The decision by the NFL to select “Bad Bunny” to put on the halftime show defines imagination. The Superbowl is famous for commercials, purchased at great expense. Some of these commercials are brilliant. Others, not so much. But one thing is certain, advertisers are willing to pay big bucks, because they desperately want a shot at connecting with a massive TV audience.

So, who exactly, watches the Superbowl? In 2025 the Superbowl averaged a record 127.7 million U.S. viewers. One notes that there were about 1.87 million viewers for the Spanish-language broadcast.

The Superbowl kickoff will take place before the teams even enter the stadium.  There are solo performances, of “Lift Every Voice and Sing” (or the black national anthem),  America the Beautiful and the national anthem. Green Day is the official opening act, along with La Russell and Teddy Swims. Green Day is famous for “American Idiot,” a protest song against George W. Bush and the Iraq war. More recently they have changed the lyrics to “I’m not a part of a Maga Agenda.” Some have predicted the NFL would never allow them to do something like that, but with Green Day, nothing is guaranteed.

It is predicted that 64% of Americans will watch the Superbowl. I will not be among the audience. Even if I decide to watch the game, I absolutely will not watch the half time show. Perhaps I am wrong, but I suspect those people watching Bad Bunny perform will be underwhelmed.

Frankly, I view the entire show as an insult. I suspect there will be a whole lot of other people who feel the same. The result is that all those people who do decide to watch the game, are extremely likely to use Halftime to get snacks and another drink. Bad Bunny only sings in Spanish, and he often performs wearing a dress. If you happen to attend an NFL game in person, look around you for people who will be impressed by this.

One must wonder how this could happen. Is NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell really this stupid? Or does he simply not care. Here if what Bad Bunny said at the Grammy awards:

“Before I say thanks to God, I’m going to say, ICE out,”

“We’re not savage, we’re not animals, we’re not aliens. We are humans, and we are Americans,” Bad Bunny continued. “I know it’s tough to not hate these days. And I was thinking, sometimes we get contaminated. The hate gets more powerful with more hate.”

 Here is how Goodell responded:

“Bad Bunny, and I think that was demonstrated last night, was one of the greatest artists in the world,” Goodell said during a press conference on Monday, calling to mind the performer’s win at the Grammys on Sunday. “And it’s one of the reasons we chose him. The other reason is he understood the platform he was on. This platform is used to unite people … and I think artists in the past have done that. Bad Bunny understands that and I think he’ll have a great show.”

The real problem is not Donald Trump or his policies. There was a time when we honored the office of President of the United States, even if it was extremely difficult to honor the person holding office at the time. Now people filled with TDS feel justified in not only trashing Trump, but also anyone who dared support him. They also feel justified in trashing the country. Sadly, the problem is made worse by a MSM that is incapable of reporting any story with even a hint of objectivity. Instead, they honor those most willing to trash their own country. In addition, they often resort to parroting Democrat talking points without any regard to the actual facts.

I suspect at least some people won’t bother to watch the Superbowl. Others will watch the game, but not the half-time show. As for those who choose to watch Bad Bunny, keep this in mind. No other country on this planet would tolerate this kind of public disrespect for their own country. In many places, someone who did this would be lucky to survive. Freedom is what makes us great. Free Speech is an important liberty. So is the freedom to push back against those who repeat obvious lies and don’t even pretend to be objective. People have the right to say what they want, we also have the right to tune them out, in every way possible.

Perhaps I am wrong, but I believe the NFL is very close to going a bridge too far. They risk offending the people they desperately need to succeed. The NFL needs us. We do not need the NFL.

TDM

No one would ever confuse me with a friend of Don Lemon. I never thought he was particularly good and seldom even attempted to watch his show. CNN fired him, after 17 years, in 2023. The final straw was his morning show with Caitlin Collins and Poppy Harlow. Don wasn’t thrilled with being demoted to the morning show. It didn’t appear that Kaitlin Collins and Poppy Harlow were thrilled with him either. They reported hated his guts.

Since then, he has been trying, and failing, to build an audience on his own. That may explain why he opted for this silly stunt of interrupting a church service allegedly to protest ICE.

Hating ICE is one thing, pulling a ridiculous stunt like this and then recording yourself in the process, is a new standard of stupidity. He may or may not be convicted, but he is destined to spend a fortune on legal fees, and regardless of the alleged support from the usual suspects in the MSM, no one even pretends this was a clever idea. Put a fork in Mr. Lemon because he is way past done.

He another example of DEI hiring practices responsible for putting unqualified people in positions for reasons other than merit. He is also on the growing list of legally challenged Democrats. One problem for them, is that unlike the Republicans targeted by the Biden Administration, these clowns committed real crimes, they broke real laws, there is actual documentation and they have real prosecutors on the case.

Tom Holman said something that should terrify Democrats. He said they were investigating the people who organized and funded these “Anti-ICE Protests” and they would be held accountable. The next stage in events will be the arrest of people. Not just protestors, but people who organized and funded this nonsense.

