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www.commsolutionsmn.com-  The federal government has begun to prosecute some of the alleged fraudsters here in Minnesota. The strange thing is that nobody seems to care. Why is that? Our money is being taken before it even gets to our pockets. We could be using it for gas, food, or retirement savings, but it's being stolen right out from under our noses. Nobody seems to care and it's hard to understand why. Corrupt people refuse to leave government on their own. Shame is extinct. Power is more important than ethics. Are we surprised that our system is broken when we refuse to demand that people be held accountabile for their actions? We're on the doorstep of the Republican and Democrat party conventions and we know that the results are always crazy. Will the Republicans do what they need to do to be competetive? Will the Democrats choose the worst or the most worst candidate? Who will out-crazy the other? Our money is on the conventions playing little impact and everyone going to the primaries. The primaries that are happening around the nation have been surprising with Bill Cassidy, Tom Massie, and John Cornyn all lost their primaries. The politicians that have tried to foil President Trump are losing left and right. MAGA and MAHA are as popular as ever with conservatives. We'll have to see how the general elctions go, but the President is off to a great start at solidifying his remaking of the Republican Party.

www.commsolutionsmn.com-  It's no secret that there is no shortage of problems with Congress. Andrew proposes the Richter Plan to try to fix the House of Representatives by preventing gerrymandering and making districts more equitable by moving representatives closer to their people. He also proposes returning the senate back to it's original method of elections. We've been watching the United States put on a master class on how to win a war over in Iran. This isn't so cut and dried, and we're conflicted too. We're generally anti-war here (as is the President) but we know that Iran is an evil empire. They kill protesters, Christians, and anyone else that violates the Qu'ran. Iran is filled with those that demand shariah law and want to spread it everywhere. Worse yet, they are filled with "Twelvers", that are waiting for the 12th mahdi to climb out of the well and bring about the end times, and they are looking to cover the world in chaos to bring him out. This is why Iran is so adamant about getting a nuclear weapon. We have pretty much destroyed their capabilities to fight back or defend themselves, but Iran (predictably) acts like they are willing to negotiate and then they stall. They have nothing to stand on, yet they redfuse to fold. What is going to bring an end to this conflict? What does victory look like? We try to get to the bottom of it. Join the discussion!

www.commsolutionsmn.com- It's election season again. As we came through the caucuses, it began to show us who the serious contenders are. Lisa Demuth, Kendall Qualls, and Mike Lindell rose to the top for the Republican candidates for governor. One of the three comes out of political circles, while the other two (Qualls and Lindell) are outsiders. Meanwhile on the Democrat side, Amy Klobuchar was beat by "uncertain". On the Senate side, Michelle Tafoya seems to be the one to beat as she has the name recognition and the ability to get national attention and money. Angie Craig and Peggy Flannagan in a heated battle for the Dems, but both are pretty weak candidates. Despite all of the craziness in Minnesota, our President has been on a roll, giving a masterclass in how to take down a looming showdown between fascist powers in the west and communist powers in the east and reframing the entire plans to carve up the globe between them. As President Trump has implemented tariffs upon nations to get better deals, we have seen billions of dollars come in and businesses return to the United States. He went to the World Economic Forum and told them exactly how things were going to be: no more cafe standards, no more EV mandates... and Greenland. Greenland is mineral-rich and pivotal in the defense of North America. The president has been out front in his desire for it and walks away from the WEF with a deal to get what he really wanted the whole time. His "Donroe Doctrine" is reordering the western hemisphere, as China has been kicked out of Panama, Maduro (who was posing as the leader of Venezuela after losing the election) has been arrested in an amazing military action, and Cuba is on the brink of collapse. We are watching the reordering of the world powers right before our eyes. What was looking like the susnset of the American experiment, is now looking like it will be a major world power going into the next phase of human history. Let's hope that for the first time ever, a nation in decline can turn it around and be better than it was before.

