Ruthless Podcast

🎙️ Watching SCOTUS this week, it’s obvious that the left’s entire legal theory collapses once someone asks simple questions. We talk about why this case isn’t just about sports, and why the arguments we’re hearing put far more than one issue at risk. Serious question, though, is Ketanji Brown Jackson the dumbest current justice, or the dumbest justice ever? I bet she doesn’t understand.

👩🏻‍⚖️ Then, we break down why this thinking from left-wing justices collapses under even mild pressure. It also exposes years of sloppy logic, and why watching actual litigators respond to it is both painful and deeply satisfying. This reveals the broader pattern we’ve seen for years: vibes over facts.

🏀 Bruce Pearl joins us for a deep conversation on leadership, college basketball, NIL disorder, and the cost of speaking freely. He explains why accountability matters in sports and politics, reflects on coaching at the highest levels, addresses campus anti-Semitism, and makes the case for courage, clarity, and responsibility in public life.

00:00 - Supreme Court arguments and the definition problem

03:30 - Why laws collapse without clear definitions

06:30 - The Alito moment and unintended consequences

09:18 - Ketanji Brown Jackson‘s “I don’t understand” problem

12:40 - Lawyers dunking on the bench

15:34 - Language games

19:58 - MAGATKO

23:02 - Why the mob never expects pushback

25:16 - Tim Walz audio and unforced errors

35:30 - Dem or Journo returns

45:24 - What the media used to brag about

46:01 - Coach Bruce Pearl joins the Progrum

55:32 - NIL, college sports, and leadership

01:03:09 - Speaking freely and paying the price

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🎙️ 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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🎙️ There is a new internet sickness: AI-generated rage bait dressed up as “real life.” We walk through the fake priest clips, the Italian deli “Basta” performance art, and the comment sections that somehow make the videos look subtle. We explain why this stuff works, who it’s really built for, and how the left treats the internet like an indoctrination machine—because if they can’t find enough real people to sell the outrage, they’ll just manufacture them.

🫏 After that, we shift to the sudden Democratic heel turn on Hamas. We react to the Queens rally chant (“we support Hamas here”), then watch the rapid-fire flood of identical condemnations roll out from the usual suspects. We also get into the broader pattern: how narratives get laundered, how “authoritarian” comparisons get deployed on command, and why the party’s selective outrage always seems to arrive right when it’s politically useful.️

🐘 West Virginia Attorney General JB McCuskey is leading the case headed to the Supreme Court on women’s rights. He explains how West Virginia passed a straightforward law in 2021, how the ACLU sued almost immediately, and why this ends up at the Court, even though most Americans think the answer is obvious. We also talk through why states regulating athletics matters and why he thinks this lands as a wide-margin win.

🏒 The greatest hockey game ever played was on a Friday in Hershey, PA. The fella’s review the largest, longest and greatest hockey fight on record… with 6 year olds. Enjoy a great laugh with us to cap off a great episode.

00:00 — Minneapolis liberals scramble to change the subject

09:23 — The rise of liberal AI rage bait

18:26 — Viral propaganda imagery and how it reverses the facts

28:52 — Democrats’ Hamas posture pivot

48:19 — Youth hockey intermission brawl

52:35 — JB McCuskey joins the Progrum

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🎙️ We break down how Democrats, activist groups, and legacy media work together to turn massive government fraud into street unrest and false narratives. We walk through the ICE enforcement at the center of the controversy, the viral clips being deliberately misrepresented online, and the way language like “legal observer” is used to confuse the public and protect bad actors.

⚡ From there, we examine how the media and Democratic politicians rushed to create a parallel narrative. Instead of discussing stolen funds, systemic failures, or enforcement responsibilities, the focus shifted to emotionally charged language, selectively edited clips, and invented roles like “legal observers” meant to recast agitators as victims. The manipulation of language isn’t accidental—it’s designed to short-circuit rational discussion and replace facts with moral panic.

🪨 We close with some variety, like a Disney employee taking one to the face, and for what? To impress adult and overweight Diney Adults? And the Colts are in bad shape. If you need it explained, just watch their owner’s last press conference of the season.

00:00 — Why the left always needs a lie first

03:21 — The pepper spray clip the media lied about

05:35 — Why ICE is actually in Minnesota

08:44 — Criminals protected, enforcement demonized

10:29 — “Hands up, don’t shoot” all over again

12:52 — When protests jump the rails

15:11 — Foreign money and coordinated chaos

19:21 — Minnesota schools, unions, and shutdowns

27:08 — Media blaming YouTube instead of fraud

32:12 — The invented term “legal observer”

36:52 — Democrats openly attacking ICE

40:26 — The SUV lie and the use-of-force reality

43:50 — Why this all traces back to fraud

49:31 — When Democrats admit they want blood

53:36 — The IRS finally shows up

59:27 — How big is the fraud really

01:15:45 — Indiana Jones boulder dominates

01:19:41 — The Colts are a total mess

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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.️

00:00- Minneapolis ICE shooting sets the week on fire

01:55 - Why Minnesota leadership keeps humiliating itself

03:29 - Fraud pipeline through programs and the state looking away

05:44 - Agitators, street pressure, and why the story doesn’t stay local

16:01 - Video angle one

17:19 - Video angle two

19:42 - Walz rhetoric heats up the confrontation

27:05 - House testimony: whistleblowers and intimidation claims

37:48 - Ellison tape revelations

39:32 -Backdated docs and covering tracks

51:30 - Dem counter: “look at white men” instead of the spreadsheet

01:03:09 - King of the Hill: Schmidt vs Conway

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