In addition, Trump putting Tom Holman in charge, leaves Democrats with fewer opportunities for exaggeration. He doesn’t mimic Democrats in making wild accusation like when Noem described Rachel Good and Alex Pretti as “domestic terrorists.” He doesn’t pretend that the ICE agents involved made no mistakes. This approach has been devastating to the entire Democrat narrative. ICE Agents aren’t perfect, but they also aren’t NAZI or the Gestapo. When one side looks and acts like an adult, it just makes the irrational and delusional protestors look, well, irrational and delusional.

In addition, the FBI just released millions of Epstein documents and none of them create a problem for Donald Trump. This is beginning to look like another brilliant move by Trump to lure Democrats and the MSM into breathless anticipation of finally getting “something” to stop Trump. Some are even trying to convince us that this time the walls are really closing in on Trump. That is ridiculous. The Biden Administration had those files for years. If there was anything that would really hurt Trump, that would have pounced immediately. Didn’t happen. Instead, we learn that people like billionaire Reid Hoffman, are getting a lot of attention. You know the Reid Hoffman who funded E. Jean Carroll in her lawsuit against Donald Trump. The same Reid Hoffman who donates regularly to Democrat politicians. There is also mention of Elon Musk, but that is not exactly news. The point being is that this final release is going destroy the illusion that Trump was involved and replace him with people the MSM would prefer to ignore. In addition, they can’t ignore this, because Trump lured them into covering this as the crime of the century.

In previous years, wild violent protest across the country fueled turnout by the Democrat Party and helped it trounce Republicans during the mid-term elections. This year they may be replaced with public trials of paid agitators funded by high profile Democrat donors. In addition, unquestionable evidence of systemic voter fraud is starting to be on full display. Don’t underestimate those voting records seized in Fulton County. If Republicans can pass legislation that requires proof of citizenship and photo ID to vote, something extremely popular with most Americans, Democrats may find it more difficult to win elections in places like New York, New Jersey, Virginia, California, Illinois and gasp, Minnesota.

According to recent reports, Trump has $100 million in campaign funds. The DNC has $1.3 million. The smart money is not exactly fawning over the Democrat Party.

There is an old saying that “if GOD gives you lemons, make lemonade.” Don Lemon probably thought that in addition to elevating himself, he was delivering a death blow to Donald Trump. Instead, he may end up being a gift, because he exposed the liberal left in a way that is very difficult to ignore.

TDM

The two recent shooting deaths in Minneapolis were the result of split-second decisions by federal officers. In the first case, the federal officer shot at a woman because he believed she was trying to hit him with her car. The second was when someone confronting police was discovered to be carrying a firearm. When officers saw the gun, they shot and killed him. Both cases are truly tragic.

It is easy for some people to assume that both cases amounted to murder by federal officers. That is wrong. While the officers may or by not have made the correct decision, in both cases they didn’t have much time. One could argue that they could and should have used more restraint, but that is quite different from murder. More importantly, both incidents could have been avoided if there was not an organized movement designed to make it difficult if not impossible for ICE to do its job. We recently saw proof of the extent to which this was coordinated when someone managed to hack their secret group messaging system.

This was made even worse by the reckless and irresponsible rhetoric of both Governor Walz and Mayor Frey. They slammed ICE with wild unmerited accusations and encouraged people to confront ICE and photograph them so Walz could prosecute them at some point in the future. This borders on or crosses the line between political rhetoric and inciting an insurrection.

The decision by Donald Trump to publicly order ICE into Minneapolis is part, but only part of the problem. These results were easy to predict. Since they were to be expected, the Trump administration should have been prepared to manage this better.

The losers here are those people who have conspired against ICE. In their haste to organize all those protestors, they forgot something important. Their private communications have been hacked and exposed. They just may have documented their own criminal conduct.

Trump will withdraw ICE, just like he did in Los Angeles and Chicago. But that does not mean he is abandoning Minneapolis. Instead, ICE will be replaced by an extremely dangerous team of FBI and DOJ investigators. The Trump team now knows the identity of the real players, and it knows how the money flows.

In addition, it is significant that Trump sent Tom Holman to Minneapolis because he wanted an adult in charge. Both Kristi Noem and Gregory Bovino made the situation worse by poor use of words. Noem referred to the people who were shot as “domestic terrorists.” Bovino said that Alex Pretti was there to engage in a mass shooting. This gave undeserved ammunition to the people desperate to blame everything on Trump and/or ICE.

The next question is whether Democrats will shut down the government, again. They are already in a lose-lose situation. If they don’t shut down the government, they will lose at least some of their left-wing radical base. But if they shut down the government, this will have an immediate negative impact on a lot of voters. That is particularly true with much of the nation is being slammed by a major snowstorm.

