We zoom in on the would-be-assassin caught in the bushes of Trump’s golf course. Ryan Routh, as told by others, himself (in his book) and his life choices.
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He's getting to welcome to the QA podcast and going, uh, where am I?
He's hallucinating.
He's got a mask on.
Wait, wait, wait.
I know what to do.
Welcome to the QAA podcast episode 295.
I should call the script up.
Another day, another assassination attempt, Jake.
Another day.
Oh, that's an NPR article.
What the heck?
Where's this?
Another day, another assassination.
Repeat after me, Jake.
Another day, another assassination attempt.
Another day, another assassination attempt.
As always, we are your host, Jake Rokitansky.
Well, friends, here we are again, talking about an attempt on the life of a damn Cheeto.
Jake is extremely sick, feeling very poorly, and we have gathered here today, within reach of election night 2024, to discuss a middle-aged guy hanging out in the bushes of Trump's golf club.
So, in this episode, we're going to attempt to figure out how RyanRuth58 spawned there with a scoped AK, a pink t-shirt, and two extremely makeshift plate carriers.
We'll be exploring his backstory, his obsession with geopolitics, his trip to Ukraine, and subsequent self-published book on the matter.
But first, we'll try our best to describe the facts about President Donald J. Trump's amazing game of golf that got interrupted on Sunday, the 15th of September.
So, as Jake told us in DMs, and we're now all obsessed with it, the cows have come home to milk.
Yeah.
Can you explain how this works?
Do the cows milk?
I don't understand.
First of all, this is not an idiom.
This is something that came straight off of the dome of Jake.
I actually looked.
It was an amazing phrase.
It was like a phrase I'm sure I had heard before.
But I kept searching far and wide through like, you know, Google Books and all of Bing and Google and the regular the internet just even on Twitter, social media accounts, I could not find this phrase used anywhere else.
But this is what this was Jake's reaction.
He said on over our group chat, the cows have come home to milk.
I've been thinking about it all week.
Travis just kept sending me screenshots of like searches being like, there are no results for the cows are coming home to milk.
Yeah.
No one has ever said this before.
You are somehow like a Shakespeare on your deathbed.
Well, it's just, you know, it's, it's a mix up of the chickens are coming home to roost and, uh, until the cows come home.
It's just a mashup.
It's just a mashup.
It's not even that good.
Don't spoil the magic trick, Jake.
Not even that clever, but it does make sense, doesn't it?
It really does.
It doesn't feel like chickens are coming home to roost, and it doesn't feel like we're waiting until the cows come home.
It feels like the cows have come home to milk.
Well, I'm not sure we should turn this extremely serious situation into like a Far Side comic strip, but I do want to ask you all, in this somber moment, do you remember where you were when 9-15 happened?
I think I was praying to an owl god to harm all that is good and true in the world.
And you were interrupted by the news slash on your like Apple phone?
Yeah, I didn't pray hard enough, I don't think.
Yeah, I hate when I get a notification in the middle of like a deep satanic ritual.
When I'm when I'm praying straight towards the White House.
And yet, your weak-ass prayer.
Travis, do you remember where you were?
Yeah, I was watching the Padres play the Giants.
I was watching a baseball game and I saw this on my phone and I was like, oh man, I'm probably gonna have to talk about this on the podcast.
So that was my experience.
Yeah.
And Jake?
I...
I was catching my breath after moving the PlayStation 5 into the bedroom so that I could play 2K while I was sick.
Yeah, you've really been going through it.
Oh my god, wait, there's more to this story.
Once I got 2K going up in the bedroom, I realized that my Wi-Fi wasn't strong enough to get a solid connection.
My shots were lagging and I was playing poorly.
And so I went...
I went on Amazon and ordered a whole Nest system.
Okay, stop advertising.
Stop it.
You've dropped at least three brands already.
I went on a site and ordered a thing to make the Wi-Fi better, and then I set it up, and now my 2K is silky smooth.
This podcast sponsored by a thing.
He's talking through a mask because he's trying not to get his partner, like, COVIDed up.
No, she has somehow avoided, like, getting COVID.
And we were supposed to go to a family wedding this weekend.
So, like, I basically am still going to be contagious.
So I had to bow out.
But we're doing, like, everything we can.
And so far, so far, she has not gotten sick.
So, like, the masks have worked.
Not to like advertise, Matt.
I know we don't want to advertise stuff on the show, but I'm just saying anecdotally the masks have seemed to work.
You can advertise masks.
That's fine.
You're not even using a brand name, so it's perfect.
Travis, let's jump right in.
Just nine weeks after the Republican presidential nominee survived an attempt on his life, there was another incident which the FBI is investigating as an assassination attempt.
The most recent incident happened at his golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida.
According to the affidavit by FBI Special Agent Mark Thomas, the alleged assassin, Ryan Ruth, was first discovered by a Secret Service agent around 1.31 p.m.
on September 15th.
As this agent was walking the perimeter of the Trump International, they spotted a rifle poking out of the tree line.
I'm sorry, did they hear like a trombone sound at this point too?
How Looney Tunes is a fence with like a little barrel poking out.
They spotted a woman in some sexy lingerie.
She had one leg poking out of the bush.
So at this time, Trump was about three to five hundred yards away from the spot where Ryan Ruth was discovered.
So he was on a different hole out of sight.
The agent fired their service weapon in the direction of the rifle, and a witness later reported that Ruth fled the tree line, entered a Nissan SUV, and drove off.
Now, Ruth did not fire a shot.
So this is a lot much more weak sauce than the other assassination attempt, which was much closer to being successful.
I saw someone on Twitter say that it wasn't an assassination attempt.
It was like an assassination technical foul.
Yes.
Yeah.
This doesn't count as a strike.
Like the batter gets to take it again.
Yeah.
Agents examined the area that Ruth had fled, finding a GoPro camera, two bags, a loaded SKS-style rifle with a scope, and a black plastic bag containing food.
I love the meal prep.
What do you eat when you're going out to assassinate Donald Trump?
Oh, he's got everything he needs.
He's got all his little bags and stuff.
You didn't mention it here, but the two backpacks he had were full of tile that he had put together as a kind of makeshift ballistic vest.
Yeah, like a tier one PUBG pickup.
He's going to wear it on the front of the back like a little kid, like a little kid.
Oh my God.
It's like, yeah, that's the lowest level of body armor.
I'll bet he eats those like meals that come in a cup, you know, that you see on your targeted ads all the time that it's like, we've got three flavors.
You put it, you pour water in them and you put them in the microwave and now you've got gruel.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure these are your targeted ads.
Don't make me laugh too much!
It's good.
We've got a type of iron curtain up, which is what Jake's mask is.
It's like I've got him kind of bound and gagged.
The serial number for the rifle was obliterated, which of course makes it an illegal weapon to own.
Hey, you forgot to mention it was an AK with, uh, oh, it was an SKS?
This is what the affidavit, the direct affidavit said.
SKS style.
Okay.
So some clown just thought it was like up, up front, an AK rifle, but this still, you know, SKS.
It's a Soviet weapon.
Yep.
Officers from the Martin County Sheriff's Office located the Nissan as it traveled northbound on the I-95 and stopped the vehicle at 2 14 p.m.
So there was 45 minutes from when he was spotted to when he was pulled over.
Not a mastermind this guy.
No.
And if you get taken alive, like, first of all, he ran from his gun immediately.
Ran from his gun, ran from his armor, ran from his food.
My man was like, fuck lunch.
He gets into his car, drives off.
They pick him up, like, basically doing like Junior Soprano, like walking on a bridge alone.
Sir, do you need help?
And he got taken alive, which is such a... It's such a tell, like, right?
I mean, the other kid got shot right in his fucking face immediately, but this guy manages to leave without his weapon and then gets taken alive, like, hours later.
Yeah, real dipshit.
So, officers know that the license plate attached to the Nissan belonged to a 2012 white Ford truck and had been reported stolen.
So, as of this recording, still not quite sure what the hell's going on.
Someone apparently took the plates off of a different car, put it on this Nissan.
So yeah, he probably stole plates, and they immediately just declared those plates stolen, making his entire move bad because he now pops up in the directory.
He probably just saw a movie in which a middle-aged guy like him, like Denzel Washington, does that series of movies where he's kind of just a middle-aged CIA guy who's super badass.
Yeah, except instead of Denzel Washington, this guy's kind of more like Gary Busey.
Yes, he is.
He's Gary Busey, and so Gary Busey grabs, like, someone else's plates, not realizing, like, first of all, you don't want the place to tie it back to you, but now they're tied back to a stolen car, so when you're getting fucking scanned on the highway or whatever, they're just like, oh, there goes a stolen car.
Yeah, why don't you just, like, go find some plates?
Even if they were just your plates, it would have taken a while to look you up, and then they'd have to, what, declare the car stolen?
It wouldn't be immediate.
I think that he wanted, he's in his vision of this, you know, the president goes perfectly into vision of him.
He takes him out and then he like, like, you know, solid snake sneaks his way back into the car.
And then, you know, maybe they get a screenshot, you know, a photo of the car, but they don't, they don't find him and he like manages to escape.
Well, the problem is he was there for 12 hours.
So this is like, if you're playing Assassin's Creed, you end up in the bushes, you're gonna whistle and then you leave your controller for 12 hours.
Yeah.
They're like, the assassin vanished without a trace.
The only thing left in the bushes was two backpacks and one soggy bologna sandwich.
His game didn't have a timeout, so he just stayed there idling.
He was in the idling animation.
Some even say in the middle of the 12 hours, he T-posed briefly.
Well, that was the problem was he was clipping through the fence slightly.
Yeah, that's how they saw him.
It's like there was auto pathing, but like he clipped into the fence and like... Yeah, the Secret Service cones.
The cones caught sight of him.
What's the Metal Gear Solid?
Corey, put in a Metal Gear Discovery sound, please.
