Ep. 1832 - New Evidence: LA Fires May Have Been Left-Wing Terrorism

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As authorities begin to take a closer look at left-wing terrorism, which Democrats have spent years telling us does not exist, the sheer scope of it is shocking, even to those of us who've seen it firsthand.

Now, even events that we had previously attributed to nature seem connected, with an arrest yesterday making us ask,

were the LA fires left-wing terrorism too?

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There are more serious issues to talk about, like

left-wing terror.

Now, obviously, in recent weeks, we've been talking a lot about left-wing terror.

The left has been covering up the left-wing terror, pretending it does not exist.

And yet we're seeing incidents after incidents.

We're also seeing the left broadly defend political violence.

But when you apply a little bit of scrutiny, when you take that closer eye, you see that even events that had previously been considered politically neutral or even that had been attributed to nature

might have this tie-in.

Remember the L.A.

fires, the fires that burned down one of America's major cities?

The left blamed it on climate change.

Of course, they blame everybody.

They stub their toe in the morning they say it's climate change.

But even the right had blamed it on political mismanagement.

And there was a lot of political mismanagement.

Gavin Newsom was warned by Donald Trump years ago that he wasn't taking proper efforts to clean up the

wildlife, to clean up the

grass and the, you know, it wasn't, he wasn't maintaining the environment of California enough.

He was mismanaging the water.

He was allowing water to run off into the Pacific to save the precious delta smelt.

Meanwhile, reservoirs,

fire hydrants were not being supplied with water that would be necessary in the case of forest fires, which were frequent in California.

So, anyway, that's where the blame was.

Now, the FBI is upending both of those narratives and saying, no, no, no.

The fires were started intentionally by an apparent left-winger.

So, here are the facts.

I don't want to get too ahead of our skis here, but the facts are: the Palisades fire burned up 23,400 acres.

The Palisades fire burned down almost 6,800 structures, many, many homes.

A dozen people died.

They're now saying,

according to a report from the D.C.

Reporter, they're now saying that

this guy, this random guy, started the fires.

This guy, if you look him up, he was living in Los Angeles, not employed.

His income was something like $2 or something.

He donated $1

to Joe Biden.

Because, you know, political donations are made public.

So again, that's being reported right now.

It's unclear.

This is all breaking.

This guy

allegedly looked up a bunch of stuff about

fires.

He allegedly generated AI images of cities burning, and he searched this question, can you be at fault for a fire if your cigarette starts it?

Now,

the search makes you think, well, it could have been that this guy was just up in the Hollywood Hills and he was smoking and he accidentally lit the fire and then he was trying to cover his tracks.

That happened one time.

Actually, one time when I was visiting LA early, early on, I was smoking a cigar up by the Hollywood sign and people were screaming at me and I thought they were just anti-smoking fanatics, but no, they realized that my ash could set the entire city ablaze.

I didn't know that at the time.

So anyway, I understood that.

Maybe this guy just had the bad luck and the negligence to do that.

No, no, no.

If you look at the images,

he clearly thought about this more more consciously.

Looks like he was a firebug.

Looks like he was, well, pretty clearly, he was on the left if he was a Joe Biden donor.

Now,

those two events might not be connected.

The arson searches and the fact that he donated to Democrats.

It could be the case that his politics had nothing to do with the arson.

But

yet again, we're seeing left-wing people introducing lots of disorder into society.

Obviously, in the case of Antifa or an Assassin or any of these groups that ransack the crisis pregnancy centers, you know, there, the link between the ideology and the political violence and disorder is very tight.

In this case,

they might be looser, but again,

how many incidents?

The mass migration, the illegal immigration, the gangs in our cities, that's all pretty closely related to left-wing ideology.

Even if it's not direct, even if the trendy Aragua gangster is not, you know, a leftist with a coexist bumper sticker on his car, he is introduced into the community because of the left.

There's the left introducing the disorder.

All the weird sex stuff.

It might not be consciously ideological, but all the weird sex stuff is being promoted in our communities because of left-wing ideology.

This guy, this weirdo fire bug, I don't.

If the facts that are being reported are accurate, then the LA fires has started because of a disturbed leftist.

And at a certain point, you just have to ask, how much more of this are we going to tolerate?

Because

the argument in recent weeks from the classically liberal right has been, we just need more debate.

We need more openness.

We need less censorship.

