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Ep. 1719 - IT'S TIME: We Need To Start Arresting Liberal Lunatics Like Don Lemon NOW

The Matt Walsh Show

Mon Jan 19 2026

Summary

The Matt Walsh Show – Ep. 1719 "IT'S TIME: We Need To Start Arresting Liberal Lunatics Like Don Lemon NOW"
Date: January 19, 2026
Host: Matt Walsh (The Daily Wire)

Overview

This episode is a forceful, provocative response to recent left-wing protests targeting churches over immigration policies, notably involving former CNN anchor Don Lemon. Matt Walsh argues that such protests constitute “domestic terrorism” and should be prosecuted using the same legal standards (specifically, the FACE Act) previously used to target pro-life activists. Walsh also dissects a viral self-help post promising to “fix your life in one day,” expressing intense skepticism toward these approaches.

Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The FACE Act and Double Standards in Law Enforcement

Timestamps: 01:00–07:30

FACE Act Application: Walsh recaps how the Biden administration aggressively applied the FACE Act—originally designed to protect abortion clinics—to threaten and arrest pro-life Christian demonstrators while ignoring violent acts against pro-life centers.
Key Insight: The FACE Act also criminalizes interference with religious worship, which, Walsh argues, should apply to recent leftist protests that disrupted church services.
Quote:
“If we're still pretending that the rule of law means anything, FBI SWAT teams need to immediately conduct pre-dawn raids on the homes of everybody involved in the act of domestic terrorism that took place on Sunday at a Baptist church called Cities Church in St. Paul...” (06:02, Matt Walsh)

2. The Cities Church Protest & Don Lemon’s Involvement

Timestamps: 07:30–16:00

Event Recap: Leftist activists stormed Cities Church in St. Paul during service, allegedly to protest the pastor’s rumored ICE connections, disrupting worship and intimidating congregants.
Don Lemon’s Role: Lemon live-streamed the event, rationalizing disruptive protest as essential and likening it to the Civil Rights Movement.
Quote:
“The whole point of a protest is to disrupt ... There’s nothing that says where you can’t protest. There’s like, a lot of laws that stipulate that, actually.” (10:37, Matt Walsh, responding to Lemon)
Pastor Interaction: Lemon confronts a pastor mid-service, insisting on his right to protest inside a church, claiming First Amendment protection.
Walsh’s Reaction: Walsh both commends and fantasizes about direct confrontation with the disruptors, calling their actions inherently violent:
“Barging into a church like that is a violent act inherently… If the pastor had... punched that despicable, dumb little punk right in his face... he would have been totally justified in doing that.” (15:23, Matt Walsh)

3. Leftist Projection and Hypocrisy on Authority and Civil Liberties

Timestamps: 21:11–27:34

Activist Tactics: Walsh highlights leftist activists’ rapidly escalating actions, such as following suspected ICE agents, demanding proof of identity, and forming “chaotic, lawless situations.”
Notable Quote:
“They are everything they accuse ICE of being. They are authoritarian, they're a criminal, they're thugs, they're kidnappers.” (23:26, Matt Walsh)
Police Scanner Audio: Left-wing agitators act as self-appointed “dispatchers” to stalk and harass people they suspect of being ICE agents or collaborators.

4. Mob Harassment of White Men & Racial Dynamics

Timestamps: 27:34–32:00

Incidents Detailed: Mobs targeted white men in restaurants and on sidewalks based solely on suspicion of being ICE agents, at times openly acknowledging “if you’re white and eating in Minneapolis, you’re a suspect.”
Quote:
“Being white at lunch is a crime now. White while eating. WWE—that’s a crime.” (30:14, Matt Walsh)
Escalation: Ordinary citizens were effectively detained and interrogated by angry crowds.

5. Immigrant Community and Leftist Agitators' Escalation

Timestamps: 34:00–36:00

Somali Community: Walsh references alleged violent incidents involving Somali immigrants and claims of assistance from leftist lawyers and state officials.
Minnesota & Maine Officials: State officials are accused of illegally sharing confidential information to thwart federal law enforcement, which Walsh claims rises to the level of conspiracy.

6. Walsh’s Call for Law & Order

Timestamps: 36:00–41:00

Comparisons to Prosecution of Trump Allies: Walsh insists that if Roger Stone faced armed SWAT raids, “Don Lemon has earned a Bearcat taking down his front door…”
Quote:
“For once in the history of this country, these leftists need to suffer the consequences they've routinely inflicted on others.” (37:12, Matt Walsh)
On Mass Arrests: Walsh goes further, calling for “mass arrests” and the use of military force if necessary:
“If they declare an insurrection, send in the military and begin mass arrests… Prosecute these people, put them in jail for a long time. Ruin Don Lemon's life. His life should be ruined now.” (41:30, Matt Walsh)

7. Don Lemon’s Response and Walsh’s Rebuttal

Timestamps: 39:25–41:30

Don Lemon’s Defense: Lemon claims he was only present as a journalist and that the protest was not premeditated.
Walsh’s Contradiction: Plays Lemon’s own livestream showing foreknowledge of the operation, calling it clear evidence of Lemon’s complicity.

