Amala Ekpunobi
And Trump’s VP Pick Is….
There has been an insane amount of news since the attempted assassination of Trump over the weekend, including breaking news of Donald Trump’s selection of JD Vance as his VP pick. So let’s dive into everything we’ve learned about the assassination attempt, the shooter, the media reaction, and more. Let’s talk about it.
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- Duration:
- 1h 44m
- Broadcast on:
- 16 Jul 2024
- Audio Format:
- mp3
(upbeat music) - Hello everybody, welcome to the show. Happy Monday. What an interesting weekend it was. You guys saw me live here on Saturday to talk about an assassination attempt against President Donald Trump. Today we're gonna be talking about the aftermath of that assassination attempt. Everything that we know. Plus a little bit of breaking news here as Donald Trump has just announced his VP pick who's going to be running on the same ticket as him. JD Vance, Senator JD Vance, out of Ohio. We're gonna talk a little bit about JD Vance, his background, move into the aftermath of everything that happened over the weekend, talking about the identity of the shooter, the different responses that people have had to this assassination attempt is at stage. Is it real? What are the conspiracy theories revolving around this? What happens when you put women in a secret service? All the different celebrities who are weighing in on the assassination attempt, some wishing that it was successful. And then some of the left-leaning publications, rhetoric about this assassination attempt and their prior rhetoric before it took place a lot to unpack on today's show. But we're gonna do our best to get through it. And of course, as always, we have Taylor and Nashville. - Hey guys, yeah, we're drinking from a fire hose of news these past few days and literally living through history, it's been crazy. So a lot to get to, let's get into it. - Yeah, 100%. You guys watched me on Saturday. And I'm like, oh, I am processing all this information as it's coming to me, this is absolutely crazy. And now that we've gotten a bit removed from the situation and had a little bit of time to breathe, we can now talk about it and discuss all the different reactions that have taken place. But up for set breaking news that Donald Trump has chosen, Senator of Ohio, J.D. Vance for his VP pick. Now, if you've seen J.D. Vance recently, you've seen a person who like really loves Donald Trump. He is defending this man as much as he possibly can. A big America first guy who really turned the corner on Donald Trump was not so much of a big fan of his when he was first running for a president. In fact, J.D. Vance personally referred to himself. He was a self-proclaimed never-trumper. He said, "I never liked the guy when talking about Trump." Now that changed a little bit into Trump's presidency, particularly around the time that J.D. Vance was starting to run for Senate. So, convenient timing there, but he did apologize and take back some of the words he said about Donald Trump saying, you know, I didn't think he was gonna be a good president and now I see that I was wrong. He liked Trump's policy, he liked Trump's America first approach and then he sort of changed his tune on Donald Trump. And since then, has been an avid defender of the man. He's got quite the background. So, graduated high school, went into the military, from the military, went to, I believe Ohio State University, then studied there, left, graduated from Yale Law School, then got his roots in venture capital, actually working under Peter Thiel from there, from venture capital to the Senate, from the Senate to VP. So, that's what we've got going on with J.D. Vance. As far as his policy and what he supports, I think he's pretty much towing the same line as Donald Trump. So, if you wanna know how he thinks, I think he just looked to Donald Trump, which may be a good part of the reason why he was picked for Vice President. J.D. has very much defended this man, especially through the whole kangaroo court Trump trial that we saw happen in New York City, with his background in law. He was talking about the weaponization of the justice system and coming to Trump's defense and everything that was taking place, leading up to his 34 count conviction. So, there you go, that's your VP pick. I don't know what I was expecting. I know what I was hoping for. This is like, at least what I was thinking optically might've been a good choice. You know, all these different names have swirled around. In fact, people made these huge graphs of like, Donald Trump's head and the bubbles all around them of who could possibly be his VP. I was thinking, optically, what would look good? Maybe feel good? Maybe like a Vivei Chromoswami or a Tulsi Gabbard, but that didn't end up panning out. In fact, they weren't even top contenders for this role. Vivei Chromoswami is quoted as essentially saying, I would never wanna be VP. That's not where my skill set lies. It's not something that I feel like would be good for me, although he did quite well in the presidential race, considering what he was up against. And he's also been a defender of Donald Trump along his up and down route in this political system. As far as Tulsi, I know, I thought it would just be interesting from that perspective to have a woman who was on the left, left the left, because we all know whoever's gonna vote for Donald Trump and has decided on Donald Trump is gonna vote for Donald Trump. I was curious about those people who are sort of maybe fence-sitting, they don't know what they wanna do. Maybe this assassination really opened their eyes. And I thought, oh, maybe a Tulsi Gabbard could really flip them on their head a little bit, and she made the journey from left to now. I guess we'd call her what, center right? Like a moderate right-wing politician now, and maybe she could give voice to that and get some people to wake up. And I think she still will. So that's what I was thinking, but JD Vance is the choice. And there you go, that's the announcement. - You know, we were talking a little before, and I think it really reflects a, I guess, confidence on Trump's part, that he didn't feel like he needed to choose somebody that was gonna have appeal in a swing state, maybe like Glenn Youngkin who would have that moderate appeal as well, you know, Doug Burgum's name was out there. I don't think that was ever really a serious consideration. You have someone like Marco Rubio as well, but Florida's pretty secure, and I don't know that Marco Rubio would have brought a lot more energy to the ticket. So ultimately it looks like Trump just decided to go with who he deemed to be someone who is loyal, who's young, who's energetic, who represents MAGA. And, you know, we'll see how that pans out. I saw someone tweet, well, if Trump loses it'll be because of this pick, I don't know that I'm that jarred by it at this point, there seems to be so much momentum after the repeated news cycles we've had with Biden's cognitive decline. And then this assassination attempt has really just totally changed the tone and tenor of the race. Trump's promising a really riveting speech tonight at the Republican National Convention based on unity. So, you know, there's a lot moving in Trump's favor right now and this pick, if anything to me represents him, maybe wanting to put in place a legacy of MAGA in the White House, whoever got that VP nod was going to be in prime position for the future whenever, you know, Trump can only be president one more time as far as we, you know, God willing. So, whoever is that VP pick is gonna have, you know, a leg up on the competition perhaps in 2028 on the Republican side. So maybe Trump just thought that the JD was a good fit for that, who knows, but, you know, that ironically or somehow that seems like a lesser news story of the day than some of the other things we've been seeing in the wake of this historic weekend. - Yes, it does certainly feel that way. I don't think anything can top the news that we caught on Saturday and everything that was happening at the time, all the turmoil and the turmoil since then with people's responses. We did get a $50 super chat from Tran and Gobo. Let's go ahead and read that. I don't think Vance was a good choice. He says Scott, Yunken or Donald's would have been better in my opinion. Vance adds nothing new to the ticket. Love your channel, keep up the good work, y'all. You are amazing. Thank you so much, Tran and I really, really appreciate that. Yeah, I'm seeing you guys in the chat and you guys are all over the place as to whether or not JD Vance, you feel, was a good stance. I think mostly though people are going, who? Who is this guy? Like, I don't even know who this is, which might be, you know, helpful 'cause you can, it's just somebody that you need to learn about across the way. It doesn't seem like he has too many crazy things going on in his background other than the flip-flop that he did on Donald Trump, which you can largely say, "Oh, well, I just like everyone else." I was consumed with this image of Donald Trump that the media was throwing out and portraying of him and I realized that I was wrong and maybe that'll help him in some way, shape, or form. He also seems really eloquent, I guess, with the Yale background. So he'll be a good, I guess, defender of Donald Trump and all the different things that are going to be thrown at him. We'll see if this was the best pick. I just don't know that it's a make or break for Donald Trump in either way he goes on this choice, given what has happened recently. You know what I mean? And speaking of what has happened recently, we are going to go through, you know, the replay. We have to do the replay of what happened at the Trump rally in Butler County, Pennsylvania. Let's go ahead and check that out. - They see something to said. Take a look at what happened. (crowd cheering) (crowd chanting) - So there you go. You have that replay of everything happening in, sorry, Butler, Pennsylvania. There's been so much, so much analysis in the wake of all that's taken place. One thing, which I'll go ahead and actually replay from this video, is the Secret Service. The Secret Service is being called out for their behavior and action, or shall we say in action, in response to what was happening on that day. You know, people are analyzing the snipers who ended up shooting Thomas Crooks on the roof. They're calling out the team that was meant to protect Donald Trump on the stage for their interesting way of doing so. You've actually had many a person with a military background, security background. They're making TikToks, Instagram videos, criticizing how they handled the situation. Let's, one more time, see what goes on, and really listen for what you're gonna hear one of the female Secret Service agents say as this is taking place and as she storms the stage to hopefully get Donald Trump out of this situation. (crowd cheering) There it is. What are we doing? What are we doing? She says, which, I can, you know, in a high-stress situation, you hopefully, you often train for these things. You would think that they've run this sort of scenario over 10,000 times for how they're gonna deal with this as security detail. And maybe, what are we doing? What are we doing? Was not part of that training. Maybe not something that you should scream out loud, but if you're in a scenario that's high stakes and you got a ton of people around you and you all have to coordinate, maybe you need to scream that out to them in order to figure out where we're going, who's calling the shots, but you would think a Secret Service, they would have that figured out before hand. Now, we're gonna watch another video, of course, that you've all seen by now. (crowd cheering) Now, just pause on this frame here for a second. Okay. Some people are gonna say Trump told them to wait. Trump said, "Wait, wait, wait." And that's why they're standing on the stage. And you know what? I can understand that to a certain extent. But before he even said, "Wait, wait, wait." They are taking their good old sweet time getting that man's ass off the stage. And I know, like from this angle, if you're looking here, the bullets came in from this way, okay? And from that direction, you got a good, a considerable amount of blockage from these two male agents. But just look at Trump's face, just wide out in the open with a woman who is way shorter than him, just taking on this position and leaving him out in the open. You see a couple hands sort of flash in front of his face. I guess maybe to put a little bit of blockage there. But my goodness, does this seem like a weak spot? And if this was some sort of coordinated effort to take him out, and there were, I don't know, by chance, multiple people who were in on this plan to commit this assassination attempt, my goodness, would that be a good spot to have some coverage? And that just didn't happen. And of course, immediately