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The Left's Renee Good Narrative Has Completely Collapsed. Here's Why | Ep. 1715

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This is the full, timestamped transcript of "The Left's Renee Good Narrative Has Completely Collapsed. Here's Why | Ep. 1715", an episode of Matt Walsh published January 12, 2026 (1 h 12 min, about 12,187 words). It mentions 9 people, works and ideas, including ICE, Johnny the Walrus, Daily Mail, Aisha Gomez, Equip Foods.

What this episode is about

The main topic centers on the collapse of the left's narrative surrounding police-related incidents, specifically analyzing the justified ICE shooting in Minneapolis and contrasting it with the controversial George Floyd case. It discusses the implications of newly released evidence that undermines previous claims about Floyd's death, highlights the emotional breakdown of a Portland police chief, and examines the unexpected shift in a former conservative influencer's stance on transgender issues.

Key takeaways

  • The left's narrative collapse shows that truth in video can turn protest moments into mere flops.
  • Floyd's overdose video teaches us: truth doesn’t just out, it often comes too late to change the narrative.
  • The media's selective coverage reveals: a white victim doesn’t fit the narrative, so silence prevails.
  • With X replacing Twitter, free speech flourishes while the 'usual liars' find their audience dwindling.
  • Trump's popularity proves: law and order rhetoric still resonates as Democrats struggle to spin crises convincingly.

Who speaks in this episode?

What is discussed, and when

  1. – 10:00: Daily Mail
  2. – 30:00: Aisha Gomez
  3. – 40:00: Equip Foods
  4. – 50:00: Johnny the Walrus, Ashley St. Clair, Tren deewa
  5. – 1:00:00: Johnny the Walrus

Notable quotes from "The Left's Renee Good Narrative Has Completely Collapsed. Here's Why | Ep. 1715"

  • After George Floyd died in Minneapolis for a foreign media organization, the Daily Mail, to publish the body cam footage of his arrest and subsequent overdose.
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  • MSNBC, aka MS Now, things aren't going much better for Democrats. A Minnesota lawmaker named Aisha Gomez was asked about the latest video evidence in the case, and she flat out admitted that she's not interested in watching it.
    about Aisha Gomez · at
  • Made with quality ingredients might feel like a more daunting task than actually working out. Well, now enter Equip Foods Prime Bar. The first grass-fed beef protein bar made…
    about Equip Foods · at
  • Confirming that two illegal immigrants shot by a federal agent had suspected ties to the violent Venezuelan gang Tren deewa. police chief Bob Day said the two suspects wounded…
    about Tren deewa · at
  • Development that we'll discuss, but one of the few exchanges that I've had with her was a few years ago when Johnny the Walrus came out, my of course acclaimed, critically…
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Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

  • Aisha Gomez — Person · 1 mention · first at
  • Ashley St. Clair — Person · 1 mention · first at
    Gone. All right, moving on. I I want to talk about this. so Ashley St. Clair is a conservative well former conservative influencer type. who I never really I never knew her personally, but she's in this world or was in it. she worked at.

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Full transcript with timestamps

Today, the Matt Wall show, the left's attempt to make a new George Floyd moment has fizzled out and failed. New video and other evidence proves beyond any doubt that the ICE shooting in Minneapolis could not have been any more justified. Also, chief police in Portland breaks down in tears on camera for the most embarrassing reason imaginable. Not that there could be a valid reason. And a former conservative influencer has come out suddenly as protrans. How did this transformation happen and why? We'll talk about all that more today on the Matt Wall Show.

No one thinks about this timeline anymore, but it took more than 2 months after George Floyd died in Minneapolis for a foreign media organization, the Daily Mail, to publish the body cam footage of his arrest and subsequent overdose. Minnesota Democrats had refused to release the video without explaining why, but it was obvious in retrospect why they didn't release it. The leaked body cam footage was fatal to the official narrative concerning Floyd's death. It demonstrated that Floyd, because he was in the process of overdosing on a lethal level of fentanyl, was struggling to breathe long before he was on the ground. By the time the footage was released though uh to the public in August, it was far too late. Too many people had already been convinced that Floyd had somehow been murdered by a police officer who didn't cause any physical injury whatsoever to Floyd's neck or upper body who was

following established procedure and who knew he was being recorded by an increasingly unhinged mob. Now, more than 5 years after the show trial of Derek Schovin, in which prosecutors deliberately lied about the level of fentanyl in Floyd's system, the United States is a very different place. BLM and co hysteria have completely discredited the corporate press, which no one takes seriously anymore. Daniel Penny managed to walk in New York, even though one of the jurors was wearing a face mask throughout the trial. Donald Trump, of course, decisively won the popular vote, an achievement that was unthinkable according to most political observers. And Trump won a majority of the uh popular vote by promising as explicitly as possible that he would close the border and begin deporting illegal aliens in massive numbers. No matter how unpleasant it may be, Trump explained, "It was necessary work. Laws

must be enforced." In other words, it's now much much more difficult for Democrats to pull off a successful hoax than it used to be. Most Americans support the administration's agenda, and no one believes the usual liars anymore. And on top of that, we have X instead of Twitter, so you won't be banished from social media if you tell the truth. Nevertheless, after a gay open borders agitator named Renee Good was shot and killed by an ICE agent on Wednesday, the left still attempted to run the same George Floyd playbook all over again, even though Good was a white woman and, you know, therefore very, very low on the left's racial victim hierarchy. Of course, they gave it the old college try. Specifically, they tried to hide relevant video footage in order to falsely accuse law enforcement of committing murder. And that's why we haven't been allowed to see any of the footage that was recorded by Good's

lesbian uh friend, even though she was clearly recording the entire incident up close and personal with her cell phone. And you'd think that if this woman thought that she and her lesbian associate had done nothing wrong and this was a cold-blooded murder, well, you think she'd be plastering this footage on every social media platform, doing constant appearances on CNN, MSNBC, but she's not doing that very conspicuously. Instead, Goods Associate has kept the footage hidden. And meanwhile, in the hours and days after the shooting, most corporate media outlets didn't show any of the cell phone recordings of the shooting that were taken by various people in the neighborhood. The footage was widely available on X, but major news outlets didn't show it. Instead, the media described the shooting in very general terms without explaining exactly what happened. Democrats clearly expected that the usual information

vacuum would form and in anticipation of that they took full advantage one after another they flagrantly lied about goods actions which directly led to her death. Uh here's for example is Adam Schiff and uh the sheriff of Philadelphia as well just to give two examples. Watch

this 37year-old woman drops her kid off at school, not involved in protect protest activity or anything. Uh, seems to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Law enforcement professionals do not shoot at moving vehicles. Not saying fleeing cuz she wasn't fleeing. She was getting out of the way. Law enforcement professionals do not stand in front of moving vehicles invoking an action that is illegal.

