July 20, 2024 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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And here to guide you through the murky waters of the political cesspool is your host, James Edwards.
All right, folks, as can happen from time to time in live radio, there are some surprises and difficulties.
For whatever reason, and the trouble was surely on my end, we had trouble reaching Jim Lancia, our criminal justice correspondent, former police officer, retired police officer in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
He wrote the book Downtown White Police.
Anytime he's on the program, it's a can't-miss show.
But he was one of the guests we wanted to work in tonight, along with the former Secret Service agent Gary Byrne and former government contractor, former Marine Patrick Martin.
And it just wasn't working, but we had a last-ditch effort from a different phone number, and here he is.
And it's our pleasure to welcome back our old friend Jim Lancia.
As I mentioned, retired.
We covered it now.
We've got a guy from the Secret Service, a guy from Blackwater, and now a local policeman.
And local police were involved in this assassination.
That is the mosaic we were trying to present tonight.
Jim is a retired city police officer, a member of the specialized sections of the department, including the tactical unit, which for a time was the most active unit in the U.S. for its size.
Statistically, we just mentioned he wrote the book Downtown White Police, which chronicles his time in law enforcement as a beat cop during the height of the crack epidemic in a very diverse city, Bridgeport, Connecticut.
And anyway, we've got a lot to talk to him about in very short order.
Jim, great to have you back.
Sorry for all the confusion tonight, but it's great to have you.
It's great to be back, and it's no problem with the confusion.
I got a lot to talk about, and there's not going to be any excuses for the local police or the Secret Service.
So whatever you want to do, let's get down to it.
Fire away.
Let's get to it right now because we got to make haste.
But let's start by asking your take, Jim, from the perspective of a former police officer, because there's a lot of finger-pointing going on here.
Secret Service.
Do you ever handle a situation like this where you're protecting a political candidate?
No, no, I've never been in that type of a situation, but the fundamentals are just basic.
There's way too many mistakes made here to be excused as just blunders of the Secret Service or the police department or both.
I got a real different take on all of this, and I think it was set up as a true assassination, and some big people are involved in it.
This is the only way this could have happened.
There's no way you're not going to have snipers on that roof.
The director of the Secret Service, that woman said the roof was too sloped to put somebody on there.
That's completely ridiculous.
There's an open window behind that roof, which is definitely against protocol.
Probably shots fired from there as well.
They knew about this guy for three hours.
They got pictures of him.
Why didn't even the local police go up to him?
It's very simple.
You go up to the guy, say, what are you doing here?
And you ask him questions.
And if you don't like what he says, you kick him out of there.
See, the problem is, they're taking pictures.
They're aware.
They knew he flew drones.
The improbability of that many blunders is beyond belief on my, you know, for me.
I think it's just, it's impossible that they could be that inept, especially the Secret Service.
So I'm going along the theory, the probability of a theory that the people that were trying to take out, and I think there was more than one, I think this kid Crooks was a fall guy.
That's why they killed him instantly.
If the sniper, if this definitely a patsy, if the sniper on the roof was able to take him out so quickly after the shots were fired, why couldn't he have eyes on him prior to shooting?
And they could have taken him up before that.
And no, he does not need any authorization from a higher authority to take a shot when he sees threat.
So it doesn't make sense.
There's way too many way too many blunders.
What do you guys want to ask me about it?
All right.
So here's the headline.
Here's the headline.
So again, we're talking about Jim Lancia, retired police officer, Bridgeport, Connecticut, a very diverse city, if you will, at the time he was on the beat, probably even more so now.
But he administered justice and law enforcement with a revolver and a billy club, and he was a sure enough man's man alpha cop.
Jim is a regular on this show over the years.
We have used his go-to guys for law enforcement.
Anytime something like this comes up, whether it's Black Lives Matter or something like this, we call Jim.
And rightly so.
You've got his book, Downtown White Police.
If you don't, it's available at Amazon.
But check it out.
So here's the headline, Jim.
Again, just establishing your credentials, as we've done for the other guests tonight, a former Secret Service agent, former Marine, former government contractor, former Blackwater guy, now a former beat cop.
This is the headline.
Trump's shooters rooftop building was staging area for local police tactical team doing overwatch of crowd.
That's the headline.
Jim, this is right up your alley.
This is one of the things you did as a cop.
I heard there were cops inside the building.
How is that rooftop not secured?
Well, absolutely.
That's another thing.
