The Most Unhinged Leftist Responses to Trump's Assassination Attempt | The Babylon Bee Podcast
The Babylon Bee reacts to how the lame media handled the assassination attempt on former president Donald Trump and gave us their terrible takes. They also discuss the news that J.D. Vance is the VP nominee on the ticket as well as how the Republicans are becoming a big tent party that seem to be softening their stances on marriage and abortion. This episode is brought to you by: Get $200 off 3-month emergency food supply kits at My Patriot Supply: http://preparewithbee.com Get up to $5000 in free silver with a qualifying investment at Allegiance Gold: http://protectwithbee.com
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A gunman attempted to assassinate Donald Trump during a campaign rally on Saturday, July 13th at 6.11 p.m.
The former president survived, but Corey, I'm going to butcher the last name.
I'm really sorry.
Corey Compatore.
Comperatore.
Comperator.
He's a husband, father, and a volunteer firefighter was tragically killed.
He was a Trump supporter and a fan of the Babylon B, and we would like to extend our condolences to his family.
It's incredibly sad.
There was the last post he did on Instagram was a comment on a B article.
Well, second to last post.
I guess it was the second to last.
Yeah.
So, yeah.
I mean, obviously, it's very obvious that I read a prepared statement, but we wanted to take that very seriously.
And, you know, that hurts.
You know, that's a big deal.
I'm glad Trump's okay, but that's not a good day.
He was a hero.
He dived in front of his family.
That's right.
Protected his family and was shot.
And he'll go down in history.
Yeah.
So where were you when you heard that Trump was almost assassinated?
So I was in my house.
So I remember exactly where I was, unlike on January 6th.
I don't remember that.
I don't remember that day at all.
But I do remember where I was.
I was in the pit right next to our hearth, and I was sitting there reading Harry Potter to my kids.
For those that don't know, Jarrett has a house, and there's a pit in the house.
There's like a little, almost like a den you step into.
It's very groovy.
It's like the 70s.
Yeah.
It's like when the 70s level all these different levels.
It's just when you say pit, it gives a different image mentally.
I put my children in the pit.
It's in the pit.
Then I read to them the book.
We must read the book or it puts the lotion on the skin.
No, I was thinking more along the lines of Princess Bride, which we watched last week, too.
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So yeah, obviously we're on the Pacific coast, the best coast.
So our times are a little wacky.
So I was actually at a sort of impromptu wedding reception for a member of the church.
And because they got married in Florida and then they came over here and it was like a sort of a reception for the people who couldn't go to Florida.
And that's when I found out and I started ignoring everybody to look at the news on my phone.
So this was around 3 o'clock.
But the actual assassination was at around 6.11 or so.
Assassination attempt.
The assassination attempt.
6.11 Eastern.
No.
Is that right?
Eastern Standard?
Or was it 6-11?
Eastern.
Yeah.
So 3, it was 3 o'clock.
3.11 here.
Yes.
3.11.
Yeah.
Here.
Yeah.
Because there's a difference in the time.
I don't know if you guys know this.
There's a difference.
There's something significant about the difference of time.
Yeah, very significant.
If you put just like a Venn diagram together, and then you got West Coast.
You see where those things overlap?
Yeah.
See where they overlap, right?
And then in the middle is Central Time.
Yeah, so what was wild is I was reading about the timeline of events of like who saw what, when.
There's this event at this, like a farm in Pennsylvania.
Yeah.
And then just outside of it, there's like a manufacturing facility, like a, it's like a tin roof.
It's just this building.
It's like, you know, a couple hundred yards away.
130 yards to be exact.
Something about that.
Very close.
And apparently the Secret Service did not have anybody in that building.
They were relying on local law enforcement to secure that building for somebody.
And apparently this is a common practice because they only have so many people following the president or former president in this case.
And they work with law enforcement to expand their perimeter.
And I was reading somewhere, not on this article, but somewhere that 5.45, as early as 5.45, they were seeing some weird guy walking around.
He had a backpack.
He had like a rangefinder.
So it sounded like the snipers knew, hey, there's something off about that guy.
There's something weird.
But then they kept losing him in the crowd or he would walk away and they would lose track of him.
But then at 6.05, Trump walks up on stage in Butler, Pennsylvania, 6.09.
And I think we saw the video of this earlier where the witnesses are like pointing at the roof.
They're like, hey, over there, over there.
There's a guy on the roof.
Hey, look over there, officer, officer.
And so they're waving people down.
Yeah, so right then, Trump is speaking.
They see someone with a gun.
They're trying to tell everybody.
Not long after that, gunfire erupts.
Well, so there's a lot of.
So a cop actually jumps, he climbs up onto the roof.
And then supposedly the sniper turns around or the gunman turns around and spooks him.
And then he pulls back around and tries to do a quick shot, which I think is probably a good thing.
So somehow the local police officer distracted him.
Yeah.
I mean, it's too bad the police officer didn't stop him.
But I mean, I don't know what it was like, how close he was.
You start climbing a ladder and a rifle gets pointed at you.
You're like, ah.
Well, yeah, you got to wonder.
I mean, it's, you know, I know he's gotten a lot of crap for not doing that.
So it's hard to know, I think, in this situation, because you see somebody points a gun at you, you duck.
Yeah.
And then you get your gun and you're going to go back in.
You don't want to just run at the gun.
Yeah, he probably didn't have his gun out.
He was climbing a ladder.
And I don't know what protocol is for that kind of thing when there's a presidential candidate around, if you're supposed to just run at the guy, if that's like one of those times.
I mean, Secret Service probably has different opinions, different protocols, because this was a local police officer.
Unless you're a female Secret Service agent.
What do you guys think about that, by the way?
Well, I don't know if I'm completely against female Secret Service agents, but I'm against the particular ones that I saw.
It seemed like they were very, like that one woman pulled out her gun and seemed like she was fumbling around with it and she couldn't holster it back.
I'm like, why did you take it out?
And then why can't you put it back where it goes?
Like, what are you doing?
There was a few agents that they seemed confused.
Like, they were kind of like shuffling back and forth.
Like, what are we doing?
What are we doing?
It's like, you're the Secret Service.
You should know what you're doing.
Do you see the one picture where you've got the dudes jumping on him?
And then there's this lady hanging back.
She'd be right in the line of fire because that was the direction the fire was coming from.
And so my big thing is I'm not against women in the Secret Service.
I feel like that's fine if they want to do that.
But what I do think, this is my argument.
There's a friend of mine that's in the Secret Service.
He's about six foot five.
Taller than Trump.
He's, I mean, it's, if that's possible.
Well, Trump is 6'3.
He's the biggest man.
Even Abraham Lincoln is taller than Trump.
Yeah, he's a, but he's a massive dude.
He's probably, he's the size, he's the size of two of these chairs together.
He just like stands there and he's massive.
You mean like shoulder to shoulder?
Yeah, like he has the weight of 20 cardboard boxes.
You think that he could lift?
He's at least 10 boxes.
And he is morbidly obese, I've learned.
No, no, he's he's like just solid block of muscle.
So is he like Kingpin from Spider-Man?
A bit like Kingpin.
Okay.
