1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:17,355 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. This 2 00:00:17,515 --> 00:00:20,675 Speaker 1: is a Countdown bulletin podcast. I'm Keith Olberman, and in 3 00:00:20,755 --> 00:00:26,355 Speaker 1: a news conference suggesting actual, virulent, uncontrolled madness and requiring 4 00:00:26,475 --> 00:00:29,555 Speaker 1: his immediate removal under the terms of the twenty fifth 5 00:00:29,555 --> 00:00:33,395 Speaker 1: Amendment to the Constitution. The President of the United States 6 00:00:33,435 --> 00:00:37,995 Speaker 1: of America insisted that a horrific tragedy that had occurred 7 00:00:37,995 --> 00:00:41,435 Speaker 1: barely fourteen hours earlier, that had claimed the lives of 8 00:00:41,515 --> 00:00:45,835 Speaker 1: sixty four passengers and crew, including at least fourteen members 9 00:00:46,075 --> 00:00:50,675 Speaker 1: of the American figure skating community, including two teenage champions 10 00:00:50,835 --> 00:00:54,275 Speaker 1: and their coaches and their mothers, to say nothing of 11 00:00:54,355 --> 00:00:58,915 Speaker 1: the deaths of three active serving US military personnel in 12 00:00:58,995 --> 00:01:03,595 Speaker 1: a helicopter. This nightmare excuse for a human being insisted 13 00:01:03,675 --> 00:01:10,195 Speaker 1: this accident was caused by DEI. This is the President 14 00:01:10,315 --> 00:01:13,075 Speaker 1: of the United States who forced out the head of 15 00:01:13,115 --> 00:01:17,715 Speaker 1: the Federal Aviation Administration last week and did not bother 16 00:01:17,835 --> 00:01:22,635 Speaker 1: to even appoint an acting FAA commissioner to succeed him 17 00:01:22,875 --> 00:01:25,355 Speaker 1: until after they were already fishing the bodies out of 18 00:01:25,355 --> 00:01:28,915 Speaker 1: the Potomac. This is the President of the United States 19 00:01:29,115 --> 00:01:33,795 Speaker 1: who appointed not an idiot fox News propagandist host to 20 00:01:33,875 --> 00:01:38,515 Speaker 1: be Transportation Secretary, but rather appointed an idiot Fox News 21 00:01:38,555 --> 00:01:42,995 Speaker 1: propagandist host's husband, a man who cannot successfully say the 22 00:01:43,035 --> 00:01:49,155 Speaker 1: word pattern. He pronounces it pattern. This is the president 23 00:01:49,275 --> 00:01:52,555 Speaker 1: of the United States, who a week ago yesterday, froze 24 00:01:52,635 --> 00:01:56,355 Speaker 1: the hiring of new air traffic controllers, which had already 25 00:01:56,395 --> 00:02:00,235 Speaker 1: been gutted by the Republican House and the previous Republican presidency, 26 00:02:00,675 --> 00:02:04,235 Speaker 1: the quantity and quality of which has been in unchecked 27 00:02:04,275 --> 00:02:08,515 Speaker 1: crisis since Ronald Reagan fired all eleven thousand of this 28 00:02:08,635 --> 00:02:13,195 Speaker 1: nation's air traffic controllers in nineteen eighty one. But sure, 29 00:02:14,075 --> 00:02:19,075 Speaker 1: it's dei, oras Trump's idiot lawyer, Alina Habba called it 30 00:02:19,155 --> 00:02:25,675 Speaker 1: last night on television in a malapropism with tragic implications. Quote, Dee, 31 00:02:27,235 --> 00:02:31,435 Speaker 1: it's dei. When they cannot confirm if the helicopter pilot 32 00:02:31,475 --> 00:02:35,395 Speaker 1: actually gave control confirmation that he saw the lights of 33 00:02:35,435 --> 00:02:37,995 Speaker 1: the jet with which he collided, but was looking at 34 00:02:37,995 --> 00:02:40,915 Speaker 1: the wrong jet or at the wrong lights, When they 35 00:02:40,955 --> 00:02:44,355 Speaker 1: cannot even yet rule out hypotheticals, when they don't even 36 00:02:44,395 --> 00:02:46,955 Speaker 1: know yet if either the plane or the helicopter had 37 00:02:46,995 --> 00:02:51,715 Speaker 1: some kind of catastrophic mechanical failure when they cannot figure 38 00:02:51,715 --> 00:02:55,435 Speaker 1: out if communications somehow shorted out, or if any of 39 00:02:55,475 --> 00:03:00,475 Speaker 1: a thousand other possible tragedies unfolded, or if the Pentagon 40 00:03:01,035 --> 00:03:05,395 Speaker 1: Pete Hegstt's Pentagon caused this by running a training mission 