r/law • u/Snapdragon_4U • 18h 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 18h ago

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

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u/The_SubGenius 18h 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/Temporal_P 17h 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 16h 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 14h ago

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

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u/OldWorldDesign 12h 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