Get the Money Back

Details on the corrupt payoff for the former private prison – soon to be DHS concentration camp — in Appleton, Minnesota are out now.

According to KARE-11 TV, our local NBC affiliate, CoreCivic had offered the prison to the state of Minnesota for $75 million a year ago. But after another year of depreciation, DHS has just paid $495.6 million in taxpayer dollars for it. According to KARE-11, that's the most expensive property purchase in Minnesota history.

Does this look like it's worth almost $500 million, especially after it has been closed for nearly 16 years?

The sale price is $420.6 million above the asking price, or about $150 million more than was defrauded in the Feeding Our Future scandal Republicans constantly remind us about every minute of every day.

Do Republicans care? No, of course not. 

The difference, of course, is the skin color, religion, and ethnicity of who's involved in stealing money from the federal government. And whether Republicans can use it to create outrage against the idea of government as a positive agent in people's lives. Government's only role, as far as they are concerned, is policing and prison, especially of people who don't look like them.

JD Vance was supposed to make an appearance in St. Cloud, Minnesota, a city an hour-and-a-half northwest of Minneapolis today. But mysteriously, his stop was cancelled last night, not long after the KARE-11 story appeared. Maybe that was because state Republican poll numbers are bad and the White House doesn't want to be blamed when their candidates lose.... Or maybe it's because they don't want JD to be asked about this obvious graft payment to CoreCivic, a big Trump and Republican donor.

Or — why not both!