Ep. 1672 - An Update On The Shocking Crime That Democrats Don't Want You To Know About
Today on the Matt Walsh Show, we have closely followed the case of child killer Ronald Exantus who was released from prison and set free after less than ten years in jail. Now we have a number of surprising updates to this story. You don’t want to miss it. Also, Donald Trump says that he doesn’t think he’s bound for Heaven. Some of his Christian supporters took exception to his comments, but I found them encouraging. I’ll explain. And a man who killed a child predator who was kidnapping his daughter has been charged with murder. Now he’s also running for sheriff. Plus, the Republican leader of the senate decided to celebrate “Native American Day” yesterday instead of Columbus Day.
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Today in the Matt Walsh Show, we have closely followed the case of child killer Ronald Exantis, who was released from prison and set free after less than 10 years in jail.
Well, now we have a number of surprising updates to this story, you don't want to miss it.
Also, Donald Trump says that he doesn't think he's bound for heaven.
Some of his Christian supporters took exception to this comment, but I found it actually encouraging, I'll explain.
And a man who killed a child predator who was kidnapping his daughter has been charged with murder.
Now he's also running for sheriff.
Plus, the Republican leader of the Senate decided to celebrate a Native American day yesterday instead of Columbus Day.
We'll talk about all that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show.
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You'd be hard-pressed to find a map of any kind that's more infuriating than this one.
This is the distance between a typical house on 43rd Terrace Road and Sunrise Elementary School in Marion County, Florida.
And in case you're listening to the audio podcast, the house is directly on top of the school, basically.
There's practically no distance separating the school from the house.
They're very close together.
There's a fence that covers some of the grounds.
Anyone living in that house would easily be able to see the school children from any of his back windows.
He'd also be able to access the school grounds in about 10 seconds.
The problem with that is that this is the house that 42-year-old Ronald Exantis began living in immediately after he arrived in Florida at the beginning of this month.
For privacy reasons, we aren't showing the exact address of the house, but this is the approximate distance and location, according to multiple news reports.
And this is remarkable because less than a decade ago, as we discussed at length last week, Ronald Exantis murdered a six-year-old child in Kentucky named Logan Tipton.
He also violently attacked the child's father and siblings before police arrived.
And yet, as of October 3rd of this year, Ronald Exantis was not in prison for killing that child, nor was he buried six feet under the ground where he belonged.
Instead, because the state of Kentucky released him on good behavior after just a few years in prison, child killer Ronald Exantis was living in a home that's adjacent to an elementary school.
This is the kind of development that doesn't need any further explanation.
On its face, it's the greatest possible betrayal by the state of Kentucky and his judicial system.
And I say judicial system with the maximum possible degree of contempt.
No actual system of justice, no real system of justice, could possibly produce this result.
Where a child killer ends up free, out on the street, living next to an elementary school.
Now we've talked before about the specifics of Ronald Exantis's case, how the jury somehow found him not guilty by reason of insanity for killing the six-year-old child, but at the same time guilty for assaulting the boy's siblings and father, which makes no sense.
We've discussed how Kentucky somehow classifies these assaults as nonviolent, allowing Exantis to serve less than half of his sentence.
We've also discussed how ludicrous it is on its face to determine that someone who's supposedly insane, so insane that they would kill a child, can still be unleashed on the public ever again.
But really, no discussion on these points is needed.
The mere fact that a child killer ended up a free man living next to an elementary school, practically on the elementary school's property, is all the evidence you need that law and order do not exist in the state of Kentucky or frankly in much of the rest of the country.
But there is one very important part of the story that hasn't really been discussed.
When Ronald Exantis moved into that home in Marion County, Florida, October 3rd, he was not alone.
He thought he was alone.
He thought he could do whatever he wanted without anybody noticing.
But that was not the case because plainclothes officers were watching Exantis along with his property as soon as he arrived at the home.
There were also other surveillance tools that were being used, which I'm not allowed to discuss, but this was 24-hour surveillance by armed officers, which was directed by the Florida Attorney General's office.
And I know that because I was told this directly by a high-level source in that office.
I was also told that the reason the Florida State Attorney General's office became aware of this case in the first place and of Exanthus's presence in the state, is that they saw my coverage of the case.
Here's what I wrote on X at 1.16 p.m. on October 3rd, quote, this case should be getting a lot more attention, should be massively viral.
We need the White House on it.
A man who broke into a house and stabbed a child to death is now walking free.
One of the most heinous miscarriages of justice in American history, close quote.
Now, I didn't know when I wrote that post that Ronald Exantis had just acquired a Florida State driver's license and moved into his new home just hours earlier on the same day, right next to an elementary school.
I had no idea where Ronald Exantis was.
I had just seen a post from the unlimited L's account on X, which posted a news clip about the case.
And I reposted it with my commentary, trying to get as much attention as I possibly could to it.
And soon afterwards, the White House press secretary said that the Trump administration was going to be getting involved in some way in this case, going to look into it.
And in response, a lot of people were understandably cynical.
You know, we're all familiar with how this kind of story usually plays out.
There's a grave injustice.
The government promises to address it, and then nothing happens.
But in this case, something did happen.
Florida officials saw what I wrote and they ordered 24-hour surveillance immediately.
That same day, they leapt into action.
From a practical tactical perspective, they had to make sure that Exantis wouldn't murder any more children.
And they had to do that as soon as possible.
But from a legal perspective, they also had to find a way legally to put Ronald Exantis back in prison for a very long time, as long as possible anyway.
And that's precisely what happened next.
And that's why within a few days, as soon as they could, those Florida officers arrested Exantis and charged him with a violation of the terms of his release.
And we'll we'll put the relevant portion of those terms up on the screen right now.
You can see it.
It reads, quote, you shall not violate any law or city ordinance of this state or any other state or of the United States.
Now, pretty simple.
Obviously, this is kind of a boilerplate provision.
It's likely that Ronald Exantis, if he even read the terms of his release, which he probably didn't, wouldn't care about this.
He's never demonstrated any concern for the law at any time in his life, so why would he start now?