Alright Travis, please take us from here.
After Ruth was arrested, investigators found his phone number from a public Facebook post.
They requested information about usage of this phone from T-Mobile, and from that they found that his phone was in the area of the tree line from 1.59am to 1.31pm.
So yeah, he showed up there about two in the morning for some goddamn reason.
I don't know why so early.
Well, he wants to be in the middle of the night for like the sun to come up and he's not moving cover.
He's a tactical sniper.
Exactly.
I bet he crawled to the position from his car.
It's like you have the patience of an elite sniper, but the moment he heard a gunshot is like I'm leaving everything gone We actually don't know if he has the patience He might have fallen asleep against the wall and had like a big sleep bubble coming out of his nose So what if he was just doing scrolling for 12 maybe he probably fucking was That's so fucking stupid My question is like, why, yeah, he brings his phone.
It's sitting there for 12 hours.
Does he, does he bring an extra little charger?
Cause I feel like your battery's going to die if you're scrolling for 12 hours in the bushes.
Yeah, he definitely had a block.
You think he had a block?
They didn't list it.
He had a battery out of Samsung.
You know, the batteries on those last a lot longer.
They're going to find out that my man made like a bunch of imaginary money in Zynga poker.
He was on one.
Kept forgetting he was on a stakeout.
Ruth appeared in a court for a hearing that lasted less than 10 minutes.
This was a day after his arrest.
Oh yeah, dude.
The FBI guys were seen in the aisles just like licking their chops.
Like, please, can we get him?
This man, I was like thinking about him over the last few days and I'm like, this man is so deep in an FBI, like annoying an FBI agent.
There are several FBI agents who have been hanging out with him for days now, interrogating him, giving him meals and shit, and he is driving them nuts.
So this was not an arraignment, his appearance, so he didn't enter a plea, but the charges against him were read in court.
They include possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and possession of a firearm with an obstructed serial number.
Interestingly, no charges related to any kind of assassination attempt, no conspiracy charges or anything like that.
I assume those are coming.
I mean, I can't imagine why else he would be hanging around Trump's golf club with a weapon.
But so far, no charges related to those kinds of things.
The FBI has a clause that if you're still in the tutorial zone, like you technically haven't entered the mission.
But like, that's it.
Pretty sad state of affairs.
I gotta say, the last assassination attempt was more impressive than this dude's.
Yeah.
This guy was still fiddling with his aim inversion.
He was last sighted pressing B to go under an obstacle, pressing A to climb over the obstacle, and executing jumps over small holes in the ground.
Then it's true, he went into the settings.
Let it be known he did go into the settings and did end up fiddling with the FOV and all of the lighting effects for like an hour.
He couldn't get the graphics card to properly sync up.
He couldn't see.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He had to turn the draw distance up because he couldn't see the president.
Let it be known that when he was apprehended, he was downloading Drivers.
Yeah.
This is such a stupid fucking analogy, but it's so funny.
I find it so funny.
I play so many video games that this is so funny to me.
I still remember years ago someone being like, hey, I love all the video game references.
Have you guys ever considered like a musical theater?
It seems like Jake's into that.
Like that's a bit more down my alley.
And I thought, oh, this poor person.
I was like, well, why didn't you tell me that?
I got you covered.
What do you want?
No, we're not doing Whistler on- Hey, hey, yeah.
Let me know what musical theater references you want.
I'll make it happen.
We're not doing Fiddler in the Basement or Wackler on the Roof or whatever.
Hitler in the Basement?
That's not a musical.
I said Fiddler.
Oh, Fiddler.
Well, yeah.
Not Hitler in the Basement.
My favorite musical, Downfall.
I love the song where he kills all his dogs.
Okay, so with that, it's time to go back in time.
It's like Inception, or which movie?
Which Nolan film?
What's Jake talking about this being like?
Let's do a pincer, a temporal pincer move on this content.
Ruth's early life was relatively quiet, being born in Hawaii and then spending most of his adult life in North Carolina.
His LinkedIn page claims that he got a mechanical engineering degree at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in 1998.
And when NPR contacted the uni for comment, they said that he... "...had attended two semesters nearly 30 years ago.
He did not earn a degree from the university and was last enrolled in December 1995." It seems that he moved to North Carolina sometime around or before 1988, when, as a 23-year-old, he and his new bride Laura moved into a run-down house in Greensboro.
His early public presence begins on an uncharacteristically positive note, when in 1991, as a 25-year-old, Ruth was awarded the title of Super Citizen by the Greensboro Chapter of the International Union of Police Associations.
He did so after chasing away suspected rapists and helping police in their investigation.
Ruth was quoted in an article from 1991 by News & Record as saying, I hope that everybody else would have done the same thing in the same situation.
When these types of incidents happen, most of what you do is just impulse.
You're just reacting.
I was happy to be at the right place at the right time.
The article describes Ruth's encounter with the rapist in more detail.
Ruth was outside his house and ran to see what the woman was screaming about.
She was yelling that the suspect was still inside the office building.
I ran around to the front of the office building to see what was going on.
Ruth said.
This guy comes crawling out the front door.
That's when I confronted him on the steps.
Ruth said the man told him.
Some lady up there is screaming and yelling!
To this guy it was like nothing special was going on.
It was like a walk in the park.
He punched me at that point.
He was a pretty strong fella.
Kinda short but strong.
When he hit me I grabbed hold of him.
He shook free from me and took off running.
Ruth was knocked down during the scuffle.
He got up and chased the man, but after several blocks, lost sight of him.
Another neighbor and Ruth drove around the neighborhood for about 15 minutes and Ruth rode around with a police officer later as well.
Ruth said he probably would have tried to stop a criminal anywhere, but with a woman screaming about a crime in his neighborhood, he took an added interest.
When something happens so close, it sort of shakes your world, too.
When you have a wife and a two-year-old child, you act to put this guy away before something happens to your wife or your child.
Upstanding citizen, Ryan Ruth.
Yeah.
For his troubles, he received an Oscar-shaped statue awarded to him by the police union which said, Citizen of the Year, something which he kept on the mantle of his living room.
Wait, so the police are getting, like, replica Oscars and giving them out to citizens and being, like, best boy of the year.
Yes, yes.
Okay, that's cool.
I guess they're doing this in Canada, too, because this is, like, an international police union.
An Oscar?
Yeah, so.
Jesus.
Sure.
Why not?
Sure.
He also impressed the Greensboro, North Carolina police through his cooperation in finding the suspected rapist.
The article continues.
Greensboro police detective Chris Frazier, who investigated the crime, was impressed with Ruth.
It's rare that you find a citizen who will go above and beyond to help police in stopping the crime or in the investigation of the crime, Frazier said.
Frazier said most citizens don't cooperate as well as Ruth.
Ruth has made himself available to interviews.
Frazier said, I wish we could have more help like that.
We can't do it alone.
We have to rely on citizens.
Yet Ruth's relationship with the Greensboro, North Carolina Police Department would sour in the coming decade.
WFMY News interviewed a former cop from North Carolina who claims to have interacted with Ruth more than a hundred times.
He was quoted as saying, I had been dealing with Mr. Ruth from the latter part of the 1990s to the early 2000s.
He resided in my patrol beat and his business was in my patrol beat as well.
Ruth had founded a business called the United Roofing Company and reportedly drove a truck for it.
Yet he would have his license revoked in November of 2001, following his first misdemeanor on record in Greensboro related to some sort of motor vehicle violation.
To quote from that North Carolina cop, His license was suspended.
He allowed all of his employees to drive without licenses, had no insurance on any of his vehicles, and everyone in the Greensboro Police Department knew it.
It's almost like blatantly saying, here I am.
He would be constantly pulled over for those traffic violations.
So they made a monster very early.
He would then get another misdemeanor for driving without his license to the start of 2002.
Then a few months later in March, he would get into a three-hour standoff with the Greensboro police.
What?
This began after Ruth, according to police, quote, put his hand on a firearm during a traffic stop and drove away, going to the roofing business he owned and boarding himself up in there for three hours.
That's...
Just creating an insane situation.
Yeah.
He's just so mad that they're always like, oh yeah, that's the guy who drives without a license.
I see him.
I'm going to pull him over.
He's like, don't you know I'm Spider-Man, basically?
Like, did you not know that I'm a masked justicier here?
Like, I can do whatever the fuck I want.
I love that he's like the guys that you would see on Cops where they would see somebody and be like, oh, it's this guy again.
Like, you know, one of the regulars.
It feels like no matter what part of his life he's in, he's that guy.
Everyone sees him coming a mile away.
Everyone gets to know him very quickly.
He talks nonstop.
It's just like a pest.
I wonder if because he was like a local hero and like kind of was heralded by you know law enforcement in his mid 20s for you know doing this great thing that he kind of was like well I am a cop now actually like I'm you know I'm Harvey Dent I'm like you know I'm I'm the golden boy of the city like I can drive without a license like I don't need to follow the rules.
I mean, yeah, I don't know if everybody would react in the same way, but I think we should just in general say police shouldn't be able to give Oscars, okay?
That's a Hollywood thing, okay?
That's not just a vulgar policeman's job.
This is like the Academy Award, I'll have you know.
It's nothing sacred.
Ruth would receive probation for a felony charge of possessing a weapon of mass destruction, which was a fully automatic machine gun, and also misdemeanors for carrying a concealed weapon and driving without a license for the incident.
So just no license and lots of guns all the time.
And then once in a while, I go home, barricade myself.
Yeah.
He seems like he's just doing great.
And interestingly, after three hours, Ruth surrendered himself willingly.
Police noted in this case, as well as many other of his run-ins, that he was very calm and peaceful after being apprehended.
So it makes me think of like the reports of him being arrested now, that he was very casual, that he's like, yeah, I don't know.
I've, I've done this.
I've, this has happened to me a couple of times.
I'm used to the cops taking me in.
Yeah, he's an open book.
