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Five Quick Things: Minnesota Goes to Hell (Again)
It really shouldn’t happen twice in six years. Then again, with the same cast of characters in charge, it’s hardly a surprise that it did.
Or that it would keep happening.
We speak here about the national crisis occasioned by the leadership and citizenry (slightly more than half of it, to be fair) of the state of Minnesota.
So much has gone wrong there that an entire book can and perhaps should be written — perhaps in multiple volumes. But in the interest of brevity, we’ll limit this national filing of grievance to only five things.
Which we will endeavor, as best we can, to be quick in declaring.
1. Piracy and Theft
Since before Christmas, the nation has been transfixed by the scandal of Minneapolis’s Somali community and its “economic” activities, which mostly consist of running scams to steal money from the American taxpayer. (RELATED: Minnesota Welfare Scandal Is the Fraud Warning Americans Finally Noticed)
There can be no real argument at this point that it was a grievous mistake to import hundreds of thousands of people from the world’s worst country. This was sussed out brilliantly in Congressional testimony by Texas Republican Rep. Brandon Gill, who walked a panel of Minnesota state legislators through the litany of failure the Somali community has inflicted on the people of these United States since their arrival…
What do you get when you import a community where four in five of its members become dependent on the welfare system? This isn’t a hypothetical question, of course; we already know — and Minnesota has provided us with the answer.
You get $9 billion in welfare fraud. Because while most Somalis aren’t on the ball enough to do much in the way of productive work, anyone immersed in a slack, openly incontinent system like SNAP or Medicaid will eventually find nooks and crannies in which to hide while draining its coffers. The masterminds of Somali fraud in day care centers, autism “crazy checks” and other things are almost certainly not just Somali — but there are clearly enough Somalis to fill up the fraud pipeline and make it so that any effort to clean these things up is going to be lambasted as “bigoted” or “racist.”
So you get this…
This is the type of wholesale racket that Democrats create. The Somalians here are the ones carrying it out, but we should not ignore the role played by their Democratic enablers who created the infrastructure for fraud to proliferate and go unchecked pic.twitter.com/prd3sjIPDS
— Dinesh D’Souza (@DineshDSouza) December 24, 2025
And this…
How does the Somali daycare fraud work?
– Somalis bring in kids
– Check them in
– Leave with the kids
– Bill the state for care that never happened
– Parents receive kickbacks
Oh, and this is surveillance from 2018. This has been happening for YEARS.
pic.twitter.com/MhV9zpTQ5s
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) December 29, 2025
And these scams have gone on unabated, outside of the odd prosecution here and there, for more than 15 years, with nobody doing anything effective about it.
Naturally, there is another level to this, which is that when you start asking the old Roman question cui bono — who benefits? — you realize why this unconscionable rape of the American taxpayer has carried on with Minnesota as its locus.
Here’s a hint…
And here’s more than a hint…
? HOLY CRAP. Nick Shirley and David just confirmed that 1 Somali collects mail-in ballots for entire COMPLEXES — up to 9 BALLOTS per apartment home — and send them in for Democrats
The voter fraud is MASSIVE ? pic.twitter.com/AbyaQDigWG
“They all vote together and there’s…
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) January 6, 2026
That’s pretty bad, you’d have to agree. Except it’s worse. Back in 2020, James O’Keefe exposed how bad it really is…
Project Veritas was so far ahead of the Somali fraud in Minnesota.
We exposed their illegal ballot harvesting schemes in 2020.
No one was EVER arrested. pic.twitter.com/85irKXxYW4
— Eric Spracklen ?? (@EricSpracklen) December 30, 2025
@JamesOKeefeIII and @Project_Veritas uncovered Minnesota voter fraud among the Somali community in September 2020, two months before the election. And when I wrote about it, the backlash was ferocious.
