MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2025
Also, Minnesota's Somalis don't love or respect the U.S.: As we noted this morning, the Fox News Channel has been pounding away about all that fraud in Minnesota.
Is Minnesota's Blue American political establishment compromised by these events in some way? Is the administration of Governor Walz responsible in some way?
We can't answer those questions. Moving forward from here, Red America will hear all about this matter, Blue America won't.
Full disclosure! In its November 30 front-page report, the New York Times offers a more courteous overview of what is now being widely bruited on the Fox News Channel. Here's part of what was reported:
How Fraud Swamped Minnesota’s Social Services System on Tim Walz’s Watch
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Outrage has swelled among Minnesotans, and fraud has turned into a potent political issue in a competitive campaign season. Gov. Tim Walz and fellow Democrats are being asked to explain how so much money was stolen on their watch, providing Republicans, who hope to take back the governor’s office in 2026, with a powerful line of attack.
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Debate over the fraud has opened new rifts between the state’s Somali community and other Minnesotans, and has left some Somali Americans saying they are unfairly facing a new layer of suspicion against all of them, rather than the small group accused of fraud. Critics of the Walz administration say that the fraud persisted partly because state officials were fearful of alienating the Somali community in Minnesota. Governor Walz, who has instituted new fraud-prevention safeguards, defended his administration’s actions.
“No one will support these programs if they continue to be riddled with fraud,” Joseph H. Thompson, the federal prosecutor who has overseen the fraud cases said in an interview. “We’re losing our way of life in Minnesota in a very real way.”
The episode has raised broader questions for some residents about the sustainability of Minnesota’s Scandinavian-modeled system of robust safety net programs bankrolled by high taxes. That system helped create an environment that drew immigrants to the state over many decades, including tens of thousands of Somali refugees after their country descended into civil war in the 1990s.
That's a more courteous version of what is being said and alleged on the Fox News Channel. We thought you might like to see what Fox & Friends Weekend viewers were already hearing during the 6 o'clock hour yesterday morning—on Sunday, the most sacred morning of the Christian week.
At 6:34 yesterday morning, co-host Rachel Campos-Duffy spoke with Jack Brewer, a former Minnesota Viking who runs a nonprofit in the state. Brewer strikes us as completely sincere. A quick overview by the leading authority starts by telling us this:
Jack Brewer
Jack Brewer (born January 8, 1979) is an American former professional football safety who played in the National Football League (NFL) for the Minnesota Vikings, New York Giants, Philadelphia Eagles, and Arizona Cardinals. He attended Grapevine High School in Grapevine, Texas, where he competed in football and track, and played football while earning both bachelor's and master's degrees at the University of Minnesota.
Brewer now is the CEO of The Brewer Group, chair of Center for Opportunity Now at America First Policy Institute, White House presidential appointee as the Commission on the Social Status of Black Men and Boys, board member, for the Federal Enforcement Homeland Security Foundation, vice-chair of the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice State Advisory Group, founder and executive director of The Jack Brewer Foundation, on the board of directors at the Geo Group, Inc, and a Fox News, Yahoo Finance, and NewsMax TV media contributor.
And so on from there. Last Tuesday and Wednesday, President Trump had angrily said that the Somalis in Minnesota are "garbage." Speaking with co-host Rachel Campos-Duffy, Brewer, who seems to be completely sincere, managed to scale that back.
We're offering only the highlights. To watch the full interview, you can start by clicking here:
CAMPOS-DUFFY (12/7/25): Jack, what do you know about the situation? And I know you run a non-profit. You help poor people, people in need. How much does this anger you?
BREWER: It's disgusting. You know, I've said it before—Tim Walz is the worst governor on the planet—not just in the U.S., but across the world...He's let, you know, Muslims come over from Somalia who don't respect this country, they don't love this country...
It's embarrassing what he's done. He's yoked up with all these Somalis just to get their votes. He's allowing them to steal money from poor people—steal money from people that need it, taxpayer money, and it's ending up in the hands of terrorists across the water...
CAMPOS-DUFFY: Yeah. I mean, the question everyone has is, Is it incompetence or did he know this and didn't want to say anything? We saw there were certain people who were working in the government who said, "We thought something was fishy, but we were afraid to say anything because we'd be accused of racism if we blew the whistle on it."
BREWER: That's exactly what it is, Rachel. I mean, this guy is DEI, everything that comes out of his mouth, and so people feel the pressure. They couldn't say anything to this guy. He's a tyrant...You see, God was revealing to us, showing us who this man really was. This man is the Antichrist. He has a demonic spirit in him. And somethings needs to be done because what he's doing to those good, poor, innocent people in Minnesota is not right...
