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Ryan Gardner's avatar

If the Ds had their way we'd end up like the UK.

Uk is being conquered. Do we want that to happen here?

This is not immigration, it's an invasion by 7th century ideological marauders....and murderers...

Obama imported 70k Somalian immigrants into Minnesota where they all settle in the 5th district. The district has been identified as the capital of terrorist recruitment in the US.

It just so happens that Ilhan Omar has called for the dissolution of Homeland Security...which i agree with...but i don't think they have the same reason for wanting that.

Do ya'll see the picture yet?

Steenroid's avatar

And it’s not nice to say but they bred like rats to get more taxpayer dollars.

Hugh Wayne Black's avatar

It’s also part of the five part plan to conquer the kafirs (infidels): By the sword (war), by the tongue (evangelism), by the pen (evangelism, war treaty, propaganda), by submission (taking slaves), by the womb (out reproducing them).

Humdeedee's avatar

How many of those obese hajib wearing hippos angrily jabbering in that video are gobbling up food stamps, too, I wonder? Nevermind. No need to answer. Rhetorical question.

FuriousIT's avatar

But wait. Diversity is our strengthTM. The deep cultural enrichment we receive from these head-covered plus-sized newly arrived "Americans" running million dollar childcare/healthcare scams who are unwilling/unable to communicate or interact with anyone beyond their insular community is profound. I feel less racist just knowing they exist, even if they hate me enough to steal my tax dollars and call me a racist and would send in their clan to knife me in the street in broad daylight if they could. Mogadishu has so much to teach us in the West.

JasonT's avatar

It's so unkind of you to ask. No questions for you!!

Humdeedee's avatar

Oh my gosh! They acted like they were being insulted and assaulted by reasonable questions to which they could not answer truthfully. These tribal interlopers have a culture anathema to the culture that once was adhered to in America before invasion was allowed.

JasonT's avatar

I do hope they are all safely returned home in time for next Christmas.

Humdeedee's avatar

I don't care if they're "safely" returned, as long as they are gone, and this time, I wouldn't even begrudge my tax money paying for it, preferably in a helicopter and a large man to helpfully assist them out of it with a boot to their backsides.

John Geis's avatar

In their native land, they breed like rats because they don’t expect most to survive to maturity. So much for Somali “civilization.” Child mortality and fraud against their host nation…

TriciaandHerDog's avatar

Interesting, because I call it a rat colony with no apology.

Dena's avatar

Reading “ Islam Israel & the West” by Daniel Burwami. Fascinating account written by a former Muslim from ME( Jordan) now resides in the US. Israel is not the enemy.

letterwriter's avatar

Yes, it is. Christ.

Skenny's avatar

Sometimes I think things need to be happening faster, or more permanently, under Trump. Then, I see that things could improve to an extreme degree by simply stopping the stupid shit being done.

Anon E. Mousse's avatar

Embrace both/and and all will be well "like you wouldn't believe." More good stuff getting done/more bad stuff stopping. Bliss!

KatWarrior's avatar

I find it fascinating how all shit stained, dumpster fire roads lead back to Obama and his tribe. Just observing and saying shit out loud.

Btw, Newsom continues his murderous path of destruction as 20% of CA oil production vanishes in 2026! Valero gone! Phillips 66 (LA) gone! More to follow!

Gas prices will skyrocket in CA folks. You ain’t seen nothing yet!

Mystic William's avatar

Europe has had much higher prices for decades. It can happen here.

John Geis's avatar

But it’s WAY beyond just importing pre-medieval barbarians. It’s theft by the billions or trillions through pointless regulations that shovel TP money to consultants, e.g., environmental impact studies on highway replacement projects. “Waste, fraud and abuse” have become the rule rather than the exception.

Ryan Gardner's avatar

Yes. All by design

The Mighty Humanzee's avatar

Yes, but the UK is already conquered.

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Chris Bray's avatar

"I really worry about the deficit of subs across the conservative writing space."

