Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Trump
Speaker 1: and Musk and Vance and the others are now clearly
Speaker 1: signaling their intent to ignore the court orders keeping Musk
Speaker 1: from pillaging the government financial computers and from pillaging your
Speaker 1: personal information in them. But there has been no update
Speaker 1: on the other news that Trump's minions have already been
Speaker 1: giving loyalty tests to applicants to the FBI, to other
Speaker 1: law enforcement, to national security, loyalty tests that include questions
Speaker 1: such as yes or no was the twenty twenty election stolen?
Speaker 1: And who is your real boss? There are no updates
Speaker 1: from Saturday's Washington Post story, and as nearly as I
Speaker 1: can tell, the story did not even come up during
Speaker 1: any of the Sunday shows because the Trump strategy and
Speaker 1: appointing idiots to key positions was to make what's left
Speaker 1: of the media point and guffaw at the frontal lobe
Speaker 1: free likes of Christy Nome telling CNN you can't trust
Speaker 1: the government with your information, and the equally imbecilic CNN
Speaker 1: Meet puppet then saying you are the government and noo,
Speaker 1: I'm replying exactly, And as fun as that is, it
Speaker 1: is not news when compared to the prospect of the
Speaker 1: FBI consisting entirely of agents and the major law enforcement
Speaker 1: agencies consisting entirely of officers swearing in advance to lie
Speaker 1: for Trump whenever asked to down to shouting his name
Speaker 1: when asked who really won the twenty twenty election or
Speaker 1: who their real boss is. That is the moment the
Speaker 1: FBI and all of law enforcement become not Americas but
Speaker 1: just Trump's. And Christy Nomes's response to having humiliated herself
Speaker 1: twice in different directions in fifteen seconds, her response could
Speaker 1: have been for her head to explode, like in the
Speaker 1: movie Scanners, and that still wouldn't be news compared to
Speaker 1: Trump police and FBI loyalty tests that began some time
Speaker 1: before The Washington Post reported on it on day nineteen
Speaker 1: of this administration. There are, however, crack of doom level
Speaker 1: developments in the Weekend's other story that the media also
Speaker 1: largely ignored, because it turns out kristin Cinema is lobbying
Speaker 1: for her friend Tulsy Gabbard and paid Tulsi Gabbard's sister
Speaker 1: hundreds of thousands for security, and Cinema told me once
Speaker 1: that all her women friends and all her women long
Speaker 1: term business associates were only more than friends. If you
Speaker 1: were distracted by that and you did not hear the
Speaker 1: Emergency podcast Sunday morning, I suggested in it that there
Speaker 1: had already been quiet hints that Musk and Trump were
Speaker 1: planning to defy the court rulings keeping apartheid Clyde from
Speaker 1: having what amounts to a line item veto over the
Speaker 1: entirety of the federal government, which is what the f
Speaker 1: this actually is. Well, they are no longer quiet hints,
Speaker 1: and they are no longer even trying to smooth over
Speaker 1: the edges of the clear hypocrisy and clear self contradictions
Speaker 1: in their defenses of this coup. Late Saturday, a Twitter
Speaker 1: x account called insurrection Barbie wrote, among other things, quote,
Speaker 1: not allowing the Secretary of Treasury to access treasury files
Speaker 1: is unconstitutional. I don't like the precedent it sets when
Speaker 1: you defy a judicial ruling, but I'm just wondering what
Speaker 1: other options are these judges leaving us if they're going
Speaker 1: to blatantly disregard the Constitution for their own partisan political goals.
Speaker 1: Musk retweeted that your first hint yesterday. Musk went further
Speaker 1: a corrupt judge protecting corruption. He needs to be impeached now. Yesterday,
Speaker 1: Vance posted quote, if a judge tried to tell a
Speaker 1: general how to conduct a military operation, that would be illegal.
Speaker 1: If a judge tried to command the attorney general and
Speaker 1: how to use her discretion as a prosecutor, that's also illegal.
Speaker 1: Judges aren't allowed to control the executive's legitimate power. The
Speaker 1: irony of Vance insisting a judge trying to command the
Speaker 1: attorney general is illegal when it was Judge Eileen Cannon
Speaker 1: and Justices Alito, Kavanaugh and Thomas who commanded the Attorney
Speaker 1: General Merrick Garland in the prosecution of Trump, and thus
Speaker 1: it was judges who, by commanding the at enny General,
Speaker 1: got Trump and Vance elected in the first place. That
Speaker 1: is so obvious that Vance didn't even bother to address it.
