WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:03.439 Let's go back to the last Trump assassination attempt, which 2 00:00:03.520 --> 00:00:09.439 was less than seventy fewer than seventy days ago, when 3 00:00:09.439 --> 00:00:12.679 we all kind of said, hey, maybe we as a 4 00:00:12.720 --> 00:00:15.919 country we need to kind of tone down, we need 5 00:00:15.960 --> 00:00:19.600 to tone down the political rhetoric. And you saw people 6 00:00:19.600 --> 00:00:21.199 on both sides of the osslay, oh, I got to 7 00:00:21.199 --> 00:00:26.800 tone down the political rhetoric, right, B B B. And 8 00:00:26.839 --> 00:00:31.440 then five minutes after that, everyone proceeded to act as 9 00:00:31.480 --> 00:00:37.240 if the shooting in Pennsylvania didn't happen. And Kamala Harris 10 00:00:37.280 --> 00:00:39.159 goes on the debate and says that Donald Trump is 11 00:00:39.159 --> 00:00:42.200 the biggest threat to democracy, that January sixth was the 12 00:00:42.240 --> 00:00:48.200 worst attack on American democracy since Pearl Harbor, which is 13 00:00:48.520 --> 00:00:53.600 completely insane. That no, actually, sorry, excuse me, she said, 14 00:00:53.600 --> 00:00:56.719 Donald Trump left us the worst attack on our democracy 15 00:00:56.759 --> 00:01:01.520 since the Civil War. Noel Barber nine to eleven. Those 16 00:01:01.520 --> 00:01:05.400 don't make the cut, Timothy McVeigh, You know, no, no, 17 00:01:05.400 --> 00:01:11.079 no January sixth, where the protesters did not kill a 18 00:01:11.079 --> 00:01:16.400 single person. Again, not saying January sixth with some wonderful, 19 00:01:16.680 --> 00:01:19.239 you know, flowering of democracy or anything. It was a 20 00:01:19.879 --> 00:01:25.560 dumb riot. But the the we we continue to ramp 21 00:01:25.640 --> 00:01:28.439 up the rhetoric to eleven that Donald Trump is this 22 00:01:28.560 --> 00:01:31.280 existential threat to American democracy, which he's simply is not. 23 00:01:35.959 --> 00:01:38.840 And what do we get. We get another guy with 24 00:01:38.920 --> 00:01:44.239 a gun almost able to pull off a presidential assassination. 25 00:01:47.439 --> 00:01:50.000 So we we didn't really believe anything we were saying 26 00:01:50.040 --> 00:01:53.560 at the time about you know, anything we were saying 27 00:01:53.599 --> 00:01:58.519 at the time regarding toning down our rhetoric, you know, 28 00:01:58.640 --> 00:02:03.159 conforming our rhetoric to a more modest place. No, the 29 00:02:03.200 --> 00:02:06.280 only reason Democrats, I think, kind of shifted some of 30 00:02:06.319 --> 00:02:10.680 their language was because they realized calling Donald Trump and jd. 31 00:02:10.800 --> 00:02:14.199 Vance weird was actually more politically effective for them than 32 00:02:14.240 --> 00:02:17.879 any of the January sixth stuff had ever been. Also, 33 00:02:17.919 --> 00:02:20.159 all the legal cases against Trump were kind of collapsing 34 00:02:20.199 --> 00:02:30.280 around them. I just want to really emphasize how dark 35 00:02:30.520 --> 00:02:37.879 this gets if Trump gets assassinated, and I one gets 36 00:02:37.879 --> 00:02:42.159 the sense from all of the kind of massive failures 37 00:02:43.319 --> 00:02:47.360 around the Pennsylvania shooting, some of which are so egregious 38 00:02:47.400 --> 00:02:49.960 that it makes you think they almost wanted him to 39 00:02:49.960 --> 00:02:55.080 get assassinate, Like there's a there's a conspiracy theory. Believing 40 00:02:55.240 --> 00:02:58.280 little part of me that I want to do a 41 00:02:58.319 --> 00:03:00.719 segment like that on the show are occurring segment the 42 00:03:00.719 --> 00:03:04.000 forty nine percenter. It means something that I believe forty 43 00:03:04.080 --> 00:03:07.800 nine percent. So I can, you know, disclaim any you know, 44 00:03:08.039 --> 00:03:11.280 accountability for actually believing it because I only forty nine 45 00:03:11.319 --> 00:03:13.159 percent believe it, but I kind of sort of sort 46 00:03:13.199 --> 00:03:17.319 of believe it. There's like a, you know, forty nine percent, 47 00:03:17.319 --> 00:03:19.120 maybe less than forty nine percent part of me that 48 00:03:19.360 --> 00:03:25.319 sort of could be convinced that the Secret Service let 49 00:03:26.080 --> 00:03:31.719 the guy shoot Donald Trump in Pennsylvania again. Don't actually 50 00:03:31.759 --> 00:03:34.360 believe it, but there's a part of me that could 51 00:03:34.360 --> 00:03:37.479 be convinced. I think maybe not forty