Understanding the US - Again

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India Will WIN BIG, EU Rushing In, USA Games Failed, Modi's Future Game I Maj Gen Rajiv Narayanan
India Will WIN BIG, EU Rushing In, USA Games Failed, Modi's Future Game I Maj Gen Rajiv Narayanan

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BREAKING: U.S. Dollar share of global foreign currency reserves have fallen to its lowest level this century.

[Tanaji]

2nd killing by ICE in Minneapolis.

This one is brutal.

Walz has “phoned Trump” in response like Teflon Singh sending dossiers to Pak

[saip]

Trump threatens Canada with 100% tariffs for daring to enter trade agreement with China. As they say "mother won't give nor will allow us to beg"

[Vayutuvan]

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Man shot dead by federal agent in Minneapolis sparking fresh protests

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cjd0vl1d9vrt

13:57
Bob Jacobson, Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Public Safety, is asked by the press if there’s been any suggestion that they’re not allowed to carry out the investigation into the incident.

He says the Department of Homeland Security left the crime scene because they didn’t have enough staff to secure it. They handed it over to Minnesota State Patrol, who also didn’t have enough resources to "hold it safely" and had to leave.

But he says they are "engaged and involved" in the investigation and can’t share further details.

Border Patrol commander accuses local officials of 'omitting facts'
published at 13:37
13:37
US Border Patrol commander Greg Bovino accuses Minnesota officials - Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and police chief Brian O'Hara - of hampering federal law enforcement operations, after calling on state and local law enforcement to help them "coordinate to get violent criminals off the streets".

"Just a few minutes ago, [they] did the opposite of that by omitting the fact that the suspect had a gun and magazines full of ammunition, in what looks like a situation where an individual wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement," Bovino says.

During a news conference held by local officials earlier, O'Hara said that state and local agencies had been in communication with the Department of Homeland Security, but that they "have not been able to provide us any specific details around the incident itself".

[Vayutuvan]

Looks like some people here on BRF want CBP and others to become more like Indian soldiers in Kashmir during the Islamist riots. All of us still remember the pictures/videos of soldiers getting beaten.

The same tactics are being used in MN by the protestors, including children being put at risk by their parents. The backers of these protests are the same set of forces that want to control the narrative, such that Islamists are shown to be the victims.

[Vayutuvan]

Street veto.

[A_Gupta]

Alex J Pretti had a legal permit for concealed carry. He was an ICU nurse. Some people like Vayutuvan here (not the vague "some people on BRF", I name names) are despicable, supporting lawless federal agents instead of ordinary people -- and equating this to Kashmir! What a vile piece of sh*t. I doubt he will develop any empathy when the hammer falls indiscriminately on him.

The Second Amendment applies except when it is inconvenient.

[Vayutuvan]

Let us wait for the investigation. Congressional hearings are going to happen.

I am reporting the above post.

[A_Gupta]

"Several bystander videos of the shooting emerged soon after. Pretti is seen with a phone in his hand but none appears to show him with a visible weapon.
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[A_Gupta]

The thing that the Canadian Prime Minister said - name reality. To anyone who tries to bring up Kashmir as an analog for anything happening in the US - this is my reminder that things in the US were infinitely worse to start with.

Citation:
Thomas A. Marks (2004) India: State Response to Insurgency in Jammu & Kashmir – The Jammu Case, Low Intensity Conflict & Law Enforcement, 12:3, 122-143, DOI: 10.1080/09662840500072615

Indeed, the internal war in J{ammu}&K{Kashmir}, when scaled, does not begin to approach the levels of criminal violence present in those U.S. metropolitan areas best known for their murder rates. The ‘death count’ in Jammu & Kashmir for 2003 stood at 836 civilians, 1447 militants and 380 security personnel. If this violence is aggregated (2,663), which is unorthodox but certainly presents the worst possible statistical picture, it scales out at 24.5:100,000 population. This would place J&K between Memphis (24.7:100,000) and Chicago (22.2:100,000), in the 2002 murder rankings when examining American cities with populations greater than 500,000, well off the pace established by the likes of Washington, DC (45.8:100,000) or Detroit (42.0:100,000).

