Pardon The Insurrection
Where we discuss the ongoing Congressional and criminal investigations of the January 6 coup orchestrated by the former President. And because insurrection wasn't enough, we'll also cover the Department of Justice espionage investigation, investigations relating to other members of Congress, and more. Don't worry, we're not handing out any pardons.
Pardon The Insurrection
First POTUS Shooter
How did an attempted assassination on former President Trump go unnoticed by his own security team? Join us as we recount every harrowing detail from the Pennsylvania rally, where a sniper's bullet shattered a teleprompter and left Trump injured by glass shards. We also take a hard look at the apparent security lapses and the bizarrely chaotic handling of the situation by the Secret Service, contrasting it with the professional response during Reagan's assassination attempt.
As we navigate through these turbulent waters, we dive into the troubling concept of stochastic terrorism and its implications, stemming from the targeted disinformation campaigns. We question how these campaigns have inflamed internal conflicts within the Republican Party, shedding light on the absurd conspiracy theories propagated by figures like Alex Jones. The conversation then shifts to Donald Trump's controversial VP pick, JD Vance, examining the potential benefits and pitfalls, his financial ties with tech billionaires, and the backlash within the GOP.
Finally, we address the fallout from Texas Governor Greg Abbott's absence during a major power crisis, Elon Musk's unexpected political maneuvers, and the blatant media hypocrisy that seems to favor right-wing ideologies. We scrutinize the legal system's double standards, especially in its treatment of Trump compared to Hunter Biden. This episode culminates with a fierce critique of the Teamsters Union president's shocking appearance at the RNC and awarding Elon Musk the dubious honor of "shithole of the week" for his controversial actions. Don't miss this gripping and multifaceted exploration of recent events and political controversies!
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One, two, three, four. I do remember once upon a time this country used to praise people for shooting Nazis, and now we're calling for unity with the Nazis.
Speaker 3:Unified.
Speaker 2:Reich, unified Reich. But no, in case you were unaware, we received a bit of terrible, terrible news, a bunch of horrific tragedies over the course of this weekend, Namely we lost Richard. Simmons and Dr Ruth and Shannon Doherty All in the same weekend. Tragedies come in threes.
Speaker 3:I heard that Shelley Duvall.
Speaker 2:Oh damn, Is it you kidding?
Speaker 3:No, because David had sent me and he was like oh, shelly Duvall, you know so I guess that's a new three so then you got.
Speaker 5:Shelly Duvall, that guy, not that guy, not hitting his target. And then there's going to be a third thing and JD Vance is the new vice president, jd.
Speaker 3:Vance is he?
Speaker 2:going to go from his black liner to white liner.
Speaker 3:JD Vance is the new vice president. Jd Vance oh man, no, that's terrible. Is he going to go from his?
Speaker 2:black liner to white liner. I don't know. I don't know. We'll get to that. No, I'm kidding. No, it's horrific and as much of a tragedy as those losses were. No, obviously got to get to the news of the week, news that the mainstream media has already moved on from the attempted hit on former President Trump. No current Republican nominee as of today. So I don't know where to start with you guys, but clearly I'm sure you've all seen the video by now.
Speaker 2:Donald Trump was at a rally in Pennsylvania. He was on the stage giving a speech, looked over the screen. Next thing, you know, shots fired. One appeared, a bullet appeared to hit a teleprompter. Glass shard flew into Trump's ear. Despite what Trump and company are saying, it wasn't a bullet. If you've seen the, what is it? The 223 ammunition that fits in like the rifle that the guy was using. Like if, if that thing had come anywhere close to trump, it would have turned him into hamburger meat. Um, apparently, according to reports from law enforcement agencies, or it appears as though, like the crowd saw the guy uh climb up on top of this building, about 150 yards out from the stage. They tried to warn uh, the police and the secret service. The police responded and, you know, fairly quick fashion, all things considered. A couple police officers tried to climb up to the building, saw the sniper. The sniper pointed the gun at the cop. Cop fell, dude had to make a move. Yeah, the cop fell.
Speaker 3:I'm sorry, I look at it and it's all good.
Speaker 2:Yes, I mean so let's pause, right there.
Speaker 5:So you're saying they tried to take the shooter out before with means other than shooting him?
Speaker 2:Well, so the police officer attempting to climb to the top of the building and confront the sniper was met with a gun in his face and, you know, with little time to react.
Speaker 2:I mean, I guess the police officer decided it was in his best interest to not try and attack the shooter in a position where he was more vulnerable or fell down before he could climb back up there.
Speaker 2:Task, fired a few shots at Trump and the sniper team that was posted right outside of the where the rally was taking place, took the shot, took the guy out. Now, according to reports from law enforcement officers, the sniper team, the secret service sniper team, did see the sniper on the roof, but they only had a, had a couple of, you know a few seconds to kind of make a decision on whether or not to pull the trigger. Because, if you think about it from the, their position, like that could have been uh, given that law enforcement had already been notified that there was a possible shooter, like that could have been law enforcement on the on the building, and you know you have to make a snap decision. But before they could decide whether or not to fire, the shooter had already fired a Trump. So he kind of made the decision for the snipers.
Speaker 3:Okay, what? What is okay? What is so bizarre to me is when you watch the video, they've got this GI Joe looking SWAT looking guy in all black pointing in the direction of where the shooter was. And when you look at the pictures of them standing over the body Pablo Escobar that's like the first thing that, no, it's no, really like when Delta Force had killed him on the roof and they were standing over there and they're in fatigues. And so I'm like where did these guys come from in fatigues? And where did this, these all-black like SWAT team guys like come from? And within seconds they I don't know. It's just so fucking bizarre. And then I'm looking at the way they are huddled around trump and the way they were like trying to cover him, and it felt like I was watching a b movie of an assassination attempt of a president okay, we'll get to the secret service reaction, like the trump's personal detail in just a second, just wanted to knock out like the logistics of the shooter.
Speaker 2:Um, and like you were saying, it seemed as though the sniper team was already looking at in that direction and there was a an account from a person who was present at the event who attempted to warn law enforcement, and apparently that is likely why the sniper team was actually looking at in that direction at the time. But again, because all of this was happening in real time, like I don't necessarily know if the communication with the sniper team is clear that it was the target on the roof and not other law enforcement, and that was like the difference between the seconds in delay that allowed the sniper to get the shots off. I don't know, but all in all, I mean it's a massive security failure in terms of, like the Secret Service preparation. They did identify the building as a potential vulnerability.
Speaker 3:Commander Biden would have done a better job. Do you the?
Speaker 5:dog yes I mean the dog yeah, definitely not the technical commander of chief of our, you know, hilarious too good, carol.
Speaker 2:but um, you know the Secret Service, the staffing is limited and they did say that the building was outside of their perimeter, so I guess it would follow them, like coordinating with local law enforcement to make sure the building was secure. Supposedly there were. There were law enforcement inside the building, but why there was no one posted on the rooftop? No idea why it took so long to address the situation I don't know.
Speaker 3:In all fairness, there were 396 law enforcement officers at uh rob elementary school and uvalde so slightly different.
Speaker 2:That would have required them to okay. Fair enough, they're uvalde level enforcement.