And it's funny because I know him from Jiu-Jitsu and I've rolled around with him a couple times and it's he it's like playing with you know Dan has a puppy in here.
I'm like the puppy.
He's just like little puppy dog.
Yeah.
So anyway, but he's so big that if a bullet were to come in and pierce Neil, it would stop and it would not continue to go through.
These little women that are protecting the president, it goes right.
I think it would go right through him, like even if they were in front of him.
So I don't know.
You should only be hiring women for secret service duty if they have a lot of meat on them.
Or blind midgets.
Yeah.
So yeah, yeah, it's one of those things where I agree with you guys.
I'm not opposed to women in the secret service because there's other things the secret service does.
They don't just walk around the president.
Like they have emotional support groups.
Like they do a lot of laundry.
Sure, absolutely.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
That's terrible.
I mean, that's probably true also.
But certainly the people actively on the ground with the president need to be physically capable of doing their job.
And those women did not seem to be physically capable.
Yeah.
Unless they can jump really high and we just didn't see it.
Well, I think the weird part is that we haven't heard from them either.
Like we haven't heard from the Secret Service.
And I think that they haven't been answering questions.
They're like, yeah, you can direct those questions to our field office or whatever.
And it's like, no, there's a lot going on here, you guys.
I think because their response was so embarrassing that they were kind of afraid to talk about it.
And I, in a way, I don't blame them.
But at the same time, Homeland Security, who oversees the Secret Service, should be compelling them to speak, or at least Alejandro Mayorkas should be talking.
And he's talking, but he's just saying, I have complete confidence in the Secret Service.
Yeah, it's like a stop.
After that, why do you, though?
Like, they won't acknowledge the mistakes.
Yeah, I think that's a really weird thing to do, to not acknowledge that that was a mistake.
Unless it wasn't.
It seems like the big failure, obviously, is no one was really protecting that building that was only like a few hundred yards away.
Like the Secret Service kind of made it sound like, well, our law enforcement partners were securing that building for us.
The snipers that were above Trump, they're kind of looking further out.
They're not looking at that building in particular.
And then the head of the Secret Service was asked about that.
Like, why didn't you have anybody on top of the building?
Like, it sounded like they had cops inside the building, but no one was outside it to make sure no one climbed up.
Yeah, at the very least, be like around the building going, okay, here's the entries to the roof.
Yeah.
You know, let's make sure there's secure.
Stop that guy with the ladder.
Yeah.
Right?
Yeah.
No, I, to me, and it's interesting.
I get asked this question a bit and over the last few days.
And do you guys, I am not of the opinion that this was a conspiracy at this point.
Well, there's, there's no evidence of it, but I'm suspicious.
I mean, of course, but I, you know, all these things are just a failure.
It's just failure after failure.
Yeah.
It seems like to me.
It could be that.
It doesn't feel like, you know.
It's just gross incompetence because those are the two options, right?
They're either very, very incompetent or to set this up a certain way.
Yeah.
Like, stand down, stand down.
It makes no sense to me to have a clear line of sight a few hundred yards away or a rooftop that's just sitting there that someone can get up there.
So the simplest explanation is that there's just incompetence and the police just didn't secure that roof.
And so the head of the Secret Service went on an interview with ABC News.
What did she say?
She said that that building in particular has a sloped roof at its highest point.
And so, you know, there's a safety factor that would be considered there that we wouldn't want to put somebody up on a sloped roof.
So that was really the answer that she gave as to why nobody was securing that roof.
So isn't the job of, and this is my, the job of the Secret Service is to put yourself in harm's way all the time.
Like, that's what you do.
It's to be a person that will put yourself in harm's way.
Well, I guess be willing to, but if there's a better alternative, you don't want to be like, I'm going to jump on that bed of spikes when I can go around it.
But this is definitely not that situation.
I've seen the roof.
We have pictures I'm sure we're showing that it was slanted, but it's not like a steep incline.
You're not falling off of it.
And the counter snipers were also on a sloped roof anyway.
So it's just an excuse.
Every person, every sniper is, they're all on roofs all the time.
I played Hitman, dude.
I know.
That's crazy.
Yeah.
So just that answer strikes me as very strange that, well, it's a sloped roof.
What do you expect?
You know, like, we're not going to put someone on there.
And it's like, well, you think like the sniper that's trying to take out Trump is going to worry about that?
Or is he just going to climb up there and do it?
Like, I don't know.
I don't like, what is the, what is the, it's not that, it's not a good reason.
It's not, it's not a good excuse.
No, it's, it's not.
I mean, she could acknowledge that, hey, we were thinking that and that was a mistake, but there's nowhere in that statement that she owns up to, hey, that was a mistake, an error in judgment, that sort of thing.
Have you guys heard anything about this shooter?
Do you know anything about his motives?
Have you guys heard anything?
Is there any stuff that you're talking about?
Not a whole lot coming out because there's not a whole lot coming out.
Apparently, this is the one 20-year-old that doesn't have any social media.
that isn't really a digital footprint.
He had a Discord account, but I guess Discord already deleted it.
And we're like, huh.
They said, like, don't worry.
There wasn't anything political.
It's fine.
He just wasn't using it.
It's like, I mean, maybe, but.
You mean they deleted it in the last couple of days?
Yeah.
Okay.
Well, this looks now I'm starting.
Maybe this is a conspiracy.
Yeah.
And then maybe there were some people behind this.
They found his phone, and I guess they're like, oh, we can't get into this phone.
Like, the FBI can't get into his phone.
Well, that's comforting to know.
I mean, I think they eventually did on some level.
So one thing I would say about that is I think we're very quick to, well, obviously blame the shooter for what he did because shooting people is wrong no matter what.
But I think we're also very quick to assign motive when we don't know.
Like the right wing is definitely like, oh, yeah, he was obviously a lefty.
He wanted to kill Trump because he's a Democrat and he hates Trump.
It could be that he's just a psychotic kid that saw an opportunity of like, oh, I can get famous.
I can, I can, like, like a school shooter.
I'm like, oh, I can get a real big target here.
It could have been, it could have been that kind of a motivation.
We just don't know.
We don't know the underlying motive, but we know that the main motive was to kill Trump.
We know that.
Yeah.
Obviously.
So even though you're right, it was weird to me to see Biden speak and like, hey, do you know the motive?
Is this an assassination attempt?
He's like, I don't have all the facts.
I don't know.
Like, I mean, he tried to shoot it.
Well, that's like an assassination attempt.
Yeah.
I mean, this has been talked about a lot on the news, but every leftist is not a good idea.
No, we're the only podcast that covers it.
Yeah, but it's like he fell down.
He got scared by loud noises.
And then I don't know.
I can't really speak to that if it's an assassination attempt.
I'm not an expert in assassination attempts.
I have to refer to those people.
Well, this is something that the left likes to do when they just don't want to give the answer.
Yeah.
That's like, oh, I'm not going to tell you what a woman is.
I'm not a biologist.
You have to go ask a biologist.
Appeal to authority when you don't know, when you don't want to answer.
Yeah, pretty much.
Yeah.
Pass the buck.
That's what I want a president to do.
Yeah.
Pass the buck.
I'm not assassins.
So the head of Secret Service in this interview basically admitted the buck stops with me.
