1 00:00:04,040 --> 00:00:06,840 Speaker 1: Hour two, Twin City's News Talk. My name is John Justice. 2 00:00:06,880 --> 00:00:10,120 Speaker 1: Glad you're went the show this morning. Whether you're able 3 00:00:10,160 --> 00:00:12,120 Speaker 1: to stay home or you're out and about, be careful 4 00:00:12,160 --> 00:00:14,080 Speaker 1: while you're driving. There is a lot of ice on 5 00:00:14,120 --> 00:00:18,520 Speaker 1: the roadways, slicker than's not on the drive in. 6 00:00:19,640 --> 00:00:21,560 Speaker 2: Yeah, and we were lucky enough to get here as 7 00:00:21,560 --> 00:00:24,279 Speaker 2: early as we did, so John's right, everybody stay safe 8 00:00:24,320 --> 00:00:24,680 Speaker 2: out there. 9 00:00:24,800 --> 00:00:27,680 Speaker 1: It was really weird driving in too, because like some 10 00:00:27,840 --> 00:00:31,120 Speaker 1: of the roads were great and then you just roll 11 00:00:31,200 --> 00:00:33,120 Speaker 1: up on a portion where it's just like as if 12 00:00:33,360 --> 00:00:36,280 Speaker 1: not a single min Dot truck had come through, and 13 00:00:36,320 --> 00:00:38,040 Speaker 1: then it was fine again. I just I can't make 14 00:00:38,080 --> 00:00:40,440 Speaker 1: heads or tails of it. Nor did I see any 15 00:00:40,560 --> 00:00:42,839 Speaker 1: state vehicles on the roads this morning. Now, granted it 16 00:00:42,880 --> 00:00:45,600 Speaker 1: was early in the morning. That being said, that would 17 00:00:45,840 --> 00:00:47,680 Speaker 1: be the best time to put the salt down to 18 00:00:47,920 --> 00:00:49,560 Speaker 1: go and melt the I would think to go on 19 00:00:49,680 --> 00:00:52,199 Speaker 1: melt the ice. But what do I know. I'm just 20 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:54,600 Speaker 1: a goofy talk show host here on Twin City's News Talk. 21 00:00:55,600 --> 00:00:58,120 Speaker 3: Hey, John, I'd love to see the Save Act past, 22 00:00:58,600 --> 00:01:03,400 Speaker 3: but I've got a sneak and suspicion that what they're 23 00:01:03,400 --> 00:01:06,039 Speaker 3: going to do is do this talking filibuster for the 24 00:01:06,080 --> 00:01:10,160 Speaker 3: Save Act and then get it passed. It's going to 25 00:01:10,240 --> 00:01:13,400 Speaker 3: be in court for the next election. We're going to 26 00:01:13,440 --> 00:01:16,720 Speaker 3: lose the next election, and then they're going to impeach 27 00:01:16,800 --> 00:01:22,000 Speaker 3: Trump and use the talking filibuster and the Senate to 28 00:01:22,120 --> 00:01:23,600 Speaker 3: convict Trump Man. 29 00:01:23,600 --> 00:01:25,760 Speaker 1: Where are we going to be then, don't I don't know. 30 00:01:25,800 --> 00:01:27,119 Speaker 1: That was quite the journey, though. 31 00:01:28,440 --> 00:01:34,840 Speaker 2: It's like the biggest parlay bed if I've ever heard one. 32 00:01:35,480 --> 00:01:38,480 Speaker 1: It was quite a it was. That was quite the 33 00:01:38,680 --> 00:01:44,480 Speaker 1: quite the journey. It's it's nothing until it's something, you 34 00:01:44,560 --> 00:01:49,000 Speaker 1: might be right. That being said, I don't care. What 35 00:01:49,040 --> 00:01:53,160 Speaker 1: I mean by that is, there are a thousand different 36 00:01:53,200 --> 00:01:59,520 Speaker 1: scenarios that could play out regarding the passing the Save 37 00:01:59,600 --> 00:02:05,240 Speaker 1: America Act, whether nuking the filibuster altogether, doing the talking filibuster, 38 00:02:05,880 --> 00:02:08,040 Speaker 1: and there could be and there will be a lot 39 00:02:08,080 --> 00:02:13,919 Speaker 1: of ramifications of what happens after that. Truth is, nobody knows. 40 00:02:14,680 --> 00:02:16,720 Speaker 1: I make a living off of speculation, but I have 41 00:02:16,760 --> 00:02:19,400 Speaker 1: no idea what's going to play out. All I know 42 00:02:19,560 --> 00:02:22,120 Speaker 1: is we need to get the Save America Act past 43 00:02:22,560 --> 00:02:24,840 Speaker 1: and then we can deal with everything else that happens afterwards. 44 00:02:24,880 --> 00:02:28,080 Speaker 1: It's just that simple. I put the rest in God's hands, 45 00:02:29,240 --> 00:02:31,560 Speaker 1: although according to some that makes me a Christian nationalist. 46 00:02:31,600 --> 00:02:33,000 Speaker 1: We'll get to this coming up in just a moment. 47 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:35,960 Speaker 1: Here on Twin Cities News Talk, I'm getting further ahead 48 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:38,400 Speaker 1: of myself. I do want to go here. As I 49 00:02:38,440 --> 00:02:42,920 Speaker 1: mentioned last hour, there is an onslaught of progressive editorial 50 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:47,600 Speaker 1: propaganda right now here in Minnesota. There always is a smattering, 51 00:02:47,720 --> 00:02:54,160 Speaker 1: but there is a lot of commentary being put out 52 00:02:54,240 --> 00:02:57,440 Speaker 1: in our local media. And yes, people do read this. 53 00:02:58,360 --> 00:03:02,640 Speaker 1: You don't do because my job requires it, but a 54 00:03:02,639 --> 00:03:05,240 Speaker 1: lot of individuals on the left do. This is how 55 00:03:05,240 --> 00:03:08,720 Speaker 1: they formulate their opinions. And it's why there's so many 56 00:03:08,720 --> 00:03:12,040 Speaker 1: broken and brainwashed right now because of garbage like what 57 00:03:12,080 --> 00:03:17,079 Speaker 1: I'm about to share with you, and with these pieces 58 00:03:17,200 --> 00:03:23,799 Speaker 1: of propaganda via editorials. There's an air of desperation coming 59 00:03:23,840 --> 00:03:29,360 Speaker 1: from Minnesota DFL radicals right now because you wouldn't need 60 00:03:29,520 --> 00:03:32,200 Speaker 1: all of this, You wouldn't need all of this commentary. 61 00:03:32,280 --> 00:03:35,760 Speaker 1: I have one coming up, a handful a trio of 62 00:03:35,880 --> 00:03:42,440 Speaker 1: dunces I call them on Operation Metro Surge. Are pro 63 00:03:42,520 --> 00:03:49,080 Speaker 1: sports owners choked. Here's how they can redeem themselves. It's 64 00:03:49,160 --> 00:03:56,520 Speaker 1: this pedaling of this dangerous assumption that only the left 65 00:03:56,640 --> 00:03:59,680 Speaker 1: is the end all be all when it comes to reality. 66 00:04:00,280 --> 00:04:04,440 Speaker 1: And because the sports franchises didn't go all in on 67 00:04:04,480 --> 00:04:08,839 Speaker 1: the over the top anti ice rhetoric, that's somehow there 68 00:04:08,880 --> 00:04:12,680 Speaker 1: at fault into blame for some reason or this piece. 69 00:04:14,040 --> 00:04:17,960 Speaker 1: This is written by Frank Burris. He's the editor of 70 00:04:18,080 --> 00:04:23,400 Speaker 1: Under the Purple Skies, a Minneapolis anthology, author, writes and 71 00:04:23,480 --> 00:04:27,839 Speaker 1: records for Voice Map lives in Minneapolis, oh He was 72 00:04:27,839 --> 00:04:30,960 Speaker 1: one of the city's constitutional observers, so he's one of 73 00:04:30,960 --> 00:04:33,760 Speaker 1: the yahoos that went out there in obstructed ice. His 74 00:04:33,880 --> 00:04:37,600 Speaker 1: piece in the Minnesota Reformer is titled the Minnesota Resistance 75 00:04:37,680 --> 00:04:41,520 Speaker 1: Exposed the Orwellian frauds of the Administration. I just want 76 00:04:41,560 --> 00:04:45,159 Speaker 1: to give you another example of what the broken and 77 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:48,960 Speaker 1: brainwashed are reading and why they're remaining broken and brainwashed 78 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:52,200 Speaker 1: on the left. It's garbage like this. It starts off 79 00:04:52,200 --> 00:04:56,080 Speaker 1: with a Georgia Orwell quote from nineteen eighty four. You 80 00:04:56,120 --> 00:05:00,800 Speaker 1: are a slow learner, Winston, said O'Brien gently, How can 81 00:05:00,880 --> 00:05:04,120 Speaker 1: I how can I help it? He blubbered, how can 82 00:05:04,160 --> 00:05:06,520 Speaker 1: I help? Seeing what is in front of my eyes? 83 00:05:06,920 --> 00:05:13,440 Speaker 1: Two and two are four? So Frank writes this on 84 00:05:13,560 --> 00:05:16,360 Speaker 1: January seventh, I dropped a car off at my daughter's 85 00:05:16,400 --> 00:05:20,039 Speaker 1: high school. Not long after that, she took it to 86 00:05:20,200 --> 00:05:24,520 Speaker 1: skiing practice a few minutes later, then Border Patrol Commander 87 00:05:24,560 --> 00:05:28,080 Speaker 1: Greg Bovino and at least ten ICE agents stopped in 88 00:05:28,080 --> 00:05:31,320 Speaker 1: front of the school and marched onto the property. And 89 00:05:31,320 --> 00:05:34,320 Speaker 1: then he says this, which is incredibly revealing. According to 90 00:05:34,560 --> 00:05:37,560 Speaker 1: people I know who were there, so he wasn't there. 