But the Florida Florida Attorney General's office was very interested in this provision because they're familiar with the following provision in Florida law.
It reads, quote, any person who has been convicted of a crime in any federal court or in any court of a state other than Florida, or of any foreign state or country, which crime if committed in Florida would be a felony, shall forthwith, within 48 hours after entering any county in this state, register with the sheriff of said county in the same manner as provided for in subsection two.
In substitute, subsection two describes the process of going to the sheriff, getting fingerprinted, getting photographed, doing all that.
Now, violating this law, which is failing to register as a felon, is a low-level misdemeanor.
But a low-level misdemeanor is a very big deal when you're out of prison on early release or parole or anything like it.
In fact, a low-level misdemeanor can be the difference between going free and living near an elementary school full of potential victims and going to prison for another 10 years.
And the state of Florida recognized that.
They understood that under the law as it stands, this is the best way to protect the public from Ronald Exantis.
Now, he should not be out of prison in the first place.
He should have been executed.
He should at least be in prison for the rest of his life.
But under the law as it currently stands, this is what they could do.
They could take him into custody, which they did, and that's where he remains right now without bail.
He's going to be sent back to Kentucky soon, and we're told that it's very likely that Kentucky officials will ultimately revoke his early release as a result, not because they want to, of course, but because of the PR disaster that's resulted from this case, they really have no choice.
So, and that means he's going to go back to prison for another 10 years.
So to be clear, a single post on social media led to a response from the White House, 24 hour surveillance, and ultimately the removal of a child killer from the streets.
And there's a very good chance that the state of Florida saved lives here.
I mean, and I think it's almost certain that they did.
And we're so used to government dysfunction that a rapid response like this seems kind of unthinkable.
It can seem pointless to raise hell about anything on social media.
But as we're often told, social media isn't real life, you know, Twitter isn't real, X isn't real life.
But this all seems pretty real to me.
Now, if you're a bleeding heart type, you might object that Ronald Exantis is a victim of lawfare, because if we're being honest, Ronald Exantis probably wasn't even aware of this Florida law.
Well, too bad, first of all.
And second, that's not what lawfare is.
Lawfare is when you apply existing laws in a clearly malicious, unequal, and novel way, far removed from their original intent, and you do it for often political reasons.
For example, charging Donald Trump for storing classified material while letting Joe Biden hoard boxes of classified documents in his garage.
That's a law fair.
And every single Trump prosecution was like this.
By contrast, the law in the state of Florida has a very clear purpose.
It's to keep the people of Florida safe from out of state felons, and that law is working perfectly as intended right now.
But there are deeper problems that need to be addressed here because the state of Florida cannot solve all of Kentucky's problems by itself.
So take a look at this segment featuring Ronald Exantis's former public defender, who's a woman named Bridget Hoffler.
Hoffler has left the public defender's office since defending Exanthus and now serves as an assistant county attorney in Carroll County, Kentucky.
So she's a prosecutor now.
And specifically, she's a prosecutor focusing on neglect and abuse cases involving children.
But she absolutely should not be.
She should be fired immediately.
And that's not because she represented Ronald Exantis.
Everybody, no matter how evil they are, is legally entitled to a criminal defense in this country.
That's the law.
That should be the law, and it is.
That's not why she should be fired.
She should be fired because Bridget Hoffler just gave the following interview after Ronald Exantis' release.
This is how she is talking about a man who murdered a child less than a decade ago.
This is a report from a local news station, quote.
Exantis's former attorney, Bridget Hoffler, said Exantis called her after he was released.
She said she was initially shocked that he was let out early because it was such a contentious case.
Yeah, contentious is one way to put it.
But quote, it didn't really surprise me.
If anybody deserved to get out early, it was Ron.
He had accomplished so much while he was in prison.
Now, to be clear, again, um, this is a prosecutor who says that a prosecutor now, who says that a child killer deserved an early release from prison because he accomplished so much while he was in prison.
Now, this is the very definition of suicidal empathy, which is an overwhelmingly female problem, a liberal female problem.
Once you stab a child in the head so many times that the blade bends, there is nothing you can Do in prison.
Nothing whatsoever that can possibly justify releasing you.
I don't care what you do.
Okay?
I don't care how many arts and crafts you manage to do.
I don't care how many coloring books you complete or whatever Ronald Exantis supposedly accomplished while he was in a cage under armed guard.
It doesn't matter.
And the only person who would disagree with that idea is an enemy of civilization, who should be nowhere near a prosecutor's office.
In a separate interview, Brezer Hoffler somehow managed to make things even worse.
Watch.
Jennifer.
Well, a decade-old Kentucky law allowed Exantis to be placed on mandatory re-entry supervision.
In 2018, a jury convicted Exantis of assault for entering Tipton's family members, but found him not guilty of the boy's murder by reason of insanity.
He was sentenced to 20 years in prison, but served just 10 years before being released.
We asked Exantis's former attorney to explain what mandatory re-entry supervision actually is.
So it's first of all, it's not discretionary in the least.
It's mandatory.
It's by operation of law.
Nothing you can do to prevent it.
The case is garnered national attention, even from the White House, which said it's looking into his release.
I think, you know, everyone is fearful.
You know, you have a lot of talking heads that know nothing about the facts of this case.
They weren't in the courtroom during trial.
Um and they don't know anything about Ron, and they don't know anything about this case.
But, you know, when this happened, Ron was a very well-established um nurse.
Oh, he was a well-established nurse.
I mean, can you imagine keeping a well-established nurse in prison?
Again, she's saying this after this nurse murdered a child and tried to kill his entire family.
And also, again, no one is taking this woman to task for the fact that she was that she defended Exantis.
She was a public defender.
That was her job.
She's not a public defender anymore, and she's not his attorney anymore.
She's now actually a prosecutor who is still claiming, and she doesn't need to do this, she's doing it because she believes it, that it's great this guy's out of prison.
He's a well-established nurse.
Well, you know, I would say that once you go and murder a child, uh, that's the point where you are no longer a well-established nurse.
