Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. This
Speaker 1: is an emergency edition of Countdown. I'm Keith Olverman. Trump
Speaker 1: is having them ask candidates for jobs in his administration's
Speaker 1: FBI field stations away from DC. What is probably the
Speaker 1: most chilling question ever asked by anybody in any government
Speaker 1: of the United States? Quote who is your real boss?
Speaker 1: This is if you do not know. In the Washington
Speaker 1: Posts brief damning almost despite everything unbelievable nightmarish report posted
Speaker 1: Saturday night, the Post is quoting applicants for the FBI
Speaker 1: and other top national security positions, and they hit some
Speaker 1: of these people who were in these organizations were dismissed
Speaker 1: and were being the opportunity to return to work, quoting
Speaker 1: them as saying they had been asked these questions. At
Speaker 1: least two FBI applicants were asked at least two questions
Speaker 1: out of George Orwell or the Soviet Union or Nazi
Speaker 1: jermy one you heard it, who is your real boss?
Speaker 1: If you need more, don't worry, there is more. The
Speaker 1: other question, who were the real patriots? On January sixth?
Speaker 1: You have to answer these questions correctly. From the Trump
Speaker 1: point of view, to get a job at the FBI.
Speaker 1: We know through the post supporting of at least two
Speaker 1: other questions asked of those being interviewed for some kind
Speaker 1: of leadership positions within other aspects of the Trump national
Speaker 1: security apparatus in Washington. They are told to answer yes
Speaker 1: or no to each question. One was January sixth, an
Speaker 1: inside job. Question two was the twenty twenty presidential election.
Speaker 1: Presumably with two l's. At least these two applicants cited
Speaker 1: in the post story told their interviewers no, and neither
Speaker 1: was hired. The asking of these questions, just the asking,
Speaker 1: let alone the answers, let alone the implications that it
Speaker 1: is anything but political science fiction. To conclude that some
Speaker 1: people have already answered yes and are now moving into
Speaker 1: roles at the FBI and other law enforcement at other
Speaker 1: national security organizations. Just asking those questions signals the end
Speaker 1: of democracy. Because if today you can ask candidates for
Speaker 1: federal law enforcement positions to swear personal loyalty to their
Speaker 1: real boss, and if today you can ask candidates for
Speaker 1: these same positions to insist that lies about January sixth,
Speaker 1: then the twenty twenty election are the truth, and that
Speaker 1: the truths are lies, then tomorrow you can make it
Speaker 1: illegal to answer that the twenty twenty election wasn't stolen,
Speaker 1: And then next week you can make it illegal to
Speaker 1: publish or broadcast that the twenty twenty election wasn't stolen,
Speaker 1: and then the week after that you can put anybody
Speaker 1: who does so in prison. The slow, incremental submersion into
Speaker 1: this quicksand is asking the would be leaders of the
Speaker 1: FBI to swear to lies and fiction and fantasy and
Speaker 1: perversion of reality, punishing people for refusing to do any
Speaker 1: of that. That is only the quick, terrible final step
Speaker 1: some of us have been warning we would get here.
Speaker 1: We have been warning that the creature at the head
Speaker 1: of this movement is not just unstable, quirky, populist, selfish,
Speaker 1: self indulgent, not just insane, but criminally insane and homicidally
Speaker 1: insane and ultimately conceivably genocidally insane. Some of us have
Speaker 1: been warning about this for a decade. We have been shunned, mocked,
Speaker 1: and marginalized. We have been told Trump is not a
Speaker 1: subhuman psychotic, not a terrorist, not a mass murderer. He's
Speaker 1: just popular. We were right, and if there was any
Speaker 1: remaining doubt, it ended last night, and those who doubted
Speaker 1: and those who told us otherwise were and are wrong,
Speaker 1: and it will cost all of us our form of government.
