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Trump Assassination Attempt, Elon Musk, & Gender Roles in the Secret Service
Of all the things that became clear after the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, perhaps topping the list was the inadequacy of women serving in Secret Service roles especially when the bullets were flying. We talk about why only men should serve in such roles, and why the push to get women into law enforcement roles in America is a disaster.
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This episode of the Hardman Podcast is brought to you by Joe Garrity with Backwards Planning Financial, by Alpine Gold, max D Trailers, full Stadium Marketing and by Salt and Strings Butchery. Nature teaches this distinction and no science or philosophy is needed to acquaint oneself with this. Man and woman differ, or philosophy is needed to acquaint oneself with this. Man and woman differ in physical structure and physical strength, in psychological nature and psychological strength. Thereby they naturally enjoy different rights and are called to different duties. Herman Bovink in the Christian Family family. Well, welcome to this episode of the Hardman Podcast. I'm your host, eric Kahn. Appreciate everybody's patience Been a very busy month as we've been kind of doing the cleanup after the conference and just getting our house in order. We've had a ton of really good fruit with the church and people moving here, and so we've been doing loads and loads of new member meetings and this sort of thing, pastoring people. So I do appreciate your patience. It's also been an incredibly eventful week. Last Saturday, of course, many of you are going to be. You know you have to live under a rock if you don't know this, but former President Trump, the attempted assassination in Pennsylvania, just, of course, shocking news. I remember a buddy was sending me tweets about this and I just could not believe it. I'm watching a video of him getting shot in the ear as bullets are whizzing past his head getting shot in the ear as bullets are whizzing past his head almost, I mean just inches from probably just cataclysmic events in the united states if he gets shot in the head and killed. So just incredible, horrible. Uh, what's going on at this moment politically in our culture? Of course, very heated, 2024 election year. We've got you know this, just huge run-up right, you've had uh trump indicted. They've impeached him. Um, what was really crazy is you could listen to tucker carlson. Um, he had made this prediction. Alex jones had made this prediction that he said the deep state, they're going to try and kill trump and uh, so when this happened, I you know, I think, like many uh people, especially on the right, I was shocked, but not surprised. We had heard this time and again that this could happen, that the left and the regime, the deep state, whatever, that they were desperate. And we saw the debate right with Biden. He could barely form two sentences and it's getting ugly for the Democrats. And so what's going to happen? And those events culminated, at least to this point on July 13th, and it's been shocking.
Speaker 1:But one thing I do want to point to your attention this week we'll have an exclusive, a special on the King's Hall podcast. You're going to want to check that out. So yesterday I got to sit down with Jeremy Carl, of course. He wrote the new book, the Unprotected Class. It's all about anti-white racism and what the civil rights movement has done to our country and how it has fueled hate and this war against particularly white men administration and I think would probably likely be in the second one, if they're, god willing, is one and hopefully we get to that point. He is, you know, he knows he's talked to JD Vance and so just really interesting interview. That was, providentially, we just had that scheduled for this week and we were going to talk about the book. I think we'd scheduled it like a month and a half ago and the events this week have transpired. So we thought you know what we should talk to him about the assassination attempt, this political moment, of course, the RNC Republican National Convention going on this week in Milwaukee as well. So that was very, you know, a focal point for the media, and rightly so, and particularly for people on the right, like what is this moment, what's going on, and you're going to want to check that out. Anyway, that will drop Friday, july 19th Friday.
Speaker 1:That episode is going to drop on the King's Hall podcast. You're going to want to check that out. Really, really good conversation with Jeremy. He's he's very bullish on JD Vance thinks it could be really good for the country, kind of what he represents. For people who don't know, jd was the author of Hillbilly Elegy, so coming out of like white trash Appalachia culture and from Ohio, makes it into Congress and has has done some good things. I think there's. He was a never Trumper for a time and has done some good things. I think there's. He was a never-Trumper for a time. He's publicly said you know I was wrong, you know happy to be proven wrong and, of course, now a VP candidate for President Trump. So we'll see what plays out on that. Anyway, check out that episode on the King's Hall podcast with author Jeremy Carl.
Speaker 1:We'll be talking about the book the Unprotected Class, anti-white Racism and how it's Destroying America. Well, I want to jump into this episode. We're going to be talking about one of the main features, one of the really, really interesting things that happened. You're watching all this coverage. Of course, the mainstream media after the assassination attempt was just atrocious. You know. Trump falls at podium after loud popping. This is an assassination attempt. We now know more about this. There's probably multiple shooters. There's all this rat's nest trying to figure out what is going on. Is this a setup? What's happening? And it looks suspicious. It looks very, very suspicious.
Speaker 1:But one of the things that people were highlighting in the middle of all of this is something that we've pointed out for a long time and we've touched the third rail, we've grabbed hold of it and we've got electrocuted time and again over this issue of sex roles. And people say does it really matter, eric, if feminism wants to push women into all these civic roles and into being soldiers and police officers, why do you care so much about this? You're just this fringe crazy right-wing radical, uh, pastor, and and you're just worried about all the stupidest, dumbest, wrong issues. Well, I think this week, and particularly last saturday, we saw why it actually matters. Right, the nation was shocked wide awake on July 13th 2024. His shots rang out at this Trump rally in Pennsylvania. Well, former president Trump turned at just the last moment. You've probably seen on X. These people have like done like these 3d graphic reenactments with sound and everything, and they show how, at the last minute, he turns and instead of, you know, blowing his head off, basically it clips his ear.
