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I want to take a look at a couple of clips, both of which went viral. The first is from the US House Oversight Committee, and it was from January 7th, 2026, but it just recently took off.
"Does largescale Somali immigration make Minnesota stronger or weaker?"
"Certainly stronger."
"Certainly stronger. Do you know what percentage of Somali headed households in Minnesota on food stamps?"
"No."
"54%. Do you know what that number is for? Okay. So, it's a claim. Does it make a place better or worse? Does it make it stronger or weaker? So, I mean, I would have asked what he meant by that, but okay, it's it's pretty obvious. He says that it makes it stronger, that it makes it better, but yet he doesn't know the basic facts about it. The line of questioning that he uses seems eminently reasonable to me. Think about when you watch this like what is going through this guy's mind. Go ahead."
"Native Minnesota headed households."
"Well, to be clear, a majority of the..."
"It's seven. It's 7%. There's a big difference between 54% and 7%, is there not?"
"Excuse me, sir. Could I could I answer the question?"
"Let me let me move on. We've got a lot of questions here. What?"
"Pause."
"He should have said yes, there is. That's honest. He should have said yes, there is. But he's trying to defend a belief. I think he wants to say that Somalians who were born here are different from I think that this is the claim he's trying to make are different from Somalians who've moved here. If you parse that data out, that's actually not true. But listen to this line of questioning, it's so interesting, but [snorts] his response, this is how not to answer questions. Go ahead, read."
"Of Somali headed households in Minnesota on Medicaid."
"I don't know."
"It's 73%. Do you know what that number is for Minnesota native households?"
"Again, you're using the phrase Minnesota native households, but the majority..."
"The number is 18%. That's a quite an astounding difference. I think we would..."
"Can I answer the question, please?"
"Let me ask you one more and then we can go on to that."
"I think he should have allowed him to answer the question and it's obvious what he was going to say is the difference between people born in the US who are Somalis and the people who have come here. But again, remember he's defending a claim about which he does not know even rudimentary ideas [snorts] or rudimentary statistics. I think he's defending that claim because he thinks it's a moral claim. So his defense of that claim isn't based on evidence. It's based upon is my guess is conjecture fear of being called a racist. The idea of this kind of somehow radical egalitarianism. Okay. Play."
"What percentage of Somali headed households are on welfare in general?"
"I don't know."
"It's 81%. What about uh let me just ask you after 10 years of being in the United States, what percentage of Somali immigrant households are on continue to be on welfare?"
"I don't know."
"So that's a key metric after 10 years of being in the United States. And he gives I don't know if those numbers are accurate. I assume they are. They they could. I haven't Excuse [clears throat] me. I haven't looked into those numbers, but that's that's astonishing. So if those numbers are true, then whether or not Somali make the community better or stronger, you'd have to have something that overrode those like, oh, but they make incredible contribution to society in this way. Yes, there's but but he doesn't have that and he doesn't make [clears throat] that defense because I think that it's purely ideologically driven and he doesn't even know the first thing about what he doesn't even know the rudimentary information. That's It's astonishing. This is just a great example of a conspicuously ideological belief."
"The number is 78%. So even after 10 years, 78% of uh Somali immigrant households continue to be on welfare. Do you know what that number is for native Minnesota headed households?"
"Again, you're using..."
"Non-Somali immigrant-headed households."
"If I can just answer the question, you're using the phrase native motans. The majority of Somali motans are as motan as any of us. They were born in the United States. It's only 8,000 of the 108,000."
"And nevertheless, the the welfare usage is astoundingly different. Let me ask you again. Does that make Minnesota stronger or weaker?"
"Again, I I I'd like the opportunity."
"He should answer the question directly. I don't think that's an unfair question. He should have said it is worse to have people on welfare. It is worse to have people defended on the state. Higher rates of criminality are worse. But he doesn't he doesn't do any of those things. And he doesn't do any of those things because he wants to defend a proposition. My my assumption is because the people he wants to gain some kind of virtue points within his community. This is just astonishingly dishonest to me. Go..."
"The opportunity to answer the question here."
"So again, the majority of Somali motans are born in the United States as I understand it."