Uh, you are a child killer.
Your past employment is irrelevant.
I don't care what you what you were in your past.
You could have been Mother Teresa, it doesn't matter.
Slaughtering children is the clearest possible red line.
Of course, women like this don't see it that way.
That's why they support abortion.
Killing a child in the mind of the modern leftist and in particular the modern leftist woman isn't really a crime.
And that's how they think.
It's certainly how this woman thinks.
If Kentucky wants to have a functioning judicial system, then step one is firing this scumbag.
She has no business being a prosecutor.
She has no business holding any public office ever again.
And at some level, she seems to recognize that because she's deleted all of her social media accounts and her phone number doesn't work anymore.
Uh, the next step after this woman is terminated is to change the law in Kentucky so that nothing like this ever happens again.
And one state representative in Kentucky, TJ Roberts, has proposed two bills that would uh that would have that effect.
Watch.
The Tipton family has been victimized twice.
The first time they were victimized was by Ronald Exantis, and he should have died in prison for what he did.
But the second time that they were victimized was by the government of Kentucky.
Our laws failed them.
State representative TJ Roberts intends to file legislation next year to eliminate mandatory re-entry supervision.
The program releases nonviolent offenders six months before their release date to re-acclimate to the world.
Exantis's second degree assault charges did not classify him as a violent offender, making him eligible for early release.
Roberts proposes giving the power to grant this kind of re-entry to the parole board, which stated it denied Exantis' parole every time it was considered, including the day before he was let out.
Angela Cooper with the ACLU of Kentucky cautions a law change for a program that she says has in most cases Worked as intended.
A single case, a single incident, a single unique set of circumstances should not be the basis for changing a law, creating a law.
And then we hear from the ACLU there, and you know, even by the non-existent standards of the ACLU, it's an extraordinary argument.
Yeah, you can't change the law just because of one little child killer getting released after a few years and moving directly next to an elementary school.
We're just supposed to allow that because in general, it's supposedly a good thing to release violent criminals early while pretending that they're nonviolent.
Actually, you know, in a society where children are safe from psychopathic killers, which is the kind of society that the ACLU does not want.
It's common sense to change laws that produce catastrophically bad outcomes.
That's how functioning societies work.
And of course, there's it's a lot more than one violent criminal that's been released from prison because of laws like this.
But even if it were just one, if this is a law that has enabled even one child killer to leave prison before they die, then there's a problem with the law.
You know, in a functioning society, you see a system that produces a bad result, you analyze how that result comes about, and then you change the system.
It's called it's cause and effect.
It's a very basic principle.
I mean, what they it's it's like saying that what the ACLU is saying, it's like saying that if your brakes fail in your car one time, that well, there's no reason to take it into the shop and get it repaired.
We don't need to go do a whole thing.
You know, we don't need to overhaul the system.
Let's, it's just one time.
It's just one time.
Come on.
It's exactly the same mentality.
And to that end, TJ Roberts has also changed, uh, rather proposed another change to the law in Kentucky.
Watch.
Roberts' second bill request focuses on insanity, please.
If a criminal charge is all emerging from the same course of conduct, either you're sane for all the charges or you're insane for all of the charges.
He adds, typically, a person found not guilty by reason of insanity is committed to a mental health facility.
Once again, where are all the other lawmakers in Kentucky?
I really appreciate TJ Roberts.
Where are the rest of them?
For that matter, where's uh Rand Paul, Thomas Massey?
You know, Kentucky is their state.
And I like both of those guys, but where are they on this?
Have they said anything about it?
Have they said a single word about it?
Now, when my producer spoke to TJ Roberts last night, he said that he believes his legislation will pass.
There's strong support among Kentucky lawmakers for each of them, and uh, they don't need the Democrat governor Andy Bashir to sign off on them because only a constitutional majority is needed to overturn this uh veto.
And uh, and and Kentucky is of course dominated by Republicans.
And that's very fortunate because for his part, Andy Bashir has responded to the release of Ronald Exantis by defending the state parole board and attacking the White House for responding to my post on social media.
That's what Andy Bashir is is worried about, okay?
Here's what Andy Bashir said: quote, for them, the White House, to uh speaking about the White House, for the White House to simply retweet that wrong information.
The parole board has never made a decision to release Ronald Exantis.
Instead, every time it came in, came in front of them, they voted against him and to keep him in prison.
Now, to be clear that the tweet from the White House, uh, White House's press secretary, Caroline Levitt was as follows: quote, I can confirm the White House is looking into this.
It's wholly unacceptable for a child killer to walk free after just several years in prison.
And that was a direct response to my tweet, which we showed earlier, in which I said, again, quote, a man who broke into a house and stabbed a child to death is now walking free.
Neither one of us spread wrong information.
Everything we said was correct.
Now it's true that when this story broke, the Kentucky Parole Board claimed that they didn't want to release Ronald Alexantis.
The Department of Corrections said that their hat their hands were tied.
But even if that were true, the parole board and the Department of Corrections could have made their objections public.
They could have drawn attention to what happened.
They could have been shouting from the rooftops about this terrible atrocity, this terrible injustice that they were forced to take part in.
But they didn't.
They didn't do that at all.
They didn't say a word about it.
No, instead, they waited For you know, the rest of us to do it for them.
You know what?
They waited for a podcaster in a different state to do it for them.
And now they want to play victim.
Oh, I had no choice.
Well, maybe step up and have some courage.
Maybe speak up, maybe do something about it rather than, well, my hands are tied, nothing I can do.
Just for that attitude alone, you are still villains in this.
I don't care if the law mandated it, mandated it or not, you are still villains in this story.
They could have imposed stricter conditions on the release of Ronald Xantis so that the state of Florida would have an even easier time arresting him.
They didn't do any of that.
All they're interested in doing is covering for themselves.
And the same is true of the governor of the state.
I mean, even if it were true that disinformation had been spread about the Kentucky Parole Board, you know, that's not really a priority.
The priority, the travesty here is not that people are supposedly mistaken about government officials and what the law mandates.
