The Media Is Lying About ICE ... Here’s the Proof ｜ The Riley Gaines Show
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On this episode of The Riley Gaines Show, Riley talks about the impact of the recent ice storm in the southern United States, and the impact it has had on the lives of airline workers and flight attendants. She also talks about Kanye West's new apology to Jennifer Welch.
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Hello, everybody. Welcome back to the Riley Gaines Show.
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We had the travel week from hell this past weekend.
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Getting back to Nashville from Washington, D.C.
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As I said on Friday's episode, we were in Washington, D.C. for the March for Life.
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Vice President J.D. Vance spoke there, which was timely,
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given the fact that he and his wife, Usha, just announced that they're welcoming their fourth baby,
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His remarks were something that I don't think we've seen,
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certainly from anyone in the White House, before surrounding the issue of life.
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I mean, you think back to President Bush, his administration.
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I mean, they essentially hid under the bed during the March for Life
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and waited for it to be over before they came back out.
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You had President Trump, who issued a statement,
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and Vice President there, who gave remarks that were just so clear
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We haven't seen something like that from the White House before.
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And one of the most remarkable things that I noted was that this was a movement
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heavily driven by young people, not by Washington, D.C. bureaucrats or politicians,
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As I said, though, we had some problems getting back home.
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Of course, the ice storm that has taken over, especially the southern part of the country,
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I thought the whole like exploding trees thing was a myth until now being back home.
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I've seen trees exploding everywhere, all in my yard.
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I have a new appreciation for airline workers and pilots and flight attendants.
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I saw so much anger and frustration directed at you all in the three days that we spent
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But I understand, of course, you wanted us to be safe and you want to get home, too.
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I've got a few thoughts I want to share with you guys about the ongoing news cycle of ice
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I want to talk to you guys about Jennifer Welch.
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If you don't know the name, then honestly, I envy you and Kanye West and his new apology.
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Friday's episode, we talked about ICE, specifically the story of the five-year-old little boy that
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mainstream media, especially left-wing mainstream media, totally ran with.
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Honestly, I don't want to talk about ICE much more for a couple reasons.
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And watching what has happened over the weekend and at the beginning half of this week,
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Like, I feel a heavy weight on my shoulders watching the clips and the videos and the images
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It is pure and unadulterated chaos, it seems, in Minneapolis.
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It feels very Purge-like, the visuals, like the optics of it.
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You've got people showing up to protest with loaded guns.
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Honestly, it feels like, kind of like colonial, like 1776, like facing each other with muskets
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So to sum up how I feel in just a few sentences, I don't enjoy seeing death.
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I wish that Renee Goode and Alex Preddy were still alive.
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Both of those things can be true at the same time.
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And what happened to Alex Preddy and Renee Goode would never happen to me, because I would
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not interfere with a federal operation, certainly not with a loaded firearm at that.
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Of course, I've built my platform on speaking the truth and highlighting reality.
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We know that there are edited images surfacing, going viral online.
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Again, we talked about the five-year-old little boy, a totally manipulated manufactured story
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that ICE was targeting and detaining a five-year-old little boy with his, I mean, adorable little
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They made the story out to be that ICE had targeted this little boy and they were aiming
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I think we saw compassion from the ICE agents who sheltered him, brought him in from the cold,
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Okay, that's not the story you heard from left-wing media outlets or from your favorite
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Again, we have seen images now of Alex Preddy, the man who ultimately lost his life during
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that altercation with the ICE agent, going viral online.
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You can see on this side the original photo of Alex Preddy.
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And look, there's nothing necessarily wrong with the photo, per se.
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I think it makes him look more liberal, if that's a thing.
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And yes, they certainly do have a look to them, generally.
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I think it makes him look more liberal than the photo you see on the right side of the screen
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Okay, they did the exact same thing with Renee Good, if you can recall, after she tragically
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Um, they used this photo of her online in all of the obituary services, memorial services,
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uh, odes that were paid to her, where she had this long, blonde, beautiful, curly hair.
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Uh, but that's not how she looked in the state of which she ultimately was at that protest.
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The images that they were using of Renee Good were several years old, uh, back when she was
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That's when she had children, uh, towards the end of her life, she divorced that man, married
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a woman, shaved her head, looked very butch, looked very lesbian.
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Those weren't the images they selected because they don't make her out to be the crazy liberal
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The fact that they need to do this says everything.
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Uh, why, why did MSNBC show this photo of Alex Petty?
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I mean, the only answer that I can come up with is that because human nature is to tend
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to feel more deeply for people who are attractive.
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Again, the guy on the left here, he looks like a left-wing agitator.
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He looks like someone who would be at that protest.
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But the guy on the right, much more attractive, clean cut.
