Dems Double Down on Violent Rhetoric After Third Trump Assassination Attempt

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My name is Josh Holmes, along with Comfortably Smug, Michael Duncan and John Ashbrook, left to right across your radio dials absolutely always. Fellas, I couldn't help but notice over the weekend you put yourselves in grave danger. Smug and I, we were concerned deeply, obviously. I know you were. And, of course, what we're talking about is the White House Correspondents Dinner, of which there were family obligations that we had. And so our two adventurous souls down in the end were there. And I thought we were going to have to take one for the team there, fellas. When I first saw the unveiling of what had happened and whether or not I was like, you know, if they could have just winged Duncan, we would really be popular. Oh, the old man. You know, when Secret Service was climbing on all the tables with, you know, submachine guns and pistols drawn, my first thought wasn't content. And so this is what happened. Here we go. Here we go, Smug. I got Matt Gorman sends me a text and he's like, dude, something has happened. There's like a shooter at the Writers Correspondents dinner. And my first thought, this is, I don't know how he's so plugged in. He got this like within 60 seconds of it happening. So like whoever in there was like, forget my family. I'm going to text Gorman that this shit's going down. Shout out Gorman for being that plugged in. My first thought, I texted our chat with us four and I said, oh my God, Ashbrook and Duncan, are you okay? Are you okay? Genuinely concerned. Yeah. And that lasted about two seconds. Ashbrook was like, we're fine. Thank God. And then I said, start filming. Go live on YouTube. I'll tweet out the link. And I did the responsible thing. I followed the instructions of law enforcement. You did. And kept my head down as they could clear the room and make sure the threat was neutralized. Well, when a Secret Service agent gives you explicit directives, the chances of you not following that are to your own peril. It smells like, go live. Go live right now. We should honestly, we should have screenshot the tax chain because it was incredible. I was telling the truth. I was like, listen, it's like turnkey. It's one button. You go live on YouTube. ashbrook's got his new little iphone you know with the new cameras on it i was like just point that shit at duncan duncan tell us what's going on go live i'll tweet out the link because you saw like days later now you know you've got journos who are like oh my god like i feel like the marines in fallujah because i i experienced you know the heart of combat yeah but you saw like big ass potato stelter jumps on stage and is like filming like i've seen video like tappers got like the phone sideways he's got like sideways cam and he's just uploading it with no caption and the thing that really bothered me about that because i saw selter's fucking potato ass up there taking a panoramic shot of the entire crowd as were you know we're following what law enforcement said which was keep your head down get under the table because we want to make sure they have line of sight to clear the room which is the most important that's the most important part right and he's filming the whole thing and then i see him on television uh on monday talking about how the journalists are processing the trauma of the event you're like you didn't seem that traumatized you know and honestly i mean as secret service was climbing those tables i actually felt pretty secure that they had shit locked down i did too but there was a period of time when nobody really knew what was going on and you sort of wondered is there a shooter in the room they were looking down and you're like it could somebody be in here and there was all kinds of like stories everybody was telling somebody said like oh the a guy fired a gun over todd lyon's shoulder oh there was a shooter up above in those cutouts where the cameras were production cutouts there was so much like misinformation in the room that you really didn't know what to think and you're like i'm not going to get waxed on behalf of a podcast i mean i've got a family i have a family at home so i'm gonna do what the service is telling me to do and then at the end of it you're like thank god i'm I'm still this side of the grass, but there's no reason to over-dramatize it. The number one way you could have helped law enforcement is to get live cameras in there, scanning the situation, providing real-time information, and you're just chilling and having a creme brulee. It took you all about 30 seconds to turn into, like, where's the content, fellas? Which is what you would expect. He said, you're safe. He said, we're good. We're okay. I did notice that Smug was tweeting out a storm. and obviously, you know, prayers to Donald Trump and the administration officials. Nothing for his friends. No, I didn't notice that, too. That was obvious. You know, I don't have President Trump's phone number. I can't text and be like, are you OK? So I said, I want us all to pray for President Trump. But not me. I did have my buddies. But not me. And they said they were good. But here's the thing. The text messages were iterative because my cell phone really wasn't good and good signal. Even when I signed into the Wi-Fi, I couldn't really send anything out. I had to borrow somebody's phone next to me and her phone seemed to be working. So I was able to text my wife. But like like the stuff that you were sending, some of it came in later that night. You know, I would try to send something and it would just it would just give a sign like a grandpa excuse of like, oh, you know, I was looking at the phone. And, you know, how did these crazy things work? Because I saw everyone else in there firing out content nonstop. There was that one gal. I don't know what her name is. She's like taking a selfie of being like, oh, no, we'll get to her. We'll get to her. But if they can get content up, you know, I mean, I don't know if it's my surrounded by journals. How do you not pick up the journal instinct? Like if there's one place you can embrace your inner journal. Well, you know, in the time that it took me to concern myself about your well-being, fellas, I missed out on a couple of good auction items at my kids school. You know, I was too focused on my phone. Thank you for your service. I missed vacations. I missed all kinds of different good offerings. I'm really sorry you were inconvenienced by me being in an active shooter situation. Apology accepted. Apology accepted. Okay, so we got to get to all of this. I mean, clearly, look, this is the talk of the town. This kind of thing has been far too prevalent, but very rarely do journos have any sort of – call it like any receptivity to it because it's not them but in this case it's their event and so takes on a life of its own uh the one that you mentioned right off the top i think her name was Olivia Rheingold. Just to have a look at clip one. We were just seated over. I'm seated near one of the doors. People are shouting USA now. I don't know. I just heard like four huge knocks by this door. Everyone. I mean, get out of here. Oh, wait. I want to see Ashford like that, bro. I'm not doing that. This is what journos do. It makes people turn off. Duncan, you couldn't have filmed your buddy in that prone state? Well, I would just think in an active shooter situation, you probably shouldn't be standing up and filming. But if you are going to film, give people the view of what's happening rather than the selfie of yourself. Well, it is, in fact, a part of journalism that you film what is the event that you're covering, not yourself. Yeah. Which is, I don't know. That's modern journalism in a nutshell. Somewhat about me of a golden rule. But I think in this day and age of complete narcissism, fellas, you could have filmed each other under the table. to be honest with you buddy i was like there might be a shooter in here i need to be have my head on a swivel and be down and listen to the service i need to do what secret service was telling me to do did you get nervous enough to hit the