The story was “widely fact-checked” aka discredited by the “prestige” media… https://t.co/IuUVkBbfqm pic.twitter.com/JEzW0vM8Ub
— Miranda Devine (@mirandadevine) December 27, 2025
2. The Heave-Ho
So as this scandal began to unravel and ferment, the poll numbers began to sour for Minnesota’s governor, Tim Walz — a bizarre, unstable man who was exposed and rejected by voters across the country as Kamala Harris’s servile vice presidential nominee in 2024. Walz was called on the carpet by Minnesota’s senior senator, Amy Klobuchar, the story goes, and told that he’d gone politically septic and could therefore not be his party’s nominee for re-election this fall. (RELATED: Walz Can’t Escape the Somali Fraud Scandal)
Walz seems to have a penchant for deferring to women not named Kristie Noem, so this was the result…
It was surely an on-brand performance from Walz, who, along with Minnesota’s Attorney General Keith Ellison, actively inflicted the Somali piracy of the welfare state on the American taxpayer and then, when the political price had to be paid for it, went all in on partisan attacks on Donald Trump.
The parallel that comes to mind is Harvey Weinstein, whose own denouement as a relevant figure on the national stage stemming from the failure of his character was seasoned with political attacks on Trump and a commitment to attack Americans’ gun rights in a failed leftist virtue signal.
Walz’s downfall shouldn’t have been much of a blow to the national Democrat Party; after all, they’d given him his 15 minutes of fame, and he’d used them poorly. Flushing him was probably a net plus.
Except that the Somali fraud mess is larger than something that can be cleaned up by the political demise of one lackluster governor. It spans several states and billions of dollars; there are political donations on the books to Democrats all around, and it touches something primal in the minds of ordinary Americans.
Heidi Hill, posting at X, summarized this perfectly…
There is something deeply insulting about watching a Somalian fraud ring siphon billions of dollars from the U.S. government through a scheme so sloppy it should have collapsed before it began.
This wasn’t clever. It was incompetent. When confronted, the Somalian actors involved didn’t even deny the fraud outright. They claimed the records—and only the records needed to prosecute them— were stolen. All of them.
Seemingly unaware they’d been caught in their own lies, one man bemoaned his innocence while wearing designer sunglasses priced around $2,500. It’s like watching every B movie where the embezzlers go buy a Ferrari and drive it to work the next day.
Now activists are rushing in to block all conversation, which to any sane person makes them look even more guilty and increasingly ridiculous. As Frederic Bastiat warned, “When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.”
This mess was metastasizing, and it threatened to engulf an entire political party. Worse, it threatened to demoralize the Democrats’ base of affluent white female leftists — AWFLs — as some or perhaps many would reasonably conclude they’d been had by pirates and fraudsters bilking those beloved social programs.
Something had to be done. And miraculously, an opportunity arose.
3. A Carpetbagging AWFL Earns Her Immortality
The public wanted action against the pirates and thieves in Minnesota, and where some of them were not here legally, ICE and the Border Patrol could do at least a modicum of good by sending them home.
Minneapolis is not a focus of ICE activity, but the agency is quite active there. In response, what has happened is that leftist NGO’s, funded partially by American tax dollars, have set up networks on Signal and WhatsApp in order to track the activity of ICE agents and mobilize to stop them from turning arrests into deportations. (RELATED: Please Deliver Us From the Poorly-Behaved Women)
Bear in mind that more than 70 percent of everyone deported by ICE through the raids they’re carrying out across the country are not just illegal aliens but either criminals — meaning they’ve committed crimes while here illegally — or they’re under a judicial deportation order. So when ICE rolls in to make an arrest, and someone acts to interfere with their activity, that someone is, in more cases than not, acting to protect a criminal invader into our country. (RELATED: Are They Illegal? Because If They’re Illegal, That’s Why They’re Getting Arrested)
For some reason — mostly, I imagine, because they’re the base of the Democrat Party and the Left as a whole — the brigades of “activists” mobilizing to stop ICE agents from doing their jobs are chiefly made up of AWFLs.
And on Wednesday, a woman named Renee Nicole Good, described as a mother of three and a poet, married to another woman, drove her Honda Pilot into an ICE engagement and parked it in a way that blocked a street so ICE officers couldn’t get out with an arrestee.
Good was asked to move her car. She didn’t. Her lesbian partner got out of the car to film what came next.
Then the ICE officers moved to surround the car and arrest her, because obstruction of a law enforcement activity is a crime.
