Let's go back to the last Trump assassination attempt, which was less than seventy fewer than seventy days ago, when we all kind of said, hey, maybe we as a country we need to kind of tone down, we need to tone down the political rhetoric. And you saw people on both sides of the osslay, oh, I got to tone down the political rhetoric, right, B B B. And then five minutes after that, everyone proceeded to act as
if the shooting in Pennsylvania didn't happen. And Kamala Harris goes on the debate and says that Donald Trump is the biggest threat to democracy, that January sixth was the worst attack on American democracy since Pearl Harbor, which is completely insane. That no, actually, sorry, excuse me, she said, Donald Trump left us the worst attack on our democracy
since the Civil War. Noel Barber nine to eleven. Those don't make the cut, Timothy McVeigh, You know, no, no, no January sixth, where the protesters did not kill a single person. Again, not saying January sixth with some wonderful, you know, flowering of democracy or anything. It was a dumb riot. But the the we we continue to ramp up the rhetoric to eleven that Donald Trump is this existential threat to American democracy, which he's simply is not.
And what do we get. We get another guy with a gun almost able to pull off a presidential assassination. So we we didn't really believe anything we were saying at the time about you know, anything we were saying at the time regarding toning down our rhetoric, you know, conforming our rhetoric to a more modest place. No, the only reason Democrats, I think, kind of shifted some of their language was because they realized calling Donald Trump and jd.
Vance weird was actually more politically effective for them than any of the January sixth stuff had ever been. Also, all the legal cases against Trump were kind of collapsing around them. I just want to really emphasize how dark this gets if Trump gets assassinated, and I one gets the sense from all of the kind of massive failures around the Pennsylvania shooting, some of which are so egregious that it makes you think they almost wanted him to
get assassinate, Like there's a there's a conspiracy theory. Believing little part of me that I want to do a segment like that on the show are occurring segment the forty nine percenter. It means something that I believe forty nine percent. So I can, you know, disclaim any you know, accountability for actually believing it because I only forty nine percent believe it, but I kind of sort of sort
of believe it. There's like a, you know, forty nine percent, maybe less than forty nine percent part of me that sort of could be convinced that the Secret Service let the guy shoot Donald Trump in Pennsylvania again. Don't actually believe it, but there's a part of me that could be convinced. I think maybe not forty nine percent, maybe smaller than that, but the fact that it's almost happened again,
it clearly indicates that it could happen. And you had actually over the weekend this shocking quote from of all people, Richard Blumenthal, the Democrat senator from Connecticut, who over the weekend said actually this is a quote from September twelfth, not over the week so a couple of days ago. He said, quote, the forthcoming report on the Trump assassination attempt.
Quote will absolutely shock the American people. I think the American people are going to be shocked, astonished, and appalled by what we will report to them about the failures by the Secret Service in this assassination attempt on the former president. I think they also ought to be appalled and astonished by the failure of the Department of Homeland Security. That's Richard Bloomenthal, a Democrat senator from Connecticut, reliable lefty,
you know, lefty, blowhard extraordinaire. And here he is saying, Oh my gosh, the Secret Service is so wildly inept that Americans are going to be completely appalled. So clearly this could happen, and I just wanna I just wanna lay out what happens, what happens if Donald Trump gets assassinated. If Donald Trump gets assassinated, I think you're going to see mainstreamed political violence on a kind of terrifying scale.
