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Speaker 1: a news conference suggesting actual, virulent, uncontrolled madness and requiring
Speaker 1: his immediate removal under the terms of the twenty fifth
Speaker 1: Amendment to the Constitution. The President of the United States
Speaker 1: of America insisted that a horrific tragedy that had occurred
Speaker 1: barely fourteen hours earlier, that had claimed the lives of
Speaker 1: sixty four passengers and crew, including at least fourteen members
Speaker 1: of the American figure skating community, including two teenage champions
Speaker 1: and their coaches and their mothers, to say nothing of
Speaker 1: the deaths of three active serving US military personnel in
Speaker 1: a helicopter. This nightmare excuse for a human being insisted
Speaker 1: this accident was caused by DEI. This is the President
Speaker 1: of the United States who forced out the head of
Speaker 1: the Federal Aviation Administration last week and did not bother
Speaker 1: to even appoint an acting FAA commissioner to succeed him
Speaker 1: until after they were already fishing the bodies out of
Speaker 1: the Potomac. This is the President of the United States
Speaker 1: who appointed not an idiot fox News propagandist host to
Speaker 1: be Transportation Secretary, but rather appointed an idiot Fox News
Speaker 1: propagandist host's husband, a man who cannot successfully say the
Speaker 1: word pattern. He pronounces it pattern. This is the president
Speaker 1: of the United States, who a week ago yesterday, froze
Speaker 1: the hiring of new air traffic controllers, which had already
Speaker 1: been gutted by the Republican House and the previous Republican presidency,
Speaker 1: the quantity and quality of which has been in unchecked
Speaker 1: crisis since Ronald Reagan fired all eleven thousand of this
Speaker 1: nation's air traffic controllers in nineteen eighty one. But sure,
Speaker 1: it's dei, oras Trump's idiot lawyer, Alina Habba called it
Speaker 1: last night on television in a malapropism with tragic implications. Quote, Dee,
Speaker 1: it's dei. When they cannot confirm if the helicopter pilot
Speaker 1: actually gave control confirmation that he saw the lights of
Speaker 1: the jet with which he collided, but was looking at
Speaker 1: the wrong jet or at the wrong lights, When they
Speaker 1: cannot even yet rule out hypotheticals, when they don't even
Speaker 1: know yet if either the plane or the helicopter had
Speaker 1: some kind of catastrophic mechanical failure when they cannot figure
Speaker 1: out if communications somehow shorted out, or if any of
Speaker 1: a thousand other possible tragedies unfolded, or if the Pentagon
Speaker 1: Pete Hegstt's Pentagon caused this by running a training mission
Speaker 1: at night in the middle of the approach to the
Speaker 1: busiest runway in the country. But Trump is certain because
Speaker 1: he's Trump, and he is a super genius, and he
Speaker 1: knows everything, and he already told you that, and he's
Speaker 1: always right. And he blamed it on DEI and Pete
Speaker 1: buddhage Edge and Joe Biden. I guess because he's a
Speaker 1: super genius. But nobody told him that. He has been
Speaker 1: president of the United States for eleven days now, and
Speaker 1: his people have been in charge for eleven days now.
Speaker 1: And if he thinks he gets a pass because they
Speaker 1: all just started, they all just started only because they
Speaker 1: dragged their feet on the transition process, in which nameless,
Speaker 1: faceless bureaucrats in the outgoing administration warn nameless faceless bureaucrats
Speaker 1: in the incoming administration of the challenges and the crises
Speaker 1: and the fixes that were only midfix. This was the
Speaker 1: process Trump skipped. But Trump does not bother with details
Speaker 1: because he is materially brain damaged and evil and descending
Speaker 1: into some combination of sinility and insanity, and because he
Speaker 1: long ago stopped processing the world around him, and if
Speaker 1: he hears one hundred differing voices, it turns out they
Speaker 1: are all inside his world.
Speaker 2: Threatening head today blame the diversity elements, but then told
Speaker 2: us that you weren't sure that the controllers made any mistake.
Speaker 2: He then said, perhaps the helicopter pilots were the ones
Speaker 2: who made the mistakes. All under investigations, I understand that.
Speaker 2: That's why I'm trying to figure out how you can
Speaker 2: come to the conclusion right now that diversity has something
Speaker 2: to do with this crash, because they have common sense, okay,
Speaker 2: and unfortunately a lot of people don't.
Speaker 1: Of course, he does not have common sense. He does
Speaker 1: not have sense of any kind. That is the gist
Speaker 1: of this nightmare. That is the essence of this crisis.
Speaker 1: The studies of professors Dunning and Krueger long ago established
Speaker 1: by asking participants how they thought they did on an
Speaker 1: exam compared to everybody else taking the same exam, that
Speaker 1: it really is true the people who know the most
Speaker 1: and are the smartest will assume that there are others
Speaker 1: around them who know more or have studied harder, who
Speaker 1: at least know as much. The people who know the least, though,
Speaker 1: are convinced they literally know everything and no one else
Speaker 1: knows anything that they, of course finished first among the
Speaker 1: exam takers. On average. It turns out with remarkable consistency
Speaker 1: that those who think they have finished in the top
Speaker 1: quarter have almost invariably finished in the second to lowest quarter.
