September 2, 2025 • 28 mins
TikTok influencers have decided that Donald Trump is dead, and they are celebrating this thing that they hallucinated. I break it down in this episode of the Brad vs Everyone podcast. Plus, a MAGA personality drops a wild take on Fox News and the UK arrests a comedian for "transphobic" tweets.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Is Trump dead? Is Trump dead?
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Do we think he's still eating and drinking fluids? Or
is he like an IV and with a catheter?
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Given the fact that Donald Trump is still seemingly alive.
As a therapist, I will be processing and have processed
quite a bit of grief.
Speaker 4 (00:17):
The Internet is all worked up with a new conspiracy
theory and they're in for some serious disappointment. We're going
to break this down bless so much more on today's
episode of The Barad Versus Everyone podcast, my daily show
(00:39):
where we take on the craziest ideas from across the Internet,
our media, and our politics, all from an independent perspective. Guys,
it is great to be back with you. Sorry for
the somewhat erratic uploading of late. I've been traveling a
lot with some weddings. Just was in a part of
a really beautiful Indian and Western wedding for one of
(00:59):
my college friends out in Vermont, and actually have another
wedding coming up this weekend. But I'm going to try
to keep bringing the episodes throughout it all, or at
least most of it, without too much disruption, because there's
just so much Internet bs that intersects with politics and
that's what we do here. I suffer through it for
your viewing pleasure. And now we have talked about this
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phenomenon that's unfolded over the last several days, where it
truly I can't overstate how viral these posts on post
after post after posts with hundreds of thousands of likes,
millions of views. This is on TikTok, it's on Twitter,
it's on Instagram, where they think Trump is dead, like
they actually believe he's dead or dying. And just because
(01:43):
he went a couple days without a public appearance, they
became convinced that Trump was going to announce or that
the White House was going to announce that Trump was
either sick and stepping down or dead, and they got
so excited and celebratory. Twist. None of that happened, and
it was always just wild speculation. Here is one video
(02:04):
that has four and a half million views where they
are connecting the dots and explaining to us how his
time has come and we can see it. And here's
the proof. Take a listen to this.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Is Trump dead? Is Trump dead? I keep seeing people
making videos and tweets being like he's dying, He's dead,
and then jd Vance gives an interview being like God
forbid anything happens, but like I'm ready to take the job.
The best training that I've had has been the past
two hundred days. Like you know, Trump will serve out
his term, but like if anything happened, he literally hasn't
(02:36):
been scheduled all weekend. No one has actually seen him
on camera for the past three days, the past three days,
which and like there's the other tracker as well as
to like when he's last played golf, and I believe
that is getting like more and more sparse. There's also
the images that come out like every month where he's
got like huge bruising on his hand, and like the
doctors of TikTok and the doctors of Twitter have like
(02:58):
looked at it and they've been like he's getting some
kind of infusion. Like something is definitely wrong there. Either
he's taking like the longest weekend off because it's Labor
Day weekend here in the US, or he's dead, which
is insane because it feels like the White House so
like definitely hiding something.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Well, guys, we've got our TikTok detectives on the case,
so I guess we got to listen up. I guess
it must be true. Of course it isn't, and the
speculation doesn't make any sense. So, for example, he was
just gone. He was out of the public limelight for
like forty eight hours, but even in that time, there
was a pool of reporters with him. He did an
(03:36):
interview with the Daily Caller, which was with him for
over an hour. The White House correspondent over there, Weegan Reese.
She says he was sharp. There's photos from that. And
now on Monday, he's going to be giving a big announcement,
and they got all excited about the announcement. Oh, it's
him stopping down. It's actually gonna be some like military
thing about the Space Force or something not even that
(03:57):
relevant to this, and all this will have been for nothing. Also,
the JD Vance comments, they're really taking those out of context.
He was specifically asked if he was ready to take
over if something happened. So it's not like he brought
that up and just was like, by the way, guys,
I'm super prepared. No, it's like he was asked, and
what else was he going to say? That's his job
(04:18):
as vice president is to be like the plan b
if something goes wrong and he was asked about and
he's like, yeah, I'm prepared and i'm learning and I'm
ready for the job. If something does happen, that's just normal.
That's what you would expect him to say in that situation.
It's not a piece of a puzzle you can string together.
And this is really funny to me. So all these videos,
and I unfortunately probably gonna have to change out the
(04:38):
music or copyright reasons, but all these videos, all across
social media have been shared where people are celebrating Trump's
death that of course didn't happen, and the song that
they used is from Wicked, the musical, the new version,
the film version No One, and the song is No
One mourns the Wicked. The thing that is so funny
(05:04):
about that to me is all these people are celebrating
this and I'm not some I'm not a musical theater
gay okay, but I know enough about this because I
did see Wicked to say that the song choice doesn't
make sense here because these are all Trump haters playing
No One Warns the Wicked to celebrate Trump's death. They hallucinated.
(05:26):
But that song. The whole point is that the witch
isn't actually wicked, she's actually good, but the people have
been brainwashed into believing that she's wicked. And they're using
that song about Trump like it doesn't hit the way
you think it hits if you actually understand the context
and message of the song, but they clearly don't, and
(05:48):
so they're just like partying to it and being like whoo.
And of course they're all going to be incredibly disappointed.
And there's just a bizarrely slightly sexual under tone to
some of the fantasizing that's going on here. Take a
look at this video.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Do we think he's still eating and drinking fluids or
is he like an IV and with a catheter? Oh,
and maybe he has labored breathing and he's sleeping a
lot and probably even more confused than normal.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Why Why does this man sound aroused by imagining Donald
Trump dying? And why is he thinking about Trump getting
a catheter? I did, Oh my gosh, I did not
need that mental image today, thank you very much. And look,
I understand hating Trump, not liking Trump, it's your opinion. Whatever.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
It is.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
Weird to fantasize in any way, but especially in a
vaguely sexual way about someone else's death. You should probably
talk to someone about that. That's not something an emotionally
stable or healthy person does. And again it's also stupid
because y'all want JD. Vance as president. We'll come to that,
(07:07):
but these people are kidding themselves if they think that
would somehow be better from their perspective, And then they
really are in denial as well. Like as photos emerged
of Trump, as he came out and more information debunked
this conspiracy they had concocted, the cope started to set in.