www.commsolutionsmn.com- It's been a month of rioting, and the Marxists couldn't be happier, at least until Tom Homan arrived on the scene. The word is out. There are sophisticated networks of anarchists, connected by Signal chats that are tracking ICE movements across the city. Will Walz and Frey avoid jail time by cooperating or will they continue to shoot themselves in the foot by blustering and whipping people into a frenzy? We know that Rep. Brad Tabke is involved in coordinating these agitators. Where are the arrests? Michelle Tafoya threw her hat in the ring for US senator from MN to replace Tina Smith (thank goodness). She's a big name and we'll have to find out more about where she stands in the coming weeks. We welcome our friend, John Augustine, of the Legislative Evaluation Assembly of Minnesota to the show. They have just completed their annial 2025 Legislative Review of both legislators and legislation passed. Nine MN Senators were honored for their high legislative scores. The last session was off to a dubious start, when the Democrats refused to show up to work after one of their candidates cheated by not living in his district, holding the entire legislature hostage. They also skipped the swearing in ceremony and illegally had a secret ceremony to swear themselves in. Of course the Republicans allowed them to get away with it so that it is now precedent. The Republicans walked away with a couple of wins. They were able to pass a bill that blocked illegal aliens from getting free health care through MinnesotaCare. They were also able to establish a fraud committee to look into the beginnings of the fraud discovery, before Nick Shirley made MN front and center in national news. MN used to do a budget one year and bonding the next. In true MN form, they can never get enough of our money and have begun to do bonding bills every year, even when planning the budget. There were a number of other bills that are varying degrees of not so great to horrible, including the worker's comp bill that removed important safeguards against fraud. Not really what we need right now. LEA's annual awards banquet is coming up on February 26th.  Please go to lea-mn.org for how to get your tickets now!

www.commsolutionsmn.com- There is so much going on in the world right now. We're watching a possible regime change happen in Iran, unless the mullahs' massacre of protestors causes them to back down. The United States military waltzed into Venezuela to arrest the drug-running, pretend president, Nicholas Maduro, that lost the election and refused to give up power. President Trump has been making moves to reduce the increasing influence of China in our hemisphere, and seems to be three steps ahead of everyone else as he frees Venezuela to make its own decisions and lines up strategic defense through a deal in Greenland. Might the future of America still be saved? Minneapolis is on fire again. Did we learn our lessons to handle it better this time? Of course not! The left distorts and omits facts to present a one-sided story. The press is painting a story that ICE came out of nowhere to kidnap every migrant they can find, going into businesses, schools, and churches. None of that is true. Because of the billions of dollars of fraud in the Somali daycare center scheme, the federal government increased their numbers to investigate, and the same dregs of the city attacked law enforcement, causing the unfortunate death of Renee Good. This caused Antifa members to crawl out from every dark corner of the nation to whip people into a frenzy, attacking federal police and storming into a church to violate the FACE act. Not surprisingly, the Democratic Socialists, Revolutionary Communists, the unions, and the D(ictator) F(raud) L(awlessness) Party keep pressing forward, even in the face of contradictory evidence. They keep trying to protect the murderers, child rapists, and drug traffickers. Why? We're tired of seeing our state in the news. Can we take MN back and return to normal already?

