Ep. 1822 - Gunman Opens Fire On Texas ICE Facility

a spate of left-wing political violence that has prompted even a prominent liberal magazine to warn that left-wing terrorism is on the rise, a Democrat voter shot up an immigration and customs enforcement facility yesterday.

Much like the assassin who murdered Charlie Kirk in Utah, the shooter used a rifle from an adjacent rooftop and he left a message on his bullets, in this case, a slogan opposing ICE.

ICE, which Democrats have spent the better part of a decade comparing to the Gestapo.

If you followed this shooting in the establishment media, you would conclude that the shooter's ideological inclinations are just unknowable.

And if you watched MSNBC, you would think he was on the right.

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Another day, another shooting.

And I don't want to to get totally out ahead of this.

I certainly don't want to pull a Jimmy Kimmel and lie about the ideological motivations of a shooter.

But I also don't want to be like the establishment media and make assumptions that are maybe unfounded.

So I'm just going to give you the facts.

You draw your own conclusions for now.

Someone shot up an ICE facility yesterday, ICE, which has been one of the chief targets of the left, all the way up to the most mainstream parts of the left for the better part of a decade now.

The shooting,

ironically, didn't end up killing any ICE officers.

It ended up killing one detainee, so an illegal alien who was being held by ICE, and injured two others seriously.

The suspect is a guy from Fairview, Texas.

He wrote on at least one of the bullets, and he wrote anti-ICE.

He didn't even engrave it, but there are eerie connections here to the Charlie Kirk assassination because it was a shooting from an adjacent rooftop, used used a rifle with messages on the bullets, left-wing messages on the bullets, in this case, anti-ICE.

What do we know about the guy?

We know that he was registered to vote in Texas, and he voted in the Democrat primary in March of 2020.

In Texas, they have open primaries, so that doesn't necessarily tell you about his party affiliation, but pretty good evidence.

He's at least a Democrat voter.

He also registered to vote in the state of Oklahoma.

I guess his parents had a property in Oklahoma, and he registered to vote as an independent there.

So no

record that he's a Republican, strong evidence that he's a Democrat because he voted in a Democrat primary.

He does have a criminal record.

He was charged with selling marijuana back in 2015.

Not exactly the most right-wing crime.

Definitely codes a little bit more to the left.

But there are plenty of right-wingers who have puffed the devil's lettuce every now and again.

So

are we sure that this signals a left-winger?

I think so, because it's not just a guy who smoked a couple of jazz cigarettes in college.

This is a guy who, in 2017, reportedly drove cross-country to work a minimum wage job farming marijuana for months.

So

not just, you know, willing to take a puff on the old Peruvian parsley to hang with the guys, but otherwise conservative.

This is a guy who is clearly fanatical about the Mary Jane, and I've basically only ever seen that on the left.

According to Andy No, who always gets really good information about left-wing terrorists, this guy's sister is apparently woke.

Again, that's not dispositive.

Plenty of people have different political views from the rest of their family, but I think in light of all of the other evidence, you would have to conclude that it is overwhelmingly likely that this guy has left-wing political affiliations.

So why would someone of any political stripe shoot up an ICE facility?

Where would someone have gotten the idea that we should shoot up people whose job it is merely to enforce one of the most basic laws in our country, the laws that say that we have the right to determine who gets in, who gets to use our services, who gets to eventually become a citizen?

Why would you shoot up ICE?

Can we turn to the supercut from Town Hall?

ICE is looking more and more like an American Gestapo.

They're huddled around the elevator banks in masks without identifying information.

What a terrifying, like these are Gestapo

tactics.

But it has created this year as they've seen the kind of fascist ICE Gestapo militias go round up Latino American citizens in places like LA.

ICE agents, masked ICE Gestapo agents getting more funding than any other law enforcement agency in the history of the United States.

ICE running Gestapo-like around our country.

The Gestapo had the same function.

It was there to draw a distinction between us and them.

It was not federally, it was controlled by the leader.

And we're seeing disturbing similarities between this force and the Gestapo.

We've got these masked thug cowards kidnapping innocent people and sending them off to be slaves or tortured in other countries, dressing like thugs and acting like thugs.

People still want to come here despite the crazy.

They still want to come here because they know in this land, their voice is protected.