91 00:05:39,240 --> 00:05:43,880 Speaker 1: He's going off of secondhand information, probably from individuals that 92 00:05:43,920 --> 00:05:48,080 Speaker 1: are stuck in the same bubble as he is. He 93 00:05:48,120 --> 00:05:52,000 Speaker 1: says the agents were aggressive and belligerent. One woman blew 94 00:05:52,040 --> 00:05:54,640 Speaker 1: a whistle and an agent walked up to her and said, 95 00:05:54,760 --> 00:06:01,719 Speaker 1: you're assaulting me. Of course, this is all lacking the context. 96 00:06:03,360 --> 00:06:06,840 Speaker 1: It's lacking the actual physical location of the ICE agents 97 00:06:07,080 --> 00:06:11,200 Speaker 1: at the school. Why the ICE agents were there, Who 98 00:06:11,279 --> 00:06:13,240 Speaker 1: was harassing ICE at the time to get them to 99 00:06:13,279 --> 00:06:19,200 Speaker 1: respond that way, It's always absent from these commentaries. The 100 00:06:19,279 --> 00:06:22,760 Speaker 1: grounds were filled with students and staff who'd come outside 101 00:06:22,800 --> 00:06:26,080 Speaker 1: and who were recording the incident. In one video, as 102 00:06:26,160 --> 00:06:30,720 Speaker 1: ICE swarmed the grounds, the principal ran up to pull 103 00:06:30,760 --> 00:06:34,160 Speaker 1: a student back from an agent, who then fired chemical 104 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:37,520 Speaker 1: irritants into both of their faces. Another staff member can 105 00:06:37,520 --> 00:06:40,960 Speaker 1: be heard telling students to back up, guys. She says, 106 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:43,400 Speaker 1: I don't want you to get hurt. They literally just 107 00:06:43,480 --> 00:06:47,159 Speaker 1: killed someone. And again, there's no context here as to 108 00:06:47,320 --> 00:06:51,640 Speaker 1: why that student was getting in the face of Immigrations 109 00:06:51,640 --> 00:06:56,240 Speaker 1: and Customs enforcement, what they were doing that prompted that agent, 110 00:06:56,320 --> 00:06:59,680 Speaker 1: Because in every single video that I've seen, individuals are 111 00:06:59,760 --> 00:07:07,520 Speaker 1: you usually going and obstructing ICE prompting them to respond 112 00:07:07,600 --> 00:07:11,800 Speaker 1: with chemical irritance. I haven't seen a single video just 113 00:07:11,840 --> 00:07:15,239 Speaker 1: a person standing there who just, out of nowhere, without 114 00:07:15,240 --> 00:07:18,120 Speaker 1: saying anything or any action, just gets sprayed in the 115 00:07:18,120 --> 00:07:21,600 Speaker 1: face with mace, which is completely contrary to the numerous 116 00:07:21,720 --> 00:07:24,960 Speaker 1: videos that you can see online of somebody who has 117 00:07:25,080 --> 00:07:28,440 Speaker 1: just assumed to be pro ICE standing at an anti 118 00:07:28,480 --> 00:07:32,720 Speaker 1: ICE rally, not saying anything, and yet surrounded by leftists 119 00:07:33,120 --> 00:07:36,400 Speaker 1: who are doing what blowing whistles in their faces, yelling 120 00:07:36,400 --> 00:07:40,960 Speaker 1: obscenities and calling them all kinds of different names, completely unprovoked. 121 00:07:42,280 --> 00:07:46,320 Speaker 1: That's all missing from this piece. He goes on to say, 122 00:07:46,360 --> 00:07:49,200 Speaker 1: that's someone the person mentioned was Renee Good killed earlier 123 00:07:49,200 --> 00:07:53,239 Speaker 1: in the day. The videos from outside our school showed 124 00:07:53,280 --> 00:07:56,520 Speaker 1: how easily the number of people killed could have climbed. 125 00:07:56,800 --> 00:07:59,239 Speaker 1: But there were other reasons to be disturbed as well. 126 00:08:01,520 --> 00:08:03,880 Speaker 1: And this tells you what you need to know about 127 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:06,400 Speaker 1: the reality of the story that he starts off his 128 00:08:06,480 --> 00:08:09,200 Speaker 1: peace with, because that should have been enough. If his 129 00:08:09,280 --> 00:08:17,720 Speaker 1: details were correct, you shouldn't need other reasons. The next day, 130 00:08:17,760 --> 00:08:20,000 Speaker 1: Bovino wrote on x that the students and staff were 131 00:08:20,080 --> 00:08:24,840 Speaker 1: organized protesters who showed up in minutes, assaulting agents. It's 132 00:08:24,840 --> 00:08:28,400 Speaker 1: no secret that politicians is the secret police and paramilitary 133 00:08:28,440 --> 00:08:34,880 Speaker 1: squad leaders lie, but this was different, a brazen attempt 134 00:08:34,960 --> 00:08:37,640 Speaker 1: to rewrite the facts that we could all see with 135 00:08:37,760 --> 00:08:46,160 Speaker 1: our own eyes. It's pure gaslighting, because that's exactly what 136 00:08:46,280 --> 00:08:54,079 Speaker 1: the left is doing. It's completely twisting the reality, removing 137 00:08:54,120 --> 00:08:58,080 Speaker 1: the context to present only one angle of what transpired 138 00:08:58,120 --> 00:09:00,920 Speaker 1: in these events. He goes on to say to anybody 139 00:09:00,960 --> 00:09:04,440 Speaker 1: paying attention, this feels familiar. Ever since the disappointing crowd 140 00:09:04,480 --> 00:09:08,160 Speaker 1: size in twenty sixteen, Donald Trump has been trying to 141 00:09:08,320 --> 00:09:14,840 Speaker 1: alter reality with his words. Again, pure gas lighting. He 142 00:09:14,960 --> 00:09:20,000 Speaker 1: spends this entire piece doing the exact thing that he 143 00:09:20,120 --> 00:09:23,400 Speaker 1: said the right is doing. This piece is a brazen 144 00:09:23,480 --> 00:09:26,640 Speaker 1: attempt to rewrite the facts of what we can all 145 00:09:26,679 --> 00:09:30,840 Speaker 1: see with our own eyes. Those videos tell the true story. 146 00:09:31,679 --> 00:09:34,080 Speaker 1: He goes on to say, it's because Trump has understood 147 00:09:34,080 --> 00:09:37,080 Speaker 1: our dystopian moment better than the rest of us. Lately, 148 00:09:37,120 --> 00:09:40,760 Speaker 1: I've seen this quote from George Orwell's nineteen eighty four 149 00:09:40,840 --> 00:09:44,319 Speaker 1: making the rounds. The party who told you to reject 150 00:09:44,360 --> 00:09:47,280 Speaker 1: the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their 151 00:09:47,360 --> 00:09:53,439 Speaker 1: final and most essential command. He tragically fails to see 152 00:09:53,480 --> 00:09:56,520 Speaker 1: that he's talking about the very Democrats that he goes 153 00:09:56,640 --> 00:10:01,559 Speaker 1: and supports. Then you get twelve paragraphs of leftist storytelling, 154 00:10:04,360 --> 00:10:08,400 Speaker 1: a twisted version of the events related to Operation Metro Surge, 155 00:10:08,600 --> 00:10:12,960 Speaker 1: completely void of any honest analysis of what actually occurred. 156 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:17,560 Speaker 1: Toward the end, he says, with observers present, the world 157 00:10:17,600 --> 00:10:20,800 Speaker 1: could see what the Party told us not to see. 158 00:10:20,880 --> 00:10:23,120 Speaker 1: It is a stunning lack of self awareness that Frank 159 00:10:23,160 --> 00:10:29,960 Speaker 1: Burris has since this entire piece asks the reader to 160 00:10:30,160 --> 00:10:36,800 Speaker 1: simply ignore the truth. His final paragraph says, when all 161 00:10:36,800 --> 00:10:39,200 Speaker 1: this is over, we will likely still be a wash 162 00:10:39,320 --> 00:10:44,600 Speaker 1: in a dystopic swirl of stories. Oh, no doubt. But 163 00:10:44,679 --> 00:10:49,360 Speaker 1: it's because of leftists. But this may be the beginning 164 00:10:49,400 --> 00:10:52,040 Speaker 1: of the end of Trump's ability to assert whatever version 165 00:10:52,080 --> 00:10:55,760 Speaker 1: of reality he wants. If so, it will be because 166 00:10:56,000 --> 00:10:58,800 Speaker 1: we shone a light on the terrible truth, and in 167 00:10:58,880 --> 00:11:02,880 Speaker 1: doing so, we get everyone watching a rudder to help 168 00:11:02,920 --> 00:11:08,760 Speaker 1: steer our ship out of these dangerous waters. People like 169 00:11:08,800 --> 00:11:11,959 Speaker 1: Frank subconsciously know. He may consciously know, but I assume 170 00:11:12,360 --> 00:11:15,199 Speaker 1: he actually believes this garbage that he pedals in this piece. 171 00:11:17,360 --> 00:11:22,480 Speaker 1: He subconsciously knows that they are the very thing and 172 00:11:22,520 --> 00:11:25,440 Speaker 1: they act the very way that they claim Trump does, 173 00:11:25,480 --> 00:11:27,680 Speaker 1: which is why they have to go and make these claims. 