SAME

nymusicdaily's avatar

bill rice jr. has been tracking this for the last several months. fishy stuff going on https://fournier.substack.com/cp/178202951

Maureen Hanf's avatar

Well, the number of Maga people I know (can count on both hands) wouldn't dream of coming here to Substack at all. Too much in-depth reading involved. They will, however, spend hours a week on podcasts or interviews, their favorite conservative show, or having a grand time body-slamming over on X.

Thinking at all is hard work for too many, in this digital age; critical thinking exponentially so.

I am not trying to trash off on these people, I love them all dearly. But they all spend their days working hard or are busy managing their chronic ailments.

They are too tired, from my observations, at the end of the day to do more than reach for the nearest prepackaged right-leaning commentary and solution set. What is most worrisome though, is that i can give them the TLDR version in a way that doesn't ruffle their feathers, but all i get back is 'that's interesting, but what do you think of the Erika/Candace thing?'

I was born and raised with a book in front of my face; otherwise i might not be here either.

I am very glad and grateful to be here, but i too am worried about the lack of reach. The Dem spaces I've stumbled into are all busy counting their mid-term chickens with glee. Don't think they've heard that old saying, though...

Lisa Ricketts's avatar

I'm a MAGA supporter and the exposure of corruption is exactly what is needed to Wake the "Dead in the Head" who blindly follow the Legacy Media! This grand Samali theft ring could only operate with the complacency of bleeding heart bureaucrats within the Minnesota and Federal Governments!

It is time to start holding the 'little guys ( state inspectors, auditors, grant issuers, etc) accountable for some of the corruption and the property owners who rent their buildings for obvious fraudulent purposes! No where was it mentioned that the property ownership was looked into, as it relates to the corruption being perpetrated on the US and Minnesota taxpayers! The true payers of taxes, not the minor portion that the corrupt pay for sales tax on items purchased, nor income declared, because as any thinking person knows, money received from the Gov't is not the same as earning it yourself, therefore you are using grant money to pay the taxes on the property, or the business, etc., which equals Zero actual new tax dollars.

Alan Devincentis's avatar

I’m gonna call it bullshit. Does that nut REALLY have that many retards following her? Or has Substack turned into the same thing that everything else progretards touch. Ruined. Complete fabs. No reality. I notice I can put stuff up, and if it’s too pointed, it just doesn’t post. So I’m kinda wondering if this whole thing is a game. Who can lie the bestest, mostest.

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Alan Devincentis's avatar

Heather cocksucker Richardson truly takes the cake. She’s a nut, and yet has thousands of followers?

Keith's avatar

The deficit in subs may be due to conservatives being generally less political or perhaps they just can't stomach day after day of reading depressing stuff. I subscribe to about 100 Substacks, of which I'm a paying subscriber to half a dozen. That started off as being for my benefit, wanting to know more. Now, several years later, I would happily unsubscribe from nearly all of them as the whole thing is so depressing (I'm a Brit). What stops me is the feeling that it is my duty to buy and read the damned stuff. They are doing the hard work so the least I can do is pay £60 a year. Yet what I'd rather be doing is listening to 1970's pop, reading Cold War thrillers and blocking out of consciousness the outside world.

Skenny's avatar

Damn Keith. There does seem to be a tendency on the right to not get overly worked up between elections, and other hysterical events. But, I'm sorry to observe, it seems the UK is committed to hysteria year-round.

TriciaandHerDog's avatar

Yes, they are probably working to help the government pay for the fraudster Somali rat colonies and other imported "diverse" voters/recipients that get free stuff. Those people are expensive.

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Keith's avatar

Hard to know why such a highly financed progressive liberal propaganda machine doesn't reliably translate into electoral victories. Or maybe it IS highly effective and without it Trump would have won by 99% to Kamala's 1% rather than the close-run thing it was.

More than anything reading about things like this Somali scam in Minnesota makes me despair of my fellow man. It seems that normal people share the same space as people who actually like Gavin Newsom, Karen Bass and the rest, while here in the UK some people seem to like Keir Starmer. I totally get the fact that some people like Death Metal, progressive jazz, Jackson Pollack, Tracy Emin etc., even if I think they are all sh*t. Yet to be the kind of person who likes Tim Walz you surely have to be a special kind of moron. There, something must have gone seriously wrong with your nervous system.