I mean, you got cops in the building, but you don't have them on that rooftop.
A very easy rooftop to take over.
You would have extra vision over the whole area.
That's the rooftop that they should have had a team on.
But the funny thing is, is you've got cops in the building and you got the assassin on top of the building.
How did he get up there?
There was a ladder supposedly there.
Looks like somebody put it there for him.
And then you got an open window behind him.
And then you got cops that saw him.
I guess you know about this, right?
The cop peeked up on there and pointed the gun and they fell.
But why wasn't there an immediate signal given out to the Secret Service and telling them, look, we got a guy up there with a gun.
He just pointed it at me.
And I know it happened shortly after that, but why did they wait till the last minute to go up after this guy?
They had eyes on him for hours.
It's just, listen, go ahead.
No, go ahead.
Go ahead.
No, no, go ahead.
I was going to say, basically, the local police made Barney Fife look like Rambo.
You know, he's coming up the ladder.
Somebody points a gun at him.
He falls down the ladder.
At least, at the very least, with something like that happening, you would think that would have sparked more reaction from the local police than it did.
Right.
That's why it's just now maybe with the local cops, it was Barney Fife 2.0, I guess.
But the Secret Service should have never even allowed that to happen.
They knew he was up on that roof.
Now, I'm going to ask you a question.
With the government the way it is under Biden, with Garland, with Majorkis, with Christopher Wright with the DEA shooting innocent men in their homes in Arkansas that were on a search warrant blocking cameras.
You guys know about that, right?
Oh, yes, absolutely.
Okay, with that kind of government, do you not think that they want to stay in power?
Do you think that I'm going to ask you guys, do you think that somebody in that government with high power would be capable of actually attempting assassination of let me just say this, Jim.
You know, this is not like JFK's assassination where it came out of the blue, nobody was expecting it.
People have been predicting assassination attempts for years about Trump.
Well, I would, again, getting back to just the stone, hard, cold facts.
And while we're having each of the three guests on tonight, Jim, you're a beat cop.
You did hard police work.
I mean, hard police work.
I'm not talking about you were a cop in Mayberry and you walked around and escorted kids to the school bus.
You were doing police work.
I did real police work, real violent street crime police work.
This stuff that these guys had to do at this rally was nonsense stuff.
Anybody could do that.
You could put security guards out there to do it as long as you put them in the right place.
All right.
So that's what I was saying.
And you have a chain of command.
You're in a very violent area.
You're kicking indoors.
You're serving warrants.
We've talked about it all for years with you.
You've been a regular guest with us for years.
But again, how does that happen where the cop sees him and he's still not apprehended or neutralized until after he takes the shots?
26 minutes, somebody was.
Well, it wasn't 26 minutes since the cop got the gun pointed at him, but still, that to me, that to me is lack of experience and just, I mean, if you're not prepared to get into a firefight, you shouldn't be a cop.
The thing is this, though.
They didn't have the same radio frequency as the Secret Service.
They should have been.
They should have had Secret Service correspondence so they could immediately call them in and say there's a guy on the roof with a gun, period.
So they didn't have, they weren't on the same frequency for some reason.
That's another thing that's very suspect.
But right after the guy pointed the gun, I think there was another cop there, too.
They should have just opened fire on the guy in the roof.
I mean, that's what you do.
That's how you do it.
There's this guy with a gun there.
There's a former president speaking.
He's there for one reason.
You got to be there.
Hey, squeezes off eight shots at the president before they take him out.
All right.
Let's take a quick timeout.
We've got Jim Lancia for one more segment.
Jim Lancia, author of the book Downtown White Police.
And this is a book that if you've not yet read it, you got to get it.
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Jim was the real deal cop, and he's giving us his take on the other side.
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That's one of the things that TPC has always been good at.
We have had one foot firmly entrenched in our cause and the other firmly entrenched in the mainstream because that's where we want to bring our cause.
And we have a long list of experts that we can call upon.
Well, you know, I think tonight is evidence of that.
I mean, it is what it is.
I mean, we've done work the right way.
We have worked with people the right way.
And tonight is evidence of that when you have someone like a retired police officer like Jim Lancy, a retired Secret Service agent.
I mean, these are the two organizations going back and forth blaming one another.
We've got a guy from Blackwater to comment on the whole thing.
We've had them all tonight.
And that is the full picture we wanted to present.
So again, Jim Lancia back with us.
