Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Hidden
Speaker 1: behind Trump's complex, multi layered, endless hallucination that his addressed
Speaker 1: to Congress shows he is beloved and the stock market
Speaker 1: isn't crashing, and Speaker Johnson's chief of staff wasn't arrested
Speaker 1: on a dui right after the speech, and the maggots
Speaker 1: aren't furious at him, and the newest polling doesn't suggest
Speaker 1: he's already lost nearly a fifth of the Trump bros
Speaker 1: Under thirty and they aren't booing, They're saying, let's go
Speaker 1: Bronzer and al Green. Isn't the first sign of life
Speaker 1: in the Democratic resistance. There is a much more real
Speaker 1: and much more stark truth going on here. Trump has
Speaker 1: already made his first move in the process of trying
Speaker 1: to make not loving him illegal. The attempt is underway
Speaker 1: to make protesting the Trump dictatorship against the law. Trump
Speaker 1: gassed protesters near the Whitehousing twenty twenty. He spent the
Speaker 1: last campaign promising anti protesting laws, and he began to
Speaker 1: roll out the new plot this week. This was Tuesday
Speaker 1: morning before his telethon before a crowd of supplicants otherwise
Speaker 1: known as the Republican members of the Congress and the Senate,
Speaker 1: and those Democrats not named al Green quote, all federal
Speaker 1: funding will stop for any college, school or university that
Speaker 1: allows illegal protests. Agitators will be imprisoned or permanently sent
Speaker 1: back to the country from which they came. American students
Speaker 1: will be permanently expelled or, depending on on the crime, arrested.
Speaker 1: No masks, thank you for your attention to this matter. A.
Speaker 1: He's really effing nuts, isn't he. B that's about Israel
Speaker 1: and Gaza, right, I mean, that's what he has to
Speaker 1: mean by college school or university that allows illegal protests, right,
Speaker 1: I mean the protests at universities last year in particular.
Speaker 1: We're just about the Middle East. And frankly, the odds
Speaker 1: are whether you favor Israel or the Palestinians or neither,
Speaker 1: you thought at least one of those protests for somebody
Speaker 1: against somebody else, you thought one of them was inappropriate.
Speaker 1: Except where in that statement does Trump say funding will
Speaker 1: be cut off for any college that doesn't stop Middle
Speaker 1: East protests or pro Palestinian protests or pro Israel protests.
Speaker 1: Where does it say sending agitators back to the country
Speaker 1: from which they came means the Middle East? Where does
Speaker 1: it say American students will be permanently expelled only if
Speaker 1: they've invaded Jewish or Muslim buildings on camp. It doesn't
Speaker 1: say that Trump is as always doing a bait and switch.
Speaker 1: You are putting constraints and limits on what he wrote.
Speaker 1: He is not. This is his only skill. Let me
Speaker 1: rewrite what he wrote to reflect reality. The reality inside
Speaker 1: Trump's plans to imprison you. All federal funding will stop
Speaker 1: for any college, school, or university that allows illegal protests.
Speaker 1: Protests like Black Lives Matter are now illegal. Protests to
Speaker 1: save Medicare are now illegal. Protests against your favorite president
Speaker 1: me are now illegal. Agitators will be imprisoned. American students
Speaker 1: will be permanently expelled or, depending on the crime, arrested.
Speaker 1: No Masks, no Democrats, all musk Thank you for your
Speaker 1: attention to this matter. Do you see it now? Trump
Speaker 1: also rolled out an element of the coming Trump Protection
Speaker 1: laws during that test Tuesday night in Washington, that test
Speaker 1: of the limit of human endurance for one man praising
Speaker 1: himself by making shit up. That was his speech to
Speaker 1: the Joint Session. I think that speech is over by now.
Speaker 1: He patted himself on the back for new anti deep
Speaker 1: fake laws. Did you hear that part of it intended
Speaker 1: to protect women against explicit fabricated sexual videos, or more correctly,
Speaker 1: what women think is intended to protect them against such
Speaker 1: ai fabrications. But Trump could not resist all of the misogyny,
Speaker 1: the rape culture, violence, tech pros Tate Rose, and the
Speaker 1: Elon Musk philosophy that not even a b rusted penile
Speaker 1: implant can stop him from propagating endlessly. All of that
Speaker 1: now married to the monstrous new elements of artificial intelligence,
Speaker 1: and the law that comes out is actually there to
Speaker 1: protect Donald Trump. Happily he had to go off script
Speaker 1: and reveal it.
Speaker 2: And once it passes the House, I look forward to
Speaker 2: signing that bill into law. Thank you, and I'm going
Speaker 2: to use that bill for myself too, if you don't mind,
Speaker 2: because nobody had treated worse than I do online nobody.
Speaker 1: Firstly, that's insane as usual, but he is insane, and
Speaker 1: every time he appears in front of a camera and
Speaker 1: does not kill somebody or begins speaking in tongues, people
Speaker 1: forget the insanity and applaud the fact that they have
Speaker 1: forgotten the Cohn They forget the self absorption, They forget
Speaker 1: his true greatness cheating people. The anti deep fake porn
Speaker 1: law is there, yes, to address the explicit purpose, but
Speaker 1: it's also there and can be used so he can
Speaker 1: prosecute you for that video that got hacked into the
Speaker 1: headquarters of Housing in Urban Development the other day, the
Speaker 1: deep fake on a loop of Trump sucking Elon Musk's toes.
