The new revelations about the massive Somali fraud in Minneapolis, and apparently in a bunch of other places around the country, are not in fact new. There have been prosecutions and even some stories, including in the regime media, about it in the past. What’s new is the attention, and it is a direct result of Andrew Breitbart, as are most good things in the conservative movement in the last 15 years. Nick Shirley, like a young man with an iPhone, decided to do what the regime media wouldn’t do and look up online the location of some of these fraudulent daycare centers, then show up. It’s not the revelation that these empty office buildings are fronts for fraud; it’s the demonstration on video by an independent journalist who uses social media to make the point so powerfully that it can’t be denied. This is the kind of thing Andrew pioneered; he would have been proud.
One of the most indelible images is a sign outside one of these fake establishments, reading “Learing Center.” It is impossible that the Democrats didn’t know about this. They certainly did. And the truth that the Republicans are 'learing' is the indisputable fact that the Democrat party is a criminal organization.
But, of course, the Democrats will deny it. They’re going to look at this footage and decide the problem isn’t that a bunch of their Third World constituents have decided to bring the family values of their garbage homeland to the United States and blend them with the Democrat Party’s tradition of pillaging benefits to buy votes. No, the problem they have is Shirley noticing a massive rip-off involving more money than the GDP of Somalia. But then again, I probably have more than the GDP of Somalia in my wallet.
What’s happening, thanks to Shirley and others who have dug into and are discovering the same kind of graft all around the country, both Somali-derived and otherwise, is that Republicans are 'learing' a harsh truth. The Democratic Party has always been a criminal organization. But the criminality part, the part about directing and a never-ending flow of tax money to its constituents, whether through welfare fraud or just regular welfare, or USAID grants, or Green New Deal payoffs, or whatever, is just one component. It’s not all traditional corruption. Some of it is just cartoonish evil. There are some Democrats who aren’t taking any money personally. They pay for their own Chardonnay and SSRIs. These are often sexually dissatisfied wine women with the pinched faces of sour apple dolls, and they receive something less tangible from their Democrat masters. What they get is the giddy pleasure of bossing around other people, exercising their misguided class envy by inflicting revenge upon normal, happy people. Their payoff is that they get to direct their own psychodrama on a national stage, whether by banning guns, or trying to limit our speech, or forcing us to use mushy paper tubes instead of regular plastic straws. They are generally powerless, because no one would trust them with power normally, but Democrats lend it to them in return for their votes and their energy. These are the ridiculous people screaming at the No Kings rallies, boomer dummies whose activism fills that space that should’ve been populated with faith, family, and The Flag.
So, what are we going to do about it as Republicans? Well, this is a golden opportunity, which means there’s a huge chance the Republicans will totally squander it. There is about a 100 percent chance that between the time this is written and the time you read it, some spineless Republican legislator is going to get up in front of a microphone and Norm MacDonald it by explaining how the real tragedy here would be if people started thinking less of Somali culture. Of course, that’s not a problem, because it’s literally impossible to think less of it. Somalia is a terrible place, one where Americans came to help them and they responded by murdering said Americans. If the people attempting to escape that hellhole wanted to come to America to become Americans and make America better, that would’ve been one thing. But they don’t, and the Democrats don’t expect them to. They want to come to America and remain Somalis and make Minneapolis Mogadishu West – something that I found amusing when I made it part of my new novel Panama Red and is now less amusing as it becomes evident that it’s not a joke at all. If you think I’m overreacting, take a look at the glorious old Minnesota flag and compare it to the new banner that mincing fraud-tolerater and Democrat manhood icon, Tim Walz, replaced it with. It’s a Somali flag. They’re not even trying to hide it.
Now, do all these white bread, Minnesota Nice Democrats really love the Somali interlopers? They pretend to. Jacob Frey, the ridiculous mayor of Mogadishu West, was famously caught on film trying to force some Somali grub down his throat. His expression made him look like he was getting a digital prostate exam, which would probably have been preferable. And Peggy Flanagan, the current lieutenant governor and Democratic Senate candidate, recently decided to come out in a hijab to express how she is going to show solidarity with her new masters. I can fully imagine that her next stop was a handmaid rally where she wore a red robe, instead of a blue one, to demonstrate the oppression of the evil Nordic–derived residents of the stolen land that is Minnesota.
This is an opportunity for the Republicans, and they had better not blow it. There must be merciless investigations. There must be prosecutions, including of Tim Waltz and others, if they appear criminally liable for tolerating, or even aiding and abetting, this looting of the public purse. We need to be careful here – we are foreclosed both by God’s prohibition on bearing false witness and the utilitarian consideration that the last thing we want to do is not be able to get a conviction should we criminally charge someone. But if we do criminally charge them, having found probable cause to do so, that may make it break through the regime media and the Democrat denials. There are some Democrats who aren’t completely psychotic, and they will oppose public corruption. Sure, a huge number will excuse it, or even argue that it’s a good thing, but there’s something about Nick Shipley‘s video of empty offices that get millions of dollars a year that can even raise doubts in loyal Democrat voters.
That’s why this is a golden opportunity for the GOP. You’ve got to be either getting paid off yourself or completely nuts to accept corruption. There are a few Democrats who are neither, but there are a lot of independents who are neither, and this is a winning issue. It’s also highly effective. The Democrat machine runs on government money. This is why they screamed so hard when we turned off the USAID spigot. And that’s why it’s going to be so effective as we tighten the controls on money going to illegal aliens. Almost everything they do can be traced back to siphoning off government money. That’s where the Republicans need to focus.
We need to starve the Democrat machine of cash. We need to demonstrate their perfidy with targeted prosecutions of real crimes. And we need 100 guys like Nick Shirley out there with their iPhones, finding the truth that the Democrats and the regime media have hidden, just like Andrew Breitbart wanted.
Republicans, surprise us. Don’t screw this up.
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