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Episode Date: September 28, 2025

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Yeah, Minnesota legislators targeted in shootings. So not only was, oh, they were killed now, actually. Okay, because they were shot earlier. It wasn't defined whether they had died or not. So Democratic House Speaker and Marina Melissa Hoffman and her husband were killed in what was described by state officials by a politically motivated assassination in Brooklyn Park. Another lawmaker of Senator John Hoffman and his wife were shot but survived. Oh, wow. So I didn't even know this.

so two different people in Minnesota were shot. It wasn't just one person and her husband, but it was two separate couples. Oh my God. Four, yeah, so four total, right? Like two couples, four people total. The suspect Van Sleuther Balter remains at large after allegedly impersonating a police officer.

The incident led to an intensive manhunt involving multiple law enforcement agencies. Holy shit. And so this is the guy apparently that they that they think did it, right? So I'll go ahead and watch this here. And actually, I'll pull up the video. This is obviously Tim Walls talking about it.

I think there's a longer clip. We'll watch the longer clip if I can find it. Yeah, this is crazy. It's some nut job targeting politicians door to door. Apparently Tim Walls is on his list. Well, do we know what the list is? I don't know if we do or not. But anyway, let's go ahead and watch this first, okay?

So this is the statement. Tim Walls is the governor of Minnesota. So we'll listen to what he says. State Patrol, Colonel Christina Bogoyevich, Champlain Park Police Chief Snyder, and Brooklyn Park Police Chief Mark Bruley, as well as the mayor of Brooklyn Park. We're here today because an unspeakable tragedy

has unfolded in Minnesota. My good friend and colleague, Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, were shot and killed early this morning in what appears to be a politically motivated assassination. It's kind of surprising that they, in a lot of these cases, they kind of hold off on saying whether it was an assassination or just a killing. The fact that they're coming right out and saying that this fast, that's surprising.

Usually you don't see that. Our state lost a great leader, and I lost a dearest of friends. Speaker Hortman was someone who served the people of Minnesota with grace, compassion, humor, and a sense of service. She was a formidable public servant. a fixture and a giant in Minnesota. She woke up every day determined to make this state a better place. She is irreplaceable and we've been missed by so many. Minnesota's thoughts and prayers are with her family, her loved ones, her children, and her parents.

My prayers also go out to state Senator John Hoffman and his wife of Vett, who were each shot multiple times. The Hoffman's are out of surgery at this time in receiving care. and we are cautiously optimistic. Wait, wait, so did they survive? I just want to make sure that I, I keep up with this. Let me go and double check. So we're shot, but survived.

Okay, so two deaths and four victims. Optimistic, they will survive this assassination attempt. This was an act of targeted political violence. Peaceful discourse is the foundation, of our democracy. We don't settle our differences with violence or at gunpoint. I think that these people eventually need to reconcile the fact that they have such a huge contingency of people that want to reconcile their differences with violence and with gunpoint.

And the fact that they don't temper those extremes and go after the people that advocate for this type of behavior and these outcomes to happen. I think that it really has it. I think that the government is partially responsible for this by letting it happen. And I'm not saying that I mean, this isn't again, like, I'm not against free speech. But when you have people that are like making open calls for violence against anybody who they disagree with or anything like that, this is happening on the internet. This isn't free speech, right?

I mean, this is against the law. It's a slippery slope. No, it's not because it's been against the law for like, I don't know, probably 50 years, probably longer than that. So a lot of this kind of stuff, it's not a slippery slope. It's just applying the same slope that's existed from the beginning. They escalate the rhetoric. Yeah, I mean, and again, like, and this is, yeah, they escalate the rhetoric and then they have Pikachu face. Yeah, exactly.