He's clearly pretty delusional.
In that same year, 2002, in April, he would also be charged with a hit-and-run misdemeanor, and then in November, with driving without a license, resisting an officer, and, of course, carrying a concealed weapon.
So he loved guns, like, way back.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
He'd been walking, he'd been kind of strolling around like a fucking Western outlaw, like, for a few decades, if not more.
He'd become fairly infamous within the Greensboro Police Department as a result of this fact.
To quote from a CNN article, Tracy Folk, a Greensboro police officer at the time, told CNN that the incident started when she pulled Ruth over for a traffic stop.
She said she saw a gun in his car, and after she pulled out her gun, he drove away and ran into his business.
That led to a standoff with a police special response team, and Ruth later surrendered, Folk said.
He was a dangerous person, Folk said, adding that he was known to local law enforcement.
But when he was arrested, she remembered, He was very quiet, and he didn't really say a whole lot during my time with him.
Oh boy.
Hard to tell that there's a time bomb here.
He and his then wife Lola would go through a divorce at the start of 2003.
He also had a few other cases during this period that were dismissed, such as a misdemeanor possession of controlled substances and possession of a stolen vehicle, as well as writing worthless checks.
In 2010, he would get his second round of felony charges for possession of stolen goods.
The authorities also repeatedly accused him of not paying his taxes on time, and a few judges have ordered him to pay tens of thousands of dollars in various civil suits, which I believe were related to his business, although I couldn't confirm that.
It seems that during his long stay in Greensboro, he struggled quite a bit with money.
News & Record reporting that when he sold his North Carolina house in 2019, it was quote, dilapidated, having warped front porch boards and plaster peeling from the walls.
The man who purchased it was quoted by News & Record as saying, There's a very libertarian sovereign citizen killdozer vibe to Ruth in this period, even down to being a small business owner and presumably having some sort of gripe about the idea of requiring a license and insurance to drive a car.
Yet he also gets in the news in the early aughts for a much more wholesome reason than his run-ins with the law.
In 2004, he helped to build a skate park for his son and their friends, and protested it being forcibly closed due to local zoning laws.
What is maybe the strangest component of this story is that the park was ran as a business, with Ruth's son and his friends eventually charging skaters to enter, and requiring them to sign an injury liability waiver.
Oof.
Raising his boy to be a capitalist.
I thought he was like a friend of skating, but nope.
This was always gonna be a business.
According to a 2004 News & Record article, Ryan helped the kids contact Hardin Oil Co., which loaned the teens the property they built the open-air plywood park on.
Ryan also brought in a structural engineer to make sure the design was sound, he helped inform the residents in the area of its construction to get their permission, and hired a supervisor from United Roofing Company, his business, to oversee the park's operation.
Once the park was finished construction, the teens held a grand opening with a band, which led to a noise complaint that eventually shut down the park for violating zoning laws.
Oh, dude, the opening night noise complaint did?
That's so sad.
Yeah, it's tough.
They were playing their pop punk a little too loud.
Ruth was quoted in the article as saying this about the closure.
Let's make this a joint public-private venture instead of trying to squish these kids like a bug or telling them to go home and play video games.
So, very wholesome dad helping his son follow his dreams of public-private cooperation.
Of course.
But still equally as libertarian as his troubles with the law, I think.
You know, complaining about zoning laws, getting your kid to, like, start a business, you know.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I can see that.
But while Ruth gives off an absurdly libertarian energy in this period, what were his actual politics?
Unfortunately, it's hard to be entirely sure.
He initially registered as a Democrat in North Carolina in 1988, when he presumably moved there, although he changed his party status to unaffiliated in 2002.
News and Record notes that he voted pretty consistently through his stay in North Carolina, doing so for the presidential election in both 2008 and 2012, for instance, although we're not sure who for.
Interestingly, it seems that he didn't actually vote in the 2016 presidential election.
This is despite a tweet he made in early 2020, which read, At Real Donald Trump, while you were my choice in 2106, I in the world hoped that President Trump would be different and better than the candidate.
But we all were greatly disappointed, and it seems you are getting worse and devolving.
Are you retarded?
I will be glad when you're gone.
I will be glad when you're gone.
Oh no, he's blacked out!
He's blacked out calling Trump the R-word.
My man.
My man's gone on that Sauvignon.
I love, I mean, he said 2106.
He didn't vote in 2016.
He will vote for Trump in 2106.
That's what he means.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Emperor Trump.
The Eternal.
Yeah.
When he fuses himself with a sandworm.
It seems we get a much clearer image of his politics in 2020, when firstly he gave $100 to Act Blue, which I guess is like the trying to kill Trump organization you donate to.
Yeah, they got a new slogan.
Oh.
Oh, fuck.
And also when he made his Twitter account in that year.
His first tweet being a reaction to the South Carolina 2020 Democratic primary debate, where he wrote, Please ask candidates, as a world leader whose primary goal should be world peace and ending all hostilities and sanctions, how quickly can you as president meet with every world leader in turmoil and find solutions and agreements to stop kids suffering?
Hey, man.
Hey, man, that's some centrist bullshit.
What the fuck are you talking about?
Which one of the candidates will teach everyone John Lennon Imagine first?
That's what I want to know.
He's definitely going to flip through a few, so might as well get this started.
And this is a general theme in his early tweets in this period, his obsessions with world peace, making sure all the world leaders come together.
Oh, it's a huge thing in his writing later as well.
And he will insert, like, save the children here and there.
Like, it'll be a kind of, like, weird, not quite QAnon-ish, obviously, like, more of, like, Michael Jackson, you know, save the world type shit.
Yeah.
I wonder what he would think of QAnon people.
Like, it's like Kony 2012.
Like, he's a weird, like, awareness guy.
A month after that first tweet, he would declare his support for Bernie Sanders, tweeting, I was not supporting Bernie, but now I am, as Sleepy Joe stands for nothing, no plans, no ideas, just as limp as Hillary.
Bernie.
Seven dots.
Give them hell.
Five dots.
Fight to the death.
Five dots.
So, he's writing like he's uttering his last words on his deathbed.
Give them hell!
Fight to the death!
He's also framing Bernie Sanders as Denzel Washington's character in glory, picking up the flag and running over the hill.
Oh, Bernie's doing an aggressive takedown on Sleepy Joe.
Which is so interesting because that's like very much like Republican language.
Like Sleepy Joe is like very much Republican language.
And yeah.
Yeah.
I don't know.
I think it was a bad idea allowing the Democrats to just keep sliding like more center and more center and more center because now there's space for like crazy guys with like sort of, you know, conservative style language and ideology.
But there's like space for them there now.
And they can bring their like brand of kookiness like into that, you know, sort of like anti-Trump sphere.
I personally have a coalition wide enough to welcome Ryan Roof.
Join me, sir.
Of course you do.
Be a part of the electorate.
Join me, sir.
Press start on controller number two.
Following Super Tuesday, when it seemed all but certain that Joe Biden would become the presidential nominee, he would make a couple tweets pledging his support to Tulsi Gabbard as the candidate.
Definitely the candidate for people who love to look a little deeper and find out what someone's really about.
Who is then still a member of the Democratic Party.
The first of these tweets being...
Why does it say kawa?
That's the town that he lived in.
He's like signing the town.
With three A's?
Gotcha.
It's Hawaii.
Yeah, it's Hawaii.
But also, I love the idea of like, I emailed your speeches, please respond.
Yeah, I have hundreds more locked and loaded for you, Tulsi.
Tulsi, please let me touch your toes.
He's like the, like, obsessed political version of, like, the guy who's, like, sending, like, Larry David, like, spec scripts.
Or, no, even worse, like, Always Sunny in Philadelphia scripts.
Like, hey, I've got, like, three Always Sunny scripts, like, please get my email is, uh, uh, you know, writerguys67, uh, at hotmail.com.
Please get back to me.
These scripts are killer.
Yeah, no.
He's got, like, stalker vibes.
Like, he's switching targets really quickly, and he's, like, convinced he's already in with them in the way he writes.
Well, I think that he's got this thing where he is thoroughly convinced whatever he has to offer is perfect and genius, and he's always very confused when he's ignored or outright rejected.
Yes, absolutely.
He knows better than you, for sure, and he will never stop talking.
Yeah, you see this a lot through his tweets where he's just continually adding, and maybe not even adding, sometimes he just puts like the hashtag of a name.
I think somehow that like that world leader will know what he's talking about.
Yeah.
And it has a very personal request for them.
During this period, he also had some sort of very confused ACAB position in relation to the George Floyd protests.
In May of 2020, he tweeted this.
Hashtag George Floyd protests.
Hashtag all lives matter.
Mater with only one T. Local municipalities and states cannot continue to be allowed to provide their own oversight on law enforcement.
It is a gross conflict of interest.
The federal government must be compelled to always be the legal review of police action.
Okay.
So an incredibly like centrist take on, on all.
Yeah.
It's like, he's doing both sides like very well.
He's like, no, the cops need to be reined in, but also all lives matter.
What is going on?
The feds should actually be reviewing everything.
They're good.
Local police is bad.
It's weird because it's not really like the opposite of the libertarian position.
Yeah, exactly.
He's calling it the federal government.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's like he's got, he's got like all faith and like no faith in government, like at the same time.
Yeah.
He also used his dislike of the police to essentially, I think, endorse Trump in 2020, posting this on May 31st of that year.
At Real Donald Trump, win re-election by seizing this moment to make real change and by executive order establish an oversight department in the DOJ to review and prosecute all police misconduct.
States and local biased people cannot be left to regulate themselves.
Step up and fix this.
Oh yes, reaching out to Donald Trump, my favorite big government candidate who loves the federal government oversight of the states and specifically the local police.
Avril Donald Trump, you have to make it so that you're allowed to drive without insurance.
Please make it so they cannot pull you over where they suspect you don't have insurance on your car.
People immediately pegged me as a wunderkind.
