Ep. 1824 - BREAKING: Violence Escalates After LDS Church Shooting And Fire

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While the left ups the political violence from Portland to Chicago, a killer with an unknown motive launches a brutal attack on an LDS church in Michigan as the American social order continues to unravel.

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Hey, you remember when the FBI said that it had no one present on January 6th?

Remember, at first, the story was the FBI had no one present there.

And then they said, okay, there were a few dozen agents and assets, but it was no big deal.

Anyway, we just found out that the FBI had 275 agents, plain clothes agents, not wearing their uniforms, plain clothes agents, in the crowds on January 6th, the worst day in the history of this or any republic.

We'll get into all those facts that just keep coming out, as well as the corruption of American law enforcement, which is the topic of the day.

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Biggest story, most horrifying story, an LDS church, a Mormon church in Michigan was attacked.

A guy, here's what we know.

We know a guy drove into the building, then got out, started shooting people.

There seems to be some kind of fire accelerant on there.

The whole church burns down.

Four people are dead.

Eight people are injured.

What we know about the shooter so far is that he's a 40-year-old guy.

He is dead.

He was killed in the shootout.

And he's an Iraq war veteran.

That's all we know.

Unlike Jimmy Kimmel, we're not going to jump to any conclusions.

And unlike Jimmy Kimmel, we're certainly not going to lie about his motives.

That's all we know so far.

There's an investigation going on.

We'll find out what it is.

Could be anti-LDS bigotry.

It could be anti-religious prejudice.

It could be, we don't, it could be left.

We don't know.

We just don't know.

And we're not going to jump to conclusions.

All we know that we should do right now is pray for the victims and investigate.

That's all that we know.

And these are the two responses.

And I say that because some people have had other immediate responses, maybe to jump to conclusions, but also one response that I find unfortunate is that some people have decided to respond to this attack by pointing out all of the things that they consider erroneous in the Mormon religion.

And it's not that you, obviously, you can disagree with LDS, but

that should not be your first response.

If that is your first reaction,

cool your jets, slow your roll a little bit, is what I would say.

For a couple of reasons.

One, it's unseemly.

That's just not what one does when one is grieving when there is a tragedy taking place, especially involving one's countrymen.

But two, even if your purpose is to evangelize, you know, convert these people,

taking the opportunity of a major tragedy in their community to tell them everything you think is wrong with them, it's also probably just not going to work.

You know, that's not civilized behavior.

That's not the right thing to do.

So anyways, we pray for the community and obviously

the specific congregation there in Michigan.

And there needs to follow that with much more investigation.

And when we know more, we'll talk about it.

We do know know a little bit more about the motives of some of the other public attacks that have been taking place.

For starters, Antifa tried to bomb an ICE facility in Chicago over the weekend.

Antifa, the organization we're told does not exist, even though it has a flag, even though it has members, even though it has a network, even though it has chapters, we're told by the left it does not exist.

just means to oppose fascism.

This assemblage of communists and anarchists tried to bomb an ICE facility in Chicago.

So according to the Department of Homeland Security, arrests are being made.

11 violent rioters were arrested last night in Chicago outside the ICE detention facility.

These are two guns that were taken off rioters in Chicago.

I guess the Chicago gun control is not working that well.

Right against the fence at our ICE detention facility.

This after a shooting from, by all appearances, a left-wing shooter who shot up an ICE facility just days ago.

An investigation is underway into what appears to be some sort of explosive device found last night near the ICE Chicago Chicago detention facility.

No surprise, as I mentioned, just even in my own experience, I was given a talk at the University of Pittsburgh, and two Antifa agents showed up and threw an explosive at the building, seriously injured a female cop.

Many, many other such examples.

That one just comes to mind because I was there firsthand.

And it's not even just in recent years that the anarchist and communist left has done this.

This has been going on for over 100 years.

People forget because

the mainstream news networks won't won't cover left-wing political violence.

Imagine what the history courses teach, but you don't really cover that much anymore in history courses.

Way back about 100 years ago, 1919, there was a spate of left-wing anarchist violence throughout the country.