The real problem for Democrats is that even the MSM is unable to cover-up their systemic radicalism and incompetence. New York is already getting a full dose of Democratic Socialism, otherwise known as Communism. Communism has been an abject failure everywhere it was tried. New York is extremely unlikely to be an exception. Combine this with the massive fraud in Minneapolis and the statewide incompetence in California and this is close to being a perfect storm.

As Abraham Lincoln once said: “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.”

Idiotic comments by Hollywood Celebrities and the people in Minneapolis stupidly assaulting armed ICE officers are proof that a lot of the people are fooled all the time. But a significant percentage of people are not involved in protests, and they are not worried about ICE officer interfering with their lives. They are more concerned about the price of gas, and if that continues to drop Democrats are in serious trouble.

There is another quote from Alexander Pope in his poem “An Essay on Criticism”: “fools rush in where angels fear to tread.”  Remind you of anyone?

TDM

This is entirely farcical. Governor Tim Walz and Mayor Jacob Frey are going all in on painting ICE as the modern-day gestapo. They are blaming everything, predictably, on Donald Trump. They are portraying ICE as out of control thugs willing to kill people indiscriminately. Sadly, this ridiculous position has been reinforced by far too many people in the MSM all too willing to promote an obviously false narrative.

At this point, if anyone is watching the MSM coverage of this sad situation, they may believe things that are clearly untrue. The result is that it looks like Trump has only bad choices. He can yield to this nonsense, and withdraw ICE from Minnesota, or he can risk making things worse by sending in federal troops. It is the ultimate lose-lose situation for Trump, exacerbated by the absolute unwillingness or incapacity of the MSM to even come close to reporting facts.

But the best laid plans of mice and men are often interrupted by things out of their control. In this case, the weather. It is cold in Minneapolis, I mean really cold. Like wind chills bordering on 40 degrees below zero tonight. I was raised in Upper Michigan. When it gets this cold, no one, stands around shouting nonsense trying and failing to get warm. At some point, they will go home. Even if they don’t want to, they will go home. This is not optional, because these temperatures are just impossible to endure.

My hunch is that President Trump has resources he can bring in overnight, and when the protestors try to rekindle things in the morning, they are going to find themselves confronted with a vastly different scenario. Trust me on this, Governor Walz and Mayor Frey will not be out there in this weather trying to stay warm. Neither will the Minneapolis police or the Minnesota State Police.

Frankly, the comments by Governor Walz and Mayor Frey are outrageous. They are the ones promoting the violence and the ones trying to exploit human tragedy for political purposes. They could not care less about the people who will get killed doing something stupid because they are encouraging dangerous and irresponsible behavior. They want tragedy. They want more deaths. They want more violence. They need more violence. They cannot win a fair and balanced debate. They have no cards. The hope is that people will be so outraged by the violence and human tragedy that they will foolishly blame everything on Donald Trump.

But there is a problem: This isn’t happening anywhere else. It didn’t happen in Washington, D.C. It didn’t happen in Memphis. It didn’t even happen in LA. It only happened in Minneapolis and even left-wing liberals in deep blue states and cities do not want this happening in their neighborhoods. While they may give traditional lip service to the usual suspects, behind the scenes they don’t what this happening in their backyard. No sane person wants this. We can be certain that most people in Minneapolis don’t want this.

But there’s a problem. Donald Trump is, well, Donald Trump and he doesn’t back down. It just isn’t in his DNA. He is not going to withdraw ICE from Minneapolis. He is going to let Governor Walz and Mayor Frey drown in their own sweat. While the MSM is desperately trying to spin this as anti-Trump and elevating Walz and Frey as modern day Davids fighting Goliath there’s a problem. One is that very few people trust the MSM anymore. Another is that other social media outlets are reporting significantly different facts. Finally, they are dealing with Donald Trump, who is unmatched at getting people to listen to him. Trump will find a way to get the right message out and when that happens, this will be devastating for anyone stupid enough to trust in people like Walz and Frey. He also has resources they can’t even imagine. That includes a real DOJ and a real FBI, who will not be deterred by local left-wing magistrates or liberal left juries. They have the facts, they have the evidence and they have the patience to put together a case that will withstand scrutiny. They also have the law clearly on their side. Those who do not understand this may work under the illusion that they are winning when, in fact, they are digging their own graves.

In the meantime, Trump doesn’t need to take immediate action. He can let these clowns shout protests in empty streets during freezing weather. Even the MSM is going to cut back on sending crews to cover these silly demonstrations. Trump, on the other hand, doesn’t have to do anything. He can just stay put, let his people stay comfortably indoors, and take the weekend off. By the time the weather changes, these protestors will be cold, exhausted and beyond frustrated. Screaming at the top of your lungs, when it is 40 below, when no one is listening is vastly over-rated.

TDM

It just doesn’t get better than this. Remember how the Biden Administration decided to prosecute grandmothers who dared pray outside abortion clinics.

