January 4, 2025 • 26 mins
The errors and lies of the government and how they led to the deaths of fourteen people in New Orleans. With politicians focused on their own careers and using hate and division to advance those careers, the inevitable result was the New Orleans vehicle ramming attack. Equally inevitable is the stream of lies and misinformation coming forth in the aftermath.
ISIS and Radicalization are the catchwords, when vehicle ramming attacks are what our leaders should have been looking out for. They did not, and their failures will go unpunished, more likely being rewarded.
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The Tenth Man (00:11):
The new Orleans attack had less to do with ISIS
and radicalization than it hadto do with government
incompetence.
Firing the right people after atragedy explained today on the
10th man, the attack is only afew days old and it's too early
(00:37):
to draw many conclusions unlessit's to analyze the response of
the government, including themedia.
They say it's not terrorism,then they say it definitely is
terrorism.
He must have had help, he actedalone.
They analyze the killer, theytalk about mistakes that were
made, but they make their ownmistakes, they push falsehoods.
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You have to wonder, do they evenwant to keep us safe?
At first, of course, they saidit was not terrorism, as if you
could possibly miss the factthat he was flying an ISIS flag.
Next they said it was terrorism,but he did not act alone.
Now they're saying it'sterrorism 100%, and he acted
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alone.
And how did this happen?
Well, he was radicalized.
Even though he was a formersoldier who fought in
Afghanistan, presumably againstthe forces he now purportedly
supports.
Now the reason they did the flipflopping on the terrorism issue
is they don't want it to beterrorism.
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The government wants it to besomething that the government's
not in charge of.
That's why they like to blameguns, or MAGA, or white
supremacy.
But as soon as you make itterrorism, it becomes the
government's fault.
You have to remember what thedefinition of terrorism is.
It's not just anybody who doessomething awful.
The purpose of terrorism is toconvince you that your
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government cannot keep you safe.
Of course, it is thegovernment's job to keep you
safe.
So the government doesn't wantit to be terrorism, they want it
to be something else, becauseotherwise, they haven't done
their job.
This is where radicalizationcomes in.
Din Jabbar was a real estateagent, a regular guy.
(02:27):
He was in the army, he had ajob, recently earning in the six
figures.
He had a college degree, butthen he became radicalized.
And what does that mean exactly?
Well, it doesn't really meananything.
It's just the name they applyafter the fact to somebody they
need to call a terrorist.
(02:48):
It's just a magic inevitabilitybased on the power of the ISIS
bogeyman.
It's a convenient term for thegovernment because it explains
away something that is theirresponsibility to prevent.
Well, the government could havejust saved themselves some
trouble, because I'm here totell you, he was not a
terrorist.
He was not radicalized.
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He was just a loser.
He was a nut job.
The man was a failure in hisjob, multiple jobs.
He was a failure in his family.
He was a failure in society.
And so, he set off to make aname for himself.
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Was he really with ISIS?
Well, anything's possible, but Idoubt it.
Anybody can put up an ISIS flagand say they're doing a
terrorist attack.
And all he had was a flag.
Does it make it a terroristattack representing ISIS because
he bought a flag on theinternet?
Here's a question for you.
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Did he get out of the truck andchallenge the police?
Did he charge them, shouting,Allahu Akbar?
Because if he didn't, we'regoing to say that this is a
false flag attack.
A literal false flag attack,when you go and attack making a
flag, or attack waving a flag ofsome other party that you're not
a member of.
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Oh, and we're not the only onessaying this.
I saw a very good presentationon YouTube yesterday with a Dr.
Todd Grand, or perhaps Grandee,Grand with an E on the end, And
I re, I recommend you watch itbecause you have to remember one
basic principle of police work.
And that is that a confession isnot evidence.
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A confession does not prove youcommitted the crime.
I could confess to theassassination of Abraham
Lincoln, doesn't mean I did it.
Do you remember the BLM riots afew years ago?
Do you think everybody outsmashing cars and setting
buildings on fire was really,really Fighting for racial
justice?
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Or did they just know they wouldbe welcomed in that mob by the
other rioters?
We need to beware of peopleseeking glory through violence
under false flags.
Especially the well off.
Luigi Mangione assassinated afamily man and business
executive under the flag ofhealth care reform.
(05:15):
Was it a false flag?
That's a matter of opinion, butit's a fact that he killed
someone.
He set us for health carereform, and everyone thinks he's
a hero, regardless of his realreason.
It's the same thing with Jabbar.
Neither one was a crusader.
Both were nut jobs with amission to find fame.
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We have a lot of myths to debunkin our country.
One of them is about the massmurders, all the mass murders
committed by people with gunsand AR 15s.
But, the gun is not the focalpoint of mass murder statistics.