"Okay. What what what what percentage of of of working age Somalians who have been in the US for 10 years or more?"
"10 years or more. How many of them speak English very well?"
"I don't know."
"About half. The answer is about half. That seems pretty low, doesn't it?"
"Again, I I keep trying."
"Okay. That seems pretty low, doesn't it? Yes. Or I don't know if it seems low. You'd have to take a look at what other countries people come from and if they've been here for 10 years and so then you have some kind of control group. You could use the Somali. This is only difficult if you're an ideologue. This is only difficult if you're beholden to some kind of set of values lauding Somali for whatever reason, fear of being a racist or I don't know some kind of weird egalitarianism. Go play."
"Something that makes our our country stronger to me and I think most Americans would agree with me on that. need to move..."
"Any stop any sane person any sane person would say unless you truly wanted to destroy the whole society and then you'd say yes we want more people on welfare we need higher rates of criminality we need to increase the number of criminogenic factors any sane person would say those things so and again I realize that this is a hearing and I realize that this isn't set up for discourse but there are better ways to answer this question. I mean, look, we we have to start talking honestly about immigration, about the fact that some cultures make more contributions to the treasury and have lower incarceration rates than others. And I've put out on X and other platforms. I'm completely opposed to people saying, "These people are bad. These people are bad." And they don't list positive immigrant groups, most notably uh Sikhs and Japanese people. So, they they lump all immigrants in one category. I think that's a danger. I think that this is a really interesting example of how not to answer questions and what makes a country stronger or weaker. I don't see any argument saying that this can make a country stronger. I if there is one, I would let me know what it is. I'm totally sincere with you. You let me know what it is. I would love to know what the argument for having more people on welfare, not being able to speak English, higher rates of criminality, uh, more people pulling from the Treasury. I would love to know what that argument is. And until you can speak openly and honestly about that, that is a recipe for not not only not leading to human flourishing, but to throwing the whole society in a toilet. All right, here's another clip I want to take a look at. This is I I found this to be so interesting. Same thing governed by an ideology of what someone believes they should and should not say for whatever reason. Community to belong for virtue points play."
"Regards to the lady from the Green Party, you just stated that uh you've seen racial hatred in the country. Could you please specify where that hatred is coming from?"
"Uh not quite sure what you mean. Do you mean from the general public or..."
"Well, she said there's racial hatred in the country and I'd just like to know where she thinks it's coming from."
"Pause."
"I was talking about the fact that there is a rise in..."
"Okay, that is a completely reasonable question. They're talking about Jews. What can be done to protect the Jewish community? She's making a claim that there's a rise in racial hatred, which is factually correct. They're trying to solve a problem. What can we do to protect the Jewish community or any any in this case it's Jewish community? It doesn't matter who Somali any community. Where is this hatred coming from? The only way you can protect the Jewish community or community of your choice is if you know if you can identify the source. Because if you can identify the source, you can intervene in what the problem is. But if you can't identify the source, if you have no clue of where this is coming from, how on earth are you going to protect the Jewish community? Play."
"I was talking about the fact that there is a rise in um racially motivated crime, that kind of thing. There's more and more hate crimes. There's more reports of people feeling uncomfortable, unsafe."
"Yeah."
"There's more division."
"You said there's racial hatred. Where do you think it's coming from?"
"Okay. What what are you getting at exactly?"
"Well, where where do you think this racial hatred is coming from?"
"What do you mean? What specific sector?"
"I can actually say that where I think it's coming from actually is that we live in ripoff Britain and people are having a really really tough time. They're struggling because their bills are going up. They're struggling because they can't afford their..."
"Okay, so the racial hatred is coming from bad economics. The racial hatred is coming from. Okay. So, just think to yourself, always think as a disposition to sharpen the saw as CVY says, and have habits of highly effective people. Always think as a disposition. Okay. Let's say that's true. What would that mean? My next question, and I saw this clip this morning, my next question, which he didn't ask, would be, "Oh, wow. That's that's interesting. So, is the racial hatred coming from poor people? Is that who this is coming from? We know who it's coming from. We She knows who it's coming from. He knows who it's coming from. I know who it's coming from. You know who it's coming from. The moderator knows who it's coming from. Every [ __ ] person in this video knows in even watching me knows exactly where this is coming from. This is coming from radical Islamists. This is exactly where the hatred of Jews is coming from. But nobody is talking about it. She's now talking about poor people. Great. Let's hit play read."
