Speaker 1: Welcome back to a Numbers Game with Ryan Gerdoski. This
Speaker 1: is an emergency episode one that's audio only for those
Speaker 1: who usually watched me on the podcast on YouTube. A
Speaker 1: gunman broke out into the White House Correspondence Center. His
Speaker 1: name is being reported as Cole Tomas Allen. He is
Speaker 1: a thirty one year old teacher from California. Based on
Speaker 1: a quick search, he's a registered independent. He did donate
Speaker 1: twenty five dollars to Kamala Harris's campaign in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: I know that's not a lot of money. Given that
Speaker 1: he's a teacher, he probably doesn't make a lot of money,
Speaker 1: and you know, it's a very expensive state to live in. Also,
Speaker 1: in December of twenty twenty four, he was picked as
Speaker 1: the teacher of the Month in Los Angeles County. He
Speaker 1: got into the venue. It was the same venue, mind you,
Speaker 1: that the White House Correspondent Center was being held at.
Speaker 1: It was the same venue that the president where President
Speaker 1: Reagan was shot over forty years ago. Now there's going
Speaker 1: to be a lot of logistical questions. How did he
Speaker 1: get so close to the president. He was in the
Speaker 1: lobby of the hotel well at the time of the shooting.
Speaker 1: The president's official Twitter account shared a video where the
Speaker 1: shooter was basically able to rush past the guards and
Speaker 1: get as close as he did. I mean he wasn't
Speaker 1: he wasn't an eyesight of the president, but he was
Speaker 1: in the building with a weapon. Now, my friend Madison Campbell,
Speaker 1: who I just spoke to a few days ago, she
Speaker 1: asked me if I was going. I said no, and
Speaker 1: she said she was excited to go. She posted on
Speaker 1: Twitter that she left the event early because she said
Speaker 1: things felt off. She says that my best friend I
Speaker 1: went to the White House Correspondence dinner and ended up
Speaker 1: leaving early because something felt off. It sort of the
Speaker 1: second we got there. Every event we've ever been to,
Speaker 1: especially at this level, there are layers of security, bag checks,
Speaker 1: IDs checked, actual process. This time nothing. We were just
Speaker 1: asked if we had tickets and they said yes, and
Speaker 1: we got waved through. No bag check, no real screening,
Speaker 1: no line, just thousands of people packed together being pushed
Speaker 1: through the doors as fast as possible. It felt wrong immediately,
Speaker 1: like this really wrong. My best friend literally turned to
Speaker 1: me and said, I think something's going to happen. And
Speaker 1: then it did. And she goes on to say that
Speaker 1: it shouldn't happen again. Another person in attendance said they
Speaker 1: were shocked that the security allowed them to keep their vape.
Speaker 1: That's basically vapes or confiscated almost everywhere at this point,
Speaker 1: I am truly shocked if that was allowed to happen,
Speaker 1: that it was almost looser than what you can bring
Speaker 1: into an airport. It was just I mean, this is
Speaker 1: awful and a lot of bad things obviously could have
Speaker 1: happened that didn't happen. Secret Service swept in and cleared
Speaker 1: a number of people from the stage immediately, including the
Speaker 1: President and the Vice president heart Me Dylan, so she
Speaker 1: actually received a small injury while everything was being cleared.
Speaker 1: I have two very important hot takes. One, this is
Speaker 1: why the president needs to build a White House ballroom.
Speaker 1: This would have never happened if this was in the
Speaker 1: White House, legitimately impossible, never would have happened. All the
Speaker 1: left wing nonsense arguments that were always nonsense arguments about
Speaker 1: the ballroom, you know that it should be built, and
Speaker 1: where's all this money coming from? They're all stupid. No
Speaker 1: one cares about this. It's not about the legacy of
Speaker 1: the building, which has been changed. The number of times
Speaker 1: start history. It's not about anything. It's Trump arrangement syndrome.
Speaker 1: It's it's just Trump derangement syndrome. That's all the arguments
Speaker 1: against the ballroom are. At this point. They need to
Speaker 1: build a ballroom, and just these judges have to get
Speaker 1: through and let it go through and let the construction happen.