Speaker 1: At least I think it's a deep fake. If you
Speaker 1: have not seen this video, don't, But what else could
Speaker 1: it cover? AI and deep fakes are a cataclysmic nightmare
Speaker 1: for women and for human privacy. But yes, there actually
Speaker 1: is another worse level beyond that. It's when AI deep
Speaker 1: fakes become so prevalent that anybody can claim this or
Speaker 1: that real video is in fact a fake. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's the Trump playbook twenty election was real. He claimed
Speaker 1: it's a fake. Will Trump now say and his slaves
Speaker 1: now repeat that the video of him looking at underage
Speaker 1: girls at Mari Lago with Jeffrey Epstein in nineteen ninety
Speaker 1: two is not real, that it's just a deep fake,
Speaker 1: that it's always been a deep fake, that we've always
Speaker 1: been at war with East Asia. NBC you say that's
Speaker 1: your video, it's a deep fake, and here's the District
Speaker 1: of Columbia US Attorney Ed. I'll believe anything, Martin to
Speaker 1: prosecute you for it, or for Trump to sue you
Speaker 1: for it for twenty billion dollars. So you better make
Speaker 1: another donation to the Trump Library, the Trump Library of money.
Speaker 1: There is no limit to what the deep fake law
Speaker 1: could conceivably allow Trump to prosecute. Make a satirical video
Speaker 1: of Trump that's an illegal deep fake, portray him on
Speaker 1: Saturday Night Live. It's James Austin Johnson. Prosecute him. It's
Speaker 1: Darryl Hammond. Oh no, it's a deep fake. Prosecute him.
Speaker 1: Alec Baldwin, definitely prosecute him, says Trump. It's a network
Speaker 1: anchor finally snapping. My money would be on Tom Lamas,
Speaker 1: who just got the NBC job yesterday and who was,
Speaker 1: if you can imagine this, a production assistant on the
Speaker 1: first show I did at MSNBC when I returned in
Speaker 1: two thousand and three, proving contrary to reports, I am survivable.
Speaker 1: My money is on Tom Lamas. If Tom Lamas snaps
Speaker 1: one night and runs every pro Nazi Hitler esque thing,
Speaker 1: Trump has ever said one night on NBC Nightly News.
Speaker 1: Trump could dismiss it as deep fakes and prosecute Lamas
Speaker 1: and NBC News and Comcast, and god knows they'll pay
Speaker 1: up or not defend their journalists. You sure you want
Speaker 1: this job, Tommy? Stretch this out to its extreme, and
Speaker 1: it would affect the great white whale of Trump history.
Speaker 1: What if there is a Trump pee tape, a real one,
Speaker 1: or never mind there's a real one, or that it's
Speaker 1: a pee tape, never mind that. What if there's just
Speaker 1: something from which all of this originates, the Paul Manifort connection,
Speaker 1: the krasnof the spy story, which is probably crap, the
Speaker 1: compromant which is probably not crap, all of it. What
Speaker 1: is the possibility here that there is a smoking video
Speaker 1: of something just him taking a wheelbarrow full of rubles. Oh,
Speaker 1: and that's now a deep fake and the new law
Speaker 1: will what Trump prosecute you for retweeting it? Because his
Speaker 1: allegation that it's a deep fake doesn't have to be true.
Speaker 1: None of it has ever had to be true. He
Speaker 1: just has to have the money to hire a lawyer
Speaker 1: to sue you over it, or to have control over
Speaker 1: the prosecutors to arrest you and force you to fight
Speaker 1: back and waste a year of your life, five, ten,
Speaker 1: twenty years of your life, one hundred thousand dollars, a
Speaker 1: million dollars, twenty million dollars. Do you think ABC settled
Speaker 1: over Stephanopoulos and the wording of the rape liability question
Speaker 1: because that which Trump claimed was true? Or do you
Speaker 1: think that CBS was willing to bargain over the Kamala
Speaker 1: Harris interview because what Trump was saying was true. Do
Speaker 1: you think the Des Moines Register cartoon lawsuit is true?
Speaker 1: It isn't the jury verdict that matters. It's showing you
Speaker 1: a list of legal fees you'll have to pay and
Speaker 1: your businesses that will be cut off. And let's circle
Speaker 1: back to the campus protests. Post All federal funding will
Speaker 1: stop for any organization that allows anything Trump doesn't like.
