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number two in journalisming, When the scandal is about a Republican,
then the story is the scandal. When a scandal is
about a Democrat, then the story becomes the Republican reaction
to the scandal, not the scandal. And you are seeing
this very same dynamic play out in the wake of
the Minneapolis Catholic School shooting. It's the same it's the
same mechanic applied in this case. The scandal is the
the ideology that animated this deranged shooter, right like, that's
the that's the scandal. You know, You're you're seeing media
reports that we don't know what the motive may be. Well, no,
we do, actually because unlike with the Tennessee, UH Christian
school shooting. I think that was Covenant. They weren't able
to bury the manifesto they were the media was not able,
and law enforcement was not able to hide it because
this deranged maniac up in Minnesota posted it all on
YouTube and then you YouTube did take it down shortly
after the shootings or the shooting, but people had gotten
it before YouTube wiped it, so we know now. I'm
not saying that this person was a you know, a
sane Democrat kind of a person that I'm not saying that.
What I am saying is that he was animated by
the catastrophism that is preached by the Democrats and the media.
But I repeat myself, and had this person been, say,
a Tea partier, a Trump supporter, a proud boy trying
to think of a J sixer, right, like any any
affiliation that this deranged maniac had to the right, that
would then prompt the focus on the ideology that animated him. Right,
He's obviously insane. He was insane, and then he just
layers in all of this, uh, these the ideology, but
also like these narratives and this feeling that he has
no other choice. He's filled with regret as well for
previous choices. But he's also deranged, right he he obviously
is insane. And I'm not saying that all people who
agree with different components of what he was talking about
that somehow or another, like they're all homicidal maniacs. I'm
not saying that. However, just like the shooting of the
Republicans on the ball field years ago that uh, you know,
the shooter was screaming, this is for healthcare. He was
a Bernie bro and he too was animated by this
political ideology. Ben Shapiro calls it the omni cause, right
where all of these different uh oppressed, self identified oppressed constituencies, right,
they all rally under the Democrat banner, and hey, you're oppressed.
I'm oppressed. We're intersectionally oppressed. And the answer to the
oppression is to tear down all of the institutions in
Western society and you know, institute Marxism of some brand,
and that will solve all of the problems. Because as
James Lindsay frequently says, and I do as well now
because he said it, and I thought that's exactly right,
which is the issue is never the issue. The issue
is always the revolution, So you just layer on all
of these different causes. And when you see the videos
that this maniac produced, you see the journals that the
maniac wrote, you listen to the things that the maniac
says in his videos, it is a check let of
every one of the leftist talking points and positions. All
of them are in there. You've got obviously, the threat
to kill the president multiple times. Where is your God?
Was another one that he wrote on his weapons on
a or actually on a magazine for the weapon why
so Querious? Apparently a reference to a piece of music.
Several references to Israel, including a smoke bomb where he
wrote extra thick jew gas burn Israel was another six million,
wasn't enough? Wrote that on a holster. He also had
a whole bunch of stickers on one page, and it
took me a minute to realize when I was seeing it, like,
what's up with this sticker? I'm not talking about the
gay Prize transflag with the assault rifle as part of
the flag. I'm not talking about that. I'm not talking
about the picture of Jesus Christ that he had put
on the top of his target practice silhouette. And then
stabbed it with a knife, not talking about that. They
were stickers of a video game character. Do you know
what video game Super Mario Brothers? Do you know who
the brother of Mario is? Luigi? It was only Luigi,
like seven eight stickers of Luigi, all in clustered on
one page. What's that about? What do you think that's about? Well,
that's the guy who murdered the healthcare ceo, shot him
in the back. Also deranged maniac Luigi Mangoni. See what
I mean? All of these things, all of the stuff
that was animating him in his psychosis, These are all
things of the left. These are all things that are
celebrated and heralded inside of left wing ideology. So that's
why there has to be a deflection. We can't talk
about any of the stuff that may have helped propel
this guy towards his end. No, it's got to be
about the reaction to the scandal, and that brings us
to the attacks on people of faith and Republicans who
offer up prayers, and then also that leads to the
attack on gun ownership. So when the scandal is about
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thirty Extension two O seven for the details. The maniac
in Minneapolis had said goodbye to his family and friends.
He said, I have waited for this. I've waited this
for so long, Okay, waited for this for so long.
I am not well, I am not right. I am
a sad person, haunted by these thoughts that do not
go away. I know this is wrong, but I can't
seem to stop myself. I am severely depressed, and I've
been suicidal for years. Only recently I have lost all
hope and decided to perform my final action against this world.
I don't want to kneel down for the injustices of
this world. I want to die. I'd rather die on
my feet than live on my knees constantly in pain.
