WEBVTT - LANDSLIDE LESSON: DEMS CAN RUN SIMULTANEOUSLY ON MONEY ISSUES AND TRUMP - 11.6.25 0:00:04.795 --> 0:00:24.035 Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. First 0:00:24.075 --> 0:00:30.835 full night of sleep in more than one year, not 0:00:30.955 --> 0:00:36.755 an analogy. Literally Tuesday night, first full, uninterrupted, boring night 0:00:36.915 --> 0:00:41.355 of sleep in more than a year. And what was 0:00:41.435 --> 0:00:44.955 my reward to wake up to Trump beginning a climb 0:00:45.035 --> 0:00:48.315 down from the shutdown? To wake up to Mayor elect 0:00:48.355 --> 0:00:52.755 Mamdani and Governor elect Cheryl and Governor Elect Spanberger and 0:00:52.875 --> 0:00:56.955 PROMP fifty passing and every one of Virginia's ninety five 0:00:57.075 --> 0:01:01.315 counties getting more blue. To wake up to the reality 0:01:01.675 --> 0:01:05.435 that Trump has absolutely no idea, he got the shit 0:01:05.635 --> 0:01:09.955 kicked out of him, and that Trump is deranged syndrome 0:01:10.315 --> 0:01:14.875 is fatal, not fixable. To wake up to the reality 0:01:14.915 --> 0:01:16.995 that the real outcome of the elections in New York, 0:01:16.995 --> 0:01:21.475 New Jersey, Virginia, California and everywhere else was Trump's sense 0:01:21.675 --> 0:01:25.155 of permanence, his own sense that the murder he's been 0:01:25.195 --> 0:01:28.435 getting away with he'll continue to get away with, and 0:01:28.515 --> 0:01:30.915 the sense of his supporters, and the sense of the 0:01:30.955 --> 0:01:34.155 moronic political media, and even the sense of some of 0:01:34.235 --> 0:01:39.675 us resisting him. They're our sense that he will continue 0:01:39.675 --> 0:01:45.595 to get away with it. Gone. Permanence is the default 0:01:45.595 --> 0:01:49.275 position of almost all politicians, and especially the corrupt and 0:01:49.355 --> 0:01:53.515 stupid ones. Permanence is the default position of all mainstream 0:01:53.595 --> 0:01:56.675 political reporters and analysts, and the higher up the food 0:01:56.755 --> 0:02:02.675 chain they are, the more they cling to permanence Because Mortgages. 0:02:04.715 --> 0:02:07.315 I have long thought that the most perceptive analysis of 0:02:07.475 --> 0:02:12.875 politicians ever anywhere was unintentional, and it is in the 0:02:12.955 --> 0:02:15.835 last place you would look for it. The Beatles movie 0:02:16.115 --> 0:02:21.395 help from the Leo McKern character, the hazily defined Eastern 0:02:21.475 --> 0:02:27.595 religious sacrificial cult leader Klang. The sacrificial ring is missing. 0:02:27.835 --> 0:02:31.835 Klang says, something must be done without the ring. There 0:02:31.835 --> 0:02:34.715 will be no sacrifice without the sacrifice. There will be 0:02:34.755 --> 0:02:43.235 no congregation without the congregation. No more me. His deputy 0:02:43.275 --> 0:02:49.915 then says this is so, so Klang hits him. Klang 0:02:49.995 --> 0:02:55.475 is Trump. Klang is also JV. Vance. Klang is also 0:02:55.635 --> 0:03:00.515 Van Jones. Klang is also Eric Adams. Klang is also 0:03:00.595 --> 0:03:03.875 Andrew Cuomo. Klang is also Chris Cuomo. Klang is also 0:03:03.955 --> 0:03:07.715 Chris Matthew. Klang is also Matthew Iglesias. I could go on, 0:03:08.755 --> 0:03:13.715 oh yeah, Klang is everybody on Fox, No more me. 0:03:15.395 --> 0:03:19.515 Trump wasn't on the ballot, Trump screamed in pain at 0:03:19.515 --> 0:03:23.635 ten pm Tuesday night. And shut down were the two 0:03:23.675 --> 0:03:31.235 reasons that Republicans lost elections tonight. Bullshit, poor Trump. There 0:03:31.315 --> 0:03:33.315 is a news flash in there, and I'll get to 0:03:33.355 --> 0:03:35.395 that in a moment, But first, while we are watching 0:03:35.435 --> 0:03:39.395 him squirm, let's remember to make him squirm even harder. 0:03:40.195 --> 0:03:43.595 Trump not only was on the ballot every ballot, but 0:03:43.675 --> 0:03:46.115 he was on the ballot in the worst possible way. 0:03:46.355 --> 0:03:49.675 Everybody could vote no on him, but it was almost 0:03:49.755 --> 0:03:54.755 impossible to vote yes. The lame duck politician's worst nightmare. 