SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2025
"Tampon," the flyweight said: America(s) the Beautiful are in a world of hurt. Just consider what happened, this very morning, in the first ten minutes of Fox & Friends Weekend.
For starters, it's just as we told you. The sprawling Minnesota fraud event was the first topic the friends discussed. As we told you, this event will be pushed within Silo Red.
Inside our own Silo Blue, the event will be disappeared.
In such ways, two groups of American citizens emerge—dueling group with different ideas of what is happening in the countr(ies) they inhabit. But this morning, what a change!
As the friends discussed this mountain of fraud, the Somali connection was almost completely disappeared. They now tied the whole thing to Governor Walz—to the man who's simply known as "Tampon" on this channel's most-watched "news" programs.
The Somali connection was gone today; Rep. Omar was barely mentioned. That said, the topic stays hot within Silo Red. It was the very first topic the trio of friends chose to discuss this morning. They did so in an exchange which consumed the program's first ten minutes.
So it will continue to go as our giant sprawling nation is transitioned into a pair of warring tribes. Concerning the actual facts which may exist, we'll direct you in two ways:
Now for the rest of the story:
Last Sunday, Rep. Omar appeared on Face the Nation, where she discussed this topic with the program's host, Margaret Brennan. Rep. Omar's appearance followed a stumblebum performance by Scott Bessent, who embarrassed himself with such clownage as this:
BRENNAN (12/7/25): Before I let you go, I want to ask you about this massive fraud out in Minnesota, and the state welfare program has been under federal investigation since all the way back in 2022.
The president told you, though, this week, to look into Somalis who—quote–"ripped off that state for billions of dollars." He said they contribute nothing. What exactly are you investigating?
BESSENT: Well, Margaret, to be clear, the initial fraud that was discovered by the IRS, for which I'm the acting commissioner, it was discovered by IRS Criminal Investigations Unit. This was not an endogenous thing that the state of Minnesota decided. We had to go in and clean up the mess for them, and this is part of the continued cleanup.
A lot of money has been transferred from the individuals who committed this fraud, including those who donated to the governor, donated to Representative Omar and donated to A.G. Ellison.
[...]
BRENNAN: OK, but you have no evidence of that money being used to fuel terrorism, which is what some conservative writers are alleging?
BESSENT: Well, that's why–that's why it's an investigation. We started it last week. We'll see where it goes. But I can tell you that, you know, it's terrible. You know, Representative Omar tried to downplay it, said, oh, it was very - - the – it was very tough to know how this money should – should be used.
She was gaslighting the American people. But, you know, when you come to this country, you got to learn which side of the road to drive on, you got to learn to stop at stop signs, and you got to learn the – not to defraud the American people.
As a spokesperson inside Silo Red, he was still working the Somali / Omar / foreigner / money to terrorists beat. Rep. Omar needs to learn to stop at stop signs, he thoughtfully said, and to stop defrauding the public.
In fact, Bessent himself had been floating the notion that there was some sort of Somali terrorist link to this mountain of fraud. You can see him doing so here.
Brennan was perhaps too polite to mention that particular fact. But when asked about the general notion, Bessent had nothing but a speculation to offer.
At any rate, as of today, on Fox & Friends Weekend, the Somali framework was gone. Last Sunday, Brennan finally got Bessent to leave, then spoke with Rep. Omar. In this, the initial Q-and-A, Rep. Omar made a statement which was never going to be repeated on the Fox News Channel:
BRENNAN: We have a lot to get to with you, but I want to pick up on where the Treasury Secretary just left off. He alleged that people who were tied to you or your campaign were involved in this broad, brazen scheme to rip off the Minnesota state welfare system.
Do you want to respond to that? Do you know what he is referring to?
OMAR: I really don't, and I don't think the Secretary himself understands what he's referring to.
We obviously had people who were able to donate to our campaign that were involved. We sent that money back a couple years ago. And, actually, I was one of the first members of Congress to send a letter to the Secretary of [Agriculture], asking them to look into what I thought was a reprehensible fraud that was occurring within the program.
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BRENNAN: So, do you think, though, that there was a failure by the Democratic state government to police itself? This is a brazen fraudulent activity here.
OMAR: Yes. And that is what I alluded to in my letter that I had sent to the Secretary of Ag, was to see where things were going wrong. How can this amount of money disappear fraudulently without there being alarms being set off?
According to Rep. Omar, she had long since returned those campaign donations. Also, she said she had played an early role in having this fraud investigated.
Brennan herself had mentioned another fact—these prosecutions had started within the Biden era DOJ. That's another fact which was never going to be mentioned by the messaging agents inside Silo Red.
Additional information was involved in the New York Times' front-page report about this newly red-hot scandal. In the end, what sorts of facts may emerge from this ongoing event?
We can't tell you that, but we can tell you this:
Whatever facts may emerge, Red and Blue Americans will be exposed to sifted versions of those facts. That's the way the game is currently played within the "beautiful, for spacious skies" of our own America(s) the Possibly Less Than Beautiful.
This morning, the friends were changing the focus of this topic, with Walz as their new target. This may be a way for Silo Red to steer away from the astounding recent behavior by President Trump, who wants immigrants from places like Sweden and Denmark, not from the "shithole countries" which have sent us "garbage" like Rep. Omar and "her friends."
So he has said, and said and said! With this morning's shifted focus, Silo Red may be trying to avoid future discussion of such behavior by the president.
Meanwhile, for reasons we haven't seen explained, large parts of Silo Blue have also agreed to pretend that those "shocking" outbursts by President Trump never occurred.
Along the way, we'll also always have the flyweight Watters.
We know you think we're just making it up when we discuss the way this 47-year-old stumblebum child conducts himself on the air.
We know that's what a sane person would think. But there he was, just last night, hosting the second most-watched "cable news" program in all of our realm's "cable news."
There he was, and here's what he said. We actually don't make this up:
WATTERS (12/12/25): Granny wants [ICE] agents to quit—and Noem deported! No wonder they're so mad. "Tampon" lit the fuse.
When this flyweight goes on the air, Governor Walz is "Tampon Tim"—or he may simply be "Tampon!"
Also, citizens of Blue America may be referred to as "Granny." To see what this corporate flyweight was talking about, you can just click here.
That's the way the game is played inside the stunningly low-IQ Silo Red. Inside our famously brilliant Silo Blue, our journalists avert their gaze from this assault on the discourse.
Over here, inside Silo Blue, our multimillion-dollar stars don't seem to be able to care. We're living now in Silo(es) America—in America(s) Red and Blue!
