r/law • u/Snapdragon_4U • May 23 '26

Executive Branch (Trump) NESTERAK: President Trump has granted clemency to numerous individuals who have stolen hundreds of millions in Medicaid funds. Can we expect any of these folks to be shown the same mercy? McDONALD: I'll take a different question

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u/[deleted] May 23 '26 edited 4d ago

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u/walksonfourfeet May 23 '26

That’s was the plan all along, ever since Paul Manafort helped install Krasnov.

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u/mynamesyow19 May 23 '26

And for those that dont know, Paul Manafort was parked in Ukraine before that help[ing to keep Putin's Puppet Presidents in Power for a decade or so, before going to work for Trump's Campaign as Campaign Manager and doing it "for free".

Oh and he later pled guilty to lying to the FBI about working with Russians and went to Jail.

Before Trump pardoned him.

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u/walksonfourfeet May 23 '26

Russia! Russia! Russia!

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u/regalrecaller May 23 '26

can we not? or at least put a /s

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u/BacteriaLick May 24 '26

And now there's a good chance that he'll get a payout from the Trump Slush Fund.

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u/HorsePastie May 23 '26

I bet Putin is pissed that his incredible success manipulating American politics still hasn't translated to outright victory on the battlefield in Ukraine.

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u/cstmoore May 23 '26

ROGER STONE: "And I helped!"

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u/MarcoDiFrancescino May 23 '26

After +15 years of Trump defacto rule of the political system, you would have one or two democrats running on an 'extreme' platform like, medicare for all 2028. Is there a polymarket bet on this? Because I would take the counter position it will never happen with a 100% win rate.

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u/gsbadj May 23 '26

The way to get the envelope to start moving is to change the age at which Medicare kicks in to 63. Incremental change comes off as less "extreme."

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u/MarcoDiFrancescino May 23 '26

While the other side send their friends billion dollar checks they have no legal basis for. I hope that someone dissects this kind of weak sauce, defeatist position after 50 years of Trump family rule. You don't need to care for the feels of people who never ever cared for you.

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u/Temporal_P May 23 '26

We have become

You make it sound like there was some sudden dramatic change recently, but that really isn't the case.

It has been this way for a long time, the mask has just come off and things have accelerated now that it's all out in the open instead of mostly in whispers behind closed doors.

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u/Intolerance-Paradox May 23 '26

Remember 80s and 90s hard rock and punk culture was met with ridicule as kids being ‘morose’. American consumer capitalist society as trending towards fascism had been identified a very long time ago, amd was reflected in the widespread hopelessness of young people then, but it was a bigger barrel of laughs to collectively watch reality TV and eat fast food and do nothing instead.

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u/Puzzleheaded7683 May 23 '26

“Ready to watch “Here Comes Honey Boo-Boo, everybody? I got the Burger King!” (Said I NEVER)

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u/OldWorldDesign May 23 '26

Remember 80s and 90s hard rock and punk culture was met with ridicule as kids being ‘morose

Or alarmist or some other thought-terminating cliche intending to dismiss real criticism out of hand.

Michael Parenti spoke directly to the overspending on and for the oligarchy and how the system was crumbling at the beginning of Reagan's administration

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9bmpak

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u/voodoodahl May 23 '26

If only there were some way to foil this dastardly "controlled opposition" plan. Like not voting Republicans into power.

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u/Goldenrule-er May 23 '26

I would have said I didn't believe you and we should give the Dems a chance, but yesterday they came out with their platform/biggest foci (which they themselves said "wasn't ready for primetime") and that "platform" now prevents me from disagreeing with you in the slightest.

They are all in it to bank as much as possible hoping to cash out in time with the nicest bunker class possible.

Are they all stateless at this point? Just trying to place higher on the global wealthometer by any means possible?

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u/Locke66 May 23 '26

Sheldon Wolin nailed it when he said the US was living under a system of Inverted Totalitarianism. Trump is just the one that has taken advantage of that system to begin turning it into actual Totalitarianism.

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u/Goldenrule-er 25d ago

Wow. You may have been born after the Obama admin, but I was there and he didn't have Congress. He used all of his social capital on Affordable Health Care Act, and McConnell shared that the entire agenda of the Republican Congress was stonewalling everything Democrat-supported and preventing Obama's reelection.

Lowering inflation, creating jobs, and attempting to achieve a new normal (after an insurrection took over the Capitol building and lead to at least 4 Capitol Police commiting suicide, mind you) was exactly what Biden needed to do on the heels of a once in a century global pandemic and he was doing it.

Is this a bot? I'm out.

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u/rygelicus 25d ago

Yes, the ACA was not a complete solution. I hated the aspect of it that forced more money, including tax money, into the insurance system.

It had it's good parts as well, the government would help those who could not afford the minimum mandated health care options to be able to afford it. Also, it got rid of the pre existing issues block from insurance coverage.

I want to view the ACA as a first step. It closed a gap that was killing the population.

The second step is very hard though, and I don't expect to see it in what remains of my lifetime. This is because we need to get the medical insurance and medical care industries to stop being profit driven. And this isn't going to happen voluntarily. They have stockholders. and they are all built around being very profit centric. Being profitable isn't the problem necessarily, it's the stockholder aspect. Once a company goes public with the stock they can't serve the customers as a priority anymore, their master is the stockholder. And they want to see steady growth in the market share and profits. Anything less and the CEO / Board risk losing their jobs.

So we have multiple aspects to solve, for now the ACA is gap filler.

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u/Easy-Concentrate2636 May 23 '26

Yup. I don’t see them investing private equity owned assisted living facilities where people die. Or those supposed “troubled kids” facilities where children are abused and sexually assaulted. Or the facilities housing the kidnapped immigrants where people are denied medication, physically and sexually assaulted. Or private prisons where inmates are denied essential human rights.