Valoree Dowell's avatar

And he’s running for a third term. There is simply no way to make any sense out of it. How people can lap up those headlines day after day after day like some mind bending drug… They’re just different beings. The libs can have their no kings etc street performances; the only performance for conservatives is a general tax strike. They can’t arrest all of us at once.

TriciaandHerDog's avatar

The libs I know push out the memes they get every morning from the D party like they push out their morning $h!t. Nothing original, just the stuff they're sent. They also truly believe that "their" billionaires actually "care" about their well-being while "our" billionaires only care about money.

Lisa Ricketts's avatar

We as taxpayers should begin investigating our own State Governments and who is getting Federal and State Grant Money.

I lately noticed, when I visit my elderly Mum, that the family inhabniting th house across the street appears to be up to some shady activity. They constantly leave a Porsche on the street, though it has expired tags. The less expensive cars sit in the driveway, mo cars ever enter the garage and lately, 2 rental vans are parked near the front walk.

I noticed on my last two overnight stays, that two young Islamic men, carry 3x3 canvas art boxes from the door to one of the rental vans. Now, my first guess is that they are running a business printing cheap, vinyl art canvases for sale on Amazon, and using the vans to transport them to be shipped.

Previously, the business of collecting junk and leaving it all over the front yard, awaiting pick-up via Facebook Marketplace or Craig's list was going on. Finally, someone called Code enforcement and the people were forced too e their third world junkyard to the fences back yard.

People from the Stoneage really shouldn't be living in middle class neighborhoods, and dragging down the property values of taxpaying Citizens. By exposing the fraud and lack of compliance to laws, citizens can take back out neighborhoods, towns, cities and so forth!

Mystic William's avatar

I disbelieve much of Lib subs numbers. I have seen subs and other writings with massive numbers and no engagement. I suspect the number is inflated grossly by bots.

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Mystic William's avatar

Prog Bs might be paying for the bot subs.

Heidi Kulcheski's avatar

THAT ORANGE BASTARD 🤣🤣

qr's avatar

2.7 Million is most certainly botted, like many leftist accounts, in order to give the impression of being the most agreeable position (LONGHOUSE) when it's not. The same way the NYT launders its fading prestige to convince people the opinions therein are noteworthy and correct.

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Valoree Dowell's avatar

Stop paying taxes. They have no kings, we’ll have No Tax.

DPFlorida's avatar

This, yes. I often think to myself scrolling X and reading my subs here that we have a large and cohesive coalition. But I don't think it compares to the Orange Man Bad cult/readership. They cannot get enough while our side tires of the games and tunes out occasionally to tend to our sanity. And there's plenty of chicanery over here, too.

Still, in spite of all the ballot harvesting and fraud of 2020 that resulted in false results being "certified," the Orange Man returned in 2025. So, maybe we vote but don't subscribe? I don't know. The psychological war/US color revolution is at least 10 years old now, with no signs of abating. How can we know anything at all?

Nice world they've made for us, eh? F the citizenry, as long as our overlords get their money. What's the big deal about complete ruination of Western civilization anyway, as long as they get what they want?

Oh well, time to prepare my 2025 taxes so that the nonexistent Somali children in MN can get paid and CA can increase their homeless population.

JasonT's avatar

Bots? Performative? Dems know, they don't need to read. It's a gift they have.

Bandit's avatar

I didn't know they could read! 😱

TriciaandHerDog's avatar

If they went to elite madrasas like Harvard and Columbia, they can't.

TriciaandHerDog's avatar

I did not vote for a best friend. I did not vote for a "nice guy." I voted for a man who has at least a chance of seeing some justice done. I don't care if he is an a$$hole. Sometimes you need one of those.

Name Invalid's avatar

But run a business that does something, not dependent on gov checks, say a gun store, a friend of mine has a gasoline distribution business... oh and you will get government inspections that are not performative.

Name Invalid's avatar

Unrelenting, punitive, biased, unfair, pedantic,

Name Invalid's avatar

I honestly believe that there is a bell at regulatory agencies (like there are in many sales organizations) where when they "succeed" a company goes bankrupt, or flees the state, they ring it and give high fives all around.