This is racial profiling.
He also has a tweet where he's angry at the NFL for not playing as a result of COVID lockdowns, I think.
A precursor to what would later develop into, or maybe already was, full-on COVID conspiracism.
Hashtag we want to play.
Football can be played, but without an audience.
You can play and show on TV, but any spectators would be totally uneducated and ignorant.
Don't be stupid.
Higher education cannot allow spectators, and we all have televisions.
He's got the crazy person switching between all caps and lower caps.
He's got the crazy person, uh, instead of a space, it's just like five dots between every sentence.
I think this is like they weren't playing NFL because they couldn't get audiences.
I think that's what he's trying to say.
And he's like, well, they should just play without it because I want to watch it despite COVID lockdowns.
Yeah.
It's almost sounds like he thinks he's a player.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We wanna play!
In a lot of these early tweets, he's obsessed with the idea of creating world peace, like him personally doing so.
One example being of him tweeting to Kim Jong Un, who he spells wrong, where he tweets this in May of 2020.
Hashtag Kim Jong Un.
I would like to invite you to Hawaii for vacation.
We would love to have you here and entertain you.
With the current virus it is vacant and private and it would be an honor to have you at our beaches.
I am a leader here and can arrange the whole trip.
Please come.
Oh he's a leader.
34 likes though.
My man got a bit of support for that one.
Yeah, I have a feeling this is after his Twitter account was discovered after the attempt.
Oh, yes, of course.
So people are liking tweets because they're funny.
Yeah, this is a consistent thing.
I took it out, but there's a whole bit where he's like, if every combatant, including ISIS and the Taliban, just got together at the center of the battlefield and had a barbecue instead, we would all leave loving each other and understanding we have to work together.
Christmas truce.
That is my takeaway of the Christmas truce, is you just have to do more Christmas truces.
Yeah.
But you worked so well the first time.
Mhm.
We need more of that.
Yeah.
He would also make a dozen or so tweets with the hashtag Carrie Lam, who is the then chief executive of Hong Kong, petitioning her to listen to Hong Kong protesters.
He said this in May of 2020.
of 2020.
Hashtag Carrie Lam, watching world news.
We must sit down and talk and find solutions to these growing problems.
Please let me be your private American advisor at no cost and sit down with protesters and find solutions, even if we need to privately send leaders to other countries.
Dude, so in this guy's mind, like, world leaders are just summoning Ryan Ruth to solve their domestic and international problems.
Ryan, come on.
You know what?
I'll come to you.
I know you can't really afford bus fare right now, Ryan, so I'm just going to come to you.
I'll come to the beaches of Hawaii.
We can hash it out, figure it out.
In 2021, he would also repeatedly at the U.S.
ambassador to South Korea, again petitioning them to de-escalate tension between America and North Korea.
Although it seems like the at isn't blue in the tweet, so I think he added one too many A's to the handle.
At USA Amb Rock, please, as brilliant Americans, you and I can end hostilities with North Korea.
It is as simple as just becoming friends.
Forget negotiations.
Let us just talk, hang out, learn about each other, and find we are both merely humans wishing to thrive.
We can fix this.
What happens when there's already a truce between two countries and you can't do a Christmas truce?
It feels like his plan for world peace is like a good session with a blunt, you know?
We're just gonna hang out, get a little high, cry, chat a bit, and we'll all be chill.
Yeah, he does have, like, faded lib dad brain where he's like, dude, if everybody just got together and, like, fucking hung out, like, they would know that we're all humans and working on this together.
But then, like, everything is chaotic around that and there's no real understanding of what's going on.
Then finally, in February of 2022, just before Russia begins its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, he sets his sights on the conflict, tweeting this on February 11th, so 13 days before Russia escalates.
Hashtag Ukraine Crisis.
Instead of leaving Ukraine I plan on flying over and standing with the Ukrainians and fighting.
We cannot sit idly by and watch this aggression happen.
World peace is the most important thing of all.
We must encircle Ukraine with civilians now.
Let's all go.
Holy shit.
This is something that comes back in the book.
He wants people to form a human chain, like just like become human shields, like the giantess chain.
Like he pictures like all civilians going to the front and, and staying together in a human chain.
And then the opposition will just back down because they won't be able to kill.
Is that sort of like the, the, like the Baltic human chain that ended like the Soviet reign over there?
Like he, he wants to do that, I guess.
Yeah, he loves all these kinds of stunts that were actually like kind of re-machinations of like what actually happened, right?
I mean, they're often, you know, the kind of movie version.
Right.
Yeah, I mean, I get the sense that he was kind of like waiting for some sort of big international crisis to involve himself in.
Oh, yeah.
If there was one that happened with like North Korea or Taiwan, he would be flying out there instead.
But instead it happened in Ukraine.
This is what captured his imagination.
Basically all his tweets at this point are related to Ukraine, petitioning Biden to send weapons and continually reminding however small a follower base he had at this point that he was deciding to travel to Ukraine to support them.
Ryan Ruth, despite his clearly chaotic beliefs, did end up traveling to Ukraine to help with the war effort.
But his behavior was erratic according to those who ended up in his circles there.
Here's from an article written for a local NBC affiliate in Palm Beach, Florida.
Walsh, a 34-year-old travel nurse who said she's been doing humanitarian work since she was 17, traveled to Ukraine shortly after Russia invaded.
She said she met Ryan Ruth in Kiev in May while she was delivering food to the eastern part of the country.
WPTV reviewed timestamped text messages provided by Walsh confirming that she was communicating with Ruth in 2022 about the war effort in Ukraine and that she and other volunteers were concerned about his volatile behavior.
There was a lot of people in Ukraine at the time who were a little bit strange or had unusual behaviors, and Ryan was one of them, Walsh said, so he didn't stand out at first.
And over time, as I got to know him and I got to see his behaviors and mannerisms, I progressively saw something alarming.
Walsh provided documents to WPTV that she said Ruth wrote and sent to her in 2022.
Some of the apparent manifestos were several pages long and included sensational references to his willingness to die for the Ukrainian people.
I came to say, here I am.
I will support Ukraine to the death.
And if there is a price on Ukrainian heads, there should be a price on mine.
And here it is.
Come and get it.
One of the documents said, Walsh said she began handwriting lists of volunteers with concerning behavior during her time in Ukraine.
Walsh shared one of those lists with WPTV and said she also provided those names to U.S.
Customs and Border Protection agents when she returned to the United States via Washington's Dulles International Airport in June 2022.
Walsh said no one ever followed up with her.
When she heard Ruth was named as a suspect in Sunday's apparent assassination attempt against former President Trump, Wall said she was not surprised.
Ruth was very volatile and he would turn on people very quickly.
He was very calculated.
He showed no remorse or empathy.
He had no regard for human life.
He frequently spoke of hurting people, especially politicians.
Walsh said.
When asked, Walsh said she could not recall whether Ruth specifically talked about killing Trump, citing the amount of time since those conversations.
She said Ruth did speak critically about both Trump and President Biden.
Walsh said she contacted the FBI twice following Sunday's apparent assassination attempt.
I absolutely believe this could have been prevented. She said.
So she flags him as an issue already pretty early on.
That was an interesting, you know, little tidbit straight from somebody who was there with him.
He subsequently wrote a book about his experiences in Ukraine edited by his fiancée at the time, Kathleen Schaefer.
Schaefer's name was also on a GoFundMe she ran while he was in Ukraine, one meant to support his activities there.
While in Ukraine, Ruth even ended up getting interviewed by a journalist for Romanian Newsweek.
In the video, in which he appears pretty ragged, he expresses his belief that the war is a battle between good and evil.
Please tell me who you are and why are you here?
I'm 56, from the U.S., from North Carolina originally, so I live in Hawaii now, so flew all the way from Hawaii here.
The question as far as why I'm here, to me, you know, a lot of the other conflicts are gray, but this conflict is definitely black and white.
This is about good versus evil.
This is a storybook.
You know, any movie we've ever watched, this is definitely evil against good.
To be clear, that is, he did dye his hair Ukrainian flag colors.
That's what's going on there, right?
Yeah, he's being interviewed in faded Ukrainian flag colors.
Ruth gets derailed after this into an explanation of how the world is a single unit that needs to move together as a collective, and then he explains that Putin just doesn't seem to grasp that concept.
Eventually, the interviewer has to ask him the main question again.
And, um, what are you doing here in Ukraine?
Uh, my initial goal was to come and fight.
I think, you know, everybody around the globe should be motivated to come here and support the Ukrainians and support the army.
No matter what gender, age, anything, everybody should be here supporting the army.
But I'm 56, so initially they were like, well, I have no military experience.
So they're like, you're not an ideal candidate.
So they said, not right this minute.
So plan B was to come here to Kiev and promote getting more people here.
You know, we need thousands and thousands and thousands of people here fighting with the Ukrainians.
We need, you know, we've got 190 countries around the world.
God, Jesus.
It's not a great idea.
He basically is like, dude, obviously what I want is the militaries to all get involved.
But if they can't, then we should just start sending civilians from every country.
God, Jesus.
It's not a great idea.
He's like, he basically is like, dude, obviously what I want is the militaries to all get involved.
Like, you know, but if they can't, then we should just start like sending civilians from every country.
Like, come on down.
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, yeah, his plan was basically he wanted, like, everyone from every country just pouring into Ukraine to, in some cases, like he said, uses the term human shields.
Well, what you what you need during a war is more mouths to feed who have no military training and just show up not knowing your language and just kind of mill around.
Yeah.
It sounds to me, and I mean, he's said as much himself in some of his posts, even though, you know, he might have been being a little bit overdramatic, but he showed up to a war zone at, you know, almost 60 years old, no experience whatsoever, you know, and asked to fight.
Kind of sounds like a death wish to me.
Like, and, you know, he had tweeted about, you know, I want to fight and die for Ukraine.
I don't know.
