The Trump Manifesto, Newsom’s Bad Trump Cosplay & The Gerrymandering Lie

Good morning from a rainy Houston, Texas. It is Beth Guide, and welcome back to Talking Purple — where I try to make sense of common again, because lately, common sense feels like a lost language.

Today’s episode is a big one. Pull up a chair, grab the coffee, because we are unpacking the latest assassination attempt on President Trump, the manifesto that should be lighting up every parent’s radar, the late-night comedians who have completely lost the plot, Gavin Newsom’s failed Trump cosplay, the SD4 special election here in our backyard, and a deep dive into what gerrymandering actually is — not what the keyboard activists on your local school board Facebook page think it is.

Buckle up.

The Trump Assassination Attempt — And the Crowd Cheering for It

Let’s start with the elephant in the room. There was another assassination attempt on President Trump, this time at the Correspondents’ Dinner. The shooter did not make it into the room, thank God. And immediately, the staged-event crowd started up again. Let me say this loud enough for the people in the back: nobody is packing up a gun, throwing away the rest of their life, and walking themselves into a federal prison cell for a staged event. That is not how this works. Use your head.

What is flying under the radar — and shouldn’t be — is that the alleged shooter is a teacher. A teacher. That means he has been in front of our kids, influencing students, day in and day out. That is a massive problem and we should be talking about it a whole lot more than we are.

Then there is the manifesto. Three words: rapist, pedophile, traitor. And here is where I want to stop and have a real conversation, because if you actually believe the President of the United States is the second coming of Hitler, that he is molesting children, that he is selling out the country — I cannot fully blame somebody for thinking they need to take matters into their own hands. That is the logical end of believing those narratives. The problem is not the guy with the gun. The problem is the machine that convinced him those things were true.

Let’s go through the three accusations like grown-ups.

Traitor. This comes from the Russia collusion story. That story has been debunked six times over. The minute they came back with hookers in a hotel room, common sense should have told everybody this was a put-up job. Smart people are still repeating it. Get out of the echo chamber and actually read both sides.

Pedophile. This one rides on Epst