Like listen to this next video. It's remarkable to extend
to which they're they're really really certain that this must
(07:31):
be happening because they feel so strongly that it is.
Take a listen to this, but not pay me.
Speaker 6 (07:37):
You could not think me, not even eight thousand dollars
a month, to believe that Donald Trump is alive and
well right now. Zero percent chance, zero percent chance. And
I'm not saying he's not alive, because there's a chance
he's lying somewhere in a hospital bed right now, hanging
on his last thread of life. But like he's not well.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Babe, I'm gonna hold your hand when I say this,
but Delulu is not as Lulu. Denial not a strategy.
Trump is probably just fine, at least in the short term,
and he is going to come out Monday and speak,
and you're gonna see him even more deranged than you
already do in retrospect. But hope that brought you momentary solace.
(08:19):
It is strange that you are so adamant about something
like this and apparently want president fans. But no, I
don't think Trump is in great health. He is not
a paragon of health in virtue. But there is no
reason to believe that he is on death's door bed
or doormat or whatever the phrase is, like this woman
and so many others seem to believe. And they also
(08:41):
don't understand how Washington works, like they're saying he hasn't
been seen in four to eight hours, but there is
a pool of reporters around the White House at all times.
And if he had passed away, or if he was
seriously seriously ill, I'm telling you, whispers would be around
and people would be talking, and they are not, so
he might have some underlying medical issue. I mean, the
(09:02):
guy's seventy nine. He doesn't believe in exercise and he
drinks like five gallons of diet coke a day, so
he may have some health issues. I don't know. I
certainly wouldn't be surprised to learn that, but he is
not about to kick the bucket. And you all simply
trying to manifest that isn't going to change reality. They
really are coping so hard they're just like losing grasp
(09:24):
with physical reality, and it's kind of sad. I also
want to show you, guys this, this non binary TikTok
therapist is explaining how people can after all this you know,
hubbub and then everyone being disappointed, how people can process
their grief about the fact that Trump isn't dead. Let's listen.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Oh my god, given the fact that Donald Trump is
still seemingly alive and with us on this earthly plane,
it is very apparent to me that as a therapist
I will be processing and have processed quite a bit
of grief.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
I'm sorry, y'all, but if you are feeling grief that
someone didn't die, your therapist should not be affirming that. Well,
all your feelings are valid. Let's mourn together, No, get
a grip. Stop rooting for people's death. That's crazy. That's
incredibly toxic, and it's going to poison your own emotions
(10:22):
and your own perspective to the point of bringing you
down as well. It's just like a match therapy is
so broken, at least in the evidence base that is
TikTok therapy. I'll narrow it down there. If your therapist
has a TikTok account and post content, I would carefully
review it because there was a good chance of that
person is publicly publishing evidence that they should lose whatever
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license they have, and no one should be taking mental
health advice from them. And I would put this non
binary person grieving the absence of death and telling you
that's normal and fine. Yeah, I'd put her in that category.
Are you not sorry? Now? Of course, the thing they're
not really addressing in these videos is the fact that
if Donald Trump did pass away, which you know, I have
(11:07):
many criticisms of him and didn't support him, but I'm
certainly not rooting for anyone to have bad health. If
he did pass away, JD Vance, the vice president, would
become president, and I actually I think from the anti
Trump perspective, that's not something you should want because JD
is more competent, more efficient and yet more extreme, more
(11:31):
to the right of Donald Trump. So it's like, be
careful what you wish for, because you might get it.
You might get it. But apparently they're not that mad
about that because they have plans for it. Guys, they
have plans to listen to these tiktoks. If Donald Trump dies,
JD Vance will be president.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
But it's not a bad thing because since he has
a big head, he's easier to snipe from a dispant.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
Yeah, he put hashtag joke. Just guys, totally just a joke. No,
it's not. And frankly, all over TikTok, all these people
openly glorify assassination and violence. So I'm not buying the
joke card there. And it's just again a really depraved
way to talk about human beings and to process your
political disagreements and differences. This is not normal or okay. Meanwhile,
(12:20):
this woman thinks that JD Vance will be easier to bully.
Take a listen to this. I'm sorry, but.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
If Trump is dead, I know that people are saying
that JD. Vance's presidency is gonna suck because he's a
puppet for the Republican Party. But I also on some
level believe that we could genuinely bully that man out
of office if we just at him a million times
a day with the stupid meme of himself. I genuinely
believe we could bully jd.
Speaker 6 (12:45):
Vance out of office.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
I think we could do it. I think we could
do it. Well, then, my dear, you are delusional because
of anything.
Speaker 6 (12:54):
JD.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
Vance would probably be less thin skinned than Donald Trump,
who takes criticisms to art and lashes out often, and frankly,
probably less receptive to democratic pressure and more willing to
do things regardless just to consolidate his own power. I
actually think he would. I have more concerns about JD.
(13:15):
Vance going too far on things than I do on
Donald Trump, based on his past comments, like the time
that he talked about how the Trump administration just defy
the Supreme Court and cause a constitutional crisis rather than
accept checks and balances. So I'm more worried about him,
and I promise you he's not going to give two
shits if he does become president what random ticktockers have
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to say about how big his head is, y'all. I
am concerned about the state of discourse in this country.
