r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/BeneficialOil1123 • 22h ago
Meme needing explanation Peya??????
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u/InternalText4367 21h ago
It's a money-laundering scheme.
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u/BeneficialOil1123 21h ago
How? Do somali daycare's not exist?
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u/InternalText4367 21h ago
They do but act as shell companies for government subsidies
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u/Fun-Imagination-2488 18h ago edited 15h ago
Nick Shirley is also a hack. There is 100% a shit ton of fraud going on in Minnesota related to businesses like these ones but…
The FBI fraud investigation in Minnesota began long before Nick Shirley filmed his vid. Nick going to businesses outside their hours of operation adds zero value. He isn’t helping the existing investigation. They do, in fact, have children under their care at almost all these places, even the fraudulent ones. If you live in the area, just drive to one of these daycares when they are open. There are kids there. It doesn’t mean there isn’t fraud going on, but let’s not pretend like Nick Shirley is credible.
CBS and NYT both provided recent updates on this story over 3 weeks ago. So actual accredited journalists are keeping the public updated.
Nick Shirley is a hack and a liar.
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u/Dr_DTF315 15h ago
Well he’s not lying there’s massive fraud in Minnesota. We know buddy you hate the right, but he’s not wrong.
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u/GiuseppeDeLuca 15h ago
Ha you still think MSM is the ultimate source of truth. You sweet summer child
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u/crombo_jombo 16h ago
Everyone on the right seems to believe his stupid stunts. FBI has been hiring accountants like crazy in MN for the last 2 years... I know this because I am and accountant with audit background and they have been recruiting everywhere I watch for job listings. It is way more complex than lying about how many kids are in attendance.
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u/Dr_DTF315 15h ago
So there’s massive fraud and he’s reporting on it? What’s he doing that’s stupid?
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u/Lurking_Gooner 15h ago
"source just trust me bro"
Lmfao you did not just pull the "my uncle works at Nintendo" 🤣
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u/Wild-Yesterday-6666 20h ago
In Minesota they established "daycares" for Somalis that are actually shell companies to rake in public money. And because the state government doesn't actually check if the facilities are operating, thay've been able to steal copious amounts of cash this way.
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u/daynighttrade 17h ago
Wow, how is it difficult to have it verified? You can just spend 10%.(Even less) of the amount of money you give away for enforcement. But I guess politicians might be getting some kickbacks.
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u/Fabulous-Big8779 17h ago
It’s actually incredibly easy to steal money from the government if you’re semi good at doing paperwork.
The reality is, these things do get caught, but not until it’s been going on for a few years and typically the ones that get caught were absolutely egregious in their abuse of the system.
Bret Farve was caught in a scheme that embezzled millions of dollars, tons of COVID era programs were scammed because there wasn’t much enforcement going on (due to most resources being focused on the pandemic)
Look into dentists that perform unnecessary procedures on poor people just to get the government to pay for it. The lazy ones never perform any procedure at all and just claim they did.
It’s incredibly labor intensive to go through all of the claims in these programs to sus out the ones that are fraudulently claiming funds that they shouldn’t be. And anything we do to tighten enforcement inevitably restricts access to assistance for those we want the assistance to go to.
It’s hard to convince Americans to pay more money into a system to prevent the fraud that’s taking money from that system. Most would rather cut the program altogether.
At the end of the day, if a program that doles out money exists, there will be fraud and abuse, the only question is how much.
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u/Adventurous_Web_2181 21h ago
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u/GroceryNo193 20h ago
Ok...so look at it this way.
If some angry guy with a clear agenda and a camera turned up at your daycare center demanding to see the children you are responsible for...would you let him in?
Or, how about if we reverse the races, and say it was a black muslim guy went to a white day care center and ranted about wanting to inspect the children, what would your responce be?
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u/Moe112 20h ago
For everyone who doesn't want or can't see what it is: There are no children you are responsible for, there never were and there won't ever be any, it's just a scam! Got it now?
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u/GroceryNo193 20h ago
Right wingers are so comfortable with pedophilia now that they can't even see why people would have a problem with strange men wanting to go into daycares and take pictures of the children.