I'm the head of the Secret Service and the Secret Service failed to protect Trump and the people with this crowd.
But then she also said, I'm not going to step down.
So maybe we can play that clip and see for yourself what's going on here.
Who's responsible for this happening?
What I would say is the Secret Service was responsible for the protection of former president.
So the buck stops with you?
The buck stops with me.
I am the director of the Secret Service.
It was unacceptable, and it's something that shouldn't happen, Ken.
The president and Homeland Security Secretary said today they had 100% confidence in you, but there are some members of Congress calling on you to resign.
I appreciate the Secretary's comments, and we're going to continue to be transparent and communicate with people.
You plan to stay out, absolutely.
I do plan to stay out.
So just like this idea of like, yeah, someone shot at Trump and it's my fault, but I shouldn't have to resign over that.
Like that's silly.
Yeah.
Like, can you imagine any other line of work where like, yeah, my main job was to make sure the building doesn't fall down and the building fell down.
So, you know, stuff happens, but I get to keep my job, right?
It's also like, I think we need to keep our eye on the prize here and realize that DEI is the big, the big thing we need to be pushing for.
Let's remember.
Let's get that going.
That was a story that came out about the Secret Service that they had like this initiative.
We're going to have 30% of our force be female by 2030.
And you're like, well, is that the priority?
Or make sure Trump doesn't get shot.
Especially for a job like that.
This isn't like, oh, hey, you know, we're, I don't know, creatives in an office environment.
We want new perspectives.
It's not like that, which I can at least sort of understand that concept.
But this is just, oh, these people aren't capable of the job, but we need to fill this number.
Well, I would say, like, if the woman is the most capable person, then yeah, of course.
I mean, like everything else, everything has to be a meritocracy.
It's not about whether or not somebody's a male or female.
It's about whether or not you like whether or not you liked Wonder Woman 1984.
Wonder Woman could do that job.
Wonder Woman could.
And I don't mean Gal Godot.
I mean Wonder Woman, the character.
Although Gal Godot seems pretty tough, too.
Probably could too.
Yeah.
She should work for the Secret Service.
I think she's well, she's tall.
Yeah.
You know?
And she's probably got meat on her.
She may have some meat.
This is taking.
But the meat is only there to stop a bullet.
Right.
So that's what you got to think about.
So we, the good news is.
What am I, a piece of meat?
The good news is we are the Babylon Bee.
So let's bring a little levity to this situation, this terrible news.
And let's go over the most terrible takes about the assassination.
Let's look at these worst takes.
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Let's start with the media.
So CNN's headline, which they later changed, their initial headline was, Secret Service rushes Trump offstage after he falls at rally.
This is just so bad.
Which, you know, technically, he did fall.
It's like, it's not even just incompetence.
This is like, this is willful.
This is intentional.
Like, we are going to make this as vague as possible so people don't get the impression that you should get.
Yeah.
Well, yeah, this is misleading on purpose.
And I agree with you.
And you even could have said he ducked because he didn't fall.
Well, he ducked.
That's true.
Yeah.
After he ducked at rally.
So Secret Service rushes Trump after he falls.
It's like, oh, he just fell.
Yeah.
See, our guy falls too.
That's what they're trying to say.
That's right.
Now, I understand.
Obviously, this is like their first headline.
This went up minutes after the incident.
But you know, so you might not want to be like, oh, this alone gunman tried to attack the president.
Yeah, I get that you don't know those things yet, but you know, shots were fired.
You can at least say, hey, shots were fired at former president.
He had to be evacuated offstage.
This is the obsession with the news outlets to be first, maybe.
And so like, instead of being like correct, they want to be first so that they can get the most traffic.
Yeah.
So they're like our subscribers who replied to all the articles.
First.
They're like, first.
And it doesn't even matter.
They're like, something happened.
First.
I saw him fall.
And so somebody didn't even follow up and they just wrote the headline based on they were watching it on silent too, apparently.
So what was the Washington Post headline?
Okay.
Breaking news.
Former President Donald Trump was just rushed offstage after loud noises were reported at a rally in Pennsylvania.
A little better.
Follow live updates.
It's just Trump as a scaredy cat.
Like, oh, there's loud noises.
Gunshots.
Just, whoa, I don't know what that is.
And like, they have the picture with the article and he's got blood on his face.
They know by then he was shot.
Right.
They know.
And they also use the iconic photo, which again, this is countering their argument.
Like, and it's also, they don't want this image out there.
Picture it.
Speak louder than words.
Yeah.
So then the Associated Press also brought out their headline.
It says, breaking, Donald Trump has been escorted off the stage by a secret service during a rally after loud noises ring out in the crowd.
And that makes it sound like it's coming from the crowd, too.
Ah!
Like somebody yelling.
Like, all these people are chatting at me.
I know the former president, he can't handle loud noises, people.
Stop the loud noises.
The Newsweek said MAGA responds with outrage after Donald Trump injured at Pennsylvania rally.
Oh, this is the worst.
Just reading that headline.
You have no idea what's happening.
Not only is that, it's like MAGA responds.
Republicans pounce.
It's like, how dare they pounce?
First dare they get angry.
First of all, how dare they be angry?
And it's like, so MAGA responds with outrage, but also MAGA as a collective.
Like this is the other thing.
Like somehow MAGA is a person or a thing that has an opinion.
Super ultra MAGA turbulence.
Just like they do.
Like that's the thing.
They have this whole collective mindset.
So they assume that MAGA must also have a collective mindset.
Obviously, yeah.
That's the board collective.
Jerks.
I think like anybody who's a rational human being would react with outrage.
Like somebody just shot at the former president, right?
Whether you're MAGA or not, right?
So like they're trying to make it sound like there's this entity out there that's different and other than you and they're outrage.
But you shouldn't be.
Well, and it's also strange that I feel like the leftists, no matter if you're, I know that there's people that are disappointed he didn't get shot.
Yeah, we're getting to that.
But they're also, okay, what's the next one?
The Wall Street Journal.
The WSJ said I'm done.
Nation faces exhaustion and division after Trump's assassination attempt.
Okay, so that's just an op-ed.
So it's an op-ed.
It's someone's opinion.
But like their take from the shooting is, I'm tired.
I'm just tired of this.
I'm tired and I'm done with this.
It's like, well, how about, you know, Trump almost died.
So how about you write something about that?
Yeah.
I don't know what this article says, but it seems to me I think we're all tired and done with all this crazy, the high temperature of the political conversation.
I think we're all done to that.
So maybe that's it.
Yeah, it'd be nice if Biden would stop with a heavy retort, don't you think?
Yes.
If he'd show some leadership and be like, hey, let's tone things down and maybe I should stop doing that too.
Because he did have an Oval Office address the day after, I believe.
Right.
And he talked about the need to tone down the rhetoric, cool the temperature.
But in the same speech, he talked about how the election was like the most vital moment in history, essentially.
I'm paraphrasing.
And Trump is an existential threat.
Yeah.
And, you know, he just kept doubling down these things.
And then he was bringing up January 6th.
He's bringing up Nancy Pelosi's husband.
Like all political violence is bad.
He brought up the fine people thing again.
Trump says there's fine people on both sides.
It's like, what are you trying to do?
