For This?

Posted on by Sarah A. Hoyt

I’m angry and sad, and I don’t know what to do with any of it.

So let me share so you too can also be angry and sad:

The thing is, if you think it’s just the Somalis, or JUST the daycare fraud… You’re air-dreaming.

Look, as I many times remind people, I come from what is technically an European country, and yet… What is considered fraud here is just the way you do business there. All the way down.

America, as dirty as we’ve gotten, is REMARKABLY clean. Oh, never as clean as we’d like it to be or think it is. Never was.

To an extent fraud is inherent to humanity. Stopping fraud would require “If only everyone” and as we know there has been no time in the history of ever when everyone did the same thing at once. If tomorrow someone invented a shot that allows you to live disease free forever, about 2/3 of the people or more would refuse to take it.

However, most countries and most cultures are so choked with fraud they achieve nothing. To an extent, for a shining moment the US was not so stopped up by fraud and that allowed us to push humanity forward a massive amount. Fraud was still there, from the party machines to the federal contractors, but it wasn’t so pervasive that nothing else happened.

And then–

Well, it was baked into the centralization of power, wasn’t it? The more money there is somewhere — and there’s a ton of money in our federal government. Really a sh*tton of money — the more the fraud will grow.

But then all of this was incrementalized by…. mass migration.

I pointed out on twitter the other day that while I don’t think we should totally shut of immigration, except temporarily, I DO think we should UTTERLY stop chain migration and “family migration”. Yes, because I’m cruel. Why else?

No, on the serious side, because those two are a gateway to mass migration and mass migration means never having to assimilate. As much as I wanted to assimilate, if instead of being pitchforked into the country with my American born and raised (whose family had been here since the 1600s (and a branch before)) husband I’d come with my entire extended family, I probably would never have acculturated. There would be mom’s judgement and dad’s judgment, and what the cousins would say, and it would rapidly turn into “us against how the Americans do it.” And acculturating meant breaking with your family. (It does mean that anyway, to a great extent, as much as I still love them. I’m not of them and they fail to get me.) Something most people don’t want to EVER do.

Doesn’t mean assimilation doesn’t happen. eventually the vast masses of Irish and Italian became largely American, but it takes three generations to do that. And some stuff remains, always.

Which is why for a while at least — until we get our culture to stop simping for everyone else — and maybe forever we need to cut off chain migration. And family reunification should ONLY be done… Well, a couple can come through together. A citizen (which means years of wait for citizenship) can bring in his wife/her husband. BUT children over say 6 years of age? One at a time. Because it requires the last one being a citizen to bring another. One for one. Don’t like it? Don’t immigrate. And parents? ONLY IN EXTREME PROVABLE NEED.

Also of course, yes, this wouldn’t apply to refugees, but we do need to establish who is an actual refugee — hint, refugees don’t go back on vacations to the place the fled from — and even in those cases, we should disperse them, using the nuclear family as a unit. “You can’t settle in NYC. I don’t care if all your cousins are there. You are assigned…. Arizona.”

Yes, this is more authoritarian than we’d tolerate, but it’s for GUESTS, not citizens.

Why? Well, beyond the fact that I think we desperately need assimilation? Because we need to break up the fraud mentality from other countries.

Again, if you think that’s just Somalis! Every country bordering the Mediterranean has this problem, and don’t get me started on Africa. JUST DON’T. Or India. Or any other place that’s been invaded multiple times. You work around the authorities, and there’s no inherent respect for the rule of law. PERIOD.

Which leads to stuff like this.

We’re back to the DOGE question “What if all our debt (and a bit besides) is just fraud?”

As we all know I’m the philosophical persuasion that Taxation is THEFT. All taxation. Because it’s taken under threat of force, and because it’s not moral for a group to do something an individual can’t do.

But there are purposes for which I — and not just me! — would willingly donate if not the same close to the same amount we pay in taxes. For me, the things to which I’d gleefully donate to protect our borders, space exploration, biological research (to the extent I think government should do those last two, which is none, but you know, I’d still donate to that.)

There are things to which, if not a government, a large enough enterprise-control is needed as a force multiplier.

Pouring it down the rat hole of democrat corruption is not one of those.

And it’s mostly democrat corruption. No, not because the GOP is Simon pure — I’d bet you there’ 50% of them on the China payroll! — but because the GOP is in the crosshairs of the MSM and for the last 100 years if one of them so much as farted in church, he’d be taken down in the media. Meanwhile, the left? Oh, dear. by the mid 20th century I’m not even sure the live boy or dead girl in bed thing applied. They could do what they wanted. And did.

Combine this with the fact that might be derived from it, but then again might be inherent to the dems, that they have no understanding of second — let alone third — order consequences and believing that what they want to happen is what will happen, and they turned “Diversity is our strength” into a through of dirty money, in which they’ve been wallowing like pigs. (Because if you don’t think they get a kickback from all of this.)