He wrote the book, Downtown White Police, Demonizing the Alpha Cop, Glorifying Thugs, and Militarizing Law and Enforcement.
It's a great book.
We've talked to him about that many times on the show.
Don't have time to get back into all of it tonight, but check our broadcast archives at thepolitical Supple.org.
Anytime Jim Lancia's on, you want to catch it.
So again, Jim, we have tried to cover this from all angles tonight without marrying ourselves to a single position because, again, it's one of two things.
The guy was totally lucky and totally the beneficiary of utter incompetence, and he was able to get up there and take this shot, or it was something more than that.
Something's rotten in the walls of Denmark.
And we're looking at it both ways.
But I would ask you this: what would be the purpose if it was more than meets the eye, if it was more than the established narrative that this guy just got really lucky and there was a lot of incompetence?
What would be the benefit?
Who's trying to take out Trump and why?
Okay.
Isn't that what someone would want everybody to believe if they were going to assassinate Trump?
That it wasn't political, that it was just some lone geeky gunman who they took out and you can't even question after.
We've had so many of those through history, you know, from Huey Long on up.
Right.
So who would benefit?
Well, It looks like Donald Trump would win in a fair election.
So, all these guys that are in power now who are so corrupt would be out of power and they're going to lose their power.
So, these people, I believe, that are in the legal arm of this country, like the, you know, the Attorney General, the Department of Justice.
This is the most powerful, these are the most powerful entities.
They can do anything.
And with that kind of corruption, they can get away with anything.
So, we don't think like that, but these people are evil and they want to stay in power.
And who knows what else they want to do?
So, would they have a motive to do it?
Sure.
But as an ex-law enforcement officer, if I don't even think of the possibility, then I wouldn't be a good cop.
I have to think of the possibilities of why would someone want to do this?
Is there another possibility?
Was there another shooter?
That's what a cop has to do.
You can't just dismiss it as buffoonery and DEI, even though a lot of that is part of their excuse.
Oh, well, they didn't know what they were doing.
It's ridiculous, though.
Sure, they didn't know what they were doing, but it was set up that way.
I think once this is looked into, more evidence is going to pop up.
There's already so much evidence out there now that it's almost impossible that you wouldn't believe that the government had a hand in this or maybe-motive and opportunity.
Yeah, motive, opportunity, and the means to get away with it.
Just think about it.
They made their attempt.
It missed narrowly.
They would have succeeded.
They would have taken out the lone gunman.
Everybody would have been happy that they got rid of the guy who registered as a Republican.
Oh, he's a Republican.
We took him out.
He's gone.
We did our best.
And that would be it.
There'd be nothing else to tell.
And they would have gotten their job done.
They would have gotten rid of the threat of getting them out of office.
They've done it before.
Look at the Hillary Clinton counts and all these other things.
These are dangerous people, very dangerous people.
And they don't care about the law.
Look at how they prosecuted, still haven't even prosecuted those January 6th people.
They don't care about the law.
And who's going to do anything about it?
Get it?
Who's going to do anything about it?
They know the power they have.
Donald Trump.
They know you can't touch them.
And when you know you're untouchable, they'll do crazy things that maybe they wouldn't have thought of.
I mean, Jim, what psychologically does this do to Trump?
I mean, I could see it in his face.
I mentioned this earlier.
Days before he spoke in Milwaukee.
I told my wife something different about him.
He seemed much more low-key during his acceptance speech.
Understandably so.
But does he continue to do public rallies, outdoor rallies?
Will he be more conciliatory now?
Will they try again?
I mean, that's the thing.
I mean, you got to understand if you're Trump and you're thinking, man, it couldn't be just that they're that incompetent.
Are they going to try this again?
Are they going to try to take over somebody, have somebody take over like Blackwater for the Secret Service since they failed so obviously in this their mission?
I guess the question is, what happens going forward, ultimately?
Well, I tell everybody this.
If Trump was a real threat to them, see, I'm kind of apolitical right now because I don't believe in politics.
I think they're all crooks.
But if Trump is a real threat to the Democratic Party of them staying in power, they will try to take him off if he's a real threat.
Now, they can also threaten him, just like they did Ross Perot.
Remember what Ross Perot said?
When he was running for office, he said he got a visit from certain people that says he got to drop out of the presidential election if he values his life and family.
You remember that there was a video on that.
He said that.
So he backed out.
But the thing is, this if they want him out, he will be out.
Or they may just make him play the game.
