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Yeah. It's time for Florida Man. All right, so first up, and pull this up here. We got some new video coming in from POTUS too that we're going to have to address. A Florida man makes up swinging after being woken up from his nap in the middle of the road.
Wait, what? I got some questions. This is Florida Keys. It was a marathon man, Florida man. He was found passed out near a bar.
And apparently, he I guess he forgot how he got in that position. He woke up fighting.
So it began.
Somebody called for a welfare check on the dude, and it blew up into like a fist fight. This, okay, it was near the brass muck. Here, let's let's play Mad Libs with this story, but it's all true. The bar was called Brass Monkey. And it was on Sombrero Beach Road.
Stesis is already like a mad lib stew happening. They found Donald Parkinson. He was literally lying in the middle of the road, unconscious. He was breathing, but he was not responsive. uh brass monkeys manager called police, they said they wanted him formally trespassed from the business.
So he came to And he was so drunk he could not even get up. without the deputies helping him up. And then he didn't accept the help. He began throwing punches, cursing, threatening to fight everybody. He refused to get in the patrol vehicle.
They had to take him to the hospital for medical clearance, but he kept screaming. He tried to headbutt a deputy. He was trying to punch at the officers. He was trying to fight people at the hospital.
So now he's facing. Multiple charges battery on a law enforcement officer, resisting arrest, disorderly intoxication, all kind of stuff. They were trying to help you, dude. They're trying to figure out what was happening. Why would you do this?
So this uh This guy got sentenced to four years in prison. because he tried to rob Taco Bell with a rock. Um Okay. Oh my gosh. Kawaran Anderson.
He's 40 years old. He stormed a taco bell armed with a rock, chased workers through the parking lot demanding money, and has been sentenced to four years in state prison.
So this was a this happened last year. He just got sentenced though this week. It was a July 8th. When it happened, he went into a Taco Bell. He went, he entered through the drive-through window.
So he didn't go through the door. He climbed. Through the drive-through window. I don't know how that happens. He had a T-shirt wrapped around his head and held a large rock as a weapon.
He then chased employees out of the building and around the parking lot, threatening to beat them with the rock while demanding cash.
So the employees managed to escape. He was, he fled the scene on foot without getting any money, so they had to get a canine, they tracked him to a dumpster. And they found him. By the way, he's also known by his nickname Tony the Tiger. Of course, he is.
So he admitted that he was present at the Taco Bell with the Rock, and he said he was homeless and needed money.
So he was arrested on armed robbery. He remained in custody, pled no contest. He was adjudicated guilty. He got credit for nearly 200 days already, served in jail. And then.
While he was incarcerated, he got involved in another incident. In which he slapped a corrections officer during a fight with another inmate, kicked and slapped a corrections officer.
So now he's got another sentence that's going to run concurrently with his four-year prison term for robbery. This guy's a mess. I'm pretty sure that he's not going to be reformed when he's released. Pretty sure. that he's not going to be reformed at all.
Good heavens. This uh See here, we got a couple. We got a super speeder law. That's not one. We also got a guy who stole a gun and he was identified because he wore a shirt with his own name on it because he's a moron.
Oh my gosh, this is Boca Rattan. This guy...
Okay. Let me just read you the first sentence of this story, because this is insane. Ah.
Okay, so the guy is a Florida man who stole a gun, right? And he was wearing a T-shirt that had his name on it. This is how the story starts. A Boca Rattan man who had his thumb bitten off by a tiger a decade ago was just fingered by a gun show vendor who accused him of stealing an AK-47. What in the hell is up with the Florida Man stories today?
Oh my gosh. So. This is hysterical.
So, this guy. The It was all caught on camera. He had a shirt with his name on it in giant lettering. What Why are y Are you going into, he broke into a gun store to steal, that's some balls, to steal a firearm. While wearing a shirt that had his name on it, giant letters, he took a $750 AK-47 that was on a display rack.
And of course, it didn't have the firing pin in it because it's on a display rack. He was, yeah, he literally had Jim Prudent embroidered on the back. And he was also missing his right thumb. Because you know, remember, it got bitten off by a tiger a decade ago.
So there's a tiger. That's the commonality in the last two stores that we have, Steve. Good night. Are you being lied to about your retirement? I mean, the advice sounds familiar: max out your 401k and your IRA and hand your life savings to Wall Street and just hope that the market cooperates.
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Because she was talking about how Caroline Levitt should be disfigured during birth as punishment for being a Republican.
Well now we got a woman named Melinda at VCU Health. She posted a bunch of videos telling people to inject ICE agents with a paralysis drug and kill them. Listen to this. This is insanity. I thought of something good.
I think it's something weird to spot. Um sabotage tactic, or at least scare tactic. All the medical providers grab some syringes with needles on the end. Have them full of Sailing. Or succinyl choline, you know, whatever, whatever.
That will probably be a deterrent. Be safe.
Okay, for today's resistance tip, I vote um Anybody got any uh Poison ivy, poison oak. In their yard. Get some of that up with gloves, obviously, and get it in some water. like a gallon of water and get some Get the poison ivy oak water. and I'm gonna put it into a water gun.