"They're struggling because they can't afford their rents. Um that I I actually think this is the reality. They're struggling because food is now so expensive. It's eye watering. What that means is that what that means is that there's then a tendency to find someone to blame. And I think that there have been narratives. Uh Zia's party is definitely one of these narratives like the people propagating these narratives that will point the finger at certain communities to blame them when it is not the fault of those communities. So I actually think that the economic..."
"So I would have said oh that's interesting. So are the poor people pointing a finger at Jews and is that where this racial hatred is coming from? Who is responsible for the attacks on Jews? So you can frame it in terms of a question. Would a good way be to figure out who's responsible for the attacks on Jews to see who's arrested? Would that be a good way? What would be a good way to figure out who's responsible for the attacks on Jews? How could we figure that out? Could we survey? Like again, everybody watching this video, every [ __ ] person knows exactly who the culprit is. Nobody's willing to say but but watch what happens now. Go..."
"Economic situation, which is disastrous at the moment is a is a big reason why hate is on the rise. So that's why we need to solve the economic problems. We need to end ripoff Britain, make sure ordinary people are having a better life dayto-day, not struggling so much. But we also need to really focus on community."
"So in other words, if you ended what she calls ripoff Britain, if somehow you solved certain economic, I don't know, cost of living, inflation, whatever you want to call it. I would have said so that would mean the economic hatred would the racial hate would go down, the hatred of Jews would go down. So like there's this person is either completely delusional and I mean completely ideologically beholden or she's lying. I think she's lying. I think she knows exactly who's committing crimes against Jews. She won't say it. And again, you can also say radical Islamists a fraction of a fraction of percent of Muslims. It's coming from radical Islamists. That would be a person with whom you could have a conversation. That would be far more honest than lying what she's doing now. Play..."
"And living well together. Okay, let me agent. But you you're not prepared to pinpoint where it's coming from. But there you go. Thank you."
"We hear you."
"And then the moderator steps in. But he was right. She's not prepared to talk about where it's coming from. So if you're not prepared to talk about where it's coming from, how are you going to protect your Jewish community? The only other possibility, and I'm not saying that she believes this, is that she is a pathological Jew hater, that she actually hates Jews and she doesn't want to say where the hatred is coming from because she wants more dead Jews. I don't I would certainly hope that's not the case. I don't think it's the case. I don't I don't know her, but we have we have uncovered some some pretty nasty things from from specifically in Matt Goodwin's campaign about things that people have said about Jews. Anyway, the the idea is that there is an ideology operating here. People are not being honest about the the nature of the problem. They're afraid. I think that in their brains, the worst thing that could happen is that they could be called racists or they could be said to undermine social cohesion. You can also think about it like this. Any of the data that the guy gave in the first video when he was when he was doing the the Q&A, any of that data could be perceived as right-wing because data and evidence has become a right-wing thing. And anything that upsets an ideology, oh, group cohesion, but if we start talking about data and evidence and facts, that could upset group cohesion. Again, it's a failure to be honest about the nature of the problem. There is a crisis of honesty in this country. There is a crisis of people not saying what they mean. The same thing for black-on-black crime rates. My friend Matt Thornton said to me, "The people who are not willing to have this conversation, don't give a [ __ ] about young dead black men." The longer you're not honest about the problem, both the more difficult it makes it to solve and the more extremists will come in with radical solutions that are, you know, like not only not helping the problem, but actually exacerbating the problem. So I think these two clips are really really interesting because they show the effect of ideology on people in the fact that it warps their mind. The the morality over overrides what their any other considerations and they basically just lie cuz yeah I do think she was she's lying. Either that or the only possibility she's completely delusional. Okay, if you like these, let me know and I'll keep doing more reviews. Thanks a lot. Hey, did you know only half of [music] you watching are subscribed? If you're enjoying the content, hit the subscribe button to keep the videos coming.