1 00:00:04,835 --> 00:00:17,555 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. This 2 00:00:17,635 --> 00:00:21,715 Speaker 1: is a Countdown bulletin podcast. Last night, President Joe Biden 3 00:00:22,235 --> 00:00:30,035 Speaker 1: pardoned his son Hunter for everything good. Now, what about 4 00:00:30,075 --> 00:00:34,395 Speaker 1: the rest of us. Joe Biden should at minimum pardon 5 00:00:34,635 --> 00:00:39,835 Speaker 1: everybody that Trump may target prosecutorially in the next four 6 00:00:39,955 --> 00:00:44,355 Speaker 1: years or more. And I mean one hundred thousand pardons, 7 00:00:44,715 --> 00:00:48,955 Speaker 1: every member of the media, every member of the Department 8 00:00:48,995 --> 00:00:53,075 Speaker 1: of Justice, everybody he can think of. He should offer 9 00:00:53,195 --> 00:00:56,355 Speaker 1: an eight hundred hotline that you can call in and 10 00:00:56,435 --> 00:01:02,115 Speaker 1: ask for a pardon. I want ten million pardons offered 11 00:01:02,715 --> 00:01:06,315 Speaker 1: and given by Joe Biden before where he leaves office. 12 00:01:06,355 --> 00:01:11,355 Speaker 1: It is the least he could do. Everybody except Merrick Garland. 13 00:01:24,715 --> 00:01:30,955 Speaker 1: What does this mean exactly? Quote, I do solemnly swear 14 00:01:31,035 --> 00:01:33,875 Speaker 1: that I will support and defend the Constitution of the 15 00:01:33,955 --> 00:01:39,315 Speaker 1: United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, That I 16 00:01:39,355 --> 00:01:42,555 Speaker 1: will bear true faith and allegiance to the same. That 17 00:01:42,675 --> 00:01:46,795 Speaker 1: I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or 18 00:01:46,835 --> 00:01:50,195 Speaker 1: purpose of evasion, And that I will well and faithfully 19 00:01:50,235 --> 00:01:52,835 Speaker 1: discharge the duties of the office on which I am 20 00:01:52,875 --> 00:01:59,635 Speaker 1: about to enter. So help me, God, So help me. God. 21 00:02:02,075 --> 00:02:08,635 Speaker 1: Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. Has taken that exact oath nine times, 22 00:02:09,555 --> 00:02:15,195 Speaker 1: seven as senator, two as vice president. His tenth oath, 23 00:02:15,755 --> 00:02:20,195 Speaker 1: the presidential oath, is oddly enough, a little less robust. 24 00:02:20,235 --> 00:02:24,355 Speaker 1: It does not include that phrase about all enemies. But 25 00:02:24,435 --> 00:02:28,555 Speaker 1: over forty eight years and in six different decades, Biden 26 00:02:28,635 --> 00:02:33,475 Speaker 1: has sworn to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign 27 00:02:33,555 --> 00:02:37,155 Speaker 1: and domestic. And nothing I have found, and no constitutional 28 00:02:37,235 --> 00:02:44,995 Speaker 1: scholar I have consulted, indicates that once taken those oaths expire. Ever, 29 00:02:47,715 --> 00:02:51,795 Speaker 1: the obligation as a senator or a vice president, or 30 00:02:51,835 --> 00:02:56,955 Speaker 1: as a president to defend the Constitution does not end 31 00:02:57,475 --> 00:03:01,955 Speaker 1: when the term of office does, and it manifestly has 32 00:03:01,995 --> 00:03:06,715 Speaker 1: not ended in the period between an election and an inauguration. 33 00:03:07,715 --> 00:03:10,955 Speaker 1: Nine times Joe Biden has sworn to defend the Constitution 34 00:03:11,355 --> 00:03:20,235 Speaker 1: against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and that he would 35 00:03:20,235 --> 00:03:24,195 Speaker 1: bear true faith and allegiance to it. And the obligation 36 00:03:24,355 --> 00:03:27,755 Speaker 1: to defend the United States becomes more profound still now 37 00:03:27,795 --> 00:03:30,915 Speaker 1: that presidents have been immunized by the Supreme Court from 38 00:03:31,035 --> 00:03:38,675 Speaker 1: prosecution for effectively anything. The incoming president, the one who 39 00:03:38,715 --> 00:03:43,995 Speaker 1: wants an unqualified toady like Cash Patel to head the FBI, 40 00:03:45,155 --> 00:03:49,035 Speaker 1: who desperately wanted a lawless menace like Matt Gates to 41 00:03:49,115 --> 00:03:51,635 Speaker 1: head the DOJ, but will instead settled for a chief 42 00:03:51,715 --> 00:03:55,355 Speaker 1: lawyer who led the lock her Up chant against Hillary 43 00:03:55,395 --> 00:04:00,195 Speaker 1: Clinton at the Republican Convention. That president to be will 44 00:04:00,235 --> 00:04:07,355 Speaker 1: be immune and thus unstoppable. The current president the one 45 00:04:07,395 --> 00:04:10,875 Speaker 1: who would not even fire the Attorney General Garland, as 46 00:04:10,915 --> 00:04:14,115 Speaker 1: he personally let Trump get away with his crimes. The 47 00:04:14,195 --> 00:04:23,035 Speaker 1: current president is also immune and thus unstoppable. And the 48 00:04:23,075 --> 00:04:29,875 Speaker 1: current president is already in power and in command and 49 00:04:29,955 --> 00:04:33,315 Speaker 1: has taken nine oaths ten if you count the one 50 00:04:33,355 --> 00:04:40,555 Speaker 1: as president. So this raises this theoretical constitutional question. The 51 00:04:40,595 --> 00:04:43,835 Speaker 1: president to be, the one who decided four years ago 52 00:04:43,875 --> 00:04:47,155 Speaker 1: that we weren't going to have any peaceful transfers of 53 00:04:47,195 --> 00:04:50,235 Speaker 1: power anymore, has now decided to try to turn the 54 00:04:50,275 --> 00:04:53,635 Speaker 1: Federal Bureau of Investigation over to a creature who will 55 00:04:53,675 --> 00:04:55,995 Speaker 1: have gotten the job, specifically so that he will not 56 00:04:56,795 --> 00:05:02,795 Speaker 1: conduct FBI investigations of the other cabinet nominees, and to 57 00:05:03,035 --> 00:05:07,635 Speaker 1: clean out the offices at the FBI of anything that 58 00:05:07,755 --> 00:05:13,115 Speaker 1: might pertain to anybody. The President to be the one 59 00:05:13,115 --> 00:05:17,675 Speaker 1: who tossed around top secret information like rolls of paper towels. 