No, we don't. And so we stand here today with all those who stand against the madeup fake what you can call ICE uh professional law enforcement. I don't call them none of that. I call them madeup fake wannabe law enforcement. I mean, that is someone who clearly is in that position because she's uh qualified for the job. I don't call him none of that. There's a sheriff, position of authority. I don't call him none of that. I I don't know what you call him. I don't call him none of that. Very very intelligent. Uh but no, she wasn't uh she she wasn't uh trying to attack. She wasn't evading arrest. She was uh she was getting out of the way is is what so no I'm not resisting arrest officer. I'm just getting out of the way. I'm just trying to get out of your way. I'm being trying to be polite.

Now by the time Schiff and Philadelphia and the Philadelphia sheriff there were lying like this, there were already a handful of videos which we talked about last week showing that Good had parked her car perpendicular in the middle of the road. Far from getting out of the way, she was very much intentionally in the way. That was the whole point. She was trying to obstruct ICE. That's why she was doing that. And there was also footage from a bystander proving that she drove into an ICE officer after ICE ordered her out of the car. So, the lying was already at the time completely absurd. But the lying was also somewhat effective. Many people who saw the original videos, including some commentators who described themselves as conservatives, argue that the shooting uh wasn't a necessary and justifiable use of force. After all, they said Renee Good was just just a harmless woman on her way to daycare.

How how much of a threat could she really be? Now, this was an argument that never made any sense because even if this woman really was going to a daycare, that obviously does not give her the right to commit a felony by blocking a road and obstructing a law enforcement operation. Okay, just so you know, there's no going to a daycare exception to federal law. Timothy McVey was on his way to a daycare when he committed the Oklahoma City bombings in this sense in the sense that he was on his way to blow one up. So that doesn't mean that he was immune from criminal prosecution.

You're going to a daycare, you're going to the grocery store, doesn't matter where you're going. If you commit a crime in the process or on the way, if you take a quick detour to go commit a federal crime, then that's what matters. But more videos of course came out and even this flimsy daycare defense such as it was collapsed. Unlike the George Floyd scam, uh these new videos did not take months to service. Again, this is a different country than it was in 2020. The FBI can't tell every single social media platform to ban anyone who tells the truth. And on top of that, millions of people have been conditioned based on previous hoaxes to demand more footage.

Meanwhile, on the left, there's still a sense that, you know, white people can't really be martyrs because they're all colonizers regardless of their politics. So, that also has interfered with uh the attempts to make this person into the new George Floyd. That on the left, the the great tragedy here for the left on the left, the great tragedy is not that somebody died. They don't care about that. People die every day in this country. They couldn't care less. Uh, innocent women, actual innocent women are murdered every day in this country brutally and the left couldn't care less.

Um, so that's not the tragedy. The tragedy for the left is that she was white. Now, if she had been a black woman, as soon as they heard about this, everyone on the left, every single one of them thought to themselves, I hope, please be a black woman. And then they saw her and they were extremely disappointed. So that also has interfered. I mean, they've tried to put up a few murals of her here and there, but it's a half-hearted attempt because it's like if you're on the left, making a mural of a white person is it's it goes against every instinct in your body.

Well, the additional footage uh that buried the hoax came from the ICE officer's cell phone camera as well as cell phones from additional homeowners in the area. The footage shows that both Good and her lesbian friend were openly harassing ICE officers for more than 3 minutes before the shooting. They were clearly enjoying themselves, fully aware of what they were doing. Good was dancing in her car as she honked her horn while blocking the road. And Good's friend, after harassing the officers, screamed at Good to drive baby drive when ICE agents attempted to arrest her for obstruction. In other words, she encouraged her friend to commit a violent crime on camera, which her friend then did. Watch.

You can't. That's fine, dude. I'm not mad. Show your face. I'm not mad at you. It's okay. We don't change our plates every morning. Just so you know, it'll be the same plate when you come talk to us later. That's fine. US citizen. You want to come at us?

You want to come at us? I say go get yourself some lunch, big boy. Go ahead. Out of the car. Get out of the car.

Get out OF THE CAR. SO, THOSE WERE THE WOMEN THAT WE WERE TOLD WERE JUST HELPLESS, SCARED, just trying to drop their uh drop a kid off at daycare. And yet, you know, there they are smiling, grinning in the car. The lesbian friend is in the road. What do you want, big boy? Come at me. And this is not the main point, but uh you know when you see that video, you probably have the same question I have, which is why do 50-year-old white lesbian women dress like middle school boys in 2003? I'll never understand it. I I I don't get I'd like someone to to I'd like the psychology behind that. But anyway, more to the point. Uh first of all, when you block a road, as Renee did, you are committing multiple serious felonies that can and should put you in prison. possibly for decades. We're not just talking about obstructioning obstructing an investigation or breaking traffic laws. We're also talking about

false imprisonment, as in you're falsely imprisoning everyone who's trying to use the road. You're effectively kidnapping them because you're re reestricting and redirecting their movement against their will. And this is not just some novel legal theory I'm talking about. Just a couple of years ago, San Francisco's DA, yes, the DA of one of the most left-wing cities on the planet brought false imprisonment charges against dozens of pro Gaza riers after they blocked the Golden Gate Bridge for several hours. Ambulances couldn't get through and neither could the police or anyone else.

So, if San Francisco can bring the appropriate charges in a situation like that, then the Trump administration can bring down the hammer on these people as well. smash every window of every car that's blocking a road for any reason, especially if they're impeding ICE investigations. Haul everyone in the car to federal prison. Break the windows, drag them out of the car, put them in federal prison. Now, the good news is that as of today, there are signs that ICE is taking these kinds of blockades more seriously. On Sunday, ICE did indeed start breaking windows and dragging riers out of their cars when they attempted to shut down roads and follow ICE around the city.

They also started knocking over low testosterone men who decided to stand in front of ICE vehicles. Uh, as you can see here, the guy collapses just like a like a twig and then the the vehicle can proceed as the leftist women scream in the background. And that's important because for many months now, leftists have uh viewed these tactics. That's a, you know, that's a that's that's beautiful footage right there. I do appreciate that. Um, all these all these guys are they're so tough, aren't they? They just they they love cosplaying as these uh as these warriors, these counterrevolutionaries, and the minute they get the slightest push back, they just literally collapse.