That carried over into 1920.

You saw a number of attacks in the early 20th century.

Then again, you saw this in the 1960s and 70s with groups like the Weather Underground, the various black power movements, Black Panthers would also set off bombs and murder people, even target civilians in order to further political goals, which is the definition of terrorism.

The left has done this many, many times.

And the most recent example over the last 10 years or so is Antifa.

This happens.

And so this should be sobering on the one hand, but it also should give us some hope.

Because I know a lot of people are looking at the political violence, obviously, with the assassination of Charlie Kirk, but other political violence in recent years and saying, you know, good grief, is our country just totally falling apart?

And the answer is yes, but it's happened before.

This is not our first experience with this.

And so we can look back to history as a blueprint.

What happened after the left-wing violence in the 1910s and 1920s?

Well, the way we fixed that was we cracked down on it.

We recognized it for the threat to order and law that it is, and we arrested a lot of these people.

We passed laws that made it easier to identify and target them and we got rid of them from the public square.

That's what we have to do again.

In the 1960s, our reaction was a little less effective, unfortunately.

Yes, some of the left-wing radicals were arrested.

Yes, they sometimes were sort of prosecuted, but a lot of them ended up

being freed in one way or another.

In the case of the Weather Underground, the Weather Underground terrorists ended up getting sine cures as university professors, sometimes at public schools.

So that was not a good way to respond to this, unfortunately.

And it's no surprise then that those people who, I think, was it Roger Kimball who called them tenured radicals, those people then educated this generation and you're seeing left-wing violence again.

So which way, Western man, what are you going to do?

The only way to stop this is to crack down on them.

Happily, that's what Trump is doing.

So Trump has mobilized the federal agents, not just the DOJ, to investigate these people, not just to classify as Antifa as a...

domestic terrorist organization, but also to deploy the National Guard.

So President Trump tweeted out that he was going to be deploying the National National Guard to Portland, sends the feds out over there, and

these are the exact words.

At the request of the Secretary of Homeland Security, Christy Noam, I am directing Secretary of War Pete Hegseth to provide all necessary troops to protect war-ravaged Portland and any of our ICE facilities under siege from attack by Antifa and other domestic terrorists.

I am also authorizing full force if necessary.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

So this is important.

You know, to quote George W.

Bush, fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, hey, hey, hey, the point is you're not going to fool me again.

We have seen the attacks on ICE for years now, rhetorically, politically, and also violently, from every level of the left.

We've seen it from the goon terrorists on the ground with the bombs all the way up to the elected officials, all using the same kind of language, that ICE is the Gestapo.

That's essentially the only way you can refer to immigration enforcement on MSNBC, that ICE is fascistic, that it needs to be dismantled, and on the left, that they need to be targeted and killed.

So

there's nothing more the left could do to make clear their opposition to law enforcement.

And so the federal government has two options.

One, let the left-wing anarchists just take over the political order, or two, enforce the law.

Trump has chosen the latter.

Unfortunately, the liberal politicians have chosen the former.

Congresslady Maxine Dexter

has has posted,

we are hearing reports of increased federal agents in Portland.

Let me be clear, Trump wants to tell a story of Portland that does not reflect who we are.

By the way, you can see the pictures of Portland in just the last month or two.

It looks like a war zone.

The Portland we love is strong, compassionate, and unwavering in our commitment to protect our neighbors, except when it involves like the police arresting criminals.

The Portland we love did not ask for federal agents and does not want them.

We will not be divided.

We are standing strong to protect one another.

You're not.

You're not protecting one another.

You're letting criminals roam your streets and maraud and kill.

That's why the federal government is coming in.

So you're not standing strong to protect one another.

But furthermore, I want to get to this one line.

The Portland We Love did not ask for federal agents and does not want them.

Dad, I don't want to, Dad.

I don't want my vegetables.

I don't want to do my homework, Dad.

That's what this woman's saying.

I don't want to enforce the law and protect my constituents.

You can't make me.

Uh-uh.

You're not the boss of me.

Actually,

yes, we are.