You're trying to get people angry about Trump again, right?
And it's like, it's already been debunked.
You keep repeating this lie that's been debunked.
You want to lower the temperature of our national discourse and at the same time say Trump might be kind of Hitler.
You know, like, what are you doing?
I know.
You can't do that.
Can I just say on this?
I feel like this is such a cynical approach that they take with their political opposition because they know, I don't think very many of them actually think that he will be an autocratic dictator, that he will never leave.
The people in charge, like Democratic leadership, I agree.
They don't think that.
I don't think that's available like average people to think that.
Well, and the news outlets all say this.
And so my thought is, what evidence do they have of this?
Like, I don't know.
They keep pointing to January 6th.
He was there for four years.
He left.
And then he's going to be there for four more years and he'll leave again.
That's my favorite part because Bill Maher is saying like, oh, if he gets the presidency, he won't leave.
I'm like, he left already.
What are you talking about?
What do you mean he won't leave?
Like, to me, I'm like, where do you get this idea?
Just the fact that he was asking about those things.
But people are so insane about this that I just think, dude, we've suffered four years under this crazy person.
We're going to suffer four years under this person.
And then we're going to suffer four more years.
And you just got to chill out.
You know, sometimes it goes your way and sometimes it doesn't.
Just relax.
It's not the end of the world.
As I tell my children daily, just take a chill pill.
Just take a chill pill, man.
Yeah.
Come on.
I hand them an imaginary pill and I make them take it.
It's become the thing.
Do you really do that?
Yeah.
But now they start taking fake pills out of my pocket and giving them to me.
They're like, no, I'm not taking chill pills anymore.
Yeah, that was one of the weird things with the whole rhetoric coming out of the Biden White House of we need to lower the temperature.
Everyone just calm down.
Let's stop yelling at each other.
We can't hate each other.
We're all neighbors.
And that was kind of like what Biden was saying.
And you even saw like the news media reporting with Trump.
Oh, thank goodness he's okay.
Thank goodness nothing bad happened to him.
And it's like you basically just called him Hitler.
Yeah.
And now you're saying, thank God Hitler's okay.
Like what you can't have it both ways.
You can't call him Hitler and then say, oh, Hitler's safe.
Well, that proves that they were never serious about it.
They weren't serious.
They didn't really believe he was Hitler.
Because if he was Hitler, you'd be like, finally, justice.
This will be the last.
And this is, oh, can I just talk about this?
Mark Hamill, this is a tweet that he put out.
First appearance of ludicrously oversized ear bandage, apparently not needed prior to tonight.
And then he posted a picture of Trump at the Republican National Convention.
That's a standard size gauze.
Like there's, there's, there, gauze comes in particular sizes, right?
Like, that's the size.
We made this custom shaped, yeah, custom shaped earpiece for you.
They don't really do that.
I just like how Mark Hamill is a medical expert now.
He's looking at a picture on his screen.
He's like, that bandage is too large for the wound that he sustained by getting shot by an AR-15.
How would you know, Mark Hamill?
Like, how do you know what kind of bandage?
And nobody's seen the wound either.
That's the other thing.
It's like, he was definitely bleeding pretty profusely.
It was a pretty good chunk.
Mark Hamill will be like, I will not believe unless I touch the stick my finger in the ear hole.
Yeah.
He's the doubting, doubting Luke Thomas.
Doubting Luke.
Mark Hamill, you know, I still like his acting.
I think he's a decent actor.
Really?
Yeah.
I did not like the story for The Last Jedi, but I thought he was good in it for what it was.
That's interesting.
I've always thought Mark Hamill was, while I was growing up, I always thought Mark Hamill was a terrible actor.
Like, I never liked anything he did.
But then as an adult, I watched his audition for Star Wars, and I kind of watched their first ones again, and I'm like, you know, for a kid, he's pretty good, you know?
Like, for a kid in his 20s, he ain't pretty.
Well, I'm certainly not necessarily defending his original performance either.
But I feel like the new stuff, too, I don't know.
I guess he's all right.
Did you see The Village of the Darned?
Never saw that one.
The John Carpenter one?
He was in that.
He was a priest.
The Village of the Darned?
Yeah, it wasn't called Darned.
I know.
It was pretty good.
The Village of the Darned.
I should go see that.
I should watch that.
You should go to the theater.
I should go see that.
You should go take it, get a time machine.
Christopher Reeve was in it.
Dude, this is like pre or post horse accident.
Pre.
Oh, interesting.
I should go see it.
I think he only did one movie after.
After Superman?
No, after his got, he got paralyzed.
He did the rear window.
Yeah, he did rear window.
Yeah.
But you know who else is weird?
Some person I've never heard of.
So Jess Piper said, after the shooting, there was an interview with an ER doctor.
Honestly.
Honestly.
I don't know who this person.
I shouldn't make fun of her talking yet.
I was fairly horrified to realize that there are ER doctors who are also Trump supporters.
Okay, now we can make fun of her.
Would they rend a care to an undocumented person?
A child who's been raped?
A gay person?
A trans person?
See, this?
I don't actually understand.
So I think after the shooting, there was a doctor in the crowd who actually tried to save the life of Corey.
So someone's like, is there a doctor here?
I'm a doctor.
Yeah.
And he went up there and he's like, not only am I a doctor, I'm a super patriot.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So it's like, so her perception of like, I saw this interview and there's an ER doctor there.
How could they be there?
They're good people, right?
Like it was just this weird dichotomy of like, if you're educated and you're a doctor, you wouldn't be a Trump supporter.
It's awful.
Well, not only that, that an ER doctor that was a Trump supporter would sit down and like have this list of things.
So first, before I give you any help, are you an undocumented person?
Are you a child who's been raped or are you gay or trans?
Right.
Because if you are, sorry, I can't render help to you.
Yeah, first, do no harm unless they are gay.
Unless they're gay or trans.
Or they're a child that's been raped.
In her mind, Trump supporters just hate all those people.
Yeah.
They would hate them and want them to die.
See, this is the news.
This is where the news is really.
Well, because that's really projection because she would want Trump supporters to die.
It's not that, not that Trump supporters want those people to die.
She wants Trump supporters to die.
So she can't imagine them not wanting her to die.
Right.
Or whatever she is.
So, you know, go touch grass.
And then no, Dan, do you want to take this one?
I don't know who this guy is.
He only just showed up recently, and now I know how to do it.
Yeah, I don't know if I want to take it because it's really dark.
Omni-liberal.
This guy who is on Twitter is omni-liberal.
Destiny, my understanding, a YouTuber of some sort.
But they basically just like lost their mind over the weekend.
So the first tweet that I put down here was, if we learned anything today, I hope it's realizing the importance of principles.
I've stressed many times on stream before.
Having a firearm means absolutely nothing if you don't spend time at the range practicing with it.
Ah, what a jerk.
So basically saying if that person practiced more, they would have hit their target.
And then following up, they figured out Corey's tweet on something and says, this is the retard that got killed at a Trump rally.
And then they're laughing about it.
So it's like somebody died.
It's really dark.
It's just that that's something that's funny to them.
And then they followed up with a tweet.
If I've offended anyone with my recent tweets, I'd like to make things right.
Direct message me and I'll buy you a front row seat to the next Trump rally.