The misinformation and fake news and conspiracy theories on the
Internet are out of control across the political spectrum and
people increasingly seem emotionally unbalanced and unwell. But other than that,
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(14:18):
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we'll leave it there on the TikTok Drama for now.
And up next, we're gonna watch a Fox News clip
that's gone very viral featuring Isabelle Brown, who is the
(14:41):
newly hired host for The Daily Wire and a mega
conservative influencer, talking about Cracker Barrel's failed rebrand where they
ditched the Cracker, the old white guy and the barrel
and just put out this extremely bland corporate logo and
got so much backlash for it. It was a whole
(15:02):
discourse I talked about on this show before. I think
it was a failed rebrand, but it wasn't like the
end of the world or the biggest outrage of the
day in the way that many people said, it's just
actually not that important. Well, Isabelle disagrees. Let's tick a
listen to what she had to say on Fox News.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Because the ninety three year old founder of Cracker Barrel
talking about the food and the rebrand, I think he
should be on the logo.
Speaker 5 (15:25):
It's bland niceas, which I think is a perfect encompassment
of just how out of touch Cracker Barrel really was
in this process. Look, Kelly, and to bring this to
the thirty thousand foot level, beauty matters, And it sounds
so silly and trivial to use the word beauty when
we're talking about the interior design or the logo of
Cracker Barrel. But this is part of a much larger,
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sinister undertow of our culture, led by the radical Marxist left.
Throughout my lifetime to rid our society of intricacy and detail.
We see it in our architecture, we see it in
our art museums, we see it in our churches, and
of course we see it in corporate ammeria as well.
And that's exactly what you see inside of these sterile
bland totally rid of any sort of beauty or intricate detail.
(16:08):
Cracker Barrel rebrands that we're seeing take the storm across
the nation. But I find it really fascinating that in
the midst of that removal of detail and beauty, America
is running back to traditional Christianity, to the family, to
beautiful art, the classics in academia again. And so this
just goes to show to me that these woke elitist
CEOs are so unbelievably out of touch. But what Americans
(16:30):
really want is classic Americana tradition and that foundation of
Western civilization.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Again.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
So wow, a lot to unpack there, But I'll just
say this, not everything is that deep, actually, And I
think Cracker Barrel's rebrand was obviously a failure, obviously did
not go over well, and they actually are walking it
back because of all the consumer backlash, but it was not,
in fact, part of a sinister Marxist plot to take
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over America and destroy all things beautiful. In fact, it
was probably just some consultant marketing firm trying to be
hip and rebrand for modern times gone awry in pursuit
of more profit. Actually, so not super Marxist on that front.
And then here's the thing. If they're old, the reason
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they did this rebrand was because they were struggling. Their
foot traffic was down, their business, their revenue was ailing,
and so they tried to do something new. If classic Americana,
the old school, traditional cracker barrel vibe was still people
were flocking to it. As Isabelle kind of suggest that
that's what people want. It's classic Americana. They wouldn't have
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done a rebrand, right. They did that for a reason,
and it didn't work. It definitely backfired. And Cracker Barel
as a company can absolutely be criticized for some of
its DEI policies and some of the kind of ideologues
that has put in places of power inside the company.
But I think the problem with calling everything Marxist and
using this extreme language on the right is that it's
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kind of the reverse phenomenon that you hear on the
left where they called everything racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, bada
lah blah, to the point where those words got watered down,
they were thrown around like candy on Halloween, and they
lost their meaning and people started saying like tuning out
to those warnings and just not taking them seriously. And
so I don't like when people on the right or
(18:21):
in conservative media do this because I think Marxism is
a really radical and dangerous ideology. But if you're literally
calling everything Marxism, if you're calling cracker Barrel changing their
logo Marxism, then you are going to water down those
warnings to the point of meaninglessness. And that gives cover
to actual Marxists. It allows them to blend in, It
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allows them to seem more normal, It allows them to
people to not recognize how radical they truly are. So
I hope that people can roll back with some of
this language. Not everything is that deep. Not everything has
to be taken back to the thirty thousand foot level.
Criticism works more effectively when it is sparing and nuanced,
(19:05):
rather than when it is alarmist and kind of everything
is a doomsday level. Event, even cracker Barrel redesigning it's
actually not. But I think that conservative media, very similar
to liberal media in this fashion, actually sometimes just can't
help themselves. What do you guys think? Do you agree
with Isabelle? Let me know in the comments and make
(19:25):
sure subscribed and comment YadA YadA yah, and up next.
This story is truly orwellian. And I say that because
it actually is, not because I'm being hyperbolic, not because
I'm overusing these terms. But the United Kingdom has just
arrested a comedian who entered the country because of his
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transphobic tweets, a couple of jokes or extreme opinions that
he put out on x or Twitter, whatever you call it,
and they detained him for I think sixteen hours and
and actually arrested him over this. This is genuinely dystopian stuff.
Here's Fox News reporting on the story.
Speaker 7 (20:06):
Comedian Graham Lenehan was arrested at he Threw airport in
the UK overpast social media posts he made on transgender issues.
The fifty seven year old said that five armed officers
arrested him after he flew into the UK from Arizona,
and a statement police said the man in his fifties
was arrested on suspicion of inciting violence. This is in
(20:29):
relation to posts on x. After being taken to police custody,
officers became concerned for his health and he was taken
to hospital. Lenihan responded to the arrest, saying I was
arrested and an airport like a terrorist, locked in a
cell like a criminal, taken to the hospital because this
stress nearly killed me, and banned from speaking online, all
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because I made jokes that upset some psychotic trust dressers.
To me, this proves one thing beyond doubt, the UK
has become a country that is hostile to freedom of speech.
Critics calling out the arrest. Here's Morgan posting, what's happened
to Lenihan today is absolutely ridiculous. Five armed cops arresting
(21:12):
him at Heathrow for tweets mocking the scandal of biological
men invading women's spaces when it comes to free speech,
Britain's turning into North Korea end quote.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
This is actually outrageous and dystopian. Whether you agree with
his tweets or his jokes or not, it doesn't matter.
