Transparency

 Trump isn't perfect, no one is.  But to complain about Trump not being transparent about his finances while not applying the same standards to the Clintons, Obamas (who parlayed their presidencies into hundreds of millions of dollars), and Bidens (who seems to have been selling access to both Biden, as well as pardons), seems a bot hypocritical.   Let alone the legions of those in congress who are making huge money insider trading.   Pelosi is kind of the poster child for this, but there are so many across both parties that naming all of them would be futile.  

 

“Show me a man that gets rich by being a politician, and I'll show you a crook.” 

Harry Truman

I think that the problem lies in the fact that Trump was a successful businessman long before he ran for president and that his businesses continue to operate and make money while he's in office.   While it's easier to connect the riches of the Clintons, Obamas, and Bidens to their time in the White House, it's not quite so obvious for Trump.  It seems unreasonable to expect the Trump organization to provide confidential financial information that would potentially help his competitors just because he's president.   Are there instances where the Trump organization has benefited from Trumps presidency, probably.   Is their even a hint of a quid pro quo in terms of paying Trump for particular official action?   Is the Trump organization getting a "better" deal to build a multi million dollar hotel in another country really significantly worse than using insider knowledge gained as a congressperson to buy and sell stocks for massive profit?

 

Assimilation

 I've written extensively about the seemingly endless fraud in the people's republic, and how the vast majority of that fraud is concentrated in one immigrant community.   As we see in myriads of public statements, the Somali community in MN thinks of themselves as citizens of Somalis first, Muslims second,  and residents of MN third (at best).   They've brought tribal conflict that's shown up in how they vote, and an aptitude for fraud that is impressive from Somalia.   They worship Ilhan Omar who's family was part of the oppressive regime and who's father was (by most standards) a war criminal.    We've seen a massive amount of immigration fraud, on top of the outright theft of hundreds of millions of dollars.   Some of which is reported to be supporting Muslim terror groups.   You could argue that you can't blame the entire group for the actions of the few, and that is usually True.  However when the scope of the autism fraud was revealed, and the high rate of participation, the 50% rate of immigration fraud, and the total inability to police their community, I think it's fair to say that it's not just a few troublemakers.  

Strangely enough, the Twin Cities is also home to another large group of immigrants that get less publicity.   Sure, we hear about Suni Lee and the kid who was in Gran Torino, but that's about it.    Of course I'm talking about the Hmong (and to a lesser extent the Karen).    One might ask why we don't hear the same sorts of things about this community as we do about the Somali community.   I believe that there are two relatively simple answers.   One, gratitude.  The Hmong were (as a community) grateful to have been removed from SE Asia and their situation there and have shown that gratitude.   Two, assimilation.   They have done an excellent job of assimilating into the community, without sacrificing their cultural identity.  You could probably find some answers in the differences between Asian and African cultures as well.  

In short, I'd argue that to compare and contrast the experiences of the Hmong and Somali immigrants who ended up in the people's republic  would make an interesting case study.  Unfortunately, it seems unlikely that it'll ever be done because of the potential to open various cans of worms.  It seems safe to conclude that immigrants who have no desire or intent to assimilate are not immigrants that bring value to the countries they immigrate to.  

 

 https://www.wilder.org/wp-content/pdf-file/SFO_PopulationAtGlance_AllPopulationss_6-16.pdf

I decided to take a look, and found this.  It's interesting that Somalis have the highest poverty rate and one of the lowest working rates.    This is interesting data, but it would be interesting to do a deeper dive.   Especially to look at things like country loyalty and intent/desire to assimilate.  

Work

I've committed to a 9 months program at my church focused on integrating faith an work.   One of the foundations of this program is to study the role of work in scripture and how it relates to our faith. In our last session we looked at part of a book called Practicing The King's Economy, and specifically on the notion of the importance of work and equity in scripture.