Speaker 1: Never mind the nonsense about trying to tell a general
Speaker 1: how to conduct a military operation. If the military operation
Speaker 1: is illegal, like against citizens of the United States, the
Speaker 1: judge has every goddamn right in the world to tell
Speaker 1: the general how to conduct the military operation with the
Speaker 1: simple message you cannot. And we have seen within recent
Speaker 1: weeks judges telling the Attorney general what he can and
Speaker 1: cannot do. It's not different just because it's a her.
Speaker 1: This time jv. Stephen Miller, of course, went further than
Speaker 1: any of them. What we continue to see here is
Speaker 1: the idea that rogue bureaucrats who are elected by no one,
Speaker 1: who answer to no one, who have lifetime, tenured jobs,
Speaker 1: this unelected shadow force that is running our government and
Speaker 1: running our country, which is twice as hypocritical even than
Speaker 1: Vance was, because it is the unelected shadow force running
Speaker 1: our government and running our country called Stephen Miller talking
Speaker 1: about how the courts have no dominion, so the laws
Speaker 1: have no dominion over the other unelected shadow force running
Speaker 1: our government and running our country called Elon Musk. And
Speaker 1: then to top it off, Trump told one of his
Speaker 1: favorite whorees, Brent Bher, that in twenty four hours he
Speaker 1: will tell Musk to go check the Department of Education.
Speaker 1: Then I'm going to go to the military. The cover
Speaker 1: will be the same alleged fraud that isn't fraud, waste
Speaker 1: that isn't waste, cuts that aren't legal, monetary information that
Speaker 1: is incidental to the real goal here, purging non Trumpists
Speaker 1: and getting your private information. And at the Education Department
Speaker 1: maybe getting your child's private information before shutting everything down,
Speaker 1: and oh, by the way, rewarding Musk by giving him
Speaker 1: all the money that isn't spent. It is obvious now
Speaker 1: that if Trump and Musk, Advance and Miller and the
Speaker 1: rest had tried anything like this even just a month
Speaker 1: ago today, the preceding president would have been entirely justified
Speaker 1: and probably gotten significant public support in indicting and detaining
Speaker 1: them on any one of a dozen kinds of charges
Speaker 1: pertaining to trying to overthrow the government of the United States.
Speaker 1: Trump and Musk, and Vance and Miller are trying to
Speaker 1: overthrow the government of the United States, its foreign invasion
Speaker 1: level attacks against the law, and attacks against the constitution.
Speaker 1: Biden would have been justified in January if he had
Speaker 1: invoked the Insurrection Act for just a couple of hours,
Speaker 1: long enough to round them all up until further notice.
Speaker 1: Question now becomes what happens when, and this seems increasingly
Speaker 1: inevitable Trump and Musk defy all the court orders and
Speaker 1: again access the treasury. First of all, who is going
Speaker 1: to be there to stop them? In the Washington Post story,
Speaker 1: we don't know when the Trump personnel Reich started these
Speaker 1: law enforcement interviews, nor how many interviewees said yes and
Speaker 1: sure and you bet you. Trump is my real boss.
Speaker 1: And if any of them are already in uniform, and
Speaker 1: if the first of them were just randomly assigned to, oh,
Speaker 1: I don't know, the Treasury Department. So assume Trump and
Speaker 1: Musk defy the courts and resume what they have been doing,
Speaker 1: resume their illegality in person or just remotely. What do
Speaker 1: the courts who have ruled against them, and the other
Speaker 1: courts which are likely to rule against them this week,
Speaker 1: and the litigants in those cases, like the nineteen attorneys general,
Speaker 1: what do they do next? Does this go directly to
Speaker 1: the Supreme Court, where the corrupt theologians there can say, Aha,
Speaker 1: this is easy. We have precedent in this area. Now,
Speaker 1: I mean, look at that ancient court ruling from last year.
Speaker 1: If you can't prosecute an ex president for his crimes,
Speaker 1: if he's immune, how could you possibly prosecute him or
Speaker 1: anybody for crimes ordered by a sitting president. And if
Speaker 1: they say that it is official, this is a dictatorship.