This is insane police arresting people for offensive posts because
what the tweet is gonna hurt someone? Get a grip.
Jk Rowling chimed in on this and she said, what
the f has the UK become? This is totalitarianism and
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utterly deplorable, and frankly, I just have to agree this
is the kind of thing you expect from a authoritarian regime,
arresting people because of their posts, not because of anything
they did, but simply because they said so something that
hurt other people's feelings. That is not a crime. In fact,
free speech is a human right, and this arrest and detainment,
(22:07):
unless something big comes out that we don't know about,
if it is just what we've heard so far, is
a grotesque violation of his human rights. Frankly, like it's
the posts that he made. It becomes more crazy when
you actually look at the posts. So, for example, he
posted a photo of a bunch of I suspect transactivists
and he said a photo you can smell That is
(22:30):
one of the posts that they arrested him for. Seriously, like,
maybe that's not nice, okay, but it's not a crime
to be rude or make jokes at other people's expense.
What are you talking about? What are you doing uk seriously,
and the idea that that post is inciting violence in
any way is absurd. Nobody in nothing about it suggests violence.
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Nobody responds to this with violence, and if they do,
it's not his fault. Okay, to say somebody looks thanky
is not a crime. All right, get a grip. And
then another one. He said, I hate them misogynists and homophobes.
F them. Okay, that's an opinion. You're allowed to not
like people. Build a bridge and get over at copcake.
I don't know what to tell you, but sending the
police to arrest people because they don't like other people
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is genuinely North Korean, genuinely authoritarian and dystopian. And if
you are under the delusion that that is going to
increase support for trans rights, let me tell you it
is not, because the sentiment that Grand Leneham expresses in
these posts is actually what a lot of people agree with.
He doesn't accept any of the ideas about trans He
(23:35):
he is mean to trans people in a way that
I don't like or support. Okay, but he has a
right to He has a right to say his mind,
and if you don't like it, you can debate it.
You can challenge it, but what you cannot do without
becoming a monster yourself is support people being thrown into
prison for their social media posts because they said mean
words that hurt people's fe fees. Now, the one post
(23:57):
that he got that they are saying in sights of
iolace so that he wrote is quote, if a trans
identified male is in a female only space, he is
committing a violent abusive act. Make a scene, call the cops,
and if all else fails, punch him in the balls. Now,
I don't really agree with that post. I think if
you have a genuine trans woman trying to use the
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women's bathroom in peace and not bother anyone, that is
not a violent act. They don't agree with that, And
I think to call the cops wouldn't really be necessary
or appropriate. I think if anyone is causing a problem
in a space by being inappropriate toward someone else, trans
or not, then you should call the cops. But I
think the punch him in the balls thing was a
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joke and it clearly wasn't inciting violence, because in order
to be incitement of violence, you have to be directing proximate, imminent,
specific action. So if you were in a bathroom and
you said to a person, and there's a transperson right there,
and you said, punch him in the balls. That would
be incitement of violence. But simply joking in general about
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punching someone in the balls, because that's what am I saying.
This podcast is such a wild trip sometimes joke. It's
a joke made about the male anatomy, right, Like that's
the point of the joke. He's a comedian, Get over it.
It is not a crime. Nobody was hurt, right, Like
you know how the products mark Like, no animals were
(25:21):
harmed in the production of this product. Yeah, no trans
people were harmed in the posting of this tweet, all right.
And the other thing people need to realize is that
if these speech crimes, these thought crimes, these transphobic tweets
can get you arrested, well then the government has a
right then to arrest every single transactivist who were who
held up a punch Turf's sign. Right, If you really
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want to play this game, it is not going to
go well for either side. We are much better served
as a society and just as a culture because I
know this is Britain, this is not the US, but
we share common institutions and heritage and ideals and values.
We are much better served by an open society where
people can say things, whether they hurt other people's feelings
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or not, rather than a dystopian society where people are arrested.
And this is not an outlier example. The New York
Post reports this that the UK's free speech crackdown is
now seeing up to thirty people a day arrested for
petty offenses like retweets and cartoons. That is dystopian. It
is a massive waste of police resources who should probably
(26:28):
be I don't know, cracking down on knife crime and
other issues that actually affect people in ways beyond momentarily
hurt fee fees. And it is only going to i think,
in gender more resistance and backlash and hatred when you
try to crack down on what people can say and
think in this manner. And guys, this is why it
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is so important and so crucial that we have a
First Amendment in the United States. That it's not perfect,
it can't stop everything, but it offers a legal bullwark
against this kind of just censorship, and that's why we
have to preserve it. We have to cherish it even
when that means defending really extreme anti Israel speech or
really extreme progressive left wing speech. We have to maintain
(27:13):
stringent First Amendment protections in America for everyone, or this
kind of thing could be just a few years now. Honestly,
I'm not being alarmist here. If we did not have
a First Amendment, I would say we would have probably
had this kind of thing happening in places in the
US and Blue States in twenty twenty. I genuinely think
(27:33):
arresting people of our pronouns or other such things or
over mean tweets, I think that would absolutely have happened.
So guys, to Graham Lenehan, to anyone in the UK,
I'm sorry that this is happening. But this is why
we threw that tea in the harbor and why we
wrote a different constitution than yours, and we're keeping it
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that way. Thank you very much. What do you guys think?
Can you believe how out of control things have gotten
across the pond? Let me know in the comments, make
sure subscribe hit that like button while you are at it. Yah,
and guys, that'll be it for today's episode of the
Bad Versus Everyone Podcast. Thanks so much for tuning in
remember sending your voicemails for my voicemail Friday episodes, and
(28:18):
uh we'll talk again.
