Trump Shot (E286)
It’s only July, and our already terrifying election season has somehow gotten far worse than even the QAA hosts could imagine. Join Jake, Travis, Liv, and Julian for an emergency recording following the attempted assassination of the former President and the murder of one of his supporters at a Trump rally in Butler, PA. Naturally, conspiracy theories are spreading like wildfires in the wake of such unsettling events, and the hosts must turn to their beloved Travis to separate reality from fiction.
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Editing by Corey Klotz. Theme by Nick Sena. Additional music by Pontus Berghe and Jake Rockatansky. Theme Vocals by THEY/LIVE (https://instagram.com/theyylivve / https://sptfy.com/QrDm). Cover Art by Pedro Correa: (https://pedrocorrea.com)
QAA was known as the QAnon Anonymous podcast.
SOURCES:
https://www.semafor.com/article/07/14/2024/top-democrat-pushed-reporters-to-consider-staged-shooting
Comments (130)
Oh what a missed opportunity...
lol, “the shooter had a ridge wallet and blue chew in his system” one of the original Cum Boys, his manifesto cntained one statement “I’m gay”.
Hey guys, I think you're going to have to make ANOTHER emergency episode. I can't stop picturing Jake staring at his desktop with the "Pilled Election Season" episode and just screaming in his head. Fml
Julian, what don't you like about Mueller She Wrote, although now the host has "Jack".
just burst into tears during the opening it's genuinely so fucking hard to stomach any of these stuff knowing what is happening in palestine everyday
I came for the Julian rants, and he did not disappoint.
Regarding around 34:50, Liv and I had a very similar experience. I was at a buddy's engagement party and happened to check the Lions Led by Donkeys discord to see that. I hate to say surreal, but surreal.
That ending!!! Jake's wellness influencer voice, the rising demonic tone, insanely funny- peak QAA.
This episode was cathartic. Counterintuitively, I feel more at peace with the crazy knowing I’m not alone in it. May the grass bless you and keep you.
I take it everyone’s seen that photo of MAGA cultists with bandages stuck over their right ears? Words fail me about this…
One important note about the conspiracy theories… it’s not just blueanon…. Its also MAGA.
Trump is a fucking Goa'uld.
This episode was hilarious. Good form.
the "very american way to get your ear pierced" into Jake's Trump Voice complaint about claire's subpar piercing services made me laugh at 2am. 10/10
This timeline just keeps getting stupider
Someone forgot to click at the save point.
Man great ep
Actually I listened to it and wrote a song, sorry to be a dork but wanna share with you guys https://www.instagram.com/p/C9kqOBRJEJT/
More fallout new Vegas ambient sounds plz
Oof, this was hard to listen to. Says a lot that the normally calm Liv sounded genuinely upset. I do have a confession that I briefly entertained the ‘false flag’ theory, but of course it’s pure nonsense. I suppose that this just proves that, after listening to hundreds of QAA episodes, my mind is pretty cooked now….
I pilled myself briefly too, but I didn't really lose sight of the realization that everyone goes insane for the first 24 hours after something like that. Someome brought up razor blading and Trump's history with WWE, and I still think between that and the sheer luck to get shot in the ear and not seriously injured, it's not a bad initial hypothesis. But then you bring in all the other facts and it just falls apart.
I gotta say I do find the thinking from terminally online leftists: “They say Trump’s a threat to democracy but Democrats aren’t praising the assassination attempt” pretty weird. Of course Biden and Dems aren’t going to endorse trying to murder Trump. How is this remotely surprising to anybody?
It's not. As despicable, deranged, and traitorous the Republicans/MAGA/racists are they at least have the courage of their convictions, and are willing to do anything to see their agenda carried out. On the other hand... The Democrats/leftists/progressives are, for the most part, two-faced, cowardly nihilistic jackasses who spout tons of lipwind about love of democracy, human rights, and equality while doing nothing to effectively ( emphasis on effectively) defending it.
Showed this episode to a friend of mine. She showed me her husband’s family group chat in Arkansas. I need one of you into this chat. We got one prophet, sexual assault, a limo or something, throwing the government over and amazing ways of spelling words.