Aim for. Think for faces. Hands.
Alright, the single ladies where these ice guys are going have a chance to do something. You know, not without risk, but Could help the cause for sure. Get on Tinder, get on Hinge, find these guys. They're around. Down ICE agent brings some XLAX and put it in their drinks.
Wow. She's talking about It's called succinylcholine. Succanylcholine is the drug's name. And she's talking about using Yeah. and spraying poison on people.
Now the succamyl choline is a paralactic. That they use only in emergency settings because, after immediately injecting it, patients are paralyzed and they have to be intubated. And if they're not intubated, they die. That's what that does. This is someone who is in a hospital setting.
that is talking about murdering people. because of their politics. This is how bad it has gotten in this country. This is how insane the left has gotten. Like I'm telling you, y'all, this has only been going one way.
This entire time, only one way.
So, I mean, man alive. Yeah. I I I don't know. It makes you like afraid to go to to go anywhere and get Any kind of health care. If you got to worry about these people.
who are fantasizing about this stuff. Because of Immigrations and custom enforcement. Her name's Melinda Rose Cook. She's a CRNA. And out of Richmond, Virginia.
She also has Duke Health listed. She apparently does VCU health and Duke and also Duke Health as well. I mean, according to she's been trying to scrub her TikTok account.
Now, VCU confirmed that she was placed on administrative leave. I don't think she needs to be on administrative leave. I think she needs to be fired and lose any ability to ever practice medicine again. I don't think that she should ever be allowed in a hospital. Again.
The stuff that she's talking about is serious. You're discussing also losing complete faith in our medical facilities because of these people. She's telling people to murder, telling them how to murder federal agents. This is deranged. And it's even, you know, the crazy thing is, it's even more serious.
when you consider it because I mean, anything else, this would I mean, she would be have her license suspended. She would undergo drug testing and a psychiatric evaluation, which I think she needs to undergo anyway. There is I mean, good heavens. This makes me like, it does make me, it does, it makes people nervous. About going and Seeing any kind of medical professional because you have to sit here and now worry about.
whether or not They're going to kill you because they don't like what you think. Think about all the stuff that the left has been doing in the past several years. Keying Teslas, they get mad and they damage property because they think that because you drive a Tesla, Somehow they've got you all figured out. They're going to judge you and be jury and executioner based on the kind of car you drive. This is like the same kind of COVID mentality.
People who were flipping out and losing it if you didn't wear a face mask outside in 80 degree sunshine. This is a it I mean it is a serious Disconnect. I don't think that they're crazy. I think that they're just evil. You have to remember too: extreme evil.
People can be very, very evil and not be crazy. I don't think that she's crazy. I think she is incredibly evil. And that's why I think she deserves to have the consequence of ha of being e economically wrecked.
So, I hope she loses her license. I hope she can never get another job in medicine anywhere else. She's only fit to she's I I don't even know what she would be even fit for. This is crazy. You got to worry about this now having babies.
You got to worry about this going on. I mean, good grief. It is um We have lost. Our spiritual moorings in this country, clearly, when people are driven to do stuff like this. out of rage because they cannot get you.
to comport with their views. It is something else, something else. And this is just like one of several. I mean, there's, you know, there's a lot more examples of this than what, you know, just what. There's tons of this stuff that's on social media.
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I don't understand. Apparently, there was a sports radio personality who had to apologize because he called into question the intentions of ICE protesters in Minneapolis. Paul Allen, who's known as the voice of the Minnesota Vikings, issued a statement on Monday. He made comments Friday when he was talking about the inclement weather. And he said, you know, protesters' weather was, you know.
Basically, talking about them freezing outside. Why would he have to apologize for anything that he said? Because he goes, he had said, in conditions like this, do they get hazard pay, et cetera? And he got in trouble for that.
Now I'm gonna ask: do they get? I'm sure they do get hazard paid. They're all a bunch of paid commie stooges. That's exactly correct. I can't believe that they would make this guy apologize for that.
Most people compound sin and go do something unflattering to themselves. Uh let's see. Also. This, uh, so Tim Walls, he got scolded by the Holocaust Museum because he was trying to say that the criminals that they were deporting were like Anne Frank. He literally compared murderers, rapists, and child pedophiles, like pedophiles, like actual convicted child rapists, to Anne Frank.
And the Holocaust Museum was shocked. They scolded him. They said, We're basically, we can't believe that you would say something like this. They said, Making false equivalencies for political purposes like this is in it's no, it's not acceptable. And they're correct.
That was really pathetic. Hey, there was the we played those comments yesterday that he made. Gold has surged past 5,100 as investors seek shelter from global risks. Silver is game-stopping it. It's sitting around $110 an ounce right now per CNBC.
Gold climbed to a fresh all-time high. And the rally reflects some of the flashpoints of Venezuela, Greenland, and the Middle East. It really is a hedge with all of this other geopolitical stuff.
So they said it gained about 2.4%. That's always valuable. It's always valuable. It's always a good hedge of protection. And a chart showing a US dollar crashing takes off online.