And this, ladies, gentlemen and those who just looked in their pants to figure out which, and those who are just as puzzled after looking in their pants: THIS is why they’re fighting so hard.

This is why they defend every “Maryland dad” and are sobbing in their soy lattes over the bombed drug boats.

It’s not the empathy for the poor suffering criminals — when did the left have empathy anyway? Talk to them about people genuinely being abused and if you’re lucky you’ll get “they deserved it because their ancestors–” — it’s the sadness over the decreasing stream of sweet sweet dirty money.

And I don’t know how and I don’t even know how to start, but that spigot needs to stop and needs to stop right now.

It would be bad enough to let the epitaph of mankind be: “We gave up the stars for welfare.”

This is what the left has been trying to talk us into for years, with stuff like “We shouldn’t go to other worlds until we learn to take care of this one” or “while there are poor on Earth” or any other bilge. (Bilge because this is like saying “You can’t go to college until you defeat your auto-immune.” The two aren’t related.)

BUT–

BUT–

“We gave up the stars for fraud”?

I don’t know if in the vast universe there is anyone to read our epitaph, but I firmly believe we owe it to ourselves not to let it be that.

Let’s clean up. Let’s do it now.

124 thoughts on “For This?”

  2. IMO the people who believe the News Media and the Democrats also see the News Media & the Democrats as God-Kings, who can do No Wrong.

    Of course, those idiots whine about “Trump Worshipers”.

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  3. And the man who permitted this (and probably really benefited) was almost our VP. (And him being nominated because of the rampant fraud sadly makes a lot more sense than him being nominated because of his virility and everyman charm.)

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    1. The Reader saw some speculation (no proof) that Walz was chosen specifically to channel fraud money to the Harris campaign. It does make one wonder…

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      1. My response, while agreeing that cashflow was probably what Eric Holder’s “VP candidate vetting” of Walz actually “vetted”, was that Kammy’s campaign had all the fraud-sourced channels that Barry set up and removed any validation from, like ActBlue, which has been proven to have been fed by USAID and other taxpayer nonprofit moneys, sewed up and nailed down. That’s how she had all that cash on hand to blow in her 100 days.

        That stuff was only really impacted once DOGE was spun up.

        So the addition of Timmays dirty money to all the other dirty money does not really shock.

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      2. What I have to say about the governor’s self-proclaimed “virility” is not permitted on this blog. However, based on what I’ve seen on TV and the internet (videos of rallies and interviews), a single page from a James Avery catalogue has a hundred times the amount of charm(s) as does that individual.

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    4. Yup – Tampon Tim Walz, the live-action Elmer Fudd.

      Yeah, we MAGA-folk were supposed to be terrified of his untrammeled flyover-state, mil-vet masculinity, but once we got a good look at him, we were rolling on the floor, speechless with laughter.

      He got played by the Somalis, or was willingly playing them, if the suggestion that local Dems were getting kickbacks is accurate. I don’t suppose it really matters much, which is the case. I so want to see citizenship annulled, green cards cancelled, mass deportation of every one of the low-IQ, lying, cheating, skinny Muslim thieves back to the sh*thole they came from.

      Oh, and I have despised Somalis (with a single exception) for decades – ever since we got suckered into famine relief in their sh*thole of a country, and then without missing a beat, they turned to looting the relief supplies. And then – the Blackhawk Down incident, and the aftermath of dragging the dead bodies of our servicemen through the street.

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      2. Considering that the word from whistleblowers was that “blow the whistle, get retaliation from Tampon Tim and/or his henchmen”, I figure he was getting his share off the top.

        I also love how he characterized the investigation as “white supremacy”.

        It’s too far away for me to do a drive-by “REEETARRRRRRDDDD!” callout, but I sure appreciate the effort. The fact he’s publicly pissed about it makes it all worth while.

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    2. hahaha

      Bro, yes, I been having mucho mellow.

      I just completed an editing task on a textfile that I am using to help me catalog a bunch of documents, because I was sure that I had two somewhere, but not sure where. Found them!

      Much happier than when I have been getting into the political stuffs on net.

      The toner cartridge misbehaving was a happier experience than politics.

      There are perhaps exciting possibilities or potentials with politics, but there are a bunch of things I will be trying to do myself next Monday. I’mma not gonna expect other people to do things I would like them to do earlier than I am doing my own stuff.

      I’m going be thankful for what I do receive, and work on my own unjust senses of angry entitlement. (I started commenting on this blog while having a temper, and I’ve become more aware of how much of my life I have been letting my temper eat.)

      Love to all, and a happy New Year!