60 00:05:18,115 --> 00:05:20,075 Speaker 1: Has now decided to try to turn the job of 61 00:05:20,235 --> 00:05:23,835 Speaker 1: Director of National Intelligence to a woman a with no 62 00:05:23,955 --> 00:05:27,675 Speaker 1: intelligence and b who once praised enemy dictators like assad 63 00:05:27,715 --> 00:05:30,995 Speaker 1: and putin The president to be the one who flirted 64 00:05:30,995 --> 00:05:33,715 Speaker 1: with using the army to shoot at or just to 65 00:05:33,835 --> 00:05:37,515 Speaker 1: shoot peaceful protesters because he didn't like them, or to 66 00:05:37,635 --> 00:05:40,555 Speaker 1: seize ballot boxes because he didn't like what was in them. 67 00:05:40,915 --> 00:05:44,435 Speaker 1: He has now reconfirmed he will use the military domestically 68 00:05:44,675 --> 00:05:49,035 Speaker 1: to seize civilians and imprison them. And he has now 69 00:05:49,075 --> 00:05:51,315 Speaker 1: decided to try to turn the job of the head 70 00:05:51,355 --> 00:05:54,195 Speaker 1: of the military over to a man whose own mother 71 00:05:54,555 --> 00:05:58,795 Speaker 1: called him an abuser and implied he needed psychological help. 72 00:05:59,795 --> 00:06:03,115 Speaker 1: The president to be the one who once claimed he 73 00:06:03,235 --> 00:06:06,675 Speaker 1: was owed a bonus term in office because he had 74 00:06:06,715 --> 00:06:09,275 Speaker 1: had to spend so much of his first term defending 75 00:06:09,355 --> 00:06:13,315 Speaker 1: himself against charges of conspiracy with another nation to harm 76 00:06:13,355 --> 00:06:16,995 Speaker 1: this country. He is now surrounded by operatives attempting to 77 00:06:17,035 --> 00:06:20,155 Speaker 1: manipulate the law and the constitution to give him a 78 00:06:20,235 --> 00:06:25,995 Speaker 1: third term or more. And if you are paying attention, 79 00:06:26,395 --> 00:06:29,475 Speaker 1: you will have noticed. And if you haven't been paying attention, 80 00:06:29,555 --> 00:06:32,195 Speaker 1: I will spell it out later. The President to be, 81 00:06:32,515 --> 00:06:36,875 Speaker 1: whose first campaign began with him slandering Mexico and slandering 82 00:06:36,915 --> 00:06:40,395 Speaker 1: Mexicans and slandering Hispanics, he is already setting up the 83 00:06:40,435 --> 00:06:44,515 Speaker 1: obligatory dictator thing in which you invade a neighboring country 84 00:06:44,515 --> 00:06:47,355 Speaker 1: on the flimsiest of pretexts, and that country in this 85 00:06:47,475 --> 00:06:51,875 Speaker 1: case would be Mexico. And the President to Be, the 86 00:06:51,955 --> 00:06:55,155 Speaker 1: one who wrote of terminating parts of the Constitution he 87 00:06:55,195 --> 00:06:59,595 Speaker 1: didn't like, is encircled by fascist aids who have urged 88 00:06:59,635 --> 00:07:02,755 Speaker 1: him to declare a state of emergency upon his taking 89 00:07:02,755 --> 00:07:06,075 Speaker 1: the oath of office, and to simultaneou invoke the Insurrection 90 00:07:06,195 --> 00:07:12,555 Speaker 1: Act and thus to some degree invoke martial law. So 91 00:07:13,275 --> 00:07:17,995 Speaker 1: do the nine or ten oaths Joe Biden took as Senator, 92 00:07:18,355 --> 00:07:23,155 Speaker 1: as Vice President, as president? Do they even permit him 93 00:07:23,915 --> 00:07:30,155 Speaker 1: to not act against enemies both foreign and domestic, and 94 00:07:30,235 --> 00:07:32,635 Speaker 1: to defend the Constitution of the United States. So help 95 00:07:32,675 --> 00:07:36,315 Speaker 1: him God, when the Supreme Court has immunized him from 96 00:07:36,355 --> 00:07:42,075 Speaker 1: personal prosecution for doing you know, anything, anything at all. 97 00:07:42,875 --> 00:07:47,555 Speaker 1: As long as it's official, I do solemnly swear that 98 00:07:47,595 --> 00:07:50,595 Speaker 1: I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States. 99 00:07:50,635 --> 00:07:58,315 Speaker 1: Against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that I will bear 100 00:07:58,355 --> 00:08:01,235 Speaker 1: true faith and allegiance to the same, That I take 101 00:08:01,275 --> 00:08:05,155 Speaker 1: this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, 102 00:08:05,315 --> 00:08:08,915 Speaker 1: and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties 103 00:08:08,995 --> 00:08:11,555 Speaker 1: of the office on which I am about to enter. 104 00:08:11,675 --> 00:08:20,035 Speaker 1: So help me, God, I wonder what that means. I 105 00:08:20,075 --> 00:08:22,715 Speaker 1: will note here that there are not enough words in 106 00:08:22,795 --> 00:08:26,635 Speaker 1: the English language, and not enough time between this moment 107 00:08:26,755 --> 00:08:30,715 Speaker 1: and noon on January twentieth next for me to explain 108 00:08:30,755 --> 00:08:35,875 Speaker 1: to you just how much this will not happen. But 109 00:08:35,955 --> 00:08:39,395 Speaker 1: I think it is important to ask this question. Is 110 00:08:39,555 --> 00:08:46,395 Speaker 1: Joe Biden in fact obligated by oath to intervene, to 111 00:08:46,515 --> 00:08:51,075 Speaker 1: protect and to defend, And to ask if, thanks to 112 00:08:51,195 --> 00:08:53,435 Speaker 1: just some of the corruption of Trump and his cronies, 113 00:08:53,755 --> 00:08:58,275 Speaker 1: if Joe Biden has been pre authorized and pre immunized 114 00:08:58,315 --> 00:09:02,195 Speaker 1: by the Supreme Court of the United States to take 115 00:09:02,315 --> 00:09:10,115 Speaker 1: any measures necessary to stop the discontinuation of representative government 116 00:09:11,115 --> 00:09:40,035 Speaker 1: in this nation, the discontinuation of that by anybody. I 117 00:09:40,235 --> 00:09:46,635 Speaker 1: hate John Bolton, Trump's hand picked national security advisor last time, 118 00:09:47,235 --> 00:09:53,755 Speaker 1: but yesterday he compared Cash Patel to Stalin's secret police 119 00:09:53,835 --> 00:09:57,595 Speaker 1: Chief Barrier in a statement to NBC News when you 120 00:09:57,635 --> 00:10:00,795 Speaker 1: were the head of the secret police in the Soviet dictatorship, 121 00:10:00,955 --> 00:10:03,755 Speaker 1: and that barely describes your evil. 122 00:10:04,995 --> 00:10:05,395 Speaker 2: Scum. 123 00:10:06,675 --> 00:10:11,195 Speaker 1: Barria ran ethnic cleansing, ran the Russian atomic bomb program, 124 00:10:11,395 --> 00:10:14,435 Speaker 1: slave labor gulags, and in his personal life he was 125 00:10:14,475 --> 00:10:19,755 Speaker 1: a serial rapist and murderer. When Stalin died, his successors 126 00:10:19,795 --> 00:10:23,675 Speaker 1: gave Barria a promotion and then a show trial and 127 00:10:23,715 --> 00:10:27,875 Speaker 1: then a treason conviction, and then they shot him or 128 00:10:27,915 --> 00:10:31,675 Speaker 1: they had already strangled him. Just so you understand the 129 00:10:31,755 --> 00:10:36,195 Speaker 1: career path here when you get compared to Barrier. When 130 00:10:36,195 --> 00:10:39,835 Speaker 1: Bolton was also quoted on this subject by CBS, Patel's 131 00:10:39,835 --> 00:10:42,955 Speaker 1: one time mentor, Richard Grennell complained, did you have a 132 00:10:42,995 --> 00:10:46,715 Speaker 1: balanced discussion or just people on one side trashing cash? 133 00:10:47,155 --> 00:10:51,595 Speaker 1: Grenell asked, good point, Grenell, CBS or NBC should have 134 00:10:51,635 --> 00:10:53,875 Speaker 1: also had somebody on to say that the comp was 135 00:10:53,995 --> 00:10:58,835 Speaker 1: unfair to bury you and just to touch briefly, by 136 00:10:58,875 --> 00:11:01,555 Speaker 1: the way, on one of my other favorite topics, headline 137 00:11:01,595 --> 00:11:04,035 Speaker 1: on this nomination by The New York Times, quote Trump 138 00:11:04,075 --> 00:11:06,795 Speaker 1: turned to a fire brand loyalist to become director of 139 00:11:06,795 --> 00:11:11,715 Speaker 1: the Bureau. Headline on the nomination by Matt Drudge Cash 140 00:11:11,755 --> 00:11:21,275 Speaker 1: tapped for FBI conspiracy. Theorist advocated prosecution spree twenty five 141 00:11:21,715 --> 00:11:25,715 Speaker 1: years ago, I called Drudge an idiot with a modem 142 00:11:25,835 --> 00:11:31,835 Speaker 1: and a hat. Drudge is now a more responsible journalist 143 00:11:31,875 --> 00:11:38,115 Speaker 1: than anybody editing The New York Times. Meanwhile, back at 144 00:11:38,115 --> 00:11:40,995 Speaker 1: the psycho ranch, at the other end of the spectrum 145 00:11:41,035 --> 00:11:45,555 Speaker 1: of nominees, there's the backup Attorney General Pam Bondi, whose 146 00:11:45,595 --> 00:11:51,675 Speaker 1: resume is startlingly blank. Yes, she was at four seasons 147 00:11:51,755 --> 00:11:56,315 Speaker 1: total landscaping, and yes, her Florida office not only dropped 148 00:11:56,315 --> 00:11:59,595 Speaker 1: its case against Trump chronologically after he made a donation 149 00:11:59,675 --> 00:12:03,115 Speaker 1: to her election, but she did that after he made 150 00:12:03,155 --> 00:12:07,755 Speaker 1: a small donation. But the biggest legal accomplishment of her 151 00:12:07,835 --> 00:12:10,435 Speaker 1: career to date has been to have sent the ill 152 00:12:10,555 --> 00:12:15,675 Speaker 1: starred former baseball pitcher Dwight Gooden to jail for seven months. 153 00:12:18,595 --> 00:12:23,435 Speaker 1: That's it. Trump's still somehow standing nominee to run the 154 00:12:23,435 --> 00:12:27,315 Speaker 1: Pentagon still supports using troops against citizens. His Solicitor general 155 00:12:27,395 --> 00:12:30,115 Speaker 1: designate agreed at the Supreme Court that a president could 156 00:12:30,235 --> 00:12:34,075 Speaker 1: order sealed Team six to kill a political rival and 157 00:12:34,115 --> 00:12:39,435 Speaker 1: would face no consequences. Ahem. All of his health appointees 158 00:12:39,475 --> 00:12:43,355 Speaker 1: are such manifest dangers to health that Trump's previous surgeon 159 00:12:43,435 --> 00:12:46,755 Speaker 1: general has publicly warned against their incompetence. And by the way, 160 00:12:46,795 --> 00:12:50,475 Speaker 1: this Patel clown wants hawked pills that were supposed to 161 00:12:50,555 --> 00:12:54,435 Speaker 1: protect you against something that is shed by people who've 162 00:12:54,435 --> 00:12:58,675 Speaker 1: taken the COVID vaccine. You've got a pill that protects 163 00:12:58,715 --> 00:13:01,435 Speaker 1: you against the stupidity that has been shed by those 164 00:13:01,475 --> 00:13:08,235 Speaker 1: of us who've taken the COVID vaccine. Trump's intelligence heads 165 00:13:08,995 --> 00:13:12,155 Speaker 1: are such risks to this nation's security that a computer 166 00:13:12,275 --> 00:13:14,595 Speaker 1: algorithm put one of them on a version of the 167 00:13:14,595 --> 00:13:19,235 Speaker 1: No fly list, and our allies are considering cutting us 168 00:13:19,315 --> 00:13:25,155 Speaker 1: off from receiving further intelligence even without Gates. There are 169 00:13:25,195 --> 00:13:28,995 Speaker 1: nominees who have sexual assault accusations in their past, and 170 00:13:29,155 --> 00:13:30,995 Speaker 1: the ones who have never been accused of a crime 171 00:13:31,075 --> 00:13:36,755 Speaker 1: are at best snake oil salesman and his advisor or 172 00:13:36,835 --> 00:13:41,595 Speaker 1: henchman or egor or whatever. Musk is used his propaganda 173 00:13:41,635 --> 00:13:45,355 Speaker 1: platform last week to declare that Alexander Vinman quote has 174 00:13:45,395 --> 00:13:49,875 Speaker 1: committed treason for which you will pay the appropriate penalty, which, 175 00:13:49,915 --> 00:13:52,435 Speaker 1: to be fair, may not be the threat. It seems. 176 00:13:53,075 --> 00:13:56,475 Speaker 1: The appropriate penalty may be having to spend an hour 177 00:13:56,595 --> 00:14:01,275 Speaker 1: with Musk the o tours of Project twenty twenty five, 178 00:14:01,275 --> 00:14:04,395 Speaker 1: which Trump lied and lied and lied and lied and 179 00:14:04,475 --> 00:14:07,515 Speaker 1: lifeed and lied and lied about during the campaign and 180 00:14:07,555 --> 00:14:10,875 Speaker 1: said he had no connection to will litter the administration. 181 00:14:12,155 --> 00:14:15,515 Speaker 1: One of their allies groups has been at work for 182 00:14:15,555 --> 00:14:18,835 Speaker 1: a year to find a way to evade the Constitution 183 00:14:18,955 --> 00:14:22,315 Speaker 1: and let Trump run again in twenty twenty nine. That 184 00:14:22,355 --> 00:14:26,235 Speaker 1: would be a fourth Amendment they would have violated, say 185 00:14:26,275 --> 00:14:30,315 Speaker 1: nothing of all the clauses they've already savaged the thirteenth, 186 00:14:30,315 --> 00:14:33,515 Speaker 1: the fourteenth, and the twenty second, when previous Trump appointees 187 00:14:33,555 --> 00:14:37,075 Speaker 1: like Judge Eileen Cannon and those Supreme Court justices found 188 00:14:37,075 --> 00:14:39,555 Speaker 1: ways to allow him to run in twenty twenty four, 189 00:14:39,755 --> 00:14:42,595 Speaker 1: despite his attempt to overthrow the government in twenty twenty 190 00:14:43,715 --> 00:14:46,955 Speaker 1: his Supreme Court has in effect placed him above all laws. 191 00:14:47,675 --> 00:14:50,635 Speaker 1: He will be when he is sworn in, untouchable, uncontrollable, 192 00:14:50,795 --> 00:14:55,155 Speaker 1: and in effect unremovable. Trump is the personification of the 193 00:14:55,275 --> 00:14:57,835 Speaker 1: end of democracy in America and the beginning of a 194 00:14:57,875 --> 00:15:03,355 Speaker 1: military backed dictatorship. On the other hand, the weapons that 195 00:15:03,475 --> 00:15:07,235 Speaker 1: his own corruption has brought him immunity from prosecution, the 196 00:15:07,275 --> 00:15:10,235 Speaker 1: shelving of not just the most serious cases of espionage 197 00:15:10,275 --> 00:15:13,955 Speaker 1: and subversion ever brought against an American president, maybe against 198 00:15:14,035 --> 00:15:18,635 Speaker 1: any American, but also convictions by ordinary Americans sitting on 199 00:15:18,795 --> 00:15:22,475 Speaker 1: ordinary juries. The right to use the military as he 200 00:15:22,635 --> 00:15:25,995 Speaker 1: sees fit, the right to declare an insurrection or emergency 201 00:15:26,035 --> 00:15:29,075 Speaker 1: for the flimsiest of reasons, or reasons that only exist 202 00:15:29,075 --> 00:15:33,275 Speaker 1: in the minds of paranoid racists. These weapons, perfectly disguised 203 00:15:33,435 --> 00:15:35,995 Speaker 1: by corrupt laws, are. 204 00:15:37,915 --> 00:15:39,275 Speaker 2: In effact at this moment. 