Don Lemon ARRESTED! America limping towards Ft. Sumter? | Ep 727

Take a look behind the curtain with a real whistle blower, an American patriot. Prepare to embrace the uncomfortable truth because this program has no time for comforting lies. Here is civil liberties enthusiast, Second Amendment defender, and recovering FBI agent Kyle Seraphin. Well, hello my friends and welcome to today's Kyle Seraphin show. It is Friday, it is January the 30th. That means tomorrow is my parents anniversary. Happy anniversary to Diane and Charlie, 45 years together.

That's the goal. Sometimes I tell my wife I feel like we've been married for a long time. She says it's only been whatever it is 1213 years and I'm like it feels like 100 but I mean that in a good way because I like being married. It's been the best thing that happened to me. So very cool for my parents to be still celebrating that and sort of getting along most of the time. I think a lot of love to them. It's a friendly Friday, so we get to do a little bit of

friendly, fun stuff. I'm going to be bringing on Steve Friend in a moment. You can follow him at Real Steve Friend. And you should if you're watching over on X, if you're watching somewhere else, give us a thumbs up. We'd appreciate that. We're going to talk about Civil War, the new Fort Sumner. Are we? Are we slouching, limping, sort of walking slowly, dragging our feet towards some sort of a Civil War situation in this country?

And talk a little bit about one of the FBI agents that was up in Minnesota that wanted to open some cases on HSI and pursue the agents who were involved in the shooting of Renee Good. Kind of kind of fell by the wayside. I didn't really cover that story, but I wanted to. Don Lemon has been arrested. Oh, that's interesting.

We're going to kind of breakdown what that looks like, what we think is going on. Got the the face act we're going to cover with Steve friend and also a little bit more on that stuff. And then Donald Trump says that if you're not a boomer and you don't own your own house, well, you're just not working hard enough it seems, in direct contrast to some of the stuff that he said previously. So we'll deal with that. I don't know.

We're going to have a good time and we're going to talk about bacon cheeseburger in Ashland with my buddy who has some, I guess some visual aids. So we'll do all those things in one second. Let's start off with a little quick reminder. There is a digital service known as Patriot Protect. We use it here at the Seraphin household. I wish some of the ICE agents would use it. It would probably save them some problems. And if you are not using it,

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our sponsors and supporters. And we're going to get into today's Friendly Friday starting right now. It does seem like I have a little bit more pep in my step, even though I woke up feeling like Dash. I woke up and I didn't even think I had anything. I was like, how am I going to get through the show today? I had to go take a shower. So many of you guys are probably dealing with some of these winter bugs as well, and if you are, I pray that you get better soon because it's a it's a

bummer. I think it has something to do with the fact that the weather here where I am is so damn schizophrenic. It decides one day it's going to be winter. We have ice. We have snowish things that look real like snow sort of, but freeze over. And then 5 seconds later I could have been in a T-shirt. I think it wasn't a T-shirt yesterday when I went to Home Depot. I'm driving around. I could have been in flip flops if I wanted. And then it's going to be right

back into freezing cold. Very dumb. I don't like it. Let's do that thing where we bring on that one guy and he's this is his jam song. There's the Steve friend, the friend. Hey, what's up, buddy? Not much man, just enjoying my Florida privilege here. Florida is the land of milk and honey, where woke and winter storms go to die. Steve, are you wearing long sleeves or are you wearing short sleeves? I'm wearing long sleeves, but that should not be interpreted as to mean that it's actually

cold outside. I can kind of the human iguana equivalent, as evidenced by the tropical foray in the background here, courtesy of Madame Friend. She helped me redecorate the studio. If it drops below 73°, I kind of, you know, feel a little bit chilly. That's why I'm encouraging all of my listeners on the Amred pod to go outside and spray full can of Hairspray in the air every day. Let's let's make global warming

great again. All right, if you're new to the program, this is Real Steve Friend. Let me let me splash his stuff across there and just talk over while he's sitting there. Find him at Real Steve Friend. Sometimes referred to as RSF in our chat. Steve is a former FBI agent. He's a whistleblower. He is an author. He kind of got scammed out of writing a book and they didn't pay you all that much money for it, but you did it anyway. So good on you.

Kudos to you for for sucking that up and doing it Steve. Also, when we first did we first meet doing the police date like face to face was it the. First face to face in Houston and, and I mean frigid Arctic Houston. It was, it was like 100° outside people, just so you're aware. And Steve and I face to face, first time ever. We're working and we're doing a couple of shows like in the in the hotel lobby or whatever the meeting space was. And he comes down and he's wearing like a North Face

windbreaker jacket. And it's summer in Texas, in Houston of all places. And that's when I first was kind of exposed the idea that this man is actually an iguana. And his circulation stops at about 70°. And without long sleeves and some additional sort of warming devices, you straight up will fall out like a like an iguana in a tree when the temperature drops below 50. I'm currently coaching a six week season of eight and under

flag football. In order to do that I fully invested in thermals and a heated vest and extra footwear. Does it have the power button and warmers? Because it might get to like upper 50s at some time. Steve, is there a power button on your vest that? Like, and it has it's pretty good, man. Like you're, you're the tackleberry of the tactical community. I am the tackleberry of the accoutrements to keep you warm in mild conditions. Somebody who doesn't want to be cold.

I don't hate it. I just think it's kind of funny. I think you're funny because of that. So you got some, you got some graphics. One of our listeners, you don't even know who, so you may have to query the chat. Let me give you full screen again. If you're not, if you're not watching and you're just listening, then you're going to miss out on whatever the heck visual aid Steve is going to share with you, which came in from one of you.

So thanks to those that are supporting us by sending us interesting packages. What do you got there? So first the umbrella, one for the entire Kyle's here in the audience. Bacon cheeseburger Nationalist. This is like a poster. It looks like It looks like a like a like a vinyl cover. It is, it is. And I have one for for my Patriot cooler as well.

Good. And then secondly and more specifically to my faction, which is the Hot Pocket faction of the bacon cheeseburger nationalist that we just want things faster. I have a specific one. It has legs and the legs look like they're made out of like French fries or dough or something. Alright, so I don't know anything about Hot Pockets, but Dan Bongino said something nasty about people who do hot hot Pockets. Was he talking about you and not me? And was I mistaken?

You know that could be implied to this point seeing as how our our last conversation he said that I had a unique ability to to assist him and yet forgot about me right away. So maybe in the derogatory material where I had character issues, he must have been looking at secreted videos of me doing crazy things with frozen goods. Can I do it? Can we do it? Can we do a bacon cheeseburger thing?

As we get launched? I feel like I have an extra like 90 seconds to play with because I, I usually show up a little bit later than our, our, our 9:30 Eastern Time attempt. Here is a video that's been sitting in my hopper for a long time and I just wanted to play it today because you have graphics that go along with it. This guy says every single burger commercial in America. So this is him doing his impression of, of company selling you burgers.

They told us we couldn't put fries in a burger, so we put fries in our burger. They told us we couldn't dip those fries in a milkshake. So we overthrew the British, took out Osama. We made it illegal to kill a bald eagle. Introducing the all new Texas toasted double bacon double cheese. Who gives a shit about the name? It's a cheeseburger. And this is America. We maximize shareholder value. What's he talking about? I feel like you wrote that.

That could be a platform for the upcoming elections for the Bacon Cheeseburger Nationalist Party, right? It could be, yeah, we maximize shareholder value. And no, no particular reason. I like that. The guy went from like doing turntables and setting up his repeater loop and then like rolled over and then hit the drum set. That's a packed little room. That's that's a room that I could get behind.

Yeah, yeah. He's a Jack of all trades, a master of none except drawing on every single burger or automobile like 4 wheel drive truck. Commercial, they're all like that. Yeah. It's like bassy grovelly voice super intense America things UN like unrelated. I like he's like we overthrew the British. Sam Meltington is like that guy's got some some good baritones. Yeah, you're, you're not allowed to put. I don't like it when people put stuff in their milkshake. My kids do that right now.

They'll dip things in milk that don't need to be there because little kids are always figuring it out. Yeah. All right, let's, let's talk about this, because I guess this is the alternative to that. You could overthrow the British. You could fight external enemies, or you could just find one at home. What are we limping towards civil war here, Steve? Is that, is that what we're doing? Been. On record for a while. I think we're actually engaged in a cold civil war at the

moment. But you can just monitor the goings on around the country and seeing that it's becoming more and more kinetic and now you're seeing some state representatives basically inviting it. And that's going to be the determination of the federal government what they want to do. I mean, do they want to go full blue versus Gray or they want to do I think what is the better alternative? Suboptimal.

But let's just see the territory and say, like, you know, ultimate states rights, we'll withdraw completely all the federal footprint to include not just immigration enforcement, but, you know, highway upkeep and Social Security and Veterans Affairs. Like everybody who lives in these states, you don't get anything from the federal government. That's probably the best way. You know, what's kind of funny is that they're limping towards

this. They're talking about it even even Tim Walz in in Minnesota was saying something about that. And amusingly, it's still, it's still Democrats who essentially want to keep slaves. Is that not? Is that not ironic? Of the Union too. Yeah, I like it's, it's, it's actually paralleling very

nicely. So Victor Davis Hanson had a piece he was writing on his own website and and was published on American Greatness it said in the months before April 12th of 1861. By the way, I always remember when the Civil War started and ended because I read a book called Across 5 April's which maybe. You did as well. I got to tell you my story about

that book. OK, let's read this first and then we'll get your story on it. I will come back to you and then we got some clips here we're going to jump into. OK. There were a lot of sharp divisions in the North about the proper reaction to the 1st 7 Confederate states that had already left the Union. Not all the Unionists believe that war was inevitable. Some, in fact were happy to be done with the departing South and thus their stain of slavery gone from the Union.

Similarly, others agreed, but the emerging Confederacy was not worth the trouble or the cost of war, and secessionists could form their own nation and Stew in their own backwards servile juice. But after Fort Sumter, which by the way, I always think it has AP in it, I always think it's Fort Sumter, but it's Fort Sumter.

After Fort Sumter, Lincoln, who was hated as much by the Confederates as Trump is by the woke and socialist left, gained A consensus that the Constitution had no clause about any lawful departure from the Union. But it did operate under a clear supremacy clause that made it state obstruction from federal law and occupation of federal property was a was veritable sedition. And so he and the preservationist felt that they had the moral high ground and the of abolitionism versus the

continuance of slavery. They went after non fragmentation sort of situation there. And so Victor Davis Hanson has a nice piece which I'll put in the comments for you guys to be able to read. If you want to read further about the similarities between Minnesota and South Carolina before we forget Across 5 Vapors, go ahead and then we'll do some clips about this.

