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Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 5:19pm On Jan 08
budaatum:
The Art of Making Both Sides Hate You

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/06/elon-musk-back-politics-new-hobby-instead
Celebrating when there's a fallout.
Dec 31 2025.

Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 5:12pm On Jan 08
ono:
If Walz thinks this will shift focus, he's in for a rude awakening. Nobody is above the law!
This went down yesterday.

🚨 IT’S OFFICIAL: DOJ CRIMINAL REFERRALS FILED

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison have been referred to the U.S. Department of Justice for potential criminal charges in connection with Minnesota’s massive Somali-linked fraud scandal.

The referral comes after sworn testimony before Congress gave Rep. Anna Paulina Luna what she says is sufficient evidence that top Minnesota officials were knowingly complicit in widespread fraud involving social service programs.



📜 FULL DIALOGUE — CONGRESSIONAL RECORD

Chairman Comer:
“The chair recognizes Ms. Luna.”

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna:
“Thank you, Chairman Comer. Honorable Robbins, based on your record before this committee, when did Governor Walz first become aware of widespread fraud in Minnesota social service programs?”

Honorable Robbins:
“I would assume that he has been aware of it since he ran for office for governor in 2018.”

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna:
“By 2017, DHS investigators warned that CCAP fraud could exceed 50%. Was that information elevated to the governor’s office?”

Honorable Robbins:
“Yes, there was an OLA report.”

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna:
“Thank you, ma’am. By 2020, state officials knew Feeding Our Future invoices were fraudulent. We know that payments continued with the Attorney General’s knowledge. Did they continue with the governor’s knowledge as well?”

Honorable Robbins:
“Yes.”

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna:
“Attorney General Ellison agreed on tape to fight Minnesota’s own Department of Human and Health Services in exchange for Somali political and financial support. In your personal opinion, do you believe it is possible that Governor Walz also made that personal deal, or at least knew about the Attorney General’s agreement?”

Honorable Robbins:
“I don’t know.”

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna:
“Okay. I don’t want to rehash what this committee has already spent hours covering. We know there is a massive fraud issue in Minnesota.

Because of your testimony, because of the evidence presented, and because this committee—at Chairman Comer’s direction—will soon be subpoenaing Attorney General Ellison, I am making criminal referrals regarding Governor Walz and Attorney General Ellison.

As you know, U.S. Code §371 and U.S. Code §2 criminalize conspiracies to defraud the United States and establish liability for those who knowingly aid or abet federal offenses. That includes willful blindness or deliberate inaction where a duty to act exists.

I will be referring them later today.”



🔥 BOTTOM LINE

Top Minnesota officials were warned.
They knew.
Payments continued anyway.

Now the evidence is on record — and the DOJ has been formally asked to act.

GREAT. Fire up the prosecutions.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 4:29pm On Jan 08
raumdeuter:
Did you see another protester in Minnesota yesterday trying to grab a law enforcement officers gun?

What happens when you try to grab a law enforcement officers gun?
Had the ICE agent died the liberals would have been celebrating.Pathetic people who gloat over misfortunes of others.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 1:50pm On Jan 08
LOL
Trump's granddaughter Kai on how to deal with liberals.She has been insulted by virtue of her last name.

https://pjmedia.com/michaelcantrell/2026/01/07/kai-trump-reveals-the-secret-to-driving-liberals-up-the-wall-n4948023

Do you know what a good response is whenever someone approaches you just spewing hatred? ‘God bless you.’

Nothing angers liberals more than refusing to get emotional while choosing kindness and respect instead. They want conservatives to lose control. They crave an explosive confrontation they can use to justify the caricature of conservatives that liberal professors, media talking heads, and cultural elites have drilled into their heads. Staying calm robs them of that satisfaction. Mom
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 1:36pm On Jan 08
Trump is heading to Davos the elitist WEF . To pour cold water on their globalist agenda.
He has ordered the US govt to exit from 65 UN bodies . It' has a huge ramification,these bodies in turn finance a network of grievance NGOs. That seek to entrench a New World Order.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 12:54pm On Jan 08
Tim Walz is well something.
St George of Fentanyl riots occured under his watch .He delayed deployment of the NG .His wife
Gwen Walz, Tim Walz's wife (the First Lady of Minnesota). In a June 2020 interview, she said she kept the windows of the governor's residence open "as long as I could" to smell the burning tires, describing it as a "touchstone of what was happening".

