Fellow Minnesotans,
A French guy just dropped a thread on X that’s so dead-on it hurts. @brivael nailed it: past a certain point, money isn’t about buying yachts or Lambos. It’s about allocation of capital – who decides where scarce resources go to create the most value for the most people. He used a playground full of kids trading Pokémon cards. No central planner. Just voluntary deals. The sharp traders, the collectors, the hustlers – the cards end up with the people who value them most. Total happiness maximized. Then the “mistress” (government) storms in, screams “unfair,” confiscates everything, and hands out equal piles. Result? The good players quit. The slackers stop trying. Trades die. The playground goes from buzzing to dead quiet. Equality achieved. Progress destroyed.
That’s not theory. That’s the parasitic economy I’ve been exposing right here in Minnesota since 2016. The DFL syndicate and its nonprofit LLC army aren’t producers – they’re the mistress with a badge and a grant writer on speed dial. They don’t create wealth; they loot it from the real players out in Greater Minnesota – the welders, the corn growers, the shop owners, the veterans running family farms – and redistribute it into their own pockets, their cronies’ lake homes, and overseas hawala pipelines. Same math as the Soviet Gosplan. Same track record as France’s 57% GDP bureaucratic black hole. And we’re living it.
Look at the scoreboard. Producers generate the real capital – steel, grain, honest labor under God’s design. The metro machine (Minneapolis, St. Paul, the university grift mills, the “faith-based” cutouts) doesn’t build factories or dig critical minerals. They build extraction pipelines. Medicaid fraud? Up to $9 billion vanished since 2018. Daycare rings I blew the whistle on in 2018? Still humming along with $250+ million in ghost claims, fake autism services, and parent kickbacks. Feeding Our Future stole $250-300 million in fake meals while kids went hungry. Housing Stabilization? $302 million in inflated bills before they banned 115 providers. And who “oversees” it all? UnitedHealth/Optum – Walz’s donor buddies with their own DOJ rap sheet – while Somali clan networks at MSP bundle a million bucks a day in fraud proceeds out the door.
This isn’t “public service.” It’s racketeering with a DFL stamp. Doran Schrantz and her Isaiah/Faith in Minnesota crew literally wrote the laws that spawned the LLC shells. Tim Walz, Keith Ellison, Peggy Flanagan, Steve Simon – they’re the command structure, green-lighting the payouts, appointing the foxes to guard the henhouse, and calling it “equity.” Bureaucrats with zero skin in the game. Guaranteed salaries. No risk. Just endless taxes, regs, and DEI quotas (§43A.191, §363A.36) that force patronage hires and shield the grift. Profit? That’s a dirty word to them. But profit is the signal that screams: “You allocated capital right. People valued it enough to pay.” The syndicate’s signal is deficits, blackouts, and farm foreclosures.
The X thread hits the nail: entrepreneurs take personal risk, solve real problems, and multiply value for everyone – customers, workers, suppliers, even the tax man. Bureaucrats? They destroy it. Musk doesn’t sit on $200 billion – he bets it on SpaceX, Starlink, Neuralink. Track record: PayPal to Tesla to Mars rockets. The DFL machine? Hospitals crumbling, schools churning out kids who can’t read but can recite pronouns, energy bills crushing families while “renewable” insiders get rich. Same in France. Same in Minnesota. The mistress thinks she’s helping the kid with three cards. Instead she kills the game.
And here’s the dark punchline: it’s self-reinforcing. More extraction means fewer producers creating taxable wealth. So they tax harder, print more (hello, inflation as the silent theft the thread called out), regulate tighter. Loop of death. Greater Minnesota’s producers are the host. The metro parasite is killing it.
Enough. As your next Governor, day one in 2027 I’m ripping out the invasive species.
My first budget slashes the $70 billion bloat down to $47 billion – 33% leaner, balanced, no new taxes. $2 billion+ in immediate fraud clawbacks via independent RICO-style audits, biometric verification, and real prosecutions. Energy independence: $2.5 billion to fast-track critical minerals mining, kill the crony renewable scams, deregulate reliable power so factories come back and farms thrive. Education: $10 billion (down 40%), school choice vouchers, basics-first (math, reading, trades), slash admin bloat by two-thirds. Farms and families first: axe the regs, boost law enforcement, deport the felons, zero-tolerance on the syndicate.
Every dollar saved goes to tax relief, family rebates, debt paydown. Producers get oxygen. The bloodsuckers get starved.
This is the Minnesota we build: family farms stewarding the land the Lord entrusted to us. Safe homes with affordable power and honest wages earned through real work. Kids raised in truth, protected in body and soul, formed in the image of their Creator. A constitutional republic where government is the servant, not the master. No more looting rings. No more rigged playgrounds. Just free men and women – under God’s grace – trading, building, and prospering as the good Lord intended.
The syndicate is already sweating. My March intelligence briefs dropped the receipts, and they’re scrambling. Legislators: co-sponsor the audits and clawbacks now. Citizens: share this far and wide, pack the hearings, hold them accountable at the polls.
We’re turning up the heat until the ticks drop off. Minnesota rises – producers first, always.
In Christ’s strength,
Phillip C. Parrish
Retired U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander (21 years Intelligence)
2026 Republican Candidate for Governor of Minnesota
Fraud Whistleblower | Farmer | Father | Lifelong Minnesotan
Press Contact:
phillip@parrish4mn.com or heidi@parrish4mn.com
1 (612) 460-1717
Read the full Parasite Economy exposé here. Follow the fight on X @phillipcparrish and @parrish4mn.
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