0:03:55.315 --> 0:04:00.075 To paraphrase another unlikely source, the sixties and seventies political 0:04:00.075 --> 0:04:03.995 impressionist David Fry, a lame duck like Trump can only 0:04:04.035 --> 0:04:09.315 accept blame. He cannot accept responsibility. As Fry said, and 0:04:09.395 --> 0:04:13.195 he said it in an immaculate impersonation of Richard Nixon, 0:04:13.715 --> 0:04:17.875 those who are to blame lose their jobs. Those who 0:04:17.955 --> 0:04:26.515 are responsible do not. Trump is to blame. Actually, there 0:04:26.555 --> 0:04:29.715 are two newsflashes in what he said and wrote. The 0:04:29.755 --> 0:04:34.515 second one is these results may increase slightly the chance 0:04:34.515 --> 0:04:38.915 he goes full dictator, so there aren't any more elections 0:04:39.235 --> 0:04:41.795 because he knows he's going to lose them all from 0:04:41.795 --> 0:04:44.955 here on in whatever you think the odds are on 0:04:44.995 --> 0:04:49.395 that maybe they went up one or two percent, But 0:04:49.475 --> 0:04:52.915 the more immediate news flash he repeated to Senate Republicans 0:04:52.955 --> 0:04:55.515 in a White House breakfast yesterday, which if it did 0:04:55.515 --> 0:04:58.835 not feature Trump throwing catchup at them, it could have. 0:04:59.515 --> 0:05:05.515 In his panicked post, he blamed the shutdown to the 0:05:05.555 --> 0:05:12.915 Republicans in the Senate. At the breakfast, he blamed the shutdown. He, 0:05:13.635 --> 0:05:16.635 quoting the report, said that the GOP is getting hurt 0:05:16.675 --> 0:05:18.915 more by the shutdown than Democrats because they are in 0:05:18.995 --> 0:05:24.795 charge in Washington. Per source. Well, it's finally happened on 0:05:24.795 --> 0:05:27.595 one issue, the shutdown. Trump is, of course, one hundred 0:05:27.635 --> 0:05:32.835 percent correct. He may be wrong about nearly everything. He 0:05:32.955 --> 0:05:36.355 is usually either repeating something he misheard in nineteen seventy 0:05:36.395 --> 0:05:38.755 two or something that happened to him in a dream 0:05:38.835 --> 0:05:42.075 in nineteen fifty five. He may have just again told 0:05:42.115 --> 0:05:45.355 the media that you can't buy gas or groceries without ID, 0:05:46.315 --> 0:05:49.755 possibly because the last time he actually bought groceries with mommy, 0:05:50.235 --> 0:05:53.275 she paid by check and you had to show the 0:05:53.355 --> 0:05:57.275 manager and ID to use the check, which is how 0:05:57.275 --> 0:05:59.675 it worked in the sixties. I know I was there. 0:05:59.795 --> 0:06:04.075 My mommy did it too. Of course, the Republicans are 0:06:04.075 --> 0:06:06.235 blamed for the sho shut down. Trump is blamed for 0:06:06.275 --> 0:06:09.995 the shutdown. It's their shutdown. But Trump still believes this 0:06:10.115 --> 0:06:14.875 is fixable by eliminating the filibuster because Trump's Republicans may 0:06:14.915 --> 0:06:19.635 differ from say, Dick Cheney's Republicans in a million ways, 0:06:19.635 --> 0:06:22.755 but one core way they are identical is they are 0:06:22.835 --> 0:06:26.715 fully committed to the bit. If you do something evil 0:06:27.275 --> 0:06:31.195 and it doesn't work, if it doesn't scare people into 0:06:31.275 --> 0:06:36.275 voting for you, your mistake clearly was it wasn't evil enough. 0:06:37.155 --> 0:06:41.195 Do it more, do it worse. Whatever doesn't work, do 0:06:41.275 --> 0:06:46.515 it again, do it more. Senate Republicans will not nuke 0:06:46.595 --> 0:06:49.755 the filibuster for the same reason that Kirsten Cinema would 0:06:49.795 --> 0:06:52.995 not nuke the filibuster, and the same reason most mainstream 0:06:53.115 --> 0:06:55.875 Democrats won't nuke the philibuster, but just won't say so. 0:06:56.475 --> 0:06:59.555 The filibuster is the only thing that keeps the Senate 0:07:00.155 --> 0:07:05.435 alive at every crossroads on the path that leads to 0:07:05.515 --> 0:07:10.355 the future. The Belgian poet Maurice Metterlink wrote, each progressive 0:07:10.355 --> 0:07:15.035 spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard 0:07:15.275 --> 0:07:20.435 the past. The Senate is only one hundred of them, 0:07:20.875 --> 0:07:23.795 men and women appointed to guard the past. But that's 0:07:23.835 --> 0:07:27.995 who Metalink meant. If they cannot build a dam against 0:07:28.035 --> 0:07:31.435 every reform, if there isn't a now impossible to