Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. This
Speaker 1: is a Countdown bulletin podcast. Last night, President Joe Biden
Speaker 1: pardoned his son Hunter for everything good. Now, what about
Speaker 1: the rest of us. Joe Biden should at minimum pardon
Speaker 1: everybody that Trump may target prosecutorially in the next four
Speaker 1: years or more. And I mean one hundred thousand pardons,
Speaker 1: every member of the media, every member of the Department
Speaker 1: of Justice, everybody he can think of. He should offer
Speaker 1: an eight hundred hotline that you can call in and
Speaker 1: ask for a pardon. I want ten million pardons offered
Speaker 1: and given by Joe Biden before where he leaves office.
Speaker 1: It is the least he could do. Everybody except Merrick Garland.
Speaker 1: What does this mean exactly? Quote, I do solemnly swear
Speaker 1: that I will support and defend the Constitution of the
Speaker 1: United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, That I
Speaker 1: will bear true faith and allegiance to the same. That
Speaker 1: I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or
Speaker 1: purpose of evasion, And that I will well and faithfully
Speaker 1: discharge the duties of the office on which I am
Speaker 1: about to enter. So help me, God, So help me. God.
Speaker 1: Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. Has taken that exact oath nine times,
Speaker 1: seven as senator, two as vice president. His tenth oath,
Speaker 1: the presidential oath, is oddly enough, a little less robust.
Speaker 1: It does not include that phrase about all enemies. But
Speaker 1: over forty eight years and in six different decades, Biden
Speaker 1: has sworn to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign
Speaker 1: and domestic. And nothing I have found, and no constitutional
Speaker 1: scholar I have consulted, indicates that once taken those oaths expire. Ever,
Speaker 1: the obligation as a senator or a vice president, or
Speaker 1: as a president to defend the Constitution does not end
Speaker 1: when the term of office does, and it manifestly has
Speaker 1: not ended in the period between an election and an inauguration.
Speaker 1: Nine times Joe Biden has sworn to defend the Constitution
Speaker 1: against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and that he would
Speaker 1: bear true faith and allegiance to it. And the obligation
Speaker 1: to defend the United States becomes more profound still now
Speaker 1: that presidents have been immunized by the Supreme Court from
Speaker 1: prosecution for effectively anything. The incoming president, the one who
Speaker 1: wants an unqualified toady like Cash Patel to head the FBI,
Speaker 1: who desperately wanted a lawless menace like Matt Gates to
Speaker 1: head the DOJ, but will instead settled for a chief
Speaker 1: lawyer who led the lock her Up chant against Hillary
Speaker 1: Clinton at the Republican Convention. That president to be will
Speaker 1: be immune and thus unstoppable. The current president the one
Speaker 1: who would not even fire the Attorney General Garland, as
Speaker 1: he personally let Trump get away with his crimes. The
Speaker 1: current president is also immune and thus unstoppable. And the
Speaker 1: current president is already in power and in command and
Speaker 1: has taken nine oaths ten if you count the one
Speaker 1: as president. So this raises this theoretical constitutional question. The
Speaker 1: president to be, the one who decided four years ago
Speaker 1: that we weren't going to have any peaceful transfers of
Speaker 1: power anymore, has now decided to try to turn the
Speaker 1: Federal Bureau of Investigation over to a creature who will
Speaker 1: have gotten the job, specifically so that he will not
Speaker 1: conduct FBI investigations of the other cabinet nominees, and to
Speaker 1: clean out the offices at the FBI of anything that
Speaker 1: might pertain to anybody. The President to be the one
Speaker 1: who tossed around top secret information like rolls of paper towels.
Speaker 1: Has now decided to try to turn the job of
Speaker 1: Director of National Intelligence to a woman a with no
Speaker 1: intelligence and b who once praised enemy dictators like assad
Speaker 1: and putin The president to be the one who flirted
Speaker 1: with using the army to shoot at or just to
Speaker 1: shoot peaceful protesters because he didn't like them, or to
Speaker 1: seize ballot boxes because he didn't like what was in them.
Speaker 1: He has now reconfirmed he will use the military domestically
Speaker 1: to seize civilians and imprison them. And he has now
Speaker 1: decided to try to turn the job of the head
Speaker 1: of the military over to a man whose own mother
Speaker 1: called him an abuser and implied he needed psychological help.
