1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:21,715 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. I 2 00:00:21,915 --> 00:00:25,315 Speaker 1: don't know much about the law, but I do know 3 00:00:25,595 --> 00:00:29,595 Speaker 1: the Trump trial has confirmed one of the immutable truths 4 00:00:29,715 --> 00:00:34,395 Speaker 1: of the field. Never hire an attorney who has a 5 00:00:34,515 --> 00:00:41,475 Speaker 1: rating of three and a half stars. Susan Necklace somehow 6 00:00:41,515 --> 00:00:45,635 Speaker 1: managed to lose to Stormy Daniels during the second day 7 00:00:45,675 --> 00:00:49,075 Speaker 1: of cross examination in Trump on Trial yesterday. Lose so 8 00:00:49,275 --> 00:00:53,955 Speaker 1: badly and lose so obviously that Trump's team was reduced 9 00:00:53,995 --> 00:00:59,515 Speaker 1: to filing a desperation mistrial motion off the very thin ice, 10 00:00:59,835 --> 00:01:04,795 Speaker 1: basically claiming that Necklace forgot to object to something that 11 00:01:04,875 --> 00:01:09,955 Speaker 1: Stormy Daniels had said on Tuesday. All of a sudden, 12 00:01:09,995 --> 00:01:12,755 Speaker 1: the Trump defense was claiming and leaking to every news 13 00:01:12,875 --> 00:01:16,275 Speaker 1: organization by the way that Daniels had dog whistled a 14 00:01:16,395 --> 00:01:20,995 Speaker 1: subtext of rape or assault or something else involuntary when 15 00:01:21,075 --> 00:01:24,435 Speaker 1: she gave details about Trump standing in front of her 16 00:01:24,595 --> 00:01:27,675 Speaker 1: and not using a condom and a bodyguard being out 17 00:01:27,675 --> 00:01:31,035 Speaker 1: in the hallway, and we should just ignore that when 18 00:01:31,035 --> 00:01:36,035 Speaker 1: she said all that three days ago, Trump's lawyer with 19 00:01:36,075 --> 00:01:40,435 Speaker 1: the three and a half stars rating, Susan Necklace, said nothing, 20 00:01:41,275 --> 00:01:43,915 Speaker 1: not even the one thing you or I would remember 21 00:01:43,995 --> 00:01:47,475 Speaker 1: to say if we woke up in some alternate universe 22 00:01:47,595 --> 00:01:51,995 Speaker 1: where we were in that courtroom as Trump's lawyers, the 23 00:01:52,035 --> 00:01:56,755 Speaker 1: one thing we would remember to say, you know, objection, 24 00:01:58,275 --> 00:02:03,715 Speaker 1: Mss Necklace, and mister Todd blanche as in blanched visibly 25 00:02:04,395 --> 00:02:07,195 Speaker 1: then made it worse, demanding not only a mistrial but 26 00:02:07,235 --> 00:02:10,075 Speaker 1: also a revision to the gag order so that Trump 27 00:02:10,115 --> 00:02:13,195 Speaker 1: could go out and slander Daniels to the media and 28 00:02:13,275 --> 00:02:16,435 Speaker 1: call her horse face again, and lord knows what else, 29 00:02:16,475 --> 00:02:19,155 Speaker 1: because at the bottom line, Trump wants to be able 30 00:02:19,195 --> 00:02:21,635 Speaker 1: to answer her, but he is too much of a 31 00:02:21,675 --> 00:02:25,715 Speaker 1: coward to utilize the method provided for answering her, which 32 00:02:25,755 --> 00:02:29,035 Speaker 1: is to testify, which he vowed to do and which 33 00:02:29,035 --> 00:02:31,355 Speaker 1: he would now not do if it guaranteed him re 34 00:02:31,475 --> 00:02:35,475 Speaker 1: election as president, because the prosecution has nailed him to 35 00:02:35,595 --> 00:02:38,955 Speaker 1: the wall on this case. While Miss Necklace may soon 36 00:02:38,995 --> 00:02:41,675 Speaker 1: be looking back fondly on those days when her rating 37 00:02:41,795 --> 00:02:46,235 Speaker 1: was as high as three and a half stars, Miss Necklace, 38 00:02:46,715 --> 00:02:50,195 Speaker 1: you have experience in making up fake stories about sex, 39 00:02:50,715 --> 00:02:53,915 Speaker 1: Miss