2019 video exposing how the Somalis flew out millions of cold hard cash out .


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQMaxFs8r4c

He is possibly under criminal investigation. The woman shot yesterday,his reaction looks calculated to divert attention from the investigation
Yesterday, Tim Walz declared Minnesota is at "war against the federal government."
Again today, he called it "war with our federal government."

He is threatening to deploy the National Guard in the wake of the fatal shooting.
He is happy the spotlight on the fraud is now back burner.
Foreign AffairsRe: Trump's ICE Agents Shoot Dead A Woman In Her Car by basilico: 12:20pm On Jan 08
Video from another angle.

Foreign AffairsRe: Trump Says Venezuela To Purchase Only America Made Product by basilico: 12:17pm On Jan 08
LegendHero:
Trump is not wise.

How do you want a poor country to afford made in America medicine and etc if you’re going to sell at market value?

This is colonization 2.0. Trump is just tweeting/truthing anything that comes to his dementia mind.

Tomorrow now he might say Venezuela should change their name to something in English
Venezuela has more oil than Saudi Arabia.
The socialists screwed up. Their oil has never been embargoed.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico:
benalvino3:
She should not have lost her life, But DHS is trained to use deadly force.
she has a 7 years old kid that she is supposed to put first instead of chasing ICE around and obstructing them.

Two things are certain here or more.

She should not have been shot dead,
The shooting also looks Justified,

Some of us has been saying things like this would happen and discourage this kind of behavior, while others excuse the behavior and when a life is taken, all they can do is debate it from a generic moral standpoint.

It is certain that taking a life of anyone is always a moral discourse, it will always look bad even if it is Justified.
from the Legal standpoint, it seems like what the guy did is justified also. No one should give law enforcement justification to take their life.
What is the environment that ICE is operating in. You have democrats sanctuary cities , antifa and other paid protesters and ordinary snowflakes impending their work. This really happened.

Benjamin Song: Indicted in late 2025 for charges including attempted murder of officers and employees of the United States and discharging a firearm during a crime of violence related to a July 4, 2025, attack on the Prairieland ICE Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas.
Reuben Rankin: A Cleveland man charged in federal court in November 2019 after allegedly firing at federal agents, including ICE Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents, while they were serving a search warrant.
Pedro Alvarado and Arnoldo Alvarado: [/b]A father and son in South Texas arrested and charged in June 2025 with assault on a federal officer and using a firearm during a crime of violence after an HSI special agent was shot.
[b]Multiple Defendants in the Alvarado
, TX incident: Several other individuals were indicted in connection with the July 2025 attack in Alvarado, Texas, on charges including rioting, providing material support to terrorists, and conspiracy to use explosives (fireworks).
These defendants included Savanna Batten, Meagan Morris, Maricela Rueda, Elizabeth Soto, Ines Soto, Autumn Hill, and Zachary Evetts.
Gabriel Hurtado-Cariaco: In June 2025, a man from Venezuela and alleged gang member was charged with attempted murder and assault of a federal officer after a physical attack that injured an HSI agent in Nebraska.

In a separate incident in Dallas in September 2025, a shooter identified as Joshua Jahn fired at an ICE facility from a nearby rooftop, killing himself after the attack. No law enforcement officers were injured in this incident, but three detainees were shot, two fatally. The FBI investigated the attack as a targeted act of "targeted violence" or domestic terrorism due to anti-ICE messages found with the shooter.


I'm not justifying the shooting .
Some split second decisions can and are made in error. There are nutcases out there who have no reason at all to impede ICE but have normalized violence against the agents.


https://x.com/JackPosobiec/status/2009068785412809044



And her wife was filiming the incident.

Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 11:24pm On Jan 07
bayelsaowei:
You sure dont need? Don't you want to have a hand shake with your god and his docile gang?

cheesy wink
Show me one post where you saw a democrat commiting a sin.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 9:46pm On Jan 07
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 4:32pm On Jan 07
bayelsaowei:
Basilico..you don get US VISA?
I'm comfortable.Dont need no visa.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 2:21pm On Jan 07
IbeOkehie:
Venezuelans today....and Nigerians for that matter...don't generally enjoy excellent health care, high paying jobs, best affordable housing and modern infrastructures. While INDEPENDENCE for a nation is a good thing in principle, it's reasonable to ask about the QUALITY OF LIFE results for the population.

It would be better for the USA or a credible group of Anglo-Saxons to colonize Nigeria and impose FREE MARKET rules that would generate high living standards for the Nigerian people over the long term, and of course the COLONISTS would become EXTREMELY wealthy too. That's exactly what has happened in South Africa. White South Africans have the HIGHEST LIVING STANDARDS of any White people in the world, while Black South Africans have the 2nd highest living standards among national groups of Negroes in the world. There's strong likelihood that even during Apartheid, Black South Africans had higher living standards than Nigerians.

That's the reason Black South Africans don't have a high rate of migration to Western Europe or North America. They have their own White Slaves providing the ideological and practical scaffolding upon which the entire population can work hard and build a highly developed nation.

Yes, independence and self determination is good as a distinct state of existence. When ANY consideration of economic well being is introduced to a discussion of nationhood, then there's clearly some trade offs and balancing to be made to achieve superlative development. That's why 20% of the population of Venezuela has FLED THE COUNTRY since 2014 when Socialism was being imposed on the country. That's 8 million people that have CHOSEN higher living standards over social justice and national self determination.

That's why so many people on this discussion thread live in Western Europe & North America, we PREFER White domination over Black rule. Yeah it sounds really bad, immoral and self hating, but it's true no matter how stridently anyone denies it. Black Africans are even now CELEBRATING the growing availability of CHINESE kindness as an alternative to Euro-Whites perfidy. shocked Zimbabwe chose dignity, independence and self determination and kicked out Whites and brought in the Chinese. It's over 20 years now, almost a generation. Hopefully it's worked out well for them.

Yes, the USA has done the right thing here, including buying the crude oil that was going to China & Cuba, I'd rather we take it...but buying it is OK too. Hopefully THE PEOPLE of Venezuela will choose better governments for themselves going forward and yes that may mean fighting the USA for the right to do so, but in my view they would do better as a colony of the USA. Same as Nigeria would do better under UK rule, but who wants to be called a RACIST?

Oh, and just for kicks, this is an interesting read -

https://www.forbes.com/sites/korihale/2022/10/25/millionaire-status-is-on-the-rise-with-52-million-people-joining-the-club/




God Bless America, God Save the King!!!!

Good Luck to Nigerians.
I like your responses.Ill add more meat to the bones later
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 2:20pm On Jan 07
bayelsaowei:
You vote as a non citizen you get prosecuted, you even get deported..its already a crime..

What else do you want?

Are you ok?

Are you smoking something?
Yes I'm not smoking anything.

Nick Shirley & David just confirmed that 1 Somali collects mail-in ballots for entire COMPLEXES — up to 9 BALLOTS per apartment home & send them in for Democrats

“They all vote together and there's ballot harvesting”

“You're talking probably 100,000 or more people & they're ALL living rent free
They're driving a vehicle that YOU PAID FOR”

“They're eating food that you paid for
Everything they do is something
that you paid for!” 😳

Absolutely infuriating
Minnesota is like a 3rd world nation 😳🤡🌎😢
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 11:52am On Jan 07
bayelsaowei:
Non citizens cannot vote in federal and state elections.. it is a crime constitutionally..

What are you blabbing about?

