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Superflu😷: If you haven't heard, the "superflu" is taking over the country right now.

🤒Rachel got the flu over Christmas break — it was AWUFL.
💉 YIKES: The one thing we were told to do to prevent getting it is get the flu shot.
- 👎But it's not helping.
Watch tonight📺: Dr Ashish K. Jha on why we can't have a flu shot that protects us from the flu.

Iran Watch🚨: The Iranian regime promised to crush a massive nationwide uprising.

Protection: Again, today, President Trump doubled down on his promise to protect the protesters.
Watch tonight📺: Sheila Nazarian and Elica Le Bon on what they envision an American intervention to look like.

Bipartisan Buffoonery 🤪

🤪 Tonight's buffoonery from the Left and the Right

🐘The winner on the Right tonight is Rep. Roger Williams, R-Texas.
- 🎤Williams: "People need to quit demonstrating, quit yelling at law enforcement, challenging law enforcement, and begin to get civil."
  - 🤦Yes — people need to stop attacking law enforcement — but good god. A member of Congress saying Americans need to quit demonstrating and quit yelling — imagine being this guy's grandchildren.
  - There is nothing more American than demonstrating and yelling.
🫏And the Left's winner: MS NOW's Rachel Maddow.
- 🎤Maddow: "Once you have 3.5% of a population protesting nonviolently against a dictator or an authoritarian, that is essentially an unstoppable force that they can't oppose. And that precludes them from consolidating political power. It's not that much larger than what we see in the streets already against Trump."
  - 🤷If the Left spent half as much time trying to understand Trump voters as they do trying to oppose Trump, they wouldn't have gotten whopped in 2024.
  - 🤷It's interesting, though – you never see Rachel out there protesting. And you can't blame her.
    - 💰She makes 25 million dollars a year and anchors one hour a week.
    - 😮So roughly half a million dollars per hour on TV – time is money.

Bloody Weekend 🚨

‼️We are going to be very lucky to get out of this weekend without anybody else getting killed.

🤷It's sad to say that, but it's absolutely true.
🤦Across the country: Politicians (and even law enforcement) on the Left now celebrate those who confront and resist ICE.
- 👀Here is the police sheriff in Philadelphia:
  - 🎤Sheriff Rochelle Bilal: "We stand here today with all those who stand against the made-up, fake, which you can call ICE, professional law enforcement. I don't call them none of that. I call them made-up fake wanna be law enforcement because what they do is against not only legal law but the moral law."
- 🗣️Governor Tim Walz called for a day of "unity."
  - 🤦Unity with what? People who fight federal law enforcement?
- 🗣️In Oregon, state Senator Kayse Jama tells ICE to "get the hell out."
  - 🎤Jama: "We don't need you, you're not welcomed and you need to get the hell out of our community."
- ‼️In New York, Mayor Mamdani says no one in his government is going to work with ICE.
Look back 🔙: People protesting to change the laws built America — think about the Civil Rights Movement.
- Today 📅: Politicians celebrate those doing hand-to-hand combat keeping law enforcement from enforcing the laws.
  - Burn it down 🔥: The Black Lives Matter folks who burned Minneapolis after the death of George Floyd see this as their next opportunity.
    - 🎤"When the city burned after George Floyd, all of a sudden, there were some changes. So for those who are on the media talking about 'don't burn it down, don't set it on fire.' Let me tell you this, we need justice and we need it now. Because what happens after that is on your hand," says a BLM activist.
New video 📹: The ICE agent in the deadly shooting in Minneapolis shot video as he confronted Renee Good. She drove towards him, hit him, and he shot her.
- ‼️It shows him being trolled by the woman's partner seconds before he was almost run over. After he shoots, he says, "F--king b-tch."
📝Both sides should take something from this:
- Reality🤷: If you drive your car at a police officer while trying to get away — you are lucky NOT to get shot.
- Yikes🤦: Calling someone an "f--king b-tch" after you shoot them is not what we want our law enforcement to be doing.
  - 🐘The Right says she deserves to die
  - 🫏The Left says it's murder.
    - 🗣️Here is the Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey saying she did nothing wrong as she ran over an ICE agent
      - 🎤Frey: "She's a victim and doesn't appear to have done anything wrong."
Fair is Fair ⚖️: You want to protest — go protest to change the law. You don't get to fight with law enforcement because you don't like the law

Watch tonight 📺: It's clear and cold (18 degrees) in Minneapolis, and NewsNation's Brian Entin will be on the ground.

➕Plus, Ed Davis and Tim Fitch on the danger facing law enforcement this weekend.
Then, Mike Nellis and Corey Lewandowski on the endless escalation of political rhetoric.

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