174 00:11:28,240 --> 00:11:31,640 Speaker 1: It's not us, it's the other guys. Ignore the reality, 175 00:11:31,720 --> 00:11:37,160 Speaker 1: ignore the truth. As a further example, we'll get to 176 00:11:37,200 --> 00:11:41,079 Speaker 1: this next. It's even more ridiculous Operation Metro Surge. Are 177 00:11:41,400 --> 00:11:45,480 Speaker 1: pro sports owners choked? Here's how they can redeem themselves again, 178 00:11:45,800 --> 00:11:49,199 Speaker 1: as if the three dunces who wrote this article are 179 00:11:49,240 --> 00:11:53,520 Speaker 1: the only purveyors of truth out there. And because the 180 00:11:53,559 --> 00:11:56,920 Speaker 1: sports teams decided to take a neutral stance on an 181 00:11:56,960 --> 00:12:01,679 Speaker 1: issue where there are opposing views, legitimately so, but because 182 00:12:01,679 --> 00:12:03,839 Speaker 1: they're not aligned with them, they are in the wrong 183 00:12:03,920 --> 00:12:07,480 Speaker 1: and shame on them for not supporting their leftist narrative 184 00:12:07,520 --> 00:12:13,480 Speaker 1: regarding this issue. Also coming up, State Senator Mike Holstrom 185 00:12:13,520 --> 00:12:16,960 Speaker 1: will be joining us. We'll talk about the newly formed 186 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:21,640 Speaker 1: Freedom cons Caucus and those gun bills that we're moving 187 00:12:21,640 --> 00:12:24,440 Speaker 1: through the legislature on Friday during a committee. Is there 188 00:12:24,520 --> 00:12:26,920 Speaker 1: any chance they might end up passing? We will talk 189 00:12:26,960 --> 00:12:29,719 Speaker 1: with State Senator Holstrom coming up at seven thirty, and 190 00:12:29,760 --> 00:12:32,079 Speaker 1: we'll get to your comments from the iHeartRadio app next 191 00:12:32,400 --> 00:12:34,440 Speaker 1: here on Twin Cities News Talk Am eleven thirty and 192 00:12:34,440 --> 00:12:41,400 Speaker 1: one oh three five FM. I got an email Justice 193 00:12:41,400 --> 00:12:45,520 Speaker 1: at iHeartRadio dot com and friend of the show, Barbara 194 00:12:45,600 --> 00:12:48,920 Speaker 1: wrote in have you read Thomas Friedman's editorial in the 195 00:12:48,960 --> 00:12:53,840 Speaker 1: New York Times? Truly gag inducing. It's Twin Cities News Talk. 196 00:12:53,880 --> 00:12:55,760 Speaker 1: My name is John Justice. Glad you with the show 197 00:12:55,800 --> 00:12:58,520 Speaker 1: this morning. I did, Barbara, And it's funny you bring 198 00:12:58,559 --> 00:13:03,079 Speaker 1: that up because I saw this over the weekend. Posted 199 00:13:03,160 --> 00:13:07,760 Speaker 1: on x Thomas Friedman wrote in his post my column 200 00:13:08,080 --> 00:13:13,480 Speaker 1: how Minnesota beat Trump, Why Minnesota matters more than aroun 201 00:13:13,800 --> 00:13:18,480 Speaker 1: for America's future? So yeah, I did, And I actually 202 00:13:18,520 --> 00:13:22,800 Speaker 1: struggled on whether or not I wanted to cover this 203 00:13:22,960 --> 00:13:26,640 Speaker 1: at length on the show and chose to go the 204 00:13:26,720 --> 00:13:30,520 Speaker 1: route of talking about the local editorials that I've been 205 00:13:30,559 --> 00:13:33,240 Speaker 1: sharing with you in the next one that I'll dive 206 00:13:33,280 --> 00:13:35,960 Speaker 1: into here in just a moment from the Minnesota Reformer 207 00:13:36,240 --> 00:13:40,319 Speaker 1: rather than Thomas Friedman's Peace, because they're essentially all doing 208 00:13:40,360 --> 00:13:45,520 Speaker 1: the same thing. They're all trying to write history based 209 00:13:45,559 --> 00:13:49,920 Speaker 1: off of their own version of what happened so that 210 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:55,480 Speaker 1: they can exploit it politically. There are conversations that could 211 00:13:55,480 --> 00:13:59,720 Speaker 1: be and should be had regarding what took place during 212 00:13:59,720 --> 00:14:04,080 Speaker 1: Operation Metro Surge, but none of them should be the 213 00:14:04,080 --> 00:14:07,880 Speaker 1: ones that you're hearing about are the ones that I'm 214 00:14:07,920 --> 00:14:13,679 Speaker 1: criticizing on the show. The commentary should be about every 215 00:14:13,720 --> 00:14:18,160 Speaker 1: single side of the issue, much in the same way 216 00:14:18,200 --> 00:14:24,480 Speaker 1: we should have had that conversation regarding January sixth. The 217 00:14:24,520 --> 00:14:28,320 Speaker 1: conversation should be let's look at it from again being 218 00:14:28,360 --> 00:14:31,560 Speaker 1: fair on the issue, Let's look at it from the 219 00:14:31,600 --> 00:14:35,880 Speaker 1: angle at the start of the operation, how Border Patrol 220 00:14:35,960 --> 00:14:40,320 Speaker 1: Commander Greg Bovino acted at the beginning comments from Christy 221 00:14:40,400 --> 00:14:44,160 Speaker 1: Nome and how that ended up shifting over time as 222 00:14:44,200 --> 00:14:49,520 Speaker 1: Operation Metro surg went on, and how those harsher stances 223 00:14:49,560 --> 00:14:57,360 Speaker 1: didn't help when it came to the ridiculous promotion by 224 00:14:57,400 --> 00:15:00,680 Speaker 1: the Left of encouraging individuals to go go and stop 225 00:15:01,200 --> 00:15:04,960 Speaker 1: lawful law enforcement. And I can be honest about that. 226 00:15:07,120 --> 00:15:15,920 Speaker 1: I believe that, in the absence of any courtroom decision, 227 00:15:17,040 --> 00:15:21,680 Speaker 1: any legal ramifications of Commander Greg Bovino doing something wrong 228 00:15:23,040 --> 00:15:26,880 Speaker 1: Christy Nome, there's an argument to be made that those 229 00:15:26,920 --> 00:15:29,760 Speaker 1: were not the right people to put as figureheads up 230 00:15:29,760 --> 00:15:32,800 Speaker 1: front when this operation started, So it can be fair 231 00:15:32,800 --> 00:15:38,040 Speaker 1: about that. Now with that, conversation should be one about 232 00:15:38,080 --> 00:15:41,240 Speaker 1: just how easily people can be duped into believing a 233 00:15:41,360 --> 00:15:47,440 Speaker 1: particular narrative put forward by a party, and how none 234 00:15:47,480 --> 00:15:53,280 Speaker 1: of the controversies that we saw on the streets during 235 00:15:53,360 --> 00:15:57,840 Speaker 1: Operation Metro Surge would have happened if people hadn't gone 236 00:15:57,880 --> 00:16:00,000 Speaker 1: out and got in the way of lawful law enforcement. 237 00:16:00,920 --> 00:16:05,200 Speaker 1: A conversation about who was actually being arrested, Who are 238 00:16:05,440 --> 00:16:11,160 Speaker 1: the neighbors that those that were obstructing ice that Governor 239 00:16:11,200 --> 00:16:14,280 Speaker 1: Tim Walls and others were referring to, These were individuals 240 00:16:14,320 --> 00:16:19,200 Speaker 1: who had committed crimes. So those are the conversations and 241 00:16:19,240 --> 00:16:22,000 Speaker 1: the stories that we should be having if we are 242 00:16:23,320 --> 00:16:25,800 Speaker 1: a society that wants to better ourselves in the future, 243 00:16:25,880 --> 00:16:29,120 Speaker 1: so that we don't make mistakes regardless of political party. 244 00:16:29,600 --> 00:16:32,240 Speaker 1: But That's not what's happening right now, is it. That's 245 00:16:32,240 --> 00:16:35,040 Speaker 1: not what Thomas Friedman's article is. That's not what These 246 00:16:35,080 --> 00:16:39,120 Speaker 1: pieces that I'm sharing with you this morning are this 247 00:16:39,440 --> 00:16:46,560 Speaker 1: Orwellian resistance, this idea that Minnesota beat Trump and drove 248 00:16:46,680 --> 00:16:50,360 Speaker 1: Ice out. That never happened. But you've heard that spewed 249 00:16:50,400 --> 00:16:52,840 Speaker 1: by Governor Tim Walls over and over and over again. 