QAA Podcast - A Time For Assassins and Pedophiles (E329)

Episode Date: June 21, 2025

A Mom’s For Liberty ‘Legislator of the Year” winner arrested for sexually abusing children and distributing CSAM. A horrifying politically motivated assassination. Julian dives into the disturbing details in charges filed against State Representative RJ May III and Travis debunks right wing claims that shooter Vance Luther Boelter is a Democrat. Subscribe for $5 a month to get all the premium episodes: https://patreon.com/qaa Editing by Corey Klotz. Theme by Nick Sena. Additional music by Pontus Berghe. Theme Vocals by THEY/LIVE (https://instagram.com/theyylivve / https://sptfy.com/QrDm). Cover Art by Pedro Correa: (https://pedrocorrea.com) https://qaapodcast.com QAA was known as the QAnon Anonymous podcast.

Thank you. If you're hearing this, well done. You found a way to connect to the Internet. Welcome to the QAA podcast, episode 329, a time for assassins and pedophiles. As always, we are your host, Jake Rakitansky, Julian Field, and Travis View. All right, boys, take your pick. Which one are you? Yeah, you know, we chose this title at the last second. I'm a little hesitant, I have to say.

I think it's perfect. I think we are just in a Cormac, McCarthy novel at this point. Most of our episodes should just be the description of like a red, blood-red sun and just kind of the endless dust and grim

plains of American existence. Well, I'm definitely an assassin. I took the creed. Wow. Amazing. Continuing my tradition of picking awful topics that bum me out, I've chosen to cover a story that starts with a little-known messaging app and ends with

the arrest of a state representative for distributing child sexual abuse material. Oh. After years spent warning voters about drag queens and trans kids. Hmm. Travis has chosen something just as depressing for his segment, the rights spitting of a Christian nationalist's politically motivated assassinations into some sort of Marxist plot, a pure inversion of reality.

What ties these two stories together? Nothing. There is no togetherness. We are giving up on all social bonds. Fuck it. Mm-hmm. and I've chosen nothing. Yeah.

I refuse to play. Right now, every time I look over at Jake, he's like blending into a small crowd. Like, he's just kind of disappearing into a group of like four or five people that are milling around. And so I can't even tell if he's there. But I can hear him. Yeah, just brushing like pieces of straw and a hay off my shoulders, off my cape, if you will. Yeah, you did.

You did do an amazing. The jump was beautiful. Thank you. And I'm just glad that there was. a kind of large wheelbarrow with a hay in it for you to not, you know, pass away. I've been doing this a long time, you know. Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely. Well, on that note, let's get started.

In late March of 2024, the messaging app Kikik flagged a user called Joe Biden 69. There are four ends. According to internal logs, the account shared more than 220 videos. over just five days. Most of the content involved minors, some toddlers, in sexually explicit acts. KIC reported the activity to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. That triggered a federal investigation. What started as an anonymous tip quickly became something much bigger.

Federal investigators traced the uploads to a home in Lexington County, South Carolina. That home belonged to state representative Robert John R.J. May the 3rd. So there is surprisingly little content, you know, involving RJ. There's an interview that's very boring where he just kind of rants about how, like, you know, the GOP or rhinos and his freedom caucus is the future of conservatism. But he does also appear on this, like, weird radio interview on this show they call Regular Joe. So I just want to kind of play Regular Joe for you. I'm just a regular Joe, not high alone, a regular Joe. A regular Joe.

And hello, Grand Strand. Welcome to another episode of the regular Joe show. I am Dominic Santoro, the average Joe, along with Brian Sweeney, the regular Joe? Hey, and it's Glend I, the above average Joe. And also, we have to add, we have somebody else behind the glass. We have Lewis, who's going to be the everyday Joe. Yeah, we just call them

Lou for now. We just call them Lou for now. Lou for now. Lou for now. Kind of reminds me of taking a bath when you said Lufa. Louf. Lou for now. Sort of shades of Yankee Stadium. Lou. So, today our guest is going to be RJ May, a Republican Party,

member of the South Carolina House of Representatives, representing District 88. Man, I wish we had this level of swag, dude. These dudes have it on lock. They're talking about Loufas. They're saying loo, and it's unclear what they're referencing. They are clearly... They're regular guys.

Yeah, they're guys. They're just dudes. Hey, look, I'm just a regular guy. Look, some of these guys, they want to be special. Some of these guys, they want to be not so special. Me, I'm right in the middle. Trust me, a regular guy, just like you. And this week on Regular Joe, our guest is,

is a notorious pedophile. Pedo, pedo, pedo, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Exactly. Awesome and so bad, and I hate even imitating their style. So just to get an idea of, like, the stuff that they bitch about

on this kind of show, I would like to play another clip. I see the light at the end of the tunnel, and it is a freight train doing 100 miles an hour. With a dumpster fire inside of it. Yes. You can't make this stuff up. No, you can't.

Washington Examiner, it's true. Don't you think, before we move on, don't you think that this is almost like a fad when we were growing up, that the woke agenda, the naming of different names and genders, and don't you think it is almost like, well, to my point, silly? You know, there was only two sexes. If you believe anything, Catholic, you know, Protestant, non-denominal like myself, it doesn't matter.

You know, we know that God made us, and he made man and woman. There was no anybody else. There was no Z. There was no there. Would you examine all of the belief systems, whether it be Catholic, Protestant, or non-denominational? They're all in agreement. You can't make this stuff up, folks. The Wokies, they're do, it's a fad.

You can't, it's a dumpster fire in a train going 100 miles per hour. Look, what's just a couple of regular. guys to believe a magical creature in the sky created man and woman simple as that couple of regular guys hey magic guy in the clouds he reaches down man woman penis vagina what's there to talk about Bing Bob Boat regular guys oh man I hate them so much and they're so boring me too but it's so funny that to me that somebody's like identity is couch around I hey hey hey what's all this non-regular stuff. Hey, hey, hey, hey.