this is made about gender and diversity and DEI. And we've talked about DEI on this channel, diversity, equity, inclusion, for quite some time. And you know, sometimes you wanna play it safe. You're like, oh, I don't wanna rush to the conclusion that women just shouldn't be doing this job. And maybe I am sexist for thinking these things. But, okay, disclaimer, all of these Secret Service agents, I don't know if they need to be fired. I don't know if people are speculating this is an inside job because of how poorly they handled the situation. They don't seem to be properly trained in how to handle a situation like this. And people have been bringing up the Ronald Reagan assassination attempt where Secret Service essentially gets in there and he's out in two seconds. Which you would imagine is customary in a situation like this. This would be protocol. And this is what people who have been trained in security, they've been trained in the military to deal with these situations are saying that as soon as a threat is perceived by Secret Service, they should all in tandem, get to Donald Trump, cover Donald Trump, and more so than that, get him out of the situation that he's in. And there's some sort of security term for this. Some sort of like tuck-chuckin' in F. This is what I heard recently where you're supposed to get up there, tuck him down, chuck him out of the situation, and get him in an armored car where nobody can get to him. And people the hell out of that joint. Okay, blow the pops up the stairs. And that is not what they did. In fact, Secret Service stood on the stage for quite a bit of time, left him open with his head just completely available in a weak spot. And when taking him off the stage, allowed for people to get into their formation, taking photographs, like being part of the havoc, I don't understand how even if you were not trained whatsoever in security measures, you wouldn't know that getting to the target, covering him up and getting him out of the situation as fast as you possibly can. I mean, within seconds would be customary. Make it make sense. - There's so much, and I'm sure we'll get to it as well, but the fact that there's now videos of people like trying to call the two attention, law enforcement who's near the shooter, seeing this guy scale this building on this rooftop. Hey, there's a man laying down prone with a rifle on a rooftop over there. Maybe we should radio that in. And as soon as that's radioed, you should have the Secret Service immediately before any shots are fired, just rush Trump off the stage, immediately get him out of harm's way and then deal with the situation. But instead there was just nothing done. Apparently that just total lapse in communication was yet another failure on top of the fact of what you're describing of how they ushered him off seemed to be this very slow, drawn out thing. And I get Trump's wanted to get his shoes. Apparently he was tackled so hard. He was knocked out of his shoes. He wanted to get his shoes. He wanted to make that epic display that we'll live on in history. I think we'll be seeing that photo in history books, a hundred years from now, long after we're all dead. And so that was as awesome as a moment that was. The fact that it was allowed to happen is kind of an indictment on the incompetence that was on the Secret Service agents on the stage. And then Lord knows what else happened that led it to where a shot was even able to be fired when you had people calling attention to that in the moment. - Yeah, I don't know. You would think even if he's telling you, wait, wait, wait, I need to throw my fist up. I need to show people that I'm alive and well, you would have men strong enough to just barrel him out of the situation. And they would not be thinking of that. And you'd apologize later and say, "Sir, yeah, I know you wanted to do this out in the other, but that's not the way we handle this." In fact, you're alive, you're living, you're well, because we've handled the situation properly. 'Cause you just never know what could have been taking place. There could have been multiple shooters. There could have been somebody who wanted to rush the stage. The shots could have been a distraction so somebody could get him and grab him and do it up close and personally. And they remained on the stage for long enough time for all of that to happen, if that was what was actually going down. And luckily, it wasn't what was actually going down. Now, a lot of people have made this about the fact that there's female agents in the Secret Service, which, like I said, all of them seem to be engaging in an incompetent manner. But it does beg the question, should women be taking on this position? And when I saw the video, what I immediately thought was, what if all of the male Secret Service agents were somehow incapacitated in some way, shape, or form? And Donald Trump couldn't see himself out of the situation, could a woman get up there, grab Donald Trump, carry him out of the situation, drag him out of the situation, and do that comfortably and in a safe manner so that he is doing well. There's probably a handful of women who could do that. If you got Ronda Rousey to go and be the Secret Service agent, then sure, I think a woman was capable of doing that. But, come on. But, a handful of women, to guard Donald Trump, it doesn't make sense. And this is not me being sexist and misogynist and saying women are incapable of doing anything. Women are capable, okay? But we need to be used as assets where we are assets. And I feel like in this situation, these women in particular were not necessarily assets, okay? And we can see that in videos. Let's pull up some, okay? This is what people are looking at. Actually put in full screen here. Look at her with the gun. She doesn't know if her gun's supposed to be out. She doesn't know if she should holster it. She just unholstered the gun, put it back in. They're running around like chickens with their heads cut off. Take a look. Not knowing what they should do. You all, I don't even need to replay it. You heard her screen, "What are we doing? What are we doing?" And you know what? The woman in me hates to be like (laughs) hates to say that they're not, they're not supposed to be in these positions, but they're not supposed to be in these positions if you are not ready to handle a situation like this. And of course we look into the Secret Service. Hold on, let me pull up this video for you guys. Look into the Secret Service. And you dive a little bit further and you're like, are they actively just like putting female agents in these positions because they think they're qualified or is this some like diversity, equity and inclusion thing? And that's what they're trying to push forward is this message that women can do all. And come to find out, they're trying to push the message that women can do all. To expand hiring, they're aiming to have 30% women recruits by 2030 and even allowed YouTube influencer, Michelle Kari to train with agents. Not my girl Michelle. She was as, as I sit in this chair now of making sure that we need to attract diverse candidates and ensure that we are developing and giving opportunities to everybody in our workforce. And particularly women. - To expand. - Oh my gosh. Be so frail right now. Be so frail right now. And shout out, I do love Michelle Kari. I watch her YouTube channel, Challenge Accepted, where she goes and does these challenges. She'll train with the FBI, she'll train with police officers, she'll train with Secret Service. The fact that they are utilizing her in order to encourage women to enter the Secret Service is just a whole 'nother can of worms. And the fact that they're actively designating that we want 30% of Secret Service to be women is astounding to me. Because what you should want is 100% of Secret Service to be fully qualified to take on the job. And the job is taking care of Donald Trump in this scenario. What do I care that 30% of the people out there are taking care of Donald Trump or women if they can't do the job? I don't care if it's a woman who's incompetent. I want competent people. And if those competent people still happen to be women who are also capable of carrying a 200 plus pound man out of a dangerous scenario, then so be it, put women in the position. But they were clearly not capable of taking on what was going to befall them in this scenario. And if you go here, you can find on the Secret Service where they post their mission statement and all these different things. Here's their vision. It says excellence through talent, technology and diversity. We champion diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility. I hate to say it guys, but this is what it leads to. Don't shoot the messenger, but the message is very much real. And we see this in so many different ways. Our schools are focusing on DEI. They are failing. Our public institutions are focusing on DEI. They are failing. Y'all saw the fricking door plug fall off of that Boeing flight. Then you do a little bit of investigation for like a half a second diversity, equity and inclusion. And it doesn't matter whether or not diversity, equity inclusion is directly responsible for these incidences that we're seeing. It matters that funds, attention, time, resources is being funneled in the direction of DEI while we have much more pressing matters to deal with. And we're dealing with those precedent matters with incompetence. We're dealing with them horribly. These very important things. You could have seen a dead president because of the incompetence that you witnessed. And you know what? It's so incompetent that people are attributing it to malice. They're saying what I'm witnessing is so stupid. This must be an inside job. They must be actively trying to get this man killed. Now I'm erring on the side of incompetence and thinking that these people were just not well equipped to handle this situation. But I can see how people watch it and go, they must've wanted that man to die. Because what? - Oh my gosh. - There's a general level of incompetence that happens or a margin of error, if you will, even if the most qualified possible people are getting into these jobs. But when you're talking about critical things like making airplanes that can actually fly without falling apart or hiring the best possible surgeon to conduct open heart surgery on people or protecting the president of the United States, the safety of whom is paramount to the altering of history of our world and whether or not we're in a state of war, et cetera, you don't leave those things to chance. There's enough margin of error there just that can happen with actual people who are fully qualified. As we probably have seen, a lot of what happened is not only due to diversity, it's due to oversight on the part of secret service agents. You don't want to, though, compound that margin of error and make it even bigger by prioritizing arbitrary quotas for people of certain sexes, of certain races, whatever, at the expense of putting the most qualified people in those jobs, and that's true across the board, whether we're talking about a teacher, whether we're talking about any job that you can think of, but it's especially true when it's life and death, when it's war versus not war, when it's plane crashing versus plane, making it to its destination. And we've toyed around with this whole DEI thing for far too long when the consequences are far too real. And it's like, if this doesn't get us to start waking up, when our planes are falling apart in the sky, when our president is almost assassinated, like at what point are we like, is the spell going to be broken to where we're no longer going to be blinded by this sort of self-righteous delusion that, oh, you know, if we just have this utopian world where we can put all these people, everything's going to be just perfect and everyone's equally qualified. To your point a minute ago, I looked up, you mentioned Ronda Rousey, if that's who's defending, Ronda Rousey is 135 pounds and five foot seven. Donald Trump is six foot three or four and 215 pounds. I don't think even Ronda Rousey could do it, so if we're putting-- - We're probably not. - Yeah, so let alone these people that we're putting on the security detail there. And of course, there's other factors that you hear, apparently the regular detail of Trump had been overworked because more resources had been allocated to Jill Biden, which is like the security threat level to Jill Biden versus Donald Trump is like a candle to the sun in terms of relevance there. So that's astounding, but it sounds like they did also have to lean extra on vocal law enforcement and that may have been an issue. But even so, even so, your least qualified person at the Secret Service should still be able to run a ship tight enough to keep him safe and not allow something as egregious as what happened this past weekend. It's just crazy. - Yeah, it's just, I