Their rights are protected.

And there won't be jack-booted thugs coming in wearing masks over their face to take them off the streets.

Oh, wait.

Oh, wait.

I'm sorry, Simone.

That's happening.

Oh, it's happening right now.

That's happening right now.

That was just MSNBC.

That whole supercut from Town Hall that was, what was that, 70, 80 seconds?

That was just MSNBC.

Look around at the other left-wing news networks.

Look around at the other left-wing newspapers.

Look at the left-wing politicians.

Jasmine Crockett, we played yesterday, Jasmine Crockett comparing ICE to slave patrols.

Tim Walls,

almost one heartbeat away from becoming the second woman president.

Tim Walls, governor of Minnesota, Pramila Jayapal, the liberal Congress lady, Rashida Talib, member of the squad, liberal Congress lady, all made similar comments.

And what is the semantic value of calling ICE Gestapo or calling ICE slave patrols?

What is conveyed in doing that?

What's the point of saying that?

The point of saying that is to justify their murder.

The same way that when Joe Biden comes out and says that Donald Trump poses an existential threat to the country, the semantic value of that statement, the point of that statement, is to justify his murder.

If Trump's just a nasty guy, that doesn't justify his murder.

If he poses an existential threat to the whole country, then killing him would be self-defense.

Same here.

If ICE is the Gestapo, then in the popular imagination, that justifies their assassination.

If someone told you just today, hey, hey,

you have the opportunity to kill Hitler, would you do it?

Of course you would do it.

Everyone would do it.

Virtually everyone would do it.

I guess some people who think really, really deeply about ethics might give a more complicated answer, but colloquially, yes.

That means, oh, that's the kind of person you would be justified in killing.

This isn't even just hypothetical or rhetorical.

In California, Gavin Newsom is trying to do just that.

Gavin Newsom is trying to pass a law that would remove ICE agents' masks, which is ironic because Gavin Newsom spent years making two-year-olds mask up over the Wuhan virus.

But now he says ICE agents can't mask up.

The reason that ICE agents have to mask up is because they're going after criminal cartels, foreign terrorist organizations, and they're arousing the ire of radical leftists in America.

And frankly, at this point, I'm not sure which one is more violent.

But in any case, you've got very dangerous people, very violent people who are going to dox you, who are going to target you, who could kill your families.

That's why the ICE agents have to wear the masks.

Gavin Newsom is trying to get them to remove those masks.

He even tauntingly asks, what are you so afraid of?

And he knows what the answer is.

I'm afraid of your guys killing me or of the foreign criminals that you're protecting killing me.

That's the reason I'm wearing it.

And Newsom says, yeah, that's right.

Well, they're going to kill you.

So

take the mask off.

And maybe then you'll stop enforcing the law.

Now, Newsom has no right to pass this law because of the supremacy clause, because this is federal immigration enforcement, not state level.

But it just shows you, it's the entire political order

says repeatedly, day in, day out, ad nauseum,

that

federal immigration enforcement, just law enforcement officers,

should be murdered.

They're saying you would be justified in murdering these people.

And now.

Now we have to pretend to be surprised when a guy who, by all available evidence, is on the left, we will reserve judgment.

We want further investigation.

I'm just going with the evidence that we have now, would point to left-wing sympathies, goes out and tries to murder them, incompetently, because, of course, he only murdered the detainees.

Nevertheless,

add another one to the list of the political terrorism.

The vice president took this on head-on.

We'll get to that in one moment.

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J.D.

Vance was given a speech already scheduled in Concord, North Carolina.

I believe it was already scheduled.

And after this shooting, he came out and had this to say about the mainstream widespread liberal attacks on law enforcement.

And I think that is the most disgusting thing.

The very people who keep us safe ought to be honored and protected and praised by Democrats and Republicans alike.

It is time to stop the rhetorical assault on law enforcement.

Because here's what happens.

Because here's what happens when Democrats like Gavin Newsom did say that these people are part of an authoritarian government.

When the left-wing media lies about what they're doing, when they lie about who they're arresting, when they lie about the actual job of law enforcement what they're doing is encouraging crazy people to go and commit violence you don't have to agree with my immigration policies you don't have to agree with Donald Trump's immigration policies but if your political rhetoric encourages violence against our law enforcement you can go straight to hell and you have no place in the political conversation of the United States of America

I love these comments for many reasons One, because he's getting tough, because he's calling out the problem, because he's defending law enforcement.

