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3 Podcasters walk into a Bar – Trump Assination from an Energy Perspective
Stuart Turley [00:00:15] Well we have. Did you ever have that opportunity to go to a bar? You had three guys walk into a bar and your uncle starts making that joke, and everybody starts digging for the carpet. I happen to know the other two bartenders that are going into a podcast or bar. What do you think, David? My name Stuart Turley, president CEO of the sandstone Group. Listen, do you smell that? We are going to have an absolutely fun time. I’ve got David Blackmon here. David is a Substack contributing author. He is a Forbes author. We’re just having a barrel of fun, aren’t we?
David Blackmon [00:00:50] We’re just having tons of fun, man.
Stuart Turley [00:00:53] I’ll tell you what. We’re missing the famous RT, but I’m wearing my Trump hat from 2020, and it’s kind of stylish, isn’t it?
David Blackmon [00:01:00] Looks good.
Stuart Turley [00:01:01] All right. Hey, we are going to talk a little bit about our assassination today because there’s a lot of things that are going on in, in the environment today, David. And wanted to get your kicking us off here.
David Blackmon [00:01:16] Yeah, there’s a lot of things going on, including probably the the biggest scandal that’s ever hit the Secret Service, over their massive failure on Saturday in Pennsylvania to protect the Republican nominee for the presidency. And it is, I think maybe an unprecedented failure that is highly comparable to the the failure the agency experienced, in Dealey Plaza on November 22nd, 1963. And when they left President John F Kennedy completely unprotected. And, he ended up getting him killed. So, it’s really, really.
Stuart Turley [00:01:57] Was and was later on attributed with, really causing that correct or.
David Blackmon [00:02:04] So, yeah, I mean, that’s that’s, part of the theories. But there’s no question it’s not a theory to say the Secret Service miserably failed to protect John Kennedy. The the detail to Mr. Kennedy violated every protocol the service has, and failing to secure any of the tall buildings that the motorcade passed in front of, failing to secure any aspect of Dealey Plaza whatsoever. They admitted later they didn’t have any personnel in the plaza itself when the motorcade passed. It’s, you know, you could I mean, there’s been entire books written just on the topic of how the Secret Service failed, and, it would take all day to cover it all.
Stuart Turley [00:02:54] We’ve got a couple things. We’ve been I’ve been scouring, and it’s just amazing. Before we get started on this, I just want to say I am still a certified rangemaster, and I spent a lot of time on the ranch. I have thrown people off of the range, and you could almost hit from where that was with a slingshot or a lawn dart that I used to play with in the yard. Remember those landmarks you used to have? This is not a long shot. And when we.
David Blackmon [00:03:24] Were not at all my.
Stuart Turley [00:03:26] Sniper. But this was, we have a long, long range. We’re so lucky that, President Trump is still here.
David Blackmon [00:03:35] We really are. And it’s only because he happened to turn his head at the last microsecond before the bullet got to him.
Stuart Turley [00:03:43] I want to do a serious film first here, and this is one of the best ones that I want to give a shout out to Elon Musk, for having, really? I see censorship, on my site. I know on your site because I watch, some of this stuff going on. We’re censored and I’m proud to say I’m censored, but let’s watch this film, here, because this, as we go through this was just I was crying. In fact, I’m still get all teared up.
Stuart Turley [00:04:18] We we start taking a look at this timeline, and, and you really get a sense you pointed this out to me. David. There he is.
Stuart Turley [00:04:30] And I’m going to show the maps here in just a minute to really break out from a rangemaster, if you would, a sniper perspective on this.
Stuart Turley [00:04:41] And we’ve got.
David Blackmon [00:04:42] To see right under the big flag that it just showed is where the president is speaking. I mean, it’s it’s an easy shot, folks. An easy shot.
Stuart Turley [00:04:52] And when you you sent me one of the videos like this, we listen to them
David Blackmon [00:05:01] Now, this is still well over two minutes before any shots are fired. 2 minutes to 4 minutes, and they just leave Trump up there to continue speaking.
