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Jan. 8, 2026 - Viva & Barnes
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Brian Cole Jr to be Released? Minnesota Shooting Justified? Childish Infighting Continues & MORE!

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Ladies and gentlemen of the interwebs, I have long said that high school never ends.
It just gets bigger and the children get older.
And today we are seeing on the internet that indeed high school does indeed never end.
It's a good thing I was always a loner growing up.
I present to you Sean Farash, who I like, but who's espousing some of the rhetoric, which I find to be somewhat divisive.
Somewhat reminiscent of high school, cool kids trying to shame the losers.
Maybe I was a loser in high school.
Who knows?
Go check out my friends and ask them what they thought of me.
But this leads me to my deep thought of the day.
Behold, they know that we, not just the Bongino fans out there, but the MAGA movement, they know that we can and will succeed without them.
And that hurts them the most because they've got to be the most important people in the world.
They've got to have number one.
They've got to have all the likes.
They've got to have all the views.
They've got to do the ratios.
They've got to have the followers.
That's what matters to them.
What matters to us, and I'm speaking for me right now, what matters to me is winning.
I don't care how many likes, how many shares, how many views, how many comments, how many followers I have.
If we can win the midterms, that's all I care about because that's what means the most to me.
The well-being of the country going forward.
I'll pause it there for one second.
I've said this before as well.
When I ran for the People's Party of Canada up in Canada, foolishly thought that I might be able to win, but knew that I absolutely had no chance.
And I always jokingly said, I never tell anybody who to vote for.
I didn't even tell people to vote for me.
You don't win if that's the objective by saying we don't need you, some of whom have been our most prominent supporters.
You don't win by, I want to bring it back up.
And I like Sean, and I appreciate what he's saying.
If he's speaking for himself, that's fine.
The question is, everybody wants to win.
Everybody wants to win the midterms.
I think conservatives, Republicans, what we call colloquially MAGA, needs to win.
Failing which, if those people who ever get back in charge, who did Russia Gate, who did the Fed surrection, who did bullshit impeachment one and two, who tried to lock Trump up, bankrupt Trump, and then kill Trump, if they ever get back in power, they'll go back after the Bannons, the Navarros, the Michael Flynn's.
They'll go after Trump's entire team, anyone in his orbit.
They'll go after Sean.
They'll go after me.
If the Democrats get back in power, they might say Viva's support of the Jan Sixers, that's awful supportive insurrectionism.
You know, we're going to go back and look at some of his tweets and say, yeah, you know, maybe we want to lock Viva up too.
The desire to win, the need to win is different from the strategy to win.
And nobody has ever won an election by telling their constituents and some of their most ardent supporters, we don't need you.
There's the exit.
Hit the door.
You don't get their vote either by berating them into supporting you.
You don't get their support by threatening them into supporting you.
This entire nonsense on the internet that being on the side of, I don't know, the cool kids, the side that really wants to win, because as though, you know, like the Owen Schroyers of the world don't want to win.
Owen Schroyer's getting locked up if Democrats ever get in power.
So you think that he is a black pillar, doom pillar, whatever the hell you want to call it, for political convenience?
Oh, and then they call everybody who disagrees with them grifters, shills, who's paying you.
My goodness, if you can't address the idea and you resort to calling people grifters and shills, you might be the one in the wrong there.
The irony, talking about, you know, numbers and people who care.
Hey, if one views things through a confession through projection, things can be interpreted a little differently.
And I'll tell you, I'll be very, I'm always honest.
You don't have to tell the truth, but you can't lie.
I have been mildly irritated is an understatement.
And irritated, sort of like, you know, means frustration, dismayed, despaired.
I don't say it glibly.
High school never ends.
It just gets bigger and the kids get older.
And now, when the kids think they're on the cool team and they can sit there and try to berate the dissidents for their dissident thought and then just demonize it, right?
The second you disagree with someone, someone becomes a grifter.
You don't have to deal with the ideas anymore.
Just call them names.
Call them, reduce them.
And now, Bongino's back.
At least he's going to anticipate it back for February.
I watched him on the show yesterday, the evening scroll, and now I forget her name.
And I thought I apologize.
It's a good show.
I was listening to Bongino, and I'll tell you one thing is for certain.
He's very charismatic and he's very compelling in his speech.
And, you know, and he understands the marketing side of things.
You know, soundbites and the other thing, they're screenshots.
It's not screenshots.
Soundbites and clips, whatever the hell is.
He's right.
And when we get into some of the news today, you know, the soundbites and the clips of ICE agents, justified or not, and I happen to begrudgingly think justified killing a woman in her car, a mother of three, the soundbite might not be exactly that which is going to win people over for an upcoming midterm.
But he's back and he gave an interview yesterday.
It was expected to be none of the hard questions that some might ask.
Dan, we have a nice local studio down in Wynwood, Miami.
Might make for some good, some good questions.
Now I totally forgot what the hell I was thinking about.
Oh, the soundbites.
So Bongino's back.
And I appreciate the idea that, you know, from a branding perspective, it's very easy to write critics off as black pillars, doom, whatever the hell is pannikins.
I tell you, anybody using the term panican, unironically, you might want to look in the mirror.
You don't get to disregard someone's criticism, someone's valid criticism coming from some of the most ardent supporters like Owen Schroyer, Alex Jones.
Oh, they're just panicans.
They're just grifters.
I'm sorry.
Are you not doing that on social media?
On YouTube, Rumbling, whatever, while asking people to subscribe?
You're calling other people grifters while putting your content out there, calling them grifters.
One might think, you know, that accusation is a double-edged sword that people should swing very, very cautiously.
I can tell you one thing from a personal perspective, never done anything for numbers, never done anything for figures.
The month that I made on Commitube back in the day, $5,000 in AdSense revenue for just being honest and being me, it was the most liberating thing on earth.
Like, okay, it is what it is.
I'm not chasing any insincerity, not chasing any beliefs for popularity.
And the idea that you can actually be independent by being independent, well, that's what your independence is based on.
And the second anybody gets win that you are catering your views, either for those who are in power, those who are pressuring you to cater your views, well, that's when you actually start, oddly enough, losing, not because you're not chasing the metrics, but because you are defying your own sincerity.
So you don't just get to sit there and say, oh, well, you guys have been criticizing a little too much.
You're black pillars.
You're doomed pillars.
You're panicking.
We get to write you off.
We can do it without you.
No, no, you can't.
And not that you need the alliance.
You do not win through arrogance and haughtiness and pomposity and denigration and demeaning behavior.
That's not how you win.
But you'll feel good when you lost.
Oh, we lost because of them.
Well, what I do see happening right now is a lot of these people, you know, on the one hand, paying attention to the polls, which are not necessarily as good as they might want to be.
And on the other hand, denying the polls and then going to like CNN or CBS polls and saying, oh, look at this.
The right is actually unified.
What I do see happening right now is a lot of people saying, well, it's the Doom Pillars.
It's the Black Pillars.
We don't need them.
And if things go south in 2026, well, then they're not going to blame themselves.
They're not going to ask questions as to why we didn't listen to some of the devices.
They're not even going to blame their political adversaries.
They're going to blame the people that were the doom pillars and the black pillars because we don't need you.
Oh, but we lost because we didn't have you.
So you should have supported us.
Now you're the demons.
That's where I do see this going.
Sorry, I am yelling into the microphone.
In God we trust.
This is the, I struggle with this because I don't know that I know that I believe in God.
And I know that it's not necessarily a religious one from any one person's perspective.
The idea that you can look at everything that exists on this earth and then divine, divine, deny divine intelligence, you know, intelligent design.
You can do it.
It won't get you very far.
You know, you look at the randomness of waves crashing on a beach and it will never build a castle.
And then you look at the design of God's creatures and you say, holy shit.
Yeah.
Oh, now it's just random.
Just random.
But when you fear like either a literal or proverbial camera over your head, you tend to govern your behavior a little differently.
You see, God exists, you asshole.
Well, I'll tell you one thing.
If God exists, and maybe you meant to spell asshole funny so that you didn't actually swear, you might want to check your own behavior.
That's wonderful.
God exists.
You dumb piece of shit.
How do you not believe in him?
Oh, there you go.
You're channeling.
You're channeling the divine spirit right there.
But this is bull crap.
It's bullcrap high school behavior.
And it's got to come to an end at some point.
