Links - 10th January 2026 (2 - Left Wing Economics: Canada)

Saskatchewan firm's plan to export through Washington state instead of B.C. has David Eby fuming - "Premier David Eby expressed dismay on Monday that Saskatchewan-based Nutrien Ltd. has chosen Washington state over B.C. for a $1 billion potash export terminal. “I was really disappointed,” the premier told reporters when asked about Nutrien’s decision to go with Longview, Washington, on the Columbia River over Prince Rupert or Vancouver. The premier said the whole country would benefit from the investing in port expansion on the West Coast. Plus the U.S. location means that Saskatchewan potash will be hostage to the “whims” of President Donald Trump, who could impose tariffs on the exports or shut them down altogether... Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe had been in discussions with Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith about an oil pipeline through B.C. Talks from which Eby was excluded... the decision to go with Longview was not lightly taken, according to company’s chief commercial officer, Chris Reynolds. He told the Globe and Mail that Nutrien weighed 30 factors including rail rates and the cost of construction. The site in Washington “came out on top” every time. Longview was able to offer the company exclusive access to an unused berth at the Columbia River terminal, one formerly used for grain shipments. Nutrien has an established relationship in the U.S. Pacific Northwest as it already ships potash out of nearby Portland. Other factors cited by the company in making its decision were congestion and transportation bottlenecks on the Canadian side of the border. Nutrien also noted recent labour disruptions at B.C. ports. Longview, by comparison, was seen as more efficient and reliable. Transportation rates. Access to the port. Labour relations. Those are federal responsibilities... I spoke with BHP’s president of North American operations, Brandon Craig, when he visited the B.C. capital last month. He asked whether the B.C. government was serious about attracting further investment in resource development and mining... Looking back, I have to wonder if Longview would still have been Nutrien’s first choice, had the country as a whole acted sooner and with greater resolve to promote ports in B.C."
When you hate economic growth and promote policies designed to hurt it (not to mention uncertainty over Indigenous claims), then act hurt when people choose not to invest in your province. Clearly they'd never cause trouble over potash exports - only over a pipeline

Locked out of Ottawa-Alberta talks, Eby sneers from the sidelines | Vancouver Sun - "The B.C. premier has since dismissed the project. Just last week he denounced it “as a figment in the mind of a communications person in Alberta.” This week he made a prediction: “As each day passes and we’re told that it is just around the corner, it will become increasingly apparent to absolutely everybody that there is no pipeline project to speak of.” That was Tuesday. Next day the Globe and Mail headlined “Ottawa, Alberta close to deal that includes oil pipeline to B.C. coast.” Is it any wonder that the parties concluded Eby would have nothing positive to contribute to the discussions? Eby mocked the pipeline project in the CBC interview as being “advanced by a politician who frankly is in trouble at home.” Alberta’s Danielle Smith, presumably. He knows a thing or two about such rescue efforts. B.C. NDP insiders say it needed several moves before the recent party convention to elevate Eby’s prospects in the leadership vote from a feared 70 per cent to the 83 per cent outcome. One of those moves was a multi-billion-dollar sweetener to the government’s public sector wage offer. Another was an accord with coastal First Nations calling on the federal government to continue the oil tanker moratorium on B.C.’s northern coast... While Eby sees Alberta with its hand out for federal financing, he insists B.C. wants nothing more than for Ottawa to stay out of the way. “We’re not even really asking for help, we’re just asking, please stay out of the way so we can do this for Canadians,” he told the CBC host. Eby told a different story when a reporter asked recently about the federal government’s promise of a mere $150 million loan for the power line. “Your impatience with the federal government’s funding matches my own,” replied the premier."

Braid: With tanker ban on the table, it's B.C. Premier Eby's turn to gripe about Ottawa - "NDP Premier David Eby is flopping around like an angry walrus in B.C. It sure is fun to watch. Eby sounds almost like an Alberta premier during the Justin Trudeau regime, when Ottawa systematically piled up laws that stifled the province’s economy... There’s a big difference, though. They had just cause for fury. Eby does not. Bill C-69, the north coast tanker ban, the emissions cap — Trudeau’s Liberals did everything possible to phase out Alberta’s main industry. This was exactly what the coastal New Democrats wanted. They loved it all. Now, Eby furiously opposes an end to the tanker ban, or even a limited exception. He moans that his province was left out of “secret” talks among Alberta, Saskatchewan and Ottawa. He claims, incredibly, that every energy project in B.C. will collapse if the tanker ban is lifted. Eby says coastal First Nations have a $1.7-billion economy that will somehow vanish... More than a few of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s MPs see the tanker ban as sacred, including Jonathan Wilkinson, the former environment minister. That used to work. But now the game is changing... Eby has just been showered with riches from Ottawa. Yet he continues to carp. Carney’s government approved four major B.C. projects , worth roughly $100 billion. No other province got anything close. Alberta received nothing in that phase. Just days later, Eby handily survived a leadership vote at his own convention. This guy doesn’t sound grateful to Ottawa or anyone else. Eby often notes that Alberta got the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion that cost more than $30 billion in public money. He never adds that many overruns were caused by years of NDP obstruction, led by the late NDP premier John Horgan. Remember Horgan’s promise to use “every tool in the tool box” to block the pipeline? He meant it. NDP efforts to impede every step — new laws, permit denials, suspiciously lax policing of demonstrations — eventually drove proponent Kinder Morgan right out of Canada. The Trudeau Liberals, after gutlessly refusing to challenge B.C.’s opposition, had to grind their teeth and buy out Kinder Morgan. Eby was B.C.’s attorney general during much of that time. He was surely involved with the legal strategy. B.C. tried to legislate restrictions on the flow of bitumen. Both the B.C. Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court ruled the law unconstitutional. For anyone who has followed this sorry tale, it’s downright bizarre to hear the 2025 version of David Eby trying to make Trans Mountain sound like B.C.’s great gift to Canada. The premier talks tough, even though he has only a one-seat advantage in B.C.’s deeply divided legislature."

Trouble in 'Team Canada' as B.C.'s deputy premier raises spectre of pipeline lawsuit - "Eby has said that the pipeline and the lifting of an oil-tanker ban off the B.C.'s north coast could threaten "real projects" worth of billions of dollars by eroding the "fragile consensus" among First Nations for resource projects in the northwest... B.C. Conservative Leader John Rustad had quoted Moe as saying that Eby was "'not being part of Team Canada.'" "It's obvious nobody seems to want to work with this premier," Rustad said in the legislature... Eby said... "he and the leader of the Conservative party were having secret meetings with the premier of Alberta about a non-existent pipeline project that undermines support for major B.C. projects that will employ thousands of people and bring billions of dollars into this country."... Carney said on Tuesday that B.C. and First Nations would have to agree to a pipeline, although Energy Minister Tim Hodgson's office told The Canadian Press that the government wouldn't give B.C. a veto over such a project."
Indigenous figures sabotaging the economy won't stop them demanding more money, so it's a one-two punch

Majority of Canadians — including B.C. residents — support Alberta’s pipeline push, poll finds - "Richard Masson, executive fellow at the University of Calgary’s School of Public Policy and former CEO of the Alberta Petroleum Marketing Commission, said the poll may reflect how Canadians are feeling since President Donald Trump rocked Canada’s relationship with the U.S. “People are starting to say we need to be able to take care of ourselves and we need to do the things that we can do within our country to manage our relationships with the rest of the world,” he said. “And selling products that we can produce is a part of that.” In a 2021 Angus Reid poll, 63 per cent of Canadians said environmental protection should be prioritized over economic growth. Now, the recent poll shows 57 per cent of Canadians say economic growth is the more important factor... Nearly half of Canadians either want the federal government’s oil tanker ban repealed (23 per cent) or excused for the northern B.C. pipeline project (26 per cent). Nearly 30 per cent of Canadians want to keep the tanker ban in place. In B.C, 44 per cent lean towards opening the province’s northern coast to tanker traffic either entirely or at least for this project."
Unpopular policies are only evidence of oligarchy if they hurt the left wing agenda

Martyupnorth®- Unacceptable Fact Checker on X - "Former B.C. Premier, Christie Clark, drops a huge truth bomb.. "The Americans are moving all of this heavy oil from Alaska right down the same route at 12.1 nautical miles offshore in international waters. All kinds of oil is moving along that coast all the time every day and week. So for Canada to have a tanker ban that only affects Canada, and only constrains the Canadian economy while the American economy thrives is ridiculous" We just love shooting ourselves in the foot in this country."

