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Today the Matt Walsh show, Minneapolis continues to spiral out of control after yet another totally justified shooting by ICE agents.
I'll explain why it was justified and what Trump must do now to save his presidency and the country.
Also, Jimmy Kimmel weeps on camera yet again, and a guy climbs a 100-story building without a rope or harness live on Netflix.
Was this spectacle unethical and morally problematic?
Some say that it was.
I disagree.
We'll talk about all that at more today than the Matt Wall Show.
There is no doubt that the single most consequential week of Donald Trump's second term to this point is now underway.
The president must decide in the face of a highly coordinated and well-funded domestic terror campaign by the enemies of civilization to choose one of two options.
He can fulfill his constitutional obligation as the leader of the executive branch to enforce the law by continuing to deport illegal aliens and by dismantling left-wing organizations that are laundering taxpayer money to fund a violent insurrection.
Or in the alternative, the president can surrender.
He can concede that in America, the government does not have a monopoly on the use of force.
He can revert the United States to a kind of state of nature.
He can suspend immigration enforcement in Minneapolis.
He can give the fraudulent NGOs and the fake legal observers a free pass after weeks of harassing and assaulting federal agents, in addition to private citizens who happen to look like federal agents.
And in turn, if he chooses that path, the president will guarantee more violence and lawlessness than this country has ever seen in recent history.
And it will be, for all intents and purposes, the end of his presidency.
Not to mention the country.
Now, in a moment, we'll talk in some detail about the shooting of Alex Pritty and how he ended up dying in front of yet another cultural leering center for foreigners in Minneapolis, which appears to have at least one fraudulent business on like every block.
But first, I want you to look at this photo right here.
It was taken in May of 1970.
This is just days after National Guardsmen opened fire on demonstrators at Kenn State University during a Vietnam War protest, killing several students.
The guardsmen said that their lives were in danger.
And of course, the mob, which had been pelting the guardsmen with rocks, disagreed.
The photo shows a line of transit buses parked bumper to bumper around the White House, totally encircling the building.
Nixon's advisors and the Secret Service decided that because of the Kent State shooting and the resulting outrage, there was a real chance that the White House would soon be overrun by left-wing agitators.
So they placed buses all around the White House to block the rioters and stationed the 82nd Airborne next door to the White House in case the mob breached the perimeter.
And meanwhile, all over the country, there was a massive student strike, the largest in U.S. history to protest the shooting.
Now, at the time, polls showed that most Americans supported the National Guard and didn't agree with the left's narrative about Kent State.
But the mob still loomed very large in Washington.
They made the president feel unsafe in the single most secure building in the entire world.
But Nixon didn't back down.
He didn't apologize.
In fact, according to the White House tapes, Nixon said, quote, you know what stops them?
Kill a few.
Didn't it have one hell of an effect, the Kent State thing?
Well, here's what happened next.
Nixon won reelection in a landslide.
He took 49 states.
He won a larger share of the popular vote than any Republican in history.
Now, fast forward to the summer of 2020, instead of encircling the White House with transit buses, the Secret Service rushed Donald Trump to an underground bunker as mobs of BLM rioters torched the area and assaulted police officers.
Now, the Trump administration went easy on these rioters.
That's an objective fact.
Nobody was arrested for torching the church directly across from the White House.
Let me say that again.
Nobody was arrested for lighting St. John's Church on fire.
Nobody.
There was no January 6th-style dragnet.
There was no dragnet at all.
Meanwhile, the DOJ dropped most of the charges against Antifa radicals who were attacking federal courthouses every single night, as you remember.
Something like 90% of the terrorists who besieged the courthouse in Portland had their cases dropped.
The result?
Well, Joe Biden became president.
He began a four-year campaign to eliminate the civil liberties of conservatives at scale, starting with people who refused the experimental COVID shot, along with peaceful political demonstrators and pro-life activists.
He also oversaw an unprecedented effort to imprison, if not assassinate, his leading political opponent.
Now, there was very good reason to believe after all this recent history that the second Trump administration would adopt Nixon's approach in face of left-wing agitators and criminals.
Don't give them what they want.
Don't cower in the face of their violence and threats.
Continue to enforce the law without apology.
Because without laws, we don't have a country.
And if some leftists get themselves killed on purpose, we shouldn't change a single thing.
That's the approach voters want to see.
And more importantly, it's the approach that will prevent the U.S. from descending into anarchy, which is what is at stake right now.
As of today, though, there are many signs that the new Trump administration is potentially planning to repeat the first Trump administration's performance during the BLM riots.
Greg Bavino, the Border Patrol chief who's a regular fixture on the front lines of deportation raids, even though he knows leftists want to kill him, is reportedly being ordered to leave Minneapolis.
Effectively, he's being fired, according to various reports, including a story in The Atlantic and reporting from the independent journalist Nick Sorder.
Now, the DOJ immediately disputed those reports, and late last night, Sorter offered an update.
stated that Donald Trump didn't give this order to remove Bovino.
He wrote, quote, I can confirm President Trump was not aware of the previous or of the prior decision to remove Greg Bovino from his role as commander op at large of the U.S. Border Patrol, nor was Secretary Noam.
Trump and Noam fully back Mr. Bovino and someone down the food chain, as we'll say, will have a rough week.
Now, whether that's true or not, could be true, it could be a cover story after the administration saw the backlash on social media, doesn't really matter.
This is a major blunder from a PR standpoint and a strategic standpoint.
And the administration cannot allow anything like that to happen again.
And Bovino needs to remain in full command in Minneapolis.
As if to emphasize the point, the reports that Bovino was being fired were immediately celebrated by open borders Marxists and their leaders in the Democrat Party.
Gavin Newsom, for example, posted this message, quote, Gestapo Greg is out.
Keep the pressure up.
It's working.
Now, it goes without saying that if any decision by this administration produces that kind of response from Gavin Newsom, then it was the wrong decision, period.
There doesn't really need to be any more discussion.
Any policy decision that emboldens an anti-American fraudster and degenerate like Gavin Newsom and that encourages domestic terrorists in the Democrat Party should be reversed immediately.