Stuart Turley [00:05:12] And there’s a lady right over here. This is where she look. The lady in the right hand corner. She’s smiling. She holds up a sign a little bit later and
David Blackmon [00:05:23] Right Before the shots.
Stuart Turley [00:05:24] Right before the shots. And then she’s kind of looking around, nursing questionable people that are in there that need to be. And most people are digging for carpet,
David Blackmon [00:05:34] Here.
Stuart Turley [00:05:35] And she’s sitting there with her phone out. She must know something’s going on.
David Blackmon [00:05:39] Right. Which it’s very odd behavior for sure.
Stuart Turley [00:05:45] Now watch. This is going to roll into three different screens.
Stuart Turley [00:06:12] And look, Watch him in the upper right corner here, he raises up off the scope.
David Blackmon [00:06:17] Yeah.
Stuart Turley [00:06:21] Now look at it. Look at the crowd. Joe couldn’t fill a high school.
Stuart Turley [00:06:30] Now watch the center one. It’s going to come back and zoom in. Watch the Secret service.
David Blackmon [00:06:42] Oh, yeah. The shortest person in the detail. It leaves his head completely exposed. I mean, why somebody who’s maybe five feet tall trying to protect Donald Trump is six foot three.
Stuart Turley [00:06:58] And Baron is, what, seven.
David Blackmon [00:07:00] Six? Seven, four? Something like that. Yeah. He’s he’s.
Stuart Turley [00:07:03] Told. Look at the time. Three minutes out the Trump rally underway. We don’t know that President Trump has been shot. I also had a video of, Reagan’s shooting. They the the the amount of machine guns and armament that came out of those guys pockets in less than a second. Wow.
David Blackmon [00:07:29] This I mean, leaving him up there, standing there talking for two minutes is, you know, it’s I mean, I don’t want to just say there’s a conspiracy here, but that’s pretty hard to explain.
Stuart Turley [00:07:42] I got.
David Blackmon [00:07:43] Multiple people shouting at you about a shooter being on the roof, and you do nothing but the guy. Clearly, the sniper clearly has the guy in his sights and doesn’t fire a shot. So who’s telling him not to fire? Where’s that order coming from?
Stuart Turley [00:07:59] Well, there’s the guy right here. He’s a.
David Blackmon [00:08:01] Police sniper. He’s not a Secret Service sniper. But Secret Service coordinates with local police all the time. On.
Stuart Turley [00:08:08] And allegedly, this is not confirmed, but he says that he was told to stand down. Yeah. I do not know if this is confirmed. I don’t want to put it out. There is being confirmed. But when you take a look at this from a sniper, training type thing, that is an event 130 yards. Look at this. From what we were looking at right here to here, I would train with a 1911 at 100 yards, a pistol. Okay. This is not rocket science. That is definitely something that you would check out. I’ve seen alleged conversations with people saying, oh, it was written off and told not to go up there. I don’t know what to believe on that. But look at this.
David Blackmon [00:08:56] Yeah, no. And, you know, we have reports. In fact, I think it’s from DHS actually admits that the day before this event, the Secret Service scoped this location out, identified the target where the shooter is, the building is the shooter is as a primary target that needed to be protected and then didn’t protect it. They didn’t do anything to close that off. And meanwhile the sniper gets up there with a damn ladder that had been put there for him to climb up, whether he brought it or who brought it, I don’t know, right? And I suspect we’ll never know because the FBI is leading the investigation and we all know how that goes. You know, I so where did the ladder come from? Who put it there, when did it get there, and how if the Secret Service really did inspect that site the day before the event and identify it as a critical target that needed to be protected? How did the ladder get missed if it was already there and if it got brought there the day of the event? Well, who the hell was responsible for letting that happen?
Stuart Turley [00:10:07] And who was the policeman that allegedly there was someone that raised up and looked at that policeman and then fell back off the roof.
David Blackmon [00:10:16] Right. Right.