Remember, Trump had the opportunity to release the Kennedy files that were supposed to be released.
Remember that?
What did Trump say?
He said if he released them all, there would be some problems.
People would not be able to accept it, right?
So who is he protecting?
He knows how dangerous certain people are in certain areas of the government.
They have too much power and way too much ability to get away with just about anything they want to do.
And they've been doing it all this past century, you know, starting with Leon Koswov.
Yeah.
And who coined the phrase?
And who coined the phrase conspiracy theory?
The CIA coined the phrase conspiracy theory in 1963 after the Kennedy assassination because 75% of the American public did not believe the official story.
So they have to make everybody sound like a whack job.
But doesn't that make you upset?
Conspiracy theory.
So there are conspiracies.
That's a known fact.
And to have a theory just means you're using your mind based on the evidence presented.
Of course, you're going to have a theory of a conspiracy or the possibility of a conspiracy.
I mean, that's just using your brain.
That's what cops do all the time.
Any good detective has to look at all the possibilities, all the conspiratorial probabilities, the motives, the means.
That's what cops have to do.
You don't just excuse it.
Oh, well, they screwed up all at once.
That's exactly what they want you to believe.
They screwed up all at once and they'll make up for it next time.
I don't believe it for one second, and I'll never believe it, but there's nothing I can do about it.
That's the thing.
They all shucks defense.
All right, but now this is something that Chuck Baldron brought up, though, Jim: is that if it was the deep state that wanted to take him out, they wouldn't have missed.
They wouldn't have missed.
They could have done it from a mile away and they would have never been detected.
What do you think about that?
And was this just a message being sent to Trump that he better play ball or this is what's going to happen?
I mean, I don't think it was a message.
I think they tried to kill him.
And the deep state isn't so deep.
The deep state is just certain elements of the government.
They're not that deep.
That's a myth.
It's the deep state is just bad guys in the government with a lot of power.
And they're not as invincible as they may think.
Like, you know, we think that they take a shot and they're going to hit you, but they're human just like anybody else.
To be honest, it was still a good shot that hit him in the ear.
And who knows where they took that shot from?
And then remember, an innocent man died and two people are critically wounded.
So those could be the crook shots.
And then maybe the real shooter hit Trump in the ear.
Remember, he turned in a fraction.
And, you know, even the deep state.
And I think what people need to understand is again here, this isn't just some anonymous guy with a blog.
This is a former professional police officer giving these opinions, Jim.
And you don't buy the official narrative.
Am I right?
I don't buy the official narrative.
It's too much all at once, too many blunders all at once.
These are supposed to be professionals.
They do it all the time.
And there's way too much going on.
Crooks flying a drone.
They almost wanted all that to get out so that there's no question in your mind that it's this guy Crooks and he was taken out.
And because he's dead, you can't look into it any further.
And that's it.
That's the end of the story.
That's just like Lee Harvey Oswald.
Yeah, then Jack Ruby killed Lee Harvey Oswald for the same reasons.
Just like Oswald said, he was a patsy.
He was going to talk.
They got rid of him.
And that's how it is.
What part of the deep state do you think it is, Jim?
Do you think it's law enforcement?
Do you think it's the alphabet soup agencies, or is it exactly?
Yeah, it's all of the above.
But it's the leaders that are appointed by the president.
So Biden appoints cronies to these special services and law enforcement agencies, and then they control everybody underneath them.
All right.
Hey, listen.
Folks, we're out of time with Jim Lance here tonight.
Get his book, Downtown White Police, Demonizing the Alpha Cop, Glorifying Thugs, and Militarizing Law Enforcement at Amazon.com.
Interview coming up at American Free Press with Jim Lance.
Yeah.
Thank you, Jim.
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All right, folks, so we had meant to take two hours on the Trump assassination attempt and one hour on JD Vance.
We bled into that by half, and now we've got 30 minutes to do what we had planned an hour for.
So let's get into JD Vance.
I can sell Vance to you either way, and the truth about him is probably somewhere in the middle.
Is he good?
Not particularly, but is he worse than the other contenders?
No, he isn't.
The bad, you want to hear the bad about JD Vance?
Okay, there's plenty of material there.
My first take on him personally is that he's an opportunist.
He's an opportunist.
He's concerned with self-advancement.
Sure, he is.
I mean, he was a never-Trumper in 2016, and now he's Trump's biggest cheerleader.
I don't like middle-aged men who have apparent 180-degree shifts on the issues.