Speaker 2:Uh yeah, not just not being on the p's and Q's, like I'm sure this will be thoroughly investigated at every level inside the Secret Service, inside of DHS, in congressional investigation. Behavior on the stage, like the inability to get trump down and secured and out of the line of fire just fucking bizarre. Um, like allowing the dude to kind of like first of all he told him to stop trying to drag him off the stage to grab his fucking shoes so his lips don't fall out, but that, and actually when they were throwing them off stage we will show you a video of that in just a second and then letting do pose for the gram with his head and his chest exposed when there's a potential active shooter just just total clown behavior.
Speaker 3:And then we had them yeah, but not only that, but when that happened, until someone is on the roof to say the shooter's taken down, I'm pretty sure that was they didn't know that he was actually dead or that there was not other coordinated shooters.
Speaker 2:That's the problem. So I'm sure that they were getting the word through their earpieces. You know, threat target neutralized Huh, from Orban, no from other law enforcement, that the target had been neutralized. But what you don't know is what if there had been two shooters Right? Or what if there had been just not two, necessarily two, but just multiple shooters? They later found, you know, improvised explosive devices in the dude's car Like could have been used as a possible distraction or in some fashion to get away after creating chaos, who knows? So you've got a dude with a sniper rifle.
Speaker 5:He couldn't recruit one other friend. Oh, I'm sorry we're talking about the secret services deficiencies.
Speaker 2:Sorry, no, I mean this is what I'm saying. Like you don't know all of the unknown factors around this dude, around this attempted assassination attempt, and you're like letting Trump just stand there and pose and do crazy shit when it's your prerogative to evacuate him to a secure vehicle and get him off of the premises.
Speaker 5:I watched that versus the video of the attempt on Nixon. Not Nixon, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3:Reagan, reagan, yes, and dude pulled a fucking Uzi out of his sport coat.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, they didn't waste any time getting Reagan in. I mean, he was still president.
Speaker 5:But still I mean there's no. Like former president, the Secret Service doesn't have to try as hard, like caveat right.
Speaker 2:No man, they were bullshit.
Speaker 5:Those guys are fully on duty, but they're so scared of him they're gonna like let him die. I mean that's fine with me, but like Uh, yeah, look.
Speaker 3:Tone down the rhetoric Carol.
Speaker 5:I'm not advocating for any political violence.
Speaker 2:I mean, nor am I, but they were on some bullshit and I think at this point, like I don't know, we just Trump ran away from an eagle.
Speaker 3:when that eagle flapped in his office, he was shook as fuck.
Speaker 5:He ain't no G okay, he's supposed to let the eagle soar.
Speaker 2:We'll let the video do the speaking about the. Yeah, we'll let the video, uh, do the speaking on the competence of trump's secret service and the reaction to a potential assassination get that son of a bitch. You might have seen his lips fly out of his shoes right there. I bet they did not immediately this came away, oh yeah, that was an unfortunately long time of the secret service. Just let him stand there and pose and shit like that's unacceptable, unacceptable.
Speaker 3:I can't I, I can't black twitter for the win, though okay, let's talk about.
Speaker 2:We can go conspiracy theory theory level with it now, because you know reckless speculation yeah, reckless speculation time.
Speaker 2:So a lot of people's initial reaction because it looks so fucking ridiculous and because trump stood there and posed and because the secret service took forever to get him off the stage and because they're like trying to get his fucking shoes and throw him off the stage and his lips fell out regardless. You might have saw that a little bit in the video, like it. Nothing looked more like. The last time I saw something this stage was you you guys may or may not remember this like the WWF days I guess it was WWE at the time where Vince McMahon was supposedly having threats on his life and then he like leaves the arena and they're like filming him, get into the limo and he like cracks the door open.
Speaker 2:Well, he's like, looking, he's about to grab the door handle. He looks he's like and he cracks it. He opens the door and he's like, gets in the door handle, he looks he's like he cracks it. He opens the door and he's like, and he's like, gets in the limo, he's about to shut the door and then he's like waits, like, opens it up a little bit and he sticks his foot out. He's like, I'll do it. He puts his foot back into the limo and he shuts the door, boom, and the shit just explodes like that was this.
Speaker 2:This was that level of appearing to be staged uh, but and look, no one's done more to bring these conspiracy theories on themselves than republicans. I mean, they've spent the last near decade creating random ass conspiracy theories, saying real life shit, that has happened, um, it's fake. Talking about false flags every time there's some kind of horrific event. Uh. Saying the 2020 election was rigged, january 6th was applied by the fbi, slash antifa, uh. Or. And also saying that january 6th was awesome and everyone who was involved should get a part. Like. No one's done more to damage their own reputation to such a degree that when someone decides to try and shoot the former president of the United States, who's running for office again, then like and have people call it staged themselves. They cried wolf way too many times.
Speaker 5:Yeah, yeah, like too many people want to commit mass shootings or targeted shootings or, you think you know, participate in stochastic terrorism. I I'll never understand this kid's motives, but uh, and at first I read that, oh, um, his parents were democrats, lifelong democrats.
Speaker 3:But then like the during the fbi, um, you know, canvassing the neighborhood and talking to neighbors and stuff, and they're like they had multiple like Trump flags, which are gone now and they've scrubbed their son's social media. And then I also saw like a classmate of the kid who did the shooting and they were like he was bullied relentlessly and then he started like just wearing Trump gear which plays into or coincides is more a appropriate term with the radicalization of young white males. And you know, I I don't know what his motive was. I don't know what pushed him to do it Like I have my own. Sorry, I have my own you know?
Speaker 2:Yeah, we can theorize about it all we want to yeah, I have my own personal know.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we can theorize about it all we want. Yeah, I have my own personal theories about it.
Speaker 2:But and, to be fair, like anyone who's suggesting that they know the motivation of the shooter at this point is lying. Or you know, they're like me, they're having fun on the internet. Um, we just won't know until the fbi completes their investigation. But uh, alluding to what you were saying about the family being ardent Trump supporters, I do have a video that provides a little bit more context for that.
Speaker 3:Oh.
Speaker 6:I want to see Investigators dressed in plain clothes, as well as FBI agents, approach this house. That's where the family of Thomas Crooks lives, which is right here on Milford Drive. Then we started to see those agents going door to door, canvassing the neighborhood and speaking with people who live here. They're trying to get answers to the many questions that still remain. Crooks' motive is still unclear. Records show he is a registered Republican and neighbors today told us that they've actually seen Trump signs outside of the home over the course of the last few years.
Speaker 2:So a couple of things. Notably, clearly a Trump supporter, or at least the family, was to some degree the child kid. I don't know why I'm calling him kid. If it was like a black person, they could be 12 year old and the media would be referring to him as like a grown man and trying to give him.
Speaker 3:But I have, I have grace, I give fair enough.
Speaker 2:Um, the 20 year old registered republican. I think his last or his most recent uh outing to the polls was in the 2022 midterms. Yeah, you know, like, whatever narrative there was initially about the shooting being the result of, like some kind of I don't know, like trying to blame Democrats inciting this to violence, I mean that narrative falls flat, given that it's a Trump supporter, in all likelihood, and at least a registered Republican. Like, throw that out of the window. That's totally absurd. Also, one of the things that was interesting about some of the reporting on the family is that the Trump campaign in 2016 had identified the shooter's dad as a as a gun owner, gun owner and likely avid hunter. Is a gun owner, gun owner and likely avid hunter. So the campaign, you know, generally uses kind of their secret sauce to target political ads and political content these people that they believe to be Republican voters, and we've got a video that kind delves into that whole process. If I can find it, oh, here it is.
Speaker 5:Let's see that video.