reach 0:07:31.555 --> 0:07:34.995 majority of sixty on nearly everything, the House will go 0:07:35.515 --> 0:07:38.715 from about twenty percent of national legislative power to about 0:07:38.795 --> 0:07:43.475 ninety percent. The Senate won't count anymore. How is a 0:07:43.515 --> 0:07:47.595 minority party senator supposed to sell his vote if his 0:07:47.715 --> 0:07:54.115 vote can no longer cause the toilets to overflow? At 0:07:54.115 --> 0:07:57.275 every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, 0:07:57.755 --> 0:08:03.275 each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed 0:08:03.675 --> 0:08:11.155 to make sure the toilets overflow. A kind of doubt, 0:08:11.195 --> 0:08:14.995 Trump quoted Metterlink even my revised version of Metalink. When 0:08:15.075 --> 0:08:18.795 Lindsey Graham allegedly yelled at him yesterday about the filibuster, 0:08:18.995 --> 0:08:23.155 I kind of doubt. Graham even quoted Klang. Maybe the 0:08:23.235 --> 0:08:26.555 part about now ma R may, but you get the 0:08:26.595 --> 0:08:31.195 point that he has been repudiated has not yet fully 0:08:31.355 --> 0:08:35.195 dawned on Trump, but that the shutdown has been repudiated 0:08:35.275 --> 0:08:38.115 that has dawned on him. He realizes that what he 0:08:38.195 --> 0:08:42.915 thought was a plus is in fact a disaster. He 0:08:42.995 --> 0:08:46.115 has a solution to this, shoot the filibuster and get 0:08:46.155 --> 0:08:49.995 everything he wants done and done now, but not even 0:08:49.995 --> 0:08:53.235 his Senate Todys will do that. He will eventually, therefore, 0:08:53.315 --> 0:08:58.395 panic and move to another solution. He alone can end 0:08:58.515 --> 0:09:02.715 the shutdown. He will sell out his Senate toadies. He 0:09:02.795 --> 0:09:05.995 will make Mike Johnson look like an id to the 0:09:07.035 --> 0:09:09.355 twenty two percent of the country that does not yet 0:09:09.515 --> 0:09:12.835 know he's an idiot. He will proclaim himself a hero. 0:09:13.795 --> 0:09:16.315 It will be like Trump and China and the soybeans. 0:09:16.315 --> 0:09:18.035 Look at me, I'm the hero. I just got the 0:09:18.155 --> 0:09:20.395 Chinese to agree to buy as many soybeans as they 0:09:20.435 --> 0:09:23.355 were buying before I created this crisis. Look at me, 0:09:23.475 --> 0:09:25.795 I'm the hero. I just got the government to be open, 0:09:26.075 --> 0:09:28.315 just like it was before I created the crisis where 0:09:28.355 --> 0:09:35.275 it closed. Me me me iy iy i, Trump Trump, Trump, Okay. 0:09:35.275 --> 0:09:39.915 Out of the weeds, into the lessons, the lessons of 0:09:39.995 --> 0:09:47.075 the democratic landslide. First, socialism was not on the ballot 0:09:47.755 --> 0:09:53.395 democratic socialist. That has that This country has been capitalist 0:09:53.515 --> 0:09:57.835 socialist for at least ninety two years since FDR was 0:09:57.875 --> 0:10:01.315 sworn in maybe since nineteen thirteen, when the sixteenth Amendment 0:10:01.355 --> 0:10:04.555 passed and we established a federal income tax. Maybe seventeen 0:10:04.875 --> 0:10:11.755 six Keep your goddamn government hands off, my socialist medicare off, 0:10:11.795 --> 0:10:18.915 my socialist medicaid off, my socialist social security off, my 0:10:19.115 --> 0:10:26.235 socialist blues state support for financially insoluble red states Mam 0:10:26.315 --> 0:10:29.755 Donnie a socialist. Did you see the exit polls in 0:10:29.875 --> 0:10:35.115 New York? Do you consider yourself a democratic socialist? Sixty 0:10:35.195 --> 0:10:38.955 nine percent of New York's voters said no, twenty five 0:10:39.035 --> 0:10:43.315 percent said yes. Three percent of New York voters who 0:10:43.355 --> 0:10:47.115 said yes, we're democratic socialists also said we're voting for 0:10:47.155 --> 0:10:53.635 Andrew Cuomo. The word socialism is meaningless. Mamdanni beat the 0:10:53.675 --> 0:10:58.275 shit out of Cuomo. The old school corrupt, antidiluvian machine 0:10:58.315 --> 0:11:02.235 politics typical craft shack New York Democrat in the primary 0:11:02.915 --> 0:11:07.435 and after the old school corrupt, antidiluvian machine political typical 0:11:07.755 --> 0:11:11.235 crap shack billionaires like Mike Bloomberg and Bill Ackman spent 0:11:11.355 --> 0:11:13.995 tens of millions of dollars to prop up the old 0:11:13.995 --> 0:11:18.875 school corrupt, antidiluvian machine politics typical crapshack New York Democrat 0:11:19.275 --> 0:11:21.875 and got three quarters of Republicans to vote for him. 0:11:22.195 --> 0:11:29.395 After that, after making Cuomo the Fusion all Evil Parties candidate, 0:11:31.155 --> 0:11:33.395 and got seven out of ten Trump supporters in New 0:11:33.475 --> 0:11:37.315 York to vote for Cuomo. Even after all that, ma'am 0:11:37.395 --> 0:11:43.595 Danny beat the shit out of him again. Lesson here, 0:11:44.755 --> 0:11:54.675 Trump is undiluted, untreatable political death in blue states. He is, though, 0:11:54.755 --> 0:12:00.315 becoming political death in Purple states. He is moving inexorably 0:12:00.355 --> 0:12:05.915 towards becoming political death in red states. This is what 0:12:05.995 --> 0:12:12.035 we found out during the Democratic landslide. The other lessons, 0:12:12.075 --> 0:12:16.195 Ma'm donnie ran on your money issues and that Trump 0:12:16.235 --> 0:12:21.515 equals death. Not difficult, easy to remember, useful on all occasions. 0:12:22.235 --> 0:12:27.995 Your money issues and Trump equals death. Worked in New York, 0:12:28.035 --> 0:12:30.715 where they elected a socialist who got majority support from 0:12:30.755 --> 0:12:35.475 Democrats who aren't socialists. Worked in Virginia where they elected 0:12:35.475 --> 0:12:38.635 as governor and ex congresswomen born in Jersey. Worked in 0:12:38.755 --> 0:12:42.035 Jersey where they elected as governor and ex congress woman 0:12:42.195 --> 0:12:48.035 born in Virginia. Your money issues and Trump equals death, 0:12:50.035 --> 0:12:54.595 both of them useful on all occasions. It's a floor 0:12:54.715 --> 0:13:02.875 wax and a dessert topping. Other lessons Chuck Schumer resign 0:13:03.755 --> 0:13:06.795 at least a Senate I'm an already leader. You were 0:13:06.915 --> 0:13:09.995 one of metterlinks thousand men appointed to guard the past. 0:13:10.115 --> 0:13:14.035 Guess what the future got passed you? Resign, Get out 0:13:14.075 --> 0:13:19.795 of the way. David Axelrod and Van Jones, who criticized 0:13:20.275 --> 0:13:23.715 mom Donnie's victory speech, let me paraphrase you had another 0:13:23.915 --> 0:13:27.715 pop reference another movie, The Sweet Smell of Success. Burt 0:13:27.835 --> 0:13:33.915 Lancaster is the monstrous gossip columnist JJ Hunsecker, Van David, 0:13:34.595 --> 0:13:42.595 your politically dead son, get yourself buried. Governor elect Spanberger, congratulations, 0:13:42.635 --> 0:13:46.475 Now fix the toilet that you cause to overflow. Why 0:13:46.555 --> 0:13:48.915 is it that everybody keeps thinking somebody running in a city, 0:13:48.955 --> 0:13:52.355 admittedly an enormous city, that that is the deciding race. Well, 0:13:52.395 --> 0:13:55.395 maybe governor elect, because right now, in all of Virginia 0:13:55.595 --> 0:13:58.795 forty two thousand square miles, the population is only three 0:13:58.875 --> 0:14:00.955 hundred and thirty three thousand people more than in New 0:14:01.035 --> 0:14:05.075 York City four hundred and sixty eight square miles. Asked 0:14:05.075 --> 0:14:07.195 about mom Donnie saying he had won the fight for 0:14:07.235 --> 0:14:11.555 the soul of the future of the Democratic Party, probably 0:14:11.595 --> 0:14:15.755 a boast that he didn't need to make. Spanberger reposted, 0:14:16.595 --> 0:14:21.275 then maybe he should be a Democrat, Madam Governor elect 0:14:21.875 --> 0:14:30.195 stfu a new rule here. We are here to save democracy. 0:14:30.475 --> 0:14:34.155 We are here to end the Trumpsts. We are here 0:14:34.315 --> 0:14:40.115 to save America, not to polish our own asses. Trump 0:14:40.395 --> 0:14:44.675 fired thousands of Virginians and backed a raving lunatic who 0:14:44.755 --> 0:14:47.955 had a one issue campaign that apparently only she and 0:14:48.435 --> 0:14:52.555 Riley Gaines given f about maybe you could chill on 0:14:52.675 --> 0:14:55.955 taking potshots at Mam Donnie and get back to business 0:14:55.995 --> 0:15:00.275 having been gifted a landslide by Donald Trump. Or or 0:15:00.715 --> 0:15:03.195 go ahead, get on the Chuck Schumer bandwagon. And I 0:15:03.275 --> 0:15:06.795 mean that literally. I come completely believe now that Chuck 0:15:06.835 --> 0:15:13.835 Schumer travels by horse drawn bandwagon. Whoa slow down? We 0:15:13.915 --> 0:15:17.235 must be going eight nine miles an hour, Gabby, No 0:15:17.555 --> 0:15:25.195 human can survive this speed. Other other lessons more philosophical. 