Just in case there's any doubt on that point, let's talk about why Greg Bovino was reportedly demoted.
Let's discuss the incident that has led many self-described conservatives even to decide that actually the rule of law should be suspended in Minneapolis.
Well, on Saturday morning, according to reporting from the investigative journalist Azra Nomani, a member of the rapid response anti-ICE signal chats in Minneapolis, the same chats that we infiltrated a week ago and we talked about that are connected to NGOs that receive taxpayer money.
Chaos On Purpose00:15:22
Well, these chats called for agitators to rush to glam doll donuts on Nicolette Avenue.
The individual posted a video of federal agents attempting to enter the donut shop.
And then at 8.53 a.m. local time, another member of the signal group wrote, quote, backup needed at the Black Forest Inn parking lot on Nicolette Avenue, just south of 26th Street.
Multiple vehicles with many agents appear to be staging there.
The alert continued, one confirmed ICE vehicle seen was a maroon Dodge Durango with the plate number, but it has driven away northbound on Nicolette.
Now, within 15 minutes, 37-year-old Alex Pritty arrived on the scene, and here's what happened next.
Let's go!
Alex Pritty stands in the middle of the street.
He starts directing traffic through the road without any kind of authorization whatsoever.
He has no authority to do anything that he's doing.
And along with a woman, he stands in the middle of the street unlawfully as Border Patrol agents try to clear the roadway.
Then a Border Patrol agent pushes the woman away.
At that point, Alex Pritty commits several serious felonies.
He runs directly into the path of the Border Patrol agent and physically tries to separate the agent from the woman.
Here's the freeze frame showing the precise moment that Pritty does exactly what leftists train their agitators to do.
They call it de-arresting somebody, which is not legal.
There's no plausible argument at this point that Pritty is a mere legal observer or a peaceful protester.
He is a criminal who appears to believe that he has lawful authority to override what the police are doing, but he doesn't.
In addition to obstruction, this behavior constitutes assault on a federal agent.
And Pritty is committing these felonies while carrying a firearm, which makes the crime even more dangerous.
And we're talking about more than a decade in prison easily.
After Pritty makes this decision, an officer pepper sprays him and several other officers try to take him down.
Now he clearly resists arrest and appears to assault the woman, probably because he's under the influence of the tear gas, can't see exactly what he's doing.
Whatever the case, Pritty is now committing even more federal crimes.
And the fact that he's armed the whole time does make a difference.
This is not a Second Amendment thing.
Yeah, you have the right to carry, but if you take a weapon and then go out and commit crimes while carrying it, well, that's a different matter.
You have the right to carry a weapon.
You don't have the right to carry a weapon and commit crimes.
Now, as officers attempt to arrest Pritty, one agent appears to take a firearm from Pritty's holster in order to secure it.
Within seconds, somebody shouts gun.
One shot rings out, possibly from an accidental discharge of Pritty's gun, although we don't know.
And then there are many more shots, all of them coming from Border Patrol.
Pritty is killed, and an officer wonders aloud where the gun is before realizing that Pritty had already been disarmed.
Without knowing all the facts about which gun was fired, an investigation is obviously underway, we could still come to some basic conclusions.
The first conclusion is that Alex Pritty was part of an organized campaign to legally obstruct law enforcement operations on behalf of open borders communists who want to destroy the country.
He was a domestic terrorist dressed in the same color scheme as Border Patrol agents who did exactly what he set out to do.
He blocked federal agents from carrying out the will of the voters and from performing the job they are obligated to do and have the authority to do.
The second conclusion we could draw is that the officers were legally justified in shooting Alex Pritty.
Period.
That's because they clearly believe that he was either shooting at them or was about to shoot at them.
And that belief was objectively reasonable, whether or not Pritty was indeed armed at the moment that he was shot or not.
If it's true that his gun was accidentally discharged after an armed, after an agent disarmed him, making the other officers believe that they were under fire, then those officers were entitled to use lethal force against him.
Under the law, the relevant question is not whether Pritty was actually a lethal threat to the officers.
The relevant question is whether the officers believed he was a lethal threat to them and whether that belief was objectively reasonable, given the information the officers had at that moment.
They had a split second to respond to a gunshot that they believe came from Pritty, whose holster was empty.
And they weren't aware that he had been fully disarmed at that point.
Now, you might say, well, it's the agent's job to communicate the fact that he had been disarmed.
But the problem is that we're talking about a chaotic situation that unfolded in a matter of seconds that Alex Pritty instigated with people screaming and blowing whistles and everything else in a mayhem that's been deliberately orchestrated by leftists to cause maximum confusion for law enforcement.
They're out in the street trying to confuse everything and obstruct and sabotage and make everything more difficult and chaotic.
They're doing this on purpose.
That's the point.
And so if in the chaos one of these people gets killed, guess whose fault it is?
You go out onto the street with the express purpose of interfering with law enforcement and making things confusing and chaotic.
If in the confusion and chaos you get killed, that's your fault.
It's your fault.
It's not only your fault, but you deserve it, okay?
You deserved it.
You quite literally had it coming.
You created all of the conditions for this thing to happen.
Whose fault could it possibly be?
But yours.
And for anyone who says, well, it's too far to say he deserved it.
You go out into the street, you're interfering with law enforcement, you're making things chaotic and crazy.
You end up getting shot.
That's just a direct result of your own actions.
We all deserve the direct result of our own actions.
You jump off a building, you deserve to fall and hit the pavement.
I wish you hadn't done that.
I'm not happy to see it happen.
Okay, I'm sorry for your family.
But it doesn't make any sense to see a guy willingly jump from the top of a building and then as soon as he hits the pavement to say, well, he didn't deserve to hit the pavement.
Like, what do you mean?
Did he deserve for the law of gravity to be suspended to save him?
No, we all deserve the direct consequences of our actions, negative or positive.
And also, by the way, even the agent who took Pritty's gun didn't know that he had been fully disarmed.
He might have more than one gun.
