WEBVTT - TRUMP BECOMES THE FIRST U.S. PRESIDENT TO LOSE A WAR! - 8.6.26 0:00:04.795 --> 0:00:20.915 Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. I'd 0:00:20.995 --> 0:00:25.075 like to congratulate President Trump on becoming the first president 0:00:25.195 --> 0:00:30.315 of the United States to lose a war. There is 0:00:30.515 --> 0:00:37.155 an Iran deal. It's Iran and Oman. Before Trump started 0:00:37.195 --> 0:00:41.355 his vanity war in Iran, the Strait of Hormuz was opened, 0:00:41.355 --> 0:00:44.715 there were no tolls. Now the Strait of Hormuz is 0:00:44.835 --> 0:00:50.875 essentially co owned between Iran and Oman with tolls, which 0:00:50.915 --> 0:00:53.635 increases prices on everything from a gallon of gas to 0:00:53.835 --> 0:00:58.275 computer chips. Donald Trump did this. I'm so tired of 0:00:58.315 --> 0:01:03.675 all the winning. There was no toll. Iran's regime was 0:01:03.755 --> 0:01:06.155 aging out of exist distance and it was tottering, and 0:01:06.195 --> 0:01:08.995 there was internal dissent against it. Now there is a 0:01:09.035 --> 0:01:11.475 toll on the Strait of horror Mouz, and the world 0:01:11.555 --> 0:01:15.995 economy has been upset, and Iran's regime has not only survived, 0:01:16.035 --> 0:01:19.995 but it has a new revenue stream. Donald Trump is 0:01:20.035 --> 0:01:25.155 the first American president to lose a war. I mean, seriously, 0:01:25.195 --> 0:01:28.635 I haven't done one of these podcasts since May eleventh, 0:01:29.235 --> 0:01:32.915 and you still haven't gotten this schmuck out of office. 0:01:33.755 --> 0:01:35.715 What have you all been doing the last eighty eight 0:01:35.795 --> 0:01:38.435 days I had heart surgery. I have something of an 0:01:38.435 --> 0:01:42.195 excuse here. The headlines are exactly the same as they 0:01:42.235 --> 0:01:45.595 were in the podcast I did eighty eight days ago. 0:01:46.795 --> 0:01:49.795 The podcast on May eleventh was about how Trump is 0:01:49.795 --> 0:01:53.235 still playing the political media like a two dollars banjo. 0:01:53.755 --> 0:01:56.435 One day insisting he settled everything and there's about to 0:01:56.475 --> 0:01:59.115 be some sort of deal, and the next day saying 0:01:59.315 --> 0:02:02.475 he is going to blow Iran to hell. It's the 0:02:02.515 --> 0:02:05.915 same headline as May eleventh. And how many times has 0:02:05.955 --> 0:02:09.315 it been the same headline since May eleventh? Forty times, 0:02:09.315 --> 0:02:15.595 fifty times, sixty to eighty eight times. Doesn't anybody notice? No, 0:02:15.755 --> 0:02:18.915 all the media every day ooh, he's about to sign 0:02:18.915 --> 0:02:21.955 a piece deal. Then the next day, ooh, he's about 0:02:21.955 --> 0:02:26.675 to blow them up real good. And then the price 0:02:26.675 --> 0:02:30.995 of oil goes up, and his mafia, his gang, his 0:02:31.355 --> 0:02:35.475 family of grifters, they sell all their oil futures when 0:02:35.515 --> 0:02:38.075 the price goes up, and they make this huge profit. 0:02:38.595 --> 0:02:40.395 And then the next day he says he's going to 0:02:40.475 --> 0:02:43.075 blow them up. And then the next day he says 0:02:43.195 --> 0:02:45.755 he's going to make a deal, and the price goes 0:02:45.875 --> 0:02:49.635 up the next day and they buy all the futures 0:02:49.755 --> 0:02:52.835 back when the price goes down, and they keep repeating 0:02:52.875 --> 0:02:56.555 this and making a profit by what's that phrase? I 0:02:56.595 --> 0:02:59.515 think I've just invented this phrase. I've just invented a 0:02:59.515 --> 0:03:07.915 new phrase called sell high and buy low. He's monetized war. 0:03:08.475 --> 0:03:13.435 He's personally grifting off a war, and he's not even 0:03:13.475 --> 0:03:18.275 trying to hide it anymore. He's now selling advanced access 0:03:18.475 --> 0:03:22.795 to his own posts on tooth Social for one hundred 0:03:22.795 --> 0:03:25.835 thousand dollars a month to anybody stupid enough to do 0:03:25.875 --> 0:03:29.155 that so they can join him on manipulating the stock 0:03:29.235 --> 0:03:33.635 market and the world energy supply. Because I don't know 0:03:33.715 --> 0:03:38.395 if investors and businessmen are the stupidest mforts in the 0:03:38.435 --> 0:03:41.875 world or reporters are the stupidest mforts in the world. 