Is Trump dead? Is Trump dead?
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Do we think he's still eating and drinking fluids? Or
is he like an IV and with a catheter?
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Given the fact that Donald Trump is still seemingly alive.
As a therapist, I will be processing and have processed
quite a bit of grief.
Speaker 4 (00:17):
The Internet is all worked up with a new conspiracy
theory and they're in for some serious disappointment. We're going
to break this down bless so much more on today's
episode of The Barad Versus Everyone podcast, my daily show
(00:39):
where we take on the craziest ideas from across the Internet,
our media, and our politics, all from an independent perspective. Guys,
it is great to be back with you. Sorry for
the somewhat erratic uploading of late. I've been traveling a
lot with some weddings. Just was in a part of
a really beautiful Indian and Western wedding for one of
(00:59):
my college friends out in Vermont, and actually have another
wedding coming up this weekend. But I'm going to try
to keep bringing the episodes throughout it all, or at
least most of it, without too much disruption, because there's
just so much Internet bs that intersects with politics and
that's what we do here. I suffer through it for
your viewing pleasure. And now we have talked about this
(01:22):
phenomenon that's unfolded over the last several days, where it
truly I can't overstate how viral these posts on post
after post after posts with hundreds of thousands of likes,
millions of views. This is on TikTok, it's on Twitter,
it's on Instagram, where they think Trump is dead, like
they actually believe he's dead or dying. And just because
(01:43):
he went a couple days without a public appearance, they
became convinced that Trump was going to announce or that
the White House was going to announce that Trump was
either sick and stepping down or dead, and they got
so excited and celebratory. Twist. None of that happened, and
it was always just wild speculation. Here is one video
(02:04):
that has four and a half million views where they
are connecting the dots and explaining to us how his
time has come and we can see it. And here's
the proof. Take a listen to this.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Is Trump dead? Is Trump dead? I keep seeing people
making videos and tweets being like he's dying, He's dead,
and then jd Vance gives an interview being like God
forbid anything happens, but like I'm ready to take the job.
The best training that I've had has been the past
two hundred days. Like you know, Trump will serve out
his term, but like if anything happened, he literally hasn't
(02:36):
been scheduled all weekend. No one has actually seen him
on camera for the past three days, the past three days,
which and like there's the other tracker as well as
to like when he's last played golf, and I believe
that is getting like more and more sparse. There's also
the images that come out like every month where he's
got like huge bruising on his hand, and like the
doctors of TikTok and the doctors of Twitter have like
(02:58):
looked at it and they've been like he's getting some
kind of infusion. Like something is definitely wrong there. Either
he's taking like the longest weekend off because it's Labor
Day weekend here in the US, or he's dead, which
is insane because it feels like the White House so
like definitely hiding something.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Well, guys, we've got our TikTok detectives on the case,
so I guess we got to listen up. I guess
it must be true. Of course it isn't, and the
speculation doesn't make any sense. So, for example, he was
just gone. He was out of the public limelight for
like forty eight hours, but even in that time, there
was a pool of reporters with him. He did an
(03:36):
interview with the Daily Caller, which was with him for
over an hour. The White House correspondent over there, Weegan Reese.
She says he was sharp. There's photos from that. And
now on Monday, he's going to be giving a big announcement,
and they got all excited about the announcement. Oh, it's
him stopping down. It's actually gonna be some like military
thing about the Space Force or something not even that
(03:57):
relevant to this, and all this will have been for nothing. Also,
the JD Vance comments, they're really taking those out of context.
He was specifically asked if he was ready to take
over if something happened. So it's not like he brought
that up and just was like, by the way, guys,
I'm super prepared. No, it's like he was asked, and
what else was he going to say? That's his job
(04:18):
as vice president is to be like the plan b
if something goes wrong and he was asked about and
he's like, yeah, I'm prepared and i'm learning and I'm
ready for the job. If something does happen, that's just normal.
That's what you would expect him to say in that situation.
It's not a piece of a puzzle you can string together.
And this is really funny to me. So all these videos,
and I unfortunately probably gonna have to change out the
(04:38):
music or copyright reasons, but all these videos, all across
social media have been shared where people are celebrating Trump's
death that of course didn't happen, and the song that
they used is from Wicked, the musical, the new version,
the film version No One, and the song is No
One mourns the Wicked. The thing that is so funny
(05:04):
about that to me is all these people are celebrating
this and I'm not some I'm not a musical theater
gay okay, but I know enough about this because I
did see Wicked to say that the song choice doesn't
make sense here because these are all Trump haters playing
No One Warns the Wicked to celebrate Trump's death. They hallucinated.
(05:26):
But that song. The whole point is that the witch
isn't actually wicked, she's actually good, but the people have
been brainwashed into believing that she's wicked. And they're using
that song about Trump like it doesn't hit the way
you think it hits if you actually understand the context
and message of the song, but they clearly don't, and
(05:48):
so they're just like partying to it and being like whoo.
And of course they're all going to be incredibly disappointed.
And there's just a bizarrely slightly sexual under tone to
some of the fantasizing that's going on here. Take a
look at this video.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Do we think he's still eating and drinking fluids or
is he like an IV and with a catheter? Oh,
and maybe he has labored breathing and he's sleeping a
lot and probably even more confused than normal.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Why Why does this man sound aroused by imagining Donald
Trump dying? And why is he thinking about Trump getting
a catheter? I did, Oh my gosh, I did not
need that mental image today, thank you very much. And look,
I understand hating Trump, not liking Trump, it's your opinion. Whatever.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
It is.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
Weird to fantasize in any way, but especially in a
vaguely sexual way about someone else's death. You should probably
talk to someone about that. That's not something an emotionally
stable or healthy person does. And again it's also stupid
because y'all want JD. Vance as president. We'll come to that,
(07:07):
but these people are kidding themselves if they think that
would somehow be better from their perspective, And then they
really are in denial as well. Like as photos emerged
of Trump, as he came out and more information debunked
this conspiracy they had concocted, the cope started to set in.
