Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Gavin
Speaker 1: Newsom has reached his effort moments, and it might be
Speaker 1: the moment we begin to save the democracy. The effort
Speaker 1: moment I will explain presently, But first there is an
Speaker 1: immediate and urgent question, and it is less what made
Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom step up than step up even higher the
Speaker 1: second time. It is more why haven't any other democratic
Speaker 1: so called leaders followed Newsom over the top into no
Speaker 1: man's land, even though he went first and discovered there
Speaker 1: are oh about one hundred two hundred million Americans just
Speaker 1: standing there waiting for somebody to lead them against Trump.
Speaker 1: If you missed Newsom's effort speech, and trust me I did,
Speaker 1: its only failure was its roll out. I'm going to
Speaker 1: play the whole thing at the end of this first
Speaker 1: segment because it was that good eight minutes of escalating
Speaker 1: but still suppressed righteous indignation bordering on rage, eight minutes
Speaker 1: building towards effet of which I think I am still
Speaker 1: the official East Coast exclusive distributor. I think I know
Speaker 1: my eight minute suppressed righteous indignation effort speeches, and that
Speaker 1: one was outstanding. But consider the larger context. Newsom's emergence,
Speaker 1: and this is a stupid analogy, but somehow it works,
Speaker 1: was like a caterpillar emerging as a gigantic butterfly, a
Speaker 1: butterfly equipped with nukes, a stealth bomber butterfly. And that
Speaker 1: was just last Friday, with his threat to crash Trump
Speaker 1: by withholding all of California's federal taxes, all six of
Speaker 1: ninety two billion dollars worth, the economic civil war game ender.
Speaker 1: I've been advocating out here in the wilderness for a decade. Hey,
Speaker 1: I have an idea. Only then the stealth bomber butterfly says, wait,
Speaker 1: I'm not finished yet, and he goes back inside the
Speaker 1: cocoon for a minute, and he comes out even larger
Speaker 1: with more nukes. And now he is the resistance. He
Speaker 1: is the Democratic Party. He is the hope to save America.
Speaker 1: All of what has been missing in a Democratic party
Speaker 1: that runs the gamut of political imagination lately from A
Speaker 1: to B. All of that that is missing, the rest
Speaker 1: of the alphabet has somehow wound up in Gavin Newsom.
Speaker 1: A week ago, Gavin Newsom was posting a podcast in
Speaker 1: which he interviewed seriously quote doctor, unquote Phil McGraw, doctor
Speaker 1: Phil a week ago, Phil, who then rode along on
Speaker 1: the ice Gestapo raids of civilians here in America a
Speaker 1: week ago Gavin Newsom was platforming him. June four, glad
Speaker 1: Hand interview that utter fraud Phil McGraw, after glad Hand
Speaker 1: interviewing Gingrich, Michael Savage, Charlie Kirk, and Steve Effing Bannon.
Speaker 1: Steve Effing Bannon June six, respond to Trump's threats to
Speaker 1: kneecap California by threatening to lead a tax strike by itself,
Speaker 1: the most liberal, progressive in your faced political protest proposed
Speaker 1: in this century. June seven, June eight, June nine, come
Speaker 1: back and top it, top the tax strike with calling
Speaker 1: the bluff of these Halloween mask bullies like this idiot
Speaker 1: dementia Jay Trump and Tom Homan, who's really tough now
Speaker 1: that he has appeared. Then June ten, give this speech.
Speaker 1: That's a hell of a week, Gavin. As an aside,
Speaker 1: I cannot fathom a faster reversal, a faster steer out
Speaker 1: from the both sides is let's negotiate with the Nazis.
Speaker 1: Kumbay a bullshit skid than the one that constituted Gavin
Speaker 1: Newsom's last week, nor a more successful one, nor a
Speaker 1: more important one. As a second aside, I don't care
Speaker 1: if the podcast and the both sides is bullshit where
Speaker 1: political calculations or the tax strike idea is a political calculation,
Speaker 1: or the speech is a political calculation, or the whole
Speaker 1: thing is a political calculation. About twenty twenty eight, I
Speaker 1: don't care to quote Lincoln about General Grant. I can't
Speaker 1: spare this man. He fights and again. It's not as
Speaker 1: if what he did was the daffy duck. First, drink
Speaker 1: some nitroglycerin, a goodly amount of gunpowder, some uranium two
Speaker 1: thirty eight, shake well, strike an ordinary match, and girls,
Speaker 1: you'd better hold on near boyfriends. It's that Gavin Newsom
Speaker 1: in five days did more practical damage to Trump, and
Speaker 1: even more importantly, gave more practical encouragement to Democrats, big
Speaker 1: D Democrats and small D Democrats alike, and our allies
Speaker 1: and our friends around the world. He did more good
Speaker 1: than the rest of the zombie Democratic Party has done
Speaker 1: since Joe Biden was elected. That reality that the playing
Speaker 1: field wasn't just tilted or stricken or empty, but completely
Speaker 1: denuded of everything plays its part. Nothing makes you stand
Speaker 1: out better, Nothing makes your courage an A plus, even
Speaker 1: if it might really only be a B minus in
Speaker 1: other circumstances. Nothing makes that stand out if there is
Speaker 1: only a blank canvas behind you. Obama on Trump's dismantling
Speaker 1: of democracy, Well, he put out a couple of tweets
Speaker 1: defending Obamacare. Chuck Schumer, He's convinced Trump will destroy himself
Speaker 1: and has apparently taken a year long vow of silence.
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris. You can tell me you had forgotten about
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris, hadn't you? I had Hillary Clinton a couple
Speaker 1: of passable one liners. Pete boutajeedge Oh, he grew a
Speaker 1: beard to a protest beard or a hockey playoff beard.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure which, Josh Shapiro. The exception to this,
Speaker 1: of course, is Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio Cortes, who
Speaker 1: went out there and rallied people and have fought the
Speaker 1: good f at fight. But unlike Newsome, they bluntly were
Speaker 1: not simultaneously blessed and cursed by the politician's worst enemy
Speaker 1: and his best friend. Events you can't threaten to cut
Speaker 1: off Trump's money genitals if he doesn't threaten yours first,
Speaker 1: and you can't dare his himmler to arrest you, if
Speaker 1: he doesn't threaten to arrest you, and you can't give
Speaker 1: a speech condemning Trump if you aren't his target, and
Speaker 1: you can't do any of that without the heft or
Speaker 1: impact unless you are a governor, and not just a governor,
Speaker 1: but the governor who happens to be in the eye
Speaker 1: of that moment's storm. On the other hand, you can't
Speaker 1: be any of those things if you are Chuck Schumer, useless, unimaginative,
Speaker 1: self interested, insisted it is still really nineteen ninety six.
Speaker 1: We're just going to get back to normal, and most
Speaker 1: of all, inflexible. The background to Newsom's week was his
Speaker 1: recognition that he had been going at the wrong speed,
Speaker 1: in the wrong direction, on the wrong track. To get
Speaker 1: to effort, you have to travel there first in your mind,
Speaker 1: and you have to be willing to actually go there
Speaker 1: and say, maybe maybe it's time to say the F word.
Speaker 1: Chuck Schumer is twenty five meetings with consultants and ten
Speaker 1: weeks of field research and at least one phone call
Speaker 1: with Ezracline before he is in the same time zone
Speaker 1: as the general vicinity of nearly within a day's ride
Speaker 1: of the suburbs of Effet. I think, I think you
Speaker 1: cannot reach Effet utterly, insincerely. There may be self interested elements,
Speaker 1: there may be scenarios of success you see as possibilities,
Speaker 1: unlikely and remote ones, but you really have to at
Speaker 1: least three quarters of the way realistically believe, yeah, this
Speaker 1: is it. You will say this, and then you will
Speaker 1: get fired, arrested, renditioned, disappeared, or perhaps the worst scenario
Speaker 1: that Gavin Newsom of last month could have envisioned. After
Speaker 1: you say it, doctor Phil won't come back for a
Speaker 1: second guest shot on the podcast. Instead, Gavin Newsom is
Speaker 1: suddenly Charles de Gaulle and George Washington and Admiral Dan
Speaker 1: the Torpedoes full speed ahead. Farragut historical trivia. When Admiral
Speaker 1: Farragut joined the US Navy as the Civil War started,
Speaker 1: he was living in Hastings on Hudson, New York, much
Speaker 1: later my hometown. His house in my house about a
Speaker 1: fifteen minute walk. He was a Southerner. He got so
Speaker 1: pissed off at the Confederacy he moved to my hometown.
Speaker 1: That is your effet moment. My only true frame of
Speaker 1: reference on the subject of effet moments is naturally my
Speaker 1: own small effort moment. I had done commentaries, I had
Speaker 1: grown increasingly anti Bush, and then one day I read
Speaker 1: something Donald Rumsfeldt said about us. His critics, Bush's critics,
Speaker 1: IRAQS critics said we were suffering from quote moral or
Speaker 1: intellectual confusion, compared us to those who appeased Hitler, and
Speaker 1: I detonated, and the sound I heard was af I
Speaker 1: fully expected the commentary I wrote would get me fired.