The FACE Act allows judges to impose fines of up to $10,000 and six months of prison on first-time protesters engaging in nonviolent physical obstruction, such as sit-ins or blockades. Second convictions for these kinds of acts could see fines of up to $25,000 and jail time of up to 18 months. Additionally, the FACE Act allows federal conspiracy charges to be brought against defendants alongside the FACE Act violation itself. That means, in cases like the Surgi-Clinic one, defendants are charged with violating the FACE Act and conspiracy to violate the FACE Act, which carries a massive 10-year potential prison sentence on its own. These activists—who are dedicated to protecting human life—are now facing 11 years in federal prison if they receive the maximum sentence.

This was signed by Bill Clinton in May 1994. Abortion advocates were too busy rejoicing to notice something. Republicans would not approve the FACE act unless it also included protection for:

the use of physical force, threat of physical force, or physical obstruction to intentionally injure, intimidate, interfere with, or attempt to injure, intimidate, or interfere with any person who is exercising or trying to exercise their First Amendment right of religious freedom at a place of religious worship,

Harmeet Dhillon mentioned possible violation of “The Klan Act.” She points out that “The Klan Act is a law that makes it illegal to terrorize and violate the civil rights of citizens.” She cited the fact that the Biden Administration used the act to target individuals who were protesting abortion.

The left-wing liberals who believe that the most precious human right is the right to abort an unborn child failed to consider the possibility of using the FACE act to punish people, well, like them. They have zero interest in listening to people who disagree with them. This is why people like Don Lemon never considered the possibility that the law they championed could be used against them. Oh, the irony.

This time they crossed a big very red line. Those abortion protestors weren’t occupying clinics, they were just protesting. But this crowd invaded a church, foolishly believing that people like Tim Walz and Jacob Frey are even capable of understanding federal law. Walz and Frey encouraged people like Don Lemon to do things they would not do. You don’t see either of them on the front lines assaulting ICE agents. Instead, they just foam at the mouth, protected by their Minnesota State Police protection detail. Even Tim Walz is questioning the wisdom of invading a church during a religious service. Now if Tim Walz realizes something is dumb, it is way beyond obvious.

Many of the people harassing ICE and trying to stop ICE from enforcing federal law are paid protestors. Others are people dumb enough to think this is a good idea. This difference is that while Biden was more than happy to jail people for protesting abortion, Trump is willing to jail people for obstructing ICE officers from enforcing federal law. While the usual suspects consider this political persecution by Trump, they miss the point. Trump has the law on his side, and that will soon become beyond obvious.  

What makes this even more delicious is that those who are so quick to lecture us regarding what is and is not fair are about to find out the reality of their delusional view of the world in the hardest way possible.

In addition, consider this. If Tim Walz orders the National Guard to defend Minnesota from Federal Officers executing federal law, at least some of them may listen to people like Mark Kelly advising them to disobey unlawful orders. This is easier to understand if the Federal Officers are wearing body armor, carrying weapons, and the U.S. Army is poised to provide assistance, if necessary.

As for geniuses like Don Lemon, in this case they may have violated “The Klan Act” without a Klu (clue).

TDM

The importance of an event can be clear, as with JFK’s assassination, or it may only be understood later when more information becomes known.

It is becoming increasingly obvious that January 6, 2021 was a significant day. For the past four years we have heard a constant drumbeat from the left wing of the Democrat Party, and malcontents like Elizabeth Cheney, and their supporting allies in the MSM. January 6^th was defined as the day when MAGA followers attempted to overthrow the government of the United States after being encouraged by the lies told by Donald Trump. We were told of the Capitol Police officers assaulted and killed. The FBI and the DOJ put on a nationwide organized search for anyone suspected of being in Washington D.C. We were told this was the worst threat to Democracy since the Civil War.

The truth, becoming more apparent every day, is that January 6^th, 2021 was an attempt to overthrow the government, it is just that the usual suspects got this completely backwards. It wasn’t an attempt by Donald Trump and his supporters to overthrow the government; it was an attempt to overthrow Donald Trump. Democrats and their supporters in the MSM are so filled with hatred for Donald Trump that they can’t even imagine reality. They are incapable of even considering the possibility of error. Yet, they are wrong about nearly everything that happened on January 6^th, 2021.

This started with the alleged dangerous lie by Donald Trump that the 2020 election had been stolen. We were told this had been thoroughly investigated and his allegations had been totally discredited. That, of course, is not true. The sad reality is that there wasn’t nearly enough time to investigate the 2020 election before the inauguration of Joe Biden. Now, more than four year later, we are just beginning to learn about just some of the significant questions. The more we learn, the more reason to seriously question that election.

But all you really need to know is this. The MSM flat out lied about what Trump did and said on January 6^th. Why? Because if they reported the truth, it destroyed their narrative. He asked his supporters to march “peacefully” over to Capitol Hill. More importantly, Trump had authorized the National Guard to protect the Capitol prior to January 6^th. You cannot reconcile that reality with pretending Trump tried to overthrow the government. The person who blocked the National Guard was Nancy Pelosi.