  I know that many on the progressive christian side of things have problems with the Old Testament.  It's "myth", it's "revenge fantasy",  it's too supernatural, there's too much of YHWH directly intervening or whatever.  But there seem to be a couple of things that they do tend to pull out of all of that in an attempt to form a political strategy.   Those two things are the Gleaning laws, and the Jubilee.  There is an attempt to use those two things as some sort of foundation for the social gospel/liberal/governmental social programs.   So let's look at them.

The Gleaning laws required everyone on the Hebrew nation/Israel to leave the perimeter of their farmland unharvested, I believe that the requirement was 10% (I know, it's not a rule book, but...).   This was then available for those in need to harvest and provide themselves with food.  One of the keys to this law was that it required work on the part of those in need.   It didn't require that the one who's field it was harvest the crop, process it, and then set aside 10% to deliver to those in need.   I required those in need to actually do the work of providing their own food.  It certainly didn't involve the government in the process.  It was literally people allowing those in their community the ability to harvest their own food.   

I've heard people argue that this law (but no rules, right?) justifies the modern welfare state.  That this is why we should support programs like SNAP and other cash payments from the government.   Yet, as we see with SNAP, those programs provide much more than basic sustenance and  the very notion of requiring work to receive those benefits has raised quite a ruckus among the recipients.  

The Jubilee was a law that required Israel to do a total reset every 50 years.   All of the land reverted back to the original tribal allotments, all slaves were freed, debts were cancelled, and things went back to how they originally were when Israel settled the promised land.  It seems germane to note that there is no record of Israel every actually practicing the Jubilee throughout their history as a nation.  I've heard people use the notion of the Jubilee as justification for confiscatory tax rates on "the rich", and the like.   Yet the reality is that the Jubilee was tied to the land and the people of Israel, and doesn't translate well to 21st century society.  

What I think is the most important aspect of both of these laws, was that they were rooted in community.  They were some of the laws intended to distinguish YHWH's chosen people from the surrounding nations.   They were rooted within the community, and intended to strengthen the community.   

If we are going to take anything from these two laws and attempt to apply it to 21st century culture, I'd suggest that we focus on work and community.   That maybe a top down, national or international approach to problems isn't always the answer.   That removing work from assistance  creates dependency and dignity from those who need the help.   That simply taking the wealth from those who do work and produce, and giving it to those who don't isn't the best plan.  

Don't Covet

 We just finished a sermon series about the 10 commandments this morning with "don't covet", and it raised a question in my mind.  

Is there not a point where "pay your fair share" becomes simply coveting what others posses?   Does the fact that the covetousness is for some amorphous "greater good" , somehow make it acceptable?  

Finally does the very concept of "don't covet" that which belongs to your neighbor at least suggest the notion of private property?     I get that everything belongs to YHWH and that we are stewards of what He gives us, but this commandment seems to suggest that what we steward for YHWH is (in a sense) ours and should be protected from others.   

More Good Stuff

 https://x.com/reallindelltv/status/1988751134987808970?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

Great video of an idiotic DFL representative making a fool of himself.   

 https://x.com/jackunheard/status/1988845026852352157?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

Thanks for this CNN.  Crockett is clearly not capable of rational thought.  

 https://x.com/jasonjournodc/status/1988792127388602777?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

Great News Nation video of how much of a nothingburger the Epstein files are for Trump, and in fact, seem to exonerate Trump.  

 

Reparations?

 https://www.pacificresearch.org/the-slavers-call-for-reparations-we-go-on-metaphor-alert-again-as-au-and-eu-debate-history/

This is a good article on the irony of the current countries, which historically were an enthusiastic and major participant in the global slave trade, demanding reparations from those who bought the slaves that they sold.  

