January 16, 2026 • 15 mins
If leaders can incite chaos while the media edits the tape, what truth are you really being sold? This episode of The Rant Network dives head‑first into the Minnesota unrest, ICE‑involved shootings, the ethics of filming federal agents, and the bitter fight over sanctuary policies—arguing that selective outrage, manufactured narratives, and “rules for me, not for thee” are ripping trust to shreds; we push past the noise to ask where free speech, public safety, and the rule of law actually meet—and who is accountable when the storyline eclipses the facts.
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SPEAKER_00 (00:05):
You know, David, it's Friday.
SPEAKER_01 (00:09):
You know it's Friday.
SPEAKER_02 (00:11):
Yeah, it's Friday for sure.
SPEAKER_01 (00:14):
All right.
SPEAKER_00 (00:14):
Let's just cut right into it because I want to get
this off to the racetrack realfast today.
All right.
You know, in our seems likeevery single rant, like it sort
of goes in trends.
What sparked the protests andunrest on January 7th was U.S.
(00:35):
Immigration and CustomerEnforcements, aka ICE, fatally
shot a 37-year-old Renee NicoleGood in South Minnesota.
Federal offer uh officialsinitially said the driver
attempted to hit the driver.
SPEAKER_02 (00:53):
No, the officer attempted to hit the officer.
SPEAKER_00 (00:56):
The officer, sorry.
Local uh officials showed videosthat question the narrative.
There comes an incident nearGeorge George Floyd level.
The incitement by government andnews agencies has risen to a
(01:20):
level where Charlie Kirk getsshot on a stage.
A shot goes over the ear of thepresident of the United States.
In week after week, theDemocrats are preaching death to
Republicans, death to ICE, deathto law enforcement, death to
immigration agents, death toanyone that doesn't agree with
(01:41):
me.
On January 14th, another ICEagent shot a Venezuelan man in
the leg during an attempted stopin Minneapolis.
The large majority, not all, butthen again, what incursion did
(02:02):
any other government do inhistory didn't have good
casualties?
Tension, protest, and theresponse is normal.
You raise a hand to lawenforcement, you get the club.
What are you thinking?
Local leaders, including thisdumbass governor and the mayor
(02:25):
of Minneapolis have criticizedfederal action and demand
independence investigations.
However, they refuse to give anyaccess whatsoever to law
enforcement to prevent this fromhiding, citing constitutional
concerns.
Fucking hypocrites, David.
(02:48):
You want to be a fuckinghypocrite?
It seems that you're now only aDemocrat.
Listen, the Republicans are notinnocent in this either.
The Republicans are feeding thefuel, fanning the fire, throwing
kerosene out there.
And a president who does what hesays and says what he does will
(03:12):
literally go in and call itinsurrection and deal with the
state in which the method itneeds to be dealt with.
It's as if Tim Walsh, tamponTim, wants to be taken out in
handcuffs.
They're looking for the largescale scale riot.
They're looking for the massmurder.
(03:34):
They're looking for something tochange the course of Donald J.
Trump's presidency.
Minnesota's experiencingsignificant civil unrest.
Is it naturally caused?
Are there outside agitators?
The situation is polarizing.
(03:56):
Makes the 60s Vietnam war riotslook like, I don't know, merry
fucking poppins.
If you want to break it down bylegal framework, then someone
who incites and yells fire in amovie theater needs to be put
into shackles.
And if that includes thegovernor of Minnesota, put him
(04:17):
in shackles.
If the mayor is doing it, puthim in shackles.
You cannot incite violence.
You cannot threaten.
You are not given the right as amember of government to do this.
We the people didn't elect youto cause internal wars.
We the people elected you togovern the people.
(04:41):
Who are the people?
Those are not the people whojust so happen to be there.
Those are the people that boughtthe land, paid for the land,
worked the land.
There is a difference.
You morons.
(05:05):
Yes, they're in a a lot of themare in really bad situations.
But because you have no checksand balances, you have caused a
timeline that is likely gonnaend poorly.
