If there are real cases of fraud that are punished AND more pissed off people voting against him in the midterms, I’d say that’s a win-win.
Hey.
Why are blue states funding failing red states when all they can do is elect pedophiles to threaten us?
Also, do these traitors realize there’s a shit ton of their voters in these blue states they’re threatening? There are a TON of Republicans in California.
California is a shockingly purple state, tbh. The cities just happen to have high enough density to outweigh the rest. Once you leave them, things get really red really quick. It’s basically like Texas, just favouring the other side.
That’s literally every state, and that’s because cities are where the people are, and people vote, not land. For instance, the only reason Georgia has Democratic senators is because of Atlanta.
Usually, the cities in a state have a LOT more people than all the rural regions combined, so that’s where the votes are concentrated. Simple as that.
For sure, people just seem to think if someone’s from California, they must be a bleeding heart liberal, when that’s very much not the case.
Because people vote, not land. But yes, California is full of deplorable, hateful, subhuman Republicans once you get outside the major metro areas.
California**America**
**(maybe not Vermont)
Thank goodness they don’t have any deplorables in Los Angeles or San Francisco.
Calling your political opponents subhuman comes from the fascist playbook. I wouldn’t go there.
Anyone that behaves like a creature from a Germanic folk tale will be categorized as one. Humanity is a label that must be demonstrated and earned.
Do you know what else comes from the fascist playbook? Every leftist term imaginable, because the movement is fundamentally weaponized bad faith. As with the paradox of tolerance, do not grant that benefit to those who would not grant it to others. Neoliberal language policing helps nobody.
Prosecutors allege the defendants billed Medicare and other government programs for services that were unnecessary or never provided, including enrolling patients who were not terminally ill in hospice to maximize reimbursements. Officials said the cases are part of a push to crack down on fraud in publicly funded health programs, which investigators say account for significant financial losses across the system.
I mean, ok. If the fraud is real, then go after the perpetrators. Sure. It’s beyond stupid to only target blue states, though. Fraud happens in red states, too, I guarantee it.
Rick Scott is the senator of… Which state was it again?
Florida,
but when he did the medicare fraud he was Governor. So the brilliant minds in Florida decided that even after it came out that he was party to the biggest medicare fraud in history, he deserved to be senator after his 8 glorious years of Governorship.Edit: I was mistaken, see BarneyPiccolo’s comment below.
Nope, back up, time for clarification. Rick Scott was NOT governor when he did his record-setting Medicare fraud. That came much earlier, in the 90s, when he was CEO of a Florida hospital chain. They committed the biggest case of Medicare fraud in history, and when he was deposed, he pled the Fifth something like 175 times.
Somehow they managed to convince the court to blame the corporation for the crime, and the corporation was punished with a massive fine, the largest in Medicare history, which still stand, as far as I know.
For his part, Rick Scott walked away with a sizeable fine, but he got to keep most of his stolen fortune. He was fired from his company, but he found that his particular skills set was transferrable to conservative politics.
So technically, it was the company for which he was responsible for all day to day operations, including profitability, that was convicted of the crime, but not the person who actually did it?
I still always refer to him as Convicted Criminal Senator Rick Scott. He really really hates that, and whines about it all the time. But he just whines all the time anyway, so who cares?
As for being elected, remember that Florida’s elections have been fully rigged for several election cycles. They allow a few Dems to hold Congressional seats because they have to. In the past few years, DeSatan has been removing duly elected Democrats from any positions they have, and replacing them with his own hand-picked people. He’s done it to a couple of prosecutors, a sheriff, a police captain, and he’s gone after a few others who have so far managed to evade him.
Dear grim reaper: please hurry the fuck up!
Yeah no shit, we have to be sad about awesome actors but the Orange douche here is running around like he’s had half a life left. He’ll be remembered alright and if there’s an afterlife I hope they make him watch everyone bitch about his existence.
We will still be left with Vance who is just as bad if not worse.
And millions of inbreds who are ready and willing to support the next criminal pedo rapist racist piece of shit the GOP elevates.
Trump can be gone. Vance can be gone. The whole admin can be gone. Those inbreds are still going to be there. For the rest of our lives.
So one down more to go?
And whomever he chooses as VP…
Several hospice and health care providers were raided by federal authorities
I see his attacks on medical facilities and personnel are not limited to other nations. Foucault’s boomerang in action, even if the mechanism of the attacks is different.
holy shit they are raiding hospices now? as someone who has visited a hospice to make my spouses mother as comfortable as she could be as she died, thats an unimagineable level of cruelty. Theres no money to be saved there-- theres no point except inflicting cruelty on the most defenseless group of people imaginable.
Boomers, you are OK with this? Is this what “winning against woke” looks like for you?
268,000,000 people. That’s how many people the regime desires to remove from the US.
Whether its deportation, or a body bag, or just plain fleeing, they dont give a damn.
The more we push back, the worse it will get. But thays the thing about authoritarians, they try to use fear the entire time. What happens when the people no longer fear the regime?
