DHS Agents SURGE Into Minneapolis, 12k NEW ICE Agents Deployed Nationwide
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And, you know, after doing that, I kind of get it now.
I kind of get why the homeless are so into it.
Why they're such enthusiasts of loitering because that was a lot of fun.
You know, I just like made a pillow out of sand and it was a great time.
So with that, this is weird.
This is Tim Ketz News Live.
We're taking you into the afternoon of the Rumble daily lineup.
Obviously, Rumble Studios, we're in the belly of the beast, so to speak.
We have some great stories for you guys today.
We have some big, big stories.
Obviously, the one everyone's talking about, everyone, everyone and your mother is talking about it is the fraud.
There's fraud everywhere in this country.
What's going on?
I trusted the system.
I trusted everything.
And it's evaporated before my very eyes.
You're telling me these Somalis don't want to play by the rules?
Oh, can't believe it.
We have some updates on the, obviously, the Somali fraud situation that everyone's been discussing.
The DHS has finally gone in.
I made the point on Twitter a few days ago, and I got a little bit of flack.
I think everyone kind of understood what I was saying, as I was saying, look, this is great.
The Trump admin is doing great work on the immigration front, but the Somali fraud situation is really striking accord with the American people for a very specific reason.
So I implored, I said, look, trusting the plan, et cetera.
But the Trump admin really needs to send a message in Minneapolis.
There's no question about that.
They have.
Today, DHS swarmed Minneapolis.
I have some video, some footage giving you some updates on what's going on there.
It's really, really a sight to behold, and it's much overdue.
There's no question about that.
So we'll cover that.
Also, Trump going after California, the state of California, a lot of fraud going on there, as we know.
And Trump is cutting off a lot of these benefits from the taxpayers, the national tax base that's been flooding into California, saying, look, we're not going to give you money if you're just going to blow it all on fraud.
Like, what's the point of that?
So we got that.
We also have a situation, ICE.
You know, a lot of people have been concerned over the deportation numbers saying, well, they're a little lower than we need if we really want to, you know, bring forth mass deportations.
I remember I was expressing this point to a buddy of mine.
I won't say which department he's in, but he's in the know.
He's in the admin.
And I was saying, like, dude, I mean, like, I know I'm trusting the plan, but like, I really want to see the deportation numbers, you know, really ramp up.
And he said, look, you just need to be a little more patient.
Wait until the new year.
He's like, that's when these ICE agents that we've hired with the money that came in from the Big Beautiful Bill will swear in, will hit the streets, so to speak.
And I was like, all right, you know what?
I like it.
I'm trusting the plan.
Well, obviously, ICE announced today that they're bringing in, he has about 12,000 new agents.
So effectively doubling, more than doubling their, you know, their workforce.
So it's going to be really great to see.
We'll break down the details with what's going on at the ICE.
We have another story you may get to out in Germany.
This is a pretty interesting story.
It's kind of going under the radar.
So I wanted to cover it.
There was a far leftist group in Germany who took out the entire German power grid in Berlin.
It's really something like tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people were without power because of some vigilantes.
And the reason I think it's worth covering is because this is the kind of stuff that we can expect to see in the United States.
There's really no question about that.
So, I want to break that down.
And then, at the half-hour mark, we will be bringing in the great Libby Emmons.
We all know her, we all love her, friend of the show.
She's terrific.
We're going to bring her in to give her thoughts on the Venezuela and Greenland acquisition of Greenland.
I think it'll be interesting to get her thoughts.
Obviously, I wanted to cover it yesterday with Will.
We had some technical issues.
We weren't able to bring him in, but I still am just itching to talk about it with someone else.
I've been purposely avoiding talking about it with anyone because I want to do it for you guys.
I want to have this conversation in front of the camera.
So, we'll get to that.
So, we have all sorts of exciting stories to get to.
But first, we got to start with Minneapolis.
Minneapolis-St. Paul.
I always forget St. Paul is there.
This is Eric Daughtry.
He got the commentary here in the clip.
He said, Just then, DHS agents are going door to door in Minneapolis, St. Paul, telling Somali care centers, You've received this much money.
What did you do with it?
Great.
The entire state of Minnesota is filled to the brim with fraud.
More arrests.
So let's just take a look at the clip here from Fox News.
So, okay, obviously, the Trump administration is really trying to set the tone here.
They are trying to send a message specifically to the Democrats.
I mean, the Democrats, for the longest time, even under previous Republican administrations, they were given pretty much total impunity.
You would see maybe a story pop up from a local paper, sort of outlining.
I mean, it's actually interesting with the Somali fraud situation.
People were posting articles that popped up in local media years ago talking about the Somali fraud situation in Minneapolis.
But in many ways, it kind of fell on deaf ears, so to speak.
That's the thing that's so interesting to me about social media.
You know, there's all these conversations people are having over social media.
Is it a great evil?
Or is it, you know, whatever?
And it's really easy in our space as conservatives.
Sort of our knee-jerk reaction is to chastise anything new because we're, you know, we're trying to conserve.
We're trying to really, at this case, there's not much left to conserve.
We want to restore the United States to a previous iteration.
So naturally, we're very skeptical of anything new.
And I include myself in this bunch.
But the nice thing about social media, and we can kind of dive deeper on this, is it allows a guy with a camera to basically dethrone a sitting governor.
That's exactly what happened to Nick Shirley.
That is not like, I'm not editorializing there.
That is legitimately what happened is Nick Shirley, who's like 23, just knocked on a few doors in Somalia and totally exposed this entire racket going on there.
And that's kind of downstream, I think, from the interesting thing with social media is it really exposes a lot of the regime.
I mean, this is all stuff that's very intuitive.
You guys are very well aware, but it really democratizes information.
I mean, because for the longest time, this story won't ever make it to the light of day because the mainstream media, by all accounts, are really just an apparatus of the Democrat Party.
I mean, besides like what, Fox News and like the New York Post, it's really just, you know, in-house sort of activity.
Social media, you're not getting Donald Trump without social media.
