What will Happen to Gov Walz?

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Six seven two six six, sixty eight, sixty eight is
the number. Okay, we're going to go right back to CJ.
And just to tee it up for CJ, because he
was making I thought a really a good point, a
brilliant point. Actually, this corruption started with Baker in terms
of the pandemic money and obviously with Moray Heey as

(00:20):
the attorney general. Billions of dollars slashing around, no accountability,
no guard rails. Well, this is from David on messenger,
and he's referring obviously to the ballot initiative that passed
in twenty twenty four last year, in which seventy two
percent of mass voters voted for an audit of the

(00:44):
state government and all of its spending, and of course
beacon Hill and Moray Heely are refusing to comply. This
is from David good morning, Jeff went seventy two percent
vote for an audit and the governor refuses to comply.

(01:06):
Wake the blank up people. You're dead on. You're dead
on obviously if they don't want the you know, if
they're going to defy the will of the people and
defy or you know, this was Democrats, Republicans, Independence, seventy

(01:27):
two percent who agrees on seventy two percent for anything,
And they're going to defy a ballot initiative, literally, a referendum,
the will of the people. So that tells you everything
you need to know. They're covering up what we're seeing
in Minnesota. They know is exactly the same thing that's

(01:48):
happening in Massachusetts. The only question now is is it
a little worse or a little better? That's it? In
other words, is it ten billion, eight billion, twelve billion?
How much are they stealing of our money? That's the
only question. Okay, let's go right back to CJ in Boston. CJ,

(02:12):
you were on a roll saying that this all started
with Baker. They were using scams regarding the unemployment, all
kinds of other benefits during the pandemic. Billions of dollars
were just gone disappeared. Please pick up where you left.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
Off, well, Jeff, the question is is was the conalm
Wealth of Massachusetts Baker and his administration under a federal
investigation because they came to an agreement just before Biden
left office to pay two point one billion shot of

(02:52):
the three billion that Baker used. That's the questions I
have to say that, I don't care with them a graphic.
You are, what religion you are, you know what political
affiliation you are. If the theft of your tax dollars
doesn't mean anything to you, if it doesn't sicken you,
then I think something is wrong here, Jeff. I think

(03:14):
the US Attorney in Boston and the FBI needs to
look into whether or not there was an investigation done
by the Biden administration, but more importantly, whether or not
any investigation was done legally, and coming to this agreement
of two point one billion dollars, that's for the Commonwealth
of Massachusetts and our great state auditor Misauglio, the state

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legislature here has shielded themselves under the state Constitution from
being audited by anyone. Now, if that doesn't scream rico act,
I don't know what it is. So a gentleman once.

Speaker 3 (03:51):
Told me many years ago. He said to me, he's
always He says, you know, they call us wise guys,
they call us organized crime. He says, the reorganized crime
is sitting up on Beacon Hill. Because when they don't
like the law, they can change a law.

Speaker 1 (04:12):
Or ignore a law, or ignore the result of a referendum,
which is illegal and unconstitutional. Uh cj As always, you
are spot on. Thank you so much for that call,
Mark in Medford. Thanks for holding Mark and.

Speaker 4 (04:27):
Welcome fucking things.

Speaker 1 (04:32):
Hey, what's up, Jeff? Mark? How are you my friend?
What do you make of all this? Buddy?

Speaker 5 (04:37):
Well, first of all, Jeff, let's get things uh correct.
It's not Oma's husband's firm. It's Olma's brothers firm. Now, Jeff,
when all this comes to a head, and in all
it's all proven to be true, tampon, tim and and

(05:00):
incest Omar need to be charged and arrested with fraud
against the State of Minnesota, fraud against the United States
of America, embezzlement, and then while you're at it, you
add a couple of additional fraud charges for immigration, and
then you and marriage fraud for Omar Because you cannot

(05:24):
tell me that they had nothing to do with this, Jeff,
you do not turn a blind eye when you know
there's fraud and illegal crimes being committed unless there's something
in it for you.