Look, I'm just a guy who likes a bagel with butter on it, all right? Hold the cream cheese. I am unclear on what's happening, but we are now going to play the clip of when the pedophile state representative finally is introduced, and he is calling in to the regular show. Julian, correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't he, like, more than a pedophile because he's actually a criminal? Yeah, sure.

I mean, there's lots of words I could use, and we will be getting into exactly what he's done. I think pedophiles are nice short to the point. He's also, yeah, a child sex, like a content creator. Yeah, he's a rapist. He's a criminal. He's a child porn distributor. And here he is a regular Joe. Here he is.

Regular Joe. What are your say your top three priorities from our Freedom Caucus perspective? You just reform's at the top? Oh, yeah. Transparency and education, getting rid of critical race theory and diversity, equity, inclusion, the brainwashing and indoctrination of our children's at the top, and a parental bill of rights, I think, is at the top also. So this is his whole schick. He is beloved or was beloved by Mobs for Liberty. They actually named him, you know, politician of the year in 2023, made him a nice little plaque. If you scroll down, you can see this beautiful plaque very poorly printed, unfortunately. But yeah, Bob's for Liberty, South Carolina, legislator of the year, 2023, Representative R.J. May the 3rd, for defending

and creating legislation to protect parental rights in South Carolina. So he will protect you from, you know, the trans takeover of your child's mind and body. But he will also have sex with children, unfortunately, and collect content in which children are abused. So it's, you know, I mean, for me, that kind of like balances out, right? Yeah, yeah. They're a real neutral. We're good. We're good, right? Like, basically. I'm looking at the pictures of these regular show joe guys. Oh, yeah? Yeah, they look like they'd leave a shitty tip at like the golf club, like restaurant. You know what I mean? Oh, yeah. For sure, for sure. Being like a real

like far right politician has got to be so fucking easy. She got to show up and be like my number one agenda ending the woke gender moxism and then you get showered and like praise and attention and like awards and media appearances. Yeah they're like my number one policy

look I'm against the thing I'm doing in secret. Agents from Homeland Security Investigations working with the Department of Justice's child exploitation and obscenity section linked the uploads to May's personal cell phone and laptop. Forensic tools revealed 958 connections from May's home Wi-Fi to Kix servers.

Over 1,100 messages were exchanged during the window when the videos were sent. Investigators also discovered that May had multiple encrypted communication apps installed, Kik, Telegram, Mega, and Loki Messenger. He's such awful degenerate. He's like inventing the... Yeah, I'm pretty sure he made up a couple of these just to do more kind of files. made-up messengers. He had to, like, you know, concoct, imagine new

ways of communicating just to get through the prave content he likes. He had a flinger installed and porch. So fucking Graham, you kind of have to laugh. Well, you don't have to, but I feel like I'm reflexively kind of protecting

my brain and soul by laughing, almost like shielding myself from the awful reality that we are unearthing here. No, this is real awful, yeah. Thank you, Julian. One too many. I've taken one too many hits. My shields are down. Yeah. Don't complain about the content I bring you ever again. Just after kickflagged the account, all four apps were deleted within seconds of each other.

That kind of deletion investigators said wasn't casual. It suggested someone knew what was coming. And it didn't stop there. Agents found a second identity. May was allegedly using the alias Eric Rentling on a mega file sharing account. That profile linked to a Facebook account showing what appeared to be the back of May's head. So he stayed anonymous on this fake Facebook account by posting a picture of the back of his own head. Actually, it's real head is like, with a beautiful mind, you know, because I'm going to stay anonymous. I'm going to stay anonymous. I'm not going to get my face. They can't recognize me by my hair and ears.

Let's see the facial recognition, do some work on the back of my fucking skull. Doesn't he know that they can do that by now? They look at the back of your head. they know exactly what your face looks like. Messages written in Spanish arranged meetings in Colombia with underage girls. Un-fucking real. Some of the messages discussed payments. Videos recovered from May's laptop appeared to show him in a Colombian hotel room with three young women.

All three investigators say were teenagers who had been paid. The footage was timestamped. The audio was dubbed in English. The girls looked nervous. That material is now under review for possible human trafficking charges. Prosecutors noted that U.S. citizens who travel abroad for commercial sex with minors can be charged under the Protect Act. Investigators also say

may accessed online forums and private chat groups previously shut down for distributing child sex abuse material. Court filing suggests he had a long-standing interest in incest-related content. They say he was part of online communities

where that kind of material was traded. The DOJ hasn't named those platforms but said the pattern matches other international trafficking cases. Can't believe this guy flew under the radar of Tim Ballard. I mean, I'm sure. I was going to say, I'm like, Timmy.

Yeah. We need you, buddy. Yeah, this is a real textbook case for you. Yeah, you'd be celebrated, taking down the politician who's doing the exact kind of shit you claim that you're fighting against. Well, it turns out the Underground Railroad is to, you know, allow pedophiles to escape the law. It's a big underground system. There's no mole children. It's just a bunch of pedophiles like me.

It's just like Tim Ballard with like a headlamp on being like, quick this way. Come on, guys. You got your USB keys? Okay, let's go. He hands you like a helmet and a flashlight. Come on, fellas. In August 2024, federal agents raided May's home. They seized 32 digital devices, laptops, phones, hard drives, thumb drives, and even a desktop computer.

Some were password protected. Some needed to be forcibly unlocked. One laptop contained files matching those shared. by the Joe Biden 69 account, which there's such a fucking awful comedic twist to naming your pedophile account after the president that you hate, and then 69, and probably four ends because Joe Biden 69 was already taken. It's, I don't even know what to say about that. I don't know.

Maybe on like some subconscious level, he's like, oh, and it's like, oh, you know, fucking Joe Biden, he's a fucking pedophile. And then, like, in his perverted mind, he said, like, and for that. that. I admire him, so I'm going to make my account named after him. Yeah, I think I'm installing like every app on Earth, and I'm going Biden on this shit. I'm brandoning out here.

Yeah, he's like, Joe Biden 69. Some files were hidden behind misleading folder names. According to one agent's testimony, some of the victims appeared to be as young as three. What? No, he is truly, truly a sick fuck.