It's that last part there that I love.

He says, if you are doing these things, if you are telling lies about law enforcement and causing violence against them, you have no place in the political conversation in America.

Spot on.

The vice president just gets it.

This is

this really pertains to the whole conversation we've been having for the last couple of weeks about the free marketplace of ideas, about

what the First Amendment is for, what political discourse means in a self-government like ours.

Does the free marketplace of ideas, does free speech mean that just any sound that any sound, any grunt, any babble that comes out of your vocal cords is to be permitted and encouraged in the public square?

Of course not.

That's not what the First Amendment means.

That's why the First Amendment, from the beginning, has always prohibited certain forms of speech, like fraud, like direct threats, like obscenity, among other types.

The reason for that is that those types of speech actually undermine speech.

If you commit fraud, and if fraud is protected and permitted, then

you would have no

confidence in the free marketplace of ideas.

You would have no reason to believe that the information you're getting in the free marketplace of ideas is reliable.

It would actually collapse the free marketplace of ideas.

If you permit direct threats, that doesn't expand the free marketplace of ideas.

It actually greatly shrinks it because you're telling, I don't know, half the people that if they come in and speak their mind, they're going to be murdered.

That obviously

stifles speech, even obscenity.

The reason why obscenity is not protected is because anyone who's ever looked at a naked lady on the internet knows that when you are looking at obscene content,

that doesn't aid your rational faculties.

That actually undermines your rational faculties.

It undermines the possibility of rational discourse.

That's why, going all the way back to the Constitution, going back even much further than that.

And in this case, he's saying, when you lie about law enforcement in this way, when you lie in such a way as to encourage violence, in some cases, if you directly incite violence,

you have no place in the political conversation in America.

Even this point on lies, it's really important.

A friend of mine once described the issue precisely to me.

He said, well, you know, Michael, I refer to lies as contraceptive speech.

I said, contraceptive speech, what does that mean?

He said, well, just as the purpose of sex is procreation.

And one of the reasons that contraception is

a little sus, a little dubious, is immoral, is because it forecloses the purpose of the act.

It turns the act away from the thing that it's intended for.

Well, the same thing with speech.

What is speech for?

Speech is for conveying the truth.

And when you tell a lie, you're going through the motions of speech.

You know, you're making sounds, you're moving your mouth.

If you're Italian, you're moving your hands, but you're undermining its purpose.

You're turning speech against its very purpose because you're not conveying the truth.

You're actually undermining the truth.

Brilliant point from JD.

Really shows you, I think, the guy.

The guy knows what time it is.

The guy understands the urgency of this moment.

Because there are still some people who see the polls, see the surveys of very liberal people being eight times as likely to support political violence as very conservative people, who see 30% plus of young liberals defending political violence.

Many, many multiples higher than conservatives and moderates.

Many multiples higher than older liberals even.

They're looking at this.

They're seeing the spate of attacks.

So you can go back to BLM or go back earlier, but then you just see the transgender

ideology encouraging violence.

You can see, obviously, the assassination of Charlie now, this attack on the ICE facility.

They see this problem.

And some of these, I don't know, older conservatives or moderates, they say, oh, well, you know, this problem will work itself out.

I'm not sure that it will.

All of the available evidence says the political violence from the left is going to get worse unless we do something about it,

unless we reform our political conversation in America, unless we enforce the law against people who are violating it, violating it with their physical violence and violating it with even speech acts.

Okay.

Speaking of one's place in society and speech and violence, a couple of young conservatives, Lance Johnston and Cam Higbee, showed up to campus, obviously inspired by Charlie Kirk, for what they're calling the fearless debate tour to do what Charlie did, to set up a table.

have conversations.

Charlie was not the only one who did this.

Crowder did this as well.

A lot of people did this, this kind of thing.

Tabling in the middle of a quad,

having open conversations.

These guys chose to do it at Tennessee State.

Tennessee State University is a taxpayer-subsidized, historically black university.

These guys are, at least one of them is white.

I don't, the other one is not white.

He's a little duskier, kind of like me.