Speaker 1: It is called the Dunning Kruger effect, and it has
Speaker 1: now reached its terminal, final, tragic, insolvable nadier in Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: I will add here that if you doubt the pervasiveness
Speaker 1: the completeness of Trump's malfunctioning brain and malfunctioning personality, he
Speaker 1: conducted his news conference having apparently had today or yesterday
Speaker 1: and not realized it looked like this. Having had yesterday
Speaker 1: or today, his eyebrows dyed a yellowish white, unlike any
Speaker 1: color he has ever previously dyed them, so startling that
Speaker 1: his face gave the appearance that his actual brows had
Speaker 1: been stolen, or perhaps had fallen victim to DEI, he
Speaker 1: did not notice, and no one could tell him. Would
Speaker 1: that it was all as stupid and embarrassing as that
Speaker 1: would that it stopped here. For at the same moment,
Speaker 1: Trump was explaining that he with eyebrows that looked like
Speaker 1: the Joe Peshi character from the JFK movie. Only White
Speaker 1: knew what caused the crash. It was dei. In fact,
Speaker 1: all that proves is that he has learned how to
Speaker 1: say dei, when others like Alina Habba didn't quite master it.
Speaker 1: While the news conference was ongoing, Robert F. Kennedy Junior
Speaker 1: was on Capitol Hill still unable to explain what medicare
Speaker 1: parts A, B, and C are, even though he was
Speaker 1: questioned about this exact same thing last week and thus
Speaker 1: was given notice that this might come up on the exam,
Speaker 1: and he could have spent some five minute span in
Speaker 1: the last week and could have put his hands on
Speaker 1: a book rather than on his penis in front of
Speaker 1: a camera phone. Mister Kennedy also again repeatedly denied things
Speaker 1: he has said and positions he has taken, and he
Speaker 1: insisted that blacks should get fewer vaccines than whites do.
Speaker 1: If mister Kennedy, the nominee to run Health in Human Services,
Speaker 1: really wants to improve health and provide human services in
Speaker 1: this country. He should look into donating his body to science,
Speaker 1: perhaps later this week. And at the same time these
Speaker 1: things were going on. Trump's nominee to ruin the FBI.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry that was a typo. It's run the FBI.
Speaker 1: Oh no, it is ruin the FBI. Trump's nominee at
Speaker 1: FBI was asked if he could say Joe Biden won
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty election. Just repeat those words, and cash
Speaker 1: Betel literally could not and would not say them. Patel
Speaker 1: was also asked if he knew the fascist and white
Speaker 1: supremacist talk show host and podcaster Stu Peters, and he
Speaker 1: said nod off the top of my head, no, and
Speaker 1: Senator Dick Durbin then listed the eight times Cash Bettel
Speaker 1: had appeared on a webcast called The Stu Peters Show,
Speaker 1: and in front of a Senate committee. Trump's nominee to
Speaker 1: be Director of National Lack of Intelligence, Tulsey Gabbard, imploded
Speaker 1: when she was asked about a predicament only somebody as
Speaker 1: careless and arrogant and fundamentally stupid as she is could
Speaker 1: get themselves into. Were you aware, asked New Mexico senator
Speaker 1: Martin Heinrich that the Islamic cleric you met during your
Speaker 1: inexplicable twenty seventeen trip to meet the leaders of the
Speaker 1: ASAD dictatorship in Syria, were you aware that this cleric
Speaker 1: had threatened to activate a network of suicide bombers in
Speaker 1: the US and Europe. Answer yes, and you are a traitor.
Speaker 1: Answer no, and you are a dangerous buffoon. And Gabbard
Speaker 1: answered I was not, and I had not heard that
Speaker 1: until today. That Trump has filled his quote government unquote
Speaker 1: with legitimately literally incompetent people is a tragedy on its own,
Speaker 1: the debris from which is still being taken out of
Speaker 1: the Potomac. But what multiplies this nightmare, what expands it
Speaker 1: beyond all proportion, What turns it and turns Trump into
Speaker 1: a clear and present danger to every person in this
Speaker 1: country and every person on this planet, is that, instead
Speaker 1: of the final line of defense against a team of
Speaker 1: morons being the proverbial president with the sign on the
Speaker 1: desk reading the buck stops here, the final line of
Speaker 1: defense in this world today is this dangerous, arrogant, condescending, unstable,
Speaker 1: below average intelligence monster whose metamorphosis into a candidate for
Speaker 1: institutionalization has now peaked with his latest, newest, strangest obsession,
Speaker 1: his conviction that the answer to any crisis, that the
Speaker 1: answer to any tragedy, that the response to any real
Speaker 1: human pain is to blame it on D E. I.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump must be removed from office. Impeachment bills to
Speaker 1: be filed weekly until the minority party regains control of
Speaker 1: the House might work no faster than two years from now.
Speaker 1: The twenty fifth Amendment providing for an emergency remedy for
Speaker 1: the exact inability to discharge the powers and duties of
Speaker 1: the presidency that Trump exhibited today is the correct way
Speaker 1: to save this country. It is also, I add with
Speaker 1: I hope gravity and not menace in my voice. It
Speaker 1: is also the easiest. This has been a countdown bulletin podcast.
Speaker 1: The next scheduled edition is Monday. I'm Keith Alderman. Countdown
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