nine percent, maybe 52 00:03:37.520 --> 00:03:44.360 smaller than that, but the fact that it's almost happened again, 53 00:03:49.240 --> 00:03:55.639 it clearly indicates that it could happen. And you had 54 00:03:55.680 --> 00:04:00.520 actually over the weekend this shocking quote from of all people, 55 00:04:01.120 --> 00:04:06.400 Richard Blumenthal, the Democrat senator from Connecticut, who over the 56 00:04:06.439 --> 00:04:12.080 weekend said actually this is a quote from September twelfth, 57 00:04:12.360 --> 00:04:14.319 not over the week so a couple of days ago. 58 00:04:14.800 --> 00:04:20.879 He said, quote, the forthcoming report on the Trump assassination attempt. 59 00:04:21.120 --> 00:04:26.199 Quote will absolutely shock the American people. I think the 60 00:04:26.240 --> 00:04:30.879 American people are going to be shocked, astonished, and appalled 61 00:04:31.199 --> 00:04:34.319 by what we will report to them about the failures 62 00:04:34.360 --> 00:04:37.600 by the Secret Service in this assassination attempt on the 63 00:04:37.639 --> 00:04:42.560 former president. I think they also ought to be appalled 64 00:04:42.600 --> 00:04:47.319 and astonished by the failure of the Department of Homeland Security. 65 00:04:47.439 --> 00:04:56.439 That's Richard Bloomenthal, a Democrat senator from Connecticut, reliable lefty, 66 00:04:56.720 --> 00:05:00.279 you know, lefty, blowhard extraordinaire. And here he is saying, 67 00:05:00.319 --> 00:05:04.839 Oh my gosh, the Secret Service is so wildly inept 68 00:05:04.920 --> 00:05:11.399 that Americans are going to be completely appalled. So clearly 69 00:05:11.439 --> 00:05:17.519 this could happen, and I just wanna I just wanna 70 00:05:18.959 --> 00:05:23.079 lay out what happens, what happens if Donald Trump gets assassinated. 71 00:05:26.399 --> 00:05:30.360 If Donald Trump gets assassinated, I think you're going to 72 00:05:30.399 --> 00:05:40.639 see mainstreamed political violence on a kind of terrifying scale. 73 00:05:41.079 --> 00:05:43.839 I really think you will. I think it will be 74 00:05:44.920 --> 00:05:50.079 extremely bad, and I don't think we're prepared for what 75 00:05:51.839 --> 00:05:59.680 government by mob is. Like. I don't want to talk 76 00:05:59.680 --> 00:06:02.399 about the Roman Empire only. I absolutely do want to 77 00:06:02.399 --> 00:06:05.720 talk about the Roman Empire, but that's kind of how 78 00:06:05.759 --> 00:06:13.800 the Roman Republic collapsed was you started to see violence 79 00:06:15.000 --> 00:06:21.160 and assassination and not assassination and necessarily directly coordinated from 80 00:06:21.199 --> 00:06:23.560 the top or anything. I'm not saying Kamala Harris is 81 00:06:23.600 --> 00:06:28.120 like sending out goons to go take out Donald Trump 82 00:06:28.279 --> 00:06:31.279 or Barack Obama's or whoever pulls the puppet strings with 83 00:06:31.319 --> 00:06:37.920 the Democrats. These are clearly mentally unstable people who are 84 00:06:38.040 --> 00:06:41.439 doing this. The more we learn about the guy who 85 00:06:41.600 --> 00:06:44.920 this new assassin for President Trump, who was actually apparently 86 00:06:44.959 --> 00:06:50.519 able to be captured alive and is in custody, he's 87 00:06:50.560 --> 00:06:55.079 this weird like volunteered to go fight as a mercenary 88 00:06:55.120 --> 00:07:01.800 in Ukraine kind of dude. He's seemed is left leaning 89 00:07:02.000 --> 00:07:09.839 from what I can tell, but seems pretty crazy. New 90 00:07:09.920 --> 00:07:12.040 York Times did a story about him in twenty twenty 91 00:07:12.040 --> 00:07:15.639 three about some of these kind of weirdos. Who are 92 00:07:15.720 --> 00:07:18.759 these weird people from all over the world signing up 93 00:07:18.800 --> 00:07:21.720 to fight in Ukraine, Which, of course, I think anyone 94 00:07:21.720 --> 00:07:25.480 who signs up to be a mercenary, a foreign military mercenary, 95 00:07:26.360 --> 00:07:32.680 probably has at least a couple of screws loose. But 96 00:07:32.759 --> 00:07:36.600 the Roman Republic kind of once you cross the line 97 00:07:37.680 --> 00:07:44.480 of having having assassination attempts be something that's kind of 98 00:07:44.480 --> 00:07:50.800 part of politics. It doesn't go away. It kind of 99 00:07:50.959 --> 00:07:56.120 ramps up the stakes for your politics and it kind 100 00:07:56.120 --> 00:08:02.160 of stays at that level. That's what happened with the 101 00:08:02.240 --> 00:08:06.319 Roman Empire. The reason why it transitioned from a Roman 102 00:08:06.360 --> 00:08:14.120 republic to a Roman rule by one person, the imperial system, 103 00:08:14.160 --> 00:08:16.519 or the principle, whatever you want to call it, whatever 104 00:08:16.680 --> 00:08:21.639 was that Augustus established. The reason it descended into that 105 00:08:22.759 --> 00:08:29.199 was because of violence, constant violence, and constant vying by 106 00:08:29.720 --> 00:08:34.080 extremely powerful Roman nobility, by which we mean Roman rich 107 00:08:34.120 --> 00:08:43.200 guys to want dominance within the state, power and money. 