250 00:16:55,760 --> 00:16:58,320 Speaker 1: Now it's one side only to the point, and I 251 00:16:58,360 --> 00:17:00,000 Speaker 1: won't have time to get into and now we will 252 00:17:00,680 --> 00:17:02,640 Speaker 1: share with you the details after we talk with State 253 00:17:02,720 --> 00:17:07,600 Speaker 1: Senator Michael Holstrom coming up. But you have a piece 254 00:17:07,640 --> 00:17:12,000 Speaker 1: here written by Graham Allen lives in New Brighton, is 255 00:17:12,040 --> 00:17:15,879 Speaker 1: a member of the Teamsters Union. Rod Adams lives in Minneapolis, 256 00:17:15,960 --> 00:17:19,880 Speaker 1: was active in numerous community and labor organizations. Casey Houdick, 257 00:17:20,280 --> 00:17:28,120 Speaker 1: director of the Workers Confluence Fund. This trio of Dunce's 258 00:17:28,960 --> 00:17:32,879 Speaker 1: pen to piece on Operation Metro Surge are pro sports 259 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:37,360 Speaker 1: owners choked. Here's how they can redeem themselves. They don't 260 00:17:37,400 --> 00:17:41,840 Speaker 1: need any redeeming. They wanted to stay out of the 261 00:17:41,840 --> 00:17:44,159 Speaker 1: political fray on this because there are two sides to 262 00:17:44,240 --> 00:17:54,960 Speaker 1: the story. In a nutshell, this piece basically leans into 263 00:17:55,240 --> 00:17:58,760 Speaker 1: the sports teams should have believed and should believe what 264 00:17:58,800 --> 00:18:01,520 Speaker 1: we believe, they should think how we think, they should 265 00:18:01,520 --> 00:18:04,840 Speaker 1: support what we support, and don't support that which we 266 00:18:04,880 --> 00:18:09,600 Speaker 1: don't support. It all sounds pretty fascist to me, but 267 00:18:09,640 --> 00:18:14,520 Speaker 1: it's the Left pedaling again this dangerous assumption that they 268 00:18:14,720 --> 00:18:17,399 Speaker 1: are the end all be all of reality. Just like 269 00:18:17,440 --> 00:18:22,720 Speaker 1: Thomas Friedman's piece here, the reality is that shows you 270 00:18:22,760 --> 00:18:26,480 Speaker 1: the desperation the Democrats have right now. And while there's 271 00:18:26,480 --> 00:18:28,879 Speaker 1: all this talk about the midterms, and right now, the 272 00:18:28,920 --> 00:18:36,280 Speaker 1: midterms typically during off presidential years vote bad for the 273 00:18:36,320 --> 00:18:41,000 Speaker 1: party in charge, favorable to those out of power. Right now, 274 00:18:41,600 --> 00:18:44,159 Speaker 1: make no mistake, there are Democrats and a lot of 275 00:18:44,160 --> 00:18:47,120 Speaker 1: Democrats right now that are incredibly fearful that they could 276 00:18:47,160 --> 00:18:49,919 Speaker 1: be facing losses. And a lot of this depends on 277 00:18:50,160 --> 00:18:53,240 Speaker 1: further success of what's happening in Iran passage of the 278 00:18:53,280 --> 00:19:02,280 Speaker 1: Save Act. That's the undertone, that's the takeaway from all 279 00:19:02,320 --> 00:19:08,440 Speaker 1: of these attempts to paint recent events in one particular light, 280 00:19:08,640 --> 00:19:13,240 Speaker 1: hoping to cement them for all time in that negative 281 00:19:13,400 --> 00:19:19,080 Speaker 1: leftist light. The left always does this. They did it 282 00:19:19,080 --> 00:19:24,480 Speaker 1: with January sixth, They've done it with forgetting about what 283 00:19:24,560 --> 00:19:27,920 Speaker 1: actually happened on nine to eleven, and they're doing it now, 284 00:19:31,480 --> 00:19:35,320 Speaker 1: all right. Coming up, Minnesota Freedom Caucus launched a few 285 00:19:35,359 --> 00:19:42,399 Speaker 1: weeks weeks ago, championing conservative principles constitutional government. Also Senate 286 00:19:42,400 --> 00:19:47,480 Speaker 1: Democrats advancing wide reaching gun control legislation, banning of AR fifteen. 287 00:19:47,600 --> 00:19:50,120 Speaker 1: The possibility of any of these passing. We will talk 288 00:19:50,160 --> 00:19:52,960 Speaker 1: with State Senator Michael Holstrom next here on Twin City's 289 00:19:52,960 --> 00:20:00,200 Speaker 1: News Talking Am eleven thirty and one oh three five FM. 290 00:20:00,760 --> 00:20:03,960 Speaker 4: The second Eenment has created specifically to defend our right 291 00:20:05,160 --> 00:20:07,960 Speaker 4: against a tyrannical government that looks just to strip away 292 00:20:07,960 --> 00:20:10,960 Speaker 4: our freedom. That is the reason that I defend these bills. 293 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:12,800 Speaker 4: It is not because I like hunting. That is just 294 00:20:12,840 --> 00:20:18,239 Speaker 4: an ancillary credent benefit. But these guns exist in our 295 00:20:18,280 --> 00:20:20,959 Speaker 4: society for a specific reason. They've been legal since the 296 00:20:21,119 --> 00:20:23,800 Speaker 4: toning of this nation for a very specific reason, and 297 00:20:24,359 --> 00:20:26,879 Speaker 4: I look at the atrocities in the last century, and 298 00:20:26,920 --> 00:20:29,120 Speaker 4: I don't think that that's a good time to start 299 00:20:29,119 --> 00:20:30,560 Speaker 4: stripping these away. Thank you. 300 00:20:31,680 --> 00:20:36,119 Speaker 1: That was State Senator Michael Holstrom and a gun committee 301 00:20:36,119 --> 00:20:39,160 Speaker 1: hearing last week. It's Twin Cities News Talking Am eleven 302 00:20:39,240 --> 00:20:42,159 Speaker 1: thirty and one h three five FM. Democrats in the 303 00:20:42,200 --> 00:20:45,720 Speaker 1: Minnesota Senate helld a marathon committee hearing on Friday where 304 00:20:45,760 --> 00:20:49,200 Speaker 1: they advanced a major gun control bill to the next 305 00:20:49,359 --> 00:20:53,080 Speaker 1: stage of the legislative process. And joining us is the 306 00:20:53,080 --> 00:20:56,680 Speaker 1: man whose voice you just heard here on a Friday morning. 307 00:20:56,720 --> 00:20:59,919 Speaker 1: It is State Senator Michael Holstrom. Good morning, Michael, how 308 00:20:59,920 --> 00:21:03,119 Speaker 1: we do on this morning, sir porn John doing well? 309 00:21:03,560 --> 00:21:07,160 Speaker 1: You had quite the exchange on X over the weekend 310 00:21:07,760 --> 00:21:14,120 Speaker 1: with yourself and Ron Latts, who ends up representing where 311 00:21:14,119 --> 00:21:16,480 Speaker 1: I do the show from. I was quite I was 312 00:21:16,520 --> 00:21:18,440 Speaker 1: quite amused at the back and forth that you two 313 00:21:18,480 --> 00:21:21,240 Speaker 1: had going on over these gun control bills. 314 00:21:22,920 --> 00:21:23,160 Speaker 5: Yeah. 315 00:21:23,320 --> 00:21:26,640 Speaker 6: You know, Sander Lats, he's in a very difficult primary 316 00:21:26,720 --> 00:21:29,439 Speaker 6: right now. He's being challenged from his left, and I 317 00:21:29,480 --> 00:21:34,280 Speaker 6: think he's he's getting into uncharted territory. He's not prepared 318 00:21:34,320 --> 00:21:36,560 Speaker 6: to actually defend these bills in any real way, but 319 00:21:37,119 --> 00:21:39,200 Speaker 6: he doesn't feel as though he has a choice, and 320 00:21:39,320 --> 00:21:41,159 Speaker 6: I think he's probably right. I mean, the left has 321 00:21:41,200 --> 00:21:43,520 Speaker 6: gone crazy and it doesn't match what he got into 322 00:21:43,560 --> 00:21:45,080 Speaker 6: the movement for anymore. 323 00:21:45,640 --> 00:21:50,320 Speaker 1: SF three six, five to five would ban the possession, sale, transfer, 324 00:21:50,359 --> 00:21:53,240 Speaker 1: and ownership of a Doing that thing with my fingers 325 00:21:53,720 --> 00:21:59,640 Speaker 1: semi automatic military style assault weapon. The specific language OFTSEF 326 00:22:00,080 --> 00:22:02,880 Speaker 1: thirty six to fifty five would ban a wide swath 327 00:22:03,359 --> 00:22:07,679 Speaker 1: of firearms, including the AR fifteen, the most popular firearm 328 00:22:07,960 --> 00:22:11,879 Speaker 1: in America. What are your biggest takeaways from the hearing 329 00:22:11,920 --> 00:22:15,720 Speaker 1: that took place on Friday? And I know, while this 330 00:22:15,800 --> 00:22:18,960 Speaker 1: has moved to the next stage of the legislative process, 331 00:22:19,160 --> 00:22:23,439 Speaker 1: is there any possibility of these bills passing again? Talking 332 00:22:23,480 --> 00:22:30,280 Speaker 1: with say Senator Holstrom, so that bill. 333 00:22:30,080 --> 00:22:33,119 Speaker 6: Specifically is insane. You'll see me stutter as I was 334 00:22:33,760 --> 00:22:36,760 Speaker 6: attacking that bill because I just didn't even remember what 335 00:22:36,800 --> 00:22:39,119 Speaker 6: they called these, these guns they are. They come up 336 00:22:39,160 --> 00:22:41,840 Speaker 6: with these new euphemisms every day, and I had to 337 00:22:41,920 --> 00:22:46,359 Speaker 6: flip back and see what they're calling them today. These 338 00:22:46,400 --> 00:22:48,960 Speaker 6: bills are not going anywhere. I can't imagine they'll pass 339 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:52,600 Speaker 6: in the Senate. They've been most of haven't been referred 340 00:22:52,680 --> 00:22:59,760 Speaker 6: to the floor. Even Judy Seiberger, a Democrat, spoke against 341 00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:04,280 Speaker 6: their two biggest bills in committee because she herself carries 342 00:23:04,280 --> 00:23:06,240 Speaker 6: at the Capitol and these would affect her ability to 343 00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:09,520 Speaker 6: defend herself. So the Democrats don't have the support in 344 00:23:09,520 --> 00:23:11,720 Speaker 6: their own caucus to force us down and there's not 345 00:23:11,760 --> 00:23:13,480 Speaker 6: a Republican in the state that's going to vote to 346 00:23:13,480 --> 00:23:14,359 Speaker 6: do any of these things. 