Speaker 1: Some of those who told us we were wrong have
Speaker 1: even come to understand this since just January twentieth. Some
Speaker 1: of them have just come to understand this since reading
Speaker 1: the Post article last night. Some of them will not
Speaker 1: understand any of it until they are being led away
Speaker 1: in handcuffs or worse. And so I would like to
Speaker 1: mention here while it is still legal, to mention here,
Speaker 1: that we are here now on the precipice as it
Speaker 1: crumbles beneath us, in large measure, probably in the decisive
Speaker 1: final measure, because of the people who both sides us
Speaker 1: and what abouted us? Who both sides and what abouted
Speaker 1: this country figuratively and probably literally to death? Attorney General
Speaker 1: Merrick Garland and former President Joe Biden, who refused to
Speaker 1: recognize that the danger was not in breaking the ritualistic
Speaker 1: imbecilities of Department of Justice norms. We're not getting back
Speaker 1: to normality as soon as possible. The danger was in
Speaker 1: not vigorously and immediately prosecuting Trump and taking any measures
Speaker 1: available to imprison him for the rest of his life
Speaker 1: and imprison these creatures, who now ask the successors to
Speaker 1: Garland's own employees, who's your real boss? Garland and Biden
Speaker 1: helped kill our country. David Zaslav, head of Warner Brothers Discovery,
Speaker 1: and his minion Chris Licht, who neutered CNN to make money.
Speaker 1: Not decisive by any stretch of the imagination, but neutering
Speaker 1: CNN accelerated the both sides this landslide. David Zaslab and
Speaker 1: Chris Licht helped kill our country. Jake Tapper and Dana
Speaker 1: Bash of CNN, who refused to demand the right to
Speaker 1: fact check Trump in the debate last summer as he
Speaker 1: lied literally without interruption for ninety minutes. Tapper and Bash
Speaker 1: who helped kill our country. Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzhinsky,
Speaker 1: who two weeks after the election went to Florida to
Speaker 1: prostrate and prostitute themselves in front of Trump. Scarborough and
Speaker 1: Brzhinsky helped kill our country. Mark Zuckerberg, the spineless head
Speaker 1: of Facebook and a series of failed related websites, who,
Speaker 1: with terror written across his face, has guaranteed Trump that
Speaker 1: he and his liars could lie all they wanted to
Speaker 1: on all of his platforms. Mark Zuckerberg, who helped kill
Speaker 1: our country, Joe Kahn, executive editor and A g Selzberger,
Speaker 1: publisher of the New York Times, who made sure every cowardly,
Speaker 1: non committal headline slapped above the work of their writers,
Speaker 1: the courageous work and the cringing work alike would never
Speaker 1: convey malice, who would never specified danger, which would never
Speaker 1: warn readers headlines. And two men Kahn and Sealzburger, who
Speaker 1: helped kill our country. Mitt Romney, former US Senator and governor,
Speaker 1: who nine years ago attacked Trump, then appeased him in
Speaker 1: hopes of becoming Secretary of State, who five years ago
Speaker 1: attacked me in print because I called Trump a terrorist
Speaker 1: in the months before the twenty twenty election, who four
Speaker 1: months after he called me a terrorist, found himself pinned
Speaker 1: inside the Capitol by Trump's terrorists, and who still would
Speaker 1: never call Trump what he is, Mitt Romney, who helped
Speaker 1: kill our country. Countless nominal Democrats who since the election,
Speaker 1: or since the inauguration or both, have sought to find
Speaker 1: compromise or move towards bipartisanship with Trump and an evil
Speaker 1: machine that wants you to say only one thing, not bipartisan,
Speaker 1: this compromise that they want just one thing from you.
Speaker 1: You are my real boss. Chuck Schumer, who used the
Speaker 1: phrase stop the steal last week. I guess he thought
Speaker 1: it was funny. John Fetterman, Eric Adams, Mark Kelly Akeem, Jeffries,
Speaker 1: Chris Coons, nearly all of them in that party to
Speaker 1: some degree great or small, briefly or still in progress,
Speaker 1: someone looking to get to a yes on Tulsi Gabbard
Speaker 1: or Cash Patel, all of them who helped kill our country.