Speaker 1: Or Trump looks at the judges who are ruling against Musk,
Speaker 1: and he says, believing that he is now king. He
Speaker 1: says the judge's behavior is actually an attack on this country,
Speaker 1: and Trump invokes the Insurrection Act this week and rounds
Speaker 1: up the judges and whoever else he feels like. The
Speaker 1: leading Democrats me you. The other option is intermediate steps
Speaker 1: by those judges who really really don't like being ignored,
Speaker 1: and who, while they might hesitate to pursue Trump per se,
Speaker 1: they would probably line up to pursue Musk and the others.
Speaker 1: They could quickly order contempt of court orders against Musk
Speaker 1: and his employees, and there are scenarios in which they
Speaker 1: move quickly enough to put these men in holding cells
Speaker 1: for defying legitimate orders. Or there could be a confrontation
Speaker 1: between court officers and police loyal to the courts and
Speaker 1: Musk's people and police loyal to them and Trump. Or
Speaker 1: there could be a violent confrontation between those groups. Or
Speaker 1: this could end up the wand mere Shan way, in
Speaker 1: which the courts act so slowly, so stupidly, so gullibly,
Speaker 1: so violated of their own purpose and indeed their history
Speaker 1: of blocking corruption quickly, especially corrupt businessmen maneuvering a hostile
Speaker 1: takeover of the government, and we go the Wan Mershan way,
Speaker 1: in which the judge will be back to you with
Speaker 1: a ruling sometime in the year twenty seven eighty two,
Speaker 1: in which case, Welcome to the Fascist States of America,
Speaker 1: Elon R. Musk, Proprietor. There is, however, one wild card
Speaker 1: I see here, a wild card that would have terrified
Speaker 1: us all a month ago, but now suddenly seems kind
Speaker 1: of funny. Trump, of course, can forget things that he
Speaker 1: has said before. The final syllable of the final word
Speaker 1: in his final sentence is out of his effing fat mouth.
Speaker 1: He may not send Musk into the military. He may
Speaker 1: be warned not to try that on the entirely reasonable
Speaker 1: assumption that the military may lean Trump. But it sure
Speaker 1: as hell does not lean South African druggies. If Trump
Speaker 1: sends Musk into the military, they may never find Musk again.
Speaker 1: The military has never been challenged in any real degree
Speaker 1: at any point in our history. All the governmental overthrow
Speaker 1: plots of fiction, they center on the military acting usually
Speaker 1: in protest of, or at the behest of a politician
Speaker 1: seven days in May. It can't happen here other plots.
Speaker 1: But the only time the military as an institution was
Speaker 1: actually challenged insulted, belittled, attacked. That would have been the
Speaker 1: time Joe McCarthy did it in nineteen fifty four, And
Speaker 1: while McCarthy had already peaked by then and was beginning
Speaker 1: to make costly strategic mistakes like that one because of alcoholism,
Speaker 1: I will point out this timeline. In January nineteen fifty four,
Speaker 1: Joe McCarthy's approval numbers in this country were favorable by
Speaker 1: fifty percent to twenty nine. On March sixteenth, nineteen fifty four,
Speaker 1: the Army McCarthy Hearings began McCarthy's attempt to punish the
Speaker 1: army and bend it to his will. By May, the
Speaker 1: Army McCarthy Hearings were going so badly for McCarthy that
Speaker 1: they were being satirized with the effect of a fresh
Speaker 1: verbal stabbing every morning by the comedic geniuses Bob Elliot
Speaker 1: and Ray Goulding on WIS radio in New York. By June,
Speaker 1: McCarthy's approval numbers were unfavorable forty five percent to thirty four.
Speaker 1: He went from plus twenty one to minus eleven in
Speaker 1: five months. By July, reporters stopped returning McCarthy's phone calls
Speaker 1: on descent number second, the Senate censured Joe McCarthy eight
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty two days later, Joe McCarthy was dead.
Speaker 1: And all of that happened without a challenged military ever
Speaker 1: actually firing a shot or even raising a gun and
Speaker 1: pointing it at Joe McCarthy headed for the Pentagon elon
Speaker 1: good luck. As I said earlier, I did what I
Speaker 1: literally called for the first time in this entire series,
Speaker 1: three and a half year's worth, an emergency podcast Sunday morning.
Speaker 1: So much was I throne by the Washington Post story
Speaker 1: about the loyalty tests. The odds are pretty good you
Speaker 1: did not hear it. It was intended to be run
Speaker 1: at this time, but I thought this should not wait.