I understand "arm twisting" good people caught in jobs where they want to do the right thing but are "mandated" to do otherwise, else lose job pensions... but I see little of that because it does not explain the eagerness.

The CPS that was supposed to "audit" the daycare centers were happy AF to be in on the grift, which might have not been entirely financial "We need to do our part to help the good poor Somalians against the evil Maga racists..."

Hugh Wayne Black's avatar

But NI, the day care subsidies are for the chiiildrennn….aaaand for the parents who are working sooo hard to raise them because of the oppressive American capitalist system. 🙄

JasonT's avatar

They can be paid not to see anything, apparently.

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Name Invalid's avatar

It is amazing how many CPAs do not understand the tax implications for a S Corp. (something you need only because the Gov will not keep frivolous lawsuits at bay). I ran into a similar problem; in the end, I wrote the check...

PapayaSF's avatar

It seems obvious to me that 2026 will see Trump use this scandal to devastate the Democratic Party, deport Ilhan Omar, win the midterms, and even scale back the welfare state. (He doesn’t need Congress to stop and prosecute fraud.) He has every reason to do so, no reasons not to, and Democrats can’t stop him. Welfare fraud and political corruption are extremely unpopular with voters. Plus, this scandal connects with others: ActBlue money-laundering, the 2020 steal, and more. Get your popcorn ready.

Chris Bray's avatar

Against a growing wave of frantic news media "fact-checking" that will try to tell people there's nothing to see here:

https://www.startribune.com/trump-claims-minnesota-lost-billions-to-fraud-the-evidence-to-date-isnt-close/601538955

Frances Burger's avatar

Oh, gosh. Only $218 million and expected to grow.

PapayaSF's avatar

They’ll try, sure. They’re pretty much out of ammo, so they’ll try anything. I just don’t see how they can stop Trump.

Valoree Dowell's avatar

I don’t subscribe so can’t read, but the headline says it all. Nothing but but but but. Soon they’ll be up one of these rivers with no paddle.

Art's avatar

Yes but many in the general public never hear about those things because the media doesn’t tell them. All they hear about are prisons in Central America where the guards are mean to gang members and gangster drug boats that get blown up and the “Maryland man” gangster who didn’t get “due process” thus setting the constitution on fire. For some reason the media is very concerned about illegal aliens and cartel members, and they are going to tell the public about it over and over again.

PapayaSF's avatar

True, but the legacy media control of the narrative is rapidly slipping away. Trump knows how to dominate news cycles, and he will with this.

Hugh Wayne Black's avatar

I’d like to believe that but I have my doubts. The MSM may be dying but have you read the news feeds that our “smart phones” force feed us?

Korpijarvi's avatar

Nobody's "force feeding" you anything.

Just don't look.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9S_3fJeoj8

Hugh Wayne Black's avatar

I try not to, but train wrecks, automobile accidents, media lies and half truths are often too horrible to look away from.

Bandit's avatar

No. I haven't and I don't intend to.

nymusicdaily's avatar

what worries me isn't that the mockingbird media will use this is an excuse for orange man bashing. what worries me is that the silicon valley sissies around him will try to leverage this as a flashpoint to automate the government

PapayaSF's avatar

Some of the government should be automated. Billions in welfare fraud will be eliminated. I see no reason to object to that.

nymusicdaily's avatar

of course the chinese or ukrainians or israelis would never want to hack the system, or sell that data ;)

just for starters

PapayaSF's avatar

As you probably know, they’ve already done that. Having good AI watching could stop it.

Korpijarvi's avatar

There was a discussion on one of my (exhaustingly numerous) maritime subscriptions regarding the recent announcement of the "Trump class battleship," including the one named DEFIANT (obvious Star Trek reference).

I sat here and laughed till the juices flowed, it being my first exposure to the then-new info.

Then these otherwise serious minded and generally non-bullshite-able men fretted about it all, completely blind to what DJT's team had done:

By connecting his "big icky ego" to the topic, it's flypaper for TDS types.