Speaker 1: And dozens upon dozens of commentators and reporters and newscasters
Speaker 1: and columnists who I'm sure all wanted to say more,
Speaker 1: but they had mortgages to pay and careers to consider
Speaker 1: in a shrinking medium, and guest bookings they could not jeopardize.
Speaker 1: Bob Iger, Van Jones, Andrew Mitchell, Katie Turr, the other
Speaker 1: executives of ABC News, the executives of sixty Minutes, the
Speaker 1: new head of MSNBC's parent, Mark Lazarus, looking to make
Speaker 1: MSNBC more excessible to Republicans, everybody virtually at Politico, Chris Solissa,
Speaker 1: Chuck Todd, Kristen Welker, and we can pick Kristin Welker
Speaker 1: almost at random to represent the media for when last
Speaker 1: April a video appeared of a Trump pickup truck with
Speaker 1: flags flapping in the highway wind and an illustration a
Speaker 1: sticker or decal on its bumper showing then President Biden
Speaker 1: bound and gagged full size, as if he had been
Speaker 1: kidnapped and beaten or murdered and thrown into that Trump truck.
Speaker 1: Because that, at heart, is what Trump's friends wanted to
Speaker 1: do and wanted you to know they intended to do.
Speaker 1: When that image. We don't like the president, we'll just
Speaker 1: kidnap him. We don't like the election outcome, We'll just
Speaker 1: kidnap the winner. We don't like your answer about who
Speaker 1: really want or who's the boss, We'll just kidnap you.
Speaker 1: When that image appeared in public and it was shared
Speaker 1: by people who were proud of it, Kristin Welker spoke
Speaker 1: for a generation of journalists when she said, it is
Speaker 1: yet another reminder that we are covering this election against
Speaker 1: the backdrop of a deeply divided nation, instead of saying
Speaker 1: the truth, which is that it was yet another reminder
Speaker 1: that we were conducting this election against the backdrop of
Speaker 1: an incredibly dangerous percentage of this nation being willing to
Speaker 1: kill a president to get their way, and an equally
Speaker 1: incredibly dangerous percentage of this nation being gutless people like
Speaker 1: Kristin Welker and Joe Scarborough and Joe Kahn and all
Speaker 1: the rest being unwilling to say what was true, being
Speaker 1: unwilling to say what was happening, being unwilling to warn
Speaker 1: those who doubted that it was coming, but it was coming,
Speaker 1: and now it is here. Who is your real boss?
Speaker 1: Day twenty oh and two more final Championship names on
Speaker 1: this list Jeff Bezos and Will Lewis of The Washington Post,
Speaker 1: whose reporters took this final fatal straw, who published the
Speaker 1: reality that would be FBI officials are being asked as
Speaker 1: a condition of employment, Who's your real boss? Who printed
Speaker 1: this figurative crack of doom for American democracy and representative
Speaker 1: government and freedom of speech? And when they did put
Speaker 1: it out, even in the Washington Post, they placed it
Speaker 1: as scrolling down from the top of their homepage. They
Speaker 1: placed it as their thirty third story from the top,
Speaker 1: thirty third, immediately following three stories about player trades in
Speaker 1: the National Basketball Association democracy dies not in darkness, but
Speaker 1: in lies of commission and lies of omission. And you,
Speaker 1: mister Bezos, and you, mister Lewis, and all the rest
Speaker 1: of you have committed both kinds. And soon it will
Speaker 1: be illegal not to lie. If you're applying for the
Speaker 1: FBI job. We are already here. It is, in essence
Speaker 1: illegal not to lie about the twenty twenty election. It
Speaker 1: is illegal not to lie about where your loyalty lies,
Speaker 1: the Constitution, the law, or this pile of human feces.
Speaker 1: Soon it will be illegal for everybody not to lie.