0:03:41.995 --> 0:03:44.675 But it's goddamn close, isn't it. It could be either one. 0:03:44.875 --> 0:03:48.875 Possibly it's a tie. I mean sure he means it 0:03:48.995 --> 0:03:52.675 this time. He didn't mean it the other eighty seven times. 0:03:54.155 --> 0:03:59.195 If his victims had been this stupid boss, Tweed, the 0:03:59.195 --> 0:04:03.355 infamous grifter of New York City of the nineteenth century, 0:04:03.755 --> 0:04:09.035 would have stolen his first million and then stopped it 0:04:09.355 --> 0:04:12.595 out of shame and gone and become a nun somewhere. 0:04:16.595 --> 0:04:19.195 The purpose of this originally was to update you on 0:04:19.235 --> 0:04:22.115 the next episode of Countdown, when that might be, and 0:04:22.275 --> 0:04:24.275 a little bit about my health and the future of 0:04:24.315 --> 0:04:29.115 the podcast and my non linear recovery from surgery. But 0:04:29.155 --> 0:04:31.555 I got a kind of sidetrack when I realized as 0:04:31.555 --> 0:04:34.035 I prepared this that the headlines are exactly the same, 0:04:35.435 --> 0:04:40.115 and it's worse. There's more about Iran and oil to 0:04:40.235 --> 0:04:43.195 discuss on this point, and a stack of headlines, including 0:04:43.235 --> 0:04:46.435 the Michigan primary and the New York Times platforming the 0:04:46.435 --> 0:04:49.515 guy who's trying to turn now not just CBS but 0:04:49.595 --> 0:04:53.755 CBS and CNN into right wing propaganda. Thanks New York Times. 0:04:54.955 --> 0:04:57.755 But there's more about Iran in a bigger sense. And 0:04:57.835 --> 0:05:01.195 obviously the odd even gas rationing system is so Trump 0:05:01.235 --> 0:05:04.235 can stretch it forever, to keep making money off of it, 0:05:04.475 --> 0:05:07.275 to cover his Epstein file guilt, which must be worse 0:05:07.315 --> 0:05:10.795 than we can possibly imagine, to cover Epstein, to keep 0:05:10.835 --> 0:05:15.675 grifting and grafting, to pinion the other Republicans into defending him, 0:05:16.075 --> 0:05:18.795 even though they may all lose their seats in the 0:05:18.835 --> 0:05:22.435 midterms because they are on his side, and people don't 0:05:22.515 --> 0:05:25.875 like this war, and it's in Trump's personal financial interest 0:05:26.075 --> 0:05:28.995 to keep this going no matter what Oman and Iran 0:05:29.075 --> 0:05:33.315 agree to. And then there's that bigger thing that has 0:05:33.355 --> 0:05:36.835 occurred to me during my recuperation, the big picture, not 0:05:36.955 --> 0:05:40.395 just the forest for the trees, what the media has missed, 0:05:40.435 --> 0:05:43.875 but you're seeing the entire Amazon from space, that kind 0:05:43.875 --> 0:05:48.435 of big picture, and it's a fitting analogy. We forget. 0:05:49.195 --> 0:05:53.635 I forgot that this is actually bigger than Trump's hot 0:05:53.635 --> 0:05:56.355 and cold running twenty four to seven threat to democracy 0:05:56.395 --> 0:05:59.515 and to world peace. There's something bigger than Trump's threat 0:05:59.555 --> 0:06:02.915 to American democracy and to stealing the twenty twenty six 0:06:02.995 --> 0:06:06.035 midterms and trying to stay in office. If that is 0:06:06.075 --> 0:06:09.195 still on the table, I think he's still busy. You're 0:06:09.395 --> 0:06:13.675 right now trying to stay alive and fix the helicopter pad, 0:06:13.915 --> 0:06:16.075 which he didn't like and had it ripped out after 0:06:16.155 --> 0:06:18.995 two weeks, apparently because it was done by his pool boy, 0:06:19.315 --> 0:06:23.115 just the way the reflecting pool was. This is about 0:06:23.395 --> 0:06:28.515 Trump's other hot and cold literally running twenty four to 0:06:28.515 --> 0:06:32.275 seven threat, which is to life on Earth. Donald Trump 0:06:32.475 --> 0:06:39.315 is the leading person who could end the world, not tomorrow, 0:06:39.515 --> 0:06:42.515 although he could do that too, that's not likely, but 0:06:42.875 --> 0:06:46.115 long term, he is the major impediment