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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[–] 64 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago

    No it's the Russian system. Everyone in the administration gets bribes and kickbacks all the time, only those who fall out of favor get exposed, there is no actual calling that doesn't matter. It's just a way of punishing people that displease trump by exposing their shocking corruption, while everyone else's is there but hidden. When everyone gets corruption only those who are naughty to the president get punished.

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  • [–] 118 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (11 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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  • [–] 58 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    I'd like to just find people to play mahjong with casually. Getting paid would be a bonus.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago

    Don't know about mahjong specifically, although especially if you provided the tiles, I bet there's a senior center that would help set something like that up. Some older folks in those places can be a little mentally not all there, but a significant portion have physical issues, and not all of them by any means are annoying-ass "Boomers". I bet you could set up a regular (or maybe even irregular) time to go socialize, and maybe even find one or two that know the game (although I think mahjong is pretty easy to pick up casually). :)

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  • [–] 43 points 2 weeks 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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  • [–] 10 points 2 weeks 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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  • [–] 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

    I can hear the conservative talk radio hosts my parents worshiped when I was growing up complaining about this sort of thing, saying they ain’t real jobs.

    Conservatives especially but really it’s probably a much larger portion of Americans than I want to think about, have been so thoroughly pilled by capitalist brainwashing that they think a job doesn’t count unless someone involved is making money from the job.

    “Cause if it isn’t making dollars, then it isn’t making sense. If you aren’t moving units then youre not worth the expense” -David Bazan

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  • [–] 51 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 72 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

    Oh good. Stasi techniques.

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  • [–] 36 points 2 weeks ago (3 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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  • [–] 14 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    What is this amateur hour?

    It's like the typos and grammatical errors in Nigerian prince scams: those with a working brain won't fall for it anyway, so they're screened out early, and the rubes will get sucked in because they don't notice anything suspicious.

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  • [–] 34 points 2 weeks ago

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

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  • [–] 34 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 27 points 2 weeks ago

    Ah, the good old Nazi Germany "Blockwart". Yep, another tick off on the list.

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  • [–] 26 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    This is fascism. We are here

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  • [–] 24 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (1 child)

    For real this is one of the more jarring things I’ve read about this admin in a while. And I keep up with it far more than is probably healthy.

    I’ve been white knuckling the past few weeks because I have this gut feeling that midterms are going to be a crazy watershed moment and it appears that tensions are beginning to boil over

    I expect this announcement was released two weeks prior so that they can weaponize it in battleground elections. This might get really ugly really fast

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  • [–] 21 points 3 weeks 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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  • [–] 9 points 2 weeks 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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  • [–] 20 points 2 weeks 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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  • [–] 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    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'.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 weeks 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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  • [–] 16 points 2 weeks ago

    This is what happens before the purges.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    I think even the trump acolytes know he ain't gonna pay no one nuttin'.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 12 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    Is this to help them round up illegal immigrants?

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago

    There's strong circumstantial evidence that Trump was a rat for SDNY in the 80s. And, since Trump regards himself as a model of human excellence worthy of emulation in every respect, it's no surprise that he's now promoting snitches.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 weeks ago
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    Republican presidents always seem to start some neighborhood NARC program.

    See George W Bush and the TIPS program for reference.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_TIPS

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  • [–] 10 points 2 weeks 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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  • [–] 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 9 points 2 weeks ago*

    25 mil is a insult to whistle blowers. He has spent more on golf.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 weeks ago

    So a one stop shop to report Trump fraud? 🤔

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  • [–] 8 points 2 weeks ago

    Trump added, he will be the personal arbiter on whether the fraud is real and how much money you get.

    No-one will be getting a red cent.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 weeks ago

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

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  • [–] 6 points 2 weeks ago

    Burn the whitehouse down. Seriously wtf

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  • [–] 6 points 2 weeks 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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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago

    BUT MUH PARKIN TICKETS

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  • [–] 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 0 points 2 weeks ago*

    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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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago

    This man is alive only because you allow it

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    It's a Symphony of Toasted Pain!

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago

    Hm. The japanese did this with the population here in Malaysia during WW2. Basically to instill fear in anyone planning an opposition against the invading forces. It's horrible when you don't know who you can trust, and definitely from the dictator playbook.

    Hey america, it says 'enemies, both foreign and domestic'. How about exercising some of those freedoms and liberties?

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  • [–] 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

    Go on, say 'but the Dems/the libs'.

    Out yourselves as shitbrained traitors sowing discourse while fucking fascists continue to shout about their fascist plans.

    So many here are cooked in the brain. You have a fucking signposted enemy right in front of you all.

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    [–] 7 points 2 weeks ago

    Trump and Vance... rage spiral

    It doesn't count unless one of them is dead. Preferably both.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    “The president always loses, whatever the reason, the midterms,” said Trump. “Great presidents, lousy presidents.”

    Did he just accept it?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago*

    That didn't happen.
    And if it did, it wasn’t that bad.
    And if it was, that’s not a big deal.
    And if it is, that’s not my fault.
    And if it was, I didn't mean it.
    And if I did, you deserved it

    It’s not acceptance so much as rationalizing how he could possibly lose.

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