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‘The dog that didn’t bark’ in Minnesota
American Thinker ^ | 8 Jan, 2026 | Douglas Flint

Posted on 01/09/2026 5:51:33 AM PST by MtnClimber

When the mainstream “journalists” can’t find a legitimate Somali-run business, it must be bad.

The Somali fraud scandal that slow-burned for nearly a decade has exploded with the force of the Pacific Palisades wildfire. Ironically in both events, Democrat politicians laid the ground work for the disaster and left the burning embers that are now consuming them. Indeed, if followed to its logical conclusion, it will be found Minneapolis is just a typical blue city built on a model of fraud that’s been replicated elsewhere: legal and illegal immigration that has allowed them to electorally take over states they would otherwise have no chance in. But that is another story for another time.

When Nick Shirely released his viral podcast of his daycare center fraud investigation, the reactions were utterly predictable. The local politicians cried racism, white supremacy, and Islamophobia. The mainstream media, CNN specifically, made absolute clowns of themselves claiming to have disproved his claims by asking the fraudsters if there was any fraud. None of it was working, and a firestorm hasn’t spread this fast since Curtis Lemay’s boys visited Tokyo one night in 1945. But as Sherlock Holmes found, the real clue is “the dog that didn’t bark.”

By this time, there must be hundreds of leftwing journalists and Democrat politicians searching Minneapolis for a clean, well-run Somali daycare center full of happy children and well-kept record books to show the public. Or perhaps a Somali-run food bank providing food for the hungry. Or a Somali autism treatment center with professional doctors and therapists treating patients. Or a Somali transport company, happily transporting the aged and infirm to their doctor appointments and their shopping needs. Anything to prove Nick Shirely had just found a few bad apples. But like Abraham trying desperately to find ten righteous souls

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society
KEYWORDS: leftism; lootingthetreasury; minnesota; somalia
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1 posted on 01/09/2026 5:51:33 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Not even one?


2 posted on 01/09/2026 5:51:46 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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3 posted on 01/09/2026 5:57:20 AM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: MtnClimber
In this case of Somali entitlement fraud, the truth is definitely where you don't find it.
4 posted on 01/09/2026 5:59:50 AM PST by rdcbn1 (..when poets buy guns, tourist season is over................Walter R. Mead.l)
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To: MtnClimber

Not even one well-paid, mainstream propagandist.


5 posted on 01/09/2026 6:00:01 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: MtnClimber

We need to limit the ability of Democrats to buy votes by placing middle-class tax caps in the federal constitution.

The high-income people have the Laffer Curve effect to protect them.

Enter in bills for two constitutional amendments.

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Levies on any residential property of less than 2799 square feet of finished living space shall be no higher than the 2019 dollar amounts for the property, or for a newer or since resold property no higher than what it would have been levied at for 2019 if it lacked owner specific tax breaks, increased by 3% per calendar year since 2019 and by any percentage increase to its finished living space.

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Federal taxation on personal income shall be progressively capped as follows:
below 20% of the median federal full-time civilian employee compensation amount, 10%,
below 50% of the median federal full-time civilian employee compensation amount, 22%,
below the median federal full-time civilian employee compensation amount, 30%,
below the average federal full-time civilian employee compensation of the 100,000 largest recipients, 35%,
below the average federal full-time civilian employee compensation of the 10,000 largest recipients, 40%.

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[Note 1: All percentages to include employee FICA and self-employment tax as they are income taxes.]
[Note 2: These are very close to the combined (1040 + employee FICA & Medicare) personal income tax rates now levied.]
[Note 3: Anything that the IRS would as of January 1, 2024 legally be able to collect income tax on if provided to any person would be considered compensation.]

Fighting in Congress to send middle-class income and property taxation cap constitutional amendments to the states would make Congress turn deep red come 2027.


6 posted on 01/09/2026 6:02:11 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: MtnClimber
The "learing" center is the prototype for all of them.

Thing about it. We're being fleeced by people that can't even spell learning. Pathetic


7 posted on 01/09/2026 6:03:12 AM PST by ProudDeplorable (Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. ~ Ronald Reagan)
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Laugh break.