to getting a 0:06:46.155 --> 0:06:50.755 handle on climate change, just before it eludes our grasp forever, 0:06:51.115 --> 0:06:57.915 which I think is coming up next Thursday. Possibly if 0:06:57.915 --> 0:07:00.235 you step back and look at everything that has happened, 0:07:01.675 --> 0:07:04.115 and it looms larger even than the Republicans attempt to 0:07:04.155 --> 0:07:08.475 make this a one party authoritarian state, looming larger than 0:07:08.555 --> 0:07:15.235 Trump's incredible graft, incredible greed, incredible insanity, looming larger than 0:07:15.275 --> 0:07:19.595 all that. The overarching theme is this re establishing fossil fuel, 0:07:20.355 --> 0:07:28.395 making gas good again, making gas great again, magiga, making 0:07:28.515 --> 0:07:31.955 us afraid to run out of it, driving the price 0:07:32.035 --> 0:07:34.195 up to make it seem like, oh, it's a good thing, 0:07:34.235 --> 0:07:37.595 that it's cheaper, let's use it, making the cost of 0:07:37.635 --> 0:07:40.075 a gallon of gas more important than whether or not 0:07:40.395 --> 0:07:45.155 you can breathe that air out there, and whether or 0:07:45.195 --> 0:07:48.395 not your children or your grandchildren will be smothered by 0:07:48.395 --> 0:07:52.195 that air out there sooner rather than later, whether or 0:07:52.235 --> 0:07:56.915 not they will be smothered by the atmosphere. It is 0:07:56.955 --> 0:08:00.035 setting back the banning of fossil fuels, which we have 0:08:00.115 --> 0:08:04.115 to do, or you know, I think I'll be long gone, 0:08:04.155 --> 0:08:06.795 but maybe not. Maybe this is actually going to happen 0:08:06.835 --> 0:08:09.915 in the next couple of years, but some group of 0:08:10.115 --> 0:08:13.515 our descendants, or perhaps the younger members of the audience 0:08:13.595 --> 0:08:17.755 watching this right now, will be smothered to death, or 0:08:17.795 --> 0:08:22.275 burned to death, or simply die of heat prostration because 0:08:22.315 --> 0:08:24.395 the temperature of New York today one hundred and forty 0:08:24.435 --> 0:08:28.995 seven degrees, partly cloudy, traffic and weather after the break 0:08:29.155 --> 0:08:34.595 for the list of people who collapsed on the street today. 0:08:34.715 --> 0:08:39.155 Not only do you increase the scarcity element and the 0:08:39.195 --> 0:08:44.515 positive pr image of gasoline, but you increase the fear 0:08:44.555 --> 0:08:48.515 of war, so more weapons are built and more mindless 0:08:48.515 --> 0:08:51.915 industries are propped up to profit owners, taking the money 0:08:51.995 --> 0:08:55.675 from people than they're already vanishing chances of an improved life, 0:08:55.955 --> 0:09:00.315 making them terrified of not long term disaster like climate 0:09:00.435 --> 0:09:04.315 change or their country burning to the ground, or finding 0:09:04.395 --> 0:09:09.515 food food, but finding fuel being able to drive to 0:09:10.195 --> 0:09:16.475 the mall tonight. Our descendants and maybe US two will 0:09:16.555 --> 0:09:19.435 die because Trump and MAGA and the wars in the 0:09:19.475 --> 0:09:22.995 Middle East, and every subplot to every international news story 0:09:23.075 --> 0:09:26.155 of the last eighty eight days contains some version of 0:09:26.435 --> 0:09:28.595 if we don't do this, a gallon of gas is 0:09:28.595 --> 0:09:31.715 going to cost more, and if you think at some 0:09:31.755 --> 0:09:34.195 point that common sense will take over when we start 0:09:34.195 --> 0:09:37.675 hearing a thousand Americans died today because of killer inversion 0:09:37.755 --> 0:09:42.315 layers like they had in the fifties in Pittsburgh and Ohio, 0:09:42.795 --> 0:09:47.355 or in London because of coal smog. Tell me how 0:09:47.475 --> 0:09:52.075 the sense of threat to our survival changed when COVID happened. 0:09:53.195 --> 0:09:58.355 These moron magas and their equivalents around the world, like 0:09:58.395 --> 0:10:03.435 these lizard people from Reform UK, are convinced that because 0:10:03.475 --> 0:10:08.155 they personally didn't die from COVID, COVID wasn't a real threat. 