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Ep. 1724 - The Somali Fraud In Minnesota Is Just The Tip Of The Iceberg. This State Is Even WORSE.

70 min
Jan 28, 20264 months ago
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Summary

Matt Walsh examines alleged fraud and demographic changes in Maine, particularly involving Somali immigrants and nonprofit organizations. The episode covers misappropriation of mass shooting victim funds, Medicaid fraud allegations, and broader concerns about immigration policy and its effects on communities.

Insights
  • Demographic changes in Maine have correlated with increases in crime, overdoses, and fraud despite initial safety statistics, suggesting policy consequences warrant scrutiny
  • NGO networks and political actors appear coordinated in facilitating immigration and resource distribution, creating potential conflicts of interest in fund management
  • Mainstream left-wing ideology increasingly rejects traditional criminal justice frameworks, with real-world consequences for victim advocacy and public safety
  • Large-scale Medicaid fraud appears connected to international money transfer networks, suggesting potential national security dimensions beyond typical fraud cases
  • Media and political responses to incidents are highly selective based on ideological alignment rather than consistent principle application
Trends
Erosion of meritocratic standards in institutions (sports, academia, governance) in favor of demographic considerationsCoordinated NGO-government partnerships facilitating mass migration with financial incentives for participating organizationsDecline in traditional criminal justice enforcement and victim advocacy among progressive political movementsInternational fraud networks leveraging U.S. welfare systems to transfer capital to foreign nationsSelective application of outrage and media coverage based on political identity rather than severity of incidentsWeaponization of accusations of racism to deflect from documented fraud and criminal activityExpansion of welfare eligibility to non-citizens creating financial incentives for immigrationIdeological capture of state agencies resulting in obstruction of federal oversight and investigation
Topics
Medicaid Fraud in MaineSomali Nonprofit Organizations and Financial MismanagementMass Shooting Victim Fund MisappropriationImmigration Policy and Welfare EligibilityNGO Coordination with Democratic PartyVoter Registration and Non-Citizen VotingCrime Rate Increases in Maine CitiesFentanyl and Drug Overdose EpidemicsMoney Laundering Through Hawala NetworksFederal Oversight and State ObstructionPrison Abolition Ideology and Public SafetyBody Positivity Marketing and Pharmaceutical IndustryDemographic Replacement and Community ChangeElection Integrity and Voter Roll ManagementNational Security Implications of Fraud Networks
Companies
Maine Community Foundation
Nonprofit that established mass shooting victim fund but allegedly diverted $1.9M to immigrant-focused nonprofits ins...
Gateway Community Services
Somali-founded nonprofit accused of Medicaid overbilling and misuse of taxpayer funds, received $65K from shooting fund
USA Today
Published 2018 article ranking Maine's lack of diversity as its 'worst thing' despite having lowest violent crime rate
The New York Times
Published 2018 article framing Maine's white demographics as a problem requiring demographic change and business recr...
Catholic Charities
Organization that settled Haitian immigrants in Bangor, Maine, coinciding with reported pet disappearances
Dahabshil
Money transfer business co-located with Maine nonprofits, facilitates transfer of funds to Somalia and Africa
Eli Lilly
Pharmaceutical company ran body positivity ad during football games promoting weight loss drug
Daily Wire Plus
Streaming platform where Matt Walsh's history series is available
People
Janet Mills
Maine Governor who announced plan to bring 75,000 'new Americans' to Maine by 2029 and expanded welfare to asylum see...
Ilhan Omar
U.S. Representative from Minnesota, subject of alleged liquid spray incident at town hall event
Abdullah Ali
Somali American founder of Gateway Community Services, received state contracts while allegedly overbilling Medicaid
Steve Robinson
Journalist at Maine Wire who investigated and reported on Somali nonprofit fraud and Medicaid misappropriation
Shana Bellows
Maine Secretary of State who acknowledged non-citizens may be on voter rolls but resisted independent audit
Edward Tomick
Maine Wire reporter who investigated mass shooting victim fund misappropriation
Chris Rufo
Journalist whose reporting documented taxpayer money reaching terrorist organizations in Somalia
Mahuddin Leiba
Somali Bantu Community Association representative on shooting fund steering committee
Eclis Ahmed
Gateway Community Services employee who transitioned to Office of New Americans
Quotes
"the best part of the state is that there's no violent crime. But the worst part of the state is that there's no diversity"
Matt WalshEarly segment
"Diversity makes your community less safe. That's just a fact. Plain as day."
