Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Trump
Speaker 1: has just lost World War three. That World War three
Speaker 1: he keeps talking about, He's already lost it. Trump listens
Speaker 1: to Musk, maybe because he recognizes Musk is more insane
Speaker 1: than he is. Musk literally wants to own and rule
Speaker 1: the world. Musk just demanded this country withdraw from NATO.
Speaker 1: Other Muskers and Trumpers are following. If we leave NATO,
Speaker 1: its remaining members will turn into a private hunting ground
Speaker 1: for Putin or China or both. Eventually, he or they
Speaker 1: will run out of European countries to destroy and subsume,
Speaker 1: and he or they will turn to destroying US. After
Speaker 1: the event with Zelenski, Trump has already lost World War III.
Speaker 1: Evidently so have the British. Back home, Prime Minister Starmer
Speaker 1: did the unthinkable. He met Zelenski not at the front
Speaker 1: door of Number ten, but he went into Downing Street
Speaker 1: to meet him on the sidewalk. The front page of
Speaker 1: yesterday's far right British tabloid, The Daily Mail headlined outrage
Speaker 1: over US President's humiliation of Zelensky and insisted, now stop
Speaker 1: the state visit for bully Trump, demanding the British withdraw
Speaker 1: their invitation for Trump to go there, but within hours
Speaker 1: their ambassador here undid all that. Lord Peter Mandelsson went
Speaker 1: on ABC This Week here and called for a quote
Speaker 1: very radical reset. That quote has to consist of the
Speaker 1: United States and Ukraine getting back on the same page
Speaker 1: and President Zelenski giving his unequivocal backing to the initiative
Speaker 1: that Trump is taking to end the war and to
Speaker 1: bring a just and lasting piece to Ukraine. F U
Speaker 1: pal wait, it's worse than that. Mandelsson, the ambassador to
Speaker 1: this country, says European leaders should support Trump. They quote
Speaker 1: need to back the calls for a ceasefire. And by
Speaker 1: the way, I think that Ukraine should be the first
Speaker 1: to commit to a ceasefire and defy the Russians to follow. Unquote, Hey, Mandelsson,
Speaker 1: asshole forgotten. Already Zelensky already signed a ceasefire with Putin
Speaker 1: signed it in twenty nineteen. Putin broke it in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two. Two hundred thousand guys named Lord Gasius and
Speaker 1: Sir Toby Belch and they sent the one who sounds
Speaker 1: the most like Neville Chamberlain, the British defending Zelensky at home,
Speaker 1: their ambassador here to surrendered to Hitler, I mean to
Speaker 1: Trump now, I mean to Hitler. It is impossible to
Speaker 1: believe that the British Prime Minister has not already fired
Speaker 1: Mandelsson recalled. Is the polite term? Vaporized would be the
Speaker 1: accurate one. Told him to swim home would be the
Speaker 1: best one. Regardless, the schism is now present, and the
Speaker 1: schism is a repeat, a throwback, a reenactment of nineteen
Speaker 1: thirty eight, where as Churchill said, the British leaders had
Speaker 1: a choice between shame and war. They had chosen shame.
Speaker 1: They would get war later. The war they got later
Speaker 1: was World War II. The war we, thanks to people
Speaker 1: like Lord Mandelsshon will get later will be World War three.
Speaker 1: We will have to go to war. The real thing,
Speaker 1: none of this Iraq bullshit, the real thing, millions dead,
Speaker 1: Putin threatening or using nuclear weapons, not just to free
Speaker 1: Europe and all the other places. Who thought we understood
Speaker 1: that the world is simply successfully managed tension between the
Speaker 1: forces of more or less good and the forces of
Speaker 1: the Putins, Hitler's, Musks, Trump's, Chamberlain's and Mandelssohn's. Not just
Speaker 1: to free those other countries, but to save whatever is
Speaker 1: left of this country after the head start Trump and
Speaker 1: musk are giving. Right now, as we speak to Putin
Speaker 1: and to China, I'll repeat what I said in the
Speaker 1: bulletin after the pre planned, performative and nauseating ambush of
Speaker 1: Zelensky last Friday. Trump has not only imperiled the freedom
Speaker 1: of the United States of America and the existence of
Speaker 1: Ukraine and the independence of all the nations of Europe.
Speaker 1: He has also lost all moral rights to keep power
Speaker 1: in this country. And Trump must lose that power, as
Speaker 1: one senator has praised it. Since that special report last
Speaker 1: week started with administration officials refusing to acknowledge that Russia
Speaker 1: started the war in Ukraine. It ended with a tense,
Speaker 1: shocking conversation in the Oval Office and whispers from the
Speaker 1: White House that they may try to end all US
Speaker 1: support for Ukraine. I know foreign policy is not for
Speaker 1: the faint of hearts, but right now I am sick
Speaker 1: to my stomach as the administration appears to be walking
Speaker 1: away from our allies and embracing Putin, a threat to
Speaker 1: democracy and US values around the world. The senator who
Speaker 1: wrote that was Lisa Murkowski, Republican of Alaska and as
Speaker 1: clearheaded as she is in this time of boastful stupidity
Speaker 1: and proud disloyalty to the nation inside her own party,
Speaker 1: even she, as she wrote, that would not criticize the
Speaker 1: convicted felon Trump by name. The crazy idea, maybe you
Speaker 1: should switch parties if you were a Democrat, not only
Speaker 1: could you criticize Trump by name, but your fellow Democrats
Speaker 1: would let you criticize your fellow Democrats by name. One
Speaker 1: of them, Chris Murphy, went on CNN yesterday and was
Speaker 1: even more stark. Quote, the White House has become an
Speaker 1: arm of the Kremlin. Bloodlessly simple, and utterly true. The
Speaker 1: White House has become an arm of the Kremlin. Every
Speaker 1: single day you hear from the National Security Advisor, from
Speaker 1: the President of the United States, from his entire national
Speaker 1: security team, Kremlin talking points. The last week, the White
Speaker 1: House has been pretending as if Ukraine started this war.