Speaker 1: Agitators will be imprisoned and or permanently sent back to
Speaker 1: the country from which they come. Americans will be permanently
Speaker 1: expelled or, depending on the crime, arrested. You now have
Speaker 1: been warned that is what is going to happen next,
Speaker 1: or you won't be warned. There's no warning in Idaho,
Speaker 1: right Teresa Bourne poll protests at the public town hall
Speaker 1: held by the Kutenaie County Republican Central Committee in Kurtelin,
Speaker 1: and the next thing she knows, she's being manhandled carried
Speaker 1: out by three men dressed in black. They are wearing
Speaker 1: no badges, no uniforms, no IDs, they don't even have
Speaker 1: security emblems on. They try to zip tie her, and
Speaker 1: then the sheriff of the town steps in and threatens
Speaker 1: to pepper spray her, and he records all this on
Speaker 1: video as she repeatedly asks what are literally black shirts
Speaker 1: to identify themselves and theyse The sheriff has posted that
Speaker 1: video along with a photo of himself and Governor Abbott
Speaker 1: of Texas grinning, and a photo of himself at the
Speaker 1: Trump inauguration alongside oh members of the New York Police Department.
Speaker 1: The police chief has begun an investigation of the company
Speaker 1: that sent the rent at Gestapo and the Republicans who
Speaker 1: hired that company, and the charges against Ms Barnpole are
Speaker 1: being dropped. There is that the charges are being dropped
Speaker 1: this time and who will next be manhandled by unmarked
Speaker 1: security while elected law enforcement officials videotape it like RFK
Speaker 1: Junior would videotape a bear he killed in Central Park,
Speaker 1: or maybe my ex girlfriend who's next to be manhandled
Speaker 1: that way. Congressman Al Green. Perhaps Congressman Al Green now
Speaker 1: my front runner and first choice, and it could change,
Speaker 1: but now my front runner for the Democratic nomination for
Speaker 1: president in twenty twenty eight, because he's the only Democrat
Speaker 1: I can verify is still breathing. Boycotting that address was,
Speaker 1: as I may have mentioned before, it happened a move
Speaker 1: from the year nineteen sixty eight, because of course, not
Speaker 1: going somewhere is an invisible form of protest. Did you
Speaker 1: see me, I wasn't there holding up those paddle signs
Speaker 1: with the unreadable words on them. That was the absolute
Speaker 1: dumbest thing Democrats have ever done. I mean, at least
Speaker 1: since they stopped backing segregation in the sixties. They looked
Speaker 1: like they were rich idiots bidding at a charity auction
Speaker 1: to raise money to repaint the beachside cabanas in the Hamptons.
Speaker 1: Or they looked like ping pong players who had gotten lost.
Speaker 1: I mean, it was invisible and impotent. You want to
Speaker 1: bring props to a congressional speech in the era of
Speaker 1: Bobert or Green or whoever it was suing for the
Speaker 1: right not to be scanned for guns. As you go
Speaker 1: into the congressional chamber, you want to bring a prop
Speaker 1: bring a goddamn bazooka, or at least bring smoke bombs.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's Capitol Hill. According to Trump, You're allowed
Speaker 1: to attack it and try to kill people inside of it.
Speaker 1: That's the Trump doctrine. Now, little paddles with the word
Speaker 1: no on it didn't quite cut it, but Al Green
Speaker 1: cut it. Al Green got it exactly right. And shame
Speaker 1: on every Democrat passed whom he was walked out who
Speaker 1: did not stand up and walk out with him in protest,
Speaker 1: which would be one hundred goddamn percent of them. If
Speaker 1: you think walking out on Trump will somehow cost you
Speaker 1: the non existent middle and damage your reelection chances and
Speaker 1: get you written up in the wrong newsletters, you're wrong,
Speaker 1: but I get it. You're a terrified, textbook fungible, useless politician.
Speaker 1: But to not see as it unfolds in front of
Speaker 1: you as a win win. Rising to the defense of
Speaker 1: a colleague whose outburst was half the Bobert Green, Karen
Speaker 1: Honking and a quarter of Joe Wilson's racist you lie
Speaker 1: scream against Obama in two thousand and nine. If you
Speaker 1: don't see that as it happens in front of you, Hey,
Speaker 1: I'm going to stand up with him. I'll get my
Speaker 1: name in the papers next him. Oh my god, Martyrdom points.
Speaker 1: If you don't see that, that means you're just a
Speaker 1: moron Democrat. The optics of unidentified goons ordering a seventy
Speaker 1: seven year old congressman and his cane out while JD.
Speaker 1: Free Speech Vance smirks and applauds with his mincing, little
Speaker 1: trained seal flippers is the essence of an organic viral
Speaker 1: video that would win awards. The optics of ten were
Speaker 1: twenty or thirty Democrats, then spontaneously rising with him would
Speaker 1: have won the night. And I hate with every fiber
Speaker 1: of my being the idea that we have now that
Speaker 1: we have to win the night. But Trump is getting
Speaker 1: to build his cask of a Monteata wall around you,
Speaker 1: brick by goddamned brick, because he won the night night
Speaker 1: after night for much of twenty twenty four. We have
Speaker 1: to play this game or he will kill us with it.
Speaker 1: So get in the game, or get up from those
Speaker 1: seats in the House and from the Senate and start
Speaker 1: walking and don't stop until you are neck high in
Speaker 1: the Potomac. Matter of fact, don't stop. When you are
Speaker 1: neck high in a Potomac. We can replace you and
Speaker 1: no one will know you were ever there. And by
Speaker 1: the way, of course, the Republicans who did not face
Speaker 1: any of this when it was Republicans doing this to
Speaker 1: Joe Biden or Barack Obama, because the Democrats would never
Speaker 1: consider doing this. The Republicans are talking about censuring Representative Green.