41 00:03:05,675 --> 00:03:08,635 Speaker 1: at night in the middle of the approach to the 42 00:03:08,675 --> 00:03:13,715 Speaker 1: busiest runway in the country. But Trump is certain because 43 00:03:13,715 --> 00:03:17,715 Speaker 1: he's Trump, and he is a super genius, and he 44 00:03:17,795 --> 00:03:22,115 Speaker 1: knows everything, and he already told you that, and he's 45 00:03:22,235 --> 00:03:25,835 Speaker 1: always right. And he blamed it on DEI and Pete 46 00:03:25,875 --> 00:03:29,315 Speaker 1: buddhage Edge and Joe Biden. I guess because he's a 47 00:03:29,395 --> 00:03:32,115 Speaker 1: super genius. But nobody told him that. He has been 48 00:03:32,195 --> 00:03:35,275 Speaker 1: president of the United States for eleven days now, and 49 00:03:35,395 --> 00:03:38,835 Speaker 1: his people have been in charge for eleven days now. 50 00:03:39,075 --> 00:03:41,475 Speaker 1: And if he thinks he gets a pass because they 51 00:03:41,515 --> 00:03:45,755 Speaker 1: all just started, they all just started only because they 52 00:03:45,835 --> 00:03:49,275 Speaker 1: dragged their feet on the transition process, in which nameless, 53 00:03:49,355 --> 00:03:54,995 Speaker 1: faceless bureaucrats in the outgoing administration warn nameless faceless bureaucrats 54 00:03:55,035 --> 00:03:58,475 Speaker 1: in the incoming administration of the challenges and the crises 55 00:03:58,755 --> 00:04:02,435 Speaker 1: and the fixes that were only midfix. This was the 56 00:04:02,515 --> 00:04:07,555 Speaker 1: process Trump skipped. But Trump does not bother with details 57 00:04:08,195 --> 00:04:13,315 Speaker 1: because he is materially brain damaged and evil and descending 58 00:04:13,355 --> 00:04:17,555 Speaker 1: into some combination of sinility and insanity, and because he 59 00:04:17,635 --> 00:04:20,955 Speaker 1: long ago stopped processing the world around him, and if 60 00:04:20,955 --> 00:04:25,235 Speaker 1: he hears one hundred differing voices, it turns out they 61 00:04:25,275 --> 00:04:27,315 Speaker 1: are all inside his world. 62 00:04:27,635 --> 00:04:33,035 Speaker 2: Threatening head today blame the diversity elements, but then told 63 00:04:33,115 --> 00:04:37,835 Speaker 2: us that you weren't sure that the controllers made any mistake. 64 00:04:38,075 --> 00:04:41,875 Speaker 2: He then said, perhaps the helicopter pilots were the ones 65 00:04:41,915 --> 00:04:46,195 Speaker 2: who made the mistakes. All under investigations, I understand that. 66 00:04:46,195 --> 00:04:48,435 Speaker 2: That's why I'm trying to figure out how you can 67 00:04:48,435 --> 00:04:51,395 Speaker 2: come to the conclusion right now that diversity has something 68 00:04:51,435 --> 00:04:55,155 Speaker 2: to do with this crash, because they have common sense, okay, 69 00:04:55,515 --> 00:04:57,955 Speaker 2: and unfortunately a lot of people don't. 70 00:04:58,955 --> 00:05:02,555 Speaker 1: Of course, he does not have common sense. He does 71 00:05:02,555 --> 00:05:06,955 Speaker 1: not have sense of any kind. That is the gist 72 00:05:06,995 --> 00:05:10,155 Speaker 1: of this nightmare. That is the essence of this crisis. 73 00:05:11,555 --> 00:05:16,515 Speaker 1: The studies of professors Dunning and Krueger long ago established 74 00:05:17,195 --> 00:05:20,475 Speaker 1: by asking participants how they thought they did on an 75 00:05:20,515 --> 00:05:23,675 Speaker 1: exam compared to everybody else taking the same exam, that 76 00:05:23,795 --> 00:05:27,075 Speaker 1: it really is true the people who know the most 77 00:05:27,115 --> 00:05:29,795 Speaker 1: and are the smartest will assume that there are others 78 00:05:29,835 --> 00:05:34,195 Speaker 1: around them who know more or have studied harder, who 79 00:05:34,275 --> 00:05:37,955 Speaker 1: at least know as much. The people who know the least, though, 80 00:05:37,995 --> 00:05:40,595 Speaker 1: are convinced they literally know everything and no one else 81 00:05:40,635 --> 00:05:44,155 Speaker 1: knows anything that they, of course finished first among the 82 00:05:44,195 --> 00:05:48,435 Speaker 1: exam takers. On average. It turns out with remarkable consistency 83 00:05:48,915 --> 00:05:51,155 Speaker 1: that those who think they have finished in the top 84 00:05:51,275 --> 00:05:55,595 Speaker 1: quarter have almost invariably finished in the second to lowest quarter. 