Waste, Fraud, Abuse, and Failure

 https://www.city-journal.org/article/minnesota-welfare-fraud-somalia-al-shabaab

 https://www.countyhighway.com/archive/volume-3/issue-3/the-shame-of-our-cities-rosen

 https://x.com/ajinvestigates/status/1991480590512578600?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://x.com/endwokeness/status/1991678468959129940?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://x.com/gragedustin/status/1991889396652806632?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://x.com/gragedustin/status/1991849600039235727?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://x.com/rickkupchella/status/1991370036003635343?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://x.com/wallstreetapes/status/1991540077277900957?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 

 https://x.com/jbartle44051086/status/1991215349547565288?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

This seemingly never ending litany of fraud coming from MN broadly, MSP in particular, and the Somali community specifically keeps growing.   What's strange is that the DFL is somehow not being associated with this fraudapalooza so far.    More fun stuff.  At this point it is impossible to deny that the complete and total responsibility for the conditions fall 100% on Walz and the DFL.   The Somali influx is also a problem.   It's strange that the large numbers of Hmong and Karen immigrants haven't caused nearly the problems of the Somalis.  

 https://alphanews.org/mpd-chief-cites-east-african-kids-from-out-of-town-in-ongoing-dinkytown-youth-crime-problems/

Clearly the MPD chief is too much of a coward to be specific.   

 https://alphanews.org/mpd-chief-cites-east-african-kids-from-out-of-town-in-ongoing-dinkytown-youth-crime-problems/

MNDHS whistle blower comes forward to suggest mismanagement under the Walz regime.   

 tartribune.com/twin-cities-fraud-case-draws-in-thc-company-former-house-majority-leader-and-prominent-attorney/601525568?taid=6919edfec7e0ef00018556d3&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

Shocking, that DFL politicians and weed companies are engaging in fraud. 

 https://www.startribune.com/thousands-of-college-students-could-lose-financial-aid-as-program-faces-102m-deficit/601516144

As the DFL squandered a huge surplus and continues to raise tuition, more  deficits loom.  

 https://x.com/gragedustin/status/1988740

It's not just Walz.  

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/trump-administration-eric-swalwell-federal-criminal-probe-mortgage-rcna243518

More DFL elected officials committing mortgage fraud.   Which ignores the fact that this guy was banging a CCP spy.  

 https://x.com/ingrahamangle/status/1988768923169243415?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

I'm not going to argue that we should get rid of SNAP, but clearly there needs to be some sort of overhaul of the program.  

https://x.com/wallstreetapes/status/1988939913535090921?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

It's no wonder Chicago schools are performing so poorly.   Watch the attached news report for details.  

 https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-investigations/2025/11/14/republic-reporting-prompts-arizona-house-gop-investigation/87261676007/?gnt-cfr=1&gca-cat=p&gca-uir=false&gca-epti=undefined&gca-ft=0&gca-ds=sophi

Strangely enough, AZ is one of the places with sketchy election security.  

 https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1988986173738377424?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

But this absolutely never happens, so I've been sold.

 https://x.com/gragedustin/status/1988996977879634396?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

The MSP ABC affiliate does some good reporting on more fraud in the light rail system.  That this whole thing is a billions of dollars money sewer is almost beyond the point.  

 

BoT

 https://x.com/mazemoore/status/1988657160809840711?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

The more I hear about the Epstein Files, the more convinced I am that there is nothing in there that is particularly damaging to Trump.  As this CNN piece notes, it seems like the Clintons have more to fear than Trump.   Strangely enough, the woman who's name the dems redacted (even though she was dead), was quite clear that trump did noting untoward at all.   Strangely enough, it sounds like the DFL reps voted against a GOP bill to release the files as recently as yesterday.  

 https://www.americanexperiment.org/magazine/article/fraud

This is an excellent piece on the massive fraud in Tim Walz' MN.    The reasons I post about this regularly are twofold.  