You're not having these conversations about immigration without social media.
You're not having these conversations about trade, foreign policy without social media.
So social media in many ways, specifically Twitter, has really changed the political zeitgeist, in my opinion, for the better.
I know it's easy for me to say because my job is predicated on new media, is predicated on social media.
But I genuinely believe that.
I mean, could you imagine the position we would be in as a country where, you know, you look at like the 1990s, for example, you have Francis Fukuyama coming out and declaring that we are sort of the last man, we're at the end of history, that social democracy or social liberalism is the natural conclusion of politics.
We finally sort of in a lab, we've concocted the perfect political arrangement.
And this is the end.
This is it.
This is as good as it's going to get.
But everything continually got worse in ways that weren't necessarily tangible, right?
Because you would express these concerns, you know, in the past and you would say, hey, things feel like they're getting worse.
Things, life feels like it's getting harder and it is getting harder.
And they would respond to you with a chart that says, yeah, but look, the GDP is going up.
What are you complaining about?
Look, unemployment's low.
What's the matter?
What's wrong with you?
You must be some sort of conspiracy theorist or something like that.
Social media happens and people are actually able to exchange ideas.
And a lot of these things, a lot of these ideas are fairly esoteric in a lot of ways.
I mean, stuff that's intangible that people are having conversations about.
Like with immigration, you know, you could sit down and you could argue about immigration all day.
You could say, well, these Somalis that are coming into Minneapolis, the big issue with them is, you know, they're a drain on the welfare system.
And it's like, okay, yes, you can, you can make the argument with the chart, but the social media allowed you to just have these conversations of like, hey, even if these Somalis were like these economic miracles, I still would like Minneapolis to resemble Minneapolis.
Like, that's something that's intangible.
That's something you can't chart.
That's something that requires anecdotes of people all speaking up.
And then you could sort of concoct a consensus out of that that can be converted into policy that then a favorable administration can implement.
And that is what social media ultimately permitted is it allowed individuals, just people all across the country, to speak up and say, hey, my community has changed, and I don't like it.
I think America should remain American.
I think Britain should remain British.
I should think France should remain French.
And it allowed us to reframe the immigration conversation into something most personal.
Because the thing about politics, the thing about social liberalism, the thing about democracy is it's a very analytics-based form of government.
There's not much soul involved.
There's not much skin in the game.
There's not much stake.
It's really just a bunch of nerds and economists arguing.
And the thing that social media allowed by people sort of giving their anecdotes is allowed us to introduce the personal aspect to politics.
It allowed us to introduce what we're actually perceiving on a daily basis into politics.
And then, like I said, allowed you to develop a consensus, which translates into policy that can be implemented, et cetera.
So that's the thing that I think is so fantastic about this.
It's the thing I think is so fantastic about Nick Shirley, because this really seems like the, as far as I can tell, the highest profile case of an individual single-handedly disrupting the political zeitgeist.
We saw it last year.
We saw it in October.
I believe it was October of 24.
I forget we're in 26 now.
Geez, the days are long, the years are short, as they say.
But 2024, we saw the Trump administration, or rather, at the time, the Trump campaign, and they're laying out their policy plans for the United States.
And it was good.
You know, we love Trump, but it just felt like it was missing that oomph from 2016.
You know, a lot of people were like, man, I don't know.
This just doesn't have the same energy.
And then out of nowhere, the Haitians eating the dogs and the cats story, again, just rips out of nowhere.
Everyone's talking about debate stage.
Trump goes up and that comes up and he goes, they're eating the dogs.
They're eating the cats.
And it really felt like this 2016 moment.
It really felt like, yes, that's, because fundamentally what MAGA is about is America first and what are the two kind of planks of sort of an American first policy platform.
It would be immigration restriction and it would be trade.
It would be getting, you know, trade, getting our import-export business back on a leash.
So it was really fantastic stuff.
There's a car blaring a horn outside.
There's nothing we can do about that.
So really great stuff.
And yeah, yeah.
So with all that, with the policy platform, this is the beauty of social media.
And then obviously it gets translated into policy.
So Nick Shirley goes out in the street.
He says, this is what I'm seeing.
This is what the locals are feeling.
There's a serious problem.
A week later, DHS is on the ground flooding 2,000 agents into the city.
So social media is real life.
Twitter is real life.
I know that was the talking point for the longest time on the right is people would say, Twitter is not real life.
You know, like it's a very infinitesimally small proportion of the population that's on Twitter and an even smaller proportion that are active on Twitter.
But the reality is admin staffers, and I can verify this firsthand, use Twitter quite extensively.
And that's where a lot of these people across the political spectrum source their ideas from as they take a look at what the conversation is on social media.
For example, like I was talking about with the Haitians with the, you know, the Haitians eating the dogs, the cat story.
You may ask, where did that story even come from?
It was like an anonymous poster, Captive Dreamer.
I think he stumbled across a story on Facebook or something, and he just started tweeting about it, and it picked up steam.
And the next thing you know, everyone's talking about it.
So everyone at every level, this is what's great.
Again, there's a whole plethora of issues with social media the way it's completely upended the way that humans interact with each other.
There's no question about that.
But from a pure political perspective, you would have to concede that it's allowed us to introduce new ideas into the political zeitgeist that otherwise would have never seen the light of day.
So this is fantastic stuff.
It's just really exciting to see stuff translated into policy.
It's really tremendous.
This is something else I saw.
Sergeant Heidett, I think, I believe how you say his name, he tweeted this at me.
He put this on my desk.
Obviously, in California, Trump coming out today and saying we're going to withhold a lot of these federal taxpayer perks for the Californian state government.
And he's responding to, again, these similar accusations of fraud going on in California relating to the daycare.
Maybe I'm in the wrong business.
Maybe I need to get into the daycare business because it's really quite lucrative.
This was from Amy Rikert, I believe is how you say her name.
She said, but wait, there's more.
California state inspection report for A.W. Hansen, Hinda family child care in San Diego, shows eight children enrolled, but zero present during an unannounced Friday morning visit.