What happens when the people no longer fear the regime?
They lose their power. It’s that simple. They’ll continue to break the government until we get them out of office, but their emails will be ignored because they can’t administrate properly
How much will be left if they can purge 268m people? 100m?
Hurry! Stir up more bullshit, we need to distract from Iran which was our distraction from the Epstein Files!!!
the epstien files dont even matter when you are elite ultra rich above the law and rigging markets while doing the usual US leadership move of create value for the weapons manufacturers that sponsor you, those million dollar missile defense systems arent going to sell themselves, and there is tons of money to be made in fracturing society with culture wars and raiding the fake ops of the moment, and all the while halting the progress of society that would make other important sponsors like fossil fuels become irrelevant
Hey! Punctuation involves more than commas. Did you know that?
He and the other person that downvoted you failed grammar class.
*He
Fuck! I played myself.
Honestly, your attempt at a joke on this, is really immature.
Punctuation is great and all that, but taking pride in looking down is an ugly look.
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This is incredibly overly hostile to someone telling you, correctly, that punching down in comedy fucking sucks.
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Nope, just calling a jerk a jerk, because this ain’t funny.
my punctuation does not have to be perfect for the ideas to be understood, language, grammar, word use, and communication is as varied as the human experience, and obsessive pedantic emphasis on arbitrary rules serves hierarchy more than the free exchange of information. seems like more people understand this concept than dont as i have more upvotes than both of the obtuse grammar priss mounds. Also grades are not indicative of intelligence, in fact there are all kinds of intelligence that cant be formally measured.
It doesn’t have to be perfect, but that doesn’t mean you should go full Saramago. Punctuation can really help the reader organize and process what you are saying. I read your entire first comment but I retained absolutely nothing because it just kept going and going and going. There’s a big difference between grammatical pedantry and just wanting to understand what someone is saying.
if someone wants to understand what im saying they can communicate that to me by asking directly, i type many different ways on many differwnt formats and in my everyday life with the people i talk to regularly, i have no issues whatsoever, no one cares about my use of commas and run on sentences, misspelling, or punctuation, and if they did, they would ask me to clarify what im saying in a straight forward manner, and this includes most random people in piefed communities i engage with. i actually have not encountered substanceless pedantry since i left reddit. its obvious the trolls didnt care about what i was saying, and you dont seem to care either. i have no idea what saramago is and im not asking anyone for gramar advice and dont care how i seem to random people not trying understand me in the first place. English is a living language with a wide varieties of ways its used in writing, typing, and spoken language, people can be open to that fact and speak up about misunderstandings directly, which is what i normally encounter. I don’t need grammar advice and am willing to clarify anything about my original if asked.
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are you suggesting that people maybe shouldn’t invest so much of their time and attention on things that ultimately maybe don’t matter all that much?
Basically, it was a 1 sentence review of their problem and everyone but the person I replied to decided to take it as anything other than internet fuckery.
I don’t think of myself as a troll but when people cast the bait and tackle for themselves, they don’t deserve feeling indignant. They kept feeding and I kept eating. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
ACAB, especially the grammar police.
All Commas Are Bad?
Awe, feeling sad that it’s not about you instead?
i never said you were dumb, i said obtuse (for changing the topic at hand to something arbitrary) pedantic (for emphasizing the arbitrary rules if grammar) and a priss mound (for being unpleasantly self righteous about the aforementioned things) and i will never give a fuck about punctuation in certain situations or the criticisms of random bad faith internet commenters. This has added nothing to the conversation.
This has added nothing to the conversation.
You’re still arguing, so it’s clearly added something that intrigues you.
Isn’t this about the upcoming midterms? Start the voter bullying early, get the controversies going to control the narrative better?
I better read the article.
edit: nah, it’s just more “bad illegal aliens” bs.
they took the photo just before he started shedding his skin
Baby soft skin!
Why you badmouthin’ my man Keldor like that?
Oh look to his Google search a supporter of Trump. Also someone who frauded Florida. Funny how fraud and Trump always show up in the same inquiry. I’d say let’s try others but I’m only human it’s fraud all the way down.
I’m Canadian but can’t believe how many criminals they vote for in the US may as well be a mob operation. Actually a mob operation would try and be less obtuse than this administration. Yes an actual forward mob operation would be less criminally negligent than Trump, it’s horrble people think being able to be racist is better than being run by the dollar store mob now.
The states:
… California, Illinois, Minnesota (Somalia beware!), Maine, New York, and many others …
This is so fatiguing
Seen the movie Civil War?
I liked the ending.
Keep pushing and they’ll push blue states into a coalition.
can’t wait to see who wins the “first sitting governor to be arrested by the Trump admin” bet on polymarket.
polymarket
That thing so much needs to be extremely fucking illegal.
Fucking really? There’s a bet for that? I’m both shocked and sadly not surprised at all. Everything I hear about Polymarket betting is so appalling.
