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I started talking about what happened in Chicago over the weekend.
We're a mob of leftist activists. Terrorists surrounded ICE agents
on two different occasions, all within moments of each other.
They blocked them in with their vehicles and rammed the
ICE vehicles. ICE then opened fire on one of the
vehicles that was doing the ramming, hit a woman. She's
now been charged federally. There was another guy he rammed
another ICE vehicle. He's been arrested, charged federally. I will
circle back the SACKI style to that. But this all
goes under this umbrella of rebellion, nullification. I don't know
if I'm going to have time to get to the
connection here. Well you know what, Yeah, well maybe not
if I don't get to it today. I'm going to
pick it up tomorrow. I had the whole show laid out,
and then Congressman Tim Moore dropped by. He was in town,
he was in the area, so he dropped by, and
so I kind of am shuffling around. So like the
stuff I was going to do for October seventh, you know,
the attack on Israel by the Hamas terrorists and a
lot of gosins, I'm going to push that to tomorrow
because actually after the show, I'm going to be recording
an interview with doctor Raymond Ibrahim, and there is a
connection to the ten to seven attacks. So I'm going
to push that to tomorrow. That's just a programming note
for you. But there's also this connection with the rebellion
that we are seeing now in Portland, in Chicago, in
Los Angeles. But the more violent are occurring in the
first two of those locations, and this is what was
predicted as part of the fourth Turning. And I talked
about this topic back in March, and it's come up
every now and again as we see more evidence to
support this theory and the creators of the theory, Neil
Howe being the surviving one of the two, he predicted
it that it would This was years ago. He predicted
it would be regarding the crisis phase here would be
regarding nullification, and that nullification would center around the issue
of immigration. Now. At the time he predicted it, it
was when Texas was trying to erect a barricade along
the river, remember that, And then the Biden administration came
in and said tear it down, and Texas said no,
and so they went to court and the courts were like, no,
they they can tell Texas to take it down. So
Texas took it down. In other words, they followed the law.
But now that the tables are turned and you have
a Republican administration that's enforcing the immigration law. Now you
have local jurisdictions that are in rebellion against the federal
government trying to nullify federal law. And this is pretty
clear cut. And Victor Davis Hanson wrote about this at
his website Victor Hanson dot com. And thank you, by
the way, Jason, who I pulled this article. He wrote
this two days or yeah, yesterday, and I saw it
and I bookmarked it on Twitter, and then Jason sent me, hey,
you should look at this, and it's like I already
found that link. It's a very good piece. It's called
reactionary neo Confederate Portland. This is not a new argument,
the argument about nullification federal versus state in blue cities
across America, he writes Portland, Oregon, especially often violent protesters
now seek to surround ICE facilities to stop federal officers
from fulfilling their assigned and legal duties of arresting illegal aliens.
Some ten million or more illegal aliens were allowed to
enter the US during the Biden years illegally and thus
without criminal or health background checks. Neither ANTIFA nor liberal
Urban America objected to such a flagrant disregard for the law,
but both are now as intent on obstructing the legal
enforcement of the law as they were earlier in favor
of its illegal non enforcement right because they want the
open borders, they want the inflow of people. That's the mission,
that's the strategy, that's what they want, that's the desire,
and so enforcing the law removing these people is antithetical
to that mission. Left wing protesters are now swarming ICE
headquarters in Portland to violently oppose all deportations. This is,
by the way, what Ben Shapiro calls the omni cause,
what James Lindsay has quoted is, you know, the issue
was never the issue. The issue was always the revolution.
This is why the same people that were burning down
the you know, police headquarters and such, and were attacking
federal court houses during the summer of fiery but mostly
peaceful protests and riots, they were the same people like
they were opposed to, like these these law enforcement agents
and buildings and such, because that was for racial justice.
And now lo and behold. Now they're targeting law enforcement
agents because immigration. It's like, and they target buildings and
people because of Palestine and climate change and just it
doesn't really even matter. The purpose is chaos. The issue
isn't the issue. That's just a cover story. It's just
whatever they need to say at any given moment that
gives them, you know, some sort of a facade of
a rationalization, a justification for them to act like sociopathic,
anti social animals. So why the Democrat Party knows that
the public wants both secure borders and deportations of illegal aliens. Indeed,
in part, Democrats lost an election because of its open
borders advocacy, one of the if not the top issue
for Donald Trump. But Democrat officials feel that if street
thugs like anti can surround and besiege ICE facilities in Portland,
then the deportations will somehow stop. That's the point, right,
They want the deportations to stop, and they figure that
if it gets too high of a cost, the Feds
will pull out. If they can make this too politically
costly for the Trump administration, then they'll pull out. They'll
just leave Portland to be the sanctuary city that it is.
