Ep. 1723 - The Defining Moment of Trump's Presidency Has ARRIVED. The Path Forward is Obvious
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Summary
Minneapolis continues to spiral out of control after yet another totally justified shooting by ICE agents, and I ll explain why it was justified, and what Trump must do now to save his presidency and the country. Also, Jimmy Kimmel weeps on camera yet again, and a guy climbs a 100-story building without a rope or harness.
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From Amazon MGM Studios comes Melania. Every protocol, every precaution, every move coordinated.
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This new film takes you inside the 20 days leading up to the 2025 presidential inauguration
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through the eyes of the first lady herself. The briefings, the planning, the private conversations
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witness what it takes to secure her return to one of the world's most powerful roles. Melania
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only in theaters January 30th. They told you America invented slavery.
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They told you the Indians were peaceful. They told you colonialism was evil and that Joseph
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McCarthy was a bad guy. And guess what? They lied. For a half a century, generations of American
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schoolchildren have been taught to hate our history, hate our country, and hate themselves.
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It's time to set the record straight. And since no one else is going to do it, I will.
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Who sold us the slaves? What were India and Africa like before Europeans arrived?
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What caused white flight? Some of the most well-known stories from American history
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are designed to demoralize you. Trail of tears, smallpox blanket smith, the red scare.
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It's all baseless. It's time for a lesson on what they're not teaching in public schools.
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On the real history of slavery, of colonialism, of the Indians, of America, and the world.
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Today, the Matt Walsh Show, Minneapolis continues to spiral out of control after yet another
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totally justified shooting by ICE agents. I'll explain why it was justified and what Trump
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must do now to save his presidency and the country. Also, Jimmy Kimmel weeps on camera yet again.
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And a guy climbs a 100-story building without a rope or harness live on Netflix.
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Was this spectacle unethical and morally problematic? Some say that it was.
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I disagree. We'll talk about all that at more today than the Matt Walsh Show.
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There is no doubt that the single most consequential week of Donald Trump's second term
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to this point is now underway. The president must decide in the face of a highly coordinated
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and well-funded domestic terror campaign by the enemies of civilization to choose one of two
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options. He can fulfill his constitutional obligation as the leader of the executive branch
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to enforce the law by continuing to deport illegal aliens and by dismantling left-wing organizations
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that are laundering taxpayer money to fund a violent insurrection. Or,
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in the alternative, the president can surrender. He can concede that in America, the government
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does not have a monopoly on the use of force. He can revert the United States to a kind of state
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of nature. He can suspend immigration enforcement in Minneapolis. He can give the fraudulent NGOs and
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the fake legal observers a free pass after weeks of harassing and assaulting federal agents,
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in addition to private citizens who happen to look like federal agents. And in turn, if he chooses that
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path, the president will guarantee more violence and lawlessness than this country has ever seen in
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recent history. And it will be, for all intents and purposes, the end of his presidency, not to mention
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the country. Now, in a moment, we'll talk in some detail about the shooting of Alex Priddy and how he ended
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up dying in front of yet another cultural leering center for foreigners in Minneapolis, which appears to have
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at least one fraudulent business on like every block. But first, I want you to look at this photo right
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here. It was taken in May of 1970. This is just days after National Guardsmen opened fire on
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demonstrators at Kent State University during a Vietnam War protest, killing several students. The
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guardsmen said that their lives were in danger. And of course, the mob, which has been had been
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pelting the guardsmen with rocks, disagreed. The photo shows a line of transit buses parked bumper
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to bumper around the White House, totally encircling the building. Nixon's advisors and the Secret
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Service decided that because of the Kent State shooting and the resulting outrage, there was a real
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chance that the White House would soon be overrun by left-wing agitators. So they placed buses all
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around the White House to block the rioters and station the 82nd Airborne next door to the White House
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in case the mob breached the perimeter. And meanwhile, all over the country, there was a
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massive student strike, the largest in U.S. history, to protest the shooting. Now, at the time, polls
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showed that most Americans supported the National Guard and didn't agree with the left's narrative about
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Kent State. But the mob still loomed very large in Washington. They made the president feel unsafe in
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the single most secure building in the entire world. But Nixon didn't back down. He didn't apologize.
