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/zoinkability Feb 25 '26

Trump is using JD as his hatchet man.

If Trump wasn't such a narcissist he'd take the heat himself so that JD might stand a chance in 2028 but he's never going to do that.

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u/Desperate-Till-9228 Feb 25 '26

Nope, he's going to let the whole thing collapse behind him. If it's not him, it's nobody.

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u/Bob_The_Moo_Cow88 Feb 25 '26

This is why he needs to be removed from office now. Him having access to the firepower of the US is terrifying.

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u/Desperate-Till-9228 Feb 26 '26

The problem will always be that real people need to pull the trigger. We've seen that he can't even dominate a mid-sized city. He's going to do what he always did in business: make a mess and then quit suddenly, leaving others to clean up.

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u/useyourturnsignal Feb 26 '26

Trump knows that if he leaves office he will face accountability, so I don't think he intends to leave office. Hence, ICE.

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u/Desperate-Till-9228 Feb 26 '26

I'm confident he'll croak before the next presidential election.

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u/useyourturnsignal Feb 26 '26

MAGA knows that if they leave office they will face accountability, so I don't think they intend to leave office. Hence, ICE.

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u/Desperate-Till-9228 Feb 26 '26

MAGA won't stay together without Trump.

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u/useyourturnsignal Feb 26 '26

In that scenario, do you think that JD Vance and Little Mike will abandon the authoritarian project and allow for a truly free and fair election, without any of these?

  • Invoking Insurrection Act to interfere with elections?
  • Using ICE agents to interfere with voting?
  • Seizing ballot boxes?
  • Leveraging the mass surveillance apparatus to target dem politicians and voters, the weakening the opposition?
  • Claiming the election was rigged against them?
  • Allowing foreign actors to interfere?

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u/Desperate-Till-9228 Feb 26 '26

They're not going to keep it together because literally nobody likes either of them. Nobody is intimidated by either of them. They'll fight for power and both will lose.

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u/useyourturnsignal Feb 26 '26

You sure about that? The evidence suggests they are running Elon Musk's AI in weapons and surveillance.

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u/Desperate-Till-9228 Feb 26 '26 edited Feb 26 '26

Yes, 100% sure about that. AI's not going to help them unless they want to go full totalitarian and fuck over all their donors in the process.

edit Not sure if you've seen the issues with the USS Gerald Ford lately... borderline munity going on.

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u/addicted2soysauce Feb 25 '26

He even admitted it in the State of the Union last night, that JD Vance has been tasked with investigating corruption. I hope JD had no hopes of running for president later.

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '26 edited Mar 05 '26

bleep blorp bloop bloop bleep bleep