Matt WalshEarly segment
"sometimes there may be, I'm sure there are in some isolated instances, some non-citizens may be on the rolls"
Shana BellowsMid-episode
"This is economic terrorism and I think it needs to be treated that way. They are systematically defrauding the American taxpayer at the nation state level"
Steve RobinsonMid-episode
"I believe in the abolition of police and prisons. The less simple answer is that to pursue prosecuting and potentially incarcerating other people is inconceivable to me"
Columbia University doctoral candidateLater segment
Full Transcript
They told you America invented slavery. They told you the Indians were peaceful. They told you colonialism was evil and that Joseph Carthie was a bad guy. And guess what? They lied. For half a century generations of American school children have been taught to hate our history, hate our country, and hate themselves. Time to set the record straight. And since no one else is going to do it, I will. Who sold us the slaves? What were Indian Africa like before Europeans arrived? What caused light flight? Some of the most well-known stories from American history are designed to demoralize you. Trail of tears, smallpox blankets myth, the red scare. It's all baseless. It's time for a lesson on what they're not teaching in public schools. On the real history of slavery, it's colonialism, the Indians, of America, and the world. It's time for real history with Matt Walsh. Now streaming only on Daily Wire Plus. Trying to explain why she doesn't want the men who allegedly gang-rained her to go to prison. And Ilhan Omar is sprayed with a liquid during a town hall event. The media, Democrats are treating this like a national tragedy. We'll talk about all of that. And more today on the Matt Walsh show. 10 years ago, the state of Maine had many easily identifiable, objectively serious problems. Poverty rates in the so-called rim counties, which are rural, exceeded 20%. The population was declining substantially. The paper industry was collapsing with several mills going bankrupt in a short period of time. Thousands of jobs were disappearing. And on top of that, the workforce was getting much older with a median age of 44 years old. But in the eyes of leftists in New England, including wealthy leftists in Maine, none of these issues really mattered very much. Instead, the biggest problem in Maine, the only one they cared about, was that a lot of white people lived there. Something like 95% of Maine's population at the time was white. Now, you might think to yourselves if you're a normal people. So what? Why would well to do leftists care so much about the demographics of a relatively small state? Why would they despise the presence of a lot of white people in Maine? Well, here's why. Take a look at this screenshot, which is from an actual article that was published by USA Today in 2018. You may have seen the screenshot before because it's become something of a mean. But again, it's all real. And I looked it up to confirm it is real. The article is called the best and worst thing about each state. So for Maine, the USA Today article states, quote, the best thing, lowest violent crime rate. Maine ranks as the safest state in the country as there were just 124 violent crimes reported for every 100,000 residents, less than a third of the national rate. The worst thing, least diverse, according to the latest census data, 94.4% of Maine's population is white, beating out nearby Vermont and New Hampshire as the least diverse states. Yes, the best part of the state is that there's no violent crime. But the worst part of the state is that there's no diversity. And over at USA Today, nobody even considered the possibility that there might be a, I don't know, causal link between these two statements, because if they did, they would not have published this in a million years, of course. So there it is. In the era of BOM racial equity in George Floyd, the state of Maine was a living rebuttal to the fundamental tenets of modern leftism. Maine was proof that diversity is not, in fact, our strength. In fact, diversity is a clear and present danger to every American. Diversity makes your community less safe. That's just a fact. Plain is day. And additionally, Maine proved that, contrary to leftist orthodoxy, extreme poverty, which Maine has poverty, does not necessarily necessarily lead to high rates of violent crime. Like it turns out you could have communities that are poor, but not very violent. It's just that those communities have to be white. That's what the stats tell us. Instead, Maine demonstrated that all of the FBI crime statistics are true. Non-white people commit an overwhelming, staggering amount of serious crime in this country. And therefore, in a state with only white people, there's a lot less serious crime. Well, this status goes obviously unacceptable to the Democrat party and to leftists everywhere. So they immediately set out to destroy Maine, especially the poor white areas. This is not some fringe conspiracy theory, by the way. Leftists were very open about what they were planning. Here's the New York Times in 2018, for example, quote, New Hampshire, like its neighbors, Vermont, and Maine, is nearly all white. This is posed in array of problems for new arrivals who often find themselves isolated and alone without the comfort and support of a built-in community. They also pose as problems for employers in these states who find that their homogeneity can be a barrier to recruiting and retaining workers of different ethnicities and cultural backgrounds. The issue prompted about 100 business leaders, government officials, and members of non-profit organizations. Some meat Tuesday to search for ways that New Hampshire, which is 94% white, might lure other racial and ethnic groups as well as younger people. The irony is that their own populations stagnant, these states must look to outsiders if they want to grow. So the restate. Cornets and New York Times and Democrats across New England. The fact that Maine is mostly white has caused an array of problems. It is an issue that needs to be solved as quickly as possible. Now, in any other context, leftists would immediately identify this rhetoric as obviously not only racist, but genocidal, and all the rest of it, because it is. But when you're trying to get rid of white people instead of, say, you know, illiterate criminals in Baltimore or Detroit, it's totally fine to talk this way. As long as you're not taking issue with the presence of thousands of fentanyl addicted violent black felons like George Floyd in your state, then you're good. So the forcible demographic replacement of whites began. And to add humiliation to injury, white taxpayers, many of them poor, were forced to fund their own replacement. Again, this is from the New York Times quote, in 2009, refugees accounted for 16% of Louis Stin's welfare costs according to the Louis Stin Social Services Department. But in 2010, the city began seeing a steady increase in asylum seekers and welfare costs started climbing. This year asylum seekers accounted for 37% of the city's welfare costs while other refugees accounted for 11%. Now those are from 15 years ago, those numbers, demographic replacement was only just beginning in Maine. In fact, the governor of Maine Janet Mills was went on to announce a new office of new Americans along with a proclamation that says that she saying that she intended to bring 75,000 so-called new manors to state of Maine by 2029. Of course, new manors is code for foreign nationals and fake refugees. And in 2019, Mills stated that so-called asylum seekers will be entitled to general assistance, meaning taxpayer-funded welfare. So what's happened in the intervening years as