They can declare victory and then the deportation stop. A
de facto amnesty would then follow for millions who entered
the US illegally and will soon become Democrat constituents. That's
the theory. Now, theories can be false, right, can be
born out not to be true. So, like, you don't
know if this is going to work. And in fact,
what we saw over the last election cycle was that
this theory of you know, demographics is destiny that the
Democrats have been relying on for the better part of
twenty years. This idea that if you keep importing new
voters into America, they will vote Democrat because the color
of their skin, which in my view is kind of
a racisty thing to believe that just because somebody has
a certain level of pigmentation that they therefore will agree
with you on politics. I don't know why it seems racist,
but whatever. That's the Democrats, Yes, the party of the Klan.
It does endeavor. It doesn't ever let us down there
when it comes to viewing everything through a racial prism.
So that was their theory. Demographics is destiny. You may
have heard this also referred to as the replacement great
replacement theory, which again was promulgated by the left. And
then when the right noticed and they were like whoa, whoa, whoa,
what are you doing? And then they're like, you're racist
for thinking that we're doing it. Well, but you said
you were doing it racist. That's been the nature of
the conversation for the last ten years. So as a result,
Democrats do not fully enforce the law when these thugs
and Antifah and such attack federal law enforcement. This is
a conscious decision by Democrat lawmakers and the massed rioters
assault anyone in their way, and they count on exemption
from punishment for committing the violence in order to continue
doing the violence it is. That's part of the formula.
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are seeing unfolding in real time, what he describes as rebellion,
and I would agree that is what we are seeing.
It is a nullification crisis, which is kind of ironic
given that I've been you know, a talk show host
now for oh gosh what fifteen years, and the only
people that ever talked about nullification were conservatives. They were
the only ones that ever talked about it, and they
were talking about nullification of federal law that wasn't constitutional.
That is not what's happening here. Just like everything else
that the radical left touches, it gets twisted and so
this is their nullification of law that is constitutional and
they just don't want to follow it. That's it much
like drug laws, right, same concept, They're just going to
nullify it. It's like we're just not going to pay
any attention. Okay, well, you know what, if you're not
going to allow federal law enforcement to operate in your cities,
then you shouldn't get any federal funding period for anything.
You're cut off. You want to nullify, There you go.
You're on your own, no more money for you. I
feel like that's where this is heading, because that's where
the Democrats have provided themselves no off ramp here. They
keep escalating, and we have heard this. I got a
message asking didn't some didn't somebody say that they got
to be ready to take a bullet or something? And
yes they did. Here it is and on the text
line said weren't their supporters told by one of their
reps to be willing to take a bullet for the cause. Yes,
that's what I mean. They keep ratcheting up this rhetoric,
ratcheting it up. And that's what the fourth Turning talked
about was that in this nullification crisis, there isn't any
off ramp for the state versus the Feds. For these leaders,
there's no off ramp for them. They have to keep
going because they're asserting authority against each other. Victor Davis
Hansen writes that the Rioters count on exemption from punishment
for committing the violence, and they this exemption comes through
the goodwill or indifference of kindred local and state officials
who hate the Trump administration more than they respect the law.
That is it the hatred of Trump Trump's respect for law.
And I can hear the left already what about what
about Trump not respecting the law? So I'm unclear, like
which of the laws here? Like Trump keeps getting sued
and they keep going to court, and they keep winning
the battles. Like we had the stat yesterday's like ninety
four percent of these temporary restraining orders, But he keeps
following those laws. He keeps following the world. The administration
does comply with those rulings when they come down. You know,
they happen to be winning ninety four percent of them,
which should tell you something about the merits of these
lawsuits and the bias of the lower court judges that
issue these restraining orders to stop the enforcement of federal law.
He goes on to say an Orwellian scenario follows in
which federal officials are attacked by Antifa, which in turn
counts on the non intervention of local police. And by
the way, we just saw this perfect example in Chicago.
I mentioned it earlier when they were surrounded, when these
ICE agents were surrounded by these leftist antifa types and
these leftist violent attackers. When they were when they surrounded
the ICE vehicles, ICE called in for Chicago PD assistance.
The apparently the patrol commander gave a stand down order
to the local cops, like, well, that where are we
like that? That seems like a very big deal. You've
got law enforcement refusing to assist fellow law enforcement. He
in his piece here Hansen is talking about Portland. He says,
the city of Portland's armed officers now are in a
de facto proxy war with their federal counterparts in our
version of something out of eighteen sixty on the eve
of a real civil war. America, for almost two hundred years,
has already decided informal law and court rulings that no
local or state entity can disrupt the enforcement of federal
laws or usurped Washington's powers. Right, this is why states
couldn't enforce immigration law. The Biden administration sued. When states tried,
they sued, saying, you can't do that. That's our law
to enforce, even though we don't want to enforce it.