None of this seemed to give Campos-Duffy pause. By 6:40 on Sunday morning, Governor Walz had been revealed as the Antichrist. Also, he has the demonic spirit in him, Fox News Channel viewers were told. According to Brewer, the Antichrist to whom we've referred has let these Muslims come in!
On other programs on this "cable news" channel, Walz is typically referred to a bit more coarsely, as "Tampon Tim" or simply as "Tampon." As for the roughly 100,000 members of Minnesota's Somali community, they don't love or respect this country, Brewer sweepingly declared.
(As far as we know, there is no evidence supporting the claim about money going overseas to terrorists, though that is also being bruited around on this "cable news" channel. According to the Times report, "that claim emerged in 2018, but there has been no solid evidence to substantiate it, and none of the federal fraud cases have featured a link to terrorism.")
None of these proclamations seemed to give Campos-Duffy pause. This is the way this program's aggressively Christian co-host was working during the six o'clock hour on a sacred Sunday morning.
That was life, yesterday morning, inside Silo Red. People inside Silo Blue rarely hear about such matters. There's much more to be said about some of the commentary we've posted, but what happens inside Silo Red is rarely mentioned inside Silo Blue.
No one challenged anything Brewer said. These are the America(s) we've chosen. To our eye, Campos-Duffy is extremely genial, though mainly among her own.
Somerby's call to silence Right-wing grifters will only become more pertinent, when he spills about what weapons he approves of being used to do so.
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ReplyDelete"MONDAY: Walz is described as the Antichrist!"
He is, seriously? Are you sure he is not described as a retard? He looks like a retard. And a sissy, obviously.
If we had an over-under on the IQ of this poster, what would you place it at?
DeleteYou leave trumptard alone. He's still gathering evidence on the 2020 stolen election, and he needs to be able to focus on that task.
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DeleteOh my -- this, suddenly? Why are you triggered, Hillary? Is he your daddy? Your favorite uncle? If so, my deepest condolences.
But hey, even Democrat-owned google gets a half-million hits for Walz retard. So, get used to it, sweetie.
"As far as we know, there is no evidence supporting the claim about money going overseas to terrorists, though that is also being bruited around on this 'cable news' channel."
ReplyDeleteAll it takes is a single dollar ending up in the hands of a member of al-Shabaab or even that member's "associates." Then the Fox ballistic missile is clear for liftoff.
QiB, on the other hand, a stolen billion gets a tsk and maybe a shrug before we move on to the real issue of the story’s treatment by Fox News.
ReplyDeleteAnyone else miss the pre-Trump days, when stealing money was a crime?
DeleteAnonymouse 4:37pm, certainly not anonymices or Tim Walz.
DeleteAlmost works as a comeback but Walz, in the worst case, failed to prevent the stealing whereas Trump is the worst of the offenders.
Delete"a stolen billion"
DeleteThat's what we voted for. If you have a problem with it, you should have voted for Harris.
Anonymouse 4:51pm, if this had out during the campaign, Walz would have been your worse case.
DeleteAnonymouse 4:56pm, according to Walz, he informed Harris of the problem and she didn’t bat an eye.
DeleteYou can't blame Walz for using every tool the Republican Party gave him to use.
DeleteAnonymouse 5:05pm, goodness knows nature didn’t gift him.
DeletePerhaps Walz was bribed, but without a check that said "This is a bribe" in the Memo area, which makes it completely legal per the Supreme Court of the United States of America.
DeleteWalz's hands are only five times the size of Trump's, which is very small for an adult.
DeleteActually, it wasn’t Walz who informed Harris. A group of Minnesota state government employees wrote to Harris and the DNC, multiple times, warning them about Walz and the "fraud scandals and retaliation" related to the "Feeding Our Future" scandal, but received no response.”
DeleteCompetence needs to be a bigger factor in who we elect. Regardless of where a candidate stands on the issues, s/he has a job to do. Walz didn't run for Governor on platform of allowing over $1 billion of money to be stolen. But, the result of incompetence is the same as the result of evil intent would have been.
DeleteI am proud that my candidate chose a super-smart person to be VP, even though experts warned that Vance didn't balance the ticket properly. Dem voters ought to be ashamed of Harris for choosing a VP candidate who is so incompetent.
P.S. - I hope voters will consider competence when they select the next President. Otherwise Gov Newsom might sh*t up the whole country the way he did CA.
"I am proud that my candidate chose a super-smart person to be VP"
DeleteGosh, how has Vance demonstrated his super-smartness?
What utter claptrap, David. It's not enough to type words that make you sound learned; you also need to have some sound basis for your claims. This is vacuous bullshit that just hangs there. In what universe is fake hillbilly competent? Competent at what? Spreading lies? What has he ever done in his life, other than sucking up to the wealth? Name something. One thing.
