Don't Take the Bait - How Libs Trap Conservatives in Pointless Arguments

January 15, 2026
🎙️ Why does it feel like we’re bouncing from one high-stakes fight to the next without ever forcing the real public debate? Because liberals and the media use this as a tactic. The fellas explain how narratives and process drama help the bigger questions get ignored: like why federal law enforcement is in Minneapolis in the first place, and what elected leaders did to set the whole mess in motion.

⚡️ Then, we get into the sanctuary city pressure campaign and the Feb 1 payment cutoff that Trump has planned. Then, how the loudest voices on the left treat “oppose Trump” as a full personality. How do libs expect that if laws are on the books, that it won’t be enforced? We explain how these fights get reframed into “Gestapo” language, and why that reframing is the point.

👑 It’s Thursday, so we play our signature game: King of the Hill. It’s a truly deranged week featuring Joe Scarborough and champion Steve Schmidt. ️

🐘 Montana AG Austin Knudsen on how foreign influence and dark money can end up behind pressure campaigns and litigation. He walks us through how funding trails get buried through layers of orgs and intermediaries. Knudsen also explained how climate lawsuits can be used to choke an energy state one permit at a time. Then: China-linked consumer platforms, Second Amendment fights, and what it takes to keep states from getting steamrolled by activist-law tactics.

00:00 - Why the real debate gets dodged
02:02 - Rapid-fire fights and the missing public case
05:33 - Minnesota confrontation narrative shifts
07:06 - Process arguments vs the underlying problem
09:52 - “Gestapo” framing and the sanctuary-state contrast
13:51 - Trump announces Feb 1 sanctuary-city payment cutoff
16:03 - Progressive push to block immigration enforcement funding
18:56 - Lawsuits to block federal enforcement inside states
22:13 - Trump and Eric Adams have deuling f-bombs
25:42 - The media fever dream
31:42 - King of the Hill: Joe Scarborough vs champion Steve Schmidt
37:41 - Montana AG Austin Knudsen joins the Progrum

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