Part of me wonders, is this like all like, you know, maybe things in his life weren't going He's doing so great and to die on the front lines for this cause, you know, would provide some lasting glory.
The only thing is that it seems like every time he says, I'm going to sacrifice my life for this, in his actions or words, it amounts to nothing.
He ends up going home safe from Ukraine.
He ends up running away from his own weapon and getting captured alive with the Trump thing.
So I actually think he thinks of himself as a martyr, but doesn't really want to die.
Yeah, yeah, I wonder.
Who knows how true any of that is that they didn't, you know, that they wouldn't take him, you know?
They might have said like, okay, well, here's a gun and we want you to go to this point and like, you know, it's a suicide mission.
And he was like, eh, you know what?
Maybe I'll set up camp in the center of town and talk to people instead.
There are issues with like the, you know, the average fighter getting older and older in Ukraine due to like lack of personnel, but having a guy with no training who's 56 and talks to you like this, it's pretty quick.
You want to screen him out.
Yeah.
He's yeah.
He becomes a liability at that point.
A hundred percent.
And he, that is the one consistent thing here is that he is a liability to everybody he encounters and they all end up just being so frustrated with him.
The interviewer can barely get a word in edgewise.
It takes more than five minutes to get to the third question, at which point Ruth becomes emotional.
What impressed you the most since you are here?
My trip to Irpin was pretty emotional.
So, you know, going and seeing the buildings that were burned and destroyed and things of that nature.
I think more emotional for me also is just talking to the guys that have come here.
You know, when you talk to a 20-year-old guy that sold everything he owns to come here and fight, that is heroism.
You know, he's coming here to risk his life for humanity, for the Ukrainians.
You know, guys that sell everything they own.
To come here and support the Ukrainians while others sit at home and do nothing.
And what, play NBA 2K?
Like, what are you trying to say?
Yeah, he's talking about you, Jake.
I think he is searching for some, like, moral superiority, too.
Oh, for sure, yeah.
He wants to be virtuous.
He's like, I'm doing this.
I'm, like, fighting against evil on the side of good.
And you're all sitting on your ass.
Mm-hmm.
This is where, by all accounts, Ruth is forced into a lie by the interviewer.
He claims in this clip to be deeply involved with the Foreign Legion.
Now, there aren't any accounts of that being true.
They repeatedly told him they didn't want to participate in his schemes.
They denounced him since this whole thing broke.
But honestly, any person with a critical mind could tell you that what Ruth is saying in this clip makes very little sense.
So, you are working with an international legend.
Yes.
And you are trying to convince people to help, to donate.
And to join?
Yeah, yeah.
My final question is what would you say to the people in order to convince them to join the International Legion or to donate for it or to be involved in the humanitarian aid to Ukraine?
Right, right.
It's just extremely important, the whole thing.
As far as joining the military, you know, yes, if you have some military experience or know people with military experience, encouraging them to come and fight.
We have units all over the place.
So, you know, there were some leadership issues initially, but we've got so many units available to us.
So we have two girls that are in the unit up the street.
So any gender, any age, any skill level to no skill level.
But yeah, if you want to fight, come here and see me and I'll put you in a unit so you can go fight.
We got 15-year-old girls.
He can't get himself in a unit at 56, but he got a Japanese guy into a unit at 74, and then he starts rattling off other organizations instead of focusing on the Foreign Legion.
Like, this is just a guy bullshitting.
Yeah, yeah.
He's just a liar.
Yeah.
In this case, I think it's clear, too.
Like, his eyes kind of change, too.
He kind of, like, looks like a little alarmed that he has to, like, answer this question more specifically.
The interview ends with some pretty wild claims about his recruitment experiences.
I've had several people come, but just a handful, you know, so it blows my mind that I'm standing here alone without thousands of people from every country, from Asia, from Africa, from Australia, from Canada, from everywhere in South America, every place.
Europe.
Yeah, Europe, everywhere.
We need everybody here.
If you have no skills, just come.
We need to be cheerleaders.
Just being here and saying, hey, I support the Ukrainians, and I support human rights, and I support good.
Generosity and caring and kindness and altruism.
We need to show the world that we care.
It's essential.
If you don't do any work at all, just being here and supporting and showing them that we care.
Our fellow human beings is the most important thing we can do.
So even if you've got nothing to offer and you're doing no work, I mean, it sounds like he's setting up, you know, to explain that what he's there for is important, because otherwise he'd have to face that maybe he's just another mouth to feed and a pain in the ass to everybody locally.
Yeah, because I feel like if you would describe someone as a cheerleader, it would be like, yeah, he's not doing shit.
Like, yeah, he's cheerleading.
He's not doing anything.
He's just saying, like, go, you guys should win the war.
But he's using it in a positive sense.
Yeah, and claiming that even if you have no experience, like, come here.
Whereas, like, the interviewer tries to center him a couple times.
It's really funny.
He's like, OK, so what you're saying is that you're encouraging Westerners to join the Foreign Legion, right?
Or donate to the Foreign Legion.
And he's like, no, no, I can put people in units.
It's like, no, you can't.
But what they know that you are useful for one thing, which is you are a Westerner and you could potentially rally support back home.
What they don't know is that back home is another group of people who've had experiences with you and are like, I never want to talk to that guy again.
So this is a new population finding out that this guy's a liability, but they think his old, you know, like his old community somehow would like, I don't know, send through some money.
And this consistently comes back up.
He tries to raise money to get a bunch of drones.
No one sends any money.
So then he tries to build his own drone instead of going like, why am I getting no support from back West?
Is it because I have horrible relationships with everybody and nobody is like paying attention anymore to my insane DMs?
I mean, what strikes me is that it's like he's kind of like, you know, there are lots of people who like the LARP as operators and usually those people just are on their keyboards talking about how badass they are and like how they're doing ops or whatever.
This guy takes the additional step of like flying the fuck out to Ukraine, right?
Yeah, that's that's the thing with him.
But he doesn't but he doesn't go through the extra additional step of actually doing anything helpful.
No.
Yeah.
And like, I think, uh, that's something that is kind of consistent with him, I guess.
Like, even though he sounds very, very passionate, he has a tendency to bulk before actually making the sacrifice he's constantly claiming he wants to make.
And then he's constantly lying about his actual connections to people making a difference or actually organizationally involved.
To get a deeper idea of what Ruth was obsessed with during this period, we can turn to his own extensive writings.
Like I mentioned in the aftermath of his experiences in Ukraine, he wrote a book which he self-published in February of 2023.
I obtained it by buying the Kindle edition on Amazon.
It's so funny to be in this era where it's like, let's just go buy the Kindle of the guy who just tried to shoot the president.
Cool.
And so the title is extremely long.
It's Ukraine's Unwinnable War.
It's incredibly hard to read.
The Fatal Flaw of Democracy, World Abandonment, and The Global Citizen.
Second subtitle, Taiwan, Afghanistan, North Korea, World War III, and The End of Humanity.
It's incredibly hard to read.
It's like a black backdrop on black text.
To make you understand what's happening here, this is a landscape photo of a portrait cover that he has actually, like, you can see where he cut out bits of newspapers to make the cover of it.
And he's printed in, like, black font on, like, a dark background.
And this is the actual cover of the Kindle as it pops up.
It pops up sideways and as a photo where you see the wood of his desk where he took the photo.
Oh, that's awesome.
Yeah.
This is the actual hard-coded Kindle cover when you, like, open the book.
His trip to Ukraine, as he later details in the book, did not go the way he had planned.
Like, he's cutting different photos onto...
Yeah, and presumably, I mean, the book was edited by a woman called Kathleen Schaefer that we talked about earlier, who at the time, she had listed him as her fianc on a GoFundMe she ran.
But anyways, his trip to Ukraine, as he later details in the book, did not go the way he had planned.
Local government and police thought of him as a liability and a pest.
Multiple times, he was asked to take down flags, displays, and full-blown kook tents with A4 pages glued to them.
He chronicles them repeatedly telling him to go home, that the only way he could help would be by providing money or supplies, and that he does not have the military training and as such cannot serve in the Foreign Legion Division of the Ukraine Armed Forces.
He was also told by various recruiters for the Ukrainian Armed Forces to stop getting involved in that effort and that his ideas of bringing in fighters from Afghanistan were unhinged and unrealistic and that they wanted nothing to do with him.
But he refused to relent.
He was going to be helpful even if it was a pain in everybody's ass and it did not help anybody.
Ruth, by all accounts, was also a thorn in the Ukraine government's side.
He once protested Zelensky, demanding that he extract the prisoners taken in Azov style.
Everyone that attended the event, which he claims to have organized, but that's doubtful, was arrested by police in the days after, but he was let go because he's American.
And it's really fucking grim because it shows a little, like, insight into like how you know i mean they've shut down all press uh opposition there there's secret police like people get disappeared and shit if you don't support the the war and stuff so all these people get disappeared and he gets let out but um here he is in the image captions describing it and as of stall protest with all the wives of soldiers stranded at the steel plant begging for extraction in front of the wall of 4 000 people that have died in the first eight years of the war and then the second photo is another gathered group
group protest near zelensky's house that rendered an advisor to shut down the protest and two days later a police roundup of everyone and all males were ordered to report to the army i was not arrested once they found i was american it is a logical tactic given that we civilians should not be complaining about a situation that we could be fighting ourselves as well so he may he was involved in a fucking little like protest that then got people shipped off to war and other civilians
He walked away because he's American and he learned nothing about like how he might be a general nuisance to people, no matter what side of the equation they're on in this conflict.
It's like the thing he's doing isn't real.
Like the second he thinks about facing consequences, it's like, well, that's enough.
Like, you know, he likes this image of himself as like a freedom fighter dying for a cause.
At one point in his book, Ruth outlines 13 things he would tell Zelensky if he met him, all of which is advice on how to lead the country in the war effort, including a repeated plea to just straight up instate a draft of all Ukrainians.