Speaker 1:And a lot of people have said God moved the bullet. I think absolutely God was orchestrating these events and we thank God that President Trump is okay. We pray he would be okay leading up to the election. We pray that he would have strong, violent warriors around him to defend him and protect him. We need this sort of man around people to protect them. Scary how close we came to civil war, I don't know, in this country because of those events and a turn to the head. And then, of course, trump shows up, the rnc and you know what trump is. It looked like he was moved to tears and he shows up to this disaster of an rnc that clearly looked like it was orchestrated with the idea that he wasn't going to be there. We have like porn stars on stage. We have these orthodox jews rapping mean. It was crazy, it was insane. And yet we're in a different timeline because of the events and a near miss After the shooting.
Speaker 1:You watch the video his secret service detail jumps on him, they provide him what we call a meat shield. Right, this is what these guys' job is. These big, strong dudes with lots of muscle are to shield the president with their bodies. That's the gig, that's what it's for. This is what security details are for, and they're to protect him from further gunfire.
Speaker 1:Now there, there's much to say about this event, but and we'll dig into this but one of the things you saw, most prominent in all of it, were the Secret Service agents, who were females doing all the wrong things, kind of collapsing in the pressure, and there's talk that they weren't even. They were like temps, basically because the regular security detail was working seven days a week. They're tapped out whatever. There is a lot to say about the event and many questions that we should be asking. Why was the alleged shooter, thomas Matthew Crooks, age 20, allowed to walk around the event? He was found with a range finder at one of the security checkpoints. He's seen on people's cell phones just walking around the building. Then he's climbing on the roof. People are yelling. They're saying to the police hey, there's a guy up there, yeah, I think he's got a gun. He's got a gun right. They do nothing, the police force does nothing. As he climbs on the roof, gets a clear line of sight to the president, he climbs a ladder and eventually, uh, so reports are open fire. Right, he opens fire on the president. Right, you have this timestamp where bystanders for like 30 minutes are trying to warn police and nothing happens.
Speaker 1:And there's questions from this, naturally. Why was Trump repeatedly refused the adequate Secret Service protection he and his team requested? It's on record. Dan Bongino, secret service, said as much. I know he said from people on the ground, people still involved and connected that there had been many, many requests. By the way, we've got my orcas and you've got kim cheetle, who are in charge of both secret service and dhs, and they deny these requests. Wow, wow, that's odd. How could you have so many lapses of security occur all at the same time, and especially on the rooftop that provided the best place for a would-be sniper to set up? All the security experts that were interviewed said the same thing like this is 101, this isn't even hard. There's really one vantage point. There's two if you consider the water tower, but for all intents and purposes, number one to cover would be that building. So the question is is there more at play here than simple negligence.
Speaker 1:Well, representative Corey Mills of Florida you saw him probably if you're on Twitter. He was talking about this. He served in the military for years. He was a defense contractor sniper specializing in security details details. Well, he appeared on one of cnn's live broadcasts and he said there was so much incompetence involved in the security detail that to him it looked intentional, meaning this is a setup. Of course, the cnn lady host like lost her mind. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Aren't you? Aren't you advancing this nasty rhetoric, aren't you? You know, turning up the temperature on violent speech?
Speaker 1:Meanwhile, the legacy media you know they've been posting magazine covers with Trump's face, with a little short mustache, and they said like he's Hitler. They keep calling him Hitler. He's going to end democracy. Apparently, a few weeks ago, on a conference call or something to the effect, joe Biden said it's time that we put Trump in the bullseye Right. So who is fueling the rhetoric?
Speaker 1:Well, other security experts were saying much the same thing as Representative Mills and, again, all I can say in the midst of all of this is the way that God is working is just. I mean, it's astounding to me. First of all, thank God for Elon Musk and X, because I can tell you in 2020, this stuff was, I mean, I remember quoting the CDC website on X, just quoting their website and getting a three-day ban. You couldn't say anything. It was controlled by the left. It was a leftist institution. Elon Musk buys X, cleans house and now the information is a rolling on social media.
Speaker 1:Meanwhile, you can go over to Facebook, you can go to CNN, fox News and again, as I said, they're downplaying the events. The day of the assassination attempt, I saw almost nothing in my facebook feed, nothing. They were clearly weeding it out of the feed right and and the people who did cover it, of course, were downplaying the. The reason that we know anything about the real story and this is pivotal is really because of the people who were at the rally, who had cell phones and eyewitness accounts and Twitter. It really seems like the internet and cell phone footage are undefeated. I think this is a providential blessing and I think Elon Musk probably knew what he was doing. Of course, after the attempt, elon Musk pledges, I think, $45 million a month in support of Donald Trump. There's a new elite emerging, an intellectual, entrepreneurial elite that is emerging in support of Trump and, again, this is pivotal.
Speaker 1:If we were dependent on the mainstream media for our information in this case, I think we would know very little, we would be frustrated. And yet, thank God we have X and we have a different place to share ideas. I mean, you've got guys on Twitter who are running like audio ballistics, um to to pinpoint like how many shooters you know, even the speed of fire you know. Toward the end there's like a five shot burst or something like that. So this is like you wouldn't know any of that if it weren't for these quote unquote nerds on social media that are all acting as Elon Musk said. There's something like citizen journalists, right, this has been pivotal in the information that we're able to get. But I think this is interesting too.