No Capitol Police officers were killed. One died from an un-related health issue. The only person killed was an unarmed civilian, shot by a Capitol Police officer. While some members of the crowd became unruly, there are also reports of the Capital Policy officers becoming unnecessarily violent with the crowd. If ICE Agents did in Minneapolis what Capitol Police did on January 6^th, there would be wide-spread anger. In addition, other Capitol Police officers were inviting people into the Capitol. There are pictures of people taking selfies inside the Capitol. There are also confirmed reports of numerous FBI agents and informants in the crowd and at least some reports that these were the people encouraging aggression.

But none of that matters if one just uses common sense. Although Democrats and the MSM like to claim white Supremacists are the source of all violence, that is obviously not true. All you need to do is look at the pictures in Minneapolis. Who is encouraging people to stop Ice agents from doing their job, who is suggesting that drivers’ license be removed from ICE agents? Who has threatened to call out the National Guard to stop ICE agents from enforcing laws passed by congress?

Now look for instances where MAGA crowds became violent. Contrast the response to Charlie Kirk being assassinated in cold blood and the death of George Floyd, from an overdose of numerous drugs with serious question as to whether the police officer(s) involved even contributed to his death. After George Floyd, people were encouraged to become angry, and the result was widespread violence. Following the death of Charlie Kirk, who was flat out assassinated, the groups mourning held a prayer service. There were no riots.

Yes ,January 6^th was a defining moment. It defined who is willing to hold fair and honest elections and honor the results, even if they don’t like them, and who is not. It explains who supports Voter ID and who does not. It provides perspective on who wants audited election results and who does not.

 Republicans hated Joe Biden. He spent 40% of his Presidency on vacation and seldom even tried to put in a full day. He was showing obvious signs of dementia,  which the MSM covered it up and Democrats ignored. But there were no riots to try and stop him from being President.

While I believe most Democrats are decent people who love this country, the leadership of the Democrat Party is the serious threat to Democracy. It was Barack Obama who weaponized the IRS against political opponents. When Richard Nixon even hinted at this, it was considered the crime of the century. When Barack Obama flat out did it, no one in the MSM or the Democrat Party cared and Republicans were too terrified about criticizing a Black President to say or do anything. Then when Barack Obama refused to honor the results of the 2016 election. He not only refused to provide for an orderly transfer of power, but he also literally sabotaged Donald Trump by releasing a classified intelligence brief, he knew was based on deliberately misleading information. The result was the “Russia Collusion” investigation, which kneecapped Trump for months, yet found zero evidence to support this hoax. During the four years from 2017 to 2021, Democrats tried to obstruct Donald Trump in every way possible. They even impeached him because he dared point out the truth about Joe Biden’s demand that Ukraine fire the prosecutor who was investigating his son Hunter, or Joe Biden would personally withhold about a $ billion in U.S. aid. Then he laughed and said, they fired him. Trump was impeached for saying something negative, even though true, about a potential political rival. Oh, the irony.

When was President, he opened the border and let millions of people enter with zero background checks. He ordered the DOJ and the FBI to investigate Trump and prosecute him, for something. He was prosecuted, in courts where no Republican has a chance, and convicted of non-existent crimes. He was even convicted of allegedly assaulting a woman, thirty years after the fact, in a dressing room at a New York store. No one noticed, and she never told anyone. She couldn’t even be sure in which year this allegedly happened.

During the 2020 election the MSM covered up the Hunter Biden laptop story. The deep state pretended this was a plant by Russia when they knew that couldn’t possibly be true. Numerous people who voted for Joe Biden said they would never have voted for him if they knew the laptop story was real. That alone was a conspiracy by the DOJ, the FBI, the Deep State, and the MSM to steal an election, but no one cared then and no one cares now.

It is just this stark. If Democrats, led by the current left-wing fanatics, gain power, there will never be another fair election in this country. Our Democracy, as we know it, will cease to exist. The people who represent the real threat to Democracy are those now shrieking at the top of their lungs in hatred of Donald Trump, falsely accusing him of doing the things they have actually done and will double down doing in the future. This is our defining moment.

TDM  

Once again left-wing Democrats and their supporters in the MSM are on a desperate mission to destroy Donald Trump, without any regard to the consequences. There are many people who strongly believe that George Floyd was murdered by a racist white cop. It is no surprise that people believe this, that is the story told by the MSM since day one. The result was wide-spread rioting in Minneapolis and elsewhere. People were angry and outraged at racist white cops who routinely murder innocent black men. That is exactly what the left wanted and wants.

The fact is that it is far from certain that Darin Chauvin killed George Floyd. The following article from AP Fact check dated May 26, 2023 was designed to support the myth that Floyd was murdered. Read it for yourself.

George Floyd’s autopsy report is not new, does not say he died of an overdose | AP News

While the page says he had fentanyl and methamphetamine in his system, and did not have “life-threatening injuries,” the full report concludes Floyd died from “cardiopulmonary arrest,” not an overdose.