Stuart Turley [00:10:16] I’m looking for that video. I don’t have a confirmation on this, but this is the one that really gets me. Dan Bongino did say it is confirmed, that they did ask for additional, Secret Service and it was denied.
David Blackmon [00:10:33] Sounds worse than denied. They took 20 to 30 for 30 or 40%. There’s mixed reports of Trump’s normal regular Secret Service detail, some of the most experienced officers in the detail and reassigned them to event Joe Biden, Jill Biden, the first lady, was conducting in Pittsburgh on the same day. And you replace them with inexperienced, people from from a field office somewhere in Pennsylvania? Yeah, that’s absolutely true.
Stuart Turley [00:11:06] you’re one of your D-I hires right here.
David Blackmon [00:11:10] Yeah. I mean.
Stuart Turley [00:11:11] And here’s Donald Trump with this one six foot guy we can see over him. I did get a, a Secret Service DEA training manual. And it’s a video. So if you hang on. David, are you ready for this one? Sure. Okay, this is a training manual for the new secret service here.
Stuart Turley [00:11:58] The assassination attempt at President Trump is not a laughing matter.
David Blackmon [00:12:02] No it’s not.
Stuart Turley [00:12:03] It is. This is a laughing matter. Because this is actually a training film that they’ve been using. When you take a look at when you take a look at the the way they were. The ladies were coming around at the end of it and they were trying really well. It’s embarrassing. It’s it is.
David Blackmon [00:12:22] Awful. And and you know, I it’s it’s really hard to defend how people haven’t already been fired. How do you defend this. How do you look at what we’re seeing today and keep the same people in their jobs for a moment longer? The everybody in the chain of command at the Secret Service needs to be fired today and replaced with some people who actually know what they’re doing, because obviously, the command, chain at the Secret Service right now has no idea how to protect at least a Republican candidate for the presidency.
Stuart Turley [00:13:01] You mean they don’t have the desire or the ability?
David Blackmon [00:13:05] Well, that remains to be seen. But, I mean, there’s just. No, there’s no I mean, even The Washington Post has an article out this afternoon characterizing this as a massive, catastrophic failure by the Secret Service.
Stuart Turley [00:13:20] Who do you.
David Blackmon [00:13:21] There’s no other way to put it.
Stuart Turley [00:13:23] Who do you think that President Trump is going to pick today for his VP?
David Blackmon [00:13:28] Well, as it happens, about three minutes ago, I got a notice across my computer that he has chosen JD Vance, the senator from Ohio.
Stuart Turley [00:13:46] Yeah, we were just talking about that a second ago. I just got this across my wire that, when you get a motorcade from someone, from the Secret Service going to your house, I kind of figured, oh, it’s going to be Vance.
David Blackmon [00:14:00] And so that means I, you know, I, I mean, I don’t know, I like JD Vance. I think he’ll be a very solid vice president. And, what picking him does is, you know, JD Vance now becomes the obvious, successor to Trump to carry on, the Trump agenda because Trump is a lame duck the day they, he takes office, for his second term. And everybody knows that. And so, you know, I suspect JD Vance will, actually play a much heavier role in terms of making policy and and taking on real duties, than we’ve seen from past vice presidents and certainly that we’ve seen from the current one.
Stuart Turley [00:14:44] How do we, I’ll tell you, I’m getting really offended. I want to start this piece of this conversation here, David, with two things. One, when we had the summer of love in the Antifa, this is my Trump 2022 hat, and I have several letters and I’m I’m a real I put my hat down because Antifa was, you know, going around and anybody with Antifa had you had to get into a fight. And, you know, I want to make sure I didn’t get my family in a fight or anything like that. I’ve got one word for family, other family members, my family that are under TDs, or any Antifa members or any innocent people near me. I’m wearing my cotton pick and stinking Trump hat no matter where I go. And if anybody wants to talk to me about my opinions anymore, you can just kiss my ass.
David Blackmon [00:15:41] Yeah, I mean, there’s going to be a lot of that happening, I think, in the wake of this assassination attempt. And I think, you know, I think we all need to. Really be aware that just because there’s been one. Attempt on Trump’s life doesn’t mean there won’t be another one.