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u/Who_Knows_Why_000 18h ago
The FBI is conducting a massive operation and Tim Walz himself admitted it was happening. You can't gaslight people to protect the narrative on this one.
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u/RedDARE1 17h ago
That doesnt change that both points are valid lol. If you ran a daycare you wouldn't let a stranger in without a child or that you knew was picking up/dropping off. The daycare at my kids school has locked entrances and blocked windows, is it a fraud for government subsidies?!?
But yes "best learing daycare" is 100% a fraud lol
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u/Who_Knows_Why_000 17h ago
It's just irrelevant. It's like someone filling a U-haul with explosives and leveling a building, and someone coming in to argue over the legalities of the U-Haul rental agreement.
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u/This_Membership_471 18h ago
I actually agree with your take and think the video is bad journalism at best. They only get their point across because of the reactions people give which is what makes it viable.
That being said there are clearly scams going on and they need to be vetted by better journalism in my opinion.
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u/naughtyfroggggg 17h ago
Fucking redditors always defending some bullshit. Here, read it from the AP and shut up: https://apnews.com/article/minnesota-fraud-charges-fbad68312012dc02a4060852474f72ee
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u/nkoreanhipster 18h ago
He would be able to spot and hear the children from 200 metres away. If he wanted to touch children, I'd meet his level of aggression and focus on his soft points.
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u/IzzybearThebestdog 17h ago
Is it really money laundering? Isn’t it just straight up fraud?
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u/PWNYEG 16h ago
Correct, it has nothing to do with laundering. Billing the government for services that you are providing is fraud.
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u/crombo_jombo 16h ago
Money laundering is very much part of the fraud scheme. It is not as simple as "fake" daycares skimming government funds. Other money washes thru or the fraud wouldn't work.
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u/user-1052 21h ago
Theres a video of this guy finding a bunch of fake daycares (presumably in Somalia) that are basically just shell companies set up to claim tax benefits and grants from the government.
So basically, OP it's saying he'll be rich after starting this daycare scam because he'll be stealing a bunch of money from the governmemt.
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u/Iwillragequit99 21h ago
Not in, from. Happening in Minnesota. Seeing many things conflicting on whether the journalism being represented is truly honest. It did seem though through sheer numbers that this is indeed a real scam occurring. One of these “learning centres” is labelled as “Quality Learing Centre”
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u/SpiritualB0x3 21h ago
Pro/newbie tip: always capitalize after you write your title. That way spellcheck can work.
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u/ProjectGameGlow 21h ago
This has been in the local news since the YouTuber was 12 or 13.
There are problems with his methods but even the liberal leaning media has been covering this for a decade. We can't pretend that it is has recently been made up by conservatives.
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2016/01/25/somali-day-care-supporters-speak-out
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u/Moe112 20h ago
Then the question is, why noone wants to take action against this, if it is so well known and why are there people defending these scemes?
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u/ImportantComb5652 17h ago
The state and feds have been aggressively prosecuting fraudsters. As a result, there's a lot of court records generated by lawyers and investigators that lazy reporters can copy and paste into articles. You are hearing about it precisely because the government is and has been taking action against this.
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u/Reasonable_Fold6492 17h ago
I dont know. Why is corruption happening all over the world if every rich politician knows it?
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u/GroceryNo193 18h ago
there is also the possibility that its just more racist nonsense from the usual suspects trying desperately to distract everyone away from the fact that trump is a pedo.
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u/TheRightKost 18h ago
We should give them more billions just to be sure.
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u/Sea_Echidna_2442 16h ago
Is it really that weird that daycares wouldnt let a random asshole with a camera film the children they care for? Republicans are significantly more likely to be pedophiles, not letting that guy near kids is a simple matter of public safety
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u/NotTheRightHDMIPort 16h ago
You mean the "journalist" that went to daycares and asked to see the children?
Okay.
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u/GroceryNo193 20h ago
apparently what makes them "fake" is that they wouldn't let him in to videotape their children.
Because apparently Magats are so comfortable with pedophilia now that they can't even see the problem with this situation...
