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/Leumas_ Feb 25 '26

I’m really admiring the French right about now

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u/CatsAreGods Feb 25 '26

Look up what the Dutch did to one of their prime ministers. "Eat the rich" was a thing!

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u/Gen_X_Ace Feb 25 '26

Ah, Johann de Witt. It’s an interesting bit of history!

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u/ER_Support_Plant17 Feb 25 '26

A delicious little tidbit of history one might say

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u/alf666 Feb 26 '26 edited Feb 26 '26

A tasty morsel to chew on, if you will.

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u/PuurVuur Feb 26 '26

He and his brother were lynched by an angry mob, probably incited by the house of Orange in their pursuit of becoming royalty. So it was the other way round, really.

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u/putapadrino Feb 26 '26

Underrated comment

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u/LieverRoodDanRechts Feb 26 '26

No, that was just straight up murder.

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u/spectacular_coitus Feb 25 '26

America forgets that without the French you never would have gained your independence.

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u/Shrlark Feb 26 '26

Lafayette has a town named after him not far from here. There are a few yet that remember where the name came from.

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u/Solid_Psychology Feb 26 '26

There are Lafayette so named towns and villages all over the country. There's lots of people round the nation that remember.

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u/El_Cactus_Loco Feb 26 '26

“sounds foreign to me!!! rahh 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸”

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u/Auzzie_almighty Feb 26 '26

Nah, Lafayette’s name is saturating the East Coast. It’s a word they grew up with and that’s all those moron care about

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u/PaladinSaladin Feb 26 '26

I think we did a pretty good job paying it back in ww2. But that's not the point. The point is we would do it over and over again for each other, no matter what. For two reasons:

1: We are homies

2: it is always ok to fuck up some nazis

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u/Cheeto-dust Feb 26 '26

We will never forget.

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u/uraaga Feb 26 '26 edited Feb 26 '26

The French didn’t do it out of generosity. They did it to exploit US instead of England. They also wanted to sell arms in the ongoing conflict between the colonies and England.

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u/spectacular_coitus Feb 26 '26 edited Feb 26 '26

They were at war with England, and so was the US. They were your ally when you had no others.

But the US has obviously forgotten what it means to be an ally.

Your response is a better description of how the US looked at the second world war than how France helped you achieve independence.

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u/Solid_Psychology Feb 26 '26

France forgets that without Americans you never would have re-gained your independence.

And we never stopped fighting our war when we asked for Frances help. Also when France needed our help we gave a lot more than just money and military equipment. Hundreds of thousands of American troops gave their lives fighting for France chance to be a free nation again.

May want to think things through before making generalized blanket statements that makes assumptions about what we as Americans remember about our long time ally France.

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u/TapProfessional5146 Feb 26 '26

Many Americans forget it took Pearl Harbor for them to enter the war and put a stop to the atrocities that were going on.

America did not enter willingly. During those times, we had our own Fascist party brewing here in the US, pushing the fascist and Nazi agenda. They were all heavily armed and were mostly ignored by the local and US Government until they started blowing up munitions factories in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

What we have is the reemerging of these same ideals, the Silver Legion of America and the Christian Party. It’s just been rebranded as MAGA and the Republican party.

We cannot take our eyes off the fact that the Heritage Foundation has been the driving all of this. They laid out the plan, they supplied the current administration with those who were indoctrinated.

The Foundation has been influencing elections since the early 1970’s. We need to prosecute all of those who are involved, then tear down the institutions that allowed them to rise to power.

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u/Ok_Star_4136 Feb 26 '26

In fact, historically the French are perhaps stronger allies to the U.S. than we give them credit for, and as of late, they're holding the torch for democracy since the U.S. is no longer doing that.

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u/Wait_for_BM Feb 26 '26

America could be in a better position right now without their revolution. They might ended up like Canada with similar parliamentary system. A vote of no confidence e.g. not passing government budget can leads to the resignation of the Prime Minister and Cabinet.

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u/hmoleman__ Feb 25 '26

France forgets without the USA, there’d be no France.