I really think you will. I think it will be extremely bad, and I don't think we're prepared for what government by mob is. Like. I don't want to talk about the Roman Empire only. I absolutely do want to talk about the Roman Empire, but that's kind of how the Roman Republic collapsed was you started to see violence and assassination and not assassination and necessarily directly coordinated from
the top or anything. I'm not saying Kamala Harris is like sending out goons to go take out Donald Trump or Barack Obama's or whoever pulls the puppet strings with the Democrats. These are clearly mentally unstable people who are doing this. The more we learn about the guy who this new assassin for President Trump, who was actually apparently able to be captured alive and is in custody, he's this weird like volunteered to go fight as a mercenary
in Ukraine kind of dude. He's seemed is left leaning from what I can tell, but seems pretty crazy. New York Times did a story about him in twenty twenty three about some of these kind of weirdos. Who are these weird people from all over the world signing up to fight in Ukraine, Which, of course, I think anyone who signs up to be a mercenary, a foreign military mercenary,
probably has at least a couple of screws loose. But the Roman Republic kind of once you cross the line of having having assassination attempts be something that's kind of part of politics. It doesn't go away. It kind of ramps up the stakes for your politics and it kind of stays at that level. That's what happened with the Roman Empire. The reason why it transitioned from a Roman republic to a Roman rule by one person, the imperial system, or the principle, whatever you want to call it, whatever
was that Augustus established. The reason it descended into that was because of violence, constant violence, and constant vying by extremely powerful Roman nobility, by which we mean Roman rich guys to want dominance within the state, power and money. And it started in kind of the late one hundred's BC. You are these two brothers, the Gracchi brothers, who were
proposing all these kind of land reform bills. There were a lot of problems that Italians, especially Italians living in the countryside, were facing, where you had the Roman nobility swallowing up more and more land, You had dispossessed Romans who were losing their farms. You had as a result throughout Italy lots of problems with brigands and thieves and stuff like that. A lot of sort of shifty guys
without much property and nothing to lose. And the Gracy brothers were these two brothers who in two succeeding decades introduced these different kind of land reform bills in ways that a lot of the more conservative elements within the
Senate didn't like. They tried to introduce this legislation through kind of a novel approach within the Roman constitutional system, and because their approach was so novel, the Senate was outraged, and this led to situations in which both of the Gracchy brothers got assassinated, and once they were assassinated, that
was it. Roman. The Roman Republic was on this death spiral where politics within the city was often governed by well, it was one hundred percent governed by bribery and by gangs of armed goons walking around the city, you know, competing gangs of goons walking around the city. By the time you get to the time of Julius Caesar, like Julius Caesar's got his guy who with his gang of goons, and some of his opponents have their gangs of goons, and that's how votes within the city are being conducted.
At one point, Julius Caesar's elected consul and his fellow consul was trying to oppose Caesar, and then Caesar got mad at him, the guy was almost killed, and the guy just sort of stayed in his house for the rest of the year of his co consulship Bibulous, And the joke was during that year, Now, if you just stayed in your house, you know, it's not like with Joe Biden, where Joe Biden can stay in his house or his beach house for some reason and continue to
be president. No, and in the Roman system, you have to actually show up to the forum, show up to gatherings of the Senate, to actually do your legal acts. You can't just sit in your house. You have to actually show up. So this guy, Bibulous would write these angry missives from his house decrying stuff that Julius Caesar
was doing, but it was completely ineffective. So people joked that that consulship was the consulship of instead of Bibulous and Julius Caesar, it was the consulship of Julius and Caesar. That was the joke. It was probably funnier in Latin anyway, But once you get violence introduced into the political system, it does not go away. And I feel as though Biden is like kind of taking this seriously, but not quite.
I guess I don't know what needs to happen for President Biden or anyone involved with this to say, look, we know the normal regulations are that presidents get this level of Secret Service detail and former presidents or people who are candidates for president get this lesser level of
security detail. Like that's the regulations, and that seems to be a fine set of regulations that the president gets a higher level of security detail than you know, a former president or someone who's one of the leading candidates for president. You need to throw that out because clearly there are people who want to kill Donald Trump. He's had two assassination attempts thwart. I wouldn't even say the first one was thwarted. The guy just missed. He got
a shot off that hit Trump in the ear. Clearly, if this isn't dealt with, Donald Trump's gonna be assassinated. So I would say President Biden, if he's conscious, needs
to just say, look, I don't care. I don't care what the regulations are for the Secret Service and how much Secret Service detail you give President Trump, the full shebang, the full complement of Secret Service protection, pulling submarines to help if you need or whoever it is, some black ops guys, whatever it is, you need, give Donald Trump the same level of protection that I have that Kamala
Harris has. I just think it's absurd because if if he gets assassinated, whatever was going on in the brains of the craziest guys on January sixth is gonna start going on in a lot more brains. Whatever was going on in the brains of the craziest people who are burning down buildings in Minneapolis and who were planning to start riots. If Joe Biden had lost the twenty twenty election, all those people, those people will all be ramped up. Also, we don't want to live in America where that happens.
It The stakes are I think much higher than we realize because Trump so narrowly escaped the first time. Like, I don't feel like people fully appreciate the insanity that will ensue. How this would absolutely trigger people, not to use this liberal buzzword, How it would absolutely trigger people in these horrible ways where it would normalize. I think it would normalize violence on the right. I think it would normalize and amplify and reward violence on the left.