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These pictures that we've seen, the five-year-old little boy, the story that the left, left-wing
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There's another photo circulating online of, and it's a pretty, like, I almost fell for
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it, to be totally honest with you, of several ICE agents surrounded by Alex Petty.
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You can see a gun pointed basically at the back of his head.
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It appears to maybe be a cell phone on his hand.
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But if you look at the photo on screen at his hand, that's not the right number of fingers.
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You can feel sympathy and have a position on the situation without this.
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Another fact that we now know to be true is that Obama deported millions more illegals than
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President Trump did, with no due process, by the way.
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We've got a photo on screen here of Barack Obama's ICE chief, who had just received an
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Obama's placing it around his neck for the removal of 920,000 illegals from the country.
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Now, Donald Trump's ICE chief is called a Nazi.
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If you're looking on screen at YouTube.com, then you know that it's the same person.
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And in 2025, President Trump deported 290,000 people.
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Nearly double the amount in just one year from Obama to President Trump.
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The difference is mainstream media brainwashing.
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There was no resistance when Obama did this because he had the support of media and local
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and state law enforcement and both political parties.
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President Trump faces obstacles from federal judges and defiant mayors and sheriffs in blue
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cities like Philadelphia and the media and activists, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
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They have made it nearly impossible for him to do the job that he promised to do on the
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I think they forget that President Trump campaigned on mass deportations, meaning that what we're
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Another fact that we now know to be true is that ICE is in all 50 states.
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They've deported more illegals in Texas, a red state, than in Minneapolis, than in the
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But still, you don't see Texas, again, a red state.
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You don't see that burning down or riots or looting or protests.
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Because Texas leadership isn't encouraging their residents to revolt.
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So ask yourself, is the problem really ICE doing their job, or is it the way that leadership,
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especially in blue states and blue cities like Minneapolis, is it the way their leadership
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Now, over on Instagram, I have seen people, really women, a lot of women, posting on their
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And it's kind of like the little black square phenomenon all over again, where clearly women
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They believe they're being morally superior by saying something, by using their platform
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again to comment on situations that I believe are pretty nuanced and situations that we're
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We've seen very few clips, very short clips from maybe several different angles.
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And so my question to these, again, women in particular, who are posting things on their
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story, on their feeds, especially on Instagram, is, have you been morally consistent?
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Did you say anything when Laken Riley or the plethora of other young women just like her
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died unjustly at the hands of an illegal immigrant?
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Or did you say anything when teachers or U.S. military members or health care workers were
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fired for refusing to comply with the autocratic vaccine mandate, right?
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Did you say anything when Charlie Kirk was assassinated?
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Or worse, did you find yourself happy or celebrating it?
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Uh, we have not seen a lot of that moral consistency across the board by people who claim to be acting
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Uh, I said this last episode, and I will say it again.
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Take a second before posting something that you feel as if you must on your social media,
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uh, to fit in or to keep a friendship that otherwise you would lose.
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If you feel as if you must post something, you don't have to post anything.
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You don't have to have an opinion on every single thing.
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Uh, I will say in, in all of the coverage that we have seen surrounding ICE, I approach
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this conversation as, of course, a conservative through and through.
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But I think more importantly, I care about maintaining a biblical worldview.
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Uh, I know that we have a God that is just, uh, I know that he corrects injustice where he
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He's very clear about what qualifies as evil, what he thinks of evil.
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And, and I will say this about the propaganda piece that we have seen, uh, spreading like
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a wildfire on social media, on mainstream media, uh, Christians being gullible is not
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When you fall for weaponized empathy and spread that propaganda while calling it love or compassion
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or empathy or, or whatever other word you want to use, you're not showing true compassion.
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Understand again, those words have been conflated to mean something that they're really not.
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You're functioning at that point as agents of chaos and division and enablers of evil.
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So if you're a Christian and you find yourself struggling with the news, even watching the
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news, or if you don't know how to interpret the actions of ICE or these protests, I encourage
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Um, I will always seek his word over my own opinion or the opinion of others, because I know
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So last thing I will say about these ICE protests, uh, is that I know these guys aren't the good
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If you're watching on screen at youtube.com, uh, this is some of the protests happening at
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a Hilton hotel where I guess the agitators believed, uh, several ICE agents were being housed.
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They were saying in this hotel, you can see here, I mean, they're throwing bricks through windows.
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They're harassing the agents themselves and the poor hotel workers.
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Uh, they've got spray paint, they're writing on the walls.
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That is not the side of history that I want to be on.
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Uh, good news that we have seen is that president Trump has now said that he has had good conversations
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with governor walls, with, uh, Minneapolis mayor, Jacob Fry.