8. Critiquing Viral Self-Help Trends: “Fix Your Life in One Day”

Timestamps: 44:00–68:00

The Dan Ko Post: Walsh reads and critiques Dan Ko’s viral X (Twitter) post promising to “fix your entire life in one day.” He finds the writing weak and the premise unrealistic.
Fundamental Objections:
- No one can “fix their life in a day.”
- Success comes from hard work, not self-help exercises or endless self-reflection.
- Self-help industry thrives because its methods don’t work—if they did, it would cease to exist.
Notable Quote:
“No truly successful person in the history of the world has ever done any of this… That stuff is for losers. It just is. Successful and happy people don’t even know what that means.” (55:00, Matt Walsh)

Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

On Legal Double Standards:
“The law also makes it a federal crime to obstruct or interfere with anyone… lawfully exercising or seeking to exercise the First Amendment right of a religious freedom, of religious freedom at a place of religious worship. So yes, the same law that bans protests at abortion clinics also bans blockades of churches…” (02:45, Matt Walsh)
On Protesters and Don Lemon:
“Leftists like Don Lemon are coming right out and saying in no uncertain terms that the civil rights movement was led by thugs and domestic terrorists. That’s what he just said.” (11:38, Matt Walsh)
On Mob Harassment:
“This is anti-white domestic terrorism committed by leftists who seek to intimidate, harass, and murder white men as an act of solidarity with Venezuelan gangbangers.” (32:00, Matt Walsh)
On Calls for Accountability:
“For once… these leftists need to suffer the consequences they've routinely inflicted on others.” (37:12)
On Self-Help Trends:
“You cannot fix your life in one day… If you aren't successful, it's not because you failed to conduct the right self-assessment… It's because you're not trying hard enough or you aren't good enough or both. That’s it.” (54:00–57:00)

Timestamps for Important Segments

FACE Act and Legal Application Discussion: 01:00–07:30
Cities Church Protest, Don Lemon Footage, and Pastor Exchange: 07:30–16:00
Expanding on Leftist Tactics & Projection: 21:11–27:34
Mob Harassment Incidents: 27:34–32:00
Immigrant Community & Activism Escalates: 34:00–36:00
Walsh’s Call to Action & Mass Arrests: 36:00–41:00
Don Lemon’s Defense & Contradictory Livestream Audio: 39:25–41:30
Self-Help Viral Article Reaction: 44:00–68:00

Style, Tone, and Final Thoughts

Matt Walsh maintains his familiar combative, sarcastic, and unapologetically partisan tone throughout the episode. The rhetoric is intense, laced with vivid moral condemnation, disdain for his ideological opponents, and a repeated call for direct legal and punitive action. Walsh spares no language in advancing his belief that only forceful, law-and-order remedies will restore justice and order. His closing segment lampoons viral self-help as a symptomatic sign of cultural deterioration, doubling down on the virtues of hard work and personal responsibility.

For listeners new to this episode:

Expect a hardline, unfiltered perspective on culture war issues.
The episode is rich in pointed criticism, legal arguments, and anecdotes supporting the host’s broader worldview.
The tone is combative and intended to provoke as well as to rally like-minded listeners toward more aggressive demands for justice and accountability.

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Transcript

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During the Biden administration, we all became very familiar with the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances act, otherwise known as the FACE Act. This was the Clinton era law that had been mostly dormant for the past two decades. Then Merrick Garland took over the DOJ and the FACE act was used to prosecute dozens of Christians who demonstrated in front of abortion clinics. And in some cases, as you remember, as we talked about it on the show, pro life demonstrators woke up to SWAT teams outside their homes. Meanwhile, the DOJ ignored the violent attacks on pro life pregnancy centers. And this was just a ruthless series of prosecutions that targeted Christians, including elderly women in their 80s, and threatened them with, you know, 10 years in federal prison or more. But there's another element of the FACE act that never gets mentioned because it's, as it turns out, strangely enough, the FACE act doesn't only protect abortion clinics. The law also makes it a federal crime to obstruct or interfere with anyone, quote, lawfully exercising or seeking to exercise the First Amendment right of a religious freedom, of religious freedom at a place of religious worship. So yes, the same law that bans protests at abortion clinics also bans blockades of churches, which seems a little strange. What are the, what do the two things have to do with one another? But then another way to think of the FACE act is that, well, it protects leftists at their temples where they conduct human sacrifice and where they conduct their own kind of religious cult ceremonies. And then it protects, you know, the actual religious ceremonies of Christians supposedly, because by the same token, with the same legal force, it's Supposed to protect Christians when they go to their actual places of worship, their actual churches. That's supposedly what it's meant to, what it's meant to do. Now that means that if we're still pretending that the rule of law means anything, well, FBI SWAT teams need to immediately conduct pre dawn raids on the homes of everybody involved in the act of domestic terrorism that took place on Sunday at a Baptist church called Cities Church in St. Paul near Minneapolis. This was an attack that was infinitely worse of course, than any peaceful pro life demonstration at any abortion clinic has ever been. It's an effort by anti American communists not simply to interfere with Americans first amendment rights, but also to wage war on Christianity and religion in general, which is always everywhere. The primary nemesis of communists, Marxists want you loyal to the state, not to God. The pro lifers at the abortion clinics on the other hand, they weren't seeking to dismantle Western civilization or prevent society from functioning. They were trying to save babies. On the other hand, this is what the left is doing, trying to dismantle Western civilization and what it's founded on, which is the Christian religion. Now acting on the assumption that the pastor of the church worked with ice, leftist rioters stormed into the church as people sat in the pews and began screaming and intimidating everybody inside. So they went inside the building during the church service. Watch. So, and by the way, even without the face act, this, what you just saw there would still violate like 12 different laws. You cannot barge inside of a building and do a protest. There are valid places where you can conduct protests, not inside a building where people are trying to do something else and in this case trying to worship. But before we get back to the law, the, the law here, the many laws that were violated, you heard them there shouting, hands up, don't shoot. So the leftist brought back some of the classic hoaxes in addition to the hoaxes that they invented last week. Now we know that hands up, don't shoot, lest we forget was invented after Michael Brown roughed up a store owner, then charged at, a police officer attacked him and tried to take his gun. There's no evidence whatsoever that Brown ever said hands up, don't shoot before the officer defended himself. The alleged witnesses who claimed otherwise were not credible either because they changed their story after the fact or because they explicitly recanted their claim. Both of those things happened, there's no dispute about it. Michael Brown was shot to death while he was trying to murder a police officer. That's why there was blood all over the inside door. Panel of the officer's car. There was blood on the officer's firearm and uniform. That's why the officer had cuts on his neck, bruising on his face. That's why the officer's gun went off in the car, because Brown was struggling for it. And then seconds later, Brown charged at the officer again. The officer was not, in fact, a craven white supremacist looking to shoot a random black person who had surrendered. Michael Brown was not on his knees with his hands up, saying, don't shoot. That never happened. And even that was the determination of Obama's Justice Department, which made every effort to assist the BLM mobs and lend legitimacy to all of their lives. But they simply couldn't do it because it was a total fabrication that defied common sense as well as all of the evidence. So we can't really gloss gloss over the fact that in 2026, leftists are still clinging to this flagrant lie from over 10 years ago because the truth does not matter in the slightest to these people. They will fabricate the most obscene, incendiary lies they can possibly think of, and they'll repeat those lies relentlessly for more than a decade, long after they've been debunked even by their own side. Again, Obama's DOJ debunked all this stuff. So there's no way to win the debate with these people over immigration or anything else. There's no way to convince them that actually ICE is deporting extremely dangerous illegal aliens in a lawful and restrained manner because they don't care about the truth. They will concoct falsehood after falsehood with no evidence whatsoever. They'll spread those falsehoods over Reddit and Blue sky after laundering them through ProPublica articles and so on. Spend five minutes on any of these websites and you'll see exactly what I mean. An illegal alien will make a random accusation like I stole a 10th grader's phone, then seemingly sold it for cash, which is a real headline on Yahoo. News right now. And the left will just run with it. They don't care if the claim is completely unproven. They don't care that it makes no sense. For the same reason, they won't care if you eventually debunk it. It's not about the truth for these people. When they say something and you go, well, that's not true, there's no chance they're going to say, oh, it isn't. Oh, I was mistaken. Because the truth doesn't matter. The truth doesn't exist to These people, it makes no difference when they're out there saying, hands up, don't shoot. Ten years later, after it's been debunked and has been debunked for a decade. It's not because they're mistaken. It's not because they're, you know, oblivious. I mean, plenty of them probably are oblivious and really stupid, but it doesn't matter. The truth does not matter. These are not honest people, and the truth is irrelevant to them. And their ideology is incompatible with the future existence of this country. It really is that simple. That's why every single person who participated in this act of domestic terrorism at the church, which is what it was starting with, Don Lemon should be in handcuffs right now. Lemon live streamed the invasion of the Church, during which he offered precisely the quality of commentary that you'd expect from a man with no audience and no job and no talent and very little intelligence. Watch.