fucking life alert to be like i've fallen i can't get up i'm under the table there may be an active shooter you know you got to just like a a crew white coats that roll in they're like i'm sorry we've life alert situation roasted the one thing that did make me feel a little bit nervous so after um you know secret service came in stacked up and like running towards the stage guns drawn and everything get trump out get jd out get the whole dais out uh and hegseth and and the various cabinet officials uh then they started pulling out like um like dan scavino was he's the one who was chanting usa usa in that clip and he was seated right next to us right behind me and so like as they started pulling out more people i was like wait i guess i don't have that i guess i'm just here by my lonesome hey where's my guy hey i didn't know i needed a guy everybody's got a guy just a member of the shooting gallery yeah how do i how do i get out of the shooting like like a pin at a state fair yeah yeah no i dude i there's a lot of people that said that by the way yeah and they also said i saw a hilarious commentary where it's like a new status symbol in washington dc is like who gets escorted out during a live shooter uh deal and who doesn't and if you don't like you're not there yet yeah you're not there yet and it's a hell of a situation to find out where you are on the on the totem pole you work so hard you grind it out i just want a guy to take me out well you know but now we know yeah now we know we gotta work harder we gotta work carter like and subscribe to the ruthless variety program if we had a million subs on youtube we would have gotten you would have escorted me out so really if you think about it it's your fault you haven't told your friends yeah what are you doing to us our friends could have been hurt uh okay so the other component that was uh there's a bunch of sociological sort of experiments that go on totally during a a thing like this and you see it like we've never been i thank god in the middle of like a you know shooting situation but but anytime there's any kind of evacuation or emergency threat of which i've been a part of a ton of them you can tell a lot about people in the way that they react what their first instincts are and i i have mixed emotions about this next deal, which is a lot of journos, by the way, once the room started getting cleared out, they're just all over the leftovers on the tables. They want the booze. They didn't get the dinner. They're going to take what they got clipped to. It's tragically, we've covered shootings. We've covered all sorts of scary and terrible events. Everyone's taking the booze. one next to you in that moment round them up and there was all kinds of selfies all night long about journos basically like looking around the tables like i don't know we got nothing but full bottles of wine here like this thing ended early let's it's not going to drink itself here's the thing i'm the guy who's going to stick up for journos naturally so i'll do it for them here i'm not going to cast aspersions a lot of these people have never actually been in harm's way and they get to a difficult point in a night and they're like i'm gonna grab a bottle so i'm not gonna okay so i will instantly you know pour water on that fake ass theory because here's the thing i got my own story so years and years and years ago i'm at the uh new york state republican dinner and this is young me i have not been exposed to a bunch of journos how they behave at these like galas and such and so at the end of the night they're like okay everyone have a good night and we like you know we're normal people we get up from our tables and we start going home and then i turn around i look and like the table that i was seated at where there's like you know half full bottles of wine some full bottles of wine like you know leftovers of bread whatever there's journals going like table to table and and they're they take half full bottles of wine they pour into another half full and they're like getting bags and then closed bottles of wine they're pocketing those i saw a journo putting dinner rolls in their bag taking that home and i was like these people are locusts they're going tables it's like a bowl weevil you know like if it's not if it's not bolted down they'll consume it and they'll go table to table and it was like the the most horrific thing i'd ever seen i was like these people are some humans they're not people Okay, well, the one thing I would say in their defense is they paid for the table. They didn't pay for shit. They just weren't given away for free. The media organization paid for that table. Well, okay, but I'm saying the company they worked for paid for the table. They paid for the wine. And if you're going to have to stand there for two hours waiting for an Uber out of this fucking green zone, I went outside and there were helicopters and the police had increased the barricade lines and everything. It felt like you were in Fallujah. Yeah. You know, so I mean, if you could take a bottle of wine and hang out in the lobby and drink it while you wait an hour for an Uber, God bless you. It's not like it was great wine. It's not like it was Chateau de Chateau. 1922. It was basically MD 2020. Famous double Chateau. The only double Chateau. It's like a Michelin star. I have like an observation just on that point, which I look, I can't disagree. I probably would have grabbed a bottle of wine. If he couldn't get out, I probably would have. Yeah, you wanted a bottle. Once you know you're safe like you are. Something to calm the senses. But this dinner has 2,600 people. That's a lot of people. The White House Correspondents Dinner has absolutely zero business having 2,600 attendees. I mean, when you filter through, it's supposed to be a dinner for like the most important operatives, administration officials, journalists who cover them and like the people who at that particular moment in time contribute greatly to the national conversation. There is not 2,600 people in Washington, D.C. who do that. They're just not. You're 100% right. And then you see some of the – dude, I laugh so hard because the people who should be invited to this kind of thing, they're in and out. They just kind of do their thing. People who definitely should not be there are posting the fuck out of their red carpet. They're like, oh, another – it's my 17th straight White House Correspondents Dinner. And you look at it and you're like, what are you – like – Exactly. There's not a single person there who knows who the fuck you are for starters. and the reason that that bothers me is not that that is what it is because it's always been a shit show the reason that i concerned about it is like there a security problem with that yep there a reason why this became an issue in large part is it 2600 people there basically one maybe two venues in all of dc that can handle that number of people just so happens that it's been consistently handled at the one other place where there was a presidential assassination attempt the hankley hilton right oh the place is cursed you know what i mean the place is absolutely cursed and i'll tell you one other thing but um there are a lot of reasons to be disappointed with the outcome of that night. One of them, I think, is that we didn't get to hear what Trump had to say. Yeah, you had some insight on that. Dude, we talked to some of his people beforehand, and I will not divulge what we learned because I do not want to step on this great president's ability to deliver what it is that he has coming because he's earned it. You know, he went, you know, they say they're going to redo this in 30 days. I hope to God they do because i think everybody deserves the entertainment that will come with that guy's speech it's going to be outstanding he had some hot salsa oh dude and and you know it would have been delivered with perfection full showmanship perfection nobody is nobody has been prepared for that moment with the ability to deliver in that moment quite like donald trump he's gotten to think about it since president obama roasted him totally 2011 you know at the white house correspondence