The focal point of mass murderis familicide.
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Most of the mass murders in theUnited States, 60 percent are
familicides, someone killingmembers of his own family.
And it's relevant because DinJabbar initially embarked on a
mission of familicide.
He was going to kill everybodyin his family, but then he
decided it would be not right.
To kill members of his familyand the words in which he put it
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were that it would not do enoughdamage to support the Isis cause
fighting the unbelievers Butclearly an analysis of this
shows that what he was reallylooking for was an approved way
to kill multiple people and hecouldn't see any way that he
would be remembered fondly Byanyone if he just killed his
family Which he wouldn't becausethat happens all the time.
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So he decided upon killinginnocent people, people he
didn't even know, and doing itunder the ISIS flag.
That might give him fame andrecognition.
And it worked.
Because by being an ISIS killer,he's not just famous, or rather
infamous, he can actually thinkof himself as a hero.
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So, when you get right down toit, this guy was not an ISIS
member.
He didn't have an ISISqualification card.
He just claims to be ISIS.
ISIS may or may not take creditfor the killings, but he was
still just a nut job.
And that's no surprise.
All the ISIS killers are nutjobs.
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But not all nut jobs are ISISkillers.
Let's look at the governmentresponse, which is also the
media response.
The media tell us all about DinJabbar.
They tell us that he's anAmerican citizen, born in Texas.
They tell us he's an armyveteran.
All these things are to show uswhat?
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Are they trying to make him aMAGA Republican?
Is it to counter the fact thathe's Muslim and that his family
comprises recent arrivals tothis country?
When actually, few people careabout the fact that he's Muslim.
We all know that there are manyMuslims who are allies with us
in the War on Terror.
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And nobody's concerned aboutimmigrants.
We only care about illegalimmigrants.
And we care about the immigrantswho are criminals.
If you come here, you're fine.
Just don't kill people.
Come here legally and live yourlife and get along with others
and you'll be fine.
The government is taking aspecial interest in his rifle,
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his AR 15.
Interesting, that's come upseveral times.
And now we're starting to getdown to business.
The FBI taking special interestin his AR 15.
Why would that be?
His AR 15 didn't kill anybody.
It was basically a prop.
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He did shoot two policemen withit, or the handgun he was
carrying, and he was shothimself.
Now just wait until they examinethe bodies.
They're going to be looking,hoping they find more bullets in
some of the bodies so that theycan call this a mass shooting.
We've seen this before.
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We've seen it with shootings andwe saw it with COVID, right?
Everybody who died, if they hadCOVID or exposure to it, they
called it a COVID death.
Yes, they want to call this amass shooting, too.
They've done it before.
And what about the bombs?
How many bombs did he have?
And we're lucky those didn't gooff.
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Remember, bombs are important.
We think of the Columbineshooting often as the first
modern day school shooting.
But it wasn't a school shooting,it was a school bombing.
The bombs just didn't go off, sothey had to go in and start
shooting.
And the worst school attack inU.
S.
history was also a bombingattack back in the 1920s.
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More people were killed in thatattack than in any other school
attack, and there was no gunanywhere near the place.
But the government is justfascinated by guns because
that's their agenda.
They really should be moreinterested in the truth.
They really should be moreinterested in the murder weapon,
the pickup truck.
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They just keep calling themurder weapon a truck, and
that's interesting because theykeep saying a Tesla exploded in
Las Vegas, but in New Orleans,it's just a pickup truck.
We'll have to talk about thissome more because this is the
biggest point of all.
The FBI has warned us aboutcopycat events.
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Well, it's about time.
They never warned us aboutcopycats with the shooting
attacks.
They just publicize attacksinvolving firearms and thus
encourage more of them.
They make those people famousand that's why other mass
attacks involving guns takeplace.
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But the copycat warning shouldhave come after the attack in
Germany two weeks ago.
Because vehicle ramming attacks,that's the proper term, vehicle
ramming attacks are very commonand deadly.
Yet the government has acampaign against firearms only.
So it downplays vehicle rammingattacks and that puts all of us
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in danger.
Rather than concentrating onpublic safety and how to keep us
away from such dangers or how tokeep dangers away from us, the
government just talks about gunlaws.
There has been some talk aboutthe bollards that were in place
at the ends of Bourbon Street.
But not working.
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Those bollards were installedafter the huge mass attack in
Nice, France in 2016.
86 people were killed by thattruck and more than 400 injured.
That's more dead than in theNorway 1911 Norway 2011 youth
camp shooting.
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And of course there were laterones, later vehicle ramming
attacks in Germany a few monthsafter the Nice attack, and then
of course the recent one inGermany just last month.
Cars have always been a greaterdanger than guns.
We have vehicle ramming attacksall the time.