Speaker 1: That is essentially saying that Poland invaded Germany at the
Speaker 1: beginning of World War Two. There are still facts in
Speaker 1: this world, Senator Murphy continued, and the fact is this,
Speaker 1: Vladimir Putin is a brutal dictator. Russia started this war,
Speaker 1: and the entire pretext for that meeting was an attempt
Speaker 1: to rewrite history in order to sign a deal with
Speaker 1: Putin that hands putin Ukraine unquote. And I think Murphy
Speaker 1: and Murkowski may actually be under selling it. If this appeasement,
Speaker 1: or cowardice, or stupidity or sabotage of this and other
Speaker 1: nations by foreign agents dressed up as our leaders has
Speaker 1: already gone so far as to split the British government.
Speaker 1: Trump is not just walking away from our allies and
Speaker 1: embracing Putin. Putin is not just a threat to democracy.
Speaker 1: Putin is not just a threat to our values and
Speaker 1: around the world. But he has already begun to win
Speaker 1: World War three. Britain's Lord Mendacious should be back in
Speaker 1: London by nightfall, or while he's on his way back,
Speaker 1: he should mysteriously disappear. We have enough native gutless appeas
Speaker 1: who have learned nothing from history in Washington without having
Speaker 1: to import them from other countries. Trump has sold out
Speaker 1: to the Russians enough. Just ask the Russians. The Kremlin
Speaker 1: spokesman Dmitri Preskoff to State Television, No, No, not Washington
Speaker 1: Post Live TV. Actual Russian State television quote, the new
Speaker 1: administration is rapidly changing all foreign policy configurations. This largely
Speaker 1: coincides with our vision. Dmitry Peskov to Russian State television.
Speaker 1: What he is saying is Trump has surrendered to Putin.
Speaker 1: If you had any doubt that Trump has made the
Speaker 1: White House an arm of the Kremlin to please Putin,
Speaker 1: there is Putin's spokesman telling you it just happened. If
Speaker 1: you had any doubt of that, or if you had
Speaker 1: any doubt that Trump must lose power, I will address
Speaker 1: what Trump must lose power means and that reality in
Speaker 1: a moment. In the immediate short term, we are left
Speaker 1: with this reality. Trump hated Biden. Trump tried to extort
Speaker 1: Zelensky into fabricating fake evidence against Biden. Trump tried to
Speaker 1: weaken Ukraine on Putin's behalf. Trump was impeached for these
Speaker 1: high crimes and misdemeanors about Ukraine. Biden helped Ukraine and Zelensky,
Speaker 1: and Zelensky came here to thank you the country, not Biden,
Speaker 1: to thank the United States for its support for our support.
Speaker 1: So Trump brought Zelenski here, set him up, tried to
Speaker 1: blackmail and bully and humiliate him. And in what was
Speaker 1: evidently supposed to be more of a threat than an
Speaker 1: immediate change of American policy, Trump lost his mind again,
Speaker 1: lost control of himself, may have urinated in his pants.
Speaker 1: With cameras rolling, he threatened Zelenski in the White House,
Speaker 1: exactly as he threatened the governor of Maine a week earlier,
Speaker 1: exactly as he has been threatening other people since about
Speaker 1: nineteen fifty, and nobody did anything to stop him in
Speaker 1: nineteen fifty. So we have to stop him now with
Speaker 1: cameras rolling, though, Trump revealed himself finally as he truly
Speaker 1: is a coward, a draft evader, a feral animal, a menace,
Speaker 1: a terrified little boy with old man, a creature who
Speaker 1: without the power he has accrued through lies and the
Speaker 1: exploitation of the least intelligent version of the public in
Speaker 1: this nation's history, A man who would literally be in
Speaker 1: jail right now. He is also taking every step enacting
Speaker 1: every piece of treachery that his own party spent seventy
Speaker 1: years warning America the Russians would take to overthrow our
Speaker 1: form of government, including that little twist wherein the Russians
Speaker 1: would take over one of our political parties. Only we
Speaker 1: never suspected, as the Republican said this year after year
Speaker 1: from nineteen eighteen into the nineteen nineties, we never suspected
Speaker 1: once that those Republicans when they said the Russians are
Speaker 1: going to take over one of the political parties, that
Speaker 1: they meant their own party. They're the Democrats and the
Speaker 1: Russian Republicans. And we need a Churchill right now in Britain,
Speaker 1: and we need a Churchill in this country right now,
Speaker 1: and we need two guys who recognize that even though
Speaker 1: there might not be shooting and bombs for another twenty
Speaker 1: five years, we are right now on the brink of
Speaker 1: that war, and we are not just already losing it,
Speaker 1: but the creature in charge of this country wants us
Speaker 1: to lose it, whether he knows it or not. And yes,
Speaker 1: it doesn't have to be guys who are Churchill. The
Speaker 1: bitter irony here, though, is that the only figure who
Speaker 1: even pretends to be Churchill right now is Trump, and
Speaker 1: he has no idea who Churchill was, or what Churchill was,
Speaker 1: or what Churchill stood for, or what Churchill would have
Speaker 1: done to him and those traders like him. Those photos
Speaker 1: of Trump grimacing into the camera, his official portrait, his mugshot.
Speaker 1: Trump has said. Trump has said this that in those
Speaker 1: photos he is trying to make himself look like the
Speaker 1: official portrait of Winston Churchill. It's as if I were
Speaker 1: trying to make myself in an official portrait look like
Speaker 1: Edward R.
Speaker 2: Murrow.
Speaker 1: Now you have a nose and a mouth and two eyes.