Smith says future of industrial carbon tax should be at level 'industry can afford' - "“I think we’d have to get approval from the major projects office to get a private sector proponent,” Smith said. “So we’re prepared to take it through the first couple of stages. Because, let’s face it, our industry has been bitten before,” adding she believes any proponent needs a high level of approval certainty. B.C. Premier David Eby has slammed the continued lack of a pipeline proponent when it comes to the federal backing of the project, saying it risks serving as a “distraction” from focusing on other major infrastructure projects that currently have private sector support and financing. “There is not one private company that has stepped up to say, if you build it, we’ll buy it. If the approvals are in place, we’ll build it. Not one,” Eby said on Thursday."
'Tremendously risky': Alberta's pipeline pact with Ottawa no guarantee a company will build it, analysts say - "Companies like Enbridge Inc., South Bow Corp. and TC Energy Corp. are prioritizing quick, low-risk projects or expansions of existing assets that deliver reliable returns, MacNeil said. “If I’m an Enbridge, why would I stop doing that to take on a long, high-regulatory-risk build? What’s in it for the pipeline company?”... despite broad enthusiasm in the oilpatch at the idea, experts who analyze capital flows in the sector warn that it may still be unlikely a private-sector proponent steps forward. Memories are still fresh and debt is still lingering from the troubled Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project, whose price tag exploded from $7.4 billion to more than $34 billion. Kinder Morgan Inc.’s struggles with the B.C. government and local authorities during construction of TMX — which ultimately led the U.S. pipeline giant to sell the project to Ottawa in 2018 — remains a cautionary tale, Randy Ollenberger, managing director of oil and gas equity research for BMO Capital Markets, said... many of the same analysts and investors argue the underlying economics remain strong for a new export pipeline linking growing production in Western Canada to Asian markets — with some arguing that investor reluctance stems from risk, not from lack of demand"
Left wing logic: sabotage the economy with regulation and lawsuits, then proclaim that since the private sector is not stepping forward, there's no point trying to do anything. Of course, if Alberta goes through the US instead, they'll be denounced as "traitors"

Gary Mar: Build a safe B.C. tanker route instead of a ban - "For Eby, a key point will be the 2019 Oil Tanker Moratorium Act, which prohibits large crude oil carriers along the northern coast of British Columbia. The original intention of the Act may have been ecological protection but the effect has been to shut the door on opportunity before it ever had the chance to open... The idea of oil tankers as looming environmental threats is stuck in the era of Sony Walkmans and VHS tapes. The facts tell a different story. Modern tankers are double hulled, sharply reducing spill risk. Navigation systems today are far more advanced than anything available in the 1980s. International safety rules are strict and enforceable. Canada requires ships to be guided by licensed marine pilots and has among the highest safety standards anywhere. And since double hulls became mandatory, global spills from tankers have fallen by more than 90 per cent. Most importantly, the northern British Columbia route has never had tanker traffic, meaning Canada could design the safest, most environmentally protected shipping corridor in the world, built from the ground up. If Norway can move tankers safely through fjords, if Japan can operate in some of the busiest waterways on Earth, if Alaska balances ecological protection with responsible shipping and if Eastern Canadian ports manage tankers every day, then Canada’s West Coast, with its governance standards, technical capacity and Indigenous partnership potential, can certainly do so... None of Canada’s ports rank among the world’s 50 busiest, even though more than 80 per cent of global trade moves by sea. For a trading nation, that is not simply a statistic, it is a warning"
Of course, environmental concerns are just an excuse. The people who don't want tankers (minus the indigenous people after they have been bribed) just hate fossil fuels
Left wingers keep claiming there's no point developing fossil fuels because demand will peak in 2030, but not only has the IEA changed that forecast, they pretend not to remember all the previous predictions of peak oil and similar fantasy

B.C. premier introduces new economic plan, asks Ottawa to be 'relentless and remorseless' in pursuing growth - "Eby said he told fellow premiers and Prime Minister Mark Carney in a conference call Monday that Ottawa needs to be "relentless and remorseless" in pushing economic growth to deliver prosperity for the country."

Meme - Tony Alta.: "Hear me out @ABDanielleSmith. It's an oil pipeline - but we tell Eby it's for fentanyl to get it approved."

Potash mine was openly seeking a port, so why was B.C. in the dark? | Vancouver Sun - "“Premier David Eby is blaming everyone but himself for Nutrien building its new port facility in the U.S. not Vancouver,” wrote Moe on his X account on Saturday. He linked to an interview he gave on Regina radio station CJME. “When someone makes a decision not to invest in your area, you should look in the mirror, not blame others,” Moe told host Evan Bray. “He (Eby) feels like he can pick and choose which projects are going to land in Canadian West Coast ports, and that just simply isn’t the way. And so Nutrien has made the decision that they have made.”... Eby’s hostility to the oil pipeline was “in no way positive for an investment like this to land.” As for Eby’s assertion that he had “no idea” Nutrien was looking at West Coast sites for potash exports, the company announced its intentions in a news release six months ago."

Potash mine was openly seeking a port, so why was Eby government in the dark? : r/ilovebc - "He was not in the dark, he just did not care enough to worry about it and now it has gone south."
"He has a reputation for being extremely difficult and demanding. His primary skillset was developed from the protest techniques of the academic progressive movement. In the real world, those skill sets are detrimental to honest engagement and everyone outside of that academic progressive mindset group, knows it, so they avoid him. The potash deal and the pipeline deal are the obvious ones, but there are many more lost opportunities created by him."
"Easy answer No one trusts Eby. Everyone knows if there is not a huge payout to the natives he will not aprrove any project"

Jasmin Laine 🇨🇦 on X - "For years, Canada has lectured America on values and climate and “shared priorities” while our own industries collapse, our energy sector gets strangled, and our debt explodes. You can’t tell America how to run its economy when you can’t manage your own. So when Ontario ran that Reagan ad, it hit a nerve. Not because it was wrong, but because it exposed how weak Canada’s position has become. Trump—as usual—seized the moment to reassert dominance and to make it clear: in this relationship, Canada talks, but America decides. Whether you think his reaction was fair or not, it signals something deeper…that Canada’s “moral authority” no longer carries any weight. Our leaders still act like values are currency in diplomacy, but values without power are just noise. That’s exactly how we’re being treated right now. The good news? If the government uses this as a wake-up call to repeal the laws and policies that made us this vulnerable in the first place, the future could still be very bright. But every second we spend clinging to the same failing status quo, failing red tape that’s driving investment and the private sector to become obsolete in this country, is another reminder to the world that their money is not wanted or valued in Canada. That’s a dangerous game and it’s nobody else’s future but our own on the line. Ideology or prosperity. You don’t get to have both. Pick one."

Porn no longer subject to Canadian content quotas, says CRTC - "Under the CRTC’s definition of the term, it’s not enough to have a Canadian performer or a Canadian setting. Rather, it’s determined via an elaborate “points” system... In extreme cases, this means that a video of a Canadian couple having sex in Canada and directed by another Canadian would not qualify as Canadian content if only 74 per cent of the financing was provably Canadian. In 2014, a trio of Canadian pornography channels, including the gay-centred Maleflixxx, came close to losing their broadcast licence over claims that there simply wasn’t enough Canadian pornography to fill their schedule. With the channels broadcasting 24 hours per day, the CRTC required them to ensure that at least 8.5 hours of that was Canadian erotica... it did quote at length the change’s most vocal critic: Canadian adult filmmaker Kate Sinclaire, whose Ciné Sinclaire content is produced in Winnipeg. Sinclaire told the commission that “exempting adult programming from Canadian designation will harm creative workers, harm film training, harm creativity, harm public opinion of sex workers, help monopolies, and open the Commission up to jurisdictional and Charter-based legal challenges.” The decision to exempt adult programming from CanCon quotas comes just as the CRTC is finalizing the terms of how it will impose new government controls across large swaths of the Canadian internet... The Online Streaming Act could have imposed not only quotas on the Canadian content of adult websites, but subjected them to other CRTC mandates such as closed captioning, use of Indigenous languages and quotas on the ethnic representations of performers."

You can’t build a nation by targeting favoured industries - "Today’s Liberals are not the first federal government to try to nation-build. In the weeks before the September 1984 federal election, deputy minister of finance Marshall Cohen prepared policies the new government could use, whichever party it might be, to improve Canada’s poor economic performance, including its slowly growing productivity. It was a much different approach than we see in the 2025 budget, in which nation-building will be directed by the government rather than the market. Which approach best serves economic growth? Cohen’s platform included corporate tax reform that reduced rates and broadened the tax base by trimming exemptions and deductions. As finance minister Michael Wilson phrased it in his 1985 budget, which enacted many of Cohen’s suggestions: “The proposals advanced for discussion are not designed to increase revenues from corporations, but rather to raise the same tax funds in a simpler manner while reducing government intervention in market decisions and narrowing differences in tax burden across industrial sectors and types of investment.“ Under the government of Pierre Trudeau, the corporate tax favoured manufacturing and processing, in part to offset a manufacturers’ sales tax that hurt the industry’s competitiveness... The Trudeau II and Carney governments have continued to favour manufacturing, as well as clean energy and critical mining. In 2018, the Liberals brought in accelerated depreciation for clean energy investments and manufacturing and computer equipment. And they returned to differential sectoral taxation, taxing financial firms at 18 per cent and clean energy at 7.5, instead of the general federal rate of 15 per cent. This latest budget heightens the preferences for manufacturing and processing. The 2018 accelerated depreciation package returns, while a “productivity super-deduction” allows the sector to expense structures as well as equipment — though both preferences phase out by 2034. The effect is to create an even greater advantage for central Canadian manufacturing... Taking account of the budget changes and including provincial corporate taxes, manufacturing companies are taxed at the rate of minus 2.2 per cent. A negative tax rate may seem strange but simply means companies are effectively subsidized on their marginal investments. Other industries are taxed much more heavily, however. For example, the METR for Alberta’s oil and gas industry is 29.5 per cent and for its service industries, above 20 per cent. Across all industries, the METR is 15.8 per cent, rising to 21 per cent by 2034 when investment preferences are phased out. Effective tax rates don’t just affect tax competitiveness. They also distort the allocation of resources, reducing productivity as businesses are induced to invest in too many low-return projects. So, has accelerated tax depreciation been a boon to investment? Not at all. As the C. D. Howe Institute has shown, business investment has declined over the past 10 years. Investment in machinery and equipment, which benefited most from the 2018 tax preferences, has fallen by 10 percentage points. True, depreciation incentives may have kept investment from falling even further. But other factors are preventing them from causing actual investment gains. Those factors are not hard to guess: regulations, carbon policies and the Trump tax reform (which permanently cut the U.S. corporate tax rate from 39 to 24 per cent, including state tax rates). If companies aren’t investing much in Canada, the tax savings from accelerated depreciation are slight and mainly benefit marginally profitable investments. By contrast, reductions in corporate tax rates would apply to all industries and provide greater benefits to profitable investments. Rate reductions in this country did boost investment in the century’s first decade, while in the U.S. they have supported stronger investment performance than here or in the EU since 2018. Have manufacturing tax incentives worked over the decades? In this country, manufacturing value-added fell from 17 per cent of GDP in 2000 to nine per cent in 2021. Manufacturing employment is down from 20 per cent of total employment in 1972 to nine per cent in 2022. Other industrialized economies have experienced similar trends as manufacturing has shifted to low-wage countries, including China. Instead, their growth has taken place in the service sector. Marshall Cohen and Michael Wilson had it right. Targeted tax incentives won’t build Canada. What will is improving productivity by getting the government out of the market’s way. Don’t expect a big investment boost from the budget’s tax measures."
Clearly, we need even more regulation to fix this
This doesn't stop environmentalists claiming that oil and gas is "subsidized" when it really is hit harder than other industries