See the tendency for interpersonal victimhood. That's what this is.
This is someone trapped inside of his own head and
views himself as a victim and only a victim of
all the world. And that is a message that is
constantly hammered home by leftist ideology, that you are being oppressed,
that all the world needs to be seen through this prism.
You are cranking out more and more of these people
with this kind of mentality. Now, I'm not saying everybody
again picks up arms and goes and murders people. I'm
saying this is the victimhood mindset more than seven years.
This is from NBC News. So that's why they're gonna
call the shooter or a she, which I'm not actually
sure that you are respecting his pronouns at this point,
because he said he was no longer trans. Yeah, and
he said he wanted to chop his hair off, but
it was the last little bit left of his femaleness
or something. Right. The guy obviously had serious mental issues
for a long time. The answer was not to juice
him up with synthetic hormones. But that's what you do
in Minneapolis, Minnesota, especially right A refuge self declared announced
with great fanfare that they're a refuge for this. More
than seven years before the shooting, police were called to
a townhouse in the Twin City suburb where he lived
with his mother. I'm changing the pronouns back to him
because it's a dude. It was a dude. The heavily
redacted police report obtained by NBC from the police department
in Egan, Minnesota, dated January twenty sixth, twenty eighteen, includes
a two word description explaining why an officer was dispatched
to that address and says mental health. It includes a
brief synopsis that reads assisted Mendota Heights with a zech
welfare of a juvenile, Name of that juvenile and what
exactly prompted police to be summoned to the three bedroom
home on Crane Creek Lane were blacked out in the report.
Two years before the mental health call, police responded to
a report of a criminal offense at the residents, but
beyond noting that the case was closed, the report blacks
out all the details describing the event. The shooter, NBC says,
was a trans woman, but was he? He said he
wasn't anymore so, NBC, you're being very I don't know
what the word untransphobic. You're not respecting his pronouns, which
media is falling all over themselves to do in the
wake of the of the attack, is for some reason,
to honor the murderer by respecting his pronouns in the
fear that it's going to cause some triggering event for
some other person. Right, the coddling that occurs. This is
why people argue that the radical transgenderism has an ideology
it is by its nature transgressive against everybody. Because it's
not enough for you to just live and let live.
You have to affirm, you have to play along, and
if you don't, well, radical transgender ideology says that that
is violence against them, that you're trying to make them
kill themselves, and so therefore I need to fight you back.
And so this is you know, literally life threatening for them.
And if it is life threatening for them, well then
that allows them to do stuff to save their own lives,
to take out those threats. I didn't. This is not
me making this stuff up. This is what they espouse.
In fact, there's some trans magazine that just published front page,
terrible timing, some transgender sitting on the front page with
a whole bunch of weaponry talking about we're bashing back.
Speaker 2: You know, like.
Speaker 1: Remember the Zizians, remember those guys transgender murder cult murdered
or yeah, they murdered like eight people or something from California.
Although we up to the border patrol in Vermont or
New Hampshire. Yeah, this is a growing problem and the
left does not want to address it because it involves
one of their protected classes and they share ideology and
so must deflect. Now, the NBC report notes that Minnesota
has a red flag law, but nothing ever tripped it.
There was never any reason to suspect that this person
who was depressed and suicidal for years, no family member
reported that as a potential red flag. Minneapolis Police Chief
Brian O'Hara said yesterday that authorities do not have information
indicating that he suffered from any mental illness other than
a traffic ticket he didn't have. Besides the traffic ticket,
he had no police record, right, So there's no indication
that he suffered from mental illness except for the you know,
the journals, the YouTube videos, right, the transgenderism like that
right there, your dysmorphia, like that's that's a mental health issue.
O'Hara also added that the family has been cooperating with investigators,
but they have not yet located his mother, who, by
the way, according to the New York Post, she's ghosting.
She went and got a lawyer, and she's ghosting the FBI.
So I don't know what to make of this police
chief here. Brian O'Hara when you tell me that we
don't have any idea, we have no indication, no information
that he suffered from mental illness. When I can look
at the videos and identify within about twenty seconds, oh yeah,
that's a crazy person. That is an evil, deranged person
right there. And then you turn around and say, oh,
the family's cooperating. But mommy got a lawyer. She's in Florida,
and she's not home when the FBI shows up, So
they searched her place by the way, and they took
a bunch of stuff out of her house. Now, look,
probably a good idea to get a lawyer, but also
probably a good idea to then cooperate with law enforcement
so it doesn't look like you're trying to hide something,
and you can go through your lawyer to do that.