Like, wow, how could this have happened? Sounds like a Luigi copycat. Yeah. And this is, and do you remember what I said before about like the Luigi thing is that it would encourage more copycats? It's actually I think anybody that was like supporting or promoting like any of that free Luigi stuff They should I mean, they're obviously not responsible But like they did contribute to the climate that people like this think

Makes it okay to commit this violence Because they venerate and they support and You know like kind of you know put on a pedestal the people that actually go out and commit these crimes They glamorize it? Yeah, they do It's glorified, yes it is. In the state of Minnesota, and as recently as last week, in the most closely divided state legislature in the country, we set down, we worked things out, we debated,

we shook hands and compromised, and we served the state of Minnesota together. We proved that it's possible, even in these politically charged times, to find compromise and adhere to the principles, of democracy and civil discourse. We must all Minnesota and across

Which is many times advocating for violence, aka must Tesco violence? Yeah, I know. Like him saying, like he was happy that Tesla stocks were going down. The big reason why Tesla stocks were going down is because Teswas were being burned in mass.

And there was a huge amount of people that thought that it was okay to do that. So like, this is the exact same guy that said that. So whenever I see him acting like, oh, this is such a tragedy. it's so sad this happened. He did not advocate for violence. Yeah, but he celebrated the outcome of it. And I think that that should be discussed. These things don't happen in a vacuum. Countries stand against all forms of political violence. At this presquist moment we're on,

this tragic act here in Minnesota should serve as a reminder to all of us. The democracy and the debates in the halls of Congress, in state houses, In school boards is a way to settle our differences peacefully and move society to a better place. Yeah. We're collaborating with all local state and federal agencies on a full investigation. We're committed to keeping Minnesotans informed as the situation continues. I assure you that those held, those responsible for this will be held accountable. And each and every one of us are committed to making sure that a tragedy like this,

this never repeats itself in Minnesota or across this country. I'd not like to turn it over to my... Yeah, I mean, again, I get what he's saying and everything. And yeah, I can see that, but... He has unfolded in Minnesota. Yeah, this is all that... This is the stuff that I had already seen before. And so they shot this person, stopped talking wild and saying crazy shit. Call violence is whenever it happens, maybe.

This is on Democrat politicians for their rhetoric. I think that, I mean, I wouldn't put the blame on... any one person. You know whose fault this is? It's this guy's fault because he's the one that did it. Like what I'm talking about is an environment and that, like how that environment has made things worse. But ultimately, whose fault is it? It's this guy's fault because he's the one that did it. Nobody made him do this. Nobody, you know, like explicitly guilted him into doing this probably, right? He was the one that decided to go door to door impersonating a police officer in trying to shoot people.

So that's what I would say. The words are hollow when you celebrate burnings and riots and you don't call out people being violent. Yeah, exactly. And so anyway, and this is just who they think it is, right? It seems that way. It seems, and this is what's very weird. I'm told by police source of Minnesota,

the suspect is in the shootings, is the state lawmakers, as Vance Luther Bolter. It appears that this is the same person who was appointed to the governor's workforce deployment board in 2019 by government walls. He appointed a, He appointed to the government workforce deployment council in 2016 by the then government.

So this guy was in government in general, right? I mean, I don't think this means like Tim Walls like, you know, condones this or anything like that. But it's very weird. Let's see what this is. And so this is the reason why people think that the guy shot her. And I'm not sure why he shot her at all. I mean, I don't think anybody knows. So she was shot and killed.

She brought down tears in front of cameras after siding with Republicans. She was the lone Democrat who voted to cut health care access for adult illegal immigrants. I did what leaders do. I stepped up and I got the job done for people in Minnesota. And so this is her talking before any of this happened. I know that people will be hurt by that vote. And we worked very hard to try to get a budget deal that wouldn't include that provision. DFL Speaker Emerita, Melissa Hortman, emotional following the House's adjournment from a special session Monday. Portman was the lone DFL lawmaker to cast a vote to cut Minnesota care access for undocumented immigrants.

It's a move she made with a heavy heart. I did what leaders do. I stepped up and I got the job done for the people of Minnesota. The bill was deeply unpopular with members of the DFL caucus. Members have repeatedly expressed frustration that the bill was part of a compromise, one that would ensure the necessary GOP votes to pass the rest of the state budget. We are tremendously disappointed in and gut-wrench at this decision. What are you wearing? At this compromise, that compromises our communities that are most vulnerable. Bortman knows she let down her own caucus members with the vote.