foreigners from the third world have been imported into Maine without interruption on the order of the Democrat Party? Well, let's see. This is from news nation just a couple of weeks ago. A small community in Maine is calling for accountability tonight after they say money for mass shooting victims instead went to Somali linked nonprofits. You'll likely recall that in October 2023, 18 people were killed in Lewiston, Maine, when a U.S. Army reservist opened fire at a bowling alley in a bar and grill. In the wake of the shooting, a local nonprofit created a fund promising that 100% of the money would go to the victims. Generous donors gave millions of dollars, but a large chunk of that money did not go to victims. That's part of the outrage. Where it ended up is the other part. In the wake of the shooting, a local nonprofit, the Maine Community Foundation, established the Lewiston Auburn Area Response Fund. We all met in an auditorium in the school and they told us that night that 100% of the funds would go to the victims. And then I got received the email too to say that. That email from the Maine Community Foundation says it is, quote, to help ensure survivors and victims know that 100% of all donations go to victims survivors of this tragic event. They kept telling me if you have anyone who wants to give, give to this because it's 100% for the survivors and family members. But a year later, Amy investigated and uncovered that a big chunk of the money raised $1.9 million went not to the victims, but to 29 different nonprofits. Nine of the 29 are four immigrants only, nonprofits that serve the immigrant community in the Lewiston Auburn Lewiston Area. Groups like empowered immigrant women unite, generation nor, new Maynard Public Health Initiative, the Somali Bonsu Community Association, and Gateway Community Services, which has been accused of misusing taxpayer funds and after our reporting was visited by Homeland Security. Gateway's executive director was on the fund steering committee and they received $65,000 from the fund. You probably remember that mass shooting in Maine. We talked about it on the show at the time. The media never told us what drugs the shooter may have been taking, even though there's no conceivable reason to hide that information, other than to appease Big Pharma, which coincidentally buys more media advertising than any other industry on the planet. And at the time, that's what we focused on when we talked about this shooting on the air. On to figure out how it happens and how similar shootings could be prevented in the future, but the Somali community in Maine and the broader network of leftist NGOs that facilitate mass migration, they were not asking those questions. They didn't remotely care about the loss of life that resulted from the mass shooting. They didn't care that 18 people had died, including a 14 year old and several members of the local deaf community who were playing club cornhole. Instead, without missing a beat, they immediately could calculate a multi-million dollar fraud, of course. Within 48 hours, they drew up a scam. And in the end, some of these fake Somali nonprofits made far more money from this fundraiser than the actual survivors of the shooting who were white. There were no Somalis among the victims. The reason the scam was uncovered is that beginning in February of last year, Edward Tomick and Steve Robinson of the main wire started reporting on where the donations were going. And Robinson reported that the Maine Community Foundation, a nonprofit found it in 1983, launched, quote, two concurrent fundraisers just two days after the mass shooting of October 27, 2023. Foundation ultimately raised more than $6 million across two fundraisers, one of which was explicitly earmarked for victims. The other fundraiser was earmarked for Lewiston Auburn area, broad recovery and organizations fund. The idea was that by donating, you'd help the community recover from the mass shooting. Well, the main wire found that roughly $4.7 million was indeed sent to victims and their families, but nearly $2 million went to immigrant and refugee-related nonprofits that have known. And it's clear why this happened. At least four members of the, on the 10 person steering committee on the fund were in turn representatives for organizations that received money from the foundation. And those four members included Mahuddin Leiba of the Somali Bantu Community Association, as well as a representative from United Way and Gateway Community Services, which is another one of the three members of the community. Even by the standards of unapologetic, low IQ Somali fraud, this is truly sociopathic behavior. But the important thing to understand here is that as in Minneapolis, the Somalis aren't coming up with these schemes on their own. The NGOs and the Democrat Party are all enabling it. And they're doing it because these foreigners are key to their political power. And for one thing, of course, a lot of these illegal aliens vote. Main Secretary of State, Shana Bellows, admitted that just a few months ago. She was on a podcast with Mark Elias, the Democrat operative, and here's what she said, watch. So then you go into the darker motivations. Why would they want a national voter file? Are they on a phishing expedition? Is this a witch hunt to try to find every single potential problem? And guess what? You know, there are duplicates on the voter rolls because people don't tell their clerks when they move. Not duplicate voters, but duplicate registrants sometimes. There may be, I'm sure there are in some isolated instances, some non-citizens may be on the rolls. And that's what election officials do every day is verifying the integrity of the voter rolls. So to repeat, quote, sometimes there may be, I'm sure there are in some isolated instances, some non-citizens may be on the rolls. But you shouldn't worry about that, according to Shana Bellows, because Democrats are working very hard to ensure the integrity of our democracy. That's her answer when she's explaining why she doesn't want to turn over mains voter rolls to independent investigators for an audit. But wait a minute, how would a single illegal alien ever get on the voter rolls in the first place? Seems like that would be pretty easy to prevent that from happening. What safeguards does the state of main employee to ensure that only American citizens are voting in our elections? And how many illegal aliens have been able to circumvent those safeguards? Those are important questions for a secretary of state to address, but for Shana Bellows, it's no big deal. And we all know why that is. These foreigners voted for Shana Bellows and her party. That's it. And actually they do a lot more than that. Again, Steve Robinson, the editor of the main wire who also writes on Substack, has done extraordinary reporting on the relationship between foreign fraudsters and the Democrat party. And here's what he found, quote, Gateway Community Services founded in 2014 by Somali American Refugee Abdullah Ali. Came under fire last week thanks to whistleblower allegations reported exclusively by the Robinson reports that detailed an elaborate effort to overbill Medicaid known in Maine as main care. At the same time the alleged fraud was happening, the Milsim administration handed lucrative contracts to Ali's company and related nonprofit while Ali at a former employee were creating the community organizing alliance, COA, to boost voting for Democrats in migrant neighborhoods. So what happened is that in 2018, an audit uncovered that the Somali nonprofit had allegedly overbilled main care by nearly a million dollars from 2015 to 2017. More than 35% of their claims to main care supposedly contained errors. These