The Reckoning: From Ukraine to Minnesota, the Fraud is the Same
We're being scammed...at home and abroad...
Scott Adams is a man who sees around corners.
He doesn’t just follow headlines — he follows patterns. That pattern recognition helped him spot Donald Trump’s rise long before the pundits, consultants, and media elites saw it coming.
Now he’s seeing something else. Something more dangerous than any candidate or campaign:
A system built on fraud.
Adams just made a sharp comparison that deserves serious attention: Ukraine and Minnesota.
At first glance, it might sound exaggerated. One is a war-torn nation overseas. The other, a progressive-leaning American state in the heartland. But look closer — and you’ll see the same broken playbook operating in both places.
In Ukraine, the U.S. has poured over $300 billion into a conflict with virtually no meaningful oversight. Contractors get paid. NGOs multiply. Audits vanish. Anyone asking questions gets branded “unpatriotic” or somehow pro-Moscow.
Meanwhile, in Minnesota, a sprawling welfare fraud scandal saw fake nonprofits funnel hundreds of millions of dollars through a food program meant to serve underprivileged children. The fraud was so blatant, it bordered on parody — and yet, it took months to investigate, and few faced real consequences.
Scott Adams spotted the pattern.
Same scam. Different packaging.
And he’s not alone in calling it out.
On November 29, 2025, Elon Musk provided keen insights from his DOGE experience:
“Every major government program has massive fraud. Massive. But they slap a panda or a rainbow on it and tell you to shut up.”
That quote cuts through all the noise.
Emotional symbols are used as cover for institutional theft. “It’s for the children.” “It’s to save democracy.” “It’s to protect the planet.” But behind the rainbow, behind the panda? The money disappears. Pull back the curtain, and “protecting the rules based international order” is actually giant Ponzi scheme sending billions of dollars of borrowed taxpayer money into a corruption pit across the ocean: Grand Theft Kiev.
Nicole Shanahan, RFK Jr.’s running mate, just made it plain during a town hall:
“America is becoming a fraud state. And the victims are working families.”
This isn’t hyperbole. It’s reality.
We’re not just dealing with bureaucratic waste. We’re dealing with a culture of protected corruption — one that spans from international aid to domestic programs. From the Black Sea to Lake Minnetonka in Minnesota.
This isn’t incompetence. It’s intentional design.
A design that enriches insiders while bleeding the American middle class. A design that hides behind virtue-signaling and weaponized guilt. A design that punishes anyone who dares to ask: “Where is the money going?”
That’s what Adams — and now Musk and Shanahan — are warning us about.
This is no longer about isolated scams. It’s a fraud economy — a system of grift, sustained by emotional blackmail, political cover, and media complicity.
And the question for every American is this:
Will we keep falling for it?
Will we keep nodding along while emotional symbols and moral buzzwords are used to distract us — while they rob us blind?
This is The Reckoning.
And unless we start connecting the dots — unless we demand true transparency, real oversight, and continual, realtime accountability — we won’t just lose money.
We’ll lose the Republic.
Steve Cortes is president of the League of American Workers and a former broadcaster for Fox News and CNN.
He is a pollster and senior advisor to major US political campaigns