The visit required, you guessed it, a Somali interpreter on site.
And they go, she shows here, the actual Department of Social Services listing, verifying what is going on here.
Total enrolled children, eight, zero were there.
The inspection was at 9.30 a.m.
Again, parents would be at work, so they would be dropping their kids off.
So if the kids aren't present at 9.30 a.m., they weren't there.
And then down here, Muhammad Ali, you can't make that up.
It's a little too on the nose.
Had to provide interpretation in Somali.
And they say here there's no children present during this inspection.
And this is just like you throw a dart at a map of blue states.
You're going to get high levels of fraud.
And this is what we see.
This is from the California Globe, obviously a publication out of California.
And they say the EDD, which is the Employment Development Department, basically like their, it's like a quasi-form of the Chamber of Congress, Chamber of Commerce, rather.
The EDD admits a 55 billion lost in pandemic.
So obviously we, you know, turn things back to the pandemic.
And there was immense fraud going on.
There was so much fraud.
It was unbelievable.
I think everyone could probably say they knew someone that was maybe not committing fraud, but certainly gaming the system, to say the least.
You had a lot of people claiming unemployment that were perfectly able to work.
It was quite extensive.
But California got absolutely rinsed and they allowed themselves to get rinsed for the record.
$55 billion down the drain because all that money probably just got spent on shoes and consumer goods.
I imagine the people defrauding the government probably aren't pouring it into investments to return into the economy.
Probably just got blown on products for a multinational enterprise that's going to ship that money overseas.
So complete disaster.
You can reach out to Jordans.
Yeah.
We have producer Surge in the house and he is just cooking over there.
Obviously, this is their commentary here.
That's what the hapless state unemployment agency that not at all ironically named Employment Development Department now admits was quote overpayment amount during the pandemic response.
Decades of warnings about how woeful the department was, the EDD and then its chief, Julie Asu, the current federal Department of Labor acting chief, was utterly, completely, and absolutely unprepared for the pandemic.
A customer service philosophy of having no customer service, antiquated steam-powered tech, a workforce that is considered a joke by other Sacramento bureaucrats, dismal politically driven leadership, and no need to actually be better.
To this day, it is not clear if anyone was actually fired for the wave of fraud.
The EDD was prime for pandemic pilfering.
And pilfering people did, from rappers to prisoners to global cyber gangs, it now appears that at least a very large percentage of the $55 billion overpayment was due to fraud.
Technically, as both the EDD, the Department of Labor, and any other government agency will stress, overpayment does not automatically mean fraud.
It could be missing paperwork.
It could be people dying.
It could be due to misclassification or a number of other things.
I did some research into the amount of money that these state governments typically lose on these sorts of things, you know, what you would call overpayment.
And it is certainly not $55 billion.
There's no question about that.
But this is the stat here that really jumped off the page at me.
Put it this way.
California has 12% of the nation's people, and it got 21% of the federal unemployment money.
This really kind of gets at the core of the issue between the blue and red state divide.
This is why I don't think it's accurate when people say things like, well, it's not about right or left.
It's about us versus the elite.
Again, there is some truth in that.
The elite that have dominated our country over the last 60, 70 years are certainly not acting in sort of a steward manner as the previous elite class did.
Previously, the elite in the United States viewed themselves as stewards.
Obviously, they're in it for money.
But they also, you know, you would see like Carnegie, he would invest in libraries, he would invest in universities, these sorts of things.
Rockefeller, same story.
I went to a church in New York City that John Rockefeller built.
He just built a church.
So could you imagine nowadays, Bill Gates building a church?
Could you imagine that now?
Like every time they're donating to charity, there's always an asterisk.
There's always something in it for them.
It's never altruism or stewardship for the sake of altruism or stewardship.
But this is kind of the issue with the, well, you know, they're dividing us.
The red and blue thing is completely arbitrary.
21%.
So that's a, what, a 9% overrepresentation and taking federal unemployment money and scamming the, again, the taxpayers from all across the nation really gets at the crux of what's going on here is people in blue states perpetually view themselves as victims.
They perpetually view themselves as part of a rebellion, a revolution, so to say, actually, there'd be a better classification.
They perpetually view themselves as in revolution.
People in Republican states or Republican voters do not view things that way.
They just view themselves as honest people trying to make ends meet, and they would just like the government get out of the way.
That's really at the crux of the issue.
And that's two completely, fundamentally different ways of viewing the world.
That's sort of the grounds you would have for two countries, right?
I mean, there's really no bread to be broken here.
It's kind of the classic trope of any time you see the right and left or the Republicans and Democrats agree on anything in Congress, it probably means you're getting screwed.
Bipartisan is just beltwayes for you're getting screwed.
You're getting bent over.
And I think this story really summarizes what's going on.
You're not going to see a lot of stories like this coming out of Republican states.
Typically, when there's sort of these exposés in Republican states, it's due to incompetency, which I think everyone in the audience would agree.
The national GOP is certainly the congressional caucus is very incompetent.
There's no question about that.
The Democrats, on the other hand, are knowingly committing fraud.
They're knowingly building out these, what would you call it, sort of these incentive structures for their voter base.
And their voter base, increasingly so, is foreigners.
It's sort of antisocial, dysgenic people with a chip on their shoulder.
That's their base.
That fundamentally kind of is what it comes down to.
You have your LGBT lobby.
You have your, again, foreign-born immigrants or the descendants of immigrants.
Generally, people that just didn't really have a good go at life.
Again, there's nothing wrong with that, but that shouldn't manifest into policy because that typically manifests in vengeance in many ways.
John Doyle, he makes a great point.
He talks about how the ultimate divide in American politics is just between people that had fun in high school and people that didn't have very much fun in high school.
And there's a lot of truth to that.
There really is.
I'm not saying I was some sort of, you know, suave whatever in high school, but like I had fun and that impacts a lot of my policies.
I liked my childhood.
I had a good childhood and I would like that to be passed along to my children.