www.commsolutionsmn.com- So, what does President Trump have to do to win the Nobel Peace Prize. The guy has a hand in ending most of the world's major conflicts: Pakistan and India, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda, Armenia and Azerbaijan... and the recent ceasefire achieved between Israel and the Palestinians. It's so blatant, that the winner of the award gave a head nod to President Trump. Don't worry, the system isn't rigged. A lot of this has been due to President Trump's ability to strike deals to give America a leg up in the Artificial Intelligence race. Big corporations have joined with the government to squeeze all of us that aren't at the top. There's some odd year elections happening this year and we're not happy about it. The turnout always stinks and a small group of activists can always win the day. There's two governor's races on the ballot. Jack Citerelli is within striking distance against Sherill, who is a damaged candidate. Winsome Sears should beat Abigail Spannberger, who has been caught up in the whole Jay Jones controversy, but that ain't looking too good either. Mamdani seems to have a lock on the New York mayor's race, and that's not good for the economic capital of the United States. He's illegally taken overseas money for his campaign and is a loud and proud Democratic Socialist which has a very radical agenda. He wants to reduce the police force, freeze rent, and have free public transportation and grocery stores. He's a disaster within moments of holding control of America's largest city. In Minneapolis, Omar Fateh is trying to become "Little Mamdani" as it's mayor. He's also with the DSA and holds the same views. This will give the Minneapolis City Council carte blanche to pass most any radical policy it wants to. If Minneapolis goes communist, the repercussions will reverberate throughout the suburbs as well. The time to prepare is now, because there's a pretty good chance he wins, as Omar Fateh has rigged the Ranked Choice voting system with lesser candidates to block Mayor Frey from getting votes. We really need to dump RCV. The moral of the story is that we need to get rid of RCV and odd year elections. In the meantime, you'd better run to the hills.

www.commsolutionsmn.com- We've been doing this for a long time. I know that the words "conspiracy theory" has been getting thrown around a lot... but some of them are actual conspiracies. If the government is capable of using false pretenses to get us into war (i.e. Gulf of Tonkin), then what won't they do? We see that the Deep State has done all sorts of things that we are only finding out about. We still don't know anything about what happened in Butler, PA. People want to downplay the workings of the Deep State in our government, but look at how all of these players that were in The Center for the American Experiment got into George W Bush's administration and had a response ready to go when 9/11 happened. Our State Department moved into the coup business and Obama's administration helped to orchestrate overthrows in Ukraine, the Arab Spring, Benghazi... it needs to change. The government has also put their influence onto business and education. The college loan business has manipulated the system to make college available to almost everyone... then taught them a bunch of useless information, so long as they can get their hands on all of this money. Then they got in with manufacturing, meat production, and all sorts of other businesses, sending American companies overseas for cheap labor or modifying their output to meet government demand, raking in the government subsidies. They have got involved in the medical industry, deincentivising innovation, and manipulating health insurance. This has caused certain sicknesses to be treated instead of cured and brought on a mentality of whether to treat patients or manage their decline. We have to get government completely out of everything.

www.commsolutionsmn.com- With so many things going up in flames (figuratively and literally) these days, we start the show with some ideas to torch the sport of baseball's customs. We need to ease into the bad news today. In a case of the shifting political landscape in America, Vivek Ramaswami won an endorsement from the Teamster's Union in his bid to become Ohio's governor. Who's next... Pennsylvania? Things aren't looking good for the Dems in the near future and we're too happy to lay it out for you. Kamala Harris' new book is proof positive, as she single-handedly tears down most every Democrat that wants to run for something in the next 3 years. As we predicted months ago, Tim Walz has announced that he is running for a third term as governor of Minnesota. Can he really win? He is wildly unpopular in outstate Minnesota. National trends are toward the Republicans as we watch the unraveling of our society. The streets are less safe. There are billions of dollars of fraud being uncovered under the watch of the Walz administration. We went from a huge surplus to a huge deficit. As predicted, Ranked Choice Voting is ruining our electoral system. The Democratic Socialist candidate in Minneapolis is running a mayoral slate to take second and third votes away from the current mayor. We've got a government shutdown, but for how long. The Dems refuse to negotiate unless health insurance for illegals is included. The Republicans are winning the PR battle for now... but we'll see what happens. Things are looking good for the Republicans in the midterms. We'll see if that makes any difference. Lastly, we're in a war over speech. Even some "conservatives" have begun to talk about hate speech. We can never go down that road. Speech has to remain free... likewise, if you're Jimmy Kimmel, you're not being censored. You're just being fake news.