Victor Davis Hanson has been covering this for a while talking about Neo Confederates and he put an interesting video out there that George Hill shared with me. I wonder if he still got the link but across 5 April's. I remember reading that in high school and I remember reading it twice in high school because I got really sick, like horrible fever. And when I get a fever flu thing, I tend to have these hallucinations while I'm

sleeping. And I was reading the book and then get sick and then hallucinated about the book and couldn't recall what I'd actually read and what I actually had made-up in my mind. So with the due date upon me, I had to essentially reread the entire book. I. Was going to say that would make for a really good book report. My see my my game was when I was in college. I used to be able to read about 10% to 20% of the book and then write the best paper in the

class. And then I actually got called out. My professor pulled me aside and he was like, how much of the reading material have you actually read here? Because your, your classroom discussions are spot on. And I was like, Oh yeah, probably like 10 to 20%. He was like, I kind of thought that he's like, no one else knows, but I know because I'm the professor. Like you're getting a great great. GPT user before there was actually an artificial intelligence available.

Right. I, I just always could, I could interpret what was going on from a lot of context clues. You know, like a lot of people that are, that are dialed into people. There are people that are clearly smarter than me, but I was always able to kind of see what people were saying and what they knew and what what was happening with a lot less information so. Anyway, groundskeeper in the beginning of the episode of Scooby-doo and you're like, oh, that's the bad guy.

Obviously, that's the bad guy. Yeah, clearly. Yeah. Especially after it was always the groundskeeper. It was always the first person they showed who happened to be like sort of a helper. Wait a minute. There's like a trend there. OK, Let's let's start with. This is CNN's panel discussion and they're discussing the possibility of this Tim Wall

Civil War kind of commentary. And I think it's funny when Scott Jennings points out to people on live television that they haven't really thought through who's the good guy in this story. He said today that he thought maybe this was like the next Fort Sumter. And when I when I Governor Wall said that and previously he had referenced the Battle of Gettysburg.

And so when I hear that kind of language coming out of a governor, this sort of fantasizing about an American Civil War, first of all, I don't think he stopped to consider who that makes him in this entire endeavor. Jefferson Davis, spoiler alert. And #2 if you wanted more calm, if you wanted a little bit more cooperation, if you wanted to ratchet things down, you would not be referencing the first shots of the Civil War and maybe thinking that we're in the

middle of another one. You agree or disagree? We don't want to get into a debate about political rhetoric, I don't think because there's do you? Do you like the Fort Sumter language? I don't like it, but I don't like a lot of things that I hear in our political atmosphere. But I just constantly am baffled by when it is directed at conservatives. They suddenly want to clutch their little pearls. And then when they constantly egg and ramp up the you do like it? No, I don't like it at all.

But what I'm saying is, are you, are you, are you clutching? No, what I'm saying is call it on both sides. I wish I'll never do. See, you only want to. You only want to. Catch. But then yeah, because like you. Want Pearl you don't like? On that side but when your side I don't wear pearls. You don't want. Are you clutching pearls? I'm not entirely convinced she knows what they're talking about. No, Jemele Hill. Isn't she some sort of sports commentator who never actually

played sports? She also doesn't have natural hair. That's not her hair. No stunner. She's wearing some kind of weird blonde wig thing. Did she and Nicki Minaj go to the same hairdresser? Well, does that kind of make her MAGA right? She could be MAGA. I don't know. I don't even know what MAGA means. I thought it meant make America sort of great and constitutional and that we were going to look backwards and try to do good things that used to be done.

But that's not what we're going to do. We're going to make fun of people who don't own houses today and say you're not working hard enough. So some of that in just a second. I don't know all that that that discussion isn't it. That was actually the kind of stuff that I used to see in college where people would they would not read the material.

She obviously didn't understand the the assigned background material and she doesn't have the ability to actually assess what's happening in front of her. So she got into an argument about Pearl clutching, saying I don't want to have an argument about rhetoric, whatever that may be. I don't. I think there's an H in there. She just knows that her role in that place is whatever Scott Jennings says she has to oppose it. She's the foil. Do you think she knows that word?

Foil. Like the kind you put on a bacon cheeseburger when you haven't finished it. That kind of foil, obviously. No, I don't think she knows very many words in general. She's kind of like Candace Owens, who doesn't know that architecture doesn't have an X in it. That's out of nowhere. I don't even does she do an architecture. Misperpetation. I've seen this. There is a Twitter handle that just monitors Candace Owens's inability to read and points out things how she says like ChatGPT

and architecture. I had a boss whose name was Bob Abernathy in San Francisco, CA Interestingly enough, a guy that I worked with at that job was my first job out of college. He reached out to me and he goes, hey, what's up, man? It's Tom. Like, we used to work together way back in the day. And I was like, I remember you. TomTom was super tall. He was really, really nice. He was really funny and a dry sense of humor.

And our boss was this goofy dude who would come in and say things and he would always say the word, obviously, but he would mispronounce it and he would use it about 50 times in a normal paragraph. So as an example, Steve, we're going to talk about New Jersey and the governor there, whose name is what? Mickey Cheryl, I think. And so the, I feel like you should know the New Jersey governor. Isn't that like your dad's? It's not America, though. It's not America, but listen, I

got some funny things about her. So anyway, if I were to do a a little discussion about what we're going to talk about in the style of my first boss out of college, who used the word obviously, but he mispronounced it and he and he said instead of obviously he would say obviously. And so he would go obviously we want to talk about the New York and Jersey governor, who obviously was, you know, talking on some TV shows. She's a politician.

And obviously, you know, there's some questions about whether or not she has obviously she could have misused some of her resources and maybe done some insider trading. Obviously we don't know all the details on that, but. Obviously, if we did, we could find that troubling. That's how he talked all the time and he used the word over and over and over again and the two of us would just look at

each other and kind of grin. Anyway, that guy reached out to me. I love people that mispronounce words because they make me go, what don't I know about you? Obviously, this is going to be the not American governor, but governor in a place that also wants to get into the Civil War. Think all this attitude of Civil war. It's all clicking with me. She wants to do an ICE database. She wants to log these people because they need to track the federal agents that have invaded them.

It's a hell of a it's a hell of a position to hold. And I'm going to get your reaction in one SEC. I've already met with AG. We are putting out information on what helping New Jerseyans know their rights. We are not going to allow any ICE raids to be staged from state properties. And we are also going to be standing up a portal so people can upload all their cell phone videos and alert people like if. You see an ICE agent in the street? Get your phone out.

They have. Not been forthcoming. They will pick people up. They will not tell us who they are. They will not tell us if they're here legally. They won't check. They'll pick up American citizens. They picked up a 5 year old child. We want documentation and we are going to make sure we get it. Great. OK, with all that cheering, can

you break that down for me? So her complaint is that ICE has not been forthcoming with the state of New Jersey, and in effort to combat that, she wants to forbid them from doing anything on state property and break off all contact with them. So it's kind of like she's facilitating the exact thing that she's complaining about. And on top of that, ICE has no responsibility to actually communicate with the state of New Jersey at all. It's a federal entity that has a

federal responsibility. It's one of the very few charges that the American people with our social compact, with the federal government that we implemented, we gave up some of our liberties in return for protection of the border and border enforcement and the top of like coining money and signing some treaties and that's about it. And the jurisdiction of the state doesn't matter at all. But it plays really well. She has that that reader there, I guess. I mean, you can't really think

that she's an intellectual. She's just leaning in and nodding along with her eyes closed like this governor, some sort of religious affiliate leader. I mean it's. Gross. That's a comedy show. That was The Daily Show. That was The Daily Show. I don't know who that woman is. I've never seen her before but I also don't watch it. Stewart back to The Daily Show because.

I thought he was, I thought they dipped into the bag, found out that having a South African sort of like racial, racial Bader wasn't going to solve that problem. So they brought in. Now apparently they have a whole slew of people because they need a whole cast of people to replace him. So they do anyway. She can't always answer all the questions. She has the right answer. We're going to catalog and and we're going to keep track of ice.

She had a very definitive response to bringing in, quote, UN quote, federal whatever occupiers less so when it came to did she or did she not do like maybe $7,000,000 worth of insider trading of things like defense stocks while she was on a particular committee where she had access to, I don't know, defense information? So this is the governor of New Jersey on a very friendly show. By the way, this is Charlemagne the God. Isn't that his name?

It's. Charlemagne, Megan, God, it's Megan V Stallion TH EE and Megan V Stallion. We went over yesterday. But it's interesting for people that don't know that that woman is claiming to be a uncircumcised horse, like a a a breeding stud horse. All right, anyway, here's here's a governor of Jersey and a friendly radio interview. So when Newsmax claims that you made $7,000,000 from stock trades, what are they talking

about? Newsmax is first of all, a very questionable organization that is paying multiple fines. I'm not sure what they're talking about. Well, did you make 7 million in stock trades at all? Or I I haven't, I don't believe I did, but I'd have to go see what what that was alluding to. Again, what kind of came from doesn't matter because I'm going to make sure that he doesn't get to serve again when I win for governor in November of this

year. There's another big difference between her public service and my public service. It actually cost me money the time I put in and took away from my company. In the seven years that she's been in Congress, she's tripled her net worth. There's another big difference between the two of us. OK, she broke the law. She had to pay fines for violating federal law on stock trades and stock reporting.

And the New York Times reports that while you're sitting on the House Armed Services Committee, you were trading defense stocks. That's kind of damning. You would think in a country that you know was an objective force for good, that elected people who were supposed to be patriotic and looking at it as an opportunity to serve the country and serve their fellow citizen rather than boost their net worth or increase their followership online. Increasingly, the latter seems

to be the biggest focus. But imagine being asked a question, a very, I mean incriminating question you know is coming. Steve, did you did you make $7,000,000 worth of? Stock trades last year, you know, I make so much. What a great position to be in as a Congress person that you don't even know whether or not you made $7,000,000 from your stock.

Trades, I mean it's just the ebbs and the flows, the way that thing, the market moves today, I mean I could have made 75 billion or who lost it. Who can really keep track? Once you have that much money, who can even keep track? I don't know. I just thought that was great. I thought it was a great little moment. We're still on the topic of civil war.

We're on the topic of of demonizing people who, as you said, I think our audience is generally going to agree that the one thing that the federal government should be doing, shutting down the border. I'm into it. That's great. That's step one. That's the tourniquet. The surgery is cutting out the cancer of all the people that came here illegally, whether they've been here for 25 years or not. I got some really strong feedback because Rand Paul's

like, I'm kind of a moderate. I think we should, you know, let them stay here and work and keep paying taxes, and then their kids could be citizens. It's like, no, your kids cannot be citizens. We need to get rid of birthright citizenship. By the way, for those people who hate Tom Massey, he introduced a bill trying to codify in federal law the same thing that Donald Trump has written by executive order. He's also trying to get rid of

birthright citizenship. Tom Massey, the Democrat, as people love to get mad at him for. How about this? Let's just do the full comparison. What's Godwin's law again? No matter what, every conversation online devolves into a Hitler reference. This eventually becomes the same thing on mainstream media, which is now just chasing online cloud. Here we go. Here's Stephen Colbert saying things that obviously some people think, obviously, obviously they think this.