0:15:25.195 --> 0:15:28.155 The pundits were wrong. Of course, the pundits were wrong. 0:15:29.275 --> 0:15:32.755 The rule of punditry is only leaped to the most obvious, 0:15:32.915 --> 0:15:37.555 least uncertain conclusion. A poll shows the Democratic Party is 0:15:37.635 --> 0:15:40.355 less popular than it used to be. Well, that must 0:15:40.355 --> 0:15:43.235 be because nobody wants to vote Democratic orherever will vote 0:15:43.235 --> 0:15:47.995 Democratic again, Except if you'd read the second line of 0:15:48.035 --> 0:15:51.875 the story. The second line on the poll result indicated 0:15:51.915 --> 0:15:54.715 that most of those who were dissatisfied with the Democratic 0:15:54.755 --> 0:15:58.035 Party were Democrats who thought that the Democrats were not 0:15:58.155 --> 0:16:01.835 fighting hard enough against Trump and the economic disaster of 0:16:01.875 --> 0:16:08.595 our times. Look, there are only two possibilities for that 0:16:08.675 --> 0:16:12.115 the Democratic brand is damaged. Bullshit. It's either that, Yes, 0:16:12.195 --> 0:16:15.835 Democrats are less popular generally, and when put to the 0:16:16.195 --> 0:16:19.195 first one hundred or so tests, the first one hundred 0:16:19.275 --> 0:16:22.355 or so important votes this Tuesday, it didn't matter at 0:16:22.395 --> 0:16:28.555 all because the final was Democrats one hundred, Republicans nothing. 0:16:28.675 --> 0:16:32.635 They were just watching. It's either that or it's what 0:16:32.755 --> 0:16:37.475 I just said. Democrats want more Mamdani, less Cuomo, more Newsome, 0:16:37.875 --> 0:16:43.275 less Schumer, more punches thrown, less moderate third way crap. 0:16:43.315 --> 0:16:45.515 And by the way, you know what way the third 0:16:45.555 --> 0:16:49.835 way is. The third way is losing badly. That's what 0:16:49.915 --> 0:16:53.515 the third way is. First way is winning, Second way 0:16:53.635 --> 0:16:58.395 is losing. Third way is losing badly. I want this 0:16:58.475 --> 0:17:05.555 new group running the Democrats first way. Other lessons, you 0:17:05.635 --> 0:17:09.995 cannot fire all of northern Virginia and then win Virginia. 0:17:11.115 --> 0:17:17.035 You cannot gestapo Latinos and win Latinos or most non Latinos. 0:17:17.795 --> 0:17:22.635 You can't starve America and win America. And you can't 0:17:22.715 --> 0:17:27.715 threaten and abuse Jewish voters and win Jewish voters. Anybody 0:17:27.795 --> 0:17:31.955 notice that Trump before the New York election, quote any 0:17:32.075 --> 0:17:35.475 Jewish person that votes for Zorn Mamdani, a proven and 0:17:35.635 --> 0:17:40.915 self professed Jew hater, is a stupid person. Anybody else 0:17:40.995 --> 0:17:43.315 notice the fir guy who claims to be a friend 0:17:43.475 --> 0:17:47.515 to Jews, a protector of the Jewish people, an honorary jew. 0:17:47.755 --> 0:17:52.835 Trump short calls Jewish people quote disloyal and quote ungrateful, 0:17:53.115 --> 0:18:00.515 and quote stupid. A lot one last lesson. You know 0:18:00.555 --> 0:18:06.635 why Mamdani won the messages. Obviously, the actual seven word 0:18:06.715 --> 0:18:12.315 templates all Democrats everywhere should run on your money issues 0:18:12.995 --> 0:18:19.075 and Trump equals death. But the other part is almost 0:18:19.115 --> 0:18:24.875 as simple. He looks and sounds like he's good at this, 0:18:26.355 --> 0:18:31.595 good at campaigning, good at talking to actual people off 0:18:31.795 --> 0:18:36.795 the cuff, good at making government actually do good stuff. 