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    2. Well, a vir, in the Latin, was just a man, or maybe a noble man.

      And the Romans did have some very awful men, some of them merely awful and of no historical note.

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            1. Never a “squish”.

              He was loyal, almost to a fault. But his loyalty was to the Centauri that could be, the Londo that could be.

              He could have killed/sold-out-/destroyed Londo and/or the Republic time after time. He never did.

              He -knew- that Morden was part of something immense and vile, and yet he not only refused him, he -mocked- him.

              Ultimately, he was the Vir that could be.

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              1. I always thought of him as the new guy who was initially lost, squishy and compliant, gullibly believing in anything, but with initial doubts that grew over time, who subsequently found himself and rose to the occasion.

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                1. He was a guy who didn’t meet his family’s expectations (for a member of their family) and was sent to B5 to “get him out of the way”.

                  Note, Londo Mollari was also sent to B5 for the same reason.

                  Vir did meet Londo’s “expectations” for an aide and I suspect that Londo was the first person to see what Vir could be but Londo still trusted Vir as he won’t have trusted any other Centauri which allowed Vir to grow.

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        2. Except Vir blazed his way through the Centauri political cesspool of patronage and treachery with honesty and forthrightness. Which probably confused the hell out of his would-be enemies.

          “I’d like to live just long enough to be there when they cut off your head and stick it on a pike as a warning to the next ten generations that some favors come with too high a price. I would look up at your lifeless eyes and wave like this. [waggles fingers] Can you and your associates arrange this for me, Mr. Morden?”

          — B5, S02E16 “In the Shadows of Z’ha’dum

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              1. Did they? Londo, for one, did not ask for Adira to be killed, but that’s what he got. Refa didn’t ask to be beaten to death by a group of angry Narns. Cartagia didn’t ask to be stabbed with a poisoned needle. By Vir, of all people.

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                1. Vir didn’t ask for Centauri Prime’s equivalent to Australia or Madagascar to get nuked, but he got that, too. Morden’s associates gave unasked-for (and unwanted) gifts along with the ones they actually were asked for.

                  Rather an important point.

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  6. I’m pretty much uot of tears on the subject. This is an Augean stables mess, mixed with people so indoctrinated they think the smell of rotting waste is the perfume of some nature goddess. (That “meadow-fresh smell fabric softener? That includes notes of decaying plant life.)

    Is there an armory of clue-bats large enough to wake people up? Is there anywhere an army of chobham-armored new brooms to sweep the mess clean? Will Trump’s successors be able to build on his tactical, operational, and strategic genius? Can SCOTUS be kept faithful enough to our Constitution for forty years, and will it have the institutional strength to restore our court system?

    Eternal vigilence, and especially now.

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  7. I’m old enough to remember the gripe: “We can put a man on the moon, but we can’t … ” (Fill in the blank – Urban Renewal, Universal Daycare, Universal Healthcare, Reparations, etc.) As our hostess notes, all redolent of grift and graft.

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  8. Woman onTwitter, seemingly liberal and semi-blackpilled because she has suddenly – suddenly!- realized how tattered, “the rule of law,” has gotten. It reminds me, again, how useful a belief in Original Sin can be. It immunizes you against belief in any human Utopia.

    I don’t know if anything will be done (I like Erickson’s idea of Trump going to Minneapolis and doing a press conference, so the media can’t ignore this completely), but I think the pressure is building and I don’t know of the state. PtB have a clue about how to let off steam.

    What they want is either complete demoralization (“nothing will change, we’re screwed, might as well just put up with it,”) or complete corruption (“Might as well join in and get myself a patron, the way those Somalis have.”)

    What they’ll get? I have not got a clue.

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  9. Oh, dear. by the mid 20th century I’m not even sure the live boy or dead girl in bed thing applied.

    Oh, some of us KNOW it didn’t. Rep Gerry Studds, D-MA. 1983: Caught in the Congressional elevator flagrante delicto with a 17-year old. Censured by the House (not prosecuted, because DC age of consent). Unlike the Republican who was also caught and censured for a separate incident with a 17-year old female page, he was re-elected 7 times and died in office.

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        1. Sometime in the 1980s, some “Medium” claimed that Mary Jo Kopechne told her (the Medium) that Teddy didn’t know she was in the car. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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    2. But those were live girls, not dead girls or live boys. And today, those qualifiers wouldn’t apply. (She was live when I got into bed!) (How could I tell? I’m not a biologist!)

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  10. “The thing is, if you think it’s just the Somalis, or JUST the daycare fraud… You’re air-dreaming.”