You know, by the way, this is one of the consequences of having ridiculous laws that make no sense, is that for the rest of us, it's a confusing mishmash.
And yeah, we don't know exactly who to blame.
And then you people in the government, you hide behind that.
You say, well, it's not my fault.
You're spreading misinformation.
Well, maybe step up and change the law before this happens.
Okay, all we know is that this terrible atrocity was allowed to occur because of the way the system is set up.
It's been set up by people.
You people are in the system.
You run the system.
So, yeah, it is your fault.
Maybe for once in your lives, like do something about it rather than standing back and just pointing the finger, blame him, not me.
It's pathetic.
You know, the injustice here is not that the parole board was according, you know, according to them, unfairly blamed.
That's not the injustice.
The injustice is that a child killer was let out of prison and that he moved next to an elementary school.
That's what every single political official in Kentucky should care about and should be talking about.
The lesson we should draw from this case is that we can indeed enforce laws.
We can enforce them quickly.
All of the built-in dysfunction of our legal system is a choice.
One tweet, one tweet, and next thing you know, Ronald Exantis is back in prison.
That's because the laws that are necessary to ensure public order are already on the books.
And in the states where they aren't, like Kentucky, they could easily be changed.
The state of Florida, to its enormous credit, understands that.
They're responsive to complaints, even when they come from out of state.
They understand that the law is a tool to ensure public order, not to prosecute, you know, not to prosecute political opponents, not to uh, you know, not for any means like that, but it's to restore order.
And the result is that Ronald Exantis is in a prison cell right now instead of hanging out near an elementary school.
Many more criminals deserve the same fate.
They can be locked up just as quickly as he was.
And if we notice what's happening around us and apply pressure on public officials to correct it, as we did in this case after learning of the brutal murder of Logan Tipton and the early release of his killer, then that's exactly what will happen.
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Um as you can see, if you're watching the uh video podcasts, we launched today in our brand new studio.
I've been in studio limbo for for several months.
And now we have this uh beautiful new new space, which I'm very happy with.
You can see my big um, I think you can see it in the shot there, my big uh wooden carved largemouth bass on the mantle, which I'm really proud of.
That's uh the whole studio was really constructed with that in mind.
Uh I told him I have this, I have this big carved fish that I I have, I haven't anything, I don't know what to do with.
So like build the entire studio around this fish.
And um, and that's what we did.
So, and I think it's great.
Speaking of things that I I think are great, I wanted to start with this.
Um, President Trump has obviously had a big week.
I think that puts it quite mildly.
Uh, ended the war in the Middle East, earned himself a Nobel Peace Prize.
I mean, he wasn't awarded a Nobel Peace Prize, but he did earn one, whether he was awarded it or not.
So big week.
And amid all that, there was a moment um that went viral of Trump, I think he's on his plane on Air Force One, talking to reporters.
And Trump has been criticized a fair amount by uh by conservatives by by his Christian supporters, some of them, for what he said here.
But uh, and that's why I find it interesting, but I think that he's being unfairly criticized.
Let's play the clip.
Here it is.
You know, I'm being a little cute.
I don't think there's anything gonna get me in heaven.
Okay, I really don't.
I think I think I'm not maybe heaven-bound.
I may be in heaven right now as we fly at Air Force one.
I'm not sure, eh, I'm gonna be able to make heaven.
But I've made life a lot better for a lot of people.
And, you know, as an example, had the election of 2020 not been rigged, you would have millions of people living just in Russia Ukraine alone.
That would have never happened.
And it didn't happen for four years.
And I knew Putin very well.
It was the apple of his eye, all the things I've said would have never happened.
We had an incompetent administration, we had an incompetent president, and because of a crooked election, millions of people are dead.
And by the way, the Israeli thing was much harder to get settled because of the best administration.
Okay.
Okay, so plenty of criticism of Trump from some Christians because of his comments there that he's not heaven-bound, you know.
And uh, they say this is proof that Trump isn't Spiritually mature at best, doesn't understand the gospel.
Uh, you know, Dana Lash, Eric Erickson were two of the conservative commentators who uh criticized Trump.
Dana posted he needs better spiritual advisors around him if he believes this, God's grace covers all by belief, not deed.
Now, I like Dana and Eric and and a lot of the other conservative commentators who issued criticisms, but I disagree with them on this one.
First of all, it's clear that Trump is at least partially joking.
You know, this is this is a self-deprecating joke.
And that's one thing that's very underrated about Trump, I think is his capacity for uh self-deprecation for being self-effacing.
He's thought of as this very bombastic, self-assured guy, which he is, of course, but he also frequently has these uh, I find charming moments of humility and self-deprecation, and this is one of them.
But also I would say Trump's attitude here is, I think, uh, in particular for a leader, for a person in a position of leadership, but really for anyone, for anyone, is more spiritually mature and and and more theologically sound than the idea held by a lot of people criticizing him on this point,
that, you know, as long as we've professed our belief in Christ at some point, then we can say for absolute 100% certainty that we're going to heaven.
Once saved, always saved, right?
Is the is the um idea.
So if you declare that Trump, uh, if you declare, you know, if Trump declares, if anyone declares that Jesus is your Lord and Savior, and then 10 years later, you know, you go off and become an axe murderer or something, you are still absolutely guaranteed to go to heaven.
That's the idea.
And the people who promote this doctrine, you know, they try to get around this, obviously they'll they've heard this objection many times, and they'll try to get around it by saying, well, you know, if you become an axe murderer, uh, it it means that the profession of faith was never sincere.
But that's kind of ad hoc reasoning, and it's totally fallacious.
And the fact is that a person can sincerely believe that Jesus is Lord, and also go off and commit horrific sins.
I mean, it's it's possible to for both of those things to happen.
I mean, Satan knows that Jesus is Lord, and and yet he is still Satan.
So you can't really get around this problem.
If you believe one saved, always saved, then you believe that a person can commit the most horrific monstro sins imaginable, um, not repent for them.
You know, they could go be a murderer or a child predator, you know, the worst things imaginable, and still be absolutely sure of their own salvation the whole time as long as they believe in Jesus Christ.