Speaker 1: The president to be the one who once claimed he
Speaker 1: was owed a bonus term in office because he had
Speaker 1: had to spend so much of his first term defending
Speaker 1: himself against charges of conspiracy with another nation to harm
Speaker 1: this country. He is now surrounded by operatives attempting to
Speaker 1: manipulate the law and the constitution to give him a
Speaker 1: third term or more. And if you are paying attention,
Speaker 1: you will have noticed. And if you haven't been paying attention,
Speaker 1: I will spell it out later. The President to be,
Speaker 1: whose first campaign began with him slandering Mexico and slandering
Speaker 1: Mexicans and slandering Hispanics, he is already setting up the
Speaker 1: obligatory dictator thing in which you invade a neighboring country
Speaker 1: on the flimsiest of pretexts, and that country in this
Speaker 1: case would be Mexico. And the President to Be, the
Speaker 1: one who wrote of terminating parts of the Constitution he
Speaker 1: didn't like, is encircled by fascist aids who have urged
Speaker 1: him to declare a state of emergency upon his taking
Speaker 1: the oath of office, and to simultaneou invoke the Insurrection
Speaker 1: Act and thus to some degree invoke martial law. So
Speaker 1: do the nine or ten oaths Joe Biden took as Senator,
Speaker 1: as Vice President, as president? Do they even permit him
Speaker 1: to not act against enemies both foreign and domestic, and
Speaker 1: to defend the Constitution of the United States. So help
Speaker 1: him God, when the Supreme Court has immunized him from
Speaker 1: personal prosecution for doing you know, anything, anything at all.
Speaker 1: As long as it's official, I do solemnly swear that
Speaker 1: I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States.
Speaker 1: Against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that I will bear
Speaker 1: true faith and allegiance to the same, That I take
Speaker 1: this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion,
Speaker 1: and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties
Speaker 1: of the office on which I am about to enter.
Speaker 1: So help me, God, I wonder what that means. I
Speaker 1: will note here that there are not enough words in
Speaker 1: the English language, and not enough time between this moment
Speaker 1: and noon on January twentieth next for me to explain
Speaker 1: to you just how much this will not happen. But
Speaker 1: I think it is important to ask this question. Is
Speaker 1: Joe Biden in fact obligated by oath to intervene, to
Speaker 1: protect and to defend, And to ask if, thanks to
Speaker 1: just some of the corruption of Trump and his cronies,
Speaker 1: if Joe Biden has been pre authorized and pre immunized
Speaker 1: by the Supreme Court of the United States to take
Speaker 1: any measures necessary to stop the discontinuation of representative government
Speaker 1: in this nation, the discontinuation of that by anybody. I
Speaker 1: hate John Bolton, Trump's hand picked national security advisor last time,
Speaker 1: but yesterday he compared Cash Patel to Stalin's secret police
Speaker 1: Chief Barrier in a statement to NBC News when you
Speaker 1: were the head of the secret police in the Soviet dictatorship,
Speaker 1: and that barely describes your evil.
Speaker 2: Scum.
Speaker 1: Barria ran ethnic cleansing, ran the Russian atomic bomb program,
Speaker 1: slave labor gulags, and in his personal life he was
Speaker 1: a serial rapist and murderer. When Stalin died, his successors
Speaker 1: gave Barria a promotion and then a show trial and
Speaker 1: then a treason conviction, and then they shot him or
Speaker 1: they had already strangled him. Just so you understand the
Speaker 1: career path here when you get compared to Barrier. When
Speaker 1: Bolton was also quoted on this subject by CBS, Patel's
Speaker 1: one time mentor, Richard Grennell complained, did you have a
Speaker 1: balanced discussion or just people on one side trashing cash?