I was like, well, if my children had a good childhood, and a lot of people, and I'm not saying, I know a lot of people that are very based patriots that didn't have a great childhood, but a lot of people, very based patriots, didn't have a great childhood, want to rectify the country and say, well, I don't want to ever have a society that permits what I went through.
People on the left have these horrific childhoods.
And then instead of being like, okay, what were the incentive structures?
What were the social conditions that created that?
I don't want that to happen to another person.
Instead, they have a chip on their shoulder and they're like, the white man did this to me.
Let's burn it all down.
So it's just really horrific stuff.
Let's keep going here.
Obviously, Kirsty Noam put out a tweet this morning.
12,000 new hired ICE agents are deploying to communities across our nation thanks to POTUS Trump's one big beautiful bill.
Our ICE workforce is up 120% to support enforcement operations, arrests and investigations and removals.
The patriotic men and women of ICEGov, or ICE in this case, are doing God's work to protect the country.
This was the statement put out by DHS.
ICE announces historic 120% manpower increase thanks to a recruitment campaign that brought in 12,000 officers and agents.
This was the publication I'll read here.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ICE today announced that its unprecedented nationwide recruitment campaign had shattered expectations hiring more than 12,000 officers and agents in less than a year.
After receiving more than 220,000 applications, based a very lot of patriots out there to join ICE, ICE Blew passed its original hiring target of 10,000 new officers and agents within a year.
In fact, we have more than doubled our officers and agents from 10K to 22K.
With these new patriots on the team, we will be able to accomplish what many say was impossible and fulfill President Trump's promise to make America safe.
Again, compliments to the speechwriter or whoever put together this publication because I love the usage of patriot.
It's such a great word.
Fantastic stuff.
This is a quote from Assistant Secretary Trisha McLaughlin.
The good news is that thanks to the big beautiful bill that President Trump signed, we have an additional 12,000 ICE officers and agents on the ground across the country.
That is a 120% increase in our workforce.
And that is in just about four months.
Thousands of newly hired officers and agents are already deployed nationwide and actively supporting enforcement operations, including arrests, investigations, and removals.
The accelerated hiring tempo has allowed ICE to place officers in the field faster than any previous recruitment effort in the agency's history.
The recruitment initiative utilized data-driven outreach efforts to recruit qualified patriot Americans, patriotic Americans from across the country.
As a result, as a result, rather, ICE was able to exceed its hiring surge target while maintaining rigorous standards for training and readiness.
And then, ICE, obviously, they put at the end, they're still accepting applications.
So, if you're out there and you would like to join, the door is still wide open.
It's very exciting stuff.
But this just says a lot.
I mean, first, let's just go back to my initial point at the opening of the show.
You know, a lot of people are discontent with, obviously, the deportation numbers.
They're saying, well, we need to be deporting tens of millions of people, and we're at maybe a million.
And I understand, and I'm in the same boat.
I would like to see a lot more deportations.
There's no question about that.
But I think now really is the test.
Now is where we really see what Stephen Miller and co have in mind for mass deportations.
Again, there's lots to be optimistic about.
We are at net negative migration.
What that means is more immigrants are leaving the country than coming to the country.
The first time in 60 years, that's been the case.
I've said it before, I'll say it again.
If you advocated for net negative migration on a conservative podcast five years ago, you would be thrown off of the panel.
And now it is the official policy of the United States government.
So it's really, we are in unprecedented times.
I think something that happens to a lot of people is you get accustomed to the sort of whatever the status quo is, and that can brood this sadis, dissatisfaction.
Is that the word?
You're not satisfied.
Sometimes you have to step back and be like, okay, we are trending in the right direction.
And there's something to be said about what we're able to do when the boot is off our neck, what we're able to do when you're not just flooding the country with foreigners.
Obviously, like at the very least, the bottom sort of the base minimum, the lowest bar for expectations is just getting the Biden wave out, getting the Biden people, the people that arrived in the Biden administration, getting them out of the country.
And then beyond that, I mean, there's estimates.
JD Vance's estimate is 30 million illegal immigrants.
But, you know, if we're trying to really restore America to a previous iteration, the conversation needs to be had about legal immigrants.
There's really no question about that.
And if you're middle class or up, legal immigration is far more of a threat to your lifestyle than illegal immigration, because illegal immigration is typically, you know, there's scab labor for people in sort of more manual positions.
But America is a service-based economy.
I believe like 80% of our economy is based on services.
So with that being said, legal immigration is really a much larger threat for your, you know, for your daily, you know, day-to-day affairs, your lifestyle, because these are people that can pass you verify.
They can work in normal white-collar jobs.
And they're coming from countries with exorbitantly low wages.
So they are more than happy to take a pay cut from, you know, from what the typical price would be for a position.
And that's a disaster.
And everyone's feeling the pinch.
You know, people online are like, why is there so much vitriol against Indians, for example?
Well, one, it's just the way they conduct themselves.
They're Indians.
But also, B, a lot of Indians are coming in and they're working in like E-suites.
I mean, you look at FedEx.
FedEx, obviously, a massive corporation, one of the biggest in the United States.
And their entire E-suite is India now.
And you go to Collierville, Collierville, Tennessee, suburb of Memphis, where FedEx is headquartered.
And the elementary schools in there, I mean, I grew up there.
I grew up in the suburbs of Memphis.
The elementary schools have gone from like 95% white and black, you know, these sort of traditional American populations, and they've become a majority South Asian in like 20 years.
Like these things are happening fairly quickly.
This is why I understand and why I actually share the concern over the mass deportation numbers because people are saying we kind of ran out of time like 10, 15 years ago.
Like we got to stop this.
It's not about stopping the bleed.
It's about getting blood back into the body.
It's a disaster, quite frankly.
So with that, I don't think I have too much more to say on that.
I do have time here.
I'm going to get to this story out of Germany.
This is via Human Events.
Cut the juice to the ruling class.
Far left group attacks German power grid.
A suspected arson attack on critical power infrastructure in Berlin left tens of thousands of residents without electricity and heating over the weekend, according to German authorities investigating what they described as a politically motivated act by left-wing extremists.