And J&K's problem was largely courtesy of that jihadi neighbor to the west.

[Vayutuvan]

The Minnesota Fraud Scandal Claims Tim Walz’s Political Career

Crushed by the welfare-fraud scandal in Minnesota, Governor Tim Walz-- Kamala Harris’s 2024 running mate --has ended his run for a third term and put his political career on pause. The Trump administration is meanwhile cracking down on Minnesota's fraud-riddled program. What does the scandal mean for the state, the federal antipoverty machinery, and upcoming midterm politics? On this episode All Things, Kim Strassel speaks with former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty, who unpack's the state's specific welfare problems, ties in Joe Biden's failed border policy, and places bets on next year's Minnesota gubernatorial race.

[Vayutuvan]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita_Crundwell

Rita A. Crundwell (née Humphrey; born January 10, 1953) is an American woman who served as the comptroller and treasurer of Dixon, Illinois from 1983 to 2012. She was fired and arrested in April 2012 after the discovery that she had embezzled $53.7 million from the city of Dixon for over 22 years to support her championship American Quarter Horse breeding operation, as well as a lavish lifestyle away from work.[1][2][3] Her embezzlement has been described as the largest municipal fraud in U.S. history.[4] Crundwell pleaded guilty to her crimes and was sentenced to 19 1/2 years in prison.[5]

Crundwell used the money to turn her Quarter Horse breeding operation, RC Quarter Horses, into one of the best-known in the country. Her horses won 52 world championships and she was named the leading owner by the American Quarter Horse Association for eight consecutive years prior to her arrest.[6][7] She spent 8+1⁄2 years (43% of her sentence) in prison before being released in mid-2021 to serve the remainder of her sentence in home confinement. Her sentence was commuted along with nearly 1500 other people by President Biden on December 12, 2024. Those commuted were people who had been ...

[Vayutuvan]

Both sides are corrupt. What is worse? Shooting a peaceful protestor or siphoning money from SNAP/Disabled/Childcare?

I would not be party to supporting the deep state, which is playing the same game in India as well as in the US. How soon we forget Canadians begging India for vaccines during Covid-19 crisis. Once the crisis passed, they were back ot their racist selves. Now they are getting reemed by the US, they are whispering sweet nothings into Indian ears. It is only a matter of time before Democrats will come back into power in the US, which will make these Canadian poodles bark at the elephant that is India.

[A_Gupta]

At talkingpointsmemo.com, Josh Marshall writes:

Again we have an ICE killing in which the Department of Homeland Security gets a story out first which on its face appears to describe an armed civilian in the process of committing a massacre of federal law enforcement officers. A tragedy is prevented only by fast thinking federal officers, this account claims, who shoot and kill the assailant before he can do any harm. As now happens 100% of the time these early DHS narratives are willfully absurd and don’t survive contact with abundant video evidence emerging from the scene. My best current understanding is that the dead man, Alex Pretty, 37, was legally carrying a licensed firearm and was at the scene in some sort observer status or perhaps there to place himself between ICE agents and those they were trying to assault or arrest. Video evidence seems to show clearly Pretty never brandished his firearm and actually used clear non-confrontation signals in his engagement with ICE agents. What’s more, video evidence appears to show that ICE agents had already confiscated Pretty’s firearm in a scuffle before shooting him multiple times.

[Vayutuvan]

> "Several bystander videos of the shooting emerged soon after. Pretti is seen with a phone in his hand but none appears to show him with a visible
> weapon."

Why would one bring a semi-automatic and magazines full of ammunition to a peaceful protest, I wonder. Tim Walz was on record saying that Minnesotans have to go beyond simple civil disobedience.