So basically he's just saying, I want you all to die.
Like it's just, that's a really dark place.
I know there's people on the on the conservative side that are that are like this too.
Like I know that we're seeing the worst of the people come out online, you know, so you get this.
So I mean I want to make sure, you know, like this guy is a total jerk.
I don't think he represents like a large swath of the liberal group like that wants people to die or whatever.
Hopefully not.
I mean, hopefully not.
Yeah, but he certainly represents himself.
But there is an extremism.
There's an extremism on both sides where people want the other side to perish.
I don't see it over here very much.
Like I don't ever talk to anybody that's like, I hope, because we're obviously on the conservative side.
Yeah, I was just thinking about what the perception is of the Babylon B and how people think, oh, you guys are just right-wing, Trump-loving, you know, whatever expletives they want to throw in there.
You just want to control women.
You just want to, you know, you want the babies to be born, but you're not going to take care of them afterwards.
Things like that.
What do they say about conservatives in general?
And they project that onto us.
And I was just thinking like my interactions with the people at the B and the people in our orbit that we deal with on a regular basis.
And it's just the complete opposite reality of like, we find like the kindest people, the most authentic people, even people that get blasted in the media because they were at the Capitol on January 6th.
And we've interacted with them and talked to them.
And they're just like the sweetest people.
Like, I don't know.
Yeah.
It's the complete opposite of reality.
Like lectern guy.
The nicest guy in the world.
Yeah, he's sweet.
Literally the sweetest guy.
And he makes these little lecterns for charity now.
It's like he's like raising money for good causes.
And he's laughing about his misfortune and his what happened to him.
He's able to laugh about it.
He's a good example for that sort of thing because he had to deal with a lot from his situation.
So hanging out with him and talking to him, I didn't hear him at once say like, oh, I hate that person or I hate these people or, you know, their perception of us is that that's what we're like.
We just talk about who we need all the time.
I don't understand why they think that.
I do think it's a projection, like you were saying.
Because, you know, I've never met a person that's a Christian, that's a real Christian that wishes death or harm on their opposition or even the people that, you know, that's the one thing I've had moments in my life where, say, somebody were to try to were actually to kill Donald Trump.
I would say, okay, justice demands that guy dies like right now.
Like, you know what I mean?
I'd probably be angry about it too.
But like the people that we just disagree with, there's no animus like behind that for the people.
Like these ideas are terrible.
And we want to save society from the ideas, right?
I mean, somebody who abuses children, yeah, dude, like maybe, maybe there's some anger there.
And I would personally carry that out.
You can have discernment and you can have righteous anger over evil things.
But I think even if that situation came up and we believe in the death penalty and there was a situation that came up where someone had to die because of their crime, I think we would also feel sadness about the tragedy of that person's life and how they didn't, you know.
Yeah, some people wouldn't, but yeah, I certainly would.
It's like, I feel sorry for this destiny person because that's how they think.
That's terrible for them.
And I would even go as far as to say like the guy that tried to shoot at Trump and killed Corey.
I feel bad for that kid.
He was 20 years old.
He had his whole life ahead of him and he threw his life away.
I don't hate him, but I feel really bad about the whole situation.
Well, and it's funny.
I feel bad for his parents.
In the moment, it's almost like, yes, kill him now.
But then as soon as he gets captured, then there's all this opportunity for redemption.
There's opportunity for forgiveness.
Like, yeah, but like, I don't know, man.
We've been around school shootings, that kind of stuff.
Like, our, you know, one of my best friends from, yeah, anyway.
So, yeah.
We're not talking about that.
But yeah, but that's, that's what that's.
It's always like a thing of necessity if we have to take somebody out or if there's a there's a punishment for a crime.
It's always a thing of necessity.
It's never a thing that we delight in.
Yeah.
Like, oh, goody, this person's going to get what they deserve.
And I'm really happy it's happening.
It's like that episode of The Walking Dead where Carol shoots the kid.
look at the flowers oh that's the my my wife was like i'm out That was the last.
No, we all had our episodes where we divorced ourselves and a lot of people left over Look at the Flowers.
That was a tough one.
That was a tough one.
That was hard.
It was really hard.
You know, in terms of fiction, that was an interesting story.
It was totally interesting.
And Glenn, I mean, Glenn dying was where I got lost, but I think everything that's where a lot of people jumped in.
Everybody jumped the ship at that time.
That was a little much.
Anyway, we can talk about the Walking Dead.
We should have a whole Walking Dead episode.
I have a lot of opinions.
Anyways, well, we got other news, though.
Other news happened this week besides that.
Are you sure?
I'll take it.
Because I've only heard one story.
Dude, there's so much going on.
Okay.
I mean, it's amazing.
I've been saying that to my wife all weekend.
We're like, there's so much going on.
I feel like I'm just like holding on for dear life.
So Trump picked JD Vance.
Oh, as his running mate.
As his running mate for JD, I like JD.
He's a smart guy.
Is he?
He's a very smart guy.
Dan or JD?
Both.
I would say Dan.
Dan would be a good VP.
I would vote for Dan as VP.
Yeah.
Don't you think?
Let's do that.
For our deaf listeners, we're clapping.
Because there's subtitles.
They can watch the video.
There's subtitles.
There's subtitles.
No, it's for the buttons.
You're doing it for the deaf titles.
That's the deaf too, yeah.
Is that that's clapping?
Yeah.
Were you just shaking your hand?
For our audio-only listeners, for our blind listeners, we are shaking our hands side by side.
Like jazz hands almost.
Jazz.
Oh, jazz hands are different.
They're like this.
Now I'm doing jazz hand.
It's like ear height.
That's like, you know, clapping.
So I guess the neocons are mad because it's JD Vance.
Identify who the neocons are.
I don't know.
It's just, that's what the movie says.
Yeah.
Who are the neoconservatives?
Yeah, people like new conservatives.
So Mike Dan.
People that are in the George W. Bush orbit of we need to be fighting in all these wars all the time.
And that's kind of how I would define a neoconservative.
So they don't like JD Vance because he's against the wars.
He's actually a military veteran.
You mean he likes peace?
He likes peace.
Kind of like how Trump had all those mean tweets and didn't start any new wars.
He's kind of like that guy.
Yeah.
Remember how it seemed like when Trump was president?
It was like, wow, we might actually get peace in the Middle East.
That was weird.
He was doing all these negotiations and deals.
The art of the deal.
Yeah.
The art of the Middle Eastern.
He was talking to Kim Jong-un, and no American president had ever gone to North Korea like that.
He was doing weird stuff.
You're like, whoa, I didn't realize we could do that.
Yeah.
And you see Biden kind of stirring up hatred towards the United States.
Oh, yeah.
And driving those dictators together so that we have like this big, massive enemy that's all united against us.
And then you see Donald Trump going in there and sort of meeting these guys and trying to like broker deals like he would like a business deal.
He's approaching it like a businessman.
And I guess Groypers are mad too.
Oh, what are gropers?
What are those?
Those are people who think the Jews are responsible for everything.
Well, they're mad all the time anyway.
Yes.
I don't know why that's the term.
Groypers?
Yeah.
That's the first time I've heard that.
There's a report on Reuters.