Sorry.
SPEAKER_02 (05:21):
No, listen.
Hey, let's let's let's get let'slet's let's put something on the
table, Stuart, right?
Number one, they pulled a Trumptactic.
Yeah, that's right.
The left has pulled a Trumptactic over here.
You have the Somali fraudscandal, a beautiful thing,
right?
Siphon dollars gone, and noheads have rolled.
(05:45):
And you could see that thingswere getting worse for Tim
Waltz, Elon Omar, and manyothers.
And right at that, they werelooking.
How do we divert the media'sattention?
How do we divert the people'sattention?
Here's an opportunity, we gottafind it.
Ice agents, perfect, right oncue.
(06:06):
Exactly what we needed to getpeople off the Somali story and
blame.
Trump is usual.
TDS, Trump derangent syndrome,continues to infect the media
and the left to such an extentthat it's like perfect, let's
divert the attention from hereto here.
It's a Trump tactic, by the way.
(06:26):
People don't even realize howoften he makes noise over here
so that he can focus over here.
Your intention's here, he'sdoing something over here.
And that's exactly what TimWaltz and Jim and the and Mayor
Fry from Minneapolis did.
But here's the thing, Stuart.
What they did was not just wasnot wrong, it was absolutely
(06:47):
scandalous.
Tim Waltz asked and pleaded withthe citizens to you film ice
agents posted online.
Excuse me, Tim, you are themayor.
I'm not sorry, you are thegovernor, and as the governor,
your responsibility is to thesafety of your citizens.
(07:08):
And you called for what?
Oh, yeah, more anarchy byposting these videos that you
know people edit and cut andtrim, and people will not see
the whole story because you godforbid you'll put out the whole
story.
As you alluded to earlier,Stuart, the video original
videos showed that it was, oh,if let's position in such a way
(07:30):
that it was the ICE agent.
And what we found out later onis that this lady was scoping
the area looking for a problem,and then she ran over the police
officer, who's now you knowdealing with some serious
injuries.
That doesn't matter.
What matters is that the leftcan say whatever they want and
get away with it.
(07:51):
What mayor in their right mindsays, get the fuck out of my
city.
We saw this in Chicago, we seethis in other places.
What you're doing is exposingthat they are incompetent.
Stuart, the United Stateselectorate across the country
voted Donald Trump as presidenton one of the platforms was to
(08:16):
clean up the Biden immigrationmess.
Not legal immigration, illegalimmigration.
And I had this whole debate withsomebody who came here from
Seattle who's telling me thatDonald Trump is a Hitler and a
Nazi, and he's got hisstormtroopers.
And I'm like, what are youtalking about?
You have no clue what you'retalking about.
That is media rhetoric.
(08:36):
That's the stuff you hear on theview, that's the stuff that you
hear in in social mediachannels.
This is this, these are absolutefalse statements.
There is a law, and he'sapplying the law.
If you are there illegally,guess what's gonna happen?
If you're a member of a criminalgang, guess what's gonna happen?
(08:59):
And the second shooting that youalluded to, Stuart, earlier, was
a Venezuelan gang member,apparently allegedly, let's use
that word, right?
And this person ran away,attacked ICE agents, and the
answer is we should protecteverybody.
No, I'm sorry, we incarceratecriminals for a reason.
(09:21):
But to incite what what what umTim Waltz and Jacob Fry by
inciting more violence, you'reteaching people to defy
authority.
No wonder our children aremessed up, no wonder our
children are cursing outteachers, police officers, go to
(09:42):
baseball and football and hockeygames, and are viciously
disrespectful to people,screaming and threatening
referees.
No wonder.
Because our leaders are doingthat.
And yes, Donald Trump is a crassson of a bitch who's made
statements that you know it'sdisrespectful too.
But don't tell me that Trump isan ass and disrespectful, and
(10:04):
then you go and do it.
Mayor Jacob Fry finally realizedwhat he did was wrong.
