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Jan. 29, 2026 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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Climbdown in Minneapolis?

Jared Taylor and Paul Kersey don't like rewarding people who interfere with law enforcement. They also discuss "Sinners," Shakespeare, New Zealand, and Black Men Build (What?). Thumbnail credit: © Derek French/SOPA Images via ZUMA Press Wire

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Apply For An Australian Visa 00:05:15
Ladies and gentlemen, and dearest and most esteemed listeners, welcome to Radio Renaissance.
I'm your host, Jared Taylor.
With me is my esteemed co-host, none other than Paul Kersey.
Today is January 29th, year of our Lord 2025, and as usual, we begin with comments.
One from a Virginia listener.
Our newly sworn-in Democrat government here in Virginia, Abigail Spamberger, had a pre-election day series of events, including musical performances by the main headline performer, our very own Virginia native rapper Pusha T. Choosing a gangsta thug rapper to perform at such an event definitely sends a message about the governor's outlook and priorities.
Well, I had never heard of Pusha T, Mr. Kersey.
So I looked into him.
And as it turns out, as a teenager, he and his brother both were selling drugs right out of the house.
And the brother was kicked out after the parents discovered what he was doing.
Well, in 2020, Mr. Pusha T welcomed his first child, Nigel Bricks Thornton.
Well, BRICS is not spelled B-R-I-C-K-S.
It's spelled B-R-I-X-X.
And do you know what that stands for?
Do you know what that's slang for?
I don't.
I'm not hip on the...
It's to your credit not to know.
I need to plug in, I guess.
BRICS is slang for cocaine, something which Pusha T raps about frequently.
And it just left me wondering.
Maybe that's why Governor Spamberger likes him so much.
Maybe she's a closet snorter.
In any case, comment number two.
Has either of you, two gentlemen, been banned from any countries for race wrongthink?
How would you like to add Australia to any such list?
Our federal labor government, that's the Aussie version of your woeful Democrats, just voted the Combating Anti-Semitism, Hate, and Extremism Bill into law following the Islamic massacre of 15 Jews on the Bondi Beach last December.
The new law will do nothing about Muslim anti-Semitism and its occasional terrorism, but it will go after any group or person the government of the day deems unacceptable because of wrong ideas on race or multicultural harmony.
The new law centers on hate speech.
It'll be a criminal offense to use any words that could cause a reasonable person, and our listener defines a reasonable person as any of our perpetually aggrieved minorities, any such person to feel intimidated, to fear harassment or violence, or to fear for his safety.
I think it's pretty easy for somebody to feel intimidated.
And our listener goes on to say, you two would fit this bill nicely.
Oh, please, listener, don't get us banned even before we try.
The listener concludes, the new legislation will also include changing Australia's Migration Act so that it could put up the no entry sign to anyone if the government thinks he might vilify a segment of the Australian community or incite discord.
It seems to me that's pretty easy, too.
You can incite discord in all kinds of ways if you think you believe in the Second Amendment.
Going around talking about gun rights to Australians, you're probably going to incite discord.
Previously, an Australian visa could be denied on character grounds, but this was usually associated with an actual crime.
Now, those who, quote, spread hatred or extremism publicly, either online or overseas, or who could upset the social cohesion of multicultural Australia could be banned.
This sounds like you.
It might be interesting for you to apply to an Australian visa just for the heck of it.
Well, I looked into that too, Mr. Kersey.
Apparently, in order to go to Australia, you need something called an electronic travel authority.
And you apply for the official Australian ETA, as it's called.
It's available on mobile devices from outside Australia.
It's quick, often approved instantly or very soon, and costs a small fee, around $20 Australian dollars.
The only eligibility requirement is to hold a valid U.S. passport and meet basic health or character requirements.
Well, you're a healthy guy.
You can do all the push-ups needed to meet the basic health requirements, I'm sure.
It's that character business that can be a bother.
You know, I went to Australia.
It must have been 15 years ago, and I don't think I had a visa at all.
I just showed up, and they thought I was just fine.
I met the health and character requirements.
So in I was, and then out I came.
But it would be interesting for a mere $20 Australian dollars, Mr. Kersey.
You could apply and see what happens.
You went to Australia when, you said, 20 years ago?
It must have been about 20 years ago now.
Yes, I really quite enjoyed it.
I spent some time with Drew Fraser.
Kicked Us Out, Left Us In 00:09:03
I don't know if you know who he is.
I'm sure he's Drew Fraser.
He wrote the book about the WASPs.
Yes, he did.
Yes, he did.
He was an American Renaissance speaker many years ago.
Good man, good man.
Drew Fraser, really just a solid guy.
I actually never set foot on Bondi Beach, but I scanned it admiringly from afar.
Let's see.
Another of our commenters writes in to say, the American media seem to be all worked up in a frenzy about this Alex Pretty ordeal, which admittedly does not look very good.
This reminds me of a similar case in Minneapolis almost a decade ago that you covered on your show.
That was the Justine Damond case.
It, of course, produced zero riots, zero calls for change.
The National Guard was not called out.
Her death did get media coverage, but it was forgotten.
It's infuriating watching well-intentioned people defend criminals, and Trump isn't even doing mass deportations.
All the Somalians need to be deported, but Trump won't touch them.
Very frustrating.
Well, to remind our listeners about Justine Damond, she was fatally shot by a Minneapolis Police Department officer, Mohamed Noor, after she called 911 to report a possible assault on a woman in an alley behind her house.
And the shooting did attract national and international press.
It did exacerbate a certain amount of attentions over the policing, and there were some street protests, according to Wikipedia, to the extent Wikipedia can be trusted.
Minneapolis Police Chief Janae Harteau.
