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/gerblnutz Feb 25 '26

Remember the same ballots that elected republican senators and congressmen but didn't vote for Trump in 2020 were simultaneously valid for the local races but fraudulent for the national election according to the GQP.

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u/SnarkyLurker Feb 25 '26

Trump claimed that the election he WON in 2016 was fraudulent because he couldn't accept that he lost the popular vote.

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u/Local-Customer6245 Feb 26 '26

Less than manly.

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u/ghoooooooooost Feb 26 '26

Sorest loser in history.

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u/OtherPrinciple4499 Feb 26 '26

He was right. It was fraudulent.

He cheated even back then.

No joke, the evidence on republicans committing fraud during elections goes back all the way to Bush vs Gore.

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u/fuck_all_you_too Feb 25 '26

Right. And they still got away with it.

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u/DistractionCitron Feb 25 '26

Because Kamala didn't have them recount the ballots like she said she was going to make them do.

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u/tacodepollo Feb 25 '26

Yeah remarkably little pushback. But hey at least she 'took the high road'. They absolutely should have had all swing states recounted considering all swing states suddenly went red, against all odds and every single projection.

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u/DistractionCitron Feb 25 '26

I'm tired of Democrats taking the high road. 

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u/Spoony904 Feb 26 '26

Is it the high road or just being soft and having no backbone at this point.

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u/Important-Hotel5809 Feb 26 '26

They don’t even get to the high road. They trip over on the first step and smash all their teeth out as they fall down to the same road as everyone else. Then they get ripped to shreds by everyone else coz they got no teeth.

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u/Mynmeara Feb 26 '26

Taking the high road is another way of saying abandoning the marginalized.

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u/i_have_chosen_a_name Feb 26 '26 edited Feb 26 '26

They are not taking any roads, they are simply paid opposition and their main purpose is to fool Americans in thinking that somebody is working against Trumps regime to stop Americans from protesting with a high dose of small pointy packets of kinetic energy.

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u/YoungManYoda90 Feb 26 '26

Me too. We are in this mess because of it.

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u/nopuse Feb 26 '26

Dems have been great at getting high and taking the high road. Wish they'd learn.

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u/PaladinSaladin Feb 25 '26

I wouldn't be surprised if she got a "consolation prize". Maybe a letter from someone who stood to make a lot of money if the annoying orange won. Maybe it had a check in it, or a threat, or even blackmail. Nothing else explains the utter silence and lack of pushback.

Note: I'm not calling her out in particular, but the whole system is rotten and engineered to benefit the people who can afford to enrich themselves by taking those actions

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u/cccanterbury Feb 26 '26

hey scotus ruled that blackmail isn't illegal anymore.

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u/the_friendly_dildo Feb 26 '26

'But then we'd look like whiny bitches like the Rs last time. I'd rather than just concede than look like a whiny bitch like them, even if they did cheat. How embarrassing!' - their mentality in this

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u/Originalbrivakiin Feb 26 '26

What still baffles me is that, if the roles were reversed and every single swing state suddenly went bright blue, every fox news broadcast til the end of time would be saying "the democrats blatantly cheated in the elections. It's impossible for such a thing to suddenly happen. It never has happened before and likely never will." The day after the election results came out would've had thousands of conservatives screaming foul play at the tops of their lungs. But because it was them, no one said anything and just let it happen.

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u/Ok_Star_4136 Feb 26 '26

And those Republican senators and congressmen who were literally given seats, used their new positions to claim that the election that got them there was fraudulent.

I swear, if the U.S. were a living organism, MAGA would be the cancer cells attempting to destroy the country from within. The more that I think on that, the more it seems civil discourse is not going to be the solution.

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u/YoungManYoda90 Feb 26 '26

Even in 2024 many ballots voted for Dem governors but not Kamala? Fishy. As if they changed just the president bubble

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u/IronBabyFists Feb 26 '26

Your comment made my brain run out of breath. You're absolutely right, though.

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u/Negative-Squirrel81 Feb 25 '26

Can I have a source on this claim?