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Why are blue states funding failing red states when all they can do is elect pedophiles to threaten us?
Also, do these traitors realize there's a shit ton of their voters in these blue states they're threatening? There are a TON of Republicans in California.
California is a shockingly purple state, tbh. The cities just happen to have high enough density to outweigh the rest. Once you leave them, things get really red really quick. It's basically like Texas, just favouring the other side.
That's literally every state, and that's because cities are where the people are, and people vote, not land. For instance, the only reason Georgia has Democratic senators is because of Atlanta.
Usually, the cities in a state have a LOT more people than all the rural regions combined, so that's where the votes are concentrated. Simple as that.
For sure, people just seem to think if someone's from California, they must be a bleeding heart liberal, when that's very much not the case.
Republicans in California are a small percentage of the population. It's just that there's a lot of Californians.
Because people vote, not land. But yes, California is full of deplorable, hateful, subhuman Republicans once you get outside the major metro areas.
Prosecutors allege the defendants billed Medicare and other government programs for services that were unnecessary or never provided, including enrolling patients who were not terminally ill in hospice to maximize reimbursements. Officials said the cases are part of a push to crack down on fraud in publicly funded health programs, which investigators say account for significant financial losses across the system.
I mean, ok. If the fraud is real, then go after the perpetrators. Sure. It's beyond stupid to only target blue states, though. Fraud happens in red states, too, I guarantee it.
Rick Scott is the senator of.... Which state was it again?
Florida, ~~but when he did the medicare fraud he was Governor. So the brilliant minds in Florida decided that even after it came out that he was party to the biggest medicare fraud in history, he deserved to be senator after his 8 glorious years of Governorship.~~
Edit: I was mistaken, see BarneyPiccolo's comment below.
Nope, back up, time for clarification. Rick Scott was NOT governor when he did his record-setting Medicare fraud. That came much earlier, in the 90s, when he was CEO of a Florida hospital chain. They committed the biggest case of Medicare fraud in history, and when he was deposed, he pled the Fifth something like 175 times.
Somehow they managed to convince the court to blame the corporation for the crime, and the corporation was punished with a massive fine, the largest in Medicare history, which still stand, as far as I know.
For his part, Rick Scott walked away with a sizeable fine, but he got to keep most of his stolen fortune. He was fired from his company, but he found that his particular skills set was transferrable to conservative politics.
So technically, it was the company for which he was responsible for all day to day operations, including profitability, that was convicted of the crime, but not the person who actually did it?
I still always refer to him as Convicted Criminal Senator Rick Scott. He really really hates that, and whines about it all the time. But he just whines all the time anyway, so who cares?
As for being elected, remember that Florida's elections have been fully rigged for several election cycles. They allow a few Dems to hold Congressional seats because they have to. In the past few years, DeSatan has been removing duly elected Democrats from any positions they have, and replacing them with his own hand-picked people. He's done it to a couple of prosecutors, a sheriff, a police captain, and he's gone after a few others who have so far managed to evade him.
Fraud happens in red states, too, I guarantee it.
I worked as a programmer for a number of companies involved in the defense industry and government in Louisiana and Mississippi. It is nothing but fraud down there. Well, fraud and crawfish.
Well, fraud and crawfish.
What better combination than graft and mud bugs?
They're OK with institutionalized fraud, especially if they're able to wet their beaks. Freelance fraud, not so much.
Not that I'm convinced that they actually have a case. This looks like another case of political revenge leading to dodgy indictments that are used as political fodder until the trials collapse.
If they want to tackle fraud, they should start in Washington, DC, and then move on to Florida and Texas.
And predictably, they will be cleared of suspicion after these false accusations are examined ant their lives ruined.
Dear grim reaper: please hurry the fuck up!
We will still be left with Vance who is just as bad if not worse.
And millions of inbreds who are ready and willing to support the next criminal pedo rapist racist piece of shit the GOP elevates.
Trump can be gone. Vance can be gone. The whole admin can be gone. Those inbreds are still going to be there. For the rest of our lives.
So one down more to go?
And whomever he chooses as VP...
Yeah no shit, we have to be sad about awesome actors but the Orange douche here is running around like he's had half a life left. He'll be remembered alright and if there's an afterlife I hope they make him watch everyone bitch about his existence.
Several hospice and health care providers were raided by federal authorities
I see his attacks on medical facilities and personnel are not limited to other nations. Foucault's boomerang in action, even if the mechanism of the attacks is different.
holy shit they are raiding hospices now? as someone who has visited a hospice to make my spouses mother as comfortable as she could be as she died, thats an unimagineable level of cruelty. Theres no money to be saved there-- theres no point except inflicting cruelty on the most defenseless group of people imaginable.
Boomers, you are OK with this? Is this what "winning against woke" looks like for you?
Our government bombs schools and then the parents and rescue workers that come to help. It seems that no level of depravity is off the table for these fucking degenerates.
No lives matter, except for the rich. And they have the fucking balls to ask "why aren't people ~~creating new victims~~ reproducing anymore?"
Cruelty is the point.
If there are real cases of fraud that are punished AND more pissed off people voting against him in the midterms, I'd say that's a win-win.