WEBVTT - SO WE'RE GOING TO DO IRAQ AGAIN, ONLY WITH AN "N" - 6.19.25 0:00:04.795 --> 0:00:24.355 Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. So 0:00:25.835 --> 0:00:29.595 we're going to repeat every mistake from Bush and Iraq, 0:00:29.915 --> 0:00:34.435 only this time with Trump and Iran, only this time 0:00:34.515 --> 0:00:38.075 starting with blowing up nuclear facilities, only this time starting 0:00:38.075 --> 0:00:42.075 with Trump making up stories about the other country wanting 0:00:42.115 --> 0:00:46.595 to negotiate, only this time starting while the Senate has 0:00:46.675 --> 0:00:50.115 gone home until next week, So no briefings until next week. 0:00:50.795 --> 0:00:56.875 We're gonna do this again because Trump got fomo fau 0:00:56.995 --> 0:01:02.555 mob actually fear of missing out on bombing. When I 0:01:02.675 --> 0:01:09.915 said that in Monday's podcast, I was serious. Fomo fomo 0:01:10.035 --> 0:01:13.595 is what animates Trump, the dreadful existential fear he has 0:01:13.915 --> 0:01:18.235 that something somewhere in the world is not being credited 0:01:18.315 --> 0:01:21.515 to him. But I didn't think it was going to 0:01:21.555 --> 0:01:26.435 be decisive. This is where the narrator says it was decisive. 0:01:27.635 --> 0:01:29.715 We are gearing up for a strike. I think on 0:01:29.835 --> 0:01:33.195 the Fardeaux facility. What I can see is the military 0:01:33.235 --> 0:01:37.155 maneuvers are getting in place. That was Bret McGirk yesterday. 0:01:37.315 --> 0:01:41.195 Brett McGirk was Obama's point man against ISIS, and then 0:01:41.475 --> 0:01:44.195 he was Trump's point man against ISIS. So I don't 0:01:44.195 --> 0:01:47.915 think he's grinding an axe here, Owen mix in some 0:01:47.995 --> 0:01:51.075 of this phony, Mike Huckabee, religious ecstasy. We have to 0:01:51.075 --> 0:01:53.195 save Israel because we have to make sure the Jews 0:01:53.235 --> 0:01:58.955 get raptured. Fundamentalist anti Semitic bullshit, and we're here again. 0:01:59.995 --> 0:02:02.675 New York Times quote. When he woke on Friday morning, 0:02:02.755 --> 0:02:06.395 his favorite TV channel, Fox News, was broadcasting wall to 0:02:06.435 --> 0:02:09.875 wall imagery of what it was portraying as Israel's military genius, 0:02:09.995 --> 0:02:15.915 and mister Trump could not resist claiming some credit for himself. Fomo. 0:02:18.235 --> 0:02:21.315 That's when the I was more involved than I said. 0:02:21.475 --> 0:02:24.675 Psychosis from Trump started to seep in to his out 0:02:24.755 --> 0:02:29.115 loud voice. By Sunday it was beginning to flower. We'd 0:02:29.155 --> 0:02:32.875 never attack Iran, but when we do quote the US 0:02:32.915 --> 0:02:34.875 had nothing to do with the attack on Iran tonight. 0:02:35.115 --> 0:02:37.155 If we are attacked in any way, shape or formed 0:02:37.155 --> 0:02:39.435 by Iran, the full strength and might of the US 0:02:39.595 --> 0:02:41.955 armed forces will come down on you at levels never 0:02:41.995 --> 0:02:44.555 seen before. However, we can easily get a deal done 0:02:44.595 --> 0:02:49.595 between Iran and Israel and end this bloody conflict. That's 0:02:49.635 --> 0:02:53.355 all the possibilities In one sentence. We could blow you up, 0:02:53.355 --> 0:02:55.035 you could blow us up, all but we could, we 0:02:55.075 --> 0:02:57.275 could negotiate our way out of this, and by the 0:02:57.315 --> 0:03:00.475 day before yesterday we now have complete and total control 0:03:00.515 --> 0:03:05.995 of the skies over Iran. We Iran had good skytrackers 0:03:05.995 --> 0:03:08.075 and other defensive equipment, and plenty of it, but it 0:03:08.075 --> 0:03:13.115 doesn't compare to American made, conceived and manufactured stuff. Nobody 0:03:13.155 --> 0:03:17.755 does it better than the good old USA. We blowed 0:03:17.795 --> 0:03:20.515 him up good. We blowed him up real good. This 0:03:20.595 --> 0:03:23.755 is big Jim mc Trump and Billy Saal Hirak Hukabe saying, 0:03:23.835 --> 0:03:26.075 may the Good Lord take a liking to you and 0:03:26.155 --> 0:03:33.235 blow you up real soon. Ah, Billy saw hira Kukabe. 