Certainly had more than one magazine.
And this is the reason why we have laws against obstructing federal officers and laws against carrying guns while you're committing felonies and laws against blocking traffic and laws against resisting arrest.
The more felonies you commit, the more you raise the risk of losing your life or killing someone else.
The more that people upend the rule of law and start acting like they can do whatever they want, the more likely it becomes that people will die in preventable, inadvertent ways.
The point of law is to maintain order.
Without law, you have chaos.
And in chaotic situations, people die.
And it's the people who are attempting to undermine the rule of law, people like Alex Pritty, who are to blame.
It is not the fault of the people trying to reestablish and enforce the law.
With that in mind, here's a video that should have received far more attention than it has.
It depicts an independent journalist named Haley West being chased around the streets of Minneapolis by a mob of leftists pretending to be police officers.
They even demand to see her papers.
Watch.
They've been following us for over an hour.
we're not nice we're just letting them know in there and they not in an ice vehicle right no right Right, get in your truck, get the f out.
Why?
Because you need to go confirmed ice.
Get the r ⁇ .
Confirmed ICE through who?
We're American citizens.
We're not ICE.
Please go.
You're stuck.
Because they've been following us for over an hour.
You don't even know they were following us.
What are you going to do right here?
Where are you from?
I'm right now.
Who are you recording?
Well, then, I mean, what is it?
Did you come in that car right there?
Yeah, this truck.
And they're saying we're popping up in an ICE database.
Well, then you're in it.
We're not in the database.
We look like ICE now.
Look, no ice.
Nothing on this.
I don't have a weapon.
Let me see your ideas of where you live.
No, they've been calling us.
That's why we got out and confronted them.
You think that's okay?
Yeah, 100%.
Okay.
I'm curious about...
You guys are in our neighborhood?
Yes.
100%.
Now, this video is infinitely more important than any of the footage of the communist nurse committing 10 different felonies before being shot to death.
And that's because, unlike the communist nurse, the nurse, the woman didn't do anything wrong.
It may as well have been a scene from Somalia.
I mean, drive around any dysfunctional African country, and there's a good chance you'll get stopped by criminals who will shake you down.
They'll act like law enforcement without any legal authority whatsoever.
This is a defining characteristic of the third world.
The state does not have a monopoly on violence.
The mob can harass you at will.
They can demand to see your identification.
They can berate you and run you off the road.
And nobody will do anything about it.
When an American city falls like this, the executive branch must take immediate action to restore order.
But as far as I can tell, nobody in the administration is even talking about this footage or the footage from the hotel in Minneapolis on Sunday night where a loaned federal agent tried to hold off a mob that ransacked the hotel.
Somehow, none of this registers so far with the White House.
Instead, the administration appears to be paying attention to podcasters and the Wall Street Journal editorial board.
And speaking of which, let's start with the podcaster, Dave Smith, who calls himself a comedian, not because he tells jokes, but because comedians have plausible deniability when they say incredibly stupid things, which he does all the time.
You call yourself a comedian, then you can say whatever you want and just say, I was joking, man.
I'm just telling jokes here.
So with that in mind, here's Dave Smith's latest insight.
Quote, I'm an immigration restrictionist.
I believe that we have the right to remove any and all people who entered our country illegally.
Also, ICE is out in control.
A bunch of is drunk on power going around intentionally escalating violent interactions and intimidating U.S. citizens.
They create these tragic situations.
And after this gigantic show of force, they won't deport a fraction of the illegals who entered under Biden.
This is simply not worth it.
So he's in favor of restricting immigration and deporting illegal aliens, he says.
But he's not in favor of the people who are actually doing that.
Like you need people to actually go do that, Dave.
And that's not always going to be pretty.
Because you know something, Dave?
The people that are here illegally, you know, the people you don't like because you're an immigration restrictionist, they don't want to leave.
And so you have to physically take them and drag them while they kick and scream and cry.
That's the only, you want to restrict immigration?
That is literally the only way to do it, Dave.
And they don't do that because they're drunk on power or creating dangerous situations.
This is a total inversion of reality, as documented by literally every video coming from Minneapolis.
Have you seen any of them?
ICE is creating a, what the hell are you talking about?
Left-wing communist agitators are in the street deliberately coordinating with the express explicit intent of sabotaging law enforcement and creating chaos.
Do you think they're blocking the road and blowing in whistles and trying to de-arrest people because they want to de-escalate?
Do you block the road illegally and start blowing on your whistle because you want to de-escalate a situation?
Is that how you de-escalate?
They are deliberately creating dangerous situations and escalating interactions by preventing ICE from doing their jobs.
As we discussed before, there were no problems with ICE raids during the Obama administration.
And as you may have noticed, all of this ICE-related drama is coming out of Minneapolis lately.
That's where the shootings are.
It's also where the George Floyd hoax originated.
It's almost as if Minneapolis is a hotbed of anti-American terrorism where they learned long ago that self-described conservatives will fold under the slightest bit of pressure like you're doing right now.
It's almost as if they learned how to manufacture hoaxes in order to achieve their goals and no one's ever called them out on it.
So that to restate Dave Smith's post another way, as I did on X, and he's not the only one, okay?
Minneapolis Hotbed?00:15:05
There are a lot of conservatives who, conservatives who are taking this position.
And basically what they're saying is, you know, this ICE situation is really complex.
And so we should have a more nuanced take.
I want our immigration laws to be enforced, but I just want them to do it without using any force or without anyone ever getting hurt or without anyone getting sad or without anything upsetting happening ever.
And if the people we're trying to deport don't want to be deported or if liberal activists don't want us to deport them, then obviously in that case, we shouldn't do it.
But I'm totally a conservative on this issue.
Unless people get really mad at me, then never mind.
Please don't yell.
I'm sorry.
Now, when I responded to Dave Smith's post by pointing out very specifically why it was so retarded, he came back with this response, which was extremely painfully predictable.
Quote, oh, now the Israeli wire guy addresses me.
It's always when they think I'm on the wrong side of a popular right-wing issue.