The outrage began Saturday after a fire damaged multiple high-voltage power lines near the, bear with me, Lichterfeld power plant in southwest Berlin, according to Euro News.
Officials said the attack targeted a cable bridge crossing the Teltau Canal, knocking out electricity to approximately 45,000 households and more than 2,000 businesses across four districts.
German police said responsibility for the attack was claimed in a letter attributed to the radical far-left group calling itself Volcan.
Oh, yeah, Rand, really trying to be tough guys there.
According, or also referred to in German media as the Volcano Group.
Authorities said they are working to confirm the authenticity of the claim.
In the manifesto, the group described the arson as an act of self-defense and said it was carried out in opposition to fossil fuels and the expansion of artificial intelligence.
The text reportedly included details about how the fire was set, though police cautioned that the investigation remains ongoing.
The Guardian, which obtained the 2,500-word pamphlet from the group, reported that the group was aimed to, quote, cut the juice to the ruling class.
There is a lot to unpack here.
Before we do, I'm going to play a quick word from our sponsor and then we'll get back on with the show.
I want to keep breaking down this story out of Germany.
We're still waiting on Libby.
Hopefully, we can get here in here soon.
Fingers crossed.
With that, with the Germany situation, we're going to keep going here because I want to sort of tie this in.
Because I think the West, I think what a lot of people lose, people get frustrated in the United States with coverage of these sorts of stories because they say, well, it's in Germany.
What relevance does that have to the United States?
Something that's important to note about the international news cycle is in many ways, Western civilizations, fates, the countries that make up Western civilizations, our fates are linked in many ways.
Specifically, the Anglosphere, right?
Like, you know, the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand.
Our fates are pretty distinctly linked because we all have a shared heritage, obviously, with the Anglo-Saxon tradition.
A great example of this was going into the 2016 election.
What preceded, what came before Trump's meteoric victory?
It was Brexit, right?
In the UK, Brexit, which was animated by a lot of the similar sort of ideas, a lot of the similar ethos that drove MAGA, took place in Britain a few months prior.
Brexit, obviously, you know, was a very nationalist movement.
They were saying we need to put Britain first, and the EU is an impediment to putting Britain first.
Therefore, we should leave the United States, or rather, the European Union.
That's exactly what happened.
The voters went to the voting booth all across Britain, in England, and Scotland and Wales weren't so on board with Brexit.
And yeah, they left the EU.
And so, in many ways, that's my point: a lot of these countries, their fates are linked.
And so, that's kind of what's important to keep an eye on Germany.
You don't have to keep a close eye on Germany.
That's what I'm here for to do that for you.
But these sorts of stories, again, especially with social media now, far lefts all across the world are coordinating.
They're keeping an eye on each other.
They're sharing ideas.
It's the reality of the situation.
That's why we declared Antifa a foreign terrorist organization.
That wasn't just a legalese workaround so we could prosecute them.
It's part of it.
I'll admit that.
But the main reason was because it's true.
Antifa does operate in cells around the world.
They do act as a foreign terrorist organization, therefore, the classification.
Eugypius, a great poster here, he provided some commentary.
He is German, so it's very, you know, poignant.
And he provided some commentary here, maybe giving us a little more insight in this situation.
He says, the most amazing thing about the Volcan group responsible for the devastating terror attack in Berlin is that it denied power to tens of thousands of households in the middle of an Arctic cold spell.
Is how German police know next to nothing about these leftoid freaks.
These lunatics have been sabotaging mostly electrical infrastructure around Berlin since 2011, including high-profile attacks on the Tesla Gigafactory in 2024 and on electricity pylons causing a similar blackout in 2025 and now the Teletau Canal power cables.
Each time they issue these deranged 2,000 word plus manifestos ranting and raving about the environmental and evil rich people.
And after all these attacks, just nothing, not a single member identified.
Nobody ever indicted or arrested, just nothing.
So that is a situation our German patriot friends are in.
I think we should be thankful as Americans that the administration that's currently in power is responsive to the base, that they see these things and they're working to address it.
Because in Germany, that is not the case.
As Eugius points out here, this has been going on for 15 years now and there's been zero action from the government, whether it's local all the way up to the federal level in Germany.
But what this gets at, and we talked about it a little bit on the show on IRL last night, Tim addressed it in his segment yesterday, referring to the attacker at JD Vance's house.
Obviously, there was this dysgenic freak that was trying to break in into JD Vance's home in Ohio.
And everyone's trying to break down what's going on here.
This is a transgender person.
It's the same old, same old story.
We expect these sorts of things.
But what that really gets at, and I made this point, is that an increasingly large proportion of the U.S. population has nothing to lose.
An increasing proportion of Westerners have nothing to lose.
These are people that are disaffected.
These are people that are deracinated.
I love using that word, duracinated.
These are people that are at the end of their rope.
And those types of people will gravitate towards anything that provides meaning for them.
And so in the case of these people, because like I made the point I made earlier using John Doyle's talking point, is it comes down to people that had fun in high school versus people that didn't have very much fun in high school?
That is kind of at the crux of the issue.
It's people that have a chip on their shoulder versus people that don't.
So what you have, and what creates people and groups like this, is you have a proportion of people in a country that have nothing to lose and they have a chip on their shoulder.
What is that going to result in?
We're lucky if it results in vigilante violence because quite frankly, what that would be capable of is quite grim.
Hence the importance of these governments cracking down on this.
Because again, you give these people an inch, they'll take a mile.
So these sorts of people, when they take out a power grid in Berlin, that's not the peak of their capacity.
Maybe it is right now.
But what's really going on here is they're sweeping for mines, right?
They're testing where the government's pressure points are.
They're testing to see what they can get away with before the government cracks down on them.
That's what's going on here because in Germany, at least, the government is preoccupied with the right-wing, with their boogeyman over there, the AFD, who is supposedly this reincarnation of the Nazi Party.
And you read their policy platform and it really just looks like pretty, you know, boilerplate right-wing ideas.