Speaker 1: There is a vote on this this morning unless they
Speaker 1: think better of it and make it all go away.
Speaker 1: And I guarantee you any Democrat who goes along with
Speaker 1: this is finished. In fact, I promise you I will
Speaker 1: do everything I can to finish them. More importantly, I
Speaker 1: don't think the censure motion is going anywhere because it
Speaker 1: was floated by Speaker Mike Johnson, and his chief of
Speaker 1: staff was so affected by Trump's speech he was literally
Speaker 1: arrested on a dui right after that. Well, it was
Speaker 1: either the Trump speech or the chief got a look
Speaker 1: at the porn consumption report that Johnson shares with his
Speaker 1: own son on their app So Johnson has other things
Speaker 1: to worry about. So mighty ugly, Johnson, you have their Republicans. Incidentally,
Speaker 1: Johnson's chief of Staff's dui. That was three hours after
Speaker 1: Johnson at the speech trotted out the widow of a
Speaker 1: man killed by an undocumented immigrant in a dui. Back
Speaker 1: to the point, we need people who understand politics and
Speaker 1: protest and optics, and who are not afraid to get
Speaker 1: walked out by the authorities, and are not afraid to
Speaker 1: get arrested if need be. As al Green said as
Speaker 1: they brought this up yesterday, I'll do it again. He
Speaker 1: didn't have to say he's not afraid to get arrested.
Speaker 1: If I could do one thing that transcends time and space,
Speaker 1: I would clone John Lewis and put about three hundred
Speaker 1: of him into democratic politics right now. Oh, you think
Speaker 1: this is bad? Did you see when they beat me
Speaker 1: over the head on the bridge? Chuck Schumer having trouble
Speaker 1: with traffic is not a great crisis in the months
Speaker 1: to come, In the years to come, if there are
Speaker 1: years to come, we are going to need democratic leaders
Speaker 1: who are not afraid to get arrested, and not arrested
Speaker 1: for getting drunk after a Trump speech and drive into
Speaker 1: an official capital vehicle either. And so far the list
Speaker 1: of Democrats who I'm confident in uh is uh are
Speaker 1: is well, there's al Green, I think AOC. But she
Speaker 1: stayed home. She thought that was the right move. And
Speaker 1: there are others who, probably looking at it again, would
Speaker 1: go I should have been there and walked out with him.
Speaker 1: But really, you could have seen this coming, and you
Speaker 1: could have been there and walked out with Al Green.
Speaker 1: And guess what, you are back to square one because
Speaker 1: you didn't. And so Trump largely won the night. In
Speaker 1: football parlance, he threw two hundred and seventy six interceptions
Speaker 1: and fumbled one hundred and fourteen times. And because the
Speaker 1: already moronic Washington press corps has now been dumbed down
Speaker 1: even further because of market conditions and naked pucellanimous fear,
Speaker 1: the toadies at the right wing site Politico rushed to
Speaker 1: hile Trump, I want to read you two examples. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is John Harris, very serious journalist, reminding us that
Speaker 1: they all approach covering events like this, the raw boned
Speaker 1: truth of which is an insane man who just sold
Speaker 1: this country out to Russia talks longer than anybody else
Speaker 1: in history, all of it about himself, says he's done
Speaker 1: better than George Washington, and lies literally dozens of times
Speaker 1: while making a threat to prosecute dissenters, which you, by
Speaker 1: the way, completely missed. They all approach covering this with
Speaker 1: one thought and one thought only, not have I captured
Speaker 1: the headline here, or the essence or the hidden news story,
Speaker 1: But rather, what if I write something different than what
Speaker 1: everybody else writes, I'll be mocked, John Harris, Trump, he writes, again,
Speaker 1: showed why the presidency is such a powerful platform from
Speaker 1: which to wage national arguments, even as predecessor Joe Biden
Speaker 1: was never able to use it to good effect. By contrast,
Speaker 1: Trump in his showmanship, the boasts and bluster, the indignation
Speaker 1: and insults, the ability to channel popular frustrations demonstrated anew
Speaker 1: why he has vexed opponents of both parties for the
Speaker 1: past decade. Unquote, somebody wrote something like that about Hitler's
Speaker 1: first speech as chancellor. We don't know who that somebody was,
Speaker 1: because I would expect he wound up any concentration camp. Oh,
Speaker 1: the boasts and the bluster, nothing about all the dead
Speaker 1: from COVID. Because Trump didn't want his numbers to look bad.
Speaker 1: Nothing about calling Liz Warren Pocahontas in the equivalent of
Speaker 1: the State of the Union address. Nothing oh demonstrated anew
Speaker 1: why he is vexed moments of both parties for the
Speaker 1: past decade. Then there's this from the right wing site,
Speaker 1: Politico's Rachel Bade. That's bad only with an E at
Speaker 1: the end. Congratulations. Attention, hungry House Democrats. You stole the
Speaker 1: spotlight from Donald Trump on Tuesday Night. Your reward undercutting
Speaker 1: your own message in the fight against Trump, making your
Speaker 1: party look small on deathbit and making Trump look at
Speaker 1: the commanding figure he desperately wants to be. She's an idiot.