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Well… first you have to pass muster. Do you have 5 bucks? 😉
Love witnessing the blue-anon conspiracies being birthed on tiktok. It only gets more melted from here folks
Dude straight up put, not only the Secret Service Agents doing their job in danger, but his own as well for a motherfucking photo op. Which is being used for campaigning but also for selling $15 sneakers for $299. JFC
No joke …. For all the people who claim the Secret Service agent was a deficient diversity hire because she’s a woman, I have one word... Uvalde.
FYi, as a Lib I’m here to say that no matter who believes Social Media is reality, most of us don’t consider the assassination attempt a fake. I am convinced, however, that Trump is the Anti-Christ. 😶 🤣 Why does everything seem to work in his favor?
Because Trump has no opposition. Not really.
Love that opening song. Thanks for the coverage and all the little things that make me keep coming back!
Y’all are so amazing and this is the best coverage of the assassination attempt yet. As always, keep up the good work.
Dude the standard lib line of it being faked was so true. My brother was watching the rally live and texted the family group chat about it. My mom was saying it was faked like 10 minutes after the shots were fired I was flabbergasted
Flabbergasted? Seriously? If no one was saying it was faked that would be flabbergasting. Have you not been paying attention for the last ten years? This is where we live now.
I understand that conspiracy theories catch on for any number of reasons, but it still blows my mind that anyone would find "someone eventually just decided to take a shot at one of the highest-profile and most-hated humans alive, I guess," in a country where people are shot at in public all the time, to be an unsatisfying explanation.
1/3 of presidents have been shot at or killed, too.
That intro hit me like a damn freight train.
obviously this is exactly like JKF where is ear just did that on its own
The vibes are in shambles
One of your very very best episodes! Thank you all
It's a sad and sorry state of the world when gossip, opinion, bias, and making fun of people makes money - especially on a show that supposedly was created to help people deal with the real challenges posed by the rise of QAnon. I'm glad you can oppose violence, but mockery is lesser form of violence and it's destroying our nation. Nonviolent movements were inspired by Gandhi, who taught Ahimsa - which is nonviolence not only in action, but also in speech and even in thought. I'm glad you are nonviolent in action, but your speech could use some work.
Mockery is not violence
Can we dispense with the poetry already? Does every event have to be a uniquely obscene, melted, horror, fucked hellscape blah blah blah? Good god, pull yourselves together.
Glad you did this episode. Agree that everyone has lost their damn minds.
Vaxxed?
I love the idea that the shooter was a "conservative " who was kicked out of his high school shooting club because he was a lousy shot and "dangerous on the range" (WTF), asks his boss for a day off to go to a MAGA rally, goes there then tries to shoot the Orange MAGA King, and misses, shoots the wrong guy, then gets shot in the face. Lol....only in f#%^^ America.
Even Canadians up here are losing their frigging minds and I am very sorry that we just copy what’s happening down south. Trying to explain this to my kid is…..gah, not fun.
A colleague of mine told me he thought it was staged because of the Black Rock connection. He’s a pretty brilliant guy, and it bummed me out that that’s all it took to convince him.
Might have been better to take some more time before recording this. I didn’t really need almost an hour of this level of hysterics about something that’s honestly happened a number of times before and almost all of them have similar conspiracy theories attached to them.
Which part of the episode do you think was hysterical?
Great episode as always! Thanks guys.
Thank you so much for this post. If I have to listen to my one friend tell me it was staged and how she's going to die on that hill any longer I'm going to lose my mind.
I just refuse to talk to anybody in my family about politics now. I don't even want to know what type of crazy shit they're looking at. 2020 was bad enough trying to talk them out of a new conspiracy every week. Not going through that again. They can go as batshit crazy as they want. Good luck with that. Just don't talk to me about it.
Luckily my family is generally sane but ditto about not talking about politics, even with those who are on the same page. It's exhausting. I'm going to go live in a pineapple under the sea and call it a day
Hold on! What's happening??! They made ANOTHER Da Vinci Code? Wtf, this is the worst timeline.
They made THREE
Julien's right, it's impossible to listen to what politicians are saying in 2024 and not be driven completely insane. Biden was the guy who implicitly promised he was going to calm everyone down and now we're treated to the weekly spectacle of him insisting he's fine and he's not ever going to stand down using sentences he can't complete. He says that there's no place for violence in American politics when we can clearly see every day that there is, it's something that it enthusiastically supports in fact. Try and ban TikTok all you like, we can still see the daily carnage, we can all clearly see that the guy telling us that actually it's justified has dementia. God only knows what was going through the head of that guy on the roof, but assuredly the nightmare blur of images and voices that is the news - not some grotty corner of the internet, but the actual news, created by the people in charge - played its part in putting him up there.