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So that is a positive advancement that leaves me feeling hopeful and optimistic about the strategy
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Although again, when you see some of the footage, it does appear like the city is just simply too far
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I know Sage Steele amplified it where, uh, which I don't, I think they're saying this sarcastically.
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I don't think they actually think this, but they're saying, uh, you know, president Trump
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should just pull out of Minneapolis, remove the federal agents, let the city burn down.
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Again, I don't think they actually think that, but it would be interesting to see what would
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If total chaos could ensue in the way that I believe the protesters honestly want it to.
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These are the worst people in our country because they use their religion in two ways
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They weaponize it whenever they want to and say, we're on the moral high ground.
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Oh, your parents are Mexicans and they brought you over here.
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And then when you call them out on it, oh my God, they're after the Christians.
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White Christians are so oppressed in this country and they want it both ways because
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And so this is just a massive, massive problem.
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And it should come as no surprise to anyone that of this cult that I'm talking about, white
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evangelicals, I think over 80% went and voted triple trumped.
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So she's talking about me and probably many of you.
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It sounds like an Olympic sport, the triple trump.
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Nonetheless, as a white evangelical Christian myself, I have never heard a single person,
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nevermind another white evangelical Christian say, your parents are Mexican.
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I've never heard that come from a Christian's mouth.
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Like, I would love one verifiable source, Jennifer.
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Like, show me one white Christian saying, you're a lesbian.
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And newsflash, if they call themselves a Christian and they're saying that, they're likely not a
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Or at least we're not reading from the same Bible.
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And to that point, like, I'm sure there are plenty of atheists or people who are agnostic,
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She's conflating Christianity with law and order, with, like, morality.
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And she's acting as if Christian persecution is not a thing.
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It is a thing, domestically and globally, right?
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What happened in Minneapolis, for crying out loud, at City's Church, we talked about this
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This was a church that was invaded because it was a church, right?
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They would have called this a hate crime if people rushed in to a mosque where Muslims
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were gathered, or to a synagogue, or a Hindu temple.
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But no, this happened to white evangelical Christians.
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So it's a heroic act of journalism on behalf of Don Lemon, who is protected by the First
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Or what about the Covenant shooting in Nashville?
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This was a woman who identified as a man, so someone who identified as trans, who specifically
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And Jennifer and her entirely irrelevant co-hosts would be in the streets rioting if three nine-year-old
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children were shot and killed solely for being in the country illegally.
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But she's not sad about the kids who lost their lives at the Covenant school because they and
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This is what Nicki Minaj has used her platform to speak up so eloquently about, before the
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Last week, we saw Islamic extremists who abducted 174 Nigerian Christians while they were worshiping
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Reportedly, over 125,000 Christians have died, were murdered, not died.
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That sounds a lot like Christian persecution to me, Jennifer Welch.
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Iran, does she know how dangerous it is to be a Christian in countries like North Korea,
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These are the kind of women, Jennifer Welch and her co-host, I don't know the co-host's
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name, who would have like the co-exist sticker on their bumper plate, but in reality, they
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She just called people like myself, again, probably many of you, cancers to society, the
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And like I said, the co-host, like I have seen so many of Jennifer Welch's incredibly stupid
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Again, most of the time for how retarded these takes are.
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And it's the same split screen format where you have Jennifer Welch on the left side of
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the screen, and you've got the other woman on the right side of the screen, and she's
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wearing these like ridiculous fruit fly looking glasses, and I have never heard her say a
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I think this show, this podcast, is really just Jennifer Welch like talking to herself
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with the other woman, homegirl on the right, just kind of like nodding along, I guess, in
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I wonder if they ever sit back and like realize how insane and destructive and politically
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Maybe that's like the plot, just to be so utterly wrong and have these stupidest takes strictly
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It's kind of like watching a humiliation ritual at this point.
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Last thing I want to talk to you guys about is the most recent, yes, most recent, because
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this has happened before, most recent apology letter from Kanye, or I guess now legally he
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goes by the name of Ye, formerly known as Kanye West.
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He took out a full page ad in the Wall Street Journal titled, To Those I've Hurt to Publicly
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He says, 25 years ago, I was in a car accident that broke my jaw and caused injury to the right
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At the time, the focus was on the visible damage, the fracture, the swelling, and the
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The deeper injury, the one inside my skull, went unnoticed.
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Comprehensive scans were not done, neurological exams were limited, and the possibility of
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That medical oversight caused serious damage to my mental health and led to my bipolar type
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Bipolar disorder comes with its own defense system, denial.
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When you're manic, you don't think you're sick.
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You feel like you're seeing the world more clearly than ever, when in reality, you're
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Once people label you as crazy, you feel as if you cannot contribute anything meaningful
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It's easy for people to joke and laugh it off when, in fact, this is a very serious,
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According to the World Health Organization and Cambridge University, people with bipolar
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disorder have a life expectancy that is shortened by 10 to 15 years on average and a two to three
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times higher all-cause mortality rate than the general population.
