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Happy New Year, Minnesota! And can we get a round of applause for the young YouTuber, Nick Shirley, as he exposes massive Somali fraud? Bravo! Doing the job that no mainstream journalists are willing to do. And why is that, we must ask? Why wouldn’t so-called professional journalists be not only willing but chomping at the bit to expose one of the biggest cases of fraud in history?
It’s a sarcastically rhetorical question, of course. We all know the answer, and it’s embarrassing and it’s disgusting. But it’s worse than that—much worse—because it has the potential to destroy Western civilization, and that isn’t even a slight exaggeration.
This is all a result of DDS: Diversity Derangement Syndrome. That is when a person has the perverse belief that racial, ethnic and gender diversity inherently and automatically make everything better: schools, neighborhoods, corporations, cities, states, countries...you name it. But there is one singular and totally bizarre caveat to that. Diversity only works its magic when it is imposed on a white and/or heterosexual majority. Under no other circumstances is it considered to be of any benefit whatsoever. Why is that?
Just for kicks and giggles, it would be fun to direct that question to Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota. Because, you see, it doesn’t matter how many billions of dollars Somali migrants swindle from this clueless, virtue-signaling state. They, the Somalis, are still above reproach for one reason, and one reason only: the diversity they provide to an otherwise unacceptably white state. And the fact that they’re also Islamic and immigrants equals even more checked boxes and therefore, more virtue desperately signaled. As if that was all that mattered.
Now, some might say I need to tread carefully here. Like the commenter on a recent post of mine on this website who thinks I sound like a “closet racist” for “pounding on the white-vs-non-white thing as much as [I] do.” But it’s the other side that is “pounding” our civilization into the ground with their racial obsessions, the essence of which can be boiled down to this: white people bad, all others good. Therefore, everything white must be overrun until whiteness itself has been eradicated. That’s the message we get pounded with every second of every day by the left, and I’m not going to stop pounding back. So if this commenter, or anyone else, feels “trepidation” or is “uncomfortable” with that, here’s their chance to go elsewhere.
Estimates of the fraud in Minnesota run as high as $9 billion across 14 state programs. Fake daycare centers, fake autism centers, fake “home health” centers, whatever those are. (Watch this video. It’s truly astonishing.) Talk about go big or go home! But any suggestion that a single Somali should, well, actually go home is instantaneously dismissed as you-know-what-ism.
You know who strongly disagrees? Perhaps the world’s most famous Somalian: Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Most readers are likely familiar with her to some extent. Born in Somalia, she fled to the Netherlands to escape a forced marriage. But she didn’t arrogantly declare that her new home desperately needed her “diversity.” Rather, she looked around, saw the order, prosperity and decency of the country that kindly took her in. She gratefully adapted to their culture and fully assimilated. What a concept!
She went on to be elected to the Dutch parliament. At some point she renounced Islam, which angered Islamic extremists who threatened her life and caused her to have to live with round-the-clock security. She eventually moved to the United States. After some years of atheism, she became a Christian, which was like the cherry on top of everything else. She’s been a hero of mine for over twenty years.
She had this to say in The Free Press: "I grew up in a Somali clan-based society … [where] Loyalty to kin was absolute. Loyalty to the nation was theoretical at best."
Also:
Amoral familism is a cultural blueprint. It assumes that resources are scarce, the world is dangerous, and survival depends on extracting maximum benefit for one’s own family. Nation-building makes no sense from that perspective. If a road is built, the question is not “How will this help the community?” but “Which family will control access to it?” If foreign aid arrives, the question is not how to distribute it fairly, but which family will claim control. This mindset explains why Somalia collapsed. It explains the dysfunction in Afghanistan, Haiti, and parts of North and West Africa. It explains why [progressive] Minnesota now faces problems it can’t make sense of, let alone solve.
Yeah, just imagine Tampon Tim trying to solve it. Along with his hijabed lt. governor. But their DDS is so all-consuming, they might as well be screaming, “Please, Somalis, please colonize us, please steal from us, please make fools of us and help us atone for the sin of being white!”
In the context of a speech about getting rid of DEI, Vice President Vance recently declared that it’s okay to be white, simply meaning white people are not inherently evil and shouldn’t feel bad about being white. Tampon Tim declared that statement to be evidence of white supremacy. There simply is no cure for this syndrome when it’s that advanced. If I had to predict the future of Minnesota, I would say that the Somali population, even after the full extent of the fraud is exposed, will continue to grow and grow and grow, until . . . Well, until either the fools running the state come to their senses (LOL!) or Minnesota is just irretrievably lost as a Somali colony.
Of course, Minnesota has the largest Somali population in America, but there are clusters elsewhere in places like Maine, Ohio and Massachusetts, and similar fraud is being exposed anywhere they are in any significant numbers. You may be familiar with Boston’s extraordinarily woke mayor, Michelle Wu, a social justice and “affinity spaces" advocate. (Anybody remember the “Electeds of Color” holiday party in 2023?) Wu had the following to say recently: “You cannot talk about any achievement the City of Boston has had ... without talking about the Somali community.”
That’s it. My mind is officially blown. That is the most slobbering case of DDS you’re likely to find anywhere in our blue urban wilds. If Mayor Wu had declared that her office achieved cold fusion in the sink of one of the gender-neutral bathrooms, it would have been no more absurd. Boston owes its prosperity to the Somalis! John Hancock, Samuel Adams and Paul Revere: move over and make way for Muhammad, Mohamed and Mohamud.
I mentioned earlier that Ayaan Hirsi Ali has been a hero of mine for over 20 years. That’s because she is brilliant, courageous and has the personal mettle to rise above the primitive, clannish, Islamic culture which made her home country a failed state in which no one wants to live. She is the living proof that some individuals can rise above the lousy culture in which they were born. But the obvious reality is that very few will. If I found out my city had a mission to import Somalis en masse, I’d be moving. On the other hand, if it were possible to fill my neighborhood with Ayaan Hirsi Alis, I’d be thrilled.
I’m no closet racist, but I am a fully out-of-the-closet culturist. Some cultures are better than others, and Somali culture, by and large, stinks. And because of the fully metastasized DDS of leaders like Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, who gratuitously exalt a people simply because they’re not white, Minnesota is becoming what amounts to a failed state.
Don’t expect any useful New Year’s resolutions about combatting fraud to come out of this sinkhole of stupidity. By all appearances, the state is a lost cause—but I’d love to be wrong about that.
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Who could forget when the death of a criminal in a Democrat city in a Democrat state was all the fault of a Republican president? Wait for it.
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Political corruption has always been the Achilles Heel of our form of government. The founders tried to make a system with checks and balances and a weak federal government, but corruption has eroded the safeguards. Destroying the enemy from within needs to be a top priority for patriots in 2026. DOGE or bust!
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I agree with your post, Greg, especially your admiration of Ayaan Hirsi Ali. I especially appreciated her elaborating on the rationale behind Somali thinking; I hadn't seen that before--thanks!
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Yes, straight from the horse's mouth, as they say. Her autobiography, Infidel, is definitely worth a read for anyone interested in the gritty details of what life is like for girls in Somalia or other such places that are strictly Islamic.
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Read it. Great read.
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