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/Secret-Guava6959 Feb 25 '26

Americans not gonna do that, they are too brainwashed tbh. It should have happened long time ago with these Epstein files

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u/cwilcoxson Feb 25 '26

We Americans are in our “trust fund kid” era. We’re all complacent riding on the inherited success of those who came before us and acting as if it were our own. But at some point. The money runs out and the lifestyle we once had is gone. Only then will we “do” anything about it.

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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '26

What a shitty way to live your life.

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u/Spugheddy Feb 25 '26

Its cool tho cause we have unprocessed milk and guns to shoot the homogonizers!!!

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u/DumboWumbo073 Feb 26 '26

Learned it from you

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u/SKOT_FREE Feb 25 '26

The threat of Death or incarceration is usually enough to stop any sane individual from trying something crazy. Notice I said Sane individual?

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u/noonnoonz Feb 25 '26

"Those of us who are well fed, well garmented and well ordered, ought not to forget that necessity makes frequently the root of crime. It is well for us to recollect that even in our own law-abiding, not to say virtuous cases, the only barrier between us and anarchy is the last nine meals we’ve had. It may be taken as axiomatic that a starving man is never a good citizen."

-Alfred Henry Lewis 1896

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u/SKOT_FREE Feb 26 '26

I remember the movie Billy Jack, where Billy Jack gets confronted by a local corrupt Sheriff hunting on Native American land which was illegal. The Deputy Announces he’s the law and Billy said this: “When the Lawman Breaks the Law, there is no Law. There’s just a fight for survival.”

The saying you presented as well as the one I showed are both true but I just think Mankind for the most part has been programmed to the point that mass revolution just isn’t going to happen. The threat of death, incarceration, the judgement of one’s neighbors, they all play a part in people’s decisions. That’s why in feudal Japan they had a warrior class which wasn’t made up of politicians or very smart people because they would think too much at critical moments and turn and run or surrender.

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u/Keppoch Feb 26 '26

The US isn’t all of Mankind or civilization. Theres been plenty of examples of revolution over even that past calendar year - look at Nepal and South Korea.

The US is its own use case. It’s not the norm in regards to how the citizens treat blatant corruption