But the government has been busypassing new gun laws regardless
of the ineffectiveness of them.
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Do you remember some of thevehicle ramming attacks we've
had?
Let's just do a comparison.
Back in 2021, Oxford High Schoolin Michigan was the scene of a
targeted school attack with 10victims, four of whom died.
That's very sad.
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But a week earlier, a vehicleramming attack in Waukesha,
Wisconsin during the Christmasparade had nearly 70 victims, 6
of whom died.
Isn't that actually much worse?
And yet we got a bunch of newgun laws out of that bloody
month.
15 months later, a shooter atMichigan State University shot 8
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people, 3 of whom died.
Meanwhile, a man in a U Haultruck in New York City hit 9
people on the very same day, oneof whom died.
That's pretty serious.
But that was not as serious asthe 2017 New York City truck
attack, also with the U Haul,with 19 victims who were not as
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fortunate because 8 of themdied.
So, America appreciates thewarning, FBI, but it's several
years too late.
While politicians have beentelling us that kids are being
killed by guns, governmentagencies keep quiet when they
know cars are the bigger dangerto our kids.
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Speaking of murder weapons, Haveyou noticed anything strange
about the New Orleans rammingcompared to the Las Vegas,
Nevada bombing in front of theTrump Hotel?
And pardon my study orstuttering, most people say New
Orleans, but they say NewOrleans.
And I sometimes forget to saythe right one.
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But think about what you'veheard about these two attacks.
You hear that New Orleans Apickup truck ran over.
Some people, they just saypickup truck, but if you turn on
their news right now, you'llhear about a Tesla cyber truck
that exploded in Las Vegas, aTesla cyber truck.
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Both of these were pickuptrucks.
Why do they say a Tesla cybertruck in Las Vegas and just say
a pickup truck in New Orleans?
It should be the other wayaround.
In New Orleans, the pickup truckwas the murder weapon in Las
Vegas.
The pickup truck was just thecontainer for the bomb.
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And then it's actually nonfactual.
They say a cybertruck exploded.
A cybertruck did not explode.
A bomb in the cybertruckexploded.
What a contrast.
In the case of the Las Vegasexplosion, they keep saying
cybertruck, cybertruck,cybertruck.
But in New Orleans, they justsay pickup truck, pickup truck,
pickup truck.
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When it was not merely a pickuptruck, it was a very special
pickup truck.
It was a Ford Lightning.
A Ford F 150 Lightning, which isan electric truck.
And the Ford Lightning was theactual murder weapon.
It was not the transportation.
It was the actual cause of deathfor the 14 victims.
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And it was the perfect weaponfor this purpose.
If you think about it, a greaterpercentage of the Ford
Lightnings built have beeninvolved in mass murders than
have AR 15s.
And this attack.
Was all too predictable.
Because the worst vehicleramming attack, the one in Nice,
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France, was accomplished with agarbage truck.
Well, it wasn't a garbage truckper se, but a big, large,
straight truck.
We'll call it a garbage truck.
It was big, heavy, and powerfuland could kill a lot of people
if it could get to them.
So imagine all the ISIS leadersin a meeting room in Qatar or
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Dubai or someplace and they'resaying now What should we put
down for a recommendation on ourwebsite?
And they do that, you know onour website on how to conduct a
vehicle ramming attack and oneof those says well We want
something as big and heavy andpowerful as a garbage truck But
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wouldn't it be better if we hadsomething that was smaller?
Because they're going to bewatching for garbage trucks.
What could we do that would bejust as effective?
And maybe easier to procure.
And somebody says, How about oneof these electric pickups?
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You know, I've seen thegovernment crash tests where
they show And, and you may haveseen these.
They show a Rivian pickup andthey show it's too heavy to be
held back by the standardhighway guardrails.
It goes right through them.
The electric trucks can go rightthrough highway guardrails.
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The Ford Lightning weighs a tonmore than a regular Ford F 150.
And it's fast.
And unlike the garbage truck, orthe cyber truck, or the Rivian.
Nobody's going to give it asecond glance in traffic because
it just looks like the regularFord F 150.
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And here's the big one.
It's silent.
The victims will not hear itcoming.
And then ISIS said, Well, yeah,but where's anybody going to get
one of those?
They're expensive.
And the answer?
Well, all of these Americans,they have cell phones and
they've got car rental apps onthem.
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Car sharing apps called Turo.
Anybody can go on there withouta government background check
and rent an electric truck, theideal terrorist vehicle.
And all they got to do is have acredit card and a driver's
license.
Now, Don't you have to wonderwhy the FBI wouldn't have had a
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watch list like, sure, you canrent out your death truck on
Turo, but not before a majorholiday, and not to any
radicalized army veterans withat least two divorces, financial
problems, and living in aramshackle trailer, who, why
would he want to afford, use tospend his money on, a F 150
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Lightning?