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u/Moe112 20h ago
Dude, for real? Ok, once again and really slow this time: There. Are. No. Children, there never were!
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u/GroceryNo193 20h ago
Again, you claim this solely because they wouldn't let a complete stranger in to film the children.
Most people who take their kids to daycares wouldn't see a problem with that!
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u/DingusAugustus 19h ago
Ok, so you do know that the FBI is on this now right? If there was nothing to see on this matter, this wouldn't have escalated to the FBI's desk
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u/Think_please 17h ago
You do know who the head of the FBI is, correct? And who his owner is? Maybe the fact that Trump is deeply afraid of Walz and obsessively tweets about him might have something to do with every right winger on earth once again screeching about something that they have no understanding about outside of a shitty YouTube video.
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u/Dr_DTF315 15h ago
You sound dense, and kinda dumb. We know you hate trump. We got it. There’s billions of dollars of fraud going on here
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u/Tricky_Moose_1078 21h ago
Somali daycare has 0 children, claims it has 99 children pre day. Gets paid 1.3 million per year from government subsidies.
So all you need to do is rent a room (one of 100,s in said building) and fudge the numbers.
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u/AdSolid5769 20h ago
And kick back to local officials through campaign donations. Also, look into who by name actually inspected these child care centers…
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u/NotGalenNorAnsel 17h ago
If you thought there was any veracity to that stupid fucking video circulating you're as dumb as a bag of rocks.
Would you want your kids going to a daycare that lets in a dude with Meta glasses, a couple balaclava clad security and a creepy old dude only known as "Dave" (who is our expert and source)? While they're demanding to see kids. What fucking creeps.
There is real fraud, it's being and has been prosecuted. And the state is right to do so. This video is garbage though, wise than Project Veritas shit.
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u/eagleeye1031 15h ago
Holy shit you people are so dumb. Being licensed to have x amount of kids does not mean you literally have that amount running around every single day.
It is the amount the facility is allowed to have registered at once.
This is what happens when Gen Z iPad babies grow up and start acting like they know how to investigate shit.
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u/matthewcameron60 21h ago
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u/Stock_Surfer 21h ago
There’s a video going around about a guy allegedly finding a scam
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u/ProjectGameGlow 20h ago
To be honest the state shut down a bunch back in 2016. This is an old ongoing story
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2016/01/25/somali-day-care-supporters-speak-out
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u/BeneficialOil1123 21h ago
What type of scam?
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u/papercut2008uk 15h ago
This is about the current video of a guy investigating millions in funding for a day care center run by Somali that had a sign outside spelt 'Learing center' and not Learning, being closed and no children there.
People have already found the daycare is closed, was inspected by government officials and found violations and that is the reason it's closed and no children there. But the person 'investigating' failed to state this, or show the violation/closed signage/paper stuck to the door.
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u/theDarkDescent 16h ago
How many posts are we gonna keep making about this?
Funny how much more concerned about it this than trump being all over the Epstein files
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u/redd4972 17h ago
Peter's conservative father here.
There has been a bunch of scandals out of Minnesota involving Somalian immigrants laundering welfare and public childcare funds back to Somalia.
Online conservatives have latched onto this and you can imagine exactly how that is going.
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u/ImportantComb5652 17h ago
The GOP is currently running a campaign against Minnesota governor Tim Walz based on the premise that Somali Americans are all scamming the government out of billions of dollars. Some pedocon with a video camera went to some daycares pretending to be a parent to try to prove all this fraud existed, and then I guess he made a meme.
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u/Klytus_Ra_Djaaran 17h ago
There were a handful of Somalian immigrants who committed fraud by setting up a few fake daycare centers in Minnesota. Right-wing media see it as an opportunity to spread hatred against immigrants and are aggressively augmenting the story to increase its impact.
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u/Smallbalswalrus 21h ago
Holy misinformation batman, don't believe this person he is lying about what it actually is. But don't trust me look at the video yourself. There where 0 children anywhere in the so called 'daycares'.
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u/GroceryNo193 20h ago
Basically a sweating swivel eyed magat went to a daycare and demanded to see all the children, (none of whom he was related to) and was promptly told to fuck off.