Speaker 1: The emergency podcast was focused on the FBI loyalty tests,
Speaker 1: which I confess are the first Trump and Acts I
Speaker 1: have been surprised by in years. If you have already
Speaker 1: heard that emergency podcast from Sunday, you can hit stop now.
Speaker 1: If you have not, though, I think you should proceed
Speaker 1: if we are not at the Fort Sumter stage in
Speaker 1: this the Trump Musk civil war against the United States
Speaker 1: of America, against the government, against the Union itself. If
Speaker 1: we are not quite at Fort Sumter. Right now, Fort
Speaker 1: Sumter has just popped up on the GPS display. 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 Germany.
Speaker 1: One you heard it, who is your real boss? If
Speaker 1: you need more, don't worry, there is more. The other question,
Speaker 1: who were the real patriots? On January sixth? You have
Speaker 1: to answer these questions correctly. From the Trump point of view,
Speaker 1: to get a job at the FBI. We know through
Speaker 1: the Post's reporting of at least two other questions asked
Speaker 1: of those being interviewed for some kind of leadership positions
Speaker 1: within other aspects of the Trump national security apparatus in Washington.
Speaker 1: They are told to answer yes or no to each question.
Speaker 1: One was January sixth and inside job question two was
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty presidential election stolen, presumably with two l's.
Speaker 1: At least these two applicants cited in the Post story
Speaker 1: told their interviewers no, and neither was hired. The asking
Speaker 1: of these questions, just the asking, let alone the answers,
Speaker 1: let alone the implications that it is anything but political
Speaker 1: science fiction. To conclude that some people have already answered
Speaker 1: yes and are now moving into roles at the FBI
Speaker 1: and other law enforcement at other national security organizations. Just
Speaker 1: asking those questions signals the end of democracy. Because if
Speaker 1: today you can ask candidates for federal law enforcement positions
Speaker 1: to swear personal loyalty to their real boss, and if
Speaker 1: today you can ask candidates for these same positions to
Speaker 1: insist that lies about January sixth, then the twenty twenty
Speaker 1: election are the truth and that the truths are lies.
Speaker 1: Then tomorrow you can make it illegal to answer that
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty election wasn't stolen, And then next week
Speaker 1: you can make it illegal to publish or broadcast that
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty election wasn't stolen, And then the week
Speaker 1: after that you can put anybody who does so in prison.
Speaker 1: The slow, incremental submersion into this quicksand is asking the
Speaker 1: would be leaders of the FBI to swear to lies
Speaker 1: and fiction and fantasy and perversion of reality, punishing people
Speaker 1: for refusing to do any of that. That is only
Speaker 1: the quest terrible final step. Some of us have been
Speaker 1: warning we would get here. We have been warning that
Speaker 1: the creature at the head of this movement is not
Speaker 1: just unstable, quirky, populist, selfish, self indulgent, not just insane,
Speaker 1: but criminally insane and homicidally insane and ultimately conceivably genocidally insane.
Speaker 1: Some of us have been warning about this for a decade.
Speaker 1: We have been shunned, mocked, and marginalized. We have been
Speaker 1: told Trump is not a subhuman psychotic, not a terrorist,
Speaker 1: not a mass murderer. He's just popular. We were right,
Speaker 1: and if there was any remaining doubt. It ended last night,
Speaker 1: and those who doubted and those who told us otherwise
Speaker 1: were and are wrong, and it will cost all of
Speaker 1: us our form of government. Some of those who told
Speaker 1: us we were wrong have even come to understand this
Speaker 1: since just January twentieth. Some of them have just come
Speaker 1: to understand this since reading the Post article last night.
Speaker 1: Some of them will not understand any of it until
Speaker 1: they are being led away in handcuffs or worse. And
Speaker 1: so I would like to mention here while it is
Speaker 1: still legal, to mention here, that we are here now
Speaker 1: on the precipice as it crumbles beneath us in large measure,
Speaker 1: probably in the decisive final measure, because of the people
Speaker 1: who both sides us, and what abouted us who both
Speaker 1: sides and what about this country figuratively and probably literally
Speaker 1: to death? Attorney General Merrick Garland and former President Joe Biden,
Speaker 1: who refused to recognize that the danger was not in
Speaker 1: breaking the ritualistic imbecilities of Department of Justice norms. We're
Speaker 1: not getting back to normality as soon as possible. The
Speaker 1: danger was in not vigorously and immediately prosecuting Trump and
Speaker 1: taking any measures available to imprison him for the rest
Speaker 1: of his life and imprison these creatures who now ask
Speaker 1: the successors to Garland's own employees, who's your real boss?