Thread by @ExnerPirot on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "If you want to understand why Canada's west coast ports have become uncompetitive, read and weep the decision statement by then-Minister Guilbeault that approved the Roberts Bank Terminal 2 with *370* conditions after a 10 year review assessment process. iaac-aeic.gc.ca/050/documents/…
Expansion of Canada's most important port subject to 54 pages of environmental hoops. Don't tell me this was a judicious amount. Don't argue that it wasn't excessive."
Peter McCaffrey on X - "In Canada, to export products, you need 10 years of applications and reviews, after which you may or may not get approval (depending on how a politician is feeling) and even if you do, it will be conditional. In the US, you can just start shipping today. Which would you choose?"

Kirk Lubimov on X - "I don't understand how our politicians have such disconnect between what could be and results. Minister of Finance François-Philippe Champagne: "Bragging, Canada was the first country in the world to have an AI national strategy and Canada was the first country to have a Quantum national strategy." And yet we are not in the top 10 in either field, with single American companies have more capital invested than our whole sector worth, and some of the leading companies we did have left for the US. Bureaucrats need to understand that what requires to develop a PowerPoint presentation and industries are very different."
Left wingers always conflate output and outcomes. Which is one reason why their solution is always to spend more money

Dr. Leslyn Lewis on X - "The Canada Infrastructure Bank spent only $4 million on actual projects last year, yet paid $38 million in salaries and almost $9 million in bonuses. Meanwhile, they project $204 million in credit losses. That's almost a quarter billion tax dollars lost. The CIB's own numbers show that for every dollar taxpayers put in, they get about a penny of value back. Despite these facts, the Liberals are pouring another $10 billion into their losing bank. This government shows how out-of-touch it is, tossing billions into failing programs like it's pocket change, while hard-working Canadians line up at food banks just to afford the basics."
Clearly, they need to spend even more money

Don't Tread on Me vs He Should Have Complied

I saw left wingers claiming that "don't tread on me" is in opposition to "he should have complied [with the police]" and alleging right wing hypocrisy, presumably referring to the death of Renee Nicole Good when she tried to run an ICE agent over with her car.

This is not the first time I've seen left wingers making this specious comparison, and left wingers as usual have trouble understanding things outside of their worldview (their much vaunted "empathy" notwithstanding). So I will do a deep dive here:

"Don't tread on me" is a slogan that comes from the Gadsden flag (the one with a snake) and was attested to as early as 1775.

Looking at it in the context of the American Revolutionary War and the rhetoric surrounding it, it can be understood in terms of resistance to government tyranny, by which we can understand governments doing things that they should not be doing and being "oppressive, harsh, or unjust".

This is not the same as anarchy, or thinking that states and their representatives are illegitimate. There is no hypocrisy in touting "Don't tread on me" as a principle, while at the same time believing that government has a legitimate (non-tyrannical) role.

"Don't tread on me" was later taken up as a slogan by libertarians, but even libertarians believe in a role for the state (anarchists who claim to be libertarian because it sounds nicer notwithstanding).

And if you believe that the state is legitimate, it is not surprising, hypocritical or unbelievable that you would think that the police are too. For example, Trevor Miles of the Libertarian Party of North Carolina, in Policing in America - A Libertarian Perspective, does not call for the police to be abolished, and even minarchists, who as the name suggests are almost anarchists, believe that there should be police.

So if the police are legitimate, it is not "tyranny" to follow their instructions, and one can believe in "don't tread on me" while at the same time believing that one should follow police instructions.

However, more than that, when people say "he should have complied", they are not saying you should do everything the police tell you to do, no matter how ridiculous.

I asked Google Gemini "what are some cases where conservatives say someone "should have complied" with the police", and it gave me the following examples:

George Floyd
Michael Brown
Adam Toledo
Dexter Reed

It also gave me Ashli Babbitt, but she is not relevant when left wingers accuse right wingers of hypocrisy over "don't tread on me".

We can also add Renee Nicole Good, since it is the current case attracting the claims of hypocrisy.

Let us look at what "he should have complied" means in each of these examples.

George Floyd - Floyd "actively resisted being handcuffed" at first, and struggled when the police tried to put him in the car
Michael Brown - eyewitnesses, including some who did not want to be named because they feared for their safety, said that he attacked the police officer before being shot
Adam Toledo - he was seen with what looked like a firearm in his hand. His body was also found with a gun nearby. These 2 points are clear from the camera footage. According to the police, he also fled from them, was holding his waistband, did not follow verbal direction, gave imminent threat of battery with weapon and used force likely to cause death or great bodily harm.
Dexter Reed - he was killed in a firefight with police officers after a traffic stop where he started shooting first.
Renee Nicole Good - shot by an ICE officer because she tried to run him over with her vehicle. Here, complying means she shouldn't have tried to kill the ICE officer.

So we can see that in most (80%) of these cases, when right wingers say "he should have complied", what this means is "if you don't try to attack or kill the police, they won't do the same to you".

And in the remaining case, George Floyd, he was resisting arrest. In all 50 US States (including Minnesota), resisting arrest is a crime.

Perhaps one might think that the police are in the wrong in some scenarios, but "don't tread on me" does not mean that one is justified in attacking the police (or resisting arrest). The American way is to sue them afterwards, and complying in the heat of the moment to reduce the chances of being a target of police violence (and also not attract additional charges) does not mean that one is letting others tread on oneself.

So in conclusion, "It's amazing how much leftist discourse is just them pretending not to understand things, thus making discourse impossible."

Links - 10th January 2026 (1 - Migrants: USA - Somalia)

Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 on X - "Mehdi Hasan’s response to undeniable systematic fraud committed by the Somali community in Minnesota: Here are a bunch of white people who committed fraud too, therefore you should ignore Somali fraud."
Lauren Chen on X - ""Why are you focused on Somali fraud? White Americans commit fraud too!"   This is such an idiotic question, I honestly struggle to accept that anyone could actually be asking it sincerely.  However, since Tim Walz also tried it, for argument's sake, I'll answer genuinely.  First off, let's talk about proportionality. It was recently reported that Somalis account for almost 90% of people charged with fraud in Minnesota, a place where they make up merely 2% of the population.  Think about that for a second.  That is such a cartoonish level of overrepresentation, even the most ardent racists and xenophobes would likely not have guessed that fraud in Minnesota could be so, so concentrated among such a tiny portion of the population.  Yes, white people commit fraud, too. But clearly not nearly as often as Somalis.  Practically speaking, the reason this frequency or proportionality matters (those controversial "per capita" stats!) is because of law enforcement and resource allocation.  Imagine a city has 100 residents and 1 police officer. This officer is tasked with reducing fraud. Because this police officer is a good liberal, he monitors and investigates all residents equally. 100% colorblind policing.   After a while, however, the officer begins to notice a pattern. It seems like 90% of the city's fraud is coming from 2 particular residents...  Now, should the police officer ignore this fact and continue to spend his time equally monitoring all residents, since, after all, other residents commit fraud, too? Or should he crack down on those 2 particular residents, and in doing so, reduce the city's fraud by 90%?  If you are not a leftist, or retarded, the answer is painfully obvious. This brings us to the second reason why there's such a focus on Somali fraud: It was a choice to bring them here.  Yes, white Americans commit fraud, and they should be stopped. But they were born here. Their ability to defraud American taxpayers is not something the system itself facilitated. The same cannot be said for Somalis.  Unlike with white Americans, the presence and crimes of Somali fraudsters is something that could have been prevented entirely by revising illegal immigration and asylum policies. Put simply, you don't get Somalis defrauding Minnesotans if you don't import Somalis.  The sky-high enrolment rate of Somalis in welfare programs also provides further reason to single the group out for their crimes. Not only did America make the choice to bring these people over, they're also providing them with generous benefits... just so the Somalis can then turn around and steal taxpayer dollars?  Mehdi Hasan and Tim Walz need to understand that no one is claiming *only* Somalis commit fraud. It's just that Somalis commit the most and most easily preventable fraud. Crying "but mUh WhItE PeoPle!" does nothing to change that fact."