    There are so many venues and avenues of fraud, American and non, that I would not be surprised to see practically every state infected with some type of massive fraud. I’ll just be surprised at the ones that have less fraud; we know California and New York have it bad, because they’re both scrambling for figleaves to cover it. Minnesota has it bad and is in the news, but practically every state in the NE and the SE is going to have discoverable, layers upon layers, of fraud. From Maine to NY to Northern Virginia to Charlotte NC all the way down to Miami, you’re going to have fraud investigations blowing the lid off so many scams it will be sickening.

    We need some kind of chant for it: “Hey hey, ho ho, the fraud has got to go!” Because it’s strangling us, and if we don’t get rid of it, it’s curtains for everyone. We couldn’t afford this while it was building up, but we desperately need to stop it now or we will not survive.

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    2. “practically every state infected“

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      Practically? I would argue every state. Along with most charities. Most, because I’d like to think the ones I like have little to none: T2T, Shriners, BSA, etc.

      Like never in the history of product sales has any money gone missing? There be a reason why there be rules. This is the relatively minor stuff. Not involved in the major stuff.

      Or why the family graveyard treasure/secretary post is revolving between three people every year. We trust us. Although to be fair, with two of the three hitting over 70, we need to train replacements. Oh? The board members? Compensation is a very huge drain on the grant trust money we get from the state? (Which is money from interest from certificate aunt setup with trust entity.) — TBC sarcasm. $0 compensation to anyone, regardless of position. Okay. The remote cousin who owns a landscaping company who mows regularly gets $500/year. Makes the yearly mid-May Saturday work party clean up a lot easier and faster. Can remember years when weed wacker required before mowing could occur.

      Aside. Now getting comments that are replies. Let’s see if I get now get new comments not in the same string. (Dang WP anyway.)

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      1. A state I like because it had few votes for Harris, I am sure that also has tons of fraud.

        It is not that people in that state have a moral issue with the Democrat Party, they have a ton of utilitarians that are fine as long as there is money in the business. The problem for them is that the left ideologues in the national party were too hostile to the wrong sort of people having money.

        The state’s Republican party may simply be a slightly more circumspect offshoot of the state’s old Democratic Party.

        The national rankings for Education may purely be a proxy for how much money is being stolen using the excuse of ‘teaching children to read’.

        We have fifty plus Republican Parties of about state size, and I would not trust anyone of them to be very clean without an exhaustive and verifiable ongoing system of audits. When we are too loyal to a party, and too blind in accepting their faults, we ensure that they will have worse corruption issues.

        The ‘drum circle for tinkerbell’ dogma in politics is so destructive in part precisely because it is much more functional if people have an extremely limited view of what politicians do for them, and broad concerns about what politicians might do to them.

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  11. Taxation is not theft, it is ROBBERY!! Stealing, not by stealth or deception, but by force and threats of force.
    ———————————
    Boss Vampire: “Huh? What’s that do?”
    Buffy proceeds to demonstrate what a rocket launcher does.
    FWOOSH-KABOOM!!
    Vampire chunks.

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  12. Last week I was watching a video on yt about a woman who got pulled over for dui. She didn’t speak English. The officer and most of the commenters apparently didn’t realize thatshe was trying to bribe him when she asked over and over “How much? How much pay?”

    This is perfectly normal throughout most of the world. The only difference between a policeman and a politician is their price tag.

    And yet we import this, support it, and call it racism to call it out. A high trust society cannot survive under these conditions.

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    1. Lawdog had a funny story in one of his books about how, when his family was on a brief break from Africa and got pulled over on an American road for a small traffic violation. His little brother (about five at the time, IIRC) tried to bribe the policeman who had pulled them over with a fist-full of African paper notes … because that what the kid expected in that circumstance, having been raised mostly in Africa.

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      1. Lawdog had some creative suggestions for the fraudsters. After conviction, and FULL time served, they’d be flown back to Somolia (insert any other relevant country) in a C5 and pushed out the ramp onto the runway. He didn’t much care how fast the plane was going at the time. OTOH, the plane was on the ground, at least briefly.

        The part I really liked: same treatment for those who saw the fraud and gave a pass. (Not sure if LD said that or a commenter.)

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    2. It’s normal to the point that it’s understood that money earned from traffic stops is partly how cops make their money in many countries, and their salaries are lower as a result.

      It’s also not just cops. One book I read about the CCP stated that this is the way that things are done in *modern* China. Chinese bureaucrats make less than their counterparts in some other countries because it’s understood that graft will more than cover the difference. And the graft doesn’t just support the bureaucrat. It’s understood that the bureaucrat will use the graft to support his support staff. So the bureaucrat makes sure that a chunk of the “largesse” is gifted by him to his driver, secretary, and everyone else that’s part of his team. And that means that if you try to be an honest politician, you’re not going to be getting the best support staff, because you’re not going to have anything to share with the people that you hire. The best support staff people will instead go to work for the more generous bureaucrats.