0:03:34.035 --> 0:03:38.675 When Bush did this with Iraq, and yeah, this is 0:03:38.715 --> 0:03:42.115 where I came in, I seem to recall saying, if 0:03:42.115 --> 0:03:46.515 we didn't stop Bush about Iraq, the next Republican president 0:03:46.555 --> 0:03:48.955 would do this in Iran. And sure enough, here we are. 0:03:50.075 --> 0:03:53.315 When Bush did this with Iraq, he went through this long, 0:03:53.915 --> 0:04:00.515 sometimes subtle, intricate, labyrinthine, sometimes deeply sourced series of lies 0:04:00.995 --> 0:04:05.155 and manufactured evidence and blackmail and the ex boyation of 0:04:05.235 --> 0:04:08.195 nine to eleven and the dragging in of Sadam Hussein. 0:04:08.475 --> 0:04:10.915 He went to all that trouble when he could have 0:04:11.035 --> 0:04:13.195 just done a Trump and just blowed it up, bloated 0:04:13.315 --> 0:04:18.595 up real good. After first publishing the religious delusions of 0:04:18.635 --> 0:04:24.075 a fundamentalist confidence trickster and TV pitchman for red Grape 0:04:24.195 --> 0:04:31.315 Circulation superfood named Mike Huckabee. Bush could have just said 0:04:31.315 --> 0:04:35.795 it was to defend Israel. Who knew, even though the 0:04:35.875 --> 0:04:39.395 reason the Huckabees and the others who in previous generations 0:04:39.435 --> 0:04:41.635 would have been back home at the Church of God 0:04:41.835 --> 0:04:47.275 handling snakes. The technical term for which we students of 0:04:47.315 --> 0:04:51.795 religion use is self correcting problem for the handling of snakes. 0:04:52.235 --> 0:04:56.035 The entirety of the mainstream defense of Israel is not 0:04:56.195 --> 0:05:01.435 predicated on preserving Israel, but about fulfilling this madness that 0:05:01.515 --> 0:05:04.195 all the world's Jews will be gathered in Israel and 0:05:04.235 --> 0:05:06.475 then con and then we will have the rapture and 0:05:06.515 --> 0:05:08.875 all the good souls will go to Heaven, and everybody 0:05:08.875 --> 0:05:12.795 else will stay here and enjoy hell on earth, which 0:05:12.835 --> 0:05:18.155 is pretty much where we are right now. Anyway. Please 0:05:18.275 --> 0:05:23.075 note that if you read all of the fundamentalist stuff 0:05:23.075 --> 0:05:28.635 about the conversion of the Jews, if you read it, 0:05:28.635 --> 0:05:32.755 it's very carefully written, and all it really says is 0:05:32.795 --> 0:05:37.675 that there will only be Jews in Israel, and those 0:05:37.715 --> 0:05:42.315 that won't go there and convert will perish or vanish 0:05:42.395 --> 0:05:46.395 in the rapture. Well, there's lots of ways you can 0:05:46.435 --> 0:05:51.835 achieve that, and most of them involve murder. This means 0:05:51.875 --> 0:05:54.435 that my kakabi is involved in a religious movement that 0:05:54.555 --> 0:05:58.355 literally wants to save Israel from Iran or anybody else, 0:05:58.555 --> 0:06:04.915 because the only people allowed to destroy Israel are American evangelicals. 0:06:06.755 --> 0:06:11.155 Trump not only listens to this drivel and thinks, there's 0:06:11.195 --> 0:06:13.595 my excuse I can go drop some bombs and get 0:06:13.635 --> 0:06:17.115 some credit for something. He then ratchets it up and 0:06:17.475 --> 0:06:22.195 publishes it, so he reinforces the idea that this is 0:06:22.235 --> 0:06:29.555 something religious. Ambassador Huckabee's text, President Trump, I'd forgotten he 0:06:29.595 --> 0:06:32.955 was the ambassador. At least he's out of the country, 0:06:33.675 --> 0:06:36.595 mister President. God spared you and Butler pa to be 0:06:36.635 --> 0:06:41.035 the most consequential president in a century. Maybe Ever, what 0:06:41.195 --> 0:06:43.435 was God thinking about that poor guy got shot in 0:06:43.475 --> 0:06:45.715 the head too, was sitting there just listening to this shit? 0:06:47.515 --> 0:06:51.555 God said, you are spared that guy over there. I 0:06:51.555 --> 0:06:55.995 don't like that guy. Some God, you got here the 0:06:56.075 --> 0:06:58.355 decisions on your shoulders. I would not want to be 0:06:58.395 --> 0:07:01.715 made by anyone else. You have many voices speaking to you, sir, 0:07:03.155 --> 0:07:06.475 oh boy, is that true? Trump has many voices in 0:07:06.515 --> 0:07:09.755 his head. You're right about that, Huck, but there is 0:07:09.795 --> 0:07:15.075 