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1. Fullgoldcrown says:

   December 14, 2025 - 10:19 am at 10:19 am

   Speaking of blue-state attorneys general, one made the conservative news this week— Minnesota’s Attorney General Keith Ellison. The Free Beacon ran the story headlined, “Keith Ellison Held Chummy Meeting With Feeding Our Future Fraudsters Weeks Before FBI Raid, Audio Shows, Contradicting Minnesota AG’s Public Statements.”

   “I’m here to help,” AG Ellison told a large group of Somali fraudsters, some of whom are now in jail, right before accepting what seems an unaccountably small donation —$10,000— in light of the scale of the billion-dollar fraud. The Somalis even scammed Keith Ellison.

   That, or he can be had very cheaply.

   This week, a conservative Minnesota think tank, the Center of the American Experiment, somehow obtained, then released, an astonishing audio recording, which truly must be heard to be believed (54:11), between Minnesota’s Attorney General Keith Ellison and a raft of Somali donors and their lawyers.

   The torrid tale involves the state’s Department of Education (MDE), which heroically started delicately investigating the Somalis as early as 2021, but was thwarted by a Minnesota judge, who held the agency in contempt, and who ordered MDE to promptly pay the Somalis all withheld funds. MDE was also thwarted by the State’s own Attorney General.

   “Let me tell you,” Ellison assured the Somali donors, “just getting the question, just getting the inquiry from the AG is sometimes enough to make people (like MDE) knock it off.”

   Specifically, in the leaked audio, Ellison repeatedly reassures the frantic “Feeding our Future” scammers. After touting their fundraising prowess, the Somali attendees cut to the chase— Would Ellison join them in “this fight” against their racist, xenophobic adversaries in the state government?

   “Well, brother, let me just tell you this: Of course I’m here to help,” Ellison replied. “So let’s just go—let’s just go fight these people.”

   The Feeding Our Future scandal was a brazen looting of a program meant to nourish hungry children, transformed into a running conveyor belt of federal cash to shell nonprofits and bogus meal sites that mostly existed on paper. During the pandemic, Somali operators claimed to be serving thousands of meals a day, but actually siphoned off roughly $250 million into luxury homes, high?end cars, and personal enrichment, making it one of the largest covid-era frauds in the country and an unprecedented heist against the so-called ‘child nutrition’ welfare system.

   What was touted as a safety net for vulnerable families instead became a massive, coordinated grift, spanning dozens of defendants and years of falsified paperwork, “overwhelming” the oversight mechanisms that were supposed to catch exactly this kind of abuse.

   After the FBI arrested 48 Somalis in 2022, Ellison pivoted to opening his own investigation of the widespread charity fraud, which resulted in zero arrests. Now, Ellison claims to have “helped” the federal investigation, which recently arrested 70 more people.

   This week, local 5-ABC broke a story that Keith Ellison’s son, Jeremiah Ellison, a Minneapolis city council member, was simultaneously attending Harvard University in Boston. But for his last five months of service, while he was at Harvard, he was also paid $110,000 by his city counselship, and got a $57,000 stipend from Harvard. Welcome to the Democrat big leagues.

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   CLIP: Jeremiah Ellison double-dipping his ‘public service’ (2:31).

   Also Friday, Fox News ran a fascinating op-ed that helps explain why corporate media refuses to cover the Somali scam story. It was titled, “DAVID MARCUS: White guilt, apathy fuel massive corruption in Minnesota.”

   Conservative commenter Marcus went to Minneapolis and asked random citizens what they thought of the horrifying scandal. White Minnesotans were largely indifferent. “It’s hard to care much about it when ICE is disappearing Somalis on the streets,” Anne, a 30-something tech worker said. Jack, a Millennial software engineer, wondered, “Lots of people commit fraud, so why are Somalis being singled out?” Jack added, “I don’t even really know what assimilation means.”

   Take note of Jack’s remark that “lots of people commit fraud.” We’ll return to that theme shortly.

   Local Minneapolis news media, Marcus said, invests 90% of its coverage on criticizing ICE enforcement, and 10% on “Republicans Pounce”-style hit pieces over the fraud scandal. The “vast majority” of people he approached shut down and refused to talk when he brought up the Somalis. “We don’t talk about that,” their faces seemed to say.

   “I went to Minnesota expecting to find anger over billions of dollars stolen from kids,” Marcus concluded, but what I found was an attitude that graft, by the right people, is almost viewed as an acceptable form of reparations.”

   That might be true. It’s probably part of the calculus. But I think the problem is much bigger than that. I think Democrats see all grift as acceptable for in-groups and right-minded fellow travelers. This week, for another example, a third (blue) grand jury refused to indict Letitia James for federal mortgage fraud. Add “cash bail,” such as in a recent case where an offender was repeatedly released after 275+ charges without prosecution in North Carolina. Or, when a Minneapolis judge overrode the jury in the Somali scammers’ criminal trial and just let them walk free.

   For too many Democrats, taking advantage of the system is a kind of reward for right thinking. It’s a valid technique, or an acceptable strategy, for progressives to get ahead, since the capitalist system is constructed against them— and anyway, the money mostly comes from their political enemies (conservative taxpayers).