Speaker 1: Instead it got me double the audience, and then there
Speaker 1: was the YouTube thing, and then all the money to
Speaker 1: my bosses, and then the luttle money to me. It
Speaker 1: bought me five years of room to do such commentaries
Speaker 1: before NBC found a more unprincipled and easier way to
Speaker 1: make that money. By what a five years?
Speaker 2: Huh?
Speaker 1: Do not undervalue what Governor Newsom has done just the speech.
Speaker 1: John Kerry told me that that rumsfeld commentary from two
Speaker 1: thousand and six, and my rage at the manipulation of
Speaker 1: the terror warnings by Bush at the same time was
Speaker 1: what got democratic electeds to rage in the same way
Speaker 1: just before the two thousand and six mid terms. Carry
Speaker 1: said it won them the mid terms. I said, I
Speaker 1: didn't believe him for a minute, and worshyet if I did.
Speaker 1: What did that say about the Democrats who should have
Speaker 1: been leading that not following me? It said, Carrie said
Speaker 1: that we will always let somebody else run face first
Speaker 1: into the brick wall and put the hole in it
Speaker 1: for us. Gavin Newsom has run face first into the
Speaker 1: brick wall and put the hole in it for us.
Speaker 1: And then, by the way, just in case the hole
Speaker 1: wasn't big enough or the noise wasn't loud enough, he
Speaker 1: circled around the wall, came back to the beginning point
Speaker 1: and ran face first into it again, and he put
Speaker 1: a second hole in it. Everybody can get through it now,
Speaker 1: even Schumer could. And the lesson from what Gavin Newsom
Speaker 1: did is this, do not restrain yourself nor your language.
Speaker 1: Do not pretend Trump is sane or can be negotiated with.
Speaker 1: Do not try to tamp down the madness of Maga.
Speaker 1: Confront it and dare them to fight about it. And
Speaker 1: always be animated by that one guiding principle, the one
Speaker 1: lesson first learned somewhere by one of our caveman ancestors
Speaker 1: who hit the bully in the head with a rock,
Speaker 1: the lesson that guided George Washington, the lesson that guided
Speaker 1: Admiral David Farragut of Hastings on Hudson, New York, and
Speaker 1: the lesson that clearly has guided Gavin Newsom, the one
Speaker 1: guiding principle affet. Practically speaking, by the way, the LA disturbances,
Speaker 1: and sadly, I think the number of arrests per day
Speaker 1: has now exceeded the number of arrests at the last
Speaker 1: Lakers victory celebration in twenty twenty. It is like eighty
Speaker 1: per day compared to seventy six arrests at the Laker thing.
Speaker 1: Practically speaking, the LA disturbances. After Trump's terrorist attack, his
Speaker 1: domestic terror attack against La and the people who live there,
Speaker 1: the LA disturbances pretty much ended, or became really really contained.
Speaker 1: Where are all the riots over there on that one block? Ended?
Speaker 1: When Mayor Karen Bass had her own effort moment and
Speaker 1: imposed a curfew Tuesday night. I can't speak to last night.
Speaker 1: I am recording this last night, but nearly all of
Speaker 1: the arrests Tuesday were really like this. You're arrested. Now
Speaker 1: get out of this neighborhood right here. Okay, you're not
Speaker 1: arrested anymore. And nearly, and this is from all the
Speaker 1: news reporters on the scene, nearly all of those who
Speaker 1: were arrested for curfew violations did not know a curfew
Speaker 1: had been imposed, per local all news radio my alma
Speaker 1: mater KNX. The biggest clash with an LA citizen who
Speaker 1: really did know there was a curfew and defied it
Speaker 1: was a woman who lives near police headquarters and she
Speaker 1: went out anyway after eight pm to walk her dog.
Speaker 1: Officers LAPD, not Ice, not the guard, not the Marines,
Speaker 1: not evil Batman. Lapd confronted her and she said, efitt,
Speaker 1: my dog has to take a with Southern California practicality
Speaker 1: an underrated thing, she says. A cordon of officers then
Speaker 1: walked with her and her dog the breed name has
Speaker 1: been changed to protect the innocent, until the dog stopped,
Speaker 1: she says, She and the officers, all of them in
Speaker 1: their riot gear. Then all all waited and watched and
Speaker 1: stood around and looked until the dog pooped, and then
Speaker 1: she gathered it up, and then they all escorted her
Speaker 1: and the dog and the bag of dog poop back
Speaker 1: to her apartment. This is not to say it won't
Speaker 1: get worse. This is a domestic terror attack. Trump will
Speaker 1: try it again. If not in Los Angeles, he will
Speaker 1: try it again somewhere. He may try it again today.
Speaker 1: He may have tried it again between the time I
Speaker 1: recorded this in the time you listen to it. This
Speaker 1: is to say, though, that nothing will make Trump look
Speaker 1: more foolish than a situation that has been resolved by
Speaker 1: a mayor with a curfew before his stormtroopers can get
Speaker 1: off their transports, or nothing will make him look more
Speaker 1: stupid that when those stormtroopers hit the streets of American cities,
Speaker 1: they will find the biggest damage they have to deal
Speaker 1: with is unauthor dog shit. And by the way, that
Speaker 1: that phrase, which I won't repeat, that's what this all
Speaker 1: looks like to America. Don't don't bother with what they're
Speaker 1: telling you from the polling at CNN or ABC or
Speaker 1: CBS or NBC talk about dog poop. You gov for
Speaker 1: CBS News still alive, defiantly alive, pretending that Edward R.
Speaker 1: Murrow is the president of News. Now you gov pulling
Speaker 1: for CBS on this fascist wet dream of the last week.
Speaker 1: Do you approve of deploying the National Guard to LA?
Speaker 1: Approve thirty eight percent, disapprove forty five percent. That is
Speaker 1: underwater by seven? Do you approve of deploying the Marines
Speaker 1: to LA? Approved thirty four percent, disapprove forty seven that's
Speaker 1: underwater by thirteen. I've said before Trump does not need
Speaker 1: non MAGA support, and that remains true. What he's not
Speaker 1: getting here is full magas support. You can't have a
Speaker 1: thirty four percent approval on one of your policies and
Speaker 1: not have a significant number of your supporters opposing it,
Speaker 1: knowing it is wrong, knowing it won't work, knowing it
Speaker 1: will not end well. One third approval on these moves
Speaker 1: means there are Trump supporters who are backing away. The
Speaker 1: first hearing today, incidentally, is on the Newsome suit to
Speaker 1: rule the usurpation of his control of the California National Guard,
Speaker 1: which is the law. The usurpation of that is illegal.
Speaker 1: That is what he wants from the court. And he
Speaker 1: wants them ordered to dispersed or returned to the governor's control,
Speaker 1: which is what the law says. And there is a
Speaker 1: hearing upcoming on the bid to stop guard Or Marines
Speaker 1: from going along with the ice cruise. The Gestapo on raids.
Speaker 1: Leave that to the professionals, doctor Phil. In the interim,
Speaker 1: the other biggest news story in southern California the thing
Speaker 1: they go to or yesterday anyway, went to after the
Speaker 1: latest from the one block long protest. Quiet here, it's
Speaker 1: been quiet for several hours. There's a guy over there standing.
Speaker 1: Oh no, he's waiting for the bus. In the interim,
Speaker 1: the other biggest news story in southern California appears to
Speaker 1: be word the sewer taxaes, sewer taxes. It's serious stuff.
Speaker 1: Sewer taxes are going up in Santa Monica. Oh no,
Speaker 1: where will Stephen Miller stay when he goes back to
Speaker 1: his hometown.
Speaker 2: Who's gonna think of Stephen Miller's sewer? Won't somebody think
Speaker 2: of Stephen Miller and the sewer he lives in? What
Speaker 2: about Stephen Miller's sower? Mean me, that's Steven Miller.
Speaker 1: Noise now more as promised about Newsom and the speech,
Speaker 1: and before I play the whole thing, make no mistake
Speaker 1: about it. Some of Trump's dumber slaves have now confirmed
Speaker 1: Newsom is the new target Obama Hillary Biden. They'll always
Speaker 1: have a villain role place in the Trump fantasphere. But
Speaker 1: it is now about the governor of California. This has
Speaker 1: been the watershed week. Listen to that stupid which Christy Nome.
Speaker 3: Governor Newsom has done a disservice to the status of
Speaker 3: California for many years. The people there should never elect
Speaker 3: him into a leadership position ever again.
Speaker 2: Companies closely and competent when it comes.
Speaker 1: By the way, did you hear her through the deviated
Speaker 1: septum there? Kind to know if I'm hernk nastayin sm California.
Speaker 1: She called it a status. How many statuses do we have? Christy?
Speaker 1: We have fifty danuses? Stayeth the United Stanuth, I'm America kan.
Speaker 1: This is somebody else I would not vouch for passing
Speaker 1: a drug test. Boys, she is just the worst, isn't she?
Speaker 1: Don't ever get a botox injection right in your brain? Kids?
Speaker 1: Worse than that the holier than now Speaker Mike Johnson,
Speaker 1: you know, the man who always stops by and wants
Speaker 1: to know how many closets there are in this house.
