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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    12 days ago

    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.

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    11 days ago

    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.,

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    Next he will fund the Department of Education with 1 mandate, teach children to snitch on their parents.

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    This is literally 1984 shit, as in it’s actually a thing the book talks about, not hyperbole.

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    12 days ago

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

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      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.

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        The Independent is a real journalistic outlet

        “Real journalistic outlets” do not not source their information.

        You want sources, read peer-reviewed research papers

        WTF does that have to do with a White House press release?

        have to conceal their sources to protect them from retribution.

        WTF would The White House need or be entitled to protection?

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    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.

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    How it happened…

    • Trump: We’re not grifting enough.
    • Miller: We’re grifting all the grift. Every scheme we know, in parallel.
    • Big Balls: We’re not smart enough. AI SI is smarter. It can think of more.
    • Trump: I already asked the Google.
    • Big Balls: We need a fraud-specialized training dataset.
    • Miller: Say we’ll pay them to tell us about fraud schemes.
    • Trump: I’m not paying them.
    • Miller: You never do. Just tell them you will.
    • Trump: Are you - a very bald and very short man - criticizing me?
    • Miller: No, sir. ‘mirin’.
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      12 days ago

      Don’t call Thiel’s fucktoys groomed for doge by their own nicknames. Ball boy here the one in question.

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    12 days 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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    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’.