It's like, it's insane. This is so fucking shocking, honestly. And I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm covering this. I'm frozen. I'm frozen in my seat. In a federal detention memo, prosecutors wrote that May had accessed and shared material that involved, quote, sadistic and masochistic conduct. One video already existed in child protection databases. It involved a known two-year-old victim from an unrelated case overseas.

The DOJ confirmed it is working closely with Interpol and Colombian authorities to investigate whether the footage shot abroad constitutes evidence of trafficking. They noted that several chat messages were covered from May's account, referenced specific hotels and flights to Bogota and Medellin. So he was a pedophilic sex tourist and creator of child pornography and a collector and distributor. Really, really, really, uh, really, uh, really multidimensional. He wasn't, he wasn't just a passive consumer. He was a big part of the community. Yeah, yes.

He was a, he was a notorious and prolific pedophile. Court records also show May's use of encrypted stories. platforms, two of which were hosted on overseas servers. One megafolder continually 1,000 files organized by code words. Investigators said the labeling system mirrored those used by known CSAM rings. That's child sex abuse material, and that's how they reference it. CSAM. Until his arrest, May had no criminal record.

He was a sitting lawmaker, but on June 11, 2025, federal agents showed up at his house and took him into custody. The next day, a grand jury indicted him on 10 counts of distributing CSAM. Each count, 5 to 20 years. If convicted on all charges, May could be facing up to 200 years in prison. At his bond hearing, prosecutors didn't hold back. They pointed to May's international travel, his access to minors, including his own children, and his familiarity with encryption tools. Assistant U.S. attorney Emily Dull, which also seems made up, told the court that his political status didn't make him safer.

It made him more dangerous. The judge agreed there is no bond. May is considered a flight risk. May's attorney, Dane Phillips, argued that someone else could have used. use the Wi-Fi. He showed a family photo that included the password written on a whiteboard in the house. So his wife basically accidentally posted their Wi-Fi network password, I guess, at some point. And so now they're trying to argue that, like, maybe someone else was doing that. But there's so much evidence that doesn't involve the kind of Wi-Fi itself, that it's going to be

a tough one, I think, for them to argue. He's like, the Wi-Fi. He bought me the ticket. It got me to Medea, and the Wi-Fi did. It got me right off the blue. plane right into the hotel. Yeah, it's, it's amazing. It's like the idea would be that there's a pedophile hiding in the bushes outside his house logged on to his Wi-Fi, doing prolific pedophilia and like child porn stuff, but, but close enough to get the Wi-Fi. So that would mean a person who's really hanging around outside his house.

I really love that. Truly fucked. The attorney also argued that no CSAM was found on unlocked devices, but prosecutors fired back with IP logs, Mac address data, and file metadata. It all matched up with May's travel schedule. One filing linked the uploads directly to May's phone. So, boys, you ready to get political? At the time of his arrest, May was in his third term representing District 88.

He was vice chair of the South Carolina Freedom Caucus, a group he helped start. He'd be known for his hard-land stances on so-called family values, gaining national attention for opposing abortion and gender-affirming health care. He studied at the University of South Carolina, earned a master's degree from Tel Aviv University. Israel, pedophile heaven. In fact, if he manages to escape, he might be safe there. He wouldn't be the first American pedophile to just bail and go there.

Unfortunately, he's not Jewish, so that might get in the way. Before his election, he worked as a political consultant. He also authored editorials warning about radical gender ideology and government overreach. Yeah, he's like, the government needs to stop reaching into my phone. to find out, I am doing child porn stuff. Stop overreaching. In 2023, he co-sponsored a bill that banned gender-affirming care for minors. He gave speeches warning about indoctrination and grooming.

At a Moms for Liberty event that same year, May was introduced as a champion for families. That video is no longer on the internet. Moms for Liberty, you can't take it back. We have the plaque. You know, we got the documents. Man, my Alex Jones is worse than ever. We got the documents, folks. Yeah.

Moms for Liberty, they've always got the best picks. For the pleasure of you two and not the listener, I did post in the document, The Mons for Liberty invites you to our April meeting guest speakers, South Carolina Freedom Caucus, including Representative R.J. May from District 88, which the 88 is just like the cherry on the cake, like to somehow have it be the Hitler number as well. Obviously, there's no pattern there. Let's not, you know, do peridolia on this shit, but still, I don't know, grim and weird.

In January 2024, just months before his kick account was flagged, May stood on the House floor and said, quote, we as legislators have an obligation to ensure that our children have no harm done to them. Oh, my fucking God. He's awesome because he's almost doing the 14 words. That quote was widely shared by conservative outlets, and it has taken on a slightly different meaning at this point, I think. After the indictment, May was expelled from the Freedom Caucus. Chairman Jordan Pace said the allegations were, quote, deeply disturbing. Speaker Morel Smith suspended him without pay, and Representative Davy Hyatt filed a formal ethics

complaint. Seems a little limp. Some lawmakers said May had already been kind of isolating himself, because, you know, once they raided his house, he fucking knew. But he still had to show up, and he was sweating. And so he basically barely showed up. He only showed up for, like, votes that he had to show up to. He filed no legislation.

This was like a 10-month period, I think. He spoke once on the House, Florida, in the whole period. He basically was isolating himself, like, in the back and, like, an office. Just not doing any of it. Because he knew. He knew. He was fucking cooked. He's like the dad in White Lotus season three.

You know what I mean? I've not seen a single episode of White Lotus. Julian, have you seen season three? Of course I have. That's my, like, probably one of my favorite shows. I know you like that show. I know you like that show. You know, the father who's, like, trying to keep the vacation together.

Oh, yes. But he knows he's just like fucking cooked the entire time. I mean, I don't know. Yeah, maybe he was exanned out too. Maybe he got his wife's pills and was doing that in the back of the legislative. Yeah, maybe. God, that's got to be, oh, man. And you're going through your head of like all the times you appeared on like, I don't know, the regular Joe show being like, we got to kill all these pedophiles.

