Posted on 01/28/2026 5:13:21 AM PST by MtnClimber
Just as it did one hundred and sixty-five years ago, the Democrat Party appears to be making war against the federal government.
Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz have identified tens of billions of dollars in welfare fraud flowing through the Democrat-controlled state of Minnesota. President Trump has suggested that the level of Minnesota fraud may top a hundred billion dollars as investigations proceed.
The public is slowly learning that members of the state’s substantial population of Somali immigrants have been abusing state and federal programs to enrich themselves at the expense of American taxpayers. Fraudulent childcare centers were created to siphon federal tax dollars. Fraudulent healthcare clinics were designed to do the same. There are many signs that suggest Minneapolis is home to both a massive money laundering operation and a massive vote fraud scheme.
Because the amount of financial fraud is so high, it is difficult to believe that Somali immigrants orchestrated this massive theft on their own. Minnesota and Minneapolis have government agencies whose sole function is to seek, police, and prevent exactly these kinds of taxpayer thefts. The idea that immigrants from across the world could arrive in Minnesota and figure out how to manipulate the existing bureaucracy to orchestrate large-scale fraud is unconvincing. It seems much more likely that government bureaucrats, elected officials, law enforcement personnel, and perhaps even judges facilitated such complex institutional fraud. If that is the case, then we are not looking at a massive welfare fraud scandal. We are looking at a government-orchestrated criminal syndicate.
Whether Minnesota governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey have been actively participating in this crime syndicate, we don’t yet know.
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I think they knew. These protests are too organized to have sprung up overnight. I think they were planned to start this summer and spread across the country to influence the midterm elections. But they had to pull the trigger early in Minneapolis to take attention off the fraud.
The question that now needs to be answered is why? Why are they crazed about keeping criminals (beyond being in the country illegally) there? A sane, honest society does not want to criminals around.
Because Minnesota will let them vote and they will get counted in the census. Likely some of the fraud also gets kicked back to the politicians who enable it.
This now needs to become a national discussion. That Minnesota could be a corrupted state.
For God’s sake, when will so-called conservatives quit comparing the Minnesota lunatics to the Confederacy.
We can argue all day about the motives of the South, but their posterity, arguably, is the most loyal and patriotic portion of the United States.
The current leftists serve the communist cause, and the smallest minority of them, by far, resides below the Mason-Dixon Line.
Please stop with the attempts to draw parallels!
Ya think? Nahhh…
And it don’t snow in Minneapolis when the winter comes.
It is difficult to believe that the Somalis are getting to keep the money.
This is a Democrat and Deep State operation. 10% for “the big guy” probably means less than 10% for the Somalis (not that they deserve anything).
It needs to become a national discussion. They’re ripping off other states.
You are correct
The Somali’s are patsy’s.
The Somalis are merely the massive valve and pipeline system through which the stolen taxpayer money flowed.
Minnesota has been a corrupted state ever since Hubert Humphrey faded from the scene. His reorganization of the Democratic party into the D-F-L Alliance led to the radicalization that was at the forefront of campus unrest and social turmoil of the 1970’s, and spawned the organization of ANTIFA and BLM. Today, they communicate by the SIGNAL protocol, an encryption program that allows information transfers with a high degree of volume and reliability, and by which large numbers of contact points may be reached quickly.
The conspiracy is neither imagined nor theoretical. It is very real, and poses a genuine threat to the tranquility of the nation.
“Mostly peaceful” protests? My aching sore, uh, eye.
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They LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVED it when the federal government ran roughshod over multiple Southern States when the locals didn't want federal law enforced there and some acted thuggishly to try to prevent federal law from being enforced there. Now that its Blue chitholes doing the EXACT SAME THING, they've turned around 180 degrees and are whining about the feds.
Republicans need to HAMMER this point home......"hey President Eisenhower and President Kennedy did not hesitate to enforce federal law including sending in tens of thousands of US Army troops in the 50s and 60s to enforce federal law in states that opposed it. Well its no different here. Minnesota, California, Washington, Illinois, Massachusetts, Maine, Maryland, etc no more get to nullify federal law than Arkansas or Mississippi or Alabama got to nullify federal law in the 50s and 60s."
The Lefties can splutter and rage and melt down all they like. The point stands. They are in exactly the same position now as those Southern states were 65-75 years ago. It doesn't matter if YOU don't like the federal law. Then win elections and get your representatives to change the law. Until then, federal immigration laws remain and will be enforced." There is no good way to argue against that. To do so is to argue against democracy.
They're not in the same position as the Southern States when they sought to secede 160 years ago. They had a very strong case that they had every legal and constitutional right to do so. They ARE however in the same position as the Southern states 65-75 years ago when they opposed integration which was federally mandated. States do not get to control federal immigration law - only the federal government does. It does not matter how much a state doesn't like it, it remains the law and must be enforced....they don't get to nullify it.
PS. I had at least 9 male relatives serve in the Confederate Army including 3 who lost their lives in its service. I'm a native Southerner, a member of the SCV and am very proud of my home and my ancestors' military service on its behalf.
Agree 110%.
Antifa and the crazy communists have been in play since 2006.
They were just waiting for the right time to activate.
When Hillary lost, it set back their schedule.
Now with a clear majority in the Supreme Court, their secret weapon is now gone.
This is why they have been activated.
MN, WI and IA could easily fall into the red state camp for 20 years if they don’t fight back with Antifa.
The question is: Will Trump be a Lincoln, or a Buchanon?
Exactly! Republicans probably couldn’t be worse at messaging.
Shouldn't have posted this. If we were too busy with Venezuela at the time and we had no assets in the Persian Gulf, say nothing.
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