And again, you're not going tosee rider trucks and U Haul
trucks or even cyber truckssneaking through the city at 2
a.
m., but you can do that with aFord Lightning.
So the question for all of usis, if ISIS can figure all this
out, and if a podcaster canfigure it all out, why couldn't
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the FBI, who gets paid toprotect us, figure it out?
You know there's a singlesolution to all these problems.
I don't mean a single tacticalaction to take like banning guns
or banning electric trucks.
That would be idiotic.
But there is a single,philosophical, a single
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management solution to all theseproblems.
And what is that?
The solution is to holdofficials accountable.
The people who are responsiblefor our safety Let's hold them
accountable for keeping us safe.
So by that, do we mean the mayorof New Orleans?
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Well, yes, the mayor and thechief of police, because the
bollards weren't in place andthey should have been in place
and working.
That's why the mayor should befired.
But the bollards are just thelast line of defense.
They should have had some bigdump trucks or maybe some Ford
Lightnings blocking the streetsall around the perimeter.
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You can't have bollards in everysingle street, but you put dump
trucks on the next block over,and then you have the police
where the bollards are, and thenwhen somebody tries to breach
the dump trucks, then the policecan respond before they've
broken into the street.
Any competent chief of policeknows this.
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Or they're supposed to knowthis.
The chief of police also knewthat his bollards weren't
working, and should have eitherraised cane about it, Or added
additional measures or closedthe street or resigned in
protest.
But none of those things happenbecause we don't hold people
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accountable and the politiciansknow it.
We have been known to firepeople.
Eventually after the Trumpassassination attempt, they did
fire the director of the secretservice.
The problem there was it took solong and her boss was not also
forced out.
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In the current situation,Merrick Garland, head of the
Department of Justice, whichincludes the FBI, he's the man
in charge of anti terrorism.
He's the man whose people arenow saying this perpetrator was
100 percent inspired by ISIS,when he was not.
Garland should be fired, if hedoesn't resign first.
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And not just a political firing.
Everybody should hate him afterthis tragedy.
And not just for New Orleans.
If you're on the left, Garlandis the one who ignored all the
evidence that led up to theJanuary 6th mass misdemeanor
trespassing event.
And if you're on the right, hewas the one in charge of the
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raid on Mar a Lago and for theweaponization of the Justice
Department.
And when you tell the FBI to dothings other than what they're
supposed to do, which is keep usall safe tragedies like New
Orleans are the result almostexactly two years before
President Trump was shot, ShinzoAbe, the former Prime Minister
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of Japan, was assassinated whenthat happened.
The result in Japan was the topsecurity official.
And his deputy both resigned.
They weren't asked to resign,they weren't fired, they knew it
was their duty to resign.
And they did.
In America, however, thepoliticians just say how
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outraged they are.
My former congressman, ElissaSlotkin, was sworn in today as a
senator, the newest senator fromMichigan.
She presided over the two schoolshootings we just talked about,
the one at Oxford and the one atMichigan State University.
She said how outraged she was.
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She asked for the flags to beflown at half staff, got the
failed school system at Oxford abunch of money, and now she's
promoted to senator.
Her Democrat associate, PeteButtigieg, the secretary of
transportation.
How many train derailments havewe had under him?
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How many ships colliding withbridges?
How many airplane doors blowingoff and worse?
Did he take responsibility?
Did he resign?
No, he's going to retire withhonors once Trump is
inaugurated.
And then he's going to move onand run for governor of
Michigan.
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He's not from Michigan, by theway.
We have tragedies like NewOrleans not because we don't
hold people accountable, butbecause we do the opposite.
We reward them.
Never mind even what I've saidabout what they're doing wrong.
Focusing on guns, trying toattack Tesla, failing to blame
the Ford Lightning, becauseeverybody has an opinion, and
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I'm just saying what I would do.
Another individual might dosomething different if he were
in charge.
But what matters are notopinions, but results.
So let's stop the debate andjust go by one simple principle,
and that is to hold accountablethe officials responsible.
When things go wrong, fire them.
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And the politics will stop.
Fire them with the threat ofprosecuting them, and I
guarantee you they will at leasttry to do the right thing, and
not just the political thing.
We can let those leaders goahead and ban drinking after
midnight, ban guns, ban trucks,ban electric vehicles, raise the
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drinking age to gun ownershipage, prohibit Turo, cancel New
Year's Eve, do whatever youwant, as long as it works.
As long as it stands the test oftime.
Don't give us mindless laws andrestrictions, whether it be gun
laws or the Patriot Act.
Just keep Americans safe.
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Let the politicians in chargefigure that solution out.