We need more, we just need to...

double and triple down on liberalism, albeit of the classical variety.

And my argument has been, no, no, no, we need to circumscribe, circumscribe, we need to suppress certain evil behaviors and disordered ideologies.

We need to actually discourage those things because leftism is creating a lot of problems and we need to stop promoting it.

We need to stop treating it neutrally or with a laissez-faire hand.

We need to suppress certain aberrant behaviors like, for example, the weird gender sex deaf, and certain evil ideologies like anarchism, like communism, the ideologies associated with with Antifa.

We need to actively suppress them.

We did that for much of American history.

Then we stopped.

Then we, I don't know, then we started to worship at the idol of the invisible hand.

But

how many more times?

How much more are we going to deal with?

Now, Gavin Newsom, some of the Democrats are trying to distance themselves.

Gavin Newsom tweets out, today's arrest of a 29-year-old Florida resident, Jonathan Rindernecht, marks an important step toward uncovering how the horrific Palisades fire began and bringing closure to the thousands of Californians whose lives were upended.

You see this?

You see this little sleight of hand here?

He's a 29-year-old Florida resident.

Technically, that's true.

What Gavin Newsom is not pointing out here is

he was a California resident when he allegedly started the fires.

What he's not pointing out is he fled to Florida after he committed his crime.

He's trying to make him look like a Florida resident because Newsom's foil has been Gavin, has been Ron DeSantis in Florida.

Remember, they had that debate.

It was the undercard debate in the 2016 presidential election.

There's the Florida way.

That's the Republican way for the country in the states.

And there's the Democrat way, the California way.

They say, oh, he's a Florida resident, trying to insinuate that the guy's a Republican because Florida has switched from being a swing state into being a pretty solidly Republican state.

But that isn't true.

When the guy allegedly lit the fires, he was a Californian.

He was one of Gavin Newsom's own constituents.

Which just adds another layer to the political negligence of Gavin Newsome.

He didn't deal with the brush.

He didn't deal with the water.

And

he didn't deal with the homeless who do start a lot of fires.

And he didn't deal with this lunatic.

Failure after failure after failure.

But

they're doing nothing to fix it.

They're doing absolutely nothing to fix it.

And you're seeing this not just at the level of the office holders.

You're seeing this throughout the left, the thinkers, such as they are, the communicators, the streamers.

You're just seeing this penchant for disorder and this creepy kind of violence.

All the way down to Hassan Piker.

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Speaking of violent leftists, Hassan Piker, do you know him?

He's a, what is he?

He's like 30-something streamer.

He's a leftist.

He is pretty popular.

He just got in trouble, not for something he said ideologically, but because he apparently put a shock collar on his dog.

And then hours into one of his streams, the dog decided to move and stretch his legs a little and he shocked the poor little dog underneath his desk.

I hate this country so much.

You can be on a mountain in the middle of Norway and get better internet than Los Angeles, California.

And this is just like

a moment of anger.

This is a moment of anger for like something that is just so routine, so silly, such a first world problem.

But it is emblematic of all of America's much more consequential violence.

Okay?

It's the same reason as to why America, Kaya, please just go just stop.

Jesus Christ, what are you doing?

You're being such a baby.

It's just

you're making her stressed.

I

she just literally is

so incredibly spoiled from my mom.

Okay, so for those of you who are only listening,

the dog gets up to just move around a little bit.

I guess the dog is used as a prop on his show, and then he reaches on his desk somewhere.

And as he reaches, he does something.

And then the dog yelps.

And people have concluded, the sleuths online have concluded.

He's got a shot collar and he's torturing the poor dog for trying to get up during his hours and hours of blabbing.

This guy, I've said it for years.

This guy is the left.

He is the young left.

In that way, I'm very grateful for him.

He checks every single box.

Callous as can be, prone to violence, hates America.

As he opens, he opens the first line in the video.

He goes, I hate this country so much.

This country is so terrible.

It's the worst ever.

And what's funny is he says, I can't even get good internet in Los Angeles.

To which I would say, you know, my internet's pretty good in Tennessee.

I don't know.

Maybe that's more of a LA problem.

Of course, his answer is we need to make all of America like LA.

Well, now you're, I don't know, you're in the city that isn't functioning very well.

My city is working really great.

Anyway, people are horrified by this.

They're not horrified by all the other things he's ever said.

They're horrified that he would shock his little dog.