only one voice that matters his voice. And Trump is 0:07:15.115 --> 0:07:21.835 reading this, going, Hannity, I am your appointed servant in 0:07:21.915 --> 0:07:25.395 this land and am available for you. But I do 0:07:25.475 --> 0:07:28.075 not try to get in your presence office often because 0:07:28.115 --> 0:07:32.515 I trust your instincts. No president in my lifetime has 0:07:32.555 --> 0:07:34.835 been a position like yours, not since Truman in nineteen 0:07:34.915 --> 0:07:37.195 forty five. I don't reach out to persuade you, only 0:07:37.235 --> 0:07:39.155 to encourage you. I believe you will hear from heaven 0:07:39.595 --> 0:07:42.115 and that voice is far more important than mine or 0:07:42.155 --> 0:07:50.515 anyone else's. And Trump is thinking, Janine Piro, you sent 0:07:50.555 --> 0:07:52.835 me to Israel to be your eyes, ears, and voice 0:07:52.875 --> 0:07:55.435 and to make sure our flag flies above our embss. 0:07:55.995 --> 0:08:00.195 My job is to be the last one to leave. Yeah, bomb, 0:08:00.275 --> 0:08:03.275 stop draw, start dropping. Mike's going to be the last 0:08:03.275 --> 0:08:09.675 one to leave. I will not abandon this post. Our 0:08:09.715 --> 0:08:12.275 flag will not come down. You did not seek this moment. 0:08:12.315 --> 0:08:14.515 This moment sought you. Who in the hell thinks that 0:08:14.555 --> 0:08:16.675 the American flag is going to come down in Israel. 0:08:18.235 --> 0:08:21.355 It is my honor to serve you. Just remember to 0:08:21.435 --> 0:08:25.435 serve man. Mike Huckabee. They printed this out. First, they 0:08:25.435 --> 0:08:28.715 printed out the actual text, or what is supposedly the text. 0:08:28.835 --> 0:08:32.875 Then they made a pretty looking picture of Huckabee and Trump, 0:08:32.915 --> 0:08:36.115 not quite looking at each other, with the words America's 0:08:36.155 --> 0:08:42.195 future right over each of their heads. America's future Mike 0:08:42.275 --> 0:08:47.755 Huckabee and Donald Trump, or our past. And by the way, 0:08:47.795 --> 0:08:49.715 if you read that again and change a couple of 0:08:49.755 --> 0:08:53.115 words in this this thing from Huckaby, this text. This 0:08:53.275 --> 0:08:56.675 is also the script for Mike Huckaby's TV commercial for 0:08:56.755 --> 0:09:02.635 another snake oil called Relaxium. God put relaxium on this 0:09:02.755 --> 0:09:08.475 earth to relax you. Two other points about the religious 0:09:08.475 --> 0:09:12.555 ecstasy bullshit. The next level delusion after this, and millions 0:09:12.595 --> 0:09:15.435 in this country believe this as well, is that if 0:09:15.635 --> 0:09:20.075 Israel is at war, this means Jesus will be coming 0:09:20.115 --> 0:09:26.275 back like late Sunday, maybe in time for Britain. So 0:09:26.755 --> 0:09:29.915 where are your crosses? Because, as the late great comic 0:09:29.995 --> 0:09:33.355 genius Bill Hicks noted, sure, that's the first thing Jesus 0:09:33.395 --> 0:09:36.275 wants to see when he comes back. You wearing a 0:09:36.395 --> 0:09:41.915 cross One thing that is never explained is like of 0:09:42.075 --> 0:09:44.595 Israel is at war, that means Jesus is coming back. 0:09:44.635 --> 0:09:47.755 What about the last sixteen wars? He didn't come back 0:09:47.755 --> 0:09:50.835 for any of those. Does he not get the news? 0:09:50.915 --> 0:09:55.875 Does he not get Fox News? Wherever he is? We 0:09:55.955 --> 0:10:00.635 know Jesse Waters thinks he speaks with divine influence. Now 0:10:00.675 --> 0:10:04.395 back on this earth, there are some practical consequences here. 0:10:04.715 --> 0:10:10.475 Politico's Foreign affairs correspondent mentions the one thing that Trump 0:10:10.555 --> 0:10:14.195 hasn't counted on the Iranian response quote. A former Western 0:10:14.235 --> 0:10:18.075 intelligence official told me the spy community suspects the Islamist 0:10:18.115 --> 0:10:21.795 regime in Tehran has sleeper cells in various countries to 0:10:21.875 --> 0:10:24.955 carry out attacks if it feels an existential threat. The 0:10:25.035 --> 0:10:28.195 regime could also round up Americans in Iran and effectively 0:10:28.195 --> 0:10:30.955 hold them hostage, as it is done in the past. 0:10:32.355 --> 0:10:36.315 So