108 00:08:43.960 --> 00:08:47.840 And it started in kind of the late one hundred's BC. 109 00:08:48.519 --> 00:08:50.720 You are these two brothers, the Gracchi brothers, who were 110 00:08:50.759 --> 00:08:53.399 proposing all these kind of land reform bills. There were 111 00:08:53.440 --> 00:08:56.480 a lot of problems that Italians, especially Italians living in 112 00:08:56.480 --> 00:09:01.240 the countryside, were facing, where you had the Roman nobility 113 00:09:01.679 --> 00:09:05.720 swallowing up more and more land, You had dispossessed Romans 114 00:09:05.759 --> 00:09:08.240 who were losing their farms. You had as a result 115 00:09:08.320 --> 00:09:13.519 throughout Italy lots of problems with brigands and thieves and 116 00:09:13.600 --> 00:09:16.519 stuff like that. A lot of sort of shifty guys 117 00:09:16.559 --> 00:09:21.120 without much property and nothing to lose. And the Gracy 118 00:09:21.240 --> 00:09:29.639 brothers were these two brothers who in two succeeding decades 119 00:09:29.720 --> 00:09:32.639 introduced these different kind of land reform bills in ways 120 00:09:32.679 --> 00:09:35.679 that a lot of the more conservative elements within the 121 00:09:35.720 --> 00:09:39.879 Senate didn't like. They tried to introduce this legislation through 122 00:09:39.960 --> 00:09:44.360 kind of a novel approach within the Roman constitutional system, 123 00:09:44.759 --> 00:09:48.000 and because their approach was so novel, the Senate was outraged, 124 00:09:48.320 --> 00:09:51.720 and this led to situations in which both of the 125 00:09:51.759 --> 00:09:59.279 Gracchy brothers got assassinated, and once they were assassinated, that 126 00:09:59.440 --> 00:10:05.080 was it. Roman. The Roman Republic was on this death 127 00:10:05.120 --> 00:10:14.360 spiral where politics within the city was often governed by well, 128 00:10:14.440 --> 00:10:18.879 it was one hundred percent governed by bribery and by 129 00:10:19.240 --> 00:10:23.879 gangs of armed goons walking around the city, you know, 130 00:10:23.960 --> 00:10:26.559 competing gangs of goons walking around the city. By the 131 00:10:26.559 --> 00:10:29.120 time you get to the time of Julius Caesar, like 132 00:10:29.440 --> 00:10:33.519 Julius Caesar's got his guy who with his gang of goons, 133 00:10:33.519 --> 00:10:36.200 and some of his opponents have their gangs of goons, 134 00:10:38.759 --> 00:10:42.320 and that's how votes within the city are being conducted. 135 00:10:44.200 --> 00:10:48.080 At one point, Julius Caesar's elected consul and his fellow 136 00:10:48.200 --> 00:10:53.000 consul was trying to oppose Caesar, and then Caesar got 137 00:10:53.000 --> 00:10:56.639 mad at him, the guy was almost killed, and the 138 00:10:56.639 --> 00:10:58.679 guy just sort of stayed in his house for the 139 00:10:58.759 --> 00:11:03.320 rest of the year of his co consulship Bibulous, And 140 00:11:03.600 --> 00:11:06.200 the joke was during that year, Now, if you just 141 00:11:06.240 --> 00:11:08.440 stayed in your house, you know, it's not like with 142 00:11:08.559 --> 00:11:10.879 Joe Biden, where Joe Biden can stay in his house 143 00:11:11.000 --> 00:11:13.159 or his beach house for some reason and continue to 144 00:11:13.159 --> 00:11:14.919 be president. No, and in the Roman system, you have 145 00:11:15.000 --> 00:11:17.679 to actually show up to the forum, show up to 146 00:11:18.000 --> 00:11:23.000 gatherings of the Senate, to actually do your legal acts. 147 00:11:23.600 --> 00:11:25.120 You can't just sit in your house. You have to 148 00:11:25.159 --> 00:11:28.799 actually show up. So this guy, Bibulous would write these 149 00:11:28.919 --> 00:11:32.759 angry missives from his house decrying stuff that Julius Caesar 150 00:11:32.840 --> 00:11:37.639 was doing, but it was completely ineffective. So people joked 151 00:11:38.120 --> 00:11:41.960 that that consulship was the consulship of instead of Bibulous 152 00:11:42.720 --> 00:11:45.919 and Julius Caesar, it was the consulship of Julius and Caesar. 