don't know. Give me, give me an hour on a Saturday night to drive around to all the different bars in LA, pick up the bouncers and I'll give you a better security detail than what Donald Trump had on the day of his assassination attempt. That's not even to mention the fact that they did not secure the roof where the shooter ended up being and you had multiple people saying like, this guy, this guy, this guy. So many eyewitness reports of people trying to alert Secret Service and law enforcement to the fact that this guy was climbing a ladder with a rifle to get on the roof to shoot Donald Trump. And it's just, there are little minor moments that happen that just change the trajectory of all of human history. And this was one of those times. And luckily, there was no accomplice it seems thus far in this situation who was also trying to take out Donald Trump at the same time because my goodness if there was, they might have damn near been successful in this case with how much, how much was missed. And I don't know, again, I'm choosing now to attribute it to ignorance and not to malice because I'll need the inside job thing to be far more substantiated than it is so far. A lot of people have a lot of theories. They're zooming in on people on the crowd who they feel like are acting weird and trying to come up with an idea for what happened here. And I've yet to be convinced by one of them, I actually wanted to find this video of like, this suspicious lady that people are talking about and play it because it shows you how people are feeling these days about what happened to Donald Trump. And there is this sort of tendency that we have to jump to conspiratorial thinking, especially when things of this nature take place. So it's no surprise that we're getting these theories. All I'll say is I've yet to be convinced by one, but as I watch how stupidly the situation was handled, my goodness, is it hard not to have your mind jump in that direction? Now, a lot of people are looking at this woman, this here got a million views on Twitter who's in the background as this is all taking place and saying she is engaging suspiciously. - Watch this shit, dude, watch, watch. She sits down, yep, watch this. - If you wanna read something that said, take a look at what happened. - Shots fell off, she's completely normal and then watch. - And then she's got her? - What the fuck, what the fuck? People are freaking out. - And she's filming. - And she's just like right there. (crowd chattering) - She's not even freaking the fuck, watch it. - And people are like, oh my gosh, she knows something. She knew this was gonna happen blah, blah, blah, blah. She's in on it, it's an inside job, but boy, what? Let's watch this again and I'm gonna put it in with no sound so we can talk over this while it's playing my goodness. Okay, she's looking around, she sits down, she grabs her sign, okay, she puts it up. Shots start going off, crowd starts freaking out. She's not doing much, she crouches 'cause everybody else around her is crouching and she pulls out her phone. I'm sorry, have you seen anything take place in 2024 here in the United States? This is the reaction of like half of people. They have no idea what's going on, but they see a big reaction around me. I'm gonna pull out my phone and film it. This is just at worst, it's like NPC behavior, but this is what everybody does these days. They like try to generally do what everybody else is doing but make sure we get it on camera in case something big is happening right now. If this woman knew that something was going on, knew that there was gonna be assassination attempts on Donald Trump, knew that he was gonna be shot at, why would she be sitting right behind him? Didn't a man have his life taken from him sitting behind Donald Trump in this instance there aren't two other people in the hospital right now because they were sitting behind Donald Trump when these shots were going off. If she was aware that something was going to take place, why would she be there? And why would she take her phone out after the shots started taking place? Doesn't make any sense to me guys. I think in any emergency situation where things are happening all of a sudden and things are taking place, there's going to be a handful of people who just stand there like a deer in headlights and have no idea what's going on but now those people have iPhones so they pull out their iPhone and they film what's going on because that's just what our brains do these days. I saw a video on TikTok of people who were on an airplane, a commercial airplane and a fire had been started in the airplane by I believe a lithium battery or something like that. Will you hear the flight attendant suddenly screaming, "Fire, fire, you know, get off the plane, "get off the plane, single file, "get off the plane, get off the plane." I watched as like 200 people just stood there, deer in headlights, didn't move, some people tried to grab their luggage off the plane, other people were taking their phones out and filming the situation whilst not moving, whilst not doing anything to rectify the situation, that's what you're watching. But because you're watching it from home with the perspective of knowing this is an assassination, you're thinking that she's giving you suspicious behavior but if you went out in public and something crazy started happening, mind you, there would be a ton of people just like that woman, doing exactly what she's doing, no survival instinct whatsoever, just knowing that something crazy is going on and deciding to take out her phone. Also, after the shooting. And I cannot stress enough, if somebody knows this is going to happen, why would they sit in a place where you could get shot, why would they do that? - Which relates to our prior discussion about the Secret Service as well. I don't know if you've ever listened to Tim Kennedy or Jocko Willick or some of these guys that go on Joe Rogan and they'll train everyday citizens for situational awareness and the ability to know how to take decisive action when something happens in a crazy situation like this and that is what if you're on the Secret Service theoretically you've been through that training and you know how to take decisive action. So that deer in the headlights look is expected for someone who's in everyday average Joe. It's not expected from someone who's presumably been trained in how to react and been tasked specifically with protecting the president in that situation. So I think that also just underscores the craziness of the lack of response on the part of the Secret Service that we spoke about before. - Right, there's just so much going on. And of course, the shooter was identified as a 20 year old here is his picture there for those of you who have not seen it at Thomas Crooks. And he's known as somewhat of a loner. He was apparently bullied quite heavily in school. He was registered Republican although was a Democrat donor. So he was donating towards the Democratic cause. As far as this time article, they put together some facts about Thomas Crooks. They say no indication of mental health issues essentially saying that the Federal Bureau of Investigation didn't have any prior knowledge of him. So this would be sort of an out of the blue thing for this 20 year old limited social media presence, which is very interesting to be a sort of young loner, 21 year old guy. He sort of gives like an in-selly vibe is what many have been speculating on the internet. And to not have any social media, very interesting. I don't know. I don't know, I feel about that. But maybe he doesn't, there are men out there. There are people out there that just choose to refrain from social media and the internet. So I'd be curious to see if that story develops any further and if they do find anything, maybe he was going on the internet but not creating actual profiles and not doing any sort of public posts. As I said before, he was registered Republican, but he was a donor to progressive causes. And it says here that the state public voting records show that Crooks was registered Republican while federal election commission documents show that a donor with the same name and address gave $15 to act blue, the Democratic fundraising apparatus on January 20th, 2021, the date of President Joe Biden's inauguration. The donation was earmarked for the progressive turnout project. And he's from an affluent suburb in Pittsburgh and seems to have acted alone. Yeah, I'd be curious if they find anything else in regard to his internet presence. You would imagine there would be a lot of research in preparation for an event like this, whether or not he told people that he was going to do this had sort of, if anybody had any sort of indication that he was going to act in this way, that would be interesting. The gun was a legally purchased firearm, his father purchased that he ended up using because we know the gun control thing will probably come up as the left doesn't want to talk about the assassination attempt part of it. So there you go. That's the information there. And as far as the person who unfortunately had their life taken, his name is Corey, a former firefighter, and it's a Corey Compertor. And he was a father and his daughter ended up posting this very lovely message about who he was and he is unfortunately the man who had his life taken Saturday, which is just unimaginable to just be going to a political rally to support a candidate. And we kind of all know that there's this looming threat of something crazy happening and attack, the counter protests and these things take place, but he just never anticipate something like this. I don't think anybody could have truly anticipated an event like this and it hasn't happened in decades. So of course, nobody's thinking this is the way that their life is going to be taken out. They're not even thinking they're gonna witness something like this probably in their lifetime. And here we are. So of course, our condolences to him. And unfortunately, a lot of people aren't giving their condolences, not towards the situation, not towards this man, a father who's had his life taken from him, they're in fact hoping, we're hoping at least that the assassination attempt was successful. On Saturday, we said what was trending was, how do you miss? People were saying, you have one shot, how could you possibly miss in this instance? And you should have shot him again and all these different things or you should have aimed correctly. I even saw people making memes about who would have actually shot him and taken his life. Famous transgender singer, Ethel Kane, actually posted, Ethel wouldn't have missed, I wouldn't have missed the shot if given the opportunity to do these things. And just absolutely disgusting, vile human beings. I cannot think of a political candidate that I would ever look at in a situation like this and think they should have had their life taken. And this went horribly wrong because the person was unsuccessful. Cannot think of one. And to hear people say this, it's just so vile. And a person that I was maybe a first, at first a little bit surprised to hear this from, was left-leaning streamer Destiny, who was talking about Corey having lost his life in the bleachers at this event. And here's how he felt about it. And here's how he feels about you if you are a conservative who is watching his content. - The firefighter guy, fuck Trump, fuck the people that support him. I just want you to know, okay, just in case you're confused or it seems like I'm, you don't, whatever. If one of you were in the crowd and you're a conservative fan of mine, and you end up getting blown away or whatever the fuck, I'm making fun of you the next day on Twitter. I am 100%. - Here you go. That's how he feels about that, which is so, I don't have any words. It's just vile. - While disgusting, there's a separate place for individuals who think like this. Now I'm not even religious, but there should be a separate place for individuals who think like this. And it just goes to show how just disgusting of our political landscape has truly become the dehumanization that is thrust onto different groups of people, simply for having a different set of beliefs. And for him to go much further than that and to say if it was any of you at that political rally who are watching right now, who are conservative and you lost your lives, I'd be making fun of you the next day. It's just a whole 'nother level of disgusting. So if you had any level of respect for destiny as a thinker, as a debater, as somebody who could come forward and be really honest about their opinions, maybe, maybe you shouldn't, maybe you shouldn't have respect for him after all, because what he has to say and what he thinks is vile. Vile. - Maybe a brief pallet cleanser here. We got a $50 super chat from Mark Wilkinson who says, "When are you going to run for office, Kamala? "We need level-headed young people like you in Congress." - Yo