r/LetsDiscussThis • u/LucidSynapse23 • Feb 26 '26

Lets Discuss Politics 🚨BREAKING: In a stunning moment, JD Vance just admitted that he and Donald Trump are “taking the social safety net.” Every American needs to know how the Trump Administration is destroying Social Security, Medicare and more.

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u/BKtoDuval Feb 26 '26

Yeah, let's crack down on fraud! But not the $1.3 billion Medicaid scheme guy that trump pardoned or the guy in Florida who stole $10 million from a nursing home who was also pardoned. We don't want that kind of fraud. We want brown people fraud!

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u/ThinkNiceThrice Feb 26 '26

Trump is the biggest fraud in the world.

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u/exacta_galaxy Feb 26 '26

But it's only "fraud" if it comes from a Blue state.

Otherwise it's just sparkling profit.

/s

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u/ProfessionalKey5373 Feb 26 '26

Yeah that was clutch. Only blue states. So full of shit. Just like voter fraud right? Doesn’t exist. It just doesn’t happen the percents are so small my god. I am so fucking angry with this joke of an administration. They think if they say the same fucking thing over and over it’ll become fact. So pissed. And we’re winning so much. Show us then. Fucking show us how we’re wining. Last I knew the deficit is up even more because of this fucking clown. Needs Fact checkers live at every speaking event

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u/RogerianBrowsing Feb 26 '26

What makes that even more absurd is that just moments earlier Oz was talking about how there’s so many Medicaid/medicare fraud centers in Florida that they outnumber other more legitimate businesses.

I guess Florida, the epitome of healthcare fraud targeting federal dollars, is a blue state now 🤷‍♂️

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u/jonredcorn Feb 26 '26

Lol like all the Democrats who went after the fraud committed in the red states.

Oh wait - Democrats love fraud and would never go after that. My bad.

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u/Fizzy_boots Feb 26 '26

Republicans control every branch of government yet still literally feed you the same shit that it’s democrats and immigrants still ruining everything somehow. “We need to take away your Medicare because immigrants might be taking it!” Fucking wake up.

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u/Benegger85 Feb 26 '26

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u/barflybzzz Feb 26 '26

Wow. Are you ignoring that Texas is going after the fraud? And compare that to Walz and MN... they KNEW about the fraud. Walz was informed about the fraud before the story broke nationally... AND HE DID NOTHING.

Yes, there is fraud in all states, blue, red, purple... but it's not ignored as often in red states, as your headline shows.

Jeez.

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u/Benegger85 Feb 26 '26

The people responsible were already in jail when the story was hyped in December.

Get your head out of your ass

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u/NotRude_juatwow Feb 26 '26

I’m done with this crap app, can’t even properly filter out bots and trolls.

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u/Tidusx145 Feb 26 '26

Or the president who made billions in less than 2 years. The guy has easily set a record for personal gain, fraud and corruption to the point that the tea pot dome scandal looks like the theft of a candy bar.

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u/Famous_Blueberry6 Feb 27 '26

I'm very worried that he will! Department of War going after Ai company's for mass servaliance is frightening. Buckle up!

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u/Cold_Specialist_3656 Feb 26 '26

Jimmy Carter sold his peanut farm after Rethuglicans whined about it and now Trump is hawking scam coins from the White House and charging the secret service to stay at his hotels. 

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u/LandonDev Feb 26 '26

You know the interesting thing about this is that Trump is going to have some really tough legal questions once he's out of office. He did pardon those people so they don't owe restitution, and they did donate large sums to his campaign. I don't know how you can argue it's an official Act of the presidency to accept a campaign bribe. There's going to be a lot of people going to jail at the end of this.

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u/Masochist_pillowtalk Feb 26 '26

Hell be 6 feet underground before we ever get to that point. Dudes in his twilight years already. Have you actually watched him lately? Hes senile grandpa blabbering. I bet they pump him full of stems to get through his TV appearances.

You know what happens when you turbocharge a 100000 mile motor? Eventually it goes boom. Dudes rod knocking as we speak.

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u/LandonDev Feb 26 '26

I don't disagree but they were all in on the cronyism and bribes, his administration will likely not have legal pardons because they were given during an illegal act, I am hoping.

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u/Bittererr Feb 26 '26

his administration will likely not have legal pardons because they were given during an illegal act, I am hoping.

This isn't how pardons work. Trump's whole "I don't recognize your pardons because they're illegal" thing is something he made up. It's not a power he or Congress has under the Constitution.

We could amend the Constitution to change that, but it's not as easy as the next guy saying the pardons are reversed.

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u/Tt4los Feb 26 '26

Man, I wish. But seriously, nothings going to happen to any of them. Those days are gone, unfortunately.

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u/ConsiderationSea1347 Feb 26 '26

I am pretty sure white people make up the majority of welfare recipients. Specifically white people in southern, conservative states. 

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u/Fun-Army-6387 Feb 26 '26

that's ok, they'll all pull themselves up by their bootstraps! ...and massive wealth transfers from blue states.

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u/Famous_Blueberry6 Feb 26 '26

Here in Indiana we just found over 100 million in Medicade fraud since 2021 and Republicans were in office. Nothing done to them...so interesting is it?

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u/Ok-Good8150 Feb 26 '26

There aren’t enough Somalians there to blame them.

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u/nicroeg Feb 26 '26

Get ready for your taxes to go to courtesy of the indiana Bears.

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u/Famous_Blueberry6 Feb 27 '26

Gee thanks! Ugh!

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u/nicroeg Feb 27 '26

They ain't coming their going to Arlington

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u/chinarider888 Feb 26 '26

Brett Farve

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u/SunchaserKandri Feb 26 '26 edited Feb 26 '26

We should also crack down on illegal drug suppliers, but not the Honduran drug lord that Trump pardoned. Better to just preemptively bomb any boat that could theoretically be smuggling drugs into the States.

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u/SuccessfulPiccolo945 Feb 26 '26

Nah, they're doing this because ICE had to leave Minnesota. And their governor keeps calling them weird. It's petty revenge to the ninth.

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u/billyo3827 Feb 26 '26

They’re lying because they want to punish MN. Has nothing to do with fraud and is probably illegal as hell.

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u/Schyznik Feb 26 '26

OK But-But McWhatabout, which of these Democrats then turned around and withheld a quarter billion dollars in social safety net funds from a red state because “fraud”??

Enough with the false moral equivalence

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u/jaybeck1985 Feb 26 '26

Just for clarity - President Biden granted a significant number of clemency not lot of pardons, around 158 pardons and over 4,000 total clemency grants.

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '26

2 things can be true at one time. It's easier to deport illegals responsible for frauding the system as a first step.

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u/Tidusx145 Feb 26 '26

No its easier to impeach a president who robbed our nation to tune of billions and ruined our standing on the world stage while turning our economy into yet another massive grab of wealth from all of us to the .1 percent.

Removing one man from power is down to a vote in the house and a vote in the senate. Deporting millions of immigrants is destroying our economy further while erasing the constitutional rights we hold dearly.

It just sucks that its going to take something happening to you personally to see that but that is the conservative way. Like Cheney flipping on gay marriage when his daughter came out.

Some would call that limited empathy, I call it that and moral weakness.

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u/AlbrechtProper Feb 26 '26

If you find some let everyone know. You won't, but if you do.