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Thursday, January 29, 2026
Watch: Greg Gutfeld Obliterates the Offensive Liberal Narrative on ICE/Deportations
We've been hearing this vile narrative from liberals and others on the left for some time.
ICE and/or federal immigration officers are Nazis, evil Gestapo, kidnapping people off the street. Leftists were putting out this slander to stop the enforcement of federal immigration law. They whipped up the outrage to a fever pitch in the wake of the shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, without caring to wait to find out what all the facts about those cases might show.
Fox News host Greg Gutfeld went off on this narrative this week on "The Five." He said they needed to back things up to how we got to this place - and that's the mess that the Democrats left with the Biden administration, where a ton of illegal aliens were allowed to flood across the border, and the Democrats didn't give a darn about the consequences of that, including three pages of women killed, according to Gutfeld, including people like Laken Riley, Mollie Tibbetts, Rachel Morin, and Jocelyn Nungaray, who was just 12 years old.
Warning for graphic language:
"You guys didn't give two Fs," he said to Democrat co-host Jessica Tarlov about the Democrats not caring about the Americans killed by illegal aliens. "We had dozens of deaths where you didn't say s***. You made the mess; this is the Democrat Party's mess."
Gutfeld noted how the liberals didn't care about the illegal aliens who died in custody under Barack Obama. Now they're mad because President Donald Trump is working to clean up the mess.
He also pointed out how you wouldn't have the violence and problems that happened in Minnesota if the state and local officials had cooperated. That's why you didn't have the same issues in other states, he explained.
Gutfeld said he was there to "correct the record," and that if liberals wanted to cry about "murderers and rapists" being deported, they could "do it on your own time!” He'd had enough.
He's right. It's all about politics with the Democrats. That's why they're posting about a child's death in detention now - even though it happened in 2023, under Joe Biden. But they were deliberately misleading the public into thinking it happened under Trump. They'll use whatever they can to advance their political agenda.
It's gross. They want to use the outrage to negate federal immigration law. That's not going to happen, no matter how much they push this narrative. They can keep trying to play games, but it's not going to work.
Gutfeld just laid that game bare and stomped all over it.
FBI Executes Sealed Search Warrant on Fulton County, Georgia, Elections Office
This is an interesting development. The FBI executed a federal search warrant today at the election offices of Fulton County, Georgia. Previously, the DOJ sued Fulton County to force them to turn over records from the 2020 election. Details of the search warrant parameters are not immediately available.
VIDEO of the Search Warrant being executed.
CNN has a brief story on the matter: “The FBI is serving a warrant Wednesday at an elections office in Fulton County, Georgia, as it probes alleged voter fraud in the 2020 election.”
“A source familiar with the matter told CNN that the search is related to an effort by the Justice Department to seize election records and search of alleged voter fraud in the county, including Atlanta, which has long been a centerpiece of President Donald Trump’s baseless claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him.
The Justice Department previously sued Fulton County officials to force them to hand over records related to the 2020 election. A judge has not ruled in the case yet.” (link)
Chris Coons Angered Trump Administration Did Not Give Senate Opportunity to Leak Maduro Capture Operation
Delaware Senator Chris Coons questioned Secretary of State Marco Rubio about the Trump administration’s refusal to consult the Senate in advance about national security operations using the U.S. military. Specifically, Senator Coons expressed his anger about not being informed in advance of the operation to capture Nicholas Maduro.
Secretary of State Rubio reminded Senator Coons that operational security, and the desire to protect U.S. military servicemen, precluded the administration from permitting the Senate to warn Maduro of the pending operation. Senator Chris Coons then counters by saying, “The Gang of Eight has never leaked, it is critical you consult with Congress.” This is a false statement by Chris Coons, who has never been a ‘Gang of Eight’ member.
Virginia Senator Mark Warner was Vice-Chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) and a Gang of Eight member, when he directed SSCI Security Director James Wolfe to leak a top-secret classified document (Title-1 warrant) to the media on March 17, 2017. The Gang of Eight does leak to the media, and Secretary Rubio should know. Secretary Rubio was also a member of the Gang of Eight as SSCI Vice-Chair.
The entire testimony by Secretary Marco Rubio is exceptional. You can even tell from the moderate responses from Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that they were/are completely outmatched by Rubio.
Despite the background of Rubio, working against many of MAGA’s interests (2010 – 2024), I have never seen a more articulate Secretary of State with complete command of every granular aspect to U.S. foreign operations. The MAGA-Rubio is perhaps the most skilled and articulate voice we have ever seen on our side.
