“It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man.” Jack Handy
December 31, 2025, And Every Wednesday
By Linda Case Gibbons, Esq.
Who would have thought that a people whose country’s GDP consists of pirating ships on the high seas would ever commit any kind of fraud when they came to live in our country?
Apparently not the people we elected.
But, if you follow the money, which the people we elected didn’t do, numbers don’t lie.
Before 2018 -- the year Minnesota Fraud started -- Somalia’s GDP, (the measurement of a country's economic growth) “hovered in the low billions of U.S. dollars, reaching roughly $4 billion during the peak piracy years.”
Say what?
“During Somalia’s piracy peak, around 2008-2012,” it is reported, “piracy became a significant part of the local economy.
“Its main impact was the cost to the global economy, $18 billion dollars annually in trade disruptions,” according to the World Bank.
Somalia’s GDP today is around $13 billion for 2025. In 2012, it was -$324 per capita.
This shows the American Dream is alive and well -- for Somalia and El Shabaab -- courtesy of the U.S. taxpayer money Minnesota resident Somalians send “back home.”
Our money is funding Somalia, terrorist groups in Somalia, and the president of Somalia, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, the man U.S. Congress Rep. Ilhan Omar referred to as “our president” at a community event in 2024.
But this past week, a kid with a phone camera did what no other “journalists” thought to do, he interviewed people on the street. And the 23-year-old Nick Shirley blew the lid off blatant fraud in Minnesota. Something our elected officials didn’t do.
Even more distressing were the words used by people who should have kept a watchful eye on your tax money: “People will be held accountable.”
Shoot. You know that “people” never are.
Endless committee hearings are held. Congressmen sputter indignantly on TV about “the issue.” And Congress doesn’t do what it can do: Use the Power of the Purse.
Shut off the money spigot, and stop the fraud.
But that doesn’t happen, and no one is ever held “accountable,” so that “it never happens again.”
Minnesota Fraud has apparently been under investigation for a long time. Long before Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was tapped to run for vice president.
FBI Director Kash Patel says he “surged personnel and investigative resources” before Shirley’s video was posted.
“We will continue to follow the money and protect children, and this investigation very much remains ongoing,” Patel said on X.
Why would we doubt him? We like him.
What is confusing is that the fraud has been ongoing for seven long years, and it only came to be widely known when a kid with a phone camera decided to ask some questions.
And post it on YouTube.
Something our elected officials didn’t do.
Hold the line, Ameica. Stay strong Patriots.