dinner and now you look back at that video and it's like obama got his comeuppance because he became president i mean i was at that one it's amazing it was you know i mean people make a big deal of it's like was that the moment that he decided he was going to run for president like i don't know only he really knows that but i can tell you from the room standpoint there was like an odd spotlight or a like i don't know if it was intentional but a light like you could see trump and he was not happy about the whole thing and he did not attend at any year of his first four years the white house correspondents association dinner and then this was going to be the absolute first one so it really was like 10 years in the making i know that he was he was ready to serve it back over i hope we get that opportunity i can't believe we were robbed of that I know. I know. And what a psycho. What a psycho. So Donald Trump in typical fashion, they deal with it. He does a press conference immediately afterwards, by the way, in a tux with everybody around in tux and formal wear. I like that look. They should make that the standard uniform at the White House. It just looks great. It looks great. It makes the photos pop. It just looks great. It's great stuff. But he's not done there. somehow they decided to go do the 60 minutes routine and like look far be it for me to question why it is that the white house makes these kind of decisions i know that they have some relationships in press that like we don't understand and whatever but they have nor o'donnell interview the president united states now this is predictable as the day is long like it's going to be offensive. It's going to be ridiculous. You're less than 24 hours removed from yet another assassination attempt on the president of the United States. What is it that she asks? Well, I kind of get the sense that he's sort of ready for the worst because he just undresses her clip three. The so-called manifesto is a stunning thing to read, Mr. President. He appears to reference a motive in it. He writes this quote, administration officials, they are targets. And he also wrote this. I'm no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes. What's your reaction to that? Well, I was waiting for you to read that because I knew you would because you're horrible people. Yeah, he did write that. I'm not a rapist. I didn't rape anybody. I'm not a pedophile. Do you think he was referring to you? I'm not a pedophile. You read that crap from some sick person. And I got associated with stuff that has nothing to do with me. I was totally exonerated. Your friends on the other side of the plate are the ones that were involved with, let's say, Epstein or other things. But I said to myself, you know, I'll do this interview and they'll probably I read the manifesto. You know, he's a sick person. But you should be ashamed of yourself reading that because I'm not any of those things. Mr. President, I was never. Excuse me. Excuse me. You shouldn't be reading that in 60 minutes. You're a disgrace. But go ahead. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It is disgraceful. It is disgraceful in the aw shucks of it all like the hold on. All right, Mr. President, I'm going to read the deranged ravings of a lunatic here. He says you're a pedophile and a rapist. How do you respond? It's like, you know what you're doing. Do you remember when it was too dangerous to read manifestos right wasn't long ago great point but they all came from trans shooters that shot up schools too dangerous it was too dangerous to read manifestos that is because it actually what it did is put out in the public a sick mind ideology that uh other sick minded ideological psychos would try to replicate well not not the case here not why because it wasn't a 12 year old that was the target it was the president united states like what's the difference we used to not do that we was like in the last year we didn't read manifestos can i tell you can i tell you what nora is thinking there is uh i'm gonna get trump i'm gonna get him on my show and i'm gonna crush it on the ratings and this is gonna bring a huge audience and barry weiss is trying to clean up CBS and make it look respectable and I'm going to bring in such big ratings to be like good luck try telling me what to do I bring in the ratings and they got Trump and she got her ratings and Nora's happy but again and that's it it's like if you're going to go on on 60 Minutes and you're going to go on Nora she gets what she wants listen you think calling her out for being a shitty monster matters to her she knows she's a shitty monster but she's a shitty monster will do anything for ratings and she got her ratings you feed the beast that's what happens i mean you think just from a press like white house like why do the interview right which is why how i sort of led this in you would think that there would be a sense of decency upon yet another assassination attempt against our president of the united states that is now what the third or fourth in a year and a half two years and uh you would think that that would be maybe a moment of unity where you could have a conversation with the audience that watches 60 minutes but of course not but of course not right so i i like i i don't really get it because this is this is just going to be what it's going all of all of the efforts that everybody is trying to make to turn cbs into something other than a left-wing machine for the absolute worst of our society are not working. You have this woman sitting in front of the President of the United States just hours after there was an attempted assassination against him. And, you know, people in the room could have been killed. And it's not just Republicans who could have been killed. Journos could have been killed. Anybody could have been killed because there was a schizophrenic, lunatic madman who ran in there with a gun. and she is like, oh, you know what? Let me talk about why you're kind of the problem, not we are the problem. The media will never self-reflect. They will never take it upon themselves for what they're responsible for. And I'm telling you right now, everything that CBS is doing to try to be like, oh, you know what? Our network is actually trying to be middle of the road. We're not gonna be like the other networks. None of it's working because the communists who control that organization are winning i mean exactly what you want and that's the thing is like this isn't even like july 2024 again where they're like hold on like clearly we we've gone a bit overboard let's have like they spent 24 hours where even the devs turned off the ads we don't even get 20 minutes anymore they're right back at it yeah i know it's getting sadder and sadder and cnn interestingly has contributed to this in a couple of different ways but the one that i found the most hilarious was they were about to launch a show that was entitled the imperial presidency can we get graphic 1a this is farid zakaria first of all i had no idea like what is he what is he doing in this but anyway he says an update my latest cnn documentary because that's the guy that you would definitely choose to do a documentary about a republican president united states it's a cnn documentary quote the imperial presidency will air at a later date we'll keep you posted well they didn't think that they could go after a yet another assassination attempt with something that i don't know might encourage people for more assassination attempt we'll give that a week or so the imperial presidency unrelated a bunch of these no kings protests reference to trump being like an imperial president a king and also one that the assassin the attempted assassin would attempt right we gotta we gotta push down the road a little gotta push it down the road so you you were all over twits as you said and you were covering all this and watching information flow in real time including an awful lot of journalists that were acting like they were storming the beaches of normandy at the time meanwhile this is a environment where the four of us anybody in the administration and basically anybody involved in republican politics over the last