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

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

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

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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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    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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    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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      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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      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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          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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      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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      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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          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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            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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    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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      I know a guy who spent millions of taxpayer dollars running political ads to stoke his own ego. Maybe I can report him and get a payout.