we're not only going to reenact Iraq and remember 0:10:36.395 --> 0:10:38.475 how well and how quickly that went. We go in 0:10:38.555 --> 0:10:41.275 and blow it up, and forty two days later, Bush 0:10:41.275 --> 0:10:44.995 declares mission accomplished. And I'm co anchoring with Chris Matthews, 0:10:45.155 --> 0:10:48.315 and I say to him, wait, if it's mission accomplished, 0:10:48.435 --> 0:10:51.195 why is there still fighting there? And why is the 0:10:51.195 --> 0:10:53.755 cross eyed president wearing a flight suit if he doesn't 0:10:53.755 --> 0:10:56.395 want us to remember the questions about his Air National 0:10:56.435 --> 0:11:02.435 Guard service? Shut up. Matthews explained tenderly, We're not only 0:11:02.475 --> 0:11:07.115 going to reenact Iraq with a different final letter. We 0:11:07.155 --> 0:11:09.995 are going to reenact something like the Iran hostage crisis 0:11:10.035 --> 0:11:12.675 of nineteen seventy nine and nineteen eighty, which was also 0:11:12.715 --> 0:11:18.955 exploited by a Republican president. Rule one of war. No 0:11:19.235 --> 0:11:24.835 wars are ever quick, and all wars are sold as 0:11:25.275 --> 0:11:31.435 being quick. The other consequences will be largely political and domestic. 0:11:31.475 --> 0:11:35.155 Tucker Carlson attacked Trump. Ted Cruz attacked Carlson. Steve Bannon 0:11:35.155 --> 0:11:38.875 attacked Fox News as not being real. Maga Josh Hawley said, 0:11:38.915 --> 0:11:40.635 I don't want us fighting a war. I don't want 0:11:40.675 --> 0:11:44.515 another Mid East war. It's so obviously a bad idea 0:11:44.555 --> 0:11:47.715 that even Tulsey Gabbard knows it's a bad idea. And 0:11:47.795 --> 0:11:50.235 she told Trump this in March and put out that 0:11:50.435 --> 0:11:54.075 psycho video last month about nuclear war and leaked that 0:11:54.115 --> 0:11:56.435 if Trump gets US involved, she'll have to quit. And 0:11:56.475 --> 0:11:59.035 when they asked Trump about her testimony that Iran was 0:11:59.075 --> 0:12:01.475 not building a nuclear weapon, he said, I don't care 0:12:01.555 --> 0:12:03.835 what she said, and the odds are six to five. 0:12:03.995 --> 0:12:07.115 He doesn't really know who she is, or at least 0:12:07.195 --> 0:12:11.635 he doesn't really know who she is anymore. So whatever 0:12:11.675 --> 0:12:14.435 the end game here is, it will damage Trump and 0:12:14.475 --> 0:12:16.715 MAGA and the entire voting block in this country that 0:12:16.835 --> 0:12:20.635 believes in brownies and elves and guys who come back 0:12:20.675 --> 0:12:23.275 from the dead, but not until you wait twenty twenty 0:12:23.275 --> 0:12:29.475 five years for them. And whatever the Rumsfeldian unknown unknowns 0:12:29.595 --> 0:12:33.475 are will then alter the entire political landscape a second time. 0:12:33.955 --> 0:12:36.875 And oh yes, somebody will eventually notice that this will 0:12:36.915 --> 0:12:41.715 be three consecutive Republican presidents who've attacked Iraq or Iran, 0:12:42.195 --> 0:12:45.395 and the one before them, Reagan wanted to attack Iran. 0:12:47.435 --> 0:12:50.075 The bottom line is, of course, as simple now as 0:12:50.115 --> 0:12:51.875 it was in two thousand and two and two thousand 0:12:51.875 --> 0:12:55.275 and three. The purpose of war with Iran is the 0:12:55.315 --> 0:12:58.595 same as was the purpose of war with Iraq. It's 0:12:59.915 --> 0:13:04.635 to have a war, because if you don't have a war, 0:13:05.275 --> 0:13:10.955 you can't use all those expensive bombs and tanks and 0:13:11.075 --> 0:13:15.675 have to replace them, and especially those bombers. And I mean, honestly, 0:13:15.755 --> 0:13:17.355 when was the last time we sent a couple of 0:13:17.395 --> 0:13:20.435 two billion dollars be too stealth bombers anywhere and had 0:13:20.435 --> 0:13:22.195 one of them shot down or broken or the door 0:13:22.235 --> 0:13:24.555 fell off and oops, we have to buy a new one. 0:13:24.915 --> 0:13:27.555 So the Department of Defense needs another two billion dollars. 