Stuart Turley [00:15:59] Alex Jones today brought up an interesting point, and since this is three podcasters walk into a bar, this is more like a bar discussion. He brought up an interesting point, and another comedian brought up another point, and that was, hey guys, if you all try to take out your own president, don’t blame us because we kind of like having Biden there now.
David Blackmon [00:16:21] Yeah.
Stuart Turley [00:16:21] And and so all of a sudden you sit back and think, what value does President Biden have right now? To them, he’s worth more to Hillary dead than he is alive.
David Blackmon [00:16:33] Yeah, I you know, I would if I was either one of these guys, I would certainly be retaining. Real security people.
Stuart Turley [00:16:43] Absolutely.
David Blackmon [00:16:44] Curity people who. Really do know. How to.
Stuart Turley [00:16:46] This Joe Biden put this out here and it has been pulled off. I have one job and that is to beat Donald Trump. I’m absolutely certain I’m the best person to do that. So we’re done talking about the debate. It’s time to put Trump in a bullseye. This is absolutely despicable. And and you take a look at all the language any more that you hear like this from the Democrats, from the left wing nut job media. I’m tired of it. It’s why I think all of our podcast that we produce do so well. David, I think it’s why people look at you as a trusted leader is that they’re looking for non mainstream media. It’s why they love Iryna Love. It’s why they love Tammy Nemeth. Michael, and Artie Trevino and all of the other great podcasters that are out there. This is why they’re they’re putting all this crap out there.
David Blackmon [00:17:42] You know? And this is just what the things that Biden is said. I mean, this is really pretty tame compared to what, people like Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff. And, I mean, you can just rattle off two dozen names from Democrats in Washington.
Stuart Turley [00:17:59] This totally just put out on The View.
David Blackmon [00:18:02] Yeah. I mean, she’s so awful. Yeah. So this is I mean, as I wrote Saturday night, and just in the immediate wake of the attempted killing, this was inevitable. This was inevitable. It’s all attributable to the inflammatory rhetoric the Democrats have been throwing at Trump with characterizing him as Hitler and dehumanizing him in that way and claiming he’s a threat to our democracy, you know, and would rule as a dictator. It’s like we’ve forgotten the man was already president for four years and none of that crap happened. Okay, well, none of it happened.
Stuart Turley [00:18:40] This one. We need to take a minute and just listen to the beloved Hillary here
Video Speaker 1 [00:18:48] And then they would try to do away with elections and do away with opposition and do away with a free press.
David Blackmon [00:18:54] This is Her projecting what she wants to do
Video Speaker 1 [00:18:56] To wear. Well, Hitler was duly elected, right, right. And so all of a sudden, somebody with those tendencies, so dictatorial, authoritarian tendencies would be like, oh, okay, we’re going to shut this down. We’re going to throw these people in jail. And and they didn’t usually telegraph that Trump is telling us what he intends to do. So people would go.
Stuart Turley [00:19:19] Okay.
David Blackmon [00:19:24] All right. I mean, I. Actually saying that at a time when when her own president is conducting this lawfare operation, trying to put his political opponent in prison.
Stuart Turley [00:19:34] And to say whatever, what a great thing that one of those David was just, dismissed. One of those cases was Florida.
David Blackmon [00:19:42] Yeah. And, you know, because of the immunity ruling and I mean, really the the DC case, the January 6th case that the same prosecutor that’s fraudulent prosecutor Jack Ryan is bringing against Trump, that one should have already been dismissed as well. It just is. This. I mean, that’s what’s so unprecedented in, you know, you’ve got Hillary Clinton talking, talking about all that while her own party is doing all of that. Okay. It’s her party that’s attacking the validity of our election system, her party that’s doing away with voter ID and every other protection we have against foreigners voting in our elections. That’s her party doing.
Stuart Turley [00:20:24] It right after I got that one. Notice on X, that the case was dismissed, this came across. Yeah. They were.