153 00:11:46.200 --> 00:11:49.320 That was the joke. It was probably funnier in Latin anyway, 154 00:11:50.919 --> 00:11:55.159 But once you get violence introduced into the political system, 155 00:11:55.200 --> 00:12:00.360 it does not go away. And I feel as though 156 00:12:01.559 --> 00:12:04.720 Biden is like kind of taking this seriously, but not quite. 157 00:12:05.440 --> 00:12:09.639 I guess I don't know what needs to happen for 158 00:12:11.720 --> 00:12:15.039 President Biden or anyone involved with this to say, look, 159 00:12:15.080 --> 00:12:18.399 we know the normal regulations are that presidents get this 160 00:12:18.559 --> 00:12:23.759 level of Secret Service detail and former presidents or people 161 00:12:23.759 --> 00:12:26.799 who are candidates for president get this lesser level of 162 00:12:26.840 --> 00:12:31.440 security detail. Like that's the regulations, and that seems to 163 00:12:31.480 --> 00:12:34.840 be a fine set of regulations that the president gets 164 00:12:34.840 --> 00:12:38.480 a higher level of security detail than you know, a 165 00:12:38.480 --> 00:12:42.000 former president or someone who's one of the leading candidates 166 00:12:42.039 --> 00:12:45.000 for president. You need to throw that out because clearly 167 00:12:45.320 --> 00:12:47.360 there are people who want to kill Donald Trump. He's 168 00:12:47.399 --> 00:12:51.519 had two assassination attempts thwart. I wouldn't even say the 169 00:12:51.519 --> 00:12:56.919 first one was thwarted. The guy just missed. He got 170 00:12:56.919 --> 00:13:01.720 a shot off that hit Trump in the ear. Clearly, 171 00:13:03.519 --> 00:13:08.799 if this isn't dealt with, Donald Trump's gonna be assassinated. 172 00:13:09.720 --> 00:13:14.480 So I would say President Biden, if he's conscious, needs 173 00:13:14.519 --> 00:13:17.120 to just say, look, I don't care. I don't care 174 00:13:17.159 --> 00:13:19.519 what the regulations are for the Secret Service and how 175 00:13:19.600 --> 00:13:25.759 much Secret Service detail you give President Trump, the full shebang, 176 00:13:26.240 --> 00:13:32.159 the full complement of Secret Service protection, pulling submarines to 177 00:13:32.279 --> 00:13:36.519 help if you need or whoever it is, some black 178 00:13:36.519 --> 00:13:41.320 ops guys, whatever it is, you need, give Donald Trump 179 00:13:41.360 --> 00:13:43.919 the same level of protection that I have that Kamala 180 00:13:43.960 --> 00:13:48.960 Harris has. I just think it's absurd because if if 181 00:13:49.000 --> 00:13:55.440 he gets assassinated, whatever was going on in the brains 182 00:13:55.519 --> 00:14:00.279 of the craziest guys on January sixth is gonna start 183 00:14:00.279 --> 00:14:05.759 going on in a lot more brains. Whatever was going 184 00:14:05.840 --> 00:14:08.600 on in the brains of the craziest people who are 185 00:14:08.600 --> 00:14:13.000 burning down buildings in Minneapolis and who were planning to 186 00:14:13.000 --> 00:14:16.320 start riots. If Joe Biden had lost the twenty twenty election, 187 00:14:16.360 --> 00:14:20.840 all those people, those people will all be ramped up. Also, 188 00:14:24.519 --> 00:14:28.600 we don't want to live in America where that happens. 189 00:14:29.039 --> 00:14:34.960 It The stakes are I think much higher than we 190 00:14:35.000 --> 00:14:38.399 realize because Trump so narrowly escaped the first time. Like, 191 00:14:40.480 --> 00:14:46.159 I don't feel like people fully appreciate the insanity that 192 00:14:46.320 --> 00:14:53.039 will ensue. How this would absolutely trigger people, not to 193 00:14:53.159 --> 00:14:56.679 use this liberal buzzword, How it would absolutely trigger people 194 00:14:56.759 --> 00:15:00.480 in these horrible ways where it would normalize. I think 195 00:15:00.519 --> 00:15:03.440 it would normalize violence on the right. I think it 196 00:15:03.440 --> 00:15:09.200 would normalize and amplify and reward violence on the left. 197 00:15:10.399 --> 00:15:16.360 It would make presidential assassination just a thing that is 198 00:15:16.399 --> 00:15:20.080 on the table, a thing that's on the table, something that, 199 00:15:20.559 --> 00:15:26.200 for crazies on either side, can appear to be doable. 