They're right to be mad at me. I think some of them are pretty, pretty angry. I think that their job was to make folks who voted for that bill feel like crap. And I think that they succeeded. I think that that's exactly what happened. And I think that in trying to make them feel like crap, I think that they've also emboldened people to think that they are crap and then to just, justify violence against them. I think this is what happens. It is. And she made the right vote. I mean, in my opinion, like, this is just what I think. I think you should give them health care and then deport them. Like, make sure that they're in a stable state. Like, and the reason why, like, this might sound like,

this might be a diversion from what I usually say, so it would be confusing to people. Let me explain why. No, no, no, let me explain why. Listen and just just just just pay. attention. Every person who works in the medical field takes what's the Hippocratic Oath, which is to do no harm. And I think that telling people that they have to turn away health care from a person in need who is actively, you know, like hurting and unhealthy, I think that's a violation of their Hippocratic Oath. And I think making them do that is an unethical and an immoral thing. And I think the problem really that we should look at instead is looking at how the people get in here in the first place. rather than trying to deny them health care. And so, yeah, help them and then get rid of them.

Like, I mean, I don't know. I think that's very fair. That's extremely fair. And again, the reason why is that I think compelling a person that works in health care, a lot of people work in health care because they want to help people. Compelling a person that works in health care to what I believe to be violate their Hippocratic Oath and not give somebody health care because of their, you know, they're being illegal.

I mean, like, fuck, like, they're, I've seen photos of black people giving emergency aid to KKK members. I think that there has to be something that goes above that. And like, and that's on an ideological ground. This is just based off of geography. The fact is that that promise and that oath, I think, should supersede any sort of like temporary amount of money. And so, yeah, it's a moral code. I think so, yeah. Did you make that up? No, I didn't make that up. You can look it out for yourself. The analogy doesn't mean anything. Help them, deport them and make sure no one gets in illegally again. Yeah, I mean, this is actually

what my opinion is. Now, I don't really care if we don't give them health care, right? But like, if you want my opinion, that's what I would do. Help them, deport them, and then make sure nobody gets in again. So yeah, that's it. They're abuser, but we shouldn't punish the true victims. Yeah, My doctor attacked me and my fiancé last week and you read it. Really? We're not just talking about emergency care. It's health care. It's not fair to taxpayers if you pay for it.

Yeah, well, that's a different conversation. So, like, whenever I'm talking about health care, I'm not really talking about, like, just ongoing health care regularly. What I'm talking about is health care that is, you know, like emergency health care. Like a life-saving operation. Somebody gets shot. Like, like, I'm creating a, I'm creating a scenario, right? But, like, somebody gets shot, they go to the emergency.

room, the people there find out that it's a illegal immigrant, should this person be given care? I think the answer to that is yes. Yes, they should be given care. Because I think that trying to compel a health care worker to let a person die on the operating four there at the emergency room is totally immoral, right? It's an awful thing. Now, ongoing health care for like just random things, no, we need to get them out of the country, of course, right? But that's a deeper problem. That's totally different. Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. Because like I don't see why you would need to be giving health care regularly to illegal aliens in the first place. It seems ridiculous to me. Why would you even be doing this? How would this even be happening?

It's very confusing. Yeah, the government isn't compelling them. I can do it on their own dime. Yeah, yeah. No bill is touching emergency health care service? Yeah, well, then that's different. We're in the Senate, a similar situation. You know, that's what my opinion is on it. So I think, basically, for ongoing health care, no, for emergency health care, yes, and then deport them, right? That's pretty much how I feel. Not all health care. Senate Majority Leader Aaron Murphy forced to vote for a bill. She too disagreed with to uphold the integrity of their compromise. This one hurt. This one is a wound because of its reason. My colleagues across the aisle set this as their number one priority. Asked whether the move would

run. How could it be their number one priority if it's not even in the best interest of of the people that are the citizen. That's crazy. The wedge between her and the rest of her caucus, her DFL colleague, Senator John Marty, quickly stepped to her defense. As a member of the caucus, she was fighting against it every step of the way.