Speaker 1: Let me give you a little of the actual Churchill
Speaker 1: that is appropriate to this moment. It is Churchill, from
Speaker 1: the day from his timeline that most closely resembles this
Speaker 1: day on our timeline. October fifth, nineteen thirty eight is
Speaker 1: our March third, twenty twenty five. October fifth, nineteen thirty
Speaker 1: eight in the British Parliament, after the Prime Minister Nevil
Speaker 1: Chamberlain concluded the deal with Hitler in Munich, surrendering Czechoslovakia
Speaker 1: to Hitler because Hitler promised that's all he wanted, there'd
Speaker 1: be no more war. Wherever in what I quote Churchill
Speaker 1: mentions Czechoslovakia, I replace it with Ukraine. Wherever he mentions Europe,
Speaker 1: I insert the world. Other than that, this is Churchill,
Speaker 1: word for word, nearly eighty seven years ago. Churchill quote,
Speaker 1: I will begin my saying what everybody would like to
Speaker 1: ignore or forget, but which must nevertheless be stated, namely
Speaker 1: that we have sustained a total and unmitigated defeat, and
Speaker 1: that Ukraine has suffered even more than we have. And
Speaker 1: I will say this that I believe the Ukrainians, left
Speaker 1: to themselves and told they were going to get no
Speaker 1: help from the Western powers, would have been able to
Speaker 1: make better terms than they have got. They could hardly
Speaker 1: have worse. After all this tremendous perturbation, Our loyal, brave
Speaker 1: people should know the truth. They should know that there
Speaker 1: has been gross neglect and deficiency in our defenses. They
Speaker 1: should know that we have sustained a defeat without a war,
Speaker 1: the consequences of which will travel far with us along
Speaker 1: our road. They should know that we have passed an
Speaker 1: awful milestone in our history, when the whole equilibrium of
Speaker 1: the world has been deranged, and that the terrible words
Speaker 1: have for the time being been pronounced against the Western democracies.
Speaker 1: Thou art weighed in the balance and found wanting. And
Speaker 1: do not suppose that this is the end. This is
Speaker 1: only the beginning of the reckoning. Trump must lose power finally,
Speaker 1: to that to be clear, no matter how often Republican
Speaker 1: Tea Party activists used to threaten Obama and other liberals,
Speaker 1: Remember by quoting Thomas Jefferson about refreshing the tree of
Speaker 1: liberty with the blood of patriots and tyrants. Remember how
Speaker 1: often the Tea Party said that, I am not doing that.
Speaker 1: I am not talking about the kind of violence and
Speaker 1: insurrection that Republicans advocated in two thousand and nine, and
Speaker 1: Republicans threatened in twenty sixteen, and Republicans attempted in twenty twenty,
Speaker 1: and Republicans promised in twenty twenty four. I, unlike Republicans,
Speaker 1: am not talking about violent upheaval and not endorsing violence
Speaker 1: of any kind. That is the Republican plan, that the
Speaker 1: solution to our crisis and illegit government run by an
Speaker 1: insane man, exactly as would an asset or even a
Speaker 1: spy from Russia would do. So, the solution may not
Speaker 1: be of a conventional nature. That might be the case.
Speaker 1: I do not know what form that non conventional resolution
Speaker 1: to this might take. That Trump is a convicted felon,
Speaker 1: has already broken countless laws, is being shielded by a
Speaker 1: lawless and corrupted, pro totalitarian Supreme Court that is also
Speaker 1: not of a conventional nature. Those qualities alone make his
Speaker 1: presidency illegitimate, make him being president a fraudulent president, even
Speaker 1: before he begins to actively turn his White House into
Speaker 1: per Senator Murphy, an arm of the Kremlin, and to
Speaker 1: turn this country into a satellite of Russia. Trump's seizure
Speaker 1: of power has not happened legitimately, nor legally, nor by
Speaker 1: the norms that almost by themselves held this country together
Speaker 1: for two hundred and forty years. And even if they did,
Speaker 1: they do not excuse him selling us out to Vladimir
Speaker 1: Putin sabotage, treachery, treason. I will remind you that, as
Speaker 1: often as the leaders of both parties and the more
Speaker 1: corporate and statust of our historians will claim, in generation
Speaker 1: after generation, we have not always stuck to the rules
Speaker 1: which we claim are the only options for resolving things
Speaker 1: and resolving them peacefully. It is pretty certain now that
Speaker 1: the candidate who won the eighteen seventy six presidential election
Speaker 1: in this country both in popular and electoral votes, did
Speaker 1: not become president. Ruther for Hayes became president after the
Speaker 1: Democratic and Republican bosses of the time made up an
Speaker 1: extra constitutional solution extemporaneously convened in secret, they traded stuff,
Speaker 1: They reached a grand agreement, a conspiracy, as others called
Speaker 1: it then and since, that put the Republican Hayes in
Speaker 1: the White House and the Democrat Samuel Tilden into the
Speaker 1: dustman of history, but gave the Democrats the control of
Speaker 1: the South, and ended reconstruction and sentenced the African American
Speaker 1: population of this country to nine decades of what amounted
Speaker 1: to apartheid. The eighteen hundred election was a tie between
Speaker 1: Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr. It was decided essentially by
Speaker 1: Alexander Hamilton, who went into the House of Representatives and
Speaker 1: told representatives how to vote. The eighteen twenty four election
Speaker 1: saw the winner of the popular vote and the man
Speaker 1: with the most electoral votes, Andrew Jackson not made president.
Speaker 1: The fourth place minisher, Henry Clay, threw his support to
Speaker 1: the runner up, John Quincy Adams, allegedly in exchange for
Speaker 1: Adams making him Secretary of State, and Adams became the president. Well,
Speaker 1: these are somewhat distant events. I mean, we're not even
Speaker 1: at the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Rother
Speaker 1: fraud B. Hayes event. It's a little distant. You're not
Speaker 1: thinking that Republicans who opposed national suicide, who oppose becoming
Speaker 1: a satellite of Russia. You're not thinking those Republicans Murkowski
Speaker 1: and I don't know enough other Republicans to fit in
Speaker 1: the phone booth will join a grand agreement with the
Speaker 1: Democrats and force Trump out, you know, in May. I
Speaker 1: agree with you. I don't think that's likely to happen.