205 00:15:42,075 --> 00:15:48,715 Speaker 1: How about that? As I said, I can't tell you 206 00:15:49,835 --> 00:15:54,795 Speaker 1: how much this is not going to happen. We are 207 00:15:54,915 --> 00:16:00,115 Speaker 1: decades now. We are centuries away from the time when 208 00:16:00,155 --> 00:16:02,835 Speaker 1: a president could still look at the actions of others 209 00:16:02,835 --> 00:16:05,635 Speaker 1: in the political class or the government class, and say 210 00:16:05,835 --> 00:16:09,595 Speaker 1: the nation must be defended against them. That was what 211 00:16:09,715 --> 00:16:12,995 Speaker 1: was in the oath. I take that's what the oath demands. 212 00:16:13,155 --> 00:16:16,315 Speaker 1: Everything else is fluid and flexible and can be repaired, 213 00:16:16,515 --> 00:16:20,275 Speaker 1: whereas the fundamental survival of the nation is not flexible 214 00:16:20,355 --> 00:16:25,555 Speaker 1: or fluid or could be repaired. Lincoln said that the 215 00:16:25,675 --> 00:16:28,915 Speaker 1: response to Ceasession and the attack on Fort Sumter was 216 00:16:28,955 --> 00:16:31,715 Speaker 1: not to assume that it would end there, but to 217 00:16:31,755 --> 00:16:35,915 Speaker 1: assume that it would not. Among the things Lincoln then 218 00:16:35,955 --> 00:16:41,355 Speaker 1: did was suspend habeas corpus ulysses ask Grant was ready 219 00:16:41,395 --> 00:16:43,315 Speaker 1: to do it. In eighteen seventy seven, when the election 220 00:16:43,475 --> 00:16:48,075 Speaker 1: was in doubt and insurrection threatened again, he ringed Washington 221 00:16:48,235 --> 00:16:52,675 Speaker 1: with troops and forts Nixon wrong as he was thought. 222 00:16:52,715 --> 00:16:56,235 Speaker 1: He had to cross the double white line several times, 223 00:16:57,195 --> 00:17:01,275 Speaker 1: and long before any of them, long even before Lincoln. 224 00:17:01,715 --> 00:17:06,395 Speaker 1: Andrew Jackson vetoed the APT renewing the Bank of the 225 00:17:06,475 --> 00:17:09,715 Speaker 1: United States, and in so doing issue a statement suggesting 226 00:17:10,115 --> 00:17:14,715 Speaker 1: it's the president's responsibility to enforce or not enforce statutes 227 00:17:15,155 --> 00:17:20,715 Speaker 1: and judicial decisions based on his interpretation of the Constitution, 228 00:17:21,195 --> 00:17:28,515 Speaker 1: and everybody else be damned. Cash Patel as the head 229 00:17:28,515 --> 00:17:34,035 Speaker 1: of the FBI, why not Bashar al Assad or Putin 230 00:17:35,195 --> 00:17:42,275 Speaker 1: or Matt Gates. I do solemnly swear that I will 231 00:17:42,315 --> 00:17:47,075 Speaker 1: support and defend the Constitution of the United States against 232 00:17:47,275 --> 00:18:04,955 Speaker 1: all enemies, foreign and domestic. I wonder what the hell 233 00:18:06,115 --> 00:18:20,875 Speaker 1: that means to return to our world as it is. 234 00:18:21,035 --> 00:18:22,875 Speaker 1: In point of fact, I think Trump is going to 235 00:18:22,915 --> 00:18:26,155 Speaker 1: eat shit on Patel, just like he had to eat 236 00:18:26,275 --> 00:18:30,715 Speaker 1: shit on Matt Gates. The caveat, Trump could simply fire 237 00:18:31,315 --> 00:18:34,315 Speaker 1: the FBI director, his own appointee, by the way, Christopher Ray, 238 00:18:34,435 --> 00:18:38,835 Speaker 1: and not nominate any replacement, but simply repoint an acting 239 00:18:38,995 --> 00:18:42,355 Speaker 1: FBI director. And apparently Patel could serve as long as 240 00:18:42,355 --> 00:18:46,675 Speaker 1: two hundred days. What could you do in the FBI 241 00:18:46,755 --> 00:18:50,595 Speaker 1: offices in two hundred days. While it is hard to 242 00:18:50,635 --> 00:18:54,515 Speaker 1: imagine that Patel's own words on camera about he once 243 00:18:54,595 --> 00:18:59,075 Speaker 1: planned to evade secrecy designations and publish every classified document 244 00:18:59,235 --> 00:19:01,555 Speaker 1: he could take out of the National Archives because he 245 00:19:01,595 --> 00:19:04,915 Speaker 1: and he alone knew that Trump had declassified them by 246 00:19:04,915 --> 00:19:08,195 Speaker 1: blinking his eyes six times or whatever it was, it's 247 00:19:08,195 --> 00:19:10,555 Speaker 1: hard to believe those words are actually criminal. But of course, 248 00:19:10,955 --> 00:19:15,515 Speaker 1: if there's any law breaking here, the last person you 249 00:19:15,715 --> 00:19:20,035 Speaker 1: want to be is the guy nominated to and vowing 250 00:19:20,115 --> 00:19:24,355 Speaker 1: to break up the FBI and close FBI headquarters and 251 00:19:24,395 --> 00:19:29,395 Speaker 1: fire everybody at the FBI. When you have cleverly given 252 00:19:29,435 --> 00:19:33,155 Speaker 1: the FBI forty nine complete days plus the morning of 253 00:19:33,235 --> 00:19:39,755 Speaker 1: January twentieth to find anything you ever did about anything anywhere, 254 00:19:44,795 --> 00:19:48,755 Speaker 1: for all his imperious insanity and for all his wonted 255 00:19:48,875 --> 00:19:52,835 Speaker 1: poster cabinet nominations, the fact is right now, Trump is 256 00:19:53,115 --> 00:19:56,595 Speaker 1: O for one, and I wouldn't bet on heg Seth 257 00:19:57,075 --> 00:19:59,155 Speaker 1: and maybe a couple of the others, even if you 258 00:19:59,235 --> 00:20:03,075 Speaker 1: give me odds. And not only did Gates go down 259 00:20:03,115 --> 00:20:06,275 Speaker 1: in flames, but when he did, Trump didn't even stamp 260 00:20:06,315 --> 00:20:13,515 Speaker 1: his feet. Trump in fact caved. Republican senators who hated Gates. 261 00:20:14,315 --> 00:20:19,435 Speaker 1: Know that Trump caved. Republican senators who hated Gates hate Patel. 262 00:20:20,355 --> 00:20:24,235 Speaker 1: Chuck Grassley and that idiot Ted Cruz and a couple 263 00:20:24,235 --> 00:20:27,915 Speaker 1: of the other FEBEs have already vowed to vote for Patel. 264 00:20:28,755 --> 00:20:32,995 Speaker 1: But the others, who are already smiling up at the 265 00:20:33,795 --> 00:20:37,715 Speaker 1: symbolically severed head of Matt Gates on their wall, are 266 00:20:37,755 --> 00:20:43,675 Speaker 1: now emboldened, and they know their personal futures, not the countries. 