Or standing up in front of the... Hey, hey, hey, I can't be a pedophile. I'm just a regular Joe. Hey, hey, I'm just a regular guy. Hey, you're looking for pedophiles? Maybe check out that above average. Joe. I don't like the way he's looking him. I don't like the way he dresses

his hot dog. They call me regular Joe Biden 69. Joe Biden 69. Joe Biden, 69. Joe Biden, he eats kids. That's right. Meanwhile, I got all the folders in my computer labeled pizza hot dog, just like John Podesta. Jesus Christ.

Democratic Representative Spencer Wetmore. Another, these are made up. Spencer Wetmore summed it up bluntly. Quote, this is someone who stood on the floor of the house and pontificated about protecting children. These allegations go far beyond hypocrisy, they're criminal. So I think that's fair. Yeah.

Governor Henry McMaster hasn't made a direct statement, but his office said disciplinary action is up to the legislature. Meanwhile, May's office door has stayed shut since the day he was arrested. In the days that followed, things kept getting worse. Two new bills were filed. One would require criminal background checks for lawmakers. The other would give the House Ethics Committee more investigative power. Neither bill made it out of committee, but the message was clear.

Something had to appear. like it was changing. Oh, yeah, we're going to catch the next one, okay? Okay, yeah, we now have pedophile detectors. They are distributed to everybody. Yeah, I mean, it's like, we absolutely were not clued in to a guy that sounds like like the top 0.01% of child pornography consumers and distributors. But next time, the next time, we'll find them.

as of now may is still in custody his social media accounts are gone his website is down his house seat remains unfilled insiders say the speaker is waiting for a formal expulsion vote before calling a special election this case is one of the most serious federal prosecutions ever brought against a sitting south carolina lawmaker since the arrest more details have surfaced court documents say the feds are coordinating with two other field offices one lead is a potential encrypted server based in texas and it might have hosted some of the materials that May shared. Back in South Carolina, Lexington County law enforcement has opened its own review. They're looking into possible state charges like child endangerment and tampering with evidence. So far, no charges there, but the sheriff's office says it's an ongoing investigation.

So it's basically like everyone who could possibly bring charges seems to be trying to bring charges to me, which makes sense. Makes sense. Like, you know, if you're a, if you're a prosecutor, you definitely want a piece of this asshole. Yeah, if for no bigger reason, then you've been like harboring a dangerous.

pedophile in your, you know, in your flock, he's gone undetected for this long and you've let him stand up and go on radio shows and say how much he's against this sort of thing. Bro, if this was a Democrat, it would be the news cycle for a month. Forget about it. We never hear the end of it. Yeah, but of course, like, that's not how this is going. I mean, you're right. It's like I have not heard about this in any of the kind of like the conspiracist QAnon social

media feeds. I follow, and it's odd because this is like the textbook thing that they're freaking out about, is that there are deeply depraved people who have high levels of power to the extent that they craft the laws that we are expected to live under. Yeah, they are paid by taxpayer money. Yes. And one of them was using that money to go rape children in Columbia. It is, it is like, yeah, it's like, Jesus, like, you know, you're right.

people in power are very sick fucks more frequently than I'm comfortable with. But in this instance, which again is just like one of those outrageous examples I've ever heard of of a lawmaker being involved with this, narrow you peep from the conspiracist, right? Well, I mean, they have to contend with the idea that like real pedophiles don't just like send emails with like seemingly kind of like vague code words or some sort of slang that you don't understand. They actually just, like, send videos of, like, C-scam and travel to places to rape children.

It's not the fun fantasy where you're like, I know they're a pedophile, but, like, I can't, I can't find the exact evidence. There's these code words. I know what they mean. There's nothing, like, satanic. There's no, like, spice to it. Yeah, yeah. It's so straightforward. Like, you can't do Socratic questions about this.

Like, this is just a statement. Yeah. Like, what the fuck would Q even post? A fucking link to an article? Yeah. Yeah, link to mainstream reporting about this and say the media isn't reporting on this. It also like tells them that like when people are doing this kind of shit, that the platforms that they're doing it on are like, well, flag, this is weird. Okay, this is, this is, you know, looks like a pattern of bad stuff that we've seen in a past.

Boom, right over to law enforcement. Yeah, that's the thing is like he wasn't found out through anything political. or like due to his visibility. It is literally just they do sweeps for fucking child pornography distributors, and they just, like, found this dude. Yeah, there's no baking. There was no baking that led to the arrest of this guy. It was literally just, he got flagged.

They looked at what he got flagged for real bad. Okay, let's get him. He deleted Blinkle. He deleted Romp. He deleted. He deleted splorch. He deleted all his apps. In response to the skiske,

the South Carolina House quietly changes tech policies. As of July 2025, all state issued laptops and phones will get biannual forensic audits. They're literally checking these people's computers for child porn. They're building it in. They're like, we've got to check your

computer. Let me tell you, if you've ever been in a workplace for long enough, you've known this story. Everything's going along fine. And then one employee you can't behave, ruins it for everyone. It creates a new policy that everyone has to abide by. Yeah. And lawmakers were advised via confidential memo to avoid encrypted messaging apps for government

business. So you can't do your legislating on kick. You can't do your legislating on any of the words we've already come up with. Even though fucking signal is being used by like Trump and his buddies and shit. So, ah man, it's, it's just a fucking mess. Some of May's former allies are doing cleanup. His name is being removed from the Freedom Caucus website. Archive newsletters have disappeared. Donors have reallocated money elsewhere. The House Judiciary Committee also opened an inquiry into what legislative staffers may have known about this. They're interviewing aides and IT personnel. So far, no official misconduct has been reported, but subpoenas remain on the table. May's voting record is under renewed scrutiny as well. He was a

consistent yes vote on surveillance and sentencing enhancements for sex crimes, many of which included mandatory minimums. His co-sponsors have begun distancing themselves from him with at least two lawmakers calling their prior work together, quote, deeply regrettable. Wow, so he voted, he voted on the reforms that are that are most likely going to keep him in jail longer? It's like, I'm hiding in plain sight. It must have been like, yeah, is total arrogance