Speaker 1 (05:41):
Mark, I think the sixty four thousand dollars question is
because there's no question they're guilty of sin. It's all
coming out. I mean it gets to the point it's
almost it's stomach turning when you just see the extent
of the theft and the fraud, the embezzlement, the welfare cheating,
the stealing. The question is, do you think we're gonna

(06:03):
get justice. Let's leave out tempon tim elon Omar. Will
they finally arrest her and deport her? What say you?
Will it happen? Or do you think this is just
another pipe dream?

Speaker 5 (06:17):
Jeff, that's up to Pam Bondy. I mean, she seems
to have no problem, Jeff, and I noticed this. It's
like a pattern with her, Like when they arrested the
DC pipe bomber. Okay, it's just a regular guy. She
has no problem arresting the regular people.

Speaker 1 (06:36):
It's the powerful people, okay. In the midst of all
of this, what is remarkable is no one so far
has resigned. No one's being held accountable. They're not even
Amy Klobuchar, the Senator from Minnesota, has just endorsed Ellison

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for reelection. You can't telling you. You can't make this up.
So what they're saying is we see the fraud, we
know about the fraud, and we don't care. It's amazing
what's going on now? Elon Omar was asked point blank

(07:20):
by Margaret Brannan on CBS yesterday about Stephen Miller President Trump,
president Trump's top political advisor, about that Somali's aren't assimilating.
It's not just the United States. It's not just Canada,
whether it's Norway, it's Denmark, it's England, wherever they go,

(07:42):
generation after generation they are. I mean, yes, some are,
but overall the community is not assimilating and this is
a major problem. Listen now to some people did something.
Listen to her response World cut thirty two. Mike, what

(08:05):
do you make of this argument of failure to assimilate
and sort of ruining America?

Speaker 3 (08:12):
How do you understand this?

Speaker 4 (08:14):
I mean, when I think about Stephen Miller and his
white soprimist rhetoric, it reminds me. Yes, it reminds me
of the way the.

Speaker 6 (08:23):
Nazis described Jewish people in Germany.

Speaker 1 (08:28):
Miller's Jewish. So that's the new thing. Now they're calling
Miller a Nazi Jew. I swear, you can't make this
stuff up. So they look, that's all they know. Notice
it's all insults, it's all put downs, it's all at homonyms,
but they never address any of the core issues. And

(08:50):
here is the problem. The epicenter of this fraud is
in the Somali community in Minneapolis, and it's Elano is
a part of it. Leading members of that community are
a part of it. And now it is tied. It's
being tied, and it's dragging down top members of the

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Minnesota Democratic Party. Now you can call us white supremacists, racists, islamophobes, xenophobic, Nazis,
whatever you want to call us. Fraud is fraud is fraud,
Theft is theft is theft. Embezzlement is embezzlement is embezzlement.

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And the question now elan Omaar has to answer is
how the hell are you now worth thirty million dollars?
And the question Tampon Tim has to answer when all
this was taking place right under your nose? And whistleblower

(09:59):
after whistle blow, forty six whistleblowers wrote you emails, text messages,
personally spoke to you and told you this was taking place.
And not only did you do nothing, you threatened them
with their careers and their jobs, losing their jobs and

(10:19):
their careers. What did you know and when did you
know it? Listen now to Tampon, Tim, he was asked
at a press conference, what did you know? Do you
bear any responsibility? Listen to Tampon Tim's non answer, roll

(10:43):
cut thirty three.

Speaker 4 (10:45):
Mike, we've acknowledged that this is serious, needs to stop.

Speaker 1 (10:49):
It is stopping. People are continuing to go to prison.

Speaker 6 (10:52):
I think the good news for Minnesotan's to know when
that ninety day pauses over and the third party audits
are done, we will have a better picture than we've
ever had, which I think is really good.