But it makes sense that gold and silver are doing so well in context with that. This is something they were saying that the measure of this, the crashing value, some people were reflecting their concerns online, but I mean, really though, I mean, it's also about them trying to hurt the petro dollar. There's a lot of stuff in play here. It's about people trying to hurt America's dominance with currency, the petro dollar. A lot of things are playing into this.
It's not just one thing or another. Three Las Vegas hotels are now accepting the Canadian dollar at par. It's really weird. There are three of them now. Let's see.
They are the Circa Resort, the D Las Vegas, and Golden Gate Hotel. They're participating in this at PAR program until August, and they're trying to remove financial barriers for Canadians who want to travel to Vegas. And they said that they're going to allow Canadians to be able to gamble at PAR by redeeming up to $500. Uh in slot play, etc. Per the hotels.
Is that really going to be enough to Attract Canadians to go down and really, I don't know about that. That just seems kind of hokey to me, to be completely honest about it. Also, this is interesting.
So, ice agents. Are set to have a security role during the Winter Olympics in Italy, and there's some people who have an uproar about it. ICE agents, apparently, they're going to be at the Milan-Cortina Winter Games in Italy. And the U.S. Embassy in Rome and ICE have confirmed to the AP and France's Agence France Press that agents will be traveling there, but only in the capacity of supporting diplomatic security details.
So, all these people that are freaking out over it, they have no idea what they're talking about. They said that their security operations are going to remain under Italian authority. They're not conducting immigration enforcement. They're part of details going over there for diplomats.
So, that's per variety. We've got a lot more on the way. Stick with us. I saw this earlier today: 28. This is Jessica Tarlov, who I don't really have a problem with personally.
I mean, I think she's wrong on some things, but that's about it. Can we stop this comparison? I'm going to explain how this is wrong. Listen to what she says here. Have you seen the body cam video?
I was unaware you had a video. You know what? It's going to exonerate all the agents. You're completely right. Stephen Miller saying an assassin tried to murder federal agents, and this is your response.
And JD Vance, retweeting it, says something about where this administration is and how they're considering it before and after the murder of Alex Pratty. And this will go down in history as a turning point for this. Greg Bavino wouldn't be leaving tomorrow if an innocent person wasn't killed. And the double standards that are being employed for how you have to behave versus how these agents have to behave is mind-boggling to me. Kyle Rittenhouse was a conservative hero, right, for walking into a protest, actually brandishing a weapon.
But this guy who had a legal permit to carry and already had had his gun removed, to some people, I guess, is some sort of instigator when he was actually going to help a woman who had been pushed down and tear gassed by ICE. We have the right to protect.
Okay, so she was also obstructing a federal operation. Here's the thing. Kyle Rittenhouse didn't quote walk into a protest. First off, You know, I said my only issue with the Rittenhouse thing was that he was a minor who was doing this stuff, and I just don't think miners were able to accept the legal consequence of stuff like that. But he didn't walk into a protest.
He was on someone he was on a friend's private property protecting their business, and he was targeted by literal convicted pedophiles. You know, the guy who attacked him had apparently raped a kid?
Well, like literally was out, had been just freed from jail b after that, after serving a sentence for that. They were literal, we're not joking when we say pedophiles. Like this actually, in this case, they were literal actual pedophiles. And so, first off, he didn't walk into a protest with a firearm. His firearm was also legally carried.
Rittenhouse's firearm was also legal. He didn't walk into a federal operation and impede it. He was on a friend's private property protecting their business, and he was attacked and defended himself. And here's the other big difference: when law enforcement made contact with him, he immediately put his rifle down, hands in the air, and he complied with all commands. That is the complete opposite of what Alex Preddy did.
Alex Predi involved himself in a Federal operation, which is a felony. 18 U.S.C. 111. It is a felony to impede a federal law enforcement operation. You can dislike it, but that's the law that's on the books.
Rittenhouse didn't do that. Predi sought out confrontation. He's in Signal Chats discussing how he sought out confrontation. He was in the middle of the road blocking traffic. while armed.
Now, if you want to have a discussion as to whether or not that was intimidating, I would say it would be. If I'm a regular average person and I'm trying to drive down the street and an armed man who's a deranged leftist is in the street blocking me from proceeding, I'm going to have a very big issue with that.
So, no. They're not even remotely the same. They are not at all the same. Stop making these stupid comparisons. And Rittenhouse, by the way.
Rittenhouse, like I said, his firearm was also legal. But he complied. He didn't insert himself into a federal operation, and he complied. Alex Predi did not. And the woman that he was helping is also someone who was impeding a federal operation.
That was also a felony.
Now you can talk about the use of lethal force, etcetera. as a separate issue. But they're not the same. Neither of these issues are the same. And it really bothers me that people keep excusing this.
The left wants to make this. about the Second Amendment to acquit themselves? of responsibility with all of this violence. The deluge of criminal illegal aliens, and also the Somali diaspora fraud. They need this to be about the Second Amendment to acquit themselves of accountability.
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