like, well, I'm going to be, make this my main issue, be totally aggressive about it. Therefore, no one will suspect me. In addition, prosecutors disclosed that May had received at least five encrypted email forwards containing CSAM links between January and March 2024. They believe he

redistributed them via burner accounts. One address was registered to a fictitious law firm in Charlotte. The investigation is still active and I'm sure a lot more will be developing but I'm, you know, I think we I think we've seen enough. Yeah. This is like when you call

the election, you know, it's like, well exit polls are making it look like this guy is definitely in big, big trouble and having him in jail is probably making the world a slightly safer place. If this guy was

agreed by the way, if this guy was a Democrat they would be it would this would just be they would be like the first domino has fallen like they wouldn't even be happy that like a Democrat got you know charged with you know anything related to child sexual abuse anything like that but they would be like this is it he's going to rat he's going to flip and we're going to get everybody else it wouldn't be enough i mean i'm sure this man could turn in a lot of other people i just hope there's no mechanism by which he can reduce his sentence yeah or somehow like wriggle out of this. I rarely am for, you know, the prison system or cheerleading for that kind of stuff. But I think

this guy should be in jail for the rest of his life. Yeah, 200 years. Yeah, that sounds about right. I think 200 years about right. And this is against all my instincts. But yeah, this guy, jail, 200 years. Hopefully it's a bad jail that feels bad. Okay. We got to move on to your awesome segment about political violence. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, yeah, moving on for that, sort of little pallet cleanser. We're talking about sort of the symptoms of America's continued decay. No children were harmed in the making of this segment, unlike mine. I think, like, the political violence in this country is already generally baffling,

even when described accurately. Like, the motives of people who commit political violence is, like, just sometimes strange and incoherent, it's always fucking, like, lone wolves. People, this is part of the male loneliness epidemic. People don't conspire to commit political violence. anymore. But I think that the bullshit that people spread about the violence makes it kind of impossible to, like, discuss online at all, which I kind of suspect is part of the point. We see this in the discussion of the recent political assassination, allegedly committed by Vance Luther Bolter. Oh my God, it's a three fucking name assassin again. What are we doing? You know, it's the signature move. I'm fucking pilled. And unfortunately, there are three kind of cool names smashed together. Bad guy, but three cool names. Honestly, like, it's kind of as cool as your real name. Yeah.

Vance Luther Bolter and your real name would be like an amazing, like, I don't know, cop duo or, you know. Careful, you're going to utter the Manchurian phrase that activates Travis. I would love that. I can't wait to, like, remote control Travis and have him do political violence in service of my beliefs. Vans Luther Bolter is accused of posing as a police officer before fatally shooting Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, inside their suburban Minneapolis home. Just beforehand, the same assailant allegedly went to a nearby residence and wounded Democratic State Senator John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, both survived that shooting.

That's kind of confusing that you would move on to another shooting without, like, maybe he thought that they were dead? It doesn't seem like, despite the documentation they found with all the, like, the names and GPS addresses and stuff, that doesn't seem like very well-plicated. planned, actually. So, barely an hour after the first kind of news alerts, and before officials even named a suspect, right-wing commentators flooded social media with speculation about the shooter's identity and motives.

When Bolter's name finally surfaced, conspiracy entrepreneurs quickly claimed absurdly that he was a left-wing activist lashing out over health care access for undocumented immigrants. Yeah, everybody knows that Anton Chigur is a Democrat and a Marxist. Now, these rumors, they weren't just fringe. Elon Musk and two Republican U.S. senators and other high-profile figures amplified the unfounded narrative on Twitter. Now, let's start with just kind of what's known on the matter, according to reporting and court records.

So at approximately 2 a.m. on June 14th, Bolter wearing tactical gear and a flesh-colored mask knocked on Senator John Hoffman's door claiming to be police. Bro, it's like you wear the police outfit, but then you're wearing what looks like an insane, loose flesh mask. It makes like the killer and fucking Halloween look down to earth and normal. It looks to

me like the mask he wears at the end of drive. You know what I'm talking about Julian? I haven't seen drive in a while. I forgot he was wearing a mask. He's wearing like a really shitty oversized like rubber mask at the end when he goes to spoiler. It's crazy because in like these photos you can see the

kind of like wrinkles on the mask. So it's like clearly depicting an older man. The The mask is best described as if you were to, like, cover your, like, everything from the neck up with a layer of ball sack skin. Yeah. Encased in ball sack. According to court records, the shooter claimed to be responding to a report of a shooting at the home. Oh, hey, I'm coming because I'm responding to a shooting I'm about to do. But it became immediately obvious to Yvette that this man was wearing a rubber mask.

No shit. I think maybe Mission Impossible has sort of like, give. people a false idea of how convincing modern rubber commercially available rubber masks are when confronted he shot the couple their daughter called 911 god it's fucking awful yeah here's the uh yeah here's the man of the mask taken from a uh security camera goofy he looks like a character in one of jake's like early access games that like will never get finished yeah he looks like a really bad 3d model of like a cop yeah they haven't integrated the hair you know it's Her eyes.

It's been like eight years in development. So after this, the gunman continued his rampage at about 2.18 a.m., he rang the doorbell of another Democratic lawnmaker, representative Kristen Bonner, but her family was away and was not at home, so he left. Has a list of assassination targets didn't even check to see if they were home before traveling to their home to commit these assassinations. Not a thoughtful person, this guy. Yeah, he makes Luigi Mangione look really organized.