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  13. “Also of course, yes, this wouldn’t apply to refugees,” Why NOT? I’m sorry, but our duty to accept refugees stops one country away in any given direction. That’s actual law. A refugee is required to seek sanctuary at the first border they hit, when fleeing their shithole.
    NOT go shopping for the best cumshaw deal they can find, and ask for sanctuary there.
    Heartless?
    Sure, I got big shoulders, Lay it on me. But it is actually the rule the UN May bees pee on them, established.
    Does it risk creating another MV St. Lewis? Yeah, I guess it does, but you know, the left didn’t cry about that one, in fact it was their poster child, FDR that did the deed.
    First rule of First Responders everywhere, you can’t help the injured, or threatened, if you are dead yourself. Take care of your own safety then the patient. So is it with refugees, and other dirtbags that want to get in, then make us the place they came from.

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      1. Don’t know about nowadays, but the 1900 Boer was one straight shooting SOB.

        I can see why the Donks would be terrified of importing that history and meme.

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        1. https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_piet.htm

          An’ when there wasn’t aught to do
          But camp and cattle-guards,
          I’ve fought with ’im the ’ole day through
          At fifteen ’undred yards;
          Long afternoons o’ lyin’ still,
          An’ ’earin’ as you lay
          The bullets swish from ’ill to ’ill
          Like scythes among the ’ay.

          Ah there, Piet!–be’ind ’is stony kop.
          With ’is Boer bread an’ biltong, an’ ’is flask of awful Dop;
          ’Is Mauser for amusement an’ ’is pony for retreat,
          I’ve known a lot o’ fellers shoot a dam’ sight worse than Piet.

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      2. Are there any jurisdictional restrictions we could get 51 senators on board with?

        A reformulation of appellate court rules would tie a lot of hands at once…

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    2. Sure I agree it won’t be easy, put hey folks until we start doing something these Liberal Judges will run amuck. Some the Attention alone will make them back down from the frivolous objections, Others need to be thrown out of helicopters for being communist insurrectionists. But we have to do something, short of killing them all. There need to be checks and balances and they need to be help accountable.

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  17. I went to college in Minnesota (St. Olaf, to be exact) and a lot of my classmates were from the Twin Cities metroplex. At that time it was a great place to live, if you didn’t mind cold, snowy winters. But some chowderheads thought it needed “diversity” and to be “vibrant” and started importing Somalis and other such refuse. And we got the current situation.

    As for tim walz (I do not capitalize its name—it does not deserve that honor) I’ve had that twerp in my sights ever since he let Derek Chauvin be railroaded to appease the rioters in 2020. I don’t care if you think Chauvin was guilty (and I know enough law to know that there were strong arguments against that) but the trial he got made the one the Scottsboro Boys got look fair and even-handed. Vishinsky and Fouquier-Tinville would have been coughing behind their hands and shaking their heads.

    “tim walz was the first. The list is long. Dirac Angestun Gesept.”

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    2. So, which congresswoman was it that walked right into the jury room while they were deliberating and told them that they had to declare him guilty? A censure was brought up, but over-ruled.

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  18. Ironically, (or maybe not) I was on a certain social media site (not X or FB) and saw several people saying that the claims of Daycare Fraud were a hoax, an Alt-Right lie, because … well reasons. If it were true, MSM would have covered it.

    sigh Some people simply will not see.

    Is it wrong that I look around at the utter cluster the world is in, and am glad that I have no off-spring and that at 61 I am in the latter days of life?

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  19. Centralization of Power … ding ding ding ding. Who exactly sits in what seat in that small, provincial town in the Maryland swamps matters, and it shouldn’t. Add to that the federal judges who have decided they’re tribunes of the plebs rather than just doing their job and here we are.

    it’s more than just the welfare fraud. The big banks are getting paid huge amounts on all those reserves created under Biden. It’s nice to know that our tax dollars are paying banker bonuses rather than sending people into space.

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  20. From my perspective, sending all illegals elsewhere is much cheaper than allowing them to establish financial sources to rob U.S. citizens. That includes the labor pool that hangs out in front of hardware stores for cash jobs; ranch, or farm, hands; personal employees that take care of house, yard, or pool; and any that receive any type of public assistance. Make it a first degree felony to harbor, or hire, an illegal, criminalize providing any type of housing, and turn them away from any medical facility, unless they’re in danger of dying immediately without aid. Remove tax-exempt status from any organization that aids illegals, and describe the crime of providing any aid to illegals as treason. It’s harsh in the eyes of some, but considering how many U.S. citizens do without, while illegals receive so much free aid, the actions required to remove illegals isn’t so hard to understand; especially when you look at the harm caused by illegal criminals.

