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Premium 314: Horseshoes and Handgrenades

Someone tried to shoot former president Donald J Trump

(and yes we've seen the news about JDVP)

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This episode aged like fucking milk lol

daysliketelevision

I’m here because then or recently he said he literally doesn’t know anything and Biden will drop out this week. I’m in the Tarence made this happen camp pretty firmly 🤣

Lena

Sorry . I'm not on X so have to say it here - I literally just heard Tarence say "Biden's not going to drop out" on Thursday's podcast.

Andrea Saidso

It’s crazy that Vance and pence are so close in sound and start with the letters V and P…supports the simulation theory

KMcLean

The stakes feel either insanely high or nonexistent. People keep pressing the idea that the economy is going well but I’m stressed that I’ll stop being able to feed my kids if emissions go the way they seem to be going. Who can stay sane in this uncertainty?

BookMisser

I feel like I’m reading he may drop out Sunday seconds before I read that he is resuming his campaign and is upset about being pushed out in 2016? I think guessing that Biden will not drop out is a good guess bc he has no shame, no interest in the the public will… but who knows? the people pressing him will claw like rats in a bucket of water to get their way. It’s easy to know what he will try to do. Hard to know how it shakes out.

BookMisser

Hopefully the FBI gets you for your Eric cartman impression and nothing else

William

I think Biden can win if he gets hair plugs.

Luke S

That dumb piece of shit doesn’t even know it was Bush Jr

Ineloquent Reverie

I have been to Nepal and Cambodia one more time than you have. And on my last trip a monk told me: Bush Sr. killed Kennedy.

Luke S

I enjoyed this early Breakdown of the assassination attempt.

Warbs

I am not sure you guys know what reify means

Michael

wildly fast news cycle with Biden getting covid and him now being back in the will-he-won't-he drop out thing

James Craft

> let's talk about the facts 🤔 Boys, this is the place I come for facts. You are forever starting to talk about things which you haven't reviewed the most basic information I'll be back for the humor, not the facts

shrewdalma

I do know this stuff, asshole. I’ve been everywhere from Nepal to Cambodia, I guarantee you haven’t left the United States in your lifetime

Ineloquent Reverie

stick to something you know, like Beyblade.

pferrix

Favorite fantasy scenario lately: Joe wins the electoral college, loses the popular vote. And in retaliation MAGA Americans get the electoral college abolished by Constitutional Amendment by 2028

Zach H.

The Warren Commission was right, and I genuinely think that not believing in that and refusing to accept hanlon’s razor is what’s tripping you up here. It’s the same mindset of refusing to accept the random nature of the world we live in, and assuming the unconnected is connected because it has to be, right? Well, it’s not. Gavrilo Princip found Archduke Ferdinand on his lunch break, Lee Harvey Oswald was a prototype mass shooter who happened to have the president go by his workplace, and this guy was just another mass shooter who wanted to shoot someone- anyone.

Ineloquent Reverie

The day it happened I got as far as typing Rev before the complete recommend was Revelations 13:3

Zach H.

You don’t want WoMen to vote?? Jk lol, I know what you actually meant

William

love you guys

Chris Gabo

Yeah first thoughts can be enlightening. My first though was that Sotomayor had argued that a president could order the assassination of a rival and be immune.

BookMisser

Polite Society never seemed all that polite to me, but I guess that's always been the unfortunate joke.

Sean Dickey

Wow great name, btw

Deanna W.

It's a little jarring to see the photo of the shooter that the press writ large is using is what looks like a junior high photo of an adorable nerd/gay-boy. It makes it seem like Trump got got by a 14 year old with braces. This was also a lesson for me to not search for shit in the immediate aftermath, when uncensored images were out there, and very readily available. I can't say it was any close to being "traumatic", but I could do without seeing his dead face and then his presumably high school photo over, and over again. Cute kid; sorry he's dead.

Jesper Ohlsson

Perfect episode honestly it’s why I subscribe, fresh takes off the top of the head, being anxious enough to put a disclaimer at the end haha, like someone out here about to be like TRILLBILLIES MADE ME DO IT!! (Terence made me hard) Aaron was right about being overdue for a historic presidential shooting event, it’s like earthquakes or something history is erratic but rhymes and it makes perfect sense in this on going mental health crisis of a country Wild times where you don’t know if you’re being paranoid enough or not

Gul Dukat

what episode are yall referencin when yall talked to dmitri and jimmy?

hatsune kiku

I loved JD Vance in the Lawnmover Man.