Come have a conversation.
We'll see who gets embarrassed.
Check with your boss to see if you're allowed.
Ah, yes, Israel.
Who could have guessed that Dave Smith would bring up Israel in his response?
An issue that has absolutely nothing to do with Israel whatsoever.
Who could have guessed that he'd find a way to wedge that in?
You know, 90s kids are familiar with the game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, where you take any actor and connect him to another actor that they starred in a film with and then connect that actor to another one until you get to Kevin Bacon.
And the point of the game is that it should only take about six connections or six degrees or fewer until you get to Kevin Bacon because he's been in a lot of movies.
Well, guys like Dave play the same game, except it's six degrees of Israel.
And it's not really six.
It's actually one degree of Israel.
Any issue will be connected not through six moves, but just by one move directly to Israel.
I also love how indignant he is that only now do you address me, a theme he has returned to several times when responding to me.
Now you're addressing me, while also not actually responding to my points.
So he's doing the, hey, come on, man, debate me, bro.
Debate me.
It's like, dude, just rather than explaining why you're not addressing my point, just address them.
Like we're talking right now.
Just write them out.
Just explain.
Just explain.
We don't need to talk for three hours.
Just explain how it's the fault of communist or it's the fault of ICE that communist agitators are explicitly, deliberately creating all this chaos in the street.
So they're out there in the street creating all this chaos.
You're blaming that on ICE and calling them, even though they're the ones out there who are enforcing these immigration laws, doing the most thankless job of all thankless jobs.
And you are defaming them and insulting them from the comfort of your own home.
So just explain that.
You could just explain it.
But he's upset that I haven't addressed him until now.
He really sees himself as this figure of great consequence who the rest of us are obligated to address.
The fact that I haven't addressed him until now is an insult.
But his entire public career consists of talking about Israel.
Like I like to focus on my own country, which makes his commentary to me almost always irrelevant and incredibly boring and redundant.
Why am I addressing you now?
It's because like, well, like for once, you're actually talking about something in America and you happen to be totally wrong.
Because when he isn't talking about Israel for those brief moments when they arise, he reveals himself to be a standard issue.
I mean, that's what he is.
It's what a lot of these so-called base right-wing conservatives are.
When it comes down to it, take Israel out of it.
Everything else, they're just, they just, anything says is what they say.
Now, to be fair to Dave Smith, there are a lot of self-described conservatives who are caving in exactly the same way.
Here's Jonah Goldberg, for example.
This is his response when asked why activists are accusing Border Patrol of wrongdoing.
Quote, because after watching the video, people saw they shot him only after disarming him because he was directing traffic until the agent shoved a woman to the ground and went over to assist because he never drew the weapon and it's not illegal to legally carry a gun.
So Goldberg states that Pretty was assisting the woman, even though the video shows that Pretty clearly moved in front of the officer to prevent him from arresting the woman.
Hey, Jonah, you can't do that.
If police are arresting someone, you can't, well, just assisting them.
No, you can't.
That's called obstructing, okay?
What do you mean?
Just assisting.
Assisting her what, Jonah?
What was he assisting her in doing?
He was trying to assist her in getting away from the officers.
You can't do that, Jonah.
That's not legal.
And he made contact with the officer in the process.
We're just supposed to assume that he was lending a helping hand to a damsel in distress.
And then there's the claim that Pretty was directing traffic.
What do you mean he's directing traffic, Jonah?
You can't just get into the middle of the road and direct traffic.
Did you know that?
Jonah, you know, you can't do that.
You can't just like, I'm just directing traffic.
Put on your crossing guard uniform, you know, put on the white, put on the yellow vest.
You can't do that.
Like a police officer can direct traffic, but if you go into the middle of the road and start directing traffic, you are obstructing traffic.
You're committing a crime.
Did Border Patrol authorize Pritty to stand in the middle of the road and direct traffic directly through a scene they were trying to control?
To Jonah Goldberg, that's not a crime.
It's the most normal thing in the world.
Who among us, who among us doesn't rush towards federal agents at 9 a.m. on a Saturday morning in order to direct traffic while armed with a handgun and two spare magazines.
Now, for their part, the Wall Street Journal editorial board, along with the New York Post, they weren't any better.
Here's the journal's take.
And by the way, notice how all these people who would pretend to greatly disagree, you know, Dave Smith, Jonah Goldberg, they all agree on this.
They all agree that ICE, this is too far.
This is too, you know, I'm in favor of immigration restriction, but this is, but not like this.
It's funny how they all agree.
Dave Smith really, he lines up with the dreaded Zionists quite a bit on most issues.
That's interesting, isn't it?
Hmm.
Hmm.
Anyway, Wall Street Journal says, quote, the Trump administration's spin on this simply isn't believable.
Stephen Miller, the political architect of the mass deportation policy, called Pretty a domestic terrorist.
He was a nurse without a criminal record.
He was carrying his phone.
To hear the ardent gun rights advocates of the Trump administration claim he had malicious intentions because he carried a concealed weapon is bizarre.
Pretty made a tragic mistake by interfering with ICE agents, but that warranted arrest, not a death sentence.
Trump would be wise to pause ICE enforcement in the Twin Cities to ease tensions and consider a less provocative strategy.
Yes, many on the left would conclude that their civil disobedience had paid off, but Mr. Trump can still pursue enforcement with a smaller force and a strategy aimed at criminals, not at hotel maids and gardeners.
Now, to be clear, the reason we're calling Pritty a domestic terrorist is that he was a domestic terrorist.
He was part of an organized group of activists who explicitly intend to violently interfere with federal law enforcement in order to affect national policy.
We showed you one of their handbooks last week.
They regularly call 911 and claim that ICE is kidnapping them in order to provoke the Minneapolis Police Department to shoot ICE agents.
They relay license plate numbers to one another so they can stalk and harass innocent people through the streets, including law enforcement officers.
They try to de-arrest people by physically surrounding ICE agents.
All of that is illegal.
And it's what we're seeing in Minneapolis.
There is no debate about it.