0:18:37.955 --> 0:18:40.875 Obama looked and sounded like that. John F. Kennedy looked 0:18:40.875 --> 0:18:43.915 and sounded like that. Even Trump looked like a dumbed 0:18:43.995 --> 0:18:47.075 down version of that. What bad people think a good 0:18:47.115 --> 0:18:51.475 person looks and sounds like we underrate one word in 0:18:51.555 --> 0:18:55.915 assessing everything in life, but especially in public life, The 0:18:55.955 --> 0:19:00.795 word is good. We delve and analyze and dissect and 0:19:00.875 --> 0:19:05.235 cross tab and chew and punditize and rehash and dive, 0:19:05.315 --> 0:19:11.035 and and we miss the essential. Most people are not 0:19:11.275 --> 0:19:17.315 good at their jobs. Most TV shows are not good. 0:19:17.835 --> 0:19:22.435 Most films are not good. Most street repairs are not good. 0:19:23.435 --> 0:19:28.795 Most food is not good. Not Most people are not 0:19:29.075 --> 0:19:35.875 good at stuff, but especially when that stuff benefits others. 0:19:36.915 --> 0:19:42.355 Charity stuff, public services stuff like the Motor Vehicles Bureau, 0:19:42.955 --> 0:19:49.715 and especially especially government. We're not looking for Christ fresh 0:19:49.755 --> 0:19:53.795 off the cross to go and pave our streets with gold. 0:19:54.595 --> 0:19:59.715 People just want a government that can keep the toilets 0:19:59.715 --> 0:20:07.915 from overflowing. Thank you, Zoron, Mom, Donnie and Mikey, Cheryl 0:20:08.795 --> 0:20:14.955 and Abigail Spanberger. Though I'm watching you, thank you and 0:20:15.035 --> 0:20:19.155 there there it is your mandate. Spread the gospel of 0:20:19.635 --> 0:20:27.075 your money issues and Trump equals death, and Jesus Christ 0:20:27.435 --> 0:20:53.635 keep the toilets from overflowing. Only one other thing I 0:20:53.675 --> 0:20:56.355 really wanted to mention. As you know, Dick Cheney has died. 0:20:57.275 --> 0:21:00.715 There's enough sane washing going on without me adding to it. 0:21:01.595 --> 0:21:04.675 I remember Dick Cheney for, you know, being the architect 0:21:04.835 --> 0:21:07.515 of the plan to exploit nine to eleven as an 0:21:07.555 --> 0:21:11.915 excuse to go into Iraq, which replaced the original Bush plan, 0:21:11.995 --> 0:21:16.115 which was to just do it and say why just cuz. 0:21:17.555 --> 0:21:19.955 I remember Dick Cheney for being named by Bush to 0:21:20.035 --> 0:21:23.035 chair the search committee to select Bush's vice president, and 0:21:23.115 --> 0:21:27.315 Cheney came back and recommended himself. I have found that 0:21:27.435 --> 0:21:31.555 I am the best candidate. And I remember him for 0:21:31.635 --> 0:21:34.595 standing up at what sports people used to call nut 0:21:34.595 --> 0:21:41.435 cutting time for America, Yes or no, capitalist socialist democracy 0:21:42.075 --> 0:21:49.595 or dictatorship. He chose capitalist socialist democracy. Good, finish up strong, 0:21:50.955 --> 0:21:53.595 keep the world safe for people like Dick Cheney and 0:21:53.635 --> 0:21:57.995 me to hate each other. And I remember him for 0:21:58.035 --> 0:22:01.115 what he said in describing my friend Moe Roka when 0:22:01.155 --> 0:22:05.035 Moe Raka hosted the radio and television correspondence Social Siation 0:22:05.155 --> 0:22:08.155 Dinner in DC in April two thousand and eight. 0:22:08.515 --> 0:22:10.995 Among his other credits, Moe used to host a TV 0:22:11.115 --> 0:22:16.235 show called Things I Hate About You. I'm sure I've 0:22:16.235 --> 0:22:21.035 seen that program only I believe it's now called Countdown 0:22:21.075 --> 0:22:33.795 with Keith Overman. Keith not here tonight to savor my company. 0:22:33.835 --> 0:22:36.995 But now some people hear that and say that means 0:22:37.195 --> 0:22:40.435 Dick Cheney hated me. And some people hear that and 0:22:40.475 --> 0:22:43.675 say that means Dick Cheney believed I hated him, and 0:22:43.715 --> 0:22:46.875 I say, can't we all get along? Both of those 0:22:46.995 --> 0:22:51.755 mean I pissed Dick Cheney off when he was vice president. 0:22:52.635 --> 0:22:56.155 And that that clip right there, that was when I 0:22:56.275 --> 0:23:04.155 knew my work there was done. Rest in peace, Dick Cheney, 0:23:05.235 --> 0:23:09.675 I guess, because yes, it can be a floor wax 0:23:10.035 --> 0:23:14.475 and a dessert topping. That is what makes America great. 