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So it's the legal principle of "Fuck you, make me" then, and also "LOL libs, pwned, cry more," which is Latin for "Mommy loved the drugs more than me and oh yeah, I'm still mad"

With a little skimming off the top, the bottom and the sides.

That's illegal.

THEY HAVE NO LEGAL AUTHORITY.

Yeah that's not how it works there buddy. Controlling the purse is Congress's job. This is not the Rent the Runway where you get to borrow it for a while.

Ohhhhh lookit the Fraud Czar czarring everyone

Isn't proclaiming legal authority that they don't have, fraud in itself?

No, not at all. You get to decide who "deserves" appropriated money and "when" and why"??

bsky.app/profile/mick...

Who is we?

But we send money to the Pentagon all the time and they haven’t passed an audit in years. Bitch slapping MN over fraud when the state has prosecuted dozens of people and still does. This is just another blue states bad, red states good. Maybe send trained investigators & not poorly trained goons.

I usually try to come up with something pithy and clever to say about these things nowadays. Not this time. This is just sin.

I’m sorry sir that’s actually incorrect.

Ummm

That's not how any of this works

Good non answer.

So, a "King's Tax"

So with one broad stroke he’s cutting the state? He’s so dumb and embarrassing! 🥴

Not how it works, Mr. CouchF*cker. Were you not present during your law classes in Yale?

Sounds another lawsuit waiting to happen.

otoh, if Vance is nominated as heir apparent, part of the joy would be Trump seeing him get utterly destroyed.

He’s got the most “hated substitute teacher” energy I’ve ever seen.

DISCLAIMER: They do not, in fact, have the legal authority to do this.

That's not how any of this works.

Call your college JD you should get a full refund

Not how it works.

Also known as: Congress has no role

Vice President admitting to embezzlement on camera

Heh heh. Fuckin' Vance acting all important and shit.

Law suit MFERs

“It says right there Article 2 Section 5”

Bullshit

No Chad, that’s not how it works.

No dude wrong!!

This is not Presidential material. When that purple-handed, dementia addled clown croaks, we cannot have this in charge.

If this so-called fraud has been such a massive problem, why didn't this administration's crack anti-fraud team, DOGE, catch it? Weren't they all over Medicaid?

Vance is just another nazi demon

What's wrong with Oz legs? Like he just got off a horse after 400 miles on horseback.

Two righteous assholes.

So…if it’s going to fraudsters…and the federal government makes sure it’s going to who it needs to go to…then…the federal government is making sure it’s going to fraudsters? The math isn’t mathing.

The U.S. government functioned like an adult suffering from severe depression. It was present. It did what little it could with the limited energy available. It's literally broken bad at this point. Trump's state of the Union was Walter pestering Jesse with "it's time to cook!"

"or not" Vance added with a traitorous wink and smile.

Cuz in a sea of pigs he’s a hog 🤮

No, JD, that's not how things work.

DID THEY VOTE ON IT????

This is just the next lawsuit they'll lose. They keep trying to pull already-appropriated funds, getting sued, and losing. Over and over again. They know they'll lose this one, too. It's just more harassment. They're punishing Minnesota for resisting.

The executive branch is responsible for dispensing Medicaid funds?

“We shouldn’t be sending money to people defrauding the American people but we should certainly be pardoning them.” - this regime.

Yeah, no

Ummm.....no that's not how it works. At least in a legitimate democracy & per our constitution.

He’s repulsive to everyone including many republicans. It’s quite an accomplishment being the live trash humans.

Seems like the exact opposite of what they are doing.

He's just such a fucking douchebag. Ignoring his shitty politics and penchant for chesterfields for a moment, on the very face of it he's just a heaping douchebag of a human being.

"We're the ones who actually make sure it actually goes to the people it ought to go to" But you're not doing that if you don't send it anyone whether they are the right people or not.

Who wants to be disbarred?

Well...BlueAnon is, kinda

So based on the couch molester's own words, we should not be giving any money to fraudsters like trump, vance, yada yada, right?

who are the ones out tax money “ought” to go to? Trump and his corrupt oligarchs?

And fuck chucklehead sidekick Oz.

Nope. But he sure just made it fucking easy to get him in court.

We could all use a little more Gilligan in our lives.

I worked with many YLS grads through the years, a couple are now close friends, but also the worst and least competent lawyers I’ve encountered in my practice are invariably YLS grads.

I would say less finishing school and more clerkship factory—but it’s not ideal that the school fielding the most clerks is doing the worst job teaching legal analysis and principles.

Harvard and Stanford are both elite law schools that are still fundamentally similar to the rest of the t14. Yale is categorically different.

Literally just asked my husband what the hell is going on at Yale law school. He knows this is egregiously wrong.

Nah! That’s not quite right

Com'on guys, Dr oz who settled out on multiple lawsuits for false advertising is absolutely the right guy to determine what's fraudulent...

Let’s see the books dbag.

Awaiting another losing day in court

My God this is kind of evil as hell.

“Congress”

That's embezzlement. What he's describing is embezzlement.

Wow… he’s almost got it, doesn’t he?

At some point, blue states are going to have to decide whether civil war is the lesser of evils. Because, right now, it's seems that one side has already declared war on blue state Americans.

Oh really? Is that part of the VPs job?

So a guy walks into a bar…

They will be sued.

In 2029 we better not give a fuckin dime to Ohio.

And in their case “the people it ought to go to” are the billionaires.

No they are not.

Ummmmmm… nope.

Actually, no. It’s the HHS inspector general who performs this function. You’d think a Yale Law grad would know as much …

He's wrong, you know...

Either his Yale law degree needs to be rescinded, or he’s lying shamelessly. 🤬

They do not have the legal authority to do this but these fascists hate the Constitution and democracy so here we are.

Vance isn't in congress

WTF ??! What an asshole

Right in their pockets

So, explain why all our money goes into the pockets of Il Duce, his lieutenants, and his billionaire supporters.

🙄😒🤯

And they'll get away with it because a missing mom update is more important in major legacy media. So we get it now and can we stop the charade already?The question is not the daily outrages but how they get away with them. Corporate power and their propaganda corp media...that's all of it.

...and lawyers are lining up to handle this softball case win.

That doesnt mean you.

"We're the ones who actually make sure it actually goes to the people it ought to go to." Even if they had the authority, how does stopping funds for MN Medicare make it go to "the people it ought to go?" No money means no money. You can look at every state & federal agency & find examples of fraud.

FOLLOW UP! Is anyone else fed up with the Press Pool not following up on questions and letting them lie like that?

Q: Who are those people? JD Vance, probably: Donald J Trump and his family.

fucking racist thieves.

So the King controls the purse strings?

Barely anything they say doesn’t fit “we’ll see what the judge says @ that” response

Illegal

Dr. Crudités just listed all the people that it should be going to when he listed all of the people that it wouldn't be going to.

They don’t have the knowledge to ask follow up question. Markwayne was on a news program the other night talking about the Ayatollah who came to power in 1979 is currently trying to do now in Iran. Contemplating if he’s suicidal. And the anchor says nothing, not even a “WTF?!?!” look on her face.

Boy, Yale really puts out some real dummies.

Hey, J.D. —

WHO IS SUPPOSED TO STOP THEM FROM JUST DOING THIS ILLEGALLY? Do it already.

Yale Law grad!!!

Look at Dr Oz trying to be a big bad dog

Gotta love how the press simply accepts the premise no matter how absurd. "Can you talk about the authority that you don't have in a way that suggests you do?"