0:13:27.795 --> 0:13:32.075 The point of a Republican war, neo cons Maga Bush 0:13:32.235 --> 0:13:35.875 trumpet doesn't matter. The point of a Republican war is 0:13:35.915 --> 0:13:41.235 to transfer taxpayer money to the military industrial complex. Ike 0:13:41.555 --> 0:13:48.475 was right, end of story. The only way Jesus Christ 0:13:48.595 --> 0:13:51.835 comes into this is in our reaction to all this. 0:13:53.675 --> 0:14:00.715 Jesus Christ again. We blowed them up good. We blowed 0:14:00.715 --> 0:14:25.795 them up real good. If you don't know, we blowed 0:14:25.835 --> 0:14:27.835 them up real good. By the way. That is from 0:14:27.955 --> 0:14:32.235 sc TV, the Late Great John Candy and the late 0:14:32.355 --> 0:14:39.155 Great Joe O'Flaherty and the Farm Movie Review, in which 0:14:39.195 --> 0:14:46.115 these two guys in overalls talk about tremendous fastbunder fan 0:14:46.555 --> 0:14:49.355 films and eventually get around to the fact that the 0:14:49.395 --> 0:14:51.195 only films they like are the ones in which people 0:14:51.195 --> 0:14:55.955 get blown up. And that's the end. We blow them 0:14:56.035 --> 0:14:59.115 up real good. Billy sal Hurrock and Big Jim mcbobb. 0:15:00.195 --> 0:15:05.115 It's it's worth looking for it elsewhere Okay, so that's 0:15:05.155 --> 0:15:09.315 now for serving elected democratic government officials. Harris Beaten, arrested 0:15:09.355 --> 0:15:14.555 and lied about by Christy Nomes Ice Gestapo. She had 0:15:14.555 --> 0:15:16.235 to go to the hospital the other day for an 0:15:16.275 --> 0:15:23.835 allergic reaction. What an allergic reaction to reality? The latest arrest, 0:15:24.475 --> 0:15:26.835 the arrest and then unarrest of the New York City 0:15:27.035 --> 0:15:30.995 Comptroller Brad Lander, seems to have been, and you haven't 0:15:30.995 --> 0:15:35.155 heard this probably a setup. Firstly, this was not some 0:15:35.235 --> 0:15:38.595 sort of stunt for Brad landers campaign from mayor. He 0:15:38.675 --> 0:15:41.915 has been going to Immigration court for weeks trying to 0:15:41.995 --> 0:15:45.795 literally throw his body between Ice and its cruelest of 0:15:45.835 --> 0:15:51.315 its many cruel tortures, getting immigration cases dismissed against defendants, 0:15:51.515 --> 0:15:56.355 thus denying them protection against immediate seizure and rendition without trial. 0:15:57.555 --> 0:15:59.275 This was the third or fourth time he'd done it. 0:15:59.395 --> 0:16:03.435 This is just the first time somebody stopped him. The 0:16:03.475 --> 0:16:07.635 best local news here, the City reports the details that 0:16:07.715 --> 0:16:10.595 give away the fact that this was a setup. Quote 0:16:11.035 --> 0:16:14.675 in the chaotic scene at around noon, Lander asked the 0:16:14.715 --> 0:16:18.515 agents repeatedly to show a judicial warrant. You do not 0:16:18.675 --> 0:16:22.115 have the authority to arrest US citizens. Lander repeated, as 0:16:22.115 --> 0:16:26.675 the officers tightened handcuffs to his wrists. The federal agents 0:16:26.755 --> 0:16:29.595 escorted him into an elevator with one member of his 0:16:29.795 --> 0:16:35.955 NYPD security detail alongside him. Note in this Ice arrested 0:16:36.915 --> 0:16:41.395 a New York City Police officer. A reporter from the 0:16:41.395 --> 0:16:45.075 city had overheard one agent say to another minutes before 0:16:45.195 --> 0:16:50.915 Lander's arrest, do you want to arrest the comptroller? It 0:16:50.995 --> 0:16:56.515 was a setup. They planned this and then they stone 0:16:56.635 --> 0:16:59.755 cold lied about Brad Lander, even though there was video. 0:17:01.595 --> 0:17:08.235 Homeland Security protecting America, Christy Nomes tweets New York City 0:17:08.235 --> 0:17:12.275 Comptroller Brad Lander was arrested for assaulting law enforcement and 0:17:12.315 --> 0:17:17.075 impeding a federal officer. Our heroic ice. Law enforcement officers 0:17:17.195 --> 0:17:19.915 face a four hundred and thirteen percent increase in assaults 0:17:19.915 --> 0:17:26.155 against them. Four hundred and thirteen percent, that's all we have. 0:17:27.515 --> 0:17:31.035 It is wrong that politicians seeking higher office undermine law 0:17:31.155 --> 0:17:33.835 enforcement safety to get a viral moment. No one is 0:17:33.875 --> 0:17:37.715 above the law except Christy Nome and Ice and Trump, 0:17:37.795 --> 0:17:40.755 and we're going to change that. If you lay a 0:17:40.755 --> 0:17:43.715 hand on a law enforcement officer, you will face consequences. 