Speaker 1:Beyond the political implications and fallout, again, one thing came to the fore in everyone's attention, particularly on the conservative right, and it was the utter inadequacy of the secret service women who had so wrongly been put in a position to protect one of the most I mean one of the most at-risk principles that's the person you're protecting. In the history of security details. It's hard to imagine, right, and this is part of the problem, right, they're like oh, we're going to give Trump the same security detail or similar to what a former president would have. And you're like, yeah, but it's Trump, right? You have video floating around of Chuck Schumer. I saw this today on Twitter. Alex Jones had actually posted a quick little compilation but Chuck Schumer's like on CNN saying, well, you know, if Trump messes around I think this is from 2022, but he's like, if Trump messes around, you know the CIA and the FBI like they're going to come after him, like even said something, like they're going to put a bullet in him. I was like, geez, I mean, that sounds like a threat. Who has the violent rhetoric going on right now?
Speaker 1:But we all saw this the utter inadequacy of the Secret Service women. We saw the inadequacy everywhere we looked. And even the conservative talking heads people who historically have not been willing to grab this third rail of female sex roles even they were quick to point out just how incompetent these women were on that fateful day. And it's not against women, it's about putting women in the wrong roles, not the Bee this is a website, not the Bee ran a photo that I think has been. It's become somewhat iconic and it's a photo of a female agent cowering by herself. Right, you have a group of men who jumped on Trump to shield him from bullets with their own bodies, and they're acting aggressively, like men act. And she's, like I don't know, three feet away, just hiding behind them, and I mean the photo highlighted. You know the problem here. They had arrows showing the gap between them and then a caption that read the wage gap.
Speaker 1:And after Trump was helped to his feet and rushed off the stage, which, by the way, took way too long John Lovell, by the way, warrior, poet, society, fantastic breakdown If you want to get a really good, you know, uh, I think he was special forces range or something like that, but somebody who knows what they're doing, talking about, you know, live video and all that talking about what's going wrong, like when they cover Trump, like John's watching the video and he's like get him out, get him out, get him out. What are they doing? Why is this taking so long? And then, of course, it's become iconic and courageous and it's valiant. You know, trump raises his fist in defiance, blood streaming down his ear, in his face, and he yells, yells into the microphone, fight, fight, fight. And then he leaves chanting USA and I mean talk about, I mean an absolute lion of a man you got to. You got to respect it. You don't love all his policies, but you got to respect the courage. And yet, for all that, what in the world are these Secret Service agents doing? I mean allowing him to repeatedly expose his head courage. And yet, for all that, what in the world are these secret service agents doing? I mean allowing him to repeatedly expose his head.
Speaker 1:And kind of at the center of it is the one secret service agent who is a woman and she keeps ducking down. She keeps like lowering her body when she ought to be raising her body to keep his head and chest covered and she doesn't do that. And you have to wonder why. Part of it is her stature. She's so short and so much smaller. Like Trump's a big guy, the other men there are big guys and she's not. And so she's literally threatening the life of the president by not being able to do her job simply because of her female stature and her female bearing. And again, what a contrast it was. You see the woman doing that, first cowering and then like hunching down, I guess getting low, like is she trying to get out? What is she doing? And then you've got Trump, who is just again an absolute courageous lion in that moment, again an absolute courageous lion in that moment.
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Speaker 1:We'll also include the link in the show notes, and later footage would also emerge of several fat female agents trying to help get Trump in a vehicle and the chaos in the moment, and these poor ladies, like the cameras are zoomed in on them. The one lady in the front look like I don't know Melissa McCarthy trying to play a cop in one of her really awful Hollywood movies. Right, we've all seen the movies where what was the one? It's like? Okay, they had, um, the movie with denzel, where he's like an assassin. So they're like we're gonna make a tv show, except in the tv show we're gonna cast queen latifah. It's like an overweight black lady is gonna supposedly be this, you know, mighty warrior. I mean, it's absolutely absurd. Now the, the film, it's the equalizer right Makes sense. Like Denzel, okay, man he's, he's kind of BA, I get it, but we've just been, I mean, bombarded with this. Like women can do everything. Women are just the, you know, strongest, most toughest warriors on the planet. No, they're not, and everybody saw it. So you got this agent at the car. They're trying to get Trump in.
Speaker 1:There's actually two agents, but one in the front and she's pretty plump, right, she doesn't even look like she's in shape. This is no GI Jane, right, just like. Like overweight. She struggles to get her firearm out of the holster. Looks like a glock 19. She struggles to get it out of the holster, she tries to re-holster, which she is not able to do. She can't get the job done. And there's this awkward moment where she's looking around like does anybody see this? I take that moment when you're like walking down the street and you don't see the mailbox and you walk straight into it and embarrassment. The first thing you do is look around like, did anybody watch that right? And so what is she doing? She can't get her holster back or handgun back in the holster, so she simply comes back to the low ready position and she's like flagging everybody in the crowd and I'm like, okay, tense situation, I get it, but you don't see any of the men None of them were doing that Like they seem to be executing their job pretty well. And then you've got these ladies who are fumbling and bumbling and looking like they should be at home nursing babies, because they should. This isn't their role.