0:23:19.875 --> 0:23:22.755 Saturday Night Live reference if you don't get it by now. 0:23:22.955 --> 0:23:26.435 Also of interest here, Winsome Earl Sears lost the race 0:23:26.475 --> 0:23:30.555 for governor of Virginia by fifteen points in a state 0:23:30.595 --> 0:23:33.635 the Republican Party won four years ago this month by 0:23:33.675 --> 0:23:37.795 two points. So I would never metaphorically kick a candidate, 0:23:37.995 --> 0:23:42.875 even a crazy maga lunatic while they're down. Hell, I wouldn't. 0:23:43.515 --> 0:23:48.515 She shares worst person honors. That's next. This is an 0:23:48.635 --> 0:23:56.395 all new Landslide edition of Countdown. This is Countdown with 0:23:56.515 --> 0:24:20.875 Keith Olberman still ahead on his all new edition of Countdown. 0:24:21.235 --> 0:24:26.755 There is yet another new committee to nominate and elect 0:24:26.995 --> 0:24:32.555 new members of Baseball's Hall of fame, about which the 0:24:32.555 --> 0:24:35.675 odds are pretty good you care nothing. However, you may 0:24:35.715 --> 0:24:39.395 be entertained by the story of one of the previous committees, 0:24:40.115 --> 0:24:43.875 which once elected at least once elected a new member 0:24:43.875 --> 0:24:50.115 of Baseball's Hall of Fame by accident via something referred 0:24:50.115 --> 0:24:53.755 to as courtesy votes, because they wanted to make one 0:24:53.795 --> 0:24:55.715 of their guys who wasn't quite a Hall of Famer 0:24:55.875 --> 0:24:59.715 feel good, and too many of them decided to vote 0:24:59.795 --> 0:25:01.795 for him to make him feel good, and now he's 0:25:01.795 --> 0:25:06.115 got a plaque at the Hall of Fame. I also 0:25:06.155 --> 0:25:08.635 have thoughts on the actual nominees and the process, and 0:25:08.715 --> 0:25:10.715 what could be done to fix it, and why they 0:25:10.755 --> 0:25:14.275 will never fix it. It's a deliberate choice ahead in 0:25:14.395 --> 0:25:17.435 sports first, believe it or not. There's still more new 0:25:17.475 --> 0:25:20.515 idiots to talk about. The roundup of the miscrants, morons 0:25:20.515 --> 0:25:25.475 and Dunning Krug effect specimens who constitute today's other worst 0:25:25.915 --> 0:25:33.475 persons in the world at the Bronze Laura Lumer. I 0:25:33.515 --> 0:25:36.595 don't know quite how history will look at Laura Lumer. 0:25:37.035 --> 0:25:41.715 I suspect it will be looking at her briefly and soon, 0:25:42.355 --> 0:25:45.195 as in she will soon be history. She's now a 0:25:45.235 --> 0:25:53.475 Pentagon correspondent for I made it up news. I don't know. 0:25:53.555 --> 0:25:59.075 I don't know. I don't understand any of it. She's repulsive, stupid, 0:25:59.595 --> 0:26:03.875 and servile. What I don't understand is why she's not 0:26:03.995 --> 0:26:08.035 vice president. Laura Lumer, though, has now and this is 0:26:08.075 --> 0:26:11.315 a theme for today, has now crossed some sort of 0:26:11.435 --> 0:26:14.595 rubicon in which she is pissing off the people who 0:26:14.635 --> 0:26:19.635 put her where she is. Roger Stone, somehow still alive, 0:26:20.555 --> 0:26:23.595 was her role model and to some degree her mentor. 0:26:23.995 --> 0:26:29.035 And roger Stone something happened that caused him to post this. 0:26:30.395 --> 0:26:32.595 I have never taken a penny to post anything on 0:26:32.635 --> 0:26:36.755 social media. Laura Lumer takes thousands and thousands of dollars 0:26:37.075 --> 0:26:41.435 to front for others and spread their lies. Who is 0:26:41.515 --> 0:26:44.315 paying you? Laura? You won't be able to double talk 0:26:44.355 --> 0:26:47.555 your way out of this. You're not that smart. Answer 0:26:47.595 --> 0:26:52.195 the question who are you? His word not mine? Warring 0:26:52.475 --> 0:27:00.795 for Laura roger Stone three point fifty nine am Jacob 0:27:00.835 --> 0:27:06.475 Marley's ghost came to visit roger Stone and is oddly shaped. Huh. 0:27:06.555 --> 0:27:08.915 And if that were not enough, there is the runner up? 0:27:10.075 --> 0:27:17.275 Were sir? All those in his history who supported Tucker Carlson? 0:27:18.195 --> 0:27:21.515 And we'll just take Ben Shapiro out, because he's the 0:27:21.595 --> 0:27:25.515 latest guy to sit here going I never knew Tucker 0:27:25.555 --> 0:27:29.995 Carlson was the devil? My god, where have you people been? 0:27:31.235 --> 0:27:35.035 I'll read this from Oliver Darcy's newsletter The magas civil 0:27:35.075 --> 0:27:37.355 war that erupted last week is showing no signs of 0:27:37.435 --> 0:27:40.835 letting up. On Monday, the Daily Wires, Ben Shapiro dedicated 0:27:40.875 --> 0:27:45.275 his entire show to go scorched Earth on Tucker Carlson 0:27:45.515 --> 0:27:49.115 over his decision to host the Holocaust denying white nationalist 0:27:49.195 --> 0:27:55.355 Nick Fuentes for a softball chat halcost denying white nationalists. 