267 00:20:43,715 --> 00:20:46,755 Speaker 1: They don't give a crap about the country's future. Their 268 00:20:46,795 --> 00:20:50,715 Speaker 1: personal futures depend on being able to whip Trump into 269 00:20:50,835 --> 00:20:56,875 Speaker 1: line and making sure he knows he cannot whip them 270 00:20:57,355 --> 00:21:06,995 Speaker 1: into line. So help me, God on ratchet that whole 271 00:21:07,035 --> 00:21:11,075 Speaker 1: point one more step higher, please. What if it was 272 00:21:11,195 --> 00:21:16,355 Speaker 1: clear to you that the man was clearly writing the 273 00:21:16,395 --> 00:21:22,315 Speaker 1: preamble to a military attack by this country against Mexico. 274 00:21:23,955 --> 00:21:26,995 Speaker 1: What if the only question about that is the quote 275 00:21:26,995 --> 00:21:30,195 Speaker 1: is attributed to a senior Trump transition team member by 276 00:21:30,315 --> 00:21:35,915 Speaker 1: Rolling Stone. Quote, how much should we invade Mexico? And 277 00:21:35,995 --> 00:21:39,635 Speaker 1: what if the first step towards that was actually made 278 00:21:39,715 --> 00:21:46,115 Speaker 1: in a phone call last Wednesday? How much should we 279 00:21:46,155 --> 00:21:50,115 Speaker 1: invade Mexico? That's next this Discountdown. 280 00:21:52,715 --> 00:21:55,675 Speaker 2: This is Countdown with Keith Olberman. 281 00:22:00,955 --> 00:22:04,395 Speaker 1: Oh, scripts to the news, some headlines, some updates, some 282 00:22:04,435 --> 00:22:09,315 Speaker 1: snow still ahead of course, worse persons And what's that 283 00:22:09,395 --> 00:22:13,795 Speaker 1: old shriveled thing in that video seen behind poor gullible 284 00:22:14,035 --> 00:22:22,115 Speaker 1: Cheryl hines. Why it's Robert F. Kennedy Junior's credibility coming 285 00:22:22,195 --> 00:22:31,115 Speaker 1: up or not coming up as the case maybe AnyWho. 286 00:22:31,395 --> 00:22:34,355 Speaker 1: This is the Countdown podcast, and these are the places 287 00:22:34,395 --> 00:22:39,715 Speaker 1: where there's news. Dateline Mexico City. The past was alterable, 288 00:22:39,795 --> 00:22:42,755 Speaker 1: the past never had been altered. Oceania was at war 289 00:22:42,795 --> 00:22:45,915 Speaker 1: with East Asia. Oceania had always been at war with 290 00:22:45,955 --> 00:22:50,875 Speaker 1: East Asia. Trump is already lying about Mexico, and the 291 00:22:50,915 --> 00:22:54,235 Speaker 1: moment I read this sequence of events, I saw the 292 00:22:54,275 --> 00:22:57,875 Speaker 1: whole plan that the mice running around in the wheel 293 00:22:58,115 --> 00:23:03,075 Speaker 1: inside Trump's head have cooked up. Quote just had a 294 00:23:03,115 --> 00:23:07,755 Speaker 1: wonderful conversation with the new president of Mexico, Claudia shinbound Pardo, 295 00:23:08,235 --> 00:23:11,635 Speaker 1: she has agreed to stop migration through Mexico and into 296 00:23:11,635 --> 00:23:15,315 Speaker 1: the United States, effectively closing our southern border. We also 297 00:23:15,355 --> 00:23:17,515 Speaker 1: talked about what can be done to stop the massive 298 00:23:17,595 --> 00:23:21,315 Speaker 1: drug inflow into the United States and also US consumption 299 00:23:21,395 --> 00:23:25,875 Speaker 1: of these drugs. It was a very productive conversation. El 300 00:23:25,995 --> 00:23:29,555 Speaker 1: Trumpo added, Mexico will stop people from going to our 301 00:23:29,595 --> 00:23:33,475 Speaker 1: southern border effective immediately, Capitals. This will go a long 302 00:23:33,515 --> 00:23:37,235 Speaker 1: way towards stopping the illegal invasion of the USA. Thank 303 00:23:37,275 --> 00:23:43,515 Speaker 1: you exclamation point, exclamation point, exclamation point, well, sir. President 304 00:23:43,515 --> 00:23:46,515 Speaker 1: Shinbaum immediately came back and angrily noted that she never 305 00:23:46,515 --> 00:23:49,315 Speaker 1: said anything of the sort. In point of fact, she 306 00:23:49,395 --> 00:23:52,475 Speaker 1: did not say this, but Trump lied. The next day, 307 00:23:52,875 --> 00:23:56,715 Speaker 1: President Shinbaum mitigated that somewhat and said it was a 308 00:23:56,835 --> 00:24:00,515 Speaker 1: productive conversation about the border, and more politely said that 309 00:24:00,555 --> 00:24:03,355 Speaker 1: there are no circumstances under which she would close the 310 00:24:03,395 --> 00:24:07,155 Speaker 1: border with the US end migration into the US, nor 311 00:24:07,195 --> 00:24:11,115 Speaker 1: would she tell anybody that. But the horse is out 312 00:24:11,155 --> 00:24:14,355 Speaker 1: of the barn. Here bluntly, the president of Mexico, the 313 00:24:14,395 --> 00:24:17,475 Speaker 1: presidents of all the other countries should not take any 314 00:24:17,515 --> 00:24:20,875 Speaker 1: calls from Trump. He's just using you to set something 315 00:24:20,955 --> 00:24:24,715 Speaker 1: up for later. The oldest trick in the dictator bag. 316 00:24:24,875 --> 00:24:28,475 Speaker 1: The first step you have to take to cement power 317 00:24:28,755 --> 00:24:32,035 Speaker 1: after you have seized power is to start a war 318 00:24:32,195 --> 00:24:36,675 Speaker 1: somewhere on the phoniest and craziest of pretext, just so 319 00:24:36,835 --> 00:24:39,755 Speaker 1: long as your base and the uninformed part of your 320 00:24:39,795 --> 00:24:43,755 Speaker 1: public believes it's true, or pretends to believe it's true. 321 00:24:44,075 --> 00:24:47,555 Speaker 1: Mussolini did it in Ethiopia. Putin's done it in Georgia 322 00:24:47,675 --> 00:24:50,795 Speaker 1: and Ukraine at least twice in Ukraine. Japan did it 323 00:24:50,835 --> 00:24:54,795 Speaker 1: in Manchuria before World War Two. Hitler did it, and 324 00:24:54,875 --> 00:24:57,795 Speaker 1: before that, in nineteen thirty six he went into what 325 00:24:57,955 --> 00:25:01,515 Speaker 1: was supposed to be the demilitarized area of the Rhineland 326 00:25:01,915 --> 00:25:04,995 Speaker 1: near the French border. You do it to stir up 327 00:25:05,035 --> 00:25:07,755 Speaker 1: a sense of danger in your own country, and to 328 00:25:07,795 --> 00:25:11,435 Speaker 1: stir up your own base, and mostly to see if 329 00:25:11,475 --> 00:25:14,195 Speaker 1: you can get away with it. I mean, hell, Ronald 330 00:25:14,235 --> 00:25:19,755 Speaker 1: Reagan invaded Grenada, and we are going to invade Mexico. 