We have the signal chats.
It's all on video.
Just the other day, the independent journalist Cam Higby posted this video as he was driving through the streets of Minneapolis.
He also infiltrated the anti-ICE signal chats as well and joined one of their dispatch calls.
In real time, as he was being followed by these lunatics, he was listening to their scanner traffic as they relayed his location to other domestic terrorists.
Watch.
That white Chevy Silverado with the newly changed plates with the coexist sticker on the back.
We're on Irving and Lake Street going north on Irving.
We seem to be the only commuters following.
Just wanted to give an update on our location.
Thank you.
Do you have anyone in the car with you?
Yes, I do.
Lovely.
Thank you.
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Isn't this crazy?
College Day or even Zero True.
This is John 612 that we are at Grand and Lake.
We're heading toward Irving.
We can try and join you.
This is not how a protest movement operates, okay?
This is not, this isn't how Republicans acted on January 6th either.
This is not a one-off event.
This is not a ragtag group of unaffiliated demonstrators.
This is a highly coordinated campaign, which as we discussed a couple of weeks ago when we first infiltrated these signal chats, is funded via NGOs and Minnesota taxpayers.
And the point of the campaign is to interfere with the civil liberties of American citizens and with the enforcement of immigration law.
That is terrorism.
The Wall Street Journal knows that.
And they know that if Trump relents and pulls ICE back, then there will be even more terrorism.
They actually admit that in their editorial.
What the journal won't admit is that in the end, they want that terrorism to take place.
They see it as a way to weaken and ultimately get rid of Trump and the MAGA movement.
They want a more mainstream, less populist Republican to take over the party in a few years.
And therefore, whatever hurts Trump now, they're fine with.
You know, the most amusing spectacle has been all the allegedly, you know, the allegedly most based, alleged far-right influencers who've gone full leftist cuckold on this issue.
Jake Shields, for example, posted, I supported Kyle Rittenhouse being armed at a BLM riot, so it would be hypocritical if I opposed a leftist doing the same.
Laws need to apply equally to all Americans.
The only problem here is that Rittenhouse was not interfering with, sabotaging, obstructing, or resisting law enforcement in any way.
The only reason he was on the scene is precisely because law enforcement was nowhere in sight, refusing to do their jobs.
Rittenhouse and Alex Pritty are not only not alike, but are diametr opposites.
And yet guys like Jake Shields, and again, he's not the only one, these super-based, super-based right-wingers, man.
They're so based, taking the side of the open borders communists.
And keep in mind, as many have pointed out, these guys have spent the last two or three years talking about how cool Hitler is, running around edgelording, trying to impress us, scandalize us with their Hitler fangirling.
Oh man, Hitler's so cool.
Aren't I so awesome?
I said Hitler is cool.
And the next thing you know, they're telling us that ICE is being too aggressive.
And it wasn't very nice for Trump to kidnap Maduro or plot to take Greenland.
Like a huge number of these Hitler is cool guys are, they're not on board with what ICE is doing.
They hated what Trump did in Venezuela, and they don't want Trump to take Greenland.
Yeah, Hitler is cool, but using any kind of force or violence to simply protect our borders and enforce our immigration laws is, that's too far, man.
Too far.
Make sense of that if you can.
Now, the appropriate response to all this nonsense and the one Trump must immediately take is to send thousands more federal agents to Minneapolis.
He should also invoke the Insurrection Act and send in the military.
The lawlessness is so pervasive that we have no other choice.
As various commentators noted, including the account Data Republican, the street where Pritty died, appears to be a hotbed of fraud all by itself.
You can't take a video of a random street corner in Minneapolis without uncovering a massive fraud scheme.
Specifically, Nicolette Street in Minneapolis is home to at least three daycare centers, including one owned by the man who started the infamous Quality Learing Center that was unearthed by Nick Shirley.
Now, additionally, there are about 10 different businesses at the address where Pretty died, including an organization that received more than $1 million in government grants.
And so there's a lot that should be investigated there.
Are all those businesses legitimate?
As of now, no one in Minneapolis or the federal government can answer that question.
And if the left succeeds in forcing the federal government out of Minneapolis with their campaign of domestic terrorism, we'll never get the answer.
We will never shut down the hundreds of millions of dollars in fraud that takes place in Minneapolis every year at our expense.
We will never reclaim our national sovereignty.
And no American citizen, regardless of where he lives, will have any reason to believe that the rule of law even exists in this country.
That is the worst possible outcome.
Any resolution to the Minnesota situation that does not include mass arrests of the leftist agitators and mass deportations of the illegal aliens will be a total failure for the Trump administration.
It will only guarantee more and worse chaos in the future.
Around midnight last night, Minneapolis police finally began arresting rioters outside of a hotel that was housing ICE agents.
Mass Arrests and Deportations00:02:08
Why it takes that long?
I don't know.
Why we have to get, we have to spot these people three weeks before we arrest them.
We'll let you do this for three weeks, but no longer than that.
I don't know.
But, you know, maybe that could be a sign the Trump administration is applying the necessary pressure, or it could be a temporary victory.
At this point, it's too early to say.
Whatever the case, we don't need to hear about, as Trump was talking about, he had good conversations with Jacob Fry and Tim Walz.
We don't need to hear about having good conversations with those two.
What we should see is Jacob Fry and Tim Walz in leg irons because they are criminals.
Jacob Fry fomented rioting across the country in 2020, and now he's doing it again.
He did it five years ago, six years ago, and nothing happened to him.
There were zero consequences, and now he's doing it again.
And now we have to hear about the good conversations he's having with Donald Trump.
We need to treat open borders communists who conspire to interfere with federal law enforcement like the domestic terrorists they are.
That was the lesson of the first Trump administration.
And we simply cannot afford to learn that lesson the hard way again.
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Okay, we missed this last week.
We talked about the Somali woman, Nasra Ahmed, who claimed that she was assaulted by ICE and called the N-word.
Obviously making all that up, not a convincing liar at all.
Now, we don't need to rehash any of that, but we missed this moment from her press conference where she tries to explain what Somali culture is and why it's so great.
