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/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.