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.

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[–] 1 point 4 minutes ago

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.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 hours ago*

    Why do we think it's okay to link to clickbait publications that don't publish any sources?

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  • [–] 24 points 4 hours ago

    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??

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  • [–] 75 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (9 children)

    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 don't even know where to start with this. This sounds like an AI hallucination.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 minutes ago

    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?

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  • [–] 26 points 3 hours ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 36 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

    I'd… I'd like to be paid to unpack groceries and play mahjong in senior centers

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  • [–] 49 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

    Oh good. Stasi techniques.

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  • [–] 25 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

    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.".

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  • [–] 7 points 3 hours ago (1 child)

    ZOMG!!! How can you write such things?!? You must be antisemitic.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 hours ago

    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?

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  • [–] 41 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

    This is for kickbacks or bribes. You won't be selected unless you know him personally.

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  • [–] 12 points 4 hours ago

    This is what happens before the purges.

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  • [–] 19 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

    This is fascism. We are here

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  • [–] 26 points 5 hours ago

    The Whitehouse ballroom? The reflecting pool? Trump accounts? Argentinian "beef"? Gimme muh money!!!

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  • [–] 4 points 3 hours ago (1 child)

    He's going to throw so much chum in the midterm waters that Americans won't even see the ballot.

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  • [–] 18 points 4 hours ago

    Holy Shit, what the fuck did I just read…these people are clinically insane.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 hours ago

    Burn the whitehouse down. Seriously wtf

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  • [–] 11 points 4 hours ago (1 child)

    Maybe it's time we did something about the president.

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  • [–] 16 points 5 hours ago (1 child)

    “The president always loses, whatever the reason, the midterms,” said Trump. “Great presidents, lousy presidents. Oz,is there a reason you can think of, medically?” Oz laughed weakly at that, and the president continued: “I do say this: When I was on the ticket — when I ran, we won everything. When I don’t run, people don't show up to vote. If I could get my voters to get out to vote… we’d win in a landslide.”

    People are gonna show up and vote in midterms....

    Republicans tho...

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  • [–] 8 points 4 hours ago

    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.

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    Is this to help them round up illegal immigrants?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 hours ago

    This man is alive only because you allow it

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  • [–] 4 points 4 hours ago

    BUT MUH PARKIN TICKETS

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