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(Sent from lovely summer in Florida. I left wet and cold Washington,
telling the dogs we were driving to find summer. While going potty
in a blizzard in Montana and South Dakota, the little one looked at me
and it seeemed clear,with the snow up to his ying yang, that he thought
I'd spoken deceptively. Well, the last several days have been lovely,
hit 81 degrees. Wading in the sandy shore of the Gulf of America was
nice. Indeed, we have found summer for January!)

Propped Up by the Legacy Press, Tim Walz Is Undone by Social Media

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz speaks to reporters after he announced that
he would not seek reelection, at the Minnesota State Capitol in St.
Paul, Minn., January 5, 2026.(Tim Evans/Reuters
By Brittany Bernstein
January 5, 2026 3:25 PM
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Welcome back to Forgotten Fact Checks. This week, we look at the
political downfall of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, which comes in spite
of years of favorable media coverage, and we cover more media misses.

Tim WalzrCOs Political Career Hits a Wall

The political fallout from the still-unfolding Somali fraud scandal in Minnesota has proven too much for Tim Walz, who announced Monday that he
is ending his bid for a third term as governor.

The Democratic governorrCOs decision comes one month after federal
prosecutors announced that the cost of the welfare fraud perpetrated
against state-run Medicaid services alone could exceed $9 billion, ...

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CraigC72
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Smalltown Tim overestimated himself as being smarter than the system,
and now it's catching up to him. His, "aw shucks, I'm just one of you"
persona is showing it's true colors. But the part of this writing that
really rings true is that the general public, smartphones, and the
ability to get the word out through places like X IS the news now. Don't
just count on paid reporters to uncover things anymore. There are people
that care more and dig into the ugly roots of issues out there doing the legwork. And they can't just be shrugged off as being non-worthy
anymore. I applaud people like Nick Shirley.

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CPTCHUCK
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It appears that the welfare fraud has been a problem in other locations.
The Congress must make it harder to obtain benefits. All food stamps,
TANF, and Medicaid must be time limited and the have education and work requirements. The deeper diving in to the economic and the martial
status. Every Child should have Child support from the absent parents.
This nation is $38T in debt much of it because of Fraud, Waste, and
Abuse not only in the Welfare programs but in the DOW and other programs.

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I_was_Puck
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"rCLTop officials in President Donald TrumprCOs administration posted
messages from their government accounts hailing Christmas in explicitly sectarian terms, such as a day to celebrate the birth of rCyour Savior
Jesus Christ,'rCY the article read."


What they heck do they think Xmas is? A holy for Jews? For Moslems? For Hindus? A Hallmark holiday?


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MikeNM
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The wild thing is that this scandal is almost certainly smaller than the
one involving the same people that we knew about several years ago. The
story was just either insufficiently boosted or sufficiently suppressed
(or sufficiently crowded out) then that it didnrCOt catch on.


I donrCOt want to like the emergence of Nick Shirley type actors as major players in our politics, but maybe thatrCOs the only way.


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PhilipfromGA
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Here's something from Mark Styne:
Doing Business by Mark Steyn, Steyn on the New West

January 6, 2026

https://www.steynonline.com/15879/doing-business



"Today's hardest-working man in "public service" is Abukar Dahir Osman:
it seems the President of the United Nations Security Council has his
own Freelandesque side-gig with a "home health" business in Ohio.



rCLI can confirm public speculation that Ambassador Abukar Dahir Osman, Permanent Representative of Somalia to the UN and President of the
Security Council, is in fact associated with Progressive Health Care
Services, a home health agency in Cincinnati.



rCo Deputy Secretary Jim O'Neill (@HHS_Jim) January 5, 2026

To summarise:



*Chances of the US superpower doing effective (constitutional republic) nation-building in Somalia: zero per cent;



*Chances of basket-case Somalia doing effective (corrupt tribal
bleephole) nation-building in Ohio, Minnesota, Your State Here: one
hundred per cent.



Historically, lack of corruption has been a largely north-western
European phenomenon. It all gets a bit iffy if you go as far south as
France, never mind Italy or Greece. That latitudinal distinction was
more or less exported to the New World: in North America, a
quarter-millennium of broadly peaceful democratic evolution; in South or "Latin" America, presidents-for-life, police chiefs with reflector
shades, and opposition politicians accidentally falling out of
aeroplanes..."


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woke_is_smoked
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I think what Steyn is saying is that a lack of corruption is a form of
racism.

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