six years has experienced firsthand it's what we think about every day there is a leftist violent yep thing you've got to think about safety it's just the what we have to do journals don't have to think about that because they're always inside the ropes they can always deal with the safety and security that is provided for them by basically associating themselves with the person that they're trying to cover. Rarely does this all come out. But there was a whole bunch of things that were involved in the internet. You flagged a couple of posts. Yep. So specifically about that Fareed Zakaria one, there was a kind of graphic one. Holden had a great tweet where he said, And they keep having to delay programming on right wing fascism because of left wing violence. And he's got a screenshot of that like Apple show. Yeah. The Apple stream was going to put out about a lady who goes undercover tracking like right wing radicalized groups. And that had to get put on the back burner because another left wing psychopath had tried to kill Trump in 2024. And they're like earlier, like a month ago, Apple announced they're like, OK, we're going to air this show. And then this happens and it's like that's the thing I think to really put all of this in perspective is we've been fed this lie by the media, by these left-wing groups, by the SPLC who's having to fund the right-wing radicalism that they think is a problem of, wow, right-wing fascism is a threat to this country. yet time and time again there's an episode of left-wing violence and then they're like oh shh quietly we have to put that shit on the back burner wait until we can air it yeah that only works when things are quiet and we can lie to people like it's all just this like fake cottage industry where Fareed Zakaria is like oh I have a documentary about right-wing fascist Donald Trump what the hell does he do at CNN is he like director of special projects who the fuck knows I can't think of a person more divorced from like having their finger on the pulse of Republican politics. I literally can't think of anybody. 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And this is a precursor to what it is that we saw on Saturday. what is it that he's saying that may inspire crazy people to do crazy things clip four our first lady melania is here look at more so beautiful mrs trump you have a glow like an expectant widow hilarious yeah and everybody laughs it reminds me of that colbert that colbert clip where they were cheering on all the teslas being burned yeah you get the sense that like the audience now for these shows do agree with violence they like it you know yeah you know i we can pipe in laughter too yeah yeah but but i mean it's genuinely incredible to me that if you if you mainstream and normalize assassinations of the president united states which is what that is i mean don't don't make any mistake that's not like a a flippant comment or joke or whatever i'm all for the edgiest humor you can possibly find i really am but when it's consistently partisan and in this case edging on assassinating a president i don't care if it's republican or democrat i really don't it's president united states um you're in a different ball game like you're normalizing people but i think that's a critical part of this whole story is the media environment and the political environment is only towards one direction on this like we saw the spLC essentially is funding any of the radicalism coming from the right it's all fucking made up and i hate always giving the example of oh boy imagine if republicans did this but imagine if you were a late night host and you crack a joke about boy wouldn't it be funny if someone assassinates obama dude done your career is over a rodeo clown put an obama mask on at a rodeo yeah it was done and it became national news because it was disrespectful of the president united states yeah think about that yeah wasn't that long ago well this is what the gatekeepers do when they're gatekeeping right but everybody went to bat for this guy no you can't throw him off the air he's a he's a comedian he's being funny servicing his audience no he's not like this is agenda-based but it's also corrosive shit yep it's ridiculous you're not gonna find anybody on fox news doing shit like that right you're never gonna find any like decent well-adjusted human being and the only reason like that the only reason he's in that position and losing his job it's not because his ratings because no one was watching his show to begin because he's a part of the machine of like the permission structure of the left of like oh look uh abc they're on board with us they're on the team because they've got their late night show attacking trump and that's what matters to us yeah i mean so you recall the last couple of weeks we've done uh uh segments huge segments on hassan piker who has basically been the de facto spokesperson for a democratic majority takeover of the house and senate campaigning with their senate this is not hyperbole and you have candidates falling head of heels to try to get any sort of time with him because he is activating the grassroots. The New York Times takes it upon themselves to feature him in a conversation about violence and about theft and about all kinds of just normalizing all of this shit. What do we got from him? Clip five. And you actually wrote about this and it was a great video where you talked about, you know, someone has to do it. See, when I say that, everyone knows exactly what I mean. Which is, I think that shows that there is a lot of anger, a lot of resentment, and untapped potential. Untapped revolutionary potential, as a matter of fact. And it's a great opportunity for organizing, I think, in these unprecedented... Straight up, someone has to do it. And he even says to himself, Everyone knows what I'm talking about. What he's talking about is attacking and killing the president of the United States. He's he's saying straight up, everyone knows what I'm talking about. Assassinating Trump. And the crowd cheers. Yeah. And he's like, but this is this is something that can be tapped into. He's right. The trouble with him is he's too honest. This is a great principle for organizing. Exactly. But first he says this is a great opportunity. And then he catches himself and he says a great opportunity for organizing which is the wink wink of the whole thing Which if you a maladjusted human being you heard the first part Right Loud and clear So you might say to yourself oh well they the ruthless fellas again highlighting this psychopath as if he a spokesperson for the Democratic Party He's not. He's sort of a fringe player. All right. Well, let's take it from the Democratic leader himself. Next clip. we are in an era of maximum warfare oh everywhere all the time that's critical okay and and to be clear what he's not talking about is the war against iran hamas hezbollah people who have been all fentanyl people who've committed 46 separate terrorist attacks against american citizens over four decades killed thousands of americans that we were engaged in currently he's not talking about that talk about donald trump he's talking about republicans warfare warfare and like look i can't i'm not i i am not a fan of just like wringing my hands and being pollyannish and weird about political rhetoric it gets heated it does what it does but the consistency on the left of normalizing violent rhetoric violent rhetoric right against in particular donald trump in this day and age cannot be ignored it can't be and and and his supporters and you saw it from maxine waters when she was like you have to confront them wherever they are you heard it from nancy pelosi of being like we're gonna fight them everywhere. The message being that if you are a Democrat anywhere in this country, it's incumbent upon you. It's part of your responsibility as a citizen to confront any conservative and Republican, whether they're at a restaurant trying to have a meal. They've created this environment under the guise of like, oh, you know, you're doing that good trouble of you're doing the activism by rolling up in a restaurant we saw this during covid during during the