Speaker 4:Everyone knows Thanks. This can reveal that Thomas Crooks' father, the owner of the rifle that was used to shoot at Donald Trump, was held on a database and profiled by the former president's election campaign and identified by them as a strong Republican supporter, gun owner and hunter. The information was compiled as part of a secret Republican project to gather data on millions of gun owners across America and use it to target pro-gun messages in the run-up to the 2016 election, and here's why they did it. The city of Pittsburgh is a key battleground in the critical swing state of Pennsylvania, so voters here are always heavily profiled and targeted by political parties, like the Trump campaign in 2016, which held voters details on a database, including, as we've discovered, the shooter's family, matthew Crooks and his wife, mary, who lived here at 2506 Milford Drive in Bethel Park. We know they needed to share his address.
Speaker 2:So right address um so right, that's exactly what I was thinking my father not trying to like dox, the guy I had people show up at his house, um, I mean, you know, even though he's no longer with us, but his parents are here go back so a couple of noteworthy takeaways there.
Speaker 2:Um, we should probably just the media in general should probably spend more time talking about how the trump campaign for years has been hyper targeting gun owners and feeding them absolutely insane myths and disinformation. Uh, you know all kinds of propaganda to warp these people's brains and how, like you know, stochastic terrorism, it's not a scalpel, it's lighting a fuse. Right, you can't target stochastic terrorism. Even if you micro target these ads to guns, gun like pro-gun rights guys, you can't predict how their behavior will play out in the future, and so you've likely been bombarding this dude's household with this crazy shit, doing who knows what to this family. And then, eight years later, out of nowhere, out of nowhere, he shows up at a Trump rally with an AR-15 and tries to put a bullet in Trump even though he's a Republican in Trump. Even though he's a Republican.
Speaker 5:And I just. Well, he wouldn't be the first Republican either to dislike Trump or want to put a bullet in him, would he?
Speaker 2:No, there's been numerous assassinations of high-profile people who were, at least at one time, supporters or fans of theirs, so this isn't new in that regard, yeah, I know, I mean specifically Trump.
Speaker 6:In all fairness.
Speaker 3:Trump did steal from a charity for kids with cancer and those veterans. He's also stiffed contractors here, there and everywhere. I am just um.
Speaker 2:And he's a sexual assaulter and he's in pictures with a high pro or extraordinarily prominent pedophile.
Speaker 5:Yeah, and while I agree with you oh well, that's another reason and while I agree with you, ty, uh, I totally had a point and I remember what it is okay by all means I. I'm saying I think he has plenty of enemies within the republican party and a lot of people within the party would strongly benefit from getting him out of the picture. You were mentioning one earlier d I don't know if you wanted to pull up that video.
Speaker 2:Who was we talking about then, yo?
Speaker 5:The guy.
Speaker 2:Alex Jones, oh, so yes.
Speaker 3:Oh yes.
Speaker 2:While the internet was ablaze with conjecture about the possibility of this being an attack staged by Donald Trump onald trump to score political points and people were saying that was absolutely ridiculous. We actually have a video clip of alex jones and a guest on his show suggesting that very scenario just six months ago, which sounds insane.
Speaker 3:And then you actually hear the fucking well and let's not forget, it was just like maybe a month ago that marjorie taylor green said they're gonna try to assassinate president.
Speaker 2:I mean in all fairness, just like one week ago, alex jones was hosting a twitter spaces and the title of it was assassinate b In case you were wondering at what levels of possibility of this being staged we're at, but I'll play the clip.
Speaker 1:And this is a message directly to every single person on the deep state target list my assessment, ivan Raiklin's assessment that if you assassinate any political presidential candidate, whether it's RFK, whether it's Trump, guess what? America will do the following immediately they will respond in kind and they know who you are because we've created the list. So if you go to those measures, and that's a major Rubicon.
Speaker 1:They should know that Immediately. You're going to see immediate response, and there are only a few buildings in Washington dc that they will probably do that. Well, I hope that's not the case, but these people are crazy and, having said that, if they do that, option two behind trump is going to be so much better for us and so much worse I was about to say, if they kill him. That's best case scenario, from a sick level, from a sick level, beating him.
Speaker 1:Oh, please kill him, which I don't I mean, but it's so good after that oh, it's going to be the the best cleansing and the fastest cleansing that we've ever seen in my lifetime. I get, I I assess with almost certainty, with the highest level of confidence, that if they assassinate trump, it is so game over for them and it's going to be so fast yeah, there you go.
Speaker 2:You know, please kill him. That was, that was a quote from literally that is what he fucking said.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so you know, the idea that this sounds like it was staged sounds absurd. And then you hear alex jones actually suggesting a scenario that almost played out in front of our very eyes. It sounds a lot less crazy now. Again, I'm not saying this was staged by republicans or, you know, somehow orchestrated by trump, just saying that, like if you were wondering why so many people appear to be willing to say or at least you know, converse over the possibility that it might be a false flag. Well, there you go, they've done it to themselves, like they've literally put the idea out there themselves but I I can't like.
Speaker 2:Carol. How would you feel if, like the shooter had actually connected a shot trump's dead and then, like republicans, are like oh, civil war time, trying to go do another january 6, and then after the aftermath you find out the shooter was republican, and be fucking annoying?
Speaker 1:um, was that what they?
Speaker 5:were insinuating. Even I thought they were just gonna oh, that that's it. They're just gonna start the war and destroy everyone and did you see my posty that I made?
Speaker 3:it's like I. I think I feel like anytime a reporter talks about the assassination attempt, he should just look at the reporter or journalist and say if I wanted him dead he'd be dead, and then like walk off licking an ice cream cone. But I mean, that's just in my mind.
Speaker 2:But yeah, this idea that, like Biden, is somehow behind this. Biden controls the FBI, the CIA, the military.
Speaker 3:He controls all that, but he shits his pants and can't stay awake.
Speaker 2:But he's also an international super spy he's pulling all the strings.
Speaker 3:He has a 20-year-old who can't shoot. Who didn't? Yeah, super spy.
Speaker 5:Yeah, he's pulling all the strings.
Speaker 3:Then he has a 20-year-old who can't shoot who didn't take it under his high school shooting team because he was a bad shot.
Speaker 2:Right. So this idea that Biden ordered the hit on Trump, these people these are the same people who were just celebrating the Supreme Court handing the office of the president absolute or near absolute immunity, like immunity bitch, yeah they. They was like oh yeah, it's time for Trump to get his revenge on his political opponents. Uh, now that he's gonna have absolute immunity, totally forgetting that Trump is the political opponent of the current president. But you know again, if Biden were gonna order a hit, he would just have the military do. Why would he have some little kid who can't hit a fucking barn from a hundred? Like? I'm not saying that I would ever do this, but I feel like I could have hit Trump from 150 yards away with a rifle and a scope. No, biden's not going to have some fucking kid trying to Q Secret.
Speaker 3:Service.
Speaker 2:coming back to Adi's house, OK, so here's the other thing.
Speaker 5:They're already listening. I'm sure they've already got everything they need. They're like no, that's not.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm sure they like plug into the podcast before I even like cut the camera on and they're monitoring my phone and my tweets and shit. So, for anyone who's unfamiliar, I'll tell the story of how the secret service came to pay me a visit and how much of a how much energy they spend wasting their time on unimportant shit when they could be doing things like, I don't know, securing a rally where a potential shooter could arrive and fire shots into a crowd and kill a Trump supporter. Not necessarily saying only Trump rallies, but so it was 2020. It was on the internet. I was, you know, a little reckless with some of my wording and language on the internet at the time, but I didn't say anything too crazy. If you're familiar with my Twitter handle, it is typically I smoked and then you know whatever current political topic of the day slash week is. You know the trending topic of the day, so to speak, and there's a story behind that as well. We don't have time for that, but so one of the things I tweeted was I can't wait to smoke the Trump administration in November.