You know,

I don't know exactly.

I can't tell.

I don't see his pedigree on screen, but at least one of them is a white guy.

And they show up to this historically black university.

The topics of debate were dei should be illegal and deport all illegals now let's talk

here's just a brief cut of how it went

so what what part of our systems is for people of color all of it all the entire system is for everybody anybody who's an american citizen so you feel like there's there's nothing

so you feel like everybody is equal

yeah

i mean everybody's not everybody's equal in their rights but not everybody's obviously obviously equal in their, you know, what they have.

This system can't be ignored.

Like, we can't just say it does not exist because there are countless examples of it existing.

Maybe just one example of what you're talking about.

So, what's wrong with the system that allows, I guess, racism to be systemic or institutionalized?

Shrugs his shoulders.

Okay, so then they fast forward a little bit.

More students come.

You see people start to film it.

And then some lady, some girl, goes and takes the signs down.

Then some other girl goes and steals one of the signs.

Seriously?

And a guy, is that a guy?

It looks like a guy steals a sign.

Then some other guy wearing a do-rag and a wife beater starts yelling at him.

And then as they're driving away, a mob of these students starts screaming at them.

I think one of them is holding a BLM sign.

Anyway,

in response, response, Cam Higbee of this crew comes out and says, if you want to talk to people who disagree with you, you go to the place where people disagree with you.

So he said, that's why we're coming here to have these conversations.

It's obviously inspired by what Charlie was doing.

Here's what the school had to say.

Tennessee State University.

Statement on unauthorized campus activity.

Today, a group of individuals unaffiliated with Tennessee State appeared on campus without prior notice in accordance with university policy.

Any demonstration or protest activity requires advance approval and permitting.

They were escorted off the university grounds.

Blah, the safety and well-being of our students is our highest priority.

Okay, so fair enough.

Fair enough.

You know, when Charlie would do these events, when any of us give any speeches on campus, obviously I've been doing that for many years at this point, as have a lot of us, we get advance approval and all the rest of it.

Now, it's a taxpayer-funded university,

but put all that aside.

Sure, they say you guys should have gotten a permit first.

Okay.

Not one statement on the behavior of the students.

Not one statement.

Not one, hey, also, students, you shouldn't steal the signs.

Also, students, you shouldn't threaten people.

Also, students, you shouldn't mob around the car.

Also, students, you should be able to have a conversation.

You should be able to properly speak the English language and exchange ideas.

Not one statement about that.

And if you look at Tennessee State, it's being reported that the graduation rate is abysmal.

I think it's like 23% or something like that.

For some reason, these universities are still being funded by the government.

I think

it gets to a point that I was talking about yesterday, which is,

really, I guess we've been talking about it for a whole week,

which is

not everything is for everybody.

I think way too many people go to college and university today, and they really have no place there.

They have no interest in being there.

In a lot of cases, it's only going to saddle them with debt.

And the only consequence consequence on the university is it's going to reduce standards.

That's all it does.

It doesn't benefit anybody.

It only damages people.

Likewise, when you allow screaming banshees and terrorists and radical ideologues with suicidal ideologies into the public marketplace of ideas,

you only undermine the marketplace of ideas.

You don't expand it.

You don't encourage healthy discourse.

You just undermine the whole thing.

And so you actually have to exclude those people.

You can't just wish civilized behavior into existence.

I guess that's my point.

The idea of sending these students, I'm not saying every student at this university, obviously 23% of them are doing relatively all right.

But the ones who aren't going to graduate, they really have no place at the university.

And certainly that mob of students there, they have no place at a university.

They probably don't have place in high school.

Okay, they clearly haven't learned very much.

And so what's the benefit of sending them to these universities?

They don't even know how to have a conversation, much less to rigorously pursue the truth in a way that involves hours and hours of study and lots of discipline and suppressing one's passions.

They're just apparently not capable of that.

So they need to go do something else.

You can't just wish civilized behavior into existence.

And this gets to my broader point on the marketplace of ideas.

You can't just wish a healthy, free exchange of ideas into existence.

And that's what a lot of people want to do in the wake of Charlie's assassination and all of this increased political violence.

They want to just kind of wish it into existence.

They say, well, we're just going to close our eyes and wish double extra hard for a healthy free exchange of ideas.