Speaker 1: In its same massive vowel movement, Politico praised the celebration
Speaker 1: of disruption, praised the defying of backlash. Disruption you mean
Speaker 1: al Green, I know by Trump incompetent democracy destroying front
Speaker 1: running bastards at Politico and not just at Political because
Speaker 1: they all move around. Somebody just left NBC for Politico,
Speaker 1: and I think somebody from Politico just went to NBC.
Speaker 1: And I will spare you more of this with one exception,
Speaker 1: because this is one of the all time greatest, worst
Speaker 1: takes ever this is and the author is not a surprise.
Speaker 1: But the quality of how bad this is is is
Speaker 1: his mona Lisa, his mona Lisa of stupidity. I'll read
Speaker 1: it first and then tell you who said this. This
Speaker 1: speech will play very well for Trump. Yes, he has
Speaker 1: repeated a whole lot of lies he tells all the time,
Speaker 1: but he's also poignantly highlighted trans issues, Wokeness, Lake and Riley,
Speaker 1: et cetera. And those are eighty twenty issues for the
Speaker 1: public in his favor. The speech is a master work
Speaker 1: of shareable content and moments. Trump is reality TV show
Speaker 1: producer and star, and he is showing it tonight. Almost
Speaker 1: got into Rich Lowry Little starbursts in Sarah Palin's eyes
Speaker 1: territory at the end. There you could almost see the
Speaker 1: guy who wrote this doing a Joni Ernst. But the
Speaker 1: author there can only be one, Chris Solisa. At the
Speaker 1: heart of all this is this truth. If Trump agreed
Speaker 1: to let Putin attack Washington, DC with tactical nukes and
Speaker 1: the Democrats held a last second news conference calling Trump
Speaker 1: a trader and a murderer, half the Washington press corps
Speaker 1: would rise to Trump's defense. Because he cannot shake the
Speaker 1: idea that there are still rules, there are rules. There
Speaker 1: are no rules here. There have not been rules in
Speaker 1: Washington for a decade. But they still want, they still need,
Speaker 1: They still cannot function without cubby holes for everything. There
Speaker 1: are to them only eleven different stories in Washington, and
Speaker 1: whatever this is, it has to be one of them.
Speaker 1: It can't be deliberately manipulating the stock market by turning
Speaker 1: tariffs on and off. That's not one of these eleven stories. Well,
Speaker 1: how would we cover that, Well, we can't. Don't cover
Speaker 1: it at all. Okay, So al Green's audacity and forward
Speaker 1: thinking and pro democracy courage is reduced to disrespecting the presidency.
Speaker 1: I have bad news for you, Washington d C. Press Corps.
Speaker 1: There is no presidency. There is no president. The office
Speaker 1: of President of the United States, for all practical purposes,
Speaker 1: no longer exists. There is just a madman, a senile
Speaker 1: bully no one has had the courage to stand up to,
Speaker 1: rapidly using his remaining shreds of self control. There is
Speaker 1: no president to disrespect. There is only a dictator building
Speaker 1: that wall around us and around you, the media, and
Speaker 1: around the courts, and you, the media and the courts,
Speaker 1: and most of the Democrats, you guys are busy handing
Speaker 1: him the effing bricks. Also of interest here I teased
Speaker 1: at the beginning some startling but happy polling news for you,
Speaker 1: and I will deliver. How about six weeks into the
Speaker 1: dictatorship and Trump has already seen his support among men
Speaker 1: under thirty. Dive deeply underwater. Trump, bro, you've been doged.
Speaker 1: It's next. This is Countdown.
Speaker 3: This is Countdown with Keith Oberman.
Speaker 1: Postscripts to the news, some headlines, some updates, some snarks.
Speaker 1: Still ahead of us of course, worst persons. And Nancy
Speaker 1: Mace was today years old before she learned there was
Speaker 1: a difference between a boy lion and a girl lion. Next,
Speaker 1: this is the Countdown podcast. And these are the places
Speaker 1: where there's news. Kateline harvid yad headquarters of the research
Speaker 1: company Social Space, actually located at Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Speaker 1: They tell Puck News that it is faint at this point,
Speaker 1: but the writing is on the wall for Trump's support
Speaker 1: with men under thirty, possibly the pivotal point of the
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four election. Quoting Puck, six weeks into the
Speaker 1: new presidency, John Delvolfi of Social Space said that Trump'
Speaker 1: support among young voters is already taking an unambiguous hit. Overall,
Speaker 1: favorability with the younger voters has dropped seven points since
Speaker 1: his January poll. The weekend before the inauguration. He came
Speaker 1: into office with a fifty percent favorable among gen z.
