The Boy Wants A Ballroom! A Conversation with Joanna Johnson

The PoliticsGirl Podcast

MeidasTouch Network, Leigh McGowan

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.9 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2026

⏱️ 63 minutes

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We don’t know if the shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner was staged. What we do know, is that everyone involved acted incredibly strangely before, during, and after, and within an hour of the event there was a calculated onslaught of propaganda from the White House press room to the entirety of the right wing internet around the necessity of Trump getting his ballroom. And if you don’t think that’s weird…you’re not paying attention. As always, if you find worth in what we do, please consider SUBSCRIBING to PoliticsGirl Premium. You’ll get this podcast ad free and it, and the the rants delivered directly to your inbox so even if we’re shut out of social media, you’ll still get access to the most highly researched, factual information available. Independent media needs your support now more than ever. Go to https://www.politicsgirl.com/premium and subscribe today!! Thank you so much! xoPG Guest social: https://unlearn16.com/ As always, please RATE and SUBSCRIBE so we can grow the show, open the dialogue, and inspire change moving forward! All show links here!: https://linktr.ee/politicsgirl This episode is sponsored by… https://MUDWTR.com code: politicsgirl https://OneSkin.co/politicsgirl code: politicsgirl https://HoneyLove.com/politicsgirl https://biologica.com/politicsgirl

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0:00.0	If a group of Republicans said, we're done.
0:04.3	And we're going to, at this moment, negate our power.
0:08.5	Because if it comes from the Democrats, it just looks like you're angry.
0:11.1	Right.
0:11.6	We're going to give up our power.
0:14.5	Why?
0:15.5	Because this country and saving this republic and this democracy is more important than us or my next
0:24.2	election. You know I'm telling the truth? Because I stand to lose everything. Give me 10 Republicans.
0:31.4	Give me seven Republicans like that. And I'm telling you, and I hope the Republicans are listening,
0:36.6	maybe everybody can send this to
0:37.8	them. If you do that, you've solidified the rest of your career.
0:52.4	Hello, and welcome to the Politics Girl podcast. I'm your host Lee McGowan. Let's get into it.
0:57.3	Well, the White House Correspondence dinner took place over the weekend, and it didn't go exactly as planned.
1:02.6	Or, if you look at things the way I do these days, where I've been forced to live in a perpetual tinfoil hat, conspiracy theory, actually this might be the most logical way to think of it world.
1:12.0	This weekend might have gone exactly as planned.
1:15.0	To paraphrase attorney and writer Carolyn Stout, we do not know if the shooting at the White
1:20.2	House correspondence dinner was staged, but the circumstances are strange, and the whole thing
1:24.7	feels incredibly muddy.
1:26.3	So while it could be a false flag,
1:28.3	it could also just be an astounding cascade of immense ineptitude. Stout writes, what's disturbing
1:33.8	about this incident is the immediate propaganda that came out for the White House ballroom,
1:38.8	and the conclusions that the White House were themselves making about the shooter and the
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