347 00:23:14,680 --> 00:23:17,960 Speaker 1: Yeah, violations of the ban on again doing that thing 348 00:23:18,040 --> 00:23:22,360 Speaker 1: with my fingers military style assault weapons as they describe them. 349 00:23:22,920 --> 00:23:25,040 Speaker 1: First off, there are no assault weapons. I mean, you know, 350 00:23:25,119 --> 00:23:27,440 Speaker 1: Michael Holstrom, you know this, and I know this. That's 351 00:23:27,520 --> 00:23:30,040 Speaker 1: just a catch all phrase of which Democrats like to 352 00:23:30,119 --> 00:23:33,280 Speaker 1: use as a moving target to point two firearms that 353 00:23:33,320 --> 00:23:37,879 Speaker 1: they want to take away from lawfully, from lawful you know, 354 00:23:38,359 --> 00:23:41,520 Speaker 1: gun owners. But it would result in a felony conviction, 355 00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:43,840 Speaker 1: and it could result into up to five years in prison, 356 00:23:43,880 --> 00:23:46,879 Speaker 1: a twenty five thousand dollars fine or both. Violations of 357 00:23:46,920 --> 00:23:50,439 Speaker 1: the ban on large capacity magazines would also result in 358 00:23:50,480 --> 00:23:54,840 Speaker 1: a felony conviction. It seems to fall in line Senator 359 00:23:54,920 --> 00:23:57,320 Speaker 1: Holstrom with what the Democrats have been doing during this 360 00:23:57,440 --> 00:24:00,399 Speaker 1: legislative session, and that is putting up bill they know 361 00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:03,040 Speaker 1: they're going to get shot down because of the split 362 00:24:03,160 --> 00:24:06,200 Speaker 1: in the House, and hoping to be able to use 363 00:24:06,280 --> 00:24:10,680 Speaker 1: this for their political advantage in the elections later later 364 00:24:10,800 --> 00:24:13,399 Speaker 1: this year. And this is why this is my opinion, 365 00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:16,160 Speaker 1: I'm curious to get yours. This is why the language 366 00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:18,119 Speaker 1: is so extreme on so many of these issues. 367 00:24:19,800 --> 00:24:22,159 Speaker 6: You're one hundred percent right. That's why we heard the 368 00:24:22,200 --> 00:24:24,960 Speaker 6: rent for Riots bill last week. That's why we heard 369 00:24:24,960 --> 00:24:27,840 Speaker 6: these bills on Friday. They all know that this is 370 00:24:27,840 --> 00:24:31,520 Speaker 6: a tough political environment for them. They have not been popular. 371 00:24:31,520 --> 00:24:35,480 Speaker 6: Their trifecta did not go well for them, and they 372 00:24:35,560 --> 00:24:38,720 Speaker 6: need to give their base something even though they know 373 00:24:38,760 --> 00:24:39,520 Speaker 6: they can't pass it. 374 00:24:40,359 --> 00:24:42,359 Speaker 1: So let's go to the iHeartRadio app of have a 375 00:24:42,359 --> 00:24:45,040 Speaker 1: comment again. Talking with State Senator Michael Holstrom this morning 376 00:24:45,040 --> 00:24:46,840 Speaker 1: here on Twinsday's News Talk, you know, when it. 377 00:24:46,760 --> 00:24:50,040 Speaker 7: Comes to gun right and the purpose of the Second 378 00:24:50,080 --> 00:24:53,440 Speaker 7: Amendment and why we're allowed to defend ourselves in this country, 379 00:24:54,240 --> 00:24:55,600 Speaker 7: look no further than Iran. 380 00:24:56,680 --> 00:24:58,880 Speaker 1: Look at the difficulty those people. 381 00:24:58,720 --> 00:25:03,840 Speaker 7: Are having in changing their government and throwing off the 382 00:25:03,960 --> 00:25:09,800 Speaker 7: yoke of that type of tyrannical government. This is a 383 00:25:09,960 --> 00:25:14,240 Speaker 7: perfect example of why the Second Amendment exists. 384 00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:18,480 Speaker 1: You know, it's interesting again, talking with Senator Michael Holstrom. 385 00:25:18,520 --> 00:25:21,919 Speaker 1: Over the weekend, Hawaiian Senator Mayzi Herono put out a 386 00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:25,560 Speaker 1: post on x saying that at the same America Act passed, 387 00:25:26,119 --> 00:25:30,160 Speaker 1: that it would be easier to buy an assault rifle 388 00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:33,880 Speaker 1: than it would be to register to vote. And it's 389 00:25:33,880 --> 00:25:36,000 Speaker 1: a straight up lie. I mean you and I know this. 390 00:25:36,080 --> 00:25:37,879 Speaker 1: If you want to go and buy a firearm, you 391 00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:40,920 Speaker 1: have to present an idea and pass a background check. 392 00:25:41,119 --> 00:25:43,720 Speaker 1: For most individuals in the country, you're already able to 393 00:25:43,800 --> 00:25:46,320 Speaker 1: go to go and vote. But it really does speak 394 00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:50,280 Speaker 1: to again the ridiculousness of what they are proposing. I 395 00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:53,040 Speaker 1: know during the hearing you were talking about going to 396 00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:56,959 Speaker 1: a sporting goods store and you know we're unable to 397 00:25:56,960 --> 00:26:00,600 Speaker 1: find any hunting rifle, but you are making the correlation 398 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:04,919 Speaker 1: talking about the firearms available and what would and woulden 399 00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:08,040 Speaker 1: to be banned based off of this bill. Correct. 400 00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:12,199 Speaker 6: Yeah, they want to put every grandfather in a in 401 00:26:12,240 --> 00:26:15,120 Speaker 6: a hunting blind in jail. That's that's what this bill does. 402 00:26:15,119 --> 00:26:18,359 Speaker 6: If you have a semi automatic browning bar hunting rifle, 403 00:26:18,520 --> 00:26:22,680 Speaker 6: very run of the mill hunting rifle. By my read 404 00:26:22,720 --> 00:26:25,200 Speaker 6: of this bill, it makes it illegal. And I think 405 00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:28,600 Speaker 6: the gentleman who called in about the Iran situation makes 406 00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:30,879 Speaker 6: a really good point. In preparation for this bill, I 407 00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:33,679 Speaker 6: actually looked up how many people were assassinated by the 408 00:26:33,680 --> 00:26:36,560 Speaker 6: government in Iran, forty thousand people. 409 00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:41,280 Speaker 1: In two days. Two days they killed forty thousand of 410 00:26:41,320 --> 00:26:41,920 Speaker 1: their citizens. 411 00:26:42,119 --> 00:26:45,440 Speaker 6: That can never happen in America because of the Second Amendment. 412 00:26:45,840 --> 00:26:49,199 Speaker 6: And the Senators like Muhammad and Ron Latz and all 413 00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:51,840 Speaker 6: the Democrats who want to support this, they want a 414 00:26:51,840 --> 00:26:55,000 Speaker 6: world where that could happen in America. It's despicable, it's wrong, 415 00:26:55,040 --> 00:26:55,840 Speaker 6: and we're not gonna. 