   The widespread fraud and corruption we’re seeing is the fruit of the inevitable collision of three progressive-era trends: subjectivism, including subjective ethics; “social” justice, which encompasses “redistributive justice;” combined with a sort of Robin Hood-like anticapitalist sentiment. In other words, personal enrichment through state-adjacent grift is tacitly treated as a virtuous perk of membership in the right causes, and any attempts to police fraud are dismissed as weaponized law enforcement on behalf of capitalist or conservative interests.

   For Democrats, the grift has become a virtue, a badge of moral alignment, proof that the grifter understands that the system is rigged, and is clever enough to “claw back” value from illegitimate structures of power.

   This is not just a legal problem. It is also a cultural and moral problem, which will not be simply solved by prosecuting a few cases and tweaking the laws. As the Letitia James case and the Minnesota judge’s striking the Somali jury verdict proves, the institutions meant to constrain criminal conduct have themselves been infected.

   We are looking at a great pendulous swing in the conservative direction. The culture is becoming increasingly frustrated with the self-serving progressive status quo. Correction requires removing all non-integrated immigrants who hail from cultures where grift is normalized. But that’s not the end of the job, as David Marcus’ anecdotal stories show— even bland, white, American Democrats have been convinced that crime does pay, when it’s the right type of criminal.

   Speaking of correcting the great progressive grift, last week Secretary Marco Rubio, bless him, delivered some fascinating comments at an event to announce a Kenyan health aid package. “We’re not doing this anymore,” Rubio said about the NGO-industrial complex. On Friday, USA Pravda ran a sensational story headlined, “BREAKING: Sec. Marco Rubio just dropped the HAMMER on endless funds going to NGOs.”

   CLIP: Secretary of State Rubio announces dismantling the NGO-Industrial complex (1:27).

   https://x.com/TRUMP_ARMY_/status/1999455555447062637?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

   At the event, Secretary Rubio wondered, “Why are we even hiring American and international NGOs?” He answered himself: “If we’re trying to help countries, help the country. Don’t help an NGO go in and find a new line of business.”

   “We’re not going to spend billions of dollars funding the NGO-industrial complex,” he continued, “because this makes no sense, since only a percentage overall ever actually reached patients, or the people on the ground we were trying to help.”

   Rubio was too classy to explain the sausage-making, but let me try to boil it down for you. It works like this: Some Democrats would get together with hopeful lobbyists from overseas and agree to some kind of aid deal, like $25 million to help stop Ebola or something. The foreign lobbyists would go away happy, while the Democrats* (* usually, but not always) would pick up disposable cell phones and call their buddies.

   “We got a $25 million deal coming,” they’d say, “but I can’t remember which country; in Africa someplace.” And then the buddy would say, “no problem, give me ten minutes to set up an NGO.” Then, with the help of USAID (the “U” stands for “unauditable”), the $25 million would flow through that late, uncelebrated “independent agency” to the NGO, which, after deducting reasonable management and overhead expenses, would spend $55 on a Facebook campaign in Nigeria.

   This “perk” for Congressionally connected progressives became so lucrative that they quickly ran out of real aid targets, and eventually had to start making up completely new causes. They would brainstorm ideas through a rigorous and demanding process aimed at efficiency, effectiveness, and “spreading democracy” through a series of hard-to-trace bank accounts.

   For instance, an NGO operator might ask a Congressional Democrat, “How about an educational campaign for transgender apple pickers?” After several seconds of deep thought, the Congressman would reply, “Great idea, we can get you $10 million for that!” The Congressman would get a nice donation, six Liberian cross-dressing fruit harvesters would each get a commemorative coin, and everybody would win. (Except the taxpayers, but who cares.)

   Anyway, last week, Secretary Rubio just announced some new truths that were already becoming self-evident. The NGO gravy train is dead, kaput, no mas. It’s over. Please ensure that you have collected all your personal belongings before exiting the ride.

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   I’ll end with this observation: Never, in my entire pre-pandemic life, would I have believed I would unironically link to a news story in Pravda. Yet here we are. Corporate media’s headlines about Rubio’s comments were so fake and watered down that, to deliver something approximating the truth, I was forced to cite the former Soviet disinformation network, which is now a more reliable resource than our own newspapers. But never mind.

   What we’ve learned about USAID and Minnesota’s Somalians in just a few months proves we still have a long way to go. But these vast, historic scams are not even close to new. They are just newly exposed. That’s the difference. We now enjoy a new DOJ, a DOGE, a State Department, and a Cabinet that are all rooting out fraud like hungry hounds chasing overfed rabbits.

   And it’s only getting started. You heard it here first: 2026 will be a transformative year.

2. pedro_deleon says:

   December 14, 2025 - 12:06 pm at 12:06 pm

   With the Everything Bubble comes the Everything Fraud.

   There’s ALWAYS fraud at the top.

   DC has the GAO, a General Accounting Office.
   But it took DOGE to do the job they are supposed to do.

   We need a nationwide bounty hunters league to root it all out.
   Take some of the DOGE savings (if they arise), and fund Hotlines and maybe reward independent journalists to root them out. Then assign randomly selected prosecutors (outside the relevant jurisdiction) to hunt them down.

   • Fullgoldcrown says:

     December 14, 2025 - 12:52 pm at 12:52 pm

     Military Tribunals

     One day trials….then Convictions …then Gitmo…no reviews