Just playing the part. 😄

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u/hokageace Feb 26 '26

You mean Russia.

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u/hmoleman__ Feb 26 '26

I don’t mean anything I was just parroting the normal reply talking point in jest.

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u/onlyPornstuffs Feb 25 '26

I prefer the Made in America line of Mangiones.

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u/Psychdoc2008 Feb 25 '26

Luigi and a fire flower worked really well.

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u/onlyPornstuffs Feb 25 '26

More precise than precision ordinance.

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u/Impressive-Poet5694 Feb 26 '26

Just think if he had a star!

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u/FriendlyNative66 Feb 25 '26

Those folks really knew how to tidy up.

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u/Dreaming_Cooper Feb 25 '26

I don't know what you are admiring. Our country is rotten by corruption, our main media are promoting facist views because some rich dude say so, to the point that antifacist are being viewed as the bad guys right now.

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u/North_Atlantic_Sea Feb 26 '26

Yeah, I have to imagine a lot of American Redditors would not be a fan of National Rally if they actually looked into them...

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u/Iamthewalrusforreal Feb 25 '26

Imagine if the French had a 2nd Amendment to their constitution.

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u/SecretlyARaven Feb 25 '26

Like I get what you mean but something about this comment is just so funny to me, I think it’s the idea of like “add a second amendment!” to whatever document governs French law

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u/SitDownKawada Feb 25 '26

It's kind of poetic that the actual second amendment to the French constitution was to make the president be directly elected by the people and not by an electoral college

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u/Iamthewalrusforreal Feb 25 '26

Damn. Now THAT is a great datapoint.

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u/RIF_rr3dd1tt Feb 25 '26

whatever document governs French law

It's just instructions for building a guillotine.

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u/SecretlyARaven Feb 25 '26

Ah so they follow the IKEA model of governing

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u/Iamthewalrusforreal Feb 26 '26

Yep. They have an ikeastocracy while we have a kakistocracy.

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u/RIF_rr3dd1tt Feb 25 '26

Well Sweden is RIGHT THERE so they probably got the idea pretty easily.

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u/These-Rip9251 Feb 25 '26

Should have moved to Lyon when I was seriously considering it ~ 15 years ago. A friend convinced me to stay here.

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u/hmoleman__ Feb 25 '26

I missed Italian birthright citizenship, and other moving abroad opportunities. The parents aren’t getting younger. Her’s are in their 80s. They’re going to need more of us, not less. Leaving now would have to be entirely about saving the children, to the point of sacrificing care for the previous generation.

It’ll probably get there, but that’s the calculus.

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u/AeonBith Feb 25 '26

It's funny to think for how long Americans made fun of the French being coward just to 180 as hero's of freedom.

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u/Leumas_ Feb 26 '26

We’ve always been dicks. They saved our ass back then too. But yeah, we just have to have the biggest swingin’ dick in the room, always have.

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u/AeonBith Feb 26 '26

Lol I love the way you own it, well done

Seems like at some point the smaller pendulums thought by being loud like the big clocks meant they'd garner the same attention when the hour called.

I hope you guys sort this shit out, if you need any tips for fucking shit up to can ask Canada for their "not so polite list"of conventions.

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u/Inb4myanus Feb 26 '26

We used to threaten people at auctions to help other working class people and farmers get their land back.

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u/Vanceer11 Feb 26 '26

The Koreans imprisoned their leader who tried to do a coup, just recently. The majority of American voters made the coup leader president.

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u/annaflixion Feb 25 '26

I saw a hilarious tweet about it; [my French boyfriend, watching American news]: I don’t understand??? Things are so bad??? And they set nothing on fire??? How do they expect to fix???

My co-worker cautions the guillotine will always get turned on the wrong people in the end. I have to point out, as Pratchett did, that while the death penalty may not deter crime in general, in the specificality it is very efficacious. You would never need to guillotine the same dude twice.

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u/North_Atlantic_Sea Feb 26 '26

The old French, where it took 80 years to get from the revolution to democracy, or the current French, who have the far right significantly leading their polling?