And I'm hoping, you know, like the arc is being set where you have your every movie, you know, you have your big problem, they resolve it.
And then right before the end, there's another magic problem that comes up and they have to resolve it.
And then you have your grand finale.
We're getting there.
It's not going to come through calling people names, calling people grifters.
Fuck off.
We don't need you if you don't agree with us.
Oh, what's that?
You're criticizing here?
No, no, we need every, we need all support all the time because that's how you support yourself into loss.
Whether or not you think that that Minnesota shooting is legally justified, even if it's on the line, whether or not you think it's legally justified.
Well, from an optics perspective, that's not how you're going to win elections.
I had a bunch.
And, you know, it's fun.
Maybe people just do it to shitpost on the internet.
I apologize for swearing.
These are all contextually required swear words.
What's amazing is you see some of these same players jumping on the bandwagon because right now they think they're on the cool kids team.
And it's great.
For the people who say, oh, they're just chasing numbers.
They're just chasing ratings.
And now, like, oh, yeah, Bongino's back.
I'm on Bongino side.
We're going to crush the internet.
And look at how angry everybody is.
Well, because we've got the numbers.
It's ironic that the very same people, the Brendan Dillies of the world who call everybody grifters, shills, whatever, all the names under the earth, just chasing ratings.
Well, right now they feel like they're on the big team, right?
So Brendan Dilly, this is fun.
I don't know if I talked about this.
It was during bowling and that was two nights ago, but I know we didn't talk about it yesterday.
Seems to have a hard on for Michael Flynn Jr. and Michael Flynn Sr.
Michael Flynn, bear in mind, the man who was the victim of the Russia Gate hoax.
You know, Caroline Levitt just came out with, you know, there's a four-minute clip going viral on the internet now that they're not basically investigating or referring, I forget exactly the term, because it's not for criminal proceedings yet.
They're revealing that Obama was involved in Russia Gate.
Michael Flynn was target number one of Russia Gate, had his life ruined, was compelled, extorted into a guilty plea because they threatened to go after his son.
The prosecutor in that file, still working for the Bondi DOJ, not for nothing, couldn't retract his guilty plea, even though it was given to a judge who was conflicted out of the case and should never have entered his guilty plea, Contreras.
Then he gets in front of that other judge, Emmett Sullivan, corrupt to the core, wouldn't even drop the charges when the state says we want to withdraw the charges right now.
He's like, oh, you can't do that now.
This man is a victim of the deep state of RussiaGate, the very same Russia gate that now Brendan Dilley and Team MAGA are all happy that Caroline Levitt and Tulsi Gabbard are going after Obama for Russia Gate.
This man was victim number one.
And because he has legit criticism against the current administration, he must be the enemy.
He's a deep state, double-sorted, super duper faky spy.
Just so people know, and I'm very transparent about what I'm doing out there for the most part.
I am in the process because I want Speaker Johnson to do more.
And so we started looking at Speaker Johnson's packs and how many of his PACs turn money back around to daycare and healthcare, clinics, and that kind of stuff.
It's incredible the amounts of money.
And that's one person, but he happens to be the speaker of the house.
So this is not a partisan thing for me.
Let's go see what Brendan Dilley, by the way, the wuss, I'm not going to swear and call people, the wuss, the intellectual coward that is Brendan Dilley after he was muting or hiding my replies because it was shedding a little too much truth on his hypocrisy, then finally went on to block me because he doesn't want my stupidity infecting his followers because his followers apparently are so stupid, they're going to be easily infected by the stupidity of others.
What is he saying?
He can't have his viewers, his followers, be exposed to this man's hypocrisy.
President Trump just praised Speaker Mike Johnson this morning for his hard work.
So naturally, a few hours later, scumbag Mike Flynn is out here counter-messaging the president and attacking Johnson.
Do you see?
Read the room.
Once you see it, you can't unsee it.
Masks off.
And then when you know that people are filthy hypocrites and you know where they might have, you know, put their big foot in their big mouths.
Oh, Brendan Dilley, when was this?
January 18, 2024.
Can you guys tell the difference between a Republican-controlled Congress and a Democrat-controlled Congress?
I literally can't tell the Pelosi-led house and the Johnson-led house apart.
I'm saying, and it feels like I'm going crazy.
I got to go to like three different AIs and say, is this an attack on Mike Johnson?
Of course it is.
2024.
But don't worry, there's more.
2025.
Why, this was as late as it's either May 7th or July 5th.
I don't know.
Can we spot the difference between Paul Ryan and Mike Johnson at this point?
Oh, but when he does it, it's fine.
When Mike Flynn does it, a man who served country for 33 years, Mike Flynn's a scumbag.
Can you imagine the audacity it takes for a young whippersnapper?
As far as I know, Brendan Dilley, if that's his real name, never served, to lecture a man who served country for 33 years and to call him a scumbag.
You imagine the balls it takes to do that?
The arrogance, the pomposity, the haughtiness?
And not H-O-T-T-I-N-E-S-S.
H-A-U-G-H-T-I-N-E-S-S, haughtiness, arrogance, undue arrogance, pride in oneself.
I don't know.
But now I know, but now, but now you attack Mike Johnson.
You're the traitor, Mike Flynn.
Now you disagree with what I say we have to say right now because we're not a cult.
But if you disagree with the ideological conformity, then you become a scumbag and you become shunned and scorned and pushed aside.
We don't need you anymore.
It's outrageous.
The other one, I've never met this guy before.
I think I may have seen the name, John Nance.
It's amazing.
It's amazing.
First of all, before I go nuclear on someone on Twitter, I like to make sure that it's absolutely warranted.
And every now and again, I make a mistake.
I retweet or I reply in haste and unjustifiably so.
The other night, let me bring this one out.
The other night, I actually DM'd privately to apologize to Nick Sortor because when Nick Sortor reposted the Dan Bongino tweet that said, you know, declaring war on black pillars, and I said to him, like, all right, so this is a bad strategy.
Like, you declare war on people who disagree with you and hope that you've been a good enough cheerleader that you don't make the list.
And when I wrote the tweet, I meant the you in a sort of one neutral sense.
Like one hopes that one is not on the list.
They've been sufficiently good cheerleader so that they're not on the list and didn't appreciate at the time, but it did in the middle of the night and then I wake up and I'm like, oh, should I go delete the tweet?
And if I delete the tweet, then people are going to say, I just got a call from someone who told me to delete the tweet.
I did not mean it the way it read.
And I apologize privately and publicly to Nick Sortor because he's a good guy.
But the idea that like declaring war on the black pillars and everyone's like, oh, I better watch what I say now.
I don't want to be deemed a black pillar, even if I have sincere disagreements and sincere political issues, sincere constructive criticism.
I don't want to be called a black pillar.
Now, what the hell was I talking about here?
For anyone, so before I go nuclear on anyone on Twitter, try to make sure that they are sincerely and genuinely of bad faith.
Simon Atiba was another one where I might have reacted intempestively, a little hastily, but he's proven himself to be maybe less of a journalist and more of a professional editorialist.
But let's get back to John Nance.
I don't know who he is.
At least I didn't a few days ago.
Didn't really know who he was a few days ago.
Now it's making a little more sense, who seems to be coming after me for some reason.
Maybe, am I the black pillars?
Incidentally, I never took any of this personally.
I presumed that the black pillars, dooms pillars, whatever the hell the terms are, referred to the Tucker Carlsons, the Candace Owens, the Alex Joneses, maybe, the Steve Bannons.
Never took it personally.
I don't know if it's still true, but Bongino follows me.
I follow him on Twitter.
I think we have a good, a decent relationship because I think I am transparently honest.
So I never took it personally, but it seems that maybe I should.
John Nance, for anyone interested in Steve Baker, he's the man I had on yesterday, the journalist who's been doing amazing journalism.
The Viva Fry, Han Blaise, I don't know who that is, continued black pillar campaign.
Who the F is this guy calling me a black pillar campaign to keep the J5 bomber Patsy theory on life support?
I will explain to you why I sincerely believe that.
What the hell would be blackpilling about suggesting that maybe what Bongino had described as, you know, not the crime of the century, but something, a conspiracy so deep that it would shock the world in respect of the January 6th pipe bomber.
Well, okay, well, we made a mistake.
It was just a lone 25-year-old autistic kid.
Oh, okay, fine.