He didn't apologize, he didn'tsay he did something wrong, but
he said, I'm calling for peace.
Everybody has a role inachieving that peace, and we're
gonna try and do everything wecan to keep it.
Duh.
Your sanctuary city is harboringcriminals, gang members, drug
(10:28):
dealers, rapists, murderers, andyou're okay with that.
But there are a lot of peoplewho voted for Donald Trump who
are not okay with that and wantto see the law applied, not
regionally and geographically,but nationally.
Just because it doesn't suityour opportunism, and just
because you want people to stoplooking into the Somali affair,
(10:51):
don't make that problem worse.
Yes, the people at the View loveto call Donald Trump Hitler,
make up stories like he's gonnacancel the midterm elections,
like he's gonna do all he's gotstormtroopers, and that we need
more security and all kinds ofstuff.
If you know, you accuse theright and conservatives, Stuart,
(11:12):
of ramping up uh all this crazystuff.
There's a professor in auniversity who called for death
to conservatives.
This is not right.
These statements are wrong.
I get free speech, but thisisn't free anymore.
This is hate speech, this iscalling for violence and death
(11:32):
and should not be permitted.
If you do not like what happenedon January 6th, 2021, where
allegedly Trump called for, andagain, I use the word, allegedly
called for an insurrection.
If you want to go out andprosecute him on those things,
then Tim Waltz and Jacob Fryshould be also arrested for
(11:54):
inciting violence.
You can't have it both ways.
You either on the side of rightand on the side of authority and
on the side of peace and and andand law-abiding citizens, or
not.
But you can't have one groupgetting one set of rules,
Stuart, and another group setanother rules.
Your favorite expression rulesfor me and not for thee, get out
(12:17):
of here.
You were elected by people toserve and to protect.
It's on police cars, it was inyour it is it's in your vows.
You know what, Stuart?
The saddest part with this, I'llwrap up.
The people making thesestatements don't even know their
own laws.
The people like Jacob Fry andthe people like Tim Waltz don't
even know the Constitution, donot know the legal
(12:40):
responsibilities.
They are talking puppets for theDemocratic Party.
It's just about to win the nextelection.
It has nothing to do with youand me, people.
It's got to do with maintainingpower.
SPEAKER_01 (12:57):
And you know, I gotta tell you, I don't have
much to add to that because Ilet it all out, David.
Oh, I know that.
SPEAKER_02 (13:03):
I I'm just uh Stuart, here here, here's here's
a thought for everybody, okay?
Here's a thought for you folks.
If in your neighborhood you knewthere was a criminal, and I want
to tell you something, people.
Way, way, way back when, whenStuart and I were living in
Toronto many, many, many moonsago, there was a husband and a
(13:24):
wife who raped and murdered thewhite, uh the wife's sister.
Okay, Paul Bernardo.
Remember that name, Stuart?
Yeah, many, many years ago.
His wife was was released in thegreater Montreal area after she
served her sentence.
No one said anything.
No one, the pol, the police, noone from the community said
anything.
I'm sorry, from the from theauthorities said anything.
(13:45):
But when the community found outshe was there, they were
absolutely mortified to knowthat this murderer and was in
her their community.
She was a legal citizen.
They were angry that a murdererwas let go and was permitted to
live in their community.
How come that outrage hasdisappeared when it comes up to
(14:08):
you know illegal immigrants whoare here as known criminals,
unvetted by immigration with theimmigration because Biden wanted
an open border?
You want you want criminals inyour community?
Okay, here's the catch.
They'll be only in yourcommunity, they'll stay in your
(14:28):
community, they won't be allowedto leave that community, and you
get to deal with therepercussions of that.
Because to wake up and to yelland scream about a lady who ran
over an ice agent is moreimportant than you being upset
about parents losing theirdaughters to rapists and
murderers here in the country.
And there are plenty of storieswhere you didn't care.
(14:51):
But this morning, you'refighting for a white woman that
you vilified five minutes ago.
You guys kill me with yourhypocrisy, Stuart.