It just rhymes.
I don't know.
They perceive him as being too pro-Israel or something?
He just likes the Jews.
Well, yeah, because there's a picture of him going to the Wailing Wall and putting his hand on it.
That's Vance?
That's a red flag for him.
Vance did that.
But you know the thing?
Here's the thing.
I'm not Jewish.
If I went to the Wailing Wall, I'd probably touch it because it's a piece of history.
I went to the Wailing Wall and I prayed there.
Whoa, take it easy, Jew.
Jew lover.
Sorry.
You didn't call me a Jew lover.
For our audio-only listeners, I was laughing when I said it.
And yeah, he was accusing me of being a Jew lover, which is true.
But anyway, so neocons.
Well, you know what?
Did you guys watch the movie The Hillbilly Elegy?
Did you see that?
I did not.
It was a book.
I needed to see it.
So it was a book, too.
I would probably better book.
I was like reading his work.
Well, you know what's crazy?
I'll tell you what.
So you guys remember California's moved to Texas?
That was a Babylon B miniseries.
Yeah.
So the cowboy, David Atkinson, is in Hillbilly Elegy.
He plays Amy Adams' ex- He plays Amy Adams?
Wow.
He plays Amy Adams, ex-boyfriend.
And I think he's yelling at her or she's yelling at him.
And they're throwing stuff at each other.
And anyway, so he had a good part in Hillbilly Elegy.
Yeah, when I was hanging out with him on set, I just got the impression, this is a cool guy.
I'd like to hang out with him.
He's great.
So that was directed by Ron Howard, right?
It was.
I don't remember.
So he's probably really kicking himself for directing that movie.
Totally.
Well, I think the big problem people had with Hillbilly Elegy was that it depicted a white family as in poverty.
Oh, well, yeah, white people in poverty.
So really, that was the real criticism.
Like, we can't show white people that are underprivileged in Appalachie because it's not part of the narrative that we want to tell.
So anyway.
So they're going to watch.
Appalachi is.
That's what Vance would call it.
Appalachi.
I can't pronounce words.
But I can acknowledge that.
Biden can't acknowledge that.
We need to go to those people and those people who live in the mountains and the Hillbilly Elegy people and tell them about their white privilege.
Well, yeah.
And that'll lift their spirits.
I mean, we basically had a Babylon B sketch about that.
Who do we hate?
Why do we hate people?
Why am I so angry about everything?
I mean, I guess I have all this privilege.
Yeah.
So some people are happy about JD Vance.
Least of all JD Vance.
He's happy about it.
I'm sure he's pretty happy.
Well, we've talked to Tulsi Gabbard on the podcast before, and she says, it appears that President Trump may have chosen JD Vance for his vice president.
If so, that's a good choice.
I think Tulsi might have been hoping that she got the nomination.
Well, it's just an honor to be nominated.
I think it is.
She was probably on a short list, I bet.
I bet she was.
And I think she was hoping, but I think she did the exact right thing and congratulated him.
Rand Paul said, congrats to my friend and colleague JD Vance, number one.
JD Vance won.
It's great to have an opponent of endless wars and more aid to Ukraine on the ticket.
Yeah, he does line up.
He lines up a lot with Trump on that stuff.
That's good.
This guy I've never heard of, Ben Shaparo.
Shapai.
Shapai, bro.
As a friend put it, Vance is truly a expletive we-ride pick from Trump, demonstrates real confidence and shows that he wants a bulldog.
I like dogs.
Vance is certainly that in terms of pure IQ and speaking ability, Vance is the best candidate Trump could pick.
I read that slow because whoever this guy is, he probably talks really slow.
Yeah.
Well, the other slow.
He's a slow guy.
No, the other people, though, that are a little bit upset about JD Vance are the people, because the RNC, we could talk about this a little bit, is softening on abortion.
And so this is a problem at a federal level.
At a federal level.
Because Roe v. Wade's been overturned.
And so now the question is, do we keep pushing it on a federal level of trying to ban it or do we just leave it to the states?
And I think Trump and Vance and apparently the party, they're kind of saying, hey, let's cool it on the federal abortion ban and just let the states deal with it.
The states deal with it, but JD Vance also believes in the abortion pill.
I think that's what he says he's okay with.
So I think that's the controversial.
Yeah, that's the controversial.
I think the pill, even just birth control pills, I think people, they just don't always understand how it works.
And that's why they're like, oh, well, I mean, nothing's being cut up.
It's fine.
Right.
But then you have to really kind of study it and go, you know what?
Actually, it's doing some things that we do not want because the baby has already been fertilized, the egg's been fertilized.
You know what I mean?
All that stuff.
Like something like two-thirds of the murder, baby murder, happens as a result of the abortion pill.
It's either a third or two-thirds.
I don't know.
That seems like a decent amount.
Yeah.
And it kind of, I mean, that's, that's, I understand that, that objection with JD Vance.
I think it's so.
Yeah, so I understand that objection.
I would be in favor of banning that.
But it's also when you're talking about political campaigns and you're talking about, hey, we're running for president.
This is our platform.
Yeah.
It's also a little bit about like picking and choosing your battles.
It's like maybe right now we're focusing on ending a war in Ukraine.
Maybe we're focusing on getting the economy back, ending inflation.
I can understand saying the 2024 campaign is about this, not all the other side issues, not all the other things you want to talk about.
At the same time, it does feel a little slimy.
Like it's practical politics of like, let's just not talk about the life stuff.
Yeah.
And yeah, so I kind of understand that concept where Trump's, obviously Trump doesn't really care about that issue.
I'm not going to force him to run on that issue.
Yeah.
But in terms of changing the party platform, I think that's strange.
Well, I think at this point in history, we are facing more than just that one thing.
Like for a long time, it was kind of like, well, the abortion thing is the real big issue.
And that's the thing that's dividing us.
Right now, there's a lot more things that are kind of causing the country to go downhill.
So we're talking like immigration, mass immigration, the inflation problem.
Those types of things need to be handled.
The Ukraine thing, those things need to be handled.
And so maybe that's, there's a wide range, a wider range of issues that we need to be focused on at this point than maybe anytime in the last like 50 years.
Who knows?
So I'm torn on it because I don't think it's right that they're downplaying abortion now because obviously it's still a concern.
It's still an evil thing.
And I think we should work towards an outright ban.
But I also understand that the Republican Party is made up of people that are on a conservative spectrum.
Not everyone that's a Republican is a spectrum.
Not everyone there is against abortion.
Not everyone's against immigration.
Is praying to God.
Some of them are praying to other gods.
What?
No one would ever do that at a Republican National Convention.
Specifically, the God Wahaguru.
Oh, who's that?
Who she specifically said was the one true God.
And then she prayed.
So this is the warrior.
This is Harmeet Dylan.
Yeah.
She's like a civil rights attorney.
Related to Seth Dylan.
I don't think that's true.
Let's not do that.
That's fake news.
Fake news.
So obviously, I think having her at the convention makes sense because she's done a lot of good work and for conservative causes and civil rights and religious liberty and things like that.
And she's pro-life, which is more than you can say for some people.
But this is like that, going back to that thing about changing the platform.
It's like, we are a big tent.