A thorough comprehensive deconstruction of the grift.
It's a grift.
It's not my sincerely held beliefs that I've had for a while that I believe I flesh out and then I hear both sides.
It's a grift.
I'm a black pillar.
This kid, this guy, Nance, thinks he's on the cool kids team now.
These guys are part of the life loser scrum that D. Bongino has been excoriating.
For anyone thinking, for any thinking person, the Blaze Infowars crews have less credibility than proponents of Bigfoot and alien impersonation.
Oh, that's really funny.
Holy hell.
But you know what the funniest thing is?
This is like, you know, sometimes when you point the finger, there's three pointing right back at you.
I had seen a screenshot of an alleged tweet from Bongino calling John Nance an FBI mouthpiece.
And I don't trust screenshots.
And I don't know if that tweet, if it ever existed, had been deleted.
But I did remember this.
And I made the montage.
It's long, people.
This is what Dan Bongino, barely two years ago, had to say about John Nance.
And once you understand this, and you can go back and read John Nance's tweets and attacks and whether or not you consider them threats.
No, Viva, you have no idea what's coming, man.
Watch out, big smart guy.
This is what Bongino had to say about John Nance.
I still don't really know who John Nance is.
I think he's an ex-FBI guy.
Listen to what Bongino had to say, but it's my supercut.
Now, I wouldn't have given it much of the time of day if I hadn't seen FBI Mouthpiece and Wolf Inside the Tent, the guy by the name of John Nance.
Anytime you read a Nance story, you got to read it through the lens of who's telling Nance to say this.
I'll notice how right in the title, he wants to take a shot at Kyle because he's jealous of Kyle.
This is Kyle Serafin.
John Nance, again, I believe speaking for as the FBI mouthpiece himself says, how he goes after Kyle by name.
Wolves in the tent, very cautious of these people.
They're a group of dipwads who I'm telling you abuse our brand to go and destroy people because these people don't go through proper channels.
Kyle used to work for this guy, and I believe this guy's upset because his face isn't on TV talking about FBI scandals he wants to be the face of because he's probably looking for more TV hits.
So the fact that Kyle actually had the courage to give up his job because he wasn't going to get the COVID vaccine fight for people really bothers this guy because Kyle's getting attention.
You don't mind.
So he's the wolf in the tent.
The wolf in the tent.
Very careful, these people.
Be very careful of these people.
Yep.
But hey, right now, they think they're on the side of the majority, or at least the side of the majority with the bullhorn on social media.
Here, link to that tweet if anybody wants it.
The wolf in the tent.
Be very careful of these people.
But above all else, when they tell you to shut up and sit down, that they will do it without you.
They can win without you.
But nothing's more important than winning midterms in 2026.
And you shut your grifting mouths, you stupid plebs, and you do what we tell you to do.
And you say what we say you could say.
But we can do it without you.
Holy hell.
Anyhow.
Serenity now.
How goes the battle, everybody?
Are we live across platforms?
I haven't checked anything.
I should have checked to see if we're live on vivabarnslaw.locals.com, which we are.
I'm not going to read some of those chats.
And that intro rant will last a little.
I like Sean Farash, and there's no question, there's no but to that.
I think he's a decent, I think he's a good guy.
And I also do think a lot of people who are doing what I think are stupid things and saying silly things, you know, good people do wrong things out of, for a number of reasons.
I mean, sometimes succumbing to greed, the question is always, you know, like, at what point does doing bad things make someone a bad person?
We've all done bad things.
We've all done wrong things.
And the question really becomes, at what point does one become bad and wrong because of the extent of the bad and the wrong that they do?
We all make mistakes.
I think Sean Frash is a nice guy.
I don't even think that's a mistake.
I just think it's a bad strategy.
I understand it's perceived as a rallying cry for the troops.
What I would love to see more than declaring war on even the Candace Owens because Barnes, by the way, just Barnes has declared war on Candace Owens multiple times.
The crowd, you know, shits on Barnes every time he does it.
And I'm not walking the fence on this.
Candace is entitled to say the things that she says, and she can sit there and take the blowback for the things that she says.
You know, what I think I called it out when I think she said something objectively, maliciously wrong about Tim Poole.
And you don't just get to hide behind the, I didn't say he beats his wife.
I just said he acts like someone who beats his wife.
Well, what's the determining factor characteristic of someone who beats their wife?
Well, they beat their wife.
But I didn't say you beat your wife.
I just said you act like someone who beats their wife and child after losing $100,000 of poker.
But I do think that the better tactic is, on the one hand, open dialogue, which there will not be.
And I can tell you this, you know, from experience, the open invitations.
I'm too small.
I'm too irrelevant for Candace.
And everyone's going to say, Viva, you only want to have a discussion with Candace because it's good for you.
Bullshit.
I'll do that.
I'll go on Candace's podcast and have the same discussion with her.
I don't care about the numbers and I don't care about any of that crap.
I think open dialogue with Candace would be good.
I think the reason why she doesn't do it is she'll get as embarrassed as she got in that CNN interview or in the Piers Morgan interview.
They also won't do it because it's much easier to monologue than it is to dialogue.
But I would love to see it and/or outreach to the people that you will need in order to win 2026.
And you don't have to agree with their grievances, but for the love of all things, holy, listen to their grievances.
Now, what the hell was I just about to say?
I was going to go here and see what we got here.
Just do, oh, the remanded, who's following the Canadian British Columbia election, who's filed suit, remanded, says, hey, Viva, I filed my petition into BC Supreme Court seeking judicial review of the 2024 election.
We're just short of funding needed to serve it and see it through.
Thank you for any support.
Dude, what's the link?
You know what?
Remanded.
I know you text me.
Text me the link or DM me the link.
Oh, yeah, here you go.
I just see it.
It's in the link.
Let me get it in my.
It's Canadian stuff, people.
You may or may not be interested in it, but there's a man, the Remanded, doing good work.
He's using give, send, go.
So that's already the right thing to do.
If you want to help his work, give, send, go.
Here it is right now.
10,000.
Okay, let me do something in a bit and then share this around with everybody right now.
Boom.
We're going to talk a bit about Canada in a second.
It might be the segue.
We'll start with some random Canadian story, which is Christia Freeland, basically now confirming her loyalty to the country of Ukraine.
Let me just read this here.
I'm not reading this, Ginger.
We got Quinn 1971.
To be fair, Flynn backed DeSantis over Trump.
Okay.
Again, okay.
So what?
There's plenty of good people in the Trump camp who supported DeSantis as they were allowed to.
The irony is I had someone accuse me of being a DeSantis supporter where I consistently and always took shit because I never, DeSantis is a great governor.
Full stop, no, but it was not his opportunity, his time to be president.
It was Trump's.
And quite selfishly, you know, I know there's alternatives.
You'd rather have DeSantis here for now.
And DeSantis would have probably had a better chance at a run for president if he hadn't done what he did then.
Whatever.
Old man Toby says, Viva, this is why I pay for Crowder, Martyr Maid, and Tip You.
To me, you guys are sincere, even when I disagree.
My dad always told me the biggest difference, the biggest confidence someone can do is give your money.
First of all, it was one of the more interesting things when I went out on my own as a lawyer.
And the first time I got paid for the work that I did on my own, not a salary from my boss, just, you know, someone gave me one and said, thank you.
Yeah, I agree.
There's no greater confidence than someone giving you basically their time, which is what they do when they give you their money.
And thank you very much, old man Toby.
Ginger Ninja says, I popped into Bengino's show last night, got immediately muted.
That's a bold strategy.
It won't work out for you.
We, the people, are pissed.
Oh, that's the irony about the Brendan Dilly.
Can you imagine?
It's not even like, you want to be arrogant?
You want to be an ass like Brendan Dilly?
You want to shit on people?
Muting, hiding their replies, hiding their replies so it doesn't look like you're getting pushback for your stupidity and then having the balls to say, yeah, I do it for the protection of my own idiot base.
It's childish.
Now, there's time in this arc for a unification, as there must be, because you don't win elections through division.
And it's not all to say, you don't win elections by unification through pandering.
But you sure as hell are not going to, you're not going to browbeat people into support and you're not going to browbeat into brabeat people into just saying, I love big brother two plus two equals five because you've browbeat them enough to do it.
Let me do a quick one with Christia Freeland because nobody's going to really care about it.