Speaker 1: And that perhaps will be about the time, mister Bezos
Speaker 1: and your friend, my former colleague, Miss Sanchez, when you
Speaker 1: suddenly realize that your own lies to yourselves will have
Speaker 1: to end. That you do not in fact live in
Speaker 1: some other America, walled off from the nightmare that Trump,
Speaker 1: now with Musk, now with a pliant military, now with
Speaker 1: a pre screened FBI, now with law enforcement, not just
Speaker 1: encouraged to lie, but required to you, Jeff and Lauren,
Speaker 1: you do not in fact live walled off from this
Speaker 1: living nightmare. You, sir and madam, are here with the
Speaker 1: rest of us, the damned, and you are just as screwed,
Speaker 1: as if you had actually stood for something. And I
Speaker 1: hope to God you make me eat my own words,
Speaker 1: because I hope to God that you really do stand
Speaker 1: for something, and that you have an idea that you
Speaker 1: have been keeping secret from us. Because as if somehow
Speaker 1: this were not bad enough, if these questions were not
Speaker 1: being asked as a litmus test, will you lie for Trump?
Speaker 1: Will you kill for Trump? Will you be the FBI
Speaker 1: for Trump? Will you make up evidence for Trump? Who's
Speaker 1: your real boss? If this were not bad enough, Trump
Speaker 1: has already gotten around to firing the head of the
Speaker 1: National Archives because the National Archives only asked him to
Speaker 1: give back all the stuff he stole for a year.
Speaker 1: And what that means, Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez and
Speaker 1: all the rest of you, what that means is if
Speaker 1: you and I aren't next soon, I don't know how
Speaker 1: long we have. It is why I did not wait
Speaker 1: till the usual Monday countdown podcast publication hour and put
Speaker 1: this out when I did on Sunday morning. I don't
Speaker 1: know how long we have after this. This to me
Speaker 1: is the first genuine surprise I have had out of
Speaker 1: Trump and his terrorist gang in at least five years.
Speaker 1: If they are already asking would be FBI agents, who's
Speaker 1: your real boss? We may only have wee and yet
Speaker 1: implausibly in those weeks there are more immediate problems still.
Speaker 1: Now we get to find out if Trump and his
Speaker 1: Afrikaner president Musque will obey the courts. Musk yesterday was
Speaker 1: already signaling he might not, insisting the judge is corrupt
Speaker 1: stochastic terrorism at its finest. Trump is already reposting Roger
Speaker 1: Stone's latest slanders against one of the attorneys general who
Speaker 1: sued if Trump and must continue on this path, we're
Speaker 1: going to have to find other ways to make them
Speaker 1: obey the courts. If they do obey with an eye
Speaker 1: towards simply freezing their privatizing of government until they can
Speaker 1: get their theocratic Supreme Court to overrule any lower court
Speaker 1: decisions and you know the constitution, they do it that way,
Speaker 1: then we're going to have to find other ways to
Speaker 1: change governments. As you are aware, Overnight Friday Saturday, a
Speaker 1: federal judge ordered Musk and his teenage mutant Ninja Turtles
Speaker 1: out of the Treasury computer system until at least this Friday.
Speaker 1: Earlier that same day, a different federal judge blocked any
Speaker 1: further destruction of the us AID agency by mister Rubio,
Speaker 1: Secretary of Comovers. Twenty two hundred more employees at USAID
Speaker 1: were to go on leave that was stopped, and five
Speaker 1: hundred were reinstated again. This administration dictatorship is three weeks
Speaker 1: old Monday, and we are already at that Nixonian moment
Speaker 1: when we wait to see if the President and Trump
Speaker 1: for that matter, refuse to comply with the courts. It
Speaker 1: is a very real possibility. The best case scenario is
Speaker 1: that they do and use it to further fuel the
Speaker 1: Trump umbridge at everything and everyone, and just building up
Speaker 1: a further explosion of rage against government, which will itself
Speaker 1: inevitably come into conflicts with the other building explosion of
Speaker 1: rage for government. There is the very slim possibility, of course,
Speaker 1: that somebody Trump hired is not a religious nut too
Speaker 1: stupid to see that the courts, or fate or the
Speaker 1: law actually did them a huge favor. On the us
Speaker 1: AID story, killing off USAID may be hugely popular with
Speaker 1: MAGA and other morons like Ram Emmanuel and David Axelrod,
Speaker 1: but nobody seemed to notice until this was in full swing.