Are you ok?
Saying you can't vote doesn't mean invalid people vote.
Whether it's one person illegally voting ,a law should be in place to prevent that.
What's so hard to understand about that.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 9:59am On Jan 07
bayelsaowei:
Non citizens cant vote..its constitutional..
Why not codify it into law. There is a bill passed by Congress.
Explain this.
SAVE Act.
U.S. House of Representatives: The bill passed the House in a 220-208 vote on April 10, 2025. All 208 Nay votes were democrats.
U.S. Senate: The bill (S. 128 in the Senate) has not been passed and faces significant opposition from Senate Democrats, who have the votes to block it using the filibuster. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer stated in April 2025, "I will not let this noxious bill, the 'SAVE Act,' become law. Every single Senate Democrat, every single one of us is united against it. They need 60 votes. The 'SAVE Act' is dead on arrival".


Don't beat around the bush.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 9:50am On Jan 07
bayelsaowei:
Make I laugh oo.. grin grin

Basilico, you speak like a child that was born yesterday..

I'd leave you in your ignorance.
He takes the oil and uses it to find any reconstruction. He is already taking the oil.
Rocket science?
What does it take for you to be a lil bit reasonable.Whether it's imperialism he won't be using taxpayers money to prop up the Venezuela government
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 9:47am On Jan 07
bayelsaowei:
Money to help Venezuelan people you say?

Like what? They'll have excellent health care, high paying jobs, best affordable housing and modern infrastructures because Trump has usurped their leadership?

Like are you ok?
Listen to the Venezuelans themselves .

THIS🔥 Venezuelan SCHOOLS leftists’ fake crying about “Venezuelan oil”

A Venezuelan woman just said what a lot of people are too polite to say — and she didn’t sugarcoat it.

After reading a message from liberals hand-wringing about oil —
“I don’t even know what this means for Venezuela… I’m scared they’re going to steal the oil and make it worse” —
she snapped back with raw honesty.

“Shut the f* up.** You sound ignorant. Ignorant.”

Woman: "Shut the f**k up. You guys sound so ignorant. Ignorant! All you guys that claim to be worried about the oil, stop the hypocrisy. Stop it right now. Nobody gives a Bleep about the oil. You guys didn’t give a Bleep about the oil that’s been getting stolen not for Venezuela or the people but for Cuba, for Russia, for China, for Iran. Maduro left his own people in poverty and exile for fucking years. It’s safe to say that Venezuelans would have traded the oil for the freedom that we received from the liberation that took place today years ago. As if the oil was doing anything for the Venezuelan people in the first place. People of Venezuela are grateful for what Trump did, and if the price was oil, then we would have paid it a long time ago."


Smug keyboard warriors like you know better than the victims
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 9:30am On Jan 07
bayelsaowei:
This Satan first born dey fear impeachment.

grin grin

He better rig the mid terms..
Yea he should demand every voter should be a legal citizen,the democrats don't want that.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 9:06am On Jan 07
bayelsaowei:
Money to help Venezuelan people you say?

Like what? They'll have excellent health care, high paying jobs, best affordable housing and modern infrastructures because Trump has usurped their leadership?

Like are you ok?
If you look at what happened to Iraq and Afghanistan,there was a trillion dollars poured into the rebuilding plus winning the hearts and minds of the belligerents.The US taxpayers paid for the war effort.
This time whatever will be spent rebuilding or maintaining security will come from their own oil.

That's not rocket science. Congress will not be called upon to appropriate money for Venezuela.
If they want this Hugo Chavez mausoleum rehabilitated they will use their own money

Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 6:40am On Jan 07
Much as they may hate Trump ,he is a genius. Venezuela to turn over $2B to America of oil .Money that will be used to help Venezuela people.
America gets cheap oil and the proceeds go to Venezuela.
"We take the oil" Trump has always blasted Bush and Obama for not taking the oil in Syria and Iraq.

China , Russia,Cuba and Iran are in Venezuela because of the oil too.

Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 3:35pm On Jan 06
basilico:
Maduro elite bodyguard was made up of Cubans.
He had received defence equipment from Russia and China. All destroyed. Including Hugo Chavez mausoleum.
They used a cyber attack to turn off the lights in Caracas.
Unreported widely is that a close Maduro family member was helping CIA track him 24/7 .
He couldn't even use his phone freely,kept changing lines and phones. What kind of life is that ,when you could simply do the right thing and live normally without any fear.
LOL Hugo Chavez mausoleum was bombed.
Probably had an S-300 PMPU air defence hidden inside.
Before and after.

Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 3:28pm On Jan 06
budaatum:
Dump is shaking my faith in the powers of the words "GOVERNMENT SHALL NOT", I daresay.



An old English friend used to say China will exploit us more than Britain did.

My response was, the fact Britain has exploited Nigeria has educated and made us more aware and somewhat vaccinated ue against colonial exploitation to some extent, and he should credit us with brains to know that only ourselves can save ourselves.

I know I exaggerate a bit, since many still seek their own salvation from heaven, but we most definitely on the whole do not think "China will save Africa"!
The Chinese primary interest is raw materials for their industries.
They will close an eye to a dictator murdering his people as long as they get the coveted raw materials.

The West also needs the materials but they also demand good governance. They have laws forcing their overseas companies from engaging in bribing govts ,for exploitative labor like using children, environmental damages during extraction etc.
The Chinese have none of that.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico:
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Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 5:14am On Jan 06
Rubio once said the head of the snake in Venezuela is in Havana.
Cuba has been getting 50000 bpd of refined oil as a gift from Venezuela.It sells off the excess .
Cuba has leased 15000 of theirs to work in Venezuela.

Now the 50,000 bpd is gone. Russia won't help,their tankers won't reach Havana
The Cuba regime will run out of strategic fuel reserves within a month.
As Trump said Cuba falls on its own if Venezuela goes down.

https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/01/05/how-snatching-maduro-screws-up-everyone-elses-plans-lemme-count-the-ways-n3810496
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 4:46am On Jan 06
A40:
Instead of harrassin Trump you guys should be contributing his $25,000,000 bounty fee for capturing the Maduro that Biden-Kamala had on the Wanted list




Same Schumer slandering Trump for doing nothing about Maduro

If Dems didn't have double standards they would have no standards at all. Why is Maduro suddenly Mandela and why are people crying for Venezuela more than Venezuelans. TDS is no joke man
They were using Maduro to hit out at Trump because they didn't expect him to do anything about it.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 6:50pm On Jan 05
benalvino3:
We know from all over the west there are people paid millions to organize protests.
Years ago being Communist to was for the heretics. Now they are very loudly talking down Capitalism and expressing their desire to dismantle America.Thanks to the First Amendment.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 6:42pm On Jan 05
raumdeuter:
Minnesota has always been Blue and Mike Lindell was never going to win or any Republican. Who was the last Republican to win a statewide election in Minnesota?
Probably 20yrs ago
Wherever democrats win,I'm always suspecting foul play. Who was the Minnesota genius who came up on with this law
The rule that a registered Minnesota voter can vouch for up to eight other voters as proof of residence on Election Day is a long-standing provision of Minnesota law that has been in effect for over 50 years.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 6:36pm On Jan 05
raumdeuter:
Who will claim the bounty
+ benalvino3.

The protests that erupted in support of Maduro were not spontaneous. Organized and funded by Marxist non profits like Code Pink.

https://x.com/AsraNomani/status/2007708751768265022

Impressive investigation of the communist socialist networks that also helped Mamdani win.

The socialists have well entrenched saboteurs. They work hand in hand with the people who wrote this
"a kind of grand plan in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and 'sabotaging' its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God's religion is made victorious over all other religions."

Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 4:21pm On Jan 05
Tim Walz drops out the Governor race in 2026.
Thanks to Nick Shirley video.

https://www.kttc.com/2026/01/05/breaking-governor-tim-walz-announces-he-will-not-run-re-election/
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 4:18pm On Jan 05
raumdeuter:
Give them the option of a US visa with citizenship and give them China visa with citizenship

Offer it to 100 Nigerians and check the ratio that will pick one over the other
100% will choose America. Then a few will cry about being racially discriminated
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico:
JD Vance home attacked windows shattered.

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