And that's the implications of the doctrine.
A doctrine which is relatively new in the grand scheme of things.
I mean, it was never the traditional way of understanding salvation.
Trump's view is much more traditional, much more in line with um the traditional view, much more in line with what the church fathers taught, what the early church taught taught, not to mention what Jesus himself taught.
You know, Jesus said to the adulterous woman, go and sin no more.
I don't condemn you, go and sin no more.
Meaning you can't just go out and do what you want.
Um, you can't go back to the sinful lifestyle.
So, and again to the whole theological debate.
I'm only saying that I think the people criticizing Trump are on shakier biblical footing than he is here.
And uh, I think Trump's comments are uh, you know, uh straight out of Philippians.
Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
That's what I take from it.
This is Trump's fear and trembling.
And we should all have fear and trembling.
The people who say, oh, yeah, you know, I'm saved, I'm definitely going to heaven no matter what.
Well, where is the fear and trembling in that?
Where is the uh where is the working out?
I mean, it's right there in the Bible.
And regardless of any of that, I will say this no matter where you stand theologically, I would much rather have a leader who has fear and trembling, who has this humility, um and and has this is unsure of his own ultimate fate.
I would much rather have that in the most powerful man in the world than one who believes that no matter what he does, no matter what decisions he makes, he definitely can't go to hell no matter what.
Uh I I would much rather the former scenario for a whole host of reasons.
All right, we've talked about the situation in Cincinnati, and the city's in bad shape, plagued by crime, plagued by dysfunction.
Over the weekend, there was another shooting, multiple shootings.
Um there's one at a restaurant downtown, two people were shot, maybe at the restaurant, or this might have been two different shootings, but regardless, you know, you lose track of all the shootings.
But chaos in Cincinnati, we've talked about this.
I want to play this clip of the police chief, uh, Chief Teresa Thetig.
I still haven't pronounced figured out how to pronounce her last name.
T-H-E-E-T-G-E.
Thig, probably.
I guess the T is silent.
Is that what it is?
Teresa Thieg, I'm gonna guess.
Anyway, we've um we've heard from her before on the show.
And you know how I feel about female police chiefs.
Well, not to prove a point that's already been proven a thousand times already, but here is Chief Teresa's message to the violent criminals who are, you know, shooting each other in the street.
Here's her message to them.
Watch.
And so my message to everybody learn how to behave in our city, but especially learn how to behave in our downtown and our fountain square.
And our officers will approach you if you start to behave disorderly on Fountain Square.
Because these things sometimes start as a minor altercation and then evolve into something bigger.
So do not come down town, especially on Fountain Square, if you don't know how to behave.
Now you bet you better behave.
I've had enough of these shenanigans out of you, mister.
There won't be any more misbehavior.
I'll tell you right now, don't make me put you in timeout.
I'll call your parents.
You're gonna miss, you're gonna miss recess, young man.
There'll be no more misbehavior.
That was one too many shootings, okay?
I gave you too many chances.
You're gonna stop the shootings right away.
When I get to three, one, two, two and a half, two and three quarters.
This is the police chief of a major American city.
She sounds like a disappointed assistant principal in a middle school somewhere.
She sounds like uh like a, you know, like an overwhelmed substitute teacher in a sixth grade math class.
And um, this is how she responds to, you know, uh criminality and uh violent violent crime.
There's just no hope of restoring any semblance of law and order when you have somebody like this in charge.
It is a total farce.
And I know people get mad when I say it, but we just should not have female police chiefs, okay?
We just shouldn't.
That's a man's job.
And I know there are plenty of bad police chiefs out there who are men, don't get me wrong.
I realize that being a man is not in and of itself a enough, okay?
That's not, it's not sufficient.
It's not like if you say you want to be police chief, I would look at you and say, oh, you're a man.
Well, good, you're you're fine.
You're you're you're great.
Um, no, that's just the first box of many that you should have to check in order to be qualified for the job.
Law enforcement is an inherently masculine thing.
It's a masculine profession.
And you need leaders of men.
Okay, you just do that.
It's the same reason why there could never be a you know, a female NFL head coach.
I mean, there can be legally.
I'm sure the NFL would love it.
I'm sure the NFL's pushing it behind the scenes.
They would love to have that.
But it's not ever gonna happen.
Because, yeah, you could now you could find a woman who knows football really well.
You could find a woman who knows football more than I do.
You know, that's not, it wouldn't be that hard.
That's possible.
But women cannot be leaders of men.
Okay, that's what it comes down to.
And this should not be conscious.
I understand it is controversial because we live in a very stupid culture, but it should not be cultural.
It should not be uh controversial.
Women are not leaders of men.
Men are leaders of men.
That's why the idea of a woman trying to lead a football team is just absurd.
It's cart, it's like a cartoon.
The men on the football team need to be led by a man who they respect who can inspire them to run out onto the field, throw their body around, put themselves in harm's way.
And if that's true of football, a game, which we all know that it is, then how much more is it the case with something like law enforcement or the military?
You're actually putting your life on the line.
You need men in charge.
And we shouldn't be shy about saying that.
We shouldn't be beating around the bush.
There are certain roles in society that should be filled by men.
I mean, it's as simple as that.
There are some things in life where you can look at, you can look at it and you say, that's not really for women.
Women shouldn't be doing that.
This is one of the many things that up until very recently, nothing controversial about saying this.
The only thing that would make that would be remarkable about saying any of this up till recently is just that you feel the need to say it.
People will look at you strange because they would say, yeah, obviously.
Of course.
Like men and women are different.
They are suited for different things, obviously.
Um, but that's how it is now.
And you know, and we all know it.
We all know it.
We all understand.
Everyone listening to me right now knows it at some level.
When you just look at this police chief, police chief Teresa, before she opens her mouth.
You look at her and you say, oh, come on.
Every single, I don't care who you are, I don't care, I don't care how enlightened you pretend to be.
You see, before she says a word, you see that, and you go, yeah, okay.
Really?
Um.