You can't trust them.
You can't trust men who wear mascara.
But personally, personally, according to his past statements, he's a self-hating white married to a DOT Indian.
He has mixed-race kids whom he refers to as non-white.
And he's totally aversion to Israel.
Subservient.
But they all are.
He's no more subservient to Israel than Pence was or that Trump is, quite frankly.
Now, so here's the question.
There's one person in all of the thing that there, you know, there's just one person in all of Congress, Thomas Massey.
Yeah, he was not a candidate.
So would you have rather had you rather had JD Vance or Tim Scott or Nikki Haley?
I wouldn't.
Now, this is an objective look at JD Vance.
I can give you all the bad all day long.
You want me to give you three hours of negative stuff on JD Vance?
I can fill it.
You know, the only member of Congress that would have been a good pick for us would have been Thomas Massey, who Keith just mentioned.
But he was never considered, and the Jewish lobby would have never allowed it had he been.
Tulsi Gabbard had some nice features, pun intended, but she was never more than a second or third tier contender.
It would be nice to see her somewhere in the administration.
See her as the ambassador to Russia.
All right, that's fine.
But as far as Vance's flip-flop on Trump's issues, going from being a never-Trumper in 2016 to his vice presidential nominee, well, again, that's just the way these things go.
Remember Warren Baylog?
Remember our talk with him?
Trump did it himself after losing to Pat Buchanan in 2020 for the Reform Party nomination, or excuse me, 2000 for the Reform Party nomination.
I prefer troop believers, but we can't win.
We cannot win with only the people who are cradle white nationalists.
David Duke's not on the shortlist.
You are going to have to accept folks that come over with a rising tide for expediency's take.
This happens with every movement, right or left.
I know all of you out there wanted Vice President Heinrich Himmler, but that wasn't going to happen.
Out of the choices that were realistic, Vance was the best that Trump was going to give you.
Even Kevin McDonald on last week's show said he was okay with Vance, relatively speaking.
Now, there's an assortment of takes from our side.
Those who are entirely against those who see both sides of the argument, and those who are in favor of Vance.
It just really comes down to whether or not you see Trump as favorable or neutral or worse for our point of view.
But Keith, give us a quick two-minute take on JD Vance as Trump's running mate.
Well, I read some article today by the Jerusalem Times assessing JD Vance.
They seem to be okay with him.
Of course, he's done all that he can to make himself okay with him.
My biggest problem about him is I think he'll be used to blunt ending affirmative action because he can say, look, America's still the land of opportunity.
Look at me.
I was this poor coal miner's son or whatnot.
And look, I went to Yale and now I'm highly placed.
So, you know, don't listen to all these naysayers that say that affirmative action has really dispossessed white Gentiles from positions of authority and power and whatnot.
I'm glad he's a white Gentile.
I'm glad that he's a...
Yes, yes.
I mean, it could be worse.
Would you not admit it could be worse?
Oh, Nikki Haley, Tim Scott.
In fact, everyone that is on the shortlist was a lot worse than him.
And I want to see what he does.
But on the other hand, I'm from Missouri.
Show me.
I don't want to, you know, I want somebody that is really going to go to bat for white Southern Gentiles.
That's not going to happen with him.
But as the pilots say, when you're 20 minutes late on the tarmac, we're going to make it up on the air.
We're going to make it up in the air as well.
What we had planned to spend an hour covering, we're going to try to condense into 30 minutes.
Liz, let's not take the break this next segment.
Let's try to go all the way to the wall here tonight.
Again, the way you look at JD Vance might be contingent upon how you look at Trump.
If you look at it from the media's point of view, JD Vance looks wonderful.
I mean, JD Vance looks great if you believe the media.
Now, the media, the media has made him out to be a right-wing extremist, a nationalist, a fascist.
Of course, they do this with anyone who is half a step to the right of Comrade Stalin.
In Europe, they do it all the time.
We see it all the time in Europe.
ADF.
AFD people in Germany.
Le Pen, you name it.
Anybody who's not an outright communist is Hitler in Europe.
Now, here's the headline from a mainstream media outlet this week.
The headline reads, Trump's VP pick is a naked authoritarian.
Well, that makes me want to support him, but is it true?
This is the article.
I'm going to read a couple of paragraphs from it.
Vance has said that had he been president in 2020, he would have carried out Trump's scheme for the vice president to overturn the election results.
He has fundraised for January 6th rioters.
