Trump and Vance’s Oval Office announcement turned into a spectacle of barely contained rage
Donald Trump has found a new way to make America great again: paying people to become professional snitches.
On Tuesday, the president and JD Vance unveiled a $25 million fraud whistleblower fund, under which Americans who provide tips leading to successful prosecutions would receive large financial rewards. Basically, you can rat on your enemies to the government for cash now — and, Trump added, he will be the personal arbiter on whether the fraud is real and how much money you get.
Just think of it as a big reality TV show, like when Oprah gives out the cars except it’s that guy at work you once fell out with and you get to send him to jail.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-vance-fraud-speech-rage-b3070275.htmlOpen linkView original on lemmy.world
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I don't even know where to start with this. This sounds like an AI hallucination.
I'd… I'd like to be paid to unpack groceries and play mahjong in senior centers
Fr, I'd work for cheap if that were the work
I'd like to just find people to play mahjong with casually. Getting paid would be a bonus.
Don't know about mahjong specifically, although especially if you provided the tiles, I bet there's a senior center that would help set something like that up. Some older folks in those places can be a little mentally not all there, but a significant portion have physical issues, and not all of them by any means are annoying-ass "Boomers". I bet you could set up a regular (or maybe even irregular) time to go socialize, and maybe even find one or two that know the game (although I think mahjong is pretty easy to pick up casually). :)
I feel like that's probably a huge misrepresentation of something legitimate.
Like maybe the found an activities coordinator or recreational therapist or something and asked them what they were doing that day and they answered "well right now I'm unpacking these groceries for a cooking class we're doing tomorrow, and then I'm gonna go get things ready for game night, and I'm gonna be teaching them how to play mahjong"
Or maybe they just found the kitchen staff playing mahjong on their lunch break after unpacking a bunch of groceries.
Or someone working in care helping with grocery shopping and socialising with clients.
They're eating the dogs, they're eating the cats.
Wouldn't that come with the job of caring for the people at a senior center? Like, the ladies at the daycare I went to as a kid had to stock the kitchen and played games with us, seems like kind of the same deal depending on how much help the seniors need. Should they not be compensated for that?
I can hear the conservative talk radio hosts my parents worshiped when I was growing up complaining about this sort of thing, saying they ain’t real jobs.
Conservatives especially but really it’s probably a much larger portion of Americans than I want to think about, have been so thoroughly pilled by capitalist brainwashing that they think a job doesn’t count unless someone involved is making money from the job.
“Cause if it isn’t making dollars, then it isn’t making sense. If you aren’t moving units then youre not worth the expense” -David Bazan
Mahjong is actually pretty cool once you know what's going on.
Do I have to wait until I’m a senior?
This is literally 1984 shit, as in it's actually a thing the book talks about, not hyperbole.
Oh good. Stasi techniques.
Yes, but now your the Nazi for trying to stop a genocide, and your neighbors can rat you out for cash if you make anti-semitic comments like "Please stop killing brown people to build a Trump Tower on the Gaza Strip.".
ZOMG!!! How can you write such things?!? You must be antisemitic.
Don't tell my neighbors. They only hate state approved scapegoat citizens minorities, not True Americans like the non-citizen Israelis.
This double speak is getting cumbersome. Can someone ask the ministry of information to tighten up the propaganda? What is this amateur hour?
It's like the typos and grammatical errors in Nigerian prince scams: those with a working brain won't fall for it anyway, so they're screened out early, and the rubes will get sucked in because they don't notice anything suspicious.
Well, I know a guy who is selling pardons, giving Pentagon and Mining contracts to his family, no bid contacts to his friends, taking crypto bribes, bribes for tariff relief etc. , etc.,
This is for kickbacks or bribes. You won't be selected unless you know him personally.
It will be used for that. But it may also be used to put me in a camp for typng this comment... eventually
And if not this proclamation, then the next.
We are here. This is fascism.
They will take the tips and reneg on the payout, grifting 101
No it's the Russian system. Everyone in the administration gets bribes and kickbacks all the time, only those who fall out of favor get exposed, there is no actual calling that doesn't matter. It's just a way of punishing people that displease trump by exposing their shocking corruption, while everyone else's is there but hidden. When everyone gets corruption only those who are naughty to the president get punished.
Hm. The japanese did this with the population here in Malaysia during WW2. Basically to instill fear in anyone planning an opposition against the invading forces. It's horrible when you don't know who you can trust, and definitely from the dictator playbook.
Hey america, it says 'enemies, both foreign and domestic'. How about exercising some of those freedoms and liberties?
No-one will be getting a red cent.