And when their ideas don't work,then throw them out for someone
who will do the job.
Thank you so much for listening.
The new Orleans attack had less to do with ISIS
and radicalization than it hadto do with government
incompetence.
Firing the right people after atragedy explained today on the
10th man, the attack is only afew days old and it's too early
(00:37):
to draw many conclusions unlessit's to analyze the response of
the government, including themedia.
They say it's not terrorism,then they say it definitely is
terrorism.
He must have had help, he actedalone.
They analyze the killer, theytalk about mistakes that were
made, but they make their ownmistakes, they push falsehoods.
(01:00):
You have to wonder, do they evenwant to keep us safe?
At first, of course, they saidit was not terrorism, as if you
could possibly miss the factthat he was flying an ISIS flag.
Next they said it was terrorism,but he did not act alone.
Now they're saying it'sterrorism 100%, and he acted
(01:21):
alone.
And how did this happen?
Well, he was radicalized.
Even though he was a formersoldier who fought in
Afghanistan, presumably againstthe forces he now purportedly
supports.
Now the reason they did the flipflopping on the terrorism issue
is they don't want it to beterrorism.
(01:44):
The government wants it to besomething that the government's
not in charge of.
That's why they like to blameguns, or MAGA, or white
supremacy.
But as soon as you make itterrorism, it becomes the
government's fault.
You have to remember what thedefinition of terrorism is.
It's not just anybody who doessomething awful.
The purpose of terrorism is toconvince you that your
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government cannot keep you safe.
Of course, it is thegovernment's job to keep you
safe.
So the government doesn't wantit to be terrorism, they want it
to be something else, becauseotherwise, they haven't done
their job.
This is where radicalizationcomes in.
Din Jabbar was a real estateagent, a regular guy.
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He was in the army, he had ajob, recently earning in the six
figures.
He had a college degree, butthen he became radicalized.
And what does that mean exactly?
Well, it doesn't really meananything.
It's just the name they applyafter the fact to somebody they
need to call a terrorist.
(02:48):
It's just a magic inevitabilitybased on the power of the ISIS
bogeyman.
It's a convenient term for thegovernment because it explains
away something that is theirresponsibility to prevent.
Well, the government could havejust saved themselves some
trouble, because I'm here totell you, he was not a
terrorist.
He was not radicalized.
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He was just a loser.
He was a nut job.
The man was a failure in hisjob, multiple jobs.
He was a failure in his family.
He was a failure in society.
And so, he set off to make aname for himself.
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Was he really with ISIS?
Well, anything's possible, but Idoubt it.
Anybody can put up an ISIS flagand say they're doing a
terrorist attack.
And all he had was a flag.
Does it make it a terroristattack representing ISIS because
he bought a flag on theinternet?
Here's a question for you.
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Did he get out of the truck andchallenge the police?
Did he charge them, shouting,Allahu Akbar?
Because if he didn't, we'regoing to say that this is a
false flag attack.
A literal false flag attack,when you go and attack making a
flag, or attack waving a flag ofsome other party that you're not
a member of.
(04:12):
Oh, and we're not the only onessaying this.
I saw a very good presentationon YouTube yesterday with a Dr.
Todd Grand, or perhaps Grandee,Grand with an E on the end, And
I re, I recommend you watch itbecause you have to remember one
basic principle of police work.
And that is that a confession isnot evidence.
(04:33):
A confession does not prove youcommitted the crime.
I could confess to theassassination of Abraham
Lincoln, doesn't mean I did it.
Do you remember the BLM riots afew years ago?
Do you think everybody outsmashing cars and setting
buildings on fire was really,really Fighting for racial
justice?
(04:54):
Or did they just know they wouldbe welcomed in that mob by the
other rioters?
We need to beware of peopleseeking glory through violence
under false flags.
Especially the well off.
Luigi Mangione assassinated afamily man and business
executive under the flag ofhealth care reform.
(05:15):
Was it a false flag?
That's a matter of opinion, butit's a fact that he killed
someone.
He set us for health carereform, and everyone thinks he's
a hero, regardless of his realreason.
It's the same thing with Jabbar.
Neither one was a crusader.
Both were nut jobs with amission to find fame.
(05:39):
We have a lot of myths to debunkin our country.
One of them is about the massmurders, all the mass murders
committed by people with gunsand AR 15s.
But, the gun is not the focalpoint of mass murder statistics.
The focal point of mass murderis familicide.
(06:01):
Most of the mass murders in theUnited States, 60 percent are
familicides, someone killingmembers of his own family.
And it's relevant because DinJabbar initially embarked on a
mission of familicide.
He was going to kill everybodyin his family, but then he
decided it would be not right.
