D.H

Marine Veteran. Student of History. Independent not neutral. Receipts over rhetoric. Semper Fi!

[D.H @USMC228]

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@RGeorgeBarnes @florida_cowgirl @dbongino That's not an argument. That's a faith statement.
Faith doesn't audit $4.65 trillion. Facts do.

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Did I say that I knew all 13 million people.
I said I know the ones I watched. The woman at the pharmacy counting change from a sandwich bag. The little girl who's mother couldn't afford all the ingredients to make her a spaghetti & meatball dinner. My mother on $1,300 a month.
Those aren't excuses. Those are people I stood in front of with compassion & my own wallet.
The CBO doesn't know them personally either. They just counted them. 13 million real people. Working adults. Children. Elderly. Disabled. That's not my opinion — that's the nonpartisan scorekeeper Congress uses for every single bill.
If Trump found $120 billion in pure fraud show me the audit that proves it. Not a press release. An audit.
Because the same administration overseeing these cuts just failed its eighth consecutive Pentagon audit with $4.65 trillion unaccounted for.
They can't account for their own books but you trust them to surgically remove only the fraud from SNAP.

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@DemocracyDocket 160 years of fighting for this right. Five states dismantling it right now. The Supreme Court just helped them do it.

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@vampirecitric @patriottakes

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Then show me the data.
The CBO doesn't say 13 million fraudulent people lose coverage. It says 13 million real people — working adults, children, elderly, and disabled — lose Medicaid.
And that's before we talk about $120 billion cut from SNAP while grocery prices are still up 25% from 2020. Gas. Eggs. Rent. All still elevated.
If these cuts were surgical fraud removal the CBO numbers would reflect that. They don't.
You don't get to say you're only targeting fraud when the bill doesn't make that distinction. It just cuts the program and calls it done.
Show me where the fraud ends and the little girl in the grocery store begins. Because the bill sure doesn't know the difference.

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Nobody on assistance wants to stay there. That's not how it works in real life.
My mother got $1,300 in Social Security and $200 in SNAP. She still couldn't make it without help from me and my siblings. That's not gaming anything. That's surviving.
I've watched an elderly woman count change from a sandwich bag at a pharmacy to pay for prescriptions that I covered for her. I've covered the difference for a mother who couldn't complete a meal for her daughter at a grocery store.
Those are the people you're talking about when you say fraud.
The Pentagon just failed its eighth consecutive audit. $4.65 trillion in assets unaccounted for. Eight straight years. No cuts. No outrage. No sandwich bags.
But sure. Tell me more about fraud.

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Fraud. People not wanting to work.
That's been the excuse since Ronald Reagan invented the welfare queen in 1976. Fifty years of the same story about poor people gaming the system.
You know who actually games the system?
Defense contractors that overcharge the Pentagon by billions annually. Corporate farms collecting $50 billion in federal subsidies. PPP loans that went to businesses that didn't need them and never got paid back. Oil companies collecting tax breaks on record profits.
Those aren't poor people. Those are the people who write the laws.
The difference is when a single mom gets $400 in SNAP it's called fraud. When Lockheed Martin overbills the Defense Department by $400 million it's called a contract dispute.
Same system. Different rules depending on who you are.

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Eggs and milk improving slightly after spiking 40% isn't a victory. That's baseline recovery.
And "we all know why they cut SNAP" — tell me. Because the CBO says 13 million people lose coverage. The majority are working adults, children, elderly, and disabled people.
If you know a better reason than that, say it out loud. Don't imply it.
Fake outrage would be getting upset over nothing. $120 billion cut from food assistance while extending $4 trillion in tax cuts for the wealthy isn't nothing.
That's a choice. Own it.

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@RGeorgeBarnes @florida_cowgirl @dbongino 172,000 jobs added.
Median wage still doesn't cover rent in 60% of American cities.
Moms are working two jobs to make ends meet while Congress just cut $120 billion in food assistance.
The number looks good on television. It doesn't feel good at the grocery store.