But for many months now, leftists have viewed these tactics as an effective way to dearrest illegal aliens. They've been taught by wellorganized and wellunded groups that blockading and hounding ICE is a lawful and effective tactic. They've been told that ICE doesn't have jurisdiction over American citizens, which is false. They've been told that ICE can't arrest American citizens for interfering with their investigations, which is also false. And now ICE is responding with lawful force, which which they should have been doing all along. Uh, and we'll have more on that in a second. But first, we need to go back to the footage you just saw from the uh, Renee Good shooting. You hear the ICE officer at the end uh, respond by saying, "Wo!" as the lesbian agitator floors it after looking directly at him while he's standing in front of the car.

The agent clearly was not expecting her to drive directly into him. He wasn't looking for an excuse to shoot her. He was responding to the fact that he was getting hit by a car, which you can clearly see in this footage, which we'll put up on the screen. Uh, one more time. Now, there's a there's the reason there's a bullet hole in Renee Good's front windshield, is that, as this footage clearly shows, the agent was directly in front of the car when she accelerated. And we saw from the other video, she was looking right at him.

It's not like she didn't know he was there, looking right at him. and driving right at him. She she hit him with her car uh after spending three minutes blocking the road. So, they went out of their way to instigate an altercation with ICE and then hit one of them with their car. Now, to be clear, the relevant question is not with the benefit of hindsight, would the officer definitely have been killed if he hadn't opened fire? That's not the relevant question. And the relevant question is not what exactly was the lesbian agitator intending to do when she drove off. None of that matters.

What matters is whether the officer truly believed that his life was in danger and whether his belief was objectively reasonable under the circumstances. That's it. As for intent, there's effectively no difference morally or legally between hitting an officer with your car on purpose while you try to evade arrest and hitting an officer by accident while you try to evade arrest. In both cases, you're attempting to escape, number one, and you're committing a violent act against a law enforcement officer as a direct result of that decision. Whether you meant to commit the act or you meant only to get away and didn't care if you hit him or not is basically irrelevant.

Now, as for the officer state of mind, it's relevant that he reacted with shock when Renee Good started driving as he was positioned in front of the car. It's also why it's relevant that this same ICE agent, the same one who shot Renee Good, had been dragged and seriously injured by a vehicle during an arrest just a few months ago. So, he was well aware of the risks that are involved when a car is driving towards him. And additionally, at that moment, as the car hit him, he was also worried about the safety of the agent who was holding on to the driver's side door. And the officer's concerns were objectively reasonable because cars are capable of doing an enormous amount of damage to the human body when you're standing in front of them and they're coming towards you. So, that's common sense. But, but just in case it isn't, there there are plenty of police fatalities that prove the point. And that doesn't necessarily

mean that Renee Good intended to kill the officer, but it does mean, maybe she did, maybe she didn't. It really doesn't matter. It means that through her action, she gave him a reasonable impression that his life was in danger. And therefore, she had it coming legally speaking. And by the way, I think it's worth noting, as we've discussed before on the show, it used to be the law in this country, in many states, that police could shoot felons who tried to flee. It didn't matter if the felon was actively posing a threat to anyone's life. The mere fact that a felon was refusing lawful orders to stop by itself justified the use of lethal force. It wasn't until the mid 1980s when the Supreme Court in a 63 decision changed the law on that point.

But before that point, in many states and in the common law, a fleeing felon could be stopped by the police with lethal force. So if you say robbed a home and then ran away when the police tried to stop you, told you to stop in the name of the law, the police could shoot you in the back and they wouldn't face any consequences. If anything, the police officer would get a promotion. He'd be a hero. That's one of the reasons why when you know you watch movies that are like 30 or 40 years old or older, you often see like the scenes where police fire shots at criminals as they run away. And it looks kind of funny to us now and we assume that's just kind of a Hollywood thing, but it wasn't just a Hollywood thing until relatively recently. That's exactly how police would and could respond if you ran away.

And you know, maybe nobody wants to say it out loud, but it was obviously a better system than the one we have now. If you're committing a serious felony and then you run away when the police tell you to stop, then you're probably a grave threat to the safety of the community. You're you're very likely to be a menace who's totally incompatible with civilization. And for the safety of the entire community, you need need to be neutralized. And if that sounds extreme to you, well, think about the last time you were accused of committing a felony and then ran away from the cops when they showed up. Like that's not something that happens to functioning members of civilization ever.

It's something that only deranged and dysfunctional people do by definition. If you're innocent and the cops show up and accuse you of a crime, if you're innocent and you're and you're a functional human adult, then you know that your only choice is to fight the charges in court. Running away is not going to solve anything. So, in other words, even if you pretend for a second that this officer was nowhere near the front of the car, which is the opposite of the truth, which we can see on video, then Renee Good still committed a crime that in most of this country's history would justify lethal force by the officer. She engaged in behavior that's unthinkable to every sane, welladjusted person.

you why exactly should we be telling police officers uh to hold their fire when confronted with with situations like this? Now, this is all academic, of course. Now, this is just kind of an aside because the fact remains that good hit the officer with her car, which means that he was perfectly legally justified under the current law, not pre-1980s law, under the current law to use lethal force. My only point is that the current law is actually far more restrictive than it should be or ever was really until recently.

And and leftists have no answers to these points and they certainly don't have any coherent response to these latest videos which clearly demonstrate that Renee Good was driving her car towards an ICE officer. Instead of reckoning with the truth one after another, Democrats kept lying. You can tell they're reaching and it's it's not very convincing. Here's the mayor of uh Minneapolis, Jacob Fry. Watch.

In the immediiacy following the shooting, you heard people from the Trump administration saying that the victim was a domestic terrorist. You heard that the ICE agent was acting entirely in self-defense. Uh, and here's the thing, you don't need to take my word for it. You don't need to take their word for it. Watch the video. Uh the ICE agent was not run over as Trump stated. Uh you had a person that was definitively trying to just get out of there. They were trying to leave the scene. Uh that is not a person that's trying to run an ICE agent over. You have a person that is trying to protect our city to look out for our neighbors.

And by the way, there are 435,000 people throughout Minneapolis that are looking out for their neighbors right now because they understand the magnitude of this moment. And they understand that the endurance of our republic depends on us looking out for each other. And we're standing strong here in Minneapolis.

The utter shamelessness, even by the standards of Jacob Fry and the Democratic Party, is truly extraordinary.