0:10:08.195 --> 0:10:11.555 And they were right, and all the people who graduated 0:10:11.595 --> 0:10:14.715 from the fourth grade, we were all wrong. Only weak 0:10:14.795 --> 0:10:19.115 people died of COVID, Only losers with bad genes, Only 0:10:19.155 --> 0:10:25.195 minorities died of COVID. When climate change is no longer 0:10:25.315 --> 0:10:29.915 just three bad stretches of green air in New York 0:10:30.035 --> 0:10:34.515 because Canadian wildfires, but it's bad every day, and your 0:10:34.555 --> 0:10:38.355 advice to stay indoors every day, These same people who 0:10:38.555 --> 0:10:42.355 managed to successfully neuter the COVID impact on those who 0:10:42.395 --> 0:10:45.075 did not actually get sick, will fall back to what 0:10:45.155 --> 0:10:49.115 Trump said about the California wildfires and the French wildfires 0:10:49.555 --> 0:10:52.715 and the Spanish wildfires and the British wildfires, and the 0:10:52.755 --> 0:10:58.915 African wildfires and the Japanese wildfires that they occurred because 0:10:59.075 --> 0:11:06.435 liberals in those liberal countries forgot to rake the forest. COVID. 0:11:07.195 --> 0:11:09.915 They're going to replace COVID. COVID was in some senses, 0:11:09.995 --> 0:11:13.115 a practice run for what they can do about climate 0:11:13.195 --> 0:11:16.915 change and how they can stop us from saving the planet. 0:11:17.875 --> 0:11:20.595 They're literally going to use pages one, seventeen, one, twenty 0:11:20.675 --> 0:11:22.915 nine or whatever it is of Orwell's nineteen eighty four 0:11:23.155 --> 0:11:26.435 and rewrite history. They're doing it right now. They try 0:11:26.475 --> 0:11:29.035 to demonize Anthony Fauci at the hearing in front of 0:11:29.075 --> 0:11:32.435 the Senate, without whom half of MAGA and Trump would 0:11:32.475 --> 0:11:37.475 have succumbed to that disease. You want to demonize Fauci, 0:11:38.035 --> 0:11:40.675 ask him about how he feels that that that he 0:11:40.835 --> 0:11:47.435 saved the Magas. Instead, they steal Fauci's diary. They use 0:11:47.475 --> 0:11:49.395 it against him in a way that would have made 0:11:49.435 --> 0:11:54.315 Joe McCarthy say, I'm sorry, I can't do that, and 0:11:54.315 --> 0:11:56.715 I actually do it long last, to have some decency, 0:11:58.195 --> 0:12:02.035 they sit Fauci at a Senate hearing at the table 0:12:02.075 --> 0:12:04.715 and they put Laura Ingram behind it. 0:12:06.595 --> 0:12:07.275 To make. 0:12:09.355 --> 0:12:14.035 Gestures at him with her face, which was genuinely brave. 0:12:14.195 --> 0:12:16.795 I have to say this, Laura was genuinely brave because 0:12:17.395 --> 0:12:20.555 because if she makes too many faces, this face, her 0:12:20.595 --> 0:12:28.555 newest one will shatter and fall off. Laura. As an aside, 0:12:28.595 --> 0:12:30.955 and I'm going to be talking more about my experiences 0:12:30.955 --> 0:12:33.835 with Laura at the tail end of this podcast. If 0:12:33.835 --> 0:12:39.835 you want to persecute doctors, go after the ones who 0:12:39.915 --> 0:13:00.995 made you look like mister ed I go away for 0:13:01.035 --> 0:13:03.395 eighty eight days and look at all the nothing that 0:13:03.435 --> 0:13:07.155 has happened in the interim. The other headlines Michigan. If 0:13:07.155 --> 0:13:10.115 you didn't know who won the Democratic Senate primary in Michigan, 0:13:10.195 --> 0:13:12.755 you would have found out based solely on the Michigan 0:13:12.835 --> 0:13:18.995 GOP press release change. Abdul al Sayad became Abdul Rochman 0:13:19.275 --> 0:13:25.115 al Sayad with horns overnight. They've already started calling him 0:13:25.115 --> 0:13:30.235 that on Fox. All of the Republicans seated electeds are 0:13:30.315 --> 0:13:35.275 calling him Abdul Rochman. Al sayed. By the end of 0:13:35.315 --> 0:13:39.235 this it'll be Abdul Rochman Barack Hussein Obama Al sayed, 0:13:42.315 --> 0:13:45.555 This is how bad a situation he faces and the 0:13:45.595 --> 0:13:48.155 Democrats face in Michigan and thus in the bid to 0:13:48.315 --> 0:13:51.755 control the Senate, which is still a realistic possibility, numbers 0:13:51.915 --> 0:13:55.395 of which I will mention in a moment Tom Smith, 