Speaker 2:Now, obviously, that probably set off some sort of flag on some kind of automated database that regularly scans social media, I would imagine. But once it gets flagged it ends up on someone's desk, imagine. But once it gets flagged it ends up on someone's desk. And once it's on someone's desk, at that point they don't have the ability to decline. You just got to get out here and run this shit down one way or the other. So I get a call. Actually, I get home, I get to my door. There's a card on my door. It from the secret service agent. It says please call x number. I've shown the card on twitter. We're not gonna we're not gonna rehash that, so I'll call the number the next day. Uh, guy answers the phone, starts conversations like hey, yeah, you know, I'm from the. My fear is you know?
Speaker 6:I I think I'm sorry.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't know what that was.
Speaker 3:No, I was just responding to someone who was on fake book that they were like it was the picture of Trump and Vance. He's like let's fucking go, so I'm just dropping a bunch of JD Vance.
Speaker 2:Oh saying terrible shit about Trump. Yeah, we'll get to that so.
Speaker 2:I called the the guy he answers the phone. It's like yeah, you know, uh, this is such and such from the united states secret service. Do you know I'm calling? I actually don't at this point because, like the tweet was so benign that, like it, it escaped my mind. This is like a week later, so I have no idea. He's like do you know I'm calling you? It's like actually, no, I have no idea. And you know he's trying to beat around the bush because he's slightly embarrassed that he even has to be like talking to my dumb ass about something this stupid. He's like well, so you know, on such and such day on twitter, I'm like, oh god, really. He's like yeah, you posted this such and such, can't wait to smoke the Trump administration. And he's like he's sounding actually kind of pitiful, right, because we're both on this phone listening to him explain why he had to come pay me a visit and left his phone number and why we have to have this conversation and we're both adults and we're like this is fucking ridiculous.
Speaker 2:And another thing like he saw where I live. I live in like a condo. It's a guy like security. I'm on like the fourth floor or fifth floor or somewhere. It's like in, in like a reasonably nice side of town. It's probably not their normal profile for like a possible active shooter, right? Not like this little kid who's been bullied in school. Uh, dad's a gun nut ar-15 anyway.
Speaker 2:So the guy's explaining to me why he called. He's like yeah, look, you know, I showed up. It's like I got to your building, looked around I was like, oh, this doesn't seem to fit our normal profile. I'm just like, yeah, you don't say huh, I'm like, uh, explaining him like the tweet, the context of it. Can't believe you guys actually have to come like show me, like pay me a visit to talk about a tweet about me changing my screen name you fucking morons. And he's like yeah, it's pretty embarrassing. Like obviously you're not the type of person we normally have to spend our time on, we normally have to spend our time on.
Speaker 2:And then he was like started regaling me with tales of where they, like you know, have to go. They have to go on these field trips when they get these possible threats flagged on social media. And he's talking about, like there's this one guy who's kind of living in this dilapidated house and, like you know, hoarder style, you know former military, you know trained sniper, talking about how he's gonna pump rounds into trump. He's like, now, that guy we had to take his ass in. You seem like a pretty normal, well-adjusted human being.
Speaker 2:And by the end of like our conversation, he's like trying to offer me a job. He was like, have you ever considered applying? He's like, wow, I think you'd be a pretty good agent. It's like, you know, you got to have a college degree and like, the thing is you just you got to apply before you turn, uh, 35. It's a little bit late at this point. I I'm now 39. So I've aged out of being a potential Secret Service applicant.
Speaker 2:But yeah, that lets you know, like, how that conversation went, just how ridiculously absurd it is and this is, like you know, from his point of view that he had to come waste his time on my dumb ass. That to say think about what the fuck they're wasting their resources on, when they could be out here doing serious shit like making shoot, making sure shooters don't shoot a presidential candidate and this was trump's administration by. By the way, now I'm not saying this particular secret service agent was up to anything nefarious, I think it's just, you know, part of the system. You know, you say something on the internet, it gets flagged. It ends up on someone's desk. They can't not run it down because again anything could happen, but again it's like once the cop starts writing you a speeding ticket they're just their hands are tied
Speaker 2:it's already in the system yeah, except this is probably more true. Yes, this is that. Yes, this is probably literally. Their hands are tied once it's on their desk. Because, again, you could always take the side of like well, what if they had flagged a potential threat and then no one investigated and then it turned into something horrific like a shooting at a political rally. Nonetheless, shout out to that guy from the Secret Service, if y'all listening. Y'all done a lot of fucking up since then. I don't know what y'all was doing on January 6th. I don't know what y'all were doing this previous weekend. Y'all need to get your shit together. Like, stop circle jerking around. Like, get it together. You guys are just terrible at your jobs, deleting text messages about the coup, letting Trump get shot at and if you're going to let him get shot at, let the shooter take as many shots as he wants. No, I'm kidding.
Speaker 3:Okay, back to this.
Speaker 5:That's not how to do their job, what I am.
Speaker 3:What has stood out to me is he had an assault rifle the amount of rounds that they can pop off but it was only four shots, not a type of thing before he was shot. I think that's important, like that stands out to me, because that he didn't get off like otherwise, why not just bring your like smith and wesson, 38 pew, pew or whatever, but only four. But he's got a high capacity round.
Speaker 2:So I'll give you, I can give you a semi explanation for that. So obviously he was climbing up on the building and whatever his plans were to kind of wait and scope it out and pick the right time to fire a shot they got interrupted by that police officer that was trying to climb on top of the building. Just, you know, investigate the situation and see if that was actually an active shooter. So once that guy fell, it was only a matter of time before more officers climbed up that building and got his ass. So, like, if you're gonna do the deed, you don't have a lot of time, you gotta go ahead and and pull that trigger right.
Speaker 2:So, in a rush situation where you're I mean it's not a considerable distance, but it was a distance Nonetheless you got to line up the shot, you know, check the wind, you know, make sure you got a beat on the target, and you only got a handful of seconds to fire off some rounds before. Well, what eventually happened where the Secret Service sniper team took him out happened where the Secret Service sniper team took him out. So, and you're probably going to have the opportunity, aiming at a like a single target from a distance, to only get off a handful of rounds because you're going to go and you're going to have, you know, a little kickback and you're going to have to readjust. And you know, by that time, the Secret Service sniper team, they've already got their beat on you. Put a bullet sniper team, they've already got their beat on you. Put a bullet in you Game over. I mean just firing wildly at a target at a distance.
Speaker 3:You're absolutely not going to hit a target at that point with the you know a high caliber rifle. Yeah, we'll just have to wait and see. Like what if there's a manifesto?
Speaker 4:I feel like the parents would have burned it.
Speaker 2:Well, I'm just saying if the idea was firing into a crowd and hitting as many people as possible, then yes, that's the scenario where you just have the shooter pull the trigger as fast as possible and try.
Speaker 5:Maybe he thought he was freeing Trump by smashing the teleprompter so he could say whatever he wanted and well also you know, trump has been very vocal about not paying the teleprompter people because so maybe teleprompter lives better.