Yeah, she was just doing a three-point turn. you know, just like his wife does every day. Perfect comparison, except for the fact that when you're doing a normal three-point turn, there is not a human being directly in front of your car who you've been stalking and harassing all morning and who you clearly see with your eyes as you press the gas pedal. When you're doing doing a normal three-point turn, you're not trying to murder a federal agent. So, other than that tiny little distinction, Jacob Fry's comparison is spot on. Now, Fry tells us that uh the woman was just trying to get away, which again is irrelevant even if it's true. Even if she had no intention of harming the officer, she still put that officer in reasonable imminent fear of his life. Uh her attempt to get away was at best extremely dangerous and reckless and illegal. By the way, you're being detained by a law enforcement officer. You can't just get

away. The Democrats keep saying she's just trying to get away. You're not allowed to do that when you're being detained by a law enforcement officer. When they tell you to you're being detained, you can't just get away. It's like they talk about this against an innocent little, oh, she just wanted to get away. That's a crime. And regardless of her intent, it justified the use of lethal force. Now, you get the sense that most people in this country, despite the relentless lying, understand all this. One after another, Democrats are failing to convince the public to buy into the Renee Good hoax. Their arguments are simply too weak and too transparent.

Ilhan Omar, for example, went on CBS on Sunday to explain that the ICE officer is responsible for Good's death because he positioned himself in front of a moving car, which isn't true. And which still would not justify what Good did even if it were true. Watch. But do you see from from the recordings that we see, is there anything that you believe was that was being done that should not have been done by Mlin Good? Uh the administration says she was blocking the road. They are claiming this is an act of terrorism.

Yeah. Renee Nicole Good. Um as you hear her say, she's not mad. She's sitting in her car peacefully waving uh cars to get by. Uh this Asian as you see gets out of his car automatically starts running towards her trying to open her door. She feels scared. She tries to turn the wheel away. And then you see the other officer who can clearly see the car is moving, move towards the front of the car, which if they are saying that he has 10 years on uh service and is trained, he should know that you shouldn't be trying to get in front of uh a moving car. And so it is not acceptable for Christy Gnome and the president and the vice president to make these kind of judgments without there being a full investigation.

Now the CBS anchor doesn't push back on this absurd answer even though CBS is supposedly a reformed news organization. The truth of course is that when law enforcement issues a lawful order when they detain you and tell you to get out of the car uh they can stand wherever they want. You don't get to put the car in drive and move towards the officers, which is what happened in this case. Renee Good's car was not moving in any way. When the agents approached and told her to get out, the body camera makes that very clear. And then instead of getting out of the car, she puts it in reverse before throwing it in drive. She is fully responsible for everything that transpired afterwards. It's not the job of ICE agents to dive out of the way of whatever trajectory she's planning, which they can't possibly know. Even on MSNBC, aka MS Now, um, things aren't going much better for Democrats. A Minnesota lawmaker named Aisha Gomez was

asked about the latest video evidence in the case, and she flat out admitted that she's not interested in watching it. Here she is.

What do you make of the way that they're developing this argument and crafting a narrative around this woman? Well, I mean, the federal government has just demonstrated over and over again that they cannot be trusted, that they're not interested in the rule of law, that they're not interested in the truth. Um, I haven't seen the latest propaganda video from DHS. I don't care to I don't believe that it's going to make me mistrust the evidence that I have seen with my own eyes that I have heard from from the mouths of my just incredibly distressed and traumatized constituents who watched a masked federal agent execute someone in their street in the morning during the morning commute.

Now, watching interviews like this, it's impossible to ignore how femaledriven a lot of this outrage is. It was a lesbian agitator who got herself killed at the behest of her lesbian friend. And now a lot of unhinged women are trying and failing to sustain a false narrative about what happened. They're not relying on facts or evidence because they know they don't have any facts or evidence. Instead, predictably, they're getting emotional. They're whining like children. And despite the shooting of Renee Good, they're continuing to tail ICE vehicles and ICE agents like it's uh all some big game. Here's a a small sample of what we're talking about here.

They're taking these men unlawfully. They're taking these men unlawfully. They're taking these men unlawfully. They're taking these men unlawful

would rather be at home smoking weed. Yes. Yes. But what? But but why why can't you be smoking weed right now?

Because Nazis. Nazis. Yes. And um how how long do you plan to be out here? Oh, we're actually headed back to the car.

Head back to the car. I just want to ask, do you believe in illegal immigration?

Do you think US taxpayers should be funding housing for illegals? GET the out of here.

WE HATE YOU. YOUR camera get out of here. You shoot me in the face. Right here. I'm pissed

that I have to back down because you have a gun and that you will kill me. Just wanted to warn you guys now. That's fine. You can record. Just want to let you know if you continue to tell us cuz we're already kind of watching you then we're going to take you guys out of your vehicles and arrest you for impeding operations. I'm just I'm just warning you right now. If you continue to kind of follow us around and monitor us like this, we will take you out and arrest you. Okay.

I think they noticed me following them. You know, they change lanes. I changed lanes and then getting onto those federal roads like that's not where a lot of people are driving and they were like you've been chasing us and I was like okay. Well, as long as that montage was, it's just a fraction of the clips we have in this genre of uh women harassing ICE. It's it's not hard to see that many of these women are living out a kind of twisted psychosexual fantasy. They're baiting ICE agents to discipline them and put them in timeout.

This is why when the ICE agents respond to them, they're incapable of forming a rational thought. They just start screaming and crying and and stammering. They're also redirecting their neurotic maternal instincts for the benefit of illegal aliens, many of whom are murderers and rapists. These women don't have any children to take care of in many cases. Or the case of Renee Good, they don't have children they seem interested in taking care of. Two of her children were in the custody of her father. Very, very hard to lose custody as a woman, but apparently she did. So instead they fixate on protecting the illegal aliens on the theory that the criminals are, you know, being persecuted. There's nothing intelligent or coherent about any of their complaints. They know immigration laws were passed by Congress and signed by the president. They know every country on the planet has them by necessity.

They're simply taking the opportunity to act out and play hero as if they're living in Nazi Germany. It's it's transparent and pathetic and frankly sometimes fairly amusing. For example, during CNN's live coverage the other day, a woman bered the CNN reporter demanding to know where she worked. And then the reporter replies, "CNN, it's okay." Watch.

Smaller crowd. This is controlled. Uh the scene spans several blocks. We are here at Portland Avenue and East 35th, but it it goes at least two or three blocks. Where are you? Who do you work with? Thank you. Hold on. I'm sorry. We're We're with CNN. It's okay. Thank you. Thank you for your help. I'm sorry. Sorry, I think people are getting upset. Um, so that that is the latest here on the ground, guys, and I'm going to send it back to you.