He once called on the Justice Department to open a criminal investigation into a Washington Post columnist who pinned a critical piece about Trump.
After last week's assassination attempt on Trump, he attempted to whitewash his radicalism by blaming the shooting on the Democrats' rhetoric about democracy without an iota of evidence.
This worldview, this mainstream media article continues, translates into a very aggressive agenda for a second Trump presidency.
In a podcast interview, Vance said that Trump should, quote, fire every single mid-level bureaucrat, end quote, in the U.S. government and replace them with, quote, our people, end quote.
If the courts attempt to stop this, Vance says Trump should simply ignore the law.
Quote from Vance, you stand before the country like Andrew Jackson did and say the chief justice has made his ruling, now let him enforce it, end quote, he declares.
JD Vance is a man who believes that the current government is so corrupt that even radical, even authoritarian steps are justified in response.
He sees himself as the avatar of America's virtuous people whose political enemies are interlopers scarcely worthy of respect.
He's a man of the law who believes the president is above it.
If all of that's true, I like JD Vance.
I hope that it is.
What I see is that Trump probably unknowingly has followed Pat Buchanan's famous advice to go hunting where the ducks are.
The ducks for Donald Trump are southern and otherwise just American white Gentiles.
That's his base.
And he's picked a man from the base to be his vice president.
I think it bodes well for the future because we've got a lame duck right out of the box with Donald Trump.
He can only serve one more term.
And after two years, you know, what you see is what you get.
If the Democrats take over the Congress like they did in, let's say, 2022, well, then, you know, it's basically he's going to be more or less powerless except for executive orders until the end of his term.
There has to be somebody to pick up the torch that has been lit and carried forward so far by Donald Trump after Donald Trump can't run anymore.
And I think JD Vance at 39.
39, five years younger than me.
Right.
Which is wild to imagine the next president.
Well, you get a little long in the tooth here, James.
I'm not as young as I used to be.
But see, that's what I mean.
We've got somebody from the younger generation.
All these people, you know, in our room are saying, get the boomers out of the way.
Let's get, of course, Donald Trump and Joe Biden are not boomers.
They're older than boomers.
But we're getting now somebody who's a millennial in a position of power, and hopefully he will, you know, continue to change and be more like us with the passage of time.
All right, again, if you want me to sell you on JD Vance as terrible, I could do that.
If you want me to sell you on he's the best of a lot of bad options, I can do that.
I mean, what we're trying to do tonight is to be objective.
That's what we're bringing the gifts on that we've had.
And I will guarantee you that nobody who is pro-white and nobody in our sphere of influence has had a former Secret Service agent, a former cop, former Marine, former Blackwater guy to talk about these issues.
Nobody.
and they can't.
With Vance, listen, I just want to.
You've got a bigger Rolodex.
I want to.
I want to be balanced here.
And Brad Griffin gave a very balanced take at Occidental Dissent.
And this is what he writes, Brad Griffin.
My take on the Vance pick is that nearly every elected official in the GOP is somehow worse.
He's a mixed bag.
No doubt about it.
Trump could have chosen someone a lot worse, though, like Tim Scott.
The choice highlighted the fact that Trump has no obvious successor and how weak MAGA is in Congress.
Overall, I think Vance is an upgrade from Pence.
I definitely have a lot more common politically with Vance.
This is Brad Griffin writing.
I was surprised that Trump chose Vance, Brad continues.
I assumed he would choose someone who could have helped him win this election.
He could have chosen Marco Rubio to appeal to Hispanics or Tim Scott to appeal to blacks.
He could have chosen Doug Bergham to fire up the donor class.
He could have chosen Nikki Haley to appeal to suburban women or even Glenn Yunken to appeal to purple state moderates.
I don't buy into the spin that Trump thinks Vance can help him win the Rust Belt.
I agree with Damon Linker that Vance, the Vance pick, is more about securing Trump's ideological legacy.
Donald Trump has no successor, and his choice for VP will be the one best positioned to inherit his movement, assuming he wins the 2024 election.
Trump will be a lame duck president after the 2026 midterms and the 2028 presidential race, and the likely post-Trump era begins in two years.
JD Vance is nearly alone and sitting on the MAGA bench.
Kerry Lake, Dr. Oz, Herschel Walker, Blake Masters, and others all lost their races.
Vance is the VP pick because he won it by default.
And it could have been worse.
We could have been sitting here talking about Tim Scott or one of the others.