But Vino went on complaining. Look, Dana, they're they're, they're trying to portray Border Patrol agents and ICE agents as Gestapo Nazi and many other words. Yes, do not compare ICE or Border Patrol agents to the Nazis. That's an unfair comparison. The Nazis were willing to show their faces. Oh, so there's that. Yeah, that's a late night comedy show. I mean, don't you want to tune in for that? That's so funny. It's so funny to just act like Nazis.

Didn't you know they were better people than people who are in in ice? Is that? Before or after he did the dance routine about injecting a gene juice in your arm? I haven't heard a lot about that. I haven't heard a lot about the my wife and I talk about this all the time. It's just regular conversations like where did people go with the with the you must be vaccinated. That was the dominant, that was the dominant conversation in

this country for several years. For all the talk now, particularly on immigration and deporting illegal aliens, show your papers. They tried to make us have vaccine passports to go to a restaurant or a movie theater or

a sporting event. Yeah, I actually, I don't remember who I was talking to. I think I was talking to a journalist who will remain nameless, but is somebody's been on the show before and the discussion was about vaccine passports, being able to go to sports ball games and having fake papers to be able to go do it. And, and they were totally effective because nobody there was no standardization of the paper situation.

That's the other thing that has to happen if you're going to have papers, everybody has to know what the papers are and what they look like. Like if you were to come up to me and show me your, your driver's license from like, I don't know, like Illinois, I'd be like, looks good to me. But remember when they used to when we were younger, before you could Internet, you know, do a quick Google search and find out whether it was a Real ID or you could scan them or whatever.

And people would just like generate IDs that look legit from places that were not even real. They they look nothing like Hawaii. The whole Mclovin. Yeah, that's exactly it. It's like, I don't know what I don't know what a Hawaiian ID looks like is the first one I've ever seen. And if you could do it in a college town, you could always get away with that kind of stuff. Very funny. I think it's funny. All right, we're going to pivot over to the Nicki Minaj equals.

I got a correction to issue and I always want to be real transparent when I don't know something or I get it wrong. I'm going to own it and we're going to own it and then I'm going to get Steve friends honest reaction to what I got wrong and then he'll see what my punishment is.

Maybe you can give me some absolution for being wrong about the difference between Cardi B, Nicki Minaj, and I'm sure there's like two or three other ones that I don't know the difference between Megan Thee Stallion or whoever else is out there in the world. Before we do that, let's just

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Steve, I am prepared. I'm prepared to own a mistake and then I also want some like kind of a crime and punishment scenario like we used to do with the the OPR files. What is HR would like you to identify the difference, folks, if you're not watching on Spotify, if you're listening and you can't see what's going on, then check us out. Rumble, YouTube, Spotify. This is how you do it, Steve. HR would like you to identify the difference between these two

pictures. Challenge accepted, I guess. OK, so here you have to describe it for people that can't see. So. I want to actually I just want your your description. Yeah, it's going to be a 2 lighter skinned African American women of a healthy bosom size in which they're nearly indiscernible. I would only know them by name and reputation because I believe Cardi B was the criminal who used to drug men and steal from

them. And then also is one of six baby Mamas from Stefon Diggs, wide receiver of the NFL, that he has. And then you have. I don't know. I don't know who that is. She had a baby with an NFL player, but out of. Wedlock. She's currently one of his six baby Mamas, which is interesting because the first one to file child support actually gets the most amount of money and then subsequent, the next one gets a smaller bite of the apple. It's a really kind of interesting way to go about

paternity situation. Yeah, which, which one of these women performed or wrote or is famous for the for the, the song or whatever you would call it, the the, the artistic creation WAP. I think that's. Quite right. Well, I don't know if it's Cardi BI. Believe that that she's the one in the Mega Red on the right hand side. Can we be? Can we be honest? Nobody actually really knows in real life, including me, including you're not 100% sure our audience got it straight.

But more importantly, Laura Ingraham is pretty sensible as far as the well, she was one of the better interviewers we ever saw on Fox, and she doesn't know the difference either. So I just want to say I got it wrong. It's clearly one of these two women, whoever the one is, that's Nicki Minaj did not do WAP. It's the other one, Cardi B, who allegedly used to drug men as a stripper and steal their wallets and stuff. And it's an, it's a, it's an honest mistake.

You can even make it on the biggest Uber conservative. Are we sure there's actually two different people? Has anybody ever seen Nicki? Minaj, that's another question. At the same. Time unconfirmed reports that they could be the same person. I can't prove it, neither can you. Again, HR asked you to identify the difference between these two and I'm pretty sure they're the same person. But that's why Laura and I don't

know the difference. Now. Nicki Minaj. And Donald Trump now, you know, conservatives or or including myself were beyond disgusted by some of her lyrics in her songs over the years. WAPI won't say what that stands for, but that's Cardi B. Oh, that's how bad I am. That's Cardi B. Thank you, Sam. I stand corrected. She just has a producer to whisper in her ear because she didn't know the difference either.

And I, I imagine the producer is something like my experience with them where they're screaming in your ear, like wrapping up, wrapping up. We got to go to a pocket catheter commercial. So they they were quick on the draw. They got that one done here. She was speaking about how she's Donald Trump's biggest fan. This is why this is now the new MAGA. I'm going to make her have a a cameo appearance a little bit later, 'cause we're going to talk about the big story.

And the big story is that Don Lemon got arrested. So let's get that here. Let's start off with her statement about Donald Trump. I am probably the president's number one fan and that's not going to change. And the the the hate or what people have to say, it does not affect me at all. It actually motivates me to support him more, and it's going to motivate all of us to support him more. We're not going to let them get

away with bullying him. And you know, the smear campaigns, it's not going to work, OK? He has a lot of force behind him, and God is protecting him. Amen. That was awkward. Why did she say Amen at the end of it, you think? Well, she realized that the audience there she's, you know, like Misses Charlie Kirk, she's got a appeal to that side of things. And and then go about unleashing her, her lap, her rap lyrics and pimping herself out. You know, however, she's got to make her buck.

Do you think Donald Trump has any awareness of who this person is? He's standing behind her, of course. I don't know. I don't think that she's his number one fan. I think that the that position is being vied for every single day by members of his cabinet. And yesterday, despite her saying that and doing the kind of, I don't know, it's like she's I think she's Trinidadian, but but goes it somewhere and

she's. Used to doing an actual public address, as evidenced by she's standing at a podium where the microphone is pointed at her forehead because they haven't adjusted it for her height. And nobody gave her a box to stand on. So she's she's not a tall person. I can empathize with that. That's not her problem. But again, I'm I'm Donald

Trump's number one fan. I'm going to say some things that are blatantly sort of sloppy ish and then I'm going to try to end with Amen because God is behind Donald Trump. She says that may be the first reference she's had to Donald Trump and God or a first reference to God, period. The Amen felt weird to me. I don't get it. But she's nowhere near the number one fan because yesterday Howard Lutnick was the number one fan. We're going to pivot over to discussions about housing.

Donald Trump is salt. Hold on, Steve, let me just let me just put us big. Donald Trump solved all your problems. Did you know that? Well, it's true, non restrictive waistband. It's true. Donald Trump held a cabinet meeting where he talked about how he doesn't sleep. In cabinet meetings. Sometimes he closes his eyes when they're boring, and a lot of them are boring. They're boring because there's not enough knob slobbery. So they upped the knob slobbery to A10, maybe an 11.

And here's Howard Ludnig being the actual #1 fan. That's how you get money down. That's how you fix the deficit. You are fixing everything with your policies. You've changed America and created the Golden age. Thank you. And with the, Is it true? Is the knob slobbery of Donald Trump the Republican MAGA equivalent of the land acknowledgement? Hold on, let me put our chat up on the screen. Steve does this to me all the time.

He always has one of these little zingers that comes out of nowhere because his mind works very differently than mine. And he just, he got me with that. The land acknowledgement, explain. A land acknowledgement, I mean. Before you make any sort of public statement, if you're a communist, you have to acknowledge that you're standing on stolen ground from the tribes

before you, right? That's that's how you exercise your bona fides as a duly a member of good standing, somebody with a card carrying member of the Communist Party. Similarly, you have to do an adequate amount of knobs lobber to show that you're sufficiently MAGA in order to then say whatever you want in support of the movement. That's so gold, man. The the first reggae, the last time we were on, we talked about. Reggae vocalists. Yeah, I keep telling.

I tell my wife I'm like, I was talking to a woman today and she was a reggae vocalist and she she's like, oh, yeah, I hate that. OK, you brought up communists. Did you know that they elected this one guy to go do communist stuff in New York City? Were you aware of that? The one who turns his head when he's being so inauthentic that it almost falls off his shoulders. Yeah. Yeah, He's like a.

German shepherd like his. Like when a German shepherd is hearing something that it's like, it's like, wait, we're going to go to get a steak, like that kind of stuff. Yeah. He's found out the reality of finances way sooner than people would expect. Usually communists don't recognize the situation they're in. They just blame somebody.

He did blame somebody. But I just since you brought up communism and I had this clip in the hopper here, this is he has a great name, Zoran Mandami. It is a solid name. It is a solid name. It sounds really good. It's it's better than Nicki Minaj or. Magaman villain type of name. It's a Bond villain name and he has decided that he's going to do a very uncomfortable comparison to the Jackson five. I think this was not well

advised. I don't know where he he did not do a Steve friend land acknowledgement sort of a sneak in. Nobody laughed at this weak ass joke, but he they did realize that they've got a budget problem in New York City. Same guy that was saying a little while ago like there's no such thing as a as a problem with budget. You could spend unlimited amounts of money on illegal aliens. Suddenly he's the guy right in the checks and he went like, oh

boy, we got a problem. And so we went to the Jackson 5. New York City is facing a serious fiscal crisis. There is a massive fiscal deficit in our city's budget to the tune of at least $12 billion. We did not arrive at this place by accident. This crisis has a name and a chief architect. In the words of the Jackson 5, it's as easy as ABC. This is the Adam's budget crisis in 2025 under OK Rape My man on his ABC. What do you think?

Chuckle Hut. I mean that dog won't hunt even for a communist audience which can't remember the Jackson 5. And he read that off a teleprompter. He did. It looked like a hostage video, right? Like Blink can. You imagine going in and like all this shit talking he was doing about what they were going to do and they immediately ran out of OPM. Immediately. They were like, hey, by the way, we'd like to use some OPM, other people's money. And then they were like, we're

actually in the hole of $12 billion. 29 days into your administration and you're saying, well, I guess we're going to have to soak the rich. Oops. So he's actually created a relatively intelligent idea. He's going to do a New York City Doge. I think you tell me if this is not New York City Doge, this is a directive that within five days, every single agency head has to identify a chief savings officer.