So he's over there, like, protesting the president, saying that they should force all the Ukrainians around him to go to the front.
Yeah, he's, like, he's, like, volunteering other people's lives, like, whether for combat or to be, like, disappeared by the police.
Straight up.
Like, not his own.
It's very... He's insane.
It's very weird.
Throughout the text, he toys with dangerous ideas very casually.
Chapter 18 is titled, Why Has Putin Not Been Assassinated?
Which, this is amazing.
He opens it like this.
The swirling question in every chat around the world as to why Putin has not been killed yet.
In the USA, we have many killed.
JFK, MLK, Robert Kennedy, Malcolm X, John Lennon, Tupac, Biggie, Jimmy Hoffa.
So many that we cannot even remember them all.
What?
So it's like, why don't we kill people here?
We've killed a lot of people in the states.
He doesn't really expand upon that, but he seems to be saying it's like, well, obviously the US government offed all of these people.
So why not someone worse than them?
Putin.
People, relatively easy to kill.
What has happened to the Russian people that they are brainwashed into totally blind sheep?
There was once incident of a Russian man shooting a recruiter because he did not want to die for his country, but that is all I am aware of.
The few protests and one reporter that bucked the system.
I have asked many occasions of countless people in Ukraine to cross over into Russia and smuggle ourselves to Moscow to handle the job, but all help loses its courage and will to make something happen.
The Russians that originally agreed to help get someone in became busy or old or retired or whatever and did not want to help.
How has the entire world failed to chop off the head of the snake?
So my man is trying to recruit people to go assassinate Putin and he's like, they keep, they keep losing their will.
They keep getting distracted.
At some point, and against the advice of nearly everyone around him, Ruth decided to build a drone.
He did this after failing to obtain drones to donate to the Ukrainian army, blaming people's lack of interest in and support of the war.
The drone never became operational, but the way he describes it in an image caption that shows his workshop is pretty worrying.
He says, My gas drone constructed in MikoLive as a self-flying kamikaze drone that failed to gain support from the Ukrainian army for future development, so was scrapped.
It's like he's gonna, he's gonna accidentally program the controls backwards and have it fly towards him instead of away from him.
He wants this thing to be self-guided and also to be a kamikaze drone.
I mean, I imagine like Wile E. Coyote, like in Ukraine, like building his Acme drone, you know?
Ruth basically wants everyone to come to Ukraine, including foreign troops of all countries, but especially the United States, and he wants them all to fight on the front line.
He even ponders in one very special chapter why nuclear war hasn't erupted yet.
Chapter 19.
Why not nuclear war?
Why not?
It's like, why is that off the table, honestly?
He's like Edward Norton holding hands with himself, like at the end of Fight Club.
Oh yeah, no, it's very bad and this chapter goes about as well as you would hope.
The entire world runs and hides in fear because Putin has nuclear weapons.
Why has the world been afraid of Russia for the last 100 years or 300 or 1000 years when we have the power to end it?
We must strike first!
Oh, okay.
Well, yeah.
World peace, we're getting really close there, man.
Oh, he wants the full war.
All NATO nations have missile defense systems in place to eliminate the what Putin sends and the fallout will blow in his direction.
Why do we not call it what it is and recognize that it is World War III?
Uh, so he just, yeah, he's like, then he talks about Hiroshima and Nagasaki were, you know, Chernobyl, Fukushima.
They're all tragical and tragic and horrible, but we can clean up afterwards.
Yeah, no, I would say that a global war between all the nuclear powers is like basically Chernobyl.
Listen to this logic.
Nuclear weapons put a quick and decisive end to World War II.
So why are we afraid now?
I don't know, maybe because Japan didn't have a nuclear bomb when we committed that atrocity on them?
Yeah, maybe it was a one-sided thing.
Fucking idiot.
This is so bad.
That is like a six-year-old question.
Sometimes there will be these trad accounts online who will ask questions that are basically like a seven-year-old.
They'll do it rhetorically, but it's like, no, that is a very straightforward answer to the thing you're saying.
He does this thing too where he writes a conclusion like twice and then keeps writing after both times that he says there's a conclusion.
He even has a part that's called afterthought which then leads to a whole other passage and another conclusion.
So he just can't stop ranting and writing basically.
This is, uh, I did want to kind of search the text for mentions of Trump, obviously, because we do want some insight into how the fuck he ends up at that golf course with a weapon.
So this is the few times where he mentions it.
South America also has the luxury of ample distance between itself and Moscow and its nukes, and should be a loud voice and supporter of Ukraine, but they seem to be unfortunately silent.
Bolsonaro from Brazil embraced a bold maverick attitude that, as far as I know, did not act on behalf of Ukraine.
Why isn't Bolsonaro supporting Ukraine?
I simply don't understand.
Perhaps the newly elected president will be more of a leader and seize the global stage for positive worldly change.
Sadly, the US and the world has likewise failed Venezuela, and Juan Guaido and democracy has dissolved quickly under our watchful eye, and yet we have failed yet again.
So he's a Guaido fan.
Furthermore, we have mirrored their devastating events with our own catastrophe on January 6th perpetrated by Donald Trump and his undemocratic posse.
It seems that the Putin mindset is winning across the globe as even the supporters of Bolsonaro in Brazil behaved like uncivilized brats as well with no regard for law and order and the system that their forefathers and majority established.
What type of world do we live in when we have no respect for the institutions that we ourselves establish and do not have the decency to admit defeat when the majority of the population votes for their will?
What childish egomaniac have we become to put our selfish agendas above that of the desire of the whole?
I would suggest to Juan Guaido to seize the leadership role that he won and proceed on the world stage to move us forward and go and stand with Zelensky in Ukraine and stand as brothers for democracy and unilateral support.
Perhaps when all is done with Putin, together you both can also eliminate Maduro from power, as it should be.
So he's just dreaming of coups.
Yeah.
He has so many coup ideas, guys.
Like, why won't anybody listen to him?
I'm sure Guaido just didn't think about seizing power.
I'm glad that fucking Ryan Ruth is suggesting it to him.
Yeah.
Dozens of pages later on are just gore photos taken from social media of people massacred or executed in Afghanistan, like genuinely horrible shit for pages on end.
And this is the only place he mentions the assassination of Trump?
It comes up during his anger that Obama's Iran deal was cancelled by Trump.
He writes, I would like to celebrate the amazing work of John Kerry that very humbly and humanely handled the Iran deal which elated me and the whole of the world.
I must take part of the blame for the retarded child that we elected for our next president that ended up being brainless.
But I am man enough to say that I misjudged and made a terrible mistake and Iran, I apologize.
You are free to assassinate Trump as well as me for that error in judgment and the dismantling of the deal.
Go ahead and kill me or Trump.
I get it, Iran.
We fucked you over.
Just fucking hit me with a missile, Iran.
Just do it.
Just do it.
I don't deserve it.
Yeah, I suck.
And here's where he kind of, I think, ponders, in a general sense, Trump being murdered.
No one here in the U.S.
seems to have the balls to put natural selection to work or even unnatural selection.
So he wants Trump to either die of Darwinism, like he gets stuck in the toilet, or not-Darwinism, someone comes in.
You know, is the toilet we deserve.
Until he becomes the toilet.
Yeah.
Anyways, then he goes on, I am furthermore saddened by the incompetency of the current negotiators to bring the deal back to life.
So disappointed that Biden didn't do more to revive the wonderful deal Obama had brokered.
This is where things get weird.
Like, his book is insane, let's be clear.
I mean, this is a genuinely puzzling part where he ponders some pretty radical feminist ideas.
Liv, you might like this idea.
Chapter 21, Every Action with Nothing to Gain.
How about a world with no men?
How peaceful would our world be if we could have evolved to reproduce without the male gender and all of its selfish, greedy, arrogant, self-serving, macho bullshit?
Oh, what a quiet and peaceful place this world would be.
Perhaps we can extract all the testosterone from all future generations and make the male population more kind and caring and eliminate all conflict-mongering pricks.
I agree with that.
I think that would solve all of the problems.
So just forced transition all males, first of all.
And this is where, if you thought he was a feminist, he kind of turns on women a little bit.
Sorry to all the girls looking for those rough, gun-slinging cowboys.
Those redneck, barbaric, crude days need to be done with, and the whole population of the world needs to be educated that such behavior is not to be tolerated.
Sorry to all the horny sluts who want masculine men.
Yeah, you horny sluts who still want a rugged man.
We gotta get rid of these guys, they're making war.
Where is he in this equation?
Is he gonna offer himself up as the first to transition?
Like the head of the Heaven's Gate guys?
Who's like, ah yeah, I'll get castrated first.
Or will he rule as like a testosterone king over the rest of the population?
I kind of feel like the latter.
He's using his testosterone anger for good to help end the war in Ukraine.
I think.
Yeah.
He's one last blast of testosterone before they forced transition him into the new world he's created.
I don't think he's really fully aware he's calling for transition, by the way.
I'm saying that jokingly.
I don't think he knows that's what you do.
This is a kind of classic liberal line, you know, where it's like, man, imagine how good the world would be if just women ran it instead of men.
It would be so much better.
It's like in Family Guy when the transgender character, like, gets an operation and they just, like, step in as a dude and then come out as a complete female.
Like, that's how he thinks trans stuff is, so he's like, I'm describing something totally different.
Damn, it's like I'm exiting from this long dream about making war and now all I want is to do scissoring and have fun and hang out and have a plushie.
Uh, see, he had some pretty wild geopolitical beliefs.
For example, this was his take on Belgium and their perceived lack of support for Ukraine.
Some nations like Belgium are even tracking people's phones and seizing them when they reach out to me about joining the fight in Ukraine.
They intercept the phone, and the police send me texts that state that recruiting Belgian citizens is illegal, and that they start court files and investigations and direct me to not respond, and that the civilian and phone will no longer be in use.
I can only assume that Belgium must not be a free democratic society and must be communist.
