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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      22 hours ago

      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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          19 hours ago

          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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            10 hours 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.