And then within 45 days, those officers have to come back to us with a full assessment of the savings that could be pursued, the efficiencies that we're currently seeing and the programs that frankly need to be sunsetted or not effective. OK. So go ahead, put your John Hancock on that. And that will become officially an executive order as of this moment, right? Yes, this is now an executive order, the first to be signed on PIX Eleven. There we go. He means Herbie Hancock, obviously.

For the listening audience that was curious, did he just doge New York City? I think so, but I I imagine in true communist form he probably insisted that those agencies hire a chief officer to do it, so he created government jobs in order to. I think Doge did that too. I don't. I don't think that we're wrong about that. Elon was probably working for, you know, a pittance. I mean, maybe $7,000,000. I don't know. All right. So adding, what do they call it? Adding by subtracting?

Is that what they say? Addition by subtraction. So yeah, addition by subtraction is when you get rid of somebody and everything is better. Should we do 1? Yeah, I'm down for that, particularly if it's her ex-girlfriend. It is our ex-girlfriend. This is the scene of the Renee Goode shooting. A story that kind of got away from us for a little bit. Glenn Thrush and Alan Fuhrer reporting. New York Times. Don't just brush over that that slip there. Addition by subtraction.

Renee Goode shootings comment. I don't it wasn't specific to her, right? It wasn't specific to her. No, it was actually, it was more specific to what it highlighted in the the sort of communist listen, when I make the the point that we have not solved the problems of our federal government, there's always evidence. There's there's always something there to remind us. Yes, no. Oh yeah, Could be. What is it? What is that song? Is that Tears For Fears? Why can't I don't remember who

sings it? Now you're doing a Jackson 5 mom Donnie type of pole. I know I'm out of my GAD depth. Hold on, we're going to find out. Is it aha? I only listen to what my wife likes, which is angry boy music. Why do I not know? There's always something there to remind me. Written by Burt Bacharach originally. Is that the original naked eyes? Whatever. Somebody in the chat tell me. OK, FBI agent who tried to investigate ICE officer in the Renee Goode shooting resigns.

This happened a week ago and it got minimal fanfare from us. And that's a that's a mistake on our part. I had someone call me yesterday from inside the beer to make sure that I was tracking it. I knew it was true. It was shared in our little chat, but we might as well bring it out here as well. The resignation of his agent, whose name is Tracy Mergan. TRAC EE. That's relevant later. Tracy Mergen Unconfirmed. Unconfirmed. I cannot figure out.

I mean, it's obviously a female agent which is going to be tell us certain. Things Tracy Morgan, the comedian. No, no, Mergen MERGEN Tracy Mergen was the latest shockwave to have emerged from the DO JS handling of the shooting of Renee Goode. Again, this is a week old story, so bear with me here. It's worth knowing Tracy Mergen TRAC EE combined with some other information about Tracy Mergen leads me to believe that there may be ADEI component to this person's job, and I will.

I will also ping against your expertise. The FBI agent who sought to investigate federal immigration officers who fatally shot or the federal immigration officer rather, who fatally shot a 37 year old woman in Minneapolis this month resigned from the Bureau, according to two people familiar with the matter. Several others have also contacted me, so I will substantiate this further. The agent, Tracy Mergen TRAC EE Why am I repeating it?

I don't know. She left her job as a supervisor in the FBI's Minneapolis field office after the Bureau of Leadership in Washington, DC pressured her to discontinue civil rights inquiries into the immigration officer Jonathan Ross. Let's just straighten this out. A couple things because they call her a supervisor. She wasn't actually a supervisor. She was an acting supervisor. And more importantly, they didn't pressure her to discontinue an investigation.

They shut it down because that's what happens, which is not terrible. Actually. I'm actually, this is sort of a refreshing. We got 2 positive things to say about how the FBI handled things, including running off Tracy TRAC EE Morgan, who just happened to be. We're going to get out into her background here. I got to get to what squad she was involved in. Let's see, they where is it? She was the OK, This may be another story out there.

Maybe it's not. In this original reporting, she was apparently the acting supervisor of their civil rights squad. Are there any white women running the civil rights squads in the FBI that you're aware of? Just out of curiosity? I mean I don't know why this is the case but this is a legitimate thing that every civil rights division and senior manager and leadership, they always end up being black people and including black females. Your experience? This is like being the secretary

of HUD. It's like a requirement that it's a black guy. I fight, Yeah. It's, I mean, it's offensive how how easily you can set your watch by this stuff because it really shouldn't be that. It should just be people who want to go investigate civil rights like you'd think it's, you know, Harmeet Dillon, the the demon singer of the RNC or whatever she does. What do you call? What is that? What is she doing? She's doing the seek prayer.

The seek prayer. I'm going to search this woman's name again because the New York Times does not actually report the other information that I had seen. And so let me pull some more up on here while we're talking about it. Yeah, she was a supervisor, unsuccessfully tried to prosecute. We've got some stuff coming in from democracy now.

The Guardian also really upset about her situation, but I swear that they said she was an acting supervisor and more stuff came out as things went on. I do know that that she was part of the civil rights. Oh, they said there's that. There's no basis for a criminal civil rights investigation. That's true. There actually isn't. There's no reason that you'd think that that was what was going on. But that's what the DOJ did when they went after Derek Chauvin. It's kind of a tried and true.

That's probably her squad that did that if I had to guess. And the difference between Derek Chauvin and this particular incident with Renee Goode being that it's a federal officers who's involved, so there's a federal responsibility, whereas Derek Chauvin was representing a state agency. So the feds can come in. So any sort of debate about whether or not there need to be cooperation between fate, a fed and state is not really an apples to apples comparison.

And it's also worth saying that the FBI for Derek Chauvin on the killing of Saint George Floyd, the FBI actually had an indictment in hand when their verdict came out for Derek Chauvin. He was getting acquitted that day. He was not going free. They were going to get him no matter what, which is, to me, sort of an example of weaponized government. And this gal here, Tracy Morgan, went out and tried to use her levers of power that she had at her disposal.

And there was an assessment of what was going on. They said there's not an investigation to be had now, maybe sometime in the future. But she took quite offense to that. And she left. So addition by subtraction. But she's a communist, and she knows that she'll be rewarded as a good and faithful servant somewhere else. Something good will happen for her. Here you go, the acting FBI supervisor. This is coming in from from CBS.

This is also a week ago and from two people, Dan Clayman and Scott. I was an acting supervisor so. That's what I was. Getting on any sort. Of yeah, there's three, there's three people here talking about her being a supervisor. Is, is a little bit, a little bit disingenuous. I'll have you explain acting in a second. But the acting FBI supervisor for the public corruption squad, it was public corruption and also they handled civil rights investigations.

A lot of smaller offices don't have the the bandwidth to be able to have like a stand alone public corruption. So they'll have public corruption and civil rights and those things kind of go hand in hand, which is going to come up to our Don Lemon story in a minute. Says Morgan left the Bureau, quote in part due to the pressure on her to reclassify discontinue the good investigation, said a source with knowledge of her departure.

Another FBI source said that she would not bow to pressure from leadership. It turns out all they got to do is close the case. I guess a supervisor level person could approve their own case, but somebody approved it and somebody said that's not going to happen from DC.

Again, this is, I don't think it's as bad that we see coverage, at least on that one, protecting that ICE officer, because that was the worry we had when we were in Portland in 2020, that we were not going to be backed by these people, that the, the, the DOJ leadership would turn around and investigate us immediately. That was my guess. So they're doing, you know, they're doing the right thing

there. They may not be doing the right thing on the other one, which is the shooting of of of pretty which I still there's a lot more context that I think we don't have yet. Anyway, thoughts on being an acting supervisor you want to explain it to? People, well, anytime you have a squad, there's a GS14 who is in charge of the agents or on that squad who are GS 10s all the way up to 13. Those are the brick agents

working the cases. Now, there could be a promotion where that person moves on to greener pastures or a transfer, or they could just be out for the day because they're sick or they're on vacation. Somebody actually has to keep the seat warm because if something happens, that's an emergency, we need to have a boss, we need to have accountability. Or if we just need somebody to sign off on documents because you can't just write a report in the FBI. And that's how it is.

It's theoretically supposed to be vetted and proof read and sign off on by a higher authority as supervisors. So if the boss isn't there, they have to appoint somebody to be the substitute teacher. And it could be a long term thing. I mean, I did it for 100 days between one permanent person and another permanent person because there was a gap in time. But I also did it when somebody was out sick or on vacation and it could just be one day or a

week. And then the going statement of phrase is that you'd beware the acting supervisor because people who are in a ambitious. It doesn't even have to be at squad level. It could be an acting assistant special agent in charge or an acting special agent in charge. One of the best ways to put a feather in your cap to promote, if you're ambitious, is to take disciplinary action against

people. So an acting supervisor will a lot of times be like an attack dog because they want to have that bona fide of saying, hey, I, I disciplined this person. I got this person fired. I've got a funny acting story I'll tell you in a second because I was acting one time because I never wanted to be acting. And I said don't make me the acting supervisor. You have no idea what I'll do with that power. And I also did not know what I would do. And I did something kind of funny.

We're going to finish up with this little thought here. According to a source with direct knowledge of the matter, the FB is Public Corruption Squad is also under pressure from Deputy Attorney Todd Blanche, Deputy Attorney General Rather Todd Blanche to investigate campaign finance contributions in connection with the Feeding Our Future, the Minnesota nonprofit. This seems like something you would want to do. It was said to be the nation's

largest COVID era fraud scheme. I thought that that's what they were doing. We were told on no uncertain terms that that was where they were going. You'd think that's what they would do. Let me tell you a quick story about when I was acting, just for a minute. See, because I don't know if you've heard this, but I used to work in the surveillance squad. My boss was a pretty good guy and he said, I'm leaving you in charge for a couple days. I don't know what he was doing,

sick or trip or something. And I was like, no, I don't want to do it. Then he was like, well, you're up and nobody else will do it or nobody else can do it. So you're the guy. And I was like, that's a terrible decision. So he did. He left me in charge and I took it upon myself to clear out this gear closet that I wanted to clear out. Guys, I'm a total tackleberry type guy. So I had a desk. There was an office that was previously used for something that it wasn't allowed to be

used for. It was AGS 13 that pretended to be a supervisor. When John Nance, my, my, my former boss was there, he put this like woman who is like his, his work wife working in this big office that she took over and she just did the supervisor job while he watched Fox News. And so I didn't want anyone else to do that again. And I always thought that was kind of a liability.