Vance is far from an ideal pick, but of the options that Trump was going to give us, he's one of the better ones.
Just think of Mike Johnson.
Mike Johnson is the typical congressional Republican.
And Thomas Massey is the only Republican in Congress who doesn't have an AIPAC babysitter.
There are no anti-Zionist elected Republicans that Trump could have chosen from, even if he wanted to.
Well, I think this, James, I think that he is going to help bring those swing states in that northern tier, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania.
He's from there.
So I think that, you know, that's where you hunt where the ducks are.
And if you get Tim Scott, maybe rather than having 5% of the black votes, you have 7%.
Big deal.
That's not going to make any difference.
Nikki Haley, we'll get all the women from India from the subcontinent of India voting for.
But that's not, you know, that's not a base.
That's not an appreciable number of votes.
I think by putting Vance in there, and particularly since he has a good name like JD, I think he's going to get a lot of white Gentiles voting for him.
Here's the thing.
Yeah, I think it's tactically a good move for Trump.
Definitely brings those Rust.
I disagree with Brad on that.
I think it definitely brings some of those swing states in the Rust Belt, whether it be Michigan.
He'll get votes for there in that country.
That's where it counts.
It doesn't matter if he gets more votes for the Republicans in Tennessee.
He's going to win 70-30 in Tennessee no matter who the running mate is.
But he needs help up in that area.
That's where.
Yeah, I mean, right now, Trump can't lose.
The whole image of him appearing as a gangster boss after he gets shot in the head versus Joe Biden, who gets a touch of COVID, if that's even still a thing, if it ever was a thing.
And he has to retreat from Nevada and go back to the bank.
Somebody told me that the only decisions that Joe Biden is allowed to make is what flavor ice cream cone he's having to do.
Message in James for president.
Thank you.
Thank you for that.
I would certainly have been a VP.
I would have done my duty as VP, but I didn't get the call.
But anyway, Vance, again, you had a lot not to like about him.
He's married to a non-white.
His kids are non-white.
He said some non-white things.
I don't trust people who have a radically shift in ideology in their middle ages over the course of a few years.
But again, that was always going to be the case.
Once a tide is rising, people are going to have to come over.
I said that earlier.
Now, people like to be with a farmer.
It could have been worse.
We could say this.
It could have been worse.
It would have been worse with any of the other so-called first-tier candidates, except for him.
Tulsi Gabbard, I'd like to see her as the ambassador to Russia.
Vivek, maybe we've got a place for him.
We've got, I think, Rand Paul could be, or let me see, someone else as the COVIDs are.
How about Robert Kennedy Jr. as a COVID and the guy that is in charge of the pharmaceutical pharmacy?
That's a serious as it looks right now.
If the election was this weekend, Trump wins in a landslide, electorally speaking, with the electoral votes.
It's a landslide.
But, you know, we played the old three-dog night song, Mama Told Me Not to Come.
That was our theme song for this year.
And a lot's happened already, and it's not nearly over.
I think within, perhaps even before our next show, as we broadcast live tonight, it's 8:50 p.m. Central Time on January the 20th, on July the 20th.
I think before we come back on the show, Joe Biden could have already dropped out.
And then you're going to have a whole new matchup.
And the Democrats still think that Trump flubbed the second half of his eight-hour long convention speech.
I intended to watch it all.
I was there for the last one he gave.
And that was nice.
Whose mind is changed by a speech like that?
No, no, no.
All that's fine, but they're just saying he misses opportunity to be like a uniter.
And we don't need this.
That's the last thing we want is a unit.
Yes, we do not want a uniter.
You cannot have.
This is something, folks, check out Paul Craig Roberts, Paul CraigRoberts.org.
You don't want to unite with evil.
Exactly his point.
So we don't want a uniter.
And I'm worried if Trump is now, you know, psychologically damaged to where he might be that.
He kind of got back into form in the latter half of his longest in history acceptance speech.
And I hope he'll.
It'll be interesting to see where he goes, though, because this is it.
I don't, you know, I'm not saying I don't like people who tell me what they would do when the media cameras are on them, when they've never been in that situation before.
Respect them.
But unless you're in the arena with the bull, it's hard for you to give advice.
So I can't tell you.
I'm not sure if you're a Tony Roosevelt speech and man in the ring or whatever.
I can't tell you what I would do.
I can't give Trump advice on what I would do in issues because I haven't been there.
I've been there as a radio commentator.
But it'll be interesting to see where it goes.