Speaker 1: That USAID didn't just hand money out to them foreign dudes.
Speaker 1: Forty one percent of the food USAID bought for international
Speaker 1: assistance was bought from US farmers two billion, one hundred
Speaker 1: million dollars worth, and that market has suddenly been ripped
Speaker 1: out from under American farms, American farmers, the Americans. Trump
Speaker 1: vowed to protect the ones who voted for him, the
Speaker 1: ones whose tons of wheat are now rotting in Houston,
Speaker 1: of all places, because that's where it was to be
Speaker 1: shipped out of The likely irrevocable waste figure is already
Speaker 1: at three hundred and forty million dollars no matter what
Speaker 1: happens next, And that's just reality. Musk and Trump or
Speaker 1: Tusk and Mump cramped all over the economic vibes too.
Speaker 1: Economists expected consumer sentiment to soar under Musk, because, after all,
Speaker 1: nothing says profits like people who will happily destroy the
Speaker 1: planet and kill suffering millions worldwide to raise the price
Speaker 1: of stock shares by forty nine cents each, But instead,
Speaker 1: er the Wall Street Journal consumer sentiment dropped in January,
Speaker 1: and it has dropped again this month. Bottom line, Ah,
Speaker 1: what a shock. Businessmen don't have the slightest idea what
Speaker 1: they're effing doing, especially the ones whose primary business turns
Speaker 1: out to be trying to convince you that they are successful,
Speaker 1: you know, like Musk and Trump, who, by the way,
Speaker 1: are also embracing immigrants while insisting on removing immigrants and
Speaker 1: reaching out to poor persecuted South African immigrants, like Elon Musk,
Speaker 1: Peter Thiel, and doctor Patrick Soon Shong or as we
Speaker 1: might better call him, as he drives the La Times
Speaker 1: into the ground, doctor Patrick Soon bankrupt one last time
Speaker 1: before I break on one familiar quote, not who's your
Speaker 1: real boss? This is the quote from the Yale historian
Speaker 1: Tim Snyder. The New York Times got him to phrase it.
Speaker 1: Trump is in the classic dictatorial position. He needs to
Speaker 1: die in bed holding all executive power to stay out
Speaker 1: of prison. This means that he will do whatever he
Speaker 1: can to gain power, and once in power, will do
Speaker 1: all that he can to never let it go. This
Speaker 1: is a basic incentive structure which underlies everything else. It
Speaker 1: is entirely inconsistent with democracy. Who's your boss? Next steps?
Speaker 1: There are things democrats can still do before it becomes
Speaker 1: illegal to be a democrat, and everybody has to swear
Speaker 1: everybody has to swear under oath not just loyalty to Trump,
Speaker 1: but they have to swear under oath that Trump had
Speaker 1: the election stolen from him. There are steps things Democrats
Speaker 1: can still do, Americans can still do. Those who need
Speaker 1: to atone right now can still do. That's next. This
Speaker 1: is an emergency edition of Countdown, continuing the emergency edition
Speaker 1: of Countdown for February ninth, twenty twenty five. I hope
Speaker 1: that of the thousand times I have said this, now
Speaker 1: I will prove to have never proved more accurate when
Speaker 1: I say it this time. That the preservation of democracy
Speaker 1: is owed less to our efforts to preserve it than
Speaker 1: it has the stupidity of those trying to destroy it
Speaker 1: is hinted at before the break. These guys literally cannot
Speaker 1: figure out whether they hate immigrants or love immigrants, and
Speaker 1: which ones are the good ones. While we are still
Speaker 1: reviewing the hating of this group today but defending the
Speaker 1: same group tomorrow, how about good old JV. Musk goes
Speaker 1: outside all the laws and all the rules and installs
Speaker 1: a twenty five year old anti Indian racist with what
Speaker 1: amounts to veto power over government spending. And the guy
Speaker 1: turns out to have gotten caught having written I was
Speaker 1: racist before it was cool and quote normalize Indian hate
Speaker 1: and calling for eugenics. And then he resigns because he
Speaker 1: is somehow too sleazy for Elon Musk, and then Vice
Speaker 1: President Vance JV. The VP demands that this pro eugenics
Speaker 1: Musk slave be rehired. Here's my view, genius rights. I
Speaker 1: obviously disagree with some of Ellas's posts, but I don't
Speaker 1: think stupid social media activity should ruin a kid's life.