Speaker 1: On the other hand, that's all too distant. However much
Speaker 1: Al Gore screwed up his own campaign in two thousand
Speaker 1: and I know I worked for him. I met the
Speaker 1: man who screwed it up, not Gore, his business partner.
Speaker 1: However much Gore screwed up his own campaign, history is
Speaker 1: already accepting that it was not the American people who
Speaker 1: made George W. Bush president the first time. It was
Speaker 1: the Supreme Court with the thinnest of excuses. And after
Speaker 1: the stunt the Brooks Brothers riot, staged in part by
Speaker 1: Roger Stone. So I guess one of the contingent plans
Speaker 1: might be here. Anybody have access to an unlimited number
Speaker 1: of attorney grade three piece suits. Yes, it's the United
Speaker 1: States of America now. Three days without a madman dictator
Speaker 1: ambushing an ally and guaranteeing we have already lost World
Speaker 1: War three. Trump must lose power. So how I do
Speaker 1: not have a complete answer to that, but I do
Speaker 1: think I have the first steps, the very very beginning
Speaker 1: of one. That's next. This is Countdown. This is Countdown
Speaker 1: with Keith Olberman post scripts to the news, some headlines,
Speaker 1: some updates, some snark, and still ahead worse persons, and
Speaker 1: Jeff Bezos has finally figured out what to do to
Speaker 1: Lauren Sanchez send her in to space. No, no, I'm
Speaker 1: not kidding. This is the Countdown podcast and these are
Speaker 1: the places where there's news, Dateline Washington. So I promised
Speaker 1: you how to remove Trump from power? How Trump loses
Speaker 1: power without revolution or violence or lightning strikes. And again
Speaker 1: I have no complete solution here, or you would be
Speaker 1: listening dead air because I would be out there doing it.
Speaker 1: But there are the beginning elements in place, if only
Speaker 1: we will act upon them. I've already discussed the idea
Speaker 1: of public action, and yes, it would look very nice
Speaker 1: if there were overhead drone shots as in Israel, of
Speaker 1: major highways being filled every Saturday or whatever day of
Speaker 1: the week. You'd like with millions of Americans protesting this,
Speaker 1: it would be very good. It would also prompt Trump
Speaker 1: to bring out the military to start shooting people. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure we want that. However, there are other measures
Speaker 1: that we can take in which they can't shoot any
Speaker 1: of us. As I've said before, that one day economic
Speaker 1: boycott Friday, the twenty four hours of not buying stuff,
Speaker 1: make it twenty four days, make it twenty four months.
Speaker 1: Bring the corporations to their knees. Don't buy what you
Speaker 1: don't need. Use last year's phone and last year's car,
Speaker 1: and get your water out of the tap, and get
Speaker 1: your coffee out of the coffee machine. Spending thirty five
Speaker 1: cents for coffee was considered an extravagance when I started
Speaker 1: working in this business in the year eighteen sixty six.
Speaker 1: But there are other elements that require the Democrats. I
Speaker 1: know they're not all Chris Murphy, are they. A lot
Speaker 1: of them are Chuck Schumer, A lot of them are
Speaker 1: Kathy Hochel, A lot of them are even worse Eric
Speaker 1: Adams and Andrew Cuomo. But the Democrats need to adopt
Speaker 1: a couple of very simple measures. It's not like they
Speaker 1: are required to do a lot. Right now. They are
Speaker 1: in the minority in both houses of Congress, and we
Speaker 1: do not have the White House. There are individual states
Speaker 1: in which Democrats are still vibrant and in charge and
Speaker 1: going to court every day, and this must continue. But
Speaker 1: for the rest of them, for the Chuck Schumers of
Speaker 1: this world, for the Murphy's of this world, four of
Speaker 1: them are Kowskis of this world. If she listens to
Speaker 1: mind Vice and joins the real party, we need a
Speaker 1: democratic war room. We need a group of more or
Speaker 1: less think tank democrats to sit there and figure out
Speaker 1: how to respond, how to anticipate Trump's next move. There
Speaker 1: should have been a news conference within one hour of
Speaker 1: Zelensky leaving the White House in which Democratic leaders described
Speaker 1: this as Chamberlain and Hitler nineteen thirty eight. And do
Speaker 1: not hesitate from calling Trump Hitler right now. You need
Speaker 1: to break him, because when it does not go his way,
Speaker 1: he reacts the way he did to Zelenski on Friday.
Speaker 1: I thought at first that the whole thing was premeditated,
Speaker 1: but I'm now coming around to the idea that it
Speaker 1: was there to shake him down and get him to
Speaker 1: agree to less than they told him. He was going
Speaker 1: to get and then Trump lost his mind. And we
Speaker 1: need to see Trump losing his mind every possible time.
Speaker 1: And we have that coming up. I'll get to that
Speaker 1: in a moment. We have that coming up tomorrow. We
Speaker 1: need a democratic war room. Schumer can be there. He
Speaker 1: has power. Jeffries can be there. He has power if
Speaker 1: only he will use it. AOC needs to be there. Frost,
Speaker 1: the young Democratic congressman, needs to be there. We need
Speaker 1: them to be there and to shout bloody murder. We
Speaker 1: need a democratic policy war room to anticipate what's happening
Speaker 1: and to offer alternatives and to remind Americans what's actually
Speaker 1: going to happen. We need a Democratic spokesperson again, AOC Buddha,
Speaker 1: judge hell Rachel Maddow. I don't care who it is,
Speaker 1: somebody who's out there every week, and I've already said
Speaker 1: the time to do this is eight am Sunday. Chuck
Speaker 1: Schumer's only good idea, the thing that propelled him to power,
Speaker 1: have a news conference on Sunday when there is no
Speaker 1: goddamned news, and do it before the Sunday morning news shows,
Speaker 1: so you set the agenda so they are reacting, not
Speaker 1: to what Trump just said while he was on the
Speaker 1: Crapper at five thirty am. But what you said in
Speaker 1: a nice arranged press conference in a happy setting with
Speaker 1: an open bar at eight am and Bloody Mary's for
Speaker 1: everybody and brunch. As Cosell said about the four freedoms
Speaker 1: for media, freedom of lunch, freedom of drink, freedom of food,
Speaker 1: freedom of transportation, and freedom of admission, hold one of
Speaker 1: those every Sunday morning and the Democrats are back in business.