Daniels. The sex is real, That's why it's not 40 00:02:53,995 --> 00:02:57,995 Speaker 1: a B movie. Miss Necklace. Now you have a story 41 00:02:57,995 --> 00:03:02,115 Speaker 1: about having sex with President Trump, right, Miss Daniels, if 42 00:03:02,115 --> 00:03:05,395 Speaker 1: that story was untrue, I would have written it to 43 00:03:05,475 --> 00:03:10,875 Speaker 1: be a lot better. Woo, there goes another half star 44 00:03:10,955 --> 00:03:15,075 Speaker 1: in her rating, Miss Necklace, you had sex with a cameraman, 45 00:03:15,475 --> 00:03:19,195 Speaker 1: Miss Daniels, I started dating him and he became my husband. 46 00:03:21,075 --> 00:03:23,755 Speaker 1: And a reminder, none of this needed to be heard 47 00:03:23,795 --> 00:03:27,195 Speaker 1: by the jury. If Trump's defense had stipulated, yeah, they 48 00:03:27,235 --> 00:03:30,235 Speaker 1: had sex, she would not have been allowed to testify. 49 00:03:30,915 --> 00:03:33,315 Speaker 1: Or they could have just asked her what she knew 50 00:03:33,315 --> 00:03:37,635 Speaker 1: about Trump's involvement in the non disclosure agreement or in 51 00:03:37,675 --> 00:03:41,035 Speaker 1: the payoffs, and she could have said nothing, and Miss 52 00:03:41,155 --> 00:03:44,195 Speaker 1: Necklace could have said nothing. Further, you're on her. This 53 00:03:44,475 --> 00:03:49,315 Speaker 1: is a case, a relatively boring case with excruciatingly detailed 54 00:03:49,355 --> 00:03:53,795 Speaker 1: information about how routine company checks got sent by FedEx 55 00:03:53,835 --> 00:03:56,835 Speaker 1: to the White House for Trump to sign in sharpie 56 00:03:57,075 --> 00:03:59,875 Speaker 1: even while he was president, and he never ignored a 57 00:03:59,915 --> 00:04:02,435 Speaker 1: single detail that cost him more than ninety nine cents. 58 00:04:02,715 --> 00:04:08,075 Speaker 1: It's a relatively boring case about falsified business records that 59 00:04:08,235 --> 00:04:11,155 Speaker 1: led to the attempt to interfere with an election, and 60 00:04:11,315 --> 00:04:15,475 Speaker 1: Trump's legal team has turned it into Laca Waca Waca 61 00:04:16,115 --> 00:04:19,235 Speaker 1: and his credibility and their credibility against the credibility of 62 00:04:19,275 --> 00:04:22,355 Speaker 1: a pornographic actress and no offense to her profession. But 63 00:04:22,435 --> 00:04:25,835 Speaker 1: guess what the pornographic actress won and it's a shutout. 64 00:04:27,915 --> 00:04:32,795 Speaker 1: As the defense pushed for a mistrial denied, the prosecution 65 00:04:32,915 --> 00:04:35,995 Speaker 1: revealed it had decided to skip Karen McDougall as an 66 00:04:36,035 --> 00:04:39,155 Speaker 1: additional witness because it would have only served to embarrass 67 00:04:39,195 --> 00:04:43,235 Speaker 1: Trump further, the implication being they don't need her testimony 68 00:04:43,315 --> 00:04:46,635 Speaker 1: now and that they left half their questions for Stormy 69 00:04:46,715 --> 00:04:50,515 Speaker 1: Daniels in the briefcase because the answers were not necessary 70 00:04:50,555 --> 00:04:52,835 Speaker 1: and they would have only embarrassed Trump further. And a 71 00:04:52,875 --> 00:04:56,355 Speaker 1: prosecutor actually told the judge she was going to be asked, 72 00:04:56,675 --> 00:05:00,075 Speaker 1: did you feel anything different? And she was going to say, 73 00:05:00,595 --> 00:05:04,915 Speaker 1: I felt the skin of a sixty year old man, 74 00:05:08,155 --> 00:05:11,475 Speaker 1: as a single man who has recently been sixty years 75 00:05:11,475 --> 00:05:15,195 Speaker 1: old and has been dating for half a century. If 76 00:05:15,195 --> 00:05:17,795 Speaker 1: that had been said about me by a woman during 77 00:05:17,915 --> 00:05:20,915 