Let's welcome everybody in, even if they're not exactly like us.
So gay Republicans, Sikh, Muslim, Jewish, Christian, like we're all atheists.
We're all under this big tent.
But the problem with that is what's the center?
What's holding all those people together?
And I don't think that the party's really defined that.
I think they're afraid to define it.
They don't want to.
So for our dumber listeners, myself included, what is Sikh?
A Sikh is a religion.
It's not a monotheistic.
It's monotheistic.
Isn't it related to Hinduism?
I don't know if it's related to Hinduism or if it's like some offshoot of Islam.
Am I saying it's like a piece of mind?
Well, it's an Indian religion.
So it's in India.
And my understanding from reading this, after researching on this story, was that there's like these 10 gurus that came.
And it's like what they wrote down is what they follow.
And so these 10 gurus show you the way of the one true God to them.
So I don't think it's related to Hinduism because that's like many gods.
Many gods.
I've met, there was a guy that I knew that was really into this and he tried to convince me over and over that Jesus was the same as one of these gods.
Oh.
And was he like a universalist?
Because that seems to be something universalists do.
Like, oh, we're all actually worshiping the same.
And he's like, I went to this conference and there was this guru there and he was the manifestation of the true Christ.
And it was like, you know, kind of what Richard Rohr talks about with the universal Christ.
I don't know if you guys have talked about that at all, but the universal Christ.
And that's an old, old pagan idea that somehow, you know, Jesus is like a manifestation of the God like particle or the God, whatever it is.
And then he lives his life and then he goes back into dispersion into the universe.
And so everything is part of Christ and everything's part of God.
And so it's like sort of a pantheism.
But I don't know exactly about this particular religion, but I just think it's very strange that in a room full of, yeah, primarily Christians, you're going to have someone that is praying to a completely different God up there praying.
So to me, that's an issue.
Well, you know, it is a thing too, where it's like her contributions to conservatism or I don't really know her that well.
And that's fine.
She's give her a speech, whatever.
But why'd we let her do a prayer?
Like, what was the point of that?
I think what they're trying to do, and I see what they're doing.
They're trying to be pluralistic.
And they're trying to say, like what you said, they're trying to say we're the ones that are not uniform.
Like we're the ones that you can be who you want to be now.
This is the liberal party.
Yeah, the Democratic Party, they want you to all toe the same line.
They want you to all be a collective.
And it's all, here's the party line you must believe.
We're not like that.
We're Republicans.
And it's kind of like, well, well, then it.
I know.
Well, especially, I mean, I think as us as evangelical Christians, I think we have such a hard time.
Yeah.
Blending any kind of religious, I mean, if you're maybe if you're part of the Wahaguru cult, it's like whatever, you know, you can kind of have as many gods as you want.
It doesn't matter.
We can all live together.
But I think when you're really serious about following Christ, you can't get over John 14, where he says, I am the way, the truth, and the life.
No one comes to the Father but through me.
Oh, I don't need to get out there to anybody.
Do you guys want to get out of there?
I can't even read it.
Do you have your magnifying glass?
You do.
I'll never find John 14.
Oh, John 16.
I'm almost there.
You're almost there.
I can't believe you opened it to John 14.
Almost.
I love that.
John 13.
Man, I cannot.
Yeah.
But I am the way.
You can read it if you want to.
It's in here somewhere.
It's in here.
Well, I know the Republican Party also had a Lutheran pray, so maybe that balances out.
They had a normal prayer.
Depends on what kind of Lutheran it was.
Well, it was Missouri Synod, I think.
Oh, Missouri is the good one.
Solid one.
Yeah.
I got a friend who's going to their seminary right now.
Oh, good.
He quit his job as an imagineer and now he's over at Disney.
Now he's going to be a.
Oh, he's going to be an imagineer for Jesus.
He's going to be wearing one of those collars, too.
So did we want to talk about Amber Rose or no?
That's about how I feel about it.
It's Amber Rose.
Yeah, it's a part of that same story where the Republican Party is really trying to put itself out there as we're the party for everybody.
And so there was the lady named Amber Rose.
I guess she's a reality TV star.
She's married to someone.
Okay.
I hope so.
She has an OnlyFans page, which I learned from Matt Walsh.
Thanks, Matt Walsh.
I've learned so much about her recently.
Oh, no, no, no.
But she's got like a tattoo on her face, and she's giving a speech about how, you know, she used to hate Trump, but now she loves Trump.
And so she's going to be a liberal.
Now she's conservative.
It's like a redemption story of how I became a conservative for Republicans.
So it's a pretty good speech.
Matt Walsh was real popular.
I don't love everything about it.
I don't like the part where she says, oh, we don't care if you're gay or stray.
We love, we just love.
I'm like, well, hold on a minute.
Are we becoming the, this is my question.
Is the RNC become the catch-all for like liberalism?
And like, that's, that's really, are we becoming the liberal party and they're not conservative.
Well, to an extent, we always have been classic liberalism, right?
Right.
In the sense of, hey, get the government a bit out of my life.
Not as much as libertarianism, but get them out.
Leave us alone.
So there's certainly some unity there.
And, you know, she talks about, you know, grocery prices, gas prices, how that's all out of hand, how everything was better than Trump.
OnlyFans prices, probably way up.
Probably way up.
So, I mean, I applaud her, and I liked her speech overall, but she's definitely using what she has.
It's still weird that they're like, hey, let's give this lady a speech.
I just think that's weird.
Out of all the people who are and we need the porn star.
And what I don't get about the strategy of having this big tent with everybody included is like, who are you trying to reach?
There's no squishy middle anymore.
There's no independent that are just like, you know what?
I would vote for Trump if you were a little more inclusive.
Like, I don't ever see that or hear that.
It's either you hate Trump or you love Trump.
You either hate freedom or you love freedom.
You know, I don't know.
I don't know.
Yeah.
So again, I'm against her becoming more conservative.
She may very well be on a path to changing her lifestyle, which would be great.
I just don't think we want to prop her up as like, here's the representative of the Republican Party.
Well, this is what churches do too.
Churches, they have some convert that is like some terrible person that used to be in the mob or something.
Well, ideally, they have put that away, though.
Well, right.
I'm not sure how to do it.
But it was like three years ago.
Yeah.
And they're not.
You're talking about the Sunday school.
Oh, yeah.
Or like the porn stars that are teaching Sunday school.
The guest speaker with the really spicy testimony.
Yeah.
Like, oh, man.
We're like, oh, we got to elevate these people.
You know, and it's like, please give them 20 years.
Like, you know, you don't want the boring guy that just goes like, yeah, I was a Christian my whole life.
My parents raised me a Christian.
Let's read the Bible now.
I've studied the scripture in Greek and Latin.
Boring.
Boring.
That's so funny.
Well, I don't know.
I just think there's a sea change happening in the RNC.
I think the kind of like at the end of the day, we are seeing a transition in our, in the Republican Party, and we don't know what to do with it because it used to be like, okay, family values, Christian values, like that kind of stuff used to define who we are.
Now we're being defined a lot more by freedom than we ever have been, although that was part of it.
But it was like liberty, freedom, leave us alone, small government, which I can get behind all those things.
But it is not probably going to be the family of family values anymore.