This is the same Marco Rubio who came out of the Florida Senate, supported Jeb Bush, worked for immigration amnesty, supported TPP, supported fast track TPA, supported TTIP, supported the Libya intervention model, worked against tariffs and traveled the world with Senator John McCain. In full honest review, Marco Rubio was to John McCain what John Thune was to Mitch McConnell.
I really hope someone can eventually ask Rubio what happened during his ‘¹road to Damascus’ moment? What, specifically, is behind this transformation? Someone needs to ask.
Check out the look of defeat on the face of Senator Chris Coons (above) when Secretary of State Marco Rubio was finished with him. Incredible.
¹Saul, originally a Pharisee who persecuted Christians, became Paul after a transformative encounter with Jesus on the road to Damascus, which led him to become a devoted follower and missionary of Christianity. This event is often referred to as his conversion and marks a significant turning point in his life and the spread of the Christian faith.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio Testifies to Senate Foreign Relations Committee About Venezuela Operations
Secretary of State Marco Rubio appears today before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to outline the current situation with U.S. policy toward Venezuela against the background of Nicholas Maduro being captured by the U.S. Dept of Justice. In essence, Western Hemisphere policy.
The Senate has been fraught with anxiety over the Trump administration focusing on the American continent and strengthening the U.S. position in the region. Stability in the Americas is against the interests of the corporate and banking benefactors who pay for control of Senate seats and use their influence therein.
Having come from the Senate, after fulfillment of his fourteen-year corporate obligations, Secretary of State Rubio acutely understands the voices behind those on the panel delivering the questions. Rubio outlines the goals and objectives of the Venezuelan operation by speaking directly to the concerns of the banking and financial community; in addition, he answers the questions posed by the performance actors put in place by the corporate strategists.
Video is prompted to 14:33 to cut out the narrative engineered talking points from the chair and vice-chair. Secretary Rubio outlines the BIG PICTURE. WATCH:
Ladies, It’s Your Christian Duty To Resist Moral Blackmail About ICE On Instagram
You are allowed to resist the pressure campaign and recognize it for what it is: emotion-driven self-righteousness.
In the wake of the shootings of anti-ICE agitators Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal agents in Minneapolis, social media moms and those whose highest goal in life is to end up on the so-called “right side of history” have once again taken to Instagram and X to share their outrage.
It’s no secret that the toxic repost culture of Instagram and other social media is leveraged by the uninformed to engage in virtue-signaling and selective political activism. For roughly the last five months, I have not logged onto Instagram once and have been the better for it. But after hearing about how countless users mindlessly reposted debunked anti-ICE fearmongering propaganda, I had to take a look at this “2020 all over again.”
After a federal agent shot Pretti in a messy confrontation, a quick scroll through Instagram at the beginning of the week revealed unending posts and reposts of clickbait vilifying immigration enforcement, memorializing Good and Pretti, and regurgitating “abolish ICE” rhetoric.
The anti-ICE virtue-signaling on social media has obviously been going on much longer than the last few days. Take this video, posted more than a week before Pretti’s death, which has been liked 157,000 times, reposted more than 54,000 times, and is still in circulation. It depicts headshots of multiple people who allegedly “died in ICE custody” — a claim made without any context or sourcing — over the musical theme from Schindler’s List. The questionable (at best) history lesson was originally posted by an account with around 3,000 followers named “foodandstuff420.”
As Christian conservative commentator Allie Beth Stuckey noted last week, “Women, including many, many Christian women,” on Instagram were “completely duped by the anti-ICE propaganda” that federal agents “detained” a 5-year-old boy. The debunked incident unsurprisingly generated endless clickbait featuring photos of the boy in an oversized hat, who, as DHS later revealed, was actually abandoned by his illegal immigrant, law enforcement-fleeing father. An ICE agent remained with the boy “for the child’s safety.”
Nonetheless, the Instagram users who posted uninformed, toxic empathy-fueled content like this haven’t taken it down.
The most disturbing part about social media outrage isn’t the clickbait, the missing details, or the hoax peddling. It’s the ease with which Americans on social media — primarily women — not only blindly accept and amplify left-wing propaganda, but seemingly orient their lives around it.
Reel after reel depicts some variation of the same narrative: A woman supposedly going about her everyday life — but pausing to film herself and/or her children doing an activity like coloring or driving. The video is then overlaid with a fearmongering caption or clips of ICE operations and set to the same exact soundbite from a Mumford and Sons song about “swelling rage” — over and over.
“Trying to play with my kid like I didn’t watch another public execution this morning,” one user wrote over a video of a woman sitting on the floor playing with a toddler.
“I may not be a perfect mother, but I will burn bridges before I let my child grow up thinking I tolerated hatred, corruption, or cruelty from this administration,” another said on top of a video of her running alongside a young girl on a scooter.