They're fine.
It's great.
But they're not like these far-right extremists like the German government lambasts them as.
But the point there is that the government in Germany spends all their time railing on and on about the AFD, trying to keep them out of power.
There's all these court injunctions.
We saw in Romania, they have a right-wing party there, the sort of authentically right-wing party, because typically in Europe, the right-wing parties there are just liberals that maybe advocate for slightly more conservative social policy.
A party rose in Romania that was authentically a right-wing party.
You look up and down the policy platform and you say, yep, it's a conservative right-wing party.
They're banned from the ballot.
They were not allowed to appear on the ballot.
So these governments over there, the entire apparatus of a Western government, broadly speaking, in 2026, the entire apparatus is tilted towards the right.
It's tilted to punish normal conservative people.
And that's how the United States was.
I mean, we saw in the Biden administration, it's the anniversary of January 6th.
I mean, it's been five years since January 6th.
We saw that they bring the knives out.
As soon as they have the impetus to go after right-wingers, they will take it.
As soon as they have a, you know, a cause, as soon as they have a justification, they will take it.
They will go after you.
Because, like I said, the entire apparatus is tilted towards punishing those on the right.
Obviously, there's this globalist scheme, this globalist elite that's transnational, that seeks to homogenize the world, seeks to destroy the West and sort of level out every country on planet Earth.
And conservatives, right-wingers, don't want that.
They would like Germany to remain German.
They would like France to remain French.
They would like America to remain American.
So that is an impediment.
If you're a globalist, that is an impediment.
This is a thorn in your side.
So it's not really a mystery why the left wing is permitted to effectively get away with all these sorts of things.
But then the right wing, as soon as they barely, you know, throw their weight around, as soon as they just vary, and they do it by the book, they vote for a party, the entire apparatus, the entire weight of the government comes down on them because that's where the incentive structures are.
Again, the left wing, these, you know, Vulcan, we're these tough anti-fascist fighters.
They don't provide any serious threat to the left in any meaningful way.
Sorry, rather, they don't provide any threat towards the established globalist regime in any real way.
You know what does provide a threat?
Like conventional right-wing beliefs, because they accurately view people as not blank slates.
They accurately view people as individuals, yes, but individuals with identities.
And those identities have implications, right?
Like when you're born in the United States, it comes with some responsibilities.
If you're a man, the responsibility to be a son, to hopefully be a husband, and hopefully be a father.
Those are things that you can't really do much about.
Those labels get assigned to you.
That's the reality.
You're born as an American.
Being an American has some implications.
It has some responsibility, some expectations.
You're born maybe a Christian, right?
You're born into a Christian family.
Has responsibilities, has implications.
You see what I'm saying here?
Because what the left wants to do, what the sort of globalist regime, so to speak, wants to do, is shatter all of those identities, rip those identities away from you, and make you a blank slate.
Something that is just, you're just some human being.
It doesn't matter where you're born or what, is you're just a blank slate that can be code encoded with whatever they want that to be.
Typically, that just manifests in the perfect consumer.
That is what they seek for someone to be, is the perfect consumer, someone that finds their identity in things that can be acquired.
And that is demonic, quite frankly.
To cut someone off, to debase them, to take them away from identities that they inherited from their ancestors is demonic.
That's horrible.
It's a horrible thing.
And it breeds dysgenia.
It breeds depression.
I mean, you wonder why people are so miserable today when they seemingly have all their needs met.
It's because they have no purpose.
They have no meaning in life.
People are just sort of wallowing in despair.
And it's a really grim thing because people do need an idea of what they're supposed to do in life.
I mean, you see this issue with young people is they have everyone is just so worked up because they don't know what they're supposed to do.
It's not clear.
The world tells them, oh, you figure it out.
You know, you just try different things and then you figure out what your purpose is in life.
Well, it used to be for 6,000 years of however long humans have been doing their thing.
It used to be that when you're born, you do have some expectations.
This is what is expected of you.
This is what will make you a contributing member of society.
And then in the last 60 years, we decided to throw that all away, clear the table off.
And we just said, no, actually, you're going to figure it out.
you're going to figure out what you're supposed to do.
And people can't handle that.
I mean, the freedom is nice, sure, you know, the freedom to choose, but people need to be on some rails, right?
You know, most people are not self-starters.
They need sort of guidance, something that they're supposed to do.
It's really, really unhelpful for women.
I mean, this whole girl boss fad, this fan fandom, whatever you want to call it, movement, where women, women naturally want to be led.
Like they hate making decisions.
You always hear this talk, it's like a pop psychology term of decision paralysis or options paralysis in the sense of when someone is presented with a plethora of options that they can take, they just freeze up.
They don't know what to do.
You actually, I think that there's grocery stores that have tested this, that when they provide just three products, they sell more than if they provide like 20 products.
Because people will approach a shelf with 20 products on it and they just say, oh, this is a lot to think about.
I can't make a decision here.
When there's three products, you just say, oh, three different ketchup brands.
And they just say, oh, Heinz.
Yeah, I know Heinz.
I'll take the Heinz, please.
Thank you very much.
Because people are actually quite simple.
And we don't like to have to expend additional bandwidth on these sorts of things.
Life's already hard enough as it is.
The last thing we need to do is be expending bandwidth on a lot of these things.
People need order.
People need structure.
And that is what right-wing thought offers.
That is what a conservative world offers.
It offers order.
It offers structure.
And the reason for that is based in philosophy, right?
What is the difference between right-wing thought and left-wing thought?
Right-wing thought acknowledges that there is a hierarchy that exists.
It's invisible.
It's not like on a website somewhere, but there is a hierarchy.
And people are just sort of arbitrarily, but, you know, there's a divine that has ordained this hierarchy.
And people are placed in this hierarchy.
And wherever you are placed in this hierarchy, it expects things from you.
It has expectations, responsibilities.
Where people on the left-wing, they reject the whole concept of hierarchy.
They want to flatten hierarchy.
They want to just be blank slates.
They don't like being told what to do.