331 00:25:20,475 --> 00:25:24,235 Speaker 1: I guarantee it. It may not be announced as an 332 00:25:24,315 --> 00:25:27,715 Speaker 1: invasion or even as a war if it somehow goes 333 00:25:27,755 --> 00:25:30,435 Speaker 1: well for Trump he'll retroactively announce it's a war and 334 00:25:30,475 --> 00:25:33,635 Speaker 1: that we've always been at war with Mexico. The excuse though, 335 00:25:33,755 --> 00:25:37,435 Speaker 1: for what shall we call it our special military operation, 336 00:25:38,475 --> 00:25:40,795 Speaker 1: That's what Putin would want Trump to call it, is 337 00:25:40,915 --> 00:25:46,035 Speaker 1: drugs or immigration or immigration with drugs, or drugs that 338 00:25:46,075 --> 00:25:50,435 Speaker 1: immigrate by themselves or whatever. The excuse for the actual 339 00:25:50,435 --> 00:25:53,235 Speaker 1: moment of action, though, will be that phone call with 340 00:25:53,315 --> 00:25:56,155 Speaker 1: President Shinbaum. Trump made the call, put out his lie 341 00:25:56,195 --> 00:25:58,915 Speaker 1: about what she told him during it. Now he can 342 00:25:58,955 --> 00:26:02,395 Speaker 1: hold up his own tweet and say, but she said 343 00:26:02,435 --> 00:26:05,835 Speaker 1: she was closing the border. She didn't let's blow up 344 00:26:05,875 --> 00:26:10,075 Speaker 1: her country. These were the thoughts that raced through my 345 00:26:10,195 --> 00:26:12,595 Speaker 1: head when I heard about the two versions of the 346 00:26:12,635 --> 00:26:17,595 Speaker 1: call to Shinebaum. And then came the Rolling Stone story 347 00:26:18,115 --> 00:26:23,075 Speaker 1: quoting the Highlights quote, how much should we invade Mexico? 348 00:26:23,435 --> 00:26:27,515 Speaker 1: Says a senior Trump transition member. That is the question. Trump, 349 00:26:27,595 --> 00:26:30,635 Speaker 1: who has routinely and falsely promoted himself as the candidate 350 00:26:30,635 --> 00:26:33,795 Speaker 1: who would stop endless wars, now wants to lead a 351 00:26:33,835 --> 00:26:36,835 Speaker 1: new conflict just south of our nation's border. But at 352 00:26:36,875 --> 00:26:39,595 Speaker 1: this moment, it is, in the words of one Trump advisor, 353 00:26:40,035 --> 00:26:43,635 Speaker 1: unclear how far he'll go on this one. This source 354 00:26:43,715 --> 00:26:46,835 Speaker 1: adds if things don't change, the President still believes it's 355 00:26:46,875 --> 00:26:50,755 Speaker 1: necessary to take some kind of military action against these killers. 356 00:26:51,555 --> 00:26:54,555 Speaker 1: As Rolling Stone has reported since at least last year, 357 00:26:54,795 --> 00:26:59,715 Speaker 1: Trump has solicited specific battle plans and different military options 358 00:26:59,755 --> 00:27:04,635 Speaker 1: for attacking Mexico. Senator Marco Rubio, whom Trump chose to 359 00:27:04,835 --> 00:27:10,315 Speaker 1: serve as Secretary of State, has endorsed the idea of 360 00:27:10,355 --> 00:27:14,635 Speaker 1: sending US troops to Mexico to combat drug cartels under 361 00:27:14,755 --> 00:27:18,435 Speaker 1: the conditions that quote, there is cooperation from the Mexican government, 362 00:27:18,755 --> 00:27:21,835 Speaker 1: and that such operations are done quote in coordination with 363 00:27:21,875 --> 00:27:26,435 Speaker 1: the armed forces and the Mexican police force. Poor Marco, 364 00:27:27,155 --> 00:27:30,555 Speaker 1: he thinks we're going to coordinate our invasion of Mexico 365 00:27:31,035 --> 00:27:34,955 Speaker 1: with the Mexican government, with the Mexican armed forces, with 366 00:27:35,075 --> 00:27:37,835 Speaker 1: the Mexican police. He's going to be in quite a 367 00:27:37,835 --> 00:27:40,475 Speaker 1: position when we simply go in and start blowing up 368 00:27:40,475 --> 00:27:43,035 Speaker 1: one of our neighbors, just to see if anybody tries 369 00:27:43,075 --> 00:27:46,115 Speaker 1: to stop us. I wonder if Marco will be smart 370 00:27:46,195 --> 00:27:48,675 Speaker 1: enough to see that he's been lied to, or if 371 00:27:48,715 --> 00:27:51,235 Speaker 1: he was smart enough to have somebody read to him. 372 00:27:51,275 --> 00:27:53,995 Speaker 1: The Rolling Stone article on how it has on the 373 00:27:54,075 --> 00:27:58,835 Speaker 1: record quotes from Tom Homan, Pete Hegseith, National Security Advisor, 374 00:27:58,915 --> 00:28:03,555 Speaker 1: Mike Waltz, Lindsey Graham, and the rest of the Trump 375 00:28:03,955 --> 00:28:09,635 Speaker 1: fascist clown college about invading and bombing and killing and badges, badges. 376 00:28:09,915 --> 00:28:11,995 Speaker 1: We do not have to show you any stinking badges 377 00:28:11,995 --> 00:28:18,435 Speaker 1: because Oceania has always been at war with Mexico. Dateline 378 00:28:18,515 --> 00:28:22,795 Speaker 1: nepotism village District of Columbia. Trumps now appointed both his 379 00:28:22,955 --> 00:28:26,875 Speaker 1: daughter's fathers in law as Special envoys to the Middle 380 00:28:26,875 --> 00:28:31,715 Speaker 1: East Massad Bulos, father of the husband of the the 381 00:28:32,515 --> 00:28:37,555 Speaker 1: other daughter, Sparkle or Bingo or whatever her name is. 382 00:28:38,275 --> 00:28:41,435 Speaker 1: He will join Charles Kushner, whose father of the husband 383 00:28:41,475 --> 00:28:47,475 Speaker 1: of what was the name, Plinko, Plinko Trump whatever, And 384 00:28:47,555 --> 00:28:52,075 Speaker 1: I think it's plink Is it Plinko the daughter Kushner's wife, Yeah, 385 00:28:52,835 --> 00:28:58,195 Speaker 1: Plinko Trump Kushner. Anyway, Plinko's father in law was appointed 386 00:28:58,235 --> 00:29:00,915 Speaker 1: to the same post last week. And you remember Charles 387 00:29:00,955 --> 00:29:04,675 Speaker 1: Kushner ex Khan, whom Trump pardoned, quoting the Associated Press, 388 00:29:05,035 --> 00:29:08,075 Speaker 1: after Charles Kushner discovered his brother in law was cooperating 389 00:29:08,075 --> 00:29:11,435 Speaker 1: with federal authorities, the wealthy real estate executive and father 390 00:29:11,475 --> 00:29:14,635 Speaker 1: of Trump's son in law, Jared hatched a scheme for 391 00:29:14,755 --> 00:29:19,835 Speaker 1: revenge and intimidation. Kushner hired a prostitute to lure his 392 00:29:19,875 --> 00:29:22,595 Speaker 1: brother in law, then arranged to have the encounter in 393 00:29:22,635 --> 00:29:25,355 Speaker 1: a New Jersey motel room recorded with a hidden camera 394 00:29:25,715 --> 00:29:28,955 Speaker 1: and the recording sent to his own sister, the man's wife. 395 00:29:29,315 --> 00:29:32,595 Speaker 1: The scheme didn't work. Kushner later pleaded guilty to tax 396 00:29:32,595 --> 00:29:38,475 Speaker 1: evasion and making illegal campaign donations. Our representative to the 397 00:29:38,475 --> 00:29:43,595 Speaker 1: Holy Land, everybody, and remember there is no blackmail, especially 398 00:29:43,675 --> 00:29:47,755 Speaker 1: no sex on any videotape anywhere involved in the entire 399 00:29:48,075 --> 00:29:54,635 Speaker 1: Trump political crime family. No never, never, never and dateline 400 00:29:54,795 --> 00:30:01,995 Speaker 1: some secure, undisclosed location. Whatever happened to jd Vance? Remember him? 401 00:30:02,715 --> 00:30:07,235 Speaker 1: It's like vice president elect or something. What's he doing? 