summer of love we saw these activists going restaurant to restaurant being like you need to get out of this restaurant right now need to march with us or we're going to destroy shit i mean it's true and smug you say it all the time but like the left has enforcers yep they have shock troops ready to show up whenever they get a little uncomfortable with a policy outcome a little uncomfortable yeah right they got armies of people, whether that's BLM or No Kings, or the transgender lunatics who decide to shoot up Christian schools and kill kids, right? Or a lunatic who assassinates Charlie Kirk, or Luigi Mangione who shoots the head of United Healthcare in the back of that, you know, in his back on the street corner. It's like they have these shock troops out there that they can activate either through that rhetoric. And I agree with you, I don't want to be wringing my hands about it, but like we have now very clearly a body of work. And then the only way that exists on the right is when the SPLC funds it in the main, you know, in the mainstream media will never condemn them. Yeah, I know. Never. And under any circumstances, what the mainstream media does is quote them to the president of the United States the morning after he was like there was an attempted assassination. It's outrageous. They only quote them. And it's the exact opposite. If you're Luigi, if you go commit left-wing violence, the press is going to give you coverage of like, you know, there are girls who are trying to marry Luigi Mangione. There's a girl who's dating an AI of Luigi Mangione. That's the coverage you get if you're one of their troops. If you're out doing violence in the name of the left-wing cause, they'll be like, did you know that there's all these girls outside the courtroom for Luigi? Yeah. When you push a boulder on level footing, you maybe make it a foot or two. When you push a boulder that's on a steep cliff of mental health decline, it can roll real fast and it can hurt a lot of people. And I think increasingly what we're seeing on the left is a real mental health issue. 100 percent. that is extremely significant and it's not political in the nature that we talk about here on the program on a day-to-day basis it's not like do you have a different idea of how to accomplish the problems that we have society homelessness the economy foreign policy oh it's not it's it's this sense of hopelessness and then a schizophrenia and then you know maybe more significant violent tendencies all these other things that the progressive left is sort of wrapped around and said, how dare you criticize these things, right? We see the same things with these trans shooters. It's how dare you question whether or not them identifying with things that aren't real are not just the same as you and me. And then you see how they react to rhetoric, like what it is that we're talking about it's pushing that boulder down a hill that is it is predetermined that it's going to be problematic you know when dave chappelle goes out to a well adjusted audience i don't care if they're republican or democrat and he says offensive things people laugh maybe people don't laugh but you all go home and you had a good time and everything was fun right when you say shit that is from elected leadership that condones or at very least minimizes violence against elected officials, the government of the United States, and all these other things, and you do that to a concentrated audience that is predisposed to be problematic, you're going to get problematic outcomes. And that is what the problem is with the modern left. And there is nobody, nobody in the journalistic left that will blow a whistle on any of it. They just won't. They're still pretending like the real problem with us was white supremacy. I mean, there's still like that doesn't fucking exist. And by the way, they have the same mental health issues that we're talking about here. The only difference is that there isn't a single Republican that's giving them a feeding them something to work with. They are. And they're feeding these people on a consistent basis. And they're convincing these people that their way of life, that they themselves are a target of a government that's coming after them. Why should we be surprised? Do you get crazy people who do crazy things when you just are a gatekeeper of misinformation to these people? The thing is this individual, the latest – it's incredible to have to say that. The latest would-be assassin trying to kill President Trump attended no-king's protests. It was an absolute sponge for the mainstream left messaging. I'm not talking about like, well, he existed in these secret online – Well, they're trying to surf it, Smug. They're trying to surf it. What they're doing is looking at a whole bunch of people who are chronically misinformed about what's happening on a day-to-day basis. And they are seeing the anger out of that misinformation and they're feeding it in the hopes that that whole mass of people turns around and says like, yeah, you get power now. You can run stuff because we're all coming out for you because apparently you get my anxiety about it. Instead of doing the thing where you're like, dude, let's just chill this thing out. Because it's more important for the power than it is for the country. That's the thing. It really struck me this time is because I remember even people like Pelosi in the wake of the July 2024 attempt at Trump's assassination. Even they were like, it's time to tone down the radical. You did not see that for a second. How Team Jeffries is out there like, don't forget right wing radicals. They have zero reflection. They're like, nope, not a second to wait. Not only did you not see it, the CBS News flagship program read the manifesto to the president of the United States like it was a legitimate thing to read to him. Yeah. I mean, it was the exact opposite of what you expect Americans to be. Have we seen the manifesto from the Nashville shooter several years ago? No, of course not. Have we seen that? I was told that it was too dangerous to read manifestos. What do you suppose was the difference between that? Well, it was clearly going to be some left wing shit. They're regurgitating everything left wing people say. They're like, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. People could surmise that they were optimized and maybe weaponized by the left. Do you think maybe that that was the takeaway? And when you had elected Democrat officials wearing these shirts of like protect trans kids with guns and knives on them, telling telling trans people that you realize donald trump is going to get rid of trans kids this is gonna be a genocide this is this is a fight for your life and then they see these string of shootings and the messaging doesn't change is because that's what it was designed to do in the first place yeah it's it's ridiculous so you guys encountered some of this stuff on the way in we have a graphic uh in graphic three of some protesters outside of the white house correspondence dinner and this is before i think it was before it actually looks a little dark so maybe it's even after the shooting but you encountered it firsthand on the way in dude these p every single group of people was holding different foreign flags they were all yelling at everybody you should die you're the worst like fuck you it was insane okay it was insane and the people walking into this room it's not all we're like conservative republicans like the old man and me it's a lot of journos walking in and they're just yelling at them too and so there were unhinged people from start to finish walking into this room yeah and duncan duncan saw some of them while he was walking out you know i gotta hand it to him uh apparently some message had gotten out after the shooting because the police had cordoned off like multiple lanes there um you know in dupont circle and everything but they were very quiet as people were filing out which i thought showed a little bit of organizing so good on them they were not quiet when i walked out oh we walked out a little bit before i did when i walked out they were yelling the same old thing can we go into depth