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  21. I have not been feeling hard about this, and I have doubts that it will prove to be an effective political argument. But this is perhaps purely a combo of ‘head under rock’, and not counting chickens before hatched.

    I’m basically unsure on some estimation problems of which ‘what fraction of federal spending is fraud’ is an element.

    Fundamentally, the amount that we can hope to clean up US politics in the first place depends of stuff including peace consensus. It has a lot of the same limitations as, say, whether we can ensure that law enforcement and the formal legal system are just, across the whole nation.

    Limits of force projection mean that we are reliant on local peace consensuses, and if the locals want something enough that they tolerate corruption, we have limited remedies from the outside. (At least barring cases where naturalization is irregular, and we can remove people outright.)

    I’m 99% sure that the Democrats are weak, and that we can rout them for the public good.

    But, we have always made trades between imperfect situations in the united states. We do not have a prospect of a secular New Jerusalem.

    I’m irritated about the proportion of universities and university funding that is raw government purchased pro-terrorism propaganda. I’ve gotten too many reminders about that.

    I think the lack of drawing connection with federal fraud levels overall might purely be personal idiosyncrasy on my part.

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  22. The notion of going back to Russia for any reason, let alone for a vacation, let alone before I was granted my American citizenship, never even crossed my mind. I mean, I ran from that place!

    On the contrary, for about a decade after coming here, I had this recurring nightmare of having gone back and getting stuck at the Sheremetyevo airport, with them not allowing me to return home. I would wake up in cold sweat and slowly realize that it was only a bad dream.

    Later, about 20 years ago, we did go to my wife’s home city in Ukraine, and both of us were counting days until our return flight. Which made us feel terrible, given we were there to visit her family, but… Between having to smile through all the neglect, corruption and an interesting question of whom to be worried about more, the criminals or the police, and how to tell the difference, it was such a relief to land in Vienna on the way home.

    Deport these ungrateful savages. Every single one of them.

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  24. A party-related comment of the type I usually try to eschew: if the Republicans, at all levels, don’t want to suffer a midterm shellacking, they will take prompt, extensive, and effective action against frauds upon the government across the country, not merely in Minnesota (because these frauds are going to be exposed by citizen journalists and even one or two newspapers in dozens of states). If voters conclude that RINOs are talking a big game that doesn’t go much beyond strongly-worded letters and grandstanding hearings, they will stay home in their millions, and the big legal news of 2027 will be, not the trials of Tim Walz and Keith Ellison, but the roughly monthly articles of impeachment against Donald Trump. (The over/under for the year is 13. Place your bets, ladies and gentlemen.)

    Getting a serious anti-fraud campaign going should not be a steep climb. It’s not “if only everyone,” just “if only a good working majority.” If we cannot get 60% of American citizens behind this, well, maybe we don’t deserve to have awe-inspiring photographs of Pluto.

    But I like to think some of us do.

    Republica restituendae.

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    1. A party-related comment of the type I usually try to eschew: if the Republicans, at all levels, don’t want to suffer a midterm shellacking, they will take prompt, extensive, and effective action against frauds upon the government

      Now tell us how many court decisions you’ll back the Trump Administration ignoring to achieve that result in that timeframe?

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  25. Sarah, this article is worth a read. I’ll just add that the problem isn’t Somali culture, it’s tribal culture, be it Leftist or Islam or Somali.

    https://open.substack.com/pub/amuseonx/p/the-somali-patronage-system-has-taken?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

    It is the standard term in academic and policy literature for a deeply entrenched social and political order organized around clans, sub clans, and binding kinship obligations. It predates the modern Somali state by centuries and survived because it had to. In Somalia, it replaced the state. In the West, it is colonizing one.

    The system arose in conditions of chronic insecurity. When there is no reliable government, survival depends on who you know and who owes you. The clan, or qabiil, became the primary unit of power. It was identity, insurance, enforcement, and politics rolled into one. Loyalty moved inward, never outward. The individual served the family, the family served the sub clan, the sub clan served the clan. The state was, at best, incidental.

    The West had similar struggles; think Scotland before the ’45, or even the Mafia, Appalachian hillbillies, and gang culture even today..

    The West has only found one cure: separate the tribal culture, or break the tribal culture.

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  26. The depressing part is that for justice to be served, we would have to jail most of the Democrat party. And then someone would look for others to put in the jails, just because they could, or to funnel tax money to party operatives, or …

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  27. I think you are making a much more important point than you realize when you talk about settling immigrants by family.

    Thinking back at different groups of immigrants, those that form separate communities (little italy, chinatown, etc) take much longer to integrate than those that spread out

    The Irish largely did because they went to where the work was, as dispised as they were they didn’t have a chance to form large communities

    I think a case can be made that most Indians have spread out

    Look at Blacks who immigrated from Africa individually and spread vs the waves of decedents of freed slaves going to inner cities as a group.