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In fact, according to the White House tapes, Nixon said, quote, you know what stops them?
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Kill a few. Didn't it have one hell of an effect? The Kent State thing? Well, here's what happened next.
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Nixon won re-election in a landslide. He took 49 states. He won a larger share of the popular vote
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than any Republican in history. Now, fast forward to the summer of 2020. Instead of encircling the White
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House with transit buses, the Secret Service rushed Donald Trump to an underground bunker
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as mobs of BLM rioters torched the area and assaulted police officers. Now, the Trump administration
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went easy on these rioters. That's an objective fact. Nobody was arrested for torching the church
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directly across from the White House. Let me say that again. Nobody was arrested for lighting St.
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John's church on fire. Nobody. There was no January 6th-style dragnet. There was no dragnet at all.
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Meanwhile, the DOJ dropped most of the charges against Antifa radicals who were attacking
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federal courthouses every single night, as you remember. Something like 90% of the terrorists
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who besieged the courthouse in Portland had their cases dropped. The result? Well, Joe Biden became
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president. He began a four-year campaign to eliminate the civil liberties of conservatives
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at scale, starting with people who refused the experimental COVID shot, along with peaceful
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political demonstrators and pro-life activists. He also oversaw an unprecedented effort to imprison,
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if not assassinate, his leading political opponent. Now, there was very good reason to believe,
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after all this recent history, that the second Trump administration would adopt Nixon's approach
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in face of left-wing agitators and criminals. Don't give them what they want. Don't cower in the face of
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their violence and threats. Continue to enforce the law without apology. Because without laws,
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we don't have a country. And if some leftists get themselves killed on purpose, we shouldn't change a
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single thing. That's the approach voters want to see. And more importantly, it's the approach that will
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prevent the U.S. from descending into anarchy, which is what is at stake right now. Now, as of today,
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though, there are many signs that the new Trump administration is potentially planning to repeat
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the first Trump administration's performance during the BLM riots. Greg Bovino, the Border Patrol chief,
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who's a regular fixture on the front lines of deportation raids, even though he knows leftists want
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to kill him, is reportedly being ordered to leave Minneapolis. Effectively, he's being fired,
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according to various reports, including a story in The Atlantic and reporting from the independent
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journalist Nick Sorter. Now, the DOJ immediately disputed those reports. And late last night, Sorter
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offered an update. He stated that Donald Trump didn't give this order to remove Bovino. He wrote,
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I can confirm President Trump was not aware of the prior decision to remove Greg Bovino from his role
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as commander op at large of the U.S. Border Patrol, nor was Secretary Noem. Trump and Noem fully back
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Mr. Bovino. And someone down the food chain, as we'll say, will have a rough week. Now, whether that's
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true or not, could be true. It could be a cover story after the administration saw the backlash on
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social media, doesn't really matter. This is a major blunder from a PR standpoint and a strategic
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standpoint, and the administration cannot allow anything like that to happen again. And Bovino
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needs to remain in full command in Minneapolis. As if to emphasize the point, the reports that Bovino
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was being fired were immediately celebrated by Open Borders Marxists and their leaders in the
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Democrat Party. Gavin Newsom, for example, posted this message, quote, Gestapo Gregg is out. Keep the
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pressure up. It's working. Now, it goes without saying that if any decision by this administration
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produces that kind of response from Gavin Newsom, then it was the wrong decision, period. There doesn't
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really need to be any more discussion. Any policy decision that emboldens an anti-American fraudster
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and degenerate like Gavin Newsom and that encourages domestic terrorists in the Democrat Party should
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be reversed immediately. Just in case there's any doubt on that point, let's talk about why Greg Bovino
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was reportedly demoted. Let's discuss the incident that has led many self-described conservatives even
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to decide that actually the rule of law should be suspended in Minneapolis. Well, on Saturday morning,
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according to reporting from the investigative journalist Azra Nomani, a member of the Rapid
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Response Anti-Ice Signal Chats in Minneapolis, the same chats that we infiltrated a week ago and we
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talked about that are connected to NGOs that receive taxpayer money. Well, these chats called for agitators
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to rush to Glam Doll Donuts on Nicollet Avenue. The individual posted a video of federal agents attempting to
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enter the donut shop. And then at 8.53 a.m. local time, another member of the Signal group wrote,
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quote, backup needed at the Black Forest Inn parking lot on Nicollet Avenue, just south of 26th Street.