0:13:55.835 --> 0:14:00.315 and I'm quoting the reporter Patrick's vitec. Tom Smith, the 0:14:00.395 --> 0:14:04.315 candidate who dropped out of the Michigan eighth District primary 0:14:04.315 --> 0:14:08.355 for the Publican nomination for the House, is still poised 0:14:08.435 --> 0:14:14.475 to defeat Trump's choice, Amir Hassan. Trump endorsed Amir Hassan, 0:14:16.275 --> 0:14:19.315 but Tom Smith, who has dropped out, is going to 0:14:19.355 --> 0:14:22.915 beat Amir Hassan because Amir Hassan's name is Amir Hassan, 0:14:23.755 --> 0:14:27.875 and Republicans have gotten the subtext for the twenty five 0:14:27.915 --> 0:14:31.555 years since nine to eleven that anybody named Amir or 0:14:31.715 --> 0:14:35.875 has the middle name Hussein or is Abdul el Sayed 0:14:36.355 --> 0:14:40.075 personally did nine to eleven, except if they're from Saudi 0:14:40.115 --> 0:14:43.115 Arabia and they're friends of Trump or Trump himself who 0:14:43.115 --> 0:14:47.915 put his hands on the Middle Eastern orb, not the 0:14:47.955 --> 0:14:52.075 only orb he grabbed without permission. But this is a 0:14:52.115 --> 0:14:56.315 note that has to be read. He sent a handwritten 0:14:56.355 --> 0:14:58.755 note tod this Tom Smith, who is going to win. 0:14:59.235 --> 0:15:01.835 He is a zombie Republican candidate in the Michigan eighth 0:15:02.515 --> 0:15:11.115 He handwritten hand written note. See it, Dear FEC Inspector, 0:15:12.115 --> 0:15:15.715 this is to notify you that the Tom Smith for 0:15:15.875 --> 0:15:19.595 Congress was a late entry into the race for Michigan's 0:15:19.595 --> 0:15:22.515 eighth congressional district and has raised only eighteen hundred and 0:15:22.555 --> 0:15:26.795 fifty dollars through June thirtieth. We, therefore, per your email 0:15:26.875 --> 0:15:30.835 to us on seventy nine, will not file a report 0:15:30.955 --> 0:15:36.715 until the next deadline for filing. Signed with Thomas Smith, 0:15:36.715 --> 0:15:39.075 and then underneath he writes Thomas J. Smith candidate, and 0:15:39.115 --> 0:15:43.155 then the PS the pist Resistance. This is the guy 0:15:43.195 --> 0:15:45.675 who's going to be the nominee rather than someone named 0:15:45.675 --> 0:15:49.595 Amir Hassan, who Trump actually likes. I could not file 0:15:49.675 --> 0:15:53.475 this form electronically because I've had no success logging in 0:15:54.195 --> 0:15:55.995 and have not been able to get a response from 0:15:56.035 --> 0:16:00.235 the help desk, your Republican nominee for the eighth district 0:16:00.355 --> 0:16:07.395 in Michigan. That's the level of racism. And I'll say, 0:16:07.555 --> 0:16:12.115 ed fights. Will this be easy? No? But I like 0:16:12.195 --> 0:16:14.595 this guy because that word fights comes into play again. 0:16:14.755 --> 0:16:19.235 He throws punches at Polley's I like those kinds of candidates. 0:16:19.395 --> 0:16:22.795 I don't care if their names are. I'm not even 0:16:22.795 --> 0:16:24.275 going to throw it out there because somebody will just 0:16:24.315 --> 0:16:27.875 used the clip, he said. Mike Rogers is running on 0:16:27.915 --> 0:16:31.595 a pro data center platform so he can make more 0:16:31.755 --> 0:16:34.955 AI videos of himself to look more manly. 0:16:35.435 --> 0:16:37.035 Mike Rodgers is the guy who wants to put a 0:16:37.075 --> 0:16:39.035 data center in your backyard so he can make himself 0:16:39.035 --> 0:16:41.395 feel a little bit more manly by making an AI video. 0:16:42.635 --> 0:16:46.355 Mike Rogers is a guy who has never shot away 0:16:46.875 --> 0:16:50.075 from a corporation he could do a favor for. Mike 0:16:50.155 --> 0:16:53.075 Rodgers is a guy who, believe it or not, went 0:16:53.115 --> 0:16:55.915 back to Florida so he can lick every single boot 0:16:55.915 --> 0:16:59.155 Donald Trump owns to beg for his endorsement. 0:16:59.635 --> 0:17:01.435 I'm so sorry. If you want a senator who's gonna 0:17:01.435 --> 0:17:03.395 lick some boots, fine go vote for Mike Rogers. 