    Many of the earlier groups eventually spread out and started to assimilate, but it normally took a few generations before they became a ‘hats and food’ ethnicity rather than an independent culture, and it was painful for them and everyone around them in the meantime

    putting a given culture together is easier in the short run (especially for the government that needs to deal with them) but the larger the group (both in numbers and in percentage of the area that they end up in) the slower the assimilation.

    I think it would be very interesting to get someone to research this and do a formal paper on it.

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    1. I still think my situation was best: Absolutely alone in coming here and — mostly because of money — going back only once every few years for a few days, and talking to mom once a week on the phone.
      I assimilated and acculturated and other than my idiot accent (only because I can’t pay a speech code) you’d never guess I cam from elsewhere.

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  28. “We’re back to the DOGE question “What if all our debt (and a bit besides) is just fraud?””

    Given that they take half the income of every single American one way or another, and given how utterly useless “government aid” is, it would pretty much have to be fraud. Wouldn’t it?

    If you want to be -really- angry and sad, consider that the tens of billions frauded in Minnesota has been stolen by a bunch of cousin-marrying hillbillies from the crappiest part of Africa with the lowest average IQ in the entire world. (Call me a racist if you must, you lurking Leftie losers, but that’s the word from the UN. Go look it up. Hi, Bonnie!)

    Imagine how much the -smart- people could have stolen. Like Boeing. Actual rocket scientists.

    And for the crowning touch, just think about why we don’t have a moon base, and a beanstalk, and asteroid mining, and flying cars. Because they stole the money? Given Elon’s ridiculous success with rockets lately, and his hot-rod gearhead mentality, I’d say it’s not a bad bet.

    How to fix all that? TAX CUT. The biggest, boldest, most all-encompassing tax cut in the history of the world. Burn it down, and salt the ashes.

    Because if they can’t get their disgusting little socialist meat-hooks on it, they can’t steal it.

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  29. Nobody on our side is surprised by the fraud, except maybe the scope. My guess is that every state is heavily infected, even the red ones. People who can operate inside a completely corrupt environment, aka government at any level, are attracted to government service like metal filings to a magnet. Bureaucrats are the same the world over, IMO.

    The thing that concerns me is the mood on our side. The onslaught has gone on so long, a lot of people are getting discouraged. Discouraged people don’t fight, and we’ve got to be ready to do whatever’s necessary when the time(s) come.

    I want people to feel strong, and hopeful, despite circumstances, probably because I struggle with those two things fairly consistently.

    And I agree with whoever said send the *savages* home, ALL OF THEM.

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  30. Like the “I’m doing my part” schtick in that awful Starship Troopers movie, I’m writing as many Christian Theology, Science Fiction, and Computer Programming books as I can…

    Keeps me off the streets, out of the bars, and away from political parties.

    For what it’s worth.

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  31. This, as with so many things, is just the fraud/corruption/thievery that we might KNOW about so far. As stated, “if you think it’s just the Somalis, or JUST the daycare fraud…”

    We’ve got bloody DECADES of evidence that I’m not even convinced are the merest visible pebble in the entire mountain range of fraud, etc. Look at all the rolly polis that come in to office as paupers and with a bare handful of years become not just millionaires but multi. And not just the prominent few, the rank and bloody file congresscritters!

    Investigate that steaming pile of foetid felonies! Ply your prosecutorial powers, lawyer-folk! Investigate the ingrates. Discover the dirty drawers, the filthy philanderers, and the corpulent corrupters.

    Weaponized governmental agencies? Ah, we should be so lucky if they were! There are foes enough for formidable phalanxes of federales, folks! Set them loose upon the fat piggies in pantsuits. With what we know NOW, I for one and all a-thirst for more.

    If one dude with a yen for actual investigation reporting can do this, why in all that is sacred and sweet do we have so many uncountable bumbling bureaucratic that can’t get their thumbs out long enough to smell not just the whiff, but the toxic fumes of financial crimes swirling around just one major metro amongst many in these United States?

    I am indeed disappoint. But by no means willing to quit. Any minute now some grey haired old newsreader is going to pop up with the tired, old “scandal plagued presidency” or some other tripe to try and lay against the Teflon Don. Once it becomes unavoidable (and ye globs and little fishies, I do hope it does), the Now It Can Be Told crew will, after sufficient spin cycle and dirty laundering in dirtier “water,” try and minimize it and make it all the People’s President’s fault be default.

    It ain’t gonna work. So, pedal to the metal. Ignore the next coming chaos crisis. They’ll want something else to go into the newsreaders grubby little paws, because they’ll avoid, then they’ll spin, then they’ll bargain, and they’ll always be mad (perennial penchant for these pustulant pissants.