Jesper Ohlsson

Almost all other discussion is superfluous once we accept this

Jessica N. Kumar

can we just not let WM run vote or shoot

Jessica N. Kumar

As a recovering evangelical, I appreciate that I wasn’t the only one who jumped right to the book of Revelation after the news this weekend. Haha

Josh Iddings

You’re missing the simple personal aspect with Bernie. Biden is the only entrenched Dem that didn’t treat Bernie like a piece of shit in the Senate.

David James

Your right actually, pedantic gun posting IS the one thing that could unite America in these trying times.

Grumpy Botany

“only the right wing knows about guns” is a great take.

dick titball

Tarence misgendering the 5.56 round and getting all the FBI agents to out themselves as they trip over their dicks to correct him is some serious 11D chess.

Grumpy Botany

It’s a magic trick

RandyDan The Candy King

I think it’s since been released that the donation was made by a different person who just had the same name

SF

I’m a big fan of your brother mike

William

Omg long legs reference in the first minute- get to the theatres folks!

Holly Helmuth-Malone

Tom has hit pretty close to something I've been wondering, will Trump do a Schwartzeneger?

Kevin Doyle

And this has the bonus of really rubbing Vance's nose in his previous anti-Trump shit.

Lucy McGillicuddy

I'm seeing the narrative coalescing around "this happened because of DEI" and "he was an incel who sent money to onlyfans girls" on Facebook. This will fit perfectly with J.D. Vance (R-Heritage Foundation) and Project 2025. The shooter even looks like the virgin and Trump looked like the Chad from the memes in that staged moment. Perfect timing for all of this at the same time as Vance's selection and the RNC where they will have a huge megaphone for a whole week. Along with that Heritage Foundation ghoul saying that this is a second American Revolution and "it will be bloodless as long as the left allows it" and them trying to pin this on the left, it's about to get very bad.

Lucy McGillicuddy

I have a bad feeling about it.

Richie A

The main head in the middle has four and the three on each side are unicorns.

Richie A

sometimes i can put on a Premium and kinda talk with my wife for a spell while y'all get yrselfs together and cohere into a convo, but this time i had to PAUSE and rewind as i heard Tom was reading scripture. i would listen to an audiobook of the King James in his voice.

Conicu Steele

on another note these boys need to get some merch out

Harrison Ditchfield

You’re a JAG? Like the -off kind or the military kind

William

you shut the FUCK UP about phantom of the opera, TOM! You’re right about cats tho. I ain’t about that furry shit

William

I saw that bullet blur photo in a CBS article. I think you’re right that it’s not real, but you can send it to your parents and say “CBS says this is real.”

dick titball

I’m the guy who only shoots at annual qual, Army rifle qual, and my first thought was, “well sometimes I miss those 150 and 250 targets. It happens” You *should* have a bullet grouping the size of a quarter at 150m, you’re right, but your average teenager is probably just going to hit a human size target at 150-250, not necessarily get the grouping. And if you don’t have the grouping you have a chance of missing. I mean, fuck, when I group and zero at 50m I still move a little bit. I just suck a little cus i’m JAG lel.

dick titball

To know how the Republicans would have reacted one only needs to look at how they reacted to the attack on Paul Pelosi.

Lucy McGillicuddy

I think I saw somewhere (on twitter) that it was a dot or a 1x

Steven Pace

You’re telling me they got Shinzo with the damn Bluetooth gun and our boy can’t hit the don with an ar-15? Time to rethink some things boys…

Coltrane Huling

Probably one of the weirder things about the shooter is that despite no social media presence he was a subscriber of onlyfans and sent one girl at least $1500 during the course of the past 5 months 😭

Sarah Jane

Ep 1 is still solid gold. Every podcast in the biz should just post Trillbillies Ep 1 as their JDV episode.

Amy

RBG LEDs if they take this whole unity schtick seriously

Adam Holley

To the tune of 'Bye the Way' by the red hot chili peppers. Standing in line to suck Trump's dick Cause I'm a ho-mo JD Vance

Adam Murphy

This and Chapo

Jessica Rios

I needed this episode to drop like you would not believe

Sage

Trump picked JD just for the Trillbilly crew

Neil Y

My speculation on the inauguration day donation is he lost a bet that Biden wouldn't be sworn in.

Lucy McGillicuddy

My speculation is he lost a bet saying that Biden wouldn't be sworn in as president.