0:17:03.755 --> 0:17:05.275 But if you want a senator who's going to stand 0:17:05.355 --> 0:17:07.675 up to Donald Trump, then you've got your option right here. 0:17:10.275 --> 0:17:13.995 I like this guy. He thinks he's going to beat 0:17:13.995 --> 0:17:17.035 MAGA and the Republicans by seven I don't know if 0:17:17.035 --> 0:17:18.915 that's an exaggeration. He also thought he was going to 0:17:18.995 --> 0:17:21.155 win the primary by about that much, and he didn't 0:17:21.555 --> 0:17:23.715 and no, Michigan is not New York City, and l 0:17:23.795 --> 0:17:28.715 say it is not the smiling face of Mamdani who 0:17:28.835 --> 0:17:31.995 so far the only complaints about Mamdani are outside of 0:17:32.035 --> 0:17:35.875 New York. But I'll say it makes a great point. 0:17:36.115 --> 0:17:39.035 If all Rogers has is essentially my name is Mike 0:17:39.075 --> 0:17:41.635 and his name is a scary Muslim name like Abdul, 0:17:42.355 --> 0:17:45.755 that does not change the fact that he is the 0:17:45.795 --> 0:17:49.315 Abdul who is trying to lower food prices and get 0:17:49.435 --> 0:17:53.555 jobs for people who live in Michigan. On the other 0:17:53.595 --> 0:17:58.835 side of the coin, in Arizona, Katie Hobbs is going 0:17:58.875 --> 0:18:02.475 to take a moderate Republican as her lieutenant governor, a 0:18:02.555 --> 0:18:06.315 former mayor of one of the Phoenix suburbs, if I 0:18:06.555 --> 0:18:12.435 got that correct. And the reason she's doing that is 0:18:12.715 --> 0:18:16.315 Andy Biggs is the Republican nominee for governor, and Andy 0:18:16.315 --> 0:18:22.035 Biggs is a lunatic insurrectionist Trump whore, So doing this 0:18:22.075 --> 0:18:26.475 would be a dumb capitulation to MAGA and Republicans and 0:18:27.115 --> 0:18:30.115 implying that they will be welcomed back if and when 0:18:30.155 --> 0:18:36.235 we purge this country correctly of the Maga disease, not 0:18:36.355 --> 0:18:40.315 the people, just the disease. But in Arizona, it's a 0:18:40.315 --> 0:18:42.875 great move. It's exactly the right move. You would think 0:18:42.875 --> 0:18:45.435 that AlSi Ed if he were running for governor of Arizona, 0:18:45.475 --> 0:18:47.475 even if he was the seated governor of Arizona, would 0:18:47.515 --> 0:18:49.875 do something very much like this because it's a brilliant move. 0:18:50.035 --> 0:18:52.355 It would be dumb anywhere else. But if you give 0:18:52.475 --> 0:18:55.755 non crazy Republicans a chance to climb down from Trump, 0:18:55.955 --> 0:19:00.715 especially when their choice is Andy Efing Biggs, and what 0:19:00.755 --> 0:19:03.435 do you need really, out of all the Republicans in Arizona, 0:19:03.555 --> 0:19:06.515 what do you need ten percent of them, five percent 0:19:06.515 --> 0:19:10.355 of them to make it a democratic landslide? So I 0:19:10.355 --> 0:19:13.195 think the situation is good. And a midterms forecast from 0:19:13.235 --> 0:19:16.635 strength in numbers and verisite. This is g Elliott Morris, 0:19:16.635 --> 0:19:19.715 the X five thirty eight guy. This was before Alsayed's 0:19:19.755 --> 0:19:22.275 victory in Michigan, but I think this was baked into 0:19:22.315 --> 0:19:26.275 his forecast. And again it's a it's polling interpreted with 0:19:26.355 --> 0:19:29.115 some math applied to it and then turned into forecasting. 0:19:29.195 --> 0:19:32.035 I'll just read what Elliot Morris wrote, Today's the day 0:19:32.035 --> 0:19:33.755 we've all been waiting for. If you're reading this, that 0:19:33.795 --> 0:19:36.235 means we finished dotting our eyes and crossing our tees. 0:19:36.515 --> 0:19:39.235 Just published our shiny State of the Art twenty twenty 0:19:39.275 --> 0:19:45.715 six congressional election forecast at six am Eastern August three. 0:19:46.315 --> 0:19:48.595 We give the Democrats an eighty five percent chance to 0:19:48.595 --> 0:19:51.155 win the majority in the US House of Representatives and 0:19:51.195 --> 0:19:54.475 a fifty five percent chance to win control of the Senate. Now, 0:19:54.515 --> 0:19:59.195 remember this is the Democratic Party. We still have a 0:19:59.275 --> 0:20:02.795 keen Jeffries and Chuck Schumer to deal with our largest opponents. 