Yes, Trump is.

Yes, the federal government is because

of this little-known provision of our constitutional order, namely the supremacy clause,

which says that the federal government exists for a reason.

The federal government does not exist merely so that when cities and states

want to to call them in as a matter of convenience, they can.

The federal government exists to give a national quality to our government and to intervene when the states and the cities fail.

That's what it's for.

And this, I think, might be a corrective even to some people on the right, certainly on the more libertarian right and on the, I don't know, the selfish right.

which says, you know, if Portland wants to fail, that's fine on them.

Let them deal with the consequences.

If New York and Chicago want to fail, that's fine.

Screw them.

We don't care about the poor people who are being brutalized by the left-wing ideologues.

Who cares?

What hath

Nashville to do with New York?

Well, I'll tell you what it has to do with New York.

We're all in one country and we share a nation and we share a federal government.

And the cities and the states have no right to let their cities fail because those are American cities.

And the people in those cities are American citizens.

Well, a lot of them are illegal aliens, but they're Americans.

They're within the border of America, many of them at least.

And so we have an obligation to them.

And that's what Trump is going to do.

This is one-nation Trumpism.

Not the nation of haves and have-nots, not the nation of the people who can live in the gated communities and everyone else who has to deal with the terrible policies.

No, we're one nation.

And the palace is never safe, can never rest easily while the cottage is unhappy.

So Trump is going to go in and restore order.

We have to restore order.

There's this magical thinking that you get on the left and sometimes on the libertarian right, which says that anytime the government actually does something, it can only make things worse.

In other words, to say the government does not exist for any reason.

This is contrary to the Christian idea of government, which is that the government is put here for our good, that the civil authority is anointed by God and does not bear the sword in vain.

That's the Christian and classical understanding of government.

The modern liberal libertarian understanding of government is that it's an unhappy accident that any government exists at all and we need to do everything we can to abolish it.

And then the magical hand of the free market will spontaneously restore order.

And that just doesn't really happen.

And the left capitalizes on the right's belief in that utopian ideology because the left gets into power and wields it for their own

ill-begotten ideas.

And the

right gets into power and then does nothing because they feel that it's somehow principled to let America decay.

And so then the left advances and the right remains stagnant and constantly on the defensive when we can even muster the courage to defend ourselves.

No more.

That's not going to work.

You know, the alternative to that is what Giuliani did in New York, which is broken windows policing, the recognition that when you let the little things decay, a lot more decay and violence is going to follow it.

We don't want order in Portland.

Too bad.

You're going to get it.

You're going to get it.

Sorry.

Take care of your own city.

If you don't, we're going to take care of it for you.

Now, speaking of political violence, one of the biggest stories, the FBI caught in yet another lie about,

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You remember what we were told about January 6th, January 6th, January 6th,

that it was an insurrection, the worst attack ever on our sacred democracy.

Ironically, January 6th was not even the worst attack on our democracy of that year.

That would, of course, go to BLM, which burned federal buildings and killed dozens of people.

torched cities across the country.

What happened on January 6th is a little bit confusing because there were some people who were creating a little bit of chaos.

There were other people who were being allowed into the U.S.

Capitol by the Capitol police.

There were other people like Nancy Pelosi who said that it was her fault that she did not call in

law enforcement assets to protect the Capitol.

She took responsibility in a documentary made by her daughter.

And then there was the FBI, which said that it had nothing to do with January 6th.

Then we found out some years later, okay, well, the FBI had a few dozen people there.

Some assets, but even the assets who were there, they were just there of their own volition.

They just coincidentally happened to be at the Capitol.

That's what we were told.

And now we find out, the FBI acknowledges that it had

some more people, not just a few more people,

275 plain clothes agents.

in the crowds on January 6th.

We found that out.

What are we at?

We're almost five years now

after we were starting to ask about FBI involvement.

This is thanks to reporting from the Blaze.

Almost five years later, we're finally learning that the story we were told from the FBI was false.

Now, the FBI maintains the plainclothes agents went in just to keep the peace.

They didn't instigate any trouble.