dude, I'll be shot, clearly. I'm gonna have to learn how to tuck and roll before. No, I'm never gonna run for public office. I'm sorry guys, it's just not in the cards for me. I don't think this is gonna go well. - I don't know, you know what the wise sage, Justin Bieber said, "Never say never." - Never say never, ooh, oh my gosh. Featuring Jaden Smith, yeah, no. For now, I'll say at this very moment, there's no thought in my mind about running for anything ever, but I appreciate that you would like me too. And yeah, I don't know. So many just crazy things. I mean, Destiny's not the only one who has been saying stuff like this and wishing death upon others. You'll know Tanesha's D that took to the stage and says that you shouldn't miss Trump next time. And this is Jack Black, guys. For those of you who don't put the two and two together, Jack Black is saying this. ♪ Help me play the stage ♪ ♪ If you're hurting me ♪ ♪ Bieber West Canada ♪ ♪ Don't miss Trump next time ♪ (audience laughs) Okay, and just to note, Jack Black is not the one who actually said don't miss Trump next time. He's the one who said thank you after the wish was made, just so we're clear on that. I don't know why people think this is funny, ha ha. It's not even funny. It's not even funny, weird. It's just not funny whatsoever to wish death upon a person. And yet, here we are. And it's become socially acceptable. And when I think about this, an assassination attempt is crazy, but it's the natural progression of things. And I understand with all the rhetoric surrounding Donald Trump, how this took place. But to see the social degradation on the other end of it, to think that there are people who live amongst us, right? Who are everyday neighbors, the people you see at the grocery store, the people you drive past every time you're in your car, who think that you deserve to die because of your political beliefs. That's crazy. That's crazy. And the fact that you have somebody like Destiny, somebody who has been pedestalized quite largely, at least within his industry and within what he's doing, and he's looked to as an authority by many people, saying that not only does he not care if Trump dies or something like that, he doesn't care if you, a political supporter of his, dies. Crazy, crazy. We're supposed to have respect for one another, even though we disagree with one another. I don't see any leftist, the craziest leftist, and think, oh, I wish that person would have their life taken from them. And when they do, it doesn't matter. Swap them out for any of you. And any of you left us, if you were there and you had your life taken, I wish that upon you, and I'll laugh at you the next day. Never in my life have I thought that. Yet it's socially acceptable to say this now. You can meme it. You can outright say you wish more people had died, and nothing. So it just shows you where we're at, and that what used to be an underlying amount of care for all people, especially those who live within your own country and you share a nation with, that's gone. It's very largely dissolved. And how you get that back, I don't know. But we've not seen the end of the political disarray that we're experiencing at all. - No, a phrase that comes to mind with when you listen to someone like Destiny is, it's almost become like a cliche that you can dismiss, but it's a very real thing it seems to be, is this Trump derangement syndrome that we hear about, which to me is the willingness to dispense with all reasonable, normal values, a dispensing with the shared reality, the adherence to principles of non-violence, of due process, of pick your thing, a free speech, any kind of censorship, any kind of violence, anything is justified if it means keeping Trump out of office. And this comes in a time where we're seeing like the new republic just did for the second time, a photo of Trump with like a Hitler mustache superimposed over him talking about American fascism. As it's cover, we've heard all kinds of rhetoric from the media, from left-leaning politicians. I shouldn't say left-leaning. I should say far left politicians. And even Joe Biden characterizing Trump as an existential threat to democracy, that this will be the last election we ever have, that kind of language, it's no surprise that someone becomes radicalized. But with that kind of rhetoric, it breeds this sort of feeling that we need to take action in order to prevent, I mean, it's like, at some point, someone's going to take you seriously when you're saying that, someone's going to take you literally. And that's why I think a lot of the calls right now for toning down everything or falling on deaf ears when you're not taking responsibility for some of the things that you've said that have led to the advancement of this Trump- derangement syndrome mentality. - Yep, and there's not going to be any accountability. There's not going to be any accountability. I'm actually going to show you a clip. This is Jake Tapper of CNN. Let's hear what he has to say. - The dehumanizing rhetoric of Adolf Hitler is once again alive and well on a national political stage. This time, of course, in the United States, a couple of times over the weekend, referred to immigrants from South America, Africa, and Asia. You did not mention Europe, South America, South Africa, Asia, as quote, poisoning the blood of our country, which it's not hyperbole. That does very directly echo Adolf Hitler's language before World War II. - We'll open up a copy of Hitler's "Mein Kampf." You would find the Nazi leader describing the mixing of non-germents with George Germans as poisoning. There's really no other way to say it. Donald Trump's language mirrors this directly. The deal. - Hmm, so what do you want people to say? What do you want people to do about that? You know, like, you go in school, right? And as like a teenager, you start talking about the Holocaust, probably even younger these days. And sometimes you'll do this little thought experiment in class of like, would you go back in time and kill Hitler? And this is like a question that you get asked in school and everybody talks about the butterfly effect and oh, I would go back and get rid of, you know, Hitler and Stalin and all these different people. What do you think people are going to be, you know, weaponized to do if you compare somebody living today to Hitler and say that he's just like a new manifestation of Hitler. Now, I'm not accusing Jake Tapper of necessarily an inciting violence, like an actual, you know, like a felony charge of incitement. All I'm saying is what do you think people are going to want to happen to Donald Trump if you compare him to Hitler and say that his rise to power is like that of Hitler's. Can anybody answer that question for me? We know what the answer to the question is. We know what the answer to the question is. We know what people are going to think. They're going to think that this guy needs to be taken care of. This guy needs to be taken out is what they're going to think, but no accountability for those statements I bet. He's not going to come back and say, you know what, I should have never said that. - No, and it's also extremely bad faith. Like there's no world in which Trump meant by this language of, you know, the importation of immigrants, many of whom who he's on record, are saying our criminals are insane, et cetera. Like that could be poisoned to our blood in America as in like identifying that as a threat that might need to be addressed. Instead, you jump straight to Hilarian language of talking about racial purity. It's, that's an extremely bad faith interpretation of what was said when you have the opportunity to give a good faith. And that's not necessarily, even if you believe more that Trump meant it in the way that you're interpreting, you still as an honest journalist, it's your job to kind of give both sides and say, okay, here's what was said. Here are the facts. And then you can take that as you will. Some people are taking it this way. Some people are taking the other, but to just jump on this train of, wow, this, I can somehow connect the dots between this, you know, use of the word poison to something that Hitler said in my coffin. The Trump and Hitler and the glue that all together. And now I have a narrative to paint in front of people. And now we're living in the consequences of that type of rhetoric and its crickets. - Yeah, and the consequences of that kind of rhetoric are not only the attempt at assassination on Donald Trump, which has already killed another man and wounded to other people who are in the hospital. It's the actual just ignorance towards what he was saying in the point that he's making as Taylor said, is our country being poisoned by illegal immigration? - It is, and is there a reason he might not have mentioned Europe on that list? It's because Europe is also being poisoned by illegal mass immigration. And you can't say that without being labeled racist. Hitler, do I sound like Hitler in saying that? We talk about immigration on this channel all the time. And I can tell you point for point why it's poisoning this country and Europe and the West in general. Hitler, Hitler, it's just, let me calm down. Let me calm down. They don't piss me off with their coverage of this. And the coverage of this continues, on Saturday, we were calling out all these different outlets that were putting stories, CNN saying Trump fell on stage. And that's why Secret Security went in rushed him to take care of him after a fall. And I even said, there's a piece in here where they don't have the facts yet and they run with the story because that's what journalism is, that people run and run and run and quickly put out a story and they put out a story. And the other part of me said, this is obviously a malicious mischaracterization of what happened so that they don't have to admit to an assassination attempt. And even after we knew this is an assassination attempt, publications continued to put out these vague statements about what happened. Here are some of them. Gunman dies in attack. It's the headline here from the Sunday Denver Post, with Trump in his hand up. Gunman dies in attack. Not assassination attempt. Not Trump nearly assassinated. Not, Gunman tries to kill Trump. Nothing of the sort here. Here's another one. Trump rushed off stage with apparent injury. Huh? Were Trump rushed off stage with apparent injury? Okay, nothing justifies an assassination bid, but did Trump play a part in changing the rules of engagement? I'm pretty sure the rules of engagement are you're not allowed to assassinate a president. You're not allowed to assassinate anybody, in fact. But did he play a role in changing that? And of course, this one is the cherry on top of the poop Sunday that we're all eating in reading the news these days. Will surviving gunfire be Donald Trump's next appeal to black voters? (laughs) God shit. What is the actual? No, I can understand people thinking this, and I'm sure there is a small portion of the black community that actually will be inspired by this moment. In fact, I've seen some black comedians talking about this, but Forbes running this just goes to show how they feel about black voters, how they feel about black people in general, and what they believe black people to think like. And I'll leave an admit, there probably is a small portion of black people who go, oh my gosh, he got shot and he survived. That is so cool. I see people putting like the 50 cent, many men, men, you know, that whole song over everything that happened with Donald Trump, whatever, and it's become this sort of meme joke, whatever. Is this the story we need to run though? Is this journalism? Is this peak performance? Is this what peak performance looks like? Because I don't think it is. I think this is very low performance on behalf of American media. And I'm done. - My favorite was the Sacramento Bee putting the big picture of Gavin Newsom on their front page and just had the Trump assassination attempt on the top, but this story about Gavin Newsom and healthcare or something as being the bigger story of the day, as though this is not one of the most historic events in American history in the last like 40 years. Just crazy. - Yeah, I mean, it's their worst nightmare to have something like this happen because they know what the underlying message is. You know, under that assassination attempt, there's a lot said about the political unrest in the United States. And there's a lot said about the characterization of both sides because one side has been particularly demonized for the American public. And we know what side that is. And it turned out that the narrative was flipped with this assassination attempt. And you know who's noticing? This Australian news site. Somebody went ahead and posted this clip of them talking about how the media doesn't seem to be working in tandem with reality. - With it, as you can see, the bullet that pierced his right ear as he gets up with blood smeared on his face. Look at what happens over there. (dramatic music) This horrific act has just deepened and already huge divide in the United States of America. But if you're following media outlets I've seen in today, well, you would've thought that Donald Trump had fall. Look at this headline. Secret service rushed Trump off stage after he falls at rally. Falls. It was an assassination attempt. He's not drove by them. It doesn't know how to stand up. And that's sort of one of headline. This morning, I was looking at my phone and I was taking screenshots. 