To kill members of his familyand the words in which he put it
(06:25):
were that it would not do enoughdamage to support the Isis cause
fighting the unbelievers Butclearly an analysis of this
shows that what he was reallylooking for was an approved way
to kill multiple people and hecouldn't see any way that he
would be remembered fondly Byanyone if he just killed his
family Which he wouldn't becausethat happens all the time.
(06:49):
So he decided upon killinginnocent people, people he
didn't even know, and doing itunder the ISIS flag.
That might give him fame andrecognition.
And it worked.
Because by being an ISIS killer,he's not just famous, or rather
infamous, he can actually thinkof himself as a hero.
(07:11):
So, when you get right down toit, this guy was not an ISIS
member.
He didn't have an ISISqualification card.
He just claims to be ISIS.
ISIS may or may not take creditfor the killings, but he was
still just a nut job.
And that's no surprise.
All the ISIS killers are nutjobs.
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But not all nut jobs are ISISkillers.
Let's look at the governmentresponse, which is also the
media response.
The media tell us all about DinJabbar.
They tell us that he's anAmerican citizen, born in Texas.
They tell us he's an armyveteran.
All these things are to show uswhat?
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Are they trying to make him aMAGA Republican?
Is it to counter the fact thathe's Muslim and that his family
comprises recent arrivals tothis country?
When actually, few people careabout the fact that he's Muslim.
We all know that there are manyMuslims who are allies with us
in the War on Terror.
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And nobody's concerned aboutimmigrants.
We only care about illegalimmigrants.
And we care about the immigrantswho are criminals.
If you come here, you're fine.
Just don't kill people.
Come here legally and live yourlife and get along with others
and you'll be fine.
The government is taking aspecial interest in his rifle,
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his AR 15.
Interesting, that's come upseveral times.
And now we're starting to getdown to business.
The FBI taking special interestin his AR 15.
Why would that be?
His AR 15 didn't kill anybody.
It was basically a prop.
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He did shoot two policemen withit, or the handgun he was
carrying, and he was shothimself.
Now just wait until they examinethe bodies.
They're going to be looking,hoping they find more bullets in
some of the bodies so that theycan call this a mass shooting.
We've seen this before.
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We've seen it with shootings andwe saw it with COVID, right?
Everybody who died, if they hadCOVID or exposure to it, they
called it a COVID death.
Yes, they want to call this amass shooting, too.
They've done it before.
And what about the bombs?
How many bombs did he have?
And we're lucky those didn't gooff.
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Remember, bombs are important.
We think of the Columbineshooting often as the first
modern day school shooting.
But it wasn't a school shooting,it was a school bombing.
The bombs just didn't go off, sothey had to go in and start
shooting.
And the worst school attack inU.
S.
history was also a bombingattack back in the 1920s.
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More people were killed in thatattack than in any other school
attack, and there was no gunanywhere near the place.
But the government is justfascinated by guns because
that's their agenda.
They really should be moreinterested in the truth.
They really should be moreinterested in the murder weapon,
the pickup truck.
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They just keep calling themurder weapon a truck, and
that's interesting because theykeep saying a Tesla exploded in
Las Vegas, but in New Orleans,it's just a pickup truck.
We'll have to talk about thissome more because this is the
biggest point of all.
The FBI has warned us aboutcopycat events.
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Well, it's about time.
They never warned us aboutcopycats with the shooting
attacks.
They just publicize attacksinvolving firearms and thus
encourage more of them.
They make those people famousand that's why other mass
attacks involving guns takeplace.
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But the copycat warning shouldhave come after the attack in
Germany two weeks ago.
Because vehicle ramming attacks,that's the proper term, vehicle
ramming attacks are very commonand deadly.
Yet the government has acampaign against firearms only.
So it downplays vehicle rammingattacks and that puts all of us
(11:31):
in danger.
Rather than concentrating onpublic safety and how to keep us
away from such dangers or how tokeep dangers away from us, the
government just talks about gunlaws.
There has been some talk aboutthe bollards that were in place
at the ends of Bourbon Street.
But not working.
(11:52):
Those bollards were installedafter the huge mass attack in
Nice, France in 2016.
86 people were killed by thattruck and more than 400 injured.
That's more dead than in theNorway 1911 Norway 2011 youth
camp shooting.
(12:13):
And of course there were laterones, later vehicle ramming
attacks in Germany a few monthsafter the Nice attack, and then
of course the recent one inGermany just last month.
Cars have always been a greaterdanger than guns.
We have vehicle ramming attacksall the time.
But the government has been busypassing new gun laws regardless
of the ineffectiveness of them.
(12:37):
Do you remember some of thevehicle ramming attacks we've
had?
Let's just do a comparison.
Back in 2021, Oxford High Schoolin Michigan was the scene of a
targeted school attack with 10victims, four of whom died.