There’s hundreds of leftwing journalists and airheaded
Democrats looking high and low, searching Minneapolis
<><>for just one clean, well-run Somali daycare full of happy thriving children
<><>for daycares w/ well-kept record books to show the tax-paying public
<><>perhaps there’s a lawful Somali-run food bank providing food for the hungry.
<><>Or a law-abiding Somali autism treatment center with doctors and therapists treating patients.
<><>Or a Somali transport company, happily carrying the aged and infirm to Dr’s appointments.

Lefties are looking for “Anything” to prove Nick Shirley had just found a few bad apples.......
like Abraham trying desperately to find ten righteous souls........


8 posted on 01/09/2026 6:04:35 AM PST by Liz (Jonathan Swift: Government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.)
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To: MtnClimber

The author misses the point. The stolen aid and food was provided to those at home...... in Somalia.


9 posted on 01/09/2026 6:05:32 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Quid Quid Nominatur Fabricatur)
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To: Brian Griffin

Home owners above the age of 65 should not be subject to property taxes. Make it a USC amendment.


10 posted on 01/09/2026 6:05:42 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn... )
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To: Brian Griffin

They will just add the welfare fraud programs to the national debt.


11 posted on 01/09/2026 6:07:24 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: ProudDeplorable

Early childhood scholars are enrolled in the Learing Center


12 posted on 01/09/2026 6:07:26 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Quid Quid Nominatur Fabricatur)
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To: MtnClimber

Or the $700 million of cash stuffed in suitcases leaving the Minneapolis airport headed to Dubai in a two year period. All declared, but you’d think eyebrows would be raised.

John Solomon’s been reporting on this.


13 posted on 01/09/2026 6:07:36 AM PST by randita
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CNN Reporter: “Is there any fraud going on here?”
Somali Fraudster: “No, we are all legitimate-run businesses.”
CNN Reporter: “And why are you dressed like pirate?”
Somali Fraudster: “It’s dress-like-a-pirates day here at our legitimate business.”
CNN Reporter: “And there you have it, another right-wing conspiracy debunked.”


14 posted on 01/09/2026 6:08:31 AM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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To: PGalt

At least three states, CA, IL, and NYS are funneling taxpayer money to the enemedia.

Deep State buys silence and compliance with our tax dollars.

And take a look at the people the enemedia is hiring, especially local and smaller market enemedia.

Check out the people behind the bylines.

Deep State knows what it’s getting.


15 posted on 01/09/2026 6:13:26 AM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)
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Call Congress
US Capitol switchboard
(202) 224-3121.
Call the White House
Comments: 202-456-1111
Switchboard: 202-456-1414
TTY/TTD Comments: 202-456-6213
Send a letter to the White House

Message: As far back as 2015, official Minnesota knew of Somalis’ ongoing fraud. Few understood the scale of the Somali problem. Somali’s systemic fraud meant that someone in leadership was organizing, advising or forcing govt staff to commit wrongdoing. These enablers MUST be NAMED.

The political and economic power of the Somali migrants’ thievery was grossly enabled. Local politicians and l/e were apparently coerced to ignore blatant fraud by Somali individuals and businesses that should have been stopped.


16 posted on 01/09/2026 6:14:34 AM PST by Liz (Jonathan Swift: Government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.)
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To: MtnClimber

Minnesota should be renamed Minisomolia.


17 posted on 01/09/2026 6:19:37 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn... )
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To: central_va

The Somali’s are patsy’s.

The Somalis are merely the Black pipe and valve system through which stolen tax money flowed to democrats like Waltz


18 posted on 01/09/2026 6:22:49 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Quid Quid Nominatur Fabricatur)
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To: MtnClimber

The money quote: a firestorm hasn’t spread this fast since Curtis Lemay’s boys visited Tokyo one night in 1945.


19 posted on 01/09/2026 6:22:54 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn... )
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To: MtnClimber
nearly a decade...

Over a decade actually.
20 posted on 01/09/2026 6:24:49 AM PST by SpaceBar
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