WEBVTT - THINK BIG, BE BIG, DEMOCRATS! THIS IS NOT THE FINAL COUNTDOWN - 5.11.26 0:00:04.795 --> 0:00:18.715 Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. And 0:00:18.875 --> 0:00:21.715 we're back from a week off, just in time for 0:00:21.835 --> 0:00:27.195 me to put this podcast on hiatus for my health. Yes, 0:00:27.395 --> 0:00:29.195 it was a bit of a dodge. I took the 0:00:29.195 --> 0:00:32.035 week off so I could go see some doctors. I'm okay, 0:00:32.395 --> 0:00:35.475 there's nothing life threatening. I don't even think there's anything 0:00:35.515 --> 0:00:38.675 that seriously threatens the long term future of this podcast, 0:00:39.475 --> 0:00:41.875 so you can turn it off now. I have to 0:00:41.915 --> 0:00:46.235 explain though, for at least two weeks, maybe a month 0:00:46.315 --> 0:00:49.075 more likely, I will not be doing this podcast because 0:00:49.115 --> 0:00:55.195 I have been diagnosed with atrial fibrillation, which, apart from 0:00:55.235 --> 0:00:57.635 the fact that it's a bad, bad thing to have 0:00:57.755 --> 0:01:00.995 if you have trouble saying the letter L, a true 0:01:01.435 --> 0:01:06.715 relation as I do, A FIB is the most common 0:01:06.755 --> 0:01:09.515 cause of arrhythmia in the heart. And what you don't 0:01:09.515 --> 0:01:12.475 want in the heart is arrhythmia. You like it to 0:01:12.515 --> 0:01:15.475 go thump thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, And mine is 0:01:15.515 --> 0:01:19.595 making a sound sometimes anyway, much more close to some 0:01:19.835 --> 0:01:22.795 jazz drummer going nuts with the symbols and just making 0:01:22.795 --> 0:01:28.515 this kind of sound in the background. This came up 0:01:28.555 --> 0:01:31.715 somewhat suddenly in retrospect, it's clear I've had many of 0:01:31.755 --> 0:01:35.675 the symptoms for a long time, possibly years, but there 0:01:35.715 --> 0:01:41.515 never was anything debilitating. And then during my physical three 0:01:41.515 --> 0:01:44.715 weeks ago, now I guess it is my GP, who 0:01:44.755 --> 0:01:47.555 is a cardiologist and a good one, was talking about 0:01:47.555 --> 0:01:49.995 how great my heart looked and how young it looked 0:01:49.995 --> 0:01:52.595 for an old guy like me. And then he said, 0:01:52.755 --> 0:01:56.955 and it's just for wait a minute, two words or 0:01:57.035 --> 0:01:59.555 three words you don't want to hear in the middle 0:01:59.635 --> 0:02:03.555 of an exam. Wait a minute, and it's a fib. 0:02:03.795 --> 0:02:08.155 So we are now exploring the non intervention kind of 0:02:08.195 --> 0:02:12.115 treatments for it, one of which involves reducing stress and 0:02:12.195 --> 0:02:15.395 no offense to you. You're the best part of this podcast, 0:02:15.635 --> 0:02:20.595 But the topic matter is for me like juggling flaming chainsaws. 0:02:20.835 --> 0:02:25.315 It's nothing but stress. What's alarming and what I now see, 0:02:25.515 --> 0:02:29.595 maybe in fact, a symptom of this aphib is the 0:02:29.675 --> 0:02:32.355 fact that the whole process of producing this, which normally 0:02:32.395 --> 0:02:34.635 I should be able to do in my sleep, because 0:02:34.635 --> 0:02:37.115 other than the improvement in the quality of the equipment, 0:02:37.475 --> 0:02:39.715 doing this is basically what I used to do in 0:02:39.715 --> 0:02:44.635 college radio with razor blades. Standing up. This is actually 0:02:44.755 --> 0:02:47.355 should be a simple process. There's only two of them 0:02:47.835 --> 0:02:50.835 a week, there are limited deadlines, and yet the whole 0:02:50.875 --> 0:02:54.675 thing seems daunting sometimes. So this is probably in fact 0:02:54.715 --> 0:02:58.555 the aphib because this sense of being exhausted and not 0:02:58.675 --> 0:03:03.915 having energy, and being artificially fearful or anxious about things, 0:03:04.075 --> 0:03:06.555 these are all symptoms of it. I urge you to 0:03:06.595 --> 0:03:09.715 get checked if you ever have anything that doesn't seem 0:03:09.795 --> 0:03:12.355 right about your heart, get it checked anyway. I mean, 0:03:12.395 --> 0:03:16.675 that's a standard rule. But