Ep. 1898 - The Truth About The Man Killed By ICE In Minneapolis
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Another leftist activist was shot by a cop while obstructing federal law enforcement in Minneapolis. Why is this always happening in the same place? And why is it coming from the left? Michael Knowles answers these questions and more on today's show.
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Another week, another leftist activist shot by a cop while obstructing federal law enforcement.
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Everybody is feverishly debating the angles, the timing, if and when he was disarmed,
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if and when he had the right to carry a gun in that moment.
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We will get into the real crux of the matter, as well as, I think, the million-dollar question that people are ignoring.
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I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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You're probably wondering, Michael, why are you in that room instead of in your beautiful studio?
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Well, because the snowpocalypse has hit Nashville, as it's probably hit many of you.
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And I usually think they're being babies about this.
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And I yell at them and I say they should go into the office.
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Are there any trees left standing in Nashville?
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But then, maybe it's because I was sledding with the little boys yesterday.
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I appear to have contracted bubonic plague, which is why my voice sounds even deeper and
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So, I will be doing this show as Barry White because we cannot miss it because there's
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another left-wing riot in Minneapolis, because another activist went out and got himself
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And everybody is misrepresenting it, including some people on the right.
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First of all, I just want to lay my cards on the table.
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I think that anybody who is counter-signaling law enforcement right now is useless.
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The people who say they're principled, reasonable conservatives.
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And they say, well, you know, I mean, look, I want to enforce immigration law, but I don't
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I mean, let's slow down the video to a micromillisecond.
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Maybe those police, maybe they used a little bit too much.
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If that's your reaction to this, you're not going to make it.
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But you are useless to this political movement.
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I am much, much more concerned about the ICE in my neighborhood than I am about any supposed
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We know that the guy who was shot, his name is Alex Pretty, 37 years old.
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We know that he was violently resisting as the cops were attempting to disarm him.
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There's nothing illegal about carrying a gun, especially if he had a concealed carry permit,
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though we'll come to some complicating factors on that in a moment.
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Nevertheless, he was being disarmed and he was resisting.
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Maybe this is someone who didn't get enough training.
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No offense to the ladies out there, but sometimes lady cops are a little more trigger happy.
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The man who shot is an eight-year border patrol veteran.
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So this is a guy who was extremely well-trained, who has a lot of experience.
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Now, Preddy had a permit to carry, but according to his family, he never did carry.
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This was totally out of the blue for him to carry.
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And there's no evidence that he was carrying his identification, which would have been able
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I don't carry myself generally, but I'm all for it in principle.
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Why would a guy who has the permit, who never carries, show up to a very tense situation,
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which has already led to multiple riots, has already led to officer-involved shootings,
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as in the case of Renee Good, which was also entirely justified?
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We know it was a targeted operation, so it wasn't just ICE showing up to round everybody
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up willy-nilly, you know, if you look like you enjoy tacos, you're going to get in the
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They were going after someone who was guilty of domestic assault, disorderly conduct, and
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And this guy, Alex Priddy, decided that it would be a good idea to go obstruct federal
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To me, the most important little bit of context, before we get to the video, which we will,
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We should pray for him for the repose of his soul.
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What the parents said was, they had had a recent conversation with their son, 37 years
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He should be an adult, but he was clearly behaving like an overgrown child.
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And the parents sat him down and said, please don't engage with the federal officers.
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If you want to go out and protest, you can, but please don't engage.
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We had this discussion with him two weeks ago or so, you know, that go ahead and protest,
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Because they knew he would do something stupid.
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Because they knew that he was going to be a danger to other people and to himself.
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They knew that he wasn't just going out there to hold a sign and yell.
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And he said he knows that not to do anything stupid.
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Okay, let's take a look at the video of the shooting.
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You see this guy in the middle of the street, which he has no right to do.
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But you certainly can't obstruct law enforcement as they are trying to get violent criminals.
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And then the most pathetic reaction comes immediately after the shots.
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I think that was the lesbian partner in the Renee Good shooting.
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She said, why do the guns have bullets in them?
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She didn't know that guns have bullets in them.
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She didn't know that the cops aren't there with like, you know, funny little flag guns
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that shoot out the word boom like in the cartoons.
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She thought there were no consequences to obstructing law enforcement.
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You have someone in an altercation with the police, resisting arrest, with a gun, already
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People on both sides are trying to jump to conclusions.
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There's all sorts of information flying around that is contradictory.
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Had the cops disarmed him before the shots ran out?
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Was this perp, this kid, not the kid, he's 37 years old, Alex Pretty, was it his gun that
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went off first, whether in his hand or in a cop's hand?