Stuart Turley [00:20:44] I don’t get it. Why? You know what? What is it got to do? Just get in there like.
David Blackmon [00:20:51] A vampire feeding off the misery of of woke idiots.
Stuart Turley [00:20:55] I saw that, I go, what did I just miss? It had to have been good. And then. So then. Oh, yeah. One of his is things got. He got none. So, a Trump. You and I talked about this on the energy realities this morning and that is that with a Trump presidency, lower energy prices are on the horizon. I notice that in my day, trades and stuff going on that, solar, chip manufacturers and everybody was taking it in the shorts. I mean, it’s some serious downside. So the market is even responding in, in an interesting kind of way.
David Blackmon [00:21:32] Yeah. I mean. We always end up with lower oil prices in a Republican presidency because the industry is freed up to, to do its business. And, you know, we end up flooding the market with, with more oil and natural gas and prices go down. And, yeah, you know, you can always count on the industry to drill its self out of a state of prosperity. And the, the, the policies of this administration, the Biden presidency, have had the perverse effect of making the industry probably as healthy as it has ever been. Strong prices, limited capital allocation to new drilling, but they’re still able to keep production up due to technological advancements. It’s been a pretty sweet spot for the oil and gas business in this administration, in spite of everything Biden’s done to try to harm it, it’s amazing.
Stuart Turley [00:22:33] Yeah. Unbelievable.
David Blackmon [00:22:37] But, yeah, J.D. Vance, you know, here’s the downside of picking Vance is he’s an excellent senator. He’s very conservative. He agrees with Trump on pretty much every issue. And now his appoint, his, replacement will be appointed by this milquetoast country club, Republican governor Mike DeWine in Ohio. And he’ll pick some rhino like Mitt Romney to replace JD Vance in the Senate. So you you’re sacrificing a very reliable supporter in the Senate for someone who’s going to be a whole lot less reliable. They may not be able to win reelection in five years.
Stuart Turley [00:23:18] That’s a tough. That’s a tough one because every seat counts. Every vote.
David Blackmon [00:23:22] Counts. Yeah. And this is how the Senate is going to you know, I think the Republicans are probably have to be favored to win a majority in the Senate now. But it’s going to be a small majority. It’ll be a tight one, maybe 52, 53 seats. And, so, you know, I mean, it would have been great to have JD Vance still in the Senate.
Stuart Turley [00:23:45] You know, I, I still would have preferred, General Flynn, as the vice president pick. I’m going to stay with it. And because if he would have been made the czar to clean out everything, I think that would have made everything wonderful.
David Blackmon [00:24:04] Well, you certainly wouldn’t have had to worry about there being a lack of effort.
David Blackmon [00:24:11] Wouldn’t have had to worry about there being any lack of dedication to duty had it known. General,
Stuart Turley [00:24:16] he would have taken it down. He would have taken out the deep state. So imagine four years under General Flynn as a VP and then eight years as a president. We might have really stood a chance against, wiping out the deep state because you talked about the Chevron difference for so long that it is. We just had more, lawsuits put out by the Biden administration in blocking more oil in Alaska just the other day. Yeah, they’re they’re not going to take it laying down.
David Blackmon [00:24:50] So for for Trump, if he does get elected, the most critical thing he has to do is choose an attorney general who is an a turncoat. And he failed to do that three times in his first term in office or twice. Right. The pro tem, the temporary guy, the acting attorney general whose name I’m going to forget, was fine, but, Bill Barr and especially Jeff Sessions were horrible picks. And, he’s got to get that pick, right? Because having, you know, having really bad choices in the attorney general’s post is what led to having a special counsel, Robert Mueller. That’s what led to the persecution of General Flynn for all those years. And, so it has a major rippling effect throughout the administration. And he’s got to get that appointment right or or he’ll be wasting his time again.
Stuart Turley [00:25:42] Oh, absolutely. Well, President Trump, if you’re listening, we love you. And. I still get worked up. I’m just pissed.
