If they want to tackle fraud, they should start in Washington, DC, and then move on to Florida and Texas.
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Why are blue states funding failing red states when all they can do is elect pedophiles to threaten us?
California is a shockingly purple state, tbh. The cities just happen to high enough density to outweigh the rest. Once you leave them, things get really red really quick.
That's literally every state, and that's because cities are where the people are, and people vote, not land. For instance, the only reason Georgia has Democratic senators is because of Atlanta.
Usually, the cities in a state have a LOT more people than all the rural regions combined, so that's where the votes are concentrated. Simple as that.
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Because people vote, not land. But yes, California is full of deplorable, hateful, subhuman Republicans once you get outside the major metro areas.
~~California~~*
*America**
**(maybe not Vermont)
Nah, there are tons of trumpers in Vermont too unfortunately. It's the same story no matter what state ur in. At least it's less than in NH, or Maine.
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And predictably, they will be cleared of suspicion after these false accusations are examined ant their lives ruined.
Hurry! Stir up more bullshit, we need to distract from Iran which was our distraction from the Epstein Files!!!
the epstien files dont even matter when you are elite ultra rich above the law and rigging markets while doing the usual US leadership move of create value for the weapons manufacturers that sponsor you, those million dollar missile defense systems arent going to sell themselves, and there is tons of money to be made in fracturing society with culture wars and raiding the fake ops of the moment, and all the while halting the progress of society that would make other important sponsors like fossil fuels become irrelevant
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can't wait to see who wins the "first sitting governor to be arrested by the Trump admin" bet on polymarket.
polymarket
That thing so much needs to be extremely fucking illegal.
Burning it to the ground would be OK if outlawing it takes too long.
Fucking really? There’s a bet for that? I’m both shocked and sadly not surprised at all. Everything I hear about Polymarket betting is so appalling.
I did not bother to check if it actually exists, I actually don't know if they would allow that specific bet. But, they are ghouls that profit off the exploitation of the powerless so I'm sure they're working on it.
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Prosecutors allege the defendants billed Medicare and other government programs for services that were unnecessary or never provided, including enrolling patients who were not terminally ill in hospice to maximize reimbursements. Officials said the cases are part of a push to crack down on fraud in publicly funded health programs, which investigators say account for significant financial losses across the system.
I mean, ok. If the fraud is real, then go after the perpetrators. Sure. It's beyond stupid to only target blue states, though. Fraud happens in red states, too, I guarantee it.
They're OK with institutionalized fraud, especially if they're able to wet their beaks. Freelance fraud, not so much.
Not that I'm convinced that they actually have a case. This looks like another case of political revenge leading to dodgy indictments that are used as political fodder until the trials collapse.
Fraud happens in red states, too, I guarantee it.
I worked as a programmer for a number of companies involved in the defense industry and government in Louisiana and Mississippi. It is nothing but fraud down there. Well, fraud and crawfish.
Rick Scott is the senator of.... Which state was it again?
Florida, but when he did the medicare fraud he was Governor. So the brilliant minds in Florida decided that even after it came out that he was party to the biggest medicare fraud in history, he deserved to be senator after his 8 glorious years of Governorship.
Nope, back up, time for clarification. Rick Scott was NOT governor when he did his record-setting Medicare fraud. That came much earlier, in the 90s, when he was CEO of a Florida hospital chain. They committed the biggest case of Medicare fraud in history, and when he was deposed, he pled the Fifth something like 175 times.
Somehow they managed to convince the court to blame the corporation for the crime, and the corporation was punished with a massive fine, the largest in Medicare history, which still stand, as far as I know.
For his part, Rick Scott walked away with a sizeable fine, but he got to keep most of his stolen fortune. He was fired from his company, but he found that his particular skills set was transferrable to conservative politics.
So technically, it was the company for which he was responsible for all day to day operations, including profitability, that was convicted of the crime, but not the person who actually did it?
I still always refer to him as Convicted Criminal Senator Rick Scott. He really really hates that, and whines about it all the time. But he just whines all the time anyway, so who cares?
As for being elected, remember that Florida's elections have been fully rigged for several election cycles. They allow a few Dems to hold Congressional seats because they have to. In the past few years, DeSatan has been removing duly elected Democrats from any positions they have, and replacing them with his own hand-picked people. He's done it to a couple of prosecutors, a sheriff, a police captain, and he's gone after a few others who have so far managed to evade him.
Several L.A. hospice and healthcare providers were raided by federal authorities early Thursday morning.
The crackdown on the city resulted in eight arrests and the suspension of 221 facilities over 10 weeks, officials said.
So raiding and shutting down healthcare facilities in Democratic states is the new distraction from the USA losing its own war in Iran and destroying the world's economy, which was the distraction from Trump raping children?
When was the last time the Republicans did anything actually good and helpful?
The legends tell of a time when conservatives were supportive of the environment. But I've never seen it and I’m a old.
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Trump said future operations will be nationwide "but primarily in those Blue States where CROOKED DEMOCRAT POLITICIANS" are in charge, Trump said, namechecking California, Illinois, Minnesota, Maine, and New York.
The fact that this dipshit is announcing that he's specifically targeting democratic states gives anyone targeted in those states a reasonable argument the prosecutions are politically motivated and in violation of the equal protection clause of the Constitution. Now, that doesn't mean that the targeted harassment won't be a nightmare for those targeted, but if he kept his stupid mouth shut he'd be more effective with his illegal prosecutions.
The states:
… California, Illinois, Minnesota (Somalia beware!), Maine, New York, and many others …
This is so fatiguing
Seen the movie Civil War?
I liked the ending.
Keep pushing and they'll push blue states into a coalition.
Guy who charges taxpayers for him to golf at his own golf course is really concerned about fraud.
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Warnings, my ass. Those are threats.
268,000,000 people. That's how many people the regime desires to remove from the US.
Whether its deportation, or a body bag, or just plain fleeing, they dont give a damn.
The more we push back, the worse it will get. But thays the thing about authoritarians, they try to use fear the entire time. What happens when the people no longer fear the regime?
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Fraud, like spending billions on a pointless ballroom, the military, and a war with Iran? I'm sure all the fraud in the US involving tax dollars pales in comparison to those.
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Several hospice and health care providers were raided by federal authorities
I see his attacks on medical facilities and personnel are not limited to other nations. Foucault's boomerang in action, even if the mechanism of the attacks is different.
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