Following is some additional “analysis” by the MSM in the same article:

“Independent experts have previously told the AP that underlying medical problems and drug use revealed in the autopsy report don’t change the conclusion that Floyd’s death was a homicide, explaining that these conditions simply made it more likely that he would not fare well under stress.

They have also noted that the fact that no major bruising or damage to the muscles, cartilage or bones in the neck was found — as indicated under the phrase “no life-threatening injuries identified” in the autopsy — does not mean that asphyxia did not occur. Only that there are no signs of it on the body.”

There is no doubt that George Floyd had a ton of drugs in his system. There is no doubt that he died. There is no doubt that Derick Chauvin was leaning on him when he died. But what the media ignored is that police were called because Floyd used a counterfeit $20 bill at Cup Foods in Minneapolis. The 911 call said he was sitting in his vehicle, appeared to be intoxicated. The following article in Newsweek included the actual transcription of that 911 call:

Why Was George Floyd Arrested? Police Release 911 Call That Led to His Death – Newsweek

“Um someone comes our store and give us fake bills, and we realize it before he left the store, and we ran back outside, they was sitting on their car. We tell them to give us their phone, put their (inaudible) thing back and everything and he was also drunk and everything and return to give us our cigarettes back and so he can, so he can go home but he doesn’t want to do that, and he’s sitting on his car cause he is awfully drunk and he’s not in control of himself.”

Chauvin guilty of murder and manslaughter in Floyd’s death | AP News

President Joe Biden welcomed the verdict, saying Floyd’s death was “a murder in full light of day, and it ripped the blinders off for the whole world” to see systemic racism.

But what they never reported is what really happened when police first confronted George Floyd. Following is actual video from police officer’s body cams showing the entire transaction.

Police Body-Camera Footage Reveals New Details of George Floyd Killing

This shows police confronting George Floyd and talking him into leaving his car. Floyd was sitting on the ground, handcuffed. While he was being arrested, police were not overly aggressive. But when they tried to put him in the police car, he became aggressive and started resisting arrest. It took several officers to get him on the ground. They finally got him on the ground, and under control. In the meantime, a crowd of angry spectators had gathered, with cell phones, screaming at police. At one point Derek Chauvin has his knee on George Floyd’s neck or shoulder. If you look at this video, Chauvin is leaning on Floyd, but he doesn’t appear to be particularly angry. At some point, Floyd died.

Now one may argue that Chauvin shouldn’t have knelt on Floyd. One could argue that this action contributed to Floyd’s death. Although looking at the autopsy, it is far from certain that the actions taking by Chauvin even caused Floyd’s death.

But none of that mattered. The truth didn’t matter. All that mattered is that people on the left wanted this to be murder by a racist white cop. They wanted people to protest violently. Black Lives Matter seized the day and there were violent riots all over the country, including in Washington D.C. Even today, far too many people believe that George Floyd was strangled to death by a racist white cop. This is because that is what left-wing Democrats and the MSM wanted and want you to believe. They wanted the anger. They wanted the violence. The only real question is why? If you were looking for a case where a vicious racist white cop killed an innocent black man for no reason, this wasn’t it. It wasn’t even close. But it was the best they had, so they went with it. And far too many people fell for this.

Now, they are doing the exact same thing regarding this unfortunate incident in Minneapolis. The reality is that these two women, both of whom were there to harass ICE agents, got into a confrontation with someone who not only was armed, but he was also pointing a gun at them. That is a recipe for disaster. One can argue all day long whether the police officer acted properly or not, that is not really the issue. The real issue is who thought it was a good idea to encourage people to confront armed ICE agents?

It is increasingly clear that there is a nationwide movement, funded by someone, to harass ICE agents and stop them from doing their job. This is well organized and moves quickly. They want anger. They want violence.

There are no good options here. If Trump tells ICE to back down, he will be giving a free pass to millions of illegal aliens. But if he doesn’t tell ICE to back down, there will be more of these incidents, more horrible encounters, and more violence.

The bottom line is that the left-wing wish list had ICE killing someone. The circumstances didn’t really matter. The facts didn’t matter. They just wanted someone to die. They wanted ICE to be involved and they were counting on the MSM to pounce and give full throated support to the myth that ICE is murdering people, because that is what the MSM always does.

But there is something else to keep in mind. Although left-wing Democrats and their supporters in the MSM think they are controlling the narrative, that may not be true anymore. I question how many people, other than the usual suspects, were impressed by Governor Tim Walz or Mayor Jacob Frey. The MSM is shredding viewers. Notice how quickly Hilton terminated the franchise of the Minneapolis hotel that refused to book rooms for ICE agents. They didn’t do this because they love ICE, it was because they hate losing money. They were far more concerned about the people who actually stay in hotels, you know like people with jobs, than the unemployed malcontents who have time to stand around and scream silly slogans.