0:20:04.035 --> 0:20:09.235 But and the Democratic Party has a tradition of being 0:20:09.275 --> 0:20:16.355 able to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Fingers crossed, 0:20:17.035 --> 0:20:19.275 because if we don't, if we don't pull this off, 0:20:19.475 --> 0:20:22.155 the planet out there is going to burn to the ground, 0:20:22.875 --> 0:20:24.915 and through the ground, there won't be any ground left. 0:20:25.715 --> 0:20:30.115 Bye bye. It's really terrible when the best answer I 0:20:30.155 --> 0:20:33.595 have to all of the situation with climate change is 0:20:34.075 --> 0:20:38.715 I'm sixty seven and a half years old. Now I did, 0:20:38.875 --> 0:20:43.635 I actually did my best. You got something better to do? 0:20:43.675 --> 0:20:46.395 It's your please, go ahead, right ahead, you take it over, 0:20:47.075 --> 0:20:51.595 take over this podcast the other headlines, as I promised. Again, 0:20:52.475 --> 0:20:56.555 It's like I didn't have surgery, I didn't take time off, 0:20:56.635 --> 0:21:00.915 I didn't contemplate, not resuming the podcast. Eighty eight days later, 0:21:02.275 --> 0:21:04.875 the New York Times screwed up again. They have platform 0:21:04.995 --> 0:21:11.595 David Ellison. New York Times platforming David Ellison, the scumbag 0:21:11.675 --> 0:21:17.595 without ethics and without eyebrows, the man that Forbes magazine 0:21:17.595 --> 0:21:21.355 called a NEPO baby, says his father is worth two 0:21:21.395 --> 0:21:24.875 hundred ninety billion dollars, called him, actually called him, you know, 0:21:24.955 --> 0:21:29.035 in a pro pro fascist, pro corporate publication like Forbes, 0:21:29.275 --> 0:21:32.715 called him a NEPO baby. I mean, I presume it 0:21:32.755 --> 0:21:37.795 was meant as a compliment between them. He and his 0:21:37.835 --> 0:21:41.835 father now control CBS News, having killed off the people 0:21:41.835 --> 0:21:44.595 who actually made it news, and they want to do 0:21:44.675 --> 0:21:47.195 the day the same. CNN two hundred ninety billion and 0:21:47.275 --> 0:21:50.675 a series of attorneys general around the country are holding 0:21:50.675 --> 0:21:53.275 this off until probably next year. They're worth two hundred 0:21:53.275 --> 0:21:56.995 and ninety billion dollars. And the Times let him make 0:21:57.075 --> 0:22:00.795 himself into a victim, David Ellison, so he could spout 0:22:00.915 --> 0:22:02.995 in an op ed about how this is all okay 0:22:03.035 --> 0:22:05.075 and he hates people who would try to minute the 0:22:05.115 --> 0:22:08.115 news and he has just not been able to get 0:22:08.115 --> 0:22:13.115 his own story out in the liberal media. Here we 0:22:13.155 --> 0:22:17.715 go again. He owns CBS now and he's trying to 0:22:17.715 --> 0:22:20.155 own CNN and he has no way to get this out. 0:22:20.355 --> 0:22:22.275 He and Daddy are only worth two hundred and ninety 0:22:22.275 --> 0:22:26.795 billion dollars. They're just these marginalized silence victimized by the 0:22:26.875 --> 0:22:28.395 liberal media. 0:22:28.835 --> 0:22:34.875 Oh, I'm up here on the cross the liberal media, 0:22:35.435 --> 0:22:40.595 the liberal media that is owned by conservative corporations and 0:22:40.835 --> 0:22:45.635 isn't the slightest bit liberal. And the Times platform this 0:22:45.835 --> 0:22:49.715 shithead so he could insist in The New York Times 0:22:50.035 --> 0:22:54.515 that he would never turn CNN into a conservative crapshack 0:22:55.235 --> 0:23:00.595 spouting nonsensical maga conspiracy theories. After he turned CBS into 0:23:00.595 --> 0:23:05.515 a conservative crap shack spouting nonsensical maga conscspiracy theories. 0:23:06.035 --> 0:23:11.435 Never do it again. This too is unchanged after eighty 0:23:11.475 --> 0:23:13.795 eight days. The people at the Times do not understand. 