[A_Gupta]

and

We’ve had several ICE ‘surges’ into major American cities, first starting on the West Coast, then into Chicago and now in Minneapolis. It certainly seems like there has been a marked escalation in the marching orders given to ICE and CBP agents even over the last four weeks. Why would the White House continue to escalate in the face of rising public opposition? One answer is that they’re fanatics and true believers. But a complementary explanation is this belief in escalation dominance. It may not be popular but they believe public resisters will eventually have to knuckle under. So they’re happy to keep escalating. Because they have more and bigger guns and eventually those who oppose them will have to give in. I don’t think that’s the case. But I’m pretty sure they do.

[Tanaji]

Looks like some people here on BRF want CBP and others to become more like Indian soldiers in Kashmir during the Islamist riots. All of us still remember the pictures/videos of soldiers getting beaten.

The same tactics are being used in MN by the protestors, including children being put at risk by their parents. The backers of these protests are the same set of forces that want to control the narrative, such that Islamists are shown to be the victims.

The comparison with Kashmir is misplaced as nothing compares to crazed peaceful jihadis. Also, Multiple videos are showing that Pretti was disarmed before he was shot. US law enforcement is historically trigger happy and ICE even more so.

Maybe some people just want the US to be so preoccupied in its own internal problems that it stops meddling in other countries affairs. Is it immoral if US has been doing exactly the same or worse to other countries all along?

[Vayutuvan]

Joshua Micah Jesajan-Dorja Marshall[1] (born February 15, 1969) is an American journalist and blogger[2] who founded Talking Points Memo.[3] A liberal, he presides over a network of progressive-oriented sites that operate under the TPM Media banner. In 2008, they averaged 400,000 page views on weekdays[4] and 750,000 unique visitors per month.[5][6]

Marshall and his work have been profiled by The New York Times,[5] the Los Angeles Times,[7] the Financial Times,[8] National Public Radio,[9] The New York Times Magazine,[10] the Columbia Journalism Review,[4] Bill Moyers Journal,[11] and GQ.[12][13] In 2007, Hendrik Hertzberg, a senior editor at The New Yorker, compared Marshall to the influential founders of Time magazine, saying: "Marshall is in the line of the great light-bulb-over-the-head editors. He's like Briton Hadden or Henry Luce. He's created something new."

For doggedly pursuing the story, Arianna Huffington nominated Joshua Marshall and the Talking Points Memo team to the Time 100.

Brids of the same feather ... Arianna Huffington and this guy. Some of us still remember HuffPo giving a platform to anti-India "journalists".

[Vayutuvan]

Somali Immigrant Has a Chilling Warning for the West | Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Premiered 7 hours ago The Rubin Report Podcast

Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” talks to Ayaan Hirsi Ali about her Somali background and the clan-based system shaping Somali society; how clan loyalty and political Islam operate as alternative moral systems that clash with Western nation-states; how these dynamics inform Somali communities in Minnesota, fraud scandals, and identity politics; the influence of Islamist networks like the Muslim Brotherhood; Democratic electoral strategies built around ethnic blocs and dependency; the broader threat to liberal democracy and Western values; about Ilhan Omar’s role at the intersection of clan loyalty, Islamist influence, and Democratic Party politics; how Somali clan dynamics and Muslim Brotherhood networks operate in Minnesota; the red-green alliance between progressives and Islamists; Europe’s multiculturalism error and electoral opportunism; the long-term consequences for Western democracy; whether the U.S. and Western Europe can realistically reverse mass immigration, identity politics, and radical ideology through border control, remigration, and political reform; the decline of classical liberalism and why it struggles to defend itself; her intellectual journey from atheism to Christianity as a search for liberalism’s moral roots; the choice between Christian and Islamist societies through lived examples; why the danger of abandoning Judeo-Christian values leads societies toward authoritarianism, violence, and collapse; and much more.