Christia Freeland, you might remember her, Twitchy McGee is what they used to know her as up in Canada.
She used to be the deputy prime minister of the country formerly known as Canada, or Canada.
Christia Freeland.
Hold on, hold on.
This I need to know how many people are new here.
And this is not to generate chat in the chatter chat.
One, yes, you know who she is.
Two, no, you don't know who she is.
And this will at least indicate how many new faces are in the chat.
Christia Freeland, because I don't want to play the videos of her in the backdrop, you know, like jerking her head around like the demons out of Jacob's ladder.
And if anybody gets that reference, sorry, hold on.
Sir, Rabbi Schwartz and Micherko, just put the word war in front of it so it's a little less.
And now I forget if one was yes and two was no, but okay, so it looks relatively split up.
Christia Freeland was the deputy prime minister.
She was the second in command in Canada, basically.
You know, it's tied right after Justin Trudeau.
She, when you watch videos of her, and if you've seen the movie Jacob's Ladder, when Jacob or the, you know, what's the name?
Tim Robbins was, you know, overheating and always had his demonic flashbacks to war.
There would be these like gyrating blobs with like amorphous heads just gyrating around.
That's what Christia Freeland looks like.
She looks like also the demon out of the movie Don't Look Now with Donald Sutherland.
She's been at the helm of Canadian policy to support Ukraine at all costs, billions and billions of dollars.
You know, Nova Scotia has to raise money after a hurricane for essentials of life, but they've got enough money to finance the war in Ukraine.
She resigned from Justin Trudeau's cabinet when it became clear that she was the finance minister as well, actually.
She's the one who froze bank accounts.
It was her directed to freeze bank accounts during the Trucker protest.
She's stepping down as MP on Friday because she's accepting a Ukraine role as sitting.
Oh, because she's accepting the role as financial advisor to Herr Vlodimir Zelensky.
I saw this tweet and I legit thought it was a joke.
It was Vlodimir Zelensky saying, while she's still a sitting MP, by the way, today I this is a leader of a foreign country.
And in my view, a tyrant who is now ruling not as a legitimate president, but as a legitimate bona fide dictator because he suspended elections.
So, you know, what was good for Maduro, hey, why wouldn't it be good for Zelensky?
He actually tweets this.
Today I appointed Christja Freeland as an advisor on economic development.
Christia is highly skilled in these matters and has extensive experience in attracting investment and implementing economic transformations.
Yeah, she invested a whole hell of a lot of Canadian taxpayer dollars to Ukraine.
Right now, Ukraine needs to, oh, come on, no, no, I need to get the, I need to get the full thing.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I got it right there.
Yada, yada.
Where was it?
Where was it?
Now, Ukraine needs to strengthen its internal resilience, both for the sake of Ukraine's recovery if diplomacy delivers results as swiftly as possible, and to reinforce our defense if, because of the delays by our partners, seems like a shot at Trump, if I'm not mistaken, but it takes longer to bring this war to an end.
I am grateful to anyone, everyone who is ready to support our state and our engagement with partners.
Glory to Ukraine.
Slava Ukraine, which you've now heard multiple Canadian politicians, including the so-called leader of the so-called Conservative Party and the so-called opposition party of Canada, Pierre Mosfort Polyev.
The sitting MP, former Minister of Finance, former deputy prime minister, has been appointed as an economic advisor to the country that she's been funneling money to for the last four years.
Well, the Conservatives Party, though, they've issued a very strongly worded letter.
Former liberal cabinet minister Krista Freeland says she'll step down as member of parliament Friday, marking the end of an era of the party.
The high-profile MP accepted on Monday what's being described as a voluntary role advising Ukrainian president Vladimir Zelensky.
She indicated she'd be leaving in the coming weeks.
I have no written, I have written to the speaker, I will be leaving.
Okay, fine.
Going forward, I will continue to support and help build Canada in every way I can while championing the brave fight of the people of Ukraine, a cause I have been committed to my entire life.
Oh, we know that, Christia.
When we accuse people of dual loyalties, and this is why I say you cannot serve in the government and have dual passports, dual citizenship.
You can't.
This woman has arguably, but not arguably, been more loyal to Ukraine, Zelensky, the money laundering machine, and the people of Ukraine than to her own constituents for years.
Freeland, who has Ukrainian ancestry, no shit, Sherlock.
You might want to look up some of her Nazi Ukrainian ancestry.
Alleged was deputy prime minister between 2019, 2024 and the country's first woman to serve as finance minister.
She has long been one of Canada's most vocal opponents of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
One-time liberal leader, Hopeful, has represented the downtown Toronto seat, yada, yada.
Opposition, conflicts of interest.
The Conservatives have been urging Freeland to resign immediately.
It's deeply concerning that Christia Freeland has accepted the job, yada, yada.
Beyond the fact that serving Canadians is not a part-time job, the position she's accepted with a foreign government, paid or unpaid, raises questions of whose interests will be prioritized.
It raises questions as to whose interests have been prioritized.
She has been a Ukrainian asset in Canadian government for the last several years.
Nothing new.
You got a bunch of Chinese assets in Canadian government.
You got some Indian assets in Canadian government.
What you have a very few of are Canadian assets in the Canadian government.
A source close to Freeland said her initial plan was for her to resign her seat and then take up the Zelensky advisor position, but Ukrainians moved up the announcement.
The source previously said Zelensky asked Freeland to take on the role during a visit on December.
She approached Mark Carney on December 24.
Carney has previously appointed her as Canada's new special representative for the reconstruction of Ukraine.
A role says she said she's now giving up.
She's giving up the role that would have seen her giving money to Ukraine after having given money to Ukraine and is now working advising Zelensky, Ukraine.
Go to Ukraine.
Go join your ancestry.
It would have been better off for Canada if he had done that four years ago.
Okay, let's get into the ugly news of the day, which I don't want to talk about, but we're going to right after I do this.
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I have no private insider information about that.
As far as I know, they have not been sued, nor has there been a letter of demand, which is odd.
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And let's just see what's going on on Viva.
Oh, by the way, the other day I didn't get to the super chats on Commitube and somebody was pissed and I felt bad about that as well.
But I forgot we were live on YouTube yesterday because I don't typically stream daily on Commitu.
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Let me see here.
The woman is failing up.
How do we get so lucky to rip people off?
She's going to go advise Zelensky on how to spend the money that she just gave him from Canadian taxpayers.
Imagine that.
Freeland has shown that she was always working in Ukraine's interest in non-Canadas.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
All right.
The ugly news of yesterday, and I do not need to be first.
I prefer to be accurate and I prefer to get it right as opposed to being the first, have a hot take.
You know my inclinations.
I am something of a sissy.
And I say I'm something of a sissy in that I would rather avoid conflict than provoke it.
I would rather avoid conflict than engage in it.
I would rather, I know people like to say you can defend property at all costs.
I would rather let someone steal my bike, for example, than physically hurt or kill somebody in defense of material property.
You can call me a sissy.
You can call me a Canadian, whatever you want.
I am also, you know, not reluctant, but tend to err on the side of people should not get killed by law enforcement during interactions with law enforcement, understanding obviously that there are exceptions and situations escalate and there are circumstances where it's not only justifiable, it's necessary, right, righteous, etc.
Yesterday, it was the shooting of a woman who got shot in the face and three times after an interaction at a stop.
I mean, when we say one screen, two films, it's amazing that it is just that.
I mean, people are looking at the same thing and they will interpret it the way they want based on their predisposed tendencies to view it the way they want or their politics to view it the way they need.
And one thing we've all lived through now is, you know, when people were calling Kyle Rittenhouse a murderer and from initial videos, although it was much more clear-cut, even with the initial videos in that case, initial videos, partial views, partial information will lead to partially defensible or partially indefensible positions.
There's a certain political element to all of this, and there's a certain irony, for lack of a better word, to all of this, that every argument that was made in condemnation of Ashley Babbitt's summary execution can be made mutantis, mutantis.
And I know there are material distinctions, and I could make them myself.
That being said, I know that people are going to say this is now the less equivalent of Ashley Babbitt.
You will recall when Ashley Babbitt was summarily shot point blank, climbing through a window with a backpack on her.
You had the left saying, fuck around, find out.
You have the left saying, domestic terrorist, you know, shot dead because engaging in domestic terrorism.
And then you had the people saying it was indefensible.
It was summary execution.