200 00:15:27.919 --> 00:15:31.600 When we return all my forty nine percent theories. Next 201 00:15:31.720 --> 00:15:35.559 on the John Girardi Show, all right, I'm gonna do 202 00:15:35.600 --> 00:15:39.840 this segment in light of two assassination attempts on one 203 00:15:39.919 --> 00:15:45.080 presidential candidate in sixty days, sixty plus days, I'm gonna 204 00:15:45.120 --> 00:15:48.360 do a little segment. I like to call the forty 205 00:15:48.440 --> 00:15:52.559 nine percenters. This is stuff. This is a segment that's 206 00:15:52.600 --> 00:15:59.440 gonna allow me to recklessly speculate without much, if any accountability, 207 00:15:59.480 --> 00:16:03.159 because I don't actually believe this stuff, but there's a 208 00:16:03.320 --> 00:16:06.799 tiny part of me that does, and it is not 209 00:16:07.399 --> 00:16:10.000 more than forty nine percent of me believes it. Okay, 210 00:16:10.000 --> 00:16:16.120 so I don't believe this stuff. Fifty one percent of 211 00:16:16.159 --> 00:16:20.399 me does not believe it. If asked, do you believe 212 00:16:20.440 --> 00:16:21.919 it or not? I will say no, I do not, 213 00:16:24.279 --> 00:16:26.960 but as much as forty nine percent of me kind 214 00:16:26.960 --> 00:16:33.159 of maybe does. So here we go my first forty 215 00:16:33.240 --> 00:16:37.080 nine percenters conspiracy theory. And again I do not believe this, 216 00:16:39.799 --> 00:16:48.799 but it's not totally crazy. Both of the Trump assassinators 217 00:16:50.320 --> 00:16:59.720 were intelligence community plants. Here's the evidence. First shooter, OH, 218 00:16:59.799 --> 00:17:06.880 a twenty year old with no social media presence, who 219 00:17:06.920 --> 00:17:09.519 we have tracking that he visited some FBI office at 220 00:17:09.519 --> 00:17:13.519 some point before GPS tracking showing that he visited some 221 00:17:13.640 --> 00:17:25.640 FBI office before the shooting. Hm hmm. The second shooter, OH, 222 00:17:25.680 --> 00:17:28.200 a guy who was profiled by a New York Times 223 00:17:28.200 --> 00:17:33.799 piece just last year and who was a mercenary fighting 224 00:17:33.880 --> 00:17:47.599 in Ukraine. Hmmmm, hm hmmm. Wild cartoony levels with the 225 00:17:47.640 --> 00:17:53.720 first assassination. Cartoonish levels of letting a guy with a 226 00:17:53.799 --> 00:17:58.160 gun crawl on top of a roof with a very 227 00:17:58.400 --> 00:18:03.079 decent angle on the president, letting the President walk on 228 00:18:03.200 --> 00:18:06.200 stage when you knew the guy was there, having known 229 00:18:06.240 --> 00:18:09.880 of the guy for tens of minutes before Trump even 230 00:18:09.920 --> 00:18:13.680 walked onto the stage, hours having this guy being reported 231 00:18:13.759 --> 00:18:19.000 to the Secret Service, hours before everyone knew. I heard 232 00:18:19.000 --> 00:18:20.759 about it, heard about it. No one took a shot 233 00:18:20.799 --> 00:18:24.319 at him, couldn't go on the roof because it was 234 00:18:24.359 --> 00:18:29.759 a slopey roof, and we let him take the shot first. 235 00:18:29.799 --> 00:18:33.119 We give this BS explanation of well, oh, we can't 236 00:18:33.119 --> 00:18:35.319 shoot unless we know he's got a gun. You see, 237 00:18:35.319 --> 00:18:38.119 he's got a gun, you gotta scope on him. You 238 00:18:38.200 --> 00:18:42.519 took him out within an instant of him shooting. Hmmm. 239 00:18:46.960 --> 00:18:54.880 Two assassination attempts on one guy within seventy days. Again, 240 00:18:56.279 --> 00:19:01.960 I'm not saying I believe any of this, and I 241 00:19:02.079 --> 00:19:05.000 genuinely don't. I think this is probably just an exercise 242 00:19:05.240 --> 00:19:12.319 of dot connecting, and these are insane levels of incompetence 243 00:19:12.319 --> 00:19:13.920 on the part of the Secret Service. I mean, God knows, 244 00:19:14.000 --> 00:19:18.559 there have genuinely been a lot of stories over the 245 00:19:18.640 --> 00:19:22.559 last ten years about incompetence by the Secret Service, scandals 246 00:19:22.559 --> 00:19:26.160 within the Secret Service, the head of the Secret Service 247 00:19:26.200 --> 00:19:30.559 that President Biden appointed being so concerned with DEI stuff 248 00:19:30.640 --> 00:19:38.519 within the Secret Service. But I'm just I guess my 249 00:19:38.759 --> 00:19:43.559 main position here is that if some conspiracy were revealed 250 00:19:43.559 --> 00:19:50.680 to have happened, I wouldn't be completely shocked. I wouldn't 251 00:19:50.680 --> 00:19:57.359 be just because the level of incompetence that the improbability of, 252 00:19:59.279 --> 00:20:03.599 especially with