[Vayutuvan]

Maybe some people just want the US to be so preoccupied in its own internal problems that it stops meddling in other countries affairs. Is it immoral if US has been doing exactly the same or worse to other countries all along?

Not at all. That said, we don't want them to do the same to India—case in point - Trudeau. We need to stop Soros types from meddling in the affairs of India. I don't mind using the US' shoulder to bring them down.

As someone quipped to me before, "It is idiotic to think that your enemy's enemy is your friend," forgetting that they themselves are as idiotic. Their thinking is that "Trump's enemy will be Hindu-American and India's friend".

[Vayutuvan]

Also, Multiple videos are showing that Pretti was disarmed before he was shot. US law enforcement is historically trigger happy and ICE even more so.

Did he have an encounter with the LEOs before the final takedown? In Renee's case, her vehicle was parked with the front of her vehicle obstructing traffic in a one-way street for 15-20 minutes. The vehicle was positioned in such a way that had she accelerated without turning the wheel, she would have gone against the traffic.

[Jay]

Nope he did not have a prior encounter with ICE. Video's clearly showed the 10 seconds it took from the agents approaching him, escalating the fight and executing him. Clear as day and night. This after he did not brandish a gun, and after the other agent took his gun away, they shot him.

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https://www.reddit.com/r/Leakednews/com ... pink_coat/

[Jay]

Looks like some people here on BRF want CBP and others to become more like Indian soldiers in Kashmir during the Islamist riots. All of us still remember the pictures/videos of soldiers getting beaten.

The same tactics are being used in MN by the protestors, including children being put at risk by their parents. The backers of these protests are the same set of forces that want to control the narrative, such that Islamists are shown to be the victims.

Looks like some people here want to become more like nazis and want to use brute force including executions. These are the same tactics used by ICE and other federal agencies in MN and they are also using kids as bait to trap the parents and control the narrative. They are hiring many unqualified, including criminals within the ranks and you can clearly see in the videos on how they behave.

[Vayutuvan]

Nope he did not have a prior encounter with ICE. Video's clearly showed the 10 seconds it took from the agents approaching him, escalating the fight and executing him. Clear as day and night. This after he did not brandish a gun, and after the other agent took his gun away, they shot him.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/Leakednews/com ... pink_coat/

I am open to changing my mind on this particular case, but not about how MN politicians are handling this whole affair and the fraud scandal. Just like Mayor Pete, Democrats are hoping to find a young leader in Mayor Jacob just in time for 2028. Walz was finished in 2024 itself. Newsom is damaged goods, considering how he handled the LA fire and his bootlicking of Xi.

[Vayutuvan]

List of U.S. states and territories by African-American population


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U ... population

MN is 30th, WA is 39th, and Oregon is 41st. All progressive and all very white. San Francisco's AA population went from 10% to 5% due to gentrification. AAs could not afford the higher costs of living.

All said and done, progressives are more selfish and avaricious than the average American.

"Let them Eat Cake" - Mary Antoinette

(Nehru probably would have said "Let them eat apples" when India had to get PL480 food aid from the US)

[Vayutuvan]

They are hiring many unqualified, including criminals within the ranks and you can clearly see in the videos on how they behave.

From the BBC site whose link I posted above:

Border Patrol Union expresses 'full confidence' in agents using 'justifiable force'
published at 14:28
14:28
The Border Patrol Union says it has "full confidence that when more facts are revealed, our agents and officers will be shown to have utilized justifiable force in eliminating the threat".

In a post on social media, it says "Border Patrol agents are trained extremely well to protect themselves, their fellow agents, and innocent third parties".

The statement adds that when a protester brings a weapon with them, "there are going to be severe consequences and repercussions".

[KL Dubey]

Looks like some people here want to become more like nazis

Shameless fellows posting on BRF. This is what happens when a problem is left to fester despite prior warning signs.