That's what we call a mask off moment. The CNN reporter is affirming, as if everyone didn't already know, that CNN is on the side of the riers. No, it's okay. We're we're with you guys. We're CNN. The writer immediately runs away. Wouldn't want any friendly fire here. But not every news outlet is compromised in quite the same way. Over at National Review, they just reported on some of the pamphlets and materials that Icew Watch, the uh group that Renee Good was a member of, has been distributing recently. And one of those pamphlets advises members like Renee Good to quote, "block the kidnappers cars with multiple cars." There's also the suggestion that white people should offer themselves as human shields for illegal aliens. Apparently, because they believe white privilege is a is a literal shield against all physical harm. It's not an abstract or metaphorical point for these people.

It's their it's their genuine belief. And then there's this pamphlet from the same group. It teaches members how to dearrest illegals. It reads, quote, "One basic and pretty effective implementation of this tactic is totally surrounding the officers who have the arresty or otherwise blocking them andor their vehicles and chanting, let them go." This is the kind of propaganda that resonates with dumb unhinged women like Renee Good, who by the way looked a lot less crazy just a few years ago before she became heavily involved in left-wing activism. Of course, the media isn't running those newer is uh is not running those newer photos. It's also the kind of activism that our child's school called Southside would probably approve of. Here's a video I found from the school a few years ago. Watch.

We're kindergarten through 8th grade school um that's solely focused on social justice. Not solely focused, but I would say like the majority of what we talk about surrounds social justice in math and reading. Um everything that we do is focused on um equality and you know freedom from racism, agism, sexism and we talk about those things at a young age. In kindergarten it's more about maintaining relationships and building community. And then in our seventh and eighth grade um junior high class we do talk about oppression and how um in history people overcame that and how kids can apply that um to their world today. Um and we really focus on empowering them to be leaders in our community. and then as they go on to high school to be those leaders in their school. Um some of our students are even involved in the movements and the marches that happen in the cities. So that's kind of a big part of who we are.

Um but not all of what we do. Yes. A school for kindergarteners makes everything everything including math and science about social justice. They have um some of their students in a K through8 school participating in protests and marches on the street. And of course the parents are also part of this campaign. The parents connect and join groups like ICE watch where they coordinate campaigns to harass law enforcement. It should go without saying that there is no reason for a school like this to receive any federal tax benefits or funding, which the Southside school does receive at the moment. They aren't schools at all. These are indoctrination centers. They're teaching an ideology that directly inspires domestic terrorism. And the Trump administration at a minimum should cut all of these so-called nonprofit schools off, eliminate all of their funding. But schools like this turn lawlessness into

a into a, you know, a lifestyle choice. It's the kind of propaganda that convinces women like good to abandon the one child they're still allowed to take care of and spend their day on the streets harassing ICE officers. But it's important to understand that these women are not the entire problem. They're a major problem because they vote and own cars, but they're not the full extent of it. In St. Cloud, Minnesota, a mob of Somali just chased off some DHS agents in a scene that really looked like something out of Moadishu. Watch.

Hey, hey, give it up. Give it up. So we are getting very very close to a black do blackhawk down moment in Minnesota. We try to feed these people, try to help them and they respond with barbarism because that's apparently what they're all they're capable of. They're they their warlords are becoming belligerent now that we've uncovered their scheme to steal our food and now they feel threatened because their fraud has been exposed. All of them need to be deported by ICE or if necessary by the US military. And that is indeed where Democrats want this crisis to go. Democrats in power will happily use any demographic group, whether it's unhinged women or subliterate Somali, to trigger a broader, more violent civil conflict in this country. They want to provoke more incidents like this one until they get the violence they're looking for. The overriding policy goal of the Democrat party for the better part of a decade

has been to cause a domestic color revolution in this country, if not a full-on civil war. They want widespread riots and social upheaval that dismantles our constitutional order and the rule of law. In this case, they want a direct violent conflict between the states and officers of the federal government. For their part, ICE is aware of what Democrats are planning and they appear to be preparing for it. watch.

And so we stand here today with all those who stand against the madeup fake what you can call ICE uh professional law enforcement. I don't call them none of that because when you do it there, you getting arrested.

My message to the sheriff is try it. Try arrest my folks. Let's see what happens. Now, the smiling, clueless women who are currently throwing their lives away on behalf of Somali rapists in the streets of Minneapolis are not capable of grasping the consequences of something like this. If the state of Minnesota decides to ignore federal sovereignty and attempts to arrest and prosecute ICE agents or kill them outright, then many other Democrat-run states will follow. The people living in these states don't respect any election in which they lose. That's why they invented the Russia gate hoax. It's why they're openly talking about insurrection now. Even though again, Trump told us he would enforce immigration law. And and and most Americans voted for him. They want that to happen.

At that point, once I agents are targeted by the states, the federal government would have no choice but to send in the military to restore order. It's the only choice they would have. That'll be the inevitable and necessary response to civil disorder, which is spiraling out of control as we speak. Already, Antifa riers are destroying buildings in Minnesota, particularly hotels where they believe ICE agents may be staying. Several hotels were attacked over the weekend. That's the war that Tim Walls keeps talking about. And if it happens, it won't look anything like the Tik Tok videos that these middle-aged women are posting right now where they harass ICE officers in the middle of the street. It'll be a war that suddenly makes America look an awful lot like the dysfunctional third world hell holes where many of these migrants are coming from. Of course, that's always been the goal of mass migration and white

replacement. It's always been the goal of the modern Democrat party to end American exceptionalism. That's why they're lying about Renee Good, a woman they don't remotely care about. Even though the facts of the case clearly disprove their entire narrative, they see her as a casualty of a much much larger war that they want to fight. And they'll eventually get what they're looking for. Unless the Trump administration immediately dismantles all of the groups that are organizing these attacks on federal law enforcement, they're all over the internet operating with impunity and with substantial financial assistance in many cases. Shut it down.

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Uh-huh. But why why did the police chief cry? Was he crying out of righteous rage and indignation at the foreign gangsters in his city? Is that what he was crying about? It'd still be a bad reason for a grown man to cry, especially one in a position of authority, but uh you know, maybe you would have some measure of sympathy, but that's not why he cried. Uh all you have to do is watch the clip and you'll see why. Here it is. um they do have uh some uh nexus to uh involvement with TDA. We can confirm that and what I can say is there is an association with the two folks um yesterday and um TDA. I hesitated to even share this information initially because I'm very aware of the historic um injustice of victim blaming um oftent times portrayed by law enforcement including this very agency that I've represented so proudly for so many years and historically we have um not um been uh quick to disclose the potential

criminal history of others. I want to speak for just a moment specifically to my Latino community. It it saddens it saddens me that we even have to qualify um these remarks because I understand or at least have attempted to understand through your voices your concern, your fear, your anger. Uh this information uh in no way is meant to to disparage or to condone or support or agree with any of the actions that occurred yesterday.