I remember thinking at the time, oh, yes, this liberal lady, liberal white lady, the police chief had to resign even.
And in 2019, Noor was tried before a jury on charges of second, third degree, second and third-degree murder, second-degree manslaughter.
He claimed self-defense.
And he was convicted of third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter.
But his conviction on third-degree murder was overturned by the Minnesota Supreme Court.
His sentence was revised as his 4.75 years in prison with credit for time served.
He was out back in the community on June 27th of 2022.
And the shooting took place in 2017.
So five years later, five years later, he's never been back on patrol, I must say, but who knows, maybe he'll run for a mayor of Minneapolis next.
He was famous for having been, I think he was the very first Somali police officer.
And just to go into the- That's correct.
In Minneapolis, that's correct.
Yes, yes, yes, in Minneapolis.
Well, probably in the entire United States, wouldn't you guess?
But anyway, she thought she heard a woman screaming.
She calls the police.
The police showed up in a patrol car, found nothing wrong, but they showed up with the lights off.
And it seems a little murky to me exactly what happened.
She apparently approached the car and might have hit on it, pounded on the roof to attract attention because they were just driving off.
They couldn't find anything wrong.
And that is when, I mean, she struck the car on Noor's, on the driver's side.
The guy was driving, and I don't know if he rolled down the window or whatever, but then Noor panicked, and he reached across his, he was sitting in the passenger side.
He reached across his partner and shot her right through the window, right in front of the guy's face.
That must have blown his eardrums out.
In any case, that was what happened there.
She was in her bathrobe, barefoot, utterly unarmed.
And the idea that she was a threat to this guy, just completely cuckoo baloney.
And as it turns out, in his two years as a police officer, Officer New, who was sort of the prize of the force because they could trot him out.
Wow, look at our trained Somali.
Boy, he's our top cop.
He'd had three formal complaints against him, sued for assaulting a woman while on duty.
And he had pointed a gun at the head of somebody who he'd pulled over just for routine traffic stop.
But yeah, I think he sounds like a fit candidate for mayor of Minneapolis just anytime soon.
Let's see another comment.
The left is very encouraged by their rout of ICE.
But we'll talk about that a little bit.
It seems Trump has been deploying ICE in locales prominent in the 2020 unrest, first in Portland.
Their protesters gathered outside ICE facilities and wore silly costumes.
I liked that.
They had eschewed the black block tactics and opted for ineffectual sign waving.
Trump ramped up ICE in Minneapolis to capitalize on the Somali fraud business.
It has become clear that the signal chat revelation, that the left had developed new tactics where they actively tracked ICE and directed their observers to follow them around and interfere.
Things got frisky and a couple got shot.
This shifted the narrative and created martyrs for the left.
It spiraled down from there.
What to do now?
I guess I'd look at it like a war.
After a lost battle, you regroup, rearm, shift tactics and strategy, fire the failed generals, and continue the war.
Now, this listener says, I would fire no.
Never liked how Trump hires based on looks.
Why not Chris Kobach?
And I'd have more subdued presence and look a little bit more like police and less like paramilitary.
Well, let's just say we'll comment on some of this stuff.
Let's see.
Well, as a matter of fact, yes, in his comments to the media, Trump, I would say, really did smear CPB Border Chief Greg Bovino.
Bovino was the face and the spokesman for this high-profile move.
He says, you know, Bovino is very good, but he's a pretty out there kind of guy.
And in some cases, that's good.
Maybe it wasn't good here.
This commenter says that's absolute cowardice.
Even the allegedly pro-deportation Stephen Miller is waffling on the deportation mission now.
Miller made a vague, unspecified claim that CPB was not following protocol when CPB interacted with Alex Predty.
The entire Trump White House is on the same page on the decision to concede Minnesota.
And our commenter says, the Daily Mail published an article comparing Trump's mass deportation reversal as the biggest betrayal since George H.W. Bush's deceitful, read my lips, no new taxes, broken promise.
President Trump needs to be harshly condemned for this contemptible betrayal.
If you reference the backup images of Trump's Project 47 campaign website, the number one bullet point is mass deportation of all illegal aliens.
I'm a strong believer in the creed that failed leaders should be sacked, not defended as the least of two evils.
Trump will not fight for the future of this nation or of the white race.
A President Vance or Rubio would represent another George W. Bush paradigm and cast a long, dark shadow over this country.
Wow, that's pretty strong talk.
Before we comment on that and move into our next stories, I think I should remind readers how to contact us and encourage them to do so.
You're still stuck in the Amerin glory days of the Monthly Journal.
Uh-oh, what did I say?
What did I say?
Our readers.
Oh, dear.
Yes, our listeners, our listeners.
Thank you, sir.
Thank you.
Thank you.
I could have expected about 10 comments.
Mr. Taylor, we are not readers now.
We are listeners.
Thank you.
The way to reach us, and I think I'll get this right, is you can send a message to me at American Renaissance, the website amranamen.com, and click on the contact us tab, and I'll get a message.
And you can get something straight to none other than Paul Kersey.
Yeah, shoot me an email because we live here at ProtonMail.com, because we live here at ProtonMail.com.
And I've got to put a plug in once again for if you're on X, on Twitter, make sure you're following at RealJarTaylor.
Mr. Taylor continues to be one of the most insightful, funny commenters on that platform.
And we're very gracious to Elon Musk allowing him and Amrin back on.
Age of Enforced Retractions 00:13:13
Well, so far they haven't kicked us off.
Let's put it that way.
They did not allow.
Well, I guess you could say they allowed us back on because he has not kicked us off.
He did not.
He did not let us reestablish our accounts.