And sure enough, within 24 hours I witnessed in a cafe a large, aposemetically colored Inkling fretting about "fry gates." (She [if that] apparently saw the word "frigates" for the first time in print. Where? I have no idea. But I'm sure you know how amusing it has been to watch GoodThinkers become instant experts on every topic...and she apparently had just been introduced to the concept of maritime strategy and logistics.)

We're not out of the woods, surely, with the Self-Funded Portable Skinner Box that everyone lugs around...but I'm not writing off DJT's team just yet. Maritime is the most cut-throat of all sectors and industries, the origin of the term "false flag" even. Trump's team has from the get-go been well represented with bluewater men. Oh yeah...and naval intel. The people so damn threatening to the Cabal that they were specially targeted at the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001.

TriciaandHerDog's avatar

I am of the opinion that we NEED a guy with a big ego. The world is full of leaders/heads of state/whatever that are thugs. Trump is a developer in New York City, which is basically thug central for doing business. The Script Reader would have let world thugs walk all over her. Let me say it again for those in the back: WE DON'T NEED A NICE PERSON! We need a brawler. Ahem...Thank you.

Bandit's avatar

Yes. Someone with big cajones, that doesn't roll over for any king, sheik, or self important POS leader of some itty-bitty european joint trying to bully the USA into doing their bidding. They need cut loose and set adrift on their own against the big, bad, world.

Korpijarvi's avatar

Hear hear, Tricia.

The TDS isn't just tiresome, it's a useful litmus for who's deranged in what ways, and when. What triggers them.

Which is why censorship and shut-it-downing was systematically practiced against people Noticing, observing, and discussing. It wasn't that Orange Man was saying Bad Things...it was the reactions he was baiting, and what they revealed about the reactors. It was them realizing how he mastered the laser pointer for jumpy cats.

Having said that, it wouldn't surprise me in the least if I were a fly on the wall when DJT goes to meet Maat or St. Peter or whoever...and overheard evidence that, in fact, he's a fairly shy and private guy for whom the Baller persona and "big ego" is camo. A giant puppet costume. One he's glad to put down when the grandkids pop by.

Major globes can swing off the nether parts of instinctively shy men, as well as natural-born egomaniacs. God alone will know the Truth there. But strength isn't just for the loud...even though being loud and ballsy and fearless and ruthless can be super effective.

(Part of what "Papa Donald" has had to teach the nation is what maleness looks like when it doesn't care whether somebody's crying about it being mean--especially when it's not. Which is also why THEY have had to gin up false accusations against the man. "We're not just whining about him being mean coz we're weak--he did this bad thing for which nobody has evidence, but hey, kids, let's put on a media circus!")

When navigating the waters of power brokers/thugs who lead with comically outsized egos, and degenerate tastes/habits, and bragging about their possessions/connections, and then turning around and playing Victim...quiet strength would be a formidable superpower. Masking it in Big Ego would be part camo...and part jiu-jitsu. Coupling it with ruthless determination...wew.

I remember once reading a quote from Roy Cohn, who reportedly said: "Donald Trump p!sses ice water." Cohn apparently admired the Germano-Celtic character there, but many just want to firebomb it into submission and erasure. They wish it would just go away. They can't beat it, they can only drop incendiary devices on it. Men like that want to Build Good Things Well. These screeching detractors want to burn down everything of value, quality, and innocence.

E. Grogan's avatar

Wish I could give you 4,000 "likes". You nailed it.

Ryan Gardner's avatar

Yes. Its so obvious.

"Woman terrified of white men leaves Africa for Minnesota".

Korpijarvi's avatar

Well, they only showed her video clips of the Mall of America.

Mad Dog's avatar

I think Trump is one of the two best presidents in my lifetime, the other being Ronald Reagan. If he would focus on eviscerating the Democrats instead of whatever the heck it is he's focused on, he would be even more effective. He should be talking about corruption and waste of taxpayer money every day.

Mitch's avatar

I really liked Reagan. Great speaker, right viewpoints, etc. What did he really do, other than temporarily slow down Dems? Trump may not say the right things, but he's fought like hell to survive and get stuff done.