Speaker 1: Have them all up there. Have Buddha Jedge be the spokesperson,
Speaker 1: and AOC and Schumer and all of them, and rotate
Speaker 1: them in and out, and have a host. Have a host,
Speaker 1: a guy who's doing the whole in and out of
Speaker 1: every segment. Televise it, live feed it, live stream eight
Speaker 1: am Sunday. Because the Sunday morning shows are on Sunday morning.
Speaker 1: You get two days of setting the agenda. The content
Speaker 1: is almost irrelevant at that point. Hell, Trump hasn't had
Speaker 1: a good idea since he was four years old, and
Speaker 1: he sets the agenda because he has bad ideas, and
Speaker 1: everybody talks about it. They don't talk about what an
Speaker 1: idiot is. They talk about whether or not his idiotic
Speaker 1: idea is very idiotic or just a little idiotic. Are
Speaker 1: they saying how many Communists there are in the State Department. Yes,
Speaker 1: they're not saying whether or not there are any. I know,
Speaker 1: I just mangled the quote from the Manchurian candidate. But
Speaker 1: that's the whole point. Sees the airways and then figure
Speaker 1: out what to say. And to that end, where is
Speaker 1: our adaptation of perhaps the best aspect of the British
Speaker 1: parliamentary system. The British party that is not in power,
Speaker 1: the leading opposition power party, has a shadow cabinet secretary
Speaker 1: of defense. Heg Seth. There would be a secretary, shadow
Speaker 1: secretary of defense, some member of the Democratic establishment with
Speaker 1: good defense chops anybody, anybody who isn't drunk would do.
Speaker 1: Anybody who doesn't take his orders from Elon Musk and
Speaker 1: tells members of the Pentagon to get back to Musk
Speaker 1: with those what did you do this week? Emails? A
Speaker 1: shadow cabinet, shadow secretary of state who could get up
Speaker 1: there and say, we're a little worried about Marco Rubio
Speaker 1: after everybody took turns peeing on him in the Oval
Speaker 1: office and destroying any hopes he had that he had
Speaker 1: some influence that he wasn't just there to tell JV
Speaker 1: Vance that his eyeliner looked good. We need somebody to
Speaker 1: get up there and humiliate Marco Rubio. We can need
Speaker 1: somebody else there, I mean, besides Marco Rubio. We need
Speaker 1: somebody to get up there and humiliate heg Seth. Somebody
Speaker 1: of fish. Because the media, as dying as it is,
Speaker 1: still has overwhelming sway in this country and how things
Speaker 1: are framed and how things are broadcast to the consumer,
Speaker 1: the voter is still largely out of the hands of
Speaker 1: the politicians. It's what you offer, what you make the media.
Speaker 1: People who make these decisions think are the right decisions. Oh,
Speaker 1: I know what to do. I've seen this before. We
Speaker 1: should present an hour of Pete Buotagedge answering all of
Speaker 1: these things that the Trump people have just said. That
Speaker 1: would be Shadow Secretary of State Pete Budajetge. There are
Speaker 1: two other things we can do to accelerate Trump losing power.
Speaker 1: Emphasize one aspect above all else. With Elon Musk He's foreign,
Speaker 1: he has an accent. In the last few months, the
Speaker 1: accent has I've mentioned this before, it's gotten worse. He's
Speaker 1: now almost don until he is South African. He's Afrikaner,
Speaker 1: he's boor War. He's the man who put Mandela in jail,
Speaker 1: isn't he? Or the descendant of one of them? As
Speaker 1: you know, I am a proud child of immigrants, and
Speaker 1: I consider myself such. Even though the first Olberman got
Speaker 1: to this country in eighteen forty seven. I don't think
Speaker 1: anybody in the roots of this family arrived here later
Speaker 1: in the eighteen eighties. And I still think of myself
Speaker 1: as the child of immigrants, and I carry that proudly.
Speaker 1: And when we discovered that the Ukrainian Polish guy, my
Speaker 1: great great grandfather wasn't Zelenski but Zelenski, I was damn
Speaker 1: proud of that. And yet I'm saying this, use the
Speaker 1: immigration thing against Elon Musk, because if the Trump crowd
Speaker 1: hates immigrants, use this against them, Use this against Musk.
Speaker 1: What is he if not the ultimate immigrant? He don't
Speaker 1: even speak English. Good The idea that people are getting
Speaker 1: fired and losing their farms maybe, and certainly farm income
Speaker 1: and veterans are going to be made homeless, and medicare
Speaker 1: is being threatened by a drugged up foreigner. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's a low blow. It hurts me as the sun
Speaker 1: Well great great grandson of immigrants, but it's totally legit
Speaker 1: and very effective, and it goes to the heart of
Speaker 1: their belief system. There's no blow that lands harder than
Speaker 1: when you take the club out of the idiot's hand
Speaker 1: and hit him over the head with his own club
Speaker 1: or shoe. Speaking of which, they have a new bete
Speaker 1: noir on the right, which you can exploit in this
Speaker 1: particular situation. This guy Draino, this Rogan knows something named
Speaker 1: for either Joe Rogan or sportscaster Fred Rogan. I don't
Speaker 1: know what, retweeted Laura Loomer, so you can tell in
Speaker 1: this tweet the total IQ spent was like forty eight points.