Meme - "IF YOU BELIEVE THE STATE WITH THE LARGEST SOMALI POPULATION ACCIDENTALLY CHANGED THEIR FLAG TO LOOK JUST LIKE THE SOMALI FLAG YOU PROBLY SHOULDN'T BE ALLOWED TO VOTE"

Meme - Greg Price @greg_price11: "The Associated Press filmed a "science" wall with a bunch of random stock photos on it and said to themselves "Yep. Looks like a totally legit daycare to me""
Chris I Realtor I Property Manager: "Looky what grok found"
"Families Poster Pack $29.99"

Trump claims Minnesota lost billions to fraud. The evidence to date isn’t close (Dec 11)
Half of $18B in federal funds for Minnesota-run programs may have been defrauded, official says (aka "Prosecutor says 14 Minnesota programs are targeted for fraud and the state is swamped with crime") (Dec 18)

MatrixMysteries on X - "“Minneapolis paid a Somalian restaurant $12 MILLION in federal child meal funds after it claimed to feed 4,000–6,000 kids a day.” The FBI watched the restaurant for 6 WEEKS. An average of 40 people showed up. If fraud this obvious still gets approved, corruption is NORMALIZED."

C3 on X - "Unreal… 3 Somali Daycares in 1 photo. Tayo Daycare, Nuna Childcare Center and Gedi Adult Daycare. Licensed for 90 kids, 71 kids and 65 adults. Tayo: $5.16 million in 2 years. Nuna: $2.58 million in 2 years. Boarded up but listed as active. The fraud is staggering."

Libs of TikTok on X - "🚨But wait it gets MUCH worse Somalia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs’ business partner in his healthcare company is Abdul J Surey. It appears to be the same Abdul who works for a Somali money transfer who are accused of financing islamic t*rrorism. Nothing to see here…"
Libs of TikTok on X - "Omg Somalia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs who owns a healthcare company in Ohio receiving tax dollars, also owns another LLC with the SAME ADDRESS as the somali money transfer org accused of funding t*rrorism. His business partner appears to work for the money transfer org too. This just keeps getting worse and worse"

Eric Daugherty on X - "🚨 HOLY SMOKES. The Somalis have registered 60 "HEALTHCARE" businesses in one single dilapidated "warehouse" building. Let me repeat, sixty healthcare businesses in one freaking building It's so blatant it's CRIMINAL this was allowed to go on. HANDCUFFS."

Eric Daugherty on X - "🚨 HOLY SMOKES. The Democrat Governor of Maine gave state contracts to a Somali NGO that REGISTERED MIGRANTS TO VOTE in the 2022 election...  ...that Somali NGO has been caught committing Medicaid fraud.  WOW. 🤯  "Janet Mills, when she was forming the Office of New Americans as a migrant resettlement agency for the state of Maine, picked a woman named Eklis Ahmed, who is a former employee of Gateway Community Services."  "Gateway received many no-bid contracts from the Mills administration for the purposes of doing community health outreach work, which involved registering migrants to vote in the 2022 election."  "So this is not just any run-of-the-mill organization that was fraudulently billing Medicaid, allegedly. It's one that was very, very well tied and connected to the Maine Democratic Party and remains tied to the Democratic Party." - Steve Robinson, Editor-in-Chief of the Maine Wire  "It's not just a Somali Medicaid fraud, it's a Somali Democrat Medicaid fraud, because this is an organization with elaborate and extensive ties to the Maine Democratic Party, including Governor Janet Mills and her administration."  This is seismic.  It's not just Minnesota. It is everywhere."

MAGA Storm on X - "🚨 BREAKING: A MASSIVE new scam just blew open in Minnesota
Regular single-family homes are being rebranded as “assisted living facilities” to drain taxpayer money. And the numbers are insane. Here’s what investigators found 👇
• Assisted living programs in Minnesota are growing 2× faster than other state programs
• Payments are exploding at 10–15× the rate of everything else
• Shell companies are being used to set up many of these locations
• New “facilities” are popping up all over Minnesota cities
• A shocking number are tied to known money-laundering scammers
One of these places looks like an average house on a quiet street. But on paper, it bills itself as an assisted living facility. And it’s pulling in huge taxpayer dollars.  Now look at these numbers 🤯
• Minneapolis (pop. ~425,000): 169 facilities
• St. Paul (pop. ~307,000): 83 facilities
• Brooklyn Center (pop. ~30,000): 106 facilities
• Brooklyn Park (pop. ~84,000): 181 facilities
Yes… more than Minneapolis, a city FIVE TIMES larger.
And it gets worse.  One of these “assisted living” operations is owned by a man indicted for laundering $1 MILLION in the Feeding Our Future scandal.
These facilities pulled in $2.3 MILLION in state money last year alone. According to Minnesota Reformer, that same individual has received $49 MILLION since 2016. This isn’t a coincidence. This isn’t mismanagement.  This is a system being exploited on purpose.  How much longer are taxpayers supposed to fund this? 👀"
RBe on X - "These "assisted living facilities" are just homes where an old person lives.  They set up a company and say it's an assisted living home. And then other people claim to work there which makes them eligible for welfare to pay for daycare. But it's just people taking care of their own families.  It's an entire ecosystem of welfare fraud."

Meme - "White House ballroom. news networks *shocked and alarmed*
Massive scale fraud. news networks *sleeping*"

‘Hundreds’ had ties to Feeding Our Future. Many will not face charges.
eigenrobot on X - "its not just that somalis are politically protected; a second issue is that crime committed en masse is difficult to prosecute in a state with any commitment to fair trials and so on. either way a civilized society doesnt survive this, really"
Brother Lunk on X - "This is one among many reasons libwonk journos looked like such morons (I repeat myself) denoooncing Bukele for rounding up the gangs en masse, as if extending full procedural due process to every single member of what is essentially a hostile enemy force operating with impunity in your country would’ve been remotely possible or desirable.  The actual result of what they wanted would’ve been that the gangs simply adapted and continued operating, as they always had before. Lesson in that"

Mike Stauner #FireFickell on X - "CNN: "Hi this is CNN are you committing fraud?"
(Potentially) fraudulent daycare: "no, we are a legitimate business"
CNN: "see? That settles it! One of the 7 businesses we called told us over the phone they're not committing fraud!"
You really cannot make this shit up lmfao"

CNN - "Who gave this random YouTuber a license to go around and check for fraud?" : r/libsofreddit - "She said the quiet part out loud. Random YouTubers are the only ones it seems we have left to do what these “journalists” won’t."
"That’s why she is irritated by it. They are loose cannons since they aren’t “credentialed” journalists toeing the party line."
Plus, left wing logic is that if stopping fraud means that even 1 cent of money doesn't go to taking care of children, that's evil and shows you're a terrible person and a hypocrite who claims to care about children but doesn't (we saw this logic in all the rage about USAID too)

Cernovich on X - "Daycares, by law, are supposed to keep detailed paper trails. Sign in and sing out. Head counts. Would take half an hour to debunk Nick Shirley’s reporting. You’d show the paperwork to CBS or NPR and then the ring camera footage. Notice this hasn’t been done. For that reason." <

br>Andrew Follett on X - "Non-parents have NO IDEA the number of forms, cameras, and allergy lists going back decades that come with daycare. If @nickshirleyy was wrong, thered be a MOUNTAIN of paperwork proving it and NPR would publish it in 30 seconds. Instead, they're shoot

ing the messenger."

Dustin Grage on X - "Nobody has sued @nickshirleyy yet for the same reason Ilhan Omar hasn’t sued anyone over the claims she married her brother. Because discovery exists."
Nick shirley on X - "They can’t because they would then have to prove they are legit businesses and they are not. HHS froze all funding and gave all businesses the opportunity to receive their funding IF they can prove they are legit businesses NOT ONE business has submitted. If children needed  to be fed and cared for how quickly would you submit proof to receive your funding? Immediately.   If we all leared one thing from the video, it showed how a non-controversial topic like stopping fraud can be become controversial from the fraudsters and people who want to see America fail.   I am now convinced the enemy really is within and they want America to fail."

The Associated Press on X - "The director of ABC Learning Center says the viral video alleging fraud by influencer Nick Shirley is part of a political campaign against Somali Minnesotans."
Daniel Friedman on X - "I see a guy who can barely speak English in a shabby facility babysitting a few kids. Even if you assume there are kids present every day and the Somali community hasn’t been bringing kids to show the media since this story broke, the millions in subsidies each of these facilities receives are unjustifiable and outrageous."

@amuse on X - "SOMALI FRAUD: Minnesota's licensed Somali daycare system is rife with fraud, but the state's biggest secret is the size and scope of the state's unlicensed daycare system. Somali families can earn $7,000 or more each month babysitting up to eight of their neighbor's children. While they are doing this their neighbor's can get paid by CCAP to babysit their children. While the state publishes data on licensed Somali daycare providers it keeps the unlicensed numbers secret. Why?"