Even when you saw these very suspicious videos of people, multiple people,

who were not arrested, who were not imprisoned for their actions on January 6th, urging people to go into the Capitol.

Multiple people of different ages.

Ray Epps was a famous case of this.

Go in.

You got to go into the Capitol.

And people would respond to him and say, no, no, no, we're not going to do that.

You're a Fed, Fed, Fed.

And then mysteriously, they arrest Midwestern grannies for taking selfies in the rotunda.

They throw them in solitary.

But these guys who incited mobs to go into the Capitol on January, they get off without being arrested, without being harassed at all.

Very, very strange.

Now, at least though, the FBI is saying, okay, we had hundreds of people there blending in, but they weren't doing anything nefarious.

And the problem is that could be true,

but the fact that the FBI has now lied to us for almost five years means we have no reason to believe that that's true.

We have a real credibility problem with federal agencies.

It's not that all of a sudden I became an expert on vaccines.

That's not why I'm skeptical of some vaccines now.

It's not because I got some degree in epidemiology.

It's because the public health officials who I was told to trust lied to me specifically about the COVID vaccine.

And so as a result, I can no longer trust them, at least on the topic of vaccines.

That's why people have stopped trusting our federal institutions.

It's not their fault.

The epistemological crisis, using a lot of fancy E-words, epidemiological, epistemological, but on the crisis of how do we even know things at all,

it's really not the fault of the rubes and the hoi polloi and all of us out here who don't have fancy degrees.

It's the fault of the experts who lied to us.

When we don't have a ton of faith in our federal bureaucrats, that's not our fault.

Blame the FBI, which lied to us for almost five years.

Which is why, which is why

it is so important

to hold corrupt FBI officials accountable.

And this brings us to one of the biggest stories that the libs are yapping about today, the indictment of James Comey, James Comey, the former FBI director.

We are told that the indictment of James Comey,

which just happened days ago, represents a collapse and a decay of our federal government.

Au contraire, Mayfray, au contraire.

It's the opposite.

The problem we have right now is we don't have faith in our federal agencies.

The reason is they lied to us, including and especially the FBI.

We want to get back to a place where we can have trust in our federal agencies, in our federal government.

We, in fact, have to get back to that place if we're to have a functioning political order.

There's a step in the middle.

There's an intermediate step.

The intermediate step is we have to hold to account the corrupt people who squandered the agency's credibility, which is why the indictment of James Comey is not merely

just

not the greatest upset in our federal government.

It's not merely that it's just not that bad.

It's that it is positively good for the purpose of restoring credibility to the agencies.

Why is Comey indicted?

Comey is indicted because, allegedly, he lied.

Comey gave false statements, allegedly, this is what he's charged with, and obstruction of a congressional proceeding.

He could face up to five years in prison if convicted.

The response of the establishment media to this indictment

is

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We'll get to that in one second.

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Comey is indicted for giving false statements and obstruction of a congressional proceeding.

This goes back to an alleged false statement he made to the Senate Judiciary Committee five years ago, almost exactly five years ago, September 30th, 2020.

And he was asked the same question years earlier, also under oath.

How is the Wall Street Journal covering this?

Wall Street Journal says

Justice Department officials are racing to obtain criminal charges this week against former FBI Director James Comey, escalating President Trump's unprecedented efforts to prosecute his political foes.

Oh, really?

President Trump's unprecedented efforts to prosecute his political foes.

I actually guess technically that's true.

The efforts are unprecedented when they come from Donald Trump.

Donald Trump has never prosecuted his political foes before.

But if you're saying that prosecuting one's political foes is unprecedented, I would encourage the Wall Street Journal to do a cursory investigation of the entire last four years from the Democrats.

Do you recall that people like Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis and Mark Meadows and

John Eastman and many, many people who worked for Donald Trump were indicted by the Democrats, by Joe Biden.

And, oh, and who, oh, right, Trump was also prosecuted four times over

and had the FBI sicked on his home raided his home at Mar-a-Lago

by Joe Biden in in that case by the way it was not even just a president prosecuting his predecessor which was unprecedented It was also the president prosecuting his chief political rival because President Trump's nomination in 2024 was essentially a fait de compli.