And there are situations where it goes the other way around.
I mean, there are jobs where where you would say, that's not for a man.
Like it's just men are just not suited for that.
I've used the example plenty of times.
I think it's because I think it's a good example, is um like a you know, a babysitter, a nanny.
Doesn't matter.
I'm not hiring a man to do that job.
No way in hell.
I don't care how qualified you are.
I don't care.
No way.
Why?
Well, because it's not a man's job.
Men are just not meant to do that job.
They're not suited for it.
Now, not every woman is qualified.
If I'm looking for a nanny and a woman walks in the door, I'm not going to say, well, she's a woman, so clearly she can do it.
There are other qualifications, but the first box on the list that needs to be checked is that they have to be a woman.
And um, you know, men are disqualified right out of the gate.
Simply because of their sex.
They are, I just I would discriminate against them purely for factors that are totally outside of their control.
I would absolutely do that without hesitation, uh, without apology.
If a man showed up for a nanny interview, I would say, uh, no, get out.
What are you doing here?
Get the hell out of here.
Well, is it because I'm a man?
Uh yeah.
That's why.
And um, and again, we can all see that.
That I mean, almost every person feels the same way instinctively, you just know it.
Right?
Anyone out there looking for a babysitter nanny, something for child care, you're not, you're not, you're not gonna hire a man.
And we all know that.
And with that, I think it's it's it's more acceptable to admit.
People are more likely to admit that.
Right?
I think you can get people to admit that there are roles in society that, yeah, really, that should be a woman doing that.
You can you can usually get people to admit that.
But if you go the other way and say, well, yeah, okay, you know, women are, but and then there are roles where really it should be a man.
When you say that part of it, that's where people get very upset, even though, again, instinctively we all know it's true.
And it's okay to trust your instincts.
You know, you know that your instincts, your like when I and when I what I mean by instincts, we're talking about just our innate uh understanding.
We just we just have an innate understanding of certain things.
Like in your gut, you just know it.
And it's okay to trust that.
In fact, you should.
You should just trust that.
And so the whole conversation is really pointless.
Because I'm trying to persuade you of something that you already know is true deep down.
All right.
Um, this is kind of related.
There's a guy down in Arkansas named Aaron Spencer, he's running for sheriff.
And that's notable because this guy is currently charged and will soon be on on trial for murder, specifically for killing a pedophile who was molesting his daughter.
And here he is announcing his candidacy.
Listen.
Hello, Lono.
My name is Aaron Spencer.
Many of you know my story.
I'm the father who acted to protect his daughter when the system failed.
I'm also a husband, a combat veteran of the 82nd Airborne Division, a contractor and a farmer.
And through my own fight for justice, I have seen firsthand the failures in law enforcement and in our circuit court.
And I refuse to stand by while others face these same failures.
That's why I'm announcing my candidacy to run for Lowanoke County Sheriff.
This campaign isn't about me.
It's about every parent, every neighbor, every family who deserves to feel safe in their homes and safe in their community.
It's about restoring trust where neighbors know law enforcement is on their side, and families know that they will not be left alone in a moment of need.
Together, we can build a safer, stronger Low Note County for every family.
I'm Aaron Spencer, and I'm running for sheriff of Low Note County.
Well, now we see the diametric opposite.
Here's a leader of men.
Here's a guy who you want to have in charge of law enforcement in your community.
Um reading a bit more from New York Post, says a father accused of killing his 14-year-old daughter's rapist is running to be sheriff, claiming the legal system failed him by charging him with murder.
Aaron Spencer allegedly gunned down uh Michael Fossler, 67, after catching him driving off with his daughter, whom Fossler had already been charged with grooming and abusing, according to court documents.
Now, this is candidcy, we just heard that.
Spencer was charged with second-degree murder last October after allegedly killing Foster when he found him in a truck with his daughter.
The dad told authorities he had driven around his neighborhood after discovering his daughter was missing, then found her being driven away by Fosler, who had already been charged with multiple sexual offenses against Spencer's daughter.
He forced the accused rapist off the road and shot him.
And so, and now he's gonna be on trial for murder.
So this is it's I mean, it's insane.
Not insane that he's running for cherrif.
I think that's great.
I would definitely vote for him if I could.
But the fact that they're actually pursuing murder charges against this guy, like he's going to trial.
And keep in mind, this was in Arkansas.
And I know we like to think that red states are these bastions of sanity.
But this guy, I mean, we just talked about Kentucky and what's happening there.
I mean, this guy, this guy, this guy chased down a 67-year-old pedophile who'd already been had already been convicted of abusing this same child, found him abusing his daughter, um, shot him, and now they're trying to put him in prison.
They're trying to take him away from his daughter who he was protecting and put him in prison.
And according to the mythology of the red state, right?
The like the conservative Bible belt red state, according to that mythology, the mythology is that the cops would have they would have shown up, they would have seen what happened, they would have, you know, you get the basic facts of the case.
It would have been really easy to establish.
Oh, he was driving away with this girl, he's a pedophile, you know, everything.
And rather than charge him with murder, they would have taken him out for a beer and uh and congratulated him and then sent him on his way.
Like that's the mythology of a place like Arkansas, is that that's how it would happen.
But instead, um, this is this is what they do.
It's uh they if if you act to defend yourself or your loved ones, the system will do everything in its power To destroy you and punish you.
And here's what makes this so much worse.
You know, it's not like this is a system where they enforce the letter of the law to a T. Right?
They throw the book at anybody.
Law and order enforced by the book, no mercy.
And so even if you shoot your daughter's abuser, they're going to go through it with a fine-toothed comb.
And if your actions don't comport with the letter of the law 100% the whole way through, they're going to throw you in prison.
That's not the system.
Okay.
That's not the way that it works.
And even if it did work that way, I would obviously still strenuously object to charging Spencer with a crime.
But that's not how it works.
Okay, Spencer is not being charged and tried in the context of this by the book, pitiless justice system that just holds everybody accountable for the slightest infraction, right?
That's not what this is.
This is a system that only acts this way towards guys like Aaron Spencer.