DeleteThe entire predicate is ludicrous though. There's no "competency" in presidency or vice presidency. There's vision and rhetoric. The vision, hopefully, show the direction, in which we want to proceed as a country. Rhetoric serves to unite the country; make it whole. The two fuckups in the White House fail spectacularly on both counts.
Fraud was discovered in a federal program. Walz cooperated with the investigation. Now the right wants to blame Walz for not prosecuting something that was in the jurisdiction and the hands of the feds.
DeleteJ.D. Vance told a bunch of lies about Appalachia, offending the people who actually live there. He also lied about his mother and his grandparents. There was a general debunking of the contents of his book after it was published. Then he road Peter Thiel's coattails to the VP job, where his main function is to steer Trump in whatever direction Thiel dictates.
DeleteCecelia: I helpfully quoted the part of today's report I wished to respond to. I do not accept your bid to change the subject.
DeleteVance was “super smart” that one time he called Trump “America’s Hitler.”
DeleteVance demonstrated his smarts by a combination of successes
Delete-- rose from humble beginnings to summa cum laude college grad
-- Yale Law School
-- Best-selling author
-- Very successful and lucrative in private career
-- Very successful in politics
Trying to drive-up the price of cocaine, so sky-high grocery prices won't look so bad in comparison, is a classic Right-wing economic move.
ReplyDeleteAnonymouse 5:16pm, maybe you can score some Coke with a loan.
DeleteI'll bet your pal David in Cal finds your coke jokes hilarious in the context of his dead relative who died of an overdose. Ha ha ha, Republicans will laugh at anything, no matter how ugly and crass or who it hurts.
DeleteAnonymouse 9:23pm, you’re such a putz. If you can’t climb up on a high horse in order to scold, you try to put David (a guy you deplore) in that role.
DeleteCompassionate Conservative
ReplyDelete“It looked at one point like they were trying to flip the boat back over, presumably to rescue its cargo and continue their mission,” Cotton said on Meet the Press. “Maybe they were signaling to other airplanes or drug cartel boats. . . It doesn’t really matter what they were trying to do. What matters is they were not in a shipwrecked state.”
So people in the open sea, whose boat has just been blown up by a Hellfire missile strike, are not shipwrecked because they’re still able to cling to some remnant of their wrecked ship.
And their intent in trying to flip the remnant over was to ‘continue their mission’ rather than, say, save their lives?
Hector - Trump and Hegseth are showing compassion for the people who are being killed by fentanyl (including my wife's young cousin).
DeleteThose boats were not smuggling Fentanyl. If they had any drugs at all, it was cocaine, headed for the Caribbean, not the USA. Fentanyl is manufactured in China and smuggled into the US via Mexico, largely by American citizens. There is no possibility there was any Fentanyl at all on those boats because that is not how the drug trade works.
DeleteYesterday I speculated about how much money is being stolen other then the billion that some Somalis made away with in Minnesota. Today's Wall Street Journal mentions one
ReplyDeleteA new Government Accountability Office report finds the pandemic-era sweetened ObamaCare subsidies are also ripe for gaming.
Are Minnesota's $1 Billion Safety-Net Scams a Drop in the Bucket?
The GAO last fall began an undercover test in which it submitted insurance applications for fictitious individuals to the federal ObamaCare exchange and insurance brokers. Nearly all of its invented people were able to enroll in subsidized plans despite submitting false or no records to verify their identities and incomes.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/obamacare-is-a-mecca-for-fraud-96fe6c29?mod=opinion_lead_pos1
OK, but those subsidies are tax credits, not cash. Nothing gets sent to individual applicants, only to insurance companies--which are closely regulated.
DeleteMost subsidized plans aren't completely free--they require some payment by the policyholder to keep coverage in effect. I'm puzzled how this supposed fraud ever results in payments.
David: Did you read the actual report? Find it here:
Deletehttps://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-26-108742.pdf
The GAO's review of the system found it to be 99.6 to 99.8 percent accurate. Additionally, the report provides no evidence of actual fraud, only the susceptibility to fraud.
When Dickheads find fraud they elect the fraudster to the US Senate. The next good faith comment by Dickhead in Cal will be his first.
DeleteSteven Miller is a freak:
ReplyDelete"A series of sworn testimonials describes the facility’s deteriorating conditions and routine beatings that have left several people hospitalized, including detainees whose testicles were “firmly crushed” by guards."
Horrifying. But, what does it have to do with Steven Miller?