Cam Higby 🇺🇸 on X - "🚨 Roughly 80% of all publicly disclosed Washington campaign donations made in 2025 by people with “childcare” listed as occupation went to Somali Port of Seattle Comissioner Hamdi Mohamed."

Ian Miller on X - "Scott Jennings: Tim Walz is calling efforts to investigate fraud “white supremacy”
CNN panel: *Explodes* “No he has not said that”
Video of Tim Walz saying efforts to investigate fraud are akin to white supremacy"

Breaking911 on X - "Tim Waltz calls fraud investigation” white supremacy”"
Melissa Chen on X - "They tried to claim the same thing when all the BLM fraud was revealed. Also remember when you started speaking up about Covid origins coming from the Wuhan lab, they accused you of blatant anti-Chinese racism and xenophobia? In the UK,  it was racist to investigate or acknowledge the grooming gangs.   It’s all part of the same playbook.   That’s how you know all this woke nonsense is a ruse to make it impossible to scrutinize bad or illegal behavior from minorities while the white folks who serve the ideology get to hoard power for themselves"

Jonatan Pallesen on X - "The Minnesota Somali fraud has similar attributes to the Pakistani child rape gangs in the UK.  They both could only occur on such a scale because there is an ethnic enclave that has strong internal loyalty and little sense of moral obligation about not exploiting the majority population.  I could not go to a number of acquaintances and have them help run my fraudulent daycare or start another one with me. The risk that at least one of those involved or informed would alert the authorities would be far too high.  But Somalis could always trust other Somalis not to turn them in, and plausibly also have an interest in participating in the fraud themselves.  It is very risky to have such clannish sub-populations within your societies. If you insist on having these, you must also do the necessary work and be radically more vigilant."

Reddit Lies on X - "Virtually every headline mentioning the Minnesota Somali fraud has 0 upvotes on r/politics. Redditors are literally preventing eachother from seeing one of the largest fraud cases in US history. They're allergic to truth."

Minnesota Somali-run day care bizarrely says all their important documents about child care were stolen in mysterious break-in - "A Somali-run day care in Minneapolis is claiming somebody broke in and stole “important documents,” but cops say the facility didn’t report anything was actually taken.   The alleged burglary comes as the national spotlight shines on the unfolding multibillion-dollar fraud scandal involving Minnesota human services, with particular scrutiny on day care facilities run by Somali immigrants after dozens of people from the community have been busted for pilfering state funds.  Nasrulah Mohamed, manager of Nakomis Day Care Center, told reporters that a suspect entered through the kitchen at the rear of the facility, damaging a wall and breaking into the building’s office, sometime on Tuesday...   At least $1 billion in fraud has been uncovered by authorities in Minneapolis so far, including fraudulent food, housing and child care payments, with warnings from the US Attorney’s Office that the true figure could be as high as $9 billion.  Ninety-two people have been arrested in connection with the scheme, 80 of whom are Somali immigrants... the US Department of Health and Human Services announced it was freezing all child care payments to Minnesota — which totaled $185 million in 2025 alone — unless proof is provided that the payments are legitimate.  In response, embattled Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, who has faced growing criticism for standing idly by as a billion dollars or more taxpayer funds disappeared to fraudsters on his watch, blamed the Trump administration in a social media post.  “This is Trump’s long game”...   “We’ve spent years cracking down on fraudsters. It’s a serious issue – but this has been his plan all along. He’s politicizing the issue to defund programs that help Minnesotans.” The Post visited several of the day cares Shirley spotlighted in his video, including Quality “Learing” Center, which was suspiciously bustling with children despite the state Department of children, Youth, and Families (DCYF) saying it had shuttered last week. DCYF later issued a puzzling correction that the “Learing” center had initially said it was closing, but later said it was staying open."
Apparently Trump instigated the fraud so he could defund programs that help those in Minnesota. How cunning.
I still see some left wingers claiming that most of the fraud is committed by white people, while others claim that it's a nothingburger and blaming right wingers for talking about it

Meme - "INSIDE JOB
How can someone breaking in from the outside be able to cut lower on the inside than the bricks that are on the outside?"

Mickey Kaus on X - "Minnesota Democrats won the "trifecta" in 2022 and basically enacted the entire Biden Dem agenda--family and medical leave, child tax credits, gun restrictions and lots more. @EJDionne was ecstatic. ("Momentous.) I made a mental note to come back in a few years and see if Minnesota was actually a better place to live due to this "avalanche of progressive legislation." I think we're beginning to get the answer ..."
Time to blame Trump and Republicans for the failure of the left wing agenda

Nate Silver on X - "Like seriously, Walz's statement is all about how mean Republicans are and says stuff like "we will fight back every step of the way", but then he announces he's quitting his re-election bid!"
Kostas Moros on X - "This is about a big a sign as you're going to get that Walz knows this fraud scandal is very real, and there's evidence his team knew about it for a while.   Otherwise, he'd react with fury upon news of it breaking and stay in the race to clear his own name too. Instead, he meekly plays it down, then quits."

Collin Rugg on X - "JUST IN: Reporters audibly furious after Governor Tim Walz abruptly ends and bolts from his press conference after announcing he was dropping out of the 2026 race.
Reporter 1: "Are you s... wait what??"
Reporter 2: "Wow! Alright."
Reporter 3: "I thought you said you were going to take questions? Why didn't you?""

Nick Field on X - "A real showcase of how weak Democratic communications infrastructure is right now, as the party just watches their 2024 VP nominee and Governor of Minnesota get railroaded out of his race by a conservative media campaign"
Wesley Yang on X - "You see, allowing a multi-billion dollar fraud to go on for more than a decade with impunity is a “communications issue” if the media apparatus isn’t able to prevent the right from letting people know about it"
Henry Ballvings on X - "this is the same dumbass playbook that gave us Kamala and Joe in the first place: a complicit media that pretended those two weren't total turbostupid waterheaded imbeciles. Don't say it out loud, people might notice, and that's bad. Not the crime or the incompetence: saying it"

Audrey Fahlberg on X - "National Review's @jimgeraghty  writing on Tim Walz on..July 29, 2024!  "The dirty, not-so-little not-so-secret about Walz is that he’s not a good manager. On his watch, the Minnesota government has endured one embarrassing scandal after another entailing mismanagement, fraud, waste, and abuse.""

❤️‍🔥 Ember Paradox ❤️‍🔥 on X - "So…
>a YouTuber exposes MASSIVE levels of fraud and potential government corruption in regard to Somali-run daycare and medical care centers.
>there is desperate pushback from the Left AND the government that is full of abject lies along with complete gaslighting.
>Tim Walz himself makes the statement that investigating this very probable fraud would be akin to “white supremacy”.
>the glorious Internet Autists come out of nowhere and start absolutely dunking on Walz and all of the SJA activists teeing against claims of fraud while ALSO publicly admitting to fraud existing in press conferences and becoming horrified when they realized they’d just admitted it.
>Calling suspected fraudulent daycare center phone numbers reveals the calls are routed directly to the office of Governor Tim Walz.
>Tim Walz now claims he will no longer be seeking re-electing to “focus on work”, I.e desperately trying to put together his golden parachute while also scrambling for his escape hatch.
Yeah, you’re fooling NO ONE Tim. Gonna be a laugh riot when the @FBI comes knocking at your door."
Sadly, he's fooling credulous left wingers

Overton on X - "CNN was just forced to explain on air why Governor Tim Walz dropped out of the Minnesota governor’s race.  And their viewers are not going to like what they heard...especially when they admitted:  “This comes as pressure has been growing around this widening welfare fraud scandal.”  This was the same story they tried to avoid covering at all costs.  CNN: “Big breaking political news out of Minnesota.”  “Governor Tim Walz, who, of course, was the Democratic nominee for vice president in 2024, has ended his reelection bid for governor.”  “He is not going to run for reelection.”  “This comes as pressure has been growing around this widening welfare fraud scandal. Now, Walz has not been accused of any wrongdoing, but it has been a growing political headache.”  “Over the holidays, it certainly did widen.”   “There was a right wing influencer who posted a viral video on social media that quite literally went viral when the vice president of the United States and the FBI director leaned in on this.”  “And it shined a spotlight on what had been some deep concerns among Minnesota Democrats, even about the wisdom of Governor Walz seeking a third term.”  “They believe that this would hang over the entire reelection effort and perhaps even damage the Democratic Party.”"
Hans Mahncke on X - "“There was a right wing influencer who posted a viral video on social media that quite literally went viral when the vice president of the United States and the FBI director leaned in on this.”  This is false. The video did not “go viral” because the Vice President or the FBI director leaned in. It went viral first, through massive grassroots sharing by tens of millions of people. Reversing that sequence is the media’s usual modus operandi. They invert reality and strip agency from the public, as if millions of viewers were merely passive props in some top-down orchestration by JD and Kash."

Tim Walz abruptly drops out of Minnesota governor's race as Somali fraud scandal gains momentum : r/NewsWorthPayingFor - "Yeah thanks bud. I remember you preaching for us to fight fight fight like last week. Whatever."