[Jay]

Nope he did not have a prior encounter with ICE. Video's clearly showed the 10 seconds it took from the agents approaching him, escalating the fight and executing him. Clear as day and night. This after he did not brandish a gun, and after the other agent took his gun away, they shot him.
https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https% ... pcfg1.jpeg
https://www.reddit.com/r/Leakednews/com ... pink_coat/

I am open to changing my mind on this particular case, but not about how MN politicians are handling this whole affair and the fraud scandal. Just like Mayor Pete, Democrats are hoping to find a young leader in Mayor Jacob just in time for 2028. Walz was finished in 2024 itself. Newsom is damaged goods, considering how he handled the LA fire and his bootlicking of Xi.

I do not know if some of you have a short attention span or you just do not look at the happening outside your own eco-system. The entire MN scandal was addressed even before walz came into the picture during the 2024 elections.

In 2021, the MN Dept. of Education suspected fraud and they started the investigation. since 2021, state has been working with the FBI, and local police informants. In September, 2022, federal prosecutors made public that they handed down indictments in what they believed was a criminal fraud conspiracy. One of the first to be indicted was Aimee Bock, the fraud ringleader. She was tried and convicted in March of 2025.

https://content.govdelivery.com/attachm ... meline.pdf

From 2022

https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr ... our-future


From 2021

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/fbi ... 47704.html

Sentencing notes

https://www.justice.gov/usao-mn/pr/fede ... %2C%202025

Also important to note that the Governors office tried to stop payments to FOF recipients in 2021, but the courts ordered the payments to continue. The judge contested this but in the 2021 order, Guthmann held state officials in contempt for failing to process 143 applications from Feeding Our Future for new meal sites. The judge ordered the agency to pay Feeding Our Future more than $47,000 as both a fine and reimbursement for attorneys' fees.

Fraud happened and when it was discovered, it was being addressed in courts, even way before this shitshow unleashed by pedo donny and his supporters.

This entire thing is happening because everyone knows trump pedophilia is covered in the epstein files and he and his supporters are using this as a headfake for the mid-terms.

[Vayutuvan]

Shameless fellows posting on BRF. This is what happens when a problem is left to fester despite prior warning signs.

Hmm. Eurotrash supporting posters are nothing if not self-aware!!!

[Vayutuvan]

Shameless fellows posting on BRF. This is what happens when a problem is left to fester despite prior warning signs.

One can always report my posts.

[Vayutuvan]

Fraud happened and when it was discovered, it was being addressed in courts, even way before this shitshow unleashed by pedo donny and his supporters.

This entire thing is happening because everyone knows trump pedophilia is covered in the epstein files and he and his supporters are using this as a headfake for the mid-terms.

Feeding Our Future
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feeding_Our_Future

The organization was founded by Aimee Bock in 2016, and repeatedly applied for grants from the state of Minnesota, but was rejected due to allegations of mismanagement and abuses.[1] In July 2019, months before the COVID-19 pandemic, Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) officials identified early signs of fraud, including meal claims they considered implausible. According to former state employees, Bock pressured workers who raised questions within weeks of the organization's first submissions, and officials began documenting her "concerning behavior". Before the pandemic, Feeding Our Future billed the state for approximately $3.4 million.[3]

The organization's tax status as a nonprofit was revoked by the IRS in February 2020.[1] After the onset of the coronavirus pandemic and a large increase in the amount of federal aid available, Feeding Our Future applied to receive funding to provide meals to school children, as schools were closed.[1][4] MDE began giving the organization substantial grants after Feeding Our Future threatened legal action against the state.[1][4] Ultimately, after MDE began delaying responses to Feeding Our Future's grant applications, the organization sued the state in November 2020, arguing that it was being discriminated against "because of race, national origin, color, and religion."[5]

Around the same time, the MDE raised concerns of fraud with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), and the FBI began investigating in February 2021.[1][4] Bock maintained ties with local politicians, including Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey and state senator Omar Fateh.[6][7] An aide of Frey's, Abdi Salah, ultimately pled guilty to wire fraud; Frey stated he was unaware of Salah's activities.[8][6] Another supporter was Minneapolis council member Jamal Osman, whose wife operated a Feeding Our Future meal site which received more than $400,000 in funding.[9][10]

Mayor Jake got his warchest filled just in time for 2028.