They're wondering, could he possibly do this?

He's supposed to be this compassionate, sympathetic, left-winger, bleeding heart.

Is it possible that he would shock a dog?

I remember after Charlie was assassinated, a clip of his started going viral again, in which he said that he wanted the streets to run red and be soaked in the blood of capitalists.

I think he would shock a dog.

Yeah, I think if you want the wholesale slaughter of half the country and you call for that publicly and you don't back down and you don't regret it, I think you would be willing to shock a little doggy.

Yeah, I think you.

Now, some people don't actually.

This is kind of funny because people often point out that Hitler really loved dogs, you know?

So sometimes there are people, and there are, I don't just mean to point to Hitler.

I mean like the whole

animal welfare, PETA, environmentalist left.

These are people who almost to a man support slaughtering babies and abortion.

But you know, if you don't put your little poodle in a stroller on the street so his little paws don't have to step on the curb, you know, you're a you're a genocidal maniac.

You're just awful.

So these are people, yes, there are people who have really screwed up priorities and they

love animals and and hate people.

I always say I'm a people person, but I wouldn't want to, I don't care for dogs, I don't care for cats, I don't really care for pets, I'm a people person.

I don't want to torture them.

I wouldn't put a shot collar on them and zap them every time they don't act like props in the back of my show.

And then what does he do?

He immediately plays the victim, right?

He zaps the poor little dog for getting up.

allegedly.

And then he says, why'd you make me do that?

And this,

man, this is like a caricature out of a a lifetime movie.

This is every lifetime movie, right?

The big evil guy comes in, like viciously beats a woman.

And then what does the, what does the abuser say?

Why'd you make me do that?

You just make me so angry.

This is awful.

I just, ah, I hate, oh, I hate how angry I am.

And the reason I mention this is not merely to beat up on his son, Piker, who deserves it.

And he obviously should be excluded from polite society, not for the dog thing, but for all the comments about the people.

And he should not be platformed and all the rest of it.

But

he says something really interesting.

He says, ah, I'm so angry.

I'm so angry.

And it's just these little things, but it's emblematic of, I was like, yes, it is emblematic.

He goes, it's emblematic of everything that's wrong with this country that sucks.

But I think, no, no, no, oh, you're so close.

Your anger is emblematic of the left's broader resentment, pride, envy, and wrath, and all the other deadly sins too.

But your anger,

it's not that you are angry because the dog getting up and stretching his legs is emblematic of all of the evils of this terrible country where the internet supposedly doesn't work.

It's that your anger is emblematic of a character flaw on the left, but it is representative.

I don't have to recite the statistics, but they've been coming out over the past three weeks.

The left is overwhelmingly much, much more likely to support political violence than the right is.

Shockingly so.

Eight times more among very, very liberal people compared to very conservative people.

30% almost of young liberals say political violence can be justified.

They celebrated the murder of Charlie.

Yeah,

this is who they are.

What do they say?

They say, I want the streets to run red in the blood of my enemies.

Stephen Bonnell, another lib streamer, he comes out.

He says, Republicans need to fear for their lives.

They need to think they're going to be murdered when they go to events.

We need more of that.

So yeah, this is who they are.

And so what are you going to do?

I guess the lesson we can learn from Hassan Piker here is

maybe we need a little shot collar.

You know, what's the just use of the shot collar?

The just use of the shot collar is to train a dog who is misbehaving and get the dog to behave.

What Hassan Piker has done that's wrong here is not use a shot collar.

It's that he is punishing the dog for perfectly reasonable behaviors.

The dog should be allowed to get up and move around.

He's a dog.

He doesn't need to be a prop in your show.

If the dog were biting the neighbor, then you'd use the shot collar.

If the dog were running away, if the dog were shooting people, if the dog were threatening political violence against an entire community, then you should shock the dog.

That's what we need to do, not through the use of private violence, but through the use of state power.

These guys aren't getting any better.

The assassination of Charlie was not this moment, this come to Jesus moment.

Like literally, I wish it were a come to Jesus moment for them.

For a lot of other people, it is, but for the left, it's not.

They're doubling down.

They're saying, yeah,

we're, yeah, we are going to commit violence.

And yeah, you know, these guys did have it coming.

Yeah, it's actually a good thing.

Many of them were celebrating.

And so if they're not going to get any better, you have to create incentives for them to get better and you need to punish them when they don't.