Just kill me.
SPEAKER_00 (15:01):
And you know, you know, David, I'm I'm wrapping
this up.
All right, guys, every Monday,Wednesday, Friday noon Eastern,
David and I rattle it down inthe public, in the private.
But anyway, it's awesome.
See you next time.
You know, David, it's Friday.
SPEAKER_01 (00:09):
You know it's Friday.
SPEAKER_02 (00:11):
Yeah, it's Friday for sure.
SPEAKER_01 (00:14):
All right.
SPEAKER_00 (00:14):
Let's just cut right into it because I want to get
this off to the racetrack realfast today.
All right.
You know, in our seems likeevery single rant, like it sort
of goes in trends.
What sparked the protests andunrest on January 7th was U.S.
(00:35):
Immigration and CustomerEnforcements, aka ICE, fatally
shot a 37-year-old Renee NicoleGood in South Minnesota.
Federal offer uh officialsinitially said the driver
attempted to hit the driver.
SPEAKER_02 (00:53):
No, the officer attempted to hit the officer.
SPEAKER_00 (00:56):
The officer, sorry.
Local uh officials showed videosthat question the narrative.
There comes an incident nearGeorge George Floyd level.
The incitement by government andnews agencies has risen to a
(01:20):
level where Charlie Kirk getsshot on a stage.
A shot goes over the ear of thepresident of the United States.
In week after week, theDemocrats are preaching death to
Republicans, death to ICE, deathto law enforcement, death to
immigration agents, death toanyone that doesn't agree with
(01:41):
me.
On January 14th, another ICEagent shot a Venezuelan man in
the leg during an attempted stopin Minneapolis.
The large majority, not all, butthen again, what incursion did
(02:02):
any other government do inhistory didn't have good
casualties?
Tension, protest, and theresponse is normal.
You raise a hand to lawenforcement, you get the club.
What are you thinking?
Local leaders, including thisdumbass governor and the mayor
(02:25):
of Minneapolis have criticizedfederal action and demand
independence investigations.
However, they refuse to give anyaccess whatsoever to law
enforcement to prevent this fromhiding, citing constitutional
concerns.
Fucking hypocrites, David.
(02:48):
You want to be a fuckinghypocrite?
It seems that you're now only aDemocrat.
Listen, the Republicans are notinnocent in this either.
The Republicans are feeding thefuel, fanning the fire, throwing
kerosene out there.
And a president who does what hesays and says what he does will
(03:12):
literally go in and call itinsurrection and deal with the
state in which the method itneeds to be dealt with.
It's as if Tim Walsh, tamponTim, wants to be taken out in
handcuffs.
They're looking for the largescale scale riot.
They're looking for the massmurder.
(03:34):
They're looking for something tochange the course of Donald J.
Trump's presidency.
Minnesota's experiencingsignificant civil unrest.
Is it naturally caused?
Are there outside agitators?
The situation is polarizing.
(03:56):
Makes the 60s Vietnam war riotslook like, I don't know, merry
fucking poppins.
If you want to break it down bylegal framework, then someone
who incites and yells fire in amovie theater needs to be put
into shackles.
And if that includes thegovernor of Minnesota, put him
(04:17):
in shackles.
If the mayor is doing it, puthim in shackles.
You cannot incite violence.
You cannot threaten.
You are not given the right as amember of government to do this.
We the people didn't elect youto cause internal wars.
We the people elected you togovern the people.
(04:41):
Who are the people?
Those are not the people whojust so happen to be there.
Those are the people that boughtthe land, paid for the land,
worked the land.
There is a difference.
You morons.
(05:05):
Yes, they're in a a lot of themare in really bad situations.
But because you have no checksand balances, you have caused a
timeline that is likely gonnaend poorly.
Sorry.
SPEAKER_02 (05:21):
No, listen.
Hey, let's let's let's get let'slet's let's put something on the
table, Stuart, right?
Number one, they pulled a Trumptactic.
Yeah, that's right.
The left has pulled a Trumptactic over here.