It would make presidential assassination just a thing that is on the table, a thing that's on the table, something that, for crazies on either side, can appear to be doable. When we return all my forty nine percent theories. Next on the John Girardi Show, all right, I'm gonna do this segment in light of two assassination attempts on one presidential candidate in sixty days, sixty plus days, I'm gonna do a little segment. I like to call the forty
nine percenters. This is stuff. This is a segment that's gonna allow me to recklessly speculate without much, if any accountability, because I don't actually believe this stuff, but there's a tiny part of me that does, and it is not more than forty nine percent of me believes it. Okay, so I don't believe this stuff. Fifty one percent of me does not believe it. If asked, do you believe it or not? I will say no, I do not, but as much as forty nine percent of me kind
of maybe does. So here we go my first forty nine percenters conspiracy theory. And again I do not believe this, but it's not totally crazy. Both of the Trump assassinators were intelligence community plants. Here's the evidence. First shooter, OH, a twenty year old with no social media presence, who we have tracking that he visited some FBI office at some point before GPS tracking showing that he visited some
FBI office before the shooting. Hm hmm. The second shooter, OH, a guy who was profiled by a New York Times piece just last year and who was a mercenary fighting in Ukraine. Hmmmm, hm hmmm. Wild cartoony levels with the
first assassination. Cartoonish levels of letting a guy with a gun crawl on top of a roof with a very decent angle on the president, letting the President walk on stage when you knew the guy was there, having known of the guy for tens of minutes before Trump even walked onto the stage, hours having this guy being reported to the Secret Service, hours before everyone knew. I heard
about it, heard about it. No one took a shot at him, couldn't go on the roof because it was a slopey roof, and we let him take the shot first. We give this BS explanation of well, oh, we can't shoot unless we know he's got a gun. You see, he's got a gun, you gotta scope on him. You took him out within an instant of him shooting. Hmmm. Two assassination attempts on one guy within seventy days. Again, I'm not saying I believe any of this, and I
genuinely don't. I think this is probably just an exercise of dot connecting, and these are insane levels of incompetence on the part of the Secret Service. I mean, God knows, there have genuinely been a lot of stories over the last ten years about incompetence by the Secret Service, scandals within the Secret Service, the head of the Secret Service that President Biden appointed being so concerned with DEI stuff
within the Secret Service. But I'm just I guess my main position here is that if some conspiracy were revealed to have happened, I wouldn't be completely shocked. I wouldn't be just because the level of incompetence that the improbability of, especially with the first shooting, maybe less so with the second shooting, given that it seems like it was caught, snuffed out, the threat was neutralized before the guy ever
had in any opportunity to take a shot. I guess I mean that sort of makes me think maybe there isn't some inside job that the first one was so implausibly stupid the way the Secret Service was behaving as to make you think it just wouldn't shock you necessarily to learn that actually someone was in on it. So I don't believe it, but I'm saying if it were to be revealed, I wouldn't be shocked. And that's the beauty of the forty nine percenters segment is that I
can say things like that. When we return, I want to give a few more thoughts about this stupid ongoing Haitian immigrants thing and Republicans finding the worst possible messaging
for their positions. That's next John Girardi Show. All right, I want to talk about this Springfield Haitians thing, and I want to kind of run counter to everyone on talk radio, hopefully chart something of a novel idea with this topic, because it's not working for Republicans on the right, even just getting away from the central question of if is it true or not that Haitians were eating cats, which is this is what the media loves to do.