0:17:44.035 --> 0:17:46.275 If we lay a hand on you illegally, we will 0:17:46.275 --> 0:17:51.795 not face consequences. I added that last part signed Homeland 0:17:51.795 --> 0:18:00.435 Security spokesperson Billy sol Hurok. Cool. Cool. The video shows 0:18:00.475 --> 0:18:03.035 the exact opposite of what you wrote here. But your ice, 0:18:03.075 --> 0:18:05.995 you're supposed to lie. You're the scum of the earth. 0:18:08.315 --> 0:18:10.915 It's the old Monty Python joke come to life. We 0:18:11.075 --> 0:18:13.355 charged him with a legal possession of whatever we happen 0:18:13.395 --> 0:18:15.475 to have at the police station, which in this case 0:18:15.635 --> 0:18:19.715 was a desk. The good news here is that for 0:18:19.755 --> 0:18:22.955 the first time I can speak with pride about the 0:18:22.995 --> 0:18:27.435 current governor of this state. It appears that the rage 0:18:27.715 --> 0:18:30.195 in Gavin Newsom in California and get back in the 0:18:30.275 --> 0:18:32.755 rage business, Governor. The glow is beginning to fade a 0:18:32.755 --> 0:18:36.395 little bit around the edges, but that glow remains inspirational 0:18:36.395 --> 0:18:43.355 to other governors in the normally meh blue states. Speaking 0:18:43.355 --> 0:18:47.915 of Blue Governor, Kathy Hokeel goes blue. 0:18:48.275 --> 0:18:50.595 Do you want to know what I really think? Please? 0:18:50.915 --> 0:18:58.435 It's bullshit? How dare they take an elected official who's 0:18:58.515 --> 0:19:00.995 been going down there for weeks to escort people who 0:19:00.995 --> 0:19:03.595 are afraid to walk into a courthouse in the United 0:19:03.635 --> 0:19:08.235 States of America because despite them having legal status and 0:19:08.315 --> 0:19:12.595 following the rules and making their appointments that they don't 0:19:12.635 --> 0:19:15.235 know what's going to happen them. So Brad Lander has 0:19:15.275 --> 0:19:19.195 stepped up to be a guiding help for them, and 0:19:19.235 --> 0:19:22.275 this is what happens to him. What the hell is 0:19:22.315 --> 0:19:23.435 happening to this country? 0:19:24.115 --> 0:19:29.235 That's right, Governor exactly, the bon mo, the mos juice. 0:19:29.435 --> 0:19:34.315 It's bullshit, and we need not just that sentiment, but 0:19:34.395 --> 0:19:37.115 that language from Democrats. Chuck Schumer get up there and 0:19:37.155 --> 0:19:41.115 say it's bullshit once again. We are not going to 0:19:41.155 --> 0:19:44.275 negotiate our way out of this. Somebody asked me the 0:19:44.315 --> 0:19:46.955 other day, when are the Republicans finally going to stop Trump. 0:19:46.995 --> 0:19:50.595 They're not. They're in power. They no longer care how 0:19:50.595 --> 0:19:52.395 they got there. They're no longer going to give it 0:19:52.435 --> 0:19:55.715 up voluntarily. We are not going to have beautifully crafted 0:19:55.915 --> 0:19:59.915 Maddow Seniors thesis arguments lead us out of this. We 0:19:59.955 --> 0:20:02.075 are going to have to kick them in the balls 0:20:02.195 --> 0:20:06.875 our way out of this, because they have also now 0:20:06.915 --> 0:20:15.955 reversed course and reprioritized cruelty over food. Trump retacos on deportations. 0:20:16.195 --> 0:20:21.875 He's not show moderate anymore. I'll quote the Washington Post, 0:20:22.035 --> 0:20:24.875 the Department of Homeland Security told staff that was reversing 0:20:24.915 --> 0:20:27.795 guidance issued last week that agents were not to conduct 0:20:27.835 --> 0:20:31.395 immigration raids at farms, hotels, and restaurants, a decision that 0:20:31.435 --> 0:20:34.795 stood at odds with Trump's calls for mass deportations of 0:20:34.835 --> 0:20:38.555 anyone without legal status. Officials from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, 0:20:38.635 --> 0:20:43.355 including its Homeland Security Investigations Division just call them the Gestapo, 0:20:43.755 --> 0:20:46.995 told agency leaders in a call that agents must continue 0:20:46.995 --> 0:20:50.995 conducting immigration raids at agricultural businesses, hotels, and restaurants, according 0:20:50.995 --> 0:20:54.715 to two people