Speaker 1 (11:03):
Yeah, Okay, Yeah, we don't need the third party audits.
We've got convictions in court, dozens and dozens of convictions,
and we've got more than enough information to know we're
talking billions of dollars in fraud and you enabled it,
and you ate it, and you abetted it. No, I'm
going to be brutally honest with you. I'm not going

(11:25):
to be shocked if he personally benefited like elan Omar.
I want to see how much he's worth. I want
to know how much is Tampon Tim Waltz worth six
one seven two six six sixty eight sixty eight agree, disagree? Okay,
listen now to President Trump. This was him at the

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White House, and he's not backing down at all. Asked
about his calling the Somali community in Minnesota or Minneapolis,
especially those that engage in that fraud scheme quote unquote garbage.
Listen now to Trump when he's asked Jacob Fray, the

(12:09):
Moonbat mayor of Minneapolis, say Minneapolis says, in fact, contrary
to being garbage, he's proud to have the largest Somalian
community in the country. Listen to Trump's response roll cut
oneh three.

Speaker 6 (12:25):
Mike, the mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey, is saying that
he's actually proud to have the largest Smali community in
the country and his police.

Speaker 7 (12:34):
Team well, he also sing to be glad to have
the largest Somalian Look at the nation. Look how bad
the nation.

Speaker 1 (12:42):
It's not even a nation.

Speaker 7 (12:43):
It's just a people walking around killing each other. Look uh,
these Somalians have taken billions of dollars out of our country.
They've taken billions and billions of dollars.

Speaker 1 (12:57):
Six one seven two six, six six sixty eight. Derek
in Brighton, thanks for holding Derek and welcome and Jeff Hi.

Speaker 8 (13:08):
Derek, Yeah, I like your show. Listen. I have a
question I wanted to go back to you mentioned earlier
about Baker having what was it two point something billion
dollars two point one I kind of missed that that

(13:31):
he was covering up with something.

Speaker 1 (13:35):
What Baker did, And how do I say this personally
being a witness to it, I think is too strong
or not quite accurate phrasing. But part of the pandemic
scheme was they were just giving out unemployment benefits to
people left, right and center, and they knew that it

(13:59):
was a fraud. They knew that a lot of people
were still collecting a check from their work but also
collecting unemployment or they were giving money to people who
literally were not working, and they knew they were not working.
So anyway, so it was there was at least two

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point one billion dollars that Baker sent out that literally
should never have been sent out, and nobody cared. They
were throwing good money after bad And I'll just give
you a quick example, Derek. I this was at the
height of the pandemic. Baker was still governor. It was
before more Healy became governor, but she was Attorney general,

(14:46):
and so we were all cooped up in the house.
Didn't want us to be in the house anymore so,
and the children, of course, were away from school because
they had shut down all the schools, which turns out
to have been a colossal mistake. Okay, but let that go.
We went to a local tavern pub for lunch, and
it's right near our house, and so we went in,

(15:09):
you know, had a couple of cheeseburgers, I had a
club sandwich, a couple of dye cokes, and so ava
Ashton my wife and I and we're talking and right
behind me were three state employees. And I know this
because I briefly spoke to them, and they all worked
for the government, all three of them. When the check came, now,

(15:33):
they had a couple of beers, they had it, you know,
they had their meals lifted a toast, and they said,
Tabaka the best governor in Massachusetts. And when I asked him,
why do you guys think he's the best governor in Massachusetts,
they said, because we're getting a regular paycheck and we're

(15:56):
just staying at home and we're doing absolutely nothing, literally nothing.
We're not working from home, we're not doing anything. In fact,
they were laughing, saying that the taxpayer just paid for
their lunch, and so they were going on about what

(16:17):
a great governor Baker is at the time because they're
going out to lunch almost every day, guzzling beer, eating cheeseburgers,
and they don't got a care in the world. So
they sent out money after money after money, check after
check after check for I mean, they didn't do a thing.