Lucy McGillicuddy

Ugh… I’ve been spiraling since Saturday, quietly struggling with everything I’ve been seeing, and… god, I am so grateful for you boys. Some of the jokes don’t land (the Cartman voice is still bad), but damn, it’s worth so much to hear somebody else say “can you believe those shit”, because I can’t and it’s worth it to hear somebody else say it. I hope you can keep doing this. But stay safe

Saoirse Russell

I’m seconding this prediction. We’re about to bear witness to the deformed child of neo-reaction and Christian nationalism

Kelley

Melania has been waiting for 19 years for this guy to die, and when the 43 year old break between US presidential assassination-attempts happen, he gets shot in the least consequential part of his body imaginable.

Jesper Ohlsson

I know you guys like to dismiss project 2025, but now that Vance is the VP pick, it’s more likely that they use project 2025 as their playbook. Vance is influenced by Curtis Yarvin, and his philosophy (as stupid as it is) is what is driving the desire to dismantle the administrative state. The problem with that is that they plan to build it back up with loyalists to the executive. I know none of us here love the admin state, but the neo-reactionary/conservative vision for it is going to be a fucking nightmare.

Kelley

it was a warning shot from Thiel because Trump was waffling on picking JD

Al Harris

Did you guys time the release of this one with the Vance announcement? Nice moves.

Joel Austin

I usually do music at the gym but this got me more pumped this week

perkisize

Okay, real talk 150m is NOT a difficult shot to make, especially with an AR-15 on a static target. That platform is accurate up to 500m, and by accurate I mean a competent marksman should be able to hit a quarter at 150m several times before missing. And yeah, I'm gonna do the "as a..." thing here because it's obviously necessary... I was on my unit's shooting team in last days as Marine and have coached dozens (if not hundreds) of shooters on many platforms. The assassin *absolutely* choked. He was probably scared shitless up there and couldn't get a level shot. At that distance, in the prone, his heartbeat and breathing probably knocked his aim off. That's why it's important to TRAIN so that you aren't shaking like a leaf when the time comes. These other "as a Marine" chodes usually don't know wtf they're talking about. Most have them have never fired a weapon outside their annual qualification (which they probably sucked ass at, trust me I was there).

D

Also Sturgill’s new album is so good

M

I coukd have sworn I read he had used one but now I can't find the article 😕 I could see someone seeing a 5.56 without a comparison and assuming it's big Put it next to a .700 nitro express with its 250 grains of ' bye bye. Motherfucker' and the 5.56 looks like a sewing needle.

Beatrice VonPage

Crazy that Trump got decleated at his own assassination

Dame

It was really hot in PA on that day. Both the cops and the shooter were on metal roofs. No one was getting paid enough to work on hot metal roofs. Personally I think the shooter is one of the lone wolf shooter types who was just looking to die, and had no real political motivations. And the donation the Act Blue Pact? Sounds like be lost a bet and had to pay up.

Hxp

Really think people overblown this to be a grand conspiracy… honestly I think an incompetent local police force and dumb luck tells the tale. Regardless, classic tardy boys shooting from the hip banger

Aubrey Jowers

Trump is a drag queen

M

I am shook that no one corrected Terance when he called 5.56 a “massive bullet.” Are you sure you guys are American??? Also though Bernie has been like this for decades, Micheal Parenti disowned him for a reason. “Moderate wing of Fascism” Social Democrat Bernie cannot possibly be any other way.

Matt Esparza

I’m not saying he missed because he used a glorified .22, I’m just pointing out that if you want to kill something that large, in a situation that you likely have one shot you use a larger caliber that will tear tissue and rupture organs and create that shock wave through the body. Ultimately the guy was not a good a shot and that was his main issue but he definitely had other things standing in the way of success.

Cory Waring

Best case scenario here, Trump bounces back sporting a Bajoran earring. ..or an Industrial bar piercing with programmable RGB LEDS.

Jesper Ohlsson

Trump is the end of democracy but if he was shot that would be bad

William

Regardless, a .223 one inch closer kills the president. You’re absolutely right that it wasn’t the tool for the job, but a good tradesman never blames his tools. The calibre of the rifle was not the saving grace.

Jack Hand

...if it was socially acceptable, Trump would have so many red-bottomed fuck-me-pumps in his closet (for non-sexual-gratification reasons).