But I do think Biden is not going to be the nominee.
I am more convinced of that now than I was in the days after the debate.
That is one thing that happened last week that I think was prescient when we had Congressman Steve Stockman on.
He was on his way up to the Republican convention last week, and he said that it's definitely going to take out Joe.
And I think when he said it last week, I thought, I don't know.
Immediately after the assassination attempt, I said, nah, they're going to lose either way.
They're just going to let him ride it out.
But now I'm almost convinced that you're going to see it within the next little while.
I'm setting myself up to be wrong about this.
Before the Democratic convention?
Yes.
Yes.
Well, here's what I'm saying.
I think that Biden faked a case of COVID so he had an excuse not to be taking phone calls because they're wearing him out about trying to get him to leave.
And, you know, there are a lot of big donors.
But look, the guy has $95 million in the bank that can't be taken out by anybody but him to spend on his campaign.
So he can basically shoot him all the bird if he wants to.
But, you know, on the other hand, what does that, you know, that makes even higher stakes for an assassination attempt or something like that.
If they can't get somebody in there, you know, what are they going to do?
All right.
Trump cannot be duplicated.
Trump is himself and no one else.
Is it Trump Biden in November or no?
Yeah.
It's definitely going to be Trump if he's not assassinated and Biden if he doesn't.
Do you think they'll take another shot at the walk?
Do you think they'll take another?
They're going to make him walk the plank.
Do you think there'll be another attempt on Trump?
I would not at all be surprised.
This is it, though.
I mean, this is the point.
Here we are now, mid to late summer, and this thing could go so many different ways.
It could not even be Biden.
Trump could be killed, and that's totally realistic.
Trump could turn into Biden in the last election and run his campaign out of the basement.
Well, right now, when you're winning in all the swing states, you can do that.
But anyway, folks, yeah, it's a crazy time.
This is an unprecedented presidential campaign, to be sure.
So we'll see what happens.
But what else can we do?
But it's been a good show tonight.
It's been some great and informed guests.
And no consensus.
There's no consensus.
There's no consensus on what really happened in Pennsylvania.
There's no consensus on JD Vance.
Again, I could tell you, Vance is not our guy.
Very easily.
He's not.
But I could certainly tell you that I could certainly sell you in either way.
It's just a terrible choice or it's the best of a bunch of terrible choices.
Final word on Vance, Keith.
Well, how do you feel about Vance?
Best of a bad lot.
All right.
So that's your official take.
Yeah, so we'll see what happens.
And by next week, the whole world could have changed again.
It certainly changed within the last eight days.
And it'll be very interesting to see psychologically how Trump emerges from this convention and moves forward with his campaign and his candidacy and if he'll regain that anger and that chip on his shoulder or if he'll just be happy to be alive and kind of mellow out.
We'll see.
But rank up the golf cart at Mar-a-Lago.
They're definitely calling Vance an authoritarianism, authoritarian.
Another headline, authoritarianism expert.
Did you know you had experts in that?
Well, I tell you what, he's got all the right enemies.
Authoritarianism expert alarmed by the Republican National Convention.
Again, we decided not to go.
You're going to ask, well, why did you decide to go to South Carolina last week and New Orleans two weeks ago and not go to the Republican National Convention?
It's easy.
I like being around my people.
I enjoyed going to the Republican National Convention in 2016.
Sam Bushman and I talked about it a couple of months ago.
We decided not to go this year.
Heavens knows you've been gone enough.
Yeah, it's just too expensive.
And, you know, we've got to be stewards of your resources as a listener-supported program in this age of inflation.
And so, anyway, we, for that and other reasons, decided not to go.
Even when we were there in Cleveland, it was a great experience.
Read about it at thepoliticals, Supool.org.
But we didn't stay in the arena the whole time.
We did our media work.
I see you've got a note in your hand.
We do.
We've got here right.
We spent some time on this last week.
But Ed writes, Mr. Edwards, it's a real pleasure to write a check for Mr. Nice Guy himself.
He must be talking about you, Keith.
If I were a rich man, it would be a lot bigger.
But the conference you and the crew put together sounds like it must have been fun.
Congrats.
Keep doing what you're doing.
We're going to keep doing what we're doing.
And here's one from a listener in South Carolina.
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Only wish it had been a bit more social because we were in awe of all the heavyweights gathered together.
Keep up the great work.
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My wife actually suggested that I begin tithing to you all along with our church.
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