are claims that were made by whistleblowers who worked there, but instead of forcing the nonprofit to return that money, Janet Mills and then Democrats have showered them with even more taxpayer cash. Quote, since February, from since February, 2022 state contract record show Gateway has received nearly $3.3 million in taxpayer money under agreements with state agencies, including Department of Health and Human Services, the permanent commission on the status of racial, indigenous and tribal populations, the Department of Education and the Department of Economic and Community Development. For good measure, here's Governor Janet Mills standing alongside Gateway Community Services CEO Abdullah Ali and Eclis Ahmed, a Gateway Community Services employee who now works for the Office of New Americans. And they all look very happy together. By one day, they seem to have a mutually beneficial arrangement going on. The Somali nonprofit gets cash and the Democrats get a grassroots operation grassroots that turns out votes. Of course, Maine's mostly white population is not benefiting from this arrangement. Instead, in addition to being robbed, they're also losing their cats. This is from late 2024. Bangor Animal Control is continuing to investigate the mysterious disappearance of cats in Bangor's Fairmount neighborhood, with officials saying multiple factors could be responsible for the recent uptick and unexplained vanishing felines aside from wild predators. Animal Control Officer for the Bangor Police Department, Trisha Brune, said on Monday that the recent wave of residents reporting their cats as missing began this summer, is now close to 20 cases. Residents of the neighborhood have been left perplexed by the sudden disappearance of their beloved pets, with some questioning whether wildlife is responsible due to the lack of remains or collars being found. Now, we'll say that those cats, coincidentally enough, disappeared shortly after Catholic charities began settling a bunch of Haitians in Bangor. So, who knows? Who's to say if there's a connection? Could just be a coincidence. For all the attention that's been paid to Minneapolis in recent weeks, it needs to be said that the full scale assault on white people in Maine who are being replaced and defrauded at the same time. Truly stands apart. I keep in mind many of the people being defrauded in Maine are poor white people. I mean, this is, this is again sociopathic. They're targeting people who are old and poor and white, simply because of the fact that they're old and poor and white. And the scale of the theft is staggering. Recently, auditors with the Department of Health and Human Services took a look at claims for reimbursement for autism treatment services that were submitted to the federal government by DHHS, which is the Maine Department of Health and Human Services. And here's what the inspector general of the federal HHS found. This is from Robinson, quote, a federal report published Thursday threatens to blow yet another hole in the state's budget. The fiscal wreckage of the audit is substantial with federal auditors estimating that DHHS made at least $45.6 million in improper payments in 2023 alone. Of that total, the feds are demanding that the state refine to $28.7 million. The OIG flagged another 22.4 million, 14.2 million federal share as potentially improper citing documentation so unreliable or incomplete that officials could not. Verify if the services were actually rendered. Now just underscore how guilty Democrats in Maine are. Here's an email from a senior appointee of Janet Mills, which was sent to other Democrats staffers in September of 2025. This email is a response to House Republicans efforts to conduct oversight into Maine's Medicaid spending. And it reads, quote, the goal here is to avoid a congressional subpoena. Yes, they put that in writing. I mean, of all the things to not say in writing, you're putting in writing, hey, we're trying to cover this up. How's the cover up going? I sure hope nobody finds out about this cover up that we're doing right now. Their objective is to avoid federal oversight and put another way they want to be able to spend millions of dollars of taxpayer money without having to explain where the money is going. This is the position of Maine's entire government and to illustrate that point some more. Here's another email from Maine's attorney general. This is from January of last year, shortly after Trump took office again was obtained by the main wire. The email reads, quote, all DHS departments have received a directive from the office of the attorney general OAG advising staff that if an attorney or anyone else from the Department of Justice or the US attorney's office reach out looking to meet or seeking information. The staff should not respond instead they should forward the correspondence to their supervisor and the superintendent's office. Superintendents office will then reach out to the appropriate assistant attorney general to advise if the communication appears happens to occur over the phone staff should tell the individual that they cannot provide information at this time and we need to speak with counsel first. It looks good for Democrats in Maine or the foreigners there in porting it looks like a lot a lot like they have a consciousness of guilt but to be fair, since we're all about fairness on the show. I feel compelled to present the Somali side of the argument here. Here's the response from a woman named Ena Girdy in a routine who really takes Steve Robinson to task watch. This is a man called Steve Robinson and he is an alt-right white neo-nazi. He's a neo-nazi. He's a white nationalist who is continuing to target businesses through so-called media. They created this platform they're calling journalism is none of that is journalism. It's all propaganda. They are targeting Somali own businesses, immigrant businesses. If you're black you're being targeted. If you're about you're being targeted. They are doxing people, their addresses, their names online. This is what the Somalis learn to do in Minneapolis. They do it in Maine as well. They just accuse you of racism when you point out their rampant fraud. That's their tactic and they rely on that tactic because it works. And that needs to change. Now, top of that, this administration needs to recognize the national security implications of what these foreigners are doing. This is not a domestic story solely. These invaders are coming from a foreign country with the intent to defraud us. And then they're sending a lot of that money back to Somalia. That we've already talked about Chris Rufo's reporting about how some of this taxpayer money is ending up in the hands of terrorists. And as the main why reports is not exactly hard for Somalis to send this money overseas quote, an investigation into an unassuming office building on Portland's Anderson Street has revealed an interlinked network of lucrative Medicaid agencies co-located with Davas, she'll an emirati money transfer business favor by the central bank of Somalia. Main care spending records obtained under the Freedom of Access Act show that the five main care agencies located within the office building at two or three Anderson Street have increased their combined annual billing from $900,000 in 2019 to $4 million. The building houses a branch of Dahabah Shield, the largest money transfer business in Africa founded in Somalia and now based in the UAE. It allows for the easy transfer funds back into African nations, including Somalia. Now, for Robinson, the solution here is simple watch. The more you investigate this as journalists or the more the law enforcement investigates this, you find more and more these connections to political actors