Speaker 1: Grenell asked, good point, Grenell, CBS or NBC should have
Speaker 1: also had somebody on to say that the comp was
Speaker 1: unfair to bury you and just to touch briefly, by
Speaker 1: the way, on one of my other favorite topics, headline
Speaker 1: on this nomination by The New York Times, quote Trump
Speaker 1: turned to a fire brand loyalist to become director of
Speaker 1: the Bureau. Headline on the nomination by Matt Drudge Cash
Speaker 1: tapped for FBI conspiracy. Theorist advocated prosecution spree twenty five
Speaker 1: years ago, I called Drudge an idiot with a modem
Speaker 1: and a hat. Drudge is now a more responsible journalist
Speaker 1: than anybody editing The New York Times. Meanwhile, back at
Speaker 1: the psycho ranch, at the other end of the spectrum
Speaker 1: of nominees, there's the backup Attorney General Pam Bondi, whose
Speaker 1: resume is startlingly blank. Yes, she was at four seasons
Speaker 1: total landscaping, and yes, her Florida office not only dropped
Speaker 1: its case against Trump chronologically after he made a donation
Speaker 1: to her election, but she did that after he made
Speaker 1: a small donation. But the biggest legal accomplishment of her
Speaker 1: career to date has been to have sent the ill
Speaker 1: starred former baseball pitcher Dwight Gooden to jail for seven months.
Speaker 1: That's it. Trump's still somehow standing nominee to run the
Speaker 1: Pentagon still supports using troops against citizens. His Solicitor general
Speaker 1: designate agreed at the Supreme Court that a president could
Speaker 1: order sealed Team six to kill a political rival and
Speaker 1: would face no consequences. Ahem. All of his health appointees
Speaker 1: are such manifest dangers to health that Trump's previous surgeon
Speaker 1: general has publicly warned against their incompetence. And by the way,
Speaker 1: this Patel clown wants hawked pills that were supposed to
Speaker 1: protect you against something that is shed by people who've
Speaker 1: taken the COVID vaccine. You've got a pill that protects
Speaker 1: you against the stupidity that has been shed by those
Speaker 1: of us who've taken the COVID vaccine. Trump's intelligence heads
Speaker 1: are such risks to this nation's security that a computer
Speaker 1: algorithm put one of them on a version of the
Speaker 1: No fly list, and our allies are considering cutting us
Speaker 1: off from receiving further intelligence even without Gates. There are
Speaker 1: nominees who have sexual assault accusations in their past, and
Speaker 1: the ones who have never been accused of a crime
Speaker 1: are at best snake oil salesman and his advisor or
Speaker 1: henchman or egor or whatever. Musk is used his propaganda
Speaker 1: platform last week to declare that Alexander Vinman quote has
Speaker 1: committed treason for which you will pay the appropriate penalty, which,
Speaker 1: to be fair, may not be the threat. It seems.
Speaker 1: The appropriate penalty may be having to spend an hour
Speaker 1: with Musk the o tours of Project twenty twenty five,
Speaker 1: which Trump lied and lied and lied and lied and
Speaker 1: lifeed and lied and lied about during the campaign and
Speaker 1: said he had no connection to will litter the administration.
Speaker 1: One of their allies groups has been at work for
Speaker 1: a year to find a way to evade the Constitution
Speaker 1: and let Trump run again in twenty twenty nine. That
Speaker 1: would be a fourth Amendment they would have violated, say
Speaker 1: nothing of all the clauses they've already savaged the thirteenth,
Speaker 1: the fourteenth, and the twenty second, when previous Trump appointees
Speaker 1: like Judge Eileen Cannon and those Supreme Court justices found
Speaker 1: ways to allow him to run in twenty twenty four,
Speaker 1: despite his attempt to overthrow the government in twenty twenty
Speaker 1: his Supreme Court has in effect placed him above all laws.
Speaker 1: He will be when he is sworn in, untouchable, uncontrollable,
Speaker 1: and in effect unremovable. Trump is the personification of the
Speaker 1: end of democracy in America and the beginning of a
Speaker 1: military backed dictatorship. On the other hand, the weapons that
Speaker 1: his own corruption has brought him immunity from prosecution, the
Speaker 1: shelving of not just the most serious cases of espionage
Speaker 1: and subversion ever brought against an American president, maybe against
Speaker 1: any American, but also convictions by ordinary Americans sitting on
Speaker 1: ordinary juries. The right to use the military as he
Speaker 1: sees fit, the right to declare an insurrection or emergency
Speaker 1: for the flimsiest of reasons, or reasons that only exist
Speaker 1: in the minds of paranoid racists. These weapons, perfectly disguised
Speaker 1: by corrupt laws, are.
Speaker 2: In effact at this moment.
Speaker 1: How about that? As I said, I can't tell you
Speaker 1: how much this is not going to happen. We are
Speaker 1: decades now. We are centuries away from the time when
Speaker 1: a president could still look at the actions of others
Speaker 1: in the political class or the government class, and say
Speaker 1: the nation must be defended against them. That was what
Speaker 1: was in the oath. I take that's what the oath demands.