About 12 minutes after this, a police officer was dispatched to the home of a third lawmaker, Senator Anne Rest. The officer reports that they saw a bald man in a black SUV with police-style lights outside the home. The officer tried to speak to the man in the vehicle, but he didn't respond. The officer called for backup, but the man in the SUV drove away by the time the backup arrived. Well, great job, guys. And now we're after this at around 3.30 a.m., police conducting a welfare check at Speaker, Melissa Hortman's residence, found Bolter outside. At this, the fire to the doorway killed Mark Hortman, rushed inside the home, killed

Representative Hortman, shoots the family dog, Golden Retrievo, apparently, then exchanged fire with police, and then escaped out the back, abandoning the SUV. This fucking piece of shit. So he sees the police outside, and he's like, I got to run it and murder! Mm-hmm, yeah. And then get away, because the cops are awesome at their drop. Fucking, damn it. Two fucking innocent people and the dog, too.

Inside the SUV, police recovered five firearms, all legally purchased. There were also a body armor, blue and red dashlights, a fake police front plate, and a rubber mask. Oh, so he ditched the mask, or is another one? It sounds like he ditched the mask. Yeah, he felt like the mask wasn't working anymore, so he gave up on that. Either that or he had extras, you know? Yeah, I suppose that's possible, too. So additionally, I also found notebooks listing 45.

state and federal officials, all Democrats or abortion right supporters, and a GPS device that included the addresses of the lawmakers. They also curiously found flyers for the local anti-Trump No Kings rally. I mean, either they planted this or he was going to show up there and shoot people. Yeah, sounds like, I mean, it sounds to me like he was like, all right, I'm going to do a spree. I'm just going to fucking do it. I'm going to go to every single, you know, Democrats' house that I can find. I'm going to kill as many as I can.

Of course, they're using this flyers, like, an excuse to call him like an anti-Trump guy, even though all evidence points to the opposite. That would be like, well, he's clearly an appreciator of Democrats. He had all their addresses. Jesus Christ. No, he was going to show up and do fucking, you know, he was probably going to show up and do a mass shooting at the protests. Yep. It looks like it.

These events launched the largest manhunted Minnesota history involving over 400 officers from 17 agencies, drones, K-9 teams, and armored vehicles. During the Manhunt, Bolter allegedly sent a text message to his roommate David Carlson, which said this. I made some choices, and you guys don't know anything about this, but I'm going to be gone for a while, maybe dead shortly, so I just want to let you know. I love you guys both, and I wish it hadn't gone this way. Sorry, dudes, it can be a little late on rent this month.

I went on a merger rampage. I know we were all really looking forward to the latest destiny expansion, but I'm probably going to be dead or in jail. So, man, I hope you guys get that rare gear. Bro, apologies for finishing your Cheetos. I didn't mean to drink the milk that was in the fridge. Also, I'm going to kill and probably be killed. Court records also say that he sent a family member this text message.

Dad went to war last night. Who's dad? He's referring to himself. He wasn't specified who he sent this message to. Does he have children? Yes. Oh, my God. This is insane.

Horrifying. As officers from multiple law enforcement agencies fanned out across the state searching for Bolter, the suspect made a key mistake by going back to his farm in Green Isle, Minnesota. Bolter was spotted by a neighbor Sunday evening who flagged down law enforcement. Police swarmed the area and encouraged Bolter to surrender via a loudspeaker. They did a real, uh, we have you surrounded, we have a warrant, come out peacefully, and they worked. He finally surrendered after a 43-hour manhunt. Jesus.

Now, what was the motive for such a horrible, nightmarish crime? A big clue may lie in the fact that, by all appearances, Bolter is a Christian nationalist who voted for President Donald Trump and opposes abortion and gay and trans rights. So, Vance Luther Bolter lists himself on LinkedIn as the CEO of Red Lion Group, which is based in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He also worked with Minnesota Africans United, a statewide organization working with African-Rexamination,

working with African immigrants in the state. In one unearth sermon given in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2023, he condemns churches that are tolerant of abortion. Wait, so he's like a pastor? No, I mean, it sounds like he was part of this organization that does some proselytizing in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and so he did some preaching with help from a translator through that. It's cool, yeah.

It's like the episode is a lot of cool, like foreign stuff, you know, like Columbia and Congo. And the enemy, the devil, the devil, comes through. And he's been in and rips everything apart. And he has volleed, he has destroyed everything everything. The churches are so messed up. The churches are really a disaster. They don't know abortion is wrong, many churches.

Oh, my God, she's translating into French. Fucking hell. He seems like a real piece of shit. He is a real piece of shit. Bolter also has ties to the new. apostolic reformation. This is a Christian supremacist movement that seeks to bring about Christian dominion over all aspects of government and society. He attended the Christ for the Nations Institute, where prominent new apostolic reformation figure Dutch Sheets was the executive director.

Oh my God, that name rules. He also openly spoke of modern day apostles. When the body starts moving in the wrong direction, because when the core of Christ is in are in trying to go to a bad direction. When they're one, because they're in trying to go to a little direction and accepting the gifts. And when they accept

the don't that come God will raise an apostle or prophet, the seigneur will invite a prophet to correct their course. These guys are just violent psychopaths. Like how many times

are we gonna fucking find some guy on this show who did, you know, who did real world violence and then see him like, God, the apostles and abortion and all these guys are just lunatics. They're just lunatics that I think are capable of violence at any moment. And it's just, it's just, you know, we just have to wait and see which one snaps.

It's awesome sharing a country with these people. Well, and they think they're being like, uh, prosecuted that they're, you know, hey, we're just like peaceful, innocent, you know, and everybody, we're getting so much, uh, undeservant hate, you know, people, oh, they're, they're being. mean to me. They don't trust me. Yeah, Christians are under attack for sure. My ideology leads to violence. It's like, well, here, we've got two people. We got two fucking extreme right-wing guys who are out here fucking on stage is shouting about shit that they don't like. And both, both, violent psychopaths, both of them. Two for two. There's lots about

this story is strange, but the political leadings of Vance Bolter, I think is pretty clear. Like, if you had to like guess what like where he was on the political spectrum i don't think is very very ambiguous bro he thinks churches are too tolerant do people really believe i i didn't follow this story too closely i've tried to like i try to keep some amount of distance between the violence i read about in my phone and like you know my own sense of peace and like did people really look at this guy and they were like a marxist through and through no i these are their questions like how much of this shit when they say this, do they actually truly believe in their heart at hearts or how much of it is something that they say because it's politically expedient or they think it's going to be

beneficial to their agenda if other people believe in nothing. Yeah. Yeah. They believe in fucking nothing. These people are literally Cormac McCarthy characters. I actually, I think you're right, Jules. Like, I think that they look at this and they go, okay, well, like, time to turn on the machine and like they know that like that if they instantly just come out and try to blame one political side then the other side will go well no here's no he's actually belongs to you and then people are going no he belongs to you and that's what rises to the surface instead of like this horrible thing that this guy did the trauma that he caused the lives that he that he took the dog I mean just an absolute fucking monster of a person and and instead of having to deal with that