And so in the case of someone like Hassan Piker, he should be excluded.

He should be deplatformed.

Conservatives who have any say in this should deplatform him.

He should be kicked off Twitter.

I don't know if he is on Twitter.

He should be kicked off of Twitter.

He should be kicked off of YouTube for the things that he has said.

I know that the free speech absolutists aren't going to like that, but there are

limits to free speech in the First Amendment and the American political tradition, precisely because those limits are necessary to defend the free marketplace of ideas.

And if you go out and you say,

I want the streets to run red in the blood of conservatives simply for having their opinions, having a particular political view, you need to be excluded from the free marketplace of ideas.

So we'll see.

That's the, we got to put the shot collar on Hassan.

Okay.

Not literally.

He would do it literally, probably to all of us and worse.

But we need to put a political shot collar on the on the left, or it's going to get worse.

It's going to get a lot worse.

And don't say you weren't warned.

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Katie Porter, Democrat member of Congress running for governor of California, she sits down with CBS News.

This is a broadcast news network, generally liberal.

I think they do a good job.

I think they've been fair, especially recently, but they're a liberal network.

She couldn't handle a question from a journalist at an historically liberal news network.

What do you say to the 40% of California voters who you'll need in order to win who voted for Trump?

How would I need them in order to win, man?

Well, unless you think you're going to get 60% of the vote.

You think you'll get 60%.

Everybody who did not vote for Trump will vote for you.

That's what you're saying.

In a general election?

Yes.

If it is me versus a Republican, I think that I will win the people who did not vote for Trump.

Or if it's you versus another Democrat.

I don't intend that to be the case.

So how do you not intend that to be the case?

Are you going to ask them not to run?

No, no, I'm saying I'm going to build the support.

I have the support already in terms of name recognition.

And so I'm going to do the very best I can to make sure that we get through this primary in a really strong position.

But let me be clear with you.

I represented Orange County.

I represented a purple area.

I have stood on my own two feet and won Republican votes before.

That's not something every candidate in this race can say.

If you're from a deep blue area, if you're from LA, or you're from Oakland,

you don't have an experience.

You just said you don't need those front voters.

So you ask me if I need them to win.

You don't.

I feel like this is unnecessarily argumentative.

What is your question?

The question is, the same thing I asked everybody, that this is being called the Empowering Voters to Stop Trump's power grab.

Every other candidate has answered this question.

This is not...

I said I support it.

So, and the question is: what do you say to the 40% of voters who voted for Trump?

Well, I'm happy to say that.

It's the do you need them to win part that I don't understand.

I'm happy to answer the question: Is you haven't written it, I'll answer it.

And we've also asked the other candidates, do you think you need any of those 40% of California voters to win?

And you're saying, No, you don't.

No, I'm saying I'm going to try to win every vote I can.

And what I'm saying to you is that,

well, to those voters.

Okay, so you don't want to keep doing this.

I'm going to call it.

Thank you.

Okay, pause it, pause.

Okay, so

crazy behavior from her.

First of all, she clearly was prepped for certain questions, right?

She says, well, ask the question as it's written and maybe I'll answer it.

You ask the question as it's written, which the journalists did.

That makes me wonder, I don't know this definitively.

Did Katie Porter's team demand the questions ahead of time?

Meaning, well, I'm not even going to go into a CBS news interview without knowing the questions ahead of time.

And then if the reporter deviated from the question by a word or two, or maybe not even, just ask the question as it was with a follow-up, she says, I got to get out of here.

But Katie Porter is mocking this question.

And she's so frustrated by this question.

This is a very good question.

She says, okay, it's a 60-40 state.

What are you going to do about the 40%?

Are you going to try to win any of them over?

She goes, I don't need them to win.

60% are Democrats.

But the point is, you can't just rely on all of those people showing up.

Any political campaign is going to try to get support from the other side.

There's always Democrats for Reagan, Democrats for Bush, Democrats for Trump.

There's always that stuff.

And on top of that,

there is a possibility that there will be another Democrat in the race.

So if there's another Democrat in the race, now you're really going to need some Republican support.

It's not like there are only 3% Republicans in California.

There are a lot of Republicans.

It's a Democrat state, but there are a lot of Republicans.

And Katie Porter says, I don't need them.

I don't need them, but I'm really good at winning their votes, but I don't want to win their votes.