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I. The pastor, I thought, was very impressive with how he handled this. He wasn't rattled, and so very commendable. I will also say that if the pastor had taken the exact opposite approached approach and just punched that despicable, dumb little punk right in his face, right in his smarmy, ugly face, then he would have been totally justified in doing that. I'm not calling for violence at all. I'm just saying if he had done that, he would have been totally justified, 100%, certainly, certainly morally, he would have been. And the angels of heaven would have rejoiced to see it, frankly, because you don't owe these people anything. Don. Don Lemon says, why don't you talk to them? Why don't you talk, first of all? Yeah, that's what you do when you want to talk. So you've got a mob of people screaming, screaming lies, and. And that's how you. I'm supposed to talk. What do you mean, how can I talk to them? I've got a mob of people, all of them with IQs under 70. How am I going to. What do you mean, talk to them? How can I? And more importantly, it's not, you know, you're The Pat as a pastor, the church, it's not his job. Like you. You came here to disrupt. You say it yourself. It's not my job to explain myself to you. And you can't have it both ways. Yeah, we're here to disrupt. It can't be. We're here to disrupt, and we just want to have a conversation. Well, which is it? You want to have a conversation, or do you want to disrupt? Because if you want to disrupt, then we don't owe you anything, and there's no conversation to be had. The only option is to meet your force with force of our own. Because this, by the way, barging into a church like that is a violent act inherently. You want to have a conversation with this pastor, you know what you would do? You'd wait till service is over. You wait till he comes outside, he's greeting his. His. His congregants as they leave. You'd come up, respectfully, not a whole mob of you screaming. One person would come up, and you'd ask whatever question you want to ask. So, anyway, Don Lemon says it's traumatic for the children and the families, and apparently, that's what protesting is all about, really. So I guess, you know, protesting is all about making people uncomfortable. It's about disrupting. And Don Lemon says there's nothing in the Constitution that stipulates you know, where or when protests are allowed to occur, because the Constitution doesn't go through a. An exhaustive list of all of the places in the universe where protesting is okay, and compare it with a list of where it's not, because the Constitution doesn't do that. That means you can protest any way you want, anywhere you want. That's what Don Lemon is saying. In which case. In which case, I think Don Lemon would really support it and be perfectly fine if a bunch of those fabled MAGA Republicans barged into Don Lemon's multimillion dollar home in New York and began screaming as loud as they possibly could. I'm. Again, I'm not encouraging anyone to do anything. I don't. I don't condone violence. But. But all I'm saying is that it seems to me, from what Don Lemon is saying, that he would really support if just a mob of people went to his house and barged into it. I mean, it's disruptive. It makes people uncomfortable. And the Constitution says that. That, you know, you can protest anywhere you want, any way you want. Seems like he'd really support that. I don't know. He just made the argument for it I think he'd welcome it. Seems like. What are the odds of that, though? What are the odds that Lemon would, would welcome the rioters? Because after all, you know, the whole point of protest is to make people uncomfortable. Maybe Don Lemon, this is an honest guy, right? I mean, if, if I know Don Lemon, he's an honest guy. So I, I, maybe he'd come out, he'd come out of his room middle of night and say, well, you guys really made me uncomfortable, and I really support it. I, I fully support your right to make me uncomfortable. You know, Lemon is obviously trespassing and violating the Face act at a minimum. Just so you know, there's no podcaster exception to the law. He's clearly joining the riot for ideological reasons. He's open about it and he should be prosecuted. There should be a SWAT team coming to his house early in the morning, drag his ass out of bed, frog march him in front of cameras. And I know you might say, well, that's what he wants because he's just begging for attention. And that's true. But then you got to follow it up by actually putting him in prison for a long time. And he shouldn't be the only one. A former NAACP executive named Nakima Levy Armstrong led the riot and live streamed the proceedings. Watch.