familiar with the call, once again a 0:20:54.755 --> 0:20:59.035 reminder from Georgia. In twenty eleven, they only had sixty 0:20:59.035 --> 0:21:01.315 percent of the farm workers they needed because of a 0:21:01.355 --> 0:21:04.995 crackdown on migrant farm workers, and at least seventy five 0:21:05.035 --> 0:21:08.355 million dollars worth of food rotted in the fields, just 0:21:08.515 --> 0:21:12.955 in Georgia. If they do this well enough, if they 0:21:13.195 --> 0:21:18.995 pursue this sufficiently, there will be food shortages. Not oh, 0:21:19.035 --> 0:21:22.195 I couldn't get my favorite brand of crup de tay. 0:21:24.315 --> 0:21:31.675 Not that. No, just like no food. Also, oops, Ice 0:21:31.795 --> 0:21:34.955 is already out of money. Don't worry. We'll just cut 0:21:34.995 --> 0:21:39.275 social security or prosecuting criminals, or maybe we'll fire some 0:21:39.315 --> 0:21:42.675 more air traffic controllers. This is from Axios Trump's immigration 0:21:42.755 --> 0:21:45.915 crackdown is burning through cash so quickly the agency charged 0:21:45.955 --> 0:21:49.195 with arresting, detaining, and removing unauthorized immigrants could run out 0:21:49.235 --> 0:21:56.435 of money next month. Whoa Immigration and Customs Enforcement parentheses 0:21:56.635 --> 0:22:01.075 GESTAPO is already one billion dollars over budget by one estimate, 0:22:01.115 --> 0:22:02.995 with more than three months left in the fiscal year. 0:22:03.435 --> 0:22:06.995 It's detention facility, about forty one thousand beds, are far 0:22:07.035 --> 0:22:10.955 past capacity as DHS continues to seek more detention space 0:22:10.995 --> 0:22:14.755 in the US and abroad. Honest to God, you went 0:22:14.795 --> 0:22:18.035 to all this trouble to create this fictional disaster and 0:22:18.155 --> 0:22:21.915 invasion bullshit, and you did not build the facilities beforehand 0:22:21.955 --> 0:22:24.115 to make your money off of it. What kind of 0:22:24.195 --> 0:22:29.515 corrupt businessmen are you? Ice? And the private jail business? 0:22:30.075 --> 0:22:34.875 What kind of corrupt idiot are you? No? Oh, I've 0:22:34.875 --> 0:22:39.235 had an allergic reaction to the law. I saw the 0:22:39.275 --> 0:22:46.315 Constitution and I went late headed save over. I remember 0:22:46.355 --> 0:22:49.515 when I was a little girl. That's also worth looking 0:22:49.555 --> 0:22:52.715 up if you've never seen it. That's Dan Ackroyd as 0:22:52.755 --> 0:22:57.795 the magic chef, cutting her wrists accidentally Julia Child and 0:22:57.875 --> 0:23:02.395 beginning to lose consciousness. Find that and Big Jim MCBOB. 0:23:03.955 --> 0:23:08.595 If Trump's big bill Axios continued isn't passed soon, he 0:23:08.595 --> 0:23:11.675 could use his authority to declare a national emergency. How 0:23:11.715 --> 0:23:15.035 many effing national emergencies does this guy have up his 0:23:15.155 --> 0:23:19.755 ass to redirect money to ice from elsewhere in the government. 0:23:20.275 --> 0:23:22.275 Why don't you take it from the money wasted on 0:23:22.435 --> 0:23:27.155 big flag poles and paving over the beautiful lawns of 0:23:27.195 --> 0:23:34.515 the White House. Who is the controller? Who is the 0:23:34.555 --> 0:23:49.075 handler for Donald Trump? This time it's Steven Miller? A 0:23:49.195 --> 0:23:51.715 couple other things. The Senate has to censor Mike Lee. 0:23:52.395 --> 0:23:55.315 Mike Lee, who once was an actual kind of nerdy 0:23:56.195 --> 0:24:00.275 wonk policy guy, is now just an out of control 0:24:00.395 --> 0:24:05.195 Internet addict and showing all of the signs of deep, 0:24:05.755 --> 0:24:09.675 deep emotional damage because of it. He has now deleted 0:24:09.715 --> 0:24:14.315 his stochastic threat against Governor Walls, misspelling his name Nightmare 0:24:14.355 --> 0:24:17.035 on Waltz Street. He put a t in it which 0:24:17.075 --> 0:24:19.995 showed the Minnesota Maga murderer next to a picture of 0:24:20.075 --> 0:24:23.955 the governor of Minnesota. That's a stochastic terrorist threat. In 0:24:24.155 --> 0:24:27.635 a real country, Mike Lee would have been arrested. The 0:24:27.675 --> 0:24:30.995 far right has dropped this story like not just a 0:24:31.115 --> 0:24:33.395 