the first shooting, maybe less so with the 253 00:20:03.599 --> 00:20:07.039 second shooting, given that it seems like it was caught, 254 00:20:07.440 --> 00:20:11.559 snuffed out, the threat was neutralized before the guy ever 255 00:20:11.599 --> 00:20:16.480 had in any opportunity to take a shot. I guess 256 00:20:15.200 --> 00:20:20.240 I mean that sort of makes me think maybe there 257 00:20:20.319 --> 00:20:23.359 isn't some inside job that the first one was so 258 00:20:23.519 --> 00:20:27.240 implausibly stupid the way the Secret Service was behaving as 259 00:20:27.319 --> 00:20:30.480 to make you think it just wouldn't shock you necessarily 260 00:20:31.000 --> 00:20:36.079 to learn that actually someone was in on it. So 261 00:20:36.160 --> 00:20:39.279 I don't believe it, but I'm saying if it were 262 00:20:39.319 --> 00:20:42.119 to be revealed, I wouldn't be shocked. And that's the 263 00:20:42.119 --> 00:20:45.079 beauty of the forty nine percenters segment is that I 264 00:20:45.119 --> 00:20:48.720 can say things like that. When we return, I want 265 00:20:48.759 --> 00:20:51.640 to give a few more thoughts about this stupid ongoing 266 00:20:51.799 --> 00:20:57.960 Haitian immigrants thing and Republicans finding the worst possible messaging 267 00:20:58.319 --> 00:21:03.119 for their positions. That's next John Girardi Show. All right, 268 00:21:03.119 --> 00:21:10.119 I want to talk about this Springfield Haitians thing, and 269 00:21:10.160 --> 00:21:13.359 I want to kind of run counter to everyone on 270 00:21:13.440 --> 00:21:20.119 talk radio, hopefully chart something of a novel idea with 271 00:21:20.240 --> 00:21:26.119 this topic, because it's not working for Republicans on the right, 272 00:21:28.880 --> 00:21:31.640 even just getting away from the central question of if 273 00:21:31.759 --> 00:21:35.119 is it true or not that Haitians were eating cats, 274 00:21:35.279 --> 00:21:39.920 which is this is what the media loves to do. 275 00:21:40.960 --> 00:21:43.480 Take a story where you're trying to illustrate some bigger 276 00:21:43.480 --> 00:21:46.799 point with a detail and then make the story about 277 00:21:46.839 --> 00:21:53.200 whether or not the detail is true. The bigger story 278 00:21:53.799 --> 00:22:05.359 is large numbers of incredibly lightly regulated immigration are changing 279 00:22:06.440 --> 00:22:13.079 the characters of American cities in ways that are socially 280 00:22:13.119 --> 00:22:21.599 undesirable in various respects. Large unregulated numbers of immigrants coming 281 00:22:21.640 --> 00:22:25.599 to certain cities in Colorado has led to proliferation of 282 00:22:25.640 --> 00:22:30.319 gang activity. And then the contention being made, which seems 283 00:22:30.359 --> 00:22:36.079 like was made without really one hundred percent rigorously fact 284 00:22:36.160 --> 00:22:40.359 checking it beforehand, going off of a couple of acclaimed 285 00:22:40.359 --> 00:22:44.160 reports by neighbors, gets put out by Trump during a 286 00:22:44.160 --> 00:22:47.160 debate and made sort of the centerpiece of you have 287 00:22:47.240 --> 00:22:50.480 these Haitian immigrants in Ohio who are eating cats and dogs. 288 00:22:51.799 --> 00:22:56.079 Now it seems like that wasn't really rigorously confirmed on 289 00:22:56.119 --> 00:23:00.799 the front end, and so now Republicans are rushing around 290 00:23:00.880 --> 00:23:06.480 trying to get confirmation for it. You've got Chris Rufo 291 00:23:06.599 --> 00:23:08.880 on Twitter, who Chris Ruffo is an interesting guy and 292 00:23:08.920 --> 00:23:10.920 I like a lot of what he says. But after 293 00:23:10.960 --> 00:23:13.000 the debate he does a post saying I'll give a 294 00:23:13.039 --> 00:23:15.920 one thousand dollars bounty to anyone who can provide me 295 00:23:15.960 --> 00:23:20.240 with solid evidence of Haitians eating cats and dogs in Springfield, Ohio, 296 00:23:20.359 --> 00:23:23.400 and he doesn't get it. He got some confirmation several 297 00:23:23.480 --> 00:23:30.480 years ago of some Haitians from some other town, possibly Barbie, 298 00:23:31.039 --> 00:23:33.559 And the fact that we're even discussing it just infuriates 299 00:23:33.599 --> 00:23:38.480 me because then it becomes a vendetta on Trump is 300 00:23:38.839 --> 00:23:43.440 stoking hate against Haitian immigrants. Trump is Trump is wildly 301 00:23:43.480 --> 00:23:45.720 accusing Haitian immigants of eating cats and dogs. There's no 302 00:23:45.720 --> 00:23:51.480 evidence