In negotiations, if we wanted a budget, we had to agree to that. She agreed to put up one vote for us because of that. Reporting in St. Paul, I'm Quinn Gorham. Well, there it is. And yeah, I don't really know what else to say. It's going to get messy. They're going to try and hide the manifest.

to protect the party again? Well, like, and this is what was found. I mean, apparently this person, I mean, I don't really know how much of this is accurate, right? But I'll go back and pull this up and show it. This is Minnesota law enforcement. Here we go. We don't have any direct links.

Let me go back and just so you guys can hear the whole thing. I'll even turn this down because I think it's a little bit loud. Okay. We don't have any direct links. However, there were some flyers that said no kings within the suspect vehicle. And as we know, the planned events throughout the state of Minnesota today is a no king's event. And so the reference materials that were inside of the vehicle that we saw, we have no understanding that any of the no king's events would be targeted, but we also find it of interest to the public that these would be in there.

We want to alert everybody until we do that. because this is such an active investigation with information not knowing right now, we feel it's an obligation to all of you and the public across the state of Minnesota to alert you of it, and that's why the colonel made the notation of recommending people don't go today. But the individuals are not in custody yet, and so we want to make sure as that very active manhunt is underway and continues, that we make sure that we're sharing that, and that's part of why we're making the recommendation. as to that investigation in the list, we are working through that now

and talking to individuals and will continue to. What I would say with the list is there's a large number of people. That's all I can say about it. We will work through all of that. You said this yesterday? I mean, everybody could have predicted

that this is going to happen. I mean, like, when you constantly have political rhetoric that's echoed by Congress people and other noteworthy people and social media that justifies or rationalizes violence, it's really not a surprise that something like this happens. The motivations of this are and provide that as you can.

This is really a public safety announcement for everybody so that we can make sure people are informed and make safe decisions throughout the day. This all started, I think, with Luigi. I think this was the first time that it happened. And then when people saw that Luigi got a lot of positive feedback and people were happy about it, then right after that, I feel like you started to see a lot more of this violence happen. And I think it's very, very problematic, extremely problematic. Let me see what this is. This is some more of it right here.

So basically the guy is the left center to Luigi. I mean, we're not sure about him being. I mean, like, it's very odd that it's already decided that it's a politically motivated attack. And this person just happened to shoot the only Democrat that voted against a bill that every other Democrat voted for. So, I mean, and they have the no king's posters. So every single, every single indicator. shows that, but there's no certainty for it yet, right? So can you say all the time so you were just going to?

I can. Good morning. Police Chief Mark Ruelly, Brooklyn Park Police Department. The question is, how did we get to represent Hortman's house and it was proactively or not? The circumstances unfolded in Brooklyn Park this morning is that we assisted the Champlain Police Department on a shooting. That shooting was made aware by one of our sergeants that it was at Senator Hoffman's home. God damn. And hearing that, that very intuitive sergeant asked our officers to go check on Melissa Hortman's home, a representative that lives in our community, just proactively as due diligence to swing by. Smart guy.

That police officer and his partner pulled down the street when they arrived at Melissa's house. They noticed that there was a police vehicle in the driveway with the lights, emergency lights on, and what appeared to be a police officer at the door coming out of the house. when our officers confronted them, the individually immediately fired upon the officers who exchanged gunfire and the suspect retreated back into the home. Yeah, they were impersonating, right? Yes, the question is, was it a real person or person

personating, impersonating a police officer? It was not a real police officer. This is somebody that clearly had been impersonating a police officer, again, using the trust of this badge and this uniform to manipulate their way into the home. That's crazy to do, too. How's the suspect still at large? I don't know. Yes, the question is, what kind of vehicle and how were they dressed?

They did drive a vehicle that looked exactly like an SUV squad car. It was equipped with lights, emergency lights that looked exactly like a police vehicle. And yes, they were wearing a vest. Wow. With taser, other equipment that would, a badge, very similar to mine, that no question if they were in this room, you would assume that they are a police officer. Holy shit, that's scary. God damn Wow

Totally a hit job Yeah I guess so Literally all homes have ring cameras these days Just get the footage Well I think everybody Well no they They know who did it Yeah everybody knows who did it

I mean yeah obviously They could show the ring camera footage But like I don't think that it's really necessary To watch this guy shoot them In order to come to the conclusion That he shot them So like that's it It's really like the movies

Yeah I guess so right And is he arrested No no he was He hasn't been yet. And I'll see if I can read a few more of these posts here about it. But, yeah, state representative, our husband were shot and killed, and Democratic state legislator and her husband are assassinated for the politics. Every headline should say so.