[Vayutuvan]

Probably monies were funnelled into Ilhan Omar's campaigns and Tim Walz's campaigns.

[Vayutuvan]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020s_Min ... d_scandals

This gives all the shady stuff that went on in MN. It is highly unlikely that Walz, Omar, and Frey were not getting some cut out of the money that was pilfered and they did not know about it.

It is quite possible that Walz ordered MDE to stop payments to FOF because Frey was not coughing up the cut he was promised.

[vera_k]

This entire thing is happening because everyone knows trump pedophilia is covered in the epstein files and he and his supporters are using this as a headfake for the mid-terms.

I am not so sure of that. This looks more like a politician strengthening their appeal by fulfilling an election promise. What's surprising in the entire affair is how peaceful things are although the population is generally armed due to the 2nd amendment.

Because, for one, child marriage remains legal in the United States. The voter's aversion to pedophilia is therefore "flexible" at best, in that pedophilia is fine long as it comes with a ring around it.

For another. several prominent democrats have been connected to Epstein in the documents as well. There's enough there then to muddy the waters.

[Vayutuvan]

A lot of Hollywood elites are pedophiles. I forget but there is a famous director who had to flee the country. I think he is in Switzerland now.

[Jay]

For another. several prominent democrats have been connected to Epstein in the documents as well. There's enough there then to muddy the waters.

Of course you are free to believe whatever you like. If there are prominent democrats, then who's stopping trump and retardlicans to release these docs? There's no dem congressman that's opposing the release.

Also, retardlicans are famous for their pedophilia. Every few days you have a prominent conservative/retardlican that is arrested over these charges and these guys cannot stop themselves. The list and the people from this in group who are arrested is just mind numbing.

Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott Heldreth is a convicted child rapist in Florida.

Republican County Commissioner David Swartz pleaded guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison.

Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich pleaded no contest to fondling a 10-year old girl and was sentenced to 10 years probation.

Republican anti-abortion activist Nicholas Morency pleaded guilty to possessing child ***** on his computer and offering a bounty to anybody who murders an abortion doctor.

Republican legislator Edison Misla Aldarondo was sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping his daughter between the ages of 9 and 17.

Republican Mayor Philip Giordano is serving a 37-year sentence in federal prison for sexually abusing 8- and 10-year old girls.

Republican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge was sentenced to three years probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year old girl.

Republican racist pedophile and United States Senator Strom Thurmond had sex with a 15-year old black girl which produced a child.

Republican pastor Mike Hintz, whom George W. Bush commended during the 2004 presidential campaign, surrendered to police after admitting to a sexual affair with a female juvenile.

Republican legislator Peter Dibble pleaded no contest to having an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl.

Republican activist Lawrence E. King, Jr. organized child sex parties at the White House during the 1980s.

Republican lobbyist Craig J. Spence organized child sex parties at the White House during the 1980s.

Republican Congressman Donald "Buz" Lukens was found guilty of having sex with a female minor and sentenced to one month in jail.

Republican fundraiser Richard A. Delgaudio was found guilty of child ***** charges and paying two teenage girls to pose for sexual photos.

Republican activist Mark A. Grethen convicted on six counts of sex crimes involving children.

Republican activist Randal David Ankeney pleaded guilty to attempted sexual assault on a child.

Republican Congressman Dan Crane had sex with a female minor working as a congressional page resulting in a huge scandal.

Republican activist and Christian Coalition leader Beverly Russell admitted to an incestuous relationship with his step daughter.

Republican congressman and anti-gay activist Robert Bauman was charged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar.