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There's an account that's been going viral on Twitter, Green Beret Nap Time, who is arguing
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And then you can see action on the ground after the second shot.
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I'm sure there will be plenty of other video evidence there.
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If you listen to the shots, it's boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
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The gun that they apparently retrieved from this guy was a Sig Sauer.
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There were reports they had multiple mags on him.
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Again, not the sort of thing you would need to do if you were just walking around with your
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But even the fact that it was a Sig Sauer, this particular kind of Sig Sauer, according
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The New York Post reported on this a history of accidentally firing.
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Obviously, if the guy shoots first, there's no question, other than in the minds of leftists
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and Democrat politicians, there's no question that it's justified.
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What if his gun in his possession accidentally discharged?
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Or what if the cop did retrieve the gun from him, but it accidentally fired while the cop
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Either way, deadly force was entirely justified here.
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According to federal law, now going back at least 35 years, deadly force is permissible
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if it is reasonable, objectively reasonable, under the circumstances as judged from the
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perspective of a reasonable officer who is on the scene and accounting for all of the
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So obviously, the cops here, who are already seeing the activists run them over with cars,
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In one case, one of the activists bit a cop's finger off in Minneapolis.
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I don't know if you want to see a picture of that.
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I mean, we're talking about savage, revolutionary behavior here.
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It's about, did the cops reasonably perceive in the moment that they were under real threat?
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The severity of the crime, whether the suspect poses an immediate threat to the officers,
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On basically every front, the cops are in the clear.
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It's justified just about any way you slice it, whether or not he even had the gun in
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So I have a message to the libs, getting past all of the details here.
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Because I'm not like celebrating that this guy's dead.
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It's very sad that this guy put himself in this situation.
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The cops were entirely in the right, according to all available evidence.
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The guy who got shot was entirely in the wrong by all available evidence.
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Because no man is an island and Tyron to himself.
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Not getting shot by the cops is like the easiest thing to do in America.
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Not everywhere else in the world, but in America.
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Not getting shot by the cops is easier than tic-tac-toe.
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It is easier than getting a bellyache after McDonald's.
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Okay, it's real easy not to get shot by the cops.
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This guy rolls up to a very provocative situation where you already have activity tantamount to insurrection.
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Called for by the political leaders of Minnesota, which we'll get to momentarily.
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Officer-involved shootings because there's been civilian-involved SUV ramings.
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Amid a massive federal law enforcement operation to deport dangerous foreign criminals.
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And you're going to show up, block traffic, obstruct law enforcement, fight with cops while carrying a gun.
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These people, I think, I don't know if it's because they lack any real meaning in their lives or because they're just deranged or they have delusions of grandeur or they don't understand that consequences follow from certain actions.
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They're going in there, it seems to me, seeking a kind of perverse martyrdom.
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Suicide by cops at least give their lives a little bit of meaning.
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To protect child rapists and drug traffickers and murderers from the law enforcement?
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The government of which is currently in power because most Americans voted for it because the guy won the popular vote?
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Look, it's very, very, very easy not to get shot by a cop.
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If you do get shot by a cop 999,999 times out of a million, there are 15 things that you could have avoided in the lead up that would have saved your life.
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Scott Besson, Treasury Secretary, absolutely killing it.
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It goes on CNN and points out that this is occurring in Minneapolis.
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And this is the question I asked at the top of the show, and I haven't seen a lot of commentary on it.
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There's federal law enforcement operations going on all over the country.
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Why is this unrest, this insurrection, this discord, this violence in the streets, why is it only happening in Minneapolis?
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Why is it always only happening in Minneapolis?
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Not just with the ice raids, think about the George Floyd riots.
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This is something I don't think we can really blame on the Somalis.
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It's not really the Somalis who are involved here.
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People who look and act and talk just like everybody else around the country.
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And yet Minneapolis goes up in flames multiple times now for different reasons over the last five, six years.
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The only conclusion we can draw is because of the political order in Minneapolis and Minnesota.
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It's the politicians, as Scott Besson makes clear.
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But I can tell you the situation on the ground there is being stirred up by Governor Waltz.
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Governor Waltz declined to provide a security detail for me to go into the Minnesota Capitol with the state police.
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So he is fomenting chaos because there is substantial waste, fraud, and abuse.
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My job as Treasury Secretary is to investigate that.
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And I think that this chaos is going out there.
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And again, I am sorry that this gentleman is dead.
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But he did bring a 9mm semi-automatic weapon with two cartridges to what was supposed to be a peaceful protest.
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I think that there are a lot of paid agitators who are ginning things up.