She posed no immediate proximate threat.
And then you had the other saying, well, she had a backpack on.
They're defending politicians.
You don't know what's in that backpack.
And I know what I initially thought when I saw that video of Ashley Babbitt, in my view, getting murdered by that cop.
I know what I initially thought.
And it wasn't a fuck around, find out.
My initial reaction was you don't ever expect that level of finding out from that level of effing around.
You know, like growing up, and I may have shared the story, I had a friend whose friend died in a car accident.
And, you know, driving fast, whatever, fishtailing, car rolls over, he rolls through the sunroof, and the car lands on his head.
And there will be either heartless people out there or, you know, people who say, well, you know, don't do that.
And that doesn't, and that won't happen.
There are levels of disproportionately impactful consequences that result from otherwise, you know, not innocuous, but behavior that you don't necessarily foresee that.
Or if it happens, it would take a very tough soul to say you deserved it.
That's what you get for, you know, driving a car a little bit recklessly.
And then there, but for the grace of God, when I rolled my parents suburban, I rolled like six times, landed on the roof.
But for the grace of God, I had a seatbelt on.
The windows were open.
I didn't have a limb go out and get crushed by the car.
I was hanging upside down when the car came to a rest on its roof.
And, you know, other than a bruise on my hip and a story for the rest of my life, you know, there, but for the grace of God goes high.
When Ashley Babbitt got shot, I say, yeah, you're doing silly things.
You don't expect to get shot in the chest for it.
And whether or not this woman was doing silly things and it's going to be a justifiable shot, because unfortunately, I've now watched some analysis and agree that people are going to say justifiable but not necessary.
We'll get into it.
You don't expect that level of finding out from that level of effing around.
And then everyone's going to point things and say, why did this happen?
Arguably, but not arguably, this happens because people have been given the political permission slip to think that they are in their rights to interfere with police operations.
And this is the whole same thing about people resisting arrest.
Like bad things happen that are exceedingly disproportionate to the initial act when you resist arrest.
Things escalate instantaneously and they're tragic consequences that result from arguably, but not arguably, a culture of defiance, a political permission slip of defiance.
Whether or not you agree with what ICE is doing, you stay out of the way.
They do what they do.
And if you have political problems with it, a time and a place.
And it's not in interfering with whether you think it's whatever, federal operations that you go and do the things that people are doing.
And it's like the scene from V for Vendetta, except I forget exactly which way the bad and the good was in that in that movie.
Something happens.
Things escalate instantaneously, devastating consequences.
And that is exactly what we witnessed yesterday.
Now, I'll play the video.
You've seen, it's not particularly graphic if you're sensitive.
You know, there's your warning.
But initially, you see one angle.
Initially, people don't even know which policeman or which ICE agent pulled the trigger.
Initially, you get your rash of disinformation, your rash of hot takes, and then the information slowly trickles in.
Cameras are, I think the word is ubiquitous.
Hold on a second, ubiquitous meaning.
Present appearing found everywhere.
You know, you're going to get multiple angles.
There's no need to jump to conclusions based on the first.
I watched Andrew Bronca's analysis.
My initial tweet was: I'll defer to Bronca on this.
And I sort of said it knowing that if Bronca's conclusion was, you know, contrary to what my initial reactions were, and the defense of it was not one that I found compelling, I'd say defer to him, but I reserve the right to disagree.
Is this President Trump and others?
Sorry.
So this is now an analysis by the New York Times for the first portion of this video, and it's Bronca's analysis for the second portion.
We've all seen the back angles of the video, which don't tell you enough.
I mean, they're so ambiguous.
At first, people thought it was the cop in the behind that shot.
Now we've got various angles.
So listen to this.
I'll play it without commentary and then we'll talk.
President Trump and others said the federal agent was hit by the SUV, often pointing to another video filmed from a different angle.
And it's true that at this moment, in this grainy, low-resolution footage, it does look like the agent is.
Sorry, hold on.
I just took it out.
What the heck is my problem?
Synchronize it with the first clip.
That's what I get from touching my fat fingers.
Let's start again.
No distraction.
No, let's not.
Let's go.
It was right from here.
And it's true that at this moment, in this grainy, low-resolution footage, it does look like the agent is being struck by the SUV.
I'm going to say, even for the New York Times, that is one hell of a concession.
And it's true.
Looking at it afterwards in slow motion, although he has to qualify from a grainy video, as if that, you know, causes us to defire on.
Yes, it's true.
It looks like the ICE agent just got hit with the car.
That's one hell of a big concession that the New York Times is begrudgingly forced to admit.
But when we synchronize it with the first clip, we can see the agent is not being run over.
In fact, his feet are positioned away from the SUV.
That cop in front is direct.
I'll pause it there.
First of all, even that argument is mildly weak.
We can see that his feet, it's weak when you don't understand the piece of evidence that that analysis ignores.
And it's one that I didn't even notice when I first saw it.
And we're going to get into when Bronca notes it.
Yeah, his feet are, you know, he's off to the side by the time the second and third shot are fired.
Bronca's analysis of this one particular fact that I don't know that everybody's paying attention to or even notice it.
I know that a bunch of people have is very, very much, I would say, determinant not of anything other than, you know, now you can talk about the subjective element of the police officer, what he thought, what he feared.
Listen.
That cop in front is directly in front of her vehicle, and you can see the wheels spin in place.
You see that right there?
So she's stepping hard enough on the gas to spin the wheels the moment they get traction.
And I got to pause it just for a second because he goes back and forth.
And so it's not clear.
It's spinning forward when the wheel is turning slightly to the left or straight.
That's what is key in this.
And bear in mind, you're talking about a decision that has to be taken in a split second.
Just the wheel, because he reverses, he backs up his video, looks like it's going backwards.
The wheel is skidding forward.
And look at the direction of the wheels as it starts skidding.
In front of her vehicle, and you can see the wheels spin in place.
You see that right there?
So she's stepping hard enough on the gas to spin the wheels.
The moment they get traction, that vehicle is shooting at the officer.
The officer can see this.
He can see and hear the tire spinning.
So he has an audible and visual indicator that he's the innocent victim of an unlawful threat of force here.
This is when, after the tire spins and the car begins to move forward, look at the whole the front of the car lifting up under acceleration.
The back of the car squats down.
That car is lunging at that officer.
That's when his gun comes out right there.
Goes on the windshield and pop.
That's the first shot.
Pop, pop.
Now, some people are saying the second and third shot may be more or less justifiable.
And I just said I watched Brianca's analysis.
This was in response to, I think, the New York Times guy.
The wheel is mildly, seems mildly determined in terms of what the, you know, and some people are saying, well, the wheel was turning to the right by the time he shot.
Well, once you see the car doing that and you hear the tire spinning and screeching, do you have enough time?
I mean, in a perfect world, yeah.
And in a perfect world, maybe that, you know, someone's going to say, well, the worst thing that happens to the cop is he gets his leg run over.
You don't have to kill somebody.
I can tell you one thing also.
My father, once upon a time, back when he was practicing as a younger lawyer, had a case where a girl was run over by a bus and the bus, the different circumstances, the bus was resting on the girl's leg.
And for whatever the reason, unless I'm misremembering the anecdote, the story, the bus driver wouldn't move.
And so the bus was crushing her bone.
And by the time they finally moved the bus, it passed around all of the crushed and damaged bone and muscle tissue that had been pulverized.
And it caused, I would say, kidney failure.
I remember her saying she went blind in the hospital before she died.
And it was horrible.
So people say, yeah, he should have dealt with a broken leg or the risk of a broken leg before opening fire.
Ideally, morally, legally.
And Bronca goes through the five criteria, imminent risk of harm, the unlawful aggression, the other criteria.
And I think he makes a sensible and compelling case without undermining the level of the tragedy that this is.
And I won't be the ones to say, fuck around, find FAFO.
This is whether or not it's a justified shoot.
And I think people who pay attention and know the law will probably begrudgingly come to that conclusion.
It's a PR disaster one way or the other.
You know that you're going to have the politicians of the world using this for their political fodder.
And we're, you know, not far from that.
I'll come back to it in a second.
You know, a number of people out there were sharing this, which is interesting because I'll read the caption.
The ICE agent involved in yesterday's Minneapolis shooting was previously dragged over 300 feet by this illegal alien child rapist from Guatemala being harbored by Minnesota fraud governor Tim Walz.