Melissa Hortman was a Democrat murdered for being a Democrat. Say it clearly. This is political terrorism. I don't know. I mean, it's very unsure, like, uncertain why. I don't know, like, why the other group got killed either. Another Wall waker, this is another person here. John Hoffman, is this person a Republican or a Democrat?

And he's also a member of the Democratic Party. So did he vote again? I don't know. I mean, she was murdered for switching sides. Yeah, but her being murdered for switching sides, that argument becomes less valid. And I believe that immediately less when somebody else was also shot who apparently did not, they both voted against it. Oh, oh, man.

They were both against the bill for that reason. I don't know. I'd have to go back and find and see it. Because I, like, literally people, I don't know how, I always get very confused by this whenever people do this on the internet, where so many people are so adamant about a definitive fact and people are just spamming opposite answers, right? It's like, how do you even find the information that says the opposite? I don't even know. So, yeah, me, when I spread misinformation, I guess so, right? But I guess, but I have no idea. Goodbeye Hotschowd represent swing districts. I assure you Tim Walls doesn't appoint right-wingers to office. Yeah, definitely.

Just read some actual news, get some information, spread misinformation in your chat. Well, we're trying to figure it out ourselves right now. And, oh, no, this isn't a person. No, no. You don't care about misinformation. You're just mad that I'm saying things you disagree with your band. Anyway, so what was I saying before? So let's see what this article is and what this is.

Yeah, I mean, again, I don't know why people do that. It's a very weird thing that people in chat do. This is generally the way, and I repeat myself with this a lot, so I apologize people heard this before. But if you come into my chat to argue with me and fight with me, you're probably just going to get permaband. I don't like arguing and fighting with people. I don't like people who are rude to me.

And so, like, if you're rude or you argue or you fight or you're in any way, shape or form just unpleasant, you make my stream more unpleasant, then I'll just ban you. That's it. I don't want to deal with it. I don't think I have to. I shouldn't have to. and so that's it. The killer was liberal. They're spending the narrative.

Well, nobody knows what happened. But do you see my confusion here immediately whenever this person also got shot, but apparently he didn't vote against it? Or sorry, yeah, yeah, he did not vote against the, what do you call it, the illegal immigrants, right? Getting the stuff, yeah. So I'm not sure. The killer was a liberal. Yeah. Strongest free speech enjoyer? I'm not a free speech enjoyer. And also my stream isn't the First Amendment. Sorry to say, guys.

And, you know, Twitch is not the same thing as the government. And Homer, thanks to the five subs. I appreciate that he was there. There's a difference in a rude argument in civil discourse. Yeah, yeah, definitely. And there has to be a reason for the attacks. Yeah, I mean, the shooter is still at large. They haven't released any information about them.

I'm going to scroll down and find the rest of these here, too, and see if we can get any more information about this too. but now a DFL House Leader is passed away after being targeted at their home. Oh my God. I think this kind of stuff is going to start happening more, by the way. I don't think this is the end. I think this is actually just the beginning. What's happened recently is that we've had so many people and so much violent rhetoric,

so many people trying to push out, you know, any sort of like revolutionary language, etc. this is really just going to keep getting worse. And the reason why also lefties are crashing out, I do think that right now it's primarily left-wing people. I mean, it doesn't, the thing is, like, if this was a right-wing person, it would be just as bad, right? It's not like it would be, it's not like it's worse because it's a left-wing person. It's just bad no matter what.

But I think that there's just been a collective turning up of the temperature. And I think now maybe that members of Congress are being targeted. maybe now they'll take it seriously. Because for a long time, they've tried to play like they're above it and, oh, this isn't really a big deal or whatever. But now that people are killing members of Congress, maybe now they'll actually take it seriously.