in Somalia. In Somalia or Central Africa, you find more and more that there are high level political figures in Somalia who are benefiting from this scheme on the money transmission side on the how they have their own day cares or healthcare businesses in Minnesota or in Maine. And you can't help but view this as a form of nation building for Somalia, but also economic terrorism against the middle class in Maine in Minnesota. I think this is economic terrorism and I think it needs to be treated that way. They are systematically defrauding the American taxpayer at the nation state level in order to build out their country in Somalia and it is economic terrorism. And the victims are the people who are dying of overdoses in Lewiston. The victims are the people who those benefits could have been spent on. The victims are the people in northern rural Maine, the working class people, guys I went to high school with who are seeing half their paycheck go away in taxes so that Abdulahil Ali can drive a Mercedes and have an estate in Kenya while he's running for warlord of jubilant. Like those are the victims of the economic terrorism that the Medicaid fraud is wreaking and once you start trading it like economic terrorism becomes a national security problem. So I think you need to unlock national security level responses to stop the fraud to prevent it from happening in the future. And if you're ever going to get some semblance of justice for what's happened here, it has to be at the national security level. There has to be a kinetic response to remove this to stop this. This is the attitude we need to adopt from this moment forward concerning these foreign fraudsters and criminals who are stealing our money, including money that's intended for the victims of mass shootings. They aren't coming here by themselves. They're coming here because they've been aided and abetted by foreign governments that despise this country and white people in general. These foreigners are financially and politically supported by hostile foreign governments because these foreign governments benefit financially from the fraud. Meanwhile, as a result, you won't find Maine on the list of safest places to be anymore. So mission accomplished. It's more diverse, which the USA today would celebrate, but it is also as a consequence, a direct consequence far more dangerous. Lewiston, the second largest city in Maine, experienced a total of 192 shootings from 2019 to July of 2025, along with 1500 drug overdoses in 2019. There were only 10 shootings and 113 overdoses the whole year. While in just the first six months of 2025, there were 20 shootings and 115 overdoses. In other words, the rates of shootings and overdoses have increased exponentially, along with the rate of diversity in Maine as Janet Mills calls it. It shouldn't fall on an independent journalist like Robinson to uncover what's happening in Maine. This should be one of the highest priorities of the Trump administration, because the left views Maine as a blueprint for their plan to engineer mass demographic replacement and to cause mass casualties and poverty among white populations. And because they face no resistance whatsoever in Maine, they're going to do the same thing all over the country. Unless the White House goes to war with these people, arrest the fraudsters, punish the foreign governments that are sponsoring this, allow Americans to live in their own country again. And using the military if needed, force everybody else to live in theirs. Now let's get to our five headlines. 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You know, just like which would really just be football and aliens would be it's I need my football and alien show a whole separate show. But it is absurd the bill bell. This is the big if you fall sports you fall sports commentary. This is the thing everyone's freaking out about today and of course making too big a deal out of it, but it is ridiculous that billbell check the greatest NFL coach of all time. Apparently they they they haven't really officially announced the app, but it leaked to that there they will be announcing the hall of fame class for this year and billbell check did not make it he will make it in the future, but he didn't make it on the first ballot. He's been to 12 Super Bowls, if you count when he was a defensive coordinator as well, he won eight of them one six as a head coach, what like 17 or 18 years in a row, winning at least 10 games. I mean just crazy amounts of success. And didn't make it on into the the hall of fame this year anyway. Is the same year when should or is it a week actually should or Sanders is going to be making the pro ball as an alternate, but he's going to be in the pro bowl. And and of course he was drafted in the fifth round last year to the Cleveland Browns is like a third stringer eventually ends up starting because of basically because of attrition and injuries and stuff like that and the quick Cleveland Browns are totally dysfunctional. And he throws he throws 10 10 interceptions seven touchdowns is like 50% completion percentage or something like that not a good year and he's in the pro bowl so it doesn't really matter, but I've been a defender of as you know of football and of the NFL not corporate NFL because the corporate NFL is annoying and woke and all the rest of it. But certainly the sport and also the product on the field I'm a defender of. 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Ranting about ice at an event last night when she was suddenly sprayed by an unknown I think at this point still unknown substance apparently was a smelly some sort of smelly some sort of unpleasant substance she was sprayed with. Here's that moment watch. Apologement of the agency ice cannot be reformed it cannot be rehabilitated we must abolish ice for good. And the H.S. Secretary Christy no more must resign or face impeachment. I don't know. All right, so the guy was arrested I think at this point we still haven't been told like I said what he sprayed her with we don't know. He had a syringe and it's sprayed her I don't think it hit her in the face hit her like in her shirt. And there's a lot of speculation that this attack was staged and I have no idea if it was or not or not I think that's a perfectly reasonable thing to worry about you don't have to be a conspiracy theorist. Okay, this is not like there's a mass shooting and you're saying oh it's crisis actors it was all a hoax. Okay, it's not not that this is. Leftists are constantly using hoaxes. We know that and we also know that Somalis love to scam and they love to use deception their notorious scam artists they just are. So in Ilhan's case, well, she's a Somali and a leftist so the pattern points in a certain direction I think it's very legitimate to worry about that or to wonder about it very legitimate to wonder about that. Now, on the other hand, the thing that points away from a staged event or a hoax is that the guy who did it was arrested and his case his face was clearly visible his identity is known and typically if leftists are going to fake a hate crime or fake an attack of this type they'll do it in which they do all the time but they do it in a way that where the culprit is never seen. You know, it's usually like oh, if they were going to hoax this if they were going to fake it then what you would expect is that we would hear a story from Ilhan Omar about how this how this happened when she was walking down the street and maybe she would show us her shirt which has the some sort of liquid on it and she'd have this whole story. And that's all she would really need to do because the media would would run with it. That's the thing if you're if you're a leftist and you want to do a