So there's a political description to that.
And my initial, my first reaction was, what difference does it make?
My second reaction was, if this makes him, the guy who shot her, now suffering from some, I say, some form of PTSD where he's more trigger happy or trigger prone, maybe it's not the best argument in the world.
But a counter argument that I saw, which I find more compelling than my initial reaction, is it means that this guy knows what happens, what the risks are when somebody uses their car as a weapon, deliberately or accidentally, and he knew the sounds, he knows how it works, and he knows the risks.
And he was protecting himself and his fellow ICE agents.
I haven't actually watched the video.
According to a federal complaint, agents were executing a warrant for 39-year-old Roberto Carlos Muñoz.
They say Muñoz entered the country unlawfully.
And he also pled guilty to fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct back in 2023 for abusing a minor.
Tuesday morning, agents pulled him over.
Court documents say he repeatedly refused to comply before a federal agent took out his spring-loaded window punch with his right hand and broke the driver's side rear window.
These images show the officer's hand in the vehicle.
In this video, you can see the driver take off with the agent hanging from the car, dragging him 300 feet through front yards.
These graphic images show the aftermath.
A bloody agent who needed 33 stitches for his significant cuts.
Oh, gosh.
And now a political.
By the way, that is awfully close.
Hold on, look over here right there.
That is awfully close to the brachial artery.
You'll bleed out in 90 seconds if you sever your brachial artery.
And there's a bunch of videos of people punching through windows, severing their brachial arteries, and the blood splats out and it's so bright red.
It's just horrifying.
Cuts.
And now a political battle with a top Homeland Security official criticizing Governor Tim Walz, posting on X, instead of comparing ICE law enforcement to the Gestapo, Walls should be thanking our brave law enforcement.
The department.
We can pause.
Well, let's just play it over.
The woman of justice says a request for moon yoes to be held.
Okay, we can get rid of that.
So the cop has lived through this, knows how quickly it happens, knows how dangerous it can get instantaneously.
And you got a woman, whether or not she was part of the premium, we'll find out all the details.
I know she's been identified in a lesbian woman with three kids and a poetry winner, and people are making fun of her poetry, and people are, you know, running around.
Oh, she had the rainbow flag in her profile.
F around, find out.
I mean, you don't have to lose your humanity in adjudicating that something was legally necessary or at least legally justifiable and appreciate the PR nightmare that it's going to be because whether you agree with it or not, it will be exploited and weaponized by the political adversaries, understandably so, predictably so, and easily so.
They're going to now say this is the equivalent of Ashley Babbitt.
And I say it's not.
There was no one-ton object of devastation that the person was in control of.
Ashley Babbitt had a backpack, though.
The left could say, well, that backpack could have bombs in it.
Well, it didn't, but he doesn't know that when he pulls the trigger.
When Michael Byrd pulled that trigger, he could have killed anybody behind him.
He could have killed the law enforcement that was behind Ashley Babbitt.
And whether or not breaking windows and trying to crawl, you know, get through a door is dumb behavior.
And maybe you'll get arrested and maybe you'll get persecuted.
You don't expect to get shot once in the chest and killed.
Now, this woman, whether or not she thought she had the political permission slip to interfere with ICE operations because they're the new Gestapo, made a momentary or strategic mistake.
It escalated faster than anybody could imagine.
And a 37-year-old mother of three, you know, you're not going to have people buying that this was an act of domestic terrorism.
And you know that you're going to have the same political scumbags who gave her the permission slip to get there in the first place invoking it now and riding her death for their own political purposes.
What was it?
I always, you know, I always quote Tom McDonald.
They kill you and then they broadcast it and make it the news.
Listen to Michael.
What's it?
No, no, Jacob Frey.
I hope it's Jacob Frey.
If it's Jacob Fry, that would be embarrassing for me.
Jacob Frey, listen to him capitalizing off this woman's death.
There's little I can say again that'll make this situation better, but I do have a message for our there's little I can say, but I got to say something and I got the mic.
I want my sound bite.
There's little I can say.
Get the, oh, he's such a tough man.
Listen to this.
There's little I can say again that'll make this situation better, but I do have a message for our community, for our city, and I have a message for ICE.
He's tough.
To ICE, get the fuck out of Minneapolis.
Oh, here's his moment.
You can't handle the truth.
Jacob Fry, a man who's in love with himself, probably looks, he probably rehearsed that in the mirror.
How am I going to say it?
Do I put the emphasis on fuck or get?
Get the fuck out.
Or do I emphasize all of them?
Get the fuck.
Do I do a little AOC clap?
Get the.
What a jackass.
Get the fuck out of Minneapolis.
We do not want you here.
Your stated reason for being in this city is to create some kind of safety, and you are doing exactly the opposite.
We don't want you here.
Hmm.
That's funny.
Where do I remember that phrase historically?
Here's the thing.
When it comes to enforcing federal law, you don't have a choice, Jacob.
And maybe if you didn't talk like such a tough guy, you wouldn't encourage unarmed civilians driving their vehicles on their way to pick up their kids from daycare to not act like vigilantes, not act like righteous protesters interfering with federal ICE operations.
Maybe if you didn't talk like that in the first place, you may not like it.
You may think it's unfair.
Radicalizing people to mobilize to interfere with federal law enforcement after they've been given sanctuary and sanctuary cities.
How about you say get the F out to criminals and to illegals?
No, no, we don't want to do that.
We want to say get the F out to the federal authorities who enforce federal law that would, whether you like it or not, get illegal aliens and criminals off the streets.
But no, it's not his wife.
It's not his daughter.
Someone else's.
They'll get to use it.
It's good political fodder.
It's good for ratings, right, Jacob?
It's good for political, it's good for politics.
You don't need to throw a brick through your window right now.
You just can now go and martyrize a woman who's dead because from what I understand, she was organizing a convoy or facilitating a convoy or interfering with ICE operations and she felt morally, righteously justified in doing so.
Get the so that's it.
It's unfortunate.
It's gross.
It's ugly.
People should not be rejoicing in it.
People should not be doing anything other than understanding it's going to be a PR disaster.
It's going to mobilize other people to do similar things, if not worse.
In as much as it could have been avoided, ought to have been avoided to the extent it happened the way it did.
The law is the law, and the reality is the reality of what went down.
But people jumping to their own respective conclusions politically motivated are not going to bother to get the facts that might cause them to second guess or question their initial reaction.
And they're sure as hell going to weaponize the disinformation.
Which incidentally, the description of this event coming from both sides, you could have drafted it, knowing how both sides wanted to depict it.
And suffice to say that the reality of what occurred is not somewhere in the middle, but definitely not as extreme as it might have been initially described, maybe because people only had one angle of it.
But the bottom line remains.
Yeah, the cop standing in front of that car who had seen this happen before and very nearly could have died the time before.
You hear a tire screeching, you see that tire screeching, and that is in your direction, and you're in front of the car with another cop with his hands through the window.
It's probably going to go down as legally justified.
And it's a tragedy regardless.
And you can acknowledge that it was legally justified without trying to berate the deceased.
And while fully acknowledging it, you know, it will have political ramifications regardless of whether or not they are legally justified political ramifications.
Now, what was I talking about over here?
I wanted to go over here.
Oh, yeah, we got to get to the Brian Cole.
I'm not going to forget that.
Tip questions.
What do we got?
Viva, concerns about having to deal with forced facial recognition in order to use Rumble Wallet.
What gives?
Oh, I mean, that as far as I know, I don't want to say it's par for the course for any form of online wallet, but I have no saying that.
But I mean, I've also given up caring about that type of thing.
Especially when you realize when we went through the airport, they had my entire family already scanned onto the system.
It's already there, but I appreciate some people's concern about that.
I don't control or make any decisions or have any influence.
Dan Stunnon says, Will Renee Nicole Good be elevated to sainthood similar to St. George?
There's going to be a civil cell.
I mean, I wonder if the city or the state's going to pay it.
Her wife has already had over $600,000 donated via GoFundMe.
Sammy says, This is let it happen on purpose, in my opinion.
Tell people these are Nazis.
NGOs organize to promote protests.
Politicians keep the temperature up.
DAs don't press charges.
Yeah, set out the Tinder and encourage a spark.
These people want the downfall of the current US system.
I definitely do not disagree with that.