So all of those initial used to have 40,000 subscribers, those people have all disappeared into the luminiferous ether, never again to be seen or heard from.
Oh, they rallied back around the flag.
Well, I hope so.
I suspect most of them probably did.
But yes, all of this question of what's going on in Minneapolis, you know, I'm getting a little tired of Minneapolis, but I think it's still in the news, and I think we have to talk about it.
And it's true, Greg Bovino, I thought, you know, he's a I do judge books by their covers, and I thought Greg Bovino looked like a serious law enforcement officer.
I like the way he looked.
I like these photos of him walking down the street in his battle outfit like that.
In any case, he has been removed or at least demoted from his commander-at-large position, which involved leading the enforcement operation Minneapolis.
He's going back to his former role as chief patrol agent in the El Centro sector in California.
Now, some reports say that he's expected to retire soon after this reassignment, given his long career.
He's been in the department before it was even Homeland Security since 1996.
And he is close to the Border Patrol's mandatory retirement age of 57.
He's only 55, 56.
A mandatory retirement age of 57.
Were you aware of that?
That seems awfully, awfully young.
Doesn't the military let you live, let you last a whole lot longer than that?
Well, at that point, you're definitely either a full colonel in the military or you are a general of some sort.
But again, pilots, I want to say what the age, they keep raising the age from 64 to 65 or 66 to be an airline pilot.
So I see no reason why Greg Bovino, you're right.
You look at him and he is exemplary.
He's exactly what you want, leading men, courageous, bold, audacious.
Fantastic.
He seems like an absolute first-rate guy.
And a retirement age of 57 for all levels.
I mean, maybe you don't want guys after 57 chasing down, escaping felons.
Of course, when I was 57, I think I would have kind of enjoyed that every now and then.
You'd love doing it at your age right now.
Get those bad guys.
However, as far as Bovino is concerned, official DHS statements have said he has not been relieved of duties, and he remains a key part of the team and is a great American, according to Tricia McLaughlin.
Now, earlier in his career, I didn't know about this, under the Prior administration.
Now we know about the Pyre administration.
He was similarly removed from a regional chief role and was pressured to retire, but he didn't.
And of course, under the current, in the current administration, he came roaring back.
So I don't know.
I don't like the idea of disciplining him in any way just because of what happened to this pretty guy.
I think that is a very bad sign.
I think that suggests the people who were interfering in law enforcement that that's exactly what they need to do and that will encourage that kind of activity.
I don't like it one bit.
What is your, and I understand also that aren't they going to change the profile now of what's going on?
None of these big sweeps.
They're only going to go look for people who they have a very good idea where this guy is, who he is, what he's done, a more low-profile.
And I believe Bob Holman, who's taking over now, he says we're going to reduce the number of agents out on the street because we're just kind of changing the direction of things.
What do you think about all that, Mr. Kerz?
Well, again, they canceled or suspended an operation in Louisiana that was going swimmingly, sir, where they had actually set a very high number of a goal of getting 5,000 illegals.
They got about just under 400 when they decided to shift focus from Louisiana to Minnesota when things before the Renee Good altercation and well before Alex Purdy.
I like what's happened.
Again, there's no reason why the state and state of Minnesota and the city of Minneapolis won't do what Louisiana, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, and Texas are doing, and that's simply work with ICE when they have to.
Wait, wait, wait.
You like the downgrading of Bovino or I like what they were doing before the downgrade.
Right.
I don't actually think from what we've seen, the leftist protesters are demoralized because now the police are actually arresting them.
And they've yesterday on the 28th, they arrested 16 individuals up in Minnesota, sir, up Minneapolis, including the Somali woman who was on film talking about the culinary gastronomical delights of banana and rice, which I'm sure you remember.
You've seen that video.
She was one of the individuals that was arrested.
Well, that's all fine, but the idea of lowering the profile, changing the focus, all of that, because one of these people who was obstructing justice ended up taking, I guess it looked like seven or eight or nine bullets.
But I don't like the idea of backing down and dialing back just because these rowdies got in the face of our ICE agents.
So I'll make this real quick.
I talked to someone who's been to Minneapolis, a guy named Wid Lyman.
He's on the White House Press Corps.
And he said, one of the great problems in Minneapolis is you have so much interagency problems that have developed because there's no chain of command.
Again, I believe Bovino was with Border Patrol, not with ICE.
That's true.
And so what is the situation?
Well, because they have different tactics with the way they handle things.
Apparently, the Border Patrol are a lot tougher and interested in skirmishes.
Some of the best videos we've seen are just him leading his men stoically throughout the streets as they're being, they've had stuff thrown on them and whatnot.
And I think basically you have to have someone come in, establish what the actual plan is going to be and have the police respond when they get calls and keep the rioters from attacking the hotels.
Well, sure.
Real quick, and one of the great stories is that they're now going back to that military base.
I forgot the name of it, where they're going to use it as the operating base for ICE so that they can be resupplied.
The guys can actually get rest instead of being kept up all hours of the night with these goofballs blowing their whistles and making noise.
I mean, again, Minneapolis is such an important psychological city to win.
Yes, yes, yes.
I just don't like backing down one little bit.
And all of this, all of this is due to this Predi shooting.
And it's true.
It's true.
If you look at that shooting pretty carefully, New York Times did pretty much a frame-by-frame analysis from different angles, the various videos.
And it looks as though, I mean, people thought, okay, Predty must have drawn his gun and fired first.
Pretty clear that didn't happen.
And he was on his face.
He wasn't showing his hands, but his hands were sort of cradling his face when he's on the pavement.
When the gun is pulled out of him, somebody says, gun, and the guy starts shooting at him.