85 00:05:56,395 --> 00:05:59,275 Speaker 1: It is called the Dunning Kruger effect, and it has 86 00:05:59,315 --> 00:06:06,875 Speaker 1: now reached its terminal, final, tragic, insolvable nadier in Donald Trump. 87 00:06:08,955 --> 00:06:11,315 Speaker 1: I will add here that if you doubt the pervasiveness 88 00:06:11,355 --> 00:06:15,555 Speaker 1: the completeness of Trump's malfunctioning brain and malfunctioning personality, he 89 00:06:15,595 --> 00:06:20,155 Speaker 1: conducted his news conference having apparently had today or yesterday 90 00:06:21,315 --> 00:06:25,515 Speaker 1: and not realized it looked like this. Having had yesterday 91 00:06:25,595 --> 00:06:31,875 Speaker 1: or today, his eyebrows dyed a yellowish white, unlike any 92 00:06:31,955 --> 00:06:36,235 Speaker 1: color he has ever previously dyed them, so startling that 93 00:06:36,315 --> 00:06:39,195 Speaker 1: his face gave the appearance that his actual brows had 94 00:06:39,235 --> 00:06:47,115 Speaker 1: been stolen, or perhaps had fallen victim to DEI, he 95 00:06:47,155 --> 00:06:52,755 Speaker 1: did not notice, and no one could tell him. Would 96 00:06:52,835 --> 00:06:55,555 Speaker 1: that it was all as stupid and embarrassing as that 97 00:06:56,115 --> 00:06:59,275 Speaker 1: would that it stopped here. For at the same moment, 98 00:06:59,275 --> 00:07:03,515 Speaker 1: Trump was explaining that he with eyebrows that looked like 99 00:07:03,875 --> 00:07:07,875 Speaker 1: the Joe Peshi character from the JFK movie. Only White 100 00:07:08,955 --> 00:07:12,955 Speaker 1: knew what caused the crash. It was dei. In fact, 101 00:07:13,035 --> 00:07:14,755 Speaker 1: all that proves is that he has learned how to 102 00:07:14,835 --> 00:07:20,155 Speaker 1: say dei, when others like Alina Habba didn't quite master it. 103 00:07:20,755 --> 00:07:24,635 Speaker 1: While the news conference was ongoing, Robert F. Kennedy Junior 104 00:07:24,715 --> 00:07:28,995 Speaker 1: was on Capitol Hill still unable to explain what medicare 105 00:07:29,275 --> 00:07:32,955 Speaker 1: parts A, B, and C are, even though he was 106 00:07:33,035 --> 00:07:37,195 Speaker 1: questioned about this exact same thing last week and thus 107 00:07:37,315 --> 00:07:39,995 Speaker 1: was given notice that this might come up on the exam, 108 00:07:40,435 --> 00:07:42,955 Speaker 1: and he could have spent some five minute span in 109 00:07:42,995 --> 00:07:45,435 Speaker 1: the last week and could have put his hands on 110 00:07:45,515 --> 00:07:48,635 Speaker 1: a book rather than on his penis in front of 111 00:07:48,675 --> 00:07:53,315 Speaker 1: a camera phone. Mister Kennedy also again repeatedly denied things 112 00:07:53,315 --> 00:07:56,075 Speaker 1: he has said and positions he has taken, and he 113 00:07:56,155 --> 00:08:00,915 Speaker 1: insisted that blacks should get fewer vaccines than whites do. 114 00:08:02,275 --> 00:08:05,195 Speaker 1: If mister Kennedy, the nominee to run Health in Human Services, 115 00:08:05,235 --> 00:08:09,075 Speaker 1: really wants to improve health and provide human services in 116 00:08:09,115 --> 00:08:12,555 Speaker 1: this country. He should look into donating his body to science, 117 00:08:13,835 --> 00:08:18,395 Speaker 1: perhaps later this week. And at the same time these 118 00:08:18,435 --> 00:08:21,355 Speaker 1: things were going on. Trump's nominee to ruin the FBI. 119 00:08:21,475 --> 00:08:24,275 Speaker 1: I'm sorry that was a typo. It's run the FBI. 120 00:08:24,955 --> 00:08:28,475 Speaker 1: Oh no, it is ruin the FBI. Trump's nominee at 121 00:08:28,635 --> 00:08:32,155 Speaker 1: FBI was asked if he could say Joe Biden won 122 00:08:32,195 --> 00:08:35,275 Speaker 1: the twenty twenty election. Just repeat those words, and cash 123 00:08:35,275 --> 00:08:40,315 Speaker 1: Betel literally could not and would not say them. Patel 124 00:08:40,475 --> 00:08:42,435 Speaker 1: was also asked if he knew the fascist and white 125 00:08:42,475 --> 