So it's totally reasonable for the journalist to say, well, hold on, just what is your strategy?

And

even at the slightest pushback from a liberal news network,

this woman says, I'm out of here.

I'm done.

I don't want to do this anymore.

Why?

Because the Democrats are so unfamiliar with being challenged in any way.

For Republicans, we can go on the conservative news networks, and sometimes we get pushback.

For the libs, they generally don't go on the conservative news networks, and they're used to getting softballs from all of the other liberal outlets, the newspapers, and the websites, and the podcasts, and the TV networks.

She's so prickly about it.

She can't take the heat.

This is one way in which being protected by

a liberal network, not a TV network, but a political network, being protected by this fortress of institutional liberalism can actually weaken you.

Because when there are some chinks in the armor there, when some of the walls of the fort start coming down, when Republicans win the popular vote and the Congress and the Senate and have the Supreme Court and then start to wield power in a way that makes the liberal institutions come along a little bit more in big tech and in the media, then they're totally vulnerable.

How's this woman going to be governor of California?

She can't handle a question from a friendly news network.

Keep going.

You're not going to do the interview with us.

Nope, not like this.

I'm not.

Not with seven follow-ups to every single question you ask.

Every other candidate has answered.

I don't care.

I want to have a pleasant, positive conversation with what you ask me about every issue on this list.

I want to have a pleasant conversation.

I'm running for governor because I want to have a pleasant time.

Why won't you let me have a nice time?

You didn't even offer me an iced tea.

Like you're running for, you know, you're running for governor.

You're in politics, right?

You know, you're not, this is not a day at the spa.

But she thinks it is.

The entitlement from this woman is magnificent.

But between her and Jay Jones, we'll try to get to him a little bit later.

He's the AG candidate in Virginia who fantasized about murdering a Republican and the Republican's kids.

Yeah, between these two, man, Democrats are going to to have a rough, a rough couple of years, aren't they?

If these two are the face of the party.

And they're going to have a rough couple of years because

these two are not outliers.

That's what the past three weeks have shown us.

It's not just some fringe lunatic who supports political violence.

It's the presumptive AG, attorney general, top law enforcement official

in Virginia.

It's not just some crazy snowflake on a college campus with crazy hair who's entitled and bratty and can't answer a question and screams at people.

It's the presumptive governor of the state of California.

This is the Democrat Party.

This is so brutal to them because it's accurate.

Keep going.

You on this list.

And if every question, you're going to make up a follow-up question, then we're never going to get there.

And we're just going to circle around.

I've never had to do this before, ever.

You've never had

a conversation with

me.

Okay, but every other candidate has done this.

What part of, I'm me, I'm running for governor because I'm a leader.

So I am going to make, so you're not going to answer questions from reporters?

Okay, why don't we go through?

I will continue to ask follow-up questions because that's my job as a journalist, but I will go through and ask you

don't want to answer.

So nearly every legislative,

I don't want to have an unhappy experience with you.

Put a buzz.

Just, I don't, I'm not going to, if there are follow-up questions.

Lady, look, I don't know this investigative reporter.

CBS, I find, is relatively fair compared to the other networks, but it's a liberal network.

Okay.

And even a hint of fairness, and in this case, very, you know, serious professionalism.

The reporter says, hey, you know, that's my job.

What do you think that we're doing here?

Might, I'm, oh, you thought I'm just a shell and a propagandist for you.

I can't do that.

I can't, I have to ask you at least some mild questions.

And what does Katie Porter say?

I don't want to have an unhappy experience.

I don't.

This is, this is like the grown-up Greta Thunberg speech at the UN.

You have stolen my dreams.

You, how dare you?

This is it.

This is the,

I want to have an I don't want to have an unhappy experience.

I want to have a pleasant experience.

Why are you, and it's a shock of betrayal is what it is.

This is where I sympathize with Katie Porter.

Katie Porter.

was raised in a political environment in which mainstream media journalists don't don't ask them questions.

And if they ask them questions, it's what flavor ice cream do you like?

And they don't ask follow-ups.

And now, because the political environment has changed, and because Republicans have won a unified government, but not just that, because Republicans have basically for the first time in my lifetime, actually wielded political power to bring real pressure on the left, not just in government.

but in the cultural institutions.

Trump has actually put pressure on big tech and on the media, and he's he's revoked press passes, and he's going after some of his political enemies who have broken the law because they're getting a little bit tough.