It doesn't, I mean, I think that's the kind of thing that if you showed that to a jury and you argue the right way, you could might get a jury decision that that was an unjustified shooting.
In any case, on account of that one episode, you're going to dratch it things down.
You're going to send away the guy who was in control.
I just don't like that.
Of course, maybe Donald Trump is thinking, okay, the Democrats are holding the budget hostage.
They're trying to carve out some of these billions of dollars that we gloriously got voted by Congress to use for the ICE budget.
Maybe that's part of it.
I don't know.
But I do not like backing down in the face of people who made it their business to obstruct law enforcement.
I think it's weak.
But that's my two cents worth.
And of course, we have yet to see the New York Times do a frame-by-frame analysis of the video that's emerged of Pretty from January 13th or January 11th, where he kicks in the back taillight.
The back taillight of the ICE officer's SUV and then gets into an altercation where he should have been arrested at that incident and he'd still be alive.
It's really astonishing what these guys are facing and how up until basically today, the 29th, they basically asserted if you touch an officer, you're going to go to jail.
I mean, just imagine if this was the ATF and this was, say, a Gavin Newsom administration in 2029, hypothetically, or AOC administration.
And this was a bunch of Patriot front grades that are interacting with ATF agents.
They would have gunned them all down immediately.
It is amazing.
The restraint that they're showing, unfortunately, almost to their discredit.
I mean, you just got to go and start arresting all these guys.
Well, see, I agree.
Arrest them all, as you say.
This putty character.
He should have been arrested.
He should have been cool on his heels in jail rather than getting into yet another fight with ICE agents and getting himself killed.
But no, you can't back down because people start interfering with law enforcement.
But anyway.
I have one last thought on what I've heard from Wid Lyman.
Yes, sir.
He said, one of the things that's keeping larger crowds from gathering, because we know how just the infrastructure that exists with the signal chats that they have and being able to gen up a number of people once they've identified where ICE is targeting.
He said, one of the things that's keeping these protests smaller is the weather.
He said it was negligible.
He was 15 degrees when he was there.
It was absolutely freezing.
He says, as things, he told me that as things begin to warm up, you're going to have to really keep your eye out as these crowds get larger and more bellicose when it comes to how they're almost unafraid of confronting these.
Well, of course, maybe some of them are going to think twice about laying hands on an ICE agent after two of them have been shot now.
But still, that is what you've got to put down.
You've got to control that.
And to just back down, to say, okay, all right, we're going to change our tactics.
No, they have to control what's going on on the ground.
But all right, I've said enough about that.
Back to the idiot white people in Minneapolis.
You probably saw this, but there are a couple of tweets that were bounced around X.
And here's some person who writes this.
I'm currently rehearsing with my three and a half year old what to do and where to hide if someone we don't know comes to our door.
And I am a white, blonde, blue-eyed U.S. citizen.
What in heaven's name?
Here's this white lady who is practicing with her three and a half year old child how to get to the safe room.
Are they going to climb up into the attic if someone they don't know comes to the door?
Good grief.
And here's an answer.
We did the same with our 10, 5, and 4 year old a couple of days ago.
We practiced walking quietly to a safe room.
I can't believe this is our kids' childhoods, schools closing, practicing, hiding, rehearsing what to say.
I can't believe this is our life sending hugs to you.
Then somebody else writes, this is 1940s Germany.
Jesus, what a country.
Then another person in this group says, I bought doorstops for all our doors to make them harder to kick in.
Struggling with talking to our four-year-old about it.
She has refused to sleep with her light off since we started talking about this.
This is child abuse.
Good grief.
The idea they're going to bust in through these people's doors.
These are ordinary white people who've been in the country probably for generations.
Wow.
Here's another person.
I have a four-year-old too.
He was just having a tough time finding out that he'll start losing teeth in a couple of years, waking up and asking if he's still four.
His childcare has been sending notes home about not doing outside time for the safety of their children.
Oh, this is awful, man.
This sucks.
Wow.
This is just such cuckoo stuff.
But anyway, white people.
I just did a video, boy, and it's about white people.
And I don't know if you're old enough to remember Pogo.
Comic Book Characters Gone Wild 00:04:43
Pogo, he's a great cartoon character back in the 70s, I guess, 60s, 70s.
And one of his famous lines is, we have met the enemy and he is us.
By the way, I believe you have a story about comic book characters doing what all of those nutty Minnesotans, the tens of thousands who were demonstrating against ICE, dream to do.
Yeah, it's important that people visualize what we're talking about here because we talked about this before where Batman went to war with ICE, but now all these writers are utilizing the very popular IP to have them, you know, intellectual property that they have at their disposal to wage war on ICE.
And this includes the heroes of the Marvel, the DC, and the IDW publishing heroes who are just murdering ICE agents.
This trend is garnering attention through attacking ICE.
Started when Darren Warren Johnson, who we talked about at DC Comics and Image Comics artists, he went viral last summer with an image of Batman with his massive arms around the neck of an ice agent, stringing the life out of him.
He followed up the last few months showing the Transformers Optimus Prime in a battle with ICE as well as he protects illegal aliens from ICE deporting them in an image that has also gone viral.
Other comic artists are joining in.
Tim Doyle, it's a lesser-known artist who's worked for Marvel, DC, and IDW.
He's decided to use some of these characters depicting Wolverine, who you probably don't know that character, Mr. Taylor, but that's an X-Men character from the Marvel universe.
He has retractable claws in his hand, and in the image, he's putting them through ice agents, stabbing them with his adeantium claws, killing them.
And then another image is of the Punisher, who is a vigilante-type character.
He's monologuing to himself about how he can't wait to pull the trigger on his on his 45 ACP to kill an ice agent.