That's very advisable, actually. But when you get a lawyer,
he puts out he puts out a statement that saying
that she had no culpability in the shooting. And that
may be true legally, don't know about morally. Don't know
if there were signs that she thought she was seeing
but didn't say anything or whatever, or maybe she gave
him money that he used to buy the weapons. I
don't know, but so far her behavior is a little.
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interesting that even after resolving he was going to die
carrying out his twisted plan, the fear of backlash from
the trans community for cutting his hair still had so
much power over him. That says a lot about the
acceptance and tolerance of the trans community. The New York
Times ran an article with basic information on the shooting
with one exception. You want to guess what it was right?
He was trans. He was a he, but they wrote
it as a she. He had hatred for Jews that
was scrawled all over his books and his weaponry. He
hated Elon Musk as well, made references to Elon Musk
killing the President. He also lamented his own transition, saying
that he was tired of being trans and that he
was brainwashed into thinking he was a woman. NBC I
was reading from this article. Earlier, NBC reports that the
police are reviewing the online videos in which the shooter
scrawled racial slurs, a homophobic slur, anti Semitic messages, a
call for President Donald Trump's death, and references to the
Holocaust and the Catholic Church references to the Holocaust. Note
the sanitizing nature of this description. References to the Holocaust, Well,
what would that mean? Well, he said six million Jews
wasn't enough, That's what. So in other words, he was
pro Holocaust, wanted more Jews to be murdered. The video
shows the suspect flipping through the pages of a journal
written in English but using the cyrillic alphabet. At times,
he utters the word kashmar, which is the Russian word
for nightmare. He discusses the mechanics of mass school shootings
as well as suicide. A person who went to Minneapolis's
Southwest High School with the shooter and described her him
as quote a bit of a strange person with a
dark sense of humor. But she said she never heard
the shooter make any jokes about shootings or guns, but
he often mumbled in what the person believed was Russian.
She said, many people do and say strange things in
their teenage years, so many people just saw it as
him just trying to be edgy or funny. In the journal,
the shooter says that he began pondering mass murder in
the seventh grade. He was in his twenties, he was
like twenty three, I believe, So in the seventh grade
he starts pondering this, and in particular, he became fixated
on the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Connecticut back
in twenty twelve, which I mentioned yesterday. This is one
of the hallmarks of these types of murderers. They keep score,
They analyze and review and critique these mass murderers, their style,
their plan of attack, and all of this stuff, and
then they start making references that like, this is how
I would have done it right, And this is why
I don't name these people, because I don't want to.
This is also, by the way, you ever notice this
that media doesn't report suicides, and there's a reason for
that is that the studies show that the more you
publicize this stuff, then it becomes a social contagion and
people then begin copycatting. And media determined decades ago not
to participate in that and so if there is a
suicide that occurs, we don't report that unless there's some
sort of larger impact, like a person, you know, jumping
off of a bridge and it stops traffic or something.
But even then you will just hear the media reports
something like police activity. You don't. We don't give any
sunlight to a person's effort at self harm. We don't
do it. And that's what I view these as. So
that's why I don't name the shooters, because they do
participate in a social contagion. Now, it's also interesting to
note this Catholic school did not have any armed security. However,
two years ago, the leaders of independent schools and Catholic
schools in Minnesota went to the Democrat Governor Tim Walls
to try to secure funding for their schools. They wrote
them a letter. They had a meeting. It was dated
April fourteenth, twenty twenty three. The president of Men Dependent
and that guy's name is Tim Bens. Along with Jason Adkins,
the executive director of the Minnesota Catholic Conference, they co
authored this letter to the governor saying there are about
seventy two thousand students that are enrolled in independent Catholic Jewish, Christian,
and Muslim non public schools in Minnesota, and they wrote
this letter right after the shooting at a Christian school
in Tennessee, which was also carried out by a transgender person.
The leaders specifically called on the governor for assistance in
making sure not only that the Minnesota legislature enacts his
budget recommendation, which had fifty million dollars in it to
establish the Building and Cybersecurity grant program, but also that
this program include all schools as eligible for funding, regardless
of whether these schools are public, charters or non public.
So Walls's budget had fifty million dollars in it for
this grant program, and they were trying to get the
non public schools to also get some funding for security.