Speaker 1: He's now at forty three. Since mid January, Trump's favorable
Speaker 1: rating has dropped most significantly among young rural voters, down
Speaker 1: seventeen points, independence down thirteen points, white women down ten points,
Speaker 1: and women overall down ten points. At the same time,
Speaker 1: Trump's standing among young white men has remained about the same,
Speaker 1: But in January, sixty two percent of men under thirty
Speaker 1: had approved of Trump's handling of the economy. Now just
Speaker 1: forty eight percent approve. That's a drop of fourteen points
Speaker 1: in one month. On handling inflation, Trump has taken a
Speaker 1: fifth teen point hit, dropping from fifty five percent approval
Speaker 1: before the inauguration to forty percent today. And as Puck
Speaker 1: additionally notes, those bad numbers and they are actually horrible.
Speaker 1: They are themselves three weeks worse and three weeks old. Now.
Speaker 1: These numbers were conducted in the middle of February. So
Speaker 1: who knows what the impact of all of this nonsense
Speaker 1: about tariffs and everything else has factored in. Here Trump
Speaker 1: is in trouble with the people who put him over
Speaker 1: the top dateline Kiev. Speaking of which headline, Putin pauses
Speaker 1: US military aid to Ukraine. In case that got right
Speaker 1: past you, I'll just say it again, Putin pauses US
Speaker 1: military aid to Ukraine. Let me explain something, as I
Speaker 1: understand it, about what may not be fully evident at
Speaker 1: first glance, to the situation in Ukraine. On the one
Speaker 1: subject peacekeepers that is so desperately important to both sides.
Speaker 1: Why is Putin desperate to make sure peacekeepers and other
Speaker 1: truce enforcers if there is one, if there is a deal.
Speaker 1: Why there are no Americans? Why is Zelensky just as
Speaker 1: insistent that there be at least some American troops there
Speaker 1: doing something to keep the peace. Well, there must be Americans,
Speaker 1: because otherwise all of the peacekeepers would be European. When
Speaker 1: Putin violates any ceasefire, Well, he can't shoot Americans. Not yet.
Speaker 1: He wants to fight Europeans. He would fight Europeans, he
Speaker 1: would shoot European peacekeepers. He wants, in fact, an excuse
Speaker 1: to fight Europeans. That's the whole point of Ukraine. It
Speaker 1: is a warm up for going into Poland and other
Speaker 1: parts of Europe. That's the whole reason we have been
Speaker 1: defending Ukraine for three years. The whole point that Trump
Speaker 1: not understand, the whole reenactment of nineteen thirty eight and
Speaker 1: nineteen thirty nine. That Trump could never understand in a
Speaker 1: million years, because there's no cash in it for him.
Speaker 1: The peacekeepers, if they are not American, guarantee war in Europe,
Speaker 1: which is why Zelenski and smart people want Americans as
Speaker 1: part of any peacekeeping force. Dateline, Washington, shocking. I know,
Speaker 1: I hope you're sitting down for this part, but did
Speaker 1: you know Trump's cabinet and staff are full of absolute
Speaker 1: flaming morons. I mean, if there were such a thing,
Speaker 1: who would you pick first in the moron fantasy draft
Speaker 1: of the Trump administration? Would you go with? Alina haba
Speaker 1: White House advisor on parking lots who has just slimed veterans.
Speaker 4: Starting to think about maybe some of those veterans who
Speaker 4: worked for the federal government and maybe what the administration
Speaker 4: can do to at least help salvage their lives.
Speaker 5: Well, as you know, we care about veterans trumendously. I
Speaker 5: mean that's something the President has always cared about anybody
Speaker 5: and blew anybody that serves this country. But at the
Speaker 5: same time, we have taxpayer dollars. We have a fiscal
Speaker 5: responsibility to use taxpayer dollars to pay people that actually work.
Speaker 5: That doesn't mean that we forget our veterans by any means.
Speaker 5: We are going to care for them in the right way.
Speaker 5: But perhaps they're not fit to have a job at
Speaker 5: this moment or not willing to come to work, and
Speaker 5: we can't. You know, I wouldn't take money from you
Speaker 5: and pay somebody and say sorry, you know they're not
Speaker 5: going to come to work. It's just not acceptable.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're not qualified or ready or willing to take
Speaker 1: an important job like cheap advisor on bimbos to the
Speaker 1: White House now, as if he hadn't already made it
Speaker 1: unsafe for any American official to travel in Europe. There's
Speaker 1: another candidate, jd. Vance. He may be the number one
Speaker 1: draft choice in the Moron draft because he may have
Speaker 1: single handedly canceled the Trump state visit to meet the
Speaker 1: King of England. He may or may not have meant
Speaker 1: British troops and British wars and British dead, but they
Speaker 1: sure think he did when he said this.
Speaker 4: If you want real security guarantees, if you want to
Speaker 4: actually ensure that Vladimir Putin does not invade Ukraine again,
Speaker 4: the very best security guarantee is to give Americans economic
Speaker 4: upside in the future of Ukraine. That is a way
Speaker 4: better security guarantee than twenty thousand troops from some random
Speaker 4: country that hasn't fought a war in thirty or forty years.