Speaker 1: Did you know that DC Judge Emir Hatze Madhi Ali,
Speaker 1: the judge who ordered the Trump administration to temporarily lift
Speaker 1: the funding freeze a US ad abroad, has only been
Speaker 1: a US citizen since twenty nineteen and has dual citizenship,
Speaker 1: to which this guy Draino writes, why the hell are
Speaker 1: we allowing dual citizens as federal judges? Conflict of interest? Oh,
Speaker 1: they're big about dual citizenship. Now, I wonder who has
Speaker 1: dual citizenship. In this equation, Elon Musk is a dual
Speaker 1: citizen of Canada and the United States pass it on
Speaker 1: dual citizens Holy crap. There is once again and more
Speaker 1: evidence that we are not going to survive, based on
Speaker 1: our herculean efforts to save the democracy and avoid the
Speaker 1: World War three, that we're already losing. It's not that
Speaker 1: it's their stupidity, it's them looking at this question of
Speaker 1: dual citizenship without asking, Hey, what about Musk? Don't he
Speaker 1: talk funny for a guy from San Francisco, Texas wherever
Speaker 1: he's from Canada? Wait a minute, didn't we just go
Speaker 1: to war with Canada? I bet this guy knows that
Speaker 1: Wayne Gretzky bastard. Hey, we didn't make the rules here.
Speaker 1: This isn't Keith al Rimans America. This is Donald Trump's America.
Speaker 1: There are rules here. They're Trump's rules here. Use the
Speaker 1: rules to bury Elon Musk up to his neck in
Speaker 1: the sand with the tide coming in metaphorically, and there
Speaker 1: is one last one. Tomorrow night, Trump will address Congress.
Speaker 1: It is not although it might as well be the
Speaker 1: State of the Union address, it can't be called the
Speaker 1: State of the Union, because that's the tradition in the
Speaker 1: first year of her presidency. Plus, what the hell would
Speaker 1: Donald Trump know about the state of the Union unless
Speaker 1: it's the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics well formerly the
Speaker 1: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. But Alexandria Ocasio Cortez asked online,
Speaker 1: if you were in Congress, what would you do for
Speaker 1: the state of the Union? What do you think Dems
Speaker 1: should do? Number one? How many other Democrats would think
Speaker 1: to crowdsource this to get people involved in the way
Speaker 1: people get involved today when people live their lives three
Speaker 1: four years at a time without ever actually talking to
Speaker 1: anybody in person. She crowdsourced it online. What would you
Speaker 1: do for the state of the Union? What do you
Speaker 1: think Dems should do? Well? I think they should start
Speaker 1: by hollering him down, and those who can sneak whistles
Speaker 1: in should blow the whistles, and then they should boo,
Speaker 1: and then at five minutes they should all stop and
Speaker 1: start chanting Zelensky's name, drown him out for five minutes,
Speaker 1: and then stand up with your backs to him for
Speaker 1: five minutes, and then walk out. So the answer to
Speaker 1: the question should they walk out, they should not even attend. No,
Speaker 1: don't miss the opportunity. Don't miss the opportunity to be there.
Speaker 1: But also, you know, make a spectacle of yourselves. Yes,
Speaker 1: boo him, Yes, chance Zelenski's name. Yes, then stand silently. Yes,
Speaker 1: then show him as much disrespect as possible. Yes, then leave,
Speaker 1: take over the narrative. We are going to need civil disobedience.
Speaker 1: It damn well better be endorsed by and lived by
Speaker 1: the elected Democrats. First, you are God, help us our
Speaker 1: leaders get to work. Dateline, Cincinnati. What is my opinion
Speaker 1: of Trump pardoning Pete Rose, the infamous and now late
Speaker 1: baseball gambler. My opinion is Trump needs to lose power
Speaker 1: after ambushing our ally Zelenski. He brought up the Pete
Speaker 1: Rose thing hours after realizing that not everybody in the
Speaker 1: world agreed with him about that on Friday. The amount
Speaker 1: of surprise in Donald Trump's life that he does not
Speaker 1: express must be enormous every day. It must be several
Speaker 1: megatons worth. What do you mean they don't all agree
Speaker 1: with me? What do you mean there was blowback? What
Speaker 1: do you mean Marco Rubio looked literally like flat Stanley.
Speaker 1: On the other hand, there are details here that I
Speaker 1: can't miss because I did spend much of my life
Speaker 1: in sports, and was in fact at the news conference
Speaker 1: at which Commissioner Bart Chimatti, father of the actor, banned
Speaker 1: Pete Rose for life on August twenty fourth, nineteen eighty nine,
Speaker 1: for gambling repeatedly. The correct headline on Trump and Pete
Speaker 1: Rose is Trump promises to pardon alleged pedophile or Trump
Speaker 1: promises to pardon alleged child rapist. I had turned on
Speaker 1: this after years of opposing Pete Rose's reinstatement to baseball.
Speaker 1: I had said, enough is enough with the steroid era.
Speaker 1: This is a relatively small crime. And then the part
Speaker 1: came out about having his ongoing relationship with a teenager
Speaker 1: under the age of sixteen while he was married and
Speaker 1: starring as a player for the Cincinnati Reds in the
Speaker 1: nineteen seventies. That accusation came out, and that's where I
Speaker 1: went go to hell. But on top of what Trump said,
Speaker 1: which we'll get to in a moment, the Baseball Commissioner
Speaker 1: rob manfred a frog who owns golf clubs. I don't
Speaker 1: mean I'm not insulting him with the reference to another
Speaker 1: country anything. I mean, he's a frog. I mean, he's
Speaker 1: an amphibian and he has golf clubs. That's the entirety
Speaker 1: of his life. He is considering now, knowing which way
Speaker 1: the wind blows, because he has golf clubs. He is
Speaker 1: considering a petition that was filed apparently on the eighth
Speaker 1: of January by Pete Rose's family per ESPN to have
Speaker 1: him posthumously removed from the banned list the ineligible list,
Speaker 1: Baseball sources acknowledged accordied ESPN. The commissioner met with Fawn
Speaker 1: Rose and a lawyer, and Manfred is now reviewing the
Speaker 1: petition to reinstate. He rejected the last one after meeting
Speaker 1: with Rose in twenty fifteen, and this justice coincidentally happens
Speaker 1: the day after the Trump post. Over the next few weeks,
Speaker 1: I will be signing a complete pardon of Pete Rose,
Speaker 1: who shouldn't have been gambling on baseball, but only bet
Speaker 1: on his team winning. He never betted against himself or
Speaker 1: the other team. He had the most hits by far
Speaker 1: in baseball history and won more games than anyone in history.