Speaker 1:Here's what a lot of it comes back to too, and people were pointing out the absurdity of this and it's all the DEI hiring. I mean, if you want to get people killed, just do DEI hiring. This is actually something Jeremy Carl talks about, not about the female sex, although it is true for that as well. But when they're looking at medical schools and he'll talk about cases in which, because guys were, say, like black, they would get appointed, they're like, ok, you're going to get in, even though the white guy scored, you know, astronomically better on his testing than you did. You're going to get in based on your skin color, not your competence, your skin color. And so he tells the story of one doctor who's a plastic surgeon. Like people died under his knife. He eventually gets sued and removed. Like this costs people their life. Because we have to do diversity, equity and inclusion, we have to be woke. Instead of focusing on merit who's good at their job? Right? I don't want a DEI pilot, I don't want a DEI secret service agent. I want people who are good at their job and I want men.
Speaker 1:Well, not surprisingly, it turns out the head of the Secret Service, also a woman, kimberly Cheadle, and she's made the news quite a bit because it's been yet again cringe, horrible and awful. They're like asking her all these questions and she's just flubbing. All the questions. The statements they released don't make sense. And then you learn that before signing on as the director, she was, of course, brought on largely under the influence of Jill Biden. Jill really pushed, apparently, for her to be brought on under the Biden administration. Dei blah, blah, blah.
Speaker 1:Cheadle was serving previously at where was she? Where was she? She was at PepsiCo, pepsi Products, chips, soda. That's right. She went from protecting a bag of chips to protecting a former president of the United States and doing an awful job at it. Now, to be fair, she did before that before being like security director of Pepsi Very high stakes job. Before that, she was at the Secret Service Also fail.
Speaker 1:How did she get rehired for this position? What is going on? By the way? This exactly the DEI stuff. This exactly what Matt Chandler. That's exactly what he was doing when he said I would rather have you know the black guy who rates lower than the white guy who rates higher, as one of our pastors and you talk to people on the ground. That's what they did. They hired a black guy who rated lower, didn't last very long, and it really made the church suffer. Right, we should be making choices based not on skin color, but on the basis of competence. This is what happens when you hire the DEI way. You get vast incompetence being rewarded and promoted and then people die. You know, president Trump didn't die, thank God, but a man in the stands did. Somebody died because of the lack of security measures taken. People's lives are at stake.
Speaker 1:When we say, well, women can do anything that men can do, that's simply not true, right? This lady, kim Cheadle, is in charge of the Secret Service and they're supposed to do their research and their homework. She said it was her decision not to go on the roof where the shooter was instead, but he apparently used the secret service ladder to get on the roof. They're inside and she said, well, the roof had too much slope in it, somebody could have got hurt. And Dan Bongino responded he Somebody could have got hurt. And Dan Bongino responded he said somebody could have got hurt. You mean like the president could have got his head blown off? This is what diversity hire is all about.
Speaker 1:Now the New York Times was quick to castigate those on the right who opposed diversity hires, and this is what the headline and subtitle said After Trump assassination attempt, right points finger at female agents. The rush by conservatives to pin blame for the shooting on women in the protective detail reflects a broader opposition among Republicans to diversity efforts in hiring. Like the president almost gets assassinated, the female incompetence is literally everywhere. Everybody's watching this Like you cannot deny what your eyes are seeing, and Katie Edmondson at the New York Times says this in her article. She says this is a sexist theory emerging from the right that it was quote the fault of incompetent women in Trump's security detail. Well, kim Cheadle, certainly incompetent and or malicious, you choose. And then we're watching these women flub it on the national scale like cannot think of higher stakes, and they are just absolutely doing a horrible job, right, the problem is we've had this agenda push. You know, you watch avengers, avengers and you're like, oh, lady marvel, she's the greatest of all. No, but this isn't how nature works. I mean, you can look at the physical strength, as we read the Bob Fink quote at the beginning, you can look at their stature, their psychology. Women are not made for this role.
Speaker 1:Now again, corey Mills this is our Florida representative pointed out just how many DEI hires had been made under Biden's watch at the Secret Service. This is well known. It was a point of emphasis and he said famously I love this quote. He said I can tell you, when you primarily go after DEI, you end up with DIE. People die, right. That is his point. Benny Johnson said on X this quote absolute humiliation for this gaggle of female Secret Service agents. Dei, secret Service, make presidents less safe.
Speaker 1:Now, everybody was denying this, on the left, you know, and there were New York Times, lots of people, especially in the media, politics, whatever. It's not the women's fault. It's not. It's not DEI didn't cause this. And then you know what was really interesting is then you go to the RNC and you watch Trump walk in almost in tears. You see him just so emotionally moved, and a lot of people noticed that he was surrounded by a lot of big, strong men Right, that's who should be surrounding and protecting the president. This is what men's bodies are made for. If you have to protect a principal like that, you want a dude who is 6'5 and built to intimidate. That's what you want. It's a deterrent. It's a deterrent. That's why you want big, strong men. Again, it's like we've been told to lie about what our eyes see and so we don't want to acknowledge this.