So that's police chief Bob Gay or Day, excuse me, police chief day. And he I mean he's obviously he has to be gone after this. you I mean I I understand this is Portland. The police chief crying over the historic injustice of victim blaming is not as bad as it could be for Portland. You know, you fire this guy, they're going to replace him obviously with a trans, disabled, you know, aborigy lesbian or whatever. But there have to be limits and this cannot be tolerated. Imagine being a police officer in this guy's department and the guy leading the charge is on TV weeping. I mean, sobbing like a baby. This is not even a dignified single tear rolling down the cheek. This is fullon sobbing.

And why? Because he feels bad that he's victim blaming Venezuelan gang members. So that has to be rough if you're a police officer in Portland. But then again, you're probably used to it. I mean, they probably see this uh cuckled crying every day. I mean, they're probably I don't know. And Portland police, do you start each day with a with a cry circle? You talk about your feelings. I don't know. But, you know, the most important part of that clip is not the part where he starts sobbing like a child. It's it's before that where he says that he was hesitant to release this information, right? He says, "I I hesitated to even share this information with the public." And that's the information about who that these people were part of the Venezuelan gang.

So he hesitated to inform the public about basic crucial aspects of this case and he admitted to it and that confirms what those of us with brains have always known which is that people in positions of power, the powers that be are always rooting for the bad guys in any crime to fall into a very specific demographic group, namely white men. But most of the time they don't fall into that category, which means that they would rather not tell us about it. And this guy actually just came out and admitted it, which is pretty uh extraordinary. Skip the life overhaul in 2026. Just swap your snacks for ones with real ingredients, like our sponsor, MassU. It's clean eating without the massive diet. Uh Massa's chips are refreshingly simple organic corn, sea salt, and 100% grass-fed beef tallow.

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development that we'll discuss, but one of the few exchanges that um I've had with her was a few years ago when Johnny the Walrus came out, my of course acclaimed, critically acclaimed, best-selling children's book came out, and she had published her own uh anti-trans children's book called I think Elephants aren't uh elephants aren't birds. Elephants are not birds. And I guess that book came out shortly before my book came out. and she was mad that my book was getting, you know, a lot more attention than hers and it had shot to the top of the Amazon charts.

So, she accused me of stealing her idea, which which of course I didn't. Uh I had thought of the idea for Johnny the Walrus months and months before, signed a deal to for for the book. And uh it's uh that's the way publishing works. You know, you don't you can't see a book and then decide you want to rip it off and put yours out like a week later. It's not how it works. Books have to be written. Now, great that this didn't take long to write, but published, printed, illustrated, you know, it takes months goes into it. Um, but anyway, she backed away from the plagiarism claims pretty quickly and, you know, since then, I haven't had any issues with her. Last year, of course, she announced that she's uh Elon Musk's uh baby mama. And, you know, there was a big thing about that. I I I don't think I ever said anything about it because it's it's gossip. And what is there to say about it? You know, announcing it

publicly and then doing media profiles and photoshoots and all that and claiming you want privacy is pretty ridiculous, but whatever. Not my business. Um, not not my problem, not my circus. But a lot of conservatives have been very critical of Ashley since all of that. And Elon Musk obviously seems to want nothing to do with her. So recently, she's started to move very rapidly to the left. And yesterday she tweeted this. The tweet says, "Dark woke because the other option is bootlicking feds and pedophiles and nerds."

Now, this tweet is pretty dumb. Uh, you know, first of all, this is the falsest false choice I've ever heard of. There are a lot of other options, you know, besides being woke or quote bootlicking feds and pedophiles. There's there's a lot of other options. And second, dark woke is not a thing. Dark woke is a term that leftists came up with to make themselves feel cool. Like this is this is something they've we started calling them woke and then they came up with dark woke. I mean they really did this. They said I'm not woke.

I'm dark woke. Oh, scary. And it basically mean dark woke means I'm woke but I'm a bad I'm a badass edgy woke person. I'm not your I'm not your This is not your grandma's wokeness. This is dark woke. Oh, scary. You better watch out. I'm dark woke. And then they pulled out their lightsaber and, you know, started dancing around the room. Um, but of course there there is no way to be a woke edgy badass. That can't exist. So that's that's lame. That's pretty dumb. Uh, not worth commenting on. But then someone responded to this tweet from Ashley and said, uh, I think this is a trans activist responded said, "You've previously engaged in blatant transphobia. How do you feel about trans people in the wake of noticing how the far right truly is?" And she replied to that and said this, "I feel immense guilt for my role and even more guilt that things I've said in the past may have caused my son's sister more pain.

Uh, I don't know how to make amends for many of these things, but I've been trying incredibly hard privately to learn and advocate for those within the trans community that I've hurt. I also haven't said much on this because I've gone back and forth over whether my voice would be helpful on the issue since it will be framed as disingenuous or just turning because I'm scorned. Even this reply will become right-wing hysteria. But yeah, I am sorry. Let me know how I can help. Okay. By the way, when she says son, sister, she's referring to Elon Musk's uh son, a boy who's identifies as trans. And so Ashley is referring to that boy as sister. So she he's she's affirming the the pronouns and all that. So apparently Ashley has now officially gone like full woke. This is not So this is going from supposedly very right-wing to fullon as woke as you can be basically overnight uh to the point of embracing trans

ideology. And I mean, remember, this is the woman who wrote an anti-trans children's book a just a few years ago, and she was very possessive of it and very proud of it to the point of accusing me of copying her. Um, and now she's posting that she wants to start advocating for the trans community. And look, I'm aware that her reason for doing this is, you know, must be pure spite against Elon and the right-wingers who criticized her and also maybe looking for a new angle, a new bit, you know, and all that. But even so, this is incredible. I mean, I don't think we've ever seen this. Have we ever seen this?

Has it? Now, we've seen people who pretended to be conservative and then, you know, especially because they hated Trump and we've seen that and they went over to the left. Have we ever seen anyone though, have we ever seen this specifically? Somebody who was fully on team sanity when it came to the trans issue specifically, somebody was outspoken um against the trans madness, team sanity, team biological reality. Have we ever seen someone from that side go over to the other side? I can't think of another example. There have been many converts from team uh delusion over to team sanity. We've seen we've seen it go the other way plenty of times.