hot brick, but a ton of hot bricks. Turns out 0:24:33.435 --> 0:24:36.755 the guy is indeed ultra maga from NPR. Authorities in 0:24:36.795 --> 0:24:39.515 Minnesota say the man arrested in the Saturday attack that 0:24:39.595 --> 0:24:41.915 killed one state lawmaker and left another wounded, had a 0:24:42.035 --> 0:24:48.915 hit list of forty five elected officials, all Democrats. But 0:24:48.995 --> 0:24:53.115 sure he was on an appointee to some nine hundred 0:24:53.115 --> 0:24:57.315 and thirty second most important commission in Minnesota by Governor Walls, 0:24:57.515 --> 0:25:00.795 who is a bipartisan guy in a bipartisan state, which 0:25:00.835 --> 0:25:04.555 means he couldn't possibly be mega because he worked for 0:25:05.115 --> 0:25:07.595 root for Walls, just because he wanted to cool Democrats 0:25:08.595 --> 0:25:12.795 blowed them up. Real good, Jesus is coming back for brunch. 0:25:14.835 --> 0:25:18.315 Here are the problems. Mike Lee deleted these things, won't 0:25:18.315 --> 0:25:21.395 acknowledge that he ever sent them, will not apologize. Trump 0:25:21.395 --> 0:25:24.075 would not call the governor saying he didn't like the governor. 0:25:25.115 --> 0:25:27.755 The jokes that Mike Lee made were more befitting a 0:25:27.835 --> 0:25:32.235 mental patient than a senator, even a Republican senator. And 0:25:32.355 --> 0:25:35.875 what this underscores here is the fascists have now dropped 0:25:35.915 --> 0:25:41.795 even the lame pretense of thoughts and prayers. As always, 0:25:41.835 --> 0:25:44.155 the next question becomes is any of this making any 0:25:44.195 --> 0:25:47.675 impact or are we stuck permanently between the immovable object 0:25:47.755 --> 0:25:52.915 and the irresistible farce? Well, looky here. Strength in numbers 0:25:52.995 --> 0:25:57.715 is in. Democrats have an eight point edge for the 0:25:57.755 --> 0:26:00.715 generic House ballot for the twenty twenty six midterms. Forty 0:26:00.715 --> 0:26:03.075 five percent of adults say they would back the Democratic 0:26:03.075 --> 0:26:06.235 candidate in their local congression disc thirty seven percent for 0:26:06.275 --> 0:26:09.835 the Republican. Americans also say they are worried about corruption 0:26:09.915 --> 0:26:12.915 in the White House. Sixty two percent say Trump's promotion 0:26:13.275 --> 0:26:18.075 of his crypto represents a conflict of interest. Twenty nine 0:26:18.115 --> 0:26:20.835 percent of adults say it's appropriate for the president to 0:26:20.875 --> 0:26:23.995 accept a luxury jet from Katar as a gift. Fifty 0:26:24.035 --> 0:26:28.515 four percent say in its inappropriate. So the Trump administration 0:26:28.955 --> 0:26:33.555 is not getting away with this. In the zeitgeist, that's 0:26:33.555 --> 0:26:38.475 the Trump administration and shopping channel. Because don't forget those 0:26:38.515 --> 0:26:43.435 new Trump American smartphones introduced after he hit Apple with 0:26:43.515 --> 0:26:46.755 fifty percent tariffs on iPhones, he put out his own iPhone, 0:26:47.115 --> 0:26:51.795 Trump Phones, Trump Phones. Hello, can you hear me now? Hello? 0:26:53.875 --> 0:27:02.395 There's no speaker? What? It doesn't dial what when? Trump, 0:27:02.475 --> 0:27:05.715 by the way, says made in America it turns out 0:27:05.755 --> 0:27:14.595 he actually means made in China. Also of interest here, 0:27:14.675 --> 0:27:17.355 if an American news organization put out a photo of 0:27:17.355 --> 0:27:21.315 what appeared to be Trump wearing a Dunce cap, first off, 0:27:21.355 --> 0:27:24.075 it would be the most journalism in American news this year. 0:27:24.595 --> 0:27:28.955 But second, Trump and the Maga martyrdom machine would come 0:27:28.995 --> 0:27:32.595 down on that news organization so hard that Bob Iiger 0:27:32.915 --> 0:27:36.515 would send Trump twenty five million dollars even before Trump 0:27:36.555 --> 0:27:41.675 sued him. So why did the government of the United 0:27:41.675 --> 0:27:44.195 States put out a photo of what appears to be 0:27:44.195 --> 0:27:47.915 Trump wearing a dunce cap? That's next, This is countdown. 0:27:50.675 --> 0:28:15.115 This is countdown with Keith Olberman still ahead on this 0:28:15.275 --> 0:28:18.035