Cry laughing at 5 am at Jake’s dramatic reading of melania’s wild ass statement - Are we just all on the weirdest worst collective trip together? America whaaaaat is HAPPENING
Wow forgot to mention my favorite part which was the Melania poem. I was in tears
Great episode guys. As always. Really enjoyed the comment on people needing to expand their capacity for terror - the initial response (it was staged) absolutely demonstrates that. Collective dissociation and memefication as an emotional protective measure. Very apt! X
I desperately needed this episode because all of my lefty Aussie friends were baking this, saying thr secret service wantes Trump to get shot and/pr that it was staged. It took all of my patience neurons to not just scream...
It's over for me. Liv isn't dissociated and memeing on this news and I am, which is the most confronting evidence I have yet that I am melted and not long for this mortal world. May the deep dish have mercy on my soul...
You should do a whole ep on that Melania poem. Wild
The QAA hosts often use the rhetorical approach of going to extremely obvious bs theories offered by wackos online to explain a phenomenon as a way to marginalize other potentially reasonable explanations that may merit further consideration as facts become available. I do still admire QAA for treading on this ground where many others are reluctant to do so.
What other potentially reasonable explanations are being marginalized?
Meh America is so weird 35% plus of presidents have been shot at or killed.
I don’t know. QAA seems like it’s doing a bit more gatekeeping on how to assess an event than is healthy. Do we have ballistics info yet? Doesn’t the timing of the event just before the RNC make you wonder just a little? Shouldn’t we take time and explore evidence before foreclosing the possibility that this event was not exactly what it’s being presented as?
You’d have to scrap so much evidence for this take.
When I watched it my first thought totally was “it’s probably fake”. And you’re right. It’s literally because I did not understand how (1) this happened or (2) he lived. But I’m also glad he lived bc I don’t think I could have handled the fall out of him being dead. That would be like a completely living in the upside down moment.
Melania’s poem really turned my mood around. That is not dead which may eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die.
"trump shot" like jump shot 🏀 - very 2K jake coded title
This is the only thing. The only thing that made me feel better this week. Thank you guys for being there and doing what you do. It’s like a lifeline
Ahh, time to settle in for a perfectly normal episode that won't make me extremely anxious :)
So there isn't a number of grams of mushrooms that would destroy his Ego? Because I got nothing else.
If Joe Rogan is any indication, mushrooms alone won't fix him
'SAVE ME FROM BECOMING A CONSPIRACY THEORIST!' Was exactly what I thought when I saw this posted. I might need it as a tramp stamp in Black Metal Band Logo Font.
Ah disassociating, my old friend!
May the Deep Dish have mercy on us all
I feel like the only way to adjust ur brain to the current internet climate is to watch Tony Zaret videos religiously, when we are all broken then we will be whole : )
Holy shit i knew that was fusca
He did not gaf about the bullets in the air lmao
Of course it wasn’t staged. Everyone knows the shooter was sent from the future.
We’re absolutely cooked!!
D-I-S-S-O-C-I-A-T-E!! Not disassociate! AHHHHHHH!
In these tiring time Julian's manic laughter always lifts my spirits. lol
No.
liv agar
We are sooooo fucked.
It’s personally very fortunate for my mental health that this event, the JDVP announcement and even more History, has taken place while I’m on a twitter break. I recommend that for everyone feeling melted, even as I know our valiant Hosts probably cannot unplug fully
Honestly the shoe thing reminded me of my brother's accident a few years ago. He got hit on his motorbike and the whole time passers-by and EMS were trying to help him, he was just focused on his missing shoe. Including seeing it across the road and trying to go get it himself (pointing and exclaiming "my shoe!!") before the police promised to pick it up for him. Seeing that moment was probably the most empathy I've ever had or will ever have for the cretin.
Yeah, anyone saying that part was unrealistic has never lived through a traumatic event. Your brain goes to the strangest places.