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You know, there's an important point that needs to be addressed here. Yes, she lies about Renee Goode being murdered. And yes, she laments the fact that a Venezuelan was shot after he attacked ICE officers. And yes, all that is disqualifying. Nobody should take this woman seriously. But she does mention the story of the six month old child who was reportedly tear gassed, apparently by federal law enforcement. Of course, she leaves out the context. As always, Leftists were rioting in the streets over the shooting of that Venezuelan illegal alien who attacked an ICE agent with a shovel. We all remember the footage. The mob ripped a weapons locker out of an FBI SUV and they stole confidential documents. They spray painted ICE vehicles with profanities and all that. It was a lawless situation that was created entirely by leftists and apparently by accident. A woman claims that she drove her six month old child into that lawless situation and the child was exposed to tear gas that was intended for use as crowd control. No honest, irrational person could look at that situation, say it's the fault of the ICE officers. If that six month old child was exposed to tear gas, which is a very terrible thing, they had no choice because you're breaking into vehicles and stealing guns in the middle of the street. What else are they supposed to do? This is why it's a serious crime and a great evil to create lawless situations that affect entire neighborhoods is why we have laws against rioting and demolishing FBI vehicles and harassing law enforcement. When you create lawless situations in every case you affect the lives of many innocent people in ways that are highly unpredictable and potentially fatal. And then you can't pretend you care about that. You don't care. That's this woman, that piece of crap that we just saw there. They, they tear gas and innocent. You don't care about that. First of all, like any leftist woman gives a Damn about babies. 60 million have been murdered and you celebrate it. You're just a satanic soulless monster. You have no soul. I mean, you don't care about anybody, number one. Number number two, you've created the situation where these things happen on purpose and a lot of things can happen. You make it harder for innocent people to get where they're going. You can delay ambulances and other first responders. You subject innocent people to potential injury, including at the moment when law enforcement attempts to restore order, which they have a responsibility to do. Anytime law enforcement personnel are required to bring order to chaos, there's risk involved, which is why you shouldn't create chaos in the first place. Now leftists know all this. They don't care. Their only goal is to destroy the the, their, destroy their political opponents and seize as much power as they can. They certainly aren't upset about ICE asking for papers or pulling people over without cause. That's why the leftists themselves are now doing exactly that. They're pulling people over without cause in Minneapolis and without any legal authority to do so. So take a look at this post from infamous left wing activist Will Stancil. For example, he posted this message as he was following a random Ford Expedition and with the words press written on the back of it. Apparently Stancil was convinced it was really an ICE vehicle in disguise. So here's what he wrote. Quote, whichever press crew this is, you need to find a more official way to tell us or even just pull over and show us your credentials when you get a tail. We followed you for 20 minutes because you were acting exactly like ice does when they catch a tail. Yes, leftists with no legal authority are now demanding that random vehicles pull over and show their papers when they're being followed. They're literally demanding that other people who are minding their own business on the public roadways pull over and produce their papers or else they'll be harassed or worse. And they don't sense the irony here even for a second. They are everything they accuse ICE of being. They are authoritarian, they're a criminal, they're thugs, they're kidnappers. ICE isn't kidnapping anyone. These people are pulling people over on the roadway and illegally detaining them. That's kidnapping. The important thing to understand is that these people aren't concerned about civil liberties or the appropriate use of force or any of that. The only reason they're upset about federal law enforcement is that at the moment, they don't control federal law enforcement. These people spend every waking moment of their lives dreaming about assuming control of federal law enforcement agencies so they can use them to crush their political enemies. All their complaints about ICE amount to projection, probably the most profound case of projection in modern American history. As if to illustrate that point, just a few weeks ago Tim Walls warned that ICE would be raiding churches. Yes, ICE would be raiding churches, he says, not the antifa BLM mobs, but law enforcement agents. Watch. So I would fully expect, and we are preparing for an influx of more agents, more of the very visible public theatrics of the raids, of the harassments. And you got faith leaders here. I would not put it past this administration to target midnight mass services amongst folks going to worship. Now, again, they're always guilty of whatever they accuse you of doing. They badly want to be cruising the streets, pulling people over for no reason, ripping families out of churches, throwing their political opponents in the back of vans. And if you still doubt that, listen to this scanner. Traffic from inside Will Stancil's vehicle. He films himself harassing some random vehicle for about 20 minutes, honking his horn the whole time. And this time he's harassing a pickup truck. And. And you can hear as he tails this vehicle on the streets of Minneapolis that he's listening to various antifa larpers communicate with one another, like their police officers, about the locations of potential ICE activity. Watch. This is Liz. We're heading south on Lake street for on Brian So we'll let you know. What are you passing right now? We're right by Brian.

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So they're doing everything they can to transform America into a stereotypical, unlivable, loud, noisy foreign dystopia. They want to reproduce every element of the third world, right down to the constant inane honking all the time. And the foreign population is certainly in place. The fraud degeneracy is occurring at a good clip. So they got all that lined up and now right on cue, we have the third world honking. Now, we mentioned on our show last week that anti ICE rioters are using signal voice calls and dispatchers, quote unquote, to plan their ambushes. The dispatchers look up license plates, compare them to their databases, and order their antifa cells to various locations. This is what the. This is what that system looks like in practice. Half the time the losers are directing other losers to harass pickup trucks and SUVs for no reason whatsoever. But sometimes noteworthy events do happen on these patrols. Occasionally, it's becoming more frequent. The dispatchers will direct rioters to harass clean cut white guys who they suspect without any evidence may be ICE agents. I mean, at this point, if you're a white guy and you look like you're not mentally ill, you are a suspected ICE agent. It really is that. That is not even an exaggeration. As Alpha News just reported, a group of tech workers dining at a deli were just accosted by a mob and accused of being federal agents as well as pedophiles, quote, unquote. What began as a casual lunch between five Twin Cities software engineers quickly escalated into a frightening encounter after the men were misidentified as undercover federal agents and protesters were alerted to the Minneapolis restaurant where they were dining. According to one of the men, the messages stated the presence of ICE agents has been confirmed by the owner, who the man identified as the woman who rang up the order. Next thing we know, people are yelling I hope you die and calling us pedophiles. Well, here's what that looked like. This is so cool. I mean, this is. I mean, so cool. This has got to be the funniest thing I've ever seen.