Speaker 2:That's all I'm saying. He's not only been complaining about the teleprompter people, but the teleprompter itself and, like the one time when the teleprompter went out, he just shit all over the teleprompter and and like the, the, you know the, the uh technicians that work on it, and I was like, yeah, he like if trump did stage this shooting, this was his revenge on the teleprompter on the like. You can't get it biden, you can't get kamala, he can't get the j6 committee but.
Speaker 2:I can get the tele. I can get the fucking teleprompter. I'm sorry, carol, we're more but you know, teleprompter was like, I'll show you and then the teleprompter went out at the RNC while Mike Johnson was speaking and he just quit he just walked off the stage, like I'm done with this. The teleprompter looked at Mike Johnson fuck you woke teleprompters. They at mike johnson teleprompters god they did all this shit about biden not being able to speak without a teleprompter and that teleprompter looked at mike johnson and said you're fucking done in this town.
Speaker 3:That was and I you say that and I just imagine the face like coming on the teleprompter is like you're fucked yeah, that was quite funny, I I giggled quite hard at that. That might have been the funniest, I mean that was around and find out all right.
Speaker 2:So in case you weren't aware, out there the, the republican national committee uh, start will begin yesterday. We're recording this on tuesday. It began monday. Uh, it's a total shit show. As far as the media coverage is concerned, katie Tura is out here slobbering all over. Trump glazed them up. You know. If you're not familiar with her work, she was the one who was crying on MSNBC when Trump got convicted. Also, in that very court case, michael Cohen revealed that a number of individuals in the media are basically in Trump's pocket. That would include Maggie Haberman, chris Cuomo and, of course, msnbc's very own Katie Turr, or who I like to refer to as the original Cat Turd. If you're familiar with Cat Turd's work, you might.
Speaker 5:It's so sad the state of the world that we have to reference.
Speaker 2:If you're familiar, with Cat Turd's work, you might.
Speaker 5:Yeah, katie Turd, it's so sad the state of the world that we have to reference someone called Cat. Turd Feline feces it's just unclassier.
Speaker 2:Okay, fair enough. So the fat guy's name, feline Feces, and Katie Turd's nickname, from here on out, is now Cat Turd with a K, but no, so the coverage of the rnc convention has been quite insane. Trump landed on his vp pick and finally, apparently with no vetting and no consideration whatsoever for what it might do to the campaign, pick possibly the worst vice presidential candidate in the history of vice presidents. And I say that in a world where, within our lifetime, we're all familiar with Sarah Palin's, in a world where Sarah Palin was chosen to be vice president. Yeah, jd, fucking Vance. Now, one of the most insane aspects of the media coverage of the Republican national convention is the refusal to acknowledge why Mike aspects of the media coverage of the Republican National Convention is the refusal to acknowledge why Mike Pence wasn't available as Trump's VP pick the second time around.
Speaker 5:Yes, there's multiple reasons, aren't there? There's the tried to have him killed thing and the refusing to endorse him thing, and then Mike Pence refuses to endorse Donald Trump.
Speaker 3:What do you bring up? If somebody wanted to endorse killing me, I'd feel some type of way.
Speaker 5:No, no, not endorse killing. Endorse him for president.
Speaker 2:No, trump did the endorsing of the killing in 2021.
Speaker 5:Yes, yes, that's accurate yeah, um, and he's still and later he still.
Speaker 2:That's how he would have liked it to turn out it's funny how, on a weekend of republican on republic, after a weekend of republican on republican violence, the media refuses to point out the fact that Mike Pence is unavailable as Trump's VP pick because of Republican on Republican violence. It's just extraordinarily ironic that they're willing to ignore that, especially given the current state of affairs. Right Like they've already gotten bored with the shoot. Like once it wasn't Democrat on Republican Republican violence.
Speaker 3:Why don't white crime we need to address it.
Speaker 2:It's an epidemic.
Speaker 3:It's killing our kids.
Speaker 2:It's destroying our country. It's tearing our cities apart.
Speaker 5:Not our cities, our small towns.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, technically. So what was it? Jason Aldean dedicated the song to trump and then, like you, look up the population of the city where trump was shot at, it's like 19 000 people. It was like literally the definition of trying that in a small town he tried it.
Speaker 3:Oh, oh yeah.
Speaker 5:You're right. Someone should re-dub that video.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, look, I've got ideas, but anyway. So moving on to Trump's VP pick, JD Vance total fucking moron. You might be familiar with his work Hillbilly Fuckery, something like that. His life accomplishment that propelled him into the land of politics was a book about poor white people that poor white people didn't even bother to read. Apart from that, he's like the most inexperienced.
Speaker 5:They're not readers per se.
Speaker 2:Likely the most inexperienced politician we've ever had to be selected as vice president. Uh, and in terms of what he brings to the campaign, it's absolutely nothing. He's a super MAGA guy, just like Trump, even though he didn't start off that way. But we'll get to that in just a second. Uh, you know typically what you look for, and not necessarily the vice presidential picks have the ability to sway a huge swath of the electorate, but I think it's more like in terms of you know vice presidential picks, what they bring to the campaign is not nearly as typically, not nearly as important as what they can cost the campaign. Right, we can all agree that. You know. Picking Sarah Palin as his vice presidential candidate was probably the dumbest decision John McCain ever made, and the second he signed off on that, his campaign was over. Regardless of whether he might have still lost if he'd chosen another candidate to run being his running mate, he was definitely losing after that move.
Speaker 3:I'm not necessarily saying that's. It was all downhill from there.
Speaker 5:I don't think Trump had really good options. I mean, if he wants to keep his MAGA base, he needs to choose a crazed extremist, but he should have chosen someone more moderate because he wants to, but he should have chosen someone more moderate if he, because he wants to appeal to. You know the republicans who would rather have someone else, and you know he, he, he's not going to lose his base no matter what. So exactly, fuck up. But you nailed it.
Speaker 3:I don't think that he chose JD Mandel. I think that JP was chosen for Trump. I was watching Kevin Roberts Wait before you get to that.
Speaker 2:save that thought. So, carol, what you said about Trump like Trump is Trumpism, right, so he doesn't need another you know MAGA cultist to keep the base happy. What he needs to do, because he lost 2020 by such a huge margin, is expand his support to people who aren't necessarily hardcore MAGAs, and that's why in 2016, he went with Mike Pence in the first place, right to get the hardcore evangelical vote, and obviously you know those people are the most staunch Trump supporters at this point, and while you say he didn't have any good options, he didn't have options that were way better than JD Vance. Say what you want to about Marco Rubio, aside from the technicality that they live in the same state and you know, technically Rubio would have to move. You know that would have brought him support from, like, the normies left over in the Republican Party.
Speaker 5:Yeah if there are any.
Speaker 2:If there are any. I mean, I'm sure they still exist somewhere. Also, you have like Doug bergham, who's a fairly a reasonably not insane person. Uh, you know his political stances at this point. What he's willing to support on paper probably insane, but he ain't saying that shit in public. Um, also, nikki haley was an option in the terms of she probably did the most harm to trump over the course of the Republican campaign, so inviting her to be his VP probably would have won over some of his or some of her supporters I don't know where Ty went.
Speaker 2:But the problem with nominating Nikki Haley as the vice presidential candidate is that, well, she's brown and she's a woman and I don't know if you've seen the Republican Party lately, but the last thing they're ever really going to support as a whole. Like the hardcore maggots, you nominate a brown woman and put her in the House. Yeah, not going to work out.