Speaker 1:Now, not to be outdone, our very own Brian Sauvé, the sweet psalmist of Ogden, chimed in with a similar assessment. By the way, brian's Twitter, if you're not following him, he has been on fire lately, but Brian said this. Of course, he gets the backlash of comments from the always angry cat ladies. This is what he said. I thought it was really good. He said women aren't made for war. They are made for all sorts of glorious things for nurturing, for helping, for glorifying, for adorning, for multiplying, for unifying, but not war. Women fight at the front lines in physical or political war and when they do, it only aids our enemies. They simply were not made for it. Well, amen to that, of course I agree with brian here.
Speaker 1:If you go back to the early pages of genesis, we see that adam in genesis 2, 15, was called to be a worker and a warrior, right to guard and to keep. He is to shed blood to protect the garden and to protect Eve. He is the one who is called to go out to war. It's why in Deuteronomy we have the prohibition of women putting on the garments of men, particularly of war, of going to war. And we're also told that Eve was a helpmate to the man and Adam named her. What Eve? Not Wonder Woman. He named her Eve because she was the mother of all living. The woman is to be a mother. She's to be a nurturer, a people maker, a glorifier. She is not made to go to war.
Speaker 1:Right as Aslan told the children in Narnia, battles are ugly when women fight. This is the reality. Dei is a disaster, feminism is a disaster. If you listen to the show you already know that. But this is just yet one more instance, where we need to say it out loud with a megaphone for the people in the back. We need to unashamedly say the things that are true. We know them from scripture. We also know them because we can look at nature and we see it. Anyone with eyes could see this on full display.
Speaker 1:Women simply are not made to bear the weight of roles as warriors and protectors. You saw the way they crumbled in those moments. You saw the way their physicality limited them. They are smaller. They are weaker. Physicality limited them. They are smaller, they are weaker. They are more prone to do what one agent did on stage, which is to cower in fear.
Speaker 1:One of the scenes I loved. I saw a photo of this. It was kind of to the side of the stage. There were two female journalists and one of Trump's media personnel was a man, a strapping good looking young man, and the photo is of this man. He had thrown both women to the ground when the shooting started and he was covering them with his body and he was looking up, alert, trying to figure out what was going on. He was using his body to shield those ladies and I was reading an article from the one female journalist and she said the same thing. I was so grateful that I was protected.
Speaker 1:Right, this is Leon Podol said this a man without scars is no man at all. Men are made to fight and shed blood. You see the reaction of Trump and you see the reaction of this young man on his media team. That's what men are supposed to be doing. So if you're a dad and you're a pastor, you're a mom and you're watching these events and your children are old enough where you can show them some of this, you show them the video of Trump and you say that's what men do in the face of evil and hatred. Did Donald Trump cower? Did he lay in fear? No, he stood up and he just this fight, call, fight, fight, fight. I mean, you saw the passion in his face.
Speaker 1:Even people who hated the man were like that's a man, that is a man. People who hated the man were like that's a man, that is a man. Right, you want to be that kind of man and you have to train for that and you have to continually do hard things and you have to have a life of continual sacrifice. But here's the other thing If you're going to be one of those men, you cannot be a fat, overweight blob. You cannot be the kind of man who, like, has a hard time getting off the couch. You cannot be an obese tub.
Speaker 1:I had an older friend tell me this. We were talking about Athens. We were talking about how, even in Athens, the older men, like until the age of 55 or something, young, old, even to old age. They were required because they were the defenders of the city. They were required to train in the gymnasium. You had to maintain a level of fitness.
Speaker 1:And an older guy was telling me about this. And then he said something really interesting. He said when I look and I see a fat pastor who is supposed to be leading man, I see a man who doesn't think a fight is coming. If you knew you had to go to war, would you be a fat tub? And the answer is no.
Speaker 1:And so I'm pleading with the men who listen to the show Be fit, be fit for your people, be fit to be a protector. It is absolutely not. So. You can just look in the mirror at your abs and go, wow, those are nice abs. I mean, that's nice. I don't even think that's not horrible. You can do that without being obsessively vain. You can also be vain doing it. So physiognomy is good, looking good is good, but I would also say this the primary reason that you should be fit is because you know that life is combat. Pastors, toby Sumter once said, are made to take punches, and that's why they must be men. So does your physical frame allow you to take a punch? That's something that you should assess and then call your young people, and especially our young men, to protect in this way.
Speaker 1:The other thing that we have to be on guard for is this steady diet. We've been force fed of female warrior types by the legacy media. Again, I will call this sort of the wonder woman motif. Right, we've been told that, oh, women. It's like the new series that I saw like half of one episode and then said I can't do this because, honestly, the content was vulgar. But Vikings like, the hero is this woman. And then last kingdom, same thing, the butchering of the story of King Alfred. But like who's the? You know the most BA person? There is a woman, it's always a woman. You think the Vikings were sending their women to fight? Absolutely not Right. But we have this constant bombardment that ladies can do everything. Gi Jane, gi Jane was a failure. Okay, the only way that they let women in the military is because they have to lower the standards drastically. This puts the men at risk. Everybody knows this. It's not even hard to argue, it's just. Feminist brain is a brain that's rotted Again. Deuteronomy condemning women from taking on the garb of soldiers. That's why God called man in Genesis 2 to this work and to being a warrior who can violently defend his people.