A (32:00)

I mean, I don't know what to say. If you can watch that video and come away with the conclusion that the guy, the. The guy doing the deranged screaming there, screaming at a guy simply because he's white and walking. If you look at that video and you're on that guy's side, the guy who's filming the guy who's screaming that. I mean, I don't know, like, there's nothing to say to you. I don't want to share a country with you. I don't like you. I don't respect you. You're a bad person. You're scum. You're the lowest of the low. Nothing. You know, your opinion is irrelevant. You're not due any respect. You're just a. You're just a bad, awful person. Simple as that. And if that describes millions of people in this country at this point who would watch that video and take the side of the guy screaming, then I would say that about all the millions of them. If that's the case, let's just call this what it is. This is anti white domestic terrorism committed by leftists who seek to intimidate, harass, and murder white men as an act of solidarity with Venezuelan gangbangers. And these 68 IQ Somali scammers who are stealing hundreds of millions of dollars of our tax money every year and who are committing a host of other serious crimes, like DUIs and sexual assaults at extremely high rates. White men, in the eyes of the left, are colonizers. They think white men have engineered a racist, sexist, patriarchal system. They're privileged. They're guilty of the worst crimes imaginable. Therefore, on site, you can just harass them. You could follow them for hours. You could throw them in prison for fake crimes like arresting a career felon who's overdosing on fentanyl, as we saw with Derek Chauvin. And you can murder white men, too, on camera, in front of everyone, as we saw with Charlie Kirk, Brian Thompson. The left will celebrate all of it. There's also a video that I don't think we have of a white guy that was pulled over by these lunatics. He had to get out of his car and start showing them evidence that he's not ice. Which, by the way, if you're faced with this as a white guy in Minneapolis, anywhere else, you're obviously under no obligation to prove anything to these people. And if they are detaining you against your will, then they are, that is a violent threat against you, and you are fully within your rights to do whatever you need to do to get out of that situation and defend yourself, period. And you know, the Somalis are getting in on the action, too. They're tired of being exposed as fraudsters and professional degenerates. They're furious that the Trump administration has revoked their temporary protected status, which lasted more than 30 years and which only existed in the first place because Somalis are incapable of self governance. So now they're lashing out. The Somali just stole the independent journalist Nick Sortor's camera and dragged him in a car. Watch.

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So these are the kinds of people that leftists are rallying to defend. They'll happily murder you without a second thought if you expose their fraud. They've imported their primitive, violent, incestuous culture from their homeland, where goat herding for a dollar a day is considered a prestigious gig. And now they've gotten a taste of real money, money that isn't theirs. So they aren't going back without a fight. And leftists certainly aren't going to let them go back without a fight either. As Alpha News affiliate Crime Watch has reported Minnesota Assistant Attorney General Ann Keeling has just joined some of the anti ICE chats that we talked about last week. So this is a chat where members are openly discussing their plans to stalk, harass and intimidate ICE agents. And Ann Keeling knew all that, but she joined anyway and offered her contact information in case she could assist any of these riders. This is conspiracy to obstruct ice Couldn't be more obvious. And the DOJ needs to shut it down before it spreads, which is exactly what's happening right now. Needs to be shut down immediately. As Steve Robinson reports for the main wire, one of the only worthwhile outlets in the entire state. Quote, Secretary of State Shena Bellows has ordered Maine state workers to spy on ICE agents and report their locations to her. The order came down the same day Bellows revoked confidential plates for undercover agents. And the point of this, of course, is to enable anti ICE terrorists to share license plate information belonging to ICE officers so their dispatchers can deploy terrorists to interrupt ICE operations. They want to know where the ICE agents are at all times so they can hound them and obstruct them. What this means is clear. Shenabello is like the leaders of the state of Minnesota. They all belong in federal prison. We're well past the point where any other outcome is acceptable. And there are signs at the moment that even Tim Walls realizes that Democrats will regret waging war against the country. First, he posted a conciliatory message on social media directed at the Trump administration. Then he permitted local police officers to keep leftist riders away from the federal building that ICE is using to detain illegal aliens in Minneapolis. And here's what that looked like the other day. You can see it. You can see it right there. And these are indications that Tim Walls wants to step back from the brink. Maybe wants to salvage his reputation, his political career, his freedom. And that's the main thing he's worried about right now. And he should be. But it's too late for that. Tim Waltz is a criminal many times over. So is Jacob Fry and the Attorney General of the state. So is every leftist who participates in these rapid response signal chats or harasses ICE officers, berates random white men in public, storms into a church. For once in the history of this country, these leftists need to suffer the consequences they've routinely inflicted on others. If Roger Stone earned a pre dawn SWAT raid for supposedly lying to Congress, a body of politicians who lie every day, then Don Lemon has earned a Bearcat taking down his front door in Sag harbor, followed by a tactical team rappelling into his living room and hauling him away like Maduro. That's not hyperbole. This is not a rhetorical advice. It's something the Trump administration needs to actually do, must do in order to put an end to a long running campaign of leftist domestic terrorism and to restore faith in the rule of law in this country and to enable ICE officers to carry out they the mission they've been ordered to do by a democratically elected president. These people are committing felonies. On camera they're totally unafraid at the moment and they're making it clear that if they ever assume power again, they'll use the power of the federal government to hunt us down in the streets. The only way to do to prevent them from doing that is to remove as many of them as possible from the country and to put the rest of the insurrectionists in federal prison. That's what Tim Walls is afraid of right now. That's what he believes is coming. And the same is true of Don Lemon, who put out this video late last night.