about fuck you you should die so all of that so i want to go into depth about this and it's probably not the way you thought it was going to go but i'm going to be honest so here's the thing is is it's at the end of the night it's been a trying night that some unhinged person has tried to murder the president and duncan's like i want to go home to my family and my kids and um he's like all right let's go ashbrook and ashbrook's like i'm not going i'm gonna hang out with my journal buddies it's true i want you to get the fuck out there with these lunatics he made me walk alone i had to walk a lonely road on the boulevard of broken dreams they did say that looks like my journal buddies are in here they did say the president might come back so i waited and that's not why you waited bro you waited for your journal buddies you got to think about your real friends i gotta say those journals aren't your real friends duncan is our real friend i felt uh yes trying to smoke smoke was defending me that yeah i could tell by his just look at his twitter feed that night yeah it's a cute concern for your health and well-being uh yeah you're you you wanted me winged i can't wait for my mom to hear that at the beginning of the episode. She's going to text me immediately. She's like, tell Josh, fuck you. It's jokes. It's jokes, Karen. We're having a good time, as we always do here on the Variety Program. We come back, there's some lighter moments from some people that I can't believe are actually invited to this thing right after this. All right. So the old fat man took a break from King of the Hill to show up. Dude, I find it when I talked about the fact that 2,600 people, I don't know if he was invited. There's a whole lot of people who show up to like the parties because every media group likes to pretend like they have the coolest party. It's the dumb. First of all, it's the dumbest thing. This is not the fucking Oscars. And the Oscars aren't even the Oscars anymore. But like it's just not – there was a time and a place where this thing was actually pretty cool. When me and Holmes went, it was different. it's not like anybody with a pulse get in the building yeah you know what it used to be a thing it used to be a thing and now that it's like you know whoever shows that's why i was like ash will take my ticket oh yeah yeah very generous of you smug i so steve schmidt is who we're referring to but i think he was at the substack party i don't think he was at the actual dude didn't even get invited to it but he flies from utah or whatever it is that he lives if you can't crack the top 2600 in dc that's what i'm saying you know but even the top 2600 i saw some pictures from inside there where i was like i remember when you were a spokesperson like 26 years ago for something that mattered like i have not seen your name yeah since and they're still involved that's a way it's too big of an invite list if we're dealing with that but steve schmidt whether he was there or not was in dc as a part of the celebration of the white house correspondents association and this guy Tim Rice got him on camera. Check this out, clip six. Don't we have a, you know, is there a rhetoric problem? I mean, it's the third time they've tried to kill the president. I think that there's one person beyond and above all others who's responsible for poisoning the rhetoric in America. That guy's name is Donald Trump. You're saying it's the president's fault the people keep trying to kill him? No. What do you mean by that? What do you mean by that? What do you mean? What do I mean? He said the president has done more to poison the rhetoric. I mean, the president's supporters are the ones shooting people. Poisoning venomous man. He may not have been at the party, but I think he got his hands on some of the wine bottles that he was taking out of that place. I hope he types it out so that we can play him this week. Fellas, that's why there's no tomorrow without Z-Biotics today. well said i don't think i can i don't think i can add on to that there was also this hilarious uh little parlor game that was happening inside of dc they had to deal with this uh cat uh michael glance well no no there's two different things that are happening first of all let's play clip seven who's in the room secretary pete hegseth is in that room You've got Scott Besson. Watch this cat in the white hair here if you're a YouTube subscriber. Watch him sit here. Watch him. Going for the salad. Now to the president of the United States. And as John mentioned, they've evacuated the room. Everybody's under the table. Amazing. Amazing. He was hungry. I get it. Guy was hungry. Respect. Was that, Duncan, was that a burrata or a mozzarella on the salad? The consistency struck me as more of a burrata. Mm-hmm. Uh, the cheese to vegetable ratio was all off way too much cheese. Uh, it wasn't very good, but he was not going to get under the table. He was going to demand to eat his salad. He was going to demand to eat his salad, which I appreciate. He's, I think he's the head of either at least a top agent at CIA. Uh, so this is like an important guy and he's doing his thing. But like what I found so hilarious about is the nonchalantness of the salad eating. it's not like he was totally unconcerned with the situation he was just like yeah what else am i gonna do you know i need he's a caa guy yeah oh honestly like you know i think that's a compliment because if you're thinking about if you're in the market for an agent literally how do they behave under fire rose literally cool as a cucumber he'll have a salad yeah he'll look out for you this guy's still at work their respect you know they're seeing my eyes he's he's got you know Your agent is out on the line under the – there's shots being fired. He's still at it. Good for CAA. His body should be on top of one of his clients. That would be a true agent. That would be a true agent. No question about it. All right. So there was also this shit outside where this leftist – apparently, I don't know if they got the memo or didn't get the memo. But when somebody tries to assassinate the president of the United States, don't charge the motorcade, folks. don't charge the motorcade well this lady found out the hard way clip eight you're locked up lock her up lock her up lock her up lock her up Oh, this is great. I work for who? A digital organizer. I'm a digital organizer. Free speech for people! And so because of that, I've got another cane. Guess what? I'm also pressed in the fucking present to the pedophile. Bingo. And that thing is echoing exactly what's in the manifesto of this psycho. It's almost like the left has been pushing this out to unhinged people. Back up, back up. Listen to the screaming. These people are unwell. That's what I'm saying. But see, imagine two dozen of these women, and they were surrounding Duncan and I when we were walking in. Holding the Palestinian flags. How long was that clip? Was that 45 seconds or something like that? So here's the thing is, part of the problem here is the left is like, for folks who saw the first Jurassic Park movie, you know, the raptors. They're like, oh, they check the cages. They look for weakness. How long are we going to let these lunatics basically test the cages She ran after the president motorcade after an attempted assassination Why did the cops there I like the blue That great Why did not baton her in the face instantly? Because here's the thing is, the left has learned the lesson of test the cages. Oh, you'll be a hero. She'll put that video out on her Facebook because she's going to get let out in minutes. She's not going to have to post bail. It's a blue city. Across this country, if you commit a crime and you're like, I was fighting fascism and Donald Trump, the DA is going to let you out. No charges are going to be pressed. And they keep at it. And they keep doing this shit. A guy tried to murder Donald Trump. We saw him barely miss a bullet, came right within a quarter inch of his brain. And business as usual, they murder Charlie. Business as usual. If you see someone run out after the president's murder case, after someone tried to kill him, you belly club him across the