Speaker 1: Everything else is fluid and flexible and can be repaired,
Speaker 1: whereas the fundamental survival of the nation is not flexible
Speaker 1: or fluid or could be repaired. Lincoln said that the
Speaker 1: response to Ceasession and the attack on Fort Sumter was
Speaker 1: not to assume that it would end there, but to
Speaker 1: assume that it would not. Among the things Lincoln then
Speaker 1: did was suspend habeas corpus ulysses ask Grant was ready
Speaker 1: to do it. In eighteen seventy seven, when the election
Speaker 1: was in doubt and insurrection threatened again, he ringed Washington
Speaker 1: with troops and forts Nixon wrong as he was thought.
Speaker 1: He had to cross the double white line several times,
Speaker 1: and long before any of them, long even before Lincoln.
Speaker 1: Andrew Jackson vetoed the APT renewing the Bank of the
Speaker 1: United States, and in so doing issue a statement suggesting
Speaker 1: it's the president's responsibility to enforce or not enforce statutes
Speaker 1: and judicial decisions based on his interpretation of the Constitution,
Speaker 1: and everybody else be damned. Cash Patel as the head
Speaker 1: of the FBI, why not Bashar al Assad or Putin
Speaker 1: or Matt Gates. I do solemnly swear that I will
Speaker 1: support and defend the Constitution of the United States against
Speaker 1: all enemies, foreign and domestic. I wonder what the hell
Speaker 1: that means to return to our world as it is.
Speaker 1: In point of fact, I think Trump is going to
Speaker 1: eat shit on Patel, just like he had to eat
Speaker 1: shit on Matt Gates. The caveat, Trump could simply fire
Speaker 1: the FBI director, his own appointee, by the way, Christopher Ray,
Speaker 1: and not nominate any replacement, but simply repoint an acting
Speaker 1: FBI director. And apparently Patel could serve as long as
Speaker 1: two hundred days. What could you do in the FBI
Speaker 1: offices in two hundred days. While it is hard to
Speaker 1: imagine that Patel's own words on camera about he once
Speaker 1: planned to evade secrecy designations and publish every classified document
Speaker 1: he could take out of the National Archives because he
Speaker 1: and he alone knew that Trump had declassified them by
Speaker 1: blinking his eyes six times or whatever it was, it's
Speaker 1: hard to believe those words are actually criminal. But of course,
Speaker 1: if there's any law breaking here, the last person you
Speaker 1: want to be is the guy nominated to and vowing
Speaker 1: to break up the FBI and close FBI headquarters and
Speaker 1: fire everybody at the FBI. When you have cleverly given
Speaker 1: the FBI forty nine complete days plus the morning of
Speaker 1: January twentieth to find anything you ever did about anything anywhere,
Speaker 1: for all his imperious insanity and for all his wonted
Speaker 1: poster cabinet nominations, the fact is right now, Trump is
Speaker 1: O for one, and I wouldn't bet on heg Seth
Speaker 1: and maybe a couple of the others, even if you
Speaker 1: give me odds. And not only did Gates go down
Speaker 1: in flames, but when he did, Trump didn't even stamp
Speaker 1: his feet. Trump in fact caved. Republican senators who hated Gates.
Speaker 1: Know that Trump caved. Republican senators who hated Gates hate Patel.
Speaker 1: Chuck Grassley and that idiot Ted Cruz and a couple
Speaker 1: of the other FEBEs have already vowed to vote for Patel.
Speaker 1: But the others, who are already smiling up at the
Speaker 1: symbolically severed head of Matt Gates on their wall, are
Speaker 1: now emboldened, and they know their personal futures, not the countries.
Speaker 1: They don't give a crap about the country's future. Their
Speaker 1: personal futures depend on being able to whip Trump into
Speaker 1: line and making sure he knows he cannot whip them
Speaker 1: into line. So help me, God on ratchet that whole
Speaker 1: point one more step higher, please. What if it was
Speaker 1: clear to you that the man was clearly writing the
Speaker 1: preamble to a military attack by this country against Mexico.
Speaker 1: What if the only question about that is the quote
Speaker 1: is attributed to a senior Trump transition team member by
Speaker 1: Rolling Stone. Quote, how much should we invade Mexico? And
Speaker 1: what if the first step towards that was actually made
Speaker 1: in a phone call last Wednesday? How much should we
Speaker 1: invade Mexico? That's next this Discountdown.