It's sort of that it's that it's that segment from V for Vendetta where the dominoes fall and then the kid gets shot by the guy and then the crowd beats the guy and then everything's burning down.
But it just would have been better if it didn't happen.
But then that's the fun about hindsight.
And then meanwhile, people get run over by cars and killed by cars all the time.
Angry people use cars as weapons all the time.
And you sure as hell don't get to say, well, I've compared now the screenshots, the simultaneous side-by-side from different angles, and I've slowed them down to one frame per second.
And I say that that police officer could have sidestepped, or at the very least, he would have had his leg.
No, that's not how it works.
Okay, and let me see here.
Oh, okay.
Hold on, get the F out practice, LOL.
Get the F out practice.
Okay, yeah.
Broken leg justifies seriously bodily injury is justify use of force says jar bought.
Oh, yeah, we've been fighting on Twitter, haven't we?
Excuse me.
Politicians, social media, and influencers are arguably bare proximate cause in radicalizing these emotionally unwell individuals.
Well, you see, people feel righteously justified in becoming unhinged.
And the more they're told that it's a life or death, the rights of women and the rights of children, yeah, yeah, the more they are going to go and do crazier and crazier things to be the righteous ones.
And everybody's out there.
They just don't want to be the martyr, but they want to martyr for their own political cause.
Chet Shinzo says, the term you're looking forward to what the girl got is rhabdomyolysis.
Yes.
That's what the marathon, the Iron Men get, muscle breakdown.
And those people who go run out and do a Spartan Ultra Beast or the Beast or the Super, whatever.
You can get muscle breakdown that can cause kidney failure.
That's what it was.
I heard.
It was terrible.
And hold on one second.
See this.
But Baker and Armitage have done a gate analysis.
And how do we know the ICE officer isn't the soccer chick?
Well, it's funny.
You do realize that even the mainstream media jarbot invoked the gate analysis to justify Brian Cole Jr. as being as being the guy.
Like, it's so amazing when people, what's good for the goose is good for the gander, except when they don't want it to be.
And by the way, Jarbot, nobody believes Brian Cole is the guy in the video.
Like, no, no, but the people, oh, yeah, no, but no, but they, uh, he bought the potato, he bought the sulfur powder jar bot in 2018.
Then he waited a year, you see, and then he bought the pipes and the end caps.
He waited another year, you see, and then he bought the potassium nitrate.
If that makes sense to you, that's fine.
But then we have different.
I seriously largely respect the work you are doing, especially in contrast to others.
By the way, when I say fight, I don't take it personally.
I don't take any of the fighting personally.
It's just some of it is dumber than others.
The Brendan Dilley stuff is just, I mean, it's like the kid who was a bully in high school who thinks he's found his moment to shine in adulthood.
But no, Jarbaud, and I'm not stubborn.
Like I said, I could be convinced that Brian Cole is the individual.
I'm just not at all for the time being.
Now, the question is this.
The question is this.
That's probably a good segue into who's live now?
Who's going to, who's going live after me?
Go check here.
We'll wait for what day is it today?
It's Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.
We'll wait for Thursday.
It's either going to be redacted.
Whatever.
We're going to do one more segment.
The pipe bomber, people.
Like I say, hold on, let me let me back this up.
I will always announce my not predetermined, but leanings so that it might influence what I might think or so that you can properly factor it into account in my analysis.
I do not believe Brian Cole Jr. is the individual in the videos walking around planting the pipe bombs.
Period.
I believe the family.
I believe the 7-Eleven guy who knew him for 13 years.
I believe the neighbors.
I also say it just doesn't make a lick of sense from what we've seen.
So I don't believe that the guy in the video is the and if I, and if there's a, if there's a good image, and my goodness, one would think that there would have been, if there's a good image of the hoodie guy and you can see that it's Brian Cole Jr., I wouldn't then go to the next level and say that's AI, I don't trust it.
I might.
I'm joking.
I don't believe that Brian Cole Jr. is the individual.
I believe that his continued detention, even if he is the individual, is legally unjustified and legally untenable.
I am mildly taken aback by the right or those on the right who were vehemently opposed to the abusive pretrial detention of even the violent Jan Sixers and certainly the non-violent Jan Sixers, vehemently opposed to abusive pretrial detention of the Jan Sixers who all got pardoned, now saying, Yeah, plant the bomb, get the fuck out PBFA, plant bomb, find out.
Justifying the pre-trial detention of this kid who's been out free, even if he is the guy in the video for the last five years and has done two bagels, Bubkiss, goose eggs.
And now you say we can't possibly ensure that he can be safely released.
He's so disgruntled with the state of the world.
He'd been outside for five years, allegedly, if he's the dude, done nothing because he's quite autistic and does nothing except walk his chihuahua with his headphones on and go to the 7-Eleven at Daily to get two slices of pizza and a Coke.
Or is it a Coke and two slices of pizza?
So I don't believe that he should be detained right now, even if he's the individual.
Put a freaking ankle monitor on him, cut off his finances, cut off his access to the internet, and let the guy go pending the trial on what I believe to be relatively thin evidence in the first place.
Well, it seems that through either incompetence, through hurriedness, because you know, they came up with this indictment within a month of Steve Baker's expose.
It seems that they might have thrown it together with the haste of the James Comey indictments and that they didn't actually get an indictment against this kid.
And I'll call him a kid.
Yes, he's an adult.
They didn't get an indictment against Brian Cole until the other day.
And so they had him on an affidavit for probable cause.
And they did not get an indictment until only, I believe it was yesterday or the day before, which would be past the five-year statute of limitations on one of the charges.
But they have been holding him in the absence of an indictment beyond the delay that is lawfully the maximum delay for detaining someone in custody, pretrial detention, before a preliminary hearing.
And now the defense has made a motion to get him out because they have no basis to keep him detained because they have not had the preliminary hearing within the requisite delay subsequent to, I don't want to bastardize it.
Let me read it right here.
Response to the court order to show cause.
Defendant Brian Cole Jr. respectfully submits this memorandum in support of the January 6, 2026 order requiring defendant to show cause why his emergency motion for review of magistrate's order should not be denied as moved.
Okay.
Mr. Cole's motion is not moved because the court can still grant effective relief.
His immediate release from custody under 18 USC Section 3060D.
The legal basis is straightforward.
Federal law required the government to either hold a preliminary hearing or obtain a valid federal indictment by December 30, 2025, the deadline Mr. Cole consented to extend it to.
The government did neither.
When that deadline passed without compliance, the statute's mandatory remedy attached Mr. Cole shall be discharged from custody or from the requirement of bail or any other condition of release.
This is the important part.
The government's subsequent January 6, 2026 indictment came too late to prevent this violation.
Section 36E's safe harbor applies only when an indictment is returned prior to the date fixed for the preliminary examination, which they didn't do.
Recall, they went to get that lower court district court indictment and not a grand jury, federal grand jury indictment.
And I guess they tried to fix up that half-assed mistake by doing what they did.
And now they say it's too late.
Fine, you got your federal grand jury indictment.
It's just not within the delay for the preliminary hearing subsequent to the arrest and tough noogies.
You don't drop the case.
You don't drop the charges.
You just have to release the man out of custody.
And maybe you should have agreed to some of the terms and conditions they were prepared to agree to prior to.
Where was I?
Section 360 Safe Harbor applies only when an indictment is returned prior to the date.
It does not retroactively erase a breach that already occurred under subsection D. Congress chose to release, Congress chose release as the consequence for missing the deadline using mandatory language.
To be sure, this does not dismiss the charges, but it requires discharge from custody.
Custom relief is thus concrete perspective, ordering Mr. Cole's immediate release while allowing the January 6th indictment to proceed gives full effect to the statute's text.
Yada, Do we need to go into this?
The background?
Well, let's read this actually.
It's kind of interesting.
Mr. Cole was arrested on December 4th, 2025 on a complaint, and he made his initial appearance on December 5th.
Because he was in custody, a preliminary hearing had to be held within a reasonable time, but no later than 14 days after the initial appearance.
Federal rules of criminal court.
And the court was required at the initial appearance to fix the date of the hearing.
Okay.
None of that happened on December 4th.
Instead, the court initially set a detention hearing for December 15, but the hearing was reset to December 30.
That was by consent.
Mr. Cole consented to extend the detention hearing deadline to December 30, but he did not waive his right to a preliminary hearing or consent to any extension beyond that date.