look particularly for this aphib thing, 0:03:16.715 --> 0:03:18.955 because it can be treated in many different ways, the 0:03:18.995 --> 0:03:23.155 first of which is they give you medication that ensures 0:03:23.155 --> 0:03:25.035 that you will not have a stroke, because that's one 0:03:25.035 --> 0:03:26.715 of the great fears. If your heart beat is not 0:03:26.795 --> 0:03:30.155 going in the right way, your blood can coagulate in 0:03:30.315 --> 0:03:33.635 and around your heart and cause a clot, which could 0:03:33.635 --> 0:03:37.875 cause a stroke, and then you're in trouble. As my 0:03:38.195 --> 0:03:41.475 cardiologist said twenty twenty five years ago, when he would 0:03:41.475 --> 0:03:43.755 find this in somebody, the next thing would be to 0:03:43.795 --> 0:03:46.195 put them in a cab over to a major medical 0:03:46.235 --> 0:03:48.715 center where they'd have to stay at least the night. Now, 0:03:49.155 --> 0:03:51.395 he says, I give you this box of pills. I 0:03:51.435 --> 0:03:53.875 stick this monitor on your chest and you don't even 0:03:53.915 --> 0:03:56.235 have to take the pills for another four or five hours. 0:03:56.835 --> 0:03:59.635 So we're in the still in the pills stage, and 0:03:59.675 --> 0:04:01.995 I'm feeling a little bit better actually, and then we 0:04:02.115 --> 0:04:06.555 go to the more invasive things, which include fude. One 0:04:06.555 --> 0:04:10.075 of the treatments includes probably the best. The best treatment 0:04:10.115 --> 0:04:14.515 for an irregular heart beat involves a mild shock to 0:04:14.675 --> 0:04:17.715 the heart to reset the rhythm and encourage the heart 0:04:17.755 --> 0:04:20.355 to go back to them bum bum bum bum bum 0:04:20.395 --> 0:04:24.795 love dub love dub. You know the rest. Now, perhaps 0:04:24.955 --> 0:04:30.115 like you or certainly like me, when I hear shock 0:04:30.315 --> 0:04:35.915 to the heart, I think, Claire. So what I wanted 0:04:35.915 --> 0:04:38.315 to do here was to do some headlines of the day. 0:04:38.355 --> 0:04:40.795 And also I have a great story about my dog 0:04:40.955 --> 0:04:43.915 Ted and his heart problems, which I have been keeping 0:04:43.915 --> 0:04:46.515 from you because I wanted to wait till there was 0:04:46.795 --> 0:04:50.315 an established story there, and it's a story. I'll save 0:04:50.395 --> 0:04:52.675 that for last. And I want to talk about my 0:04:52.835 --> 0:04:57.555 first TV boss of bosses, the late Ted Turner, and 0:04:57.835 --> 0:05:02.515 how basically what you see in TV everything including ESPN, 0:05:02.995 --> 0:05:06.555 Ted Turner created that, although he did not directly create it, 0:05:07.235 --> 0:05:10.635 but I wanted to do, since you know, the possibility 0:05:10.675 --> 0:05:13.475 is they're going to hit my heart with the electricity. 0:05:13.555 --> 0:05:17.315 Are you sure this is a good idea, since they're 0:05:17.315 --> 0:05:19.515 going to do something like that, or keep me on 0:05:19.555 --> 0:05:23.075 these medications for a long time. I wanted to go 0:05:23.235 --> 0:05:32.195 big picture here first, just in case I don't resume 0:05:32.275 --> 0:05:35.755 this podcast in a month or less or whatever, or 0:05:35.795 --> 0:05:38.395 I get so well and feel so good that I say, 0:05:38.515 --> 0:05:41.035 to hell of it, I'm not resuming this podcast. I 0:05:41.155 --> 0:05:45.555 wanted to just talk big picture for a change, not 0:05:45.715 --> 0:05:48.755 the day's headlines, but the big implications, the sort of 0:05:48.755 --> 0:05:52.715 things people leave out of this commentary world because we 0:05:52.795 --> 0:05:55.635 are so occupied with these trees in front of us, 0:05:55.915 --> 0:06:01.835 and the forests are full of nightmares. Besides being insane 0:06:01.995 --> 0:06:04.995 and capable of just the one emotion, what can I 0:06:05.035 --> 0:06:08.315 get away with besides being lost in Iran? And we 0:06:08.355 --> 0:06:11.515 are lucky that Iran has not already invaded Washington and 0:06:11.555 --> 0:06:15.595 taken over. I guess we're lucky. We have to remember 0:06:15.635 --> 0:06:18.275 something that