Like listen to this next video. It's remarkable to extend
to which they're they're really really certain that this must
(07:31):
be happening because they feel so strongly that it is.
Take a listen to this, but not pay me.
Speaker 6 (07:37):
You could not think me, not even eight thousand dollars
a month, to believe that Donald Trump is alive and
well right now. Zero percent chance, zero percent chance. And
I'm not saying he's not alive, because there's a chance
he's lying somewhere in a hospital bed right now, hanging
on his last thread of life. But like he's not well.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Babe, I'm gonna hold your hand when I say this,
but Delulu is not as Lulu. Denial not a strategy.
Trump is probably just fine, at least in the short term,
and he is going to come out Monday and speak,
and you're gonna see him even more deranged than you
already do in retrospect. But hope that brought you momentary solace.
(08:19):
It is strange that you are so adamant about something
like this and apparently want president fans. But no, I
don't think Trump is in great health. He is not
a paragon of health in virtue. But there is no
reason to believe that he is on death's door bed
or doormat or whatever the phrase is, like this woman
and so many others seem to believe. And they also
(08:41):
don't understand how Washington works, like they're saying he hasn't
been seen in four to eight hours, but there is
a pool of reporters around the White House at all times.
And if he had passed away, or if he was
seriously seriously ill, I'm telling you, whispers would be around
and people would be talking, and they are not, so
he might have some underlying medical issue. I mean, the
(09:02):
guy's seventy nine. He doesn't believe in exercise and he
drinks like five gallons of diet coke a day, so
he may have some health issues. I don't know. I
certainly wouldn't be surprised to learn that, but he is
not about to kick the bucket. And you all simply
trying to manifest that isn't going to change reality. They
really are coping so hard they're just like losing grasp
(09:24):
with physical reality, and it's kind of sad. I also
want to show you, guys this, this non binary TikTok
therapist is explaining how people can after all this you know,
hubbub and then everyone being disappointed, how people can process
their grief about the fact that Trump isn't dead. Let's listen.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Oh my god, given the fact that Donald Trump is
still seemingly alive and with us on this earthly plane,
it is very apparent to me that as a therapist
I will be processing and have processed quite a bit
of grief.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
I'm sorry, y'all, but if you are feeling grief that
someone didn't die, your therapist should not be affirming that. Well,
all your feelings are valid. Let's mourn together, No, get
a grip. Stop rooting for people's death. That's crazy. That's
incredibly toxic, and it's going to poison your own emotions
(10:22):
and your own perspective to the point of bringing you
down as well. It's just like a match therapy is
so broken, at least in the evidence base that is
TikTok therapy. I'll narrow it down there. If your therapist
has a TikTok account and post content, I would carefully
review it because there was a good chance of that
person is publicly publishing evidence that they should lose whatever
(10:46):
license they have, and no one should be taking mental
health advice from them. And I would put this non
binary person grieving the absence of death and telling you
that's normal and fine. Yeah, I'd put her in that category.
Are you not sorry? Now? Of course, the thing they're
not really addressing in these videos is the fact that
if Donald Trump did pass away, which you know, I have
(11:07):
many criticisms of him and didn't support him, but I'm
certainly not rooting for anyone to have bad health. If
he did pass away, JD Vance, the vice president, would
become president, and I actually I think from the anti
Trump perspective, that's not something you should want because JD
is more competent, more efficient and yet more extreme, more
(11:31):
to the right of Donald Trump. So it's like, be
careful what you wish for, because you might get it.
You might get it. But apparently they're not that mad
about that because they have plans for it. Guys, they
have plans to listen to these tiktoks. If Donald Trump dies,
JD Vance will be president.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
But it's not a bad thing because since he has
a big head, he's easier to snipe from a dispant.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
Yeah, he put hashtag joke. Just guys, totally just a joke. No,
it's not. And frankly, all over TikTok, all these people
openly glorify assassination and violence. So I'm not buying the
joke card there. And it's just again a really depraved
way to talk about human beings and to process your
political disagreements and differences. This is not normal or okay. Meanwhile,
(12:20):
this woman thinks that JD Vance will be easier to bully.
Take a listen to this. I'm sorry, but.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
If Trump is dead, I know that people are saying
that JD. Vance's presidency is gonna suck because he's a
puppet for the Republican Party. But I also on some
level believe that we could genuinely bully that man out
of office if we just at him a million times
a day with the stupid meme of himself. I genuinely
believe we could bully jd.
Speaker 6 (12:45):
Vance out of office.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
I think we could do it. I think we could
do it. Well, then, my dear, you are delusional because
of anything.
Speaker 6 (12:54):
JD.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
Vance would probably be less thin skinned than Donald Trump,
who takes criticisms to art and lashes out often, and frankly,
probably less receptive to democratic pressure and more willing to
do things regardless just to consolidate his own power. I
actually think he would. I have more concerns about JD.
(13:15):
Vance going too far on things than I do on
Donald Trump, based on his past comments, like the time
that he talked about how the Trump administration just defy
the Supreme Court and cause a constitutional crisis rather than
accept checks and balances. So I'm more worried about him,
and I promise you he's not going to give two
shits if he does become president what random ticktockers have
(13:35):
to say about how big his head is, y'all. I
am concerned about the state of discourse in this country.
The misinformation and fake news and conspiracy theories on the
Internet are out of control across the political spectrum and
people increasingly seem emotionally unbalanced and unwell. But other than that,
(13:57):
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(14:18):
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and I answer any questions you guys have for me. So, guys,
we'll leave it there on the TikTok Drama for now.