Speaker 1: He actually and pretty obviously publicly tried to get somebody
Speaker 1: to physically attack Gavin Newsom. That's not my lane. I'm
Speaker 1: not going to give you legal analysis on whether Gavin
Speaker 1: Newsom should be arrested. But he ought to be tart
Speaker 1: and feathered, I'll say that. I mean, look, he's standing
Speaker 1: in the way of when you are that deeply into
Speaker 1: a completely fake life in which you tell yourself your
Speaker 1: own personality reality is not real, and your religious fervor
Speaker 1: is the true you, you can throw out terms like
Speaker 1: he should be tired and feathered without worrying that you
Speaker 1: are describing a form of torture and in fact public
Speaker 1: murder on occasion. It is not a metaphor. It is
Speaker 1: not a colorful Southern phrase like gumbo. It is a
Speaker 1: stochastic call for violence against Gavin Newsom, and Speaker Johnson
Speaker 1: should be prosecuted for it, because, of course, the entire
Speaker 1: facade of the recent Maga anti violent rhetoric kick that
Speaker 1: just has fallen apart. Incidentally, remember the screams to arrest
Speaker 1: former FBI Director Comy or execute him for treason because
Speaker 1: he wrote eighty six forty seven on Seashells, as if
Speaker 1: that had been some sort of assassination call. As opposed
Speaker 1: to the use of the colloquial term eighty six, which
Speaker 1: means fire him or we're out of that product. Jesse
Speaker 1: Waters Moron Hour, which is the title of the eight
Speaker 1: PM show on Fox. Jesse Waters Moron Hour did the
Speaker 1: story about the firing of Terry Moran by the cowards
Speaker 1: at Bob Iger's ABC News the chiron over the Jesse
Speaker 1: Waters screen. Terry Moran gets eighty six by ABC, so
Speaker 1: they killed him. So if I say eighty six Trump's
Speaker 1: small dick parade Saturday in DC, what did I just say?
Speaker 1: Is that a cony eighty six or is that a
Speaker 1: Jesse Water's eighty six? Or does it change depending on
Speaker 1: the day? And please tell me, dear leader, where can
Speaker 1: I get an accurate schedule or calendar? Every time? I
Speaker 1: thank god how these people are stupid? I remember that
Speaker 1: given the advantages baked into the American system for a
Speaker 1: government in power, good or evil, to do whatever it wants,
Speaker 1: I thank god these people are that stupid. A smart
Speaker 1: Trump would be a real problem. And that brings us
Speaker 1: full ser that perhaps was the reality behind Gavin Newsom's
Speaker 1: effort moment. I'd like to ask him that reality that
Speaker 1: Trump isn't that smart, that this one may look like
Speaker 1: a great idea, but troops on the streets, that's not
Speaker 1: a good idea. It's not a good look. The parade
Speaker 1: may be worse than the invasion and the terrorist attack
Speaker 1: by Trump in LA. All you have to do in
Speaker 1: response to that is stop playing Trump's version of the
Speaker 1: Trump Home Game and introduce him instead to a new
Speaker 1: version in which Mike Tyson's first law applies. And when
Speaker 1: you do that, Trump will have no chance long term anyway.
Speaker 1: Mike Tyson's law, that's my seventh cousin. Mike Tyson's law
Speaker 1: is that everybody has a plan until they get punched
Speaker 1: in the face. As you listen to the whole of
Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom's speech, and I'll return with worst persons after
Speaker 1: it and after the commercial break that follows it. My
Speaker 1: connoisseur's advice, as somebody who has built these kind of
Speaker 1: public addresses designed to be given on TV, is to
Speaker 1: listen for the slow burn. To listen how much differently
Speaker 1: he sounds at the end that at that beginning, and
Speaker 1: to see if you notice where he escalates and the
Speaker 1: rapidly decreasing time he takes between each metaphorical punch in
Speaker 1: the face or in the body, Gavin Newsom throws, this
Speaker 1: is not just the first grown up speech responding to
Speaker 1: Trump's evil, it is a really good one too, and
Speaker 1: it ends with Trump getting metaphorically punched in the face
Speaker 1: several times.
Speaker 4: I want to say words about the events of the
Speaker 4: last few days. This past weekend, federal agents conducted large
Speaker 4: scale workplace raids in and around Los Angeles. Those raids
Speaker 4: continue as I speak. California is no stranger to immigration enforcement.
Speaker 4: But instead of focusing on undocumented immigrants with serious criminal
Speaker 4: records and people with final deportation orders, a strategy both
Speaker 4: parties have long supported, this administration is pushing mass deportations indiscriminately,
Speaker 4: targeting hardworking immigrant families, regardless of their roots or risk.
Speaker 4: What's happening right now is very different than anything we've
Speaker 4: seen before. On Saturday morning, when federal agents jumped out
Speaker 4: of an unmarked van near a home depot parking lot,
Speaker 4: they began grabbing people, a deliberate targeting of a heavily
Speaker 4: Latino suburb. A similar scene played out when a clothing
Speaker 4: company was raided downtown. In other actions, a US citizen
Speaker 4: nine months pregnant was arrested, a four year old girl, taken, families, separated, friends,
Speaker 4: quite literally disappearing. In response, every day, Angelino's came out
Speaker 4: to exercise their constitutional right to free speech and assembly
Speaker 4: to protest their government's actions. In turn, the state of
Speaker 4: California and the City and County of Los Angeles sent
Speaker 4: our police officers to help keep the peace, and with
Speaker 4: some exceptions, they were successful. Like many states, California is
Speaker 4: no stranger to this sort of unrest. We manage it
Speaker 4: regularly and with our own law enforcement. But this again
Speaker 4: was different. What then ensued was the use of tear gas,
Speaker 4: flash bang grenades, rubber bullets, federal agents detaining people in
Speaker 4: undermining their due process rights. Donald Trump, without consulting California
Speaker 4: law enforcement leaders, commandeered two thousand of our state its
Speaker 4: National Guard members to deploy on our streets illegally and
Speaker 4: for no reason. This brazen abuse of power by a
Speaker 4: sitting president inflamed a combustible situation, putting our people, our officers,
Speaker 4: and even our National Guard at risk. That's when the
Speaker 4: downward spiral began. He doubled down on his dangerous National
Speaker 4: Guard deployment by fanning the flames even harder, and the
Speaker 4: president he did it on purpose. As the news spread
Speaker 4: throughout La, anxiety for family and friends ramped up. Protests
Speaker 4: started again. By night, several dozen law breakers became violent
Speaker 4: and destructive. They vandalized property, they tried to assault police officers.
Speaker 4: Many of you have seen the video clips of cars
Speaker 4: burning on cable news. If you incite violence, I want
Speaker 4: to be clear about this, If you incite violence or
Speaker 4: destroy our communities, you're going to be held to account.
Speaker 4: That kind of criminal behavior will not be tolerated full stop. Already,
Speaker 4: more than two hundred and twenty people have been arrested,
Speaker 4: and we're reviewing tapes to build additional cases, and people
Speaker 4: will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Again,
Speaker 4: thanks to our law enforcement officers and the majority of
Speaker 4: Angelinos who protested peacefully, the situation was winding down and
Speaker 4: was concentrated in just a few square blocks downtown. But
Speaker 4: that's not what Donald Trump wanted. He again chose escalation.
Speaker 4: He chose more force, He chose theatrics over public safety.
Speaker 4: He federalized another two thousand Guard members. He deployed more
Speaker 4: than seven hundred active US Marines. These are the men
Speaker 4: and women trained for foreign combat, not domestic law enforcement.
Speaker 4: We honor their service, we honor their bravery, but we
Speaker 4: do not want our streets militarized by our own armed forces.
Speaker 4: Not in La not in California, not anywhere. We're seen
Speaker 4: un marked cars, unmarked cars in school parking, lots kids
Speaker 4: afraid of attending their own graduation. Trump is pulling a
Speaker 4: military dragnet all across Los Angeles. Well beyond is stated
Speaker 4: intent to just go after violent and serious criminals, his
Speaker 4: agents are arresting dishwashers, gardeners, day laborers, and seamstresses. That's
Speaker 4: just weakness, weakness masquerading as strength. Donald Trump's government isn't
Speaker 4: protecting our communities. They're traumatizing our communities, and that seems
Speaker 4: to be the entire point. California will keep fighting. We'll
Speaker 4: keep fighting on behalf of our people, all of our people,
Speaker 4: including in the courts. Just yesterday, we filed a legal
Speaker 4: challenge to Donald Trump's reckless deployment of American troops to
Speaker 4: a major American city. Today, we sought an emergency court
Speaker 4: order to stop the use of the American military to
Speaker 4: engage in law enforcement activities across US Los Angeles. If
Speaker 4: some of us could be snatched off the streets without
Speaker 4: a warrant based only on suspicion or skin color, then
Speaker 4: none of us are safe. Authoritarian regimes begin by targeting
Speaker 4: people who are least able to defend themselves, but they
Speaker 4: do not stop there. Trump and as loyalists, they thrive
Speaker 4: on division because it allows them to take more power
Speaker 4: and exert even more control. And by the way, Trump,
Speaker 4: he's not opposed to lawlessness and violence as long as
Speaker 4: it serves him. What more evidence do we need than
Speaker 4: January sixth, ask everyone take time reflect on this perilous moment.