And then we have the videos of women saying they will “never forgive” Trump voters. Or this viral audio attached to countless reels — supposedly the voices of anti-ICE protestors warning of an impending raid — that Instagrammers are convinced “will play in museums someday.” The only problem is, it’s effectively impossible to determine while scrolling on social media the context of this audio, where it came from, whether it has been edited, or even if it is real.
As Stuckey wisely noted in light of Pretti’s death, it’s important to take a step back and recognize that multiple things can “simultaneously” be true. First of all, Pretti’s death is tragic, and all of the details and circumstances surrounding the shooting are not yet clear. Second, just as it’s right to point out that social media moms are mistaken for immediately labeling ICE as authoritarian, state-sanctioned killers, it’s also fair to question whether the administration’s messaging (such as calling Pretti a “domestic terrorist”) “has been completely accurate or helpful.” However, it is also undeniable that the entire chaotic environment in Minneapolis has been exacerbated and enabled by Democrat leaders refusing to work with federal law enforcement while painting them as an enemy to be fought. And none of this changes the fact that Trump was elected on a mass deportations platform.
Virtue-Signaling Is Self-Righteousness
Americans on social media certainly have the right to post about how their lives have seemingly been upended by these events. But they also have the right to resist the pressure campaign and recognize it for what it is: emotion-driven self-righteousness.
Posts like the ones above featuring viral, fear-inducing audio or strategically filmed snippets of “everyday life” — they are crafted to make the people who post them look unquestionably virtuous. Look, I am in turmoil over world events. Are you?
Another genre of apparent anti-ICE rage bait in circulation following Pretti’s death involves social media users invoking their favorite “good versus evil” books or movies, claiming The Lord of the Rings and Star Wars and The Hunger Games are what “radicalized” them. How could you ever question whether Katniss was the good guy?
All of this reveals a population increasingly detached from reality, increasingly unable (or unwilling) to hold things in tension. A population obsessed with metaphor and symbolism to the neglect of important context and facts. A population willing to condemn ICE full stop without considering the child abusers and murderers federal agents have removed from the street, or the fact that the agency also operated under Biden and Obama.
Stuckey has done quite a bit of reporting on why women in particular so often feel the pressure to join the so-called “empathetic” virtue-signal mob. God created women with motherly instincts, a disposition to compassion and warmth. That is a good thing. But just as with all of God’s perfect design, it is something Satan seeks to exploit.
“It’s good to have compassion,” Stuckey noted. “We should always feel sad about loss of life. But we cannot allow our compassion to suspend sound judgment.”
You are allowed to remain calm. You are allowed to log off. God has placed each of us in a specific place. A certain neighborhood. A designated city or state. Get involved there first. If you disagree with the laws in place, you have the power to call your representatives or get in touch with policy groups. Serve the people, the church God has placed in your immediate path.
If you are a Christian woman bombarded by all the “what would Jesus do” messaging, it’s time to pray. If you are in turmoil (Jesus promised we would be), it’s time to do what God has placed in front of you to His glory and trust His sufficiency. It’s time to actually open your Bible and seek Christ. If you do feel led to post on social media, use discernment, fact-check claims, commit to Godly conversation, and ask for guidance from the Spirit — He can lead us in even that. Our efforts at obedience will not be perfect, but that’s the whole point — Jesus made it very clear what He thinks of self-righteousness.
Christ calls us to humility and surrender of self — to trust in His eternal reign rather than ourselves. In His perfect righteousness, earthly virtue-signaling mandates have no power. They may have an “appearance of wisdom, with their self-imposed worship, their false humility … but they lack any value in restraining sensual indulgence” of self-obsession (Colossians 2:23).
Liberal Women Frantically Refreshing Instagram To See What They Should Be Mad About Next
U.S. — Liberal women across the U.S. spent the day feverishly refreshing their Instagram feed to see what they are supposed to be angry about next.
With the rage over the latest issue seemingly having passed its zenith, liberal women were left scrolling for somewhere else to target their unbridled fury.
"Come on, come on, what do we hate now?" said local woman Denise Simmons as she refreshed her feed once more. "Throw me a bone here, people. I don't know whether to scream about voter identification, blowing up drug boats, global warming, white people -- I'm totally lost. Someone give us just a little direction, please."
Liberals across the country expressed despondency over the slight dip in foaming hostility over the past two days. "I hate this part, when the wrath is dying down, but we don't have our next thing yet," said longtime liberal Natalie Gray. "I love when the bitterness is growing, I love when the contempt reaches fever pitch, but this time in-between hating things is so tough. I might go scream at some kids at the park, just to feel something."
At publishing time, desperate liberal women had logged back into their old Facebook accounts to see if anyone had something to be angry about over there.