is becoming increasingly evident but is not being 0:06:18.315 --> 0:06:22.835 set alout. Donald Trump is Boss Tweed. Boss Tweed is 0:06:22.875 --> 0:06:27.795 a man who, in today money probably stole several billion 0:06:27.875 --> 0:06:31.595 dollars from the city of New York in the eighteen sixties, 0:06:32.355 --> 0:06:36.315 when there were no taxes, he was the all time 0:06:36.555 --> 0:06:42.675 financial crook, and Trump, I think, is going to exceed him. Also, 0:06:42.875 --> 0:06:45.075 whether he knows it or not, Trump is reducing us 0:06:45.115 --> 0:06:49.475 to a second rate power, threatening democracy here and around 0:06:49.515 --> 0:06:53.195 the world, as you know, elevating China and trying to 0:06:53.675 --> 0:06:55.795 although I don't think there's enough left in Russia to 0:06:55.875 --> 0:06:59.475 really make them a world power again, elevating Russia, or 0:06:59.515 --> 0:07:02.835 at least Prutin has managed to manipulate Trump for whatever 0:07:02.875 --> 0:07:05.955 reason and by whatever means those things, pee tapes and 0:07:05.995 --> 0:07:08.835 everything else that's almost incidental, I'm sorry to say. For 0:07:08.915 --> 0:07:11.355 those of you who like me just giggle over this 0:07:11.435 --> 0:07:17.835 because you're thirteen. The fact about Russia is that Putin 0:07:17.875 --> 0:07:21.395 has successfully and continues to successfully manipulate Trump into doing 0:07:21.515 --> 0:07:25.475 things that stave off, you know, a Russia that looks 0:07:25.515 --> 0:07:32.035 like nineteen oh five with mass starvation. I believe, truly. Still, 0:07:32.115 --> 0:07:34.635 I am still somewhat hopeful. I am not willing to 0:07:34.675 --> 0:07:38.475 say to hell with this America thing. I'm not there yet. 0:07:38.515 --> 0:07:41.715 I am still willing to believe that it will someday 0:07:41.795 --> 0:07:46.635 be illegal to use Trump's name anywhere or to say 0:07:46.635 --> 0:07:50.515 it out loud, unless it is preceded by popular Anglo 0:07:50.555 --> 0:07:54.875 Saxon epithets, the way it was basically illegal to use 0:07:54.955 --> 0:07:59.795 Hitler's name in Germany in the recent past, for like 0:07:59.835 --> 0:08:03.035 the thirty years after the Second World War. I still 0:08:03.115 --> 0:08:06.035 think we are going to wind up there. I also 0:08:06.155 --> 0:08:09.075 still think this all ends with one of them, one 0:08:09.115 --> 0:08:11.315 of the Trumps or one of his lackeys in the cabinet, 0:08:11.635 --> 0:08:17.915 accidentally electrocuting everybody at a cabinet meeting every day. I 0:08:17.955 --> 0:08:20.955 have a different favorite as to who's likeliest to do that. 0:08:21.235 --> 0:08:25.435 I think with the revelations about cash Patel and his 0:08:26.155 --> 0:08:29.915 pictures of his bourbon with his name on it, his 0:08:29.955 --> 0:08:33.715 own branded bourbon, that it's not enough that he was 0:08:33.755 --> 0:08:37.875 accused of drinking bourbon more or less by IV drip 0:08:38.395 --> 0:08:40.475 by the Atlantic I guess it was. And then he 0:08:40.555 --> 0:08:42.995 threatened to sue, and then he started to investigate the leaks, 0:08:43.035 --> 0:08:44.915 and then they came back with the next story, which 0:08:45.035 --> 0:08:47.715 was he wasn't just drinking bourbon, he was drinking bourbon 0:08:47.795 --> 0:08:49.475 out of bottles with his name on it, that he 0:08:49.515 --> 0:08:52.555 gave out his gifts. If that were not bad enough, 0:08:53.555 --> 0:08:56.995 this is where we are you've heard of this character, 0:08:57.155 --> 0:09:01.875 Mark Burns, big fat guy who goes by the nickname pastor. 0:09:02.635 --> 0:09:05.355 I thought for a long time he was a past pastor. 0:09:05.435 --> 0:09:09.035 Mark Burns is how he identifies himself. In fact, it's 0:09:09.075 --> 0:09:12.275 a nickname because I'm confident that I have read much 0:09:12.275 --> 0:09:14.475 more of the Bible than he has, and it's not 0:09:15.115 --> 0:09:18.515 on my top one hundred reading list. He wrote the 0:09:18.595 --> 0:09:21.875 other day that he went to Trump National Durral in Miami, 0:09:22.035 --> 0:09:26.275 big words for a crappy golf course, and he made history. 