You're not going to get that.

If you want to have a healthy exchange of ideas, you have to suppress the elements, the people and the ideas that are undermining that.

You actually need to use the power of the government and of civil associations and of businesses in a just and temperate way to establish the market conditions that will allow for that exchange of ideas.

You look at that scene, you say, this is a huge embarrassment.

This is not a university in any meaningful sense of the term.

We should be discouraging that.

Whatever Tennessee state is, whatever it's producing, which is three-quarters flunkies and a mob of these people, we should be ashamed of that.

We should be discouraging that.

We certainly should not be subsidizing that with taxpayer dollars.

Now, speaking of political disorder, a police officer in London has just threatened to arrest a Jew for looking too Jewish around Muslims.

He committed the crime of being a Jew around Muslims.

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This video is going viral out of the UK.

You are quite openly Jewish, pro-Palestinian mark saying, I'm not accusing you of anything, but I'm worried about the reaction to you now.

You'd be excited about the seriousness if you go about your business, know where you're going to feel it.

Or if you choose to remain here because you are born the mental health and lose other people,

And if I get to scramble, if I remain here, you're forever.

Because your presence is antagonizing the larger people and you can't deal with all of them if they attack you and they can because you're from a presence centre.

You are, excuse me there, excuse me there, Shlomo.

You're looking, you're rather openly Jewish, I see.

You got that hat on and I don't think you're the Pope.

So you understand here,

you're going to have to scram.

Why?

Well, you see because you're uh a jew you look and you're looking like a jew you know yeah and anyway uh the muslims don't like that very much so i'm gonna have to arrest you you understand because this is merry old england

and uh we do whatever the roving gangs of bloodthirsty muslims uh want us to do

If you have any daughters, we'd love to deliver them up to the Muslim gangs as well.

If you wouldn't mind there, yeah, yeah, that'd be very nice.

Thank you.

And then on your merry way.

Thanks.

No dreidels out here, mate.

That's not good, is it?

He says that the Jew

is

creating a breach of peace

by existing around Muslims.

Imagine this is a pro-Palestine march.

Imagine this were, I don't know, a pro-Armenia march.

It's Armenia, the oldest oldest Christian country in the world, became Christian before the Edict of Milan legalized Christianity throughout the Roman Empire.

Let's say it was a pro-Armenian march, and there were a Jew walking around.

Do you think that the Armenian Christians would threaten to kill the Jew?

And do you think they would get the cops to say, hey, you got to stop being a Jew here?

No.

Christians don't do that,

generally speaking.

So then the question to me

is not,

do you want people in your country who who support Palestine?

I've long said I have the least popular view of the Israel-Palestine conflict, which is I think it's complicated.

We don't need to rehash the curves and details of that now, but I recognize

it's a complicated debate.

But my question is not, do you want people in your country who are pro-Palestine?

My question is not,

are you a big fan of Judaism or the state of Israel or any that's not my question.

My question is,

do you really want to to allow a lot of people into your country

who harass Jews all the time is that civilized behavior forget about your opinions of Islam or Judaism or Christianity for that matter just do you want to live in a country

where a Jewish guy can't walk around in his yarmulka without

fear of being arrested

and without fear of being arrested in order to protect him from the mob that wants to get him.

Do you want to live in that kind of country?

That's

anti-social behavior by Western standards.

That's contrary to the kind of countries that we generally like to live in.

This is a big, big problem.

And it's an especially big problem in London, Londonistan.

I have a friend of mine in the UK frequently when he texts me.

And if he's going to say, you know, good luck or something like that, he'll say, oh, you know, best wishes, good luck.

Or as we say in London, inshallah, you know, it's become Londonistan, you know, it's become, it's become Pakistan West or something.

And that's going to reshape the culture.

And it's not even about the particulars of

the

conservative Jew and the Shiite or the Sunni Muslim or this.

It's just,

I would prefer, putting all questions of religion aside, I would prefer to live in a country where Jews don't get arrested because their very existence

riles up the bloodthirsty passions of mobs on the streets.

I would prefer to live in that kind of country.

And

if mass Muslim migration in the UK is causing this kind of thing, then the UK should do something about it.

Will they?

No.