416 00:26:55,640 --> 00:26:57,960 Speaker 1: Let it happen. Yeah, and you're absolutely right. I mean, 417 00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:00,320 Speaker 1: this is the President. Donald Trump actually talked about this 418 00:27:00,320 --> 00:27:04,240 Speaker 1: over the weekend just on on Iran and asking the question, well, 419 00:27:04,240 --> 00:27:07,960 Speaker 1: why haven't the Iranian citizens stepped up yet to overthrow 420 00:27:08,359 --> 00:27:12,159 Speaker 1: this regime? And Trump straightforward just said because it's a 421 00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:15,200 Speaker 1: very scary scenario because of what you just laid out. 422 00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:19,440 Speaker 1: There still are fears that when Iranians, if they were 423 00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:21,560 Speaker 1: to go and do that, they would continue to be 424 00:27:21,640 --> 00:27:24,560 Speaker 1: slaughtered in the in the streets. So you make you 425 00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:27,560 Speaker 1: make a great point again, talking with Senator Michael Holstrom, 426 00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:30,719 Speaker 1: let's ship gears. We haven't had a chance to discuss 427 00:27:30,760 --> 00:27:33,760 Speaker 1: this with you yet, But a few weeks ago, the 428 00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:37,760 Speaker 1: Minnesota Freedom Caucus was formed, a new subcaucus within the 429 00:27:37,760 --> 00:27:42,520 Speaker 1: Minnesota state legislature dedicated to advancing individual liberty, limited government, 430 00:27:42,680 --> 00:27:46,480 Speaker 1: and accountability, to the to the to the people. Senator Holstrom, 431 00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:48,200 Speaker 1: talk a little bit about what this is and what 432 00:27:48,280 --> 00:27:51,159 Speaker 1: this isn't. I heard a smattering, It wasn't a lot, 433 00:27:51,359 --> 00:27:55,400 Speaker 1: but I heard a smattering of frustration from some conservatives saying, well, 434 00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:58,160 Speaker 1: if you're not a part of this freedom Caucus, does 435 00:27:58,200 --> 00:28:01,520 Speaker 1: that mean that you're not conservative enough? And so there 436 00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:04,879 Speaker 1: was a little bit of trepidation over this. So again, 437 00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:07,720 Speaker 1: talk a little bit about what the Minnesota Freedom Caucus 438 00:28:07,800 --> 00:28:10,320 Speaker 1: is and what it isn't For those on the right 439 00:28:10,359 --> 00:28:14,280 Speaker 1: who may be somewhat concerned at maybe not falling into 440 00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:18,440 Speaker 1: the Minnesota Freedom Caucus and what that means for them. Yeah, 441 00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:19,040 Speaker 1: no problem. 442 00:28:19,119 --> 00:28:22,360 Speaker 6: So the Freedom Caucus, the Minnesota Freedom Caucus is a 443 00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:25,840 Speaker 6: part of the state Freedom Caucus network. We are loosely 444 00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:29,240 Speaker 6: affiliated with the federal Freedom Caucus in the House Reps. 445 00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:32,280 Speaker 6: And we know that that was not a breakof caucus. 446 00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:35,800 Speaker 6: And we know that we have a lot of really conservative, 447 00:28:35,840 --> 00:28:39,400 Speaker 6: really great reps I think about Tom Emmer that are 448 00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:42,840 Speaker 6: not part of the Freedom Caucus but are absolutely freedom 449 00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:43,680 Speaker 6: loving Americans. 450 00:28:43,720 --> 00:28:46,280 Speaker 1: So this is not us versus them. 451 00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:49,960 Speaker 6: We had an opportunity were the state Freedom Caucus network 452 00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:52,800 Speaker 6: reached out to us and wanted to implement one in 453 00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:55,160 Speaker 6: Minnesota because of all the crazy stuff that's going on 454 00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:58,640 Speaker 6: around here. They reached out to eight, seven or eight 455 00:28:58,640 --> 00:29:00,680 Speaker 6: of us and asked us to come out to training 456 00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:01,800 Speaker 6: and learn more. 457 00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:03,720 Speaker 1: About it, offer us resources. 458 00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:09,040 Speaker 6: We are constitutional centered representatives and senators who are who 459 00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:13,640 Speaker 6: are dedicated to the principles of well all all of 460 00:29:13,640 --> 00:29:19,160 Speaker 6: our constitutional principles and becoming the most conservative caucus possible. 461 00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:21,480 Speaker 6: Our goal is to move the conversation to the right. 462 00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:23,880 Speaker 6: We want to be the guys that are pulling away 463 00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:27,800 Speaker 6: from the center towards the conservative right principles that we 464 00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:33,360 Speaker 6: believe in here. The membership right now, the seven that 465 00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:36,280 Speaker 6: they chose was not a There wasn't a test that 466 00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:38,280 Speaker 6: went into that. They just like starting with seven and 467 00:29:38,320 --> 00:29:41,240 Speaker 6: letting it grow from there. If you're if you're representative 468 00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:43,920 Speaker 6: for senator is not part of it. That's not a problem. 469 00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:46,840 Speaker 6: It's not a statement for or against them. It's just 470 00:29:46,880 --> 00:29:49,680 Speaker 6: that we haven't expanded yet. We absolutely will be doing that. 471 00:29:50,360 --> 00:29:53,600 Speaker 6: And I can't point at any of my senators that 472 00:29:53,640 --> 00:29:56,360 Speaker 6: I serve with that I don't think are pushing for 473 00:29:56,440 --> 00:30:00,040 Speaker 6: the same common sense conservative principles that I am so 474 00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:03,280 Speaker 6: it certainly isn't any form of a division. 475 00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:07,280 Speaker 1: Talking with State Senator Michael Holstrom before I cut you 476 00:30:07,320 --> 00:30:10,840 Speaker 1: loose this morning, expectations for the remainder of the legislative session. 477 00:30:10,880 --> 00:30:13,520 Speaker 1: As we've stated, it's not a budget year. There is 478 00:30:13,560 --> 00:30:15,480 Speaker 1: bonding that needs to get done. There's a lot of 479 00:30:15,520 --> 00:30:18,080 Speaker 1: bills being proposed, a lot of items are not going 480 00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:22,360 Speaker 1: to get past. But I'm just curious your thoughts on 481 00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:24,600 Speaker 1: the remainder of the legislative session and maybe is there 482 00:30:24,600 --> 00:30:26,080 Speaker 1: anything that we should be keeping an eye out for. 483 00:30:28,920 --> 00:30:32,520 Speaker 6: Yeah, so honestly, there is not a lot that's going 484 00:30:32,560 --> 00:30:34,320 Speaker 6: to be happening in this year's session. 485 00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:34,880 Speaker 1: They know that. 486 00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:41,600 Speaker 6: That's why they're pushing these crazy bills hits the ground 487 00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:44,640 Speaker 6: for about There doesn't seem to be a lot of 488 00:30:44,720 --> 00:30:47,960 Speaker 6: appetite on either side to get that done. We have 489 00:30:47,960 --> 00:30:49,479 Speaker 6: a lot of bonding projects in my district. I think 490 00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:51,760 Speaker 6: everybody does. I think we'd like to see some proposals 491 00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:55,040 Speaker 6: come out and have an honest conversation about it if 492 00:30:55,080 --> 00:30:57,600 Speaker 6: anything gets done. If you should keep an eye on anything, 493 00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:02,680 Speaker 6: it is school funding, specifically for security. That is something 494 00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:05,640 Speaker 6: that I think everybody agrees that we need to relook 495 00:31:05,680 --> 00:31:09,800 Speaker 6: at relitigate, and that is what I'll be focusing on 496 00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:10,560 Speaker 6: moving forward. 