0:09:26.595 --> 0:09:30.995 He led the dedication event for President Donald J. Trump 0:09:31.035 --> 0:09:33.475 and the unveiling. He wrote of the twenty two foot 0:09:33.515 --> 0:09:36.755 statue created in his honor, if you have not seen it, 0:09:36.755 --> 0:09:40.675 it's a giant statue of Trump, twenty two feet high 0:09:40.915 --> 0:09:45.995 at a golf course, and it is the color of urine. 0:09:46.635 --> 0:09:49.275 Big picture here. I think it's time to look at 0:09:49.275 --> 0:09:51.915 this and stop saying he makes everything look like gold, 0:09:51.995 --> 0:09:53.915 or he puts gold on the wall. Call it what 0:09:53.955 --> 0:09:57.795 it is. Donald Trump recognizes only one color. It's the 0:09:57.835 --> 0:10:03.075 color of pists. It symbolizes him. It is his life's work. 0:10:03.595 --> 0:10:06.595 But color of you urin the stuff on the White 0:10:06.595 --> 0:10:09.955 House walls, that's not gold. It's the color of urine. 0:10:10.355 --> 0:10:15.675 Stop calling it gold. It's urine colored. His hair is 0:10:15.955 --> 0:10:22.715 urine colored. He is urine colored. He's President Donald Urine Trump. 0:10:23.555 --> 0:10:26.235 The more we get that point across, the better we 0:10:26.315 --> 0:10:32.395 will all be. But back to Mark quote Pastor Burns. Now, 0:10:34.595 --> 0:10:39.635 you might think that a statue twenty two feet high 0:10:40.195 --> 0:10:44.035 gold of a living being, that they all stand around 0:10:44.075 --> 0:10:46.915 and talk about how much it's history and how deeply 0:10:46.955 --> 0:10:50.515 honored they are and dedicated, and all these religious leaders 0:10:50.555 --> 0:10:52.555 were there, you might think that was. 0:10:52.755 --> 0:10:54.515 What's that story in the Bible again. 0:10:54.595 --> 0:11:00.155 The golden calf? Worshiping the golden calf. No, Mark has 0:11:00.235 --> 0:11:02.795 reassurance for you. Let me say this plainly. He said, 0:11:02.795 --> 0:11:05.755 this is not a golden calf, worship the Lord Jesus 0:11:05.835 --> 0:11:08.795 Christ and him alone. The statue is not about worship. 0:11:09.075 --> 0:11:15.155 It is about honor. Mark, bullshit, it's a golden calf. 0:11:15.715 --> 0:11:19.635 You're worshiping a false idol. I don't care much about 0:11:19.675 --> 0:11:22.715 the rules of your religion, whatever it is. Apparently you 0:11:22.755 --> 0:11:28.875 are in sign trumpology. But honestly, you would think by 0:11:28.915 --> 0:11:32.515 now that any deity supervising any religion that we've heard 0:11:32.555 --> 0:11:35.115 of or haven't heard of, would have already thrown a 0:11:35.195 --> 0:11:40.395 bolt Mark's way and said, hey, some of an irony 0:11:40.435 --> 0:11:44.955 here about your name being Burns. So we have Patel 0:11:45.075 --> 0:11:49.635 brand bourbon and a giant twenty two foot tall golden 0:11:49.755 --> 0:11:57.115 calf statue of Donald Trump, and it's urine colored. Those 0:11:57.195 --> 0:12:01.395 are the big picture issues on the MAGA side of this. 0:12:02.155 --> 0:12:04.355 But more seriously, I'd like to mention here just in 0:12:04.395 --> 0:12:07.675 case this is the last one, and perhaps when I resume, 0:12:07.715 --> 0:12:10.555 and I'm using when when I resume these I can 0:12:10.595 --> 0:12:12.755 pick up on some of these individually, because I think 0:12:12.795 --> 0:12:15.315 they're actually quite interesting, and they're the kind of things 0:12:15.475 --> 0:12:18.155 you think of when somebody says, yeah, it's fine, we're 0:12:18.195 --> 0:12:22.915 just gonna throw some electricity through your heart. How does 0:12:22.955 --> 0:12:28.315 that feel? The leading threat to democracy in this country 0:12:28.395 --> 0:12:32.755 right now is not Donald Trump. He is obviously the 0:12:32.755 --> 0:12:35.915 precipitate for all of this. But the leading threat is 0:12:36.635 --> 0:12:42.755 a small time Democratic party worldview. To quote the late 0:12:42.955 --> 0:12:46.515 John Candy in the movie Splash with my friend Tom Hanks, 0:12:47.515 --> 0:12:52.955 think big, be big, my friend. Right now, the big 0:12:53.075 --> 0:12:58.955 ideas on the left are, ooh uh, Kevin Newsom's gonna 0:12:58.955 --> 0:13:03.635 write mean tweets? Or should this candidate go on? Joe 0:13:03.755 --> 0:13:09.355 Rogan's podcast asked, these are not big thoughts. These are 0:13:10.035 --> 0:13:14.115 thoughts you have on the way home from work while 0:13:14.115 --> 0:13:17.275 you're going to go out and get drunk on Patel 0:13:17.395 --> 0:13:22.035 Brand Bourbon. Think big, be big. We need a party 0:13:22.075 --> 0:13:24.955 that is thinking in terms of what this country will 0:13:24.955 --> 0:13:27.795 look like if it still exists fifty years from now, 0:13:27.915 --> 0:13:31.275 and what we can do to save democracy, not just now, 0:13:31.475 --> 0:13:34.235 but after we defeat Trump and MAGA in this fall, 0:13:34.475 --> 0:13:37.395 and in twenty twenty eight and in twenty thirty two. 0:13:37.515 --> 0:13:40.595 And they have not gone away, because the biggest problem 0:13:40.675 --> 0:13:44.075 of the last fifteen years was and I understand why 0:13:44.115 --> 0:13:46.555 he did it, but Joe Biden and everybody at that 0:13:46.755 --> 0:13:49.995 stage of the liberal side of the equation of politics 0:13:49.995 --> 0:13:52.955 in this country who viewed the election of twenty twenty 0:13:52.995 --> 0:13:56.995 and the successful inauguration after Trump led a coup attempt 0:13:57.195 --> 0:14:00.195 in twenty twenty one, who viewed that as some sort 0:14:00.235 --> 0:14:03.275 of thing that merited the two word phrase the end. 0:14:04.915 --> 0:14:07.955 Like I said, when Obama was elected and everybody said, oh, 0:14:07.995 --> 0:14:09.675 we can take a breath, And when are you crazy? 0:14:09.715 --> 0:14:11.395 You think these people are going to go away now? 0:14:11.595 --> 0:14:14.515 They're angrier than they were, They have been thwarted, They 0:14:14.555 --> 0:14:16.835 are three year old children, and you took away their 0:14:16.915 --> 0:14:22.075 dream of killing you. So let's think big and be big. 0:14:22.115 --> 0:14:24.275 And some of these things will never happen, but if 0:14:24.315 --> 0:14:27.155 we don't start thinking about how to achieve them, we 0:14:27.235 --> 0:14:29.635 will not also come up with other ideas about how 0:14:29.635 --> 0:14:33.515 to achieve lesser doable things and maybe maybe just pull 0:14:33.555 --> 0:14:36.755 off some of these things. Like the most important thing 0:14:36.755 --> 0:14:39.475 we could do to preserve this country going forward is 0:14:39.515 --> 0:14:44.195 eliminate senatorial balance. There is no reason anymore on God's 0:14:44.275 --> 0:14:47.755 green Earth for Wyoming to have as many senators as 0:14:47.835 --> 0:14:52.035 New York. I don't know what the actual formula needs 0:14:52.075 --> 0:14:54.795 to be, but there should not be as many votes 0:14:54.875 --> 0:14:58.835 in Oklahoma as in California, not in the Senate, not 0:14:58.995 --> 0:15:01.435 in the House. We recognize the wisdom of it. In 0:15:01.475 --> 0:15:06.515 the House, people vote not empty land. I like empty land. 0:15:07.155 --> 0:15:09.915 I like bison as I will discuss later with Ted 0:15:09.955 --> 0:15:14.955 Turner about Ted Turner. He's not my guest, obviously, but 0:15:15.435 --> 0:15:19.515 we can't keep this going much longer. Eventually we will 0:15:19.555 --> 0:15:22.875 be ruled by a minority of fifteen percent of the population. 0:15:24.515 --> 0:15:27.835 Here's something else that we should work towards. You want 0:15:27.875 --> 0:15:30.955 to reform voting in this country. Well, it's very simple. 