1.  We keep having more and more examples of this fraud exposed and I want to provide updates.

2.  Folx like Dan insisted that Walz was the perfect (well, maybe prefect is hyperbole, but...) VP candidate in the last election.   Is someone who presided over, and did nothing about fraud on this level really a good VP candidate.  

 https://x.com/mazemoore/status/1983943644815003650?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

A bit late, but a reminder that the DFL has no actual moral center.  They love the filibuster when it benefits them, and want to get rid of it when that would benefit them.   This is a video of P-BO criticizing exactly the behavior that the DFL is now engaging in.  

 https://x.com/rightanglenews/status/1983526817253224856?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

If this is True, then Biden will go down as one of the most corrupt presidents in history.   Every Biden pardon should be scrutinized, and those done without his explicit approval should be rescinded.    

BoT

 https://x.com/wallstreetapes/status/1987275628568313953?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

I was reliably informed that things like this absolutely do not happen.  The DOJ seems to disagree.  

 

 https://apnews.com/article/trump-venezuela-boat-strikes-drugs-cocaine-trafficking-95b54a3a5efec74f12f82396a79617ea

You clearly don't distrust the MSM enough.  In this case, the "nuanced" in the headline is that the AP interviewed people who knew the crews of the destroyed narco boats, and acknowledged that the boats were smuggling drugs.  

 

The Emergency Has Been Over For 2 Years

 https://www.npr.org/2023/04/11/1169191865/biden-ends-covid-national-emergency

If President Biden, or his auto pen, ended the COVID national public health emergency in May of 2023, why is the DFL fighting so hard in Nov of 2025 to continue the "emergency" subsidies for the (U)ACA?

 

 

Y'all Seriously Wanted The Guy Who's In Charge Of This Goat Rope For VP.

https://x.com/Seth_Kaplan/status/1986904348928962997

 https://www.fox9.com/news/state-blames-reporting-errors-outsized-snap-payout-figures

After a recent auditor's report that Walz' office failed to keep basis, required, records accurately we get this report from a local news station about additional potential fraud in Tampon Tim's Minnesota.  

 https://x.com/pamaltendorf/status/1987004014949490920?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

Some context tp the Fox 9 story above.   

 https://www.americanexperiment.org/hennepin-county-agency-cited-for-90-violations-by-state/

Shocking, more incompetence from the MN DFL.

 "https://x.com/minnesota_dhs/status/1988029022811381886?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw"

 “This fraud crisis didn’t come out of nowhere. It’s the result of widespread failure across nearly every level of leadership in Minnesota: Politicians who turned a blind eye. Agencies that failed to act. Prosecutors and law enforcement who didn’t push hard enough. Reporters who ignored the story. Community leaders who stayed silent. And a public that wanted to believe it couldn’t happen here. This isn’t just a few criminals exploiting the system, this is a system that’s been begging to be exploited. We left the door wide open, and now our state has been ransacked. If we keep ignoring the truth, we’re going to lose something far more important than money. We’re going to lose the Minnesota we know and love.”

Fraud Du Jour

 https://www.kare11.com/article/news/investigations/kare-11-investigates-company-billed-medicaid-for-client-it-never-met/89-7203e012-9e12-4759-9982-00b73a1484d0

One more example of significant fraud taking place in Tim Walz ruled MN.  

 https://www.justice.gov/usao-mn/pr/former-minneapolis-mayoral-aide-and-safari-restaurant-co-owner-both-plead-guilty-250

 https://x.com/jackunheard/status/1987162898209398855?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

It's a Twitter link to a local TV news story, in other words real journalism.  

If only there was some common element to all of this massive defrauding of the federal government?

Some thread that would connect all of this fraud?   Obviously, this all happened under Tim Walz reign while he was simultaneously wasting billions of dollars of state surplus money.   But maybe something deeper.  Maybe some sort of cultural connection where defrauding governments was seen as a normal way to make money.   Maybe there has been an influx of culture that is bringing it's baggage and negative traits to a once fair city, and changing it for the worse?

We'll probably never know.   

Revered, My Hind End

 https://x.com/ABC/status/1986634995591512229

This is the official ABC News Twitter page, and their post abut this incident.  The problem is that it is simply lying by omitting  significant and relevant facts.  

But we should blindly trust the MSM because Dan insists that they are unbiased and fair.