497 00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:12,640 Speaker 1: Boy, it should be nice if we could get those 498 00:31:12,880 --> 00:31:16,240 Speaker 1: seventeen hundred dollars tax credits that we can get back 499 00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:18,280 Speaker 1: on our taxes towards the end of the year, you know, 500 00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:20,040 Speaker 1: we can help fund schools that way. That would be 501 00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:22,160 Speaker 1: pretty think that just crazy, That would be pretty awesome. 502 00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:26,120 Speaker 1: It's so ridiculous, Yah, would so ridiculous. Hey, states editor 503 00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:28,120 Speaker 1: Michael Holstrom. Thanks for the time this morning. I know 504 00:31:28,160 --> 00:31:31,160 Speaker 1: you're traveling, be careful out on the roadways, and it 505 00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:34,520 Speaker 1: was great speaking with you today. Thank you so much. 506 00:31:34,560 --> 00:31:36,920 Speaker 1: By let's get to some of your talkbacks from the 507 00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:39,440 Speaker 1: iHeartRadio apples are brought to you by Lyndahl Realty here 508 00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:40,480 Speaker 1: on Twin City's News Talk. 509 00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:45,040 Speaker 5: It won't stop with the so called assault rifles and 510 00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:50,840 Speaker 5: large capacity so called magazines. It will not stop until 511 00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:55,800 Speaker 5: they are done with taking every arm, semi automatic shotguns, 512 00:31:56,040 --> 00:32:00,520 Speaker 5: semi automatic rifles, bolt action rifles. Look at all Australia, 513 00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:03,479 Speaker 5: look at England. This is a bad thing and it 514 00:32:03,520 --> 00:32:04,880 Speaker 5: needs to stop now. 515 00:32:05,080 --> 00:32:09,080 Speaker 1: No, you're absolutely right. There's varying degrees to this. You know, 516 00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:11,160 Speaker 1: I think that there are those that are fully aware 517 00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:15,240 Speaker 1: that we are just incapable as a society here in 518 00:32:15,280 --> 00:32:18,560 Speaker 1: the United States to go to the links that you 519 00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:22,560 Speaker 1: mentioned of stripping away everybody's right to keep in bear arms, 520 00:32:22,560 --> 00:32:26,400 Speaker 1: your constitutional right. But they do exploit this to the 521 00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:30,120 Speaker 1: best of their ability for political gain. Well, there are 522 00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:34,720 Speaker 1: those that would genuinely, on a long enough timeline like 523 00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:37,640 Speaker 1: to see exactly what you mentioned happen. And as a 524 00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:42,120 Speaker 1: matter of fact, here's another example, based off of what's 525 00:32:42,160 --> 00:32:46,239 Speaker 1: been taking place during some of our foreign conflicts of 526 00:32:46,280 --> 00:32:49,480 Speaker 1: what Senator Michael Holstrom was saying in what I mentioned 527 00:32:49,520 --> 00:32:52,000 Speaker 1: in terms of the Iranian people on the number that 528 00:32:52,040 --> 00:32:55,120 Speaker 1: have been slaughtered, who actively took to the streets to 529 00:32:55,240 --> 00:32:56,880 Speaker 1: oppose that tyrannical regime. 530 00:32:57,000 --> 00:33:01,880 Speaker 8: The first thing Vladimir Zolensky did when Russia invaded Ukraine 531 00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:06,840 Speaker 8: was submitted and gave AK forty sevens to every mail 532 00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:11,360 Speaker 8: ages sixteen through sixty. That's the first thing he did. 533 00:33:12,160 --> 00:33:18,440 Speaker 8: And they had to get some Iran can overthrow its 534 00:33:18,440 --> 00:33:23,920 Speaker 8: government because people do not have any rifles to protect themselves. 535 00:33:25,240 --> 00:33:29,000 Speaker 9: Hey, John, it is Mick calling in from Quartside, Arizona, 536 00:33:29,520 --> 00:33:32,600 Speaker 9: and you know the problem they have with quote unquote 537 00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:35,880 Speaker 9: assault weapons is I think that they look scary because 538 00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:39,200 Speaker 9: they don't really operate any differently than your standard deer rifle. 539 00:33:39,640 --> 00:33:41,720 Speaker 9: So maybe what they should do is pass the bill 540 00:33:41,840 --> 00:33:44,680 Speaker 9: to just paint them off pink problem solved. 541 00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:47,080 Speaker 1: Oh, they would just come up with another excuse. You 542 00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:49,840 Speaker 1: and I both know that. Thank you for the comments, 543 00:33:49,840 --> 00:33:53,800 Speaker 1: though from the iHeartRadio app genuinely appreciate it. I'm looking 544 00:33:53,800 --> 00:34:00,160 Speaker 1: at a post here the Disrespected Trucker on X. There's 545 00:34:00,200 --> 00:34:02,760 Speaker 1: a video attached to his post on X and it 546 00:34:02,920 --> 00:34:10,080 Speaker 1: shows a hockey game taking place Minnesota frost and apparently 547 00:34:10,160 --> 00:34:15,080 Speaker 1: some activists were able to commandeer these zambonis and then 548 00:34:15,200 --> 00:34:20,799 Speaker 1: drive them around with anti ice ice out banners. In 549 00:34:20,880 --> 00:34:24,400 Speaker 1: the post, it's captioned with not all heroes wear capes. 550 00:34:25,239 --> 00:34:28,440 Speaker 1: The Disrespected Trucker on X writes this at a Minnesota 551 00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:30,719 Speaker 1: frost game. I was born and raised in Minnesota. I 552 00:34:30,719 --> 00:34:33,120 Speaker 1: had never been so disappointed with some of these folks. 553 00:34:33,880 --> 00:34:38,200 Speaker 1: It's like the cold temperatures have frozen their logical thinking abilities. 554 00:34:38,239 --> 00:34:41,279 Speaker 1: We have billions of dollars in fraud, and all they 555 00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:45,040 Speaker 1: can think about is defending the people who committed the fraud. 556 00:34:45,040 --> 00:34:50,480 Speaker 1: He's absolutely right again it's this dangerous assumption that only 557 00:34:50,719 --> 00:34:56,080 Speaker 1: the left has a grasp of reality when that's simply 558 00:34:56,120 --> 00:35:00,840 Speaker 1: not true. This piece I have here, while masked to 559 00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:06,000 Speaker 1: federal agents occupied our state, killed the citizens, and disappeared 560 00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:11,200 Speaker 1: members of our community. Minnesota pro sports team owners stayed 561 00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:16,319 Speaker 1: on the sidelines. This unprecedented moment demands more of the 562 00:35:16,400 --> 00:35:21,560 Speaker 1: team owners. Why. I know why from their point of view, Again, 563 00:35:21,640 --> 00:35:25,040 Speaker 1: this is a Graham Allen Listen, New Brighton, member of 564 00:35:25,040 --> 00:35:29,440 Speaker 1: the Teamsters Union, Rod Adams Listen Minneapolis is involved in 565 00:35:29,480 --> 00:35:33,360 Speaker 1: community and labor organizations. Casey Hudick, director of the Workers 566 00:35:33,440 --> 00:35:37,120 Speaker 1: Confluence Fund. They all partnered up to write this trash 567 00:35:37,360 --> 00:35:43,600 Speaker 1: editorial in the Minnesota Reformer. But as I mentioned earlier, 568 00:35:43,719 --> 00:35:48,560 Speaker 1: the point is with the sports teams staying on the sidelines, 569 00:35:48,560 --> 00:35:50,359 Speaker 1: and they didn't stay on the sidelines. As a matter 570 00:35:50,360 --> 00:35:53,880 Speaker 1: of fact, they signed a letter and attached it to 571 00:35:53,920 --> 00:35:57,840 Speaker 1: the Minnesota based companies asking to cool things down. It 572 00:35:57,960 --> 00:36:02,080 Speaker 1: serves as the example of this was a very divided 573 00:36:02,120 --> 00:36:07,799 Speaker 1: issue taking place, and therefore because of that, and these 574 00:36:07,840 --> 00:36:11,879 Speaker 1: team owners and these Minnesota based businesses understood what Ice 575 00:36:12,040 --> 00:36:16,000 Speaker 1: was doing. They understood that if Ice was just able 576 00:36:16,040 --> 00:36:21,480 Speaker 1: to go and conduct their lawful arrests. Without having observers 577 00:36:21,480 --> 00:36:23,920 Speaker 1: and people obstructing them, there wouldn't have been an issue. 