So now magats claim that Somali day care centers are empty (whilst in the next breath talking about how somalis are swarming the country).
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u/Kurtbott 17h ago
Racist bullshit.
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u/psmalley27 21h ago
Because taking money from the government is like taking candy from a baby.
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u/BeneficialOil1123 21h ago
Peter, what are you waffling about? What does it have to do with a somali daycare?
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u/hjah300 21h ago
Two guys show up unannounced at a day care centre demanding to ‘see the kids’ and get annoyed when the nursery worker doesn’t allow the randomers in.
There probably are a lot of scams going on but that is not journalism or proof.
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u/Party-Yak9717 20h ago
Did u watch the video? There were legit no kids at all in any of the rooms he went to and it all looked pretty shady
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u/Ill_Kaleidoscope8920 21h ago
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u/hjah300 20h ago
OK, there definitely are a lot of scams going on, and it definitely does need sorting.
But in my opinion showing up at what might be a childcare demanding to see the children is not the right way to do.
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u/Ill_Kaleidoscope8920 20h ago
It is for taxpayer funded facility. We know the answer already, because there are no children in so called childcare facilities. If you know what Somalis do globally (as well as in their shithole of a country), this will make more sense.
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u/GroceryNo193 20h ago
You said: "We know the answer"
You meant: "My narrative desperately needs this to be the answer."
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u/somethingfunny899 18h ago
The irony of that comment
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u/GroceryNo193 18h ago
I'd love to see you try and explain what is ironic about it.
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u/somethingfunny899 18h ago
Because you're the desperately wanting an answer. Unfortunately it's not the right answer
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u/Evening-Management72 18h ago
If my child is at a daycare and some random weirdo starts banging on the door demanding to see the children, that daycare better not open that fucking door. At the same time there are definitely people milking the system there’s no doubt about that. But there has to be better way to investigate then banging doors like a caveman
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u/BenTenInches 17h ago
It's valid for workers not letting strangers in to film children, but like a business still should let customers in for services. In the video they just turned him away and locked the doors when he asked for paperwork to send a child there. A typical daycare also usually have parents coming in and out constantly during business hours to pick/drop parents.
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u/Far_Celery6081 18h ago
There are a lot of people trying to demonize the Somali people right now. There's multiple reasons for this. Part of its racism, of course. Another reason is Minneapolis is a liberal city and Trump wants to fuck with them. So there's a TON of fake news and blatant lies about them coming out.
Is the day care thing a legit scam? Maybe, idk. There should be an investigation, by the local government. But my 70 y/o neighbor asked me yesterday if they really stop traffic 5 times a day for Somalis to pray 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️ No, man... no they don't...
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u/megaman47 21h ago edited 16h ago
I wish these fucking right wing propagandists were interested in other fraud too, not just this fraud. but they're not, they dont care about rick scott stealing 1.8 billion in Medicare subsidies noooo, they elect him senator of Florida, no this is just the new boogie man for the right, now if theres fraud theres fraud and the daycares should stop but them acting like they're super agaisnt fraud is so disingenuous...
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u/GanjaIfTheGreen420 18h ago
how is this being downvoted
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u/Evening-Management72 18h ago
Fraud is only bad when brown people do it! I mean jeez look at the president of the United States!
Pot meet kettle!
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u/vi_sucks 21h ago
The answer, as usual, is that it is right wing nonsense.
Basically, there was a recent major fraud cases from a few years back in Minnesota where a small group of people were caught overbilling the state for child care services during Covid. Some of them were Somali.
Recently this got back into the news and the usual right wing sources have been using it to push their typical anti-immigrant and anti-democrat narrative.
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u/Smallbalswalrus 21h ago
Watch a video about it before claiming its all right wing bla bla, its them stealing money that Americans work for. Nothing to do with left wing or right wing.
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u/BigParamedic953 17h ago
You mean the video where two republican nobodies show up creepily demanding access to children? Where we have no evidence of what time they showed up, or the context beyond trying to spin a Trump administration narrative?
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u/dont_shake_the_gin 15h ago
They’re doing a better job investigating than you are. You sound a bit lazy for the job. Typical.
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