The new MAGAt buzzword

[EnergizedLib]

Fraud.

I see the claim of fraud being cried over everything as justification for cutting all social programs, to the point that the word fraud is becoming meaningless in and of itself.

Widespread voter fraud does not exist, nor were the daycare fraud accusations substantiated, but they sure were used to cut, cut, cut. Nick Shirley isn’t some great journalist, just some partisan hack like LibsofTikTok - one looks the other way when the cult leader pardons fraudsters, the other looks the other way when someone from their side sexually abuses children.

The truth is is that none of us have any money. It’s all the government’s money and government knows how to spend our money better than we do. I am a statist, believe it would be better if we abandoned the belief in any God for a worship of the state, but we need to elect Democrats to do so.

The felon letting states trying to handle daycare, Medicare and Medicaid is a disaster, as these things are better done at the federal level, not the state level, that we have an outdated Constitution and need more social programs, not less, and we also need less war to invest in our citizens.

It’s not fraud to look over our fellow people with tax dollars, which is not more important than other people’s well being.

Fraud, as being used, is devolving into a completely meaningless term.

[Orrex]

1. Worship the state? No thanks.

[EnergizedLib]

2. I think we'd be better off for it

If we had one party, leftist rule and worshipped the state.

[Orrex]

5. That's a 100% guarantee of extremist authoritarian tyranny

No thanks.

[ornotna]

6. How did that work out for Venezuela?

No thanks, that’s crazy talk.

[MustLoveBeagles]

22. No

It wouldn't work. We'd become just as evil & corrupt as the MAGA's. Hard pass.

[EnergizedLib]

23. I want to go lower than MAGAs and punish them

[MustLoveBeagles]

24. I understand that but I don't think this is the way

[underpants]

3. Yep I'm seeing it everywhere. It serves both to cut and excuse Trump's debt

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221141148

Trump Says There’s No Money for Daycare Because We Have to Fight Wars

“I said to [Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought], ‘Don’t send any money for daycare because the United States can’t take care of daycare.’ That has to be up to a state. We can’t take care of daycare. We’re a big country. We have 50 states. We have all these other people,” Trump said. “We’re fighting wars. We can’t take care of daycare. You got to let a state take care of daycare and they should pay for it, too. They should pay. They’ll have to raise their taxes, but they should pay for it. And we could lower our taxes a little bit to them to make up.”


“It’s not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things. They can do it on a state basis. You can’t do it on a federal. We have to take care of one thing: military protection. We have to guard the country. But all these little things, all these little scams that have taken place, all you have to you have to let states take care of them,” Trump continued.

[EnergizedLib]

4. States can't be trusted to do the correct thing, though

We can do things at a federal level. It isn’t the 18th Century anymore.

[LymphocyteLover]

13. just completely appalling and disgusting... once again, he shows himself to be absolute scum

[sop]

7. "Fraud" means lower income people receiving entitlements.

[EnergizedLib]

8. Exactly

Anybody receiving help from social programs are fraud, in their eyes.

[oberle]

12. I have a feeling

that you won't last very long here.

[AverageOldGuy]

15. s/he did not last long!!!

Between the time I read the comment and the time it was removed . . . . I read the comment, entered my response, it the POST button, and was told I cannot reply to comments that have been removed !!!!!

[Emile]

16. Library Girl has left the building. Stupid as she is, she'll be back for another slap down.

[GoCubsGo]

10. It's "Every Accusation is a Confession."

Yeah, there's fraud. He and his toadies have been committing it, on steroids, from the get-go.

[LymphocyteLover]

11. it's all disgusting fascist bullshit

[WhiskeyGrinder]

14. Worship the state? When anyone can take it over? That's as silly as pledging allegiance to a flag that anyone

can carry. No thanks.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

17. To your larger point -- they've seen how it can be weaponized in Minnesota, so they're jumping on that train.

Just another flavor of any of their scare tactics -- racism, anti-gay and anti-trans bigotry, etc. After all, hammering on about welfare queens got them "welfare to work," so why not throw everything at the wall and see what sticks?

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

18. How about not "worshiping" anything?

[hadEnuf]

19. If the MAGATs are running around pointing at everybody and screaming fraud,

then they are clearly involved in some kind or terrible fraud right now.

It's how they work. We know this by now.

[talking-liberally]

20. Guilt by accusation. What they blame others of doing is what they are actually doing.

insider trading - stock market manipulation
voter suppression
crypto corruption
global human trafficking and rape
- to name just a few

[hay rick]

21. Childish epistemology.

The adult recognition of the existence of occasional fraud is replaced by a juvenile presumption of fraud everywhere without the bother of collecting evidence. Anecdotal evidence is used to preclude the need for close examination of facts. It's a lifestyle: find your victimhood and we will tell you who to blame.