(16:43):
They were completely and utterly unproductive. And this went on
for a couple of years. Okay, Tim Watts now in
very serious trouble. He is now engulfed in what many
are saying is the greatest welfare fraud scandal in America
in history. And the shocking thing, it looks like we

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may just have discovered only the tip of the iceberg.
We're at billions of dollars in fraud. We're now looking
maybe eventually at double digit billions, i e. Ten, eleven, twelve,
god knows. And that's just for a small state like
Minnesota again, population five point eight million, and it's welfare fraud,

(17:29):
food stamp fraud, medicaid fraud, trial nutrition program fraud. They
stole from autistic children, I'm not kidding, people who had
drug addicts or recovering addicts who needed a place to
stay to help them recover. They swindled them. They swindled,

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they false invoices, repeated double, triple, quadruple billing. Those that
were disabled. They claimed that they were driving them to
appointments or giving them transportation. They never did. I could
go on and on. Medicate fraud, food stamp fraud, the

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school lunch program. They weren't feeding any kids. They stole
the money, a lot of it sent back to Somalia.
Six one seven two six six sixty eight sixty eight
is the number. Okay. I want to ask you the
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Minnesota Governor Tim Waltz as a result of the Benefits
fraud scandal involving Somali's A he will be impeached, B

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he will resign or C he will survive in office
to run again. He wants to run next November for
an unprecedented third term. And the polls right now forty
seven forty seven. Now we'll see what the fallout of

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this scandal is going to lead to, but right now
it is forty seven forty seven. I want to know who.
The forty seven are forty seven percent of Minnesotan's are
going to back this buffoon, this absolute imbecile. Ay yi
yi really a yi yi? All right? So what do

(19:37):
you think will happen? A tampon? Tim will be impeached,
B he will resign. C he will survive to run again.
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kuh Enna's in national Er, Betty in Lexington. Thanks for

(20:20):
holding Betty, and welcome.

Speaker 4 (20:24):
Morning.

Speaker 9 (20:25):
So I com acted at a few ways. I worked
for healthcare system. I am I'm support staff.

Speaker 5 (20:33):
I worked the.

Speaker 9 (20:33):
Whole pandemic, sometimes by myself at support staff because either
my coworkers were let go because they wouldn't take a
jazz or because they were just afraid because they had
a lot of cold morbidities, which I understand, and they
sat home and took a paycheck. I also have about
twelve cold morbidities. I worked the tenths I you know,
was here the whole time, and I with the privilege

(20:56):
to help people during that time. But let me tell
you something. Then, we didn't get sick.

Speaker 2 (21:01):
We were worried every day.

Speaker 9 (21:03):
We were The people that I worked with were living
in their car so they wouldn't bring it home to
their family. And when we finally got sick maybe three
years in. Sorry, there's no money left. You have to
use your own PTO. I hired him to discover all
this stuff.

Speaker 4 (21:21):
I want him to be cutthroat.

Speaker 9 (21:24):
I hired the judge duty of politicians to cut through everything,
all the boat craft and get my money back.

Speaker 1 (21:37):
I'm just curious. I agree with you completely, Betty, not
one hundred but, as I like to say, one thousand percent. Betty,
let me ask you, when you see the kind of
fraud A lot of it started, obviously the source was
the pandemic. When you see this kind of I mean
this is looting, this is highway robbery, and I mean

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this is pillaging. I'm just curious. You had to work
through the pandemic. I had to work through the pandemic.
I never stayed home and just you know, as those
state workers were bragging at that tavern that I was
at with my kids having launching grace. You know, Tobaka,
you know they're raising their beer glasses. How they stayed

(22:22):
home and did nothing, I mean literally nothing. They were laughing.
They were telling me this is I think it was
like an eighteen month vacation. They said, it's been an
eighteen month vacation. They go when we say nothing, we
mean nothing. So I think they checked their emails like
once a week like that's it, Like that's it. And

(22:43):
they were getting checked after check after check after check.
All right, So when you hear about these horror stories
or how they were scamming autistic kids or the school
lunch program or medicaid services, or money that was supposed
to go to veterans, or money that was supposed to

(23:05):
help drug addicts school, you know, get rehab and get help.
I'm just curious. Do you think a will ever get justice,
People will be held accountable all of that money that
was stolen, And do you think we should get justice
or should we just turn a blind eye and forget
about it and turn to.