That's very sad.
(12:57):
But a week earlier, a vehicleramming attack in Waukesha,
Wisconsin during the Christmasparade had nearly 70 victims, 6
of whom died.
Isn't that actually much worse?
And yet we got a bunch of newgun laws out of that bloody
month.
15 months later, a shooter atMichigan State University shot 8
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people, 3 of whom died.
Meanwhile, a man in a U Haultruck in New York City hit 9
people on the very same day, oneof whom died.
That's pretty serious.
But that was not as serious asthe 2017 New York City truck
attack, also with the U Haul,with 19 victims who were not as
(13:43):
fortunate because 8 of themdied.
So, America appreciates thewarning, FBI, but it's several
years too late.
While politicians have beentelling us that kids are being
killed by guns, governmentagencies keep quiet when they
know cars are the bigger dangerto our kids.
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Speaking of murder weapons, Haveyou noticed anything strange
about the New Orleans rammingcompared to the Las Vegas,
Nevada bombing in front of theTrump Hotel?
And pardon my study orstuttering, most people say New
Orleans, but they say NewOrleans.
And I sometimes forget to saythe right one.
(14:28):
But think about what you'veheard about these two attacks.
You hear that New Orleans Apickup truck ran over.
Some people, they just saypickup truck, but if you turn on
their news right now, you'llhear about a Tesla cyber truck
that exploded in Las Vegas, aTesla cyber truck.
(14:50):
Both of these were pickuptrucks.
Why do they say a Tesla cybertruck in Las Vegas and just say
a pickup truck in New Orleans?
It should be the other wayaround.
In New Orleans, the pickup truckwas the murder weapon in Las
Vegas.
The pickup truck was just thecontainer for the bomb.
(15:11):
And then it's actually nonfactual.
They say a cybertruck exploded.
A cybertruck did not explode.
A bomb in the cybertruckexploded.
What a contrast.
In the case of the Las Vegasexplosion, they keep saying
cybertruck, cybertruck,cybertruck.
But in New Orleans, they justsay pickup truck, pickup truck,
pickup truck.
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When it was not merely a pickuptruck, it was a very special
pickup truck.
It was a Ford Lightning.
A Ford F 150 Lightning, which isan electric truck.
And the Ford Lightning was theactual murder weapon.
It was not the transportation.
It was the actual cause of deathfor the 14 victims.
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And it was the perfect weaponfor this purpose.
If you think about it, a greaterpercentage of the Ford
Lightnings built have beeninvolved in mass murders than
have AR 15s.
And this attack.
Was all too predictable.
Because the worst vehicleramming attack, the one in Nice,
(16:17):
France, was accomplished with agarbage truck.
Well, it wasn't a garbage truckper se, but a big, large,
straight truck.
We'll call it a garbage truck.
It was big, heavy, and powerfuland could kill a lot of people
if it could get to them.
So imagine all the ISIS leadersin a meeting room in Qatar or
(16:40):
Dubai or someplace and they'resaying now What should we put
down for a recommendation on ourwebsite?
And they do that, you know onour website on how to conduct a
vehicle ramming attack and oneof those says well We want
something as big and heavy andpowerful as a garbage truck But
(17:01):
wouldn't it be better if we hadsomething that was smaller?
Because they're going to bewatching for garbage trucks.
What could we do that would bejust as effective?
And maybe easier to procure.
And somebody says, How about oneof these electric pickups?
(17:22):
You know, I've seen thegovernment crash tests where
they show And, and you may haveseen these.
They show a Rivian pickup andthey show it's too heavy to be
held back by the standardhighway guardrails.
It goes right through them.
The electric trucks can go rightthrough highway guardrails.
(17:42):
The Ford Lightning weighs a tonmore than a regular Ford F 150.
And it's fast.
And unlike the garbage truck, orthe cyber truck, or the Rivian.
Nobody's going to give it asecond glance in traffic because
it just looks like the regularFord F 150.
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And here's the big one.
It's silent.
The victims will not hear itcoming.
And then ISIS said, Well, yeah,but where's anybody going to get
one of those?
They're expensive.
And the answer?
Well, all of these Americans,they have cell phones and
they've got car rental apps onthem.
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Car sharing apps called Turo.
Anybody can go on there withouta government background check
and rent an electric truck, theideal terrorist vehicle.
And all they got to do is have acredit card and a driver's
license.
Now, Don't you have to wonderwhy the FBI wouldn't have had a
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watch list like, sure, you canrent out your death truck on
Turo, but not before a majorholiday, and not to any
radicalized army veterans withat least two divorces, financial
problems, and living in aramshackle trailer, who, why
would he want to afford, use tospend his money on, a F 150
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Lightning?