Hi, yes, is this the White House? Yes, I’d like to report a convicted felon and fraudster who’s harboring an illegal alien wife. They receive insane sums in government support draining resources from real, hardworking Americans.
Where?
Yes, they’re actually in DC, the White House in fact.
…
Hello? Hello??
I know a guy who spent millions of taxpayer dollars running political ads to stoke his own ego. Maybe I can report him and get a payout.
Ah, the good old Nazi Germany "Blockwart". Yep, another tick off on the list.
I think even the trump acolytes know he ain't gonna pay no one nuttin'.
They don't
It won't be people ratting out their coworkers. He wants dirt on his enemies.
Anyway, he's just dangling the money as bait. He'll never pay out, unless it's to a crony.
The Whitehouse ballroom? The reflecting pool? Trump accounts? Argentinian "beef"? Gimme muh money!!!
Of course! Let me just check on who's going to judge this slush fund...
This is fascism. We are here
Been here, but yes.
The question is what the fuck will be done about it and how many innocents will be killed before it ends, if it ever ends?
Two things are all but guaranteed to happen:
Narcs will narc on fraud that doesn't really exist. Something, something, false flag fiesta.
Naive, well-meaning narcs will narc on real fraud that is actually state-sanctioned and will find themselves on a list (or worse). This signals the fraudsters to get even fraudier. Lots of gaslighting of the narc may follow. Might even throw them into the loonie bin for such lunacy. And loonie bins are great for taking out those deemed to be trash, those blithering dissenting pains in the ass.
Watch your backs out there, yo. And each others'.
Trump will just pocket the money for himself.
25 mil is a insult to whistle blowers. He has spent more on golf.
Holy Shit, what the fuck did I just read…these people are clinically insane.
For real this is one of the more jarring things I’ve read about this admin in a while. And I keep up with it far more than is probably healthy.
I’ve been white knuckling the past few weeks because I have this gut feeling that midterms are going to be a crazy watershed moment and it appears that tensions are beginning to boil over
I expect this announcement was released two weeks prior so that they can weaponize it in battleground elections. This might get really ugly really fast
So true, it really is crazy...I mean these are very un-serious people and they have a lot of power in their hands.
People are gonna show up and vote in midterms....
Republicans tho...
Good grief, he IS on the fucking ticket! And that's why he's polling so badly.
I guess one silver lining for him: at this rate he's going to get the record for the biggliest midterms loss in history. Given how much he likes holding records and having stuff named after him, this is an achievement of sorts.
How it happened...
AISI is smarter. It can think of more.Don't call Thiel's fucktoys groomed for doge by their own nicknames. Ball boy here the one in question.
This is what happens before the purges.
So a one stop shop to report Trump fraud? 🤔
Maybe it's time we did something about the president.
maybe.
Republican presidents always seem to start some neighborhood NARC program.
See George W Bush and the TIPS program for reference.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_TIPS
If there was any justice at all in the world, donnie and all of his accomplices would be frog-marched to prison to await their trials.
Next he will fund the Department of Education with 1 mandate, teach children to snitch on their parents.
Is this to help them round up
illegalimmigrants?You mean illegal citizen 😂
Participation guarantees citizenship.
Paid tattletales
The sheer volume of reports of Dumps fraud will be hilarious.
There's strong circumstantial evidence that Trump was a rat for SDNY in the 80s. And, since Trump regards himself as a model of human excellence worthy of emulation in every respect, it's no surprise that he's now promoting snitches.
Why do we think it's okay to link to clickbait publications that don't publish any sources?
The Independent is a real journalistic outlet, despite having some conflict-of-interest problems due to its oligarch ownership (Lebedev, Sultan Aub-l-Jadayel).
You want sources, read peer-reviewed research papers. Newspapers and online news sites often, of necessity, have to conceal their sources to protect them from retribution.
"Real journalistic outlets" do not not source their information.
WTF does that have to do with a White House press release?
WTF would The White House need or be entitled to protection?
We need a word for people fabricating allegations. Snitch implies they are correct in their allegations.
This is not testilying, what is the word for fabricating scandals as such? Maybe we need to make a new word.
Liar?
He's going to throw so much chum in the midterm waters that Americans won't even see the ballot.
Many of us already have voted.
Burn the whitehouse down. Seriously wtf
This man is alive only because you allow it
BUT MUH PARKIN TICKETS
It's a Symphony of Toasted Pain!
Go on, say 'but the Dems/the libs'.
Out yourselves as shitbrained traitors sowing discourse while fucking fascists continue to shout about their fascist plans.
So many here are cooked in the brain. You have a fucking signposted enemy right in front of you all.