{"id":62248,"date":"2025-12-30T19:31:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T00:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=62248"},"modified":"2025-12-30T19:31:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T00:31:11","slug":"a-well-informed-citizenry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=62248","title":{"rendered":"A Well Informed Citizenry…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thomas Jefferson said, “A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny.” (source here<\/a>)<\/p>\n

I am not sure we are currently meeting that criteria.<\/p>\n

One of the major stories that finally got national attention this week was the rampant fraud in the Somali community in Minnesota. This is not a new story. The story finally went national due to a video posted on YouTube by Nick Shirley. How many other states that we have not heard about are also guilty of medicaid fraud or other fraud in government programs? I haven’t heard any real outrage from the major media.<\/p>\n

In an article posted at Hot Air<\/a> on Monday, Duane Patterson<\/a> states:<\/p>\n

Now I know what you’re saying. Media isn’t covering this new scandal. In fact, the Star-Tribune and Pioneer Press, the two papers of the Twin Cities, haven’t spent so much as a column inch on the story. The glorious thing about 2025, and a trend that shows it will accelerate going into 2026, is that people are not getting their news from old leftist media anymore. That 42-minute Nick Shirley video I showed you earlier? 90 million views in two days.\u00a090 million!<\/em> Not bad for a 23-year-old kid doing the unthinkable – reporting and journalism.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Alphabet networks and Minnesota local stations will continue to ignore the story into oblivion, like they did with Powerline’s Medicaid fraud scandal. But the truth has this funny way of getting out. As white hot as the internet is with Nick Shirley’s reporting, Fox News jumped in over the weekend, and by the time they interviewed him about the Somali daycare scandal, another 10 million had seen his video on YouTube.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

What is happening in Minnesota is not an isolated incident. At what point will American voters become so disgusted with fraud that they will ‘throw the current bums out’ and elect a new set of bums?<\/p>\n

How many college students who supported “Palestine” in campus protests actually knew what happened on October 7th or how the hostages taken were treated? How many young female American college students understand that rape was part of that day and part of the treatment of the hostages? Would they still support “Palestine” if they knew? On Monday, The U.K. Daily Mail<\/a> posted an article that included the testimony of one of the Hamas hostages from October 7th. Where are the women protesting the idea that rape is a valid part of war?<\/p>\n

We will not survive as a republic if people don’t begin to discover their own alternative sources of news rather than relying on the mainstream media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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