Let’s remember, because you’ve been propagandized to believe that the recent campaign of left-wing “protests” are “nonviolent,” that there are well-established principles of nonviolent resistance which have come down from Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and others, and among those principles are that if you’re going to be arrested by the police for having demonstrated against some unjust thing, you go with them calmly and passively. (RELATED: Abusing Border Patrol Agents: Echoes of Vietnam)
That’s not what Renee Good did. As an ICE officer approached her open driver’s-side window and another got in front of her vehicle, she first threw the Pilot into reverse and then accelerated forward — perhaps in an attempt to escape, as her supporters have claimed, but the vehicle accelerated directly toward an ICE officer who shot her before being struck by the vehicle and then stepping aside as it careened into a parked car.
That same ICE officer had been attacked by another leftist protester with a vehicle in June; in that incident, he’d been dragged some distance by the vehicle. Any opprobrium you might have for his having shot Renee Good should be tempered by that knowledge.
And as Noem noted, attempting to run ICE officers over with cars is a well-established pattern. A woman behind the wheel of a car is not physically infirm, as she might be attempting to resist an ICE officer on foot, you see, and so if the recruits to your fairly violent “non-violent” resistance are women, you use what you have.
Good was not from Minneapolis. She was born in Colorado and had lived in Kansas City. She showed up in Minneapolis to cause trouble with ICE and had been involved in trying to block streets to prevent ICE officers from doing their jobs several times in the preceding hours and days.
With three children at home.
4. A Foul Mouth Full of Soy
With Good’s death, Minnesota’s abjectly evil leftist politicians now had something other than Somali fraud to pivot to, and pivot they did. Jacob Frey, the noxious soyboy mayor of Minneapolis who was himself a carpetbagger — he’s from northern Virginia and has lived in Minneapolis only since 2009 — barely survived re-election against a Somali socialist named Omar Fateh, who might have turned that city into a full-on Mogadishu. Frey needed something to bolster his credibility as a leftist political figure after becoming a laughingstock for his pandering to the Somalis during the campaign, and now he could pander to the AWFLs.
Boy, did he. Here was Frey last week…
‼️ Americans are calling for Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey to resign after he threatened violence against ICE just weeks ago.
Now, today, a suspect attempted to run over ICE agents with her vehicle, prompting self-defense gunfire in response. pic.twitter.com/IqkzqE3gaa
— Digital Gal (@DigitalGalX) January 7, 2026
That was not a warning to the Renee Goods of the world that they needed to be careful how far to take their “activism,” by the way. No, it was a demand that ICE not enforce the law.
And after Good’s entirely avoidable death — had she exercised some judgment and personal discipline in making one single smart decision on Wednesday, none of this would have happened — this was Frey…
There is absolutely no defense for the mayor of a city to speak this way — not just because of his foul, unprofessional language but because his message is utterly lawless.
But it was utterly on brand for the Minneapolis mayor, who had done everything he could to set his city on fire following George Floyd’s death in police custody in May 2020.
5. Insurrection in the Wind
Not to be outdone, and suddenly relevant again with a suitable helping of ghoulish attention-whoring, Walz returned to the political stage with his own announcement. And this was not just the usual demagoguery, but rather something more…
“Peacefully, as you always do.” This from a governor who watched his largest city burn just five and a half years ago.
And then Walz threatened to deploy the Minnesota National Guard against the federal government.
There is almost no precedent for that. It gives off a distinct stench of civil war.
Walz, Frey and the rest of Minnesota’s governing class have encouraged billions of dollars of theft from the American taxpayer, with much of the proceeds remitted to a hostile foreign nation engaged in terrorism and piracy on the high seas, and to deflect from public attention of the resultant scandal, ginned up useful idiots to interfere with federal law enforcement officers while making not-so-veiled threats that violence was coming.
And when it did come, they then escalated the conflict with the federal government.
Minnesota is now beyond the pale. It’s a benighted, lawless place.
Were Trump to respond to Walz by invoking the Insurrection Act and deploying the military into the streets of Minnesota’s cities, and perhaps sending special forces operators to pinch Walz as they did Nicolas Maduro last weekend in order to hold him as an accused revolutionary, it would not be an outrageous act.
It might even be a necessary act.
Minnesota is now leading America into civil war. This would be the stupidest civil war in world history, and that would be beyond doubt on brand for the American Left, which allows itself to be led by people like Walz, Frey, Ellison, and Ilhan Omar. But this is where we are, and it must be dealt with.
Walz and Frey must resign. Now. The full weight of the federal government must descend on Minnesota until they do.
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