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Minnesota politicians turned a blind eye to Somali-led fraud because they were afraid of racism accusations
Our take: As daylight was shone on the Feeding Our Future fraud in Minnesota, cries of racism backed off investigators and made politicians look the other way. Since it has been uncovered, over 70 defendants have been charged, with the vast majority of them being of Somalian descent.
We cannot allow the threat of being called names to stop us from telling the truth and holding people accountable for breaking our laws. We will continue to hammer on this story until we see some semblance of balanced and unbiased reporting done on it.
Somalia is a 3rd world country. Their society does not share many values that we hold sacrosanct in the US, including women’s rights, the rule of law, and underage sexual activity being a crime. Right now, today, there is no agreed-upon, enforced minimum age for marriage, leading to rampant child trafficking and sexual abuse. If you want to say this is the same as your values and we should respect it, that’s on you. I’m not OK with it at all and will not stand by while people are afraid to call out the truth.
If people want to immigrate to the US, we can and should expect them to assimilate to our culture—all of it. They should learn to speak our language in addition to whatever languages they speak, they need to swear to believe in and uphold the rule of law, they need to acknowledge and respect women’s rights—including the repudiation of Sharia Law anywhere in the United States—and they need to swear allegiance to the US ahead of all nations, including the one they immigrated from.
I have zero issues if they don’t want to agree to these terms. I don’t want them in our country though. If it’s cultural appropriation when a white person wears dreadlocks or eats a burrito, then we have every right to demand people respect our culture as well.
COURTESY: AOL.COM
AOC spends more like a rapper than a democratic socialist on the campaign trail
Our take: AOC is beginning to win us over. Maybe if we support her, we can live like she lives, which looks awesome. Her campaign disclosures show more than $50k dropped on swanky boutique hotels, glamorous venues, and five-star meals as she spreads her “fight the oligarchy” message. You can check out the details in the link we attached. We wouldn’t care about these expenditures if she wasn’t explicitly railing against people who go to the same places she frequents on her donor’s dime. I don’t get why people cannot see the hypocrisy.
COURTESY: MSN
Powerball jackpot soars past $1 billion after no winner was drawn Saturday night
Our take: Your odds of winning the more than $1 billion prize are roughly 1 in 292 million. They are zero if you don’t buy a ticket. Where else do you have odds that you can turn a few bucks into a billion dollars?
COURTESY: FOX BUSINESS
Tip of the day for thinking critically
Continue to work on your critical thinking skills. I recommend looking at online learning platforms such as Udemy and Coursera for courses on general critical thinking skills, as well as courses on specific subjects like cognitive biases.
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness." – The Declaration of Independence