Social media platforms have flooded with memes and viral jokes surrounding the “Quality Learing Center” after conservative YouTuber Nick Shirley’s Minnesota daycare fraud video spread widely online.
The footage of seemingly empty daycare facilities that allegedly received millions in state and federal funds had a sign up with the word “learning” misspelt as “learing.”
In the 42-minute investigative video, Shirley highlights a sign reading “Quality Learing Center,” a licensed daycare centre that appeared shuttered on a weekday with no children visible, despite allegedly receiving significant taxpayer funds.
In an exclusive interview with The New York Post, a resident says that he had never seen children enter the place before December 29. According to the resident, the parking lot was always empty.
In the video, which was released on December 26, Shirley is seen asking the person answering the door to the center, “You do realize there’s supposed to be 99 children here in this building, and there’s no one here?”
Republican House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, who represents St. Cloud and the Twin Cities suburbs, attacked Governor Tim Walz in response to the video.
He wrote on X, “4 million dollars of hard-earned tax dollars going to an education center that can’t even spell learning correctly. Care to explain this one, Tim Walz?”
No word yet if the Quality Learing Center is expanding its franchises, though the Second City seems like a logical next step:
STOP BLAMING REAGAN: That’s the title of a column on the American Spectator by Donald Devine regarding the factional eruptions on the Right. Devine, for whom I worked as a Reagan political appointee at the Office of Personnel Management, makes a VIP point about Reagan:
“But blaming today’s problems on Ronald Reagan, as many New Rightists do, does not make sense. This old academic agrees that Republicans and many conservative organizations became part of the problem. But for Reagan himself, his prosperity lasted well beyond his two terms so that a following Democratic president conceded that the ‘era of big government was over.’ This lasted 40 years, with Reagan-type conservative opposition remaining through this period. But it was not primarily by politicians but by popular media leaders like Rush Limbaugh and Robert Novak, in think tanks and activist organizations, and even by some intellectuals.”
The two Bush presidencies are the real villains in this story because there is a mostly straight line from them to Barack Obama, according to Devine:
“If a scapegoat is necessary, it is the presidents Bush. First, George H.W., who in accepting his presidential nomination, promised a government ‘more compassionate’ than his predecessor’s. Then George W. Bush, who responded to the Great Recession with a plan called ‘Market Stabilization’ and years of almost zero interest rates, rather than market capitalism. George W. also adopted a new entitlement program, waged losing wars, and domestic policies that led to Barack Obama, all of which led to the institutionalization of today’s failures.”
One element Devine doesn’t address is the rise of anti-semitism on the Right. Even so, Devine — who by the way is that rare person who combines proficiencies as a professor, campaign strategist and political manager of bureaucracy — is somebody who could serve effectively as a bridge among key factions, including perhaps those entirely unexpected murmurs of a revival of something like classical liberalism.
Since 2015, Canada has tripled its Indigenous spending – paying more than on national defense. Over those same years, Indigenous people have suffered a catastrophic collapse in health and well-being: on average almost a full decade of lost life expectancy. https://t.co/m7tVtXbe5S
I’m perhaps a trifle suspicious that just as lucrative new obesity drugs are appearing, the definition of obesity is being broadened to include the vast majority of the populace.
IT’S COME TO THIS:
OMG
The transgender t*rrorist who shot up a Nashville school reportedly used federal student grant money to buy the guns according to NYP
You can buy guns with student grants… Just imagine how much student loan fraud there is… pic.twitter.com/uFsffiste3
The Somalis and many other groups were imported, given government handouts and allowed to do fraud without prosecution in order to ensure that a Democrat would win the election in that district. https://t.co/WqJozR1w9A
Beege Welborn covers too much ground in this piece to do it justice with an excerpt, so just read the whole thing.
But the I Told You So’s are going to be epic.
GREAT MOMENTS IN GNOSTICISM:
There’s some understudied phenomenon where midwits observe a genius discover some (rare!) thing that is counter intuitive,& so come to believe they can impress people by claiming counter intuitiveness on ordinary intuitive things, like a cargo cult “defunding police lowers crime”
What part of the left isn’t a form of modern-day gnosticism? But, “If the right wing becomes politically and culturally ascendant and is seen as having that sort of transformative capability it’s going to attract a lot of these sorts of people. It’s generally reasonable to expect that absent strict ideological regimentation (a capability the right doesn’t have) these people will act like lunatics — they don’t really care about concrete policy objectives and are more interested in finding a RW substitute for the left wing identity gnosis that failed them:”
Eric Hoffer wrote a famous mid century book called ‘The True Believer’ where he described the sorts of people who are attracted to mass political movements and what motivates them.
Very often these are broken people who are drawn in by the *possibility* of personal…
BACKING BARI: Ooops, I said stuff on Jeff Norman’s podcast. Honestly, the whole thing stinks. As I said in the clip:
Editors’-in-Chief have the final word (that was ignored with the reporter’s public and heavily promoted temper tantrum). Newsrooms are not democracies;
The critics and reporter are too cute by half to swap “requests for comment” and “requests for interview.” They are not the same thing;
There is some lying going on here with regard to efforts to seek comment, getting more that 300 words from the government, yet ending the story with “they refused to be interviewed.”
Elon Musk sounded the alarm on all of this…and his dealerships were burned, his life threatened & he was even harassed & ridiculed by Tim Walz, Ilhan Omar, AOC…the very people enabling this fraud.
ROBERT SPENCER: Minnesotans Complained to RINO Congressman Years Ago About Somalis. This Is the Response They Got. “Now that those Somalis have perpetrated a multi-billion-dollar welfare fraud scheme, Emmer’s callous indifference to their concerns looks even worse than it did when he first yawned in the faces of his worried constituents, and chided them for not being more open to diversity.”
My Tesla and SpaceX shares, which are almost all my “wealth”, only go up in value as a function of how much useful product those companies produce and service.
This means my “wealth” can only increase due to producing more products and services for the public.… https://t.co/F7fgdQO4no
SPACE IS HARD, BUT SO IS CLEANLINESS: ‘Stop and re-check everything’: Scientists discover 26 new bacterial species in NASA’s cleanrooms. “Earlier this year, scientists identified more than two dozen previously unknown bacterial species lurking in the Kennedy Space Center cleanrooms in Florida, where NASA assembled its Phoenix Mars Lander in 2007. The discovery showed that despite constant scrubbing, harsh cleaning chemicals and extreme nutrient scarcity, some microbes evolved a suite of genetic tricks that allowed them to persist in these punishing environments.”
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