I responded to their police department and suggested that while they must be Russian already, Putin should gladly take Belgium any day that he may wish without resistance.
So Putin, if you are listening, Belgium supports you and will not put up a fight if you wish to take it over.
Go right ahead.
It is yours.
I will meet you there and help you take it over.
While I know for a fact that some Belgians are fighting in Ukraine and I had to buy a flag to represent their support, I would encourage all citizens to rethink their loyalty to such an odd nation.
It is odd.
He's fucking insane.
It's annoying though because he doesn't know enough about geopolitics to like properly be racist about Belgium.
To be like, we should split up your country, the Flemish or Dutch, the Walloons or French.
Like the obvious.
But he just doesn't know enough about the world.
Or just go straight back to like their colonial era and just blame them for that.
There's so many angles here.
He has none.
He doesn't have anything.
anything he's just in he's in an area he does not understand sir your hatred for belgian is uh anemic at best yeah it seems like he just wants to be like carnage adjacent you know what i mean like yeah i'll be there i'll be there to help you do it like i won't be doing any of the actual uh invading myself but like i'll serve as like uh he's like a guy you know he's like the guy who when the aliens come down he's like oh like i embrace our alien leaders like Like, who do you need?
Like, what do you need?
I'll help you.
And then immediately gets killed, you know, gets killed by them as soon as he's outworn his usefulness.
In Saving Private Ryan, he's like the guy who's on the landing craft.
He's like, come on, go get off the landing craft.
I'll stay here, though.
Yeah.
I think this is perhaps a clue that his ideology is primarily self-centered.
I don't know what the real story is, but he believes that Belgium is preventing people from communicating from him, or Belgium is preventing him from recruiting people.
Yeah!
He can't recruit civilians!
He's just some random guy!
He says he hates Putin.
He wants to assassinate Putin.
He wants to use nuclear weapons against Putin.
But in this instance, because he's mad at Belgium, fuck him.
Putin, you can have Belgium.
Yeah, he's mad at Belgium for stopping him from basically doing, like, jihadi recruitment over the phone.
Like, just calling Belgians and trying to be like, hey, do you have a rifle?
Do you have, like, some body armor?
We need you right now.
And, like, neither the side recruiting wants this involvement that he's having, nor definitely does the Belgian government want a bunch of fucking Belgian guys, like, going straight to a conflict.
Anyways.
By the end of his stay, and in the aftermath, he ends up blaming the Ukrainians for not being grateful enough, and for being rude to him specifically.
So he writes, Perhaps that is what disturbs me and eats at me inside, whereby I cannot ignore what each and every Ukrainian does, as I know that countless foreigners are getting shot and killed daily, and my constant thought is that every Ukrainian should be extremely happy and grateful, and be celebrating and supporting every foreigner for their unwavering support.
That is possibly the ultimate anger that is driving this document, is the careless and carefree attitude of Ukrainians, that it seems to not matter much, and they do not wish to be bothered.
So the few bad apples that scream at me on the metro for metal that is too long, with an American flag around my neck, and the bus attendant that screams and wants to lock me up because my ticket is not good enough, and the police that yell at me daily and do not care, just want me to go home.
These rude, nasty social servants cast a great shadow over every good person in the whole of Ukraine, unfortunate as it is, It is all that sticks in one's mind.
All of the rude, ungrateful people that do not care that a war is happening and do not have the slightest bit of personal judgment to see what is important and how it affects the possible outcome of the war.
It is tragic that these types of people are the only ones that become the face of the city and the de facto ambassadors that leave a horrible taste in the mouths of those that come of their own accord and funding to be treated this way.
So nobody likes him at every level is what becomes clear through his writing.
This is so emblematic of an ally of pretty much any cause who's doing it to pat themselves on the back.
When a group is like, actually, no, that's not helping.
It's like, well, fuck me for trying, I guess.
It's like, no, we're trying to do something and you're standing in the way.
This is the funniest line maybe in his whole book.
By his own accounts, the local police were delighted to see him go.
He writes, When I told the police that I was leaving and going home, they were overjoyed.
They're just like clapping and cheering and giving each other high five.
But was it all worth it for Ruth?
No.
Here's what he writes.
How deep does this bitter taste run?
Well, when I get asked if I will return to Ukraine my immediate response is, no!
The bad in my mind always outweighs that good, and I have really no interest in seeing Ukraine again.
I would go to join a defined mission into Russia to inflict major damage, or if my foreign comrades needed me to help ensure that they did not get killed, I would go and guard the backs of my fellow fighters, but I have no interest in ever being in Kiev or any unaffected city at all where life goes on as normal.
I am done trying to persuade Ukrainians to get involved in pushing them to help foreign volunteers.
I am done.
It's so, like, where life goes on as normal, because he's like, oh, it's so fucked up that all these Ukrainians are just sitting around living their life and not at the fucking front.
It's like, neither are you, buddy.
No, because you didn't pass the psych test and you're too old and have no training.
In another part of the book, however, he claims he would gladly still give his life in the struggle against Russia, at which point he fantasizes about dying a martyr.
As you might have figured out by now, that this story is also the conclusion of my life.
It has been my goal to make every country, leader, and civilian around the world mad at me.
Please put it in the newspaper that I'm mad.
While most hide in the shadows and cover their faces, for every photo I will sacrifice myself if need be to push the war and the world forward.
I will certainly have made every citizen an enemy of me, but the goal is for them to hate me as much as Putin and hopefully render an even greater resolve.
I am one insignificant man, so let the mafias and kill squads hunt me down and end my life.
But if I have at least challenged one person to do better or pushed one leader to ponder their decisions and actions, then maybe my life will be worth the meager change.
I can only hope that those that I have pissed off will think just a little bit about their actions and how they affect others.
How the slightest bit of hate or the smallest act of kindness sends a massive ripple throughout our community and we must check our every action and ensure that it falls on the side of good.
As I am currently back at home in Hawaii, my next journey takes me back to Ukraine and other countries to round up volunteers and I will walk with them back to Ukraine as far as it takes.
If we must walk thousands of miles to get back to Ukraine to support freedom and humanity, that is what we must do.
It is doubtful that we will be able to raise enough funds for paperwork and airplane flights, so I am certain that may have hundreds of foot soldiers marching to Ukraine.
It is not the intentional plan, but it may be the Million Man March that I had hoped for anyway.
It may end up being the necessity of the poor.
I should not actually speak of it, but it is doubtful that anyone will ever read this anyway.
And it will probably have to be an underground railroad like in the old days also.
Jesus Christ, man.
He loves historical analogies.
We're just, like, flimsiest comparison possible.
Yeah.
One way or another, that last thing that I try to do is to get refugees that want to help Ukraine to Ukraine to help.
I simply hope that some as crazy as I will continue the work that must be done after I am gone.
I mean, his real conclusion is essentially, Chapter 31 is the perfect title for it.
Ukraine cannot win, so the world must win this war.
He essentially believes that Ukraine is not going to win against Russia.
That's what he's come to believe from spending time there.
And he now wants the entire world to join into this war, which is already a world war.
So why don't we just admit it?
Where do you guys think his detestation of Russia comes from?
I think he's like a cable news guy.
This guy is totally fried on just watching cable news all day.
He's obsessed with world peace.
And so it's like the biggest invasion of the 21st century.
Yeah, it was the one where the Americans thought, Hey, we're the good guys here.
Like we can do something good.
Like it's the first time that I think a lot of people in Virginia got to be like, Hey, we're, this is like the first righteous war.
Like we have, we didn't know we can't, we can't have Vietnam.
People tell us it was bad.
You know, we can't have the Korea war.
That turned out to be bad.
If Afghanistan, Iraq, like.
Those are bad.
Yeah, Middle East, yeah.
But this one is like, good versus evil, and for once we're the good guys.
And so they sold that image on a global scale, and I think, like, you fry your brain watching, like, news networks and shit constantly chattering about this shit.
You get way more exposure to Hawk.
Beliefs than anywhere else because most people don't want nuclear war they don't want ground invasions or a world war like that's insane But I think that that kind of attitude like the State Department Hawk perspective is just overrepresented on cable news and if you watch TV all fucking day whether it's Fox or other networks you end up kind of frying your brain like thinking you're involved in the TV Yeah.
What's weird is that this guy escalated from being a keyboard warrior to actually showing up in Ukraine, being a pest there, and then ineffectively showing up to the golf course.
But he does show up eventually.
And he is willing to at least, like, bring a gun onto the golf course.
Like, he was risking his life.
It's very strange.
Yeah, because, I mean, anybody's, you know, 50-50 that, you know, Secret Service spotted him and, you know, killed him.
I mean, they shot at him, you know.
Yeah, they could have.
He got lucky.
So, I mean, unless he's, like, totally delusional, which it kind of sounds like he is, you know.
I mean.
You have to understand that that's, like, a real possibility when you show up at the golf course, like, with an AK-47.
I think there are limitations we have to own making an episode on Wednesday when this happened on Sunday because there's going to be a lot of accounts of people throughout his life, his family, his children, ex-partners of his, that will probably speak up about various times in his life where, very clearly from all evidence we've gathered, he was just living extremely chaotically, firearms were involved, mental health crises.
So, I don't know.
It'll be interesting to find out more.
We're just trying to lay out what we currently have.
Ruth's politics after trying to become a Ukrainian freedom fighter are equally as confusing as before.
He appears to have become a full lab-leak, bioweapon COVID truther, making this Facebook post in November of 2023.
China's newest round of biological warfare on the free world is called Mycoplasma Pneumonia, created by their scientist Shi Zhengli to eliminate as many democratic civilians as possible, coming from inside sources in China.
We must move away from Chinese goods made from slave labor and defend Taiwan and South Korea in January.
There is little time left.
I still need another 2,500 Afghan soldiers with passports.
Then he puts his phone number and an email he created that is tellingly titled, aid in Ukraine.