I I don't have there has there been anyone who's ever left our camp and gone to the uh women do have penises camp. Has there has there ever been anyone who has said for years like, "No, of course bi biology exists." And then one day said, "You know what? Actually, biology doesn't exist." You know what? Come to think of it, maybe women do have penises. Has anyone ever done that? I don't think we've ever seen it. And to do it now of all times is extraordinary. I mean, I I said yesterday, you know, embracing trans ideology now of all times. It's like it's like boarding the the Titanic an hour after it hit the iceberg.

Okay? It's like swimming out to the Titanic and grabbing hold of the railing right before it disappears into the icy depths. Even most Democrats have fled the ship at this. It's 2026. We're way past the the height of the transisteria. They've already lost. Democrats are embarrassed by it. Democrats are swimming away from the ship and they're looking over and seeing Ashley Stlair swim to it and they're looking back like, "What? Where are you going? What? What are you doing?" Oh, I'm getting on the ship. Uh, okay. Have fun.

It's uh it it's I mean, it's amazing. And it's also really wrong. I mean, it's like the the people who have been on the protrans side the entire time, maybe you can uh do them the favor. Maybe you can be generous, which I I I have no interest in being generous to them. Maybe you can be generous and uh give them the benefit of the doubt that they're just delusional. Like they they they're just completely delusional. have no idea what's going on, don't understand anything about reality, and are totally confused if they've been on that side the entire time. Now, I think mo I think most of them that's not true. I think most of them it's a cynical calculation, which is why so many of them jumped off the ship as soon as it wasn't popular anymore.

But if you've been on the side of sanity on this issue, if you've made the arguments, as she has many times, then you obviously know. So to then come out and say, you know what, actually I am in favor of child castration. There's like no way that that could be anything but the most cynical move I've ever seen. But you know, if I'm wrong, let's let's allow for the sake of argument that maybe Ashley sincerely changed her mind. Okay. Okay. So, I have one question for you, Ashley. I I asked this on Twitter. I didn't get an answer. I'll ask again.

Really fair question. Why did you change your mind? What exact arguments did the trans activists make to convince you that actually men can have babies and sometimes it is okay to chemically castrate a child? Please explain how they persuaded you to adopt those incredible positions. Please explain how you went from knowing that women don't have penises to thinking that maybe they do. What did they say to convince you? What arguments did they make to convince you of this? I think that's a very that's the that's the fairest question you could ask here. I mean, that's the fairest. If you come out and it's an answer you owe. I mean, if you're if you're out there public facing, you've made money. You mean you sold a book, you've made money off of uh which is which is fine. I made money on Johnny the Walrus, but you've been on on the side of sanity here. You've profited from it. Fine. If you're going to come out and say, you

know what, actually, I I I want to advocate for the trans community. At the very least, you should be able to offer a reason why. Because I've been dealing with these people for 10 years. I have never heard them present a persuasive argument ever. Ever. I I've never heard one of these people who Ashley Stlair is apologizing to now. I've never heard them make even a mildly legitimate argument for the trans protrans side. I've never heard one valid argument ever, which is unlike a lot of there are a lot of positions you can take that I'll disagree with, but I would still admit that yeah, okay, that's like there are some valid or interesting arguments you can make for it. I'm I'm not persuaded.

I don't agree with it. There are plenty of there are plenty of issues like that where you know from my perspective there's a clear right and wrong side of it but even on the wrong side I can see you know you can make an interesting argument but the protrans side there is no interesting argument there's no good argument I've never heard it I've never heard it one time and I've been talking about this for a long time and I've talked to a lot of people about it and I've debated this many many many times so what's the argument Wait a minute, Ashley. What did What did they tell you?

What did they say to you? What was it? Um, and if you can't tell us that, then that that only leaves the possibility of a incredibly cynical move of going over to the side of child castration when you know that it's wrong. And that is unspeakably evil. I don't know what else to say about it. All right. Uh finally for uh finally here two two well two two quick things. First of all, you know, we've talked about uh the the women who are very upset about ICE. Uh well, here's here's one uh a woman on TikTok in part especially upset and she decided to do something about it and she's not going to take this lying down. Uh, she's gonna stand up and fight by uh in her own way by by doing this. Watch.

NO. NO. SHAME. SHAME. OH MY GOD. WHAT the What the You just What the did you do?

Yeah. So, for those listening to the audio podcast, just just to describe the visual that what you missed. So, this is a middle-aged white woman with a face paint and some kind of symbol on her across her mouth and chin. I don't know what that's supposed to be. Not sure what that is. Looks like a hieroglyphics of some kind. I'm not sure. And she's staring at the camera and uh crying while that audio plays. So, that that's it. That's the whole video. It's a familiar genre of liberal women crying on TikTok with various images painted on their deeply unpleasant faces. But I, you know, you see these videos, you really have to think about it. Like, think about the behind the scenes. If they do a behind the scenes on the director's cut DVD of this Tik Tok video, what what would we see? What would the behind the scenes look like?

Well, we would see this woman sitting at her home struck with a a sudden moment of inspiration or she says, "I know. I I know what'll get me attention on the internet. I'll cry on camera." But then she thinks, "Well, if I'm going to cry on camera, well, I I need something else to to to make sure people know that I'm I'm super serious. I need to paint my face. I need to paint my face so I look like a a cross between like a really committed Minnesota Vikings fan and an Amazonian witch doctor. That That's how I'm going to paint my face and then I'm going to cry. So you're She's painting her face with with the intention of crying once she's done it. She's putting paint on her face. And someone asked her, "What are you putting fa paint on your face for?" Oh, I'm going to cry. Oh, cuz I'm planning on crying. I'm planning on crying in about uh about 12 minutes.

Yeah. got to get everything set up. I'm going to cry with the space paint on. That's my plan. So, she goes into the drawer, you know, the crafting drawer in the house, pulls out the uh supplies, pulls out the finger paint. Her three-year-old son comes in and says, "Mommy, I'm hungry. Can I have lunch?" And she says, "Oh, not now. I got more important things to do. I got more important things to do than feed you. I need to get engagement on TikTok." And not because she gets paid, right? She's not This is not a a professional media figure. It's not even a job. She just does it purely for attention.