Speaker 2: This is Countdown with Keith Olberman.
Speaker 1: Oh, scripts to the news, some headlines, some updates, some
Speaker 1: snow still ahead of course, worse persons And what's that
Speaker 1: old shriveled thing in that video seen behind poor gullible
Speaker 1: Cheryl hines. Why it's Robert F. Kennedy Junior's credibility coming
Speaker 1: up or not coming up as the case maybe AnyWho.
Speaker 1: This is the Countdown podcast, and these are the places
Speaker 1: where there's news. Dateline Mexico City. The past was alterable,
Speaker 1: the past never had been altered. Oceania was at war
Speaker 1: with East Asia. Oceania had always been at war with
Speaker 1: East Asia. Trump is already lying about Mexico, and the
Speaker 1: moment I read this sequence of events, I saw the
Speaker 1: whole plan that the mice running around in the wheel
Speaker 1: inside Trump's head have cooked up. Quote just had a
Speaker 1: wonderful conversation with the new president of Mexico, Claudia shinbound Pardo,
Speaker 1: she has agreed to stop migration through Mexico and into
Speaker 1: the United States, effectively closing our southern border. We also
Speaker 1: talked about what can be done to stop the massive
Speaker 1: drug inflow into the United States and also US consumption
Speaker 1: of these drugs. It was a very productive conversation. El
Speaker 1: Trumpo added, Mexico will stop people from going to our
Speaker 1: southern border effective immediately, Capitals. This will go a long
Speaker 1: way towards stopping the illegal invasion of the USA. Thank
Speaker 1: you exclamation point, exclamation point, exclamation point, well, sir. President
Speaker 1: Shinbaum immediately came back and angrily noted that she never
Speaker 1: said anything of the sort. In point of fact, she
Speaker 1: did not say this, but Trump lied. The next day,
Speaker 1: President Shinbaum mitigated that somewhat and said it was a
Speaker 1: productive conversation about the border, and more politely said that
Speaker 1: there are no circumstances under which she would close the
Speaker 1: border with the US end migration into the US, nor
Speaker 1: would she tell anybody that. But the horse is out
Speaker 1: of the barn. Here bluntly, the president of Mexico, the
Speaker 1: presidents of all the other countries should not take any
Speaker 1: calls from Trump. He's just using you to set something
Speaker 1: up for later. The oldest trick in the dictator bag.
Speaker 1: The first step you have to take to cement power
Speaker 1: after you have seized power is to start a war
Speaker 1: somewhere on the phoniest and craziest of pretext, just so
Speaker 1: long as your base and the uninformed part of your
Speaker 1: public believes it's true, or pretends to believe it's true.
Speaker 1: Mussolini did it in Ethiopia. Putin's done it in Georgia
Speaker 1: and Ukraine at least twice in Ukraine. Japan did it
Speaker 1: in Manchuria before World War Two. Hitler did it, and
Speaker 1: before that, in nineteen thirty six he went into what
Speaker 1: was supposed to be the demilitarized area of the Rhineland
Speaker 1: near the French border. You do it to stir up
Speaker 1: a sense of danger in your own country, and to
Speaker 1: stir up your own base, and mostly to see if
Speaker 1: you can get away with it. I mean, hell, Ronald
Speaker 1: Reagan invaded Grenada, and we are going to invade Mexico.
Speaker 1: I guarantee it. It may not be announced as an
Speaker 1: invasion or even as a war if it somehow goes
Speaker 1: well for Trump he'll retroactively announce it's a war and
Speaker 1: that we've always been at war with Mexico. The excuse though,
Speaker 1: for what shall we call it our special military operation,
Speaker 1: That's what Putin would want Trump to call it, is
Speaker 1: drugs or immigration or immigration with drugs, or drugs that
Speaker 1: immigrate by themselves or whatever. The excuse for the actual
Speaker 1: moment of action, though, will be that phone call with
Speaker 1: President Shinbaum. Trump made the call, put out his lie
Speaker 1: about what she told him during it. Now he can
Speaker 1: hold up his own tweet and say, but she said
Speaker 1: she was closing the border. She didn't let's blow up
Speaker 1: her country. These were the thoughts that raced through my
Speaker 1: head when I heard about the two versions of the
Speaker 1: call to Shinebaum. And then came the Rolling Stone story
Speaker 1: quoting the Highlights quote, how much should we invade Mexico?