And this is why this is all downstream.
Again, it's the third time I'm mentioning it.
John Doyle's idea of fun in high school versus you don't have fun in high school, the chip on your shoulder idea, is because what drives most of left-wing thought is hatred of their parents.
That's really what it comes down to.
It comes down to like faux edginess, but like hatred of their parents.
And anything that resembles any sort of paternalistic guiding hand in society, they hate.
They hate the idea of having responsibility.
They hate the idea of, again, having expectations put upon them.
They hate that.
They can't handle the pressure.
People on the right love it.
People on the right, every time I talk to a patriot on the street, they thrive under pressure.
They love expectations and they love meeting those expectations because it's vindicating.
It feels great.
The reason for that?
Because of hierarchy.
There is a natural hierarchy and it was ordained by God.
There's no really way around that.
That's what it fundamentally comes down to.
So all this to say, this explains the divide here.
This explains what's going on is if you believe in hierarchy, then you believe that every country on earth is different.
People are different.
People have different capabilities, right?
There's no question about it.
I mean, you can look at an IQ map of the world and you can really tell quite quickly why Somalians keep scamming the government, but why maybe Germans don't or why Swedes don't.
I mean, Trump made this point.
Trump, Donald Trump, the president of the United States, he made this point.
He said, you know, talking about all these Somalis coming to America or Afghans.
And he said, why can't we get some Danes, right?
Would that be the worst thing in the world?
Why can't we get some Swedes?
And the point he's making is: yes, there's cultural overlap, so it makes it easier to assimilate these people.
But also, these people just have better capabilities inherently.
Again, that's controversial.
People don't like to think about this.
It doesn't make me feel good.
But there is a difference in IQ across the world.
Some people belonging to some groups just have different set of capabilities than others.
That doesn't make them better.
That doesn't make them superior.
That doesn't make anyone else inferior.
It's just to say, yes, people are different.
Genetics aren't everything, obviously, but they're not nothing.
There's no reason to completely sidestep that.
And no one is making any demands for subjugating someone else.
We're just saying, acknowledging that people are different, right?
Like if you're six foot eight, you have a much better chance of making the NBA than I do.
My favorite stat is I think it's about 11% of all U.S. adults in the United States over seven foot are currently in the NBA.
So clearly, like these things that, again, come out of hierarchy do have implication on your life.
They do have implication on what the outcome of your life is going to be.
And people are better off accepting that.
People are better off saying, okay, well, this is the hand I've been dealt and this is what I need to do.
Versus people on the left, they don't want that.
And they coded it in this sort of idea of equality, right?
Like you look at like the 1960s, we just want equality, equality for everyone.
And everyone on the right's like, yeah, equality, because in our head, when we hear equality, we think meritocracy.
We think, yes, the free market, sort of these ideas, that's the best sorting mechanism to determine people's capabilities is if they just compete, right?
You go into a playing field, may the best man win.
Equality, that sounds great.
You know, what's happening in the South, you know, with Jim Crow and those sorts of things, a lot of good, you know, people that, you know, had good intentions said, yeah, I guess that is an impediment to meritocracy.
I guess that is an impediment to like a free competition.
But what the left was actually advocating for in the civil rights era and that sort of thing wasn't equality.
It turns out it was equity.
And you may have heard this actually, this sort of rhetoric was used quite a bit during the BLM riots during the George Floyd riots, is they would say, we don't actually want equality, we want equity.
And what equity obviously means rather than equality is equality is everyone has the same starting line, may the best man win.
It's fair.
It makes sense.
I think everyone would agree, like, yeah, we should probably give people the best, you know, we should remove any impediments to giving people a fair shake at life.
And that's consistent with right-wing thought.
This is what we believe.
But equity is something else.
They're saying, no matter how slow you run the race, we're going to ensure that everyone ties.
We're going to ensure that it's a draw.
So if Usain Bolt is running against Lizzo, they're going to have the same position on the podium.
Because to the left, it's about equity.
It's about everyone getting the same result.
And if this all sounds familiar to you, communism.
I mean, I hate to, you know, I think, you know, people in this sort of conservative sphere sort of sphere roll their eyes when they think or when they hear the commentariat say, well, the left are all communists.
Because it's not true necessarily that every single person on the left is a communist, but typically when you implement an ideology, there is a natural endpoint of that ideology.
And so if you keep following along with that ideology, you will get a natural conclusion.
And so with left-wing thought, you know, people are advocating for total equity.
And the question is going to be asked, well, how do we get this total equity?
Well, it could, if we just flatten everything and, you know, nationalize everything and ensure that everyone has the same outcome, then we'll accomplish total equity.
And what does that look like in practice?
It looks like communism.
It's what it is.
And this is why it's sort of dangerous to look at, you know, liberalism or left-wing thought, leftism, and say, well, if we could just ratchet it back to an earlier stage, then we'll be fine.
Like, if we just go back to like the 1990s, right?
That'd be great.
Well, all that's going to happen is you're just ratcheting back something that's going to end up taking back into the same conclusion.
You're always going to get the same conclusion out of social liberalism, out of left-wing thought.
There's no freezing it in place because the world is always moving.
The world is always moving forward.
These ideologies always compound.
That is the accurate way to view it.
It is just left-wing thought inherently is just destructive.
This is why the entire idea of left versus right, the entire divide came from the French Revolution.
The French Revolution was really the first shots fired in the culture revolution that completely upended the world.
Those who sat on the right side of the National Assembly were people that were pro-monarchy, pro-religion, pro-tradition, these sorts of things.
And people that sat at the left side of the National Assembly were pro-revolution, pro-equity, pro-flattening the hierarchy, pro-deposing the monarch.
And I know we're pretty big on deposing monarchs in the United States, but in the context of France, it wasn't based, trust me.
So that is where the entire dichotomy of left and right came from in political philosophy.
If you've used these words over the years, you may be thinking, where did that actually come from?
Well, it came from the French Revolution.
And then it came out of the sort of ideologies that rose out of the French Revolution.