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Okay, so he says there's a reason they have so many white people here. I'm just going to be honest. It's because of the operation that they're doing today. It's important to have white allies here. Clear evidence that despite what Don Lemon is trying to say later, he knew exactly what the domestic terrorizers, terrorists were planning to do. He voluntarily joined them. It was all premeditated. We all saw Don Lemon accosting the pastor. We knew. We know he mocked the terrified children, celebrated the fact that he was disturbing the peace. He knew he wasn't engaging in any kind of legitimate protests nor any kind of journalism. And, you know, and. And that's very clear. And even if he didn't know all that well, by the time you get to the church and he sees the mob walking in, that's the point where you can say, oh, okay, so we're going to commit a federal crime here and interrupt and obstruct a, you know, a house of worship. I'll just leave. He didn't do that either, really. He's daring the administration to call his bluff. That's exactly what all these leftists are doing. From the leaders of Maine and Minnesota to the BLM riders to the anti ice, open borders Communists. They're committing crimes on camera then daring the Trump administration to throw them in prison. All this will end very quickly if the White House takes that step, if they declare an insurrection, send in the military and begin the mass arrests and then see that through. Prosecute these people, put them in jail for a long time. Ruin Don Lemon's life. His life should be ruined now. This should basically be his life. Should basic, for all intents and purposes, be over. He should go to federal prison. He's done. He's in disgrace. And when he gets out, he's going to be old and disgraced, and no one's going to want to hire him. Like, this should just be a moment that Don Lemon, every single day for the rest of his pathetic, pitiful, pointless life, he wakes up just, like, regretting it every single day. Regret it, want to take it back, but you can't. Before any more churches are stormed, before any white men are hounded and assaulted in the street. And before any more people die, leftists in Minneapolis simply must be taught a lesson. They must face the one thing they've spent their entire lives avoiding, which is the consequences of their actions. Now, let's get to our five headlines. You could show up as your best self this year by actually getting a good night's sleep despite all the idiotic things happening in the news that should keep you up at night. It all starts by finding the right mattress. That doesn't have to be a complicated task. 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There's one other thing I wanted to talk about, which is the big headline on X anyway, and this is the, the part of the show where I'm going to be the cynical bastard who hates the thing that everybody else loves, which is to say it's not going to be any different from any other part of the show because that's every single day. There's a guy named Dan Ko who is, I think some kind of social media influencer and he wrote a, like a blog post on X. He actually, he wrote it on X's brand new feature where you can write an article or a blog or I don't know what they're calling it, an expose directly on the platform. So it's like substack or something, but it's directly on the platform. And Elon really wants everyone to use this new feature, understandably. You know, he wants to keep everything contained in this, in this app as much as he can, which is why he announced a $1 million prize for whoever writes the most viewed X blog or X post over the next week. I think that's, I don't know. I think the contest started a few days ago and I'm not sure how long it runs. Now. The funny thing is that Dan would easily be the winner, except that I think he wrote this article before the contest was announced, which makes it ineligible, I believe. Not exactly sure. But anyway, Dan wrote this, this post, which now has 160 million views, tens of thousands of, of retweets, reposts. I've seen it reposted to my feed hundreds of times and I, like, I often do, I ignored it the first 500 times. Like when there's something really popular that's some viral thing that's circulating. Usually the way it goes for me, my own personal trajectory is that I see it pop up, I'm not interested, and then I see everyone talking about it. And now because I'm a contrarian, I'm even less interested now just out of principle. I'M not going to look at it. But then it keeps going and I'm like, okay, well, now I just finally have to. I, like, I can't be the only person on the planet who doesn't know what this thing is. So, you know, I, I, and I, and I saw people, including some people that I, I think have some respect for talking about this post and insisting that it's like one of the best things they've ever read. It's life changing. So that exact thing said many times, this is life changing. Life changing. This post is like, it's deeply insightful. Life changing. Amazing. And so I finally decided to read it, and I have to say that I was not nearly as impressed as everybody else. The article is titled how to fix your entire life in one day. So you could see why it's so popular. You know, everybody loves a shortcut. Who doesn't? I do too. Everyone loves a shortcut. And here's an article promising to fix my whole life in one day. Wow. I mean, there's a lot to fix. So that's a lot of work for one day. Let's see. You know, I got to click on it and find out what's going on. And then you click on it, you see that it's very long, so I can't read it to you. It's, it's, it's a very long thing. It's probably, I don't know, it's like. Looks like it's like 10,000 words. Not especially well written, I have to say, but I'll read the opening. So this is the intro from Dan Coe on this article that last night had been read 160 million times. Now, it's probably more than that. If you're anything like me, you think New Year's resolutions are stupid because most people go about changing their lives in the completely wrong way. They create these resolutions because everyone else does. We create a superficial meaning out of status gains, but they don't meet the requirements for true change. Which goes a lot deeper than convincing yourself you're going to be more disciplined or productive this year. If you're one of these people, I'm not here to talk down on you. I tend to be a bit harsh in my writing. I've. It's just bad writing. This is really, it's, it's pretty bad writing. I have to say. That's okay. I've quit 10x more goals than I've achieved. I think that should be the case for most people. But the fact that people try to Change their lives and utterly fail almost all your time holds true. However, as much as I think New Year's resolutions are stupid, it's always wise to reflect on the life you hate so you can launch yourself towards something that much better. As we will discuss. So whether you want to start the bit, start the business, transform your body, or take the risk toward a more meaningful life without quitting after two weeks, I want to share seven ideas you probably haven't heard before on behavior change, psychology, and productivity. So you can do just that in 2026. Okay, so that's the promise, the pledge he makes to the reader. And he says, you know, that he's gonna, he's gonna change your life. That's what he's gonna do. And the article continues with a number of little lessons, like little insights about life trying to explain why you're not as successful as you want to be. It's really what this is about. When he says fix your life, I mean really what we're talking about, make you a more successful person. And there's many different ways to measure success, but in, in every way make you more successful. And then he goes through kind of this list and there, and he extrapolates on all them. But I'll read the list of the little like life changing insights. I