    My take is, look at the scope of our national debt. That’s the scope of the fraud. It’s in a bloody billion different hands, but it’s all theft from the pockets of taxpaying adults. This is why we need competent representation (note the R word. Not leadership). Decades of wealth stolen. Decades of freedoms diminished. Decades of lies.

    Maybe there is no bottom to this. But, all the same, best we get to digging. It’s the only way to clean the Augean stables.

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    1. I am indeed disappoint. But by no means willing to quit.

      Dan, you and a million other people have the same problem: The time and effort required for a walk-around with a video camera is minuscule compared to the effort to put together a criminal indictment, and then a trial leading to a conviction. And that’s by design; trials should require high standards of proof.

      Want to know why #MeToo was so popular even with some of the commenters here? Because “believe all women no matter how far back” was a hell of an easier standard than “require some kind of physical proof, with chain of custody intact”. In this case,

      1. You have a mountain of evidence to sort through, both physical and electronic, to document the fraud, and any associated crimes.
      2. You have dozens of potential crooks and / or witnesses to interview. In addition, many of them may not have had the ability to look at what was being done and realize that it wasn’t right. Look at the percentage of wrong answers from the IRS helpline.
      3. You have a language barrier. How many investigators even speak Somali, and its’ subdialects, well enough to catch the nuances of deception? And a pretty good chunk of the records may also be in non-Latin scripts (Arabic).

      These are just the problems in a functional legal system, populated by honest actors by high-trust society standards. That is NOT what we have here. Here we have two additional factors:

      1. The Substack article I linked outlines the first issue: We have imported an intact tribal culture (two of them, Somali and Islam) which has had NO time to assimilate, and has no reason to even try. In fact, their refusal to assimilate is their strongest defense, because they can’t be turned as witnesses.
      2. We’ve had 100 years of Leftism to break down our defenses to alien cultures by telling us that honest evaluation is bad. Walz is using the “white supremacy” defense as an effective tactic. And we’ve allowed them into positions of power over broad areas, so that you now have whole districts where you can’t assemble a jury pool that will indict or even convict. Look at the number of cases in DC, in LA, in MN where this is happening.

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      1. Step 1. Cut funding.

        Step 2. Confiscate back any funds not distributed.

        Step 3. Deport.

        If can prosecute. As already listed above, may not be able to plug all the holes needed for this step. But stopping the bleeding (funding), like any wound, is step #1.

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        1. And all Donald Trump has to do to get that to happen is ignore the court decisions saying he can’t do any of those things. How many of those would you support?

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          1. All four. Because the lower court rulings are illegal. So far, mostly, SCOTUS has stayed lower courts allowing PDJT to “ignore” lower court political judgments. On ignoring lower court, and some of the appeal courts, without SCOTUS stays, would not be fair to the PDJT own moral compass, nor fair to subsequent presidents or the US.

            Near as I can tell, given my extensive legal understandings (engraved on smallest toenail, i.e. little to none) the local appeal courts are getting a clue that if they don’t want a legal spanking by SCOTUS, don’t let stupid rulings get to SCOTUS. Not all, not everything. But when the 9th court reverses or stays something out of the usual judicial idiots, is telling.

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  32. I’m remaining optimistic that we’re starting to really find out how bad it is, and that means it can be fixed.

    Might have to write off the West Coast at this rate. Considering that I am still living in California, that’s a problem.

    Mass deportations are going to become a requirement.

    And a lot of people are going to “disappear” and be found in a few years in landfills and such (I am convinced that the E!Democratic Party is an organized crime group and has been since at least the 1960’s).

    Don’t get black-pilled, don’t let anyone stop you from cleaning this mess up, don’t give up hope, and don’t stop fighting.

    I think the simple fact that the mainstream media has to try and deny this is a good thing. It means that the people truly in charge are afraid of this becoming viral.

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  33. All that graft was tapped for donations to support the DonkPartei. It was farmed by the Donks for that primary purpose.

    Just like all that “foreign aid” we axed.

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  35. Sigh. WP posts comments (it notes that). But goes into terminal spin when it used to popup a “continue reading” box. The only way to fix this is to refresh/reload the current tab. I have the usual plugins, ad stop disabled, popups allowed, for WP.

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      1. That’s right, I don’t just mean those actually on welfare, I mean the whole Poverty Industrial Complex that’s grown up to exploit the situation, in which 95% of our tax money is consumed without ever getting near those it’s supposed to ‘help’. All of those ‘NGOs’ and ‘non-profits’ are just a bunch of bloated leeches sucking the life out of our society and they produce nothing.

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  38. Ultimately, we have to shrink the overall government, to reduce the opportunity for the epic graft that powers the Left. If we can shift back to Tariffs from Income tax, we will be well on the way.

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