0:23:14.235 --> 0:23:20.035 They live here too. Related to the Times, the Maggie 0:23:20.075 --> 0:23:24.515 Haberman book, Maggie Haberman is a great reporter. Maggie Haberman 0:23:24.635 --> 0:23:29.355 is a terrible American. I'm sorry. This is her latest 0:23:29.355 --> 0:23:32.475 reporting on Trump's belief that he has been chosen to 0:23:32.515 --> 0:23:35.955 do what he is doing. Preserved. Oh, he looks like 0:23:35.995 --> 0:23:41.315 he's been preserved, but chosen by Trump doesn't believe in God, 0:23:41.315 --> 0:23:43.795 and if he does believe in God, it's God is 0:23:43.835 --> 0:23:47.795 his assistant. But Trump's belief that he has been chosen 0:23:47.835 --> 0:23:52.035 by the universe, that his ideas are now right because 0:23:52.075 --> 0:23:56.675 they are his ideas. She writes, quote, you are shot 0:23:56.715 --> 0:24:00.315 at you survive. You have taken on this mystical quality 0:24:00.355 --> 0:24:03.635 with not just your followers, but with your advisors who 0:24:03.675 --> 0:24:06.435 refer to him or then any way would refer to 0:24:06.475 --> 0:24:11.715 him as the chosen one, only semi joking in some cases. 0:24:12.155 --> 0:24:14.635 And you believe everything works out for you, which is 0:24:14.675 --> 0:24:17.315 literally what he said to Tucker Carlson. She writes, you 0:24:17.355 --> 0:24:19.115 know why the Iran war is going to work out, 0:24:19.155 --> 0:24:21.435 That things are going to work out because they always do. 0:24:23.235 --> 0:24:26.275 And so Haberman continues, you believe that your reality is 0:24:26.315 --> 0:24:28.355 better than the experts and what the experts have been 0:24:28.355 --> 0:24:31.995 telling you. He thinks the economy is boring. He literally 0:24:31.995 --> 0:24:34.955 will tell advisors he finds this boring to talk about. 0:24:35.435 --> 0:24:38.595 He wants to talk about immigrants committing rape or murdering people, 0:24:38.755 --> 0:24:41.835 and he's going to do what he wants to do. Look, 0:24:41.875 --> 0:24:44.595 he obviously doesn't want to get impeached again. But when 0:24:44.635 --> 0:24:48.635 you have to say again unimpeached. It stops mattering as much, 0:24:48.835 --> 0:24:54.155 I think, to some extent in his head. Some of 0:24:54.155 --> 0:24:55.955 that is from the book, and a lot of that 0:24:56.075 --> 0:25:00.275 quote is from an interview about the book. And that's 0:25:00.275 --> 0:25:02.755 great reporting by Maggie Haberman. Did she put this in 0:25:02.755 --> 0:25:08.835 The New York Times? No, it's in a book about 0:25:08.875 --> 0:25:13.035 stuff that happened last year. Because no matter how fast 0:25:13.155 --> 0:25:16.235 you can do it now, a book can't be printed overnight. 0:25:16.755 --> 0:25:18.435 I wonder if we had a medium that could be 0:25:18.435 --> 0:25:22.155 printed overnight or instantaneously, what would we call that? A newspaper, 0:25:24.035 --> 0:25:28.115 a podcast. Some of the stuff she wrote about in 0:25:28.155 --> 0:25:32.275 that book was from before the election. This isn't just 0:25:32.515 --> 0:25:35.195 cowardice or a mortgage that you have to pay and 0:25:35.235 --> 0:25:37.915 you're worried about whether or not your management will support 0:25:37.955 --> 0:25:40.795 you when crunch time comes, or sell you out to 0:25:40.875 --> 0:25:47.435 Trump like everybody at CBS, like is coming to NBC 0:25:47.755 --> 0:25:50.675 and ABC. This is what we used to refer to 0:25:50.715 --> 0:25:54.555 as double dipping. You have a goddamned job to report 0:25:54.595 --> 0:26:00.115 the news, Maggie Haberman, report the fucking news news is today. 0:26:01.995 --> 0:26:03.755 You get stuff like this, you don't keep it a 0:26:03.795 --> 0:26:07.155 secret to make more money off of it later. You 0:26:07.235 --> 0:26:13.715 put it out, it's news, that's news. Shameful, great reporter, 0:26:13.835 --> 0:26:17.795 terrible American sixty Minutes. The new executive producer of this program, 0:26:17.795 --> 0:26:21.275 which is in fact going to try to go on 0:26:21.355 --> 0:26:24.595 the air within a month two months tops, is named 0:26:24.715 --> 0:26:31.155 Nick Bilton. They are proceeding, according to several different media reporters, 0:26:31.755 --> 0:26:36.075 They are proceeding reportedly without enough stories in the works 0:26:36.115 --> 0:26:39.355 to create a new season of sixty Minutes. And before 0:26:39.355 --> 0:26:42.115 I go any further on this, what the fuck kind 0:26:42.155 --> 0:26:45.995 of name is Nick Bilton? Does he have a sister 0:26:46.075 --> 0:26:51.555