Maybe the best intro I’ve heard on this pod
Finally, I want to say that I’ve put this out there and I don’t think it’s a bad idea. Biden calls for a joint press conference with Donald Trump. At the press conference, he says, to do the right thing, that to help tone down the political rhetoric in our country both he and Trump should step aside. Now, I know Trump won’t do it. But then Biden should. Let Harris run and name a good candidate to be her vice president. What the fuck else are we gonna do? It’s Hail Mary time folks
Unfortunately Trump is very much on top right now, so he would have absolutely nothing to gain by doing this favor for the Biden campaign. The only hail mary for Biden is dropping out.
Loved this, made me relax a bit more
How does commentary like this do anything to help people deal with the challenges of QAnon? It’s filled with opinion, bias and partisan politics. I thought your podcast was initially created to help others… this is not helpful.
lol You can't be serious. Obviously you haven't listened to the other 500+ eps, huh?
Thank you for holding my hand through this. So much more has happened since you recorded this and it just keeps getting worse... J.D.Vance as running mate? Elon Musk donating however many millions to the Republicans, the court throwing out Trump's classified documents case...
Travis is 100% right. We’ve all got to update our graphics and our capacity to understand what’s going on in the world. Everybody.
The first fucking thing I saw was Vincent fusca the first time I saw the video.
The shooters for hire should be found at Cabelas not Home Depot lol.
I told my wife hey it’s JFK Junior behind Trump at the rally in the video and she looked at me funny but I knew she wasn’t in on the joke
Just want to say I really love the new theme song. Great choice.
For an episode that was definitely put together really quickly, and seems to be less scripted than usual, you guys did a great job of really covering all bases of the reactions to this.
Damn Julian - don’t know if you wrote that intro but it was excellent.
fuck you Travis if could afford a new GPU I would have bought one already
Travis: fyi, the Demolition tshirt guys, they're far from vanilla. Worth a look. There's images of them online lol-ing in German SS uniforms. Way, way too proud of the moment.
I had my 75 year old stepdad ask me if i thought it was staged. I told him it was unlikely
Are you willing to run down their theory here? Very interested, this conspiracy baking in real time almost.
Can confirm my own mom who is 70 and pretty non political thinks it was stagesb
If I may attempt to interpret potential thought processes of some leftists' fear response to this incident that unsettles you like that lady mentioning the bullet not being in her preferred position to hopefully provide a tad of comfort: it's less likely that they're bloodthirsty psychos and instead more processing fear of how much higher the odds of trump winning the election this perhaps may cause - if other past failed assassination attempts of candidates are anything to go by as they tend to win by landslides afterwards - Problem is peoples' psychology are oft very messy and I've know many many well meaning people who say all sorts of unsettling things when they're undergoing stressful periods in their lives. Most people don't react perfectly, and even when we speak the same language - even when we believe mostly the same political philosophies - our methods of communicating still regularly lead to unnecessary misunderstandings, conflicts and arguments. -------- Sorry for long non-paragraphed post, it's something I've slowly been observing is a much larger problem than first assumed for the unity we so desperately need to combat the growing threats of ruthless far right political parties around the world. I've also been actively working on my own failures from poor communication as well, coming from low income family and environment a lot of those I've grown up around and spend time with also usually talk in ways that would be interpreted way more unpleasant than they actually mean too. (****And that's not even going into the huge issues with online communication stripping tone and context extrapolating all this yet!****)
well said, def agree that the psych response to ever-weirdening the american experience is a big Vibe rn
Jake your wife was right: there's pics of the lifts firing out of his shoes as an SS guy kicks them off stage.
I now have something to go down the rabbit hole for, thank you.
Love the "emergency "podcast three days later.
QAA's Man of the Ear
Trump Shot? Finally a vaccine episode
"You're walking into a strangers home and wishing for death?" for a globally-loathed millionaire? fuck yeah
This was a Sweet Jake moment for me bc while admittedly not from total strangers, I heard a lot of that reaction
One person can make a difference. Gavrilo Princip made a difference. Thomas Crooks sure looks like he made a difference, but we shall see what consequences spring from his actions.
Trump was shot??
Yeah but just a little bit tho
Wow what a great opening that was heavy
Putting on my little baker outfit now
Boom headshot
When I say I was refreshing the app every day hoping for this episode lol
I was waiting for y’all to weigh in!
I have been waiting for this from y’all since I heard the news!
Can’t say I really want to be first on this one.