Speaker 1: First off, there is no such word as betted. You're
Speaker 1: thinking of betted, be etted, President Moron said today betted
Speaker 1: the other thing. I have been fighting this literally for
Speaker 1: thirty six years. He only bet on his team winning.
Speaker 1: Let me deconstruct this very briefly. If you bet on
Speaker 1: your team, and you are the manager of the team,
Speaker 1: and you decide who plays in the games of the team,
Speaker 1: when you bet on the team to win, I guess
Speaker 1: in some sense that's fine, even though it was against
Speaker 1: all baseball laws and several, as it turned out, federal
Speaker 1: laws because he didn't report the income and went to
Speaker 1: jail for it. It's okay in a sense to bet
Speaker 1: only on your team to win, rather than to bet
Speaker 1: on them to lose. But what about what happens on
Speaker 1: those days when you don't bet at all. Have you
Speaker 1: not passed aggressively bet against your team because you have
Speaker 1: the decision over whether or not you use your star
Speaker 1: relief pitcher in the game you have bet on, or
Speaker 1: in the game you have not bet on. It's just
Speaker 1: as corrupt as if you bet against your own team.
Speaker 1: You are, in a sense betting against your own team,
Speaker 1: only instead of it being money, the bet you are
Speaker 1: making is not using that player in that game. You
Speaker 1: are affecting the outcome of that game. Let alone betting
Speaker 1: on it. I know I lost Trump at the word betted,
Speaker 1: Pete Rose in death being used as a deflection for
Speaker 1: the latest Trump loss of World War three and dateline Secaucus,
Speaker 1: New Jersey. To wrap it up, Michael wolf the author,
Speaker 1: tells the German news outlet Zeit MSNBC had a full
Speaker 1: day of interviews scheduled with him for his new Trump book,
Speaker 1: but MSNBC canceled it out of fear of Trump. I've
Speaker 1: known Michael Wolfe a long time. I think I interviewed
Speaker 1: him first in the old MSNBC show in nineteen ninety
Speaker 1: seven or nineteen ninety eight, and I've never fully decided.
Speaker 1: A lot of his information is one hundred percent insightful
Speaker 1: and great, and his analysis is really good, and his
Speaker 1: picture of the world of media is sometimes prescient by years,
Speaker 1: and then the rest of the time he's full of it.
Speaker 1: So I don't know if this is true or not.
Speaker 1: But given the race purge at MSNBC, have we forgotten
Speaker 1: about Joy Reid already and Fang and the others who
Speaker 1: were demoted, including the one guy Iaman who came back
Speaker 1: on the air and said, I haven't been fired, I
Speaker 1: haven't lost my show. I've been afforded new opportunities with
Speaker 1: more hours, a show in which I will be one
Speaker 1: of many different hosts. Maybe he thinks nothing happened to him. Still,
Speaker 1: MSNBC had a full day of interview scheduled with him
Speaker 1: for his new Trump book, but they canceled out of
Speaker 1: fear of Trump for some pas reason that rings true.
Speaker 1: Worse persons next, believe it or not, In this all
Speaker 1: new edition of Countdown, there's still more new idiots to
Speaker 1: talk about, the unwashed, unloved, the dunning Krueger definitions. Who
Speaker 1: are today's worse persons in the world? Le Bron's worse
Speaker 1: A moron Republican congressman. I know that doesn't really narrow
Speaker 1: it down, does it? No? Not, Oh, you lie Wilson,
Speaker 1: who has proposed a two hundred and fifty dollars bill,
Speaker 1: which is exactly what we need in this country, get
Speaker 1: rid of the pennies. We need another useless piece of money,
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty dollars bill. How about a two
Speaker 1: hundred and forty nine to ninety nine dollars bill with
Speaker 1: Trump's face on it, because we really need a bill
Speaker 1: with an odd number on it, Like anybody uses cash anymore.
Speaker 1: By the way, No, not him, Rather Andy Ogels, who
Speaker 1: represents the Moron District of Tennessee. He wants a new law.
Speaker 1: If you miss this, the right wing conspiracy machine that
Speaker 1: installed Trump in power is focused not on Trump humiliating
Speaker 1: himself with Zelensky or losing World War III. It's focused
Speaker 1: on what was not in the so called Epstein files.
Speaker 1: Representative Ogels is proposing a law about the Epstein files,
Speaker 1: not about any of the acts in the Epstein files,
Speaker 1: just the Epstein files. It's called the Pedo Act. Ped Oh,
Speaker 1: what do you have to quote Representative Ogles. The Peedo
Speaker 1: Act would fire FBI obstructionists who delete, destroy, alter, or
Speaker 1: otherwise cause to be removed any record, in whole or
Speaker 1: in part that is related to Jeffrey Epstein. The American
Speaker 1: people deserve transparency and the truth, so FBI obstruction is
Speaker 1: to alter the Epstein files would be fired. But the
Speaker 1: FBI is run by Cash Pattel. Cash Battel is run
Speaker 1: by Trump, so anything done at the FBI about Jeffrey
Speaker 1: Epstein is done by cash Battel and approved by Trump.
