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