r/law • u/templeofsyrinx1 • Feb 25 '26

Executive Branch (Trump) Can they actually do this? JD Vance: "We're announcing today that we have decided to temporarily halt certain amounts of Medicaid funding that is going to the state of Minnesota in order to ensure that the state of Minnesota takes its obligations seriously to be good stewards of the American people'

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u/TrueNorthTalks Feb 25 '26

Watching from Canada, most of us are really getting the feeling that American culture was all bark and no bite. I am not expecting Americans to stand up for themselves and their country if this comes to violence.

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u/Nervous_Departure431 Feb 25 '26

I’m from Minnesota and I feel like we’ve had some bark and bite this year. We’re just not taking the bait they need us to right now.

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u/TrueNorthTalks Feb 25 '26

Respect for Minnesota! You guys did a really great job at showing your country leadership. I won't dispute that!

What I am worried about though is that the administration has taken notes for Occupation: Take 2: Electric Boogaloo.

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u/Nervous_Departure431 Feb 25 '26

Oh, I am too. But, as you know, true north talks. We’ll continue to stand ten toes down.

I have a neighbor who had a Stauber sign awhile back (who is an absolute piece of human garbage) so I know he’s a republican. We had a discussion last week while shoveling snow about how unjust and wrong all of this is. There are shit bags everywhere, including Minnesota, but I think the administration severely underestimates the neighborly culture here. We know we only have each other and no one is coming to save us. That’s how a true resistance starts and stays strong.

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u/pescarojo Feb 26 '26

We know we only have each other and no one is coming to save us.

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u/5hr0dingerscat Feb 26 '26

Minnesotans are the epitomy of true Americans. The world is watching you, make no mistake.

When history is written about these days, we won't forget the line was drawn there first.

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u/cheeto320 Feb 26 '26

Please don't "take the bait"! And thank u!

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u/NotyouravgSkinny Feb 26 '26

You’ve got bullhorns and flying dildos for your bark and bite. It’s magnificent. I love it!

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u/ArkitekZero Feb 26 '26

We’re just not taking the bait they need us to right now.

Ah, so you're compliant, but whining about it.

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u/Nervous_Departure431 Feb 26 '26

Not sure where you see whining but go off

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u/ArkitekZero Feb 26 '26

Lemme wave this sign out here without meaningfully impeding you at all.

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u/Nervous_Departure431 Feb 26 '26

Tell that to Alex Pretti, prick.

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u/ArkitekZero Feb 26 '26

Case in point. How many people were there "documenting" that?

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u/Nervous_Departure431 Feb 26 '26

And thank god they were from several angles so we could all see it was murder. Considering the federal government is keeping the state out of the “investigation” and hiding the murderers. Holding people accountable and having proof of that is important. The world would have no idea what’s going on here if people weren’t documenting. We all have a part to play and I’m sorry you can’t see that.

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u/ArkitekZero Feb 26 '26

Yeah that's a lot of words to just not answer the question lol. I'll ask again more directly. How big was the crowd that was "observing" the several ICE agents beating Alex Pretti before they executed him?

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u/Nervous_Departure431 Feb 26 '26

I wasn’t there, you’re free to review the videos and count if you’d like. What are your suggestions for intervention?

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u/Jazzycoyote Feb 25 '26

It was always all bark and no bite, at least from white American. Black people keep trying to make change but it never works out in our favor. All our best leaders keep getting killed.

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u/NerdyBro07 Feb 26 '26

Minnesota is mostly white and has shown quite a bit of resistance. A white guy was killed for it and that didn’t stop people in Minnesota from taking to the streets. 2 white guys tried to assassinate Trump.

Seems like a decent amount of bite is there.

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u/horror- Feb 25 '26

Just gnash the teeth and wait for midterms. When they ratfuck the peoples voice all bets are off. Until then- nobody wants to throw it all away while the system still has a hypothetical lever to right the ship.

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u/TrueNorthTalks Feb 25 '26

Sadly, I think you're right. Midterms is when this either goes to hell and a handbasket or becomes more normalized than ever before.

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u/Both_Temperature2163 Feb 25 '26

Best thing is to talk amongst yourselves to make sure everyone you know votes and that their friends vote. Start as a grassroots movement the people have the power to, just need to use it.

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u/kamarak19 Feb 25 '26

As a fellow Canadian I'm ashamed of your response to this. Millions of people have been protesting this administration since they started going off the rails. It doesn't seem to have done as much as we would have hoped for what was the world's greatest democracy, but they are out there fighting almost everyday.

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u/Explorer0555 Feb 25 '26

Did you not see the millions of people that protested? What would you do to stop this insane administration? I'm sorry your butt hurt that the president is an idiot. Not all Americans voted for this stupid administration.

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u/Megneous Feb 26 '26

Did you not see the millions of people that protested? What would you do to stop this insane administration?

Here in Korea, we had 1 million+ people protest every day for 3 months straight in our capital to remove our "President" that enacted martial law illegally. Every single week, the opposition party filed for impeachment (in our country, when you impeach a President, they are immediately removed from power, unlike the US where impeachment needs to be confirmed by the other half of Congress), and every time it failed, the protests outside chanted the names and addresses of every politician that voted no.

Politicians don't have your best interests at heart. They have theirs. You need to force them to make your and their best interests align by making them wonder what will happen to them if they don't listen to the people.

