14,000 food stamp recipients own luxury vehicles

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Res Ipsa wrote:
Sat May 02, 2026 11:45 pm
ajax wrote:How did Nick Shirley, a kid with nothing more than a phone and a youtube channel, go and uncover more Somali daycare fraud than any mainstream media outlet full of paid professionals? It wasn't uncovered because they wanted this fraud to remain hidden.
As to your question about Nick Shirley, he didn't.
Shirley is quite late to the show, given that the investigation by MN State officials of fraud within these programs has been going on since 2019.

https://www.congress.gov/119/meeting/ho ... -SD006.pdf

But since Fox did not make that fact known, MAGA believes that Nick Shirley was the person to ‘discover’ what has been happening, and similarly believes that State officials were ‘covering up’ fraud that they were actually investigating and prosecuting.
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I guarantee you that the people arguing for limited government and personal responsibility are not the same people who own a $350k Roll's Royce while being on food stamps.
I'm trying to remember all of the times you demanded that George Santos be kicked out when his $24,000 unemployment benefits fraud was discovered (on top of the identity theft, and other forms of fraud). For some odd reason, I'm drawing a blank.

Surely though, you started a thread when Phil Bryant was involved in the largest welfare fraud conspiracy to have ever existed in the entire history of his state, right?
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Doctor Steuss wrote:
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I guarantee you that the people arguing for limited government and personal responsibility are not the same people who own a $350k Roll's Royce while being on food stamps.
I'm trying to remember all of the times you demanded that George Santos be kicked out when his $24,000 unemployment benefits fraud was discovered (on top of the identity theft, and other forms of fraud). For some odd reason, I'm drawing a blank.

Surely though, you started a thread when Phil Bryant was involved in the largest welfare fraud conspiracy to have ever existed in the entire history of his state, right?
ajax is very concerned about a mythical food stamp recipient that owns a Rolls Royce, when the source of that story states that this is likely a case of identity theft.

We at least know that ajax voted for the last Presidential candidate to have 34 actual fraud convictions and who is currently trying to shake down the US Government for $10 Billion while running at least two active memecoin scams.

Speaking of scamming Joe Six Pack, I sure hope that ajax didn’t put a deposit down for a Trump phone, considering that his deposit will be cashed and ported over to another Trump LLC, but no phone will ever be sent, let alone produced.
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If you want to predict food stamp necessity look for the red hat and a truck, if not two. There is no such thing as luxury cars anymore and the main unaffordable vehicles people buy today are trucks. The most likely indication of a person living beyond their means is the possession of a truck. Ajax owns a truck. While he can afford it, he's in the top 2 percentile, financially, of his intellectual peers. Ninety percent of those in his circle but below him financially are living beyond their means if there is a truck parked in their driveway.
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Gadianton wrote:
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If you want to predict food stamp necessity look for the red hat and a truck, if not two. There is no such thing as luxury cars anymore and the main unaffordable vehicles people buy today are trucks. The most likely indication of a person living beyond their means is the possession of a truck. Ajax owns a truck. While he can afford it, he's in the top 2 percentile, financially, of his intellectual peers. Ninety percent of those in his circle but below him financially are living beyond their means if there is a truck parked in their driveway.
Don't forget the extra cost of the bumper stickers either!
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Gadianton wrote:
Fri May 15, 2026 1:58 am
If you want to predict food stamp necessity look for the red hat and a truck, if not two. There is no such thing as luxury cars anymore and the main unaffordable vehicles people buy today are trucks. The most likely indication of a person living beyond their means is the possession of a truck. Ajax owns a truck. While he can afford it, he's in the top 2 percentile, financially, of his intellectual peers. Ninety percent of those in his circle but below him financially are living beyond their means if there is a truck parked in their driveway.
If they're not collecting welfare, what's wrong with them owning a truck or having credit card debt? Country boys have trucks because they are useful, not because they are being extravagant.
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If they're not collecting welfare, what's wrong with them owning a truck or having credit card debt? Country boys have trucks because they are useful, not because they are being extravagant.
High levels of private debt predict economic downturn better than the kind you hate but yet your party contributes to the most, public debt. Also, people living beyond their means are more likely to end up collecting "welfare" of some kind -- that's where it starts. If only "country boys" were buying trucks and using them for work they wouldn't be so expensive. You have a truck for the same reason 95% of today's truck owners have one, it's a status symbol within your political party. It's the very definition of "extravagance". As Thorstein Veblen explained, status is derived from uselessness. When people see you drive up to the optometry store in that big 100k truck, all jacked up and with tacky political stickers, people are envious because your ability to afford the good life is perceived as proportional to the unneeded features of your vehicle.

Even fewer country boys need trucks for work these days as your political party has all but put the final nail in the coffin of the family farm and other types of family trade businesses that rely on importing machinery. So now virtually nobody actually needs a truck for what they were originally built for.

Sure buddy, where I grew up, people had trucks either for work or to go four-wheeling or both. I can respect buying a truck to go four-wheeling as that's a legit use of the vehicle. One guy in my neighborhood has two jacked up trucks of the same model that must be 100k plus each. I doubt either of them have ever carried anything in the back or spent a minute on an unpaved road.
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ajax18 wrote:
Sat May 16, 2026 5:37 pm
Gadianton wrote:
Fri May 15, 2026 1:58 am
If you want to predict food stamp necessity look for the red hat and a truck, if not two. There is no such thing as luxury cars anymore and the main unaffordable vehicles people buy today are trucks. The most likely indication of a person living beyond their means is the possession of a truck. Ajax owns a truck. While he can afford it, he's in the top 2 percentile, financially, of his intellectual peers. Ninety percent of those in his circle but below him financially are living beyond their means if there is a truck parked in their driveway.
If they're not collecting welfare, what's wrong with them owning a truck or having credit card debt? Country boys have trucks because they are useful, not because they are being extravagant.
Trump just doubled down and said, again, that he doesn’t care about your financial situation.

You’re being scammed.
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