People are just like, well, I think you guys, he's on your team. And they're like, no, he's on your team. And they know that if they just flood the zone with that, then like, you know, maybe people won't hone in on like the fact that these guys keep doing political violence. Oh, yeah. The body count is like incomparable. It's incomparable. The extreme left, like, well, it's like the fucking graph of like how many people are killed,

like in Palestine and how many Israelis are killed in the conflict. It's like a tiny little fucking thing and then this giant fucking, you know, body count. It's insane. Now, many right-wing conspiracists seized on the fact that Bolter was appointed to a non-partisan state board. Like many states,

Minnesota is home to hundreds of non-partisan and bipartisan boards and commissions, which are composed of thousands of people who typically win the appointment by just volunteering. Bolter was appointed to the Workforce Development Council by former Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton and then

reappointed by current Minnesota Governor Tim Walts. Now, obviously, the governor doesn't personally vet or have a close relationship with every single member of every single one of these state boards. But this bureaucratic formality was enough for some of these conspiracies to labor bolter a Walt's appointee. Yeah, I mean, you know, his mask was kind of bald. He could have had that, like, Camo, like Harris Waltz hat. It would have, it would have, you know, finished the look. That tidbit was combined with the fact that the cease-vict. Speaker Hortman was the lone Democratic vote to repeal health care coverage for undocumented adults. But she had voted this way because she made a deal with Republicans to pass a bipartisan budget and prevent a shutdown.

Conspiracy theory, super spedder Mike Cernovich took these scraps of information to spin this ludicrous tale. The vice president candidate for the Democrat Party is directly connected to a domestic terrorist. That is confirmed. The only question is whether Tim Walz himself ordered the political hit against her. a rival who voted against Walz's plan to give free health care to illegals. This is so fucked up to that these these motherfuckers who spend their entire lives and have made, you know, their careers online, you know, being anti-immigrant, anti-you know, anti-left, anti-democratic this whole time.

They're like, well, if she had only voted, if she had only voted to give health care to the illegals that I hate so much and talk about how I hope they don't get any health care, She would still be alive today. These fucking, these ruthless leftists, man, like, oh, God, I just... I'm just grateful that, like, Cernovich has not been really that visible to the point where Jake has forgotten how his voice sounds. Oh, I have no idea how his voice sounds. Yeah, there's, like, there's zero shot that if you had heard him speak, you wouldn't do his voice. He's like this bizarre, like, oh, squeaky, I'm kind of guy.

Fuck him. Now, there's lots of reasons why this whole thing doesn't make sense, but one of them is that, like, Walt's also signed onto this agreement to end healthcare eligibility for undocumented adults in exchange for the GOP helping to pass a budget, so it's absolutely insanity. It's like, why are we talking about this? This is not the fucking subject. This has nothing to do with fucking immigration, you fucking animals. Yeah.

God, it's like, it's really, it's QAnon world. Think mirror. It's the exact opposite of reality. Cool. Fuck you. Fuck these people. Okay, sorry. Junie Manorino, who has more than 600,000 followers on Twitter, said this of Hortman.

Rumor has it. She was preparing to switch parties. The Democrats are violent scum. So the implication being that like she was on the verge of switching parties and therefore she was assassinated by the left for this reason. It's not true. In fact, she was actually at a Democratic fundraiser just hours before she was assassinated. That's why, like, the Democrats killed, who's that guy who's always like,

fucking up their votes, that really annoying guy in Congress? Joe Manchin. Yes, yes. As we know, they took Joe Manchin out back and they did the casino thing where his monologue, like, just got cut off because the baseball bat hit him in the back

of the head and they put him in an open grave. No, no. The Democrats, the Democrats let their whole party be pulled right with no murders, no nothing. They went peacefully. They wanted it, actually. Yeah, they have Federman. Like, I'm sorry, they would have offed him. He'd be easy to off, too.

Like, he, you know, it's like, I'm pretty sure you could, like, touch his head in a way that would kill him instantly. That is a fucking wild bake that they're like, uh, rumor has, rumor has it. She was going to switch parties. And so, yeah, they killed her. I wish the Democrats were half as fucking cool as, you know, the extreme right makes them out to be. All right, hold on. Yeah, the Democrats are like, in their mind, they're just like, yeah, Joe Peshy Democrats, you know? Yeah.

Yeah, you fucking, you think that's fucking funny? Elon Musk quote tweeted someone who falsely claimed that Hortman was killed by the left, saying this. The far left is murderously violent. Just, I hate so much that they're able to get away with this fucking narrative. Like, they have nothing. They have nothing. This is fucking cotton candy. It's totally made up.

It's like if I went around to all, like all sorts of parties and I was like, The unicorn that runs by my house at night is so loud. Yeah, Bernie Sanders has a lot of bodies under his floorboards. Senator Mike Lee from Utah made several posts absurdly blaming the rampage on Marxism. This is what happens when Marxists don't get their way. Marxism is a deadly mental illness. Marxism kills. See, this is, this is it.

This is it. This is what happens when you have a cold. war that lasts forever. When you fucking erase an entire fucking political ideology from the spectrum, you can get away with fucking saying it exists even though it doesn't. You don't even have a communist party in this country.

