Parker Thayer

I mean, some of the most, I would say, detailed.

Media investigative work that has also spawned some phenomenal investigations by Luke Rosiak of the Daily Wire, Parker Thayer of the Capital Research Center.

Phenomenal stuff investigating fraud across this country.

Here was the president on Nick Shirley today.

This is a direct quote.

From Parker Thayer, an immigration expert at the Washington, D.C.-based Capital Research Center, quote, this is a very big pile of government money, and a whole bunch of different groups have come to get their own slice of it.

He added the total money pouring into Minneapolis resettlement program alone is in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

He noted that since 2021, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, the body overseeing Catholic charities, has received $140 million in migrant resettlement contracts from the federal government.

Because it's not there.

Why are we handing out money, government taxpayer money, to NGOs to bring in people from another country into our country? Why? How is that happening? How is that happening? Parker Thayer, who is an immigration expert at the Capital Research Center in Washington, D.C., told the New York Post, where this originally came from, that this is a very big pile of government money and a whole bunch of different groups have come to get their own slice of it.

Thayer said that the money flowing into immigrant programs in Minneapolis is in the hundreds of millions.

He says, since 2021, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has been given over $140 million in federal resettlement contracts.

Catholic Charities and Lutheran Social Services were at the forefront of reshaping the frigid land of 10,000 lakes thanks to generous government contracts stemming back generations.

And I quote, "This is a very big pile of government money, and a whole bunch of different groups have come to get their own slice of it," said Parker Thayer, an immigration expert at the Washington, DC-based Capital Research Center, and he said that to The Post.

The state first became a test ground for Vietnam-era resettlement programs with powerful advocacy from the, from then vice presidential, uh, Vice President Walter Mondale and Minnesota's Democratic Governor Al, Al Quie, Quay, I don't know, uh, according to local historians.

Mondale, a Democrat from Minnesota who served as President Jimmy Carter's veep, traveled with Quie to Asia to visit refugee camps and came back describing the horrid conditions they saw.

Tax evasion never sounded so good.

They say, "This is a very big pile of government money, and a whole bunch of different groups have come to get their own slice of it," Parker Thayer, an immigration expert at the Washington, DC-based Capital Resear- Research Center, told the Post.

He added, "The total money pouring into Minneapolis resettlement programs alone is in the hundreds of millions." He noted that since 2021, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, the body overseeing Catholic Charities, has received $140 million in migrant resettlement contracts from the federal government.

It's hurting the ability of these organizations to fundraise in arguably more important areas of their work.

Oh, oh, you wanted it to, you wanted it to get worse? Boy howdy, do I have a little something just for you.

Well, it turns out, according to Luke Rosiak over at the Daily Wire, his excellent work earlier this year with Parker Thayer of the Capital Research Center over on the, uh, well, Islamic and Indian fraud over in, for example, Columbus, Ohio, on trucking.

Now he's investigating some other fun bits, like, for example, Ilhan Omar's sister, lot of sisters in today's show, registered her $20 million USAID company using an address linked to the biggest Feeding Our Future fraudsters.

Remember when, when someone may have suggested that the same Ilhan Omar who had all of those photos taken with some of the people that would later be indicted and convicted in the Feeding Our Future's fraud scheme.

And yeah, what Taylor said.

If you want a deeper dive into the financial and partisan incentives fueling this kind of Skynet baiting, have a look in my written piece where you can find another thread by Parker Thayer, which goes into great detail about who is actually funding the people who want to regulate our use of AI and regulate frontier companies.

Now, something I like to do with this newsletter from time to time is explore a subject in which I don't have any particular expertise and use the research tools available to me, including and especially AI-powered tools, to bone up before scribbling out my findings.

Writing helps me organize my thoughts.

But the heads of major artificial intelligence companies like Anthropic and OpenAI have spent the last couple of weeks doing just that, claiming that they themselves are bringing forth Armageddon and that only government bureaucracy can stop them.

But are these AI doomers a true organic response to concerns best known by those building the God Machine? Or is it a cynical media operation by a mega business interested in using the regulatory state to lock out potential competitors? Our colleague Parker Thayer, who is skeptical of the motivations of the corporate titans, joins us to discuss.

Parker, welcome back.

Thank you.

That's about the level that these AI forecasts are at.

All right.

Well, thanks again to our colleague, Parker Thayer, for joining us today.

We will include links to his thread, Challenging the AI Doomers, in today's show notes.