And I think it's because of the limitless ideologies of liberalism.

The ideologies that say any kind of limits, any kind of exclusions, any kind of taboos necessarily suppress freedom and autonomy, and we can't have that.

And they always focus on immigration in that way.

They say, well, we can't exclude anyone in immigration.

We can't put any caps on immigration because if we did that, that would be illiberal.

But when you do just flood a country, especially a small little island nation,

with

one particular group of people, and they bring with them all of their animosities that are sort of foreign to your country,

then you're going to have to exclude Jews from Piccadilly Circle, I guess, because

the mobs that you let in in the name of autonomy and freedom and limitless expression, they don't like them.

Those people are going to set the exclusions because all societies need exclusions.

Okay, speaking of religion and politics, and I want to go back to MSNBC.

I have to go back and beat up on MSNBC because MSNBC is sounding the alarm.

You know, whenever there's any political scandal with the left,

the story is never that the left did something bad.

It's always that the right is pouncing, the fear of the blowback of the right, whatever.

And so they're sounding the alarm.

Tina Neuen

on MSNBC.

sounding the alarm on Christian nationalists like

Aristotle.

What you are seeing here is a movement called Christian nationalism that merges Christianity, as it's been practiced in America for centuries, with a very specific interpretation of what the founding fathers wanted, what Aristotle wanted, going all the way back to the ancients.

You saw Larry Arne, who is the president of Hillsdale College and a proponent of this strain of interpretation of the Bible, merge Christianity and protecting the Western civilization values values into one and the same thing.

It's a very

somewhat convoluted argument, but if you distill it into the right talking points, it really hits you in the patriotic heart area, as it were.

Okay, really interesting.

So we need to fear Christian nationalists like Aristotle, who lived centuries before Christ.

Yes, got it.

Okay, so Aristotle.

If you support Aristotle, you're a Christian nationalist.

Aristotle, who lived, what shall we say, at least 16 centuries, sorry, more like 18 centuries before nationalism, maybe more.

Not a Christian, pagan Greek.

Aristotle is a Christian nationalist.

Who else is a Christian nationalist?

According to...

According to this woman, Larry Arne, president of Hillsdale College, is a Christian nationalist.

Larry Arne, by the way, whose school of philosophy

comes from Leo Strauss, Leo Strauss, notably a Jew,

not any kind of Christian nationalist.

And then according to New York City Councilman Justin Brannon, he was reacting to Stephen Miller's excellent speech at Charlie Kirk's Memorial.

He says, beyond grotesque, Miller is a megalomaniac, unmoored Christian nationalist whose rage belies any notion of grief.

Stephen Miller.

who

say whatever you like about him,

don't think he's a Christian.

I think he's a little bit more like that guy in london who was almost arrested for existing uh a member of a certain ancient nomadic tribe you know so these people

they use this phrase christian nationalism

and the the best examples they can pick

not one of them promotes christian nationalism and two of the examples are not christian

you pick a pagan and you pick a jew

We're going to have to do a Matt Walsh-style documentary, aren't we?

I almost didn't.

We're going to have to do what is a Christian.

They don't even know what a Christian is.

If you say that Christian nationalism is the ideology of Aristotle, you are telling.

I'm not trying to be hyperbolic or to unfair.

If your argument is that Christian nationalism is the ideology of Aristotle,

you don't even know what Christianity is.

If Stephen Miller is your example of Christian nationalism, you don't

know what Christianity is.

You don't know what Judaism is.

You don't.

You don't know anything.

It's just a phrase that they use.

This is.

Are these people capable of speech?

Speech has been the topic, obviously, for the past couple of weeks.

Are these people capable of speech?

They can make sounds.

They make sounds.

And they gesticulate.

And they,

they kind of go through the performance

of speech, but their words don't mean anything.

It's just like sounds jumbled together.

And this is a critique I've made of the left for almost a decade now.

One of the hallmarks of the left, in my experience, is that they love the appearance of a thing, but not the essence of the thing.

You know, they like vegan meat, vegan sausage,

or I don't know, decaf coffee or something like that.

They want the appearance, the trappings of the thing, but not the essence of the thing.

They want the appearance of speech, the appearance of political discourse.

If you're calling Stephen Miller and Aristotle Christian nationalists, you don't,

you're not capable of speech.