Every fucking western country has a communist party. Maybe not everyone, but we have a communist party in France, and they're not fucking killing people, dumbass. I mean, obviously, this is like it's exact opposite of reality. It's absurd. I mean, how the right can take a violent action committed

against liberal lawmakers, committed by a Trump voting, apparently Christian nationalist kook, and then use these events to claim that it's evidence of left-wing political violence. It is mirror world. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Shout out to Naomi Klein. She was so fucking right, dude. Yeah, it's just they realize that, like, nobody's going to stop them if they point to the sky and they go, it's green, you know, they just, they know by now.

They know that, like, they can just say the opposite of what reality. is, and everybody who doesn't want to deal with the, you know, the uncomfortable reality is going to go, yes, it's green, yes. This is what happens when you pour millions, billions of dollars into committing genocides in foreign countries, sometimes through proxy, sometimes directly, for decades. The body count of the anti-communist crusade led by the United States of America is insanely high. And still, still, after all that carnage, after they made sure that there was no fucking way that a system that might actually, you know, involve a plan

for society where we work together. They were just, they made sure that that was erased and we still have to hear about it. Yeah, it's not even like this is the Marxist, you know, agenda and the adult in the room goes now, now, now, Senator, the Marxist agenda was

rightly crushed. All right, hey, at the very least, we know that we are not under threat from that. Whatever this is, it's not that. We literally hunted them like witches and blackballed them from like entertainment industries it's insane this is this is

the equivalent of a guy shooting someone looking down at the corpse and going that's a really violent guy we put two nice old people in the fucking electric chair yep the electric chair yep yeah we have a thing we have a thing

that's a chair that so much electricity surges through it that it kills you and we strap people into this thing. We fucking supported two million people being killed in Indonesia. Their bodies dumped directly in the river. Hillary Clinton has eaten hundreds of children.

No, mine was real. John Podesta is ordering way too many children in square boxes. This country is so fucking psychotic. Like, we are so gone. Like, they truly cannot face what is actually going on. Elon Musk expressed an even stronger commitment to this inverted reality. After his AI chatbot, Grok, provided an answer he didn't like. So when someone asked Grok whether the left or the right has been more violent since 2016,

this AI chatbot's answer started with this sentence. Since 2016, data suggests right-wing political violence has been more frequent and deadly, with incidents like the January 6th Capitol Riot and mass shootings. e.g. El Paso, 2019, causing significant fatalities. It's a fucking fact. The body count is incomparable. Yeah. Again, this is, I think if this is, this is a fair analysis, this is, I think that it's like any, I don't know how you would contradict such a, such a fair and accurate statement. So I guess credit to Grok on this single sentence. But upon seeing this output

from Grok, Elon Musk said this. Major fail is this is objectively false Grock is parroting legacy media Working on it Oh my God You know what you should work on dude You should work on getting a fucking And putting it in your mouth

And you're fucking You fucking bulls out the back of your You piece of shit Yeah I think you should get I think you should fill your pockets With fucking firecrackers I think you should wear like pants soaked in gasoline

I think you should put a bunch of firecrackers In your pocket I actually support like An outburst of far left fucks If Yeah Me too. Elon must.

That's it. I'm fine. Let's actually add to the body count. Just one. One guy. Okay. Well, I don't even know how you're going to beep all that. Yeah, you've got two people making threats.

That's just going to be like, beep. I was just joining in. I'm just so mad. It's like this kind of episode is my least favorite kind where it's like it's the most violent, the most spun in a way that the actual cause of the violence is never, ever, ever, ever, ever going to get dealt with. That's from the ideology that was leading to it, to the guns that were able to put it into action. It's just like none of that is ever, ever going to change. And we're going to constantly be having to fight people who believe that they are fighting an enemy that has long been since defeated.

It's just like, how does anybody have any hope whatsoever for the future of this country outside of just waiting for all of these people to die? These bloodthirsty fucking delusional psychopaths are at the fucking helm. It was always going to be this way. We worked towards this. We wanted this. This is the plan. And you have to trust it, Jake. Not we, not we, you, you, me, Travis, we didn't do any of this.

We're just, no, what I mean is, like, as a, as a culture, like, we picked a direction. We picked a path. You know, it's more of like a larger we. Yeah, yeah. No, I know. I just want to, like, clarify for the listener, like, we, you know, it wasn't us. We live in the fucking imperial core of the most violent and criminal country of all time. I just think that it's very, we talk about the risk associated with AI.

I mean, it's like, it feels like Elon is trying to automate the inverted reality. Right now, it rests on, like, manual labor from a network of conspiracist, like Cernovich, like these sorts of people, like himself. But he can't be on, I mean, he can't, he can't. can be on Twitter all the time, but he can't be there for every single event to take an event that makes the right look bad and then flip it on its head every single time. So he's having AI create this inverted reality for him, sort of like putting, sort of like making it faster and easier to live in the mirror world. Well, yes, and then the AI he's created is not do, it's not even working the way he wants it to. So he has to then change that. So it's like on top

of that, already the AI that's swinging the way he wants is like, when it comes up, with a tiny piece of inconvenient reality. He's like, oh, dear, we gotta change this. I mean, it's, it's like a fucking monopoly player having something not go his way and he just fucking sweeps the board. He's just such a fucking baby, man. Like, he can't even face anything.

It's just like, no, don't like that. Then don't flip a coin. Don't flip a coin if you can't accept it with faces. Heads, heads, sorry, not faces, heads. My brain is fried. I'd like to see Elon be pelted with all of the pieces from the Monopoly board. Listen, I take it back. We don't need the far left to be involved.

I am pleading to Elon Musk's brain and nervous system to just give him an embolism. Some kind of. Something. Something has to blow. A fuse has got to blow. Something. Just anything. That should be our new way of like doing this so we don't get beeped.

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And instantly, instantly, the usual suspects in the media took this to blaming at Trump. had nothing to do with ramping this. Ironically, this did happen a few weeks after, though, Tim Walts said that we need to get meaner, though. Governor's being mean and the governor's speaking out on that. Well, maybe it's time for us to be a little meaner. Oh, really? Carried a way in on that, lives? Trump didn't do this. You guys did. You liberals did. Thank you.