00:08:46,355 Speaker 1: supremacist talk show host and podcaster Stu Peters, and he 126 00:08:46,395 --> 00:08:49,195 Speaker 1: said nod off the top of my head, no, and 127 00:08:49,235 --> 00:08:52,195 Speaker 1: Senator Dick Durbin then listed the eight times Cash Bettel 128 00:08:52,235 --> 00:08:55,795 Speaker 1: had appeared on a webcast called The Stu Peters Show, 129 00:08:57,315 --> 00:08:59,515 Speaker 1: and in front of a Senate committee. Trump's nominee to 130 00:08:59,555 --> 00:09:04,075 Speaker 1: be Director of National Lack of Intelligence, Tulsey Gabbard, imploded 131 00:09:04,275 --> 00:09:06,995 Speaker 1: when she was asked about a predicament only somebody as 132 00:09:07,035 --> 00:09:10,915 Speaker 1: careless and arrogant and fundamentally stupid as she is could 133 00:09:10,955 --> 00:09:15,395 Speaker 1: get themselves into. Were you aware, asked New Mexico senator 134 00:09:15,395 --> 00:09:18,795 Speaker 1: Martin Heinrich that the Islamic cleric you met during your 135 00:09:18,795 --> 00:09:22,675 Speaker 1: inexplicable twenty seventeen trip to meet the leaders of the 136 00:09:22,675 --> 00:09:26,515 Speaker 1: ASAD dictatorship in Syria, were you aware that this cleric 137 00:09:26,555 --> 00:09:30,515 Speaker 1: had threatened to activate a network of suicide bombers in 138 00:09:30,555 --> 00:09:36,875 Speaker 1: the US and Europe. Answer yes, and you are a traitor. 139 00:09:37,075 --> 00:09:40,275 Speaker 1: Answer no, and you are a dangerous buffoon. And Gabbard 140 00:09:40,315 --> 00:09:43,555 Speaker 1: answered I was not, and I had not heard that 141 00:09:43,795 --> 00:09:49,355 Speaker 1: until today. That Trump has filled his quote government unquote 142 00:09:49,355 --> 00:09:54,275 Speaker 1: with legitimately literally incompetent people is a tragedy on its own, 143 00:09:54,955 --> 00:09:57,555 Speaker 1: the debris from which is still being taken out of 144 00:09:57,555 --> 00:10:01,835 Speaker 1: the Potomac. But what multiplies this nightmare, what expands it 145 00:10:01,915 --> 00:10:06,235 Speaker 1: beyond all proportion, What turns it and turns Trump into 146 00:10:06,275 --> 00:10:08,715 Speaker 1: a clear and present danger to every person in this 147 00:10:08,835 --> 00:10:12,075 Speaker 1: country and every person on this planet, is that, instead 148 00:10:12,075 --> 00:10:15,515 Speaker 1: of the final line of defense against a team of 149 00:10:15,635 --> 00:10:19,115 Speaker 1: morons being the proverbial president with the sign on the 150 00:10:19,155 --> 00:10:22,275 Speaker 1: desk reading the buck stops here, the final line of 151 00:10:22,315 --> 00:10:29,715 Speaker 1: defense in this world today is this dangerous, arrogant, condescending, unstable, 152 00:10:29,995 --> 00:10:34,955 Speaker 1: below average intelligence monster whose metamorphosis into a candidate for 153 00:10:35,075 --> 00:10:41,475 Speaker 1: institutionalization has now peaked with his latest, newest, strangest obsession, 154 00:10:41,515 --> 00:10:44,955 Speaker 1: his conviction that the answer to any crisis, that the 155 00:10:45,035 --> 00:10:48,675 Speaker 1: answer to any tragedy, that the response to any real 156 00:10:48,795 --> 00:10:53,155 Speaker 1: human pain is to blame it on D E. I. 157 00:10:56,315 --> 00:11:01,595 Speaker 1: Donald Trump must be removed from office. Impeachment bills to 158 00:11:01,715 --> 00:11:05,715 Speaker 1: be filed weekly until the minority party regains control of 159 00:11:05,755 --> 00:11:11,235 Speaker 1: the House might work no faster than two years from now. 160 00:11:11,395 --> 00:11:14,795 Speaker 1: The twenty fifth Amendment providing for an emergency remedy for 161 00:11:14,875 --> 00:11:18,475 Speaker 1: the exact inability to discharge the powers and duties of 162 00:11:18,475 --> 00:11:22,275 Speaker 1: the presidency that Trump exhibited today is the correct way 163 00:11:22,315 --> 00:11:27,635 Speaker 1: to save this country. It is also, I add with 164 00:11:27,795 --> 00:11:31,515 Speaker 1: I hope gravity and not menace in my voice. It 165 00:11:31,635 --> 00:11:39,675 Speaker 1: is also the easiest. 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