Joe Biden knew that.

Joe Biden wanted to run for a second term.

And so he decided he was going to wield the government to prosecute his chief and really only rival.

Unprecedented.

I generally like the Wall Street Journal.

I think they got a read of it.

They must have missed the last four years, didn't they?

What about CNN?

CNN, headline, can't make it up.

Why the Comey indictment different from the Biden DOJ's indictment of Trump.

So at least CNN, unlike the journal, apparently, the CNN recognizes, okay, well, we look pretty bad because Democrats just spent the last four years prosecuting all of the Republicans, including Trump.

So we can't really say it's unprecedented.

Okay, we're just going to say this is different.

How's it different?

This is what CNN writes.

Whatever one thinks of the decisions to indict a then former president, pause, and chief political rival, don't forget that part.

Whatever one thinks of the decision to indict a then former president, this is a major escalation in Trump's ongoing politicization of the justice system and broader weaponization of government.

Said Contra, no, it's not.

What are you talking about?

Look, whatever you think about when Joe Biden did a much worse version of what Trump is doing,

this is unprecedented.

No, it's not.

That's called a non-sequitur.

What are you talking about?

What Trump is doing is different in two fronts.

Well, I'll tell you how, in my view, it's different.

Because what Trump is doing is justified and what the Democrats did was not justified.

Now, I know that some reasonable minds may vary on that.

People might let a little partisanship creep in, and they'll say, well, no, no, no, what the Democrats did was justified, and what the Republicans are doing is unjustified.

Again, I think that's wrong.

I would be happy to have that argument.

But let's just put that aside for a second.

What

the Democrats did was throw spaghetti at the wall to try to imprison the former president and chief leader of the opposition and virtually everyone around him

on anything.

What Trump is doing is holding one man accountable, one particularly corrupt man accountable for one thing that he allegedly did, one or two things that he allegedly did.

What Trump is doing is restrained.

And by the way, that man is not the chief political rival.

He was an an apparatchik of the government.

And a man who politicized not only a federal agency, but law enforcement in particular, which means it's particularly egregious.

This is after Barack Obama weaponized his federal agencies when he turned the IRS into a machine to target right-wing groups to try to give himself an advantage in the election.

We could go on and on and on relitigating all this.

It's the Democrats who started it.

It's the Democrats who escalated it.

President Trump's indictment of Comey is, if anything, a de-escalation.

If Trump indicted Obama and Biden, even that would not be an escalation.

It would be matching what the Democrats did to him.

But in this case, merely indicting an allegedly corrupt and lying FBI director is actually a de-escalation.

The fact that that's the case shows you just

how much the Democrats perverted the government.

Here is Stephen Miller on what this all means:

It truly is one of the most heinous things that has ever happened in the history of our country, what James Comey did to our democracy.

I can't think of anybody in modern history who has done more to sabotage and attack our constitutional republic than James Comey.

Beginning with the Russia hoax in 2016, as you said, the dirty dossier, James Comey, as the head of the FBI, tried to lay a trap

to remove a duly elected president from office, to imprison and incarcerate his political allies and friends, and to lead an actual coup against the laws and constitution of the United States.

What James Comey did is truly one of the most severe assaults on our freedoms and liberties that has occurred in the whole history of this nation.

Well said.

Well said, Stephen.

He usually says things very well, very

incisive and perspicacious political operator.

And he's right.

For the Republicans, and there are going to be plenty of Republicans out there who say, I don't know, I don't like this.

I don't like this indicting former FBI directors.

I don't know.

This reads a little too banana republic to me.

I don't know about that.

First of all, I think that this kind of indictment is a lot more justified than just about anything the Democrats have done in four years.

But let's go beyond that.

I agree.

I don't like indicting former federal officials.

I certainly don't like indicting former presidents.

I agree that that is banana republic behavior.

That's the world we're living in right now.

I want to get back to a place where we don't do that, where we generally just don't prosecute our rivals and our predecessors.