You have the Somali fraudscandal, a beautiful thing,
right?
Siphon dollars gone, and noheads have rolled.
(05:45):
And you could see that thingswere getting worse for Tim
Waltz, Elon Omar, and manyothers.
And right at that, they werelooking.
How do we divert the media'sattention?
How do we divert the people'sattention?
Here's an opportunity, we gottafind it.
Ice agents, perfect, right oncue.
(06:06):
Exactly what we needed to getpeople off the Somali story and
blame.
Trump is usual.
TDS, Trump derangent syndrome,continues to infect the media
and the left to such an extentthat it's like perfect, let's
divert the attention from hereto here.
It's a Trump tactic, by the way.
(06:26):
People don't even realize howoften he makes noise over here
so that he can focus over here.
Your intention's here, he'sdoing something over here.
And that's exactly what TimWaltz and Jim and the and Mayor
Fry from Minneapolis did.
But here's the thing, Stuart.
What they did was not just wasnot wrong, it was absolutely
(06:47):
scandalous.
Tim Waltz asked and pleaded withthe citizens to you film ice
agents posted online.
Excuse me, Tim, you are themayor.
I'm not sorry, you are thegovernor, and as the governor,
your responsibility is to thesafety of your citizens.
(07:08):
And you called for what?
Oh, yeah, more anarchy byposting these videos that you
know people edit and cut andtrim, and people will not see
the whole story because you godforbid you'll put out the whole
story.
As you alluded to earlier,Stuart, the video original
videos showed that it was, oh,if let's position in such a way
(07:30):
that it was the ICE agent.
And what we found out later onis that this lady was scoping
the area looking for a problem,and then she ran over the police
officer, who's now you knowdealing with some serious
injuries.
That doesn't matter.
What matters is that the leftcan say whatever they want and
get away with it.
(07:51):
What mayor in their right mindsays, get the fuck out of my
city.
We saw this in Chicago, we seethis in other places.
What you're doing is exposingthat they are incompetent.
Stuart, the United Stateselectorate across the country
voted Donald Trump as presidenton one of the platforms was to
(08:16):
clean up the Biden immigrationmess.
Not legal immigration, illegalimmigration.
And I had this whole debate withsomebody who came here from
Seattle who's telling me thatDonald Trump is a Hitler and a
Nazi, and he's got hisstormtroopers.
And I'm like, what are youtalking about?
You have no clue what you'retalking about.
That is media rhetoric.
(08:36):
That's the stuff you hear on theview, that's the stuff that you
hear in in social mediachannels.
This is this, these are absolutefalse statements.
There is a law, and he'sapplying the law.
If you are there illegally,guess what's gonna happen?
If you're a member of a criminalgang, guess what's gonna happen?
(08:59):
And the second shooting that youalluded to, Stuart, earlier, was
a Venezuelan gang member,apparently allegedly, let's use
that word, right?
And this person ran away,attacked ICE agents, and the
answer is we should protecteverybody.
No, I'm sorry, we incarceratecriminals for a reason.
(09:21):
But to incite what what what umTim Waltz and Jacob Fry by
inciting more violence, you'reteaching people to defy
authority.
No wonder our children aremessed up, no wonder our
children are cursing outteachers, police officers, go to
(09:42):
baseball and football and hockeygames, and are viciously
disrespectful to people,screaming and threatening
referees.
No wonder.
Because our leaders are doingthat.
And yes, Donald Trump is a crassson of a bitch who's made
statements that you know it'sdisrespectful too.
But don't tell me that Trump isan ass and disrespectful, and
(10:04):
then you go and do it.
Mayor Jacob Fry finally realizedwhat he did was wrong.
He didn't apologize, he didn'tsay he did something wrong, but
he said, I'm calling for peace.
Everybody has a role inachieving that peace, and we're
gonna try and do everything wecan to keep it.
Duh.
Your sanctuary city is harboringcriminals, gang members, drug
(10:28):
dealers, rapists, murderers, andyou're okay with that.