they're reading cats and dogs, to which I want 303 00:23:51.519 --> 00:23:56.720 to just yell at both sides. Introducing some poorly fact 304 00:23:56.839 --> 00:24:02.000 checked story about Haitian immigrants eating cats and dogs is 305 00:24:02.039 --> 00:24:09.519 the dumbest way of approaching the immigration problem possible, especially 306 00:24:09.599 --> 00:24:14.319 when so two weeks ago there was a story about 307 00:24:14.319 --> 00:24:19.039 an illegal alien from the Dominican Republic from the Dominican 308 00:24:19.039 --> 00:24:24.519 Republic got into New York illegally, he was wanted for 309 00:24:24.720 --> 00:24:33.079 murder in the dr gets into the United States and 310 00:24:33.160 --> 00:24:38.759 he murdered a family of four mom, dad, two kids 311 00:24:39.480 --> 00:24:45.400 outside of Rochester, New York, murdered them. Was not in 312 00:24:45.440 --> 00:24:49.640 the country legally, was wanted for murder in his home country. 313 00:24:51.559 --> 00:24:57.480 Murders for people, and we're arguing about Haitian cats and 314 00:24:57.559 --> 00:25:03.799 dogs because it sounds shocking. For some reason, eating a 315 00:25:03.799 --> 00:25:08.079 category dog sounds more shocking to people than murders a 316 00:25:08.119 --> 00:25:14.279 family of four. There are a lot of problems with 317 00:25:14.839 --> 00:25:18.599 the Biden administration's approach to immigration, which has resulted in 318 00:25:18.920 --> 00:25:22.279 an influx of I don't know that we actually know 319 00:25:22.400 --> 00:25:26.000 the number, but somewhere around north of twelve million people 320 00:25:26.559 --> 00:25:33.119 into the country, some of them flat out illegally, some 321 00:25:33.200 --> 00:25:38.039 of them through President Biden's newly created very light vetting 322 00:25:38.200 --> 00:25:42.160 legal processes that he sort of created via executive order 323 00:25:42.200 --> 00:25:49.759 with unclear legal authority. That's going to cause a lot 324 00:25:49.759 --> 00:25:53.359 of problems where I think there's this attitude on the 325 00:25:53.400 --> 00:25:58.039 left of like any hesitation about any levels of immigration 326 00:25:58.440 --> 00:26:07.960 whatsoever is unpatriotic foolishness, when throughout American history there have 327 00:26:08.039 --> 00:26:18.160 been times of greater and then lesser immigration fluctuation, and 328 00:26:18.400 --> 00:26:21.400 liberals will point to the past, America's past history of 329 00:26:21.519 --> 00:26:25.960 welcoming immigrants and said, oh, you object to that, Well, 330 00:26:26.279 --> 00:26:29.119 if you would object to that, your great grandfather would 331 00:26:29.119 --> 00:26:31.480 have never come to America. It's unpatriotic of you to 332 00:26:31.640 --> 00:26:35.200 object to President Biden's letting in all these immigrants. They 333 00:26:35.279 --> 00:26:37.759 came here illegally some Okay, Well, first of all, the 334 00:26:38.160 --> 00:26:41.799 new Biden will quote legal immigration processes you've done. He's 335 00:26:41.960 --> 00:26:47.240 put in place involves this very light vetting process, letting 336 00:26:47.319 --> 00:26:51.480 people in on probation when they claim asylum at an 337 00:26:51.519 --> 00:26:53.440 asylum point, and then we give them a court date 338 00:26:53.480 --> 00:26:55.720 for their asylum hearing that's years and years and years out, 339 00:26:55.720 --> 00:27:00.759 and then we let them loose into the country. The 340 00:27:00.880 --> 00:27:06.400 key problem is the extremely light vetting of millions and 341 00:27:06.440 --> 00:27:11.759 millions of people who are effectively cutting the line. Now 342 00:27:11.759 --> 00:27:14.279 the claim is made, well you object to that, Well, 343 00:27:14.319 --> 00:27:16.680 what about your great grandfather who came on a boat 344 00:27:16.880 --> 00:27:21.039 from you know, from Italy. Oh you object to that? Well, 345 00:27:21.119 --> 00:27:25.119 actually kinda. I mean, like, yes, I recognize my last 346 00:27:25.200 --> 00:27:28.799 name is Girardi. I recognize my great grandfather came to 347 00:27:28.839 --> 00:27:32.039 America when he was I think thirteen or fourteen years 348 00:27:32.039 --> 00:27:36.920 old on a boat from South Italy from Calabria with 349 00:27:37.079 --> 00:27:42.359 my great great grandfather. But let's not act like we 350 00:27:42.440 --> 00:27:49.640 didn't have a pretty serious problem with Italian immigrant organized crime. 