The Democrats forced us into the world where we do that now.

It wasn't the Republicans.

It was the Democrats exclusively.

Remember, when Trump was elected, he was elected on Lock Her Up, Lock Her Up, Hillary Clinton, who committed a bunch of crimes.

He didn't.

He didn't.

Maybe he should have, but he didn't.

The Democrats did this.

They brought us here.

And now that's the world we live in.

And so the question is: how do we get back to the kind of world, the kind of political order, where we don't indict our rivals and our predecessors and federal agents, federal officials?

Two possibilities.

One

is you prosecute the people who did wrong.

You hold accountable the people who created the problem.

And you create a major disincentive for those people and their successors to ever do it again.

That's one option.

We call that the Trump-Steven Miller option.

The other option is what's being advocated by the squishes and the utopians and the people with their heads in the sand.

And that solution is,

let's just set a better example.

Let's just set a better example.

Let's just not do anything.

Let's just have the grace.

Some would call it grace.

Some would call it naivete.

Let's just have the grace to let the Democrats who perverted our whole system and brought us to the point of a corrupt third world banana republic.

Let's just let them get away with it if they promise not to do it again.

Oh, they're not going to promise not to do it again.

Oh, they're actually already promising definitely to do it again.

Okay, well, whatever.

Let's just, let's just be the bigger men and let's just hope that they don't do it again.

And I think that's going to work out for the best.

And at the very least, if they put us on the boxcars and ship us out of the country, at the very least, we can say that we were principled.

What are those principles?

I don't know if that's all that principled.

Let me just ask you, I'm being a little bit polemical and hyperbolic, but not by much.

Which of those strategies is most likely to get us back to the country?

in which we do not prosecute our rivals and predecessors?

Which of those strategies?

Holding the bad guys accountable strategy, showing that we're willing to get tough and wield the government for the purpose of justice and to play the game that the Democrats are playing, but to do so in a way that is moral and just and with the goal of returning to a system where we don't prosecute our rivals and predecessors, or just pretending the problem doesn't happen.

Just hoping with no evidence that our rivals just change their ways.

Which one do you think is going to be more effective?

If you agree, as any reasonable person should, that holding the bad guys accountable is the more likely strategy to succeed, then you have to defend the indictment of James Comey.

You have to, I don't care how clubbable you are.

I don't care how fancy and bougie you are.

I don't care how centrist and amiable you are.

If you agree that it would be good to get back to the place where we don't indict our predecessors and rivals, If you want to get back there,

and you agree that the most likely way to get back there is not to ignore the problem, but to hold people accountable, then you have to support the indictment of James Comey.

And that's going to make you get your precious, pure little hands, maybe a little bit dirty in the muck of practical politics.

And I know that there are very fancy little boys who don't want to do that.

They think politics exists on the pages of some magazine disconnected from practical reality.

Well, sorry.

That's not where politics is.

You're not doing any good by burying your head in the sand and closing your eyes and letting the bad guys get away with perverting our system and destroying our country.

You're not doing any good.

If you're going to whine about it, just go complain in your own little corner.

Let the adults handle the problem.

Okay.

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McDuff,

who says,

Fortnite can't get on the App Store, but anti-ICE apps can.

Yeah, that's a little weird, isn't it?

There are apps that anarchists and communists can use to track track the location of ICE agents so that they can go find them, try to dox them, and try to murder them.

But you can't get Fortnite on the App Store.

That seems like something's going wrong in our standards, wouldn't you say?

Okay, back on the FBI.

News report, Libs Furious.

The FBI has reportedly fired agents.

who were photographed kneeling during the year of our Floyd 2020 and all of the BLM protests.

So there were these FBI agents who some of them are not looking very fit.

Some of them are not looking like they're field ready, okay, but that's just an observation, not calling anyone out by name.

They're kneeling.

They're wearing FBI uniforms.

They're taking a knee

during the protest movement around George Floyd.

Those agents have been fired now.

According to reports, some 20 agents were terminated.

Previously, the Bureau said that they had reassigned the agents.

