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This could have been reality: Tim Walz, the goofy Democratic governor of Minnesota and lover of all things Communist China, could have actually been one heartbeat away from the presidency.
With that backdrop, Walz’s resume to even get close to this point is truly something to behold.
- Walz visited China more than 30 times, mostly with American students. I have young children and have only been to Disney twice.
- Walz lied about carrying “weapons of war in war” when the closest he got was Italy during the first Gulf War, before he ditched his National Guard unit once they were called up to fight.
- Walz also lied about being in Hong Kong during the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989 when he was actually in Nebraska.
- Walz really lied about his 1995 DUI arrest when he, as a man in his 30s working as a teacher, was driving 96 miles per hour in a 55-mile-per-hour zone like a maniac, according to court records. But in 2006, during his run for Congress after the DUI resurfaced, Walz and his campaign claimed that he had not been drinking that night despite the fact that he had a blood alcohol concentration of 0.128, well above the state’s legal limit of 0.1 at the time.
No matter: The campaign, obviously with Walz’s blessing, claimed the failed breathalyzer was due to a “misunderstanding” due to a “hearing loss” from his National Guard “service.” And as a French kiss, the campaign also said that Walz was permitted to drive himself to jail after being pulled over, which is totally normal, right?
But that never happened. Walz was actually driven to a local hospital by a state trooper, per court records, where his high BAC was confirmed.
“A strong odor of alcoholic beverage was detected emitting from Mr. Walz[‘s] breath and person,” the report reads. “The trooper indicated that Walz submitted to and failed both a field sobriety test and a preliminary breath test. He was eventually taken to Chadron Hospital for a blood test before being booked in the Dawes County Jail.”
Yes, just a misunderstanding.
Oddly, Walz was never charged with DUI, but just reckless driving.
Rules for thee, not for Ds (Democrats).
- Walz also claimed his children were conceived via in vitro fertilization and said the issue was deeply personal to him. One problem: It was later revealed that intrauterine insemination was applied, not IVF. From a policy and even religious perspective, these are two very different procedures, as religious conservatives want to ban IVF because of the discarding of unused fertilized embryos outside the womb, but not IUI, which doesn’t involve that.
- Just this year, Walz told supporters that he hoped to wake up to news that President Donald Trump had died… the same Trump who was nearly assassinated twice during the 2024 campaign.
“Look, I get it, you get up in the morning, and you doom scroll through things, although I will say this, the last few days you woke up thinking there might be news,” Walz said at a Labor Day picnic in Duluth, Minnesota. “Just saying, just saying, there will be news sometime, just so you know, there will be news.”
What a pitiful human being.
There are many more examples, but you get the point: Politicians lie. But Walz is next-level pathological with this stuff, and it’s why his statements regarding the massive fraud scandal engulfing Minnesota under his watch hold so little weight.
It may only be a few days into 2026, but we may already be looking at the political and ethical scandal of the year.
You may have heard by now: Members of primarily the Somali community in Minnesota have defrauded the state out of billions of dollars for child day cares that mostly don’t exist and autism centers that are as real as the Vikings’ chance of winning a Super Bowl this year. Overall, we’re talking nearly $9 billion in fraud of public assistance programs in deep-blue Minnesota, with more than 90 people charged in what Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem calls “the tip of the iceberg” in a preview of more charges to come.
“The fraud is not small. It isn’t isolated. The magnitude cannot be overstated,” U.S. Assistant Attorney Joseph Thompson said at a press conference recently. “What we see in Minnesota is not a handful of bad actors committing crimes. It’s a staggering, industrial-scale fraud.”
Which brings us back to Walz, who couldn’t be handling this any worse from a public relations perspective if he tried.
“We judge people based on who they are, not on ethnicity and things they can’t control,” Vice President JD Vance said at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest recently in Phoenix, later adding, “In the United States of America, you don’t have to apologize for being white anymore.”
Ain’t that the truth. And Vance’s first words echo those of the Rev. Martin Luther King, who once declared in what was arguably the greatest speech of the 20th Century, “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
But Walz saw an opportunity to deflect from his state’s own massive scandal and elected to play the race card from the bottom of the deck.
“This is what happens when they target communities for their own benefit; this is what happens when they scapegoat, and this is what happens when they no longer hide the idea of white supremacy,” he said.
The community Vance and Trump are “targeting” is the Somali community in Minnesota. But it’s not their fault that almost all of the perpetrators involved are believed to be of Somali descent.
Per reporting by the Washington Examiner on Friday: “People of Somali descent working in autism services, child care, and elder assistance, three areas that have recently been hit with accusations of foul play, donate tens of thousands of dollars to Somali politicians in Minnesota each year, all of them Democrats. State Sen. Omar Fateh, a 2025 Minneapolis mayoral candidate, and a handful of Somali state legislators have been among the biggest beneficiaries of such funds.”
The report shows that nearly $138,000 has been donated by Somali community care providers to those Minnesota politicians of Somali descent since 2020.
Fateh, the Twin Cities version of New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani and another socialist, came within a hair of winning his mayoral race.
Reporting of the scandal was once isolated to center or center-right news organizations, with CNN and MS Now ignoring the story altogether for weeks to hide its viewers from the uncomfortable truth.
With corporate media largely uninterested, enter conservative YouTube influencer Nick Shirley, a self-described independent journalist who posted a video last week of supposed Somali-run day care centers in Minnesota that had no children actually inside during the daytime hours. Shirley’s video has more than 125 million views on X alone as of this writing.
So here’s the question: How was one 23-year-old with a cellphone camera able to scoop essentially every major “news organization” in the country? It’s called effort and curiosity. And simply put, legacy media didn’t “miss” the story; they were just afraid of what they actually might find and how it could hurt Democrats like Walz.
Organizations such as CNN have since been attempting to discredit Shirley as some sort of rogue with an agenda. But the video is the video regardless of motivation. And there’s no denying that massive multi-billion dollar fraud has occurred in Minnesota by a community that has increasing political power over Democrats in the state.
But the dam has broken, with even the left-leaning Washington Post editorial board zeroing in on Walz.
“Walz’s boondoggle underlines the need for serious reforms across America. Too bad that too many progressive leaders are lackadaisical at best about cracking down on fraud and errors, lest it curtail social services.”
“Minnesota’s Somali fraud saga finally pierced the national consciousness this week after conservative YouTuber Nick Shirley released a video purporting to show day care centers receiving public funds without taking care of children, including one with a sign identifying it as a ‘Quality Learing Center,'” the board also noted.
When we look back on 2026, the Somali fraud scandal may well be one of the biggest, if not the biggest, stories of the year.
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And despite the media’s best efforts until recently, a lid can only be kept on this for so long.
All thanks to citizen journalists like Shirley, the man with a camera and some questions.