face. Get on the same page as everyone else in this country who realizes this is the thing. is it's not just trump they will kill anyone who is to the right of bernie sanders if they can and they will be made a hero if they think they're a threat also just a i don't know maybe a public service announcement to parents out there you don't have eyes on your kids during school there's a lot of shit being taught to them they get they pick up a lot of different things if you think there is at least some possibility that your son or daughter could be a liberal digital organizer for the left put them in a cage it's even better put them in a cage feed them water like yeah but i think that's not arrested was a teacher you need to beat them summarily the guy who got arrested is the teacher so they're going to school like some beatings until he gets out of Might I suggest something, though, is that the genesis of most of the mental health problems in America in digital organizers on the left is they don't have a relationship with their parents. Oh, that's probably right. OK. They long ago cut off ties with their parents. I think you're right. I think you're right. Now she gets to organize her way right to a jail cell. She can organize her way. She'll be out. I mean, no, you're not. He's not wrong. She's going to be out and she's not even going to have to post bail. Yeah. And she's going to be out the next day. Because of Soros folks. That's the thing is all the DAs in all these towns, all the towns across America that you see this kind of nonsense. It's that whole joke of like try this in a small town. It's because this shit doesn't fly in a red state. But in blue towns, oh, all the DAs that are put in there by Soros, they'll let you out. There's no problem. That's the thing is she knows that you're seeing the confidence of an individual who knows they will face zero consequences, zero consequences. And they faced zero consequences. They gave her 45 seconds to be screaming and shouting. You've got 10 cops being like, OK, ma'am, can you please calm down? Billy Clubber across the face. You just rushed at the president for an assassination attempt. We used to have consequences in this country. That's why people didn't act up. That's true. You're not wrong. I mean, you're not wrong. I mean, for those of us well-adjusted human beings, we all assumed that if you rushed a gate with a metal detector, you were going to get shot on the spot. There were people who did time for doing a burnout on a pride flag over the summer of 2020 when we all had to be lectured about how America is a racist nation and you're all horrible people. There are people who did jail time for doing a burnout on a pride flag drawn on the street. But she's not going to do time. No. You'll be happy to know that the former president of the United States, Barack Obama, was on top of the news. It was probably a day after a manifesto was released. CBS News read it. Norah O'Donnell read it to the president of the United States. Of course she did. The healer in chief. And Barack Obama apparently didn't see any of that. So he posted a message, if we can pop that up. Although we don't have the details about the motives behind last night's shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner. We may never know. It's incumbent upon all of us to reject the idea that violence has any place in our democracy. It's also a sobering reminder of the courage and sacrifice the U.S. Secret Service agent show every day. uh by the way that's just like back at it's a self-serving thing because those are the people who are around him all the time i'm grateful to them thankful to the agent who was shot is going to be okay we don't know we couldn't possibly it's like that meme of like uh leftists make it impossible to have discourse because they act like they don't understand anything like he's like wait this is hours after the dude he's everywhere he posted this at 5 p.m on sunday yeah it's Dude, we've already run this. We may never know what caused it. The guy behind this sent a letter out, which has now been broadcast. Like, you cannot get more obvious about what the motive was. Like, if you're in Times Square, there's like size 500 font going across buildings being like, motive is known. Shooter says that he did this because he hated Donald Trump, attended No Kings. And Obama's like, boy, we'll never figure this out. Listen, he 100% knew about that manifesto. manifesto. He 100 percent knew the motivation behind this guy's assassination attempt. So you have to ask yourself why he would lie to protect it. And I think it's because he is so powerful among the Democrat Party and on the left, and he does not want to lose that far left support and still kind of likes him. And the worst thing in his mind is that the Hassan Pikers and the Bernie Sanders supporters, AOC supporters will somehow not like Barack Obama. So right. And unless he speaks to them directly, you know, he will not continue to have their support. Ashbrook is so right. That is the best analysis. And we have absolute proof of how right you are, where last week you saw him go and do that event with Momdani in New York, who campaigned with Piker, because Obama knows he's like, shit, I can't be coming off his milk toast. I can't get left behind by where the party's at. I want to be like, you know, Barack still gets it. Amazing. That's 100% right. Nobody's going to look at my library and think it looks cool. No, you know, it just doesn't. It just doesn't. Nobody's going to like it for that. My library sucks and Michelle hates me. Fuck. I'll hang out with the loonies. All I have is Piker. Last thing before we take a break here, you flagged another post that we generally speaking, We don't love the, well, if Democrats did it thing because we all know the answer to it. But this one puts a fine point. This really got me. Can I get graphic 12? Kyle Smith put up, if that had happened to Obama, we would have had to embark on a six-month national conversation on hate, racism, and gun control. Legislation would be proposed. Scarred kids would have the day off school. Obama would be a living martyr. The pundits like this is the thing. Yeah. This is the thing is – and it's something that we've discussed for a very long time is the continued dehumanization of conservatives in this country by the media, by left-wing elected officials, by Democrats of, well, it doesn't matter. Well, Trump had it coming. Well, you know, Fariz Akhari is like, I will have to postpone my special, the imperial presidency. They don't care. They goad it. They encourage it. They enjoy it and they revel in it and they see it as a source of power of encouraging violence. But if anything comes close to them, it's like, OK, if that would have happened to Obama, the SPLC would be like, yes, it worked. Yeah. Now we've got a fundraising drive. We talked someone into it and now we fundraise off of it. It's all fake. The only thing that's real is the inherent threat that anyone to the right of Bernie Sanders in this country faces because the media and elected officials on the left encourage it. Well, it brings us to our question of the day. And when you like and subscribe to the Ruthless Variety program, we read all of your responses and get back to the very next episode. Our question is, what's the most outlandish defense Democrats offer when one of their voters does something violent? We've had a lot of opportunity to see this over the last year and a half, unfortunately, and there's been a lot of them. So you surface all of yours and have a discussion. We read all of your comments, get back to the very next episode. When we come back, we're going to get to you about our question of the day from last episode. Should Hassan Piker be deported? It's like even more. Even more. Feels perfect. Right after this. All right. Question of the day. When you like and subscribe to the Ruthless Variety Program, we read all of your responses. Get back to the very next episode. So like, subscribe, leave your response. We read all of them when we get back to you on this question. Should Hassan Piker be deported? we always start with a voice first comment comes from