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Multiple vehicles with many agents appear to be staging there. The alert continued, one confirmed
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ICE vehicle seen was a maroon Dodge Durango with the plate number, but it has driven away northbound on
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Nicollet. Now, within 15 minutes, 37-year-old Alex Priddy arrived on the scene and here's what
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What the f***? What the f*** is wrong with you?
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He starts directing traffic through the road without any kind of authorization whatsoever.
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He has no authority to do anything that he's doing.
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And along with a woman, he stands in the middle of the street unlawfully
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as Border Patrol agents try to clear the roadway.
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Then a Border Patrol agent pushes the woman away.
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At that point, Alex Purdy commits several serious felonies.
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He runs directly into the path of the Border Patrol agent
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and physically tries to separate the agent from the woman.
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Here's the freeze frame showing the precise moment that Purdy does exactly what leftists train their agitators to do.
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They call it de-arresting somebody, which is not legal.
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Well, there's no plausible argument at this point that Purdy is a mere legal observer or a peaceful protester.
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He is a criminal who appears to believe that he has lawful authority to override what the police are doing, but he doesn't.
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In addition to obstruction, this behavior constitutes assault on a federal agent.
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And Purdy is committing these felonies while carrying a firearm, which makes the crime even more dangerous.
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And we're talking about more than a decade in prison easily.
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After Purdy makes this decision, an officer pepper sprays him and several other officers try to take him down.
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Now he clearly resists arrest and appears to assault the woman,
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probably because he's under the influence of the tear gas, can't see exactly what he's doing.
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Whatever the case, Purdy is now committing even more federal crimes.
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And the fact that he's armed the whole time does make a difference.
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But if you take a weapon and then go out and commit crimes while carrying it,
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You don't have the right to carry a weapon and commit crimes.
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Now, as officers attempt to arrest Purdy, one agent appears to take a firearm from Purdy's holster in order to secure it.
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One shot rings out, possibly from an accidental discharge of Purdy's gun, although we don't know.
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And then there are many more shots, all of them coming from Border Patrol.
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Purdy is killed, and an officer wonders aloud where the gun is before realizing that Purdy had already been disarmed.
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Without knowing all the facts about which gun was fired, and investigations obviously underway,
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The first conclusion is that Alex Purdy was part of an organized campaign
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to legally obstruct law enforcement operations on behalf of open borders communists
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He was a domestic terrorist dressed in the same color scheme as Border Patrol agents
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He blocked federal agents from carrying out the will of the voters
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and from performing the job they are obligated to do and have the authority to do.
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The second conclusion we can draw is that the officers were legally justified in shooting Alex Purdy.
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And that's because they clearly believed that he was either shooting at them
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And that belief was objectively reasonable, whether or not Purdy was indeed armed at the moment
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If it's true that his gun was accidentally discharged after an agent disarmed him,
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making the other officers believe that they were under fire,
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then those officers were entitled to use lethal force against him.
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Under the law, the relevant question is not whether Purdy was actually a lethal threat to the officers.
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The relevant question is whether the officers believed he was a lethal threat to them
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and whether that belief was objectively reasonable given the information the officers had at that moment.
