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EnergizedLib

(3,060 posts)
Thu Apr 2, 2026, 05:59 AM Thursday

The new MAGAt buzzword [View all]

Fraud.

I see the claim of fraud being cried over everything as justification for cutting all social programs, to the point that the word fraud is becoming meaningless in and of itself.

Widespread voter fraud does not exist, nor were the daycare fraud accusations substantiated, but they sure were used to cut, cut, cut. Nick Shirley isn’t some great journalist, just some partisan hack like LibsofTikTok - one looks the other way when the cult leader pardons fraudsters, the other looks the other way when someone from their side sexually abuses children.

The truth is is that none of us have any money. It’s all the government’s money and government knows how to spend our money better than we do. I am a statist, believe it would be better if we abandoned the belief in any God for a worship of the state, but we need to elect Democrats to do so.

The felon letting states trying to handle daycare, Medicare and Medicaid is a disaster, as these things are better done at the federal level, not the state level, that we have an outdated Constitution and need more social programs, not less, and we also need less war to invest in our citizens.

It’s not fraud to look over our fellow people with tax dollars, which is not more important than other people’s well being.

Fraud, as being used, is devolving into a completely meaningless term.

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The new MAGAt buzzword [View all] EnergizedLib Thursday OP
Worship the state? No thanks. Orrex Thursday #1
I think we'd be better off for it EnergizedLib Thursday #2
That's a 100% guarantee of extremist authoritarian tyranny Orrex Thursday #5
How did that work out for Venezuela? ornotna Thursday #6
No MustLoveBeagles Thursday #22
I want to go lower than MAGAs and punish them EnergizedLib Thursday #23
I understand that but I don't think this is the way MustLoveBeagles Thursday #24
Yep I'm seeing it everywhere. It serves both to cut and excuse Trump's debt underpants Thursday #3
States can't be trusted to do the correct thing, though EnergizedLib Thursday #4
just completely appalling and disgusting... once again, he shows himself to be absolute scum LymphocyteLover Thursday #13
"Fraud" means lower income people receiving entitlements. sop Thursday #7
Exactly EnergizedLib Thursday #8
Post removed Post removed Thursday #9
I have a feeling oberle Thursday #12
s/he did not last long!!! AverageOldGuy Thursday #15
Library Girl has left the building. Stupid as she is, she'll be back for another slap down. Emile Thursday #16
Message auto-removed Name removed Friday #25
It's "Every Accusation is a Confession." GoCubsGo Thursday #10
it's all disgusting fascist bullshit LymphocyteLover Thursday #11
Worship the state? When anyone can take it over? That's as silly as pledging allegiance to a flag that anyone WhiskeyGrinder Thursday #14
To your larger point -- they've seen how it can be weaponized in Minnesota, so they're jumping on that train. WhiskeyGrinder Thursday #17
How about not "worshiping" anything? IrishAfricanAmerican Thursday #18
If the MAGATs are running around pointing at everybody and screaming fraud, hadEnuf Thursday #19
Guilt by accusation. What they blame others of doing is what they are actually doing. talking-liberally Thursday #20
Childish epistemology. hay rick Thursday #21
Didn't DOGE find NO Fraud? Bread and Circuses Friday #26
Dump's ugly face should be under the word in Websters Dictionary Blue Owl Friday #27
then we don't need to send them our % of tax dollars ShepKat Friday #28
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