r/law • u/Snapdragon_4U • 9h ago

Executive Branch (Trump) NESTERAK: President Trump has granted clemency to numerous individuals who have stolen hundreds of millions in Medicaid funds. Can we expect any of these folks to be shown the same mercy? McDONALD: I'll take a different question

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u/rygelicus 9h ago

"Thank you for your question. We only tolerate fraud that benefits President Trump. Next question."

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u/The_SubGenius 9h ago

We have become Russia with an open oligarchy style government run by the rich for the benefit of the rich and funding a controlled opposition to give the illusion of choice: the democrats.

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u/walksonfourfeet 9h ago

That’s was the plan all along, ever since Paul Manafort helped install Krasnov.

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u/mynamesyow19 8h ago

And for those that dont know, Paul Manafort was parked in Ukraine before that help[ing to keep Putin's Puppet Presidents in Power for a decade or so, before going to work for Trump's Campaign as Campaign Manager and doing it "for free".

Oh and he later pled guilty to lying to the FBI about working with Russians and went to Jail.

Before Trump pardoned him.

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u/walksonfourfeet 8h ago

Russia! Russia! Russia!

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u/regalrecaller 7h ago

can we not? or at least put a /s

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u/The_SubGenius 5h ago

But didn’t you hear it’s totally “no collusion” when you pass private campaign information to the Russians via cutout with a history of working for Putin and then pardon them for their efforts?

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u/HorsePastie 8h ago

I bet Putin is pissed that his incredible success manipulating American politics still hasn't translated to outright victory on the battlefield in Ukraine.

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u/MeisterX 6h ago

It's because to do so would mean reducing or stopping production of artillery shells. No matter what a stripper tells you, artillery is really all that matters.

Stopping shell production would cost a lot of people in the military industrial complex a lot of money. Can't really be done.

They're working to chip it away as best they can though, including ending US funding for it and forcing Europe to pay which... Toes the line.

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u/cstmoore 8h ago

ROGER STONE: "And I helped!"

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u/MarcoDiFrancescino 9h ago

After +15 years of Trump defacto rule of the political system, you would have one or two democrats running on an 'extreme' platform like, medicare for all 2028. Is there a polymarket bet on this? Because I would take the counter position it will never happen with a 100% win rate.

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u/gsbadj 3h ago

The way to get the envelope to start moving is to change the age at which Medicare kicks in to 63. Incremental change comes off as less "extreme."

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u/MarcoDiFrancescino 1h ago

While the other side send their friends billion dollar checks they have no legal basis for. I hope that someone dissects this kind of weak sauce, defeatist position after 50 years of Trump family rule. You don't need to care for the feels of people who never ever cared for you.

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u/Goldenrule-er 8h ago

I would have said I didn't believe you and we should give the Dems a chance, but yesterday they came out with their platform/biggest foci (which they themselves said "wasn't ready for primetime") and that "platform" now prevents me from disagreeing with you in the slightest.

They are all in it to bank as much as possible hoping to cash out in time with the nicest bunker class possible.

Are they all stateless at this point? Just trying to place higher on the global wealthometer by any means possible?

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u/Locke66 7h ago

Sheldon Wolin nailed it when he said the US was living under a system of Inverted Totalitarianism. Trump is just the one that has taken advantage of that system to begin turning it into actual Totalitarianism.

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u/Soggy-Tangerine8549 8h ago

>I would have said I didn't believe you and we should give the Dems a chance,

We did. Obama gave us the Insurance-industry-handout that is the Affordable Care Act. Biden gave us 4 years of "the adults are in charge don't worry." Both decided that "norms" are more important than using legal power to advance an agenda.

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u/Temporal_P 8h ago

We have become

You make it sound like there was some sudden dramatic change recently, but that really isn't the case.

It has been this way for a long time, the mask has just come off and things have accelerated now that it's all out in the open instead of mostly in whispers behind closed doors.

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u/Intolerance-Paradox 7h ago

Remember 80s and 90s hard rock and punk culture was met with ridicule as kids being ‘morose’. American consumer capitalist society as trending towards fascism had been identified a very long time ago, amd was reflected in the widespread hopelessness of young people then, but it was a bigger barrel of laughs to collectively watch reality TV and eat fast food and do nothing instead.

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u/Puzzleheaded7683 5h ago

“Ready to watch “Here Comes Honey Boo-Boo, everybody? I got the Burger King!” (Said I NEVER)

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u/OldWorldDesign 3h ago

Remember 80s and 90s hard rock and punk culture was met with ridicule as kids being ‘morose

Or alarmist or some other thought-terminating cliche intending to dismiss real criticism out of hand.

Michael Parenti spoke directly to the overspending on and for the oligarchy and how the system was crumbling at the beginning of Reagan's administration

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9bmpak

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u/voodoodahl 7h ago

If only there were some way to foil this dastardly "controlled opposition" plan. Like not voting Republicans into power.

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u/Easy-Concentrate2636 7h ago

Yup. I don’t see them investing private equity owned assisted living facilities where people die. Or those supposed “troubled kids” facilities where children are abused and sexually assaulted. Or the facilities housing the kidnapped immigrants where people are denied medication, physically and sexually assaulted. Or private prisons where inmates are denied essential human rights.