And it's like, huh, all right.
And those were actually banned from Instagram, believe it or not.
Instagram removed them because they were too violent and they violated the terms of service.
Wow.
Well, you know, I just typed in comic book characters kill ice agents.
And I don't find much.
Here is DC Comics, some kind of horrible character squashing a police officer, but that looks older.
Well, maybe they've been banned from Google too.
I don't know.
Well, the article that I was reading was from Fandom Plus, Fandom Pulse, and it's actually included in the link that I sent you so you can take a look at it.
Okay.
Yeah, I do see an image now of some guy.
He looks like a hero.
He's coming down feet first on top of an ice agent.
That's actually a villain.
So even the villains in Marvel, that's Dr. Doom.
Oh, that's a villain too.
And even he, even somebody who wants to take over the world for Latvia, who's actually sort of a genocidal maniacal villain.
Even he is coming down on the side of the.
Oh, that's even better.
Even he is going to knock the teeth right out of this ice agent.
Yeah.
Wow.
Victor Von Doom is his name.
It's again, and there's even IDW publishing their official Sonic the Hedgehog artist, who is a man who pretends to be a woman, used Shadow the Hedgehog scene to make it look like the character is about to kill a bunch of ice agents.
So, I mean, the left dominates the writing and the drawing of all these characters.
Again, they're appearing everywhere and they're popular.
But at the same time, they do violate the terms of service of Instagram.
So they have been removed, but they're getting more and more explicit.
And what I've heard a lot of people like Renee Good and this Alex Petty guy, what they thought they were doing.
They were fighting evil.
Well, what is it?
What is this?
Who's this?
Who's Superman?
Is it Superman's motto or something, something in the American way?
Truth, justice, and the American Way.
Okay, well, that means keeping America safe for illegal immigrants.
That's truth, justice, and the American way.
Vampires in Clarksdale? 00:06:41
Now we know.
Oh, boy.
Well, let's see.
Moving to Maine, ICE launched, and I think this is a wonderful name for an operation.
It's called Operation Catch of the Day.
And it started last week, arrested more than 200 illegals.
Of course, Democrat Governor Janet Mills has called on President Donald Trump to remove agents from the state.
She wants to meet with him.
I'm hearing that many of the people being detained or on the list, I think, are family members here in Maine.
People who are working here in Maine, people who have children in the school system, people who have children in homes in Maine, people with no criminal record.
And that's concerning.
I love this word.
Concerning.
That's concerning.
Gosh, that sounds so female to me.
Ooh, Mr. Kersey, that's so concerning.
Well, you know, this is where you draw the line.
They're here illegally.
They're here illegally.
So truth, justice, and the American way for Governor Janet Mills is clearly, you got to let them stay, no matter what, no matter what.
That's the way it is.
Well, let us set aside the whole question of ICE just for a moment.
And Mr. Kersey, I wasn't necessarily going to talk about this because I did not consider it a top priority item, but you have reminded me that this black-produced movie called Sinners has won a world record number of Oscar nominations.
And I thought, well, okay, we can talk about this.
We have to.
But you've actually seen the movie.
So I've moved it to the top of the list here.
And do tell, do tell about sinners.
Well, don't watch the movie, folks.
No, it's fascinating because Ryan Kugler, ever since he came out with directed Black Panther, which I think that was 2018, for some reason, that year sticks in my mind.
That's one of the highest-grossing movies of all time.
We talked about it at Nauseam that year once it came out and it became a cultural phenomenon, of course, spawning the whole Wakanda meme, et cetera.
Well, he is now being just lavished with praise for this film.
This basically is a loose remake of this Quentin Tarantino vampire film called Dust to Dawn, which I'm sure you've never seen.
But again, it set a new BAFTA record as well this past week.
It's the most nominated film by a black director in the British Academy's history.
This, of course, comes hot on the heels of this movie receiving 16 Oscar nominations.
I mean, and that was the reason why I wanted to watch it because I was hanging out with some friends and they were like, oh, hey, we know you love movies.
Have you watched Sinners yet?
And I wanted to be like, no, of course I haven't.
Why would I watch a movie about black vampire hunters?
But I decided to watch it.
And the one thing that I will say is throughout the whole movie, the vampires seem like they aren't the primary antagonist.
But at the end of the film, one of the vampires, the white vampire, is able to psychologically connect or psychically connect with everybody that he bites.
And so he can see what their past, present, and future.
And he warns one of the survivors played by Michael B. Jordan that, hey, guess what?
The Klan's still coming to kill all of you.
That was the plan all along.
So the real bad guys all along were the Mississippi Klansmen who had one of them had sold them this actual facility where they held this dance party.
And so that's how the movie, it ends with him gunning down scores of Klansmen.
So they kill a bunch of vampires.
I guess the vampires find peace when the sun finally shines, but there's no peace to be found for the evil violence.
Tell me, tell me.
Now, what race are the vampires?
Multiracial.
The initial three vampires are all white, and they come because they want to partake in a night of revelry.
And I guess it plays with one of the vampire tropes.
They continue to ask if they can be invited into the party because for all of you who don't know, never invite a vampire into your home or else they can't come in.
And that's actually that actually plays a key part of the movie is until one of the, it's actually an Asian woman who runs a shop within this Mississippi town.
I think it was Clarksdale, Mississippi, where it was set, which funny, I don't think we talked about this when this movie was debuted last year, sir.
But the town where it takes place, it's a real town.
It didn't have a movie theater in the town.
So they actually had to set up for one night a faux makeshift movie theater so that all the people in the town could participate in watching it collectively.
But no, it is, you know, for a movie getting this much praise, if you enjoy cinema, it's one you should grin and bear.