But as long as we have religious liberty and structures around whether or not we can be free, then I guess I'm okay with that.
But we've just got to make sure we're going to be.
Yes, that's the debate.
Yeah.
If freedom doesn't have an anchor, if it's not ordered liberty, if it's not rooted in tradition and religion, then can it hold?
Can the center hold?
And I don't think it can.
I think the Republicans will find out the hard way.
If they're successful and they start governing as this wide, you know, this big tent party, they're going to find out that the center can't hold.
Yeah.
We're the party without bigots.
So finally, let's end this news cycle with a little bit of levity.
So Joe Biden had a disastrous interview with Lester Holt Sunday night.
It did not go very well.
I haven't watched the whole thing.
I've seen clips.
You could really write that and say with blank.
You had a disastrous interview with Blink.
And then you still feel on the interview.
Because he did a Stephanopoulos interview, which was not good.
Stephanopoulos.
And now he did Lester Holt.
Lester.
Just to save time, here's a highlight, a highlight reel from the New York Post put together.
So let's give it a watch.
Lester, look.
Lester, look.
Why don't you guys ever talk about the 18, the 28 lies he told?
What?
Where are you at?
Why didn't the press ever talk about that?
28 times to confirm he lied.
Is this one he was trying out his Trump orange?
His orange face.
We don't even think about that.
We've reported many of these people.
No, you have.
Well, he said something about you.
Oh, he said something about me, but you can see what he said about Trump.
Is he trying to take on like Trump's response, like the way that Trump deals with the media?
I don't know.
I don't know because it's not working.
It's like, you guys are all lies.
And it's like, well, you were lying for him for a long time.
Yeah.
But also, what specific, do we know what they think were lies in the debate?
You know, I tried to look that up before we started podcasting.
And it's funny.
So he keeps saying, oh, 28 confirmed lies, right?
So I was like, I just Googled, what are the 28 lies that Trump told at the debate?
And I found news articles saying, oh, he told over 30.
He told over 50 lies.
And so there's no definitive 28 number.
I don't know where that's coming from.
But also, I've looked at some of them and some of them are like, oh, he was talking about there was a small group at January 6th and false.
That is not true.
And I'm like, well, he was talking about there was a small amount comparatively that was causing violence.
Right.
Most people were just walking around.
Right.
And that is true.
So it's like some of these aren't really lies.
They're like, well, you're interpreting it in a different way.
Now, I have no doubt.
I didn't fact check the debate, obviously.
I have no doubt that Trump probably lied about some things because he didn't used to be a politician, but he sure is now.
But you know what?
Biden lied about things too.
He lied about the Border Patrol endorsing him.
That didn't even happen.
Wow.
You know, he kept bringing up the Snopes fact-check thing about all sides.
Good people on all sides.
That was a lie.
And he did it again with Lester Holt.
I've noticed that with Trump, he does a lot of superlative exaggerations.
It's like hyperbole.
It's like everything's the greatest.
Everything's the worst.
Everything's the best.
It's always in extremes.
And I found out that Democrats, they take him literally, but they don't take him seriously.
If you're seriously listening to what he's saying, he's making a good point about this or that.
But they latch on to, he said many.
Let's fact check many and see, blah, blah, blah.
It's like, well, he's not talking about a specific number.
He's just saying a lot of people were there at January 6th.
Some of them were bad.
Some of them were violent.
Yeah, well, let's take care of those guys.
But they say, well, he said some.
Let's look up how many and fact check that out.
Like it's a lie.
Fact check.
It's like Amelia Bedelia.
It is like Amelia Bedelia.
Democrats are Amelia Bedelia.
You guys are daughter dads.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
I only have sons.
I don't know Amelia Bedelia.
I didn't know Amelia Beledigel.
It takes things very literally.
Until I had daughters.
Yeah.
Because the middle name of my oldest daughter is Amelia, but it's more after Amelia Earhart, that sort of thing.
But then I told people I worked with at another job.
I'm like, oh, Amelia Bedelia.
I'm like, what are you talking about?
What is that?
I got kind of offended, actually.
But I'd like to know what they thought Trump lied about because I've watched a lot of Trump debates.
I've watched him speak a lot, and I don't see him lying, lying.
Not like super blatant lies.
Right.
Like Biden does.
Right.
Like, yeah, these guys supported me.
I was a truck driver.
Yeah.
You know, like in Minnesota.
I, I started, you know, whatever.
And, you know, I know we just watched a brief clip, brief couple of clips from that interview, but Lester Holt kind of, he kind of cowers before Biden.
Like he asks these valid questions, and then Biden overreacts and freaks out at him.
And he doesn't push him.
I'm like, well, what are these 28 lies?
What can you name them?
Which one are you talking about?
Because that would have been a great conversation.
That would have been, that would have gone viral, but he couldn't have named any of that.
But that's how you react, though, when there's an angry old man.
Yeah.
You know, like that you know is senile.
Yeah.
You kind of just kind of go, well, I mean, I hate to contradict you because I'm going to derail you if I do.
Yeah.
And so, and I, I feel like that's how I always act when I'm hanging out with people with dementia.
So I don't know.
Maybe that's what it is.
I used to.
Yeah.
We used to, my grandfather had Alzheimer's.
So we'd go to those homes, you know, and you'd hang out with those folks.
And if they got stuck on something, you just kind of go.
Yeah.
My uncle.
All right.
Jell-O Day.
Yeah, my uncle got kind of dementia near the end.
Yeah, yeah.
And incidentally, I was kind of proud of him because I thought it was funny, but he was like, he would just start hitting other people with his cane.
Like, oh, this is my stuff.
I'm like, yes, old man yelling at clout.
Yes.
I've got some good stories too that I can't tell on the podcast.
Anyway.
Well, let's move on then.
Yeah.
Okay.
So we've got Red Lobster Fact this week.
And this one comes to us from Pamela.
Travis, would you like to read from Pamela?
Absolutely.
Do you know you can buy Red Lobster Biscuit, the best mix at Walmart?
It's scrumptious, I think.
Emoji.
This is my Red Lobster Facts.
Lol.
Emoji Pamela.
Well Pamela, your red lobster fact is now a red lobster fact.
This Has Been Red lobster facts.
It's scrumptious.
I think you can.
Yeah, I did know you can get those.
You can get them at pretty much any grocery store.
Let's get them right now.
Let's do it.
I do love those cheddar bay biscuits.
They are very good.
We should make them for the next podcast.
I just my mouth started watering while you guys were talking about.
This Has Been Red lobster Banter and that's the end of the podcast.
I think I think so.
I think we did it.
But if you're a subscriber, stay tuned for subscribers, subscriber headlines yeah, want to do some subscriber headlines everybody?
Yeah, let's do that.
All right, guys.
So yeah, for the rest of you, keep it, go touch grass, keep it classy.
Sorry no, yours is probably nicer.
Keep it classy out there yeah, and go touch grass.
Go touch grass.
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Yeah, that's the big story with Trump, too, is like, how do you react when you get shot.
And he got up and he pumped his fist and let the crowd know he was okay and he told him to fight.
I definitely would not have reacted like that.
Yeah, that's the picture of the century right there.
That shows you your character, I think, of what kind of person that is.