Speaker 4: A president who wants to be bound by no law
Speaker 4: or constitution perpetuating a unified assault on American traditions. This
Speaker 4: is a president who, in just over one hundred and
Speaker 4: forty days has fired government watchdogs that could hold him accountable,
Speaker 4: accountable for corrupt and fraud. He's declared a war, a
Speaker 4: war on culture, on history, on science, on knowledge itself.
Speaker 4: Databases quite literally are vanishing. He's delegitimizing news organizations, and
Speaker 4: he's assaulting the First Amendment and the threat of defunding
Speaker 4: them at threat. He's dictating what universities themselves can teach.
Speaker 4: He's targeting law firms and the judicial brands that are
Speaker 4: the foundations of an orderly in civil society. He's calling
Speaker 4: for a sitting governor to be arrested for no other
Speaker 4: reason than to, in his own words, for getting elected.
Speaker 4: And we all know this Saturday, he's ordering our American heroes,
Speaker 4: the United States military and forcing them to put on
Speaker 4: a vulgar display to celebrate his birthday, just as other
Speaker 4: failed dictators have done in the past. Look, this isn't
Speaker 4: just about protests here in Los Angeles. When Donald Trump
Speaker 4: sought blanket authority to commandeer the Nawational Guard, he made
Speaker 4: that order apply to every state in this nation. This
Speaker 4: is about all of us. This is about you. California
Speaker 4: maybe first, but it clearly will not end here. Other
Speaker 4: states are next. Democracy is next. Democracy is under assault
Speaker 4: before our eyes. This moment we have feared has arrived.
Speaker 4: He's taking a wrecking ball, a wrecking ball to our
Speaker 4: founding father's historic project, three co equal branches of independent government.
Speaker 4: They are no longer any checks and balances. Congress is
Speaker 4: nowhere to be found. Speaker Johnson has completely abdicated that responsibility.
Speaker 4: The rule of law has increasingly been given way to
Speaker 4: the rule of Don the founding fathers. They didn't lived
Speaker 4: and died to see this kind of moment. It's time
Speaker 4: for all of us to stand up. Justice Brandeis he
Speaker 4: said it best. In a democracy, the most important office,
Speaker 4: with all due respect, mister president, is not the president Andy,
Speaker 4: and it's certainly not governor. The most important office is
Speaker 4: office of citizen. At this moment, at this moment, we
Speaker 4: all need to stand up and be held to account
Speaker 4: a higher level of accountability. If you exercise your First
Speaker 4: Amendment rights, please please do it peacefully. I know many
Speaker 4: of you are feeling deep anxiety, stress and fear, but
Speaker 4: I want you to know that you are the antidote
Speaker 4: to that fear and that anxiety. What Donald Trump wants
Speaker 4: most is your fealty, your silence to be complicit in
Speaker 4: this moment. Do not give in to him.
Speaker 1: This is Countdown with Keith Oberman still ahead on this
Speaker 1: editionive Countdown. Yesterday was the anniversary of the day he
Speaker 1: chose me, the third anniversary of that day. The day
Speaker 1: before it was World Pet Memorial Day. As if you
Speaker 1: needed a special day to remember the animals who have
Speaker 1: blessed and then left your life, or as if there
Speaker 1: should be only one such day. Good news. In fact,
Speaker 1: there is a National Pet Memorial Day in September as well,
Speaker 1: so this seems like the perfect time to remember again
Speaker 1: the life of an extraordinary little dog cared for but
Speaker 1: given up on because he had dementia or a stroke
Speaker 1: or something or he was just shy of fifteen years old.
Speaker 1: And it happens then and then his life turned around,
Speaker 1: and for its last two years he was a puppy
Speaker 1: again who spent much of his day literally jumping for joy,
Speaker 1: and I was fortunate enough to be there with him.
Speaker 1: Let me share with you this extraordinary guy, Minae and
Speaker 1: his just extraordinary passing on an unforgettable Sunday in July
Speaker 1: of last year for World Pet Memorial Day and mine
Speaker 1: gotcha day, le mote deminee coming up first. Believe it
Speaker 1: or not, there's still more new idiots to talk about.
Speaker 1: The roundups of the miscrants, morons and doun in Kruger
Speaker 1: effects specimens who constitute today's other worse persons in the world,
Speaker 1: the brons worse Senator Kevin Kramer of North Dakota. There
Speaker 1: are degrees of the devils who are infected with Maga disease.
Speaker 1: It's kind of hard to believe, but Senator Josh you
Speaker 1: go girl, January sixth, Insurrectionists Hawley wants the federal minimum salary,
Speaker 1: the hourly wage raised to fifteen dollars an hour. It
Speaker 1: has been at less than half. It has been at
Speaker 1: seven dollars and twenty five cents since nineteen ten. I
Speaker 1: think just a guess. So naturally, Senator Hawley had to
Speaker 1: get brushed back on Fox by another Republican Senator Kramer,
Speaker 1: who is, of course worse. Quote from Kramer, I don't
Speaker 1: even know why we have a federal minimal wage. To
Speaker 1: be honest, I think the market works really well. I
Speaker 1: just think manipulating markets with mandatory wages doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 1: Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses? All right?
Speaker 1: The last part of the quote was actually Ebenezer Scrooge.
Speaker 1: But mister Kramer cannot conceive that the purpose of a
Speaker 1: minimum wage is not to facilitate business, which is what
Speaker 1: it sounds like. He thinks it's there for it's there
Speaker 1: so people, can, you know, eat and live inside. Mister
Speaker 1: Kramer himself has never actually worked for a living. Out
Speaker 1: of grad school, he began to work for and then
Speaker 1: manage political campaigns. He became chairman of the North Dakota
Speaker 1: State Republican Party in nineteen ninety one, the youngest ever
Speaker 1: to do it. And the only thing worse than being
Speaker 1: chairman of the North Dakota State Republican Party is not
Speaker 1: being chairman of the North Dakota State Republican Party age thirty.
Speaker 1: That means he stopped doing any work the day after
Speaker 1: his appointment in age thirty. So since then, Kevin Kramer
Speaker 1: has managed to lose a string of elections for the
Speaker 1: House of Representatives spanning two centuries. Finally, after sixteen years
Speaker 1: of failure, he was elected in twenty twelve, and then
Speaker 1: he made the Senate in twenty eighteen, where he is
Speaker 1: now a prostitute. So of course he doesn't even know
Speaker 1: why we have a federal minimum wage or minimum wage.
Speaker 1: He's never had a job. He's a lifelong politician and
Speaker 1: thus of no value to anyone. On top of which
Speaker 1: he's a North Dakota politician. Nothing against North Dakota, but
Speaker 1: the politicians there. Yeah, the runner up worser Tulsey Gabbard
Speaker 1: speaking of being of no value to anyone, The Director
Speaker 1: of National utter lack of intelligence. You know, skunkhead. For
Speaker 1: some reason, Telsey Gabbard has decided to waste an unannounced
Speaker 1: amount of taxpayer money on a kind of semi religious
Speaker 1: snuff film about atomic war to scare everybody to argue
Speaker 1: against Iran having nuclear camp I would It's not clear.
Speaker 1: It makes no sense whatsoever. Maybe to her in it
Speaker 1: she included one of the great pieces of bullshit ever designed,
Speaker 1: the one designed long ago to satisfy morons like well,
Speaker 1: like Telsey Gabbard. It's the idea that there are underground
Speaker 1: bunkers so that the rich they can survive nuclear war.
Speaker 1: So they're in favor of it for some reason because
Speaker 1: property values will go up, or they never get around
Speaker 1: to the reason why the elites want to have a
Speaker 1: nuclear war.
Speaker 3: Political elite and warmongers are carelessly fomenting fear intensions between
Speaker 3: nuclear powers. Perhaps it's because they are confident that they
Speaker 3: will have access to nuclear shelters for themselves and for
Speaker 3: their families that regular people won't have access to.
Speaker 1: Yeah, sorry, tell us. If you aren't killed by the
Speaker 1: impact of an ICBM or a nuclear blast, no matter
Speaker 1: how close it was to you, or by the radiation
Speaker 1: making its through way anyway into your bunker. You would
Speaker 1: be stuck underground in your bunker for quite a few
Speaker 1: decades till the radiation died down. In fact, you'd be
Speaker 1: stuck there long past your own demise, and the children
Speaker 1: you had would never have seen the sun. That's the point, Telsey.
Speaker 1: There's nothing to survive, nothing to return to, and there
Speaker 1: are no elites with secret bunkers designed to let them
Speaker 1: pop back out next week. The only secret, large empty
Speaker 1: bunkers are the ones between your ears. Dipshit, but the
Speaker 1: winner worst. Jake Tapper of CNN, you may recall as
Speaker 1: much as Bob Eiger and the whoores at Disney and
Speaker 1: ABC News want you to forget that. ABC News suspended
Speaker 1: their veteran reporter Terry Moran, who actually confronted Trump in
Speaker 1: an interview just weeks ago. After Terry then wrote a clearheaded, calm,
Speaker 1: but perhaps eh ill timed analysis of the difference between
Speaker 1: how Donald Trump hates and how Stephen Miller hates. They
Speaker 1: said he was suspended for editorial and whatever. They suspended
Speaker 1: him because he called Trump and Miller what they are.