I think most of these women on TikTok, they're not making any money on it. Yeah, we call everyone grifter these days and there are plenty of grifters out there. But a lot of these people like they're just doing it for the love of the game. They just want attention. It's not even about the money. So, she paints her face. Her son looks on confused. Her husband, well, yeah, her husband, she's probably divorced. She's probably divorced and constantly complains about life as a single mom. I bet if I looked up her TikTok, there'd be a million videos about it's so hard to be a single mom. And meanwhile, you're spending 89% of your waking hours in your pajamas scrolling Tik Tok. So anyway, she paints her face like uh like orcs preparing for battle and uh you know, sets up the the selfie light, sets up the tripod, gets everything ready to go, has the hair uh whatever with the with the the whatever she was doing with the hair,

turns on the camera, and just stares at it and starts crying, which of course with all that setup, there's just no way that the tears could be sincere. You know, it's pure performance. For who? For what reason? She doesn't even know. But that's how it goes. And so what I'm trying to say is that this woman and all the women like her, and there are millions, they this is like you're an attention starved sociopath. Manipulative, soulless monstrosity. Uh and I'm very happy to be on the opposite side of every issue from these people. That that's the main thing. The second, we've um well, we've heard from the uh liberal white women plenty this episode. Now for the liberal black woman perspective. Uh poet extraordinaire Amanda Gorman has written a poem about Renee Good. And you know Amanda, we've talked about Amanda Gorman in the past. She's uh she's revered she is revered as the most prominent most celebrated poet in the

world today. She's been all over the place. She's been at at inaugurations. She's been uh I saw she was on a late night. She was on the Tonight Show. They brought a poet on the Tonight Show. She's got best-selling books, everything. Easily the most successful poet currently alive today. I mean, she's she's probably one of the most successful poets to ever live. If you want to be really depressed, consider that in by some metrics, Amanda Gorman is the most prominent and successful poet, one of the most prominent and successful poets of all time.

And that's very depressing because she's also terrible. She is the worst professional poet in the history of the world. Like this woman has never strung together two lines that were even vaguely poetic. So this is the most emperor has no clothes scenario you can imagine. A woman with the poetic and and linguistic skills of a third grader being hailed as a master of the craft purely because she's a black woman. That's I mean that's the entire reason. That's it. She's a black woman, which means everything she does is automatically amazing and beautiful and impressive.

That's that that's the rule that we've learned. If you're a black woman, someone's a black woman, everything they do is amazing. That's the rule. Whatever a black woman does is automatically amazing. I don't care what they do. Okay? If they if they make uh uh grilled cheese for lunch, it is the greatest grilled cheese that anyone has ever made, it's the most amazing. This is a she she should be at a at a Michelin restaurant. This is a This is This is gourmet because it came from a black woman. Um and that's how we end up with Amanda Gorman. So, here's her poem to Renee Good.

I I will I'll read it to you. This is the poem. Okay. This is this is a her tribute which it is. I mean she the fact that she wrote a tribute to a white woman is is I mean that is that's that's a first for her. So this is what she says. They say she is no more. That there her absence roars blood blown like a rose. Iced wheels flinched and froze. Now bare riot of candles dark fury of flowers. pure howling of hymns. If for us she arose somewhere in the pitched deep of our grief, crouches our power, the howl where we begin, straining upon the edge of the crooked crater of the worst of what we've been.

Change is only possible and all the greater when the labor and bitter anger of our neighbors is moved by the love and better angels of our nature. What they call death and void we know is breath and voice in the end gorgeously endures our enormity. You could believe departed to be the dawn. You could you could believe departed to be the dawn. Wait, what? You could believe departed to be the Okay, you could believe departed to be the dawn when the blank night has so long stood. But our bright fled angels will never be fully gone when they forever are so fiercely good.

He said, you see good at the end. She said good. Whoa. Because she said good, but it's like double meaning because the woman's name is good and but also she's saying she's like talking about a good person. She's saying that like good that this woman her name is good but she's also good. You get it? Whoa. Wow. I mean thi this is this this is why she deserves a Nobel Prize. Come on. Who could ever think of that? Now, once again, I've accidentally done Amanda a favor by performing her dre so powerfully. My my own This is the thing.

I always try to make fun of her by my own skills as a slam poet always elevate like I'm trying to make fun of her, but I can't help but just be my own stirring interpretation of her work elevates it. Um, so I don't know. You really have to focus on the words. Don't focus on cuz when you you listen to me perform it and all you can think is wow this is a this is a this is a this is a a deeply affecting performance you're so caught up in my performance but you have to listen to the words uh which are abysmal and I bring your attention again to this uh line in the end gorgeously endures our enormity I I don't I mean that alone should be enough to land Amanda Gorman in prison And I'm I'm being I'm being incredibly dead serious, okay? It I know everyone's going to say, "Oh, no, First Amendment."

Okay, you know what? There are limits. We have to I'm as free speech as anyone, but we we something must be done. We must do something about this is all I'm saying. Do something. Someone do something about this. She has to be banned from composing poetry ever again. There have to be limits. I don't know if if President Trump can issue an executive order. I don't know. I I believe in free speech, but this just this cannot be allowed. We cannot allow this to continue. Uh that is my that is my plea. That's my play that I will uh end on. That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day.

Godspeed. What was it like, Merlin, to be alone with God? Is that who you think I was alone with?

Madin, I knew your father. I am yet convinced that he was not of this world. All men know of the great Talasin. You are my father and the gods should war for my soul.

Princess Garis, savior of our people. I know what the bull god offered you. I was offered the same.

And there is a new power at work in the world. I've seen it. A god who sacrifices what he loves for us. We are each given only one life singer.

No, we're given another. I learned of Yazu the Christ and I have become his follower. He's waiting on a miracle and I think you can give him one.

Trust in Yazu. He is the only hope for men like us. Fate of Britain never rests in the hands of the great light.

Great light, great darkness. Such things mattered to me then. What matters to you now, mistress of lies?

You, nephew, the sword of a high king. How many lives must be lost before you accept the power you were born to wield?

So cling to the promises of a god who has abandoned you. I cannot take up that sword again.

You know what you must do. Great life. Forgive me. The time has come to be reborn.

Questions about this episode

Who speaks in "The Left's Renee Good Narrative Has Completely Collapsed. Here's Why | Ep. 1715"?

Matt Walsh (Host), Renee Good (Guest), Ashley St. Clair (Guest), Jacob Fry (Guest), Amanda Gorman (Guest).

What is "The Left's Renee Good Narrative Has Completely Collapsed. Here's Why | Ep. 1715" about?

The main topic centers on the collapse of the left's narrative surrounding police-related incidents, specifically analyzing the justified ICE shooting in Minneapolis and contrasting it with the controversial George Floyd case. It discusses the implications of newly released evidence that undermines previous claims about Floyd's death, highlights the emotional breakdown of a Portland police…

What is mentioned in this Matt Walsh episode?

9 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including ICE, Johnny the Walrus, Daily Mail, Aisha Gomez, Equip Foods, Tren deewa. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "The Left's Renee Good Narrative Has Completely Collapsed. Here's Why | Ep. 1715"?

The episode runs 1 h 12 min; the transcript is about 12,187 words in 115 timestamped sections.

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