Mad Dog's avatar

I really like Reagan personally. He was certainly an inspiring speaker. He deserves more credit than anyone else for the fall of the Soviet Union. He was much weaker on domestic policy. He was trying to work with the Democrats while the Democrats were trying to beat him.

A major reason I consider him to be one of the two best presidents is just that the competition is so weak. There's nothing good to say about any of the Democrats and very little good to say about the other Republicans.

Mitch's avatar

Agree completely.

Korpijarvi's avatar

> What did he really do, other than temporarily slow down Dems?

Served as the errand boy for central banking grocery clerks.

Eric Brown's avatar

Aside from winning the Cold War? My only complaint was that Bush didn’t purge the universities and nonprofits of people who took Soviet money. The Russians opened the Soviet archives, so the knowledge was there.

Laura Marks's avatar

From your lips to God’s ear. I sure hope you’re right!

PapayaSF's avatar

Think about who Trump is: a big ego, likes to win, wants a legacy, does audacious things. His real estate career involved multi-year plans with a big payoff years later. He knows if he fails and Democrats take power again, they will show no mercy, but if he “goes all the way” he’ll win bigly and be a hero for the ages. It’s only logical that it’s what he plans to do. He’s got the law and the public on his side. I don’t see how he can be stopped.

Indrek Sarapuu's avatar

Hope springs eternal.

Maria's avatar

My daddy used to say ‘he couldn’t find his ass in a telephone booth with both hands’. Wow, I heard Mehmet Oz say they’ve uncovered $47 Billion in Medicare fraud under ACA. I think it’s safe to say shit is hitting the fan and I estimate that between all the fraud, USAID, CIA/DOW black budgets etc and the $21 TRILLION transferred to the Bank for International Settlements between 1998 and 2015 we would be debt free. I practiced forensic accounting before I retired, looks like there’s a strong job market out there for me.

Gym+Fritz's avatar

Had to pause a second over DOW . . it has a nice ring. Think about it un-retiring, Maria, someone out there needs your skills and attitude.

SamizBOT's avatar

It is not an exaggeration to say that there is no Democratic party, that it is merely a very loosely conglomerated mafia dedicated to looting the treasury

John Oh's avatar

without the Mafia's sense of honor . . .

The Cactus's avatar

I’m not sure what everyone’s so upset about. Looking through the documents, I see Quality Learning Center was fined a total of $400 for their violations. I think that should teach them.

Rascal Nick Of's avatar

As a former Wisconsinite, its rather amusing to see this daycare fraud, although I have to say its much more brazen than Wisconsin’s. What they did in WI daycares was just that the State was paying daycares so that all the welfare recipients wages were just for watching eachothers kids. Supposedly they actually had the kids and were actually watching them, so it would not have been as brazen, and the only people actually getting rich off of this obvious money laundering scheme were the daycare owners and presumably the politicians they paid to not notice it.

nymusicdaily's avatar

empty daycares have been a thing in nyc for a decade and more. i see that more than just a bunch of brooklyn wokesters have relocated to minnesota

Name Invalid's avatar

The performative action that marks the end of the cycle is the pretending that we are all amazed. We had no idea, no way of knowing...

(Open borders, Bidens mental decline, mask don't work, etc)

Name Invalid's avatar

Actually the FINAL action will be, "nothing to see here move on you racists, LOOK! Larger catastrophe elsewhere...."

Korpijarvi's avatar

> LOOK! Larger catastrophe elsewhere....

This is the part that worries me.

Korpijarvi's avatar

DOCTORS ARE BAFFLED.

Mitch's avatar

always. and yet they demand attention and seriousness when they push on to the new narratives.

BigWobbles's avatar

“The Tim Walz/Gavin Newsom path, the kind and progressive answer to Mean Orange Man, is the purest form of impotent dipshittery ever devised by human minds, leading inexorably to insolvency and ruin. It cannot be redeemed.” Amen.

Brian DeLeon's avatar

“Impotent dipshittery”

I’m adding this to my lexicon.

Rather Curmudgeonly's avatar

The original progressive reform - the creation of the Civil Service - was intended to winnow out patronage. It didn't get rid of it, it just changed the nature of it.