Speaker 1: The problem for jd JV is there are so many
Speaker 1: skeletons in his closet he may have to have extra
Speaker 1: closets put into his closet. Give me like five hundred
Speaker 1: to one odds on this and I'll predict right now
Speaker 1: and take a bet that he resigns from that office
Speaker 1: before the term expires. And lastly, in the derby of
Speaker 1: dumb in the race to be the first draft choice
Speaker 1: in our fantasy Fantasy league, is Caroline Levitt, the former
Speaker 1: star center fielder of the softball team at her college
Speaker 1: in wherever the hell it was. She had just said
Speaker 1: that she thought God had given her a special skill
Speaker 1: the ability to communicate. And here she is right after
Speaker 1: that communicating that Trump's addressed to Congress would be attended
Speaker 1: by a dead guy.
Speaker 6: There will be everyday American heroes and attendance. Stephanie Diller,
Speaker 6: whom you mentioned, who lost her husband in the line
Speaker 6: of duty at the hands of an illegal immigrant. You
Speaker 6: have Mark Foegel, who, of course, because of President Trump's
Speaker 6: Peace through Strength efforts were returned from Russian captivity. Corey
Speaker 6: Compratour who lost his life protecting his family in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1: That's the firefighter who was shot when they tried to
Speaker 1: shoot Trump. I don't know if you have one of
Speaker 1: the top three draft choices, you can't go wrong with
Speaker 1: any of these three idiots and Dateline des Moines, Iowa
Speaker 1: Senator Joni Ernst was a late yes on Pete Hegseth's nomination.
Speaker 1: There's all kinds of guesses now as to why she
Speaker 1: said yes, and this as the reason. It sounds good,
Speaker 1: but it doesn't hold up to logic because if this
Speaker 1: had been the reason, then it wouldn't have come out. Still,
Speaker 1: it came out at its efing funny. In fact, it's
Speaker 1: effing hilarious. In twenty fourteen, Jony Ernst ran for the
Speaker 1: Senate in Iowa and put up a controversial campaign ad
Speaker 1: in which she boasted that she had experienced castrating hogs
Speaker 1: castrating hogs, and thus she would be an expert in
Speaker 1: Washington in finding and getting rid of pork now. Pro
Speaker 1: Publica reports this. Earlier this year, the Air Force revealed
Speaker 1: that the general who oversaw its lobbying before Congress had
Speaker 1: inappropriate romantic relationships with five women, including three who worked
Speaker 1: on Capitol Hill. Major General Christopher Finnity's colleagues told investigators
Speaker 1: the relationships were highly inappropriate, as they could give the
Speaker 1: Air Force undue influence in Congress. I honestly felt sick
Speaker 1: to my stomach, one said, according to a report about
Speaker 1: the investigation, because it just felt so sleazy. Well, no
Speaker 1: doubt that's why it was so much fun. But one
Speaker 1: of the women whose relationship with Finity was scrutinized by
Speaker 1: the Inspector General was Senator Jony Ernst, according to two
Speaker 1: sources with knowledge of the investigation, Pro Publica continues, the
Speaker 1: Iowa Republican and combat veteran you Bet is one of
Speaker 1: the most influential voices on the Hill. About the military.
Speaker 1: I see, and she sits on Oh there's more to that.
Speaker 1: She sits on the Senate's Armed Services Committee, which oversees
Speaker 1: the Pentagon and plays a crucial role in setting its
Speaker 1: annual budget. And yes, I'd make exactly the same kind
Speaker 1: of thirteen year old's jokes if this was about a man.
Speaker 1: Three other sources told Pro Publica that around twenty nineteen,
Speaker 1: Earnst that a previous romantic relationship with a legislative affairs
Speaker 1: official for a different branch of the military, the Navy.
Speaker 1: There's a joke there about swimming to troop ships. We'll
Speaker 1: just let that go. But I'm not letting this one go.
Speaker 1: You're telling me that Jony Ernst went to DC to
Speaker 1: get all the pork she could find. Wait, wait, it's
Speaker 1: worse that twenty fourteen castrating pigs ad. Jony Earnst punchline,
Speaker 1: which she delivered herself, was about her goal when she
Speaker 1: got to Washington, which was, in fact, quote, let's make
Speaker 1: them squeal. You bet.
Speaker 3: Then, finally, believe it or not, there's still more new
Speaker 3: idiots to talk about. The roundup of the miscreants, morons
Speaker 3: and dunning Krueger e fects specimens who constitute today's other.
Speaker 1: Worst persons in the world. Here the nominees the Bronze
Speaker 1: worst Jeff she Shell owld pal from Fox. Jeff Shell,
Speaker 1: Jeff Shell, and I worked with Lauren Sanchez at Fox.
Speaker 1: He's the incoming boss of CBS after NBC fired him
Speaker 1: over a woman. He'll be the boss of CBS whenever
Speaker 1: the Paramount sky Dance murder finally happens, or or he's
Speaker 1: the boss right now. Legally, my former friend, who's defensive,
Speaker 1: his deception was once you should have known I was
Speaker 1: lying is, according to Oliver Darcy, as Status already pressuring
Speaker 1: CBS News to settle Trump's bullying lawsuit so that Trump
Speaker 1: doesn't corruptly hold up that merger I just mentioned between
Speaker 1: the Paramount Company and sky Dance. A couple problems here.