Exclusive | Ilhan Omar's hubby's $30M firm quietly scrubs names from website — as 'Squad' member faces mounting questions on sudden wealth amid Minnesota welfare fraud - "Embattled Rep. Ilhan Omar’s husband’s venture capital firm quietly scrubbed key officer details — including former Obama officials — as scrutiny grows over the family’s skyrocketing wealth... Omar (D-Minn.) went from nearly broke to being worth up to $30 million in just a year — as a massive, up to $9 billion fraud scheme involving the Somali community in her district unfolded right under her nose in the North Star State. Close to 90 people have been charged so far, including at least three with direct ties to the lefty “Squad” member, though she has not been accused of wrongdoing. It was Somalia-born Omar — who was seen in a resurfaced video last month dishing out food in a restaurant now at the heart of the scandal — who introduced the legislation that critics say paved the way for what the feds have called the largest fraud of the pandemic. The Jimmy Choo-wearing socialist introduced the MEALS Act in Congress in 2020, relaxing oversight of government-sponsored children’s meal programs during the pandemic, which critics say allowed fraudsters to claim they served millions of meals without verification, while pocketing millions of dollars in government subsidies. Shortly after the scheme played out, Omar’s husband, political consultant Tim Mynett, launched Rose Lake Capital, a venture capital management firm, in 2022. The company saw its reported value go from nearly zero in 2023 to between $5 million and $25 million in just a year, and touted its officers’ $60 billion in “previous” assets under management — an amount many Wall Street money managers only dream of. “There’s a lot of strange things going on,” said Paul Kamenar, counsel to the National Legal and Policy Center. “She was basically broke when she came into office and now she’s worth perhaps up to $30 million … she needs to come clean on these assets.” Rose Lake Capital, which touts its “deep global networks built from on-the-ground work in more than 80 countries,” had less than $1,000 in assets in 2023, according to Omar’s financial disclosure. Yet despite the reported windfall, the business’s only address is a WeWork in DC, according to its LinkedIn page. Between September and October — when federal prosecutors announced charges against eight more individuals, including six of Somali descent, for their roles in the welfare scheme — the names and bios of Rose Lake Capital’s nine officers and advisers were removed from the website. None of them were charged in the fraud. These names include lobbyist and former Obama Ambassador to Bahrain Adam Ereli; former Senator and Obama Ambassador to China Max Baucus; DNC Finance Chair associate Alex Hoffman; former DNC treasurer William Derrough; and former ex-CEO of Amalgamated Bank Keith Mestrich, who once described Amalgamated as “the institutional bank of the Democratic Party.” Meanwhile, Mynett’s other business, a California winery that previously faced fraud allegations and was declared a failed venture in 2023, was suddenly worth between $1 million and $5 million in 2024 — a windfall of 9,900%. The fraud case involved a wine investor suing Mynett in October 2023, accusing him of swindling him out of $900,000 as he “fraudulently misrepresented … that estCru, LLC was a legitimate company.” Mynett claimed he simply struggled to build a business during the pandemic. The case settled out of court in November. The winery, eStCru, at some point around 2022 promoted a line of wines with names like “Blockchain” and “The Devil’s Lie,” with a prestigious California winemaker saying she abruptly stopped getting paid in early 2023. The business was only worth between $15,000 and $50,000 in Omar’s financial disclosure that year, making the sudden windfall the next year even more puzzling. It too is listed as operating out of a WeWork, and doesn’t appear to actually sell any wines anymore, according to extensive internet searches. Despite the high worth placed on the business, its website is a broken link, the phone number is disconnected and the last social media post for the winery dates back to 2023. “While working families were being ripped off by a massive welfare scam, Omar’s campaign took money from convicted fraudsters, her husband launched a firm that suddenly ballooned in value, and [Minnesota Gov.] Tim Walz looked the other way,” according to Kiersten Pels, spokesperson for the Republican National Committee. When she first took office in 2019, the left-wing “Squad” member declared a net worth between negative $25,000 and negative $65,000, claimed to own no assets and be only carrying student and car debt. Now Omar’s assets have suddenly skyrocketed to anywhere between $6 million and $30 million, according to her latest financial disclosure — just months after the congresswoman dismissed claims that she was a millionaire as “ridiculous” and “categorically false.”... Her campaign received $7,400 in direct donations from at least three now-convicted fraudsters, though the “Squad” member insisted she returned the donations after the scandal broke. She’s been closely linked to at least two individuals from Minnesota’s Somalian community who’ve been charged in the fraud. One is Salim Ahmed Said, the co-owner of Minneapolis’ Safari Restaurant, where Omar held her 2018 congressional victory party. Said was found guilty in August of stealing more than $12 million for serving 3.9 million “phantom” meals during the COVID-19 pandemic, blowing much of the money on a $2 million Minneapolis mansion and a $9,000-a-month shopping habit at Nordstrom, according to prosecutors... As the scam was underway in 2020, Omar even appeared on video at Safari Restaurant to praise the program. “Every day Safari provides 2,300 meals to children and their families,” she boasted in Somali in the video, while being filmed handling trays of food in a parking lot with her pandemic-era facemask pulled down below her nose. The other individual, Guhaad Hashi Said, worked on Omar’s campaign in 2018 and 2020, and pleaded guilty in August to running a fake food site called Advance Youth Athletic Development, where he falsely claimed to serve 5,000 meals a day and pocketed $3.2 million out of the food program."

The Other 98% | Facebook - "Tim Walz’s decision not to seek reelection hits like a gut punch for anyone who still believes decency should mean something in politics. The Minnesota governor, long respected for his integrity and steady leadership, is stepping away amid a storm of right wing accusations about fraud in state programs that never showed he personally stole a dime. But truth hardly matters anymore in a landscape where outrage is the currency and cruelty is the message.​ His family has borne the worst of it. Walz and his daughter Hope have described people driving past their home screaming slurs, including the R word, after Donald Trump hurled it at him, and Hope says the death threats and harassment finally pushed her off social media for her own safety. His son Gus, who has a nonverbal learning disorder, has been dragged into the same ugly pile on, proof that the mob going after them is not just angry but deeply dehumanizing.​ It is a rotten reflection of what America’s politics has become: a good man hounded by bullies who thrive on chaos and cruelty, while the rest of us are supposed to pretend this is normal. Walz has been floated as a possible 2028 presidential contender, and if he does jump into that race, I’d say he looks a hell of a lot better than what we have now."
So much cope, including in the comments

Takeaways from the House Oversight hearing on Minnesota fraud allegations - "Wednesday’s hearing featured ardent testimony from three Republican members of the Minnesota House of Representatives who, the chairman of the Oversight Committee says, “sounded the alarm” on the fraud years ago: Kristin Robbins, Walter Hudson and Marion Rarick. Hudson testified he had no doubt “whatsoever” that Democratic Gov. Tim Walz knew about the fraud as it occurred. Robbins, who chairs her state’s fraud prevention committee, said credible reports of child care fraud started surfacing in 2011, and Walz knew about it “from the very beginning.” “The Tim Walz administration has utterly failed to protect Minnesota taxpayers and vulnerable citizens, ignoring years of credible reports,” Robbins said in her opening statement. Walz was sworn in as governor in 2019. Hudson said he believed Walz ignored concerns of fraud in part because Somali Americans were a significant piece of the Democratic voting base in Minnesota. “A culture suppressing raising those concerns was fostered by the Walz administration,” he said. Rarick said if Walz was serious about addressing fraud, he would have done so when he first took office... “Tim Walz and the Democrats have repeatedly protected their political base at the expense of all Minnesotans,” Robbins said. Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado, while questioning witness and former federal prosecutor Brendan Ballou, asked whether the Biden administration covered up the fraud in Minnesota for political reasons... Republican Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio called the racism allegations a “template.” “You see this all the time,” the congressman said. “The left will tell the lie, the media will report the lie or not report when the truth comes out, and then when you tell the truth, they call you a racist.”... Many Democratic members raised similar concerns of xenophobia and racism throughout the hearing, with one member calling the hearing itself, by its nature, racist... Democratic Rep. Summer Lee and Comer also engaged in a heated spar after Lee accused Republicans of “cherry-picking” a Democratic-led state and making efforts to “demonize” the vulnerable Somali community over fraud that is also happening in other states."
Whataboutism is only wrong when it hurts the left wing agenda
"You should not investigate fraud when there is plenty of evidence of it but should look for fraud elsewhere instead, especially if the fraud is by a politically-favored group". Amazing logic.

Meme - AG @AGHamilton29: "If you want to read the details of this particular defendant’s case… She stole $5.7 million. The Minnesota government gave her an award."
AG @AGHamilton29: "If you want to understand how bad the fraud was in Minnesota, here is a picture of Tim Walz giving an award to one of the convicted Feeding Our Future fraudsters for her fraudulent businesses."
"Congratulations to our founder Ayan Abukar! Ayan received the Outstanding Refugee Award from the Minnesota Department of Human Services for her contributions to our state in entrepreneurship."

Meme - "Walter Curt @wcdispatch This is the listed location of the auditing firm that performed the audits for both the Minnesota and Ohio on the NGOs we have linked to potential fraud. You cannot make this stuff up."
"Jubba Value Center *convenience store*"

Links - 9th January 2026 (2 - Migrants: US - Renee Nicole Good)

Nick Sortor on X - "🚨 BREAKING: Video shows the moment a woman tried to RUN OVER ICE agents with her vehicle in Minneapolis, resulting in her being SHOT Tim Walz calling ICE the “GESTAPO” is EXACTLY WHY this stuff happens. SHAME on Walz and Mayor Frey."