Republican Committee Chairman Jeffrey Patti was arrested for distributing a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped.

Republican activist Marty Glickman (a.k.a. "Republican Marty"), was taken into custody by Florida police on four counts of unlawful sexual activity with an underage girl and one count of delivering the drug LSD.

Republican legislative aide Howard L. Brooks was charged with molesting a 12-year old boy and possession of child *****.

Republican Senate candidate John Hathaway was accused of having sex with his 12-year old baby sitter and withdrew his candidacy after the allegations were reported in the media.

Republican preacher Stephen White, who demanded a return to traditional values, was sentenced to jail after offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him.

Republican talk show host Jon Matthews pleaded guilty to exposing his genitals to an 11 year old girl.

Republican anti-gay activist Earl "Butch" Kimmerling was sentenced to 40 years in prison for molesting an 8-year old girl after he attempted to stop a gay couple from adopting her.

Republican Party leader Paul Ingram pleaded guilty to six counts of raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal prison.

Republican election board official Kevin Coan was sentenced to two years probation for soliciting sex over the internet from a 14-year old girl.

Republican politician Andrew Buhr was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy.

Republican politician Keith Westmoreland was arrested on seven felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to girls under the age of 16 (i.e. exposing himself to children).

Republican anti-abortion activist John Allen Burt was charged with sexual misconduct involving a 15-year old girl.

Republican County Councilman Keola Childs pleaded guilty to molesting a male child.

Republican activist John Butler was charged with criminal sexual assault on a teenage girl.

Republican candidate Richard Gardner admitted to molesting his two daughters.

Republican Councilman and former Marine Jack W. Gardner was convicted of molesting a 13-year old girl.

Republican County Commissioner Merrill Robert Barter pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual contact and assault on a teenage boy.

Republican City Councilman Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr. pleaded no contest to raping a 15 year-old girl and served 6-months in prison.

Republican activist Parker J. Bena pleaded guilty to possession of child ***** on his home computer and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and fined $18,000.

Republican parole board officer and former Colorado state representative, Larry Jack Schwarz, was fired after child ***** was found in his possession.

Republican strategist and Citadel Military College graduate Robin Vanderwall was convicted in Virginia on five counts of soliciting sex from boys and girls over the internet.

Republican city councilman Mark Harris, who is described as a "good military man" and "church goer," was convicted of repeatedly having sex with an 11-year-old girl and sentenced to 12 years in prison.

Republican businessman Jon Grunseth withdrew his candidacy for Minnesota governor after allegations surfaced that he went swimming in the nude with four underage girls, including his daughter.

Republican director of the "Young Republican Federation" Nicholas Elizondo molested his 6-year old daughter and was sentenced to six years in prison.

Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, Richard A. Dasen Sr., was charged with rape for allegedly paying a 15-year old girl for sex. Dasen, 62, who is married with grown children and several grandchildren, has allegedly told police that over the past decade he paid more than $1 million to have sex with a large number of young women

Just a few...

[Jay]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020s_Min ... d_scandals

This gives all the shady stuff that went on in MN. It is highly unlikely that Walz, Omar, and Frey were not getting some cut out of the money that was pilfered and they did not know about it.

It is quite possible that Walz ordered MDE to stop payments to FOF because Frey was not coughing up the cut he was promised.

Anything is possible, but I bet my money that Walz, and Frey are not getting a cut. In fact, even though trump admin is forcefully trying to open a new investigation, I will also bet that it goes no where and will be pretty much used only to drumbeat the "specter" of corruption.

[uddu]

Trump threatens 100% tariffs on Canada | NewsNation Live
President Donald Trump threatened 100% tariffs on Canada if it makes a trade deal with China. Retired U.S. Army Col. Seth Krummrich discusses on "NewsNation Live."

[Vayutuvan]

Anything is possible, but I bet my money that Walz, and Frey are not getting a cut.

'kay mon.