Speaker 1: And Eiger doesn't want this. He's still trying to bribe
Speaker 1: and appease Trump. Miran could easily remain suspended for ever.
Speaker 1: ABC wants this to go away. ABC wants Terry Moran
Speaker 1: to go away because the White House, which sells itself
Speaker 1: on hatred and rage and revenge, is inexplicably objecting to
Speaker 1: an incident in which a real news organization points this out,
Speaker 1: objecting when a Terry Moran points out what Trump and
Speaker 1: Miller feed themselves and their cult on what fuels their
Speaker 1: monstrous attempt to overthrow our form of government. What they
Speaker 1: boast about. The whole point of MAGA is the cruelty
Speaker 1: and the hatred. Seems to me they should have pulled
Speaker 1: lines from Terry Moran's tweet, like movie publicists who still
Speaker 1: poll lines from good reviews and stick them on the
Speaker 1: ads for the movies. Steven Miller is a hater Terry Moran,
Speaker 1: ABC News. In any event, Terry Moran's fate is made
Speaker 1: still more curious by the fact that an identical, albeit
Speaker 1: briefer transgression of whatever rule ABC just made up that
Speaker 1: they think Terry Moran transgressed, was also transgressed by Jake Tapper, who,
Speaker 1: in the year's time since the Biden debate, has destroyed
Speaker 1: his career and sent his reputation plummeting to Joe Scarborough
Speaker 1: levels of non credibility and non relevance. I just don't
Speaker 1: understand why CNN has not suspended Jake Tapper. If Moran
Speaker 1: strayed into political opinion? What is this? Fox News posts Fetterman.
Speaker 1: That would be Senator Fetterman from Pennsylvania and the cannimate planet.
Speaker 1: Fetterman calls out quote anarchy in LA, noting that DEM's
Speaker 1: forfeit moral high ground by failing to decry violence. This
Speaker 1: was retweeted by Jonah Goldberg. Among other things, is the
Speaker 1: daughter of the woman who was behind the Clinton Lewinsky scandal.
Speaker 1: Jonah is proved to be kind of acceptable over the years.
Speaker 1: His mother was a witch. Jonah Goldberg. Sometimes I think
Speaker 1: Fetterman is the only Democrat who gets what annoys so
Speaker 1: many people about Democrats. This all the retweet is now
Speaker 1: reposted retweeted by Jake Tapper. There it is Jake Tapper
Speaker 1: and his logo. I guess this is an American ball
Speaker 1: to you go. It might be a profile of Jake's head.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure. Jake Tapper reposted Jonah Goldberg reposting Fox
Speaker 1: News quoting fedri So, this is reposted by Jake Tapper,
Speaker 1: So it's political opinion by Senator Fetterman, posted by an
Speaker 1: opinion network called Fox. Reposted by a political opinion writer
Speaker 1: named Jonah Goldberg, re reposted by Jake Tapper, who isn't
Speaker 1: supposed to do opinion, He's just supposed to do the news.
Speaker 1: He boasts that he doesn't do opinion, He condescends, towards
Speaker 1: and insults everybody who does do opinion, and yet here
Speaker 1: he is posting an opinion. Why hasn't Jake Tapper been
Speaker 1: suspended by CNN for that matter, after his journalistic malpractice
Speaker 1: over Biden and over the sales of his own Biden book.
Speaker 1: Why hasn't Jake Tapper been fired? The only thing I
Speaker 1: can figure is the best punishment for somebody who transgresses
Speaker 1: its CNN is to make them work more at CNN. Jake,
Speaker 1: by the way, his Twitter account does not say retweets
Speaker 1: do not equal endorsements. That's why you have that saying
Speaker 1: in their Tapper two days other worst person end I
Speaker 1: have joked previously, but contained within that joke is a
Speaker 1: very sincere thought I would pay sometimes, I say five
Speaker 1: thousand dollars, ten thousand dollars one hundred thousand dollars to
Speaker 1: see a full length documentary program about the first fifteen
Speaker 1: years of MiNet German Olderman's life. I know he was
Speaker 1: born in New York on July fifteenth, two thousand and seven,
Speaker 1: and that you helped me celebrate his seventeenth birthday just
Speaker 1: a week and a day ago. And until I encountered
Speaker 1: him in twenty twenty two, I knew nothing of him,
Speaker 1: and all the records, all the anecdotes, almost all of
Speaker 1: the verbal stories are gone because his human got sick
Speaker 1: and sicker and began to lose much of her cognitive
Speaker 1: function and declined and one day went to the hospital
Speaker 1: and did not come back, and had made no arrangements
Speaker 1: for what was to happen to Mene and other dogs.
Speaker 1: She had at least two Malteses. We don't know what
Speaker 1: happened to them. I've heard stories that suggested they were
Speaker 1: left to fend for their own in an apartment for
Speaker 1: a while. Happily, I know that the neighbor and a
Speaker 1: former student of messer Man who taught French, a man
Speaker 1: named Keith Peterson, came across Menee and knew of me
Speaker 1: from the neighborhood and from his teacher and knew she
Speaker 1: had gone away, and wondered what happened to the dogs,
Speaker 1: and he began to feed them. And he was prepared
Speaker 1: in the summer of twenty twenty two to adopt me Nee.
Speaker 1: And then something changed in his life and he was
Speaker 1: going to be traveling once a month or so, perhaps
Speaker 1: more often, and the whole premise fell through. In addition
Speaker 1: to the fact that he recognized that mine was not well,
Speaker 1: something had happened to him. He kept bumping into things,
Speaker 1: he didn't walk correctly, his back looked a little crooked.
Speaker 1: It looked like something bad had happened to him neurologically,
Speaker 1: and he did not know what would be next or
Speaker 1: if he could care for me Nee. So he went
Speaker 1: looking for an organization that might take care of Maltese.
Speaker 1: Is there must be some sort of Maltese rescue association? Well,
Speaker 1: there are two of them. One the one I would
Speaker 1: recommend to you is American Maltese Association Rescue. It is
Speaker 1: run by a dear friend of mine named Sue Levitt,
Speaker 1: and we take care of MALTI That's where I got
Speaker 1: my little boy Ted, who had a very bad heart
Speaker 1: and was not really believed to be a likely candidate
Speaker 1: to last ten months and Ted just turned six years old.
Speaker 1: And where we got Mishu, whose story I've told you before,
Speaker 1: who had tetrology of fullow, a disease barely treatable in
Speaker 1: large dogs, let alone four or five pound malteses. And
Speaker 1: he had a brilliant, happy brief life. And he died
Speaker 1: in my arms at five and a half months old.
Speaker 1: And that happened in November of twenty twenty one, which
Speaker 1: is when I discovered I could handle four dogs at
Speaker 1: the same time. And again I didn't have a dog
Speaker 1: in my life until twenty twelve. I didn't know when
Speaker 1: I broke up with my girlfriend in twenty fifteen if
Speaker 1: I could take care of two dogs by myself. And
Speaker 1: suddenly I had four, including one who was a hospice puppy.
Speaker 1: So after that I was offered by the people who
Speaker 1: had bred Mishu one of his brothers from a late litter,
Speaker 1: and they came in here and they were monsters. Mishu
Speaker 1: was a wonderful dog who liked to start fights, had
Speaker 1: no energy, couldn't really oxygen eight he couldn't he could
Speaker 1: breathe fine, He just could not. Once the oxygen got
Speaker 1: into his bloodstream, he could not pass it anywhere around
Speaker 1: his body or insufficiently, so he would start fights and
Speaker 1: then sit back and watch the other dogs fight. On
Speaker 1: the other hand, he also was communal. He brought the
Speaker 1: dogs together literally and figuratively. He was a lovely boy,
Speaker 1: and he just didn't live very long. But I was
Speaker 1: offered his brothers. And his brothers had all the strength
Speaker 1: in the world, and they were like something out of
Speaker 1: a horror film. They could climb up walls. The first
Speaker 1: one bit me, bit each of the other dogs, then
Speaker 1: came back and bit us all in the genitals. The
Speaker 1: next one was trouble. He was able to climb up
Speaker 1: out of his cage. He had the most beautiful marbles
Speaker 1: like blue eyes ever seen on a dog, and he
Speaker 1: was a silent killer. These two dogs later found homes
Speaker 1: in which they were either the only male or the
Speaker 1: only dog, and they have had happy lives ever since.
Speaker 1: They did not have the same heart disease that felled
Speaker 1: poor Misho. In any event. After Mishu's passing and after
Speaker 1: the failed two weeks with Kubush and Snowy, Mishu's brothers
Speaker 1: there were three of us again here in the household,
Speaker 1: three dogs and me. They're human. And one day my
Speaker 1: friend Sue Levitt texted me and said, we've got a
Speaker 1: terrible case. We had a woman in Hell's kitchen and
Speaker 1: she died in her eighties and she didn't take care
Speaker 1: of the dogs. And there's one dog left. And I mean,
Speaker 1: he's fourteen, and he has dementia and he has bad teeth,
Speaker 1: and who's going to adopt that? And I sent back
Speaker 1: the raised hand emoji, because you know, as I've said previously,
Speaker 1: you don't know till you have a dog that the
Speaker 1: answer to the question what is the meaning of life?
