Monthly episodes discussing this topic, 2025-11 to 2025-12.
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The massive scale of welfare fraud in Minnesota suggests that elected officials in that district likely had knowledge of or were complicit in the activity.
“In order for all this to happen, you have to have complicit politicians because when the fraud is this big, when this many people seem to know about it, it seems almost impossible that you don't have elected officials who knew about it.”
The Ben Shapiro Show · Dec 2025 · 2 episodes · 1.3M views on this topicGovernor Tim Walz is personally responsible for the massive welfare fraud in Minnesota because he was aware of it and failed to take action.
“Tim Walls, in my opinion, is personally responsible for funding al-Shabaab cuz he knew all of this was going on.”
Valuetainment · Dec 2025 · 1 episode · 957K views on this topicHasan Piker advocates for the consistent, thorough investigation and prosecution of all welfare fraud, regardless of the perpetrator's demographic background, while rejecting the exploitation of these
“I am in favor of prosecuting everyone that does it, regardless of what their background is. There is no, "Oh, wait, but they're Somali Americans, so we shouldn't prosecute them." I don't that's not how I play this game. It's ridiculous.”
HasanAbi · Dec 2025 · 1 episode · 156K views on this topicThe United States must reduce welfare programs because widespread fraud within the system is currently being used to fund terrorist groups like al-Shabaab.
“So what does this mean for us? What do we conclude? Were we right 20 years ago in the super libertarian neocon infused days or is the new right right? Is the new new right? What is where are we what are we supposed to think about this? The point to take away is you cannot divorce economic policy fro”
Michael Knowles · Nov 2025 · 1 episode · 37K views on this topicTaxpayer funds were exploited through a fraudulent scheme in Minnesota, necessitating that the program be shut down and the involved individuals sent back to Somalia.
“Shut down the program. Send the Somali back to Somalia, wherever they want to go. Let's get rid of them. And then clean up Minnesota and the rest of our taxpayer dollars.”
Pop & Politics · Nov 2025 · 1 episode · 6K views on this topicPositions are extracted from transcripts by a model and may misattribute who said what. Every quote links to the episode it came from.