David Blackmon [00:25:55] Yeah.
Stuart Turley [00:25:55] I just want to say don’t be taken out. My president.
David Blackmon [00:26:00] Yeah, I was pretty. Pretty, irate myself. I still am, really. I mean, all morning, I’ve been just. Pretty much on edge.
Stuart Turley [00:26:09] There are people that are out there that know how they’re going to react in that situation. If they’ve been in them, and I’ve been in situations where I know that I stand up for innocent folks, and I put my life on the line for innocent folks. Nobody will have to worry about whether I’m going to sit there and look at a guy on the ladder, whether or not, somebody is going to take action. I would have been crawling up on that damn roof. No matter what happened to drag that rat bastard off. I’m sorry.
David Blackmon [00:26:39] I mean, those those videos are just. Just the awful thing in the world.
Stuart Turley [00:26:46] And and and if anybody is walking around my town, my family, and they’re pulling some antifa bullshit. You just woke up Smokey Bear.
David Blackmon [00:27:00] Yeah. Y’all better stay away from Stu.
Stuart Turley [00:27:04] Or stay right next to me. Yeah, cause I’m pissed. And I’ll tell you what, how many other guys like me are out there?
David Blackmon [00:27:15] Oh, and they got most of the guns.
Stuart Turley [00:27:19] Yes we do. And how many of us old range masters and sniper trainers are getting really, really irritated right now? Right.
David Blackmon [00:27:28] Yeah. No, you can feel it building. I mean, I, I just hope and pray. We don’t have any more incidents like this before.
Stuart Turley [00:27:39] I do too, I but, this.
David Blackmon [00:27:42] I don’t think we can necessarily assume that.
Stuart Turley [00:27:45] No. Here’s me in the way I think of this current political situation right now. Look, this. I mean, here I am, I’m sitting here kind of going, what else could go wrong around here? Okay, you got aliens flying around? You got this. David, you and I laugh about it with all the time. And Michael Tanner, and we kind of laugh about it. I’ve never seen this kind of environment for energy. I’ve never been able to say, hey, wait a minute. My company, we’re evaluating, oil and gas investment deals. We can say, hey, this is a good deal. Hey, you’re going to get 30% back on your money on this. It’s going to be, you know, all that. Then you go back over here. You see, the Green New Deal is bad. People are waking up and realizing that this is like, Holy cow, Batman, it’s really, really bad. They’re getting screwed. And then you got, all the stuff going on. So all I can say is, I would like to thank all of our listeners out there and everyone that is giving us positive feedback for the energy realities for the David, Blackman’s in the energy question, David’s energy absurdity on black on, Substack, Irina’s Substack, Irina’s love. Not Substack, not com, Tammy Nemeth. We have Doctor Chalmers, and the energy questions with Stu on, the energy. So all of our channels are just going nuts, and I just don’t I do appreciate, everyone with that, so.
David Blackmon [00:29:23] Absolutely. Absolutely.
Stuart Turley [00:29:26] Yeah. Last words there, David, before I start getting all worked up.
David Blackmon [00:29:30] God bless America and God bless Donald Trump and even God bless Joe Biden. And, let’s hope everybody stays, upright and healthy. And, we have a free and fair election.
Stuart Turley [00:29:41] We can hope. But, too big. The rig, I think, is what I heard.
David Blackmon [00:29:47] Well, hopefully. I mean. Yeah.
Stuart Turley [00:29:49] You know, I heard a stat that really, as we sign off here, David, I heard a stat that just kind of white man being a, rangemaster. I kind of understood this one. If all of the voters, all of the hunters signed up, there’s no way that they could lose if any voter, because there’s so many, hunters that are not registered to vote. Think about that number. Yeah. You know, I’m going to be out there calling all the buddies. Calling. Hey, you know, get off your deer stand and go vote.
David Blackmon [00:30:21] It’s going to matter.
Stuart Turley [00:30:22] It is. Have a great one.
David Blackmon [00:30:25] Thank you.