Speaker 1: Is not fully answered by the word dogs, but it's
Speaker 1: partially answered by that word. One of the reasons of life,
Speaker 1: one of the reasons for life, one of the reasons
Speaker 1: for putting up with life, one of the reasons for
Speaker 1: putting up with other humans is dogs. And honestly, the
Speaker 1: only thing I can think of in the column of
Speaker 1: what's good about mankind is we've lots of us taken
Speaker 1: care of dogs and other pets too. Other than that,
Speaker 1: I don't know what purpose we have. Other than that,
Speaker 1: I don't know what good, what net good we have
Speaker 1: done this planet, or where we would fit into some
Speaker 1: sort of scheme, whether it is intentional, created or accidental.
Speaker 1: The through line to all the theories about why we
Speaker 1: are on Earth, from atheism to the most pure religious
Speaker 1: doctrinaire theories, all have this one through line. As the
Speaker 1: Great Bill Hicks said, people suck. I can prove it
Speaker 1: on an etche sketch. In any event, I'm meandering on
Speaker 1: this to try to avoid the topic of poor Mine.
Speaker 1: So I raised my hand and the warning was Mine
Speaker 1: is not going to interact with you. Something happened to him.
Speaker 1: He has dementia. He really doesn't know where he is.
Speaker 1: He's okay outside, but he's really confused. His human went
Speaker 1: away after fourteen nearly fifteen years, and he doesn't know
Speaker 1: what happened to her. And Maltese is particularly attached to
Speaker 1: one human for life, and if something happens to that human,
Speaker 1: something will happen to the Maltese. So came a day
Speaker 1: in June of twenty twenty two when Keith Peterson brought Mine.
Speaker 1: And it's a French name, m I n et. It
Speaker 1: means kitty in French colloquial French. Mine is kitty and
Speaker 1: as I said, right then, this must have led to
Speaker 1: extraordinary confusion in his first fifteen years. Something else to
Speaker 1: put in the documentary. Me Nay and Keith Peterson and
Speaker 1: I met up outside one of the entryways into Central Park,
Speaker 1: and I picked me May up and sat him on
Speaker 1: my lap and noticed two things. One was his teeth
Speaker 1: smelled from a distance from feet they were so bad
Speaker 1: away from feet away, his teeth smelled. He was a
Speaker 1: thin dog, but not scary thin. He just was very,
Speaker 1: very wiry. And he was standing there on my lap,
Speaker 1: and he decided he didn't want to do that anymore,
Speaker 1: so he leaped to the pavement. And I thought to myself,
Speaker 1: let's not leave him up on places where he can leap,
Speaker 1: because he doesn't have any idea when not to leap,
Speaker 1: which proved to be another through line in his existence.
Speaker 1: So fingers crossed and hoping to improve his lot for
Speaker 1: however many months or years he had left, in came
Speaker 1: me Nay to join the rest of my pupps. They
Speaker 1: really didn't know what to make of him. They didn't
Speaker 1: interact much. Mine did a lot of sleeping. He was,
Speaker 1: after all, a month shy of his fifteenth birthday, and
Speaker 1: not in good health, and the rest of the time
Speaker 1: was heartbreaking. Minee walked around the house always, this could
Speaker 1: be said of him. He did his steps, and he
Speaker 1: hydrated a lot. He must have walked every day a
Speaker 1: mile or two miles indoors, and sadly, when he got here,
Speaker 1: you could have traced the pattern, having watched him do
Speaker 1: it once or twice, exactly where he would walk in
Speaker 1: my apartment, where he would bump into walls. And it
Speaker 1: became pretty evident to me that he was retracing the
Speaker 1: steps at Madame Germain's house. That he could not adjust
Speaker 1: to a new apartment, he could not adjust to new walls.
Speaker 1: The other dogs, well, there were other dogs, but they
Speaker 1: weren't the right dogs. And then there was the smell
Speaker 1: of his teeth. My vet came to look at him,
Speaker 1: and mine slept a lot and didn't really interact. He
Speaker 1: ate pretty well, he ate okay, And then my vet
Speaker 1: came in and said, I'm looking at his teeth, and
Speaker 1: some of these teeth are in such bad shape that
Speaker 1: I'm afraid they will begin to infect his airways. There's
Speaker 1: no sign of this spreading. His heart is great, his
Speaker 1: heart is extraordinary for a fourteen to fifteen year old dog.
Speaker 1: It would be a good heart for a six year
Speaker 1: old dog or a six month old dog. He's got
Speaker 1: a strong ticker. He's going to live a while, but
Speaker 1: these teeth will kill him if you don't do something
Speaker 1: about it. I think you need to get a hold
Speaker 1: to day of the veterinary dentists, the dental experts at
Speaker 1: the Animal medical Center. In the interim. I think I
Speaker 1: can take a few of these teeth out right now
Speaker 1: with a little topical and maybe just my fingers. I've
Speaker 1: been through a lot with my dogs, and I've been
Speaker 1: prized at how much I have been willing to be
Speaker 1: there for them when they have been in excruciating pain
Speaker 1: or fear. This is the only time in twelve years
Speaker 1: with dogs that I had to leave the room. The
Speaker 1: noises Minee made when he had barely spoken before, when
Speaker 1: he never barked, howls of incredible pain and fear. And
Speaker 1: she only took out three or four of the teeth
Speaker 1: that were literally loose to the touch, So she stopped
Speaker 1: after I think six, and then we went into the
Speaker 1: Animal medical center and all his teeth were removed. I
Speaker 1: had my other dogs checked, some of them lost half
Speaker 1: of their teeth. My little girl Rose had no symptoms
Speaker 1: of it, but she had advanced periodontal disease. She was
Speaker 1: very sick. She was about to have be in the
Speaker 1: same situation Minee was. Without symptoms, it would have happened overnight.
Speaker 1: We took out half of her teeth. She woke up
Speaker 1: from the anesthesia, all of her allergies disappeared. Within weeks,
Speaker 1: her curvy puppy figure was back, and she was eight
Speaker 1: years old. I went into my dentist and I said, hey,
Speaker 1: I need to be about twenty percent smarter. Can you
Speaker 1: pull some of my teeth out? And the guy goes,
Speaker 1: We've got very bad news for you. You have an
Speaker 1: absolutely clean checkup, and I said, this is the first
Speaker 1: one since nineteen sixty eight. Sorry me. Nay, having had
Speaker 1: all of his teeth removed, woke up from the anesthesia,
Speaker 1: came home to my house, fell asleep, woke up again.
Speaker 1: Now it's about eight ten, twelve hours after we got
Speaker 1: him back from the hospital, and he got up, left
Speaker 1: the little bed in my bedroom next to my bed,
Speaker 1: and wandered out and came over and started to stare
Speaker 1: at me, like who the hell are you? Or Since
Speaker 1: I always envisioned him speaking in a French accent, who
Speaker 1: the hell are you? And he looked at the other dogs, like,
Speaker 1: who the hell are you? Where am I? And where
Speaker 1: did these other dogs come from? It was instantaneous me
Speaker 1: Nay did not have dementia. He might have had a
Speaker 1: little He was the equivalent then of a ninety five
Speaker 1: year old man. He might have been a little slow.
Speaker 1: I know this hasn't been a topic anywhere in public
Speaker 1: discourse lately. He might have been a little slow. But
Speaker 1: the problem he had was he had these terrible teeth,
Speaker 1: and the moment they were out and the blood stopped,
Speaker 1: which was pretty quick, he started to get younger. And
Speaker 1: I mean he started to get younger every day. He
Speaker 1: was a little sharper, a little bit more interactive, still
Speaker 1: on his own, still sleeping sixteen eighteen hours a day
Speaker 1: in a bed that I found for him by accident,
Speaker 1: that he treated like the womb. He would curl up
Speaker 1: in there, and the blissfulness of his sleeping experience made
Speaker 1: me jealous. And then I took him out for the
Speaker 1: first time because my last experience with him was he
Speaker 1: jumped off onto the hard pavement outside Central Park. I
Speaker 1: don't know if he's a good walker. His serenity upon
Speaker 1: hearing the sounds of New York City is indescribable. A
Speaker 1: look would come across his face, and whereas indoors, he
Speaker 1: didn't really particularly like you picking him up or holding him,
Speaker 1: and he certainly didn't like a vet prying at his
Speaker 1: teeth or anything like that. If you wanted to pick
Speaker 1: him up and sit him on your lap, as long
Speaker 1: as you were on a park bench, he was the
Speaker 1: happiest creature on this earth. He'd walk with you for
Speaker 1: two hours, he'd sit with you for two hours. If
Speaker 1: you were walking him with another dog, he would immediately
Speaker 1: sink up with that dog's pace. If it was just
Speaker 1: you and him, he would sync up with your pace.