And they're dealing not just in wishy-washy procedural norms of liberalism, but actual substantive goods.

Katie Porter's got to answer a question.

She says,

that's not what I signed up for.

I signed up.

If you sign up to be a Republican politician, you're signing up to be murdered by the left.

If you sign up to be a Democrat politician, you're signing up for a pleasant experience.

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My favorite comment yesterday is from Already Dead6539, who says the illegal immigrants have been more, have been dividing America more than any other time since the Civil War.

Yes and no.

The illegal aliens are the immediate cause, I guess, of the division, but they're not really the problem.

They're a problem.

I don't mean to downplay the issue of foreign nationals en masse coming into a country and not assimilating, but they're a symptom of a bigger problem because they were let in by somebody.

And the group that is really causing the division is not some Venezuelan peasant.

And it's not even the the cartel member.

It's not even the cartel member.

It's the American leftist who lets them in, who so hates his country, who so neglects the common good and only cares about private interest that he would let those people in.

That's the problem.

That's much more conscious.

That's a much more grievous sin.

Okay.

Close me out on Katie Porter.

I would love to continue to ask these questions so that we can show our viewers what every candidate feels about every one of these issues issues that they care about.

And redissearching is a massive issue.

We're going to do an entire story just on the responses to that question.

And I've asked everybody the same follow-up question.

This is amazing.

She has it like a kindergarten teacher.

I don't want to have an unhappy experience with you either, Sally.

But you can't take all your clothes off in the middle of class and start throwing toys at the wall.

You have to behave.

You have to, you can't, that's not acceptable.

Oh, I just don't, I just want to do it.

Now,

we're getting some corroborating evidence here.

The New York Post is reporting that Katie Porter's ex-husband,

according to court documents, Katie Porter's ex-husband says that she once scalded him with a pot of boiling potatoes.

I think she's got a little bit of a temper issue.

There's another video going around now.

She's setting up a shot for some kind of meeting or TV news hit.

And this is how she treats her staff.

State could lose.

Get out of my shot.

I wanted to tell you that that's actually incorrect it's not that it's electric vehicles it's that if we don't need the commitments under the paris climate accord okay it does okay you also were in my shop before that

stay out of my shot

this makes bill o'reilly look like a rostafarian man you're in bill o'reilly effort we'll do it live That makes him seem like Bob Marley, man.

Just, you know, it's all good, man.

It's one love.

It's all good.

Screaming.

And why was the staff member in the shot, by the way?

To correct something, Katie Porter had said, trying to help Katie Porter just goes off.

Can you imagine speaking to someone like that?

This, it's, you know, look, this is a real test of character.

And it's cliche.

I'm certainly not the first to say it.

You can tell just about everything about a person's character by how they treat waiters.

You can tell

20 seconds.

An extension of that is you can tell everything about a person's character by how they treat their staff and their colleagues.

And you can just tell.

You need 10 seconds of data and you can tell what kind of person this is.

But then the piesta resistance, and then we'll move on, is when Katie Porter apparently defended pedophilia on C-SPAN.

You know, this allegation of groomer and pedophile, it is alleging that a person is criminal somehow and engaged in criminal acts merely because of their identity,

their sexual orientation, their gender identity.

Pedophilia is a sexual orientation and gender identity, according to Katie Porter, and we can't be so mean to them.

LGBTQP, I guess.

Once again, the reason this is so devastating to Democrats is not because she's some freak.

She is a freak, but she's not unrepresentative.

of the rest of the freaks on the left.

The left believes that.

The logical conclusion of of the LGBT ideology about innate sexual desires and the impossibility of merely mental crimes, you know, whatever you do in your own mind, it can't possibly be sinful or aberrant in any way.

Love is love, desires are natural.

And

the consequence of all of that is,

well, yeah, if someone has some aberrant desire, even one as horrifying as pedophilia, you couldn't cast aspersions on that in itself.

That's a person's identity.

Maybe they can't act on it, but I don't know.

In some cases, maybe they can.

Some of these California Democrats, let's never forget Scott Weiner.

When he was state senator in California, his big political accomplishments were reducing punishments for pederasts, for grown men who molest teen boys, and also for reducing the punishment for knowingly giving someone HIV.

So, you know, these guys do have really, really freaky, consequential sexual legislation.

But it's also just in the ideology.

That's the logical conclusion.