Oh yeah, wasn't it the  revered BBC that just got busted for broadcasting Hamas propaganda, because they literally employed members of Hamas to report on the situation in Gaza.  

Costitutional Chaos

 https://x.com/foxnews/status/1986884602020106246?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

Schumer is simply incapable of telling the Truth on this matter at all.   Health insurance costs ARE NOT RISING. they are the same as they've been since the "ACA" (what a joke) was passed.   The DFL chose to bilk taxpayers for the massive premium increases by hiding the increases behind subsidies.  The DFL passed the "ACA" with no GOP support or involvement, then they passed the subsidies all by themsleves as well.  This is a DFL fail.  

 https://x.com/ericldaugh/status/1986522927827984817?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

Senator Peter Welch admits that the DFL "ACA" failed to bring down costs.   They want Trump to cover up their failure, rather than actually fix it.  

 https://x.com/bonchieredstate/status/1986580640901570784?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 I don't know which of these two things is more concerning.   That a judge thinks that they (a lower court judge) can usurp the powers of both the executive and legislative branches of government, or the Klobuchar is too stupid to know what a constitutional nightmare this is.   If this judge really wanted to help, couldn't they have just ordered 7 DFLs to vote for the clean CR?

 https://x.com/breitbartnews/status/1986820584022352342?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

In this MSNBC clip we have Hillary Scholten explaining the importance of continuing the massive Health Insurance Industry  corporate welfare program, then contradicting herself by announcing that "We should not be using taxpayer dollars to subsidize health care.".

This entire DFL/MSM/ASPL narrative is simply one lie after another.  

 

FWIW, it looks like Trump has offered to cut the Gordian Knot on this.   His proposal is to take the billions of corporate welfare for the insurance companies and put it directly in the hands of the people and allow them more freedom in choosing their health insurance, rather than being forced into over priced, poorly performing government mandated plans.   

Clan Feuds

 https://x.com/drewpavlou/status/1986758545921167796?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

https://x.com/drewpavlou/status/1986764199448764446?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw 

This is absolutely freaking hilarious.   To start with Somali clan hatreds and blood feuds apparently divide the Somali vote in the MPLS mayor's race and led to Frey winning.   That Somalis would leave Somalia and it's tribal/clan infighting behind, only to inject it into US politics is freaking amazing.   It sounds like they're gunning for Omar next.   Probably because of her family's history of oppressing other clans in Somalia.  

The second clip of Frey kowtowing to HIS Somali voters is simply a disgusting example of the fact that he has no spine.   

He Could Be On To Something

 https://x.com/shane_pruitt78/status/1983644859492933891?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 

 "Jesus didn't spend time and eat with sinners because He wanted to appear tolerant and affirming. He spent time with them to show them He is God, and how to live differently. The Gospel is not about tolerance, it’s about transformation."

Mo Fraud

 https://x.com/joma_gc/status/1984014068894855663?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

Obviously these two need to go to jail.  Yet the fact that untold number of stupid WLs just gave these grifters $90.000,000 for no reason, is pretty much evidence of how stupid WLs can be.   These people deserved to get scammed.   

Close Down the UN

 https://x.com/bonchieredstate/status/1984377838636843020?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

How could this possibly have happened?  Who would have ever thought that allowing a religious group to take over a city and essentially implement their own legal system  could have been a bad idea.  

 https://x.com/eyakoby/status/1984109599310672003?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

So, after 2 years of the ASPL supporting Hamas, we now know the following.

The whole "famine" narrative was false.

The whole "genocide" narrative was false. 

The hostages were actually held by UNRWA employees.

That the UN is a corrupt and worthless organization.  

They Have a Strange Way of Showing it

 https://x.com/data_republican/status/1984251353669968371?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 

" ...we work to make sure Black voices are heard, demands are met, and Black excellence is amplified."

This is the message of the NAACP, quoted from their website. Yet they contradict their own message as they campaign to elect the white woman and defeat the black woman. 

Hypoctites.