That's our law. And they won. And so the Red
States couldn't do immigration enforcement. And now the tables are
turned and Democrats are engaged in open rebellion. Literally. You know,
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replace is a repeating itself once again. We have democrats
behaving in a violent fashion in order to protect a
cheap labor force. You know, it's ah in. It's kind
of insurrection y, you might say, they're in Yeah, the
city of Portland, in the city of Chicago. I would
submit our inopen rebellion. The cities are rebelling against the
federal government and its enforcement of immigration law. That's what's happening.
I am not a catastrophist. I am not somebody who
stirs the pod just to stir the pot and get
a reaction. In all of that. I don't need to
do that. Reality is enough. I don't have to make
up this stuff. But when I see this stuff happening,
it becomes very clear that these local jurisdictions and even
the governor of Illinois that they have adopted this posture
that the radical base in their party is demanding of them,
which is to fight Trump harder. I've gone over this
data for months now, which is that Democrats are Democrat
voters have a very low opinion of their own party
and the reason why they say they say is that
their party leadership is not fighting Trump hard enough. Congressman
Tim Moore was in here earlier and we talked only
very briefly about the politics of the government shutdown, and
he gave voice to the very thing that I was
talking about the other day as well, which is that
this is why it's being called the Schumer shutdown, and
it does have to do with the immigration or the
health care for illegal aliens. That's one of the demands
that the Democrats are making. They want funding for health
care for illegal aliens, while denying that that's what they want,
but they wrote it down in their three demands. So Schumer, though,
is being pressured internally by the more radical left wing base,
and he is now worried about a challenge in his
primary from AOC Alexandria Caz congresswoman from Queens Or the Bronx,
where she claimed to be from I forget, it doesn't matter.
The point here is that she is the darling now
and she is a Democrat Socialist of America, a DSA person,
So he has to now fight back against that. And
when they did a continuing resolution to fund the government
a couple months ago, and Schumer agreed to do that
at the time saying that you know, it would be
reckless and stupid to shut the government down over this stuff,
and he got such blowback that now he's having to
stand and fight. That's what Pritzker's doing in Illinois, That's
what Brandon Johnson is doing as the mayor of Chicago.
That's what Portland is doing, where showing that where fighting hmm,
Orange Hitler bad. Meanwhile, you've got ice officers that are
being attacked. They're having bounties put out on their lives
by car tells. That is happening now, and the cartels
are benefiting from these doxing efforts by leftist moonbats. You
are fomenting a civil war with your nullification LARPing here
people Portland's armed officers, the cops, they're not doing much
to stop this stuff, so they're in this proxy wart
I mentioned earlier, the Chicago PD. There was a patrol commander.
There's records, there's proof of it that when Ice was
surrounded by these vehicles that blocked them in, one of
the drivers armed, rammed the vehicles, rammed the Ice vehicles,
and Ice opened fire on her, shot her, didn't kill her.
She's now charged federally. Another vehicle that rammed another ICE agent,
he's charged federally. And when Ice and Customs Border Patrol
officers when they called nine to one one, when they
called in or radioed in, I should say, when they
radioed in for assistance from Chicago PED the patrol commander
canceled the call, gave a stand down order to help them.
What are you doing? Is this what you want? Is
thisraelly what you want? Is this where we're gonna go?
America for two hundred years, has this precedent? We know
from our own violent history. Andrew Jackson in eighteen thirty
two threatened to send troops to South Carolina's nullification of
federal teriff laws. America fought a civil war over Confederate
states efforts to ignore federal law and confiscate or occupy
federal property within their state jurisdictions. Fort Sumter anybody. As
late as nineteen sixty three, Alabama Governor George Wallace thought
that he could nullify federal law by using his state
guard to deny black students enrollment in the University of
Alabama until the Kennedy administration federalized all state troopers and
sent in additional federal troops. And what we are witnessing,
according to Victor Davis Hansen, in Portland and elsewhere, is
a neo Confederate attempt to supersede federal law and in
reactionary fashion, invoke states' rights. That's the argument they're making.
They're not making it like that, they're not saying those words, right,
But Hanson's exactly right. They're arguing that their state, their
city has supremacy over the federal government, that their state
has the supremacy, and they should be able to ignore
and not what not even just ignore. I mean they
were doing that before. Right where did all this start?
It started with turning a blind eye to illegal immigrants, Right,
That's where it started. Just pretending that it's not happening,
then admitting that it's happening, and saying we're a sanctuary
place for all these people. Then you amp that up
to the protests protesting any kind of enforcement of immigration law.