Speaker 1:This is one thing I will say in all of this. There's like you know you're on the precipice right. This is sort of one of those like Lord of the Rings moment, everything's. You know you're on the precipice right. This is sort of one of those like Lord of the Rings moment, everything's. You know the bombarding Gondor and Minas Tirith, and you're like it's all hanging in the balance. And I just want to be kind of like Gandalf in that moment, like hope, be a voice of light and reason.
Speaker 1:And one of the reasons that I'm bullish in this moment and one of the reasons that I'm bullish in this moment I have a pretty good outlook, I think is because, first of all, the DEI nonsense is being called out by people who would not have done it before. The tides are shifting, the window is opening and you're seeing people willing to have conversations that we were not allowed to have even a few years ago it used to be. If you talked about sex roles, working their way back into the mainstream would have seemed absurd. Like feminism was strong. People were being fired for saying the things that we say and people on social media just say regularly now. But now people seem to be grabbing the third rail of feminism and there's not as much current, and part of it is because people are brave and part of it is because people are simply sick and tired of it.
Speaker 1:How long do you have to deny what your eyes see? Men and women are different. They were not created for the same thing. I've been reminded of this recently. You want to send a woman away from the home and away from motherhood, and yet I've watched women after giving birth holding their little babies recently in the church and I say to myself I am blown away. You can make a person in your body. You can make people, like all the AI, advanced technology, weird transhumanist stuff that they try to do, cloning all of it and just a woman in her nature, effortlessly, most of the time can just make a baby. She can make a person and an eternal soul, and this blows my mind. So why would you want to take her away from that work? Well, back to Cheadle for a moment.
Speaker 1:Kim Cheadle, secret Service, after addressing the massive security failures at the Trump rally, she said, well, she would not be stepping down. She would not. How convenient. She also asserted that the building the shooter was on was not secured because the roof had quote too much slope in it. Hmm well, that's weird because we have other police snipers on roofs that are far more steep than that. You know, some really weird guy climbed on the building by himself and then later, after he was killed, we see other people on the roof and it looks pretty darn flat. But Kim said too dangerous, too dangerous to be on that roof. So the Secret Service team, she said, was reportedly in the building while the shooter's on the roof. And then they'll wonder the left will why? This fuels conspiracy theorists everywhere. They're in the building. They left their ladder up there. Nobody comes to check on this guy who is like everybody. All the Trump supporters are like what's going on? Man? There's a guy with a gun over there. What are you doing Right. It just does not add up.
Speaker 1:Again, conservative radio host Dan Bongino, who was a Secret Service agent himself for something like 12 years, he said he had talked to boots on the ground sources and they said there was supposed to be a team on that roof. That's what they were told. There was supposed to be a team. That could be one reason why I'm speculating, could be one reason why counter snipers waited to engage. They believed a sniper team was supposed to be on that roof. Why weren't they? We don't know. This is what Bongino went on to say. He says quote we're trained out to a thousand yards in the Secret Service with the counter sniper team. How did they miss someone at almost one fifth of that distance? It doesn't make any sense. Even worse, it's broad daylight on a white roof.
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Speaker 1:While the Secret Service has emphatically denied reports that Trump's security detail asked for and were denied, bongino says he can prove otherwise. I can tell you the actual quotes he said. Prove otherwise. I can tell you the actual quotes he said on Sunday. I can tell you and absolutely confirm from the horse's mouth, from multiple people. There have been repeated requests to increase the security footprint around not just the residences of Donald Trump but the body itself. The former Secret Service agent said. And he said I can tell you they have been rebuffed. Well, it's interesting. If you followed the the Trump trial, the trumped up charges for the Trump trial and everything else, one of the things they were trying to, you know they wanted to be able to say he's a, he's a felon, they're trying to put him in prison so he can't run all that. But what they were also trying to do, there were actually measures that were introduced to try to attempt to pull his secret service because he was a felon. You see how this works. Right, they were trying to get him convicted on trumped up charges so that then they could pull his security detail. Why would you want his security detail pulled? Because you don't want him alive is why you would do that.
Speaker 1:Meanwhile, clips of Cheadle surfaced on X in which she talked about her desire to see the Secret Service be comprised of 30% women by 2030. Now, this is not unique to Cheadle, by the way. I had someone send me a message to the same effect. He said this I've been a cop for over two decades. There's a disgusting initiative moving across the country called 30 by 30, in which law enforcement should be 30% women by 2030. He says my department has jumped on this bandwagon and it has been disastrous. I've never seen such low morale, gossip and workplace drama in my life. I don't even have the time to get into all the safety and tactical issues that have arisen because of poor female performance in the field, but everyone is put in jeopardy. Hmm, hmm, that's interesting.
Speaker 1:So I looked this up. I said well, is it really a nationwide initiative? Well, in fact there's a website and it's called 30by30initiativeorg. It says it exists to recruit women into policing. This is the main pull quote on the front of the website. It says this the underrepresentation of women in policing undermines public safety. I'm going to read that again the underrepresentation. Because we have so few women, police safety is worse. No, I'll keep reading. The underrepresentation of women in policing undermines public safety. Currently, women make up 12 percent of sworn officers and three percent of police leadership in the U? S and quotes that's 12 and 3% too much. They also cite, quote, unquote research. They didn't list any studies, but they just use the old.