hoax. Well, you don't have to try that hard the media will go with it. So all she would need she would even need to show us the the shirt with the liquid on it should just say oh this happened that anyone see it happened. Oh no, I was totally alone. You didn't have security no they were they were in the bathroom. Was there security cameras around no no no I was in I just so happy to walk in the street it was like right in a blind spot with security cameras. Was it did anyone see it did anyone have a cell phone and they got up no I didn't did you get it on your cell phone no I know myself on on me. I should could have just said that and the media would totally take it and run with it and it would be fine. So that's one thing that cuts against it being a hoax is that she wouldn't need to do all this for this kind of hoax. And also it because the person is known and they're on camera well if this guy is actually a leftist then that will be very clear very quickly. So orchestrating a hoax like this on camera with the assailant known and visible and now under arrest would be considerably more brazen than what left is usually do. Now on the other hand I'm seeing a lot of interesting stuff on social media pointing to this guy maybe not being a right wing radical let's say I don't know if any of that is true or not. None of its confirm so I can't report it as fact I don't know I'm open to either possibility I just don't know what I want to point out here though. Is the reaction where the media is they've got their blaring headlines about this they're condemning it of course every prominent Democrat in the country has come out condemning it. AOC and Tim Walls and Chuck Schumer came out right away calling it a despicable despicable act and Kim Jeffries said he was horrified horrified. Every Democrat is condemning it Ilhan Omar herself came out an hour or two after this happened an issue to statement where she called herself I'm not kidding. If you didn't see this called herself a survivor. She's a survivor. Yeah she's a survivor of a liquid she's a survivor of a stain on her shirt talking about herself like it was an assassination attempt. Now if this liquid was acid or you know if there was anthrax or something being sprayed on her then then I would get it but that doesn't appear to be the case here thankfully. But this is the predictable reaction and meanwhile leftists are out in the street every night throwing crap at ICE agents. Acostaing assaulting law enforcement throwing bricks at their head. Nobody on the left condemns that. As Ilhan Omar condemned that. They excuse it they encourage it. You think if there was a video of a of a ICE agent getting sprayed with a liquid which they are all happens all the time but. You think anyone on the left would say that's horrifying you sprayed him with a liquid horrifying I'm I won't be able to sleep tonight I'll be tossing in turn to hold nightmares. You think they would say that. No again there's video of ICE agents getting getting getting bricks thrown at them cinder blocks. They're not horrified by that. Charlie Kirk was shot and killed. And as we know they celebrated. Yet this is what they see as horrifying and despicable and some kind of great national tragedy. We'll all remember where we were I'll never forget. I'll always remember where I was on the night when someone sprayed an unpleasant liquid on Ilhan Omar. What a tragedy. So it's all fake. I guess that's the point that whether this was staged or not. And it very well may have not been I mean it may have been a thing that just happened this was a crazy guy who did the thing. It that's possible but whether that's the case or not it's still fake this is all fake. The whole thing is still fake no matter what. The hand ringing and the panicking overhead and the condemnations it's all fake. You don't mean it like you can't actually be horrified there's no way that you could be horrified by a liquid being sprayed on somebody but not horrified by a guy getting shot in the throat on camera. So it's all fake. Subsox sponsor by American financing. 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All right, this is something that is so insane that. It's actually hard to believe it's real but it is real. And I'm just going to read rather this is an op ed rather than read through the whole op ed, which is quite lengthy. The post millennial has a report about this op ed. It says a leftist writer has published a piece in the nation explaining why she did not report her alleged 2021 gang rape at the hands of six men in Las Vegas saying that she believed in the abolition of police and prisons in a crowd hammer. They write her in doctoral candidate in English literature at Columbia University wrote that in june in june of 2021. I was raped by a group of men during a three day trip. I took to Las Vegas with two of my best friends of the rape, which lasted all night. I remember both too much and too little. I never did anything about it. I didn't tell anyone who could have done something about it either as such as the hotel staff or the police. The simple answer to the question of why I never reported the rape is that I believe in the abolition of police and prisons. The less simple, less articulate answer is that to pursue prosecuting and potentially incarcerating other people is inconceivable to me. Even when they hurt me more than I could have ever believed possible. Because of this, I could only vocalize what I want in negative and inherently impossible terms. That all I want is for it to never be a victim. That all I want is for it to never have happened. The prospect of being a participant in other people's incarceration is as alien to me as anything could be to the point that I could only conceive of it in childish terms. How silly and strange would be to have a group of people incarcerated at my expense when doing so would do nothing to fix the damage they have already so thoroughly done. She said that she has long believed in and used the term prison abolition, but has felt in my bones that I could never participate in any chain of events that I would have been. Any chain of events that might send someone to prison for longer. Okay, now I have to say, of course, speaking of hoaxes that there's always the very distinct possibility that this crime never occurred that she made it up. I mean, we don't know. You know, one way to explain how this woman could be brutalized by multiple men all night and then not call the cops is that it didn't happen. So obviously she hasn't provided any evidence that would say that it's happened. So we can't be sure that it did. We know that leftists women lie about basically everything all the time and they have no moral conscience. So there's just no reason to believe anything that they say. But in this case, assuming it didn't happen. Would be doing her a favor. That's the more flattering interpretation because the other interpretation is that it did happen. And now there are brutal violent predators out in the world who this woman refuses to have locked up. Which makes her entirely morally culpable for anyone else that they victimize in the future. You know, she says how silly and strange would be to have a group of people incarcerated in my expense. When doing so would do nothing to fix the damage they have already so thoroughly done. Well, yeah, Anna, it won't fix what happened to you exactly, but it could help the next potential victim. There's always that. But that doesn't enter into your calculus at all. Which as far as I'm concerned makes you almost as evil as the predators themselves. If this even happened, which who knows, but let's just go with that for now. Let's assume that it did happen. Okay, well that means that this woman was