Speaker 9 (23:25):
Page twenty five thirty years. It's time.

Speaker 4 (23:32):
That's why we hired him.

Speaker 9 (23:33):
He's not he granted, you gotta take him with a
grain of salt because he's not very diplomatic. But that's
why I hired him. I hired a street thug from
New York to look at the truth. I don't want
a politician looking at me and telling me everything's rosy
and stealing from my back pocket.

Speaker 4 (23:52):
At the same time, he won't.

Speaker 9 (23:55):
Put up with that, and the only way we're going
to get it back. Unfortunately, it's not going to happen
the next four years, but he's the start of it,
and we need to cheap elected people like him to
get out the rock.

Speaker 1 (24:10):
Amen, now, Betty, I couldn't agree with you more. Betty,
thank you very very much for that call. Look, the
question is again it goes back to his Justice department,
you know. Now, Look to be fair, let me just
quickly pay play this cut. Waltz is feeling to squeeze,
and doctor Oz has now come out and said that

(24:36):
they're going to start now. If they don't start seeing indictments,
if they don't start seeing people go to jail, then,
according to doctor Oz, he says, you know what, We're
gonna start cutting federal funding. Listen now to doctor Oz
saying you better, you know you better, you know we

(24:56):
better start seeing people in handcuffs and behind bars, because
if not, I'm telling you, good luck with getting Medicare money,
good luck with getting Medicaid money, good luck with all
the federal funding that you guys need, because obviously, if
you have enough that they can steal billions and you
guys don't care, then obviously you don't need our money.

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So now the FEDS are threatening to cut off all
of the Medicaid cash roll, cut ten MIC.

Speaker 6 (25:31):
When these scammers realized that nobody was guarding the cash register,
they went gangbusters. One program designed to provide housing stabilization
assistance to patients ballooned to one hundred and four million
dollars when four years ago it was projected to cost
only two point six million. Some of these taxpayer funds
may have even ended up in the hands of a
Somalian terrorist group, scary stuff. When CMS became aware of

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the housing program situation, Minnesota insisted it could clean up
its own mess. A few months ago, it admitted it
could not, so we stepped in the shutdown the fraud
infested housing initiative. Today, we're taking action on more than
a dozen other programs, which I've outlined in the post below.
Our message to Walts is clear. Either fix this in

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sixty days or start looking under your cash for spare change,
because we are done footing the bill for your incompetence.
This administration will never stop fighting to protect the vulnerable
Americans who rely on these programs and the taxpayers who
fund them. We're going to crush waste, fraud, and abuse.

Speaker 1 (26:32):
From here lifts to God's ears. But look, I'm sorry, yeah,
start looking under the couch for money because you're not
going to get it from the federal government. Now, I'm
telling you, Waltz can bs the people of Minnesota all
he wants with third party audits, and we're looking into it.
And the ninety day investigation period. Notice it's always three

(26:55):
months out, four months out, six months out. Kick the
can down the road, and hopefully well by then people
will forget about the scandal and move on. So he's
you know, he he thinks he's being smart. He's not.
So Now when there's no money for the hospitals and

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there's no money for Medicaid and there's no money for
health clinics, people are gonna look to him and say why.
And what they're gonna realize is does Somali stole all
the money, and now there's nothing left for the people
of Minnesota. And I'm telling you they're gonna blame Waltz,

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as they should. And this is what I've been saying
about illegal immigration from the very beginning. Take Minnesota, forgive me.
Take Massachusetts. If you keep spending two three billion dollars
a year every year on free catered meals, on hotels

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and motels, and now public house for giving housing vouchers
of thirty k for every two years, and four thousand
dollars every month in cash assistance baby and all the
food that they want, and free healthcare and free education,