But when it comes to your everyday low life, your thieves, your thugs, your hoodlums, your dysfunctional losers, your career criminals, your psychotic vagrants, your, you know, your drugged out dangerous zombies, and so on.
For their sake, the system does everything it can to be kind and be merciful and give them a second chance.
Well, where is Aaron Spencer's second chance?
I mean, even if you think he did the wrong thing, which I don't know how you could possibly think that, there is nothing more right than killing the man who's abusing your daughter, trying to drive away with her kidnap her.
I mean, he's in the process of trying to kidnap your daughter, a pedophile is kidnapping your daughter.
I cannot think of any more appropriate response than to shoot him and kill him and take your daughter back.
But even if you think, even if somehow you think that he did the wrong thing, I mean, uh even if you're in that, as even if you're that deluded.
Okay, well, then why shouldn't he get a second chance?
Why aren't we sympathizing with his lived experience?
Why are we thinking about his mental state?
You know, his his trauma, that his very real trauma.
Like all the nonsense that's constantly used to let off the worst humans on the planet, let them off the hook.
We never use it for the sake of actual law-abiding citizens who are driven to take extreme action when they're put in extreme situations.
Daniel Penny, of course, is uh is another example.
There are many others, and that's the thing.
We like to say that this is a soft on crime system.
And I use that phrase too, kind of a shorthand, it's a convenient shorthand, but it's not really true.
Um that would not be nearly as bad as the system that we currently have.
Because a soft on crime system, in that kind of system, Aaron Spencer, even if he did commit a crime, which he didn't, he would benefit also.
But if it was really a soft on crime system, then we would also say to him, well, you know, that's the attitude you would take.
He would benefit from that.
But we're not.
Actually, this system is merciless and severe when it wants to be.
The system is downright medieval in its approach to crime and punishment when it wants to be.
But it only wants to be when the accused criminal is somebody like Aaron Spencer.
A law-abiding man, usually a white man, who has to do something extreme in defense of uh of his loved ones.
And why is that the case?
Why do they come down on uh Aaron Spencer?
Why do they come down on Daniel Penny?
Because those men, what they did is a rebuke of the system itself.
It is the system defending itself.
Aaron Spencer and Daniel Penny, and there are many other examples, but just using those two.
They tried to destroy Daniel Penny's life.
They tried to put him in prison.
It didn't work out.
They're gonna try to do the same thing with Aaron Spencer.
Um, but in both of those cases, those were men who had to step up and defend the innocent because the system failed to do it.
Jordan Neely, the psychotic vagrant, should have never been on that subway in the first place.
He should have been behind bars long ago.
This guy, this pedophile should have been behind bars already.
The system failed to act.
These men had to step up in the system's place.
And so that is the crime.
That's the crime that they committed, is by exposing the ineptitude of the system itself.
And for that reason, that's why they're trying to punish them.
And it is uh a horrendous injustice.
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Yesterday, of course, we honored Christopher Columbus and all the European pioneers who came in his footsteps to claim this land for Christ.
We celebrated the conquest of civilization over Stone Age savagery, and we recommitted ourselves to defending civilization against the forces of chaos and barbarism that threatened it today.
And when I say we, of course, I'm not talking about low testosterone degenerates like Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson or Minnesota Governor Tim Walls or the Buffalo Bills, all of whom decided to celebrate something called Indigenous People's Day on Sunday instead of Columbus Day, uh, or rather on uh on Monday.
Here was the official statement from the Democratic Party quote on Indigenous People's Day, we honor our country's first people and celebrate their culture, traditions, and contributions.
We remain committed to honoring tribal sovereignty and working in true partnership to strengthen Native communities every day.
This is a statement that's so poorly conceived and so utterly nonsensical that no matter who you are, regardless of your politics, you simply cannot defend it.
Thank you.
The country's first people were white Europeans.
Okay, the countries.
We're talking about the country, which is the United States of America.
The first people of this country were white Europeans.
That's just it's a historical fact.
They're the ones who founded the United States.
They're the ones who populated it nearly exclusively in its initial years.
Uh, Indian tribes are not indigenous to the United States of America, to the country of the United States of America.
They're not indigenous to it in any way, shape, or form.
Now, you can make the case that some Indian tribes controlled their own territories before white Europeans arrived.
They were extraordinarily primitive and had no meaningful technology or civilization to speak of, but they did occupy the land, that's true, but that still doesn't make those tribes indigenous to the United States.
Doesn't even make them indigenous to the Americas, because in every single case, that tribe brutally conquered some other tribe that used to live here.
Indian tribes were on this continent before white Europeans, but even they came from someplace else.
Nobody originates here by the strictest definition of the term.
But certainly, what cannot be disputed is that the primitive tribes were not the ones Who formulated the country known as the United States?
That country was formed by, again, white Europeans.
And so white Europeans are the country's natives.
Saying that Indians are natives to the country because they were on the land first, it's like saying that the founder of Apple is whatever tribal chieftain ruled the land where Apple's offices were first built.
I mean, it makes no sense.
So really, no matter how you slice it, the official statement of the Democrat Party, their grand rejection of the idea of Columbus Day, is gibberish.
And indeed, that was true of every Democrat statement yesterday.
Here's what Ayanna Presley wrote.
She apparently is still a Congresswoman.
And she wrote, quote, Happy Indigenous People's Day.
We're all on stolen land.
And while Republicans try to whitewash American history, we acknowledge our country's role in inflicting trauma on our indigenous neighbors.
We'll keep celebrating their contributions, centering native voices in our policymaking, and building a more just, equitable future.
Now, left unsaid, coincidentally enough, is what contributions these allegedly indigenous people made to the U.S. exactly.
I mean, do they contribute electricity, medicine, civil engineering, architecture?
What do they contribute?
It's a valid question.
Ayana Presley doesn't say.
Neither does Corey Bush, who is definitely not a member of Congress anymore, but she seems to enjoy pretending that she is one.
So yesterday she took a break from magically healing the cancer of random hobos to post the following statement, which definitely is not the result of asking an AI chatbot to list 10 random Indian tribes.