Speaker 1: Garland and Biden helped kill our country. David Zaslav, head
Speaker 1: of Warner Brothers Discovery, and his minion Chris lickt who
Speaker 1: neutered CNN to make money. Not decisive by any stretch
Speaker 1: of the imagination, but neutering CNN accelerated the both sides
Speaker 1: its landslide. David Zaslab and Chris Licht helped kill our country.
Speaker 1: Jake Tapper and Dana Bash of CNN, who refused to
Speaker 1: demand the right to fact check Trump in the debate
Speaker 1: eight last summer as he lied literally without interruption for
Speaker 1: ninety minutes. Tapper and Bash who helped kill our country.
Speaker 1: Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzhinsky, who two weeks after the
Speaker 1: election went to Florida to prostrate and prostitute themselves in
Speaker 1: front of Trump. Scarborough and Brzhinsky helped kill our country.
Speaker 1: Mark Zuckerberg, the spineless head of Facebook and a series
Speaker 1: of failed related websites, who, with terror written across his face,
Speaker 1: has guaranteed Trump that he and his liars could lie
Speaker 1: all they wanted to on all of his platforms. Mark Zuckerberg,
Speaker 1: who helped kill 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 Cohn and Selzberger, 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 accessible to Republicans, everybody virtually at Politico, Chris Solisza,
Speaker 1: Chuck Todd, Kristen Welker, and we can pick Kristin Welker
Speaker 1: almost at random to represent the media for when last April,
Speaker 1: a video appeared of a Trump pickup truck with flags
Speaker 1: flapping in the highway wind and an illustration a sticker
Speaker 1: or decal on its bumper showing then President Biden bound
Speaker 1: and gagged full size as if he had been kidnapped
Speaker 1: 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, will 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 Welkers 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: Kristen Welker and Joe Scarborough and Joe Conn 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: realitybody 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
Speaker 1: screwed as if you had actually stood for something. And
Speaker 1: I 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, we're soon. I don't know
Speaker 1: how long we have. It is why I did not
Speaker 1: wait till the usual Money Day countdown podcast publication hour
Speaker 1: and put this out when I did on Sunday morning.
Speaker 1: I don't know how long we have after this. This
Speaker 1: to me is the first genuine surprise I have had
Speaker 1: out of Trump and his terrorist gang in at least
Speaker 1: five years. If they are already asking would be FBI agents,
Speaker 1: who's your real boss? We may only have weeks, and
Speaker 1: yet 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: Stones latest slanders against one of the attorneys general who sued.
Speaker 1: If Trump and must continue on this path, we're going
Speaker 1: to have to find other ways to make them obey
Speaker 1: the courts. If they do obey with an eye towards
Speaker 1: simply freezing their privatizing of government until they can get
Speaker 1: their theocratic Supreme Court to overrule any lower court decisions
Speaker 1: and you know the constitution, If 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. Earlier,
Speaker 1: that same day, a different federal judge blocked any further
Speaker 1: destruction of the us AID agency by mister Rubio, Secretary
Speaker 1: of Comovers. Twenty two hundred more employees at USAID were
Speaker 1: to go on leave that was stopped, and five hundred
Speaker 1: were reinstated again. This administration dictatorship is three weeks old Monday,
Speaker 1: and we are already at that Nixonian moment when we
Speaker 1: wait to see if the President and Trump for that matter,
Speaker 1: refuse to comply with the courts. It is a very
Speaker 1: real possibility. The best case scenario is that they do
Speaker 1: and use it to further fuel the Trumpian umbridge at
Speaker 1: everything and everyone, and just building up a further explosion
Speaker 1: of rage against government, which will itself inevitably come into
Speaker 1: conflict with the other building explosion of rage for government.