'Cause even though it's seen in, I'm still couldn't believe it. The next headline I saw, Trump ended in incident at rally. Internet. That's really what they wanted to go with when the man who's being president before and he's running again was just shot. And it is. - So it's not just us. Other people are seeing this. You know, and I'll meet people from foreign countries. They'll come to America on a trip or, you know, they're here, they're having a good time or whatever. And suddenly, like, politics gets brought up in some way, shape, or form. And you notice, you can tell exactly what media outlet they have access to by what they say about American politics. I've met people from, say, Germany. And you mentioned like, oh, oh yeah, I'll vote for Donald Trump if they ask you what comes up in conversation. Oh, so like, isn't he racist? I know you're getting CNN. Okay. (laughs) Like, got it, Chuck. And that's the news that you're getting, which would make sense because you're only gonna, it's American news. You're only gonna get a few sources and one of those is going to be CNN. So if you were only getting CNN covering what happened at the Trump rally, you'd get a very different depiction of reality. And that is scary. Scary that even with the video out and you could hear the noises, they're talking about a fall and an apparent incident. So we are so lucky when it comes to having social media and independent journalism and people covering things in this way. Because honestly, I was on X figuring out what was happening. Not on these mainstream, or shall we call them legacy media outlets. - Yeah, and when I sent you that video when it happened on Saturday, you knew immediately what was going on. You could see Trump grabbed his ear and then about 30 seconds later, someone else had a video of blood coming out of Trump's ear and it didn't look like he fell, he ducked. So these journalists, it's obviously bad faith if you're saying Trump suffers fall or something, at no point was there even a fall. He ducked down and he had agents pile on top of him and hit the deck as anyone would in that situation, but he did not fall. So their effort to try to like characterize it as like, oh, you know, Biden fell off his bike. Trump falls, you know, on the same stuff, right? It's just like so obviously bad faith when any look at either one of those videos, you would never conclude that, it's just wild. - Yeah, proper ganda guys is what it is. But of course they've got the real story now, 'cause you can't run from the real story in this case. If they could, they would. We're gonna get into your super chats and hear from you guys on all this stuff, much to discuss, wally, wally, wally, wally. - So much, yeah, I feel like we didn't cover half of it, but still unfolding, let's see, a lot of you guys actually know this from last, I'm gonna refresh here, lots of super chats here. Okay, first up today is gonna be Cameron Campbell, who says he is handsome, speaking of JD Vance, he's handsome, Catholic, working class, young, a 90s kid, simple name from the Rust Belt veteran grassroots story and just like many Americans, he didn't support Trump before, but now he's very loyal to him. - Well, you sound like a fan of JD Vance, I don't know that I am that yet, but we'll see, there's nothing, there's nothing I can do about it. You use the choice, so not like, not like there's anything to say there, but I'm glad you like it, I'm glad you're happy with the choice. - Yeah, if you've made peace with Trump being the nominee, then JD Vance is just kind of like younger Trump energy, so I guess, yeah, doesn't excite you 'cause it's not like a different angle or anything, whatever. - Right, that's whatever. - Timothy W says, we had another presidential Pew Pew attempt before GTA six. - Before GTA six. - Not sure what that means. - I don't know if it was Grand Theft Auto six. - I thought, isn't it five, the new one that's out right now? - I don't know, I have no idea. - Maybe he's just saying like in Chronology, another assassination attempt happened before the next game is released, I don't know how those connect. Someone explained it to me with that. - Yes, please. - Alex Daly says, Alex and my partner Brody watching from CVD Sydney, Australia. We've been watching you for several months now, love what you do, please keep it up. - That's so awesome, I love all my Australians. My boyfriend's Australian, of course his family is over there in Sydney, actually. So shout out to all the Australians who watch the show. - Okay, the GTA six thing it's, there's apparently a running joke and memes and stuff about how it's taken so long for GTA six to come out. - Oh, so it's all. - So now we've even had a presidential assassination attempt before. - Got it, okay. - Got it. - Probably Grand Theft Auto fans. - Got it. - We're up on internet humor on this show, we know what it means. - Right. - Forearm Game Strong says, hey, hey and hey, what a crazy weekend. Rama Swami would have been better. Hambala, what would it take for you to believe that this was a miracle from God? I have comments about that, but I know Taylor does not like this, it would take, I don't know. I can't give you anything that it would take. The burden of proof lies on you. I guess I would need God himself to come down and say I saved Donald Trump. So there you go. - And even for me from a Christian perspective, it's one thing to express some gratitude and maybe it's not absurd to think that there's some a providence at hand in the events of the world. There's scripture that talk about the heart of the kings and the hand of the Lord and God controls how the die is cast and stuff, but there's other scriptures that leave more ambiguity about world events and things that happen. So it's kind of up in the air, but I've seen some people just like spreading this viral clip of this guy who was like prophesying that Trump would be assassinated times several months ago, but he also said that Trump would be like on his knees thanking Jesus and saying all these other things. And there was like not anything that happened. And there's always some Christian weirdo who's kind of saying something like that at some point. So that didn't really convince me. And then other people were like, oh, it happened at 6/11 p.m. And you know, Ephesians 6/11 talks about the armor of God. I'm like, okay, that's like a cool coincidence, but that doesn't necessarily mean anything, you know, transcend it. And some Christians will get mad at me for saying that, but I feel like it undercuts what credibility you might otherwise have when you're like making these huge stretches on situations like this. And it's a big event, it happened. Maybe, you know, it's not crazy to invoke providence in the situation, but some of the stuff I'm seeing is just a little much management as a Christian. - But was it a miracle that the father died that a husband and father got his life taken in the bleachers of that event? - Why did the miracle happen at the turning of the head instead of like the gunman being stopped 30 seconds or whatever, you know, it's kind of like... - I can't, I can't, I'm sorry. - A little, little much. - Anywho, maybe I'll have to do it. - Yes, dude, like you need to do a video on your channel. - Okay, but I don't want to knock people for like expressing gratitude and, you know, being grateful and all that, like that's great. But some of it, you don't have to make such stretches. Anyways, Mille William Navarro says Latinos are the largest minority group in the US. They have been loyal to Trump in 2016 and 2020. Rubio was the pick. Tim Scott, whose grandmother was a slave from slave to VP in three generations. - Yeah, I was gonna say like if you were truly being like strategic in, you know, swaying people who are not yet ready to vote for Donald Trump, there would have been a lot of other, better choices. Rubio, for the reason you just mentioned Tim Scott, for the reasons you just mentioned, plus Tim Scott and Rubio can hold their own and defend themselves. You don't want to just do like a diversity pick to make people change their minds. But it's all about competence, I think, mixed with optics as is the case with all politics. - Yeah, but as we're seeing with Kamala Harris, you can really shoot yourself in the foot by choosing someone just based on, you know, intersectionality characteristics or narratives or optics and to never, never, I think I will eventually invite you in the butt and you're much better off just going, being straight forward and taking who you think is the most qualified. - Yep. - Leave it at that. Hopefully at least one side's doing with that 'cause I think that'll resonate more with common sense people. Carlos Lima says, "Long time listen to our first time, "super chatter that both of you keep me sane, "keep up the good work and to have a great balance." - That's just sweet, thank you, appreciate it. We're all about balance on this channel. - Generationally, gender-wise. - Religion-wise. - Religion-wise. - All the things that are honest here. Christopher Alcine says, "I haven't been able "to watch a live stream in real time for months. "A lot of life changes keep up the good content. "You guys are great AF." - Hopefully. - A lot of nice comments. - Yes, you guys are so sweet. Hopefully it's good life changes and not anything too crazy. And that's why you have things going on, but we're glad you were able to catch a live. - Sophia Artura says, "The event itself "is not the time for communication. "All of the agents should have been prepared "without the need to stop and check." - 100%, 100%. You establish that there's a threat. There's one team on neutralizing the other teams on getting them the hell out. And then like, I don't know, there should be more agents pushing everybody out of the way so he can get where he needs to go. I just don't understand how this happened. The what are we doing? What are we doing? It is crazy. Crazy. - To be thinking that, but to like say it out loud. - Right. - Oh, hold on, what are we doing? - Man. - Nuts. Oh my gosh. - And like, you would think like, okay, this is my job, like I have to keep it cool. Like at least pretend like you're not freaking out, but you couldn't even do that. - Right. - Really easy. - Right. - I don't know. - Samantha Coontz says, Vance was the best choice. He's intelligent, debates well, and supports Trump in showing that they're both ready to make right decisions for the USA. - Yeah, I mean, if Trump wants somebody who's gonna support his policy and defend him ardently, I think this is the, that's the best, you know? He's gonna do, he's gonna do what he's done for, you know, the past few years for Trump. So, plus the law background, you're, you'll do great. I can't imagine him in Kamala debating. That's gonna, he's gonna crush her probably. Just, just don't know what she's gonna do. You think you've thought of a coconut tree? - I'm burdened by what has been. She's gonna be burdened by what is. - By what is? - It's not debate. (laughs) 100%. - Timothy W. says, "My family is Cuban, "and we know the signs all too well. "Many of the same tactics used in Cuba, "China, Venezuela, and other places "being used very disturbing." - Yeah, I mean, you see people who've fled certain countries, and they come to the U.S. and they're like, "Oh, I see the groundwork "being laid here at the very least." There's at least warning signs taking place, and somebody used to talk about 'em and do something about it, but... - Very. - Scary. - Scary. - Like the tooth fairy. - Love my horse once has been watching you for over a year now and finally catching my first life. - Yeah, yeah. - They all have really helped lead me out of my woke era, much love. - Hey, love that for you. We gotta lead, we gotta get out of our woke era, guys. - There's no need. - It's a great phrase. - Yeah, lead yourself out of the woke era. You could do it, guys. - My good t-shirt says like my non-moke era. - Yeah, exactly. - If we could only get a t-slift out of the woke era. - For real. - She's not that look. She's a little low. - Low. - Low, right. - forearm game strong says, "No, Amala, "don't say that you hate to say it. "Say it loud and proud. "The E.I. is destructive. "It's in the name, just rearrange the letters. "This must stop." - Tragic, they really did choose the wrong acronym, they really left themselves open for the good old D.I.E. on that one. Yeah, the only reason I hate to say it is 'cause it's just like you make us look so bad. I don't know. Give me six months to train in, you know, not even six months. Give me a month, I could have done better than what those women did. Just give me a month of like tactical training and how to use a weapon or whatever. And then I could do better. But even if you just like threw me into that situation to like get him out of there, I would at least know to cover that damn man's head and try to, I wouldn't be strong enough to push him out of the situation. But I at least try. Like, damn, what the hell are you all doing? Damn. - I know, I'm sorry, but you know, like as a, my relate to this as beach volleyball player, like you see someone, if you're playing a team and it's two dudes and they're both like five, nine, like you usually have a blocker and a defender and a dude who's five nine just can't block me. I mean, six one, I can hit right over you. When I was at a tournament recently, there was this short guy who was trying to block and it was just embarrassing. And it's like, bro, like just, it's just physical reality. And if you're not tall enough to, you know, or like, you know, a short person can't guard LeBron, whatever, you know, whatever comparison you wanna make. Like it's just physical reality. - It is. - And not tall enough to take a bullet for the president because he's a foot taller than you. Like, maybe you're not cut out for that job no matter how much training you've had. - Right, yeah, nothing. Like if Trump was fighting one of those women, I don't know how well she'd do up against Donald Trump, let alone like an actual, like somebody who's trying to assassinate him. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. - We did get a $50 one from Chris L. He goes to the front of the line, says, "Great conversation, don't change a thing." - Oh, thank you. Appreciate it. Yeah, they're so sweet. I don't know why I said it was a certain accent, but I felt the need. I was so sweet. - So sweet, I wish I was sweet. (laughing) - It's the, Timothy W. says, "Just Pearly Things, "maybe you could have protected him, Alameo." No, but BFFR, we got Victoria's Secret Service now. - Oh my gosh, Victoria's Secret Service. - I wish it was Victoria's Secret Service. (laughing) - Yeah, at least you have something to look at. Oh my goodness. - And he says, "I'm gonna look at while the president "gets murdered." - At first. - You just want, we want competent secret service. My goodness. - Oh my gosh, not Victoria's Secret Service. I'm never gonna get over that. - No, Parley Finn, bro, he's just double-edged sword. They're just, everybody's catching strays. - Oh my gosh. - Oh one, got BY, says, "J B needs 30% less female SS, "A.K.A. his nurses, JB, Joe Biden." - Oh, Joe Biden. Okay. - Yeah, you do. - You know SS. - Sure, there's plenty of qualified, you know, elder care nurses who happen to be female, who can get your diversity quotas that way. - Yeah, yeah. - It never works the other way. You never hear like, "Oh, we need more male nurses." - No, you don't. You don't hear often about the switches. It's just when women wanted to go into male dominated positions. And then when they do, they go, "What are we doing? "What are we doing?" (laughing) Not all the time. Sorry guys, I'm not trying to dunk on women because I am a woman. I hate this. I would have loved to have seen just a fully competent team out there and be able to go look at that. That's competence. We just didn't get that. - If Britney Griner wants to go on the Secret Service after the WNBA career. - For real, Britney, come on down. - What are we doing? What are we doing? (laughing) - Britney can come any day, any day. She just can't smoke on the job, okay? We know how that turned out in Russia. Let's not do that here in the US of A. Oh my gosh. - Also, no kneeling when they play the national anthem at the Trump rallies. - Yes. Oh my goodness. And everybody, people are saying, somebody said, "Be fair, Amala." The Secret Service men were saying the same thing. I told y'all, those men were incompetent too, okay? You should have gave me the task of putting together the Secret Service team. Give me about, give me about one hour in Compton, one hour going to the bars in LA. I'm having hooked up and there's nobody gonna be able to infiltrate anything, okay? And yeah, that's all I need. I'm just joking, guys. Kidding, kind of. - All right, Ash says, "This was brought up at work. "Co-workers made concern was, "I'm glad the shooter wasn't a POC, "not about the victims." They said, "How do you miss? "I think we're all disappointed "and hearing it casually in real life is crazy to me." - Yeah, the sad guy. - I believe that's so hard. - Yep. Oh, I've heard many a person say this in person since this happened. And, huh, what'd you just say? And who'd you just say it to? Like, why would you, even if you felt that way, why would you feel comfortable saying that out in public? The comfortability is even crazier that people have saying this stuff and thinking that it's not something worthy of judgment and that it's not something that really casts you aside as far as your morality. Very strange. - Wasn't there a clip? - Yeah, I think I sent it to you earlier. The view is a blaming the attempted assassination of Trump on white men. - Oh gosh, let me find it. I'll pull it up while we're going through some more of these. - All right, I'll re-send it so it's a toss. - Oh, I found it. - Oh gosh. - Hey, let's watch it. - Ask to do that. And I also need to say, I hope that at some point in this country, we do have a conversation about what is happening because we can't just react when it is our side. What was this again? It was, you know, a 20 year old lone wolf, white, whack job with easy access toy gun. And we have to have a conversation about that 'cause it wasn't a drag queen. It wasn't an immigrant. It wasn't a pissed off liberal woman. This is, and this keeps happening. And we need to react, not as left or right, not as the Republicans or Democrats. We need to react as Americans. And we need to ask better. - Okay, I just wanna... - I don't have anything to say. That's just unbelievable. Every, any, it's like any angle they can find to just reinforce their own beliefs. They will find it. And she thinks that was a statement about, you know, taking the accountability for our side. And, you know, even talking about it, even if the narrative doesn't fit. - Oh, I need to break y'all, I quit. - Yeah, I didn't like... - I'm willing to listen to any, like anyone on the left, any media figure, any politician who wants to call for, like, let's tone down the rhetoric, this is crazy. But the first thing that you need to say is, here's what I've said, here's what people on my side have said, and here's what is unacceptable and that we shouldn't be characterizing all Trump supporters as existential threats to democracy. We shouldn't be calling him Hitler, et cetera, et cetera. Because that's what's creating this environment. But until there's any, like, direct accountability, I'm not listening to words you say, you have no, like, credibility or something. - Right, as soon as we get back into the election cycle and this news dies down, they'll go back to saying the same thing. Watch. - Yeah, nothing's changed. - Nope. - Samantha Coons says he wasn't a Republican, he was a registered Republican, so he could be sent the primary ballots and vote against the right, it's a tactic of the left. - Yeah, I think somebody did theorize that, but we don't know that for sure. - Yeah, it's not proven, it's plausible because why the heck would you donate toward, you know, act blue if you were a Republican? But there's also, it's probably not verified, but I've seen, like, screenshots of the guy's Instagram, which had zero posts on it, and he was also, but someone took a screenshot of who he was following and it was a lot of, like, left-leaning politicians, media outlets and some LGBT stuff. So not sure if that's, like, verified, but, you know, and that was also just super sus, man. Like, the way that the name was withheld and then by the time it came out, it seemed like any social media presence he had was wiped or just, you know, inaccessible, usually the internet is so quick and so good at sleuthing and figuring things out these days and it almost, you know, and then the way they're, like, not able to get into his phone, they got his phone, but they can't get anything off of it. It feels so eerily and frustratingly familiar to, like, the Nashville shooter and how the manifesto is never gonna see life a day and even the Vegas shooter before that. It's just like this stuff. It's like, oh, yeah, we're conducting an investigation and then the investigation becomes, we're gonna hoard all the information and never tell you anything. And that's not right, man. - Yeah, awful, awful. Meanwhile, your kids are dead, your father's dead, we're not gonna tell you why. - Crazy. Yeah, not alone, just, like, the right of the Americans to the truth as it's known. Like, trust me, you know, it's like, we don't trust you with the truth because it could be weaponized in one way or another or whatever, like, none of that matters. We need to give people the truth and deserve it. It's just, Alex says, what made you wanna start this channel? And if you weren't making on this video, what would you be doing? Are we making these videos? What would you be doing? - Oh, great question, yeah. I started this channel because I started making videos on TikTok and about my political journey and things that I was seeing and those went viral. And then when I went to a Prager year, we decided to start making YouTube videos. If I wasn't doing this, I'd be midwife. That's always what I wanted to do. Deliver babies, do something that is stressful, but rewarding and interesting. I've always been interested in that whole process and wanting to do that. So that's what I would do. If I wasn't doing this. - There you go, good question. I like those good questions. - Yeah. Guillermo De Cico says, "Hey, Arnold, when are you coming to Brazil?" - I don't know. I've never been. I don't have any-- - I feel like you got some fans in Brazil. I think that was the one. - Yeah, yeah. I've definitely met some Brazilians who love the show, but I've never made any plans to go to Brazil, and maybe I will. Who knows? Who knows why? But I'm a good two. - I'm coming with when you go, 'cause I miss it for one, I used to live there, and two, I can be a translator. - There we go, perfect, perfect. It'll be much needed. - Chicken pork adobo says, "I love that Dems are calling for lowering the temperature, "even though they've been calling for violence, "and Trump an existential threat and Hitler for years." - Yeah, I think they've contributed to the temperature, most definitely. - JGMT says, "Do we know where the spectators at the event "who were injured were seated, standing, "or standing relative to Mr. Trump? "I've looked for any sort of chart "that would show their location, but can't find one." - I don't know, no. - Yeah, I've kind of just assumed they were behind him in the path of the bullets that would have been fired at him. I think that's the most, you know, Occam's razor, a simplest explanation, but I guess I haven't seen anything that verifies that. - Right, hard to tell. Don't know. - Okay, Oram Game Strong says, "I hate this YouTube censorship. "Say, Corey's name again. "Ladies, find yourself a good Christian man like him. "Can't wait to, I can't write what I want to say, LOL." - Okay, interesting. I don't know what you're trying to write that's being censored, but hopefully you get it through one of these days. - Corey Comperatore was his name. - Mm-hmm. - 50-year-old former firefighter. Yeah, very sad. Dag Pembona says, "Honestly, Amala, "I lately I have been feeling like the end is near "as if the second coming of Christ is by the corner. "Have you been feeling the same lately?" - No, I, in fact, never feel that way. - Never ever in my life have I felt that way. Sorry. - Yeah, I mean, if you didn't, you may not have known Dag, but Amala's not religious, so that wouldn't. As a Christian, I can tell you, like, I don't know. There have been so many, like, I live through 9/11, I live through a lot of other things, and people always invoke that. And after a while, it just kind of becomes like this, okay, world events happen, but maybe that's not necessarily the way to, I understand the impulse and desire to connect everything to end times and whatnot, but I don't know. For me personally, I just, like, you know, I feel like things are gonna be as they've been, and when it's time, it's time. And, you know, we'll know when it happens, but I don't want to overly read into, you know, things that are happening. Although, I did call it that Baron Trump's gonna be the anti-Christ. Jokey. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Timothy W says, "The White House just graduated RFK Junior's Secret Service Protection for context. RFK requested and got turned down three separate times, where Biden admin, W." Yeah, Trump just called for that, actually, today, I think, in the aftermath of what happened, so they finally gave in. - Yeah, I mean, he deserves it and he needs it, so, yeah, good for him. Although, I don't know what he's getting as far as security detail with how these guys work. Goodness, gracious. - Yeah. - I'll give him the funds and let him go and pick his own. - Imagine being, like, the most competent, you know, brew on the Secret Service, and you're, like, assigned to Jill Biden, watching her come out to her, like, fanfare music that she specifically requested be made for the first lady. - Right, like, oh my gosh. - And you're seeing Trump almost get assassinated and you're watching these diversity people and the competence of people letting that happen. Gosh. - Yeah, but Jill Biden's got Derek Jamal. - Hey. - Got the 18. - The News and David, and then RFK and Trump have Tiffany, Amanda, Stephanie. (laughs) And Wendy. - Pearl. - Pearl. - Dr. Neil. - Oh my gosh. - Oh goodness. Just right since Destiny is mad, he can't satisfy his wife like other men do, so he puts down the Trump supporters to feel quite, feel tough, quite pitiful. We heart you, Amala and Taylor. Yeah, you know, everybody, whatever somebody, Destiny says something that people don't like, they like call him a cuck and whatever. And I'm like, okay, you know, it's a typical, that's the insult that he's always going to get for the rest of his life. And I'm like, I'm never gonna resort to that. After seeing that video, I've never wanted to call somebody a cuck more in my life. (laughs) I could honestly admit that, but I didn't. And that's what matters. - It just felt like he was flailing. Like, it wasn't just that thing. It's like a flurry of tweets he's had since then. And it just, he's just like lashing out in anger at the universe and just as it seems like he's in a very dark place, you know, going through what he went through in his relationship, I wouldn't wish on anyone. And I can't imagine that would send somebody to a dark place, so. - Yeah, I don't think he's doing well personally. He's got some things he's struggling with clearly, 'cause what? - And it's weird, 'cause for a minute there, he, I feel like he had a few conversations out there in the ether that were pretty like reasonable. He was kind of positioned as a little bit more of the like moderate leftist, not as crazy as like Hassan or whatever, as far as the streamers go and was able to engage in better faith. Like he talked to Ben Shapiro, he talked to Jordan Peterson, he was on a bunch of these podcasts and seemed to do okay. He was on your show once. But yeah, it just seems like something got the better of him and not for the better. - Yep. - Celtic Blacksmith says, "Amala, you should get Trump tattooed on your arm with his arm turning into that eel confessed. It would be the ultimate power troll." - Absolutely not. I see your vision, but absolutely not. That would be awful. - Like him holding up his face. - Awful, awful. - Oh my gosh. - That's actually really funny. Thank you for that. - That is very funny. Oh my gosh, that was a good one. - I wonder how long, if someone doesn't have it already, I wonder how long it'll be before we get our first bloody Trump face tattoo. - Oh, it's already happened. I have seen multiple already. - Oh yeah? - Yep. Yep, people are doing it all. As soon as he got shot, people were in the tattoo shop. - Oofed up. - Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. - Nicodemus says, "The good evening, OMG is picture of Trump in front of the American flag with blood on his face, the fighting fists in the air. Even if he wanted to make a movie poster, no one could make a better image." - Yeah, I guess not. And that photographer is going to be in every book made about Donald Trump for the rest of his life. That's the money shot. There's the tattoo made. Oh, I don't know if we can even play the, there's the tattoo. Very poorly done. I apologize for this person, to this person, for how poorly this is done. - It was done in a hurry. - It was done in a hurry, clearly. - But hey, props for committing to it. Bit to the bit. - Oh my God. - Oh man. - Yeah, that picture is iconic. I really do think it's like a defining photograph that'll be in history books for, you know, hundreds of years from now. - Yeah, clearly Trump knew that. He was like, "Wait, wait, wait, we gotta get the photo." Which he's a man of publicity. He knows exactly how this stuff works. He's not no dummy. - You gotta have that dog in you to be like, you know, he wasn't thinking, "What are we doing? What's going on?" He was thinking like, "Oh no, they shot at me? I'm gonna take this moment." - He was thinking, "This is historic." - Yeah. - Yeah. - You're good on it. And I believe that was like, I forget his name, but I saw him on Twitter. He's like, "Hey, so is he a press lead photographer?" And he's one of the people that's there before, so it's Elba, one another one for this, I'm sure. - Yeah, and then the guy who got the bullet whizzing, what's another thing? What a moment to catch the bullet in frame is crazy. Yeah. - Michelle G says, "Did you see what happened to the stadium in Miami during the Copa America? It was a disaster. Unfortunately, Columbians were mainly the cause. Both my parents are Columbian, but that was embarrassing to be associated with. - I did not see that. I did see some very confusing videos that I think were in Spanish of people being shut out of the stadium, even though they had tickets and stuff like that, and maybe a little bit of crowd crush happening, but I don't know what the whole scenario was or if people died or like what the case was. - I saw one of like an escalator that had been flattened and someone said, "The stadium was totally destroyed." - Oh, wow. - Well, this is one escalator that was destroyed. I don't know if that means the whole stadium. - Wow, yeah, no. I'd have to look into this. - Clearly something went out of control there. - Yeah. - I guess Columbia lost to Argentina last night in the Copa America final. - Those games get wild. I mean like the fights and people die and stuff like that. I am so terrified of like crowd crush and like just being in a place with too many people that I would never, I don't think it's not an environment for me. - Yeah, it seemed like a soccer thing too. Like that doesn't really happen in the US and football or basketball or anything like that. - Yeah, the people fight outside the stadium and stuff, but not like clamoring. - Yeah, it's not like you don't get these brawls that feel like are going to come in with soccer, but passionate I guess. Forearm Game Strong says, "Amala, they have tried to bankrupt him, jail him, four separate cases, and now on a life hymn." I mean, I guess you can have your opinion, but come on now. - Well, we talk about miracle from God. - Probably the miracle. - Gosh, guys, I don't know what to tell you. I don't know what to tell you. I agree with the prior points of Trump has been through a lot, you know, and many men in history have been through quite a lot of persecution, both big and small, but as far as the religious element of it, you just don't got me there. Oh boy, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. - Alfredo or Key is just an $50 super chat, so he's from the front of the line, so as I'm just catching up on your live, and I just want to say when Trump said that they are poisoning this country, he was most likely referring to Democrats. - I think he was actually referring to immigrants, like illegal immigrants who are coming here and raping people and killing them, which is even more, even a better use of the term than to be used for Democrats, although you could say one leads to the other, but yeah, I don't know. And at the end of the day, the poison is poison. I don't know, like ask people in Europe how they're feeling about the immigration and whether or not they feel like their countries have been poisoned, and that's not to group all the people from a certain place together and say you guys are poisonous, it's just to say, the people you're sending here who are raping and killing people and setting things on fire and stabbing our citizens and not paying taxes and going to prison are poisoning our country. Case closed, just like American citizens who do that stuff are poisoning our country. - Chicken Pork Adobo said they missed, but you don't quote unquote, they missed, but you don't have to miss out on buying this genuine 2016 Funko Pop for sale. That's how I sold my Pop for $500 shirts next. - Oh my gosh. Yeah, I've been seeing people like make jokes out of all these different things that have happened, like ex-boyfriends are hitting up their girlfriends and saying him missing his shot reminded me of how I miss my shot with you or like, when you see moments like this, you're reminded of the impactful people in your life and you're one of them and all this stuff. So awful, awful. - Like is it too soon? It's never too soon for the internet. - It's never too soon for the internet. I giggled, I giggled. - Yeah, yeah. Sazen Khan says OMG, OMG, I made it to another live. Kinda late anyway, I'll be watching this later. - Cool. - I love y'all have a good day. - Oh, that's so nice, love you too. Thanks. - Alex Aimee says, first super chat sending you much love all the way from Puerto Rico. It's truly heartbreaking the way Corey protected his daughter and wife sacrificing himself. - Yeah, and they're like, he covered them and that's how he ended up losing his life. At least the story we've been told thus far, so horrible. And then people are just going to a social media post and saying, well, he's an awful person 'cause he posted this, this, that, and that and people just can't separate themselves from whatever is going on at any given moment. Very sad. - Yeah. DeAndre Cleaver says, it's crazy how you can get fired for the N-word, but no consequences for openly saying you wish the former president was murdered. - Yeah, it's very interesting the times we live in. People can say a whole ton of bad stuff now and nothing. - I would say, I think lives of TikTok reported on a few people who have been like suspended or even fired for comments that they made or things that they posted online in the wake of the shooting. So there's a, in one instance, it was like someone who worked high up in the New York City Mayor's office or New York State government, I think. But anyways, but surely, yeah, not enough. I mean, if people are hearing at the water coolers, like, yeah, can only imagine. - Right, gots to go. Let's see, Kathy Williams says, I watched a documentary on JFK said Trump was the next JFK. - Hmm. - It's ominous. - Yeah, I mean, you could find some similarities, I'm sure, but also plenty of different things. - Right, plenty of different, this is plenty of similarities, it's not good to go too crazy. - Also, RFK's literally in the race. - It hurts. - It was the next Kennedy. - That's too funny. - Steph at home says, talking to kids about trans, obviously wants to shelter them, but they're observant. Three and six year old asks, is that a boy or girl? Do you respond to A, I don't know, B, it's none of our business, or other, much love? - Oh my gosh, three and six, and they're asking if a trans person is a boy or a girl. Oh my gosh, let me transport myself into this situation and think about how we would answer that. - It's hard to know without, you know, knowing the kids and whether or not they understand how they understand the world. - Right, like how they would take in that information, are they gonna run up and be like, "You're a boy, "it's just individual." - Good, I mean, I would err on the side of like, that is a man who's confused and has problems. - Yeah, I'm not gonna lie, I would always try to tell the truth, so whichever version of the truth is best, you know, morphed for their age group, that's what I would tell them, yeah. - No diggity, no doubt, says when I opened Edge browser at work, it defaults to news stories, not a single story on Trump shooting, a few negative ones about him a few days old, I was surprised. - Very interesting, I've never heard of that browser, Edge browser? - Microsoft Edge. - Oh, Microsoft Edge, okay, I thought it was gonna be something way funnier than that, but it's not. - It's the replacement to Internet Explorer, which is the OG browser. - Got it. - I don't know, you had like Netscape Navigator back in the day, I'm trying to think of the OG OG ones, but forearm game says, "Alma, we know that if you would have put that detailed together, you wouldn't be doing this show today, LOL, you would be sitting in front of Congress." - If I put what together? - That's security detail. - Oh, the security detail together, oh my gosh, yeah. - Oh, speaking, they just talked about people getting fired, speaking