But then he has TaiwanForeignLegion.com registered as well.
Just a full crank, like just an absolute crank on any topic.
Following the start of the 2024 election cycle, he seems to be very focused on the idea of Nikki Haley teaming up with Vivek Ramaswamy to defeat Trump.
In January of 2024, he tweeted, At Nikki Haley, please join Vivek Ramaswamy as a team of president and VP.
We must do this now to create a winning ticket now that we can all get behind.
Please do not be selfish and arrogant.
Partner now to change the course of this election.
Break norms and give us an option.
See, to me, this reads as he thinks he's doing 5D chess and, like, playing that if he can get Trump out of, like, that side, that the Democrats have a better chance of winning against Nikki Haley, maybe?
No, I think he still kind of does see himself as, like, unaffiliated.
That's so crazy.
He is such a, like, median voter psycho.
Yeah, yeah.
Like, how are you changing your fucking... Like, he's supported everybody on contradictions with each other.
Like, he has no opinion on domestic policy.
It's all, like, fighting the bad guys.
In fact, it feels oftentimes like what he's caught up in is more like geopolitics as a whole.
As soon as it comes to actual politicians, he's way more jumbled and doesn't really bring them up that much through his books and stuff.
He imagines himself to be in conversations with them, but other than that, his support is all over the board.
The couple tweets he sends to these two, Hailey and Vivek, during the Republican primary are extremely personal.
Again, where he's doing it in a way that he does think that they're reading it.
Like these ones, for instance, to Vivek.
At Vivek G. Ramaswamy, dude, the same jacket every day?
I hate the casual speeches.
I want professional speechwriters with emotional messages that are powerful and moving like at conventions.
I want someone serious and presidential with tears and kindness and care pouring out.
So less Bitcoin, maybe?
At Vivek G. Ramaswamy, you cannot quit.
Why?
You must stay on the ballot to the end.
You must fight.
You must continue giving speeches and push all the way to election day, no matter the election results.
Do not give in.
Join Nikki and keep working.
Never give up.
So, I mean, it's crazy that he was a Vivek supporter like this year.
Yeah.
Like recently.
Yeah.
No, he's, well, that's what I'm saying is like, I almost think that he thinks he's like fucking with the Republican ticket.
Maybe.
Or maybe he's just a never Trumper and just loves both parties.
Just wish Trump was out of it.
Yeah.
Cause he doesn't like Biden as well.
Yeah.
Crank.
Crank behavior.
And he, his language and his like, I don't know, at least in my like personal opinion, just after like obsessing, you know, wildly over like people online, his language reminds me much more of like a never Trumper than a Democrat.
Yeah, which is like that weird gray area that got created, I think, as Trump rose, right?
Where it was like ex-Republicans that kind of claimed to be Democrats, but consistently pushed the party to the right.
He's like a Lincoln Project acolyte.
Yes, that is true, I think.
That makes sense.
It's that kind of language.
It's somebody who is, like, a traditionally, like, a conservative, right?
Like, he loves fucking guns.
He got, like, arrested with a machine gun.
Like, he was literally charged with, like, a weapon of mass destruction.
He was, like, a local law enforcement hero with, like, an Oscar from, like, the police department.
He's calling Biden Sleepy Joe.
He's making pleas to Nikki Haley and Vivek.
I mean...
He strikes me way, you know, I was surprised to see that he was championing Bernie Sanders.
But of course, with the caveat of being like, oh, well, you know, you got to tone your socialism down, bud.
Yeah.
I mean, as much as he spoke about Sleepy Joe, he then ended up having a bumper sticker, right?
For the Biden Harris campaign.
Yeah.
There's an associated press photo of a truck outside his Hawaii home that has his Hawaii business and the Biden-Harris campaign sticker.
So kind of confusing.
Maybe that was his son's.
Maybe it was his.
Yeah.
Who knows?
Either way, he's extremely confused, this man.
Yeah.
In March of 2024, he also voted in the Democratic primary in North Carolina.
Presumably, I would have to guess, being a part of the protest vote against Biden, which again, I feel like is emblematic of like, he's not really, doesn't have an allegiance to either party or either real side of the culture war, if I'm being honest.
He just wants the figure which has the best foreign policy result or that he views as the best foreign policy result.
Yeah, which is, you know, insane.
Like his foreign policy ideas are crazy, but he still tries to find candidates that measure up to them.
And then that's why he's switching candidates constantly, because he's trying to adapt something incoherent to like a potential representative that he could support.
But then he also made this tweet in April of 2024.
At POTUS, your campaign should be called something like K-A-D-A-F.
KADAF.
Keep America Democratic and Free.
Trump's should be MASSA.
M-A-S-S-A.
Make Americans Slaves Again, Master.
There's another M there.
Massam?
Democracy is on the ballot, and we cannot lose.
We cannot afford to fail.
The world is counting on us to show the way.
So that was like the Republicans' big thing, like smoking gun of like, see, it's the dangerous Democrat rhetoric.
He's essentially like consistently, at least through all of this, he's an interventionist.
Yeah, absolutely.
Like that's, he's like always like do rash actions geopolitically, like switching up on what he wants to do.
But he's like, you invade him.
Oh, no, wait, you go do coup there.
It's like, dude, this is wild that everyone around him is like, this doesn't sound good.
I think the final thing that makes him like, because he seems to be pro-Trump in 2020, where he was like, Trump, you should be reelected so that you can end police brutality, is that like Trump was very clearly against Ukrainian intervention.
And so he clearly cannot be for Trump.
Well, it seems almost like he's so, kind of like Julian said, he's so disappointed in the hawkishness of current administrations and past administrations that he actually maybe bought into the idea that Trump would come in and because he's an outsider, he would make more brash decisions.
And he wasn't necessarily a MAGA guy, but he was like, oh, somebody who's kind of an outsider, he might come in and fuck around and start the world war that I want, and I'm here for it.
I feel like everywhere in the world where there's meaningful movements for change, someone like this comes along and basically Leroy Jenkins the movement and unnecessarily causes the boss to proc on the well-organized people and gets them all killed.
He is definitely a liability to anybody who would have him.
And that makes me unsurprised that everyone's trying to blame him on everybody else, right?
Like that's the main thing you're seeing online is just everyone's like, no, it's your party.
No, it's your party.
No, this wasn't even an attempt.
Yes, it was an attempt.
It's like everybody just is interested in using this guy as a political pawn in the aftermath, it seems.
And I think In Ukraine as well, he was a kind of pawn and he didn't even play his role very well.
So I don't think he'll play the role of like pawn in this aftermath as well as people think.
He seems pretty complicated and confused and fucked in the head.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, it's crazy that that there have been two assassination attempts on Trump and like one from a guy who like left like no writings behind.
His particular, he was a registered Republican, but his real ideological leanings were kind of inscrutable.
Apparently he was also searching for opportunities to get a shot at Joe Biden at the time.
It just never happened.
So he kind of weird, inscrutable politics.
And we have another guy who left a lot of writing behind, a lot of writing behind.
Also chaotic, inscrutable, incoherent, inconsistent political ideology.
No, to really understand this man, you have to find one of his kook tents and you have to read every piece of A4 page that he's like glued everywhere.
You have to read all of the big kind of carelessly graffitied messages.
And then you have to go, well, I feel crazier than when I started.
I think, well, you know.
Maybe this is just, like, a sick brain take, but, you know, what it sort of shows to me is that, like, you don't need a solid political ideology to do violence anymore.
You can just be, like, straight up cooked one way or the other.
And instead of trying to analyze the conditions through which somebody becomes, like, this guy, So corporate news brained and, you know, everything that's been discussed over, over the, uh, you know, the course of the episode.
And yet the conversation is only like, no, he's your, he's your guy.
No, he's your guy.
No, you guys do the, no, you guys do the violence is like fucking heartbreaking.
And, and really doesn't make me super hopeful for, uh, political, uh, sort of conversations going forward.
What we need is a large-scale investigation of the effect of watching eight hours of cable news a day on a mind that's already, you know, psychologically fragile.
And I think we would find that this is not a positive thing for people to go through.
It's a type of MKUltra.
Yeah, there's the real conspiracy, folks.
Well, we'll probably talk about this again, but that was our best shot, our second shot, Our return fire that we didn't get off.
I think this was helpful because like every article about him like tries to like briefly summarize his beliefs and there's no way to briefly summarize it.
No, he's a ranter.
He's an endless.
He will talk to anybody and everyone.
There are a million people out there who've been cornered by this guy.
So we'll find out more probably about his past in the days coming.
In the meantime, you guys take care of yourselves.
Don't be- Hey, if you see a fucking fence and there's like a little barrel that pokes through it, and you hear a fucking trombone, take care.
Take care of business.
Get the fuck out of there.
Make sure to point the rifle back at the guy who's shooting it.
Bend it back and hit that anvil you have above him.
I can hear the cops coming for you as you speak.
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The former president is online tonight promoting a new cryptocurrency venture.
Just moments ago, however, he was asked about yesterday's incident.
This was the second attempt in your life in under two months.
What do you make of that?
Well, there's a lot of rhetoric going on.
A lot of people think that the Democrats, when they talk about threat to democracy and all of this, and it seems that both of these people were radical lefts.
That was the foreign president just moments ago.
Here's his running mate also tonight, also pointing the finger at his political opposition.
You know the big difference between conservatives and liberals is that no one has tried to kill Kamala Harris in the last couple of months, and two people now have tried to kill Donald Trump in the last couple of months.
I'd say that's pretty strong evidence that the left needs to tone down the rhetoric and needs to cut this crap out.
Well, the day began, as you know, on similar lines and a similar tone, talking off camera to Fox Digital.
The former president directly blamed the president and vice president's rhetoric, quoting him now, their rhetoric is causing me to be shot at.
He added, and I quote, they use highly inflammatory language.
He said, I can use it too, far better than they can, but I don't.