Quote, on Indigenous People's Day, we recognize that St. Louis sits on the ancestral lands of Chickasaw Nation, Kickapoo tribe, Osage Nation, Oto Missouri tribe, uh Quapah Nation, and some others.
The U.S. must reckon with its colonial history and honor indigenous leadership.
Now, it's tempting to make all the usual responses to tripe like this.
We could ask why Cory Bush doesn't leave these ancestral lands if she's so bothered by the fact that she's sitting on them.
We could ask her to define the word reckon or to spell it without spell check or AI.
But really it's not worth the effort because this is what you expect from Cory Bush and Ayana Presley and the Democrat Party.
And, you know, by now we're all used to the fact that these people, along with the Buffalo Bills, despise this country and want to destroy Western civilization, which is why they want to tear down the great men who created it.
None of that is remotely surprising.
But there was at least one statement from yesterday that to many conservatives who still trust the establishment for some reason, was somewhat surprising.
This was the statement from John Thune, who's the Senate majority leader.
So we're talking about a Republican, not just any Republican, but the highest ranking Republican in the Senate.
He replaced Mitch McConnell last year.
And here's what John Thune wrote: Quote, today we celebrate Native American Day.
I'm proud to join South Dakotans in honoring the heritage and contributions of the Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota people.
Now, this is a statement that's completely indistinguishable from the bitter, unhinged anti-American ramblings of complete morons like Cory Bush or Ayanna Presley.
There's no daylight here whatsoever.
And to be clear, there is no federal holiday called Indigenous People's Day or Native American Day.
We have Columbus Day.
And even if there were a federal holiday called Indigenous People's Day, it would be absurd for any lawmaker, much less one calling himself a conservative, and much less the conservative leader in the Senate, to celebrate it.
These so-called native people were living about 5,000 years behind the Western world.
They did not and could not contribute very much because they hadn't even invented the wheel or written language.
I mean, the Europeans contributed much more to them than the other way around.
I mean, it's like if an advanced species of alien were to land on our planet from another galaxy.
The very fact that they made it to us, instead of us making it to them, already means that they are light years beyond us in nearly every possible respect.
Now, we'll be able to contribute to their anthropological understanding of the earth.
We'll be able to enlighten them about our own specific way of life, which they didn't know about.
But we're not going to be able to astonish them with our innovations.
we will be the astonished ones.
We will learn much more from them than they learn from us.
Now, Now, maybe we'll learn a lot from them, and then we'll be conquered by this advanced, you know, uh species of alien that have come.
But there's no question about where most, like what direction most of the learning is happening.
Okay.
And that's why today is Columbus Day.
And uh, and you know, uh, Native American Day or Indigenous People Day is nonsense.
These people were primitive in no uncertain terms, which is why it's absurd to glorify them.
We could be interested in them.
We can we can respect them, we should.
And we should be, it is, it's interesting.
It's very interesting to learn about Native American history.
I'm I'm fascinated by it, personally.
But to elevate to glorify primitive Stone Age cultures, cultures that often engaged in cannibalism and human sacrifice and all manner of savagery, is just absurd.
Now, five years ago during the BLM hysteria, a majority of congressional Republicans signed on to the Juneteenth nonsense.
That was the moment when it became clear to many conservatives that the Republican Party, you know, is in trouble.
If it wasn't clear to them before, it was clear then.
Republicans were surrendering in every in a very public fashion to moral panics that were engineered by the left.
But we are past that point, or at least we should be.
Republicans are winning in the culture for the first time in memory.
The absolute worst thing we can do when we're ahead is to validate the most destructive and incoherent myths that have been invented out of whole cloth by the communist anti-American left.
And make no mistake, this is a recent invention of the left.
Go back and look up Bill Clinton's proclamation for Columbus Day in 2000.
It's interesting to go back and look at this now.
Here's what he said quote.
While Christopher Columbus's epic voyage took place almost three centuries before the founding of our democracy, his journey helps shape our national experience and offers important lessons as we chart our own course for the 21st century.
One of the most valuable of those lessons is the importance of sustaining our spirit of adventure, our willingness to explore new concepts and new horizons.
Columbus, after careful study and planning, rejected the conventional thinking of his time, sailed for the open seas, and succeeded in opening up a new world for the people of Europe.
I mean, it's like speaking of coming from a different planet, it's like that might have been written, that might as well have been written on a different planet.
That is not, that's what Democrats used to believe.
It's how it wasn't all that long ago.
That was a whole statement about Columbus without even one sentence talking about our guilt or lamenting the evils of colonialism or any of that.
It was just a statement saying Columbus was a great man.
We should be grateful for him.
That's what Democrats used to believe.
They used to understand or pretend to understand that Columbus is a great man of history because he did great things.
By contrast, here's what Joe Biden said on Columbus Day last year.
Quote this is about this is, you know, about 25 years later.
This is how the Democrats were talking about it.
Then for many Italian Americans, the story of Christopher Columbus's voyage crossing the Atlantic on behalf of Queen Isabella I and King Ferdinand II remains a source of pride.
And then Biden proceeded to ramble on about so-called indigenous folks, saying that they made vast contributions to the world, again, without listing any of them.
Now, the transformation of the Democrat Party is unmistakable.
Over the past two decades, they've made a conscious decision to rewrite history, condemn our forefathers, and glorify barbarism.
They're not hiding their goal, which is to make the United States just as primitive as the random tribes that they hastily look up on Wikipedia.
That's the decision that Democrats have made, which is one of the reasons why they're an extremely unpopular party at the moment.
If Republican leaders, for some reason, make the same choice, then they too will destroy their party and any credibility it has.
And ultimately, they'll destroy this country.
That's an outcome that no conservative and no reasonable person can tolerate.
And that is why John Thune, who celebrated a fake Indigenous People's Day while ignoring Christopher Columbus, is today canceled.
That will do it for the show today.
Thanks for watching.
Thanks for listening.
Talk to you tomorrow.
Have a great day.
Godspeed.
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