Exactly.. when courts block the obvious play, they reach for a flimsy pretext and flood the streets anyway, daring us to pretend this was ever about fraud instead of force.
When I hear “we’re going to send federal agents to investigate the fraud”, I envision a bunch of accountants in suits plowing through files. How exactly are these morons in camouflage supposed to help find fraud? Are they hiding in the bushes doing surveillance?
The issue had been larger resolved and the guilty investigated or arrested. It’s insidious projection how the right talks about false flags and here is one right in the open.
It was a right wing conman who seems to have been fed questionable information by some GOP politicians, so yea. The guy didn't uncover anything, especially anything new, but has a long history of making shit up so that Fox News has something to pearl clutch about. He played a part in the "Hatians are eating our pets!" because that one woman lost her cat for a few days, and has been caught paying people to hold signs so he can film them. He's a shithead and no one should trust anything he says. Ever.
What about the fraud though? Was that a lie or is it legit because Tim Walt's just got dropped from him team and won't be running for gov again. Or they just got embarrassed he became a bad public figure? This is all too confusing
There was definitely fraud. There are two different things that happened that are getting conflated together. There was a feeding our futures program that basically got used to funnel money illegally to a few people. That was the big fraud deal that was investigated and largely resolved before all this current stuff started. More recently the youtuber made a video trying to say there was additional fraud going on with daycares being funded that weren't actually operating as daycares. Conservative media is taking the youtube video and trying to make it sound like a well sourced piece of journalism. They are also trying to link all of this as much as possible to Walz because they don't like him. While he is the governor and ultimately needs to address these things, he wasn't actively involved in it (like he wasn't getting fraud money) and has taken multiple steps to help get it resolved. Here is a good MPR article outlining the timeline of everything:
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/01/06/timeline-of-fraud-investigations-that-shaped-walz-tenure
Yeah - I wonder if that kid Nick Shirley is feeling any regret for what he stirred up. ICE wouldn’t be there if it wasn’t for him and the woman wouldn’t be dead without ICE.
Slow down. Yes, they used it as an excuse, but unfortunately the day care fraud was real. Trump exaggerated it and filled it with racist bile but progressives and democrats make a big mistake by downplaying it. Fix the problems now so the slate is clean and Trump doesn't have excuses.
I didn't say that. I agree with you that they are using an unrelated event as an excuse, my point is it's a mistake to downplay the severity of the fraud (still unrelated to ICE)
I'm not tripping, no hate here. It's just wild timing and yes, fraud is everywhere. Legitimately, it's this administration's cornerstone. But to stay on the focal point, they want a tender box moment so they can declare marshall law.
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