And it was a perfect space right across from the gear closet where we could lay out all of our equipment and our radios and our, our plates and our helmets and all the, you know, surveillance equipment, cameras and all this kind of stuff. So I went in there and the real thing that was holding me back from making this room what I wanted it to be was like a big credenza and, and sort of like some shelving that was part of some kind of a desk unit, you know, that was built in the

1970s. Like you always find those big kind of, what do they call them, like press board garbage. So I just went in there with a sledgehammer and I smashed the hell out of the desk and I broke it into pieces and I carted it off manually by myself down to the dumpster and I threw it all away. I made sure that it wasn't on the inventory, but I don't know that it wasn't on somebody's inventory. And so when my boss came back, I had this brand new gear room, which looked really good.

It was lock and key. That was the big deal. We could actually lock up the closet and so on and lock up the the desk. And so he looks over at me and he goes, he goes, so did you do anything that you shouldn't have done? And I go shouldn't have done? I don't know. I said, I did some things and do you want to see our new gear room? And he goes slowly roll on that real quick. What are we? What are we going to do with the desk in there? And I was like, there is no

desk, Aaron, there's no desk. And he was like, where did it go? And I was like, Aaron, there is no desk. These this is not the desk you're looking for. And he was like, what if it hasn't like an S number on it? And I just went, don't know what you're talking about. You left me in charge. I take full responsibility. There is no desk. You don't have to worry about it anymore. We didn't. It's better to ask for forgiveness, I suppose. Demoed it. He came in, looked at that. Nothing.

There's no desk. It's completely gone. Great gear room. We never got in trouble for it. So sometimes you leave them and they actually try to, you know, like get rid of things and build stuff that's useful. Usually what they want to do is try to get rid of like Steve friends or Kyle Seraphin's or my friend Josh. They fire him for that kind of stuff. We actually had Joe Puglisi on our our roll call once. And Joe Puglisi was or Joe, is it Joe Pugs?

Yeah, Joe Pugs. He got jammed up by an acting supervisor because he didn't wear a suit. One time when he went to court he was wearing a tie and a dress shirt, but not a a jacket. When he wanted to go sit in court appearance where he was testifying. Just he wouldn't testify. No, he was just sitting in the background watching. Yeah, they removed him. Any case, the acting supervisor thing is a real problem. And so anyway, this guys gone, this guy, this gal, whatever.

Tracy TRACE. See if you guys can find me a picture. She's also gone in in coordination with, I believe, six federal prosecutors out of the Minneapolis office. Allegedly, yeah, people just all kind of quit and. Resign going on there saying, hey, we should be going after this ICE officer and they're also saying and we should be focusing in on the the fraud that's going on. You're distracting us by not taking it away. I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if there's some collusion going on.

I would not. Let's do another story. This is kind of AI guess. Good job guys. I've got a I've got a tempering version of it 'cause I think that's always the case. Before we jump into it, if you're watching on Spotify, thanks so much drop us a comment. If you're listening on Rumble, give us a thumbs up. We were back on the leaderboard yesterday, although we dropped a little bit.

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Somebody actually mentioned that they had a problem and they were unable to, they were unable to find the video version on Spotify. I don't know why that is, but if you're having problems, we'll try to help you out. But I think it's there. I went and looked today. OK Don Lemon, he was arrested. That's a funny picture. He shouldn't have taken that picture. No, no, I can feel like. That with GQ. Dropping quite a bit. OK, should I add something to it? I did something.

Just like addition by subtraction. No, there we go. There's there's Nikki. No, that is that Cardi BI don't know. That could be Cardi B or Nicki Minaj, whatever it is that is a MAGA lady doing a salute to Don Lemon, trying to lick Lemonheads in his pocket. Very, very strange. Let me read you the story from a guy named Jordan Rubin, who is a writer for what blog is he part of? He's part of the Deadline Legal blog at Ms. Now, formerly MSNBC.

And the the headline of the article is judge blocked the Trump DOJ on Don Lemon. A grand jury could do the same, could do the same. Turns out they did not. It sounds like grand jurors around the country have rejected some of the Justice Department's most blatant political efforts. I mean, we're still weaponized. I think we are. It's an understatement to say that the people in Minneapolis are fed up with the Trump administration, federal

occupation. More of that support Sumter language have shown this in the streets now they send their loudest message in a grand jury room. And that is if the Trump Department of Justice tries to bring its most politically motivated cases for the approval of citizens whom the federal government has been disrespected or even killing. Litigation surrounding Don Lemon could be an example of where this is heading. And so there you go. That was the original thing.

That was kind of the shot. And here's the chaser, Steve. You want to read the headline? Bam. Former CNN anchor Don Lemon taken into custody, sources. Say sources say so. There you go. So the former cable news anchor Don Lemon was arrested, multiple sources with direct knowledge told CBS. Source familiar with it says that the grand jury wasn't paneled yesterday. FBI and HSI were both involved in the arrests and it wasn't clear what charges he would be

facing. The stuff that has come out seems to indicate it was conspiracy against rights. There you go. And that makes sense because of the conspiracy angle, because with a conspiracy, it's an agreement between multiple parties to do something that is afoul of the law. And you just need one of those parties to engage in something to further that plot along. So an agreement plus one person and part of the agreement does

one thing. And I think of him having conversations with the people ahead of time saying like, oh, this is a secret operation would indicate he's part of that conspiracy. Yeah, kind of gave himself away on that stuff. Not his not his smartest moment and and trying to be a tough guy about it and saying come get me Pam Bondi probably wasn't the best thing. It does seem like this this DOJ operates for clicks. And so I'm going to give credit words due. I do think that this was the right move.

I don't think that they did a good job when they they got the wrong, they didn't get the face act. And I want to, I want to show people what happened when they tried to go after the face act on the other folks that they had arrested. This is what the judge wrote

regarding the face act. The judge wrote that the five people, that five people without arrest warrants were, quote, accused of entering a church and the worst behavior alleged among them is yelling things at the members of the church. None committed any acts of violence. The leaders of the group have been arrested. Their arrests have been widely spread publicly or for publicity. There's no emergency. The government could have sought indictments, which they

eventually did. I'm interested with this piece here where he says none of them committed acts of violence. What do you think that means and why does it mean that? I think that he's implying that a FACE Act charge would require an act of violence to have occurred, which is not correct. Do you wanna, do you wanna scan through this? And we'll, we'll, we'll share this with people so they can understand why that's ridiculous.

I think it's ridiculous. Yeah, well, FACE Act is the freedom of access to clinic entrances, which was passed in 1994 with bipartisan support because the Republicans, if either chamber had not actually done this betrayal to the American people, it doesn't actually fly. And I do think that is appropriate in that they equated the churches of the respective sides, one being houses of worship for the right and the other being baby kill mills for

the left. This is the can we get a religious exemption law, but it has three components to it. What, three ways you can be afoul of this law? One is you block a woman in some way. Obstruct her from being able to murder her baby. That's the first one. Yeah, let's read We've got it on the screen so we can go the direct words if you want to read them so people understand. By force or threat of force or

by physical obstruction. Intentionally injuries, intimidates, or interferes with or attempts to injure, intimidate, or interfere with any person because that person is or has been, or in order to intimidate such person or any other person or any class of persons from obtaining or providing reproductive health services. OK, so people as you as you read laws like this and broadly speaking as non non attorneys who have had to work within this framework, the word and means inclusive.

So both things need to be true when it comes to or it means any one of these things in the list must be true. And so this is very simple when you start doing this. And by the way, the the language for the reproductive health services mirrors that of a church or worship place of religious worship, which is their wording. So let's just do by physical obstruction interferes with or attempts to interfere with both of which are good right in in order. And then it says yeah, yeah,

yeah. So like it it literally you don't even need to have anything. It just means that somebody either by physical obstruction threat of force ends up being someone that is involved in. I'm trying to look at the specifics words of this of this statute interferes with that's it. It's it's it's so broad that the 18 USC 248 charge should have been a no brainer, I think. And so the only one that they ended up getting them with was this conspiracy against rise.

Feel free to respond a little further on this if you want. This is the actual statue talking about religious worship. It's right there. Well, I mean, the the language does mirror there, but the intimidation aspect to it, I I think yelling very loudly in a person's face could easily be construed as intimidation. And I read from Tyler O'Neill over a Daily Signal that a woman's arm was actually broken during the course of this happening.

Is that right? Which would implicate that there was a certain modicum of violence and they prevented 50 people from being able to actually freely leave the church. Which would, in my understanding of the law, be an unlawful imprisonment, which does count as kidnapping? So that would be generally a state charge, I would think in this one, because it's not

Interstate kidnapping. Yeah. I mean, I'm a little bit off on that because I worked on Indian reservations and that does count as kidnapping. So maybe I'm a foul of the federal law, but an unlawful imprisonment at the very least is something that you could, you could look. You'd think the state would care about that sort of thing. And having people trapped in a building is not ideal. OK, So what they actually ended up getting for is as as is being reported right now.

And this was the case for the other civil rights people who experienced poor outcomes, 18 USC 241, the conspiracy against rights, which as you said, two or more people, they conspire to injure, oppressed, threaten or intimidate state any person and that's it as they're trying to exercise their free rights. So it's it's very broad. 248 is kind of an easy one. It's kind of the easy out on this thing.

I think here's where I cannot help but think about it because I always look at things in context. And I do think that this DOJ, even though this is not a bad thing that they went after Don Lemon, I actually think it's probably decent. We're dealing with a real problem, which is that this also happened and what we don't see is justice or any sort of movement of this administration to correct this. Have you seen any James?

What you want to read the headline, but any James revenge arrest under this administration? No, no. Headline tracker 500 attacks on US Catholic Churches since May of 2020. I mean counterpoint, what happened when it was dark outside? Yeah, yeah. Look at the look at the numbers here, because they're actually kind of staggering 400, five, 145 since May of 2020 on Catholic churches alone since the Supreme Court League of the Dobbs decision, 379 in. And this is even in 2026.

This year, since the since we've started the new year, all 100% under Trump, there have been 2. And I've seen like very minimal movements on the face act. So I just want people to get it. It's like, look, we're, we're happy to call out a good move when they have it. We'll salute. We'll give the salute. That's a weird, I hate the salute where you're where you're at. Look, when you do the salute with the arm like this, it makes me want to hit you. You don't have military bearing.

Then no bearing at all. Give it. Give it a freaking crisp salute if you're going to do a salute and act like a doofus. But yeah, this is not great. It's not. It's not the greatest. It could be better I think. And the FACE Act again has the three components. It's the obstruction of the abortion clinic, it's the obstruction of the actual House

of worship. And then the last one is defacing one of those two locations again, and we're back to the churches of one side and the churches of the other being on par with each other. The equivalent is just rich with irony here. But that's why defacing a church is a foul of the face Act similarly to burning down an abortion clinic, which didn't happen.