Mad Dog's avatar

The problem with government employment rules at every level is that they’re built on the assumption of basic integrity among public officials. That may once have been reasonable, or it may always have been optimistic, but today it feels badly outdated. When government was smaller and its reach more limited, there was far less incentive for people with a purely self-interested or even criminal mindset to seek public office or bureaucratic power.

Today government touches virtually every aspect of daily life: regulating, subsidizing, licensing, taxing, and redistributing the work of other people. As a consequence, politics has become the natural home for grifters. The potential rewards are enormous, the ability to shift blame is built into the system, and the personal risks are often minimal. When vast power and weak accountability meet, it shouldn’t surprise us that it attracts exactly the wrong kind of people.

Chris Bray's avatar

100%. Government of reasonable scope fixes a bunch of other problems. Pave the roads, put out fires.

Rather Curmudgeonly's avatar

The patronage is now out-sourced to "non-governmental" organizations (which are entirely beholding to their patrons). The bureaucracy (civil service) merely administers what the legislative bodies decide in terms of funding these functions. The problem squarely resides in the legislative bodies, state and federal, that dole out the largesse - and with the body of voters that keep sending the same faces back (and terms limits will only change the faces, not the partisan nature).

Mad Dog's avatar

I agree with you in part. But look at Minnesota. In recent years it has begun to look as if “fraud” is one of the state’s major growth industries. And much of it hasn’t even been especially well-disguised. Private citizens, journalists, and watchdog groups keep uncovering millions of dollars in apparent fraud that state agencies either failed to detect or ignored.

At best, this suggests staggering incompetence. At worst, it raises uncomfortable questions about whether some officials were content to look the other way. Either way, the people whose job it is to prevent and investigate fraud don’t seem to have shown much curiosity about finding it. What exactly are they doing to earn their salaries—and more importantly, why do so many of them still have their jobs in light of these revelations?

CorkyAgain's avatar

Somehow I doubt it's simply a matter of looking the other way. I.e., I suspect that they've been pocketing the proverbial envelopes stuffed with cash (or the equivalent). The government mob is willing to tolerate the "petty criminals" as long as they get their cut.

I know, I've become so cynical in my old age...

Mad Dog's avatar

It's a sad statement, but I do believe your right. Of course, they can't all be crooks. But the crooks give the other 0.001% a bad name.

Rather Curmudgeonly's avatar

As another commenter here notes of his relatives in Minnesota - this won't disabuse them from the delusion that voting Democrat is all that is right and holy. These are real humans and if you doubt that, you need to get out of your own bubble. As for what bureaucrats are paid for - easy, they spend the money that the legislative branch has told them to. There is no incentive in any level of government to not do that.

ANG Pilot's avatar

Very well said.

Ryan Gardner's avatar

Damn. You had your wheaties this morning.

Well met

CorkyAgain's avatar

I've been working through the thick volumes in the Oxford History of the United States and am currently halfway through the one on Reconstruction and the Gilded Age. I am sorry to report that it seems basic integrity has never been a hallmark of our public officials.

Korpijarvi's avatar

Too glib, in my experience in the Upper Midwest.

MR's avatar

Nothing. I repeat, nothing, will get my relatives in Minnesota to vote to stop the fraud. They hate Trump so passionately that they blamed him entirely for George Floyd’s death—and even sent me an article at the time by none other than Michelle Goldberg trying to convince me.

Chris Bray's avatar

"But those nice people who took my wallet say they're just trying to help."

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My relative’s would say, “Better there be fraud than we be stupid racist hillbillies (who don’t read the NYTimes).”

Rather Curmudgeonly's avatar

I do hope they get everything they want, good and hard.

MR's avatar

Oh, so do I.

OldSysEng's avatar

Same for my relatives in Chicago...they even support Brandon's tax increases - "unfortunate but necessary..."

MR's avatar

When Obamacare passed a parent at our son’s school said, “Well, we’ll just pay a little more so other people can get insurance.” She had 4 homes and income beyond belief. It mattered nothing to her that not everyone could “just pay a little more.” And the lying over “keeping your plan and your doctor” also meant nothing to her.

ANG Pilot's avatar

Federal, State, and local governments have grown too big, too unaccountable, and have access to too much money.