Speaker 1: I swear there were times when I had not stopped
Speaker 1: or slowed down, and he was slowing down because he
Speaker 1: knew I was going to And gradually through that winter
Speaker 1: and into the spring of twenty twenty three, he got
Speaker 1: more and more interactive. One tenth of one percent every
Speaker 1: day other dogs walk to pee or to poop. Mine
Speaker 1: walked to walk, and to walk with you or walk
Speaker 1: with another dog. An extraordinary creature. And finally, not long
Speaker 1: after his sixteenth birthday last year, the most extraordinary thing
Speaker 1: I have ever experienced with my dogs, and the first
Speaker 1: time Stevie ever relieved herself on a walk. It was
Speaker 1: under a marquee that read Fox News, and I picked
Speaker 1: her up and said, I will always love you. So
Speaker 1: I've seen some extraordinary things even though I only have
Speaker 1: twelve years in the world of dog. The most extraordinary
Speaker 1: thing I ever saw began sometime in the late summer
Speaker 1: last year, maybe about this time, right after mine turned sixteen.
Speaker 1: I saw it briefly out of the corner of my
Speaker 1: eye and didn't believe what I'd seen. The stripes on
Speaker 1: the New York City streets are crosswalks. They're almost a
Speaker 1: barber pole effect, usually white on the black tarmac surface,
Speaker 1: and sometimes the stripes are two three inches thick. And
Speaker 1: Menee was seeing them with his one really good eye
Speaker 1: and leaping over them. Consider this for a second. Mine
Speaker 1: had been a year before unable to negotiate his way
Speaker 1: around a new apartment, half because of vision problems, half
Speaker 1: because of neurological problems that were in fact dental problems,
Speaker 1: almost one hundred percent, and now he was, for some
Speaker 1: reason leaping in the air. I thought he was sick.
Speaker 1: I thought there was some new neurological problem. And then
Speaker 1: he did it again on a different stripe, and then
Speaker 1: he did it again up onto a curb, and then
Speaker 1: we went out on a walk and he did it
Speaker 1: ten times. And I began to hear people laughing behind me,
Speaker 1: and getting over my natural paranoia, thinking what's on the
Speaker 1: back of my I realized people who were not expecting
Speaker 1: this were seeing this tiny, skinny, eight pound dog who
Speaker 1: sometimes had to wear a sweater in the summer, jumping
Speaker 1: up in the air, sometimes reaching I would say, ten
Speaker 1: inches off the ground. Last October, I ordered God help
Speaker 1: me a selfie stick. I wanted to see from his
Speaker 1: level what in the hell he was doing and try
Speaker 1: to figure out why. I put the selfie stick and
Speaker 1: put the phone on it, hung it down at his level,
Speaker 1: and sometimes I shot in slow motion and sometimes in
Speaker 1: full speed, and I recorded me nay, and I saw
Speaker 1: something even more startling. There was no question that this
Speaker 1: was premeditated and intentional, and he was enjoying it because
Speaker 1: after each jump, he would locate the camera and look
Speaker 1: at it and stare it down like James Harden, the
Speaker 1: basketball player backing away after a successful shot. What do
Speaker 1: you think of that? Pal Mena, of course without any teeth,
Speaker 1: had a tongue that hung out of his mouth, adding
Speaker 1: to his extraordinary cuteness and this leaping ability, which got
Speaker 1: better and better the more he tried it, and it
Speaker 1: was clear he must have done it before. You don't suddenly,
Speaker 1: after years of neurological problems, decide to start becoming an
Speaker 1: Olympic jumper at sixteen, at the equivalent of ninety five
Speaker 1: now as a dog as a human years he would
Speaker 1: do this forty or fifty times on a trip, sometimes
Speaker 1: when there were no white stripes, when we weren't crossing anything,
Speaker 1: when we were in the parking, to jump over the
Speaker 1: grooves in the pavement. And I discovered from the videos
Speaker 1: and from careful analysis that he had three different jumps.
Speaker 1: He had your standard I'm running and moving fast and
Speaker 1: I'm using my own propulsion to just spring upwards and
Speaker 1: then down and stick the landing by the way each time.
Speaker 1: And he had another one where he knew he was
Speaker 1: going up onto a curb and he angled himself. His
Speaker 1: launch angle, baseball fans, was about five percent higher. And
Speaker 1: then he introduced the third one, the standing jump. He'd
Speaker 1: be walking across the street and stop and see how
Speaker 1: far he could go without any momentum. He did this
Speaker 1: all of last winter. As spring approached, it became evident
Speaker 1: he was beginning to slow down a little bit of
Speaker 1: his own accord as his seventeenth birthday neared and he
Speaker 1: didn't do as many jumps at first. His extraordinary longevity
Speaker 1: and his extraordinary stamina on walks continued. If we wanted
Speaker 1: to go to two hours in the park, sure, maybe
Speaker 1: you could give me a lift? Gone up the hill
Speaker 1: that was his only problem. And the leaps became fewer
Speaker 1: and farther between, and sometimes a little shorter, And sometimes
Speaker 1: when he wasn't quite in the mood, he'd just do
Speaker 1: a little hop. He'd just clear it, basically to say yeah,
Speaker 1: I can still do this, and then on he'd go.
Speaker 1: The most extraordinary thing I have ever seen with a dog,
Speaker 1: and I saw Stevie poop under the Fox News sign
Speaker 1: me nay. We had him examined neurologically in March, just
Speaker 1: to see if there was something to make whatever time
Speaker 1: he had left more enjoyable easier to get through because
Speaker 1: he bumped into things. He was beginning to lose control,
Speaker 1: and he'd never had full control of his limbs, which
Speaker 1: made these jumps even more extraordinary. It's not quite he
Speaker 1: got up out of a wheelchair and did these leaps,
Speaker 1: but neurologically speaking, was almost like that. The neurologist had
Speaker 1: no explanation for this other than he liked it, very
Speaker 1: good reason to keep doing it. But he would bump
Speaker 1: into things, and we thought, well, maybe there's something that
Speaker 1: would help him, and there wasn't. But they did determine.
Speaker 1: They were confident that at some point in the past
Speaker 1: he'd actually had a stroke. So he had a little
Speaker 1: dementia and a stroke, and he was an Olympic level
Speaker 1: hurdler and leaper. He began to bump into things a
Speaker 1: lot more in the last few months, and I thought,
Speaker 1: what do I do about this? Well, I'm the only person,
Speaker 1: I think, in the city of New York whose walls
Speaker 1: are baby proofed at a height of about four inches
Speaker 1: or so. They worked wonderfully. Now when he would bump
Speaker 1: into a wall, instead of maybe getting a concussion, he
Speaker 1: would just bounce into some rubber foam. In fact, he
Speaker 1: learned how too. When he didn't have full control of
Speaker 1: his legs guide himself along by putting his head intentionally
Speaker 1: against the rubber foam and just kind of pushing. He
Speaker 1: ate like a horse without teeth. He loved the soft
Speaker 1: meals that I got for him, and he thrived on them,
Speaker 1: and he would still eat the hard treats that he liked.
Speaker 1: The kibble, and often he would take a piece of
Speaker 1: kibble and put it in the water bowl, let it
Speaker 1: soak for a while, and come back for it later
Speaker 1: and suck on it like a cough drop. Dementia, my ass,
Speaker 1: it's one of the smartest beings I have ever met
Speaker 1: in my life. I don't think I was honest with
Speaker 1: myself about how mine began to slow down. Early in
Speaker 1: the summer, we didn't get to walk that much because
Speaker 1: we went directly from spring into hell. This year in
Speaker 1: New York. As I'm sure you've experienced too, it got
Speaker 1: really warm, really fast. He didn't like really warm, and
Speaker 1: he didn't like really cold. Well. Hell, he was basically
Speaker 1: one hundred years old now, and as his seventeenth birthday approached,
Speaker 1: it began to be evident that he was slowing down
Speaker 1: a little bit. I had to carry him a little
Speaker 1: bit more. There were occasionally hops, but mostly it was
Speaker 1: just a good forty minute walk was a delight for him.
Speaker 1: We had one last Thursday. It didn't end that well.
Speaker 1: He seemed to be having real trouble controlling his back legs.
Speaker 1: Of course, when I got him home, the back legs
Speaker 1: had gotten stiff and he was kind of folding over them.
Speaker 1: I got him home, he was fine. He walked around
Speaker 1: the house for two hours, but he didn't eat that night,
Speaker 1: and he didn't eat Friday, and he was listless. I
Speaker 1: will say this for him, in the last four or
Speaker 1: five months, he had suddenly uniformly accepted all of us.
Speaker 1: Where he was always hanging back in my bedroom in
Speaker 1: his little womblike bed, now he would greet me with
Speaker 1: the other dogs at the front door when I came home.