Jesper Ohlsson

I've been on a few different corners of the internet over the past few days and haven't seen any theory from any political perspective that makes sense with the facts that we do know, which makes me want to believe that it really is just some kid hopped up on his own personal politics, but then that's why it's so weird that he has no identifiable politics beyond kids in his high school saying he was a conservative. I mean, across the country, how many 17 year old conservatives do you think made donations to progressive orgs on inauguration day? Doesn't really matter long term since he missed I guess, just one of those things that's always gonna be kind of interesting.

Some Guy

I've personally killed a deer at 200 yards with a 223 so even though a not massive size bullet, it would be enough. I think your pull + badly-sighted theory is the correct explanation

Jon Stark Olsen

Literally heard the same in my own head.

Emily Richardson

I was reading an article about the shooting, that went into great detail about how incredibly unlikely - even borderline impossible - it is that there's a photo of what looks like the bullet (dispersing air behind it), taken by someone who isn't using a camera specifically made for ultra-slow-mo photography. Granted, we live in an age where completely innocuous and dry reporting sets people off into conspiracy, but given that, my immediate thought was "..dude, stop hammering home how incredibly unlikely it is that this photograph you're showing people is actually depicting what it is depicting". Conspiracy-people will do what they want to do either way, so it doesn't really matter.

Jesper Ohlsson

My thoughts exactly.

Thomb Thumb

I read that the shooter didn't use an optic, so not a terrible shot using just irons. Somebody needs to show Terrance a 5.56 round though. It's not a large caliber at all.

Thomb Thumb

Saw that Big Donny T picked JD Vince as VP and I heard the voice of Tom, clear as a bell, saying “My God” and then the boys giggling. Can’t wait to see how this story develops.

Chapo has always branded nu metal as right wing

Kid makes sense to me as a guy who had been raised conservative and suddenly had a crisis of conscience the week trump was coming to his area, and he thought this was a message from god. I see an a to b to c

Yani x

Probably the age similarity and all of the weird signals coming off around it. That guy had a YT channel where he was basically like “it’s gonna happen here on this day, at this time, it’s gonna be lit.”

Jacob Anderson

Been a great year so far cant wait for the emergency pod for the Vance thing Replace Biden with Dolly and we will have the greatest summer of appalachian podcasting in human history

Jon Stark Olsen

🤔

Danzins

So is Trump going to go full Bulworth because of this? I don't think anyone had that on their bingo card.

Guy Incognito

Shooter definitely doesn’t seem like a gun guy, gun guys know the 5.56 NATO round wasn’t developed to kill. It was developed to wound so the soldier that carries the wounded man off the battlefield is also taken out of the fight. A gun guy would assume he had one shot so he’d use a scoped 30.06 or .308 or .338 Lapua. You’d pretty much just use your deer rifle. I’m sure this dork used the 30 round magazine which makes the AR very unwieldy in the prone position as well. I know all this adds up to nothing since any dumbass can grab a gun and start shooting but I am a firm believer in using the correct tool for a specific job. Lol

Cory Waring

I think the chart thing is trump turned his head to reference the chart, so the bullet hit his ear instead of his head

Chris Laser

We're one step closer to my prediction coming true that Hillbilly Elegy becomes the 21st century's Mein Kampf.

Guy Incognito

..I think we already got an example of a unity-speech from Trump: "I would like to wish everyone, including all haters and losers (of which, sadly, there are many) a truly happy and enjoyable Memorial Day!". That's as much magnanimity he's capable of.

Jesper Ohlsson

Ps 5.56 isn’t massive just moving really fast. It’s not much heavier than a 22 magnum projectile.

McMiller

JD Vance and his stolen hillbilly valor are barnstorming mass shootings in your area.

Jerimiah

I hate to be pedantic, but a 5.56 is approximately a .223 caliber which is just fractionally bigger than the .22 you use to pop squirrels, so it’s not a massive bullet. Most AR platforms are designed to be effective for up to around 3x the range that the shot was taken from and if the pictures are to be believed he had a magnifying optic on the rifle. Probably a trigger pull instead of a squeeze, aiming for the head instead of the chest, and a poorly zeroed rifle all account for the miss, as well as the reports that in general he was a terrible shot. That still doesn’t explain how he didn’t get smoked before pulling off about 8 rounds.

Zack Barker

Revelations is so odd in its insistence of naming odd-numbered features, like 7 heads with 10 horns in-between. It just makes you stop paying attention, and try to imagine how the horns are distributed. Are some heads mono-horned? Is one of them tripple-horned? I guess it makes sense if you contextualize it as someone tripping balls, and describing the waking-dream-like details of what's being seen.