of people getting fired. When are any heads gonna roll for like anything, Afghanistan, COVID, this assassination attempt, literally no one's gotten fired for any of the biggest eff ups that we have seen in history in the last four years. It's absolutely insane. - That's a good question. - Am I crazy? - Yeah, I mean-- - Yeah, I'm crazy. - Yeah, sorry, not, not, yeah, you're crazy, but yeah, it's a good question. I think like if Trump has any hand in it, he should be like, I want a new security detail. ASAP, ASAP, Rocky, because what? They should all be fired, sorry. - Well, fired in, straight to jail. They're trial, they're nothing. - Mm-hmm. - Biblically me says, do you think worst things will happen for Trump or worse, or things will turn around for him? Also is, as a smaller channel, I really respect how far you've come. - Oh, thank you, that's so nice. If one, it depends on what you mean by worse. I think the only thing worse than this is he gets killed. So like, I hope that worse is not coming for him. Hopefully he's on the downtrend as far as horrible things happening, but there's always going to be more for him. I just don't know that anything will top almost being shot in the head and having within like a millisecond moved your head in a way that prevented you from dying. - Hannah says, hi, Amalyn Taylor, still stunned by the insanity that took place. I'm heartbroken for everyone affected in the family of the shooter. I'm 20, I can't understand how someone can throw the rest of their life away senselessly. - Yeah, me neither. It's just a crazy choice to have made at 20 years old. There are videos circulating of him screaming at people like on the street where he does not seem to be mentally, you know, doing well. I don't know that it's been confirmed that he's in that video though. It's just been a clip that's been circulating. So that's why we didn't show it on today's show. Yeah, you'd have to be in a state of unrest, I think, to be doing something like this. - Oh, yeah, absolutely. I mean, you know you're not going to survive that altercation. So it's effectively a comprehensive attack and just to be willing to make that decision. Even if it's as straightforward as, I'm just really think that Trump is an existential threat and I think it'd be this heroic act to kill him, but he still would in the level of, I don't know, disturbed or afraid of Trump that you'd have to be to get to that place as well. And I imagine it's even more complicated than that. - In his class, what's we're saying, you know, he's like constantly bullied and put down or whatever, you know, you have to have a little value for your own life to do something like this. - And you heard the story about him being like, who he tried to sign up for the shooting team at school and was rejected because he wasn't a good enough shot. To me, undercuts a lot of the conspiracy stuff about like if they were going to try to use him as an asset, why would you pick a kid who couldn't even qualify for like a shooting team to be your assassin of the president's kind of like. - Right, because from where he was at, it was over 100 yards, right? Where him shooting, I think it was like 140 something. - Yeah. - Yards, that's long. - I watched some of these like former, you know, combat snipers and stuff who are saying, like that is a fish and a barrel shot, like that is so easy by modern. - Oh, fish and a barrel shot. Okay, for what he had, okay. - Yeah, well, so any like half decent marksmen could make that shot and that's what it is, you know? - Miraculous that he didn't land it or just the fact that this kid, you know, couldn't do it. And, you know, there was that report that somebody was like ascending the ladder and the kid pointed the gun at him or whatever. - Lots of pressure. - Maybe he was rushed and, yeah, I mean, obviously, it's the most nerve-wracking moment of your life. But anyway, thank God he was incompetent. - Mm-hmm. - Not only the Secret Service and security detail. Tim Watro-Chiochi says, "Trump gets the Disney's Lost Boys for Secret Service." - Disney's Lost Boys, that's tragic. The Lost A Thems, the Disney Plus version. (laughing) - Oh my gosh. - The Disney Plus. - Yeah. - The Seven Dwarfs, the original version. - Oh my gosh. - We have those in costumes. - Yup. - Seven diversity hires. - Mm-hmm. - Yeah. - A sub-meduce says, "I wonder if Destiny has recently become a 1975 fan because his cognition and mental stability seems to be rapidly deteriorating." - Don't, you dare. Log off right now. Don't you dare bring the 1975 into this. (laughing) Don't put Destiny in the 1975 in the same sentence. - Who didn't let it go? - Who didn't let it go? - Kelbier says, "Anyone who's take is anything other than this is horrific and we must reject it from all sides isn't a decent American, in my opinion." - Oh my God. - I've drew before party always. - Yeah, it seems that way. I agree. - A couple more here. Stalin says, "Wish you all the best from Bulgaria, best of luck to D-Trump and the gracious American people." There's like a backwards N-Y-A and a B, N-B, Stalin, so. - Okay. - I don't know. And he's got a picture of Stalin as, I don't think he's a fan though, if he's wishing us. - I don't think he's a fan. - Wish you good luck to Trump. (laughing) And that's the best in the American past. - Don't think he's a fan. That's too funny. Oh my goodness, thank you. That was very nice. - It's the internet for you man. You never know which way to go. - Spaces says, "Amala, I saw a two plus year old video of you back in your lefty days. Almost couldn't see your face with the full head fro. Shout out to the Froney tale." - A video of me. What was the video? Was it of me doing a speech? Oh, you have to let me know what video that was. Probably the speech I did at like a March for Our Lives type thing, gun control, something or other awful, awful, horrible. Yep. I did have a huge fro at the time. And I still have a huge fro now if I let this out of its barrier. - Yeah, we played that or reacted to it like years ago, but maybe it's due for another reaction sometimes. - Yeah. - It's been so long. - Yeah. - Doug, I'll tell y'all a little inside baseball here. I've been trying to get Amala to write a little memoir. Did you guys like that? Make her do it. Say it in the chat. - Oh gosh, make me like those. - Put out her story. Nothing crazy. - It'd be a very short story, babe. Very short story. - It's fine. - It's all y'all listening. - I think it would be dope to do. Celtic Blacksmith says, "Amala, when will we meet your new assistant sister?" A sister went, if you will. We gotta start asking her to bring your PO box, saga to a close. - That's so funny. She's actually downstairs right now. I'll tell her that you said that. I don't know that she's watching right now, but she's downstairs in my place. So I'll let her know. I'll pass that on. She'll be here soon. (laughs) And here, the last one I see is Christopher Elsin, says, "My dad's from Haiti and he never had anything "hung good to say about that country. "Never been back either. "Trump isn't a liar when he said it was a poop emoji." - Yeah, wouldn't that talk to Trump? - I've been to Haiti. - And what do you think? - I mean, I met some very precious people. - Of course. - And it was, you know, beautiful to see. And there's a unique missing and dignity. And those people and in that culture that I think is awesome. But obviously it has pervasive and, you know, ongoing problems and things just for whatever reason, can not get any stability in that country. And I think that there's deep cultural issues, there's corruption and dare I say, even like a spiritual sort of darkness that is palpable in the country. So yeah, that's rough out there. But that doesn't mean we need to import them by indiscriminately by the millions, either necessarily. - Watch closely, a couple more here. Watch closely, sending you lots of good vibes, smiley face. So what's on the menu for dinner tonight? - I've been eating the same thing over and over 'cause I'm just on this whole gym, trying to be healthy or whatever. It's literally like ground beef with some like soy sauce and seasoning, white rice, broccoli or like green beans, just straight up. I don't know how many times I've eaten that over the past few days, but many. And I love it. - Good meal. - Don't need anything else. - It ain't broke. - Don't fix it. - I do the, I'm not gonna say which one in case we ever want to get a meal sponsored. And I do one of those meal subscription plans and I've been doing it for years and not love those. So yeah, I'm having like a- - There you go. Straight to your door. - Yeah, forget like some kind of cheese, crusted chicken dish. Now, but you have to cook it yourself. They just send you the fresh ingredients. But I like doing that. Very full proof. Makes you feel like you can cook, even if you can. - Hell yeah. - One more forum game strong. This is our last one that I see. I gotta give props to what's up my dude. That was a great diss, 100% accurate. I wish I would have thought of that. By the way, ask the fisherman, not the fish. - Oh my gosh, we did a video on the second channel, Omri Unfiltered, you can follow that. I have a second channel with my best friend, Risa. And we did female dating coaches who give advice exclusively to men. And we asked the question, can you ask for fishing advice from the fish themselves? And a lot of your men said, no, I'm never gonna go to a woman about her preferences when it comes to dating. You don't ask a fish how to catch a fish. I'm like the two-year detriment home way, because those are one of our saying some pretty good things that I can actively look at in my own life. And in the lives of other women, I know, that would definitely get you a woman. - Okay, if you're trying again, but there's hair, I'm never gonna listen to a woman's advice. - But can you realize how much fishermen study fish and like how they respond to weather? What time of day they eat? What part of lakes they're in? Like you have to inquire and learn as much as you can about your target in order to give yourself the best chance of catching a man. - If a fish could talk, the damn fisherman would be asking it, okay? - Not a person. (laughing) - We're ending on that lighter note. We are ending on that. Just real clip, real clip, real quick. We have a new clip of President Biden on NBC News that will play. And he was asked about his very quote about Donald Trump saying that he's an existential threat and that Trump, he wants to put Trump in a bullseye, which a lot of people have been bringing up since Trump was shot at. Let's watch this clip and then we will close out for the day. What did Biden have to say? - As you called your opponent an existential threat on a call a week ago, you said it's time to put Trump in the bullseye. There's some dispute about the context, but I think you appreciate that word. - I didn't say crosshairs, I was talking about focus on it. Look, the truth of the matter was, well, I guess I was talking about it as a time was, there was very little focus on Trump agenda. - Yeah, the term is bullseye. - Was a mistake to use, I didn't say crosshairs, I'm a bullseye, I'm a focus on it. Focus on what he's doing. - You called? - All right, well, did you guys get anything from that? I understand, you know, language is, you know, used in different ways and he meant something other than what, you know, was explicitly said. He meant just focus on Donald Trump, but my goodness, he just take a whole trip and getting us to that conclusion, whoo, but he doesn't have to mention it guys. - He doesn't have to mention it. - There's a lot of cognitive gymnastics, we just watch right there. Guys, we're gonna close out the show. Thank you so much for watching. If you liked this video, like, subscribe, click the notification bell to be notified every time we're live, it's Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 1 p.m. Pacific, 3 p.m. Central, 4 p.m. Eastern, plus we post videos for you guys every single day, tomorrow's video is about a YouTuber and a YouTuber who I really like and watch. Cody Cole, he's found himself in controversy as he has been accused of sleeping with a 17-year-old tan emojo at 25 years old. That's a big no-no, a legal no-no, in fact, so we'll be talking about Cody Cole tomorrow. So keep an eye out for that video, drop your thoughts in the comments down below. As always, if you disagree with anything stated in today's stream, drop it in the comments, duke it out, but do so respectfully. And with that, I will see you guys tomorrow. Bye guys. [BLANK_AUDIO]
There has been an insane amount of news since the attempted assassination of Trump over the weekend, including breaking news of Donald Trump’s selection of JD Vance as his VP pick. So let’s dive into everything we’ve learned about the assassination attempt, the shooter, the media reaction, and more. Let’s talk about it.
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