We are ruled (not represented) by a professional political class that lacks any sense of morality and that is driven by a messianic desire to "fundamentally transform" the United States. Minnesota is only one place out of many in this Country where the "Great Replacement" is being put into effect.

It tells you something that the Democrat Party expends so much money and energy to represent the interests of illegal aliens and unassimilated immigrants instead of actual American citizens.

JT's avatar

I wonder if any of the money doled out to these daycare centers has “inexplicably” made its way back to those responsible for licensing, inspecting and certifying these daycare centers?

Inquiring minds…

Susan's avatar

BEST, most beloved, most satisfying, most incisive quote of the year (so far) about the clueless and crooked Dems, and they don't even bother to hide it anymore, who are also embarrassingly untalented actors who shamelessly claw the scenery anyway:

"The Tim Walz/Gavin Newsom path, the kind and progressive answer to Mean Orange Man, is the purest form of impotent dipshittery ever devised by human minds, leading inexorably to insolvency and ruin. It cannot be redeemed..."

William's avatar

No one will go to jail. Dems are never held accountable. Judges and DA’s are bought and sold to an ideology. This country will either fail or there will one day be a civil war which won’t be civil.

David Ziffer's avatar

MN governor Walz is not a fool, nor was he "looking the other way"; he has been successfully overseeing one of the the largest misdirections of federal dollars in U.S. history, using the entire machinery of the state of Minnesota as his vehicle. Looking at just the "Feeding Our Future" theft of $250 million, 80% of which is mysteriously unaccounted for, one realizes that the mechanics of this operation, from the enlistment of the Somalis doing the dirty work and taking the fall in federal courts, to the total disappearance of the vast majority of the money, would be impossible without massive systemic involvement.

This was an INSIDE JOB at the highest levels on both the federal and state sides. Only a fool could believe that a bunch of local grocery and restaurant vendors could pull off a $250 million federal heist, keep it secret for years while providing no services in plain sight, and launder away almost all the money. This was an operation by a national political party to embezzle and funnel vast sums of federal money to a state political party. The guys on trial here are just the fall guys, and the trials are just a circus to convince the not-too-bright public that justice is being done. The real perpetrators here are laughing their asses off, laughing all the way to the bank. Please wake up folks.

READ: "Minnesota's biggest criminals run the state"

Spoiler: Our $250 million pandemic fraud was not really masterminded by a gaggle of Somali grocers:

https://daveziffer.substack.com/p/minnesotas-biggest-criminals-run

Korpijarvi's avatar

> he has been successfully overseeing one of the the largest misdirections of federal dollars in U.S. history

My dear man. This is not a "misdirection."

This is exactly what that System was set up to accomplish.

https://www.house.mn.gov/comm/docs/mzaniqSAEkyAHl4MBJpRhw.pdf

And what else would you expect?

Are/were tens of billions in federal funding pouring in to rejuvenate the infrastructure and logistics and manufacturing and small farm sectors in MN?

Noper donkeys, because those jobs were internationalized, offshored, automated, and handed to bottom-dollar labor, and those who employ it.

"Human services," like the Ed Biz and the Chattering Class "creative culture," became the employers of last resort for people ejected from farms and factories and any/all other concrete/productive enterprises.

This is Reagan's handlers' "deindustrialization" as it plays out in regions, states, and localities.

This is the replacement of farmers with giant automated operations that deliver goyslop for maximum profit (including trillions to Pharma, after making everyone sick).

This is the offshoring of jobs and entire sectors.

And as you so aptly and well point out, this is Pharma--the literal livestockization of humanity, milked and fleeced and plucked for whatever profits can be organized and gleaned from The Ills Flesh Is Heir To...and the ills inflicted iatrogenically as well.

And in this system nothing is as lucrative as Huddled Masses.

The financialization revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for productive, orderly, altruistic, high-trust humans.

David Ziffer's avatar

The point of my article is that "This was an operation by a national political party to embezzle and funnel vast sums of federal money to a state political party. " It was a "misdirection" only in the sense that the sheeple were told that the federal program existed for some other purpose.