Speaker 1: For the future of every president, Democrat president, Republican president
Speaker 1: that build a ballroom. It's ridiculous that the White House
Speaker 1: doesn't actually even have a ballroom. It's a large piece
Speaker 1: of property. Secondly, there was an interesting post on Twitter
Speaker 1: just yesterday that I found fascinating. I actually responded to
Speaker 1: it. It was from this unhinged liberal like that, you know,
Speaker 1: the kind that probably believes that long COVID exists. He wrote,
Speaker 1: taking a break from the White House Correspondents Center tonight
Speaker 1: twas genuinely harrowing on the soul to watch DEMOLECTI. It's
Speaker 1: hobnob with Fox anchors and Trump toties, all smiling and
Speaker 1: laughing and drinking and drinking in drinking. It's not hard
Speaker 1: to grapple with the knowledge a few people believe in
Speaker 1: anything at all. That is only hard to grapple with
Speaker 1: if you have not believed that for the last decade,
Speaker 1: this has all been fake. Most of the criticism and
Speaker 1: the outrage and the screaming from elected Democrats has all
Speaker 1: been fake. Anyone with a level of discernment into how
Speaker 1: people react when they are truly facing a major threat
Speaker 1: shows you that. Remember when President Obama sat next to
Speaker 1: President Trump at President Carter's funeral, they were laughing, they
Speaker 1: were smiling. Or Joe Biden warmly greeting the president at
Speaker 1: the White House when he was sworn in. Or Hillary
Speaker 1: Clinton showing up at the twenty sixteen swearing in after
Speaker 1: she had just lost the presidential election. You don't do that.
Speaker 1: If you're actually believing that someone is a fascist and
Speaker 1: democracy is under threat, you don't believe it. They never
Speaker 1: believed it. No elected Democrat from Chuck Schumer to Nancy
Speaker 1: Pelosi ever truly believed the nonsense that they were saying. Now.
Speaker 1: They thought that Trump was dangerous to their neoliberal project,
Speaker 1: the Obama legacy, to some liberal policies. That's all true.
Speaker 1: They were very threatened by the policies, but they didn't
Speaker 1: actually believe the man was going to end democracy the
Speaker 1: way they said it. It is a monster that they
Speaker 1: helped create, that they fed, that they glamorized, that they
Speaker 1: marinated in, that the left marinated in. And the aftermath
Speaker 1: of a decade of screaming about fascism and the end
Speaker 1: of democracy and your rights being taken away, and those
Speaker 1: women with those dumb red hoods marching everywhere with a bonnets.
Speaker 1: The violence that has been sewed comes from that. It
Speaker 1: is an offspring from that, and that is what is
Speaker 1: responsible of the last decade. It's all just to win
Speaker 1: political power. None of it was real. It was None
Speaker 1: of it was ever real to the average elected Democrat,
Speaker 1: who could guarantee that they would get you wine moms
Speaker 1: nervous and excited to cash out their social Security check,
Speaker 1: to cash out their for a one K plan, or
Speaker 1: look for extra money in the bank account and give
Speaker 1: it to their democratic nominee, democratic kind of for president.
Speaker 1: There was always the while that was happening, there was
Speaker 1: always some unhinged lunatic leftists waiting to create violence from it,
Speaker 1: who believed it, who believed the nonsense that these people
Speaker 1: were spouting. And when you think about Luigi Mangioni, what
Speaker 1: he did, what the left did in reaction to the
Speaker 1: murder that he had in fact that he murdered somebody,
Speaker 1: and they clamorized it, They celebrated him, they said how
Speaker 1: handsome he was. They created the permission structure for violent
Speaker 1: street action. Think about the first attempt assassination at Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: when so many people were receiving thousands upon tens of
Speaker 1: thousands of retweet and attention and dopamine hits, when they
Speaker 1: were saying, you shouldn't have missed. It's it's sick, it's
Speaker 1: so so sick. And that's what's happened from the last
Speaker 1: decade of the Democrats feeding a beast they couldn't control,
Speaker 1: feeding a fire all for political power. They political power,
Speaker 1: by the way, for warning sense that they'd never believed in,
Speaker 1: for things they never truly believed in. And the thing is,
Speaker 1: there's no culpability, there's no come to Jesus moment, there's
Speaker 1: no we need to turn it down. They'll say that
Speaker 1: for like, you know, a second and a half, but
Speaker 1: that that will literally be a second and a half
Speaker 1: and they'll just go back to normal, because at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, all they care about is power.
Speaker 1: That's all it is. We live in a very nicheche moment.
Speaker 1: It's just power for the sake of power. They're not
Speaker 1: going to turn on the bigot. They can't. It's too high,
Speaker 1: it's too lucrative. The midterms are around the corner. They
Speaker 1: have to keep their base angry and mentally ill. They're
Speaker 1: just going to pretend like it never happened and continue
Speaker 1: to amp up everything and pretend like they are the
Speaker 1: moral crusaders, just trying to do the right thing to
Speaker 1: stop fascism. I am so thankful everyone is safe, especially
Speaker 1: Erica Kirk. I saw the video of her crying and leaving.
Speaker 1: I can't imagine when she's going through. I'm so glad
Speaker 1: everything happened and people were safe. At the end of
Speaker 1: the day, we are ironically at a very safe age
Speaker 1: when it comes to street violence. We're a very safe
Speaker 1: age when it comes to crime in the street. But
Speaker 1: we are an incredibly dangerous age when it comes to
Speaker 1: violence in our politics. And that is a dichonomy I
Speaker 1: think I should explore more. That's all for me. Be kind,
Speaker 1: be safe everyone. I will speak to you guys on Monday.