Speaker 1:The experts say. They cite research which shows that women are less likely to use force, which I believe more compassionate and are perceived as non-threatening to the communities they serve. What a complete disaster. Of course, they're less likely to use force except when they pull their gun on traffic. So you've seen the videos pulling their guns on traffic stops and just like firing into vehicles. You can watch the body cam footage like they're trigger happy, right, this is not a role that they're made for. So, yeah, they're less likely to use force, to be aggressive. They're way too compassionate and they're perceived as non-threatening.
Speaker 1:Well, the whole point is police presence. The whole point is that you got to be a big, bad dude who criminals are scared of. What is a police force anymore? I mean, that's a whole nother issue. I have my issues with it, but the idea that women will be better suited because people perceive them as weak is, I mean, idiotic. What a disaster. The roof was too sloped. She said something dangerous could happen. Something dangerous did happen, kimberly. Here's the other thing. Why does this lady still have a job? Well, probably because DEI, probably because she's in on it. I don't know, but you see how people's lives are put at risk Again.
Speaker 1:I want to end with sort of like some hopeful here. Remember this the window is shifting, people have a harder time denying their eyesight and when, by the way, when you watch the RNC and you get depressed because they have, like, hindu prayers and all this crazy nonsense, there's like a porn star speaking. Just keep in mind that the RNC, that that convention was designed with the idea that Trump would not be alive. The people who are behind a lot of this stuff. I mean you could see the shock in people's face like he lived. That wasn't the plan, and so just remember it's like, uh, jd vance, you know, I've heard him say things like certain government agencies shouldn't exist. I'm like pretty favorable to that. Uh, yeah, I think there's, there's good things. Listen to to the interview with Jeremy Carl. Again, he's pretty hopeful about JD.
Speaker 1:No politician is perfect. No politician is going to hold every single belief. It would be required to be a member at your church or a pastor at your church. That's always the case. But I think there's reasons for optimism and I think, particularly on this gender issue, people are starting to notice nature always wins, and so I think that we can be somewhat hopeful. And the other thing I would say is just being resilient and being proactive in your communities. Develop relationships with your local politicians, with people on the ground, your local sheriff's deputies. Get to know these people. You may have more influence than you think that you do. You may have more influence than you think that you do. You may have more influence than you think that you would, and so it requires us to be proactive. Of course, the one thing that we always want to encourage people is this all starts in your home. Be a father who leads well, who loves his wife, who exercises righteous authority for his people.
Speaker 1:In the midst of all of this, be praying for the president, be praying for the safety of the nation, be praying that God would direct the course of events so that the wicked would be taken out of the land. I was thinking this week as I was reflecting on some of the scripture readings from the Old Testament, particularly the Psalms. It's interesting that the way God delivered his people in Egypt was by killing the firstborn son of Pharaoh. It's interesting Firstborn sons of the demonic elite, the regime, the people who are wicked, who love killing children. We should pray that they would be removed and we should pray that the righteous would inherit the land and we should go on being righteous Right. This is our task. What a moment to be alive, so I hope you are encouraged.
Speaker 1:I want to close this episode. I'm going to read this is from some guys we've had on the show. We've talked to great guys over American reformer. This is from July 15th, written by Josh Abatoy and Timon Klein. I want to leave you with this in sort of a Paul Harvey-like way. The title of the article over at American Reformer is called One Inch Away On the attempted assassination of Trump and our political moment. I want you to take these words in as we close.
Speaker 1:Americans should all pray prayers of gratitude today that God and his providence ordained that the bullet intended for Donald Trump's head missed. It missed its mark by an inch. Our nation was one inch away from cataclysm, but with one disaster averted. Now is no time for complacency or naive bromides. Our nation is a tinderbox. That it did not explode over the weekend is, in part, a testament to the right's reticence to engage in direct action and political violence. There will be no summer of fiery but mostly peaceful protests to eulogize the man, cory Compratore, who died in the way in which he lived by all accounts, a beloved patriot, husband, father, civil servant and Christian. That is because the American right does not intend to engage in escalating provocations like the left, which is not at all to say that the right is incapable of political violence. If the American right behaved like a mirror image of the American left rioting, looting, burning down cities at the slightest development we'd have had civil war decades ago.
Speaker 1:The repeated pattern over the 20th and 21st centuries demonstrates that the right tends to forbear in the face of leftist provocations until the things reach a breaking point upon which the right reacts with swift and brutal efficiency. There are deeply ingrained reasons for the right's forbearance. The right is generally composed of people who know how much they have to lose, who, being realists rather than utopians, are deeply grateful for whatever imperfect measure of justice and stability we are blessed to have in our days. Thus, while the left uses provocation, direct action and political violence as routine tools for rapid social change, supposedly to make our society more just, the right resorts to political violence only in very exceptional cases, when absolutely necessary, when a contest is deemed to be a matter of life and death. Cassandras, much like bear market speculators, are mocked and marginalized until one day, suddenly they aren't. Tucker Carlson and Charles Haywood are cranks. Until one day, suddenly they aren't. Tucker Carlson and Charles Haywood are cranks. Until one day, suddenly they aren't.