And now we're at the violence stage. It's a near
city sanctioned siege of ICE facilities. That's what we are
seeing now wherever ICE goes on these targeted efforts. Right,
they've been in I think Chicago for a couple of weeks.
Now this is what we get. And I mean, I
don't know where this ends. It's very disturbing to me.
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Victor Davis Hanson concludes this piece pretty lengthy piece. It's
at Victor Hanson dot com. Highly encourage you to read
the whole thing. He says. In other words, both Antifa
and the appeasing Oregon officials are our new neo Confederate secessionists.
The left wing logic is to allow the violence in
the siege to continue in a safe space for Antifa.
Democrats are all fine with this. They think the violence
against Ice will be portrayed daily as general chaos by
their allies in the media, which they have. Thus, the
proverbial people who keep clear of the siege and its
detritus will simply want all the bother to just go away,
and supposedly blame those enforcing the law, not the ones
breaking it. In some the Democrat Party is the official
face of the left, Antifa provides the street shock troops,
and the media serves as its propaganda arm. Oregon officials
now feel their state their states as well as in
Oregon as well as in Illinois. These neo Confederate secessionists.
They feel their states are now autonomous entities that are
still entitled to federal money, but not obligated to follow
federal laws. Portland also reminds us of the utter incompetence
and incoherence of Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass. On the
one hand, she pleads for federal dollars to restore her
city's burned out neighborhoods due to her own incompetence and neglect,
while on the other hand, actively obstructs the federal government
from enforcing immigration laws in her own city. For a
party so quick to shout insurrection, it is ironic that democrats,
and they're useful though violent Antifa insurrectionists are in rebellion
against the federal government and its agents, and I completely agree.
I don't know another word for what I'm seeing in Chicago.
The attack on the ICE agents by the way, that
sent ICE agents to the hospital. These attacks with the
vehicles that rammed into ICE agents in their vehicles and
blocked them in such several of their agents were sent
to the hospital with various injuries. US Homeland Security Christy
Nome has deployed special operations teams to restore law and
order because the local police won't do it. See, this
is the permission structure. I talk a lot about permission structures.
This is the structure that Democrats have created for this
kind of behavior. I mentioned that there was a standdown order.
The president of the Illinois State Fraternal Order of Police,
Chris Southwood, issued a statement saying the number one unwritten
rule in law enforcement is that we respond to any
calls from officers in distress. What would have happened if
the local police were facing threats and nearby federal officers
were told not to assist them. Whether you agree about
immigration enforcement or not, when a law enforcement officer is
in trouble. Nothing should stand in the way of fellow
officers rendering assistance. So now the question for me is
who ordered that directive? Who's this patrol commander? Was there
something from above him, some directive above him, or was
he on his own on this the situation This is
according to Elizabeth Stauffer at Legal Insurrection, the situation is
rapidly reaching a fever pitch. A nation in which state
officials openly defy federal law, as the Confederate States did
in the lead up to the Civil War cannot long
survive as a United Republic. Who is benefiting from this
cartels like the Latin Kings. The Department of Homeland Security
announced the arrest of a criminal, illegal alien and Latin
King's Gang member who placed a bounty on the commander
at large of the US Border Patrol, Chief Gregory Bovino.
On October third, a confidential source provided information indicating that
a hit had been placed on Chief Bovino by a
member of the Latin King Street gang. Raation and Customs
Enforcement Homeland Security Investigations or HSI identify the individual who
put the hit out as Juan Espinoza Martinez and they
arrested him yesterday in burr Ridge, Illinois. HSI Chicago received
a screenshot of the Snapchat conversation from a user named Juan,
where he appeared to place a two thousand dollars bounty
for information, saying kwondo lo agarin, which translates to when
they catch him, and a ten thousand dollar reward if
you take him down. A third response was LK dot
dot dot on him LK meaning Latin kings. The DOJ
is prosecuting him with soliciting the murder of a senior
law enforcement official. Don't know when this guy got into
the country. DHS says he is from Mexico, but they
don't know he entered America on an unknown date and time.
See so, when you are creating this chaos leftists, democrats,
when you are creating this chaos that these ICE agents
have to work within, you are making them unsafe, when
you are creating smartphone apps to dox them and locate them,
and you're sharing pictures of them and home addresses of
the agents and their families. When you're engaging in this behavior,
don't tell me you don't understand what it is that
you are doing. I understand what you're doing, maybe because
I've been in this position for a while as a
host for a long time, and people dos me even
though my information is available right, people threaten me. I
know exactly the game that you are playing with these
ice agents. Wll won't you take your mask off? Yeah,
so you can dock them and have somebody in a
cartel go put a hit out on them. I know
what you're doing, all right. That'll do it for this episode.
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