Speaker 1: There is the very slim possibility, of course, that somebody
Speaker 1: Trump hired is not a religious nut too stupid to
Speaker 1: see that the courts, or fate or the law actually
Speaker 1: did them a huge favor. On the us AID story,
Speaker 1: killing off us AID may be hugely popular with MAGA
Speaker 1: and other morons like Ram Emmanuel and David Axelrod, but
Speaker 1: nobody seemed to notice until this was in full swing,
Speaker 1: that USA 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: for the Wall Street Journal, consumer sentiment dropped in January,
Speaker 1: and it has dropped again this month. Bottom line, Oh
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, as The New York Times got him to
Speaker 1: phrase it. Trump is in the classic dictatorial position. He
Speaker 1: needs to die in bed holding all executive power to
Speaker 1: stay out of prison. This means that he will do
Speaker 1: whatever he can to gain power, and once in power,
Speaker 1: will do all that he can to never let it go.
Speaker 1: This is a basic incentive structure which underlies everything else.
Speaker 1: It 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 next steps. Things
Speaker 1: Democrats can still do, Americans can still do. Those who
Speaker 1: need to atone right now can still do. That's next.
Speaker 1: This is an emergency edition of Countdown, continuing the emergency
Speaker 1: edition of Countdown for February ninth, twenty twenty five. I
Speaker 1: hope that of the thousand times I have said this,
Speaker 1: now I will proved to have never proved more accurate
Speaker 1: when I say it this time that the preservation of
Speaker 1: democracy has owed less to our efforts to preserve it
Speaker 1: than it has. The stupidity of those trying to destroy
Speaker 1: it is hinted at before the break. These guys literally
Speaker 1: cannot figure out whether they hate immigrants or love immigrants,
Speaker 1: and which ones are the good ones. While we are
Speaker 1: still reviewing the hating of this group today but defending
Speaker 1: the same group tomorrow, how about good old JV. Musk
Speaker 1: goes outside all the laws and all the rules and
Speaker 1: installs a twenty five year old anti Indian racist with
Speaker 1: what amounts to veto power over government spending, and the
Speaker 1: guy turns out to have gotten caught having written I
Speaker 1: was racist before it was cool and quote normalize Indian
Speaker 1: hate and calling for eugenics. And then he resigns because
Speaker 1: he is somehow too sleeve Elon Musk and then Vice
Speaker 1: President Vance JV. The VP demands that this pro eugenics
Speaker 1: Musk slave be re hired. Here's my view, genius rites.
Speaker 1: I obviously disagree with some of Ellas's posts, but I
Speaker 1: don't 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 tried to
Speaker 1: destroy seven or eight hundred of them a day. I
Speaker 1: don't think stupid social media activity 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 representative 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 birth they fell,
Speaker 1: he was twenty four or already twenty five. Of course
Speaker 1: he was a kid. He was several months younger than
Speaker 1: he is now. To air is human, to forgive Divine,
Speaker 1: wrote Musk between doses and rehired him as if Musk
Speaker 1: has ever shown any signs of knowing anything about being
Speaker 1: human and another thing normalize Indian hate. JD. Vance's wife,
Speaker 1: the now second Lady of the United States, Missus Vance,
Speaker 1: missus Usha Balachilikourie Vance first generation American born of Indian immigrants,
Speaker 1: and he sticks up for the inceel 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 buy 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 bloomber 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 afford,
Speaker 1: 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 equivalence 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 an
Speaker 1: enough money to never notice any of this, which swings
Speaker 1: us back to money and Mump and Tusk and the
Speaker 1: big thing that the clapping monkeys enjoyed last week when
Speaker 1: Time magazine put President Musk on the cover and Trump
Speaker 1: got off a brilliant singer that he just thought up
Speaker 1: and nobody has ever used before, ever in the history
Speaker 1: of the whole world, other than you know, the ten
Speaker 1: or twelve million people have said this exact same thing before,
Speaker 1: and in Time magazine was still in business. Ah, 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 did and flee
Speaker 1: the country after one of his bankruptcies. This owes largely
Speaker 1: to this amazing ability. He has to flood the nation
Speaker 1: or his part of the nation with so much bullshit
Speaker 1: all at once that nobody, nobody would everything to come
Speaker 1: back to him after he said I didn't know Time
Speaker 1: Magazine was still in business, and say, wait, sir, two
Speaker 1: months ago, Time Magazine gave you that Person of the
Speaker 1: Year award and you said it was a great honor.
Speaker 1: I may be mistaken on this, mister president el presidente,
Speaker 1: my real boss Trump. I thought I thought you remembered
Speaker 1: Time Magazine was still in business. Then maybe so, as
Speaker 1: I asked before the break, next steps, same as last week.