In the wake of the Covenant shooting. Atkins told The
Daily Wire after the shooting in Minneapolis that no additional
security was ever funded, even though the money existed. He said, quote,
it's a lack of will to do it by elected officials,
coupled with opposition by some legislators because non public schools
students were included in the funding. In other words, it's
government schools or nothing. We will not help provide security
for kids unless they come to gov CO schools. Right, So,
when you hear the LEFT in the wake of one
of these tragedies, in the wake of one of these shootings,
and they say do something, and then you get a
response of hey, here's something that we could do. Oh
not that we want you to do what we want
to have done. That's what we mean. We don't mean
do something, We mean do my thing. Do the thing
that I want done, which is give me your guns,
disarm everybody, go around and collect all the guns or something,
send law enforcement to seize everyone's guns. That's what they
actually mean. The budget had an eighteen billion dollar surplus
and they couldn't scrape together fifty million of it to
help fund security at schools like the one that was
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Let's jump over to the phones, shall we. Dean, Welcome
to the program. Hello Dean, Hi Pete.
Speaker 2: Hope you have a nice holiday this week.
Speaker 1: And you as well. May your labor be minimal, okay,
and may.
Speaker 2: Your confrontations be zero? Oh okay, sure, I was just
listening to all of this and I don't know, I've
heard this call on about you know, with people and
and the shootings and everything forever and I and I
don't think it's like a legislative or a positioning. I
think it's in I think it's a condition of people.
I think it's in their DNA. There's good and there's evil.
But I think what influences them is there were all
products of our environment to a certain extent or to
a great extent, I feel, and our environment is changing
and as long as we uh, the environment encourages this
kind of activity through the media, through the discussions, through
the uh, the you know, uh an ability to act
on any of this by you know, the government, you know,
uh focused kind of action.
Speaker 1: So right, So if I agree you're I mean, you've
hit both of the nature and nurture components and that yes,
because it's not either or. So what would be the
way to combat this natural instinctive kind of urge that
you say people have, Like, what, what's the way to
deal with that at a personal level?
Speaker 2: I don't know, you know, I hate to be negative
about this thing, but you know, sometimes the easiest course
of action is not always the best course of action.
And it's a lot easier to dislike someone or you know,
not like their views, not like them for their views.
Then there is this show compassion or understanding or listening.
I don't know, I really sincerely don't know.
Speaker 1: Well, I think you do because I think you use
the language right at the very beginning of your comments. Yeah,
you said evil, And if you're going to say evil,
if you were, if you had knowledge that evil exists,
what does that mean? What is evil?
Speaker 2: Ah? Well, to me, it's it's like doing doing something
to someone else that you wouldn't want done to you.
Speaker 1: That's what you're that's what you think. So okay, well
you are not in everyday.
Speaker 2: Little things, not like just in greetings or something, but
you know things that that make that make a difference,
that are of the magnitude of.
Speaker 1: You know, right, So where right? What's the right?
Speaker 2: So?
Speaker 1: But what what makes it evil? Evil is a degree
of bad. It is the worst degree of bad. And
so where so, so where do you draw that line?
Where does that come from?
Speaker 2: It comes from? To me, it comes from from all
different areas.
Speaker 1: And that so do you believe much as do you
believe in God?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 1: Do you believe in Satan? You can't believe in one
without the other, I suspect, Well, no, no, it's like.
Speaker 2: A default thing. You know, you can't believe that light
is on unless you can believe it's off.
Speaker 1: So I would submit that evil is from Satan.
Speaker 2: Well you know, yeah, But and I don't want to
get into theological thing. I'm not but God doesn't really,
you know. I mean, he's there and Satan's there and
their entities, but it's it's not they're not making decisions
for us.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that. I'm not saying that either. But
if you believe that that this is part of who
we are as human beings, right, and that evil exists
and Satan exists, then do you rule out the idea
that Satan works through people in different ways. Yes, Satan
can influence people, yes, right, So so.
Speaker 2: I gotta believe God can influence people for the good.
Speaker 1: Do you I don't think do you think God can
change your life?
Speaker 2: I think you can embrace God and change your life,
just as people, these people that do these mass murders
embrace evil and it changes their lives. I don't think
this kid at two years old started out like that.
Speaker 1: Well no, I've seen no evidence that says he started out.
I mean, he says in seventh grade he started plotting
the mass murders so, I mean, we've got in.
Speaker 2: The environment now nowadays encourages that. I mean, it's you know,
I can't you can't turn time back. I agree with you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I mean, but you're also ignoring millennia where
people slaughtered each other. In Earlier this week, I did
this very topic talking about the slaughtering of Christians and
Jews all across two thirds of Christendom by the Muslim
and the stories of those battles and the way and
the things that they did to people are horrific. I
would submit evil, yes, right, So I would submit also
then that the remedy is to, as you called it,
embrace God and then let God help you, let God
into your life, and then you would probably be less
likely to pal around with Satan so much.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I think then as individuals may be more
embracing of God and the good and that might help
tamp some of this down. Not all cases, I mean,
evil will always be here, so it's not going to
get rid of all of it, but that might be helpful. Dean,
I appreciate the call. All right, that'll do it for
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