578 00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:27,680 Speaker 1: So instead they just took a middle of the road stance. 579 00:36:29,640 --> 00:36:32,520 Speaker 1: But unfortunately for the leftists here in Minnesota, it's not 580 00:36:32,560 --> 00:36:35,880 Speaker 1: good enough. They don't have the arguments on their side. 581 00:36:36,600 --> 00:36:40,680 Speaker 1: The videos prove their ridiculous narratives to be false, and 582 00:36:40,719 --> 00:36:43,520 Speaker 1: so they have to peddle this propaganda in any way, 583 00:36:43,520 --> 00:36:47,120 Speaker 1: shape or form possible, and that includes harping on sports 584 00:36:47,160 --> 00:36:50,040 Speaker 1: teams for taking a middle of the road approach on 585 00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:56,319 Speaker 1: this and then trying to bully and shame them into 586 00:36:56,920 --> 00:37:01,200 Speaker 1: supporting or not supporting what they believe. Again, you want 587 00:37:01,239 --> 00:37:03,840 Speaker 1: to talk about who the fascits are, it's individuals like 588 00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:08,239 Speaker 1: these three dunces who wrote this piece. They go on 589 00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:13,640 Speaker 1: to say, it's with probably unwarranted in parentheses love and dedication, 590 00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:16,280 Speaker 1: that we fans demand more of our owners and teams 591 00:37:16,280 --> 00:37:20,280 Speaker 1: we love and support. We were there through wins and losses, 592 00:37:20,320 --> 00:37:22,840 Speaker 1: a lot of losses and need them to stand with 593 00:37:23,120 --> 00:37:26,600 Speaker 1: the community in our current moment. So just because your 594 00:37:26,600 --> 00:37:30,680 Speaker 1: fans and our teams haven't always done well, they also 595 00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:33,640 Speaker 1: need to go and lean into whatever belief that you 596 00:37:33,760 --> 00:37:37,080 Speaker 1: have on any issue they go on to ride. That's 597 00:37:37,080 --> 00:37:39,080 Speaker 1: why we are asking them to join us and demand 598 00:37:39,080 --> 00:37:41,759 Speaker 1: that Ice get out of our state, out of their stadiums, 599 00:37:41,760 --> 00:37:44,160 Speaker 1: and out of any other businesses that they own in 600 00:37:44,160 --> 00:37:49,680 Speaker 1: the state. Again, if Democrats had good arguments, they wouldn't 601 00:37:49,719 --> 00:37:53,360 Speaker 1: need to act like a bunch of bliefs. Team owners 602 00:37:53,520 --> 00:37:57,279 Speaker 1: signed onto a notoriously tepid letter they describe in the 603 00:37:57,280 --> 00:38:00,400 Speaker 1: piece from Minnesota based companies, which was little more than 604 00:38:00,400 --> 00:38:02,640 Speaker 1: a word salad of little substance. Ooh, I wonder if 605 00:38:02,680 --> 00:38:08,320 Speaker 1: they listened to the show that was a rather oddly 606 00:38:09,239 --> 00:38:13,880 Speaker 1: specific This is just a word salad with no substance. 607 00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:18,960 Speaker 1: If they think that's some profile encourage, they are gravely mistaken. 608 00:38:19,719 --> 00:38:22,439 Speaker 1: They didn't claim that it was. I didn't see any 609 00:38:22,480 --> 00:38:26,080 Speaker 1: Minnesota based companies or sports teams out there saying that 610 00:38:26,120 --> 00:38:31,160 Speaker 1: they were brave for taking this stance. The letter site 611 00:38:31,160 --> 00:38:33,560 Speaker 1: to recent challenges facing our state doing that thing with 612 00:38:33,560 --> 00:38:37,359 Speaker 1: my fingers and calls for immediate de escalation of tensions. Yeah, 613 00:38:37,400 --> 00:38:41,719 Speaker 1: that was a great response, and it tells you how 614 00:38:41,760 --> 00:38:43,520 Speaker 1: there wasn't just one side of this issue. 615 00:38:44,040 --> 00:38:44,239 Speaker 7: Ah. 616 00:38:44,440 --> 00:38:48,360 Speaker 1: But it's not enough for these clowns recent to challenges 617 00:38:48,480 --> 00:38:53,600 Speaker 1: they write hardly described the brutality and trauma of President 618 00:38:53,640 --> 00:39:00,319 Speaker 1: Donald Trump's mass deportation campaign. Yeah, in your opinion, again, 619 00:39:00,360 --> 00:39:03,680 Speaker 1: i'd love these three. Yeah, who's to be you know? Asked, so, 620 00:39:04,520 --> 00:39:10,280 Speaker 1: you don't support the arrest of child sex offenders, fentanyl 621 00:39:10,320 --> 00:39:18,759 Speaker 1: drug traffickers, spousal abusers. You think people should just be 622 00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:20,840 Speaker 1: allowed to come into the country illegally and not be 623 00:39:20,880 --> 00:39:25,320 Speaker 1: held accountable. When asked at Twins Fest about the Twins 624 00:39:25,400 --> 00:39:28,280 Speaker 1: ownership and what they were doing to protect the community, 625 00:39:28,320 --> 00:39:30,960 Speaker 1: the Twins executive chair said, I want to be careful 626 00:39:30,960 --> 00:39:33,440 Speaker 1: to not necessarily take sides, so to speak. It's a 627 00:39:33,440 --> 00:39:37,080 Speaker 1: good response. Not for the writers of the article, though, 628 00:39:37,080 --> 00:39:41,000 Speaker 1: who say, if your family owns the beloved Minnesota Twins, 629 00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:44,520 Speaker 1: you absolutely have a responsibility to take sides when the 630 00:39:44,520 --> 00:39:50,560 Speaker 1: community is being attacked, kidnapped, and killed. Hey, guys, once again, 631 00:39:51,040 --> 00:39:56,640 Speaker 1: yours isn't the only truth. By refusing to demand Ice 632 00:39:56,719 --> 00:40:01,120 Speaker 1: out of Minnesota, you're normalizing the awful abhorn behavior displayed 633 00:40:01,120 --> 00:40:05,600 Speaker 1: by ICE and other federal agents occupying our state. Again, 634 00:40:05,680 --> 00:40:09,200 Speaker 1: that's just one side. Oh and then we get a 635 00:40:09,239 --> 00:40:14,600 Speaker 1: Desmond Tutu quote. Ooh, who had Desmond Tutu making an 636 00:40:14,640 --> 00:40:17,120 Speaker 1: appearance on the Bengo card for today's show on Twin 637 00:40:17,160 --> 00:40:21,320 Speaker 1: City's News Talk. If you are neutral in situations of injustice, 638 00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:25,520 Speaker 1: you have chosen the side of the oppressor. Okay, But 639 00:40:25,560 --> 00:40:27,160 Speaker 1: what if you're of the opinion that this was not 640 00:40:27,200 --> 00:40:31,040 Speaker 1: a situation of injustice and this was actually justice being 641 00:40:31,080 --> 00:40:36,359 Speaker 1: carried out? Ooh, what would Desmond Tutu have to say? Then? 642 00:40:39,719 --> 00:40:42,160 Speaker 1: Now is the time they arride for the Minnesota Twins 643 00:40:42,160 --> 00:40:45,000 Speaker 1: and every Minnesota pro team to find the courage to 644 00:40:45,080 --> 00:40:50,440 Speaker 1: speak up for their communities when under attack. But what 645 00:40:50,560 --> 00:40:56,360 Speaker 1: if they don't agree with you? You know that is possible, right, 646 00:40:58,640 --> 00:41:02,640 Speaker 1: So they go on to lay out what they want 647 00:41:02,680 --> 00:41:06,120 Speaker 1: the sports teams to actually do. They can start by 648 00:41:06,160 --> 00:41:10,040 Speaker 1: issuing a statement that calls for Colan I will share 649 00:41:10,040 --> 00:41:16,719 Speaker 1: with you they're demands of our Minnesota sports teams again 650 00:41:16,800 --> 00:41:21,640 Speaker 1: in a nutshell. According to these three fascists, the sports 651 00:41:21,680 --> 00:41:24,399 Speaker 1: team should believe what they believe, think what they think, 652 00:41:24,600 --> 00:41:27,160 Speaker 1: support what they support, and don't support that which they 653 00:41:27,160 --> 00:41:30,960 Speaker 1: don't support. We'll get to your talkbacks as well. A 654 00:41:30,960 --> 00:41:33,120 Speaker 1: lot of those have rolled in coming up as we 655 00:41:33,200 --> 00:41:36,160 Speaker 1: head into our three here on Twinsday's News, Talk AM 656 00:41:36,160 --> 00:41:39,120 Speaker 1: eleven thirty and one oh three five FM