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172,000 jobs sounds great on a screen.
Ask the mom working two of them whether she feels it.
Grocery bills up 25% since 2020. Rent up 30%. Interest rates killed the housing market for first time buyers. The Big Beautiful Bill just cut food assistance for the same working families those jobs are supposed to help.
A jobs number tells you how many people are working. It doesn't tell you whether one job is enough to survive on anymore.
That's the kitchen table. Not the Dow Jones ticker.

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To answer your original question — yes, people can change. But change requires acknowledgment.
Rick Scott never admitted wrongdoing. Never apologized. Invoked the Fifth 75 times and walked away with $350 million. A person who changed would say "I was wrong, here's what I learned." Rick Scott's version of change is getting elected to the Senate and cutting the same Medicare and Medicaid his company defrauded. That's not redemption. That's continuation with a title.
On the system itself — you're not wrong about fraud and you're not wrong that work requirements with real support behind them make sense.
But here's the reality. The people abusing the system are always a small percentage. You find that same percentage in corporate welfare, defense contractor fraud, and PPP loans that never got paid back. We don't eliminate those programs because of the bad actors.
And work requirements only work if the person CAN work. Disabled people. Single mothers with no childcare. People with mental illness. Addiction is a disease — not a moral failure. Most people on assistance are already working and still can't make ends meet.
You were in the system. You know the majority of people in it aren't lazy. They're stuck in something that was never designed to actually lift them out.
Fix the fraud. Modernize the system. But don't punish 13 million people for the sins of a small percentage.
That's the distinction that matters.

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Fair enough. Fraud in government programs is real and it should be prosecuted aggressively. No argument there.
But here's the problem with using fraud as the justification for these specific cuts.
The Big Beautiful Bill doesn't target fraud. It caps Medicaid funding structurally and adds work requirements that CBO says will remove 13 million people from coverage — the majority of whom are already working.
If fraud is the target, prosecute the fraud. Don't cut the benefit and call it cleanup.
And on good faith — you're right that I should answer your questions directly. The answer is yes, fraud matters. The answer is also that these cuts go way beyond fraud and hit people who did nothing wrong.
That's the distinction worth having.

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We have to cut spending for our grandkids.
Ronald Reagan said that in 1981.
The debt was $1 trillion then. It's $36 trillion now.
Every Republican administration since has cut taxes at the top and run deficits. Bush. Bush again. Trump the first time. Now this.
They're not cutting spending. They're cutting Medicaid, food assistance, and healthcare for working people while handing $4 trillion in tax cuts to people who don't need it.
45 years. Same line. Different grandkids.

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People can change. Fair point.
So let's look at what Rick Scott is doing right now.
He voted YES on $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts and $120 billion in SNAP cuts in the Big Beautiful Bill. Today. Not 1997.
A man who ran the largest Medicare fraud in U.S. history is currently in the Senate cutting healthcare for the people who need it most.
That's not change. It's the same instinct with a Senate vote attached.

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@Dawson4Trump @leftcoastbabe @harryjsisson An opinion is "I disagree with her reporting."
Standing in the Oval Office calling a journalist corrupt and commenting on her looks while she's doing her job isn't an opinion. It's a president using his platform to intimidate the press.
There's a difference. You know it.

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Nobody said that. Read it again.
The argument is that Black voters have the right to elect representatives of their choice — that's what Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act actually says.
A federal court found Alabama intentionally diluted that right. Called it "not a close call."
Calling that racist doesn't answer the court record. It just ignores it.

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A federal court ruled Alabama's map was intentional racial discrimination. Their exact words: "not a close call."
The Supreme Court just overruled them 6-3. Conservative majority only. Zero Republican dissents.
The result: one majority-Black district eliminated. A Black Democrat likely loses his seat.
That's not following the Constitution. That's the Supreme Court overriding a discrimination finding to help Republicans hold the House.

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@AperionPhygas @WesleyHuntTX She's not stuck. She's right.
Tennessee expelled two Black legislators for using a bullhorn. Alabama fought the Voting Rights Act to the Supreme Court. Republican legislatures eliminated majority-Black districts in four states.
That's not a worldview. That's a public record.