And you know, personal anecdote, I reached out to crisis pregnancy centers in Florida. In my location, there's there's no abortion clinics where I'm at. I reached out to them and I said, hey, this job decision came down, are you under any sort of threat? And the the women at both locations were really appreciative to that. And I also thought that they would be great resources for potential human trafficking that came through. Always a possibility that.

Reported that up the chain and they said, oh, that's great, Steve, But can you really focus in on the abortion clinics? Like, well, one, we don't have them And two, the DOBB decision will make those locations defunct because of these SNAP laws that are in place once the Roe Wade, Wade is overturned. So that would be like assuming the people who win the Super Bowl then burn their own city down. And like, that only happens in Philadelphia. So not really concerned about it.

But that was where the priorities of the time for the FBI were in 2022. And just like this Tracy Morgan, I mean, shut those down, Steve. That's where the priorities are. And similarly, she's was upset about it. That's right, probably not as upset as the woman who was arrested for doing this work and should be charged with face act but is currently not. She got to have a modern day

experience of slavery. Did you know that every person that you arrested, Steve, was the experiencing the the sort of remnants of African slavery, no matter what? She do the throat clearing land acknowledgments. Then you have to say that policing was about slave patrols. So yeah, I guess apparently that's how it was. Let's Let's do a highly academic a review of the experience of being arrested for violating

federal law. We had belly chains around our waist and we had handcuffs with bars in the middle. As someone who majored in African American studies, I can tell you that that is the closest I ever felt to slavery in my life. Being shackled as if I was a slave. It is unacceptable and unconscionable, but it's on brand for a while. Almost, said white supremacist and we cut the clip. Cutaway your reflections. Content of character, right?

We about a week and a half ago had Martin Luther King Junior Day that we all acknowledged not the color of your skin, the content of the character. So you were, as you're reporting to us, shackled just like everybody else, regardless of the pigment of your skin, what you got wagging between your legs, who you like to have sex with, what the name of your God is, you were treated equally. So God Bless America. Is that why we overthrew the British?

Like bacon cheeseburgers or it's illegal to kill? A bald eagle, man, That's what we did. That's kind of funny stuff. OK, I'm going to move on from that. At this point. He's been arrested. We'll kind of like let it

develop. I don't, I don't know what the story is. We're going to see how those charges go. I am glad, though, that the the judges said like, hey, this isn't national security, go to grand jury because you're blowing up the process, You're making the process the punishment because you're seeking A complaint rather than an indictment. And then as an aside to Harmeet Dillon, you went on your social media account and said, hey, what do you want to see happen

to these people? A Madam Assistant Attorney General of Civil Rights, your job is to follow due process and to present it without any undue influence. That includes anonymous Twitter accounts. So the defendants in this case should probably use that. Because you were galactically stupid. Because you were seeking engagement farming rather than following the process. What is the threshold to reach Galactic Stupid Steve? If you do nob slobbery before the president. That's that immediately.

You're galactically stupid. That's that's my threshold at least all. Right, that's fair. All right, we're going to pivot over here. Again, if you guys are watching anywhere else or if you're listening anywhere else rather, you should check us out on Spotify, Kyle serifandshow.com. Very easy to do if you're watching on Rumble, if you're watching on X, if you're watching on YouTube, make sure you follow Steve at Real Steve

friend. Follow the American Radicals podcast, which is at Amradpod on X and on Rumble and you can find it on YouTube is the American Radicals podcast. Until further notice, we'll do that. Let's do, let's do this story. I don't know why. I think the story also what's going on. This is Chuck Schumer. For those of you that are listening, not seeing Chuck Schumer's standing, can you describe what it is we're seeing? Because I'm not 100% sure what I see.

Here, he's doing the Joe Biden right, Cornholio pose. Doing the corn, Julio. Yeah, I grabbed this and I couldn't not put him up. He's got 2 fists clenched. His shoulders are kind of awkwardly low, so they're kind of like he's doing a skiing move, and his face looks like he's having a bowel movement in a suit. He's trying to hold back. My sensation was in seeing Don Lemon with his tongue out. Like that's kind of what I was feeling, but I didn't actually represent that on screen.

Yeah, that's that's the cringe factor. The cringe is what a weird thing for what a weird photograph for them to do. I love it when these old people start doing corn Julio. It, it shows me that they're slipping. Anyhow, we're going to talk about boomers, Not all boomers, but boomers that do dumb things in public. So this is the, this is the story. And this is actually fascinating in so much as #1 apparently they're going to fund the

government. Apparently the government can work when the government is required to work. Is that your take away here? Yeah, they can apparently line item stuff when they really want to. The thing that we were told reliably by Smithers, Mike Johnson that he was going to do. He was going to do that going back November 2023. They can't do it except when they're going to do it. Are we, are we becoming radicalized into Chuck Schumer and and Josh Shapiro fans all of

a sudden? I'm not radicalized to like any of them. I just think it's funny that they're eventually turning around to the same tools that we were calling out. And I thought the Republicans were. Fans, this is a dark day. Yeah, it's a dark day. You know what? Swalwell probably is more masculine than some of the weirdos that are that are cheering on Donald Trump. That I can see anyhow. And, and I mean that in a in a

totally legitimate way. Doesn't mean I like any of the things he's saying, but I'm also a fan of like running off the Cliff fast. I don't want to go slowly off the Cliff and tip. So this is this is in so much, this is interesting in so much as the way that it's framed in different news media. I want you guys to consider this as you consume news. Everybody has a perspective and there's never been a better example of it than what I'm

seeing today. I'm going to show with you, this is the same company up until 5 seconds ago, NBC and MSNBC, which is rebranded as MSN now, which I also really don't like, but I also didn't like MSNBC when it came out. So I just don't like change, I guess.

NBC News reports as follows. Trump strikes deal with Democrats in government shutdown funding fight The agreement includes advancing 5 spending bills, including the Homeland Security for two weeks as lawmakers negotiate DHS and ICE and so on. More on that in a second more Civil War language there in a second. Here's the crazy thing. Are you ready for the alternative? For the for the hard left audience? You read Umbrella?

Read it. Democrats say Schumer is holding the line against Trump and Republicans in the deal they just struck. Here we go. Trump signs a deal with Democrats. Democrats say Schumer's holding the line. Isn't that funny? Choose your news, choose your narrative. Don't confuse me with the facts. Don't confuse it. And then what?

You know what? CBS even though they don't have any pictures, which makes them less fun for the visual presentation, they have the most sane and sober version of this I think. Which is a deal. Yeah, go ahead. Senate reaches a deal ahead of shutdown deadlines to fund the government, continues ICE talks. So they're going to segregate the Department of Homeland Security funding out into a separate bill so they can keep

the government open. And this is actually what my prediction is for Donald Trump going ahead. He's the deal maker, right? That's what his persona he likes very much. He doesn't care what the deal is. The deal here being we're not going to fund ICE, but he can say we got a deal, we got a deal. He's looking forward to the blue wave that's coming in November. OK, here's Hakeem Jeffries saying things that I think are a little bit more problematic than

not. I think this goes into the line of the Fort Sumter sort of scenario. I think this is Civil War type talk. I also think they know exactly what they're doing. I'll take your take. If you ever want to pause anything in the middle of these while we're on the screen, Steve, just put your hands up and give me a time out and I will stop it and get your reflection. Here we go. Disgraceful. She's got to go, we are dead serious. Agree. She needs to be put on ice permanently. Wait, what?

She's got to go. And by the way. Did he just? She's not the only one. Wait, while we're talking about the violent rhetoric, did he just say that the Secretary of Homeland Security needs to be put on ice permanently? Is that not a threat of death? Stand by. It's. Disgraceful. She's got to go. We are dead serious. She needs to be put on ice permanently. You've seen them the show the movie Zootopia with your kids. Yes, yes, I have. What do they mean when they say ice this weasel I?

Think that means it's a death threat? It's they're going to drop him in the. Ice. They're going to drop him through the hole in the ice. It's a mob hit. Ice this weasel. I can't help but hear that and be like even my kids knows what it is. He he thinks he's being coy and clever because he's. Using ice, I know, but permanently as a different animal. Put somebody on ice as one thing to cool. Off you have one job.

Basically, you're a bad actor. Your job is to read the lines that your staff puts out there so that you can put out the 22nd clip on social media and send out fundraising emails and you failed to deliver. You just did a death threat against the cabinet secretary. Look, I don't think it's a serious death threat and I don't think anybody, I don't think it matters, but it's really not good for the people that are claiming. That he's capable of developing

a callus on his hands in you. Know he looks very gentle. Let me finish his little thoughts here. But yeah, I just wanted to make sure I wasn't the only one that heard that. She's got to go, go. And by the way, she's not the only one. We got to ice more people. So that's good. All right. Anyway, that's that's kind of troubling in a lot of ways. Not the only person saying this kind of stuff. They're they're tough talking. Jamie Raskin, big fan of him. He used to wear a DO rag when he

was in WAS. He better when he was a pirate, yeah. I thought he was a member of the of the the Crips. Is he not? Was he not a Crip? No. I don't I. Don't he won the crip. I can't see him. Did you? Wear a blue. He wore the blue. He blur the blue thing. He's a Democrat and he's a crip. I thought, I don't know, okay, pirates better. So when Jimmy Raskin was a pirate, he was more fun. Now he's not a pirate. Here he goes. Based on your legal expertise, do you have anything?

That you would tell Christy Norm right now it's it's obviously this woman just said based on your illegal expertise. Who are these two people, by the way? This is the daily mic drop the call to activism that Why is that woman's eyes so shadowy? Is someone beating? Sitting. So I mean, they're sitting closer. I've never seen Patel and Alexis did on the couch, so maybe they're together. Holy moly, Does anyone know who these are?

OK, if you're in the chat and you're watching this right now, these two people, there's a man who doesn't speak in this clip, but he's sitting closer than. Yeah, you're correct. Then Cash Patel and Alexis Wilkins, when they were being interviewed about their love affair. These two people are doing ATV broadcast with a congressman, and they are. They're physically touching each other. Anyway, that's weird.

All right, let's continue on with this illegal, this illegal experience that Jamie Raskin has. This is why you're here, Steve. Well, she should certainly go

find herself a good lawyer. But the the Democrats made it clear today, either she is going to resign or she's going to be fired, or we are launching comprehensive impeachment proceedings that will culminate with my committee, the Judiciary Committee, Democrats, conducting hearings across the country and across the range of all of her constitutional crimes and offenses. And we are going to arraign her

on those impeachment charges. We know that we are in the minority, but we believe we will have all the Democrats with us. And it will just take a handful of Republicans to come over for us to impeach her. And already you can see Republicans across the country distancing themselves from Kristi Noem and her horrifically incompetent and cruel presiding over the Homeland Security Department. That's Zach Galifnakis and Alexis Wilkins. That's what I'm going to tell my kids.