Which, in fairness to her, is not an easy question to answer, but here's what she came up with.
So I'm Somali.
I'm proud to be Somali.
To me, being Somali isn't just eating bananas with rice.
It's a lot.
It's like it's an interesting thing.
It's very hard to describe what it means to be Somali and what it means to be American, but it's like a cultural fusion.
It's kind of like the bananas and rice.
You know, people don't really see like, you know, people don't think, oh, you can eat bananas with rice, but that's what it's like to be Somali and American.
It's like that combination of banana and rice, but you're going to get what I mean.
So to me, being Somali, it's not just eating bananas and rice with rice.
It's like, you know, it's like, well, you know, bananas with rice.
It's kind of like that.
Being Somali isn't about eating bananas with rice, but it's really more about, it's really more about like eating bananas with rice.
It's like, it's like, like, you know, you know bananas and you know rice.
It's kind of like that.
Even the way she speaks is unbearable.
This is what happens when you take a third world Somali woman, plop her down in America around a bunch of white liberal women, feed her a steady diet of TikTok videos and bananas with rice, apparently.
This is what you end up with.
It's like the worst of all imaginable worlds.
But aside from just kind of laughing at this incoherent answer, there is something to be gleaned from it, namely that she was not able to explain why Somali culture is so great.
You know, she wasn't able to say anything positive about her own culture or even describe it.
So she just rambled about bananas and rice.
Which is like if you asked an American, what do you love about America?
It would be as if they said, well, you know, it's not just the hamburgers, but like, well, there's the hamburgers, but you would never get that answer from an American because even the least articulate American, if they're a real American, if you were to ask them, oh, what's, you know, what's America?
What do you love about America?
Well, they're going to say something about freedom.
They're going to talk about probably American values and maybe they'll say something about our history, a constitution, whatever.
They might even talk about the geography, the mountains and beaches and all the rest of it, which are perfectly valid things to say to respond to it.
But like they'll have, again, it's like, you know, not everyone's going to have the most articulate, the most poetic, the most profound answer readily available.
But if you ask an American a question like that, that's the kind of answer you'll get.
And from a Somali, it's like, what do you love about Somalia so much?
Hmm.
It's a stumper.
It's really hard to come up, especially one who fled that country and came here.
And yet, in spite of that, Somalis are still proud of their country.
They still consider Somalia to be their home.
They're all desperate to leave Somalia.
They have nothing good to say about the place, really.
And yet they're proud of it and they love it.
And it will always be their home.
That's the lesson.
This is why mass migration doesn't work.
This is reason number one billion why it doesn't work.
When you bring in people from these exotic, far-off foreign cultures, they will never assimilate.
They will always identify with and prefer their home country.
And there isn't any way to change that, really, because they can come here and have a life that is a million times better than they would have had back home.
We can give them everything, give them comfort and luxury and freedom beyond their wildest imagination, and they will still prefer their home country.
They will still consider their home country to be home.
Even if the only good thing they can say about the place is bananas and rice, which, by the way, who eats bananas and rice?
Of all the things to combine.
But even if that's the only thing they can say about it, they still will prefer it and will remain loyal to it and love it.
Which, as I've said many times, I have no problem with that in theory.
I actually find it quite noble if you live.
I mean, patriotism is a virtue and we should all be patriots for your own country.
So if you live in a place and it's a total hellhole, but you still love it and will defend it to the death, I think that's noble.
It's kind of like, you know, there's a certain nobility to a Cleveland Browns fan.
After all these years, they've never given you anything to, there's like no reason to root for them.
They're terrible all the time.
They just break your heart every single season.
An embarrassing clown show.
And yet you have these people that have, they're from Cleveland and, hey, that's my team.
And so it's kind of like that with these third world countries.
But I find that noble and admirable if you stay in your country, which is why I would, even though I might be kind of harsh on Somalia, I'm critical of Somalia.
I would never go to Somalia.
Well, I would never go to Somalia, period, but I wouldn't go there and like look around and say, man, this place is a dump.
Why do you guys like that?
This is your country, really?
I wouldn't do that.
Because, hey, that's your country and none of my business.
And if you live there, you should love it and you should be loyal to it.
But you can't have your cake and eat it too.
You can't say, this is my country.
It's my home.
Why You Can't Have It Both Ways00:10:56
I love it.
I'm loyal to it.
It'll be in my heart forever.
And also, I need to get the hell out of here.
And if you try to send me back, I will kill you.
You can't do both of those.
That is not noble.
That is not admirable at all.
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All right, Jimmy Kimmel, speaking of someone who is not very noble, has something to say about all this stuff that's going on.
He's a, well, after everything happened over the weekend, we get to Monday night, late night comedy shows.
What hilarious monologue.
I mean, this is where if you're a late night comedian, this is kind of where the rubber meets the road.
This is supposed to be the moment where you prove why you get paid the big bucks.
You get paid millions and millions and millions of dollars.
And it should be for moments like this because most of us will look at it and say, no matter which side we're on, we're like, well, there's not a lot funny in all this.
But you're comedians.
So this is where it's like, okay, I'm going to, we got to be topical, but this is a comedy show.
And, but I'm getting paid millions of dollars.
I'm supposed to be the comedian.
And so I'm going to have some funny jokes that relate to this very serious situation.
That's the way it's supposed to go.
But with these late night comedians now, they still get paid millions of dollars, but they just, for them, there's no, they don't even consider it.
What, tell jokes?
What do you want me to do?
Tell a joke?
No.
Instead, what we get is this.
Watch.
If our leaders are intentionally creating and encouraging violence and fear, then I hope you will also agree we need new leaders because these are not leaders.
And to the people of Minneapolis, to the pretty family and the good family, and these people who were looking out for their neighbors, we want you to know that we are with you and you are not alone.
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So there he is crying again.
I think Jimmy Kimmel has the record now for the most times crying on live television.
Has anyone ever cried more than Jimmy Kimmel?
Every three weeks now, there's another viral clip.