And again, you're not going tosee rider trucks and U Haul
trucks or even cyber truckssneaking through the city at 2
a.
m., but you can do that with aFord Lightning.
So the question for all of usis, if ISIS can figure all this
out, and if a podcaster canfigure it all out, why couldn't
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the FBI, who gets paid toprotect us, figure it out?
You know there's a singlesolution to all these problems.
I don't mean a single tacticalaction to take like banning guns
or banning electric trucks.
That would be idiotic.
But there is a single,philosophical, a single
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management solution to all theseproblems.
And what is that?
The solution is to holdofficials accountable.
The people who are responsiblefor our safety Let's hold them
accountable for keeping us safe.
So by that, do we mean the mayorof New Orleans?
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Well, yes, the mayor and thechief of police, because the
bollards weren't in place andthey should have been in place
and working.
That's why the mayor should befired.
But the bollards are just thelast line of defense.
They should have had some bigdump trucks or maybe some Ford
Lightnings blocking the streetsall around the perimeter.
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You can't have bollards in everysingle street, but you put dump
trucks on the next block over,and then you have the police
where the bollards are, and thenwhen somebody tries to breach
the dump trucks, then the policecan respond before they've
broken into the street.
Any competent chief of policeknows this.
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Or they're supposed to knowthis.
The chief of police also knewthat his bollards weren't
working, and should have eitherraised cane about it, Or added
additional measures or closedthe street or resigned in
protest.
But none of those things happenbecause we don't hold people
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accountable and the politiciansknow it.
We have been known to firepeople.
Eventually after the Trumpassassination attempt, they did
fire the director of the secretservice.
The problem there was it took solong and her boss was not also
forced out.
(21:45):
In the current situation,Merrick Garland, head of the
Department of Justice, whichincludes the FBI, he's the man
in charge of anti terrorism.
He's the man whose people arenow saying this perpetrator was
100 percent inspired by ISIS,when he was not.
Garland should be fired, if hedoesn't resign first.
(22:08):
And not just a political firing.
Everybody should hate him afterthis tragedy.
And not just for New Orleans.
If you're on the left, Garlandis the one who ignored all the
evidence that led up to theJanuary 6th mass misdemeanor
trespassing event.
And if you're on the right, hewas the one in charge of the
(22:29):
raid on Mar a Lago and for theweaponization of the Justice
Department.
And when you tell the FBI to dothings other than what they're
supposed to do, which is keep usall safe tragedies like New
Orleans are the result almostexactly two years before
President Trump was shot, ShinzoAbe, the former Prime Minister
(22:52):
of Japan, was assassinated whenthat happened.
The result in Japan was the topsecurity official.
And his deputy both resigned.
They weren't asked to resign,they weren't fired, they knew it
was their duty to resign.
And they did.
In America, however, thepoliticians just say how
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outraged they are.
My former congressman, ElissaSlotkin, was sworn in today as a
senator, the newest senator fromMichigan.
She presided over the two schoolshootings we just talked about,
the one at Oxford and the one atMichigan State University.
She said how outraged she was.
(23:35):
She asked for the flags to beflown at half staff, got the
failed school system at Oxford abunch of money, and now she's
promoted to senator.
Her Democrat associate, PeteButtigieg, the secretary of
transportation.
How many train derailments havewe had under him?
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How many ships colliding withbridges?
How many airplane doors blowingoff and worse?
Did he take responsibility?
Did he resign?
No, he's going to retire withhonors once Trump is
inaugurated.
And then he's going to move onand run for governor of
Michigan.
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He's not from Michigan, by theway.
We have tragedies like NewOrleans not because we don't
hold people accountable, butbecause we do the opposite.
We reward them.
Never mind even what I've saidabout what they're doing wrong.
Focusing on guns, trying toattack Tesla, failing to blame
the Ford Lightning, becauseeverybody has an opinion, and
(24:39):
I'm just saying what I would do.
Another individual might dosomething different if he were
in charge.
But what matters are notopinions, but results.
So let's stop the debate andjust go by one simple principle,
and that is to hold accountablethe officials responsible.
When things go wrong, fire them.
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And the politics will stop.
Fire them with the threat ofprosecuting them, and I
guarantee you they will at leasttry to do the right thing, and
not just the political thing.
We can let those leaders goahead and ban drinking after
midnight, ban guns, ban trucks,ban electric vehicles, raise the
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drinking age to gun ownershipage, prohibit Turo, cancel New
Year's Eve, do whatever youwant, as long as it works.
As long as it stands the test oftime.
Don't give us mindless laws andrestrictions, whether it be gun
laws or the Patriot Act.
Just keep Americans safe.
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Let the politicians in chargefigure that solution out.
And when their ideas don't work,then throw them out for someone
who will do the job.
Thank you so much for listening.
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