Speaker 1: Senate holds on everything. Trump wants a Senate hold on everything.
Speaker 1: Republicans need support on. Do a Tubberville, whatever it is,
Speaker 1: hold it. If nothing else, You piss Trump off, You
Speaker 1: inflict pain, You remind him he is not invincible. I
Speaker 1: mean Musk. That also applies to Trump. And in the House,
Speaker 1: the overnight symbolic filibusters against Russ's vote. They were great,
Speaker 1: limited impact, pretty good visibility at minimum, showing some Democrats
Speaker 1: are not in a coma. And of course let's flush
Speaker 1: this idea like the turd. It is about bipartisanship. Nothing
Speaker 1: not one Democratic vote for anything Republicans support. Have to
Speaker 1: crash the system. There are no other options. Mike Johnson
Speaker 1: needs votes for the dead ceiling. F him. Call Elon
Speaker 1: Musk you need some money, You do that, Mike, call Elon.
Speaker 1: He has your money over there. You need the vote
Speaker 1: on anything else, Mike, f you call Trump. Mike, you
Speaker 1: broke it. You bought it. Happily. Minority Leader A. Kiem
Speaker 1: Jeffries gets this right right right now here. He was
Speaker 1: again Friday, refusing to pull the emergency cord and deny
Speaker 1: all Democratic support for anything bipartisan. This he said, consensus
Speaker 1: that he said, not committing to this. He said, there
Speaker 1: is a possibility. All that was a feint on his
Speaker 1: part to not give away his strategy, but I'm doubting it.
Speaker 1: Set it before say it again. No signs yet. Akiem
Speaker 1: Jefferies is a wartime consuliari. There are enough bureaucratic trip
Speaker 1: wires still in place to make the Trump coup reducts
Speaker 1: at least grind to a halt for a while and
Speaker 1: make the Republicans take all the public blame for what happens.
Speaker 1: You just have to have the courage to recognize the
Speaker 1: stakes and tighten up those trip wires so everybody trips
Speaker 1: on them. Maybe you should listen to us. We told
Speaker 1: you we would eventually get to this point. Where all
Speaker 1: the police and all the FBI and all the prosecutors
Speaker 1: will literally agree with Trump that up is down and
Speaker 1: down is up. You must fight back. But this would
Speaker 1: require Jeffries to either come to Jesus and fast, or
Speaker 1: it's going to require the wartime consolieri that I keep
Speaker 1: referring to, or if you want to update the cultural
Speaker 1: reference a little bit, and never mind the consuliary, we'll
Speaker 1: call it. We need the war doctor. I still think
Speaker 1: it's aoc to borrow a phrase that is in the news.
Speaker 1: Just now, Representative Jeffries, who's your real boss? I don't
Speaker 1: know when the next edition of Countdown is going to be,
Speaker 1: As you know, the schedule now is Mondays and Thursdays.
Speaker 1: And this is not Monday North Thursday. It's Sunday. As
Speaker 1: I said earlier, I just didn't think this could wait.
Speaker 1: We are now down to loyalty tests. Will you lie
Speaker 1: for Trump? Will you swear to lie for Trump? Will
Speaker 1: you insist on reality? Is reality? All of the cliches
Speaker 1: that we have ever been accused of using turned out
Speaker 1: not to be cliches, but in fact Trump using Hitler's
Speaker 1: favorite speeches, and perhaps nineteen eighty four as a kind
Speaker 1: of guide book. I don't want to say I told
Speaker 1: you so. I know you told them so too. So
Speaker 1: I do not think there will be a new edition tomorrow.
Speaker 1: But hell, I didn't think there was going to be
Speaker 1: a new edition today either. And then as I was
Speaker 1: writing this up, I thought, this can't wait. This needs
Speaker 1: to be said right now. So have a nice Sunday
Speaker 1: if you still can. I think there's a football game
Speaker 1: or something later. I won't be watching it. Certainly there
Speaker 1: will be a new edition later in the week. It
Speaker 1: is probably going to be Thursday, but who in the
Speaker 1: hell knows. I'm not going to do any of the
Speaker 1: cutesye how many days left. I'm not going to say
Speaker 1: thank you for your time this time till next time.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to do any of it. I'm just
Speaker 1: going to simply close by saying I'll be back if
Speaker 1: they let me whenever I am back, and until then,
Speaker 1: good night and good luck. Countdown with Keith Olderman is
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