Speaker 1: Says a senior Trump transition member. That is the question. Trump,
Speaker 1: who has routinely and falsely promoted himself as the candidate
Speaker 1: who would stop endless wars, now wants to lead a
Speaker 1: new conflict just south of our nation's border. But at
Speaker 1: this moment, it is, in the words of one Trump advisor,
Speaker 1: unclear how far he'll go on this one. This source
Speaker 1: adds if things don't change, the President still believes it's
Speaker 1: necessary to take some kind of military action against these killers.
Speaker 1: As Rolling Stone has reported since at least last year,
Speaker 1: Trump has solicited specific battle plans and different military options
Speaker 1: for attacking Mexico. Senator Marco Rubio, whom Trump chose to
Speaker 1: serve as Secretary of State, has endorsed the idea of
Speaker 1: sending US troops to Mexico to combat drug cartels under
Speaker 1: the conditions that quote, there is cooperation from the Mexican government,
Speaker 1: and that such operations are done quote in coordination with
Speaker 1: the armed forces and the Mexican police force. Poor Marco,
Speaker 1: he thinks we're going to coordinate our invasion of Mexico
Speaker 1: with the Mexican government, with the Mexican armed forces, with
Speaker 1: the Mexican police. He's going to be in quite a
Speaker 1: position when we simply go in and start blowing up
Speaker 1: one of our neighbors, just to see if anybody tries
Speaker 1: to stop us. I wonder if Marco will be smart
Speaker 1: enough to see that he's been lied to, or if
Speaker 1: he was smart enough to have somebody read to him.
Speaker 1: The Rolling Stone article on how it has on the
Speaker 1: record quotes from Tom Homan, Pete Hegseith, National Security Advisor,
Speaker 1: Mike Waltz, Lindsey Graham, and the rest of the Trump
Speaker 1: fascist clown college about invading and bombing and killing and badges, badges.
Speaker 1: We do not have to show you any stinking badges
Speaker 1: because Oceania has always been at war with Mexico. Dateline
Speaker 1: nepotism village District of Columbia. Trumps now appointed both his
Speaker 1: daughter's fathers in law as Special envoys to the Middle
Speaker 1: East Massad Bulos, father of the husband of the the
Speaker 1: other daughter, Sparkle or Bingo or whatever her name is.
Speaker 1: He will join Charles Kushner, whose father of the husband
Speaker 1: of what was the name, Plinko, Plinko Trump whatever, And
Speaker 1: I think it's plink Is it Plinko the daughter Kushner's wife, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Plinko Trump Kushner. Anyway, Plinko's father in law was appointed
Speaker 1: to the same post last week. And you remember Charles
Speaker 1: Kushner ex Khan, whom Trump pardoned, quoting the Associated Press,
Speaker 1: after Charles Kushner discovered his brother in law was cooperating
Speaker 1: with federal authorities, the wealthy real estate executive and father
Speaker 1: of Trump's son in law, Jared hatched a scheme for
Speaker 1: revenge and intimidation. Kushner hired a prostitute to lure his
Speaker 1: brother in law, then arranged to have the encounter in
Speaker 1: a New Jersey motel room recorded with a hidden camera
Speaker 1: and the recording sent to his own sister, the man's wife.
Speaker 1: The scheme didn't work. Kushner later pleaded guilty to tax
Speaker 1: evasion and making illegal campaign donations. Our representative to the
Speaker 1: Holy Land, everybody, and remember there is no blackmail, especially
Speaker 1: no sex on any videotape anywhere involved in the entire
Speaker 1: Trump political crime family. No never, never, never and dateline
Speaker 1: some secure, undisclosed location. Whatever happened to jd Vance? Remember him?
Speaker 1: It's like vice president elect or something. What's he doing?