www.commsolutionsmn.com- As we record this on September 11th, we recall the events of 9/11/2001. It's still fresh in our memories, despite that it's fading from the consciousness of too many. How do we keep this from happening again if we forget? Our conversation takes a turn towards the unfortunate news from September 10th, 2025. We lost a brother in Charlie Kirk at the hands of another leftist with an agenda. We take time to remember Charlie and his impact on our nation. Charlie went to college campuses to challenge liberal indoctrination, because someone had to do it. He changed the thought process of so many young men that felt like they were the villain in woke world. They were tired of it and Charlie gave them a way out. He was up front about his faith, his beliefs, and what was important in life. Now, in the wake of his death, thousands are returning to church and promising to stand and carry Charlie's vision. People on the left are celebrating and justifying his death. It's abhorrent. These wokesters are dangerous and something has to change fast. We need to stand against the darkness that seems to be enveloping us and be a source of light in our world. Let us join together to rekindle faith, stare evil in the face, and take back our culture.

www.commsolutionsmn.com-  Late night tv used to be a staple for people from across America. There were moments that we all saw and talked about the next day. Today, no one watches any of it. It's become one-sided, hateful, partisan, and just bad. It looks like there is no saving it either. People aren't watching network tv, let alone late night. Here we are down the road from a crazy man shooting up a Minneapolis Catholic church/school, killing 2 kids. There are things we know because of the YouTube videos from the murderer. The left is in this insane state, where it victimizes the suspects, almost heroizing them. Psychotropic drugs are destroying minds and personalities while we keep pushing for more. Someone is clearly on the wrong side. Why is this even contested? We're used to watching the Republicans turn gold into lead, but the Democrats have found themselves in the peculiar position of being incredibly awful. Whether they are cozying up to socialists, lionizing criminals, protecting the COVID vaccine, or defending the policies that most people hate, they are standing for every lousy and destructive thing they can conjure up. The party is hemorrhaging voters and can't raise money. Blue collar unions are courting Republicans as Dems support industry killing policies. Blue states also face losing electoral votes, as red states look to gain them. We can't get ahead of ourselves, but things are about to get interesting.

www.commsolutionsmn.com- Our former president, Joe Biden, has had more and more questions rising to the surface about his use of the autopen during his term. He supposedly authorized hundreds of pardons, but they were all signed with the autopen. Did President Biden even authorize these pardons? We may never know. Congress is trying to gather more information about his medical state and his Doctor stonewalled the committee. We can't get any answers on anything. This is what leads to conspiracy theories. We can see that nothing is adding up and everyone acts as though we're the crazy ones. Enough already. The Big Beautiful Bill has finally passed. There were plenty of necessary things that had to get done. The Trump tax cuts were made permanent. The border got some much-needed help to become even more solid, despite already record low immigration numbers. They passed the no tax on tips, overtime, social security, and car loans. The bill does not sunset the provisions of the Green New Deal fast enough. It raises the debt ceiling and proposes new spending without cuts to offset it. The DOGE cuts were close on the heels, but thankfully have passed in the wake of the BBB. The Genius Act is also right on the heels of the BBB, creating a stable coin (a crypto currency that is linked to our dollar). We have to make sure that the Fed isn't able to program the currency to manage the economy and our ability to buy and sell.

www.commsolutionsmn.com - It's been a wild news cycle. Look at what has happened here in Minnesota with the shooting of Rep Melissa Hortman, Senator John Hoffman and their spouses. The level of angst and violence is out of control. It's got to stop. Our condolences go out to the Hoffmans and the familiy of the Hortmans. The mob mentality is reaching dangerous levels and it's hitting too close to home. We still don't know much about the criminal. We still don't understand how this isn't murder one with all of the planning that went into it? Let's speak up and stop the violence. As we remark in the podcast, the Israel/Iran situation escalated really quickly. We know what happened already, but we give our thoughts leading up to the (spoiler alert) eventual bombing of Iran by the United States. What is the thinking behind the attacks? Why are so many conservatives breaking left on supporting Israel? What will happen in the aftermath of all of this chaos? Also, we see the left (again) raising up all of their well-funded, astroturf riots with cars burning in Los Angeles and the "No Kings" protests across the nations. How can we say they are astroturf? Because there is a money trail coming from D.C., our states, and our cities to non-profit groups like CHIRLA (who are at the head of the LA riots) to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars ($450 million just from the Dept of Homeland Security). This is frightening, because we're funding color revolutions that are designed to overthrow the entire western way of life. You'd better get on top of this now.