Woman is shot dead by ICE after 'trying to run officers over in act of domestic terrorism' in Minneapolis : r/NewsWorthPayingFor - "Sad, but a clear case of FAFO.  You can watch videos of the incident from several angles. I, uhh, don't necessarily endorse the views of those who posted the videos.  https://x.com/nicksortor/status/2008962609769533872  https://x.com/Morblius/status/2008966460652310595  https://x.com/GaysForTrump/status/2008966816769691922  UPDATE with SLO-MO. She is clearly accelerating before the officer draws his gun.  https://x.com/PatriotForgeUSA/status/2008977846715163001  She threw her vehicle into forward gear and tried to run over the officer who had positioned himself in front of the vehicle.  UPDATE: The shot driver has been named.  https://x.com/aaron_magro/status/2009025673084748161"
Hilarious. Left wingers radicalize people then when they become domestic terrorists, they blame the government.
Left wingers are demanding the agent's name and calling for lynch mobs. And they still pretend there's no reason for them to cover their faces. ICE should just say they wear masks because of covid
The video is clear but of course people see what they want to see

Lauren Witzke on X - "If she successfully ran over the ICE Agent (like she was trying to do) they would all be celebrating his death. Remember that."

Cernovich on X - "Charlie Kirk’s children didn’t get to spend Christmas with their father. The same people who attacked ICE today celebrated his death. Don’t try using fake moralizing over here. Theo Von and other stoner losers are a better crowd for that nonsense."

Harrison Krank on X - "Guys guys guys, Everybody calm down, She was only trying to run over ice agents, it’s not like she was doing something crazy like speaking freely on a Utah college campus."

Mediaite on X - "JD Vance Calls Woman Fatally Shot by ICE Agent a 'Deranged Leftist'"
Kurt Schlichter on X - "I think we should call things what they are.  She was a leftist. She thought it was a good idea to leave her children, whose father recently died, to go to another state and personally physically confront armed federal agents in order to prevent protect Somali fraudsters.  She’s a deranged leftist. He was right to call her a deranged leftist.  If you don’t want to be called a deranged leftist, don’t be deranged and leftist. Again, it’s important to call things by their true name."

Liz Collin on X - "JUST IN: FBI takes over state investigation (BCA) into ICE shooting in Minneapolis *Note: it took BCA agents 6 months to conduct a second search of George Floyd’s car when they recovered pills containing meth and fentanyl"

Exclusive | ICE agent who opened fire on Renee Good was dragged, hospitalized by illegal migrant driver last year - "The ICE agent who opened fire in Minneapolis Wednesday was dragged 100 yards by an illegal migrant in Minnesota last June after his arm was trapped inside the vehicle during a traffic stop, The Post can reveal.  The attack on the officer, whom The Post is not naming, happened June 17 in Bloomington, Minnesota, exactly a month after embattled Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz labeled ICE agents “modern-day Gestapo” while speaking at a University of Minnesota Law School graduation in May.  ICE agents conducted a traffic stop on Roberto Carlos Munoz, a serial illegal immigrant from Guatemala with a lengthy rap sheet with charges including domestic assault and sex crimes against an underage teenager, according to records.  Munoz refused to exit his vehicle when officers approached his car, and the officer broke the back window in order to open the vehicle from the inside.   The suspect then sped away with the ICE agent’s arm caught between the seat and the car frame, according to the Justice Department.  Prosecutors said he was violently dragged more than 100 yards as the suspect weaved back and forth in an attempt to shake him loose from the car.  The agent was hospitalized with “significant injuries to his arm and hand,” requiring 33 stitches, but made a full recovery, DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement at the time. A photo shared by CBS Minnesota showed the agent laid out on a hospital bed displaying his arms, one covered in blood seeping from several deep gashes.  Munoz was arrested and charged with assaulting the officer and was convicted by a federal jury last month... The agent, who has not been publicly identified, fired three shots — killing Renee Nicole Good, 37 — on Wednesday after she drove her car toward him during an altercation on the street.  DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said the officer, a 10-year veteran of the agency, had acted in self defense and was justified in opening fire, and that Good was part of a “mob of agitators” attempting to thwart ICE’s efforts in enforcing President Trump’s immigration crackdown.  Wide-angle footage of the incident appears to show that Good clipped the agent with her car after ignoring orders to exit the vehicle. He quickly jumped out of the way, firing a single shot through the windshield and two additional shots through the open driver’s side window, striking her in the head."

The Associated Press on X - "BREAKING: Minnesota investigators say they can't access evidence after fatal ICE shooting and the FBI won't work jointly on probe. Follow for live updates."
Stephen L. Miller on X - "Yes it was the Minneapolis sheriff who told local law-enforcement not to cooperate with the Feds. So here we are"

Ed Krassenstein on X - "BREAKING: Minnesota investigators are saying that they can't access evidence after fatal ICE shooting of Renee Good, and that the FBI won't work jointly on the investigation.  Why is the federal government seemingly hiding evidence from local authorities?  Meanwhile Former ICE director from 2014 to 2017, Sarah Saldana, just condemned the ICE agents actions yesterday in Minneapolis."
Kurt Schlichter on X - "I thought it was OK not to cooperate with other governmental agencies if you don’t like their agenda. I’m going to need help understanding what the rule is today."

Kurt Schlichter on X - "I kind of expected the shooting of the communist agitator furor to abate more because it’s so damaging to the left. Normal people look at it and start asking questions like “Why did she abandon her kids to go to another state to hassle law-enforcement and ignore their commands then drive at them.”  But the left is in its own echo chamber, where its members are required to ignore both the well established law of self-defense and the indisputable facts established by video. They somehow assume that normal people will do the same thing, but normal people look at this and correctly place the blame on the woman who got herself killed.  You’ll notice most of the more moderate Democrats, to the extent, they exist, are trying to move on. They sense that normal people are not responding in a positive way. But the left neither knows nor cares what normal people think. It is indulging in a festival of political onanism"

Andy Ngo on X - ""I made her come down here, it's my fault!" Rebecca Good, the partner of the anti-ICE activist who was shot dead after accelerating her car toward an ICE agent, revealed that she influenced her partner to participate in the militant direct action to obstruct ICE."
Kurt Schlichter on X - "She shouldn’t give herself all the credit. Her idiot friend deserves a lot blame for getting herself killed."

Chuck Buhr on X - "What is known about Renee Good's death Mpls....
-Repeatedly and intentionally blocking LEO's with your vehicle while they're engaged in an enforcement action is high risk for all concerned.
-Whether she intended to inflict bodily harm or not, accelerating your vehicle in the direction of an LEO is going to risk being shot and killed.
-Democrat leader's were/are aware that their hateful rhetoric would lead to events like this."

Blue Georgia on X - "Ron DeSantis: If a mob comes and surrounds your vehicle and threatens you, you have a right to flee for your safety. If you drive off and you hit one of these people, that's their fault."
Kurt Schlichter on X - "That’s absolutely true. Law-enforcement is not a mob. People who are not retarded can distinguish between different things."
Braeden on X - "This is in response to violent protestors, not ice agents giving you lawful orders"

Steven Nekhaila on X - "This tragedy would not have happened if ICE were not operating on the streets of Minnesota. Federal immigration enforcement has no place conducting street-level actions in local communities.  Non-local law enforcement agencies, especially federal task forces, consistently operate with less community familiarity, weaker accountability, and a more militarized posture than local police. Studies and civil rights reporting have repeatedly shown that such deployments increase the risk of escalation, miscommunication, and unnecessary use of force.  From all available information, this woman was not a criminal. She appears to have been frightened, given conflicting instructions, and killed during a moment of confusion.  Libertarians oppose ICE as an institution. Immigration enforcement should not involve federal paramilitary agencies roaming local streets. This death demands accountability and a serious reconsideration of a system that places armed federal agents into civilian life with predictable and deadly results."
Kurt Schlichter on X - "Counterpoint: The representatives of the American people pass these laws and then elected a president who expressly said he would enforce these laws, so it’s an attack on our democracy to demand that the will of the people, as expressed through elections, be ignored."

David Marcus on X - "Everyone on CNN is refusing to acknowledge that the officer was struck by the car. It’s just lying. I really don’t understand how they can do it. Honestly."

Nicholas Kristof on X - "This review of the videos of the ICE killing of a US citizen in Minnesota suggest that the victim was simply trying to leave and did not endanger anyone. ICE then refused to allow people to provide medical aid to the dying woman. And then the administration lied about it."
Kurt Schlichter on X - "And here's @NickKristof  doing exactly what I said the left was doing - mischaracterizing the law of self-defense (her intent is irrelevant) and ignoring indisputable facts (she struck the agent with her car). But he goes on to assert flat-out lies, like "she was denied medical care." No, the cops did not let some rando activist claiming to be a doctor access to an investigation scene; EMTs were on her quickly and her wounds were fatal regardless. This is the regime media in action - stupid and/or dishonest, but exploiting long-dead credibility of their dying outlets to pursue the Democrat narrative."

Chad Pergram on X - "Dem CA Rep Khanna on MN/ICE: It's deeply disturbing. That ICE officer needs to be arrested and he needs to be put on trial. That was an excessive use of force."
EdAsante on X - "The only people Dems ever want to lock up are Trump and law enforcement officers."