patty girl 82 patty girl writes piker yelling at his poor dog is like katie porter yelling at staff in the background shot minus the electrocution patty girl i think that when katie porter saw what piker had she probably wished that she had a similar button to push on her don't give her any ideas no kidding uh dunks drunks again like and subscribe uh share it with your friends because if we had a million subs i would have had an escort from the shooting i was at right uh this from sigmund 225 sigmund writes the video clip of piker shocking his dog is emblematic of the democrat party position and goals quote we own you and you will stay in your place or you will be punished that's incredible It's true. Amazing analysis. That is. That's very good. Smugs. Comment three comes from Adam Sagal. Adam writes, first off, you guys are absolutely killing it. You've become one of only two podcasts that I almost never miss. About the question, I am shocked and appalled that Smug would suggest deportation. I would have expected him to endorse firing squad or hard labor prison camp. This will be more in line with Zidium. As he's slowly transitioning to a squishy, soft little world. Just kidding, Smug. Go Broncos. listen deporting him is the moderate option i mean that's very funny a well-known moderate comfortably smug yeah no question about it he's the thoughtful guy i love it's like you either become the villain or either become a hero live long enough to become the villain but that's the thing is i would support any option i want trump to actually become the person he is accused of enough is enough geez okay terrific let's transition what's the right yes all right So this is the thing that I was alluding to earlier, which is like a little mini drama that was happening online for like politicos in the D.C. area that we got a kick out of. So funny. And there's this cat named Michael Tracy. I don't know. I've never heard of. I don't know. Michael Tracy is one of those sort of like left libertarian type of people. OK. I think like Glenn Greenwald. He was associated with Young Turks back in the day. I think he has a sub stack now. but think of that sort of mold okay got it okay so what what ended up happening is nathan brand initially put something out can we put graphic six up okay so he says guy brand not sure what to do with this information but yeah michael tracy started screaming at uh this cake i think that's jim acosta no no it's julie brown oh that's julie brown's handle okay about epstein at the substack party acosta got involved threatening to fight tracy outside uh and then and then you get a pick here in graphic seven of tracy right this is apparently at the substack party looks like doesn't look like he's ready for a fight also looks like an event i would love to miss the substack party is this brand at the grinder party which party is this This was the Substack Party. And I got to say, I think we've seen a lot recently that the sort of new media influencer set has to learn to sort of be taken seriously. Yes. We've seen that, I think, in the fighting on the right, in some of the podcast wars and all that sort of stuff. the substack party i think really billed itself as the alternative media podcaster party for so it was like a magnet for this insanity yeah and it's like that is my real complaint in all of this and also you're making us all look bad it's but it's also like just remember what substack ultimately is is a whole bunch of people who have been fired from their jobs yes right yeah i mean look i got nothing against substack i'm sure it's a serviceable platform i'm sure they do great work I don't have any problem with it. I haven't been on it myself, but it seems like it's successful in many ways, provides information, news and information. But let's not ignore the fact that literally every single left wing journalist who has been completely run out of town for being a complete maniac has made their home on Substack. They're going to have to vet the guest list a little better next time. So this is inevitably what's going to happen. And so what happens in graphic eight is Jim Acosta threatened to fight me tonight. This is from Michael Tracy at the Substack party. OK, so he's confirmed both sides of this story. We now have a fight in the mix. The plot thickens. And the plot thickens. Is this going to happen? Is this not? Graphic nine. Graphic nine is still have no idea whatever went on with Trump tonight. Yeah, not that's Michael Tracy. That's not the news. what's the news is uh just know that jim acosta threw a fucking hissy fit pussy jim meet me in front of the hampton inn and then he gives the address of the hampton and it's on 16th street can we pull that graphic up again yeah 101 a.m you know what's happening this guy is loaded off of off of cheap booze that they give the journos oh he's ready to go he's giving jim the coordinates he wants to meet him right outside so let's go to the next uh the next one graphic 10 he's got a yeah jim i'm literally waiting for you right now you piece of shit 107 a.m outside the hampton inn also like that's genuinely accepted is like if you're outside of hampton inn at 107 combat is happening dude and he's just like who is involved it's basically like like being at a waffle house yeah you know but what i love about this is so he posts the original one at 101 six minutes later he's at i'm at the hampton fires out the photo he's like i'm ready here's the thing president trump if you're listening make this an undercard at your ufc fight for america 250 yes these guys need to fight in front of the white house i'd like to see it could even be a fundraiser for charity i think the ruthless variety program would contribute to that in fact if this was set up as an undercard at the ufc fight on the on the lawn of the white house I would happily donate to whatever charity to get those two fighters. Oh, me too. I'd love to see it. So somehow a journalist who's been in town for quite some time is a pretty online guy by the name of Ben Jacobs gets in the middle of this. Familiar with the scuffle. He puts up a post and grabs – living in D.C., it's easy to get blasé about being close to so many important historical sites. So taking advantage of today's visit to this major cultural landmark. it's so funny well tracy sees this and he's none too pleased and so he responds hey ben jacobs i wish you didn't let me know first that you were stopping by might have had uh to unblock me first i would have loved to meet you outside for a spirited chat so he's got now he's got like multiple combatants that he's he's interested in taking on i mean honestly like you're really picking your opponents when you're going after ben jacobs right and i'm like what's his record in combat yeah well i mean the governor of montana flattened him with a body slam that's that's how if you remember the name ben jacobs it is that he was a menace governor gianforte so i think the official story is and widely accepted is he like attacked this is another example of left-wing violence he like attacked gianforte i don't think gianforte defended himself That's not the same thing. I think so. I don't feel like that's the full. What his version of the story was, you've body slammed me and broken my glasses. And put it in the museum, and then the museum went bankrupt. This guy's like, good luck charm. I'd like to see Ben Jacobs as the ref for the fight between Michael Tracy and Jim Acosta. I would vote for Nick Brand, who works at Grindr. I think he should be. Who is it with the initial tweet? Nate Brand at Grindr. He should be the referee. I don't think Nate works at Grindr. Was he the Grindr party? I think he should be the guy because he put out the tweet in the first place. I don't think he works at Grindr, buddy. I don't think Nate is. That's not the Grindr. The Grindr party. I think he's a Grindr party guy. Apologies to the Grindr party guy. It's a Substack party. It's a Substack party. My mistake. Just to be accurate. But anyway, this is kind of what was going on. Worst town on earth. It's the worst town on earth. This thing, and it's not slowing down. 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