guess you aren't where you want to be because you aren't the person who would be there. You aren't where you want to be because you don't want to be there. Third, you aren't where you want to be because you're afraid to be there for the life you want lies within a specific level of mind. And then five, intelligence is the ability to get what you want out of life. And like I said, he elaborates on each of these at length. But basically the idea is that you're unhappy and unsuccessful because you have the wrong mindset. That's the idea, right? The more successful, happier life lies within a certain level of mind. And you know, you think you value certain things, but you don't. And if you want to change your life, you have to change what you value and who you are intrinsically. It's basically the idea. And then he gets to a number of exercises that he wants. Again, I'm trying to summarize all this, it's quite verbose, but he wants you to perform these exercises in order to become happy and successful. In fact, not just that, but to fix your life. So we got the diagnosis from Dan and then he goes into the, the treatment plan here, right? Here's the here's. Here's what you do. Here's the prescription. So I'll read a little bit of this how to Launch into a Completely New Life in One Day the best periods of my life always came after a period of getting absolutely fed up with the lack of progress I was making. How do you dig into your mind? How do you become aware of your conditioning? How do you reach profound insights and truths that change the trajectory of your life through the simple but often painful act of questioning? Something that so few people do and you can tell by how they speak or give their thoughts on a specific topic? Questioning is thinking, and very few people do it. I want to give you a comprehensive protocol that you can use every year to reset your life and launch into a season of intense progress. Blah blah blah. This will require one full day to complete, so I recommend you follow along with the exact protocol. You'll need a pen, paper, and an open mind. Okay, and then where do we get to the wow, this is long. I can't even okay, so set aside 15 to 30 minutes to think about and answer these questions. And then here are some of the questions. What is the dull and persistent dissatisfaction you've learned to live with? What do you complain about repeatedly but never actually change for each complaint? What would someone who watched your behavior, not your words, conclude that you actually want? What truth about your current life would be unbearable to admit to someone you deeply respect? Okay, so you ask yourself those questions then. Now we turn to those into what I call an anti vision, which is a brutal awareness of the life you do not want to live. Okay, then he's got another series of questions you should ask yourself. This goes on, on and on. And this is just the morning meditation, but it continues as the day goes on. He says take the time right now to create reminders or calendar events in your phone. Include the question in the reminder or event so that you can immediately start thinking about it. The more random and non conflicting with your schedule there are, the better. So then so he wants you to set calendar reminders in your phone. Alarm goes off and it's going to prompt you to think about a certain question right about your life. So 11am what am I avoiding right now by doing what I'm doing? 1:30pm if someone filmed the last two hours, what would they conclude I want from my life? 3:15pm Am I moving toward the life I hate or the life I want? 5:00pm what's the most important thing I'm pretending isn't important? 7:30pm what did I do today out of identity protection rather than genuine desire? 09:00pm when did I feel most alive today? When did I feel most dead? And then there's even more reflections as you get later into the night. And. And anyway, it goes on. Okay, so again, 106. This is why. This is why it's worth spending a little bit of time. It's 160 million views and I really kind of hate all of it. I, I really do. And, and I'll tell you why. It's not that everything he says is completely wrong. And I did read the whole damn thing. Some of it is wrong, some of it has some truth to it. You know, the fundamental idea that there's like a misalignment between what people say they want and what they really want. That's obviously true. And that's an insight as old as time. I mean, that's in the Bible. That's in the New Testament. That's Romans. I do not understand what I do, but what I hate, I do. But what I. For what I, what I, what I want to do, I do not do, but what I hate, I do. That. That's St. Paul. So there's nothing new here, right? And the rest of this stuff is for the most part just like kind of very standard self help mumbo jumbo. And every year some new self help book comes along, or self help X post in this case, promising, like this whole new system for fixing your screwed up life. But it's never new. It's always the same. So anytime you hear about, oh, it's a brand, this person's come up with a whole new system to fix your life. It's not new. I guarantee you it's not new. It is the same thing. Like every self help book for the last 40 freaking years has basically been the same. And they always claim, oh, this is totally different. This is revolutionary. It's not. It's basically the same. And so I always have the same problems with it. And, and here are my problems. First of all, you cannot fix your life in one day. You can't do it. The fundamental promise of the article and of most self help books is a lie. I mean, the whole reason why it has 100 million views is because it promises to fix everything in one day. That's why, that's why people click on it. Fix it in one day. But that's, that's impossible, okay? If you want to fix everything in a single day, you can't. So I could write that article and make it a lot Shorter and more efficient. How to fix everything in one day. Impossible, right? The whole text of the article, just impossible. Can't do. Stop being lazy. Why did you click on this thinking that you're going to fix everything in a day? Like your problem is that you clicked on it. The fact that you're the kind of person that would click on that, looking for that answer, that that's your problem right there. You're lazy. There is not any system you can adopt today or self analysis you can perform or mindset shift or whatever that will fix your problems today and tomorrow and the day after and forevermore that doesn't exist now. You might be able to do or say or think something right now that in the moment will help you feel better or help you feel more productive. But that moment will pass. And then you have a new moment and a new day and another one until you die, right? This is the story of life. You have these moments, these highs where you feel like everything is going to be different from here on out. And then two weeks later, it's like that moment, you don't even remember that it happened. You don't even remember that you felt that. That's how far in the past it is. Really, like two hours later that might be the case. That's life. There is no fix you can adopt in a single day that will effortlessly transfer over to the next day. So Dan wants you to go through this whole, you know, internal checklist, this series of meditations. And. But, but even if you feel better as a result of it, well, that doesn't mean that you're now a happier or more successful person. And even if it does inch you barely in that direction temporarily, it's not going to matter the next day. Okay? So either Dan wants you to just perform this checklist, do this self analysis, and he's claiming that you do it once and you're good for the. Well then he says, do it every year, which I thought, I thought you said you're fixing my whole life in a day. So now I got to do this every year. So. Okay, but. So do it once a year. So this is going to put me. This is going to be such a revelation. It's