But there are a lot of peoplewho voted for Donald Trump who
are not okay with that and wantto see the law applied, not
regionally and geographically,but nationally.
Just because it doesn't suityour opportunism, and just
because you want people to stoplooking into the Somali affair,
(10:51):
don't make that problem worse.
Yes, the people at the View loveto call Donald Trump Hitler,
make up stories like he's gonnacancel the midterm elections,
like he's gonna do all he's gotstormtroopers, and that we need
more security and all kinds ofstuff.
If you know, you accuse theright and conservatives, Stuart,
(11:12):
of ramping up uh all this crazystuff.
There's a professor in auniversity who called for death
to conservatives.
This is not right.
These statements are wrong.
I get free speech, but thisisn't free anymore.
This is hate speech, this iscalling for violence and death
(11:32):
and should not be permitted.
If you do not like what happenedon January 6th, 2021, where
allegedly Trump called for, andagain, I use the word, allegedly
called for an insurrection.
If you want to go out andprosecute him on those things,
then Tim Waltz and Jacob Fryshould be also arrested for
(11:54):
inciting violence.
You can't have it both ways.
You either on the side of rightand on the side of authority and
on the side of peace and and andand law-abiding citizens, or
not.
But you can't have one groupgetting one set of rules,
Stuart, and another group setanother rules.
Your favorite expression rulesfor me and not for thee, get out
(12:17):
of here.
You were elected by people toserve and to protect.
It's on police cars, it was inyour it is it's in your vows.
You know what, Stuart?
The saddest part with this, I'llwrap up.
The people making thesestatements don't even know their
own laws.
The people like Jacob Fry andthe people like Tim Waltz don't
even know the Constitution, donot know the legal
(12:40):
responsibilities.
They are talking puppets for theDemocratic Party.
It's just about to win the nextelection.
It has nothing to do with youand me, people.
It's got to do with maintainingpower.
SPEAKER_01 (12:57):
And you know, I gotta tell you, I don't have
much to add to that because Ilet it all out, David.
Oh, I know that.
SPEAKER_02 (13:03):
I I'm just uh Stuart, here here, here's here's
a thought for everybody, okay?
Here's a thought for you folks.
If in your neighborhood you knewthere was a criminal, and I want
to tell you something, people.
Way, way, way back when, whenStuart and I were living in
Toronto many, many, many moonsago, there was a husband and a
(13:24):
wife who raped and murdered thewhite, uh the wife's sister.
Okay, Paul Bernardo.
Remember that name, Stuart?
Yeah, many, many years ago.
His wife was was released in thegreater Montreal area after she
served her sentence.
No one said anything.
No one, the pol, the police, noone from the community said
anything.
I'm sorry, from the from theauthorities said anything.
(13:45):
But when the community found outshe was there, they were
absolutely mortified to knowthat this murderer and was in
her their community.
She was a legal citizen.
They were angry that a murdererwas let go and was permitted to
live in their community.
How come that outrage hasdisappeared when it comes up to
(14:08):
you know illegal immigrants whoare here as known criminals,
unvetted by immigration with theimmigration because Biden wanted
an open border?
You want you want criminals inyour community?
Okay, here's the catch.
They'll be only in yourcommunity, they'll stay in your
(14:28):
community, they won't be allowedto leave that community, and you
get to deal with therepercussions of that.
Because to wake up and to yelland scream about a lady who ran
over an ice agent is moreimportant than you being upset
about parents losing theirdaughters to rapists and
murderers here in the country.
And there are plenty of storieswhere you didn't care.
(14:51):
But this morning, you'refighting for a white woman that
you vilified five minutes ago.
You guys kill me with yourhypocrisy, Stuart.
Just kill me.
SPEAKER_00 (15:01):
And you know, you know, David, I'm I'm wrapping
this up.
All right, guys, every Monday,Wednesday, Friday noon Eastern,
David and I rattle it down inthe public, in the private.
But anyway, it's awesome.
See you next time.
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