Yeah, I think that that's probably the best. I mean, the beard is strong. I don't know about, you know what, what is. He looks dunking. On between the ears he's a little bit doughy yeah. He's kind of the guys that are thrown aback by the accuracy of a weapon system that they could pick up an AR15 and actually hit a target from 7 yards at a range when they've never fired it before. They're they're they're really

impressed. They're the ones that come out and say like, I'm a novice shooter, I can't. That gun shoots a. Target it. It shoots right where you point it. Can you imagine a gun that shoots where it pointed? It's. Not a bomb to compensate for a crooked sight. It's not a it's not an open-ended blunderbuss for like shooting turkeys and my mind from from the original Thanksgiving. Yeah, that's going. To Jamie Raskins, he presents

three options here. She can resign, the president can fire her, or we're going to have hearings. Is that just perfect Washingtonian speak? I'm super threat. I actually was a little bit more concerned when Hakeem Jeffries said they were going to ice her permanently. That's scary because. Of that New York mobster accent all.

Right, let's give credit where it's due might be my favorite sort of sub cabinet level person in the Trump administration and the least she's the dark horse for the winner of this

particular category so far. And this picture does nothing to dissuade me. So if you're if you're listening right now, you're missing out on something very special because if you're going to be in charge of the United States intelligence services, you want people to catch you doing a spy versus spy kind of craftily speaking into your cell phone with whatever this metal riveted wall is. Or maybe that's like a like a, that's a truck. Maybe is that what it is? Like a sort of container truck?

Yeah, she could actually be in like a semi truck, I don't know. This is Tulsi Gabbard. And Tulsi Gabbard was creeping around in Fulton County, Georgia. No further information. As we say in the business, NFII don't know why she was there. No one else does either. And it's causing people who are Democrats to be concerned. No particular reason why. And we have a slew of stories that are going to cover this, which I'm going to punch out

real quick this. Is the image they went through with Dark Brandon that Joe Biden couldn't land? This is like, this is what I expect a spy chief to be doing. Like creeping around, saying shady things, hanging out in the back of trucks for no. Reason this is cancer, man. This is Cancer man, Cigarette man, the cigarette smoking Man from X-Files stuff. She's in some sort of a dark coat, wearing a baseball hat to obscure her identity, and she's giving whispery OR. For God knows what.

Good for you Tulsi Gabbard. I don't know why that's so entertaining. I have no she might be doing terrible by the way. She might be violating everyone civil liberties. But I just found it funny because this picture was everywhere and people are responding as a meme like this is a freaking meme when your spy chief is doing spy stuff. Spy stuff? She looks like she's doing spy stuff. Wait. Why aren't you doing bureaucrat stuff? This is weird. It is weird. OK, here we go.

So this is Jonathan Karl at ABC News Post that Donald Trump posted discredited conspiracy theories following the seizure of 2020 ballast in Georgia. I actually don't know what the hell is going on there. We do have a story of a guy reading out pieces about the search warrant or at least pointing out what happened. There's some holes in what he said. Republicans always seize on the dumbest things and go, yes, look, This is why it's justified. A Magistrate Judge did it.

I'm like, yeah, magistrate judges are kind of they're hit or miss. Like, they're not, they're not whatever he's pretending to be. In the. In the hours after FBI agents seized 2020 election ballots from an election facility in Georgia on Wednesday, Donald Trump posted a series of thoroughly discredited Can you Fact Check that for me while I'm doing this, that they've been thoroughly discredited conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election and the 2016 election?

Have they been thoroughly discredited, and if so, by whom? I believe that both NBC News and Ms. Now have discredited, so that makes it thorough. OK, well that makes more sense. I didn't realize. That full spectrum of the local. So Donald Trump is like, cue posting or doing whatever he's doing. And it's very upsetting to people that he says whatever he thinks. And then this epic picture shows up over at NBC News. Tulsi Gabbard under scrutiny for showing up at the FBI I raid.

Why is she under scrutiny? She's prohibited from taking part in domestic law enforcement, but she's not doing law enforcement. Is that a law enforcement activity you see there on the screen, Steve? Talking on a phone. Yeah, no, no, she's doing spy stuff. Yeah, I mean, wasn't Fox News at the at this as well? Were they part of law enforcement or they just reporting? We played it yesterday, yes, Fox News just wandered in and then the FBI agents like, hey, bro, you can't be here.

And he's like, well, I don't got a key. Maybe my favorite reaction to I'm being somewhere and I didn't, I didn't make me get here. It's so fun. Anyway, the the caption for the photo you're seeing on the screen is National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard speaks on the phone in a vehicle loaded with boxes outside of the Fulton County election hub and operation. Center. She's in a freaking semi truck doing weird stuff. She's so good. I'm, I'm, like, childishly

amused by this thing. I can't help it. Donald Trump watched the live feed of the United States military Operation Capture capturing Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. That's literally the first line of this NBC story. The the director of national intelligence was not in the room. Just two days earlier, she posted pictures of herself on the beach in Hawaii practicing sunset yoga, sending out a New Year's greeting for peace. Yeah, that's not my favorite.

I'll be honest. That's the thirst trap thing. She appeared, but she's better looking than than Christy. No. All right. She appeared to be on vacation in the run up to such a high stakes, ultra sensitive military operation. Well, you know, it turns out intelligence are not the same as doing military operations. Go figure.

But on Wednesday, she was at the election center where FBI agents conducted a raid seeking ballots from the 2020 election, which Donald Trump has falsely claimed that he won. Maybe, maybe not falsely. Just saying her Her presence baffled national security experts and raised questions about whether she was seeking new relevance in the eyes of the president who'd soured on her. There's no reason he should have soured on her at all. Is. There any evidence that he's soured on her?

I don't know, but this is great. Look at this. Look at this picture too. That's also really good. She's an all black. She's got a freaking Black Hat on. It's not multicam, there's nothing patches. I think it might be multi. Black. Actually, I can't really tell.

That's unfortunate. Company FBI agents on a raid is unprecedented for a chief of United States intelligence whose job it is to track threats from foreign adversaries, unless they were foreign adversaries, as everybody keeps alleging, involved in that election, which is certainly a possibility. And I never saw it properly adjudicated. All this stuff is fun. All this is amusing also. I just really wanted to show this picture more than anything else. I hope that's OK.

The theatrics of it, I mean, I, I think it's kind. Of this is the contrast of today this is today's show in a nutshell tulsi gabbard is a spy doing spy stuff Don Lemon is trying to lick his own shoulder like what they used to tell you to do when they were doing the retarded test you remember they would do that when you were a kid in. Yeah, middle school. Try to bite your own ear.

Yeah, bite your own ear. He's like, literally, he's like trying to lick his own nipple with his without putting his head down. Don Lemon. Very funny. OK. I got a couple other little interesting clips, I think in in sort of preparation for what we thought was happening and what is not actually happening. I think it's fun when Tim Waltz goes out there and has decided to address the fraud. I didn't know that he addressed this, did you? No, no. I. He. Addressed the baritone man Tim

Awols has got for us here. Remember when we were all found out that he was doing a stolen valor and avoiding combat and then we all just forgot about it? Yeah, they don't really care about facts. Apparently we also lived in another make. I didn't even realize it, but there actually was no fraud, just like there was no desk in the in the office that I cleared out for my boss. There actually was no fraud. That was that was like make believe or something, Steve.

So we got that. Isn't the fraud you're looking for? It's just not you. Mentioned this fraud investigation and the reason that they're here. Is there anything you think when you look back you could have done differently to prevent them from showing up and doing what they're doing here? No, no, they were coming anyway. We had this was it was all make believe that we'd been at it. Every state had this. And look, I, I do think there, there has to be accountability

in this. No one in state government was implicated. This happens all over. People did this. We fight, you know, we got it caught. We put him in jail or whatever. Steve, did he just say that there was make believe it didn't happen, but everybody does this, Yeah. Everybody does it and they put him in jail. I mean, that does kind of check with his surroundings there. He looks like he's in the Kremlin. All right? And they do put people in jail for things that didn't happen. Sure.

OK, got it. OK, so it didn't happen, but if it did it was good and if it was bad then they already arrested the people. So why are we still talking about? This just check on. Another kind of articles were popping up about how the the there's going to be a downturn or kind of a quieter presence in Minneapolis. I actually do think that the the leftist got what they wanted. They got kind of a retreat. Here's Tom Holman claiming that the federal government didn't do

a great job. That's probably true. It probably is true. It's not great for people who want to see a lot of deportation. So that said, I'm not here because of. The federal government has carried this mission out perfectly. First thing I said to senior staff and I walked in here is what I told you earlier. I didn't come here looking for the officer headlines. I come here looking for solutions.

I do not want to hear that everything's been done here, has been perfect, nothing's ever perfect and anything to be improved on. And what we've been working on is making this operation safer, more efficient. By the book. The mission is going to improve because of the changes we're making it internally. I always appreciate someone doing a little bit of internal critique and doing a better job what they had previously done. How about you? I think that that's a fair

position to have. But at the same time, Tom Holman to me isn't the guy we had said it to our group. Like Tom Holman is the 2026 version of Rudy Giuliani in 2020 with the hair dye dripping down his face, saying he was going to unleash the Kraken and save the election. You know, I saw that guy say something on Fox 1, so let's

just put him in charge. That's essentially the reason that I think he's been put there because Donald Trump just is a boomer who watches Fox. And if you're a boomer who watches Fox is not necessarily a criticism of you. It is a criticism of the president. Because I don't think Tom Holman has the requisite bona fides or background to to handle what's going on in Minnesota.

Like, what makes him uniquely qualified, particularly if he's the guy who's on record is saying, you know, only maybe the worst criminals, we and everybody else, we should find a pathway. He got in a war under Obama. Nothing against Tom Holman. I I like the way that he says it. He seems like a rational voice. It's kind of like watching Donald Trump suggest that Dan Bongino can save the FBI without any evidence that that's the case. Well, he did.

He went to the case agent for the pipe bomb case and said you're going to bring me this guy and that was all they needed. That's all they needed. They just needed somebody to whisper in their ear kind of dramatically. Yeah. End of the day, Tom Holman has more experience in the agency he's dealing with. I don't know, going softer now was not the answer because it seems like the other side is also doing improvements, including on their shield design. So I'm going to share this.