Here's Jimmy Kimmel crying again.
But you notice that even though he cries all the time, he's still very selective.
Cries all the time, but he's very selective in what he cries about.
Because here he is crying about ICE and Alex Pretty and Renee Good.
Well, it's interesting.
Irina Zarutska, if you watch this show, you remember her name.
She was the white woman who was also a refugee, a Ukrainian refugee, on a bus in Charlotte, butchered to death on camera.
I mean, legitimately, one of the most upsetting things you will ever see, one of the worst videos I've ever seen in my life.
And unfortunately, if you're on the internet these days, you see videos of people dying all the time.
You don't want to, but this is just the world we live in now, where everything is recorded and everything is content.
So even if you're somewhat jaded by having seen death and destruction through your, through the, through the screen many times, even by those standards, this was gut-wrenching to see a young woman sitting on her, you know, sitting by herself on a train, not bothering anybody.
Okay, she was not out in the street looking for trouble.
She was not resisting arrest.
She was not interfering with federal agents.
She was not George Floyd high on fentanyl, committing crimes.
None of that.
She was just coming home from work one day.
She's got earpods in.
She's just sitting on the train, not harming anyone, not causing any problems with anyone.
And she gets butchered to death.
She gets stabbed in the throat by a scumbag who'd been arrested 14 times, including violent crimes.
Well, that death was incredibly tragic.
That was a truly innocent person who was killed.
And on top of that, this was a direct result of bad leadership and bad policy.
The whole reason this guy, DeCarlos Brown, was out in public anyway, the only reason he was able to do this, because of bad leadership and bad policy put him in that position, allowed him to do it.
Should have been in prison a long time ago.
And yet, Jimmy Kimmel never cried about Irina Zarutska.
Never even mentioned her name.
All these leftists crying over Renee Goode, crying over Alex Pritty.
And that's why I don't take any of their tears seriously.
It's all performance.
They're all a bunch of sociopaths.
Even when they say, oh, but, you know, even if you disagree, he was a, Renee Goode was a mother.
Alex Pretty was a nurse.
You don't care about that.
You don't care about that.
You have actual innocent people who are wives, husbands, mothers, fathers, killed every day in this country, preventably, as a direct result of policies put in place in these cities allowing the worst, most violent, most dangerous people to wreak havoc in the streets.
That happens every day.
And none of you people say a word about it.
You won't even say their names.
That's to say nothing of the victims of illegal immigrants.
Yeah, to say nothing of the of the people who are killed by illegal immigrants.
Obviously, you don't mention them.
All these people, you never say a word about you.
So I'm supposed to take you seriously when you're in tears over Renee Good, the frankly like lesbian, deadbeat mom, has two kids that she didn't even have custody of out in the street blocking traffic, begging, begging for a confrontation with law enforcement.
She gets it.
I'm supposed to take you seriously when you're crying about that.
Or Alex Pretty, this deranged weirdo in these signal chats, coordinating with other people, rushing out into the street armed with the express intent of interfering with law enforcement.
And I'm supposed to believe that you're really upset about that.
But you could look at Irina Zarutska and feel nothing.
All of you people, you know, I know that you know about that case because we didn't let you not know about it.
It was all over the internet.
I know you know about it.
I know you saw it.
You felt nothing.
You didn't cry about it.
Didn't express any outrage.
But then we have to listen to you.
Oh, Alex Pretty was such a good man.
Charlie Kirk dies.
You can't even pretend to care.
I mean, you can't even not just not care.
In fact, you're happy celebrating it.
So I don't take any of this seriously.
I don't believe, I don't believe it for a second.
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All right, let's lighten the mood just a tad.
There's our last story here.
I want to mention this from this weekend.
The Greatest Athlete Ever Live00:02:47
My wife and I watched this and enjoyed it.
Actually, I found it quite captivating.
Daily Wire has a report, legendary American rock climber Alex Hunnold stunned the world yesterday when he, this would be Saturday, when he scaled the, or maybe it was Sunday, I don't remember, scaled the 1,667-foot skyscraper, Taipei 101 in Taiwan, without any safety equipment.
The entire 90-minute event was broadcast live on Netflix.
The father of two first one viral in 2017 after becoming the first person to free solo in El Capitan and Yosemite National Park, climbing 2,900 feet without any safety equipment.
We'll put the video up on the screen, some of the highlights from this, him scaling the skyscraper you can see there.
And although nothing compares to watching this dude do it live, you know, this was live with I think a 10 second delay, scaling this 1,600-foot skyscraper with no rope, no harness, no net, fall and you die.
You know, it's just that simple, which is really tremendous.
I mean, incredible to watch.
And I would say it's the most impressive athletic achievement ever caught on film, except that he did, you know, he did what he did in Free Solo, the documentary.
If you haven't seen, you should watch it.
And we'll put that up on the screen too, by the way.
Here's what that climb looked like.
If you haven't seen Free Solo, just in like, that looks impossible.
The whole climb is like that.
It's a sheer wall.
And he's like Spider-Man crawling up this thing with no rope.
So this guy truly is, I think, the greatest athlete to ever live.
You know, that's what's kind of interesting is that he's a very good argument anyway for being the greatest athlete to ever live on the planet.
And yet he's not anywhere near as famous as Tom Brady, Michael Jordan, Michael Phelps, you know, those guys who are usually in the conversation for greatest athlete ever.
And they are among the greatest.
But no one, I mean, like, I like sports.
I like football.
But you hear about some incredible football accomplishment.
You hear, oh, this quarterback threw for 45 touchdowns and only had three interceptions or whatever.
And or last year when Lamar Jackson got totally completely rigged and he got robbed of the MVP, 40 touchdowns, five interceptions, I think four interceptions.
That's a huge accomplishment.
But then you see this dude climbing 100 stories with no rope and no harness.
And what happens on a football field just kind of pales in comparison.
And it's amazing.
Lamar Jackson vs. Rope Climber00:09:08
And meanwhile, I did see some people on social media afterwards, of course, making their comments.
Too cool for it.