And then when it's over, you're going to be like, how in the world is this?
Is this being praised like it is?
But then at the same time, another movie that's being praised is this one battle after another, which basically takes place in a fictional United States 10 years after a right-wing coup, a right-wing takeover.
And it's about a multiracial group of people fighting back against a white supremacist state.
Oh, boy.
I mean, that's plenty realistic.
Well, you know, I thought I had done noble service by watching the trailer, but you have certainly done me many times better on that.
And at the end of the trailer that I saw, there is this muscular, determined-looking black man.
And he's got, it looks like a Thompson submachine gun.
He's going.
He goes, bang ity, bang ity, bang, bang, bang.
But you can't tell who he's shooting.
Spoiler alert, he's not shooting vampires.
He's shooting Klansmen.
Oh, dear.
Oh, dear.
I was so looking forward to watching this movie.
Now, are they dressed in their pointy hats?
How are they dressed?
Are they in their white robes?
No, they show up in the morning because as the how are they dressed?
That's what I want to know.
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Oh, the Klansmen?
Yes.
Oh, they are just dressed as you would dress in 1930s Mississippi if you're going out to church.
Oh, so they're not even in their, they're not even their hoods.
No, nope.
They show up en masse and they again, the vampire, the Irish vampire had warned the one survivor, the Klansmen, they were going to kill you.
Even after your party was over, they were still coming to kill you, but sorry, pal.
And so he gets his Thompson machine gun out, and he gets plenty of other ammunition and weaponry at his disposal to dispose of the aforementioned Klansman.
Any return fire from the Klansmen?
Are they just motivated?
They do.
Ultimately, it does lead you to believe that he has to succumb to the injuries he suffers from this final battle, but not from the vampires, mind you, but from the Klansman, the real enemy.
And so, you know, you leave the movie, you're like, well, wait a second, what did I just watch?
And you watched the most nominated Oscar film of all time.
Well, now, which was the famous movie in which the black star was describing, I think it was Django.
He says, and at the end, I get to kill all the white people.
Hungry and chain starring Jamie Foxx.
Yeah, Jamie Fox.
Yes, that was a wonderful lie.
I get to kill all the white people.
How great is that?
Oh, boy.
Well, you know, we weren't, it's not as though we haven't been warned.
Well, moving on to something entirely different, ladies and gentlemen, child investment accounts.
President Trump on Wednesday touted his administration's new investment accounts for children, which have been dubbed, believe it or not, Trump accounts.
The president said the accounts will help children get a real start in life.
And this is a direct quote, Mr. Kersey.
Decades from now, I believe the Trump accounts will be remembered as one of the most transformative innovations of all time, I guess, along with the wheel and the airplane and the transistor.
But the way these will work, these are the capital gains in them are tax-exempt so that it was established under the one big, beautiful bill, signed into law in July, and they are available for children who have not yet turned 18.
And if you set one of these things up, the Treasury will contribute $1,000 to these accounts.
$1,000.
Now, you can contribute up to $5,000 annually, and this money grows untaxed until you withdraw it after the child turns 18.
Now, I don't know when you withdraw it, whether that is, whether it's taxed at that point.
Do you know, by the way, I wasn't even thinking about that when I looked into this.
I mean, the money grows untaxed, but when you withdraw it, is it taxed?
I believe it is taxed when you withdraw.
It's sort of set up like, yeah, it's set up sort of.
Like an IRA or something.
Yeah, exactly.
Yes.
But, you know, I'm just wondering about this.
I'm always saying, of course, so we have these differential birth rates.
The people in the United States who are having children are not generally the white folks.
And who is actually going to do this and get $1,000 worth of Treasury money?
There is a barrier to entry.
You've got to figure out how to do it, set up the account, probably tell the U.S. government, okay, I sent one up.
Where's my $1,000, please?
And that will keep some of the real low lives out.
But if you are a Tyrone in the hood or a Shaniqua with a dozen children, are you going to get around to setting one of these things up?
But that would be $12,000, $12,000 out of your pocket and mine, Mr. Kersey.
Shakespeare's Secret Identity 00:02:48
So I'm sorry.
I'm not sure I'm all that keen about this big, beautiful bill and the Trump child investment account.
But moving on to something else.
This was a piece of news that just made my day.
I had always been wondering who wrote Shakespeare's plays.
And now, Mr. Kersey, I know.
A black Jewish woman.
She was Emilia Bassano.
She was the real Shakespeare.
And this has now been demonstrated by a London School of Economics graduate and feminist historian.
She was apparently a poet, a poetess with connections to the Tudor Court.
And she wrote the Shakespeare canon under the pen name of Shakespeare.
Now, the book's author, Irene Coslett, and from her photo, she looks very much like a feminist historian.
She says the idea of a white genius was preferred to Bassano, this Emilia Bassano, because she was black and a woman, you can't have her being a genius.
She apparently was the mistress of the first Baron of Hunsden, who was Elizabeth I Lord Chamberlain.
And she writes, I'm sorry, the author of this new book writes, historians have not managed to explain how the Stratford man, a semi-illiterate moneylender, managed to gain such a level of erudition.
And in contrast, the Stratford man, the author claims that Bassano gained the necessary expertise from her diverse identity as a Jew and as a Moor and as a person of North African origin who had family ties in Venice.
She states that now the English-speaking world has a mother with a multicultural identity.
And thus, this black Jew from North Africa is the mother of a civilization.
Now, I was poking around and I found a copy of her book.
And the book has on its cover an illustration of Emilia Bassano.
And she looks white as a snowflake to me.
And apparently, the author, Ms. Cuslet, recognizes that she is shown in her portraits as light-skinned.