Speaker 5:Surprised he didn't go for Yunkin.
Speaker 2:Is he just?
Speaker 5:too much of a loser. But you can only do one term, wasn't it? Don't they have some ridiculous rule in in virginia?
Speaker 2:uh, yeah, I do think he's out after this term and I I'm assuming that the hope was that trump would lose in this election so that he could run in 2028. I mean, actually, I do believe the hope was actually that, like these uh prosecutions of trump caused him to lose the nomination or drop out of the race and then he was was going to hop in, but that wasn't the case. I mean, obviously, the Republican Party, they're united around Hitler.
Speaker 5:The ship is still going down. They're still stuck on it. They cannot get off the ship.
Speaker 2:No, the Nazis are rallying behind their Hitler, but no but no. So what JD Vance does bring to the table that might possibly be a potential benefit to the Trump campaign is the finances in terms of, you know, the the right, the right wing, tech billionaires and such that he's been associated with, or associated with being on their payroll the Peter Thiel's of the world. But what appears to have been tied into the announcement of JD Vance as Trump's VP pick is Elon Musk announcing that he'll be donating $45 million per month to a Trump line pack running up to the election. That announcement officially places Elon Musk as Trump's biggest political donor. Yeah, shame on him. I'll get to that later in my closing thoughts.
Speaker 5:Who is he scamming to get that money.
Speaker 2:I guess we could get that later. In terms of Elon Musk, I mean, he is worth billions of dollars on paper I guess we could get that valid control over regulations when it comes to, you know, the companies that Elon has a majority stake in, like the I mean obviously Tesla, tesla electric car company, obviously SpaceX, who's basically runs on government contracts. At this point, and welcome back, ty, you're on mute or something, or you don't have your mic plugged in or I don't know what. What'd you do? You go rape your, your husband, you go sexually something that long?
Speaker 2:hey look, it don't take but a couple minutes, girl. You I don't know you're still muted or your mic's not plugged in, ty, but yeah. So the one thing jd vance brings to the table is the finance aspect. Um, from the rich guys like.
Speaker 2:Much has been said about Vance's appeal in the Midwest, given that he's from Ohio, but he's out or he's underperformed literally every other Republican running the statewide race in the Midwest. He's like the worst possible candidate if you want to win Midwest swing states. So I don't understand the thought process there. Obviously you need, like Michigan, pennsylvania, but again, like Vance, underperforming in Ohio suggests he's not going to be any boon there. Now some people were saying that this vice presidential pick was Trump coming from a position of strength, like he thinks he's guaranteed to win the election. So he picked someone that doesn't necessarily help him electorally. I don't actually think that's the case. What I believe is Trump likes Trumpers and Trump's a reality TV show candidate and he looked at JD Vance and said this dude was right out of central casting. That's my guy. Still can't hear you, ty.
Speaker 5:Ty, what happened? What did you go and do? Go and or do? We still don't know.
Speaker 2:You unplugged your mic. So if you unplugged it you might have to go back into the audio settings and set the have to go back into the audio settings and set the um, like sec, select a microphone and set it back. You know the audio settings by the little microphone mute button, so you click the arrow and then, like in the dropdown menu, the first section, select the microphone. You might have to pick your mic Girl. So JD Vance, what he does bring to the table.
Speaker 3:Ty, you were saying yeah, no, Honestly, I don't think that Trump picked JD Vance. I think the Heritage Foundation picked JD Vance and Trump didn't have a choice One because he's a weak pussy ass bitch. But when I was watching Kevin Roberts and his response to JD Vance being picked and he was downright giddy, it was something that they wanted. But I honestly think I'm like one of the first orders of business when Trump is, if not is, but if he is reelected, that JD Vance would be the first person that he locks up and that he will spin some kind of wonder tale that JD Vance was treasonous was undermining his like Hitler did okay.
Speaker 2:So it sounds like we're being absolutely absurdist in bringing this up, but I'm glad you did. If there was any like, if you were rooting for the shooter and you wanted to have Trump pick a vice presidential candidate that's likely to finish the job, there was no one on Trump's list more likely to do that for you and, you know, fulfill your hopes and dreams than jd vance. Um, no one's more willing to stab trump in the back, like figuratively and literally, for power than jd vance, maybe marco rubio, but the problem with marco rubio is he's kind of a little bitch like that's his, that's his whole get down. Vance is just a psychopath and like obviously.
Speaker 3:Vance is smart, he's not a fucking idiot. And then just going back and looking at the things that he was saying and look at the interviews and stuff, when he was talking about Trump, they were very logical points, they were very pointed, they were thought out and I have zero doubt that at that time that JD Vance meant what he said about Trump and also what I know about Trump is he doesn't forgive or forget. And so when he said, oh, when Vance got to know me, he changed his position, yeah, no Well let's let's play a video clip of some of JD Vance's previous comments.
Speaker 1:And I cannot stand trump because I think he's a fraud. Well, I think he's a total fraud that is exploiting these people. Who is a total fraud? That I.
Speaker 6:I agree with you on trump, because I don't think that he's the person I, I don't think he actually cares about folks, but I, I, I think that that I, I'm, I'm gonna vote for, I'm gonna vote third party because I can't stomach trump. I think that he's noxious and is leading the white working class to a very dark place.
Speaker 5:The white working class.
Speaker 2:Absolutely. I mean, you know that's a whole get down.
Speaker 3:You know what that? You mentioned that and that was something I was thinking about today when I was listening to it. And he says the white working class, the working class is the working class.
Speaker 2:Period, but there's a subsection of the working class, the poor whites right, and that's the demographic that he appeals to and, ironically enough, it's kind of the same skis as Bernie Sanders.
Speaker 1:The.
Speaker 2:Bernie Bros. Yeah, the Bernie Bros and the JD Vances of the world kind of have, believe it or not, a real crossover with the same subsection of American.
Speaker 5:You mean the horseshoe meeting on both. You mean the horseshoe meeting on both.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I mean like people make fun of the idea and like the theory. It does absolutely have some flaws and some weak points generally speaking, but there are some specific instances where it totally aligns, and this is one of those crossovers. This is like the same instance where over the summer, you had those competing rallies of the pro-Hamas people and the Trump counter-protests and they come together and then the Trumpers are screaming fuck Joe Biden. And then the pro-Hamas are screaming fuck Joe Biden. So it's like fuck Joe Biden, fuck Joe Biden. And this is that, um, but also, you know that's.
Speaker 2:That's just like a sliver of the negative comments from jd vance at the time when, in reference to trump, he's also referred to him in a message as as america's hitler. Obviously, hitler uh picked a vice presidential candidate who correctly identified him as Hitler. That makes JD Vance Himmler at this point. But no, it's what you were saying about the potential for Trump to. You know, clearly, there's not a huge difference in terms of the spelling of their name. You know Vance and Pence difference in terms of the spelling of their name. You know Vance and Pence. So the idea that Trump is going to treat Vance like Pence in a second administration just on that joke isn't far flung. But also, like again, as noted, vance is one of those individuals who is easily as likely to betray Trump as Trump is to betray him. Who is?
Speaker 3:easily as likely to betray Trump as Trump is to betray him. Oh, I have zero doubt.
Speaker 2:And when I think, and like I said when I was listening to Kevin Roberts, well, when he called Trump Hitler, it would probably have done Vance, probably done him well to look up and I've talked about this previously the night of long knives, you know, after Hitler came to power, the first thing he did. It wasn't take out his political opponents and opposing parties, it was to take out his perceived threats within his own.