Speaker 1: Is he busily trying to match his record of having
Speaker 1: never done anything as senator by never doing anything as
Speaker 1: vice president? Well he has resurfaced online. He sent us
Speaker 1: a Thanksgiving greeting. Weirdo's Thanksgiving greeting a parody meme of
Speaker 1: the Norman Rockwell Thanksgiving scene with all those wholesome white
Speaker 1: folks being served a turkey the size of a buick
Speaker 1: by Mom, except there's three small changes from the original
Speaker 1: Rockwell painting. The Turkey is now an electoral map of
Speaker 1: the country showing how Trump won all those counties in
Speaker 1: which nobody lives. Dad is now Trump looking like he
Speaker 1: wants to carve up and eat some of the people
Speaker 1: at the table, and Mom still in her Rockwell dress
Speaker 1: and rockwall frilly white apron and eyeliner. Mom is JD
Speaker 1: vance JV.
Speaker 2: Did you think this one through before you hit send?
Speaker 2: I mean, you've posted a picture of yourself wearing a
Speaker 2: dress and an apron and eye liner on No, wait, wait,
Speaker 2: I'm sorry. The dress and the apron were in the
Speaker 2: original Rockwell painting, and the eyeliner. JD brought that with him.
Speaker 1: Believe it or not. There's still more new idiots to
Speaker 1: talk about. It's the daily round up, now nearly daily,
Speaker 1: of the miscreants, morons and Dunning Kruger effects specimens who
Speaker 1: can't to today's other worst persons in the world. And yes,
Speaker 1: I'm thinking about going back to more of these a
Speaker 1: week after the new year. Ah, can't I just retire?
Speaker 1: Can't the rest of you just keep the democracy together
Speaker 1: for three weeks without me having to work? More. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be sixty six fing years old. I have been
Speaker 1: broadcasting in some form or another since Gerald Ford was president.
Speaker 1: I am an oak of my own generation. I need
Speaker 1: to attend to my bark, all right. I sort of
Speaker 1: went off on a tangent there, Lebrons worse Vibek Ramaswami
Speaker 1: talking about trees, the Trump Department of Government efficiency that
Speaker 1: is so inefficient it needs two chiefs. And of course
Speaker 1: he's a moron with a bad haircut. He really is
Speaker 1: a kaleidoscope of all the lack of skills required of
Speaker 1: a moron. So somebody posts a video of an MSNBC
Speaker 1: host warning that the Ramaswami and Musk plans to cut
Speaker 1: the government and set private industry up to steal more
Speaker 1: money out of your pocket will result in raw milk
Speaker 1: only and more pollution and worse climate catastrophes than the
Speaker 1: other thing Trump likes, because the job of being Trump
Speaker 1: is to make sure there are crises you can pretend
Speaker 1: to fix and of course make money off of. Ramaswami
Speaker 1: reposted this MSNBC video and added quote, the fear mongering
Speaker 1: has begun, but the real thing we should be afraid
Speaker 1: of is the loss of self governance to an unelected bureaucracy. VIV.
Speaker 1: The entirety of your Department of Governmental Efficiency is, in
Speaker 1: fact an unelected bureaucracy. You are an unelected bureaucrat. Thanks
Speaker 1: for the admission, VIV. The runner up, doctor Patrick soon Shong,
Speaker 1: useless billionaire, Well that's redundant useless billionaire who also owns
Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Times. It was lost to some degree
Speaker 1: amid the cowardice of Jeff Bezos at the Washington Post
Speaker 1: and others, but the LA Times also deliberately did not
Speaker 1: endorse in the presidential race because this guy was sucking
Speaker 1: up the Trump. The LA Times continues to have something
Speaker 1: of a reputation outside of Southern California, and I will
Speaker 1: never understand why within Southern California it has. For at
Speaker 1: least the forty years I've read it or been covered
Speaker 1: by it, it's had a reputation locally for being able
Speaker 1: to screw up the proverbial two car funeral. The LA
Speaker 1: Times is at a virtual monopoly on news in that
Speaker 1: city since the La Herald Examiner, a much better newspaper,
Speaker 1: first imploded after a decade long strike that ended with
Speaker 1: the paper going out of business in nineteen eighty nine,
Speaker 1: and The Times in this time of monopoly now entering
Speaker 1: what year thirty six, has been uniformly terrible in everything
Speaker 1: but maybe movie reviews and the quality registration of the
Speaker 1: colors in its color photography process all that time. This soon,