0:15:30.995 --> 0:15:34.955 You want everybody to be registered an IDD. Okay, we'll 0:15:34.955 --> 0:15:39.195 do that with this caveat you get automatic registration at 0:15:39.235 --> 0:15:44.155 birth or naturalization, or I don't know, when you register 0:15:44.275 --> 0:15:46.435 your car or get a license. There are all these 0:15:46.475 --> 0:15:47.875 other things that they say, we have to show an 0:15:47.875 --> 0:15:49.715 ID to get a license or to buy a loaf 0:15:49.755 --> 0:15:51.755 of bread, even though nobody's ever had to show a 0:15:51.755 --> 0:15:54.595 loaf of bread or to get an ID, or show 0:15:54.595 --> 0:15:56.355 an ID to get a loaf of bread. I don't 0:15:56.395 --> 0:15:58.675 know where that one came from. They keep saying this, 0:15:58.955 --> 0:16:01.355 you can't buy a pizza with an ID. Where are 0:16:01.395 --> 0:16:07.795 you buying your pizzas Moscow? Maybe they are automatic registration 0:16:07.915 --> 0:16:11.995 to vote when you are born, when they take the 0:16:12.115 --> 0:16:16.635 baby's toe prints and they say eighteen years from now, 0:16:16.675 --> 0:16:21.635 this baby's eligible to vote. Done. And by the way, 0:16:21.915 --> 0:16:25.995 mandatory voting. I've been pushing this for thirty years, longer 0:16:26.035 --> 0:16:29.555 than that. They have it in Australia. And if you 0:16:29.595 --> 0:16:32.155 don't vote, you get fined. We could do it the 0:16:32.195 --> 0:16:35.715 other way, since it's America. We could reward people with 0:16:36.515 --> 0:16:38.795 fifty dollars off your income tax if you can prove 0:16:38.835 --> 0:16:44.115 you voted. We have to eliminate the electoral college. That's obvious, 0:16:44.355 --> 0:16:47.155 and that's not a project that's going to take the 0:16:47.275 --> 0:16:51.515 storm or take the entire campaign world by storm in 0:16:51.555 --> 0:16:53.515 the midterms or in twenty twenty eight. I don't think 0:16:53.515 --> 0:16:55.475 we're going to get that done in the next fifty years. 0:16:55.555 --> 0:16:58.155 But why are we not thinking long term about this? 0:16:59.875 --> 0:17:05.835 Ideas of immediate concern and consequence can be done if 0:17:05.835 --> 0:17:09.155 there is some measure of bold leadership. You saw the 0:17:09.235 --> 0:17:13.595 Virginia Supreme Court throw out redistricting. There after it was 0:17:13.715 --> 0:17:18.035 voted on. The voters of the state approved it, the 0:17:18.075 --> 0:17:23.155 Supreme Court disapproved it. Well, the Supreme Court apparently did 0:17:23.195 --> 0:17:26.755 not know that there is absolute control of the mandatory 0:17:26.795 --> 0:17:31.315 retirement age for judges in Virginia given to the state legislatures. 0:17:32.075 --> 0:17:36.555 If you changed it today to fifty three, all of 0:17:36.595 --> 0:17:39.235 the members of the Virginia Supreme Court would have to 0:17:39.355 --> 0:17:42.995 retire two weeks from now, and then you just go 0:17:43.115 --> 0:17:46.035 back with your new Supreme Court and have that vote 0:17:46.075 --> 0:17:50.315 taken again and restore the redictory we're redistricting. We need 0:17:50.595 --> 0:17:53.155 that kind of thinking, and that has been proposed, and 0:17:53.195 --> 0:17:55.715 that has to be done, and anybody who gets in 0:17:55.755 --> 0:17:59.355 the way of this needs to be eliminated from the 0:17:59.355 --> 0:18:02.995 Democratic Party and perhaps prosecuted, as we should do with 0:18:03.075 --> 0:18:05.715 John Fetterman. There must be a way to take John 0:18:05.755 --> 0:18:07.915 Fetterman and not let him get away with this the 0:18:07.995 --> 0:18:11.915 way Mansion did or Kristen Cinema did. My old bedfellow. 0:18:12.275 --> 0:18:15.275 Politics make strange ballot bedfellows, and none of them have 0:18:15.315 --> 0:18:20.075 ever been stranger than her. Why not if this is 0:18:20.115 --> 0:18:22.715 my last podcast, you can quote me on that. Put 0:18:22.755 --> 0:18:26.555 that on my tombstone. Got to be a way to 0:18:26.555 --> 0:18:28.395 force him out. Got to be a way to do something, 0:18:28.475 --> 0:18:31.275 because he's a liar. He lied all the way through 0:18:31.315 --> 0:18:34.235 the campaign. He has lied every moment. He has lied 0:18:34.275 --> 0:18:37.195 to every voter. He should be sued by everybody who 0:18:37.315 --> 0:18:39.795 voted for him. If everybody who voted for him sued 0:18:39.835 --> 0:18:42.035 him for a million dollars, he would flee the country 0:18:42.075 --> 0:18:47.235 within hours. Anyway, back to the more realistic ones. Eliminating 0:18:47.275 --> 0:18:52.715 the sanatorial balance, automatic registration at birth or naturalization, mandatory voting, 0:18:52.715 --> 0:18:56.955 eliminate