Speaker 1: First of all, the lawsuit is bullshit. This is that
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris editing thing, and now the dictator wants ten
Speaker 1: billion dollars in damages for something that didn't have a
Speaker 1: goddamn thing to do with him. But secondly, Jeff Shell
Speaker 1: isn't the head of CBS because Paramount and Skydance haven't merged,
Speaker 1: and the sky Dance people are legally not supposed to
Speaker 1: be involved in CBS decisions, let alone running things until
Speaker 1: the merger is complete. As Oliver Darcy puts it, quote,
Speaker 1: by attempting to influence decisions at CBS News, Shell may
Speaker 1: have aired and potentially opened Paramount and Skydance up to
Speaker 1: regulatory scrutiny. Well you should have known I was lying. Now.
Speaker 1: This sounds awfully familiar to some of us, because fifteen
Speaker 1: years ago, Jeffshell was one of the top executives at Comcast.
Speaker 1: In the same situation, Comcast was about to merge with
Speaker 1: NBC takeover NBC. That was a huge slow merger, and
Speaker 1: once again Comcast people were not supposed to have any
Speaker 1: say on day to day stuff at NBC until merger day,
Speaker 1: which was January first, twenty eleven. And yet what do
Speaker 1: I find in my files a series of emails to
Speaker 1: me from jeffs Shell at his Comcast address, encouraging me
Speaker 1: not to leave MSNBC and to hang in there and
Speaker 1: not worry about Jeff Sooker, and telling me how much
Speaker 1: fun he and I would have together if I stayed
Speaker 1: at NBC when he would come in and run it.
Speaker 1: The dates on these emails else El Sir. A couple
Speaker 1: of them are July twenty ninth, twenty ten, five months
Speaker 1: before JEFFS. Shell was actually allowed to try to influence
Speaker 1: stuff at NBC or the people there. Huh So maybe
Speaker 1: his previous experience doing this is why he got the
Speaker 1: CBS gig runner up appeaser Governor Jared Poulis of Colorado,
Speaker 1: I keep telling you, playing nice with the fascists is
Speaker 1: not only going to get your thrown out of the party,
Speaker 1: it's also going to get you run over first by
Speaker 1: the fascists. Polis praised Robert F. Kennedy Junior, Then he
Speaker 1: went on vs. Joe on MSNBC. On there, he praised
Speaker 1: the Trump and Musk efforts to gut FEMA, and how
Speaker 1: have they repaid his quote bipartisanship unquote. Republicans are angry
Speaker 1: that Colorado prosecuted Trump vote denier Tina Peters. They have
Speaker 1: demanded Governor Polus hardened Tina Peters or Trump will try
Speaker 1: to cut off federal funds to Colorado. Do you see
Speaker 1: what happens, Jared? Do you see what happens Jared when
Speaker 1: you fill it in yourself. By the way, trump ists
Speaker 1: go ahead try to cut off federal funds to a
Speaker 1: blue state. All the other blue states will then cut
Speaker 1: off their funds to the federal government, and your president
Speaker 1: will be overthrown before the end of the month by
Speaker 1: MAGA because people in the red states will start starving
Speaker 1: without the blue state money. But our winner, on top
Speaker 1: of a field day of great candidates Nancy Mace. Nancy Mace,
Speaker 1: congress Woman of North Carolina, although probably not of this earth,
Speaker 1: how many dumb things has she done in office so far?
Speaker 3: Started with telling the I skip morning sex with my
Speaker 3: unmarried partner to be here on time story at Senator
Speaker 3: Tim Scott's prayer.
Speaker 1: Breakfast he was. It was we will have sex.
Speaker 3: Later, reverend the unmarried partner she lived with, and then
Speaker 3: there were loud threats of lawsuits when they broke up
Speaker 3: and argued over who actually owned their house. That was
Speaker 3: another story involving Nancy Mace. Well, this isn't quite that graphic,
Speaker 3: but in many ways it's really much more disturbing. Nancy
Speaker 3: Mayce has posted on social media an animated video of
Speaker 3: a lion the wind blowing through its hair, along with
Speaker 3: her comment quote, women want someone who will go to
Speaker 3: battle for them. I am your lion.
Speaker 1: Hear me roar. The lion in Nancy May's tweet is
Speaker 1: a male. I am your lion. Hear me roar, and
Speaker 1: the lion she.
Speaker 3: Is is a guy.
Speaker 1: Nancy Hell.
Speaker 3: Maybe now we know why she broke up with the
Speaker 3: boyfriend Mace two days other worse person than the world.
Speaker 3: I've done all the damage I can do here. Thank
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Speaker 3: group No Horns Allowed. My announcer today was my friend
Speaker 3: John Dean. Everything else was, as ever, my fault. So
Speaker 3: that's countdown for today. Just seventeen days until the scheduled
Speaker 3: end of his lane. Duck lame brained term unless Musk
Speaker 3: removes Trump sooner where the actuarial tables do. The next
Speaker 3: schedule Countdown is Monday. As always, bolletins as the news warrants.
Speaker 3: Remember peach Trump. It won't work now. It will, however, win.
Speaker 1: The Democrats the midterms if we have midterms. Until next time,
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