Speaker 2:Partyocracy were also the most immediate threats to his power and you know, hitler clean house in the JD Vance's of the world at least. In 1930s. Germany had to go.
Speaker 3:So, as you were saying, yes, no, no, exactly Because I didn't get an enthusiasm.
Speaker 2:We appreciate you putting on a show for the audience she's putting up a leg. Put your legs together. We're trying to talk about Trump assassinating yet another vice president.
Speaker 5:But I'm uncomfortable. I want to put my legs on my desk.
Speaker 2:Okay, fine, put your legs back up there. All right, continue Ty yeah no, vance is craven.
Speaker 3:He has decided he's drawn his line in sand and he has decided that he will do anything and everything to have power and even though he has no qualifications to have control or power whatsoever exactly di this is the most craven of individuals.
Speaker 5:I mean no, it's the he hires homogeny and exclusion that he hires Okay.
Speaker 3:Well, I made a post and it was like I'll take a DEI hire over a BEI hire bigotry, exclusion, ignorance, hire.
Speaker 2:Hey, okay, so you got to get to. Before we get to our shithole of the week award, we do have to get to some of the low black blowback on Vance already. So obviously the Republican Party at this point is the party of racism and bigotry. They just, you know, again part of the reason why Trump looked at Vance and was like this guy is perfect. It's because he's like your stereotypical white guy. He just fits the bill in every way that Trump thinks of about what a vice president should look like. The only problem is Republicans have discovered that JD Vance is married to a DEI candidate. You know his wife is Indian American. And I don't mean, like you know, quote unquote, american Indian, I mean like Right From.
Speaker 5:India.
Speaker 2:Yes, yes, right, so they've been berating her. They've been berating her online. I won't say anything, you know I won't repeat some of the extraordinarily racist shit, but I do remember seeing this one post where it was like a side-side photo, like a family shot, and it was, like you know, jd Vance and his family with his brown wife and his little half brown kids, and it was like a side-by-side shot of who was that?
Speaker 5:What was the thing you saw?
Speaker 2:Of Gavin Newsom with, like his white, super lily white wife and their little white kids and the little white dog. Even the dog is white. And they were like where did the Republican Party go wrong? It was like Democrat Gavin Newsom family, republican JD Vance and his little brown family.
Speaker 3:It was like where did Republican and that wedding picture of him and he's got the dot on his head with his wife.
Speaker 2:Oh, boy, they were roasting that one. I didn't even want to bring it up.
Speaker 6:Yeah, they were, oh man.
Speaker 2:But look and this is what I was getting back to earlier about, like you know, trump's potential vice presidential pick, like all of these, you know the Tim Scotts of the world rest in peace to his marriage before it even got off the ground. You know the Vivek Ramaswamy, the Nikki Haley's and this I'd been previously talking about this while they were never going to be the Republican nominee, even if Trump somehow managed to drop out of the race, end up in jail. Republicans at this point. I mean, they're the party of anti-diversity, right. They use diversity as some kind of calling card to like they astroturf this Black support, even though Black people aren't any more likely to vote for Trump, whether they do it or not. But they do that like with the shoes and saying that appeals to Black voters and with this criminal conviction.
Speaker 5:Have you ever seen anyone wearing the shoes?
Speaker 2:no, never. Uh well, and part of that it not not just that they're ugly, but like that.
Speaker 2:It was a scam and they couldn't get any shoes produced was also part of the problem but I didn't know that part, but I should have assumed yeah, they use these stereotypical instances in over the course of trump camp trump campaign, like the shoes and the criminal conviction and now being shot at as some kind of calling card for Black support.
Speaker 2:What's being shot at, oh my God, offensive to black people and won't garner any black support. What it does do is it just continues to give the racist people in the Republican Party a permission structure to feel like they're not racist just because they're voting for Trump. That's all that's for. But it's difficult to do that. You can't do that with an actual diverse group of candidates or vice presidential pick, because they're a revolt. You got to pick the white guy. Unfortunately, they you know trump didn't do any research whatsoever. He picked a white guy who's married to a brown woman, like, literally like under project 2025 in the second trump administration. Should it come to pass according to that mandate, this ticket would have to deport both their own wives.
Speaker 5:They're probably both willing?
Speaker 2:I mean, I'm just saying right, you know they're going to undo birthright citizenship, which will probably apply retroactively, Do you?
Speaker 5:think they care about their own wives, these people? They couldn't be serious about a platform like this if they cared about any women at all.
Speaker 2:I mean. I'm fairly sure there's a lot of white guys out there ready to deport their super 100% white wife at this point. Marriage will do that to you. Some of you Ty know you're happily.
Speaker 4:Carol knows you're happily at this point.
Speaker 2:Marriage will do that to you Some of you Ty know you're happily, carol know you're happily at this point, but there's a lot of people out there who like whatever it takes to get this bitch up out of here, and I'm sure a lot of wives feel that way.
Speaker 2:I'm sure a lot of wives feel that way about their husbands, and rightfully so. But if you do ever want to happen to get rid of your husband, you might want to for joe biden, because under trump's project 2025, there will be no such thing as no fault of force. So, uh, that's my, that's my campaign commercial for the biden administration. All right, uh, shithole of the week award time. Uh, ty, I'm sure you have a nominee, I have one as well. I we've. We've already agreed in advance and, for all intents and purposes, this is going to be a dual shithole of the week award because the shitholes are that bad. I'll let you go first. That is true.
Speaker 5:That's you. You're the one who's the Sorry.
Speaker 3:Greg fucking Abbott. Okay, we're halfway through the year, so he's already racking up the points for shithole of the year. He's already racking up the points for a shithole of of the year.
Speaker 2:He's working his way. He is working his way. I think this is number two and it's june. I mean it's july. Yeah, yes, uh greg abbott.
Speaker 3:So someone said and they had posted on um dan pat where he said that oh, we wanted to help Houston. They denied it. Judge Hindenhall sent a day before the hurricane hit what she felt that Houston would need the money, the assistance, etc. And then someone said you know, this isn't a Texas problem, this is a Houston problem and sitter point. So they should just deal with that themselves. So you're saying they're not a part of Texas? What the fuck are you saying?
Speaker 5:Great, so we're going to vote Houston into statehood.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 6:They get how many?
Speaker 5:electoral votes.
Speaker 3:And it was so, and then no, the gag is Abbott comes back from his trip to Asia. Well, first of all, you left out the part he was going to do an investigation into what happened Before you even get to that before you get to that, barrel, slammed into texas like millions of people were at, were out without power.
Speaker 2:where was greg? Abbott off on the other side of the fucking planet, not answering his phone, no matter who called, whether it were officials from tex, even the fucking White House. They couldn't find him for days and here he is, pulling a fucking Ted Cruz here, flying out the country, leaving his constituents in the middle of a fucking crisis.
Speaker 5:I thought you were going to say dog. Did he leave his dog?
Speaker 3:And then I was watching, I was like reading a post. It was like not somebody I follow, but just like someone who was like a journalist. And it was like you know, I've been doing journalism a long time and I can not remember at any time when there was a natural disaster or an emergency happening that the people in charge didn't cancel their trips to come back home or like, oh shit, and go and handle their business. He's like I can't in the last 40, 50 fucking years that I've been doing journalism, that I can't imagine or remember a time that this has happened.