www.commsolutionsmn.com-  Karine Jean Pierre, Joe Biden's former Press Secretary, just left the Democrat Party. Is this a change of heart? Nope. She just wanted to come to the aid of her former boss and name names in her new book. The media and everyone else turned a blind eye as she lied and gave one poor answer after another. Now they are coming for her. There's been little to no self reflection on the left side of the aisle. Where can they go from here. The House passed the Big, Beautiful Bill, and it's laying with the Senate. It's not a great bill, but is it an ok first step? There are some Republicans in the Senate that refuse to back it, so will it pass? The Trump tax cuts are in it, but there's not a lot of spending cuts. Some of the DOGE cuts are in it, but not all of them. There's some Green New Deal cuts, but not a lot. Whay aren't Trump's Executive Orders, like abolishing the Dept of Education being codified into law? Instead, we're looking at raising the debt ceiling which is dangerous in our current economic situation. Who is going to buy our debt if we keep taking on more? We have one shot and had better do the right thing to get the economy moving. We are also watching a rise in antisemitism once again. The old hatreds are coming back as students are raging on campuses. We are see violence being accepted as Jews are being shot and fire-bombed  in the street. There is so much ignorance and it seems to fuel the aggression against Jewish people. Hamas steals the aid that comes into Gaza, so that they can sell the food on the black market to buy weapons and dig tunnels. Yet, Israel gets all of the blame for the people having nothing. Why does this keep coming back? Why are the Jews always the target of hate? We delve into history looking for answers so that maybe we can begin to discuss some answers.

www.commsolutionsmn.com-The news is starting to come out about how ill Joe Biden was as president. The whole world could see it, even though the media was denying it. Jake Tapper might have released a book now, but where was he while Biden was still in office? We just found out that Joe Biden has prostate cancer and that it has metastacized to the bone. With as bad as it's been, he most likely had cancer for quite a while. So this begs the question: what did the people around him know and when did he know it? This isn't the first time that this has happened. Just like Jill Biden, Edith Wilson and Eleanor Roosevelt kept their husbands' medical states hidden from Congress... and America. So who was more at fault- the First Lady, his advisors, or was everyone so busy trying to stay in power that they all hid the truth from us? No one is supposed to wield the President's power except the President of the United States. Who was running our country? We need answers and people need to go to prison. Use the 25th Amendment, if it's warranted, but you can't hide behind a weakened president and use the power for yourself.

www.commsolutionsmn.com- For the most part, our local media is just the worst. Our illustrious governor has been touting our increased graduation rates in the state of Minnesota and our media outlets have been singing his praises as though he is the second coming of Woodrow Wilson. The problem? They haven't done one ounce of research to find out why more people are graduating. It doesn't take much effort to find out that the graduation standards have been lowered. All it takes is a little slight of hand to fool everyone into applauding for a complete illusion. President Trump has has an historic first 100 days. The Republicans hold the White House, the Senate, and the House of Representatives. They should just have to come in after President Trump and codify his Executive Orders into law. They have passed two things in 100 days, the Laken Riley Act and the continuing resolution. Where is Congress? They have promised President Trump a big, beautiful bill and it's still stuck in Congress. This bill won't even address Trump's "no taxes on tips" and "no taxes on overtime" campaign promises. There are a couple of bills floating around about the Gulf of America and repealing the Patriot Act, but will they ever get through committee?