The real question is will people stupidly vote for Democrats, because Democrats do dumb and irresponsible things? Always remember that although these violent protests get a ton of news coverage, including from Fox News, they really don’t involve very many people. Yes, there were riots and protest following the death of George Floyd. But Trump won by a landslide in 2024 and he also won the majority of votes nationwide. Democrats should be careful what they wish for.

TDM

Note: If you were wondering how someone like Jacob Frey, was elected Mayor of Minneapolis read the following:

2025 Mayor – City of Minneapolis

“This was a ranked-choice voting (RCV) race. Voters were asked to rank up to 3 different candidates.

After two rounds of tabulation, Jacob Frey was elected.”

Sometimes one wonders if the MSM even listens to its own broadcasts. If you watched any of the MSM news outlets yesterday you could believe an ICE agent shot a woman in cold blood for absolutely no reason. The situation was truly awful, and no one likes to see someone shot and killed. But it much worse when the usual suspects seize the day for political purposes. Once again, the liberal left and their fawning supporters in the MSM rushed to the microphone to exploit any tragedy for political purposes.

The reality is really this simple. ICE agents are there to enforce federal law. Law passed by congress. Law that says if you entered the country illegally, we could deport you. Seems simple. But the liberal left has decided that the law doesn’t matter. They can’t even bring themselves to say “illegal alien” they say undocumented person.

The mayor of Minneapolis rushed to the nearest microphone and declared the ICE agent guilty without bothering to see any actual evidence. He then told ICE agents to get the F out of Minneapolis. Nice. Fortunately, there are multiple videos of the event. While this is still under investigation, somethings are already obvious. The car in question was parked cross ways in the road in an obvious attempt to block ICE agents. There are numerous reports that this vehicle has been stalking ICE agents all day long. The passenger in the car was outside the car filming everything on her cell phone. Agents approached the car and told the driver to get out. Instead ,the driver backed up a couple of feet and then surged ahead. There was an ICE agent directly in front of the car. I still don’t know how he avoided getting killed. He pulled his gun and shot the driver. He was still hit by the car with a glancing blow. There is a bullet hole, in the car windshield, clearly showing that the bullet was fired from in front of the vehicle.

But this tragic incident is only part of the story. The real problem is that Democratic politicians have been demonizing ICE agents daily. They are calling them the Gestapo. They are accusing them of kidnapping people. They are called a threat to democracy. There are certainly some cases where ICE agents overplayed their hand, which is true of every law enforcement agency. But we ask these people to do things we don’t want to do. Some of the people here illegally are dangerous criminals not overly interested in cooperating. We can assume most people living here illegally are not enthusiastic about being picked up by ICE. But that does not make ICE the Gestapo and the demonization of people doing their jobs is making things extremely dangerous for everyone, especially ICE agents.

I just wish one reporter had asked Tim Walz one obvious question. Do you have any mirrors in your home? If you want to see the person most responsible for the unfortunate death of this young woman, look in a mirror. You have been trashing ICE and encouraging people to fight back and resist ICE. What, exactly, did you expect. If people like Tim Walz and Gavin Newsom weren’t telling people to fight back against ICE, these tragedies would be extremely rare. Instead, there is a nationwide network of left-wing activists on a mission to stop ICE, at any cost. Sadly, at least some of these people believe the nonsense being fed to them by Democratic politicians and the MSM.

This begs the question, why? Tim Walz provides a clue. He had to give up running for re-election as American’s dumbest governor because of rampant fraud in Minnesota. He is desperate to change the topic anyway he can.

It won’t work. The people who are on to him are not intimidated, they are motivated. This will not result in silly speeches or meaningless gestures. It will consist of highly skilled and dedicated prosecutors, not people like Jack Smith trying to score political points, but real prosecutors focused on investigating and presenting a case that will put bad people where they belong, behind bars.

The Walz are really starting to close in, not on Donald Trump, not on ICE, but rather on Democratic politicians who have become so accustomed to benefiting from systemic corruption and fraud that they became complacent, and, sloppy. They are so used to the MSM helping to cover-up the obvious that they thought they were above the law. Wrong. The real ICE age is coming, and things are starting to warm up in ways that the rest of us can finally enjoy.

TDM

Perhaps, just perhaps, authorities have finally identified the person who killed two people and wounded eleven others at Brown University. If someone in Hollywood wrote this script, it would be rejected as too bizarre to be true. It appears the actual shooter committed suicide in Salem, New Hampshire. According to law enforcement personnel, his body was found in a storage container.

His name is Claudio Manuel Neves Valente. He was a former student at Brown. There are reports that he also killed MIT Professor Nuno Louriero in Brookline, Massachusetts. The key information came from, “John” a homeless man, had been apparently living in a boiler room at Brown.