And what happened during the French Revolution, we don't have enough time here to really break down the intricacies, but we saw a complete erosion and robbing of the soul of the French people and the French nation.
And it hollowed it out to the point where they were even like burning nuns alive in the street.
I mean, it was really just really dramatic stuff.
Anything that resembled tradition, anything that resembled a natural hierarchy was destroyed in the French Revolution.
I mean, they destroyed the church, they destroyed the monarchy, they destroyed traditional gender roles, everything.
Everything was completely upended because anything that could assign responsibility to you as a human being has to be destroyed so we can achieve total equity.
And this continued on.
And you look at the Soviet Union.
You know, there's a lot to say about the Soviet Union, obviously, but they would drain lakes just because it annoyed them.
Beauty annoyed them because beauty is objective.
Maybe you have a type, like I certainly have a type, you know, when it comes to like sexual attraction.
But as far as beauty in and of itself, I think everyone can look at things and say, well, that's objectively beautiful.
That's objectively not beautiful.
You look at like a beautiful cathedral.
You look like the Cologne Cathedral.
And you would look at that and you say, well, that's a beautiful building.
I can't, you know, I can't explain that.
I can't intellectualize it.
I just know, because beauty is objective.
And then you can look at a nasty, brutalist building and like the Boston City Hall, for example.
If you want to see, if you want to throw up a little bit, go take a look at the Boston City Hall.
You can look at that and say, that's objectively ugly.
That is an ugly thing to look at.
I just don't like looking at that.
But for a leftist, again, they view beauty as something that is hierarchical, beauty, not beautiful, everything in between.
So they want to flatten it.
They want to make everything just, it all needs to be ugly.
Like, it should all be ugly.
So that way no one feels bad.
No one feels responsibility to the hierarchy.
And so that's why you see these architectural implications.
That's why brutalism came about.
That's why all of these horrific building standards came about because they wanted to destroy beauty because they wanted to destroy beauty for beauty's sake.
They hated that seeing something beautiful.
When you look at like a beautiful cathedral, when you look at a beautiful work of art, when you listen to a beautiful song, it kind of points back at you and you get introspective and you start to think like, wow, this is really uplifting.
This is really nourishment for the soul.
And it demands more of you.
It demands something of you.
And they hate that.
They hate expectation.
They hate responsibility.
They hate looking at a beautiful cathedral and seeing it and saying, wow, this really kind of puts where I am in perspective.
Like, I should be maybe doing more.
I should be getting more out of life.
I should be attempting to introduce beauty into the world myself.
They absolutely despise that.
So that's why you saw in the Soviet Union.
That's why I made the point where they would just destroy a lake.
They drain a lake or they would burn down a forest because these things are naturally beautiful.
And once communism, it's at full fever pitch, once they control all the institutions, once that is the driving philosophy of a government or a society broadly, is anything beautiful needs to be destroyed.
This is pissing me off that this beautiful forest is here.
Let's burn it.
I don't even know.
They burned a massive forest in Siberia.
And as far as I know, they never even provided an explanation for why they burned it down.
Like, you know, with the lake, I think they justified it as there was some sort of irrigation experiment gone wrong.
When they burned the forest down, I'll look up the name of what that forest was.
They just hated the fact that it existed and that it was beautiful and that it made them feel inferior and it made them feel like not a God.
They want to feel like a God.
That's kind of what it really all comes down to.
They hate the fact that there's a God because they hate God.
They have a consciousness that God is real subconsciously.
They know deep down in their bones God is real.
And they hate that.
They hate that he's put them on this earth.
They hate that he's put them here with expectations.
Absolutely drives them wide.
I mean, you look in the Bible and in the Bible, it says the law is written on your heart.
That's where morality comes from.
That's why people, you know, you don't need things to be written down and know something's wrong.
And so these people who will say they don't believe in a God or whatever, they subconsciously feel that pull.
They subconsciously, it agitates them.
It drives them mad that there is a God and that he's put them here.
And they hate that.
They resent that.
And so they want to make themselves God.
How do you make yourself God?
Well, God makes man and woman and he assigns, you know, your sex before the foundations of the world were laid.
I don't like that.
I want to be my own God.
So I'm going to cut myself up.
I'm going to destroy myself so I can remake myself in my own image.
God made you in his image.
And they know that.
When they look in the mirror, in a way, you see God's purpose for your life when you look in the mirror and that disgusts them.
So they want to recreate themselves in their own image.
That's why you see with transgenders where they carve skin and flesh and blood out of their arm and they form a phallic device out of it, something that resembles a phallic device.
Because God created us out of dust and he breathed life into us.
He breathed his essence into us.
So they want to recreate themselves from themselves.
They want to completely reorient sex, you know, your sexual, your XY chromosome.
They want to reinvent that and they want to recreate themselves in their own image.
And it's inherently destructive.
And transgenderism is the tip of the iceberg, but this is occurring at every level.
When a woman says, okay, you know, screw the kids, screw the family.
I'm going to be a girl boss.
I'm going to do my own thing.
What's actually happening there is they're saying, look, the conventional expectation for a woman, that's too much.
It's too much responsibility.
It's too much expectation.
I hate that.
I want to be my own God.
So I'm going to do things my way.
I'm going to be my own God.
I'm going to, you know, ignore it, sod it.
I don't need to.
I don't need to, you know, do these things.
Why are you telling me what to do?
I don't want to be told what to do.
I want to do my own thing.
I want to be my own God.
It happens with men.
It happens all across the world.
And so that's why we're seeing this societal breakdown is because you're seeing a society that is aspiring to be its own God.
That's why it's manifesting in this attack here to go back to the original story, manifesting in this attack in Germany.
Because what are these people doing here?
They hate the fact that there is a segment of the population in Germany that acknowledges that the German people are German and that Germany should reflect that.
And they want to destroy that because they view the German nation and the responsibilities of being a German as suffocating and destructive.
And they want to destroy that by any means necessary.
So with that, we got a good monologue out of the way.
I think it was good.
I think it was really poignant to the story here.
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