just going to carry over. It's going to carry me through the rest of the year. Well, that's not going to work. And, and doing it every day is even dumber. Because here's the thing, because then maybe you say, well, but maybe you, you perform this self analysis every day. Maybe this is something you do every day. Maybe you meditate on these things every day. Maybe it is a day to day thing. Well, that's even worse because the other thing is this. The key to you, to your success and happiness is not found through even more obsession and self obsession and self analysis. Sitting around and thinking about yourself and your own state of mind and how you feel and what you want. And if you really want what you want. I think I want this. But do I really want this? Do I want to want this? You know, that is the opposite of what you should be doing if you want to be a happy and successful person. You already do enough of that. Everyone does. And if you're, if you're reading something like this, you get a self help book. You definitely already do enough of that. That's why you're the customer. That's, you're a customer for this stuff. For that reason. I always love these self help guides that act like the average self help reader isn't already spending every waking moment in a state of constant self analysis. They all are. That's why they're customers for this crap. This is not the key to success or happiness or fulfillment in life. The key, to the extent that there can be a key is to get out of your own damn head for five seconds and just go do like, just go, I'm sorry, there's no other solution. There's something that you want done. You're not happy because it's not done well. You have to do the thing. You have to just go do that thing. There's no other way around it. It's the most boring and simple. And also, and also most difficult path is the only one. Nobody has ever self analyzed themselves into success or happiness. It's never happened. That's why the therapy industry is so profitable. It's why the self help industry is so profitable. Because everyone is trying to do this self analyze themselves into happiness. But no one succeeds or gets any happier. Which is why they keep going back to the therapists and the self help books. That's the point. If any of this actually worked, these industries wouldn't exist. If the self help industry could actually help you, it would no longer exist. They wouldn't, there'd be no more posts about it. There'd be no more, no more self help gurus doing videos. There'd be no more books because it worked. It's like all this stuff's already out there. The key to happiness is already there. We don't need more. Here's an uncomfortable truth, okay? No truly successful person in the history of the world has ever done any of this. Okay? And I really want you to think about that. Which truly successful person do you think has ever set a reminder on their phone reminding them at 9 o' clock at night to reflect on when they felt most alive? Do you think any great man, any man of achievement has ever had his phone go off and he looks down and thinks, oh yeah, this is my time to meditate on when I felt most alive today? Hmm, let me think. Has any successful person ever done that? That stuff is for losers. It just is successful and happy people don't even know what that means. You go up to a successful person, again, successful by any measure, ask them, when did you feel most alive today? They're gonna look at you like what? When did I feel most alive? What the hell are you talking. What? Their mind's not even. That's that kind of ridiculous, pointless navel gazing is the kind of thing that a successful happy person never does. Doesn't mean they're not self aware, it doesn't mean they're not thoughtful. It's the navel gazing. It's when did I do I feel most alive while I'm doing this? That successful happy people never do that ever. You know, if you aren't successful in life, the reason is actually very simple. You don't need to read a 10,000 word article or a whole self help book to discover it. If you aren't successful, it's not because you failed to conduct the right self assessment or you failed to put reminders in your phone or fail or you fail to meditate on your inner life and your inner experiences. Now if you're not successful in whatever field or area of life you want success in, whether we're talking about in a job, an industry, being successful as a parent, I mean, whatever it is, it's because you're not trying hard enough or you aren't good enough or both. That's it. Every single person who's ever been unsuccessful at something, it's always because they aren't trying hard enough or they aren't good enough or both. Very often it's both, but usually it's the first. Usually you don't even get past the first step. You know, the industries that I've been in, media, you know, I've done some publishing, I've made movies, so I've been, you know, these are, these are industries where many the great is a graveyard of dead dreams everywhere you go. And lots of people who have big dreams of success. And what I found is, and there's a lot of failures all around in all these places. And what I found, and I think this is the case in any industry, you go to that 99% of the people that I come across that are just, are not successful in one of these areas. Well, you can look at them, you can look at them for 10 seconds and you're like, okay, well I see the problem. You're not working hard enough. You also probably, you also might not have the, the innate talent that you need for this. But before we even get to that, you're getting outworked by everybody around. So you sit around feeling sorry for yourself, making excuses, being envious, getting mad at people, holding grudges because they're more successful than you, but they're outworking you by like a hundred times. But when you're going to bed early at night and you're, and you're, you're laying in bed looking at your phone like they're still working on whatever their craft is, they're psychotically obsessed with it and they outwork you, they work a thousand times harder than you. That's why they're more successful. And this is true event, like I said, parenting, being a successful parent has nothing to do with money. Right? Do you raise your kids to be, are they happy? Are they well adjusted, are they virtuous people? That's being a successful parent. A lot of failure. A lot of people fail at parenting in a big way. Consequences are quite dire for that. But why do people fail at parenting? And there's a lot of excuses they come up with, but it always comes out you didn't work hard enough. The people that are really good at this, like they raise kids, you look at their kids and their kids become young adults. You're like, wow, all their kids are happy and they're getting married and they're, they're having kids and they just got this beautiful family. How did they do that? It's not that hard to figure out. They put the work in, they, they worked hard, as you know, they made the sacrifices. And a lot of parents don't do that. They'd rather just turn the TV on, give them a phone, get them out of the way. You're lazy, you're not working hard and you're going to fail at this. That's why. And then when that happens, you're going to make excuses. But that was the reason. So that's it. That's how you get where you want to be. And I think, I think all self help books and self help blog posts and all the rest of it are really just meant to get around this one simple fact that people don't want to work hard. That's what all this is about. How can I fix everything without actually having to do much? That should be the title of the article. How to fix Everything in one Day without actually doing anything. Well, of course the problem is that you can't. So that's my motivational speech for the day, such as it is, and we'll wrap it there. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day. Godspeed. Oh, and you know what? I'm building my colony right here.