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 ā 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 itās that guy at work you once fell out with and you get to send him to jail.
Dr. Mehmet Oz, who gave an incensed little speech about how people in California are being paid to unpack groceries and play mahjong in senior centers
I donāt even know where to start with this. This sounds like an AI hallucination.
Iādā¦ Iād like to be paid to unpack groceries and play mahjong in senior centers
Fr, Iād work for cheap if that were the work
Iād like to just find people to play mahjong with casually. Getting paid would be a bonus.
Donāt know about mahjong specifically, although especially if you provided the tiles, I bet thereās 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 āBoomersā. 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 thatās 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 āwell right now Iām unpacking these groceries for a cooking class weāre doing tomorrow, and then Iām gonna go get things ready for game night, and Iām gonna be teaching them how to play mahjongā
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.
Theyāre eating the dogs, theyāre eating the cats.
Wouldnāt 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 aināt real jobs.
Conservatives especially but really itās 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 doesnāt count unless someone involved is making money from the job.
āCause if it isnāt making dollars, then it isnāt making sense. If you arenāt moving units then youre not worth the expenseā -David Bazan
Mahjong is actually pretty cool once you know whatās going on.
Do I have to wait until Iām a senior?
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 āPlease stop killing brown people to build a Trump Tower on the Gaza Strip.ā.
ZOMG!!! How can you write such things?!? You must be antisemitic.
Donāt 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?
What is this amateur hour?
Itās like the typos and grammatical errors in Nigerian prince scams: those with a working brain wonāt fall for it anyway, so theyāre screened out early, and the rubes will get sucked in because they donāt notice anything suspicious.
This is for kickbacks or bribes. You wonāt 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 commentā¦ 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 itās 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 doesnāt matter. Itās just a way of punishing people that displease trump by exposing their shocking corruption, while everyone elseās is there but hidden. When everyone gets corruption only those who are naughty to the president get punished.
Hi, yes, is this the White House? Yes, Iād like to report a convicted felon and fraudster whoās harboring an illegal alien wife. They receive insane sums in government support draining resources from real, hardworking Americans.
Where?
Yes, theyāre actually in DC, the White House in fact.
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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.
The Whitehouse ballroom? The reflecting pool? Trump accounts? Argentinian ābeefā? Gimme muh money!!!
Of course! Let me just check on whoās going to judge this slush fundā¦
Trump added, he will be the personal arbiter on whether the fraud is real and how much money you get.
This is literally 1984 shit, as in itās actually a thing the book talks about, not hyperbole.
Ah, the good old Nazi Germany āBlockwartā. Yep, another tick off on the list.
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?
Holy Shit, what the fuck did I just readā¦these people are clinically insane.
For real this is one of the more jarring things Iāve read about this admin in a while. And I keep up with it far more than is probably healthy.
Iāve 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 crazyā¦I mean these are very un-serious people and they have a lot of power in their hands.
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.,
āThe president always loses, whatever the reason, the midterms,ā said Trump. āGreat presidents, lousy presidents. Oz,is there a reason you can think of, medically?ā Oz laughed weakly at that, and the president continued: āI do say this: When I was on the ticket ā when I ran, we won everything. When I donāt run, people donāt show up to vote. If I could get my voters to get out to voteā¦ weād win in a landslide.ā
People are gonna show up and vote in midtermsā¦
Republicans thoā¦
Good grief, he IS on the fucking ticket! And thatās why heās polling so badly.
I guess one silver lining for him: at this rate heās 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.
Two things are all but guaranteed to happen:
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Narcs will narc on fraud that doesnāt really exist. Something, something, false flag fiesta.
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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 othersā.
Trump will just pocket the money for himself.
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It wonāt be people ratting out their coworkers. He wants dirt on his enemies.
Anyway, heās just dangling the money as bait. Heāll never pay out, unless itās to a crony.
I think even the trump acolytes know he aināt gonna pay no one nuttinā.
They donāt
This is what happens before the purges.