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They had a split second to respond to a gunshot that they believed came from Purdy,
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And they weren't aware that he had been fully disarmed at that point.
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Now, you might say, well, it's the agent's job to communicate the fact that he had been disarmed.
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But the problem is that we're talking about a chaotic situation that unfolded in a matter of seconds
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that Alex Purdy instigated with people screaming and blowing whistles and everything else
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in a mayhem that's been deliberately orchestrated by leftists to cause maximum confusion for law enforcement.
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They're out in the street trying to confuse everything and obstruct and sabotage
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and make everything more difficult and chaotic.
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And so if in the chaos one of these people gets killed, guess whose fault it is?
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You go out onto the street with the express purpose of interfering with law enforcement
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If in the confusion and chaos you get killed, that's your fault.
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You created all of the conditions for this thing to happen.
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And for anyone who says, well, it's too far to say he deserved it.
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You go out into the street, you're interfering with law enforcement.
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That's just a direct result of your own actions.
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We all deserve the direct result of our own actions.
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You jump off a building, you deserve to fall and hit the pavement.
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But it doesn't make any sense to see a guy willingly jump from the top of a building
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and then as soon as he hits the pavement to say, well, he didn't deserve to hit the pavement.
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Did he deserve for the law of gravity to be suspended to save him?
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No, we all deserve the direct consequences of our actions, negative or positive.
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And also, by the way, even the agent who took Pretty's gun didn't know that he had been fully disarmed.
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And this is the reason why we have laws against obstructing federal officers
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and laws against carrying guns while you're committing felonies
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The more felonies you commit, the more you raise the risk of losing your life or killing someone else.
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and start acting like they can do whatever they want,
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the more likely it becomes that people will die in preventable, inadvertent ways.
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And it's the people who are attempting to undermine the rule of law,
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It is not the fault of the people trying to reestablish and enforce the law.
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With that in mind, here's a video that should have received far more attention than it has.
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It depicts an independent journalist named Haley West
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being chased around the streets of Minneapolis by a mob of leftists pretending to be police officers
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Yeah, they've been following us for over an hour.
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Because they've been following us for over an hour.
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We didn't even know they were following us until they came up and said,
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And they're saying we're popping up in an ICE database.
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Now, this video is infinitely more important than any of the footage of the communist nurse
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committing 10 different felonies before being shot to death.
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And that's because, unlike the communist nurse, the nurse, the woman didn't do anything wrong.
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I mean, drive around any dysfunctional African country, and there's a good chance you'll get stopped
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They'll act like law enforcement without any legal authority whatsoever.
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This is a defining characteristic of the third world.
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The state does not have a monopoly on violence.
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When an American city falls like this, the executive branch must take immediate action
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But as far as I can tell, nobody in the administration is even talking about this footage, or the footage
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from the hotel in Minneapolis on Sunday night, where a loaned federal agent tried to hold off
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Somehow, none of this registers so far with the White House.
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Instead, the administration appears to be paying attention to podcasters and the Wall Street Journal
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And speaking of which, let's start with the podcaster, Dave Smith, who calls himself a
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comedian, not because he tells jokes, but because comedians have plausible deniability
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when they say incredibly stupid things, which he does all the time.
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You call yourself a comedian, then you can say whatever you want and just say, I was joking,
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So with that in mind, here's Dave Smith's latest insight.
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I believe that we have the right to remove any and all people who entered our country
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A bunch of people who are drunk on power going around intentionally escalating violent
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And after this gigantic show of force, they won't deport a fraction of the illegals who entered
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So he's in favor of restricting immigration and deporting illegal aliens, he says.
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But he's not in favor of the people who are actually doing that.
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Like you need people to actually go do that, Dave.
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Because you know something, Dave, the people that are here illegally, you know, the people
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you don't like because they're an immigration restrictionist, they don't want to leave.
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And so you have to physically take them and drag them while they kick and scream and cry.
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That's the only, you want to restrict immigration?
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And they don't do that because they're drunk on power or creating dangerous situations.