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And the governor has not done a good job of tamping this down.
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Unbelievable that the Treasury Secretary of the United States would go to Minnesota, to the state capitol,
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to investigate fraud, which is part of his job.
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And the governor is so corrupt that amid all of this political violence, which we've seen for years,
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he would not give the Treasury Secretary of Security detail.
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Well, now I have to—I used to think that Tim Walz, he just wasn't the brightest bulb in the pack.
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I used to just think he had a lot of whistling going on between the ears.
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I'm just—sometimes I'm just a little knucklehead.
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And now I think it's a little more corrupt than that.
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This man would have the Treasury Secretary be killed rather than allow the Treasury Secretary to go in and investigate his own corruption.
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But then Bessett really sticks it to John Carl on ABC News on the point of the gun.
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For the Veterans Administration, and there's no evidence that he brandished the gun whatsoever.
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In fact, it appears that he was disarmed before he was—
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I mean, we do have a Second Amendment in this country that—
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I mean, I've—I've—no, actually, as a reporter covering it.
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Scott Bessett could have pulled out the guitar right there on stage.
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We'll get to the Constitution and the civil law and all the rest.
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I actually, because of my deeper, sick voice today, I think I sound a little more like Johnny Cash.
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The point is that civil and legal rights go hand in hand with prudence.
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But, as I made clear in my book, Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Minds, I don't know.
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One area where I do agree with the libs is all rights are circumscribed by realities, by the circumstances that we live in.
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We see this when it comes to the First Amendment because we don't allow speech like fraud and obscenity and fighting words and direct threats and all the rest.
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Actions that are being undertaken by the supposed civilians, by the left-wing insurrections to Minneapolis for which they should be prosecuted.
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Would we encourage, we right-wing, Second Amendment, gun-tote and love-our-liberty kind of guys, among whom I count myself,
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would we encourage jihadis to carry a lot of firearms all around?
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Maybe there's some radical libertarian activist out there who says, absolutely.
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If we really believe in freedom of the Second Amendment, we've got to arm those jihadis.
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How about transvestites and other sexually deviant people,
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the kind who have been attempting to and succeeding at murdering conservative speakers over the years,
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People who have obvious severe mental illnesses, who appear to be prone to violence.
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Do we think we should just arm them to the hilt?
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The fact that the parents admit, yeah, he had the concealed carry permit, but he never used it.
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Only this time, when he was going to go mess around in a very provocative situation,
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get in the face of cops and obstruct law enforcement.
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That's the first time he decided to use his concealed carry.
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Listen to the wise statesmen throughout history.
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Besson's analysis, by the way, spot on when it comes to Tim Wohl's.
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Here is Tim Wohl's speaking to the protesters from behind the gigantic gate at his mansion.
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Served on the China Commission in Congress, ironically enough, as co-chair with Marco Rubio.
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We used to bring in Chinese political prisoners.
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And we would ask them, when we speak up and call out your government, is it bad?
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And they said, well, in the short run it's bad because they torture us.
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But if you don't speak up, they will torture us and forget about us.
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And the idea is, right now, is we have to be speaking up.
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We're winning it because we're doing it with Minnesota grit, Minnesota humor, Minnesota decency.
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We oftentimes talk about this, and I know people are discussing this a lot.
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I spent a lot of time with John Lewis on non-violent resistance.
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We're not telling people to be silent, but we're not telling people to go out and cause problems.
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I love, I love that he's addressing them from behind the gate.
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He doesn't want these lunatics anywhere near him.
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But from behind the gate, he says, yeah, hey, go out there.
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It is ironic, of course, because the Libs tried to pretend that Midwestern grannies taking selfies at the Capitol on January 6th was the worst insurrection in American history.
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It's not insurrection when some guy goes out and says, I hate my government.
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It's not insurrection even when some band of ne'er-do-wells gets out in the street and starts making trouble.
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When the governor of a state repeatedly, for weeks, defies federal law, invokes the National Guard to fight against federal troops, and explicitly refers to Civil War, 1863, as Tim Walsh did, that is insurrection any way you slice it.
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I'm willing to sacrifice any of you people, you guys who are radical and not that smart and all ginned up and I'm firing up your passions.
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Yeah, you go get yourselves killed by federal law enforcement.
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Amy Klobuchar, the U.S. senator from Minnesota, said this.
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Our message is really clear and straightforward.
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They are not making us more safe, as the tragic, tragic killing this morning, as people saw it viscerally on that video, shows us they are making us less safe.
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With 3,000 agents, which of course includes border control, outnumbering the sworn police officers in Minneapolis and St. Paul by 3 to 1, and even larger than the 10 metropolitan police departments, this is...