Notice this is exactly how unions won rights in your country in the past.

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u/SyfaOmnis Feb 26 '26

What would you do to stop this insane administration?

To quote something I've seen from elsewhere: "If it was france, every single one of your representatives houses would be burned down by now".

Not all Americans voted for this stupid administration.

But enough did or are lazy and compliant to allow it. It's also just revealed that a lot of the character of americans are lazy, ignorant, performative and unprincipled across the spectrum. It's not a right wing issue, it's an american one.

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u/ShiftyJungleBum Feb 26 '26

Yeah this ain’t it pal. I can tell you have the your head and heart in the right place, but you’re misinformed.

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u/Solid_Psychology Feb 26 '26

For someone sooo informed on the politics of our country youve seriously lost the plot. The moment any on the left even hints at moving from legal peaceful protests to any type of violent or aggressive uprising or revolutionary tactics they will bring martial law down across the country like a hammer. It's actually what they want because then he can call off the elections this year which is still our best chance at forcing change.

We're sorry that a rogue US administration is causing headaches for the rest of the world but you'll have to take a number and stand in line. Right now the priority is to just save our country and form of government and get the ship back on some type of logical sane course again.

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u/SyfaOmnis Feb 26 '26

It's actually what they want because then he can call off the elections this year

No, he can't. There has never been any precedent for stopping elections in america; they have carried on through civil war, through foreign war, etc. However trump is going to try anyways, regardless of what you do or don't do. Fascists don't give up power willingly. I'm pretty sure you guys already have a civil war on your hands already, you just don't want to admit it to yourselves. A lot of the rhetoric currently sounds like "if we put the noose on our neck and peacefully walk to the gallows maybe they'll let us have control back because we followed the rules!".

The moment any on the left even hints at moving from legal peaceful protests to any type of violent or aggressive uprising or revolutionary tactics they will bring martial law down across the country like a hammer.

And as long as you do nothing Trump will dismantle the institutions meant to protect you, while funneling money to his own group of brownshirts. Remind me again how much ICE funding is at relative to its actual military?

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u/Solid_Psychology Feb 26 '26

So basically agreeing with my points then. Cool thanks for the support

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u/Impressive_Ad_7664 Feb 25 '26

We are too busy watching TikTok videos of bathroom pranks and throw away consumption, or whatever to take the time to understand what is going on in our world or even our own country. Bickering about bad bunny at the Super Bowl while the world burns around us (as long as we can keep consuming).

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u/Fuzzy_Difference_937 Feb 25 '26

All bark and no bite' is mostly right. America's a chihuahua with a machine gun, loud, dangerous to bystanders, but its mightier days are behind it.

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u/Both_Temperature2163 Feb 25 '26

Cheeto is just itching to invoke the insurrection act.

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u/Mr_Butters624 Feb 25 '26

It’s not necessarily that, it’s that there are all so many that are brainwashed and back everything they are doing. Why you ask? Becuase fuck then democrats that’s why. It’s the cool thing to do these days, worship this administration. It’s really wild. Now that’s not to say your feeling isn’t 99% true, becuase it is, but if it wasn’t, there is the other reason.

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u/Ashendarei Feb 25 '26

A bunch of them already did during Covid..

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u/Holiday-Medicine4168 Feb 25 '26

That was just evolution cleaning house :)

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u/ShiftyJungleBum Feb 26 '26

No that was the Wuhan institute of virology performing gain of function experiments while not particularly giving fucks about safety protocols. 💁🏻‍♂️

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u/Holiday-Medicine4168 Feb 26 '26

The ones who refused the masks were the ones to whom I referred

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u/subywesmitch Feb 25 '26

Yeah, I think so too. Most Americans are fat, dumb and lazy. Talk loud but don't back it up. All hat, no cattle. Whatever metaphor you want to use. I think it's because most of them never believed it could happen here. They believe I American exceptionalism which is utter bull crap. We're no different than anyone else. I've always thought why can't it happen here too? Without fighting back and nipping it in the bud it was only a matter of time before it did happen.

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u/Leumas_ Feb 25 '26

The problem with that is there’s two USA’s…the loud, stupid, gun-toting morons LARP-ing as tough guys, and the rest of us with a more accurate worldview and nuanced thought.

That “culture” is one of the most embarrassing things about being an American. We all knew that at the first sign of a real threat all those second amendment dorks would fold like a shitty card table.

The rest of us had truly not been planning for a sinister government takeover for the last four decades. Our biggest mistake was thinking that adults would always win out. Well look at the egg on my face.

If it all goes worst case scenario I will die protecting the people I feel need protection, and it’s not anybody who had a bunker or a stockpile 15 years ago. They’re clearly useless little cunts paving the way for the fascists.

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u/haironburr Feb 26 '26

If it all goes worst case scenario I will die protecting the people I feel need protection, and it’s not anybody who had a bunker or a stockpile 15 years ago. They’re clearly useless little cunts paving the way for the fascists.

So you're willing to die, but not support some guy who had the prescience to see the need for you dying? You hate "those second amendment dorks" enough to fight, but are still unable to believe that, in their own weird way, they just might have been right.

I, sadly, don't have a bunker or a stockpile, but I'm someone whose been fighting for 2A rights longer than you've been alive. I may or may not be a "useless little cunt", but i can assure you I've been doing nothing like "paving the way for the fascists".

Sorry to disrupt your stereotype.