horrifically assaulted, savagely attacked. And she still believes that the assailants should be free that they should suffer no consequences at all. And I don't have to explain why that is crazy and wrong. I know I don't have to waste time arguing to anyone watching this show. Why it's a good idea to put rapists in prison rather than letting them run around outside free, raping more people. I don't need to explain that prison for one thing is a form of societal self defense. It's how we defend innocent people and ourselves from violent criminals. And for another, it is punishment. You need to punish evil because that is justice. A society that does not punish evil is a society that does not have justice. And for another, it disincentivizes future criminal activity. Now, in many cases, evil people don't respond to incentives and don't respond to it the way normal people do. But even so, without prison, if you're an evil scumbag, there is no incentive to not run around doing whatever you want. So, all of that is obvious. The problem is that the point of view that Anna is expressing is for the most part, mainstream on the left. Now, the difference is that most leftists make an exception for crimes that where they themselves are the victims or might be the victims. So, usually they're in favor of prison abolition except in cases where their own lives are personally jeopardized or affected in some way. But aside from that, this is a mainstream view, just is. This is mainstream on the left, especially in the kind of academia and in people who are supposedly highly educated leftists as this woman is. And we're experiencing the consequences. I mean, there are judges and DAs across the country who basically have this same point of view. And it's a point of view that it's a point of view, well, I don't know how else to put it aside from we cannot share a civilization with people like this. We cannot share a country with people like this. You know, this is a point of view that you either condemn and exclude an ostracize or it eats away at the pillars that are holding up the whole structure of civilization and everything comes tumbling down. Even debating this. I mean, this is the most frustrating thing about modern leftism, which is to even debate what these people believe is to go backwards. It's to go back and debate stuff that human beings already figured out 10,000 years ago. Okay, it's like the year 2026 we should be talking about how to get to Mars or whatever. Instead, we have to debate whether dangerous people should go to prison. This is literally something that human beings figured out a thousand centuries ago. We're way, way past that. Okay, go back to the year like 9,000 BC and have that debate. And this is what they do with everything, right? I mean, we have to debate whether families are good. Is it good to have a family? Is it good? Is it good to have kids? Is it good for society to continue to exist? Is it, should we kill babies? Is marriage good? We had to waste five years debating whether men can have babies. Do women have penises? And on and on. And this is why honestly, I just, I kind of soured on the idea of debate at this point. I got to be honest with you. Like, you want me to debate this? Should we have a debate about this? Should we debate whether gang rapists should be in prison? Should we abolish prisons? Like, we're going to have a debate about that. Should we just let violent criminals like just do whatever they want? Should we open the prison gates and let them all out? Debate it. Anyone who's on, like, there are certain things that are just absolutely fundamental if you want to have a civilization at all. And so really, these are the questions they're asking. What they want us to debate is whether or not we should have a civilization. And that is not a question that is worth arguing about. Okay, if you don't understand why it's good to have a civilization, why civilization is better than the alternative, then you're just not fit to be a part of civilization. This is not like, we don't have to explain this to you. I'm not going to go back 10,000 years to debate whether the basic pillars of civilization are good, or whether we should just pull the whole thing down, you know, like Samson, and bury ourselves under the rubble. I'm not debating that. And anyone with that view, what we should just do is mock and ostracize them and shout them down and laugh them off the stage. I mean, really, that's all you could do. There are some points of view that are not worthy of discussion. Just not. And this is why, you know, I know this is controversial to some people, but this is why it was a catastrophic mistake to extend voting rights universally to everybody. And to get everybody involved in the political process, let's get everybody involved. Everyone should have a say. Now, everyone should not have a say. Like this woman who wrote this, should not be able to vote. You should not be able to vote. You're not fit. You should not be a part of any kind of political process. You shouldn't have any say in the way society is run whatsoever. You're a barbarian. You're a lunatic. You're psychotic. You're deranged. I mean, your opinion is not valid. Every opinion is valid. No, it's not. Like, there are opinions that are just not valid, not worthy of discussion. It's why we need to have a system in place for filtering out the dumbest, most useless, most deranged people from being able to vote. I know it's never going to happen, but at a certain point, you know, do we want to have a country or not? Because if people like this are able to help steal the ship, steal the ship, then we're just not going to have a country. Which is what they want. And these are people who don't want us to have a country. And we have this idea that, you know, everyone's voice should be heard. Every point of view should be included. No. You know, not the voice that says, maybe we shouldn't have prisons. Maybe we should just let the rapists out on the street. What do you say, guys? That is not a point of view that calls for you to sit down and say, hmm, that's a, okay, let's talk about that. Hmm, okay, no, let's have it debate. If somebody comes and says, hey, maybe we should all take knives and stab them into our own heads. What if we all just stabbed ourselves in the heads together? Are you going to sit down and say, let's have it debate. I'm on the don't stab ourselves in the head. And you're on the, we should do it. Let's sit down and have this out. Let's, you know, I get 10 minutes for an opening statement. You get 10 minutes. Let's have it debate. Let's do it. No, somebody says that, and you say, okay, well, you're not, like, you should stop talking. You shouldn't be able to vote. You shouldn't have any say over anything. You shouldn't be able to drive. You're not fit to be a part of human society. Someone has a point of view like that. Oh, yeah, you, you, you look, you literally just shout them off the stage. Like, get out of here. What are you? You're insane. And that is so much of leftism. It's just utterly insane poisonous ideas that are expressly intended to destroy civilization. I mean, that's what they want to do. And we all have to sit around taking them seriously. This episode of Sponsor by Lee Filter. Lee Filter is just, isn't just another gutter guard. It's a trusted name built to last with years of relentless engineering behind it. There's those DIY and hood style knockoff gutter guards can't keep up in heavy rain. Water pours right over the edge and straight to your foundation. And in lighter rain leaves debris flow right in the gap. Lee Filter works better because it's taught by stainless steel and micro mesh. 