But she says her skin may have been deliberately lightened in line with what were contemporary beauty standards.
And she goes on to say, if Shakespeare was a female of color, this would draw attention to issues of peace and justice in society.
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Sounds like she's got a political axe to grind to me.
Well, let's see.
Oh, we've got a little bit of time left.
Mr. Kersey, you have a story about a couple of people who are sounding almost like Fox when he's talking about what fun it was to kill all the white men.
Ah, goodness gracious.
Are we talking about Giancarlo Esposito here?
We are Esposito, and there's a woman.
There is a woman.
Tell us about both of them.
This is from Vanity.
This was from last night.
Gian Carlo Esposito, who was a star of Breaking Bad.
He says it's time for revolution as the Trump White House fuels a feeling of civil war in the streets.
All right, well, what's he talking about?
Well, he was wearing a very fashionable scarf when he made these comments.
And he said, it's time for revolution as political tensions rise with the action of the pressure.
Was it a black and white scarf?
It was a multicolored scarf.
Maybe that depicts the revolution that he hopes to see transpire because he made it quite clear who the enemy is.
He says this, quote, this is time for revolution.
And they don't even know that's what they're starting, he told Variety at the Sundance Film Festival.
We have to stand up to it.
They can't take us all down.
If the whole world showed up on Putin's doorstep or the Iranian's doorstep or in Washington, you know what they'd kill 500 or 50 million or however many?
But the rest of us would survive with the new world.
I love how he says that because he's obviously saying that he wouldn't be participating in this, but he would be happy to cheer on it from afar and he'd be the one who picked up the pieces and was the leader of this new world after millions upon millions, potentially hundreds of millions, had sacrificed their lives for the greater good.
His comments came during the Sundance premiere of his new crime thrill, the only living pickpocket in New York.
Again, the narrative around the event, unfortunately, for all those actors and actresses and thespians, has been defined by the politically charged climate tied to the Trump admins, mass deportations in Minneapolis and other parts of the country.
Civil rights groups and legal advocates have raised concerns about the tactics, blah, blah, blah.
Meanwhile, some conservative voices have attributed the unrest to alleged agitation by left-wing groups.
And here's where Esposito makes it quite clear on who he wants to see the revolution get.
Quote: You know, some very rich white men are exerting their power to suppress our own people, thus creating a feeling of civil war in the streets, preparing the haters to hate, teaching them how to shoot.
This is all a preparation for a very insidious problem that's happening in our world.
And for me, I have to speak out.
We will not be iced out.
This is not going to happen.
A number of celebrities, including Espositos, co-star in that movie, The Only Living Pickpocket, Tatiana Maslani wrote, wore an ice-out pen across press lines, studio shoots, and other media appearances.
She actually wore two pens, one artist for Ceasefire.
She said this, quote, there's still genocide happening in Gaza.
And as much as there's a Trump peace plan, Israel has continued to kill Gazans and people in Palestine.
Feels like the lid has been blown off.
I think a lot of people are realizing for the first time that they can't remove themselves from the people who this affects because it affects everyone.
So, wow.
Well, you know, I had never heard of Giancarlo Esposito.
And so I looked him up and I assumed that he was going to be a light-skinned Mexican type, but no, I would have called him a black man.
I think that's correct.
Yeah.
Gee, okay.
Well, that makes maybe a little bit more sense.
But so, okay, he's going to let half a million people be massacred once, but once all white people are gotten rid of, he'll live happily ever after.
Well, he actually said 500 to 50 million.
So it's not a half million.
He's thinking far too grand in scale.
Okay, okay.
But he's going to step out of the firing line.
And then once we're all mowed down, then he's going to live happily.
He'll be in Malibu.
He'll be in Malibu chilling on the beach.
And then he'll come down once the firing's done.
Yeah.
Well, somebody's got to repair the jet engines, you know.
Somebody's got to fix the smartphones.
Somebody's got to make the sewers work.
He might be in for a surprise unless he moved to China.
Okay.
Now, what about this Ingram person?
She seems just as colorful.
I actually don't know anything about Ingram.
Well, wait a minute.
Oh, uh-oh, uh-oh.
Maybe I got something.
You had two people in mind who are making these marvelous statements.
Let me see.
I thought one was a woman.
Well, let's see here.
Let's see.
I think you had.
Oh, of course.
Yes.
This was from this was actually a story that it's not getting much press.
Lorique Ingram, she's an organizer of the Black Men Build.
She called on the movement to treat the political landscape as a state of war.
And they were doing this Zoom call, and apparently someone just happened to jump on and watch it.
And the Washington Free Beacon did a great report on it.
She said this: We're dealing with an empire, we're dealing with wartime.
They understand it's wartime, so our movement should reflect that as well.
So, while the organizers on this call spouted radical rhetoric and called for a socialist revolution, both communist movement builders and black men build are funded by mainstream democratic and center-left organizations.
Black Men Build?
I understand Black Men Build, they are involved in weapons training.
And they are lavishly funded by Powell Jobs, the widow of Apple founder Steve Jobs, and the current owner of The Atlantic.
She's bestowed them with $1.5 million through 2024 to community movement builders.
Google co-founder Eric Schmidt donated $783,000 to Franklin's group through 2024.
And California gubernatorial candidate Tom Steyers charity, Tomcat Foundation, have gotten a cool $30,000.
Wow, boy, they're going to arm up with some pretty fancy gear, I imagine.
Yeah, as you said, they offer self-defense and firearms training for its members.
It is also funded by a number of prominent philanthropies.
Wow.
You know, that sounds like a group I'll look into.
And it's called Black Men Build.
Black Men Build.