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You love the federal government when your guys are in power.
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You insist on obliterating federalism and subsidiarity when you guys are in power.
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But now we're in power, because the people put us in power.
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You're going to hear all these squishy conservatives and Republicans say, we need to pull out of Minneapolis.
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This is a test of legitimacy, especially because it is coming from Walls and Klobuchar.
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A vice presidential candidate and a presidential candidate, by the way.
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These are actual established political figures in office in Minnesota saying, hey, federal government under Trump, you have no authority.
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Or is he going to go in there and just bring the strong arm of justice?
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As far as I'm concerned, he doesn't have a choice.
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Because, by the way, what Tim Walls and Amy Klobuchar are doing, in the case of Tim Walls, legitimately treasonous.
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Amy Klobuchar, it's a little less significant, but it's getting there.
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Here, let's turn to Minnesota State Representative Alex Falconer, who is actively conspiring with insurrectionists, a resistance network to oppose federal law enforcement.
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Yesterday, we had the young man, 13-year-old, handcuffed by ICE, his father taken away.
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And I don't know, just going home and talking to my kids about what happened and how this is affecting our community, these are terrible times.
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Before coming to the state legislature, I'm a community organizer at heart.
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And that's part of what I'm trying to bring to the legislature.
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I'm helping to lead the community response, rapid response network that we have, given any ICE situations.
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I'm willing to stay around and talk with anybody that wants any more information.
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We've got a couple groups on the app signal that we would love for you to join.
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Whether or not you want to be a part of the resistance network, I fully understand that you may not be comfortable with that.
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But you can help us in a lot of ways by sending an alert that if you see any suspicious vehicles, any traffic, if you know of anybody that is being targeted, that's being detained, we have resources immediately available that we can send to you, send to their family, get them legal help.
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Help the families if they need food, if people are afraid to leave their homes to get food.
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We're working with the food shelves to try to figure out a way to deliver groceries.
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I know yesterday apartment complexes needed their parking lots plowed and people were being taken as they were moving their cars.
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Reach out for the information to join these groups so that we can all work together to protect one another.
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Doxing ICE members, ICE officers, giving live accounts of where they are, offering free legal help to the illegal aliens, getting people to bring groceries to the illegal aliens.
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Mr. Falconer, Representative Falconer, can you send me some groceries, please?
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These people going all the way up to the top in Minnesota, comparing ICE to the CCP, to the secret police of the Chinese Communist Party.
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And then you have a Minnesota state representative.
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And if libs want to commit suicide by cop, I guess that's their prerogative.
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It's very sad, but I guess that's their prerogative.
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Which, by the way, got to give a hat tip to Cam Higby.
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He's provided screenshots, videos from these left-wing signal chats in Minneapolis,
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where you have people, some of whom are in the government, but plenty of civilians,
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tagging license plates of people that they think are ICE agents.
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Just enemies that they're going to follow, harass, assault.
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It's funny, some people on the right, they love releasing all these text messages.
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Oh, I got this salty text message from so-and-so and so.
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That is one scandal I'm never going to have to deal with because I don't text anybody.
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Left-wing group chats are full of leftists conspiring to assault people, both civilians and law enforcement.
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I have never been, I can say, hand in the air, I've never been in a group chat, and I've been in plenty of right-wing group chats,
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full of prominent people, full of private citizens.
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They've never involved conspiring to assault people.
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These left-wing group chats, which they're shutting down by the day, they're trying to evade law enforcement,
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some of us have been the target of these people, Antifa and related groups.
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I mean, in my case, when a couple of Antifa operatives showed up to throw an explosive at me,
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This is a little bit of a wake-up for the right if Charlie's assassination was not sufficient.
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But just like the lesbian partner of Renee Goode said, why do the guns have bullets?
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Just like the bystander watching this guy in the altercation with the cop get shot.
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So, too, the right needs to realize that the radical left is serious.
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Now, let's get out of Minneapolis just for a second.
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Right now, there's a story CBS News published it.
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There were some signs of that at the end of the year, last year.
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Now, we find that the murder rate might be the lowest it's been since 1900.
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It's the only state that didn't vote for Ronald Reagan in 1984.
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Minnesota, the ground zero of welfare fraud, funding Islamic terror organizations overseas,
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the Minnesota taxpayer, the biggest sponsor of Al-Shabaab,
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the governor and senators and state senators in Minneapolis calling for insurrection.
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Well, outside of Minnesota, things are looking good.
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This is something I've concluded over the years.
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He said, we need a new law to close the border, man.
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And, of course, the bill would have just given amnesty to illegals.