The side that's eight times as likely as the other side to support political violence is probably going to be a little mean to the staff.

Yeah, that's true.

The side that believes that elections are only legitimate when they win, yeah, they're going to act a little entitled to journalists when journalists ask anything at all.

This is who they are.

Katie Porter is who they are.

We've seen that.

We've seen that really clearly over the last three weeks.

Why are they becoming so particularly irate now?

They're lashing out because they're losing.

They lost the government.

They don't have a foothold really in the federal government.

They're the minority even in the House of Representatives.

So from that standpoint, they could shut down the government temporarily, but otherwise they can't do anything.

And they've lost 10% of the youth vote between 2020 and 2024.

And they're losing black men and they're losing women, even young women, women under 40, and they're losing Hispanics.

And they're losing, man.

This is really bad for them.

And they're not going to go down without a fight.

And when I say they're not going to go go down without a fight, I don't mean that they're going to campaign harder.

I mean they're going to try to kill you.

And there's going to be more leftist violence.

And they're going to defend Antifa and they're going to say that the streets should run red with the blood of their enemies.

They won't even disavow the attorney general candidate who calls for all of those things explicitly.

Here's Tim Kaine, the former future second female president of the United States.

Tim Kaine, running away from reporters, asked about Jay Jones in Virginia.

Senator, you still support Jay Jones?

You do.

What do you do you should drop out of this race after those comments?

The comments

are

completely indefensible.

I've known Jay Jones for 25 years and those comments are very much out of character for him.

So if I put the comments, which are clearly beyond the pale,

against knowing this guy for 25 years, I'm still a supporter of Jay Jones.

What do you think about Republican today?

Oh, brutal.

You almost feel bad for Tim Kaine.

I don't, but you almost do.

Because he's walking.

He's trying to avoid the question.

I don't want to answer the question.

Don't want to answer.

And then what happens?

It's just, he realizes it's just so bad.

And he turns, he says, the comments are indefensible.

I don't support murdering Republicans and their kids.

But I do support it because I won't withdraw my endorsement of Jay Jones.

I support Jay Jones.

You see this?

So it's just words.

Some Democrats, many Democrats won't even say that there's anything wrong with his words because many Democrats explicitly support political violence and agree with Jay Jones that you and your kids should be murdered.

Some who have a little bit more political sense and maybe a conscience, but at least political sense, they say, well, these comments are completely indefensible, but I'm still going to support Jay Jones.

So practically speaking, they're still supporting that.

I've known him for 25 years.

Those comments are out of character.

No, maybe they're in character because because he said it apparently repeatedly.

So there's no denying.

That is his character.

And you have a choice.

Are you going to support that?

And you're going to follow your party in this direction?

Or are you going to stand up for what's right?

And Tim Kaine, he says, yeah, nope,

I'm with the guy who wants to murder the Republicans and their kids.

Nancy Pelosi, CNN, same thing.

A scandal over text messages in which he, the Democrat, said that the GOP Speaker of the House of Delegates should get two bullets to the head for how he paid tribute to a former moderate Democratic lawmaker who died.

He has apologized.

Should he get out of the race?

Well, that's up to the people, the

leaders in Virginia.

They have said he has apologized.

What I understand is they say that on balance he's the better person to be Attorney General.

But that's up to them.

But I wish there would be enough fuss of all the times that people have said they were going to put a bullet in my head right in public uh uh in the public ah

so he said uh he wants to murder a republican opponent and his children and this is coming out after a leftist actually did murder uh the most prominent civil debater in the entire country and after my party uh justified minimized and even celebrated it and uh but

He's still not a Republican, at least, so I have to support him.

That's what she's saying.

Better to have a Democrat who would murder half the country and their kids than any Republican.

Well, he's the better candidate in the race.

Has he the better candidate?

Because he's got a D next to his name.

So I support him.

That's up to the people of Virginia.

First of all, kind of, sort of, not really.

You get donations from outside the state.

Many of Nancy Pelosi's colleagues who are not from Virginia are endorsing in this race.

Corey Booker up in the Senate's endorsing Virginia.

Is Virginia the same state as New Jersey?

I don't think so.

Yeah, and anyway, I just want to talk about me.

Why are we talking about the real left-wing violence against Republicans that is actually happening when we could talk about imaginary right-wing violence against me?

Seriously?

Yeah, but that's what they always do.

This is the Seth Moulton response.