Speaker 1: Shong guy, I think that's how it's pronounced. Might be soon, Schlog,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure. Made the mistake of doing an interview
Speaker 1: with Oliver Darcy for his media newsletter's status. He explained
Speaker 1: to Darcy that it's just an opinion that Trump lies
Speaker 1: at a higher rate than other politicians. Schong also wrote
Speaker 1: that he'd like to see Scott Jennings, the fascist idiot
Speaker 1: CNN puts on every night in its latest worring out
Speaker 1: of the reputation US CNN originals and near originals built
Speaker 1: for it. He'd like to see Jennings on the La
Speaker 1: Times editorial board. I'd like to see Jennings on a
Speaker 1: flight to Russia, but I don't think that's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: Mister Darcy questioned this idea, since Jennings is a condescending,
Speaker 1: misogynist and clown, and he just is put on CNN
Speaker 1: to cause trouble. That is impossible to watch and drives
Speaker 1: their ratings down even further, and he is paid by
Speaker 1: CNN to make up excuses for Trump. Mister sun Schong
Speaker 1: answered that observation, quoting, according to Darcy Scott Jennings, you
Speaker 1: just said his job is to defend Donald Trump. Did
Speaker 1: you find that in his job description with CNN. I
Speaker 1: don't know if you know that as a fact. I
Speaker 1: love to work with facts. So when you make that statement,
Speaker 1: just reflect on that you just made that statement. Did
Speaker 1: you make that statement based on having Scott Jennings employment
Speaker 1: agreement with CNN? Doctor sun Shong is another moron? Right
Speaker 1: after that quote, a Time spokesman ended the interview for
Speaker 1: the record, sun Shong was a transplant surgeon who invented
Speaker 1: a drug and got rich off of it. He's a
Speaker 1: South African, naturally, and I am reminded by him of
Speaker 1: my friend George Carlin's best joke. George said it was
Speaker 1: provable fact.
Speaker 3: It was provable by sheer math, by simple math, that
Speaker 3: somewhere in the world there is somebody right now who
Speaker 3: is literally the worst doctor in the world.
Speaker 1: I mean he's right. If there are forty million doctors,
Speaker 1: somebody is number forty million on the list of good doctors.
Speaker 1: The punchline, of course, is, as George put it, somebody
Speaker 1: has an appointment to see him tomorrow.
Speaker 3: I think we found him, George, but our winner, the
Speaker 3: worst RFK Junior.
Speaker 1: RFK Junior has now endorsed heroin. Said it on a
Speaker 1: podcast quote. I did very, very poorly in school until
Speaker 1: I started doing narcotics. Then I went to the top
Speaker 1: of my class because my mind was so restless and
Speaker 1: turbulent and I could not sit still. It worked for me,
Speaker 1: and if it still worked, I'd still be doing it.
Speaker 1: How about hitting yourself in the head with a two
Speaker 1: by four? Have you tried that? Bob Side show. Bob,
Speaker 1: the nominee for Secretary of HHS, has endorsed heroin, but
Speaker 1: not fluoride and vaccines. And I'll note that Kennedy also
Speaker 1: appears in an online video in which his poor wife
Speaker 1: is trying to sell you supplements or something. Kennedy is
Speaker 1: in the shower, presumably naked, and the wife, fortunate Cheryl Hines,
Speaker 1: is positioned in the foreground in such a way that
Speaker 1: you can't see. You can't see into this, you can't
Speaker 1: you don't know it. You can't see rfk Junior Junior
Speaker 1: Okay ms Hines. Missus Kennedy is, of course more than unfortunate.
Speaker 1: She is at maximum gullibility because the first thing I
Speaker 1: thought of when I saw that Kennedy in the shower
Speaker 1: tableau on her video selling supplements was Ooh, he's probably
Speaker 1: facetiming my ex Olivia Newsy Robert F. And guess what
Speaker 1: the F stands for? Kennedy Junior two days other worst
Speaker 1: person in the worl Hello, what are you wearing? Hello?
Speaker 2: Have any heroin?
Speaker 1: It's my sideshow Bob impression AnyWho. I've done all the
Speaker 1: damage I can do here. Thank you for listening, Follow
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Speaker 1: and performed by the group No Horns Allowed. My announcer
Speaker 1: was my friend John Dean. Everything else was, as ever,
Speaker 1: my fault. So that's countdown for today, just one and
Speaker 1: eleven days until the scheduled end of the lame duck
Speaker 1: presidency of Trump. The next scheduled countdown is Thursday. I'm
Speaker 1: thinking about more okay, as always, bulletins, as the news
Speaker 1: warrants until next time, I'm Keith Oulremman. Good morning, good afternoon,
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