I don't think you've seen the Steve. Enjoy a little bit of a tutorial. Sometimes we like to teach you how to do stuff. By the way, these do not stop bullets. But if you want to stop, I don't know, fisticuffs, then you could make this interesting homemade craft and this guy has kind of a fun thing and then I'll show you kind of why I think it's

relevant. I did see stuff like this in Portland in 2020. Welcome back to Dirtbag America where we prepare ourselves for the resistance by building shit for cheap. A few months back I showed you guys how to make a lightweight self-defense shield, but I knew I could do better. So today we're going to improve on our design. This old rain barrel was 20 bucks on marketplace and I can get 3 Shields out. I've had this jigsaw for about 10 years and it finally died

during this project. But all good things must come to an end. And we're. Going to finish it with the Sawzall. I'm using one of these drums because they're impact resistant and lightweight, so you can remain fairly mobile while protecting yourself from non lethal projectiles. Although it does seem more and more these days that the lethal ones are what we really need to start preparing for. You might notice that I'm not sounding as gleeful and haha jokey as I usually am in these videos.

Frankly, I'm just not feeling it right now. I have this old shitty tarp that's got a bunch of holes in it anyway, so I'm going to use it to reinforce. The shield's durable. I'm layering it with this fiberglass resin, which is what they use to repair boats and cars and shit, and it's pretty fucking strong stuff.

My dad has a sick Mustang that's been wrecked probably a dozen times from various whoopsie dudes, but the man is an artiste with the Bondo and every time they crash it he's got that car looking good as you can see after 24 hours as this stuff dries rock hard, unlike the micropenes of these fucking insecure Gestapo terrorizing the country. But the edges are kind of sharp so I covered them with some

heavy duty duct tale. The last detail I got to figure out is how to get some handles on this. I like the idea of Velcro because it could be ripped away freely when you are inevitably assaulted for exercising your right to peaceful assembly. So I'm attaching some of it to this old leather belt and the surface of the shield. Unfortunately I didn't think ahead and use industrial Velcro, so this stuff isn't very strong. And as you can see it absolutely

did not work. That's OK, I'm already pissed off today, so why not just add some fuel to the fire? My next idea was to attempt to plastic Weld on these old table legs that I have from the solar dehydrator. These are the perfect size and shape for handles and I was pretty psyched when I found them in one of my junk bins. Next time your family or friends try to have an intervention on all the shit you keep, just show them this video.

I wasn't confident that the plastic Weld would be enough to support the shield, so I layered up a bunch of fiberglass resin hoping that that would be good enough. 24 hours later I was met with surprise and demise as my handle quickly busted off. When met with some leverage after that, Jake was duly pissed. But don't worry, their babies

were not done here. Yeah. So I like those kind of videos because I like to watch people build stuff, but also I like to see when people make really bad decisions on things that are obviously not going to work in the 1st place. I don't know why he thought any of that stuff was going to work, but it's pretty funny. But yeah, he's building a an anti riot shield. Yeah. For his protected First Amendment activity of engaging in riots.

Correct. And here's what we saw in Portland, Here's what we're seeing in Minneapolis. This is why you actually should not totally be backing down. You should be doing the alternative. So there's a truck that just drove up and the guy just ran through a barricade apparently to get it, and now he's going to hang out. Gas masks. Yeah, man, check and make sure there's a filter in there. Gas mask. I got like shield and shit in the truck is free to grab make. Fuck, that's what the fuck you

crying, man. OK, so they're grabbing Shields. They're emptying on the boxes, which he said he has 30 gas masks. Cool. Totally peaceful. That's the First Amendment protected right? To gather and make the government understand your riot anger. Is that? Where is that? Yeah. I think so. Their position is that this is lawful protest, right?

So in preparation for the Gustapo coming in, because that's what federal authorities are doing right now, they just see a group of people that are holding signs and singing kumbaya for their neighbors and then just start assaulting them. Or, or could it be that the first blood was drawn by the

protest side? And then the law enforcement officers have to engage in a force continuum where they look at the level of force being used against them and they're authorized to use one level of force above that because they have to overcome that force. Like this is all anticipation of violence. And I'm back to where I began. But you have an ultimate decision. Fork in the road. Are you going to come down boot to throat, or are you going to just see the territory?

There is no middle ground. But when I hear Tom Holman talking about it, it sounds like they're going to try to go for this middle ground, which will inevitably fail. Yeah, I don't know that there is a middle ground. But again, I think that's why people that are kind of looking on this dispassionately from the outside are seeing the moment where we're kind of, we're not, we're not running towards this

Fort Sumter moment. We're sort of limping towards it or slouching towards it. As Victor Davis Hanson said, we're kind of moving towards this increased continuum of force happening in multiple places. The rhetoric is amping up. We're going to ice people, apparently permanently, whatever the hell that. They're going to do the McClellan right? They're just going to like sit and stand by. To stand by and have it take years when we could just one giant engagement be done with it.

Or we just say, all right, give them their own country. We're done here. We'll see where it all goes. I'm, I don't know, I'm not feeling like this is the way that it wins. Donald Trump said maybe one of the worst things that he's done during this cabinet meeting the other day. Let me see if I've got to make sure I've got the right clip here.

One thing that people really did want, I'd, I'd say that the top few things that we're talking about was inflation, border, deportations right now, like buying power in American dollar was really important to people. Being able to afford a house was one of those I don't know who advises him to say this stuff or it just comes out of his mouth and he just says dumb things.

But this is one of those moments where Howard Ludding told us he fixed everything and is the golden era and Trump in the same meeting did this one. And this is going to continue to be a an ugly thing that is played over and over again during the midterms run up. So watch this. We're going to we're going to keep housing values high. And Steve, if you don't own your own house, it's because you didn't work hard enough. Apparently.

Thanks, God said though, is again, existing housing, people that own their homes, we're going to keep them wealthy. We're going to keep those prices up. We're not going to destroy the value of their homes so that somebody that didn't work very hard can buy a home. We're going to get we're going to make it easier to buy. We're going to get interest rates down. But I want to protect the people that for the first time in their lives feel good about themselves.

They feel like they've, you know, that they're wealthy people. And I want them to understand it. You know, there's so much talk about, oh, we're going to drive housing prices down. I don't want to drive housing prices down. I want to drive housing prices up for people that own their homes. And they can be assured that's what's going to happen. And that's why Chuck Schumer looks like this. He's psyched. He can tell exactly what's going to happen.

Do you do you think he's ever said anything to the contrary to what he just said right there? The president, yeah, I think, I think there was a whole like campaign about it. Weird. I've got some footage from that campaign. This is from September of 2024 where he said he never wanted to drive housing prices down. OK, so let's just hear we're going to end all of that. I have been a builder my entire life. I understand the problem and I will fix it.

I know how to fix it. Nobody else is going to figure it out. My objective will be to cut the cost of building a new home by 30 to 50% and much of it is regulation. And in addition, we will open and this is your great, your great people in this state that are asking me so many times, so many people are asking me to do this. We will open up new tracts of federal land for large scale housing construction so that we

can get housing on the market. About 18% of all land in Arizona is owned by the Bureau of Land Mismanagement. It's actually management mismanagement. I have to be careful because you know, with the fake news. Can you translate that for me? It's just typical Trump rally speak, but it's to me emblematic of the economic illiteracy where you can hold these separate ideas that are impossible.

Like, hey, we're going to freeze housing values for people who own their houses because we don't want their values to go down because we don't want to lose their votes. And you know, we have to make sure we have a nice tax base, but at the same time, the next door house, we're going to make sure that those values come down so that people can afford it. That's like pause on the global economy.

Like that's right if. You want to hold it, hold it or sell it to people, it's going to be more expensive and more valuable. But if you're going to be buying it, it's going to be cheaper than ever before by 30 to 50%. It's just, it's just made-up numbers. By the way, I did some running. It's like somewhere between 5 and 10% cost of building just raw materials to build houses gone up since that time. Since he was campaigning.

Not all of it falls on him. And it says here, this AI think says year over year from 2024 to 2026, they've seen about 4% year over year cost appreciation relatively modest, but going up, you know, as inflation continues used to to kind of pace ever forward. I don't, I don't get it. I don't know where he comes up with the stupid stuff. What he doesn't have to address these things.

He doesn't have to say dumb things, but he just feels compelled to say things that sometimes that sound bite will be played over and over again. Forget whether it's true or not. Forget whether or not he can do any of those things. This is the, this is the moment where you get the Cornholio and the the holding onto a bowel movement because Chuck Schumer can barely hold himself back. Hakeem, Jeffries, all these guys they get, they get thrilled because these dumb moments are

are totally self-inflicted. This is the guy who's running for student council president, who promises no homework on Fridays and a K&E machine with free Sweet Tarts for everybody. Like there's no evaluation that goes into it. It's just trying to play for people's votes and approval and accolades, and any modicum of common sense or critical thought that goes into it goes, well, wait a minute, like, I don't think that's possible. And have you really thought that

through? But when you're playing. Where are we going to get the budget for the candy? Do we even have access to a budget? Is there a budget? Can you control the teacher's curriculum as a nine year old? I don't know. We need a smarter electorate. Steve, thank you for for playing with me today. That was fun. I enjoyed every bit of that one, including our our unexpected land acknowledgement moment, which is the that's always the

gem. There's always a gem whenever I talk to Steve. All right, I'm going to give you the screen, let people know what's coming up on the American Radicals podcast next. And here you go. American radicals podcast join us 12:00 Eastern Time every weekday today. No exception going to be talking about some corruption, some institutional corruption in the form of civil asset forfeiture and also some labeling and terminology related to national security and terrorism.

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I always at least laugh at something I didn't see coming. So. Have a good weekend. All right, you too, folks. You should definitely follow Steve's podcast. They get better and better every single time. It's one of those things that if you do it frequently and you're bright, then you will get better. And Steve's are outstanding right now. He's spent a bunch of time on it and you guys can tell the difference when you go listen. So I hope you do. I hope you guys will follow over

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stuff. And for any of you who understand it, I have a fascination with with Tombstone, which doesn't make, it's not really surprising to anybody. I actually used to run around with a mustache like that when I was living in New Mexico in the FBI. Tombstone and the famous line, I'm your Huckleberry. Of course, there's also this character called Tackleberry, Eugene Tackleberry from the Police Academy of Movies.

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Some lefties, I'm sure, are like this, but they have, they have, you know, brilliant skill sets. And this guy turns the conversations that he has with his three-year old daughter into songs. And they're catchy songs. And his three-year old daughter sounds like a real creative little weirdo, like my little weirdos who run around and tell me weird stuff like this as well. So enjoy the song and the story of the Apple Man. There was a Apple That's a lot of times 2060

times. It's like a Jesus thing. 70 * 7 All right, hope all of you guys have a fantastic weekend. Thanks for listening to that with me. Have a good weekend, be safe, avoid all the icy things and we'll catch you on the other side. God bless you. See you Monday. Thanks for listening to the Kyle Seraphin show, streamed live weekdays on rubble.com/kyle Seraphin Bobble Kyle on Twitter, Truth Social and Instagram at Kyle Seraphin.