Since then, they nixed them, got rid of them.

And the Associated Press is really upset about this and they're reporting on it, I suspect, to create a national controversy to reinstate the agents.

It is so good that these agents got fired.

It is way past due.

They did this in 2020.

That means this cancer to our FBI has been festering for five years.

They just finally were taken care of.

That's really bad.

Do not be confused.

What the liberal media are going to try to tell you, just like they're telling you with the Trump indictments, they're going to try to tell you that this is just about Trump punishing his political adversaries.

He's punishing liberal ideologues for their beliefs.

Not at all.

In the Comey case, Trump is being relatively restrained.

And the DOJ is only going after one of the most clearly corrupt and criminal figures from that era.

He's being modest.

But when it comes to the FBI here, they're not fired because they're liberal.

They're fired because they oppose law enforcement.

What does it mean to take the knee?

What does taking the knee during the George Floyd riots mean?

It means solidarity with a criminal who is resisting arrest.

It means, quite explicitly, opposition to law enforcement, the officers who are arresting the criminals, who are passing fake money and who are doing drugs and who are resisting arrest.

It means a broader kind of disrespect against the country.

Colin Kaepernick, you'll recall, kneeling in BLM protest against the American flag and the national anthem.

It's anti-American to its core, but it is specifically anti-law enforcement.

How can you tolerate FBI agents publicly opposing law enforcement?

That would be like bartenders publicly protesting alcohol.

You just can't have it.

It's not that you don't have a right to protest alcohol, but if you're a bartender who protests alcohol, you're probably going to lose your job.

It's not that you don't have a right to protest law enforcement in reasonable ways.

I guess you do.

You don't have a right to be an FBI agent and protest law enforcement.

It's not just that the government has a right to fire you in that case.

The government has an obligation to fire you.

We give our taxpayer money to Washington, D.C., in part to hire people to enforce the law.

If the government is hiring people who very publicly oppose enforcing the law and oppose law enforcement in principle, then the government is squandering our tax dollars.

The government's doing something really, really wrong.

They need to correct it.

And the way they correct it is by firing these people.

Okay, speaking of federal law enforcement, this story, it's one of my favorite stories of the past several weeks.

To show you just how deep and wide the illegal immigration problem runs,

you got ICE officials going around to home depots arresting illegal aliens, economic migrants who are just trying to get day labor work, fixing houses.

You got ICE showing up to restaurants and various work sites and rounding people up.

But it's not just those guys.

It's not just guys picking grapes, okay?

ICE just showed up and arrested the superintendent of not California, not Texas',

Iowa's largest school district, who is apparently an illegal alien.

Here he is.

Thank you, Madam President.

I stand here this evening before you with immense gratification.

and certainly a sense of pride and humility.

I am incredibly grateful for the vote of confidence that the board has shown.

Who is that man?

That man is Ian Andre Roberts.

Do you know how much money Ian Andre Roberts was making?

As superintendent of the Des Moines School District, he was making $306,000 a year.

He was an illegal alien.

An illegal alien doing the jobs Americans won't.

You know, that's the problem.

No ordinary American wants to just trudge away doing these thankless jobs like being the superintendent of a major school district for a piddling salary of

several hundred thousand dollars per year.

The jobs Americans won't do.

This guy, he apparently had some real problems.

He had

gun charges.

He could have left of his own volition.

He didn't.

He gets picked up by ICE.

That's illegal immigration.

When the libs try to tell you that it's just the poor refugee, first of all, they say it's refugees.

It's generally not refugees.

But when they try to tell you, oh, it's just the poor Guatemalan migrant trying to feed his family, picking grapes, cleaning homes for low pay, off the books, in the shadows,

there's a little bit of that.

It's actually a problem that the Democrats have encouraged these people to live in the shadows and work effectively as slave or indentured labor.

But it's also those guys.

And it's not all just peasants from Venezuela.

It's also guys from all over the world who are taking advantage of our system and who are being protected by Democrats because it gives them a political advantage,

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Now, there's a big problem with schools.