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This is on par with severe heart disease, type 1 diabetes, HIV, and cancer, all lethal
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The scariest thing about this disorder is how persuasive it is when it tells you you don't
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It makes you blind but convince you you have insight.
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Things got worse the longer I ignored the problem.
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Some of the people I loved the most, I treated the worst.
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You endured fear, confusion, humiliation, and the exhaustion of trying to love someone who
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Looking back, I became detached from my true self.
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In that fractured state, I gravitated towards the most destructive symbol I could find, the
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One of the difficult aspects of having bipolar type 1 are the disconnected moments, many of
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which I still can't recall, that led to poor judgment and reckless behavior that oftentimes
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I regret and am deeply mortified by my actions in that state and am committed to accountability,
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To the black community, which held me down through all the highs and lows and the darkest
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The black community is unquestionably the foundation of who I am.
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In early 2025, I fell into a four-month-long manic episode of psychotic, paranoid, and
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As the situation became increasingly unsustainable, there were times I didn't want to be here anymore.
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Having bipolar disorder is not a state of constant mental illness.
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When you go into the manic episode, you are ill at that point.
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When you're not in an episode, you are completely normal, and that's when the wreckage from the
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Hitting rock bottom a few months ago, my wife encouraged me to finally get help.
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I have found comfort in Reddit forums, of all places.
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Different people speak of being in manic or depressive episodes of a similar nature.
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I read their stories and realized that I wasn't alone.
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It's not just me who ruins their entire life once a year, despite taking meds every day,
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and being told by the so-called doctors in the world that I am not bipolar, but merely
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My words as a leader in my community have real global impact and influence.
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As I find my new baseline and new center through an effective regime of medication, therapy,
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exercise, and clean living, I have newfound, much-needed clarity.
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I am pouring my energy into positive, meaningful art, music, clothing, design, and other new
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I'm not asking for sympathy or a free pass, though I aspire to earn your forgiveness.
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I write today simply to ask for your patience and understanding as I find my way home.
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Goodness gracious, this is a man who has lived so many lives.
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I can remember Kanye West when he did his whole gospel thing.
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He's wearing the cloak and on stage and singing gospel in a choir.
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Remember at the VMAs when Taylor Swift is up there and he's there to present the word
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and he jumps up and he says, yo, Taylor, you know, I'm happy for you.
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But Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time.
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My first thought when I read this, when I saw this was, can you even get bipolar disorder
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Like I know brain injuries, brains in general, like are very complex.
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Um, I've heard of brain tumors causing erratic and impulsive behavior, but I don't think
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I've ever heard of a traumatic brain injury causing something, something to this effect.
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And for clarity, that is not me saying that I don't think he has bipolar disorder.
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I 110% think he does, but I've never heard of that.
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Honestly, I should ask chat GPT if that's a thing.
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Like we have been able to witness the many, many crash outs that Kanye West has had over
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Bipolar and mania is not an easy thing for anyone, especially a powerful man with the
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platform that he has, as he alluded to in such a demonic entertainment industry.
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It can't be easy to deal with in the limelight.
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And I, I, one thing I found interesting is he talks about finding comfort on Reddit of
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Most people that I know that I interact with don't spend much time on Reddit because it's
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I think oftentimes of left wing indoctrination.
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So people who have obviously undergone either surgeries or hormones, believing that they were
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something that they aren't now detransitioning.
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Uh, there's a commonality where so many of those people say that they were on Reddit and
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they found themselves being affirmed by a group of people who led them to believe all
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Like they were correct to feel as if they're born in the wrong body and really horrible
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So it was interesting him talking about finding comfort on that forum.
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Uh, I think this is actually a pretty good apology.
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I mean, you have to wonder, did this come from him?
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Was, I mean, he talks about medicine and therapy.
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I would imagine if he wrote this, like he was medicated.
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I don't know, but it seems like a very thought out apology.
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Uh, one more thing I noted in reading this apology is he said that it was actually his
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Is this the same wife who runs around literally naked?
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They were at some red carpet event where she's got a coat on and she takes off the coat and
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Now, the timing of this, uh, for context, this apology comes just days before the release
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Um, but I know last November he privately met with the chief rabbi, I believe of Morocco.
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Uh, thus far, he's been the king of running different psyops and apologizing and relapsing.
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But as a Christian, um, I believe the right response is to pray for him because we have
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Uh, we'll be watching Kanye new album coming out January 30th.
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I'm curious what the response of Candace will be.
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Um, but I'm curious if she will have a response on the most recent switch up from him.
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