Speaker 1: He would often give me a kiss with that big
Speaker 1: hanging out tongue of his. And in the last few
Speaker 1: months particularly, he stopped living in the bedroom and would
Speaker 1: often just stagger out into the living room where the
Speaker 1: dogs and I were working. I was working the dogs,
Speaker 1: really weren't I have to confess that he would come out,
Speaker 1: come over and give me a kiss on the ankle
Speaker 1: if I wanted to pick him up, and he wanted
Speaker 1: to be picked up. He'd come and sit with us
Speaker 1: for a while, and then he'd sort of motion like
Speaker 1: he wanted to get down back on the floor, and
Speaker 1: he'd go over to his bed in the living room
Speaker 1: and sleep out here with us for eight hours, just
Speaker 1: out of a sense of community. So he was still
Speaker 1: doing that and then wandering back in to sleep on
Speaker 1: the floor next to the bed, because obviously I couldn't
Speaker 1: keep him in the bed with the other dogs and me.
Speaker 1: He tended to fall off things like that. No matter
Speaker 1: how good a jumper you are, you're not a good
Speaker 1: jumper if you don't know you're about to jump. And
Speaker 1: then last Thursday he wasn't really eating, and last Friday
Speaker 1: he was very listless, and I took him in my
Speaker 1: arms and I went outside and sat on the balcony
Speaker 1: a long conversation with him, and I said, you're just
Speaker 1: wearing out. And the feeling I got back was yeah,
Speaker 1: but I have some time. He didn't urinate at all,
Speaker 1: and this was one of his major hobbies. He tried
Speaker 1: so hard. He had been so good at the pad,
Speaker 1: and he tried so hard, and I think he thought
Speaker 1: he was doing real well. Unfortunately, his definition of what
Speaker 1: the pad was became a little broader than it should
Speaker 1: have been. Any soft surface became the pad. But he
Speaker 1: wasn't peeing. He didn't pee Friday, and he didn't eat.
Speaker 1: And you don't have to be a twelve year dog
Speaker 1: owner or a one year dog owner to know if
Speaker 1: your dog stops eating and he's old, he's checking out.
Speaker 1: And so I envisioned this Friday night, having just celebrated
Speaker 1: his seventeenth birthday, an extraordinary accomplishment for any dog, but
Speaker 1: particularly wanted out a stroke and neurological problems and was
Speaker 1: near well. He starved to death. At some point I
Speaker 1: think he's done a great job. We'll let him go.
Speaker 1: We don't have to do anything about it. He'll go
Speaker 1: on his own, particularly if he's not eating. And then
Speaker 1: Saturday morning he had getting up out of bed because
Speaker 1: he was still sleeping. He called to me a couple
Speaker 1: of times to come out and just hold him for
Speaker 1: a little bit, and he had a surprisingly high little bark.
Speaker 1: His I'm hungry bark was very French. His uh hello
Speaker 1: was a puppy, a high pitched puppy bar. He barked
Speaker 1: and got up to greet me and fell over and
Speaker 1: wriggled like a dead bug on the floor for about
Speaker 1: a minute. It was a miniature seizure, and given his
Speaker 1: neurological history, I actually thought it was good news because
Speaker 1: it suggested maybe there was some thing to fix here.
Speaker 1: Maybe it wasn't just placidly saying okay, time you know it.
Speaker 1: I know it. Took him into the Animal Medical Center,
Speaker 1: took him, at the advice of all the people I
Speaker 1: know over there, into the emergency room. Treated wonderfully. They said,
Speaker 1: he's low on fluids. We can do this much for him.
Speaker 1: Leave him here overnight, we'll assess in the morning. We'll
Speaker 1: get him fluids. We'll get him a little shunt here
Speaker 1: and take his blood work and see how his kidneys
Speaker 1: are doing, because he had kidney problems his whole life,
Speaker 1: apparently anecdotally. That's in the documentary. They won't let me
Speaker 1: see about him kidding. Sunday morning, I got a phone
Speaker 1: call saying he'd had a good night. Nothing had changed.
Speaker 1: He wasn't any better, he wasn't any worse. He was alert.
Speaker 1: An hour later I got a call from the internal
Speaker 1: medicine people who had taken over his case from the
Speaker 1: emergency room. They said, no not. Things have not gone well.
Speaker 1: His kidney values are down to zero, his temperature is down,
Speaker 1: He's developed a heart murmur, and his heart was his
Speaker 1: strongest organ. He's not really responding. He's not standing on
Speaker 1: his own. You ought to consider this is the end.
Speaker 1: And you may want to hasten the end because there's
Speaker 1: no evidence it hurts. But if your organs are going
Speaker 1: to start shutting down, it may begin to hurt fairly
Speaker 1: soon and in very very unpleasant ways, in addition to
Speaker 1: the fear and the shock and the confusion. And so
Speaker 1: I made the decision to do that. Sunday afternoon. I
Speaker 1: went over, picked him up and thought, well, it's not
Speaker 1: like there's a rush here or anything. What is it
Speaker 1: he likes most in the world Outdoors in the city
Speaker 1: near the Animal Medical Center is the fifty ninth Street Bridge,
Speaker 1: or for you out of towner's Edward and Kotch Bridge, Queensboro.
Speaker 1: We don't even like to call it the Queensboro Bridge.
Speaker 1: That's for people in Queens US Manhattanites, we call it
Speaker 1: the fifty ninth Street Bridge. There's a song, the fifty
Speaker 1: ninth Street Song, fifty ninth Bridge strong song. So we
Speaker 1: went and sat in the new park that they built
Speaker 1: in some I don't know, I think abandoned exit from
Speaker 1: the FDR drive. And the breeze was perfect. It was
Speaker 1: a little warm, but the breeze was perfect. In me nay,
Speaker 1: barely able to raise his head, sat there and took
Speaker 1: little SIPs of water from water that I put on
Speaker 1: his tongue with my finger, and he would stretch, stretching
Speaker 1: like he was asleep and just stretching, getting comfortable and
Speaker 1: sitting there with me and communing. Supposed to be there.
Speaker 1: I think my plan was, I guess half an hour
Speaker 1: or an hour, and then take him inside and give
Speaker 1: him the medication that would end his life. Well, we
Speaker 1: were there three and a half hours. Again, what's the
Speaker 1: rush there is? I will say this for any dog
Speaker 1: owner who worries about their dog, and I shouldn't say owner,
Speaker 1: anybody owned by a dog who worries about their dog.
Speaker 1: There is an extraordinary liberation to a time like that.
Speaker 1: Make it three and a half hours. Take him out
Speaker 1: of the hospital. What's the difference. Give him a cigarette.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna hurt him, That's what I said. They said, Well,
Speaker 1: if he begins to have it, he has another seizure,
Speaker 1: bring him back. I was like, why, what's gonna harm him?
Speaker 1: We want him to die painlessly. That's all I'm concerned about.
Speaker 1: Is he in pain? Doesn't look like it. So we
Speaker 1: sat out there for three and a half hours and
Speaker 1: it was a period of time with no fear or
Speaker 1: anxiety or stress or how can I screw this up?
Speaker 1: And he seemed to enjoy it too. The breeze was wonderful.
Speaker 1: He always loved the breeze in New York City. And
Speaker 1: the sounds of the FDR drive and the river and
Speaker 1: the bridge and the tram going overhead. My god. And
Speaker 1: then I reached put some water on his tongue and
Speaker 1: he didn't really respond to it, and he hadn't stretched
Speaker 1: in probably twenty twenty five minutes. A couple of birds
Speaker 1: flew by, and I thought, it's time. The rest of it.
Speaker 1: If you've ever been through it fairly routine, me nay,
Speaker 1: good to the last drop, gets the injection, And one last,
Speaker 1: convinced moment that he was at the peapad, he peed
Speaker 1: on my pants. I actually smiled. He broke the tension.
Speaker 1: A wax philosophical at a later time about the value
Speaker 1: of adopting they're being adopted by a geriatric dog. Not
Speaker 1: just a senior dog, but a senior dog is okay too,
Speaker 1: but a dog that needs a home. Nothing like it.
Speaker 1: A wax philosophical and poetic about that at some future time,
Speaker 1: spare me doing it now. I will give him credit
Speaker 1: for extraordinary timing. I got to seventeen. Anything else you need,
Speaker 1: all right? Check? Please Mine German Oberman July fifteenth, two
Speaker 1: thousand and seven to July twenty first, twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: Thank you. My tattoo of mine here on just below
Speaker 1: my right wrist shows him in the middle of one
Speaker 1: of his leaps. And of course when I recorded the
Speaker 1: story of his passing, I did not know that he
Speaker 1: had a brother named Paul Ann, who was apparently a
Speaker 1: lovely dog and passed away long before he did, and
Speaker 1: a sister, Mimi Shah, who was Ah. She was Mine's sister.
Speaker 1: We'll just be nice and say that I could not
Speaker 1: have known when I recorded that that nearly two months earlier,
Speaker 1: two months before mine died, a pup had been born
Speaker 1: in Mississant, Massachusetts, another Maltese who needed extensive heart surgery
Speaker 1: to survive, and had already been named Kit and would
Speaker 1: shortly be sent to me for safe keeping and to
Speaker 1: in effect take Manet's spot on the team. Mine, as
Speaker 1: I mentioned, is colloquial French for kitty, as in kit.
Speaker 1: I'm not a big one for deities and foregone conclusions
Speaker 1: and unseen forces, but a dog named Kitty in French
Speaker 1: dies and is replaced by a dog named Kit worked
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