you really think DT was going to let another chance go by to slap that filthy name on something? That butt licking treasury secretary already had everything in place.

Has anyone received their check yet?

Nope, check must be lost in the mail, the website says mine went out 2 weeks ago.

Me too, R449 -- Jan. 6. Is there anyone/anywhere to send an inquiry to? Maybe my Congressional Rep has time now?

R450, I read somewhere that it could take up to two or three weeks once they are mailed out. I don't understand this, even normal mail dose not take that long for a basic letter.

The IRS said anyone who did not receive their $600 check should claim it on their 2021 tax returns.

They then announced that received returns will not even BEGIN to be processed until February 12th.

Lovely.

UGAH!

And what happened to the promised 2k on day one from Biden/

R454 fooled ya!

R454 is very stupid. Or senile.

R454, They said on CNN this morning that it could take 2-3 months for a third stimulus package to make its way through Congress.

A few Senators are saying they're opposed to a third stimulus package . . . Mitt Romney is one of them.

I read in Forbes that if your check wasn't mailed by the 15th which was the last day they were mailing them you can check the gov't. site to see where your check is and it says "Not Available", then it wasn't mailed and you have to apply thru your tax return.

mine was listed as Not Available.

"mine was listed as Not Available."

As were millions of others.

R458, mine was listed as mailed on Jan. 6 -- where is it?

r458 they said it could take 4-5 weeks to receive it in the mail because of the backlog at the post office. This is what happens when you destroy sorting machines.

Here is info you may need if you didn't receive your check. I didn't know this but the gov't. is also sending us a notice 1444 which you need to file for the missing stimulus.

Mine said "scheduled to be mailed January 6"......it arrived in my mailbox on January 13.

That's what the IRS website said for me, too, R463 -- today is the 21st and it's still not here. Where are they mailed from? I'm in northern Calif.

Heating oil and yearly car insurance.

200 donation to an animal shelter. $100 gift cards to three women who helped me with my sick brother and $100 to Harvesters a food network. Then I'm finished being generous and going back to my selfish prick ways.

R464 I'm in Indiana. Mine was mailed from Philadelphia PA.

The Post Office is definitely fucked up...I sent a package from NYC on Dec 16 to UK. It has tracking...it was stuck for ages on Dec 23 as in transit to next facility...it was still in a sorting facility NJ (when I went to inquire at the post office). Then on Jan 19...tracking says went to FL, Jan 20, another facility in FL, then today Jan21, it's back to NJ!!!!

It’s taking the scenic route!

Postal Clerk: Whut state is UK?

Other Postal Clerk: I think it's Kentucky.....

Card arrived yesterday. I got a check last time. I took it to one of the ATMs in the right system and got it all in CASH, baby!

I enjoyed 20 hand jobs and 2 blowjobs from a local college guy who works cheap.

Can't wait for the next installment!

It's funny, I was waiting and waiting and waiting for it to arrive, now that it's here, I have spent the last 4 hours trying to decide what to do with it. Everything I was going to spend it on now seems silly. This is not like me.

I’ll book a cruise later in the year.

R473, if you really don't "need" it, why not donate it to someone who does? Barbers, waiters, etc. -- people who are not just broke at the moment but without jobs at all and have been for months?

I wish I had a lovely answer, like “I’m going to donate it to clothe and feed the homeless,” or something else philanthropic. Instead I’ve decided to spoil myself with an expensive strain of marijuana called “Loud Dream” that costs $800 per ounce (my usual purchase is $160 an ounce). I always see it when in Denver and now I’m gonna stroll into the dispensary and buy it!

R161, national politicians don't need your money. When the next check arrives, spend it on yourself.

I bought weed!

How much fucking weed do you need people! Geez, 600 buys a lot of weed. And R476 you are an idiot if you think weed is worth 6 times the normal price because it has a fancy name.

R476 - I’m 50 and I’ve had every material possession you can imagine. Now it’s the simple things that keep me content and grateful. One of those things is me thinking I’m smoking the best marijuana available in the US. Even if it’s partly marketing to my ego, I’ll buy it hook, line, and sinker.

No one smokes grass, seeds, and stems today Gramps. All weed sold in dispensaries are high quality buds.

R481 - I live in Texas, smartass, and in between trips to Colorado I do in fact sometimes resort to smoking “grass, stems, and seeds. You might want to consider the ignorant excrement coming out of your mouth before you speak next time.

Measly? If you earn little enough to qualify for it, you should be grateful.

My brother says I have a duty to spend every cent in order to boost our local economy but I already gave everything I need, really.

[quote] And R476 you are an idiot if you think weed is worth 6 times the normal price because it has a fancy name.

He’s right you know.

[quote] I live in Texas, smartass, and in between trips to Colorado I do in fact sometimes resort to smoking “grass, stems, and seeds.

Yet another reason why people love California. I can get mine delivered if I want, just like a pizza. And very high quality bud and eatables.

they say you can file to claim a credit if you didn't get the first or second stimulus checks on your tax return due april 15. But what about the 3rd one?

does anyone know?

Going to buy a lot of eatables for the long haul. Thanks Covid, at least something good came out of it.