Yeah.
They also have gotten a lot of money from the New Georgia project, the voter registration group founded by our favorite romance author.
Favorite romance author.
I was going to say failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abens, but you're right.
She is a romance author.
And I believe she also was going to get $1 billion for smart energy initiatives, which that funding was cut by Trump and by Doge.
So too bad.
Too bad.
Yes, this Black Men Build.
Wow, people are just dumping money on them, encouraging them to arm themselves and take self-defense.
And I guess they're going to be part of Esposito's little army.
Well, I mean, again, the NBA Foundation, a charity founded by professional basketball, by the Basketball League, which aims to help drive economic opportunity in the black community.
They gave them $600,000 back in 2023.
And the George Soros Open Society Foundation gave $1 million in 2023.
Okay.
This is the first time I've heard about Black Men Build.
And so I think I really do need to look into them.
What did they build?
Piles of Espositos.
I don't know.
I don't know.
Thousands of rounds of ammo, I suspect.
They're building piles of weapons.
Gee.
Well, okay, let's see.
Here's a little story about New Zealand that surprised me a little bit.
More than 71,000 New Zealand citizens left the country over the last 12 months ending in October.
That is far more than the 26,000 who came back.
So this, the outbound number, is more than 1% of the population of New Zealand.
New Zealand is 5.1 million people.
1% would be 50,000.
And 71,000 New Zealand citizens buggered off.
Now, more than half of them ended up in Australia.
They can live and work for under indefinitely under reciprocal visa arrangement, I suppose, if they're not mongers of hate, as we were discussing earlier.
And they usually just have practical motives like higher salaries, better career advancement, and a lower cost of living, and they can save more.
And some immigrants also described something more intangible.
They say that a sense of life across the ditch, as they call the Tasman Sea that separates them, could be sunnier at a time when New Zealand feels gloomy.
There's still plenty of non-citizens arriving in New Zealand, nearly 110,000 during the same period than there are leaving.
So what's happening is people from Asia are pouring in New Zealand, whereas New Zealanders themselves are moving to Australia.
And I wonder if there's a connection.
The article that I saw said nothing about that.
Now, I don't know how many listeners we have in New Zealand, but if we have any, ladies and gentlemen, I beg you, let us know what's going on.
Why are New Zealanders, and I suspect they're overwhelmingly white, I suspect there are very few Maori who are moving to Australia.
Why are people leaving New Zealand?
And does that have anything to do with the number of non-citizens who keep piling in?
A lot of Indians.
A lot of Indians in New Zealand.
Indians are going there too.
The dot kind, yes.
Yes, that's what I assume.
Just clarifying for our.
Yes, the feather type ain't probably going there.
Oh, dear.
Well, you know, I guess we've got one last story here.
Not much time here.
And in a way, we're back to Minneapolis.
And I was struck by the former Vikings captain.
He is a black man.
His name is Jack Brewer, Minnesota Vikings captain.
He says, and much to my surprise, he sounded very sensible to me, you can't allow people to come into your country who don't carry the same morals and values you do.
That's what's happening.
Minneapolis is protecting these thugs, he says, speaking of illegal immigrants.
It's unbelievable.
These people are demonic.
Now, when he says these people are demonic, I'm not sure if he's talking about the Minneapolis people who are protecting these thugs or the thugs themselves.
Either way is fine with me.
And this guy says, this black former professional football player says, I've done work in third world countries for 25 years.
The values are not the same.
You can't let people come into the United States who come from cultures like that because they bring their culture with them.
That's what's happening.
This is my favorite line from this guy.
We need a citywide behavioral health assessment.
I like that.
He's, in fact, saying all of these cuckoo white liberals out in the streets demonstrating against ICE, they need to have their heads examined.
A citywide behavioral health assessment.
Wow.
He sounds better than 99% of the elected Republicans speaking about having a national conversation about potentially amnesty or cooling down what ICE is doing because they're worried about the midterms.
No, this was a very in-your-face, blunt assessment about the agitators you're seeing in Minneapolis.
Because again, there were 1.7 million people in Minnesota who voted for Trump back in 2024.
Well, I have never understood why black people are not rallying Foursquare behind ICE.
What do they want, all of these oddballs coming into the country?
They, I think, probably the idea of so many of them is that they dislike, maybe they even hate white people so much, they don't care who comes in so long as our numbers are reduced.
If they had a little bit of sense at all, they must realize that Mexicans and Guatemalans and Chinese and Somatis, they've all got their own sob stories.
They're not going to give a hoot about what black people claim they went through 150 years ago during slavery.
Black people have got it great living in a white majority country.
And if this place turns into a third world country, do they think they're going to be better off?
Absolutely not.
Now, I just don't know.
I have seen a few black people on X and other people making some of those points, saying, wait a minute, what's this got to do with us?
Why do we care?
Why do we care if ICE is deporting illegal immigrants?
We're not.
It's not going to be a problem for us.
But then all these fancy establishment black people are all saying, oh, got to crush ICE.
This is insane.
And, you know, back in the 1986, at the time of Ronald Reagan's legalization, the amnesty that he granted for illegal immigrants, the black congressional caucus was dead set against it.
I think that's a very interesting phenomenon.
They took the common sense point of view.
We don't want these people.
They're not us.
We don't want these people.
Now, all the fancy black people have got to be on the side of the liberals, the progressives.
They say, no, no, got to crush ICE.
So anyway, it's an interesting world.
Always an interesting world.
It's been an interesting week.
And ladies and gentlemen, we are so pleased that you have spent this time with us.
It is an honor and a joy and a pleasure.
And I'm sure next week is going to be equally interesting.
And we will look forward to spending this time with you again.
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