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and free cell phones and free cable TV, and on
and on. What do you think is going to happen.
There's not enough money for the rest of the people
who need it. There's only so much money in the pot.
If you're giving it away to the illegals, there's not

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enough left for the people who actually needy, vulnerable Americans
who need it. So look, they got scammed by the
Somaldi community. They getting scammed by the Democrats. And this
is why they don't want to have an audit here

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in the in the in the Massachusetts because I guarantee
you you have an audit, and it's going to be
exactly like Minnesota. You're going to be shocked how many billions.
What hold on they're stealing from autistic kids, special needs kids,
what they're stealing from the lunch program.

Speaker 8 (29:29):
What.

Speaker 1 (29:31):
Now, maybe here the money won't be going to Somalia.
It may be going probably to the Dominican Republic or
to god knows where else that Latin America or whatever.
But the point is the money is not staying here.
It's being stolen, and it's being siphoned off and embezzled. Now,

(29:53):
everybody knows that it's one of the big secrets on
Beacon Hill, and that's why they're petrified of a state audit.
And I'm telling you it's worse in New York. It's
even worse in Illinois. And the worst of the worst
is California. If this all comes out, the Democratic Party

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is going to get destroyed. Six one seven two six
six sixty eight sixty eight agree, disagree. Tim in Wilmington,
thanks for holding Tim and welcome.

Speaker 4 (30:34):
Hey Jeff, it's Jim.

Speaker 1 (30:36):
Jim. I'm so sorry I have Tim on the board.
Forgive me.

Speaker 2 (30:40):
Jim it's my fault.

Speaker 4 (30:42):
I had a costrop in my mouth when I got
the phone call. Anyway, listen about a year and a
half ago, I'm still reading the book. I look up
at my TV. It catches my interest. They're talking about Minnesota.
So there was a woman and a reporter and a
camera trop They're in a car. They're in a neighborhood

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in Minnesota, and they specifically saying, this is where the
Somalians love, beautiful homes to tigerages, just these these They
had their cas outside in the driveway. The weather happened
to be nice. There were range rovers, me sadies, all
the luxury cars brand new in the driveways. They then

(31:24):
proceeded to another neighborhood in Minnesota and they specifically said, again,
these are the people that work very small homes, older cas.
They're the ones paying for those people. Something's really wrong.
The whole country needs an audit every state. I don't

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care if they're read all the states, but in particularly
the Blue States.

Speaker 1 (31:50):
Obviously, Look, Jim, we're getting raped. I mean, if I'm
going to be brutally honest with everybody, they're coming here
like pirates from Somalia. They're plundering they're pillaging. I mean,
they're looting and there's no limit for them, and they
just can't believe how stupid we are. And they've look,

(32:13):
it's a grift, it's a con and they've realized the
ultimate part of their grift. And to be frank, everybody
saying this, even the whistleblowers, said, Look, we went to Waltz,
we went to Ellison, the AG, we went to everybody.
The moment we said anything, they said, we're racist when

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and these were honest state workers. Okay, these were honest people.
I mean, I don't know, maybe Democrats or whatever, but
they're like honest. In other words, we're here to protect
the taxpayers' money. Taxpayers money. If you're going to go,
you know, for a lunch program for kids, it's got
to go for lunches for kids. If it's going to
be a program to help autistic children get one on

(32:55):
one help and drive them so they can get a
therapist to help them with their autism, then you should
be picking them up at their home and driving them
to see one on one therapist. Okay. Instead the whole
time the money was being stolen. No lunches, no sandwiches,
no help for the autistic kids. Nothing. So they're like,
this is wrong. So they began to contact these Somali

(33:19):
organizations and these Somali NGOs nonprofits that were scamming the
state billions sorry, millions and millions and millions of dollars
ultimately billions, but per organization, millions of dollars. And all
of the whistleblowers said within thirty seconds they screamed racism.