Take a story where you're trying to illustrate some bigger point with a detail and then make the story about whether or not the detail is true. The bigger story is large numbers of incredibly lightly regulated immigration are changing the characters of American cities in ways that are socially undesirable in various respects. Large unregulated numbers of immigrants coming to certain cities in Colorado has led to proliferation of
gang activity. And then the contention being made, which seems like was made without really one hundred percent rigorously fact checking it beforehand, going off of a couple of acclaimed reports by neighbors, gets put out by Trump during a debate and made sort of the centerpiece of you have these Haitian immigrants in Ohio who are eating cats and dogs. Now it seems like that wasn't really rigorously confirmed on the front end, and so now Republicans are rushing around
trying to get confirmation for it. You've got Chris Rufo on Twitter, who Chris Ruffo is an interesting guy and I like a lot of what he says. But after the debate he does a post saying I'll give a one thousand dollars bounty to anyone who can provide me with solid evidence of Haitians eating cats and dogs in Springfield, Ohio,
and he doesn't get it. He got some confirmation several years ago of some Haitians from some other town, possibly Barbie, And the fact that we're even discussing it just infuriates me because then it becomes a vendetta on Trump is stoking hate against Haitian immigrants. Trump is Trump is wildly accusing Haitian immigants of eating cats and dogs. There's no evidence they're reading cats and dogs, to which I want
to just yell at both sides. Introducing some poorly fact checked story about Haitian immigrants eating cats and dogs is the dumbest way of approaching the immigration problem possible, especially when so two weeks ago there was a story about an illegal alien from the Dominican Republic from the Dominican Republic got into New York illegally, he was wanted for murder in the dr gets into the United States and he murdered a family of four mom, dad, two kids
outside of Rochester, New York, murdered them. Was not in the country legally, was wanted for murder in his home country. Murders for people, and we're arguing about Haitian cats and dogs because it sounds shocking. For some reason, eating a category dog sounds more shocking to people than murders a
family of four. There are a lot of problems with the Biden administration's approach to immigration, which has resulted in an influx of I don't know that we actually know the number, but somewhere around north of twelve million people into the country, some of them flat out illegally, some of them through President Biden's newly created very light vetting legal processes that he sort of created via executive order
with unclear legal authority. That's going to cause a lot of problems where I think there's this attitude on the left of like any hesitation about any levels of immigration whatsoever is unpatriotic foolishness, when throughout American history there have been times of greater and then lesser immigration fluctuation, and liberals will point to the past, America's past history of welcoming immigrants and said, oh, you object to that, Well, if you would object to that, your great grandfather would
have never come to America. It's unpatriotic of you to object to President Biden's letting in all these immigrants. They came here illegally some Okay, Well, first of all, the new Biden will quote legal immigration processes you've done. He's put in place involves this very light vetting process, letting people in on probation when they claim asylum at an asylum point, and then we give them a court date for their asylum hearing that's years and years and years out,
and then we let them loose into the country. The key problem is the extremely light vetting of millions and millions of people who are effectively cutting the line. Now the claim is made, well you object to that, Well, what about your great grandfather who came on a boat from you know, from Italy. Oh you object to that? Well, actually kinda. I mean, like, yes, I recognize my last
name is Girardi. I recognize my great grandfather came to America when he was I think thirteen or fourteen years old on a boat from South Italy from Calabria with my great great grandfather. But let's not act like we didn't have a pretty serious problem with Italian immigrant organized crime. You may have heard something about it. It was this thing called the Mafia. They made a couple of famous
movies about it. Like I guess I don't know that we can call America's Italian immigration policies of the eighteen hundreds into the early nineteen hundreds. I don't know that we can call that an unqualified success. There are some qualifications there. Now, my family was that's a pretty good success. My great grandfather came to America as a boy. He was a shoemaker and a grocer. His son went to NYU, became a CPA, his son became a doctor, and his son became a lawyer who yaps on the radio. So
I mean for that family, it worked out. But again, let's not act like Italian immigration from eighteen hundreds and nineteen hundreds was all sunshine and rainbows. Like. There were pretty serious problems with it, and it's not crazy for America to take some stock of that. Now, the focus on Haitian immigrants eating cats and dogs, let's talk about that.
Why was this brought up? Why did this become an issue? Well, it's because Trump talked about it during the debate, So it becomes an issue, and Trump talks about it because Americans are obsessed with pets. Americans are obsessed with dogs and cats. Frankly, I think more Americans get upset about
puppy mills than they do about abortion clinics. It's kind of bizarre and astonishing, but there you have it, and I think Trump mention it to highlight how some of the again these adverse social conditions that can be caused by excessive influxes of immigrants. And I guess my thought is, like, okay, immigrants who have their home country standards of but to eat maladjusting to kind of how we do things in America to the extent of eating domesticated pets or geese
from the pond. You know. I got to say, on the scale of problems with immigration, organized criminal drug trafficking and murder are sort of at the top of my list, eating cats and eating stray cats and dogs or a ghost from the local pond is like the four hundred and eightieth thing I'm concerned about with immigration, all right, And in between that you've got all the economic impacts of Okay, we're importing all these foreign workers, but meanwhile
we've got Americans who are unemployed. I guess it just astonishes me Trump's ability to go off message like all he has to do, because the headlines of illegal aliens who have committed murders when they shouldn't have legally been in the country, or who have committed other crimes when they shouldn't have been in the country, or who were connected with drug cartels when they shouldn't have been in
the country. He could if he wants a list of that, he could have a laundry list, and he could just go to the debate and say the Harris Biden immigration policies have resulted in the following murders. So and so killed by an illegal immigrant from the Dominican Republic who was able to come here unvetted even though he was wanted for murder in his home country, murdered a family of four outside of Rochester, New York. So and so murdered Lake and right, so and so, so and so so.