Now, speaking of speeches, President Trump made a great one at the UN yesterday.

There's one last clip of it.

I played a little bit of it yesterday.

There's one last clip I want to get to because it's quite pertinent.

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My favorite comment yesterday is from Emily's 5024.

It says, all of a sudden, the libs don't trust the science.

It's so true.

They don't.

On Tylenol.

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President Trump shows up to the UN

and he attacks the UN for encouraging mass illegal migration into America, for funding it, for calling for it.

And he says, you guys are really undermining our interests here.

It raises a question.

Why does the U.S.

fund the U.N.?

We fund 22% of the U.N.'s regular budget, 27% of the peacekeeping budget.

Why?

We host them in New York.

Why?

If the UN is an instrument of American imperial power, if the UN advances America's national interest, great.

I'm all for it.

I think we should be involved in geopolitics.

I think we just have to be.

But if the UN's undermining America's national interest in such a basic way, what's the point if we get rid of it?

Bulldoze it and build a Trump condominium.

But Trump goes further.

He doesn't just talk about America's national interest.

He says, hey, all of you, you guys,

mass migration being encouraged by the UN is undermining all of your countries too, and your countries have the right to stop it.

Proud nations must be allowed to protect their communities and prevent their societies from being overwhelmed by people they have never seen before with different

customs, religions, with different everything.

It's so basic, it's so simple that a lot of people, I think, glossed over it.

But this is pretty big.

When I was a kid, there were two views you could have on migration.

You could either support both illegal immigration and legal immigration,

or you could merely support legal immigration, but not illegal immigration.

But that was it.

The two views were

illegal, bad, legal, good,

or

illegal, good, legal, also good.

Those were the two views.

There is a third view, which is that migration is bad, sometimes, at least sometimes.

Certain writers and thinkers, I frequently quote Dante on this subject, but goes all the way back to the ancient Greeks, like Aristotle and Plato,

have argued that immigration really introduces a lot of problems into cities, and you need to be really, really careful when you accept immigrants if you do it at all.

But

certainly when you have a mass influx of foreigners who are not assimilating, then you really have to tamp it down.

But our societies believe we just can't, that it would just, it would be racist or it would be illiberal or it would be wrong not to fling open the borders.

And that's not true.

What Trump is telling the world and what he has reminded our own nation is,

you can stop it.

You can say no.

You can change things.

You don't need to consign yourself to national suicide.

And if an ideology demands that you commit a national suicide,

you should probably get rid of that ideology.

And you've seen this in Europe a little bit.

Victor Orban in Hungary is very good on this because, well, all the rest of Europe knows this, they're all liberal democracies.

He says, we're an illiberal democracy.

We're a democracy for sure, but we're illiberal.

We're a country that's a thousand years old, founded on the crown of St.

Stephen, okay?

We're way older than Enlightenment-era democracy.

And we we don't want liberalism.

We're way, way older than liberalism.

Okay?

We can do it.

We can do it.

It can be done, believe it or not.

Now, on the UN, you'll recall,

you'll probably recall that two terrible things happened yesterday at the UN.

There was actually a third one.

President Trump was arriving at the UN.

He gets on the elevator, escalator rather, with his wife.

and the escalator suddenly stops.

And had he not been holding on, he could have jolted forward, really injured himself.

He's 79 years old.

Melania could have hurt herself, too.

And then they just walked up the stairs.

Trump gets there, the teleprompter goes out.

He gives a speech off the cuff.

He killed it.

Killed it.

Very few people could have done that.

He killed it.

Then apparently the microphone was out.

So he asked Melania, this is all getting this from True Social.

He asked Melania, how'd the speech go?

And she goes, I couldn't hear anything.

If people weren't listening in their translator microphones, they didn't hear anything.

And President President Trump concludes:

this wasn't a coincidence.

He said, maybe he was joking.

He said, oh, I don't know.

Maybe these guys don't have any money.

Maybe, I don't know, maybe they're having problems.

But he goes, this wasn't a coincidence.

This was triple sabotage at the UN.

They ought to be ashamed of themselves.

I'm sending a copy of this letter to the Secretary General, and I demand an immediate investigation.

No wonder the United Nations hasn't been able to do the job that they were put in existence to do.