402 00:30:07,395 --> 00:30:09,475 Speaker 1: Is he busily trying to match his record of having 403 00:30:09,475 --> 00:30:13,275 Speaker 1: never done anything as senator by never doing anything as 404 00:30:13,355 --> 00:30:19,315 Speaker 1: vice president? Well he has resurfaced online. He sent us 405 00:30:19,355 --> 00:30:24,235 Speaker 1: a Thanksgiving greeting. Weirdo's Thanksgiving greeting a parody meme of 406 00:30:24,275 --> 00:30:28,435 Speaker 1: the Norman Rockwell Thanksgiving scene with all those wholesome white 407 00:30:28,475 --> 00:30:31,115 Speaker 1: folks being served a turkey the size of a buick 408 00:30:31,235 --> 00:30:35,675 Speaker 1: by Mom, except there's three small changes from the original 409 00:30:35,755 --> 00:30:39,755 Speaker 1: Rockwell painting. The Turkey is now an electoral map of 410 00:30:39,795 --> 00:30:42,155 Speaker 1: the country showing how Trump won all those counties in 411 00:30:42,155 --> 00:30:47,075 Speaker 1: which nobody lives. Dad is now Trump looking like he 412 00:30:47,155 --> 00:30:49,635 Speaker 1: wants to carve up and eat some of the people 413 00:30:49,675 --> 00:30:53,995 Speaker 1: at the table, and Mom still in her Rockwell dress 414 00:30:54,395 --> 00:30:59,675 Speaker 1: and rockwall frilly white apron and eyeliner. Mom is JD 415 00:30:59,875 --> 00:31:04,555 Speaker 1: vance JV. 416 00:31:04,795 --> 00:31:07,915 Speaker 2: Did you think this one through before you hit send? 417 00:31:08,315 --> 00:31:12,075 Speaker 2: I mean, you've posted a picture of yourself wearing a 418 00:31:12,235 --> 00:31:19,315 Speaker 2: dress and an apron and eye liner on No, wait, wait, 419 00:31:19,315 --> 00:31:22,995 Speaker 2: I'm sorry. The dress and the apron were in the 420 00:31:22,995 --> 00:32:17,635 Speaker 2: original Rockwell painting, and the eyeliner. JD brought that with him. 421 00:31:54,195 --> 00:31:56,795 Speaker 1: Believe it or not. There's still more new idiots to 422 00:31:56,875 --> 00:32:00,555 Speaker 1: talk about. It's the daily round up, now nearly daily, 423 00:32:01,515 --> 00:32:04,435 Speaker 1: of the miscreants, morons and Dunning Kruger effects specimens who 424 00:32:04,435 --> 00:32:11,275 Speaker 1: can't to today's other worst persons in the world. And yes, 425 00:32:11,315 --> 00:32:14,395 Speaker 1: I'm thinking about going back to more of these a 426 00:32:14,435 --> 00:32:21,155 Speaker 1: week after the new year. Ah, can't I just retire? 427 00:32:21,475 --> 00:32:24,835 Speaker 1: Can't the rest of you just keep the democracy together 428 00:32:25,675 --> 00:32:30,995 Speaker 1: for three weeks without me having to work? More. I'm 429 00:32:31,035 --> 00:32:35,835 Speaker 1: gonna be sixty six fing years old. I have been 430 00:32:35,915 --> 00:32:44,115 Speaker 1: broadcasting in some form or another since Gerald Ford was president. 431 00:32:45,555 --> 00:32:50,035 Speaker 1: I am an oak of my own generation. I need 432 00:32:51,395 --> 00:32:56,435 Speaker 1: to attend to my bark, all right. I sort of 433 00:32:56,435 --> 00:33:01,515 Speaker 1: went off on a tangent there, Lebrons worse Vibek Ramaswami 434 00:33:02,435 --> 00:33:06,915 Speaker 1: talking about trees, the Trump Department of Government efficiency that 435 00:33:07,035 --> 00:33:11,155 Speaker 1: is so inefficient it needs two chiefs. And of course 436 00:33:11,555 --> 00:33:15,875 Speaker 1: he's a moron with a bad haircut. He really is 437 00:33:15,915 --> 00:33:18,995 Speaker 1: a kaleidoscope of all the lack of skills required of 438 00:33:19,035 --> 00:33:23,115 Speaker 1: a moron. So somebody posts a video of an MSNBC 439 00:33:23,275 --> 00:33:26,555 Speaker 1: host warning that the Ramaswami and Musk plans to cut 440 00:33:26,635 --> 00:33:29,075 Speaker 1: the government and set private industry up to steal more 441 00:33:29,075 --> 00:33:32,235 Speaker 1: money out of your pocket will result in raw milk 442 00:33:32,315 --> 00:33:35,355 Speaker 1: only and more pollution and worse climate catastrophes than the 443 00:33:35,395 --> 00:33:40,355 Speaker 1: other thing Trump likes, because the job of being Trump 444 00:33:40,395 --> 00:33:43,115 Speaker 1: is to make sure there are crises you can pretend 445 00:33:43,115 --> 00:33:47,395 Speaker 1: to fix and of course make money off of. Ramaswami 446 00:33:47,475 --> 00:33:52,115 Speaker 1: reposted this MSNBC video and added quote, the fear mongering 447 00:33:52,155 --> 00:33:55,235 Speaker 1: has begun, but the real thing we should be afraid 448 00:33:55,275 --> 00:34:02,595 Speaker 1: of is the loss of self governance to an unelected bureaucracy. VIV. 449 00:34:03,635 --> 00:34:07,315 Speaker 1: The entirety of your Department of Governmental Efficiency is, in 450 00:34:07,355 --> 00:34:14,715 Speaker 1: fact an unelected bureaucracy. You are an unelected bureaucrat. Thanks 451 00:34:14,715 --> 00:34:20,035 Speaker 1: for the admission, VIV. The runner up, doctor Patrick soon Shong, 452 00:34:20,675 --> 00:34:26,795 Speaker 1: useless billionaire, Well that's redundant useless billionaire who also owns 453 00:34:26,835 --> 00:34:30,195 Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Times. It was lost to some degree 454 00:34:30,195 --> 00:34:32,955 Speaker 1: amid the cowardice of Jeff Bezos at the Washington Post 455 00:34:33,155 --> 00:34:36,875 Speaker 1: and others, but the LA Times also deliberately did not 456 00:34:37,035 --> 00:34:39,675 Speaker 1: endorse in the presidential race because this guy was sucking 457 00:34:39,755 --> 00:34:43,475 Speaker 1: up the Trump. The LA Times continues to have something 458 00:34:43,475 --> 00:34:46,675 Speaker 1: of a reputation outside of Southern California, and I will 459 00:34:46,715 --> 00:34:50,875 Speaker 1: never understand why within Southern California it has. For at 460 00:34:50,955 --> 00:34:53,595 Speaker 1: least the forty years I've read it or been covered 461 00:34:53,635 --> 00:34:57,035 Speaker 1: by it, it's had a reputation locally for being able 462 00:34:57,075 --> 00:35:00,875 Speaker 1: to screw up the proverbial two car funeral. The LA 463 00:35:00,955 --> 00:35:03,755 Speaker 1: Times is at a virtual monopoly on news in that 464 00:35:03,915 --> 00:35:08,275 Speaker 1: city since the La Herald Examiner, a much better newspaper, 465 00:35:08,635 --> 00:35:12,115 Speaker 1: first imploded after a decade long strike that ended with 466 00:35:12,155 --> 00:35:14,595 Speaker 1: the paper going out of business in nineteen eighty nine, 467 00:35:14,755 --> 00:35:18,635 Speaker 1: and The Times in this time of monopoly now entering 468 00:35:18,675 --> 00:35:24,595 