Too cool for school, right?
I saw somebody who said, oh, this is normie slop.
This is NPC behavior.
First of all, there's nothing more normie or NPC than using those terms at this point.
And second, I love how every person on Twitter who calls people normies or NPCs or whatever is themselves the most banal, uninteresting, unimpressive person you'll ever encounter.
You know, you've got some like mid-level influencers with whatever, a few hundred thousand followers.
They make a few hundred grand a year from posting engagement bait.
And they sit there looking at a guy scaling a skyscraper and going, normie slop.
Okay.
All right, man.
Like there's this attitude online, as you've probably noticed, where you get these people who, and I saw a lot of this.
It just kind of annoyed me after the, and there's plenty, plenty of people that are very impressed by this, don't get me wrong, but a lot of other people.
And I posted a little bit about this, about this, you know, him climbing the tower because I just think it's amazing.
And you have these people who just truly hate everything.
And I know, I know, I know.
I know.
It's weird to hear me saying that.
And I know you'll say, well, Matt, you hate everything.
That's your whole thing.
That's your whole brand.
But I don't really.
I hate a lot of things because a lot of things deserve to be hated, but not close to everything.
I'm saying there are people, including some of these influencer types, who are really just opposed to everything.
Like family life, marriage.
Let's start with that.
I talk about that in very positive terms all the time.
That's one thing I certainly don't hate.
But they're opposed to that.
They hate that.
And then you try to talk about something a little less serious, sports.
You know, they hate sports, sports ball, they're too cool for that.
Any movie or TV show you could possibly name is slop, right?
And no hobby they find interesting, no activities at all.
They're just not impressed with anything.
Total, there are times when I try to, maybe I'm nerding out a little bit talking about, you know, we talk about SpaceX or the latest in space exploration.
We talk about that a little bit.
Get the same kind of responses from some people.
Who cares about that?
Who cares?
That's slop.
Everything is slop.
Like literally everything, everything on the planet is just slop.
Nothing means anything.
Everything is bad.
Just total, totally misanthropic.
There is another criticism of this spectacle, this climb, which I think is which is which is more reasonable, a more reasonable critique that you also saw, which is that, well, it's reckless and suicidal to do this, and it's unethical to air it live because part of the entertainment value of it, let's admit, is, is the guy going to fall or not?
You don't want him to, but what makes it so captivating is that he might fall.
And the fact that he doesn't have any harness ups the stakes in the ante quite a bit.
So there's a reasonable critique that it's just not ethical to do this.
And there's a worry that, well, now that we've done this and Netflix, I'm sure got, I don't know what their viewership numbers were, but they were pretty substantial.
Now we're going to have more of this kind of thing.
We're going to have more stuff where people are risking their lives live on camera for streaming specials.
But I understand that critique.
I just, I don't agree with it, though.
I think it's good.
I think we need examples of men who are willing to take extraordinary risks in pursuit of greatness.
Even something like this.
And if this leads to kind of a resurgence of the daredevil, daredevils used to be a thing, not so much anymore.
Evil can evil and those kinds of guys.
And next thing you know, now we're going to have people trying to jump across the Grand Canyon on motorcycles and stuff again.
I think that's good.
I hope that that happens because I think we need that.
And we don't have a lot of examples of that sort of thing anymore.
It used to be baked into everyday life, right?
You didn't have to, like climbing buildings wasn't baked into everyday life, but living out on the, you know, just like living everyday life used to come with a certain amount of, by today's standards, significant risk.
Living out on the frontier entailed significant risk every hour of the day, just as part of life.
Living in a tribe somewhere in primitive times, there was enormous risk.
And now we have a society that insulates us from almost all risk.
And at least if you live in a civilized part of the country where the rule of law basically still applies, so not Minneapolis, but if you live somewhere else, then you're kind of insulated from a lot of this stuff.
And you need people who are willing to traverse far, far outside of that bubble of safety because there's a lot to be learned from their example, a lot of inspiration to be found there.
Keep in mind that, you know, I was thinking about this as I was watching this.
I mean, you got this guy like, I mean, he's not actually fearless.
We assume he experiences some kind of fear.
But I think to call him fearless actually diminishes the achievement a little bit because if you truly have no fear at all, then well, there's nothing that impressive about doing something dangerous because you just don't experience the fear, right?
He has the fear, but he's mastered it so much that he's willing to do something that the rest of us, like, we can't even, I could barely, you could barely stand to watch it.
And yet he's doing it because he's mastered fear to this extent.
And for most of human history, you know, 500 years ago, if you had a guy who had mastered fear to that extent and was willing to take extraordinary risks and face the prospect of his own death and is able to do that so calmly and competently, well, 500 years ago, there would have been a lot of useful things for that guy to do.
You know, you'd put that, there's like there are jobs in society where you need people like that to do this thing because of how dangerous it is.
And now there's not as much for those kinds of people to do anymore because everything is so relatively comparatively safe.
But you still need those guys.
And I think it's a good example to have.
So I thought it was great.
I was very impressed by it.
And we will leave it on that note.
Leave it there for today.
Talk to you tomorrow.
Have a great day.
Godspeed.
What was it like, Merlin, to be alone with God?
Is that who you think I was alone with?
Marathon, I knew your father.
I am yet convinced that he was not of this world.
All men know of the great Taliesin.
Oh, my father, the gods should war for my soul.
Princess Garris, savior of our people.
I know what the bull got offered you.
I was offered the same.
And there is a new part at work in the world.
I've seen it.
A god who sacrifices what he loves for us.
We are each given only one life, Singer.
No.
We're given another.
I learned of Yezu the Christ, and I have become his follower.
He's waiting on a miracle, and I think you can give him one.
Trust in Yezu.
He is the only hope for men like us.
Fate of Britain never rests in the hands of the Great Light.
Great light, great darkness.
Such things mattered to me then.
What matters to you now, Mistress of Lies?
You, nephew, the sword of the high king.
How many lives must be lost before you accept the power you were born to wield?
So clinging to the promises of a god who has abandoned you.