I did not bother to check if it actually exists, I actually don’t know if they would allow that specific bet. But, they are ghouls that profit off the exploitation of the powerless so I’m sure they’re working on it.
Ok fair enough. I’m choosing blissful* ignorance on this one.
*For a given value of “blissful,” given the shitshow of everything going on.
I find my little joys in my little jokes. I don’t know how much it helps, but I do enjoy it.
I couldn’t find one. The closest thing would be the running bet on when Tim Walz is being arrested and charged.
Fucking do it, I hope they arrest Pritzker. It’ll put him straight to the top of the '28 Dem candidates.
Ew, please don’t simp for billionaires
Our great Khan has done wonders for our state finances while constantly passing legislation that benefits the working class, preserves our rights, and protects marginalized communities. All while pushing back against Trump and laying groundwork for Democrats to prosecute this administration in 2029.
He will be the last billionaire we eat.
I’m down with eating him last, but as long as he is one of them, I’m not voting for him. There is no such thing as an ethical billionaire
Ok then enjoy president JD Vance or Marco Rubio I guess.
If you really believe that we can just elect the total collapse of American culture away, then I think you need to do some soul searching. Learn to be resilient, nobody is coming to save us.
I can’t even with you people. “Not voting” is never going to get you anything you want. Ever. You think “voting is showing my undying love for somebody!” when it’s really “Which of these assholes is going to lead to a better outcome?”
If you don’t think Pritzker would lead to a better outcome than Trump then you’re probably too stupid to figure out the voting ballot anyway.
He inherited it. Does that not change things?
Actual legitimate question. I’m not a fan of billionaires but it seems different between just being born into the family vs actually doing the exploiting yourself, add to that he seems to be at least teetering on the edge of being a class traitor.
In my opinion, it does not. He could choose to spend every penny he has on making life better for folks until he’s as poor as the rest of us. Instead he chooses to get richer.
Yeah. Mackenzie Bezos inherited her fat stacks and she’s been dropping like a stone on the wealth rankings. Inherent in the state of being a billionaire is having more money than you could ever need and not using it to help others.
Why not?
Should we exclusively simp for candidates who don’t have a snowball’s chance in hell because they’re ideologically pure?
Nope, you should support candidates that actually care about your best interests.
So you’d vote Pritzker on a Vance/Pritzker race?
I have to. But I don’t believe it will do anything. The United States is Balkanizing, and will cease to be a functional anything within the decade. Voting or not.
I don’t know what that is and I choose to remain ignorant
Several L.A. hospice and healthcare providers were raided by federal authorities early Thursday morning.
The crackdown on the city resulted in eight arrests and the suspension of 221 facilities over 10 weeks, officials said.
So raiding and shutting down healthcare facilities in Democratic states is the new distraction from the USA losing its own war in Iran and destroying the world’s economy, which was the distraction from Trump raping children?
When was the last time the Republicans did anything actually good and helpful?
When was the last time the Republicans did anything actually good and helpful?
For anyone but themselves? Not in my lifetime.
When was the last time the Republicans did anything actually good and helpful?
I can personally confirm not within the last 42 years.
The legends tell of a time when conservatives were supportive of the environment. But I’ve never seen it and I’m a old.
It was never true. Conservatives are named optimistically like Democratic Republic of NK or Soviet Republic.
Goldwater was a strong supporter of environmental protection, saying in 1965:
I feel very definitely that the [Nixon] administration is absolutely correct in cracking down on companies and corporations and municipalities that continue to pollute the nation’s air and water. While I am a great believer in the free competitive enterprise system and all that it entails, I am an even stronger believer in the right of our people to live in a clean and pollution-free environment. To this end, it is my belief that when pollution is found, it should be halted at the source, even if this requires stringent government action against important segments of our national economy.
It was probably an outlier then too.
Republicans of the Early 60s were maybe not as evil, if only because that was at the tail end of the Party switch.
Before that, conservatives and progressives were more spread between both parties.
The Party Switch took something like 50-60 years, with Nixon’s Southern Strategy being the defining moment, and Reagan’s Moral Majority calcifying the status quo.
Still, as late as the 1960 presidential election, things could have gone either way.
Warnings, my ass. Those are threats.
Trump said future operations will be nationwide “but primarily in those Blue States where CROOKED DEMOCRAT POLITICIANS” are in charge, Trump said, namechecking California, Illinois, Minnesota, Maine, and New York.
The fact that this dipshit is announcing that he’s specifically targeting democratic states gives anyone targeted in those states a reasonable argument the prosecutions are politically motivated and in violation of the equal protection clause of the Constitution. Now, that doesn’t mean that the targeted harassment won’t be a nightmare for those targeted, but if he kept his stupid mouth shut he’d be more effective with his illegal prosecutions.
Yeah that’s why he stacked the Supreme Court first
Do we think that the war with Iran was started in order to win the next election?
Win? No. Cancel? Maybe.
Probably. Wartime elections and all that.