Speaker 1: We shouldn't reward journalists who try to destroy people ever,
Speaker 1: so I say bring him back. If he's a bad
Speaker 1: dude or a terrible member of the team, fire him
Speaker 1: for that. We shouldn't reward journalists who try to destroy people, ever,
Speaker 1: says a spokesmodel for the website that pushes libs of
Speaker 1: TikTok and other online fascists. And remember Musk claims X
Speaker 1: and all of them they are journalism now they are
Speaker 1: the media. But we should never reward journalists who try
Speaker 1: to destroy people, ever, especially the ones who try to
Speaker 1: destroy seven or eight hundred of them a day. I
Speaker 1: don't think stupid social media activities should ruin a kid's life.
Speaker 1: The kid in question is twenty five years old. When
Speaker 1: Maxwell Frost was elected to Congress at twenty five, he
Speaker 1: was only the thirty first senative sworn into our house
Speaker 1: at that age or younger. William Pitt, the British leader
Speaker 1: who wanted to let the American colonies go rather than
Speaker 1: force us into the revolutionary war that nearly destroyed Great Britain,
Speaker 1: became Prime Minister of that country at twenty four. Napoleon
Speaker 1: was the leading French general at twenty four. This idiot,
Speaker 1: Marco ELS's stupid social media activity as a kid was
Speaker 1: last summer when, depending on when his birthday fell, he
Speaker 1: was twenty four or already twenty five. Of course he
Speaker 1: was a kid. He was several months younger than he
Speaker 1: is now. To air is human, to forgive Divine, wrote
Speaker 1: Musk between doses and rehired him as if Musk has
Speaker 1: ever shown any signs of knowing anything about being human
Speaker 1: And another thing normalize Indian hate. JD. Vance's wife, the
Speaker 1: now second Lady of the United States, Missus Vance, missus
Speaker 1: Usha Balachilikourie Vance first generation American born of Indian immigrants,
Speaker 1: and he sticks up for the Inceell who attacked her
Speaker 1: and her parents and everybody in their native country and
Speaker 1: everybody in their diaspora, and Jdvance doesn't even get angry
Speaker 1: in his wife's defense. Of course I disagree with it,
Speaker 1: but sure, slander my wife, slander my in laws, slander
Speaker 1: everybody in their country, slander them all, doesn't even get angry.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna say this. It goes back to my
Speaker 1: point about how we must rely on the stupidity of
Speaker 1: those trying to destroy this country. I'm just gonna say this.
Speaker 1: If I had to guess, I would guess that the
Speaker 1: hair that he grew to cover his pudgy, bulging face
Speaker 1: is not JD Vance's only beard. The other cave in
Speaker 1: that I should mention on who's your boss? Your real
Speaker 1: boss day is that co Presidents Mump and Tusk have
Speaker 1: set themselves up for the dawning realization by the magas
Speaker 1: that the two trillion dollars that they say they are
Speaker 1: going to cut may not go to the swamp, and
Speaker 1: it may not go to those stupid starving people in
Speaker 1: wherever Land. But guess what, it also is not going
Speaker 1: to go back to American taxpayers or even Trump sloths.
Speaker 1: This entire government efficiency. Thing has been a scam from
Speaker 1: the beginning. Musk is so transparent and hated that it
Speaker 1: is finally getting through to the morons who supported him
Speaker 1: that it has been a scam from the beginning. The
Speaker 1: money not spent is going to Musk and other billionaires
Speaker 1: in the form of tax breaks, and maybe in other
Speaker 1: forms too, other billionaires, and maybe if they are nice
Speaker 1: to him, like news media executives could be nice to them,
Speaker 1: it might go also to just some plaint old millionaires.