the electoral college. And there's more to come, but 0:18:57.275 --> 0:18:59.595 just as a pause before I get to the rest 0:18:59.635 --> 0:19:02.075 of my list, and you probably have your own list. 0:19:02.995 --> 0:19:06.435 Project twenty twenty five was it's a crazy wish list. 0:19:07.355 --> 0:19:12.155 But the fascists had the vision that they would someday 0:19:12.355 --> 0:19:16.995 change everything. They started to create things on that list 0:19:17.195 --> 0:19:22.235 when Barry Goldwater led that party. We have spent sixty 0:19:22.315 --> 0:19:28.315 years staving off the Barry Goldwaters of this land, successfully 0:19:28.395 --> 0:19:33.315 sometimes obviously more recently not so much. We have been 0:19:33.355 --> 0:19:37.795 staving them off. They have been planning to unroll abortion rights, 0:19:38.075 --> 0:19:42.995 women's rights, voting rights, everything that we call America, everything 0:19:43.035 --> 0:19:48.075 that has changed since the New Deal. They're still angry 0:19:48.075 --> 0:19:50.835 about FDR, and they are finally doing something about it. 0:19:51.115 --> 0:19:54.715 And the actual anger that has motivated them and Trump 0:19:54.755 --> 0:19:58.835 and the support for Trump dates to nineteen thirty fing 0:19:59.115 --> 0:20:03.435 two and the election of nineteen thirty two when a 0:20:03.475 --> 0:20:08.795 good man named Herbert Hoover was garrotted by this class 0:20:09.035 --> 0:20:12.395 trader FDR. The anger has been building there for more 0:20:12.475 --> 0:20:18.915 than nine decades. And we what do we get? We 0:20:19.035 --> 0:20:24.675 get moderates, we get Gavin Newsom going on Joe Rugan's podcast, 0:20:24.715 --> 0:20:27.555 I don't know. Let's have a conference about it. Think 0:20:27.635 --> 0:20:30.955 big B, big my friend, commit to the prosecution and 0:20:30.995 --> 0:20:34.635 the restitution demands of the Trump family and his family 0:20:34.675 --> 0:20:37.475 of crooks and inside traders for all the money they've stolen. 0:20:38.075 --> 0:20:41.275 Commit to removing tax breaks for churches that are now 0:20:41.355 --> 0:20:45.435 just political organizations or fronts for political organizations dressed up 0:20:45.435 --> 0:20:50.035 in clerical robes that they bought on eBay. Pastor Mark 0:20:50.115 --> 0:20:54.595 burns he's worshiping a golden calf, but because he says 0:20:54.635 --> 0:20:57.675 it's not a golden calf, they all go, oh, two gates. Fine, 0:20:57.755 --> 0:21:02.155 God wants Trump. That's not God you're talking to. The 0:21:02.195 --> 0:21:08.275 red tail should have been a hint. Commit to investigating 0:21:08.315 --> 0:21:13.275 and prosecuting the foreign bankrolling of conservative influencers and organizations 0:21:13.355 --> 0:21:16.515 like Seapack. You have an admission from the new rulers 0:21:16.555 --> 0:21:22.035 of Hungary. The new leader, Peter Madjar says, oh, by 0:21:22.035 --> 0:21:26.995 the way we've been bankrolling Seapack, it shouldn't be that difficult. 0:21:27.155 --> 0:21:30.755 We start with Hungary and then all those match laps 0:21:30.755 --> 0:21:35.115 and such, they will flee the country too. Obviously, there's 0:21:35.115 --> 0:21:36.915 so much to do with the Supreme Court. We need 0:21:36.995 --> 0:21:41.035 ninety one Supreme Court justices. We need to eliminate lifetime 0:21:41.635 --> 0:21:44.955 membership on skotis. Perhaps we want to go even bigger 0:21:44.995 --> 0:21:49.115 than that, and think about the president nominates ten candidates 0:21:49.515 --> 0:21:52.955 the Senate nominates four candidates and you put them in 0:21:53.035 --> 0:21:56.395 a bubble machine. You put them in a plastic ping 0:21:56.515 --> 0:21:59.595 pong ball machine like the National Hockey League draft lottery, 0:22:00.395 --> 0:22:03.035 and one of them becomes the Supreme Court justice. Take 0:22:03.075 --> 0:22:05.835 a little of the politics out of it the only 0:22:05.915 --> 0:22:08.075 way we can do it now, which is by random chance. 