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This is a total inversion of reality, as documented by literally every video coming from Minneapolis.
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Left-wing communist agitators are in the street deliberately coordinating with the express,
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explicit intent of sabotaging law enforcement and creating chaos.
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Do you think they're blocking the road and blowing in whistles and trying to de-arrest people
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Do you block the road illegally and start blowing on your whistle because you want to de-escalate a situation?
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They are deliberately creating dangerous situations and escalating interactions by preventing ICE from doing their jobs.
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As we discussed before, there were no problems with ICE raids during the Obama administration.
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And as you may have noticed, all of this ICE-related drama is coming out of Minneapolis lately.
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It's also where the George Floyd hoax originated.
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It's almost as if Minneapolis is a hotbed of anti-American terrorism,
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where they learned long ago that self-described conservatives will fold under the slightest bit of pressure,
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It's almost as if they learned how to manufacture hoaxes in order to achieve their goals,
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So that, to restate Dave Smith's post another way, as I did on X,
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There are a lot of conservatives who are taking this position.
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And basically what they're saying is, you know, this ICE situation is really complex,
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I want our immigration laws to be enforced, but I just want them to do it without using any force,
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And if the people we're trying to deport don't want to be deported,
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or if liberal activists don't want us to deport them,
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then obviously in that case we shouldn't do it.
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Unless people get really mad at me, then never mind.
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Now, when I responded to Dave Smith's post by pointing out very specifically why it was so retarded,
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he came back with this response, which was extremely painfully predictable.
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It's always when they think I'm on the wrong side of a popular right-wing issue.
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Come have a conversation. We'll see who gets embarrassed.
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Who could have guessed that Dave Smith would bring up Israel in his response?
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An issue that has absolutely nothing to do with Israel whatsoever.
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Who could have guessed that he'd find a way to wedge that in?
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You know, 90s kids are familiar with the game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon,
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where you take any actor and connect him to another actor that they starred in a film with,
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and then connect that actor to another one until you get to Kevin Bacon.
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And the point of the game is that it should only take about six connections or six degrees or fewer
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until you get to Kevin Bacon because he's been in a lot of movies.
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Well, guys like Dave play the same game, except it's six degrees of Israel.
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And it's not really six. It's actually one degree of Israel.
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Any issue will be connected, not through six moves, but just by one move directly to Israel.
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I also love how indignant he is that only now do you address me,
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a theme he has returned to several times when responding to me.
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Now you're addressing me while also not actually responding to my points.
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So he's doing the whole, hey, come on, man, debate me, bro. Debate me.
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It's like, dude, just rather than explaining why you're not addressing my points,
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just address them like we're talking right now.
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Just write them out. Just explain. Just explain.
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Just explain how it's the fault of ICE that communist agitators
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are explicitly, deliberately creating all this chaos in the street.
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So they're out there in the street creating all this chaos.
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Even though they're the ones out there who are enforcing these immigration laws,
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doing the most thankless job of all thankless jobs.
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And you are defaming them and insulting them from the comfort of your own home.
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But he's upset that I haven't addressed him until now.
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He really sees himself as this figure of great consequence
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The fact that I haven't addressed him until now is an insult.
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But, you know, his entire public career consists of talking about Israel.
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which makes his commentary to me almost always irrelevant
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for once you're actually talking about something in America
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That's what a lot of these so-called based right-wing conservatives are.
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Anything that Islam says is what they say.
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there are a lot of self-described conservatives
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when asked why activists are accusing Border Patrol of wrongdoing.
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people saw they shot him only after disarming him
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until the agent shoved a woman to the ground
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So Goldberg states that Pretty was assisting the woman.
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that Pretty clearly moved in front of the officer
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And he made contact with the officer in the process.
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What do you mean he's directing traffic, Jonah?
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fate of britain never rests in the hands of the great life
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how many lives must be lost before you accept the power
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so clinging to the promises of a god who has abandoned you