All security tapes at the escalator should be saved, especially the emergency stop button.

The Secret Service is involved.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

I strongly suspect President Trump is implying as much, but I'll just state it clearly.

People need to be arrested over this.

This was a major security breach.

This was an attack on the President of the United States, a man who's already survived one very near assassination that blew off part of his ear, and even another assassination attempt where the perpetrator there was just found guilty on all counts.

This is very, very serious.

And whoever pushed the stop button on the escalator needs to spend a lot of time in jail.

That needs to be done.

This should be prosecuted by the United States if we can do it.

This should be investigated by the UN if they're willing to do it.

That needs to happen.

As I've said for a couple of weeks now, there need to be consequences until behavior improves.

Closing your eyes and just wishing that the other side behaves in a civilized way has not worked.

It has led to a spike in left-wing terror.

Don't take my word for it.

Take multiple surveys and the Atlantic magazine at their word.

Take the events that we've all seen.

The killings, the shootings, the

threat to the president of the United States two days ago.

Now,

speaking of global politics,

one

little victory lap for the Trump administration that very few people are talking about, but it's a big one.

Jerome Powell, who's been in a real fight with the president.

The president's not happy with how he's managed the Federal Reserve.

Jerome Powell just came out.

He was asked at the 2025 Economic Outlook luncheon

whether or not the tariffs had damaged the economy, led to higher prices for consumers, because that's what everyone said.

Remember back in April, they said that the tariffs were going to destroy the economy and it was going to disrupt global trade.

Who knows?

It could lead to a war.

And at the very least, it was going to pass on all these prices to the consumers.

Cost of consumer goods was going to go way, way up and it was going to be a disaster.

That's what all the top economists said.

That's what all the genius talking head pundits said on TV, other than those of us who said, I don't know, Trump's got a good record on this.

Maybe let's just let him cook a little bit.

So here is not

the Treasury Secretary.

Scott Bessant, not the Commerce Secretary, Howard Luttnick.

No, no, no.

This is the chairman of the Federal Reserve, the Independent Central Bank, in a big public fight with Trump.

What happened with the tariffs?

We're now collecting a good bit of revenue.

The

federal government is collecting a good chunk of revenue,

$300 or $400 billion a year apace.

And the question is, who's paying that?

And the candidates for paying those tariffs would be the exporter, the foreign exporter, or someone on our shores.

It could be a company or a retailer.

Someone is using the imported product to manufacture something, or the end consumer.

And so there's, and so far in its incredibly early days, it doesn't look like the overseas exporters are carrying the bulk of it.

It looks like it's that middle group.

It's retailers and it's importers, and they're not passing along to consumers

that much of the cost.

So the actual effects on inflation have been quite modest so far.

It's really not,

it's a small amount, but.

yep.

Yeah, that's right.

I can actually attest to this because I am a business owner that does business overseas because I produce a product that just in its nature tends to be made overseas, and that's premium cigars.

So I've seen this.

We were hit with an 18% tariff out of Nicaragua.

And I hope that the administration reconsiders that because the premium cigar industry is very much on the team politically, you know, and

you just really can't make these

products in America.

We use American tobacco sometimes, but given all of the tobaccos you have to get from all over the world and all the rest of it, that's very difficult to do.

So anyway, it'd be nice if the tariffs decrease there.

But in the meantime, while we do have an 18% tariff, we've just been eating the cost.

I think basically almost the entire cost.

We've just been eating it ourselves.

And so we're getting squeezed a little bit, squeezes the margins.

But I know that I'm not the only company that's doing this.

Obviously, the chairman of the Federal Reserve says this.

All the geniuses, all the pundits, even some of them on the right and the economists, they all said the tariffs are going to lead to massive inflation because the price increases were going to be passed on to the consumers.

Tariffs are just a tax on the consumer.

And that just hasn't happened.

Turns out that a lot of what we're taught in theory and in ideology and in economics 101 freshman year of college, turns out that doesn't totally accurately represent the world economy.

Not to say inflation won't kick in.

That might at some point.

The prices might be passed on to the consumers consumers at some point.

It's just we were told that this was going to happen ASAP, and it didn't happen.

Another win that has gone largely unnoticed for the Trump admin.

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