Speaker 1: what year thirty six, has been uniformly terrible in everything 469 00:35:24,635 --> 00:35:29,555 Speaker 1: but maybe movie reviews and the quality registration of the 470 00:35:29,595 --> 00:35:35,875 Speaker 1: colors in its color photography process all that time. This soon, 471 00:35:36,275 --> 00:35:39,635 Speaker 1: Shong guy, I think that's how it's pronounced. Might be soon, Schlog, 472 00:35:39,835 --> 00:35:42,675 Speaker 1: I'm not sure. Made the mistake of doing an interview 473 00:35:42,675 --> 00:35:47,915 Speaker 1: with Oliver Darcy for his media newsletter's status. He explained 474 00:35:48,115 --> 00:35:51,915 Speaker 1: to Darcy that it's just an opinion that Trump lies 475 00:35:52,075 --> 00:35:55,915 Speaker 1: at a higher rate than other politicians. Schong also wrote 476 00:35:55,955 --> 00:36:00,075 Speaker 1: that he'd like to see Scott Jennings, the fascist idiot 477 00:36:00,195 --> 00:36:03,355 Speaker 1: CNN puts on every night in its latest worring out 478 00:36:03,395 --> 00:36:07,315 Speaker 1: of the reputation US CNN originals and near originals built 479 00:36:07,315 --> 00:36:10,155 Speaker 1: for it. He'd like to see Jennings on the La 480 00:36:10,275 --> 00:36:14,755 Speaker 1: Times editorial board. I'd like to see Jennings on a 481 00:36:14,795 --> 00:36:16,875 Speaker 1: flight to Russia, but I don't think that's gonna happen. 482 00:36:17,915 --> 00:36:22,995 Speaker 1: Mister Darcy questioned this idea, since Jennings is a condescending, 483 00:36:23,075 --> 00:36:27,395 Speaker 1: misogynist and clown, and he just is put on CNN 484 00:36:27,475 --> 00:36:30,635 Speaker 1: to cause trouble. That is impossible to watch and drives 485 00:36:30,635 --> 00:36:33,835 Speaker 1: their ratings down even further, and he is paid by 486 00:36:33,915 --> 00:36:38,275 Speaker 1: CNN to make up excuses for Trump. Mister sun Schong 487 00:36:38,555 --> 00:36:43,555 Speaker 1: answered that observation, quoting, according to Darcy Scott Jennings, you 488 00:36:43,675 --> 00:36:46,075 Speaker 1: just said his job is to defend Donald Trump. Did 489 00:36:46,155 --> 00:36:49,235 Speaker 1: you find that in his job description with CNN. I 490 00:36:49,275 --> 00:36:51,675 Speaker 1: don't know if you know that as a fact. I 491 00:36:51,795 --> 00:36:54,755 Speaker 1: love to work with facts. So when you make that statement, 492 00:36:54,875 --> 00:36:57,835 Speaker 1: just reflect on that you just made that statement. Did 493 00:36:57,875 --> 00:37:00,795 Speaker 1: you make that statement based on having Scott Jennings employment 494 00:37:00,835 --> 00:37:09,555 Speaker 1: agreement with CNN? Doctor sun Shong is another moron? Right 495 00:37:09,595 --> 00:37:13,435 Speaker 1: after that quote, a Time spokesman ended the interview for 496 00:37:13,515 --> 00:37:16,475 Speaker 1: the record, sun Shong was a transplant surgeon who invented 497 00:37:16,515 --> 00:37:18,715 Speaker 1: a drug and got rich off of it. He's a 498 00:37:18,755 --> 00:37:23,755 Speaker 1: South African, naturally, and I am reminded by him of 499 00:37:23,795 --> 00:37:27,435 Speaker 1: my friend George Carlin's best joke. George said it was 500 00:37:27,635 --> 00:37:28,435 Speaker 1: provable fact. 501 00:37:28,555 --> 00:37:32,275 Speaker 3: It was provable by sheer math, by simple math, that 502 00:37:32,435 --> 00:37:36,275 Speaker 3: somewhere in the world there is somebody right now who 503 00:37:36,435 --> 00:37:40,355 Speaker 3: is literally the worst doctor in the world. 504 00:37:41,715 --> 00:37:44,995 Speaker 1: I mean he's right. If there are forty million doctors, 505 00:37:45,755 --> 00:37:50,795 Speaker 1: somebody is number forty million on the list of good doctors. 506 00:37:52,875 --> 00:37:56,955 Speaker 1: The punchline, of course, is, as George put it, somebody 507 00:37:57,275 --> 00:38:00,195 Speaker 1: has an appointment to see him tomorrow. 508 00:38:02,315 --> 00:38:06,275 Speaker 3: I think we found him, George, but our winner, the 509 00:38:06,515 --> 00:38:09,395 Speaker 3: worst RFK Junior. 510 00:38:11,275 --> 00:38:16,035 Speaker 1: RFK Junior has now endorsed heroin. Said it on a 511 00:38:16,075 --> 00:38:21,395 Speaker 1: podcast quote. I did very, very poorly in school until 512 00:38:21,475 --> 00:38:25,315 Speaker 1: I started doing narcotics. Then I went to the top 513 00:38:25,355 --> 00:38:28,515 Speaker 1: of my class because my mind was so restless and 514 00:38:28,555 --> 00:38:31,915 Speaker 1: turbulent and I could not sit still. It worked for me, 515 00:38:32,475 --> 00:38:34,795 Speaker 1: and if it still worked, I'd still be doing it. 516 00:38:37,155 --> 00:38:39,195 Speaker 1: How about hitting yourself in the head with a two 517 00:38:39,195 --> 00:38:43,795 Speaker 1: by four? Have you tried that? Bob Side show. Bob, 518 00:38:44,755 --> 00:38:49,435 Speaker 1: the nominee for Secretary of HHS, has endorsed heroin, but 519 00:38:49,635 --> 00:38:54,275 Speaker 1: not fluoride and vaccines. And I'll note that Kennedy also 520 00:38:54,315 --> 00:38:57,635 Speaker 1: appears in an online video in which his poor wife 521 00:38:57,715 --> 00:39:01,475 Speaker 1: is trying to sell you supplements or something. Kennedy is 522 00:39:01,515 --> 00:39:06,075 Speaker 1: in the shower, presumably naked, and the wife, fortunate Cheryl Hines, 523 00:39:06,595 --> 00:39:09,195 Speaker 1: is positioned in the foreground in such a way that 524 00:39:09,275 --> 00:39:13,675 Speaker 1: you can't see. You can't see into this, you can't 525 00:39:13,995 --> 00:39:17,315 Speaker 1: you don't know it. You can't see rfk Junior Junior 526 00:39:17,955 --> 00:39:22,435 Speaker 1: Okay ms Hines. Missus Kennedy is, of course more than unfortunate. 527 00:39:22,715 --> 00:39:26,955 Speaker 1: She is at maximum gullibility because the first thing I 528 00:39:27,035 --> 00:39:29,235 Speaker 1: thought of when I saw that Kennedy in the shower 529 00:39:29,475 --> 00:39:36,035 Speaker 1: tableau on her video selling supplements was Ooh, he's probably 530 00:39:36,075 --> 00:39:40,915 Speaker 1: facetiming my ex Olivia Newsy Robert F. And guess what 531 00:39:40,955 --> 00:39:47,035 Speaker 1: the F stands for? Kennedy Junior two days other worst 532 00:39:47,395 --> 00:40:15,115 Speaker 1: person in the worl Hello, what are you wearing? Hello? 533 00:40:15,675 --> 00:40:16,475 Speaker 2: Have any heroin? 534 00:40:17,955 --> 00:40:22,915 Speaker 1: It's my sideshow Bob impression AnyWho. I've done all the 535 00:40:22,955 --> 00:40:25,115 Speaker 1: damage I can do here. Thank you for listening, Follow 536 00:40:25,235 --> 00:40:30,795 Speaker 1: me please for the podcast. 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