Yeah, I know with your eyes, you're seeing all these leftists murdering Republicans and talking about how they want to murder Republicans and celebrating the murder of Republicans, but really secretly, super duper secretly,

most of the political violence is from the right.

Can you show your dad on that?

No, no, thanks.

No, we're good.

But just trust me, trust me, bro.

I want to talk about me.

Final point on this.

CNN's Aaron Burnett has just come out and not merely defended Jay Jones or Tim Kaine or Nancy Pelosi,

has come out on CNN and defended Antifa.

And Trump's Secretary of Homeland Security actually took that further.

This network of Antifa is just as sophisticated as MS-13, as TDA, as ISIS, as Hezbollah, as Hamas, as all of them.

They are just as dangerous.

That's pretty incredible, right?

Hamas has just been engaged in a two-year war that we just announced the first stage of a peace plan to a few moments ago.

And ISIS?

These are incredible things to say.

And obviously, I'm not going to sit here and defend anybody who considers themselves part of an Antifa movement such that it is.

But such that it is, is the operative part of that sentence.

Antifa is far from a major sophisticated terror organization like Hezbollah, Hamas, or ISIS.

In fact, it's not even like far-right groups like the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, which have had national leaders, unlike Antifa.

There is no organized hierarchy to the group.

And according to the Center for Strategic and International Studies, compared to right-wing extremists, Antifa-linked violence is rare and limited.

Yeah, according to Antifa.com, Antifa doesn't commit any crimes.

Yeah, so actually, it's not a big deal.

First of all, to her point, she says, Antifa, oh, Antifa, you can't compare Antifa to Hamas and Hezbollah and ISIS.

Yeah, I guess you're right.

That's true.

Antifa is a much greater danger to Americans than Hamas and Hezbollah and ISIS.

A much greater danger.

It's not even close

because Hamas and Hezbollah and ISIS, all very bad guys.

We are civilization.

We've been fighting jihadis for a long time, about 1,400 years now.

But generally speaking, when they threaten Americans, it's in the Middle East.

They threaten us here on the homeland, sometimes, no doubt about it, but not a lot.

Antifa is here.

And while ISIS threatens the United States, as any geopolitical adversary might, Antifa threatens our whole political order.

Antifa threatens to bring about not merely a war against the United States, nations fight wars, but a civil war.

Antifa, they don't, they're barely even an organization.

They don't, there's no unity to Antifa.

I mean, yeah, they have uniforms and flags and a common name and a common set of beliefs, and they meet up in cells, often in bookshops, and they carry out fairly sophisticated acts of terror regularly.

But they're not like a real thing, like the proud boys.

You know, when like Gavin McGinnis would hang out with dudes and tell jokes and wave American flags?

That was a much greater threat to America than the Antifa militants who constantly set off bombs, shoot people, threaten to murder us, and are defended by CNN.

Frankly, this has been going on even since before Antifa became a cohesive brand identity, which was after the Second World War.

But going back to 1919, 1920, you had anarchist and communist bombings in America from the radical left against...

immigration restrictionists and law enforcement and business leaders, sound familiar,

all the way up through the 60s, 70s, 80s,

all the the way up to the present, defending Antifa.

So this is the problem.

This is the point I made yesterday on the show.

I wish we could kumbaya, man.

You know, I'm all for civil discussion.

I love it.

I just went on Adam Friedland's show.

He's a left-winger, very funny guy.

I had a great time on his show.

We had a good time.

It's on his YouTube channel somewhere.

I'm all for hanging out with the libs and trying to talk it out and being tough, but not being civilized.

I'm all for it.

I wish we could do that.

We can.

You can in certain isolated instances.

This guy can go on this guy's show.

We can have this debate with this person.

But

for the political order, if you have very prominent voices and institutions, as in the case of CNN, defending domestic terrorism, defending the murder of half the country, if you have the top law enforcement official in Virginia doing that with the entire Democratic Party behind him, he doesn't lose a single endorsement, when you have that kind of situation, There's no kumbaya.

There's no possibility.

Your opponent has a say.

And so there are two options.

There's more private violence, which is what the left is giving us, and which is generally speaking unjust, or there's state violence.

And the state violence is the civil authority coming in and arresting the bad guys and suppressing them.

And in some cases, the civil institutions deplatforming people and circumscribing what can be said and argued in a just and prudent way.

Those are your options.

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