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You think I should go on a diet. I've been dieting since I was 12. You think I need to hear about your workout routine? You don't stop to ask about mine. No matter what I do, you're gonna have your own thoughts. So get it all out. And while you're in the comment section, I'll be focusing on what really matters. Like how I feel when I'm waking up in the morning. Like showing up for people I love. My health is my focus. And my body is nobody's business, the mine. My body is nobody's business, but in mine. He says, which is why he's making, you know, an advertisement talking about his body. And this, of course, is a big pharma ad. So the point is to get you to buy their weight loss drug. It's posing as a kind of body positivity message. But really, they don't want you to be positive about your body. They want you to take the drug. So it's not even really about body acceptance as dumb as that idea is. There's another thing that leftism has us wasting time debating. Is it good to be fat? Should people be fat? Is it better to not be fat as opposed to being fat? Is another thing. That's another one we're supposed to be debating. Let's have a healthy debate. Let's have an exchange of ideas. Is it should, this person is 400 pounds morbidly obese. Is that bad? Is that a bad thing? Got it here all views are valid. Got to listen to everybody. Anyway, it's, so this is also just, you know, it's just more lies. Look, I don't think that fat people are inherently dishonest or anything, but our culture has encouraged fat people to be liars. So that's saying they all are. I was saying if you're fat, you're a liar. But the problems the culture encourages it. It encourages fat people to lie to themselves and to everybody else all the time. And that's all this ad is, right? It's all the lies we always hear. He says, you think I should go on a diet? Well, I've been dieting since I was 12. No, you haven't. No, you haven't, but you're a liar. Stop lying. Okay, you obviously, one of your, one of your, we all are sinners. None of us, we all fall short. But one of your sins you are wearing on your body in the form of all the Lord, you struggle with the sin of gluttony, okay? You don't need to add the sin of, of lying on top of it. You're a liar. Every, and every, like, so many fat people do this. They say, I've been dieting my whole life. No, you haven't. No, you haven't. Stop lying. You are a liar. Stop it. And you know it. Every fat person who claims they diet all the time and the diets don't work. I tried dieting and it doesn't, what do you mean it doesn't work? You're a liar. Okay, there's no such thing really as a diet not working. Unless your, your idea of dieting is to strictly consume candy and soda. Okay, if you have, if you're on the will-fair old diet from elf, then, okay, if that's not going to work in the sense of it's not going to make you skinnier. But if you're on an actual diet where you consume fewer calories than you burn, then, then there's no way you could be on that kind of diet for like 20 years and still be enormously fat. I've been burning more calories than I've consumed for 20 years. No, I haven't lost a pound. In fact, I've only gained 100 pounds. It's not possible. It defies the laws of physics. So stop it. It's not true. And yet, we tolerate these lies. The fat people going around saying, I don't know what's going on. I've tried every diet under the sun. And I've tried exercising. And it just doesn't work. What there's, it doesn't, what do you mean it doesn't? It's not possible that it doesn't work. Is it a cartoon character? Are you claiming the laws of physics don't apply to you? What's next? Are you going to run out like in the cartoon? You run out across the cliff and you don't fall until you notice that you're walking on air. Is it like your bug's bunny? You run out, you're running on thin air, then somebody taps you on the shoulder and goes, look down and then you look and then you fall. Is that also what's happening to you? Physics just doesn't work. I don't know. Gravity doesn't work for me. I don't know what to say. No. You, you, you, maybe for 20 years you've dieted for like a day at a time and then you stop. Or you diet for a week and you stop and that, maybe you've done that. You have not been dieting that whole time. Obviously. And every single person who's not fat. It's like you could look at someone. I'm not fat. I'm not saying I'm the perfect picture of fitness, but I'm not fat. And do you know how that, it's not like dumb luck. I'm almost 40. I'm not fat. It could be fat at this point. But you know, I get a fair amount of exercise. And that's how, that's how I'm not fat. I diet is not great. But I have to compensate for that. It could be better. I'm, I'm certainly not going to claim that I have the best diet in the world. It's not the worst. Definitely not the best. But I come to say for that, I work out quite a bit. And so I've kind of like, you know, it's, it is what it is. And you could, you could do that. But you don't want to because it's takes effort. I don't want to do it. I'm not one of these people that, you know, they, they just love working out. They say their favorite thing. And they could be in the gym for three hours a day if you, if you let them. I'm not that. I, I don't really enjoy it. It kind of sucks. It's, I much rather not be doing it because it's, it's just, I'm busy. And I got a lot of kids and life and all these kinds of things. Like, the rarely do I find myself just lounging on a couch or something. And then I say, I'm like, you know what? I'd love to do right now. I'd love, this would be a lot of fun. No, but I do it because I don't want to be an enormous, large ass. And that's life. If, if you want something, you have to put in some effort to achieve it. And if you have not achieved this thing, especially something that is very, very easily, very possibly achievable for everybody, it's because you haven't put in the effort. And it really is that simple. I know, I'm not trying to be rude. I wouldn't be saying any of this if it, if not for the lies. I just can't take the lies anymore. It's not, I have no desire to run up to fat people and say, hey, you're lazy and you eat too much. Even though that does apply to literally 100% of fat people. If you're fat, it's because you're lazy and you eat too much. That's how that happens. But I'm not going to go around saying that. I have no desire to be mean to people unless they deserve it. But once you start lying, that's what I can't. I don't like liars. I don't like the lies. And then when we start hearing the lies, especially in the self-like in the ad, it's very self-righteous. It's got this scolding, this scolding, self-righteous tone from this fat guy. Wagging his finger. When that happens, then I feel like, well, if you're an honest person, you have no choice but to go up to him and say, no, you're lazy and you eat too much. That's it. You want to be fat, you can be fat. It's not the worst thing in the world to be. I get it, but at least be honest. I'd have respect for that. I'd have some respect for an honest fat person. This is what I look like. I'm a fat slob, it is what it is. I'm kind of lazy. I just don't. I put an effort other places in my life, but this I just don't put in the effort. Here's what I look like because of it. I respect the honesty. It's the lies that I cannot tolerate. And we will leave it there for today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow of a great day. Godspeed. What was it like, Maling, to be alone with God? Is that who you think I was alone with? Martin, I knew your father. I mean, I'm yet convinced that he was not of this world. Oh, man, no of the great Taliesin. Who am I, father? 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