(33:41):
It was like somebody gave them a piece of paper
like a talking point. Okay, so when they catch you,
and they will catch you, just scream racism and they'll
back off immediately. And all the whistleblowers said the moment
they said racism, they're superior, were jumping up and down saying,

(34:01):
don't you dare call them? Leave them alone. These are
black people, these are for people from Somalia. My god,
just as racist. It's an aphobic, nativist. No, it's theft.
It's theft. And frankly, most of those people shouldn't even
be in the United States because either they're illegal aliens

(34:22):
or they committed visa fraud like elan Omar. There's a
certain point, Jim, where we're we have to blame ourselves.
I know, people are trying to blame Somalis, and of
course they beare their responsibility, they're the ones scamming. But
if you're allowing yourself to be scammed, if you have

(34:45):
no self respect, if you keep allowing somebody to keep
breaking into your home and just taking everything that you've
worked for again and again and again, then I'm sorry. Sure,
I blame the person breaking into your home, but ultimately
I'm gonna blame you too, right, I mean, it's just
I'm sorry, Like, protect your home, protect your family, protect

(35:09):
your spouse, protect your children. Look, I've been to Minnesota.
Everybody knows my story. My Ashton is from the Land
of ten Thousand Lakes, which has now been turned into
the land of ten thousand frauds. That's my miracle from Minnesota.
That's what I call my Ashton. I adopted him when

(35:30):
he was eighteen Grayson and I adopted him when he
was eighteen months old. I spent months in that state.
Really good, decent, salt of the earth people. They work hard,
many of them from Scandinavian stock two three, four generations
from Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Germany. That part of Europe,

(35:53):
Northern Europe, I'm telling you there. I think they're a
little they love you know, they are Scandinavians. They like
socialism a little too much. I think government a little
bit too much, welfare a little bit too much. Fine,
I don't care. That's how they are. That's how they are.
But they're hardworking, good decent people.

Speaker 4 (36:13):
Look.

Speaker 1 (36:14):
Just to give you an example, I could give you
a million. When we first adopted Ashton, we had to
stay within the state for thirty days. That's just how
it is when you adopt, unless the birth mother changes
her mind, So you have to give her a thirty
day period in case she changes her mind. So Ashton
eighteen months loved Mozzarelli sticks, loved them, couldn't stop having him.

(36:39):
We're like, okay, you want mozzarella sticks, I'll get you
mozzarella sticks. So we would occasionally go to Applebee's. We
went to an Applebee's. There he is eating a mozzarella
stick with the cheese, you know, coming out of his mouth,
and this woman, maybe sixty years old, just walked up,
saw him, Grace and I with him, and she just

(37:02):
starts to stroke his head out of the blue and said,
he's such a beautiful boy. What's his name? I said, oh, Ashton,
And she just pulls out of her purse a one
dollar bill. Now this was like thirteen years ago. A
dollar actually got you something then, you know, whatever, a lollipop,
a TUTSI roll, whatever, In other words, a little something

(37:24):
for the kid, a little piece of candy. Here, here's
a little candy for the kid. Okay, buy him a
little something. She takes a dollar and she puts it
in his hand and she just strokes his head and says,
he's such a beautiful boy. She said, please, that's for him.
Tell him to get a lollipop or whatever. And I'm like,
thank you, I go mess man, Please, you don't need

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to do that. No, no, I insist, I insist. And
I can't tell you how many times that happened. They
would give the shirt off their back. I didn't know
this woman. She didn't know me, she didn't know Grace,
she didn't know Ashton. They're too nice, there's an expression

(38:08):
Minnesota nice. They're too nice, and they can't imagine that
the world is that different from them that would come
there and exploit and take advantage of their generosity. But
there's a certain point where you know, too nice is

(38:31):
one thing. Lacking dignity and self respect is another. They
work hard for their money. I work hard for my money.
You work hard for your money. I'm sick and tired
of these people abusing our taxpayer dollars.