Speaker 1:Never mind that Thomas Matthew Crook's actions were imminently foreseeable. If you incessantly screech for 10 years straight that Trump is literally Hitler, it isn't all that surprising if one of the millions of psychologically disturbed youth of the nation imagines himself to be a new, thankfully much less competent Bonhoeffer. Rhetoric has consequences, as left-talking heads constantly remind us. To be sure, many unanswered questions remain. What precisely motivated Trump's would-be assassin? How was it possible for him to evade detection while climbing onto a nearby rooftop with a rifle? Why did the Secret Service take so long to respond, given reports that the crowd and a local law enforcement official spotted the shooter sometime before he fired? Why did the Biden regime fail to honor repeated requests over the last several months to give the Trump campaign better security resources?
Speaker 1:Yet enough is known to make some basic sense of our political moment. A successful assassination of Donald Trump, following the long years of CIA and FBI treachery, media lies, 2020 election manipulation and abusive prosecution, would have unleashed hell. It could have been the straw that broke the back of the right's long-standing forbearance, unleashing escalating forces far beyond anyone's ability to cabin or control. That's what makes this assassination attempt different from prior shootings. We're a different country. The right is incredibly moralized. A pro-Trump meme originated in 2016 that went to the effect of they aren't coming for me, they're coming for you, and I am just in. The way.
Speaker 1:That Trump is still standing and pumping his fist is a powerful psychological symbol, inspiring waves of new endorsements from the likes of Elon Musk and Bill Ackman, amidst other reports that even places like San Francisco were awash with MAGA hats following the unsuccessful shooting, courage truly is contagious. For all his foibles, trump's instinctive response to being shot instincts that are not at all coachable made explicit something that the right has seen in him at his best Trump is a great man. History has come roaring back. Holding off his security detail, pumping his fist and shouting to the crowd shows a spiritedness that we've not seen in the White House in a long time, shows a spiritedness that we've not seen in the White House in a long time.
Speaker 1:And in the aftermath of the shooting, when he could have theoretically sparked nationwide protests at the drop of his red MAGA hat, trump instead released conciliatory statements calling for unity and God's blessings on America. Reportedly, he has rewritten his speech slated for Thursday at the Republican National Convention. In an interview with the Washington Examiner, he again acknowledged that God alone had spared his life and he said that the experience on Saturday had led him to promote a message of national unity at the RNC rather than attack his opponent. It's a chance to bring the country together. I was given that chance.
Speaker 1:In this reaction, we see very clearly that Trump is far closer to the way of the American greats at Teddy Roosevelt or Ronald Reagan than he was to the shrieking leftist media or president who calls himself a return to normalcy. Here's what he said about the now deservedly iconic picture, the energy coming from the people there in that moment. They just stood there. It's hard to describe what it felt like, but I knew the world was looking. I knew that history would judge this and I knew I had to let them know. We are okay, love him or hate him.
Speaker 1:Any historically conscious observer must admit both the gravity of the moment and the uniqueness of the man in it. I said I've got to walk out. I've got to walk out. I do not want to be carried out. Trump, told the examiner, adding that he even wanted to keep speaking After last Saturday.
Speaker 1:No one can claim that Trump is in it just for himself. Men don't take bullets for their own vanity, but great men do for their country. While Trump is associated with the guilty of many personal vices, he now stands for many public virtues as well Resolve, patriotism and courage. Character does indeed count. Over the last 48 hours, trump has exhibited a remarkable sense of prudence. These are all the public virtues of a statesman. Whatever happens between now and November, nothing should diminish the moment when this became clear for the first time for many Americans.
Speaker 1:Reactions from the left are evidently contrastive here and instructive. For years they've laid claim to the moral high ground, but no more. When Ronald Reagan was nearly fatally wounded from an assassination attempt, the media itself became an engine of unity. It was a source of bipartisanship. That was then. This is now.
Speaker 1:At a concert Sunday evening, jack Black mockingly told the next assassin, whoever he might be, not to miss. David Frum took to the Atlantic to, in so many words, blame Trump for well everything, including his own would-be assassin. The talking heads at CNN could barely bring themselves to say the word assassination at all. The View blamed white supremacy for whatever Frum forgot to pile on Trump. Of course the left's media and entertainment has been like this since Trump descended the golden escalator. Remember when it was considered highbrow humor for Kathy Griffin to hold a bloody, severed head of Trump?
Speaker 1:But it is truly bizarre, and revealingly so, for the usual suspects to double down not two days after a former and likely future president came within an inch of his life and the country within an inch of serious upheaval. Their moralizing is irresponsible and selfish. It's apparently good enough for them to simply know who to blame according to their perverse worldview. For all their talk of democratic and constitutional norms, they exhibit a shocking disregard for common decency, not to mention patriotism. But again, hitler deserves no decency. Maybe we should be more worried about youngsters reading the Atlantic Expect the left to become only more desperate after this past weekend.
Speaker 1:Trump has been impeached, indicted and convicted to almost no effect, which is to say, with each vector of escalation applied, his popularity has only increased. He has now survived an assassination attempt. He appears at this moment both literally and metaphorically, bulletproof. That is a scary thing to his most ardent opponents. So we should pray against escalation, political and otherwise. Trump himself is clearly calling for de-escalation, peace and unity, but be prepared for a volatile, and we pray, non, pray, nonviolent four months. On Saturday we were one inch away. Today we are one inch away. The best thing we can hope for is that the right wins this fall and has the political will to rule well and buy strength for the good of our nation and within the bounds of legality and justice. The bounds of legality and justice. Stay frosty, fight the good fight, act like men.