Speaker 1: This was Congressman Mike Flood of Nebraska to Bloomberg News
Speaker 1: about stage two of DOGE simple just run the mill
Speaker 1: comment about how it's going to inflict pain on the
Speaker 1: people who voted for it. Quote, it will be littered
Speaker 1: with a collection of ideas, some of which Americans are
Speaker 1: going to really not before. But hey, if we don't sacrifice,
Speaker 1: if we don't understand that this is going to be
Speaker 1: a painful process, nothing's going to change. My message to
Speaker 1: the American people is we as a nation, as Americans,
Speaker 1: have to recognize that this is such a big problem
Speaker 1: our debt that we're going to have to say no
Speaker 1: to some programs that we like, but we simply can't
Speaker 1: afford you know, programs like Medicaid, food stamps, childcare tax breaks,
Speaker 1: by taking educational scholarships and taxing them. Because there's nothing
Speaker 1: Republicans like better than confusing their idiot base by deliberately
Speaker 1: conflating governmental debt, American savings bonds, and of course the
Speaker 1: multimillion dollar bank equivalents of savings bonds, government programs that
Speaker 1: pay Americans money that they need to, you know, not starve,
Speaker 1: kind of stuff that actually truly fuels the economy. The
Speaker 1: Republicans like conflating that with things like your credit card
Speaker 1: debt and your bankruptcy and the money you spent on
Speaker 1: Oxyconton has suggested earlier, by that consumer confidence note, it
Speaker 1: looks like even the magas are figuring this out. The
Speaker 1: Nebraska congressman who wants you to know this is only
Speaker 1: going to hurt a lot for a long time, and
Speaker 1: we're all going to be in this together, and he
Speaker 1: doesn't really care because he's not going to be as
Speaker 1: together in it as you are. Mike owns fifteen radio
Speaker 1: stations and seven TV stations, and he owns News Channel Nebraska.
Speaker 1: But he's just like you and me, only has enough
Speaker 1: money to never notice any of this, which swings us
Speaker 1: back to money and mump and tusk and the big
Speaker 1: thing that the clapping monkeys enjoyed last week when Time
Speaker 1: magazine put President Musk on the cover and Trump got
Speaker 1: off a brilliant singer that he just thought up and
Speaker 1: nobody has ever used before, ever, in the history of
Speaker 1: the whole world, other than you know, the ten or
Speaker 1: twelve million people who've said this exact same thing before,
Speaker 1: and in the time magazine was still in business. Very witty,
Speaker 1: not just the bond mo but truly the most just
Speaker 1: as usual from our greatest president, not counting the other
Speaker 1: forty four and some of the fictional ones more on
Speaker 1: absolute freaking moron. But you do have to give him
Speaker 1: some credit for this, the fact that he was not
Speaker 1: shot by somebody else's husband in nineteen seventy seven, or
Speaker 1: he hasn't been in jail since nineteen eighty five, or
Speaker 1: something he did in business, or he didn't flee the
Speaker 1: country after one of his bankruptcies. This owes largely to
Speaker 1: this amazing ability. He has to flood the nation or
Speaker 1: his part of the nation with so much bullshit all
Speaker 1: at once that nobody, nobody, would everything to come back
Speaker 1: to him after he said I didn't know Time magazine
Speaker 1: was still in business, and say, wait, sir, two months ago,
Speaker 1: Time Magazine gave you that Person of the Year award
Speaker 1: and said it was a great honor. I may be
Speaker 1: mistaken on this, mister president El presidente, my real boss Trump.
Speaker 1: I thought, I thought you remembered Time Magazine was still
Speaker 1: in business. Then maybe so, as I asked before the break,
Speaker 1: next steps, same as last week. Senate holds on everything.
Speaker 1: Trump wants a Senate hold on everything. Republicans need support on.