And this is actually a bigger problem with schools.

Before we go.

Have you ever heard of Asada Shakur?

Asada Shakur.

I remember Asada Shakur.

Asada Shakur was a left-wing terrorist from the 70s who murdered a cop.

And Asada Shakur was also held up as an icon by left-wing radicals, the real hardcore black power, you know, revolutionary types, anarchists, communists, those types.

These days, it's not just those types, though.

Well, I guess it is those types.

The problem is those types have taken over the major institutions.

Asada Shakur died a few days ago.

And the Chicago Teachers Union mourned her death.

Didn't even just mourn her death as, you know, she's a fellow human and each man's death diminishes me.

No man is an island.

No, no, no, not the John Donne kind of mourning.

Positively grieved her loss and exalted her legacy.

Rest in power, says Asada Shakur.

First of all, just a quick pause here.

I don't mean to digress too much.

But when atheists come out, and radical left-wing atheists, and they say, rest in power, not rest in peace, the English rendition of Requiescat and Pache.

It's not rest in peace for the peace of Christ or something.

It's rest in power because of your legacy, even though you're not in power.

If you're an atheist, if you're a huge lib, then you believe that that person is turning to worm food, is being consumed in the earth, never to be seen or heard from again.

In any case, it says, rest in power, rest in peace, Ishata Sakur.

Asata Shakur, sorry, difficult to pronounce some of these names.

Today we honor the life and legacy of a revolutionary fighter, a fierce writer, a revered elder of black liberation, and a leader of freedom whose spirit continues to live in our struggle.

Our struggle.

This is the teachers union.

These are the people educating kids in Chicago, or not educating kids in Chicago, which explains the test scores.

Asada refused to be silenced.

After she murdered a cop, no, they forget to include that part.

Said, she taught us that it is our duty to fight for our freedom.

It is our duty to win.

We must love each other and support each other.

We have nothing to lose but our chains.

Okay.

Asada Shakur was a member of the Black Liberation Army in the 70s, was convicted of the first-degree murder of a New Jersey state trooper, Werner Forster, a name that is noticeably absent from the Chicago Teacher Union OBIP.

Asada Shakur escaped while awaiting sentencing, with the help of the Black Liberation Army and the May 19th Communist Organization, fled to Cuba.

where she lived among one of the worst enemies of the United States of the 20th century.

And the Chicago Teacher Union is mourning her loss and exalting her as a symbol of something we should strive to be.

This would be a good example of what I was talking about over the last couple of weeks with the new regulations that need to be placed over the marketplace of ideas.

First of all, a ninth grade classroom is not exactly a roiling free marketplace of ideas because the educational endeavor is not primarily one of pure openness.

It's actually a coercive endeavor in which you have to teach students something to the exclusion of other things.

You give them an exam because there are right answers and wrong answers.

And when a student gives the right answer, you reward them with a good grade.

When they get the wrong answer, you punish them with a bad grade or maybe detention or suspension or staying back a year.

So it's not

in its system.

It's not a roiling free marketplace of ideas.

But furthermore,

If the educators are going to promote things that are indefensible, that are contrary to to a flourishing society with the healthy exchange of ideas, contrary to education, contrary to, education means well, being brought up well, being morally formed, knowing certain facts that are true.

If the Chicago teachers are going to actively undermine that,

they need to be fired.

If the Chicago Teacher Union is going to actively encourage terrorist violence that is explicitly determined to undermine the American political order,

the Chicago Teacher Union needs to be disbanded, needs to be severely punished by the civil society and by the government.

This would be a prime example because no one is being served by their continued existence as an organization, least of all the students, and their continued existence as an organization and continued power over education is making the problem much worse.

These people are convincing your kids, if you live in Chicago, Chicago, that it's good to murder cops, that communism is good, and that we should overthrow the government of the United States.

You don't want that.

That's bad.

We have not only a right, but an obligation to get rid of that.

That is actually the most direct way that people in Chicago can defend and expand the healthy marketplace of ideas within the American system.

Got to get rid of that.

Got to have the courage to say that powerful word no.

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