Jesper Ohlsson

Ok the topic of the secret service doing counterfeit investigations, what's really crazy is that was their original purpose. Lincoln got the ball rolling ironically enough in creating them since counterfeiting was so bad at the time. It wasn't until McKinley got killed the government realized they should have a full time security org and for whatever bizarre reason selected the secret service to handle it.

Matthew Stoklosa

Must be nice to be making podcast money. These guys don't even need to worry about losing ORTHOPEDIC shoes. Just abandoning their expensive custom insoles every time someone tries to assassinate them. Must be nice...

Gorrozolla aka AntiLinguist

Probably, but my first thought when I heard it - and that he had survived - was "he's probably never felt so masculine in his life, and part of him is probably ecstatic about it (while also being very shook)".

Jesper Ohlsson

That was a goodun.

Tobias

Generalissimo Vance in 2038, calling it now

Internet Lefty

To me, this is so reminiscent of the highland park shooter from the 4th a couple years back. But I couldn’t pinpoint why

William

I am so out of the regular news stream I did t even know where to go to get info when I heard Trump was shot

William

Meh...it wasn't a decent shot the distance wasnt that far that gun isnt great for distance but could have tripled it. A good shot would have went for the chest. After his first 2 didn't hit he just started popping off rounds until he was taken out. The amount of people that saw the dude is wild. And it was a trump rally, those fuckers had no "good guy"?

Beatrice VonPage

Aaron every week you sound more and more like a hot professor

Yani x

glad i resubbed to yall :) keep up the good work

Neil Marino

Trump has to have PTSD after this. He’s such a coward. And now he knows that the cops won’t save him from getting domed. Could have him pissing himself by shooting off fireworks near any of his rallies going forward.

Richard Cochnar

my dad always says close only counts in horseshoes, hand grenades, and nuclear warfare. lol also the verses in Revelation was one of the first things I thought of after the fact lol

Rae Rae

imo neoliberal austerity has induced a crisis of capitalist reproduction. the “end of history” and the deep penetration of the military & carceral state have convinced our political leaders that they no longer need to devote resources specifically to their own protection. because capitalists have such firm institutional domination, they have been primarily interested in competing with each other to reap value out of the state a la privatization, 3Ps, etc. but we could be reaching a tipping point where this parasitism is withering the state’s ability to protect itself and thereby wither its protection of capitalists as a class

synthia plat

If trump wasn't affiliated with such a fascist regime, he would be an absolute delight to laugh with and at.

Denny Kuespert

i like how the phrase “Who is like the beast?” is an inversion of the Hebrew name Michael “Who is like God?” not that this means anything i’m just wow literature

FamilyGorgeous

Marx wasn’t a prognosticator.. but the gang fucking is

McMiller

Need an Emergency Pod lmaoo

N

Cannot believe in 2017 I listened to the first episode titled JD Vance Is A Snitch and now we are here

Julia

america elegy?

Matt

Damn I hate JD Vance's fucking slimy ass

The True Horror

tom kicking us off with a reading from the book of revelation… mark of a banger episode

Kate Fryar

Trillbillies vindicated once again.

Ned Schafer

Was listening to the radio where they gave the rundown to normie people about who could possibly get the VP nomination, and the narrator gave an even-handed "well, it could be this guy, or this guy, or this guy" and I remember thinking that Trump would rather saw his own dick off than give Rubio literally anything. JD Vance makes sense. Vance can do the outreach to the yokels that Trump personally loathes, and Trump can focus whole-heartedly on celebrity gossip.

Jesper Ohlsson

Aaron Muslim arc inshallah

Emily Wooten

Seriously too weird. I immediately thought of TWP as soon as I heard.

Emily Epstein (unrelated to the bad guy)

Really really really hope Bob makes an appearance

Unknown User

OMG, JD Vance as VP?

Emily Epstein (unrelated to the bad guy)

Been dying for this all weekend

Jordan Hunnicutt

Things are just getting too coincidental

Some Guy

Someone had an oopsie at Claire's Boutique.

Jesper Ohlsson

Been waiting to hear what the guys have to say!

Emily Tuemler

seeing the jd news come across my screen at the same time as this patreon post….the times were in…

heather leanne

let’s go

andrew w.

So uh, how we feeling about Mr. Hillbilly being the VP candidate?

Sonicthunder35

There’s m’boys

Creeping Jeff

First!

Gorrozolla aka AntiLinguist


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