And up next, we're gonna watch a Fox News clip
that's gone very viral featuring Isabelle Brown, who is the
(14:41):
newly hired host for The Daily Wire and a mega
conservative influencer, talking about Cracker Barrel's failed rebrand where they
ditched the Cracker, the old white guy and the barrel
and just put out this extremely bland corporate logo and
got so much backlash for it. It was a whole
(15:02):
discourse I talked about on this show before. I think
it was a failed rebrand, but it wasn't like the
end of the world or the biggest outrage of the
day in the way that many people said, it's just
actually not that important. Well, Isabelle disagrees. Let's tick a
listen to what she had to say on Fox News.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Because the ninety three year old founder of Cracker Barrel
talking about the food and the rebrand, I think he
should be on the logo.
Speaker 5 (15:25):
It's bland niceas, which I think is a perfect encompassment
of just how out of touch Cracker Barrel really was
in this process. Look, Kelly, and to bring this to
the thirty thousand foot level, beauty matters, And it sounds
so silly and trivial to use the word beauty when
we're talking about the interior design or the logo of
Cracker Barrel. But this is part of a much larger,
(15:45):
sinister undertow of our culture, led by the radical Marxist left.
Throughout my lifetime to rid our society of intricacy and detail.
We see it in our architecture, we see it in
our art museums, we see it in our churches, and
of course we see it in corporate ammeria as well.
And that's exactly what you see inside of these sterile
bland totally rid of any sort of beauty or intricate detail.
(16:08):
Cracker Barrel rebrands that we're seeing take the storm across
the nation. But I find it really fascinating that in
the midst of that removal of detail and beauty, America
is running back to traditional Christianity, to the family, to
beautiful art, the classics in academia again. And so this
just goes to show to me that these woke elitist
CEOs are so unbelievably out of touch. But what Americans
(16:30):
really want is classic Americana tradition and that foundation of
Western civilization.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Again.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
So wow, a lot to unpack there, But I'll just
say this, not everything is that deep, actually, And I
think Cracker Barrel's rebrand was obviously a failure, obviously did
not go over well, and they actually are walking it
back because of all the consumer backlash, but it was not,
in fact, part of a sinister Marxist plot to take
(16:58):
over America and destroy all things beautiful. In fact, it
was probably just some consultant marketing firm trying to be
hip and rebrand for modern times gone awry in pursuit
of more profit. Actually, so not super Marxist on that front.
And then here's the thing. If they're old, the reason
(17:19):
they did this rebrand was because they were struggling. Their
foot traffic was down, their business, their revenue was ailing,
and so they tried to do something new. If classic Americana,
the old school, traditional cracker barrel vibe was still people
were flocking to it. As Isabelle kind of suggest that
that's what people want. It's classic Americana. They wouldn't have
(17:40):
done a rebrand, right. They did that for a reason,
and it didn't work. It definitely backfired. And Cracker Barel
as a company can absolutely be criticized for some of
its DEI policies and some of the kind of ideologues
that has put in places of power inside the company.
But I think the problem with calling everything Marxist and
using this extreme language on the right is that it's
(18:01):
kind of the reverse phenomenon that you hear on the
left where they called everything racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, bada
lah blah, to the point where those words got watered down,
they were thrown around like candy on Halloween, and they
lost their meaning and people started saying like tuning out
to those warnings and just not taking them seriously. And
so I don't like when people on the right or
(18:21):
in conservative media do this because I think Marxism is
a really radical and dangerous ideology. But if you're literally
calling everything Marxism, if you're calling cracker Barrel changing their
logo Marxism, then you are going to water down those
warnings to the point of meaninglessness. And that gives cover
to actual Marxists. It allows them to blend in, It
(18:41):
allows them to seem more normal, It allows them to
people to not recognize how radical they truly are. So
I hope that people can roll back with some of
this language. Not everything is that deep. Not everything has
to be taken back to the thirty thousand foot level.
Criticism works more effectively when it is sparing and nuanced,
(19:05):
rather than when it is alarmist and kind of everything
is a doomsday level. Event, even cracker Barrel redesigning it's
actually not. But I think that conservative media, very similar
to liberal media in this fashion, actually sometimes just can't
help themselves. What do you guys think? Do you agree
with Isabelle? Let me know in the comments and make
(19:25):
sure subscribed and comment YadA YadA yah, and up next.
This story is truly orwellian. And I say that because
it actually is, not because I'm being hyperbolic, not because
I'm overusing these terms. But the United Kingdom has just
arrested a comedian who entered the country because of his
(19:45):
transphobic tweets, a couple of jokes or extreme opinions that
he put out on x or Twitter, whatever you call it,
and they detained him for I think sixteen hours and
and actually arrested him over this. This is genuinely dystopian stuff.
Here's Fox News reporting on the story.
Speaker 7 (20:06):
Comedian Graham Lenehan was arrested at he Threw airport in
the UK overpast social media posts he made on transgender issues.
The fifty seven year old said that five armed officers
arrested him after he flew into the UK from Arizona,
and a statement police said the man in his fifties
was arrested on suspicion of inciting violence. This is in
(20:29):
relation to posts on x. After being taken to police custody,
officers became concerned for his health and he was taken
to hospital. Lenihan responded to the arrest, saying I was
arrested and an airport like a terrorist, locked in a
cell like a criminal, taken to the hospital because this
stress nearly killed me, and banned from speaking online, all
(20:51):
because I made jokes that upset some psychotic trust dressers.
To me, this proves one thing beyond doubt, the UK
has become a country that is hostile to freedom of speech.
Critics calling out the arrest. Here's Morgan posting, what's happened
to Lenihan today is absolutely ridiculous. Five armed cops arresting
(21:12):
him at Heathrow for tweets mocking the scandal of biological
men invading women's spaces when it comes to free speech,
Britain's turning into North Korea end quote.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
This is actually outrageous and dystopian. Whether you agree with
his tweets or his jokes or not, it doesn't matter.
