Ruthless Podcast
Ruthless Podcast
Josh Holmes, Comfortably Smug, Michael Duncan and John Ashbrook
Are Democrats Trying to Start a Civil War?
1 hour 19 minutes Posted Jan 8, 2026 at 10:00 am.
Minneapolis ICE shooting sets the week on fire
Why Minnesota leadership keeps humiliating itself
Fraud pipeline through programs and the state looking away
Agitators, street pressure, and why the story doesn’t stay local
Video angle one
Video angle two
Walz rhetoric heats up the confrontation
House testimony: whistleblowers and intimidation claims
Ellison tape revelations
-Backdated docs and covering tracks
Dem counter: “look at white men” instead of the spreadsheet
King of the Hill: Schmidt vs Conway
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🎙️ We dig into the Minneapolis ICE shooting video that’s lighting up social media, focusing on what the footage shows: officers identify themselves, a “get out of the car” command, the vehicle surging forward, and shots fired as an officer is put in immediate danger. We talk about how the clips are getting spun into a partisan Rorschach test—and why Minnesota’s leadership jumps straight to blaming the feds instead of dealing with the events that brought federal agents into the state in the first place.
⚡ From there, we connect the flashpoint to the bigger story: massive fraud allegations in Minnesota and the claim that officials looked the other way until it blew up. We react to legislative testimony about whistleblowers facing retaliation and intimidation, and we walkthrough audit findings that allege sloppy oversight and even backdated paperwork meant to cover tracks. Then we hit the Keith Ellison audio that sounds like politics and protection money getting way too close for comfort.
👑 King of the Hill returns with reigning champion Steve Schmidt facing off against congressional candidate George Conway, in a battle of pure derangement.️
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