How an anonymous Reddit tipster helped the FBI find the Brown shooting suspect | The Independent

“I’m being dead serious. The police need to look into a grey Nissan with Florida plates, possibly a rental. This was the car he was driving. It was parked in front of the little shack behind the Rhode Island Historical Society on the Cooke St. side. I know because he used his key fob to open the car, approached it and then something prompted him to back away. When he backed away, he relocked the car. I found that odd, so when he circled the car that is when I saw the Florida plates. He was parked in the section between the gate of the RIHS and the corner of Cooke and George St.”

Then there is “Rodney Chatman”. Brown’s vice president for public safety and emergency management.

Brown police chief Rodney Chatman running a ‘s–tshow’ department while posting his progressive views | New York Post

He was reportedly the subject of two no confidence votes since arriving at Brown. He was allegedly fired from his previous position at the University of Utah. This sure likes like another DEI hire.  

Now there is a report that a Brown University custodian warned about the shooter weeks before the event.

Brown University custodian warned about shooter weeks before attack

A custodian from Brown University has come forward and claimed that he warned a third-party, on-campus security guard weeks ago about a suspicious man who turned out to be the suspected shooter in an attack that killed two and injured nine.

Derek Lisi, a 15-year employee, saw a man pacing the hallways, looking into classrooms and hiding in a bathroom to avoid being seen in the weeks leading up to the Dec. 13 shooting inside Brown’s Barus and Holley building, as first reported by The Boston Globe.”

It gets worse:

“The contractor company, Event Staffing Services, confirmed to the Globe that one of its employees was told about the suspicious person in December, but said it is not responsible for investigating those types of reports.”

“The custodian told investigators he had seen the man multiple times over the past month, and the custodian’s account was soon corroborated by security video from the building.”

This is so stunningly bad that it is almost certain to be true. We can be certain that the families of the victims are being inundated with calls from plaintiff attorneys desperate to represent them in the lawsuit against Brown.

Suppose you were spending $100,000 to get your child an IVY league education at Brown. Any questions regarding what happens next?

TDM

I must admit I don’t know very much about Brown University. We did have a neighbor whose daughter graduated from Brown. She was extremely liberal and we had seen reports that Brown University was extremely liberal. That, of course, is no surprise regarding any IVY league college.

Then this awful shooting happened. Two people were killed and nine others injured. Brown University is in Providence Rhode Island. There have been several news conferences regarding this, with the Mayor of Providence Rhode Island in the lead. If these news conferences were designed to elevate Providence, Rhode Island and Brown University, that is not what happened. In each case local and national media reporters asked a ton of questions and none of the press conference participants seemed to be prepared with any answers.

One question asked recently was whether Brown University had turned off its numerous cameras because of a request from a liberal organization. It turns out this may have been exactly what happened.

Brown University Received a Letter from 34 Human Rights Groups in August Requesting They Disable Their CCTV System – The Last Refuge

This letter was sent to 150 U.S. colleges and universities asking them to disable CCTV systems.

“Right now, these tools are facilitating the identification and punishment of student protesters, undermining activists’ right to anonymity––a right the Supreme Court has affirmed as vital to free expression and political participation.” 

This would sure help explain the lack of video evidence.

In addition consider the fact that at least of these protests were violent pro-Palestine rallies. You know the rallies where people shouted, “death to Israel” and “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”. Free, of course, means free of any occupation by the hated Jews.

It gets even worse. Some are suggesting that Brown University is covering up for Mustapha Kharbouch:

Who is Mustapha Kharbouch? Brown University student’s profile removed after mass shooting

“Why has Brown University suddenly erased every mention of Mustapha Kharbouch (a Palestinian activist and first-year student) from its official website, right as the FBI intensifies its manhunt for the shooter who killed two and injured nine in the campus attack?”

Notice that Brown University issued the following statement, which sure looks like a non-denial denial:  “In the aftermath of the shooting, we’ve seen harmful doxxing activity directed towards at least one member of the Brown University community,” a statement read. “It’s important to make clear that targeting individuals could do irrevocable harm.”

There are also reports that the shooter shouted “Allahu Akbar” just before shooting. Following is a picture of Mr. Kharbouch.

There are pictures of someone identified as a person of interest who is 5’ 8” tall and of a stocky build. Coincidence? None of this is evidence of guilt, but it is also not evidence of innocence.

If Mustapha Kharbouch is innocent, then he or his friends should be the very first to provide him with an alibi. That would end the speculation. There is no current evidence that this has happened. If Brown University really wanted to protect him, they are instead making things much worse.

We don’t know who shot eleven Brown University students, killing two of them. All we know is that, so far, the press conferences have done little to convince anyone that this is being handled effectively.

It is not exactly unique for someone motivated by Muslim extremism to decide it would be great fun to shoot people. The recent Bondi Beach massacre in Sydney Australia is a reminder of that.

One thing is certain, the longer this goes on, the more serious the questions. What, exactly, is the value of being politically correct if the result is the death of innocent people?

In addition, I suspect a lot of people, considering sending their precious children to an Ivy League school has just crossed “Brown Out”.

TDM