DeleteTrump is not "Daddy" says Thom Hartmann:
ReplyDelete"— Is Trump’s Christmas greeting “Daddy’s Home” an authoritarian warning? Trump’s “Daddy’s home” White House holiday Instagram Christmas Card isn’t just cringe, it’s a flashing red warning light for a republic. When the official seat of American democracy starts marketing a president as a father figure who’s come back to “set things right,” we’re not in the world of civic equality anymore. We’re in the world of submission and strongman politics, where citizens are cast as children, dissent is treated as disobedience, and accountability gets replaced by worship. And that’s the poison: democracy doesn’t need a “daddy.” Democracies need competent public servants who respect the Constitution, tell the truth, and accept limits on their power. The “joke” works only if you accept the authoritarian premise underneath it, that the country is a household, the leader is the patriarch, and everyone else should pipe down and fall in line. That’s how you train a movement to cheer power for power’s sake, and it’s how nations slide from self-government into cult-of-personality rule.
So no, it’s not harmless. It’s propaganda wearing a Santa hat: an invitation to trade citizenship for fandom, rights for loyalty, and democracy for a boss who demands adoration. America doesn’t need a “daddy” standing in front of the White House with a thumbs-up. America needs leaders who understand that in this country, the people are the bosses, and the president is just an employee."
Why isn't Somerby saying stuff like this? This is what a Blue American blogger is like.
Here’s a challenge for David and Cecelia. Can they recover from Walz derangement syndrome?
ReplyDeleteAnonymouse 9:33pm, no one more than Democrats dodged a bullet with those two. She pissed away a billion dollars in campaign donations and he managed to do the same as governor of Minnesota. And you don’t even recognize how ridiculous and incompetent they are.
Deleteyeah! phew! we sure dodged a bullet. and got hit with a nuke instead.
DeleteAnonymouse 11:28pm, indeed.
DeleteDie hard liberals I know in Minnesota did not like Walz as a candidate because he mismanaged the budget there. That said, Republicans gloating over this scandal must have never heard of Rick Scott, whose Medicare- fraudulent enterprise wrote a 1.7 billion dollar check for a guilty verdict in defrauding the government. No one is accusing Walz nor Harris of stealing from a children's charity or running a fake university, the last time I checked. Meanwhile Trump wants to give farmers 12 billion dollars in taxpayer money to atone for the financial disaster his tariff policy has been for them, so that the rubes will continue to vote republican. Taxpayer money to prop up the grifter in chief and his party.
DeleteTrump wants to give farmers 12 billion dollars in taxpayer money to atone for the financial disaster his tariff policy has been for them,...
DeleteIt's even worse than that. The fucking orange King says he is using revenue collected due to his illegal and unconstitutional tariffs which have been unanimously decided by two federal courts to be unconstitutional, and is in the hands of the SC as we speak. The fucking orange King says fuck you to the courts and acts like the revenue is his already to use as he pleases to bribe the farmers. What the fuck world are we living in?
"During the Monday episode of her show "Deadline: White House," Wallace urged the press to "never normalize the verbal violence" Trump has been known to heap onto women in the media. She then recounted multiple recent instances of Trump insulting female reporters.
ReplyDelete"December 6th he called Kaitlin Collins 'stupid and nasty.' On November 27th he said 'are you stupid' To CBS journalist Nancy Cordes. On November 26th, he called the New York Times' Katie Rogers 'ugly.' On November 18th, he called ABC's Mary Bruce 'terrible and insubordinate' — to whom I'm not sure — November 14th, he told a Bloomberg reporter, 'quiet, piggy,': Wallace said.
"This is sick s——. This is sick. And anyone in the room is in the room to do a job for their viewers or their readers," she continued. "But they should go home tonight and think about whether their sisters or their daughters, or their moms, or their sons or their husbands, or their fathers think that there's something else they should do the next time he calls a female journalist obnoxious, terrible, stupid, nasty, stupid, ugly, terrible, insubordinate, or piggy."
"Because maybe if Donald Trump can't live without being on TV, and maybe if they said, 'you know what, we're going to have some solidarity,' like they did with him wanting to change the names of oceans,'" she added. "We're either going to normalize this and then you're going to hear all sorts of prominent people calling women all sorts of names — I'm sure by the time I get off TV I'll have a few of those myself — but we're either going to normalize this and usher in an era of unprecedented misogyny, or that press corps is going to act as one and say, 'no more.'"
Anonymouse 10:13pm, oh, please. Can the late Charlie Kirk’s wife go ten minutes without some allusion to her being a vampy whore? Can you go ten minutes without paragraphs of insulting rhetoric as the Trump women for following the same sort of hyper-cosmetic interventions that are standard among public women today.
DeleteWithin in five minutes you’re going to be in anonymous anonyMOUSE flying monkey mode dishing it out on one these ladies. Spare us the lecture.
Trump insults more men than women.
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