0:22:08.075 --> 0:22:10.875 Although that somebody would try to fix the lottery. I'm 0:22:10.875 --> 0:22:13.755 not saying the National Hockey League lottery was fixed, but 0:22:13.875 --> 0:22:16.355 just because they keep letting the bad teams making bad 0:22:16.515 --> 0:22:18.675 choices have the number one draft choice because they're in 0:22:18.715 --> 0:22:23.115 the big markets, that's not That's okay. Never mind, Commit 0:22:23.155 --> 0:22:26.435 to prosecuting Scalia and Clarence Thomas for the corruption we've 0:22:26.555 --> 0:22:29.475 detailed here and has been detailed in a thousand places, 0:22:29.955 --> 0:22:34.235 and commit to candidates, Democratic leaders, people who want to 0:22:34.275 --> 0:22:36.795 be president twenty twenty nine need to commit now to 0:22:36.955 --> 0:22:41.515 prosecuting Barrett and Kavanaugh and Gorsich for lying to the 0:22:41.555 --> 0:22:45.155 Senate during their confirmation about Roe v. Wade. They lied. 0:22:47.515 --> 0:22:53.115 Think big b big make home schooling illegal. I mean, 0:22:53.275 --> 0:22:55.875 I know, perhaps it's more convenient for some of you, 0:22:55.955 --> 0:22:58.515 but I mean, if you want to teach your kids 0:22:58.595 --> 0:23:02.675 how to live your life and do yours. That's fine, 0:23:02.675 --> 0:23:04.155 but get them out of the house so they can 0:23:04.155 --> 0:23:06.875 meet people who were not identical to you and them. 0:23:09.355 --> 0:23:13.555 When states put in racist ap history classes like the 0:23:13.555 --> 0:23:15.915 one Florida announced in the last week, like the entire 0:23:15.995 --> 0:23:19.275 program in Oklahoma, we need candidates who will say, by 0:23:19.315 --> 0:23:21.875 the way, we're not going to let you use those 0:23:21.995 --> 0:23:25.675 for college credit outside of your own states. Does your 0:23:25.755 --> 0:23:32.635 son want to go to Yale, soony purchase cal Davis, 0:23:32.715 --> 0:23:35.435 no offense to any of those schools. You can't get 0:23:35.435 --> 0:23:37.955 in with your Florida degree. Sorry that history thing. You're 0:23:37.995 --> 0:23:40.515 sixteen credits short. Spent another couple of years in a 0:23:40.555 --> 0:23:44.835 real high school somewhere. Go back to the FCC and 0:23:44.875 --> 0:23:48.875 have the fairness doctrine or equal time restored. I know dying, 0:23:49.075 --> 0:23:52.515 television is dying, but there should be some sort of 0:23:52.555 --> 0:23:56.035 FCC intervention in cable and streaming and the internet. Not 0:23:56.275 --> 0:23:58.395 that they would rule, but some sort of avenue so 0:23:58.435 --> 0:24:01.515 there can be appeal and so monopolies can be attacked. 0:24:01.515 --> 0:24:04.395 And on the subject of monopolies, think big B Big 0:24:04.435 --> 0:24:07.875 my friend, corral the tech moguls while there's still a 0:24:07.955 --> 0:24:11.515 chance to stop them, because, as has been noted, many times. 0:24:11.795 --> 0:24:15.835 Every goddamn science fiction movie from nineteen forty to nineteen 0:24:15.955 --> 0:24:18.875 ninety featured a billionaire who had his own island and 0:24:18.915 --> 0:24:22.595 his own rockets. The goal should be to take all 0:24:22.635 --> 0:24:26.955 of the money from Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Zuckerberg, the Ellisons, 0:24:26.995 --> 0:24:30.475 and the other robber barons and use it for public good. 0:24:31.315 --> 0:24:35.355 Our forefathers did exactly that, and not all of the money. 0:24:35.395 --> 0:24:38.595 They didn't bankrupt Rockefeller, but they just took the bite 0:24:38.595 --> 0:24:40.755 out of him and Morgan and all of the others, 0:24:40.755 --> 0:24:44.115 and Jay Gould Republicans led the way doing that one 0:24:44.155 --> 0:24:46.235 hundred years ago, one hundred and twenty years ago, one 0:24:46.315 --> 0:24:49.875 hundred and fifty years ago. We can too, and we 0:24:49.995 --> 0:24:53.115 have to, because ultimately it is either the robber barons 0:24:53.395 --> 0:24:59.395 or democracy. They are not mutually coexistent. Think big, be big, 0:24:59.595 --> 0:25:04.595 my friends, unify with the small liberal parties and go 0:25:04.675 --> 0:25:09.675 governments worldwide to encircle and shut down the fascist operations 0:25:09.715 --> 0:25:14.035