Speaker 2:And I can't either like I can't either, because no, it's a response that was worse than Bush during Katrina just luckily enough for Texans and like the storm wasn't nearly horrific as it had been predicted to be earlier, or like people would be underwater right now.
Speaker 3:It is so it is so disheartening and you know I've been here a long time, of course, I'm originally from North Carolina in Texas, since like 1991 and the way that they have treated and I know it's political, because Houston is a strong dim area and so they are trying to turn the tables or try to paint a narrative that, oh, this is the leadership that you have here in Houston.
Speaker 2:they've just let you, yeah, let the black people drown and just be underwater and without power and then try and blame the black people, when it's actually the state's responsibility to prepare and respond to these kinds of disasters exactly like it is so fucking.
Speaker 3:It is so fucking actually the state's responsibility to prepare and respond to these kinds of disasters, exactly like it is so fucking. It is so fucking then.
Speaker 2:The part, part of the reason, like with the whole power infrastructure, the reason it's such in such dilapidated state, is because of the whole plot by republicans to just deregulate the state, and and to do so it because if you're connected to the other states power grids, you have to comply with a certain level of federal guidelines in in order to avoid those. They've just disconnected the state from the rest of the country and that's why any time there's any sort of particular strain on the power systems down there, you get massive outages. The power systems down there you get massive outages.
Speaker 3:I had some DM in there like how are you in El Paso? We're on the New Mexico grid, we're not on the Texas grid.
Speaker 2:El Paso is on the New.
Speaker 3:Mexico grid, which is why we didn't have the power outages during the winter storm Yuri that we had our power on During the summers, the blackouts. We're on the New Mexico grid here in El Paso.
Speaker 2:This is a situation that can easily be remedied Just by regulating your fucking power company Up to like normal standards. But you know, again In that regard, greg Abbott, you got to get the shithole of the week award for just abandoning your fucking state in a time of disaster. Uh, as far as the dual shithole shithole of the week award goes, uh, this goes back to elon musk um for his previous announcements about how he's apolitical and he doesn't choose one side or the other and he's not going to donate to Trump during the presidential campaign whatsoever, and totally reversing course, which we obviously knew he would, because it was a fucking sham. We know why he bought the platform Twitter to begin with, to help Republicans win the election. And now here he is with the announcement of JD Vance, trump's vice president, simultaneously announcing that Elon Musk will be donating $45 million per month to the Trump-affiliated PAC in order to help Trump win the election. That's not surprising.
Speaker 2:The problem is just the obvious, fucking, blatant hypocrisy. We were well aware of what your motivations are. Just be real. Just just be. Just be real. Let's come out here and be honest. You've done everything you can to enable the right on your platform and suppress the left and let all the fucking Nazis and racist back on your platform. I mean there was like inward killer slash, like you know, at inward killer slash, jew hater, 88, hitler, uh, you know posting all kinds of blatant racist, homophobic shit. You try to report the account and like Twitter support. They send you the email back. We found nothing offensive. Yeah, exactly Right. So like we knew what the game was. But Elon's not the only one right, it's not just the wealthy, it's not just the billionaires, it's also the media. You know MSNBC.
Speaker 2:They pulled Morning Joe off the air Monday morning after the shooting and we understood that initially to mean that they were afraid that because Joe and Mika are at this point not to speak about their past, but currently they're ardent detractors of Trump and his campaign and you know the way he moves through the world about Trump or the campaign, that could be used as ammunition against the network, in effect of appeasing a dictator before he even takes power, just capitulating like fucking bitches. Now Joe and Mika were back on the air Tuesday morning and they spoke to the situation saying that they were told that MSNBC was going to have, like you know, rolling 24 hour, basically breaking news coverage. They'd have, like you know a panel that would just like hang in all day, go to this topic and that and have it, and then you get Monday morning comes. So Joe and Mika aren't there.
Speaker 2:Turns out there is no 24 hour rolling breaking news coverage. It's business as usual. Except ain't nobody there on Morning Joe. They show up today and they're like hey, you know, msnbc basically lied to us about this. If they ever suggest that they're going to have a situation where it's going to be like you know, the 24 hour breaking news coverage, they'll be in their seats on Morning Joe, regardless whether that takes place or not, and if that's not the case, they're going to quit. They basically threw the network under the bus.
Speaker 3:Wow, I didn't see that.
Speaker 2:Wow. So look, and this is.
Speaker 5:So who is the asshole, who's the shithole?
Speaker 2:Well, elon Musk, I'm circling back to it. Give me a second. I'm sorry, this is also my closing thoughts. We're mixing and matching today.
Speaker 5:Oh, okay, great.
Speaker 2:And this is MSNBC. This is supposedly the bastion of left-leaning media and they're already capitulating to Trump. And this is just like all the evidence. I need to know that when the third right comes like, the media is not going to be there to support us. Msnbc you know they've got Katie Turner on here, as we earlier noted earlier already in a Trump apologist. Cnn they've already chosen sides. Fox News they've been in Trump's bag since the beginning. Also, we've got the court system at this point doing everything they can, the legal system conspiring to do everything they can to get Trump off the hook from the Supreme Court, basically granting Trump immunity and making it as difficult as possible to prosecute him for any of his crimes. Got Judge Cannon down here taking a note out of Clarence Thomas's book, throwing out Trump's classified documents, slash obstruction case on the grounds that special counsels are unconstitutional, even though the Supreme Court's already taken a look at that numerous times and decided that, yes, special especially in this vein, are totally fine.
Speaker 3:Uh, we've got. What wait? Wasn't it a special counsel that prosecuted?
Speaker 2:hunter biden. Yes, that was actually the case. Okay that uh, under the trump administration, bill barr appointed a special counsel to just just double checking, making, making sure, yeah, and that, yeah, it's not the.
Speaker 2:It's. It's the first of many. It's the first of many special counsels since Robert Mueller closed his investigation. But you've got the legal system conspiring to save Trump. You've got the media conspiring to do everything they can to get Biden to drop out of the race, while you know polishing Trump's little mushroom. And then you've got all the billionaires in the world lining up from tax breaks, even got the president of the Teamsters Union showing up to the RNC to show support for Trump, even though Trump's never done anything for unions and in fact the Republican Party has done everything they can to hurt unions. Wow, and which his?
Speaker 3:vice president of the union said it was egregious and irresponsible of him to side with a party that does not side with the working people.
Speaker 2:No, and that was.
Speaker 2:Trump even showed up to that plant, pretending as though it was a union plan. It wasn't, and then he had scabs pretend to be union workers. That's a level of just disrespect that Trump has for unions, and I'm, as a team member myself and well aware of the fact that our pension system was in trouble. You know who bailed us out president biden. So to have the teamsters teamsters, president show up at the rnc is just fucking despicable in my eyes. You know, I'm definitely going to be lobbying to get rid of his ass, uh, the next time there's a vote.
Speaker 2:But what this gets back to is the willingness of people in positions of power and prominence who think, you know, under a second Trump administration, because you know they're white or wealthy or in positions of power, they'll be just fine here to tell you, as Ty alluded to earlier with JD Vance, there's this strong likelihood that all of the people who conspired to enable Trump and put him in a position to enjoy his newfound powers as a dictator on day one will be the first individuals to pay. And I'm absolutely sure that, regardless of how much money Elon Musk puts in Trump's pocket, trump's going to come after him first, should he be reelected and get to exercise his powers of the presidency with absolute immunity, and that makes Elon Musk number one shithole of the week. And that concludes this episode of Pardon the Insurrection.