No federal indictment was returned, and no preliminary hearing was held on or before December 30.
When was the date?
I forget the date that they got that district court grand jury indictment.
We'll see.
Maybe they get there.
In the leading days up to December 30th, defense counsel asked the government to confirm whether it would secure a federal indictment before that date or proceed with a preliminary hearing at the time.
Instead, the government sought to push the preliminary hearing to January 7th or 8th.
I remember that because I was up in Canada saying, holy crap, apples.
They want to push the preliminary hearing date to the day after the statute of limitations for many crimes that occurred on January 6th, five years for many of them.
Not all of them, not for RICO, not for continued conspiracy, but for many of them in the absence of RICO or continued conspiracy.
Defense refused.
Perhaps recognizing the problem it faced, the government chose a different road.
On December 29th, it presented an indictment returned that day by a DC Superior Court grand jury.
The magistrate deferred acceptance and requested briefing.
That's amazing.
On January 2nd, the magistrate issued a brief minute conditionally accepting the Superior Court indictment on the understanding the government would promptly obtain a superseding federal indictment and set the January 9th status conference.
After the defense emergency motion, the government's opposition and the defense's reply, the government announced that it obtained a federal grand jury on January 6th.
Argument.
Anyways, then you get into the legal argument, which is the deadline's there.
It says shall.
It's statutory.
It's mandatory.
You don't have room to wiggle around.
They screwed up.
It's not going to drop the charges anyhow.
But you can't just continue to hold this kid indefinitely without having a preliminary hearing as required by statute, mandatory, shall, not may.
And that's it.
Scroll down here.
We're not going to read all of this.
When Cole should have been released on December 30, the government remained free to prosecute under a future indictment, like the one it attained on January 6th, because Mr. Cole's release would have been without prejudice to the institution of further criminal proceedings.
But even in that circumstance, it may not immediately redetain Mr. Cole absent the showing Congress requires to revisit a release decision.
Had the court applied the section of law, as was required to do under the circumstances, Mr. Cole shall have been discharged.
The release determination is not a transitory waypoint.
It should have been the government, it should have been the governing rule for Mr. Cole's release status going forward.
To be sure, Mr. Cole, had Mr. Cole been released on December 30th, which he should have, the government could have seek to redetain him.
But at that point, the Bail Reform Act would have supplied its only path for doing so.
The government, after obtaining the January 6th federal indictment, would need to satisfy another rule here showing, quote, information not known to the government at the time prior to the hearing.
And the material hearing, flight or danger.
Flight or danger.
Take his passport, get an ankle monitor on him.
And I won't say he hasn't been a danger because he hasn't done anything since.
See, the indication is that he was never a danger above and beyond the allegations he made these pipe bombs, which may or may not have been active, hasn't done anything in the last five years.
I know they've alleged he continued to buy bomb-making materials.
Can you imagine he bought the sulfur powder, which was a miticide, three years before the bomb, the plant, the alleged planting of the pipe bombs, a year before buying the pipes?
I mean, it's crazy.
He's the slowest pipe bomber on earth, builder on earth.
A belated indictment on January 6th is not such information, and had, and it was a, it's a two-charge indictment.
It's a two-page document.
It doesn't remedy the mess up.
In fact, it might even highlight why the hell didn't they just get a federal indictment in the first place?
It's a shop around for a grand jury that's going to issue the indictment.
Belated indictment on January 6th is not such information.
And had things gone that way, would have satisfied the Bill Reform Act.
The January 6th indictment was merely a different vehicle for probable cause.
This is probable cause for detention.
One the government could have obtained before December 30 or established at a preliminary hearing that day, allowing the government to miss the deadline, procure an indictment later, then treat that indictment as change in circumstances would nullify the very section sanction Congress selected.
Good argument.
Law of the case thus dovetails with section another one here.
Once the court enforces section 30d and orders released, the government cannot redetain absent genuinely new material facts.
All of these issues remain live.
Court should resolve them.
And from what I understand, I believe that they're doing it tomorrow.
Hold on.
And I believe it was Armistas that had put it up.
Hold up.
Wait a minute.
Something right.
Oh, come on.
Where is it?
I know that I had it.
Armistas, right here.
Okay.
So I'm not sure about this.
Armitas has proven to be mildly reliable.
Looks like it's not happening, at least not yet.
Prosecution has until tomorrow.
The motion by the defense seemed directly and unambiguously prescriptive, despite that another day in jail for coal.
So minute from the PACER.
The court in receipt of defendants' 41 motion, yada, yada, yada, to show cause.
Yada, yada, yada.
Should not be denied as moot.
The government shall file any response by defense arguments by January 9th.
So they got until tomorrow to respond.
And that's where it's at.
Guilty or not?
I should say, let me rephrase this.
Patsy or not.
He should have been released regardless.
And for all those who sat there clamoring about the January 6th injustice and the abuse of years of pre-trial detention of the Jan 6ers, what the hell are you thinking?
That's it.
All right.
Now, who is Rumble?
Who is the next Humble Hay?
By the way, before you go, okay, it's redacted and they say war is coming.
Sorry, not to be cynical.
Before you go there, let me make sure.
I'm not your buddy guy.
Hold on a second.
Where are we down?
Let's go down.
Okay.
I wish they didn't.
Geez, how much did I miss here?
I wish they didn't lie about Russia rigging the election in 2016.
I wish they didn't lie about Trump.
I wish the media and the MSM and streamers didn't religiously propagandize people into becoming violent fanatics.
I wish they didn't burn down cities because of the lies.
I wish they didn't try to assassinate Trump multiple times.
I wish they didn't try to kill supporters.
I wish.
Sounds like a Tom McDonald song.
They didn't kill Charlie Kirk.
I wish, I wish.
I wish they didn't attack our Vigils and Memorials.
I wish they didn't attack and destroy Teslas.
I wish the mothers avoided the this mother avoided the lies.
I wish the mothers stayed home instead of attacking ice bases.
But you know what has this has been a series of deliberate evil actions and even more things.
I wish it didn't happen, but here we are, which leads me to ask: can we coexist with people who genuinely desire our demise?
Who would every turn choose lie, manipulate, kill, and harm us?
Where do we go from here?
Now we're going into a Guns N' Roses song.
Where do we go?
I only fear only one side can exist.
There, look.
This too shall pass if I can just get an easy cop out of an answer.
Is Renee Cook to David Hogg of Massachusetts?
Okay, Renee Cook.
Renee Cook.
Okay.
What was I about to say?
What I was about to say was this.
Let me refresh this and remind everybody, if you want to support the channel, here's what you can do.
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Oh, that's what I forgot to mention yesterday.
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You can actually, if you want to, when you redeem whatever gold you have with USDT, you can actually go to the gold place where they hold the gold in Switzerland.
I'm not joking.
I forgot.
I talked with Chris and I was supposed to mention this element of it.
And when we were in Logano with Paolo Arduino from Tether, and I was with Chris, he's like, visualize.
If you buy gold, you want to redeem your gold, you can take a trip to Switzerland, go to where they keep the gold, and literally redeem your XAUT for physical gold from a, whatever the place is that's called the repository where they keep the gold.
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And we're going to go raid redacted right now.
Wars.
War is coming, people.
And I appreciate not everybody's going to like it.
We reach a lot of people, so not everybody's going to like the chosen raid.
I like redacted, I like their mic, and I like their bass.
And so let's go raid them.
And I will see you all tomorrow.
Tomorrow's Friday.
What day is it today?
Thursday?
Friday.
So go raid.
Let them know from whence you came.
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Ooh.
What I'm going to do is actually, while we go over to VivaBarnesLaw.locals.com, I'm going to go get an energy drink because I haven't had one today.
And I didn't exercise yet today.
What did I do this morning?
That I was going to do something today.
What did I do this morning that led me to not?
Oh, I went to get running shoes.
I need everybody to remind me that I got new running shoes on January 8th, 2026.
Six months.
I'm going to put like a remind me on Twitter because I've been putting on far too many kilometers or miles on my shoes before getting new ones.
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Thank you all for being here.
Godspeed, everybody.
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I'm trying to figure out how to do this for updating the stream so that it stays on Rumble Premium.
I just have to screenshot this because this is what I'm getting.
So, okay.
I can't do it for Rumble Premium yet, but we'll figure that out.
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