Speaker 1: Do a Tubberville, whatever it is, hold it. If nothing else,
Speaker 1: you piss Trump off, You inflict pain. You reminded me
Speaker 1: he is not invincible. I mean Musk. That also applies
Speaker 1: to Trump. And in the House, the overnight symbolic filibusters
Speaker 1: against russ vote. They were great, limited impact, pretty good
Speaker 1: visibility at minimum, showing some Democrats are not in a coma.
Speaker 1: Of course, let's flush this idea like the third it
Speaker 1: is about by partisanship, nothing, not one Democratic vote for anything.
Speaker 1: Republican support have to crash the system. There are no
Speaker 1: other options. Mike Johnson needs votes for the dead ceiling.
Speaker 1: F him. Call Elon Musk, you need some money, You
Speaker 1: do that, Mike, call Elon, he has your money over there.
Speaker 1: You need the votes on anything else, Mike f you
Speaker 1: call Trump. Mike, you broke it. You bought it. Happily.
Speaker 1: Minority Leader A. Keem Jeffries gets this right right right now.
Speaker 1: There he was again Friday, refusing to pull the emergency
Speaker 1: cord and deny all Democratic support for anything by partisan this.
Speaker 1: He said, consensus that he said, not committing to this.
Speaker 1: He said, there is a possibility all that was a
Speaker 1: feint on his part to not give away his strategy,
Speaker 1: But I'm doubting it. Set it before, say it again.
Speaker 1: No signs yet. Akeem Jeffries is a wartime consulieri. There
Speaker 1: are enough bureaucratic trip wires still in place to make
Speaker 1: the Trump coup reducts at least grind to a halt
Speaker 1: for a while and make the Republicans take all the
Speaker 1: public blame for what happens. You just have to have
Speaker 1: the courage to recognize the stakes and tighten up those
Speaker 1: trip wires so everybody trips on them. Maybe you should
Speaker 1: listen to us. We told you we would eventually get
Speaker 1: to this point where all the police and all the
Speaker 1: FBI and all the prosecutors will literally agree with Jump
Speaker 1: that up is down and down is up. You must
Speaker 1: fight back. But this would require Jeffries to either come
Speaker 1: to Jesus and fast, or it's going to require the
Speaker 1: wartime consolieri that I keep referring to, or if you
Speaker 1: want to update the cultural reference a little bit, and
Speaker 1: never mind the consuliary, we'll call it. We need the
Speaker 1: war doctor. I still think it's aoc to borrow a
Speaker 1: phrase that is in the news just now, Representative Jeffries,
Speaker 1: who's your real boss? I don't know when the next
Speaker 1: edition of Countdown is going to be, As you know,
Speaker 1: the schedule now is Mondays and Thursdays. And this is
Speaker 1: not Monday North Thursday. It's Sunday. As I said earlier,
Speaker 1: I just didn't think this could wait. We are now
Speaker 1: to loyalty tests. Will you lie for Trump? Will you
Speaker 1: swear to lie for Trump? Will you insist on reality?
Speaker 1: Is reality? All of the cliches that we have ever
Speaker 1: been accused of using turned out not to be cliches,
Speaker 1: but in fact Trump using Hitler's favorite speeches, and perhaps
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty four as a kind of guide book. I
Speaker 1: don't want to say I told you so. I know
Speaker 1: you told them so too. So I do not think
Speaker 1: there will be a new edition tomorrow. But hell, I
Speaker 1: didn't think there was going to be a new edition
Speaker 1: today either. And then as I was writing this up,
Speaker 1: I thought, this can't wait. This needs to be said
Speaker 1: right now. So have a nice Sunday if you still can.
Speaker 1: I think there's a football game or something later. I
Speaker 1: won't be watching it. Certainly there will be a new
Speaker 1: edition later in the week. It is probably going to
Speaker 1: be Thursday, but who in the hell knows. I'm not
Speaker 1: going to do any of the cutesy how many days left.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to say thank you for your time
Speaker 1: this time till next time. I'm not going to do
Speaker 1: any of it. I'm just going to simply close by
Speaker 1: saying I'll be back if they let me whenever I
Speaker 1: am back, and until then, good night and good luck.
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