0:27:55.395 --> 0:27:58.315 He's an anti Semite. He's called himself an anti Semite. 0:27:58.915 --> 0:28:03.675 He's slime, he's scum. Shapiro slammed Carlson as quote an 0:28:03.675 --> 0:28:12.035 intellectual cower, a dishonest interlocutor, and a terrible friend. Yeah, 0:28:12.075 --> 0:28:15.715 and blamed him for Nazism being normalized within the mainstream 0:28:15.715 --> 0:28:21.195 Republican Party. Yeah. And he didn't stop there, Shapiro said. 0:28:21.195 --> 0:28:25.435 Carlson quote was aided, a betted, celebrated for normalizing Nazism 0:28:25.595 --> 0:28:30.595 within the Republican Party by the Heritage Foundation. Quote. The 0:28:30.675 --> 0:28:33.675 issue here is that Tucker Carlson decided to normalize and 0:28:33.795 --> 0:28:37.155 fluff Nick Fuentes, and that the Heritage Foundation then decided 0:28:37.195 --> 0:28:43.835 to robustly defend that performance. Waiter, are you telling me 0:28:43.915 --> 0:28:51.795 the Heritage Foundation is corrupt and full of Nazi adjacent people, really, 0:28:53.075 --> 0:28:58.955 and that Tucker Carlson is a dishonest coward? Really? I 0:28:58.995 --> 0:29:03.635 mean Tucker Carlson fired by literally all the cable news 0:29:03.675 --> 0:29:10.035 networks from prominent shows on each one of them in 0:29:10.075 --> 0:29:14.955 a span of less than twenty years after rising to 0:29:15.035 --> 0:29:19.035 the top at all three of them fired not always 0:29:19.075 --> 0:29:23.355 contract ran out, oh oh, Alberman always likes to leave jobs. No, no, no, 0:29:23.435 --> 0:29:28.635 fired like one day there, one day not there. The 0:29:28.755 --> 0:29:33.555 surprise by people like Ben Shapiro, the Ben Shapiro's and 0:29:33.675 --> 0:29:37.275 the Roger Stones and the Donald Trumps and everybody else 0:29:38.115 --> 0:29:42.915 Tucker Carlson has not changed your ability to lie to 0:29:43.075 --> 0:29:49.035 yourselves that Tucker Carlson was not this anti semi adjacent 0:29:49.115 --> 0:29:55.955 bastard with no redeeming qualities whatsoever. And that maniacal laugh 0:29:55.995 --> 0:29:58.715 of his was not some sort of performance. It was 0:29:58.755 --> 0:30:01.635 the result of something wrong with his brain that has 0:30:01.715 --> 0:30:03.915 always been there. And by the way, is the second 0:30:03.955 --> 0:30:07.515 generation Carlson who is like this. His father was just 0:30:08.235 --> 0:30:12.275 the same way. The problem here, We've already established that 0:30:12.355 --> 0:30:16.595 Tucker Carlson is slime and scum. The problem here Roger 0:30:16.635 --> 0:30:20.795 Stone with Laura Lumer. The problem here Ben Shapiro with Carlson. 0:30:20.915 --> 0:30:28.035 Tucker Carlson is you, not him, as I believe it was. 0:30:28.075 --> 0:30:30.715 Marcus aureli has pointed out every day in the world 0:30:30.755 --> 0:30:39.275 you see deceit, dishonesty, retribution, selfishness, vice, corruption, And yet 0:30:39.355 --> 0:30:43.515 you're surprised, at what point does that become your fault? 0:30:44.795 --> 0:30:49.035 Love that, Marcus Aurelius. And still there are two people 0:30:49.075 --> 0:30:52.835 who are worse who share today's worst persons in the 0:30:52.835 --> 0:30:57.995 World Championship. A guy named Charlie Hurt, who appears on 0:30:58.155 --> 0:31:03.835 Fox News as a sometimes host. He was started his 0:31:03.915 --> 0:31:07.715 career in journal so to speak, as a scab during 0:31:07.755 --> 0:31:11.635 the Detroit Times strike of nineteen ninety five, and later worse. 0:31:12.155 --> 0:31:14.675 He was the DC editor of the New York Post 0:31:14.915 --> 0:31:19.875 and an early Trumpist, and he was interviewing Winsome Earl Sears, 0:31:21.555 --> 0:31:25.475 the Republican candidate for governor of Virginia, the woman who 0:31:26.315 --> 0:31:30.835 laughed at the idea that because she was anti LG TBq, 0:31:31.515 --> 0:31:33.795 that this was some sort of prejudice on her part 0:31:34.595 --> 0:31:37.395 and just said, it's not prejudice, it's reality. I mean, 0:31:38.635 --> 0:31:43.035