He could just read a list when asked about it. And I guess that's what frustrates me is the lack of disciplined messaging from Trump where we were going off in Lalla Land and people, well, it's because the media is being unfair about it. You know the media is gonna be unfair. We all know the media is gonna be unfair about it. You need to deal with reality. As it is. Well, it was so unfair that ABC News was so such unfair moderators doing the debate, what
do you expect? ABC News hired George Stephanopolis, who was a Clinton political hack every much of a bit as much of a hack as James Carrville was working right alongside James Carville in Democrat political hackery. Hired him as a straight newsman. That's what ABC News is. You get what you deserve if you do a debate on ABC. You don't get to come after the fact and just complain about it. That is what it is. Conservatives just seem to love complaining about the state of affairs rather
than adjusting to it. So I guess my thought is, like, whatever this problem is with Haitian immigrant, a lleged set of problems are with Haitian immigration within certain towns in Ohio, Okay, you know, eating cats and dogs, seemingly maladjusting to American kind of standards of conduct and how we treat pets. All right, I guess it's not great. It's a little weird, but it's the kind of thing that other immigrant groups have adjusted to. I mean, I've heard I don't know
if they're true. I'm not claiming it's true. I've heard urban legends of that sort about about the Among people when they came to Fresno. I don't actually know if that's true or not. But you know, yes, I could understand someone coming newly to America having kind of a different set of expectations about you know, the propriety of eating geese and ducks in a pond. But that didn't that that didn't render the settlement of Mongs in the
San Joaquin Valley into something terrible. No, I think the story of the Mong people in San Juan Valley has been a relatively positive success story and something that enriches our community. Like it's that that's not that bad of a thing. Now, if there had been a decades long organized Mong crime ring, if they were recreating the mafia,
that would be more concerning to me. And that's I guess My frustration is that there are real serious problems with the Biden Harris approach to immigration, where we've gone far beyond whatever is the noblest example of American openness to immigrants. The Biden Harris administration went way beyond it in ways that are socially deleterious and for Trump to focus on what is again like, and for the whole media now to be focused on the question of whether
or not Haitians actually eight cats and dogs. It's got to this is such a minoring of the majors, and it makes the whole issue seem pointless, Like Harris has picked up points on this issue, seemingly because we've deviated from what's actually important, the economic repercussions of allowing this huge influx of immigrants, the criminal impact of allowing this huge influx of immigrants, the possibility of other people from China or from the Middle East, for or actors who
wish us harm being able to get in because of the lax vetting at the border, people realizing from all over the world that Mexico was a point of entry to get into the United States. Did we let in what like? We let in millions of people without a lot of vetting. Were any of them from al Qaeda? Were any of them from the Taliban? Were any of them Chinese communist operatives? We can't fully securely say that
we know that that didn't happen. That's the problem with immigration, not some chicken bleep argument about whether some Haitians in Ohio, ate a cat or a dog when we return. A brief synopsis of why the Fresno Bee has always been so silly? That is next on the Jean Gerardi Show. The Fresno Bee is more and more irrelevant. And I see today a little story in it that just reminds me why be only publishes now like a physical paper, a couple of days a week. And they gave their
oh who is the Fresno Bee editorial board? Whom are they going to endorse for the elections this time around? Rudy Sallas or David Valadeo. This is the same song and dance they did two years ago. By the way, the Fresno b is not going to endorse a Republican in a genuinely tightly contested race unless the Democrat he is running against is guilty of multiple felonies. This is why the Fresno b endorsed Valadeo when he ran against T. J. Cox.
But that was it the only second time. Once they realized Cox was incredibly up to no good, Valadeo voted to impeach Donald Trump, the president B should vote for, should endorse him every single time he runs. No, they're endorsing Rudy Salas. Why because they're just a left wing newspaper. That's all they are. That'll do it for John Gardy Show. See you next time on Power Talk.