Truanon’s Brace Belder and Liz mock the "sort of assassination" against Trump, framing it as absurdly ambiguous while dressing in macabre mourning attire—lacy black and burqa-like nun outfits—then pivot to Ryan Wesley Ruth’s apolitical voting stance as their ideological mirror. They scorn Trump’s golfing during the crisis, calling it meditative but superficial, before dismissing voicemails entirely, leaving only chaotic messaging apps for "volunteers." The episode blends dark humor with performative outrage, reducing political violence to a farce while clinging to anti-establishment posturing. [Automatically generated summary]
This is Ryan in Hawaii with Camp Box Buildings and also the International Volunteer Center sending soldiers to Ukraine as well as Taiwan.
If you would like to volunteer, please send me a message by WhatsApp, Viber, Telegram, Signal, Facebook, any of the messaging services, and I will respond.
I do not do voicemail, so please do not leave me a voicemail message.
I will never get it.
Thank you so much.
Sorry.
The mailbox is full.
Let's get your name, Jeffrey Epstein.
Let's get your name, Jeff, Jeff, Jeffrey Epstein.
Welcome to Truanon.
My name is Brace, No Violence, Belder.
I'm Liz.
We are, of course, joined by producer Young Chomsky.
And you already said the name of the podcast.
So hello, everyone.
Hello.
Say it again.
Truanon.
Thank you.
Liz.
A second.
A second assassination attempt.
Well, close assassination attempt.
Sort of assassination.
Would-be assassination attempt.
That's true.
A would-be assassination attempt.
I love that.
I love that term so much.
The would-be assassin.
Because that allows, I think people should identify as that.
We're all that, right?
Potentially.
Under the right circumstances.
I mean, everything lines up.
You're in the bushes.
Yeah, you squeeze the orange to get the juice.
That's so true.
That's so true.
But some people don't squeeze.
Some people just sit there.
Liz, you and I have been beveiled for the past few days, cloaked in the black cloth of mourning.
Sure.
Myself, of course, sort of lacy arrangement.
Kind of a sexy mourner thing I'm doing.
Yours resembles more like a burqa.
Yeah, yeah.
Nun-like.
Nun-mode.
Yeah.
And we're not mourning a death, but we're mourning an almost death, which to us is the same thing as a death.
Because we all see, can't really finish that sentence, but you see where I'm going with that.
Donald Trump almost got killed.
But kind of.
Donald Trump potentially had the ability to be killed by a guy.
Yes.
If things had gone differently.
He had a concept of an assassination.
He could have been shot by.
But in more ways than if, like, how all of us could have be shot.
Yeah.
This was a more like direct could be shot.
Could be shot.
Could be shot.
Liz, to really get us started on our path today.
And what a path it is.
What a path it is.
What a long and winding road.
I want you to read something.
A passage that has inspired both of us.
And I think once our readers hear it, we'll inspire them as well.
Now, I want to say I read this.
First of all, immediate highlight in the old Kindle app, Kindle Cloud app.
Yeah, I was.
Because I'm on my computer on that thing.
And I was like, wow, if I have not read something that so perfectly summed up vote true no matter who 2024, forgot which year it was, then this.
I get so tired of people asking me if I am a Democrat or a Republican as I refuse to be put in a category and I must always answer independent.
And I think that most intelligent people judge every situation case by case and vote solely on the merit of the candidate and not about parties or groups.
Now that is from Ryan Wesley Ruth, perhaps our most moderate rebel.
The other day, while Donald Trump was carrying out one of the most sacred of activities, which was playing golf.
Shout out to golf.
I don't think we really do got a shout it out.
To me, I'm sick of it.
Already?
Yeah, I just think it, I do, you know what?
I do have judgments around golf.
Why?
I don't know.
I'm just like, what are you doing out there?
Is it meditative?
Yeah, I've heard that.
Guess what you can do?
It's all in the hips, you know?
You know what's more meditative than golf?
It's all in the hips.
Meditating.
Why don't you go sit cross-legged in front of a swami?