Speaker 1: So Congressman Ogles wants a law that would demand the
Speaker 1: firing of cash Battel and Donald Trump. Okay, okay, let
Speaker 1: him cook.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: What a great idea. I'm sorry I put you on
Speaker 1: the words. You may have solved our quest. How do
Speaker 1: we have it that Trump loses power? Well, get him
Speaker 1: on this epsteamless thing. Yeah, I don't know this idiot
Speaker 1: congressman and then Republicans approved it and he signed it.
Speaker 1: That's all I know. The runner up worser. Well, here
Speaker 1: he is, Ed Martin. You know this guy, he's nuts.
Speaker 1: He is now the acting US attorney in Washington, d C.
Speaker 1: And he is crazy as a jaybird. Anna Bauer, who
Speaker 1: is the senior editor of law Fair, pointed this out.
Speaker 1: Several online Republican influencers made up a story claiming one
Speaker 1: of them is at Matthew Nickel five Obama's team, and
Speaker 1: he said it was a rumor. Obama's team, including Anthony Blincoln,
Speaker 1: Victoria Newland, Susan Rice, and Alexander Vindman, advised Zelensky to
Speaker 1: reject Trump's deal in violation of a Logan act. Of course,
Speaker 1: it's not true. Didn't happen, the guy himself said, rumor
Speaker 1: has it? US Attorney Ed Martin has responded by retweeting
Speaker 1: this and writing concerning no one is above the law.
Speaker 1: We'll find out about that at your trial. At Martin.
Speaker 1: Anna Bauer from Lawfair Senior editor, high Ed, do you
Speaker 1: think it's appropriate for an acting US attorney to spread
Speaker 1: false info accusing uncharged individuals of criminal acts? Do you
Speaker 1: think this public statement is consistent with DOJ norms and
Speaker 1: your ethical duties as a member of the bar. Looking
Speaker 1: forward to your response, I'm expecting Ed Martin's response to be,
Speaker 1: what's do J stand for? This guy is literally not
Speaker 1: all there but our winner. Speaking of which, Jeff Bezos,
Speaker 1: this is for all the things that we've endured. This
Speaker 1: was the greatest headline of the week and the weekend.
Speaker 1: Are you ready Katy Perry, Gail King, and Lauren Sanchez
Speaker 1: to fly into space on Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin next mission?
Speaker 1: Anybody else see a darker side to this news? Oh,
Speaker 1: Jeff Bezos plans to send his own girlfriend into space
Speaker 1: on his own rocket that he owns, the maintenance of
Speaker 1: which he's in charge of. And here come the sparks
Speaker 1: and she's going to be alongside Gail goddamn King and
Speaker 1: Katy Perry. The number of other jokes I thought about
Speaker 1: here are all far far meaner than the one I
Speaker 1: just did, far more grim. The nicest of them was, Hey,
Speaker 1: the Blue Origin spacecraft. It has the opportunity to do
Speaker 1: the funniest thing ever. By the way, David ful Conflict
Speaker 1: at NPR reports that after Bezos's announcement that the WAPO
Speaker 1: op ed Department would now only print opinions that he,
Speaker 1: Jeff Bezos, agrees with I e. Things he thinks Trump
Speaker 1: will thank him for and not reveal whatever secret he's
Speaker 1: blackmailing Bezos with, the Post lost another seventy five thousand subscriptions.
Speaker 1: That's on top of the three hundred thousand that Bezos
Speaker 1: cost himself after he killed the paper's editorial endorsing Kamala Harris.
Speaker 1: They're down three hundred and seventy five thousand subscriptions. Three
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy five thousand subscriptions would fuel most smaller city
Speaker 1: newspapers in America. And that's how much they've lost. In
Speaker 1: addition to all their credibility, they're now a right wing
Speaker 1: news outlet like Politico is a right wing or conservative
Speaker 1: or fascist news outlet. Plus more practically speaking, they've lost
Speaker 1: more money three hundred and seventy five thousands of scriptions worth.
Speaker 1: You know what a subscription is? Who will underwrite Lauren
Speaker 1: Sanchez's twenty twenty five annual plastic budget. Jeff to the Moon,
Speaker 1: Lauren to the.
Speaker 2: Moon, Bezos two days, other worse, Why sudden, Well, outer space,
Speaker 2: the word.
Speaker 1: I've done all the damage I can do here. Thank
Speaker 1: you for listening, and please enjoy the rest of World
Speaker 1: War three. Brian Ray and John Phillips Chanel, musical directors,
Speaker 1: have Countdown, arranged, produced, and performed most of our music.
Speaker 1: Mister Chanelle handled orchestration and keyboards. Mister Ray was on guitars,
Speaker 1: bass and drums. It was produced by Tko Brothers. Our
Speaker 1: satirical and fifthy musical comments are by the best baseball
Speaker 1: stadium organist ever, Nancy Faust. The sports music is the
Speaker 1: Olderman theme from ESPN two, written by Mitch Warren Davis
Speaker 1: courtesy of ESPN Inc. Other music arranged and performed by
Speaker 1: the group No Horns Allowed. Everything else was as ever
Speaker 1: my fault. My announcer today was my friend Larry David.
Speaker 1: That's countdown for today, just four hundred and twenty days
Speaker 1: until the scheduled end of his lane Duck blame brain
Speaker 1: term unless Musk removes him sooner or he loses power
Speaker 1: before that, where the actuarial tables do the business for us.
Speaker 1: The next scheduled countdown is Thursday. As always, bulletins as
Speaker 1: the news warrants, remember impeach Trump. It won't work now,
Speaker 1: it will win the Democrats the mid terms. And all
Speaker 1: the options you have for tomorrow night's speech, use them all.
Speaker 1: Boo blow whistles, stand with your backs to him silently,
Speaker 1: and then walk out in the middle of the speech.
Speaker 1: All of the above until next time. I'm Keith Alderman.
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