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But the claim was you can't close the border without this new bill.
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In some cases, maybe let them live in the shadows if it's too difficult to get to them or they're not bothering people generally.
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But for a lot of them, most of them, just get them out.
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You remember, I remember hearing this 10, 15 years ago.
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We have an over-incarceration problem in America.
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Ah, if the murder rate's going up, it sounds like we have an under-incarceration problem, don't we?
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So it turns out when you arrest all these guys, the murder rate, it's simple stuff.
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I assume the didgeridoo is kind of complicated.
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It's about as easy as not getting shot by the cops.
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If you suppress the bad stuff and encourage the good stuff, you're going to have a better country.
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Turns out when you're tougher on the murderers, the murder rate goes down.
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I was riveted the moment I started watching it.
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Even people, this is true, friends of mine who, for whatever reason, politics, this or that,
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Now, I want to turn to some more objects of left-wing confusion.
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I didn't discover them, but this icy patch that we're dealing with has reminded me that
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There's a clip here from 2009 of Al Gore, the patron saint of the polar bears, Al Gore, claiming
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that the world is on the brink of imminent destruction.
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Some of the models suggest to Dr. Maslowski that there is a 75% chance that the entire north
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polar ice cap during some of the summer months could be completely ice-free within the next
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The meteorologists often don't know what they're predicting.
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In five years, scientists predict we will have the first ice-free Arctic summer.
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It consumes more of the heat from the sunlight, which then accelerates the rate of, of the,
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of the melting and warming rather than the ice sheet and the snow that used to reflect
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Okay, so 2009, five years, the Arctic will be gone.
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So that means that the Arctic has been gone for a dozen years now.
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Al Gore just made himself look like a complete clown, even more so at the World Economic Forum.
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Some of my younger Zoomer listeners, they, they, they weren't there.
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But, if you did not believe that the world was warming, it was going to be catastrophic,
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New York City was going to be underwater by 2015, that the polar ice caps were going to
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disappear by 2014, if you didn't believe, if you questioned that at all, they called you
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I mean, that, it's, it's not just that you were a bit dim.
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You were, you, there was something seriously wrong with you.
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And now these people, they'll get away with it.
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Because you're only going to hear the, these old predictions that were so silly on, on shows
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We have very smart, beautiful, influential people.
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Now, anytime anything happens, the libs blast out their narrative on a megaphone.
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Yes, ice has, beep, beep, beep, boop, beep, boop.
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The polar ice caps will disappear in five years.
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The polar ice cap, where, what will happen to the polar bears?
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Because I don't, you know, I don't have my producers.
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Maybe I'll shoot my show on a cell phone from now on.
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This was a man who was 500 votes away from being president.
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Al Gore has been reduced from the Academy Award winning profit of climate apocalypse
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to just booing Howard Lutnik from the side of the World Economic Forum.
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And it basically said that globalists, you know, offshoring all our manufacturing to cheap
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And that the World Economic Forum was a failure.
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And so, at the end of this lefty, basically a very left set of talks where someone said
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we need a new form of capitalism, which I think is another way to say communism.
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And at the end of my talk, one person out of the 200 yelled out, boo!
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And I'm like, I, it was the greatest honor of my trip to Davos.
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Al Gore, high priest of global liberalism, not just of climate change, but climate change
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as the animating spirit, as the religion of liberal globalism.
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Reduced from being the main stage speaker with all the accolades, nearly president, to being
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a heckler in the crowd, the lone boo in the crowd.
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Enough people figured it out to elect Donald Trump with the popular vote this time.
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And what you're seeing, Al Gore booing in Davos, or these maniacs on the streets of Minneapolis,
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what you're seeing is the last gasp of that dying political order.
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Law enforcement should be tough enough that no one ever again asks the question, why did
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No one ever again, after a guy who's tussling with law enforcement while carrying a gun, after
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The charitable thing to do is to enforce the law, set the right expectations, get these
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lunatics off the street where they're a threat to other people and they're a threat
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Maybe I'll sound a little, I actually think I sound pretty good right now, but maybe I'll
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have a little higher pitched voice tomorrow, have a little nice soothing tea, a couple of
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In any case, I will stick around and be monitoring the ice outside my whole neighborhood.
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I'm Michael Knowles, this is The Michael Knowles Show.
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What was it like, Merlin, to be alone with God?
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Meriton, I am yet convinced that he was not of this world.
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You are my father, that the gods should war for my soul.
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Fate of Britain never rests in the hands of the great light.
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How many lives must be lost before you accept the power you were born to wield?
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Circling to the promises of a god who has abandoned you.