This is insane police arresting people for offensive posts because
what the tweet is gonna hurt someone? Get a grip.
Jk Rowling chimed in on this and she said, what
the f has the UK become? This is totalitarianism and
(21:46):
utterly deplorable, and frankly, I just have to agree this
is the kind of thing you expect from a authoritarian regime,
arresting people because of their posts, not because of anything
they did, but simply because they said so something that
hurt other people's feelings. That is not a crime. In fact,
free speech is a human right, and this arrest and detainment,
(22:07):
unless something big comes out that we don't know about,
if it is just what we've heard so far, is
a grotesque violation of his human rights. Frankly, like it's
the posts that he made. It becomes more crazy when
you actually look at the posts. So, for example, he
posted a photo of a bunch of I suspect transactivists
and he said a photo you can smell That is
(22:30):
one of the posts that they arrested him for. Seriously, like,
maybe that's not nice, okay, but it's not a crime
to be rude or make jokes at other people's expense.
What are you talking about? What are you doing uk seriously,
and the idea that that post is inciting violence in
any way is absurd. Nobody in nothing about it suggests violence.
(22:51):
Nobody responds to this with violence, and if they do,
it's not his fault. Okay, to say somebody looks thanky
is not a crime. All right, get a grip. And
then another one. He said, I hate them misogynists and homophobes.
F them. Okay, that's an opinion. You're allowed to not
like people. Build a bridge and get over at copcake.
I don't know what to tell you, but sending the
police to arrest people because they don't like other people
(23:14):
is genuinely North Korean, genuinely authoritarian and dystopian. And if
you are under the delusion that that is going to
increase support for trans rights, let me tell you it
is not, because the sentiment that Grand Leneham expresses in
these posts is actually what a lot of people agree with.
He doesn't accept any of the ideas about trans He
(23:35):
he is mean to trans people in a way that
I don't like or support. Okay, but he has a
right to He has a right to say his mind,
and if you don't like it, you can debate it.
You can challenge it, but what you cannot do without
becoming a monster yourself is support people being thrown into
prison for their social media posts because they said mean
words that hurt people's fe fees. Now, the one post
(23:57):
that he got that they are saying in sights of
iolace so that he wrote is quote, if a trans
identified male is in a female only space, he is
committing a violent abusive act. Make a scene, call the cops,
and if all else fails, punch him in the balls. Now,
I don't really agree with that post. I think if
you have a genuine trans woman trying to use the
(24:18):
women's bathroom in peace and not bother anyone, that is
not a violent act. They don't agree with that, And
I think to call the cops wouldn't really be necessary
or appropriate. I think if anyone is causing a problem
in a space by being inappropriate toward someone else, trans
or not, then you should call the cops. But I
think the punch him in the balls thing was a
(24:40):
joke and it clearly wasn't inciting violence, because in order
to be incitement of violence, you have to be directing proximate, imminent,
specific action. So if you were in a bathroom and
you said to a person, and there's a transperson right there,
and you said, punch him in the balls. That would
be incitement of violence. But simply joking in general about
(25:00):
punching someone in the balls, because that's what am I saying.
This podcast is such a wild trip sometimes joke. It's
a joke made about the male anatomy, right, Like that's
the point of the joke. He's a comedian, Get over it.
It is not a crime. Nobody was hurt, right, Like
you know how the products mark Like, no animals were
(25:21):
harmed in the production of this product. Yeah, no trans
people were harmed in the posting of this tweet, all right.
And the other thing people need to realize is that
if these speech crimes, these thought crimes, these transphobic tweets
can get you arrested, well then the government has a
right then to arrest every single transactivist who were who
held up a punch Turf's sign. Right, If you really
(25:44):
want to play this game, it is not going to
go well for either side. We are much better served
as a society and just as a culture because I
know this is Britain, this is not the US, but
we share common institutions and heritage and ideals and values.
We are much better served by an open society where
people can say things, whether they hurt other people's feelings
(26:06):
or not, rather than a dystopian society where people are arrested.
And this is not an outlier example. The New York
Post reports this that the UK's free speech crackdown is
now seeing up to thirty people a day arrested for
petty offenses like retweets and cartoons. That is dystopian. It
is a massive waste of police resources who should probably
(26:28):
be I don't know, cracking down on knife crime and
other issues that actually affect people in ways beyond momentarily
hurt fee fees. And it is only going to i think,
in gender more resistance and backlash and hatred when you
try to crack down on what people can say and
think in this manner. And guys, this is why it
(26:50):
is so important and so crucial that we have a
First Amendment in the United States. That it's not perfect,
it can't stop everything, but it offers a legal bullwark
against this kind of just censorship, and that's why we
have to preserve it. We have to cherish it even
when that means defending really extreme anti Israel speech or
really extreme progressive left wing speech. We have to maintain
(27:13):
stringent First Amendment protections in America for everyone, or this
kind of thing could be just a few years now. Honestly,
I'm not being alarmist here. If we did not have
a First Amendment, I would say we would have probably
had this kind of thing happening in places in the
US and Blue States in twenty twenty. I genuinely think
(27:33):
arresting people of our pronouns or other such things or
over mean tweets, I think that would absolutely have happened.
So guys, to Graham Lenehan, to anyone in the UK,
I'm sorry that this is happening. But this is why
we threw that tea in the harbor and why we
wrote a different constitution than yours, and we're keeping it
(27:57):
that way. Thank you very much. What do you guys think?
Can you believe how out of control things have gotten
across the pond? Let me know in the comments, make
sure subscribe hit that like button while you are at it. Yah,
and guys, that'll be it for today's episode of the
Bad Versus Everyone Podcast. Thanks so much for tuning in
remember sending your voicemails for my voicemail Friday episodes, and
(28:18):
uh we'll talk again.
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