Fox News on X - "DEM GOV. TIM WALZ: "I have a very simple message: We do not need any further help from the federal government."  "To Donald Trump and Kristi Noem: You've done enough."  "I've issued a warning order to prepare the Minnesota National Guard. We have soldiers in training and prepared to be deployed, if necessary."  "Minnesota will not allow our community to be used as a prop in a national political fight. We will not take the bait." | @TheStoryFNC"
Liberty4All on X - "I'm sure this will not be popular on X, but I guarantee that over half of people in Minnesota would prefer that ICE just leave, people stop filming fraud, and everyone just leave the state alone.   Even if it means fraud continues and illegals keep committing violent crimes, they prefer to go back to the no drama days.   That passive "we do not need controversy" type sentiment is probably why the state is being destroyed, but it is absolutely a feature of many Minnesotans."

Curtis Houck on X - "Minnesota Governor Tim Walz floats deploying the National Guard to fortify state schools from ICE, claiming it'd be just like with Ruby Bridges"
Varad Mehta on X - "This is insane. A state deploying the National Guard to thwart the federal government from enforcing federal law is the definition of insurrection."

Libs of TikTok on X - "“It’s time for everyone to start getting guns and shooting these ICE agents” Cc @FBI @DHSgov"

Rapid Response 47 on X - "🚨 SEEN IN MINNEAPOLIS — Left-wing agitators threaten the lives of our immigration officials: “We’re going to fucking find you, and we’re going to fucking kill you! You’re going to fucking die, bitch!” This is directly inspired by Democrat politicians."

Cassandra MacDonald on X - "This woman says shes also been driving around looking to interfere with ICE operations in Charlotte and now shes horrified. Maybe she should stop, then."
Paul on X - "The lefts freakout over this woman is more about them realizing this could be them next for playing these stupid games than it is being upset about the woman who died.  They want to continue to be consequence free. We all know they don't care about human life so we can just take that off the table."
blighter on X - "i have a hard time getting into the head space of someone who is like "this video made me realize that driving around trying to interfere with law enforcement activities by armed officers might be dangerous, i'm terrified" like... what do you think the risks of trying to stop ICE (or the cops or the FBI or the military or any armed officers of the govt) was? did you think that was a fun game and they'd have to stop and maybe give you a smirk or an exasperated sigh to let you know they realize you'd gotten one over on them?"

Bit Paine ⚡️ on X - "1) I don’t think the woman was trying to murder the cop. I don’t think the cop should have shot the woman. It is obviously sad the woman was killed. She was being insane, yes, but she was an American citizen protesting something she believes in.
2) That being said, watching the video from multiple angles, I think the cop was more than justified in shooting the woman.
3) This is exactly why you don’t fuck around with cops. They have no way of knowing your intentions, mental state, etc., and they deal with people who try to kill them every day. They don’t have the luxury of asking a committee to review the situation before reacting. Watching a video in slow motion on your phone from multiple angles after the fact is very different from making a split second decision in the moment.
4) We simply cannot live in a society where people feel like they can fuck around with impunity and never find out. If a cop stops you and asks for ID you fucking comply. Period. If you want to fight the charge do it in court later with a lawyer. This is simply a prerequisite for a civilized society. The cop COULD have chosen not to fire, and arguably SHOULD have chosen not to fire, but the woman’s death is still 100% her own fault for not acting like a reasonable, responsible human being while operating a 2000 lb vehicle.
5) I put the blame here on the far left who have clearly been stoking anti-ICE sentiment for some time hoping something like this would happen so they could weaponize it and I’m sure they hope to incite some nationwide GF-level anti-ICE riot.
6) I don’t love the ICE raids. I don’t like illegal immigration, but I think deportations should be 100% focused on violent criminals and drug traffickers. I don’t think we gain much as a society by hunting down every single innocent law abiding person who’s here illegally. Yes they are breaking the law but with limited resources and political capital to spend on immigration enforcement it endangers the broader mission without making society meaningfully better."

RealTimBlack on X - "I recall hearing Progressives and Liberals telling Black Americans to be careful, soon ICE will be treating "YOU like Immigrants".  Based on how ICE shot a motorist in Minneapolis today it seems like they’re treating YOU like US!  It’s you who should be careful.  Welcome to OUR AMERICA.  Signed: Black America"
Jay’V on X - "The only reason they were saying that is so that Black people would put themselves on the front lines for illegal immigrants. They’re doing exactly what they hoped Black people would do. Thankfully, most Black people didn’t take the bait. Now, the white liberals are forced to sacrifice themselves."

Cenk Uygur on X - "The woman shot in Minnesota was Renee Nicole Good. She was 37 and had a 6 year old son. Her son's dad had also passed away, he'll now be an orphan. Even if you think she did something wrong, it wasn't worth killing her for. We have to have a higher bar for taking someone's life."
MA_Octo on X - "It seems like the disconnect for most people is observing the aftermath and framing the event via hindsight. The agent had no idea what her background was, nor her intentions. In the split second moment its perceived as your life or theirs…sad, but that’s all there is to it."
Matt Van Swol on X - "You are not getting it at all.  We all KNEW something like this was bound to happen and have been sounding the alarm about it for months.  We knew that an entire Left-wing ecosystem of media and politicians making illegal actions against ICE seem "heroic and righteous" was bound to get someone killed.  That's why for months, many of us were calling out the insanity of the actions of some of these "protestors" who were just actually doing ILLEGAL things.  Then we watched as leftist judge after leftist judge let each of these criminal lawbreakers loose without any consequences at all.  Then the media wrote glowing op-eds on how these criminal lawbreakers were heroes of the resistance and should be praised.  You get what you incentivize...  ...and the Left incentivized harassment, vandalism, and yes VIOLENCE against ICE / Border Patrol agents  So we got more of it...  It's awful and evil, and it HAS to end here."
Sensurround on X - "This is the REAL difference between liberals and conservatives.  Liberals will sacrifice ANYTHING for performative moral points. Optics over outcomes. Applause over responsibility. Even when the behavior is reckless and can get them killed, the gesture matters more than the consequences.  Conservatives, by contrast, are boring in the most important way:  They go to work. They raise their kids. They show up to school events. They get angry, sure, but anger is subordinate to obligation.  Family comes first.  Stability comes first.  THIS is why they conservatives just post memes online when they get angry, adn why liberals get violent in the streets.  One side treats virtue as a public costume. The other treats responsibility as a private duty. And that difference explains a lot about the problems in our country right now."

Josh Brooks on X - "What this actually looks like:
ICE tries to get woman who thinks she's being cute for a video to move her vehicle.  Three agents surround the vehicle, one from the front, two from the driver's side. Likely looking to gain control of the situation. It is not cute to them, as they're being surrounded by a mob.  Woman panics, realizing this is in fact not cute, and attempts to flee thinking she can avoid arrest. Tire loses traction and the car doesn't immediately respond to gas input. Woman panics further and guns the gas causing an erratic vehicle take off.  Agent at the front of the vehicle almost gets hit. Agents respond by opening fire thinking the woman is using the vehicle as a deadly weapon, trying to hit the lead ICE agent at the front of the vehicle.  Woman who shouldn't have even been there, but was there because she got spun out of control on TikTok drama dies.  Agents have to live with it. Will likely have people demanding a mob-style execution by COB today.
What the Right Wants: Psychotic leftist domestic terrorist tries to kill ICE agents! We should use more force.
What the Left Wants: Fascist NAZI psychopaths are murdering women and children! We should use more force.
Who actually wins: Minnesota politicians and bureaucrats who can spin this into a riot and continue to avoid accountability for fraud. Federal politicians who can use the flames to continue to avoid accountability for a billionaire child sex trafficking ring.  Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.  Don't be stupid, stupid."

Tandy on X - "To be ABSOLUTELY clear.
1- Many are showing you a picture that makes the officer to the left of the vehicle without showing the officer in front of the vehicle and implying that he was the officer who shot. They’re lying to you.
2- The gun goes off AFTER she hits his legs with her car
3- Many are saying they asked her to leave and that is not true. The videos with audio show that they asked her (at least) twice to get out of the car. AFTER they asked her twice, she put the car in reverse at which point they surrounded her vehicle and THEN she put it in drive and THEN hit him AFTER his gun was clearly drawn AT WHICH POINT she drove at him.  Whether she wanted to veer right and avoid him is immaterial because she had ALREADY escalated the situation from a potential arrest to a “fleeing the scene”.
3- And finally, many are now saying that she was not part of the protest or citizen blockade. She was. People in the group already said she was the leader of the car blockade.
It is tragic. It is sad. And it was avoidable. But only one person put her in that position, and that was herself."

Libs of TikTok on X - "The narrative went out! The woman who tried to kiII ICE agents was a “legal observer“ Who writes the identical talking points for the Democrats?"
Josh Rainer on X - "If Renee Nicole Good was a “legal observer” via the National Lawyers Guild legal observer program like some reports state, this would be incredibly damning.   This is not a real designation with any legitimate authority. The National Lawyers Guild is the legal arm of Antifa and funded by George Soros. The NLG provides funds to bail out Antifa terrorists/rioters, while also documenting "police brutality."  She would have been paid to be there and obstruct federal authorities."