351 00:27:50.359 --> 00:27:54.200 You may have heard something about it. It was this 352 00:27:54.319 --> 00:27:57.960 thing called the Mafia. They made a couple of famous 353 00:27:58.000 --> 00:28:05.039 movies about it. Like I guess I don't know that 354 00:28:05.119 --> 00:28:13.359 we can call America's Italian immigration policies of the eighteen 355 00:28:13.480 --> 00:28:16.599 hundreds into the early nineteen hundreds. I don't know that 356 00:28:16.640 --> 00:28:22.240 we can call that an unqualified success. There are some 357 00:28:22.400 --> 00:28:27.559 qualifications there. Now, my family was that's a pretty good success. 358 00:28:27.680 --> 00:28:30.440 My great grandfather came to America as a boy. He 359 00:28:30.519 --> 00:28:33.599 was a shoemaker and a grocer. His son went to NYU, 360 00:28:33.680 --> 00:28:38.200 became a CPA, his son became a doctor, and his 361 00:28:38.319 --> 00:28:41.079 son became a lawyer who yaps on the radio. So 362 00:28:41.200 --> 00:28:43.039 I mean for that family, it worked out. But again, 363 00:28:43.119 --> 00:28:47.720 let's not act like Italian immigration from eighteen hundreds and 364 00:28:47.799 --> 00:28:52.160 nineteen hundreds was all sunshine and rainbows. Like. There were 365 00:28:52.480 --> 00:28:58.039 pretty serious problems with it, and it's not crazy for 366 00:28:58.160 --> 00:29:04.400 America to take some stock of that. Now, the focus 367 00:29:04.440 --> 00:29:07.680 on Haitian immigrants eating cats and dogs, let's talk about that. 368 00:29:09.240 --> 00:29:11.519 Why was this brought up? Why did this become an issue? Well, 369 00:29:11.519 --> 00:29:13.599 it's because Trump talked about it during the debate, So 370 00:29:13.839 --> 00:29:16.680 it becomes an issue, and Trump talks about it because 371 00:29:16.680 --> 00:29:22.799 Americans are obsessed with pets. Americans are obsessed with dogs 372 00:29:22.799 --> 00:29:27.839 and cats. Frankly, I think more Americans get upset about 373 00:29:27.880 --> 00:29:31.240 puppy mills than they do about abortion clinics. It's kind 374 00:29:31.279 --> 00:29:37.799 of bizarre and astonishing, but there you have it, and 375 00:29:37.880 --> 00:29:42.359 I think Trump mention it to highlight how some of 376 00:29:42.440 --> 00:29:46.200 the again these adverse social conditions that can be caused 377 00:29:46.200 --> 00:29:54.640 by excessive influxes of immigrants. And I guess my thought is, like, okay, 378 00:29:55.119 --> 00:30:00.279 immigrants who have their home country standards of but to 379 00:30:00.400 --> 00:30:03.599 eat maladjusting to kind of how we do things in 380 00:30:03.680 --> 00:30:08.519 America to the extent of eating domesticated pets or geese 381 00:30:08.640 --> 00:30:15.279 from the pond. You know. I got to say, on 382 00:30:15.359 --> 00:30:23.680 the scale of problems with immigration, organized criminal drug trafficking 383 00:30:23.839 --> 00:30:27.160 and murder are sort of at the top of my list, 384 00:30:28.599 --> 00:30:32.279 eating cats and eating stray cats and dogs or a 385 00:30:32.319 --> 00:30:35.039 ghost from the local pond is like the four hundred 386 00:30:35.039 --> 00:30:38.119 and eightieth thing I'm concerned about with immigration, all right, 387 00:30:38.880 --> 00:30:41.359 And in between that you've got all the economic impacts 388 00:30:41.400 --> 00:30:43.920 of Okay, we're importing all these foreign workers, but meanwhile 389 00:30:43.920 --> 00:30:48.119 we've got Americans who are unemployed. I guess it just 390 00:30:48.240 --> 00:30:56.839 astonishes me Trump's ability to go off message like all 391 00:30:56.960 --> 00:31:01.759 he has to do, because the headlines of illegal aliens 392 00:31:02.000 --> 00:31:05.559 who have committed murders when they shouldn't have legally been 393 00:31:05.599 --> 00:31:10.680 in the country, or who have committed other crimes when 394 00:31:10.680 --> 00:31:12.759 they shouldn't have been in the country, or who were 395 00:31:12.759 --> 00:31:15.039 connected with drug cartels when they shouldn't have been in 396 00:31:15.039 --> 00:31:18.240 the country. He could if he wants a list of that, 397 00:31:18.720 --> 00:31:21.240 he could have a laundry list, and he could just 398 00:31:21.279 --> 00:31:24.759 go to the debate and say the Harris Biden immigration 399 00:31:24.880 --> 00:31:29.160 policies have resulted in the following murders. So and so 400 00:31:29.599 --> 00:31:34.279 killed by an illegal immigrant from the Dominican Republic who 401 00:31:34.319 --> 00:31:35.960