Speaker 1: my trial, I would have been so humiliated that I 78 00:05:20,915 --> 00:05:23,275 Speaker 1: would have stood up and pleaded guilty just to get 79 00:05:23,315 --> 00:05:27,155 Speaker 1: out of the courtroom as quickly as possible. Then again, 80 00:05:28,075 --> 00:05:32,435 Speaker 1: mss necklace and mister blanche as in Blanched visibly got 81 00:05:32,435 --> 00:05:36,395 Speaker 1: the really important testimony out of Stormy Daniels, didn't They. 82 00:05:36,955 --> 00:05:41,155 Speaker 1: They asked her if Aaron Rodgers, Charles Barkley and Ben 83 00:05:41,275 --> 00:05:44,835 Speaker 1: Roethlisberger were also at that golf tournament where she met 84 00:05:44,875 --> 00:05:47,955 Speaker 1: Trump all those years ago, and when she said yes, 85 00:05:48,395 --> 00:05:50,955 Speaker 1: they then asked her to confirm that Trump was the 86 00:05:50,955 --> 00:05:54,315 Speaker 1: most famous celebrity there. And then they asked her to 87 00:05:54,355 --> 00:05:57,315 Speaker 1: confirm that Trump did really well at that golf tournament. 88 00:05:58,315 --> 00:06:01,795 Speaker 1: In fact, in a field of eighty in that golf tournament, 89 00:06:01,835 --> 00:06:06,515 Speaker 1: Trump finished sixty second, a couple of strokes behind Ray Romano, 90 00:06:07,315 --> 00:06:11,155 Speaker 1: Bruce McGill, who played d Day in the Animal House movie, 91 00:06:11,555 --> 00:06:19,435 Speaker 1: and behind Dan Patrick. Dan Patrick, my Dan Patrick. And 92 00:06:19,475 --> 00:06:21,675 Speaker 1: if that had been said about me by a woman 93 00:06:21,795 --> 00:06:24,395 Speaker 1: during my trial, I would have been so humiliated. I 94 00:06:24,395 --> 00:06:26,755 Speaker 1: would have stood up and pleaded guilty just to get 95 00:06:26,795 --> 00:06:38,515 Speaker 1: out of the courtroom as quickly as possible. I move 96 00:06:38,595 --> 00:06:43,635 Speaker 1: for a bad legal thingy. By the way, the Washington 97 00:06:43,675 --> 00:06:47,155 Speaker 1: Post is reporting that Trump has offered to sell the 98 00:06:47,195 --> 00:06:51,955 Speaker 1: planet to the oil industry for one billion dollars give 99 00:06:52,035 --> 00:06:56,355 Speaker 1: him a bribe of one billion, not legally a bribe 100 00:06:56,435 --> 00:07:02,075 Speaker 1: call it campaign fund donations. And the earth is literally yours. 101 00:07:03,555 --> 00:07:08,155 Speaker 1: For just one billion dollars, you oil executives, you get 102 00:07:08,155 --> 00:07:14,515 Speaker 1: to kill all the future generations you want. You Chevron, you, Exxon, 103 00:07:14,995 --> 00:07:19,515 Speaker 1: you Occidental, you the other twenty guys. You give me 104 00:07:19,595 --> 00:07:23,355 Speaker 1: the billion dollars. And that Biden freeze on permits for 105 00:07:23,435 --> 00:07:28,155 Speaker 1: new LNG liquefied natural gas exports, it goes away. You'll 106 00:07:28,155 --> 00:07:32,075 Speaker 1: get the LNG thing immediately. Trump quote, you'll get it 107 00:07:32,115 --> 00:07:35,275 Speaker 1: on the first day. You want to drill in Alaska 108 00:07:35,315 --> 00:07:38,155 Speaker 1: and the Arctic Wilderness. You've been waiting on a permit 109 00:07:38,195 --> 00:07:41,315 Speaker 1: for five years. One of those whose bribe was solicited 110 00:07:41,475 --> 00:07:44,315 Speaker 1: quotes Trump is saying, you'll get it on day one, 111 00:07:44,595 --> 00:07:49,355 Speaker 1: unquote for just one billion dollars. Gulf of Mexico. You 112 00:07:49,435 --> 00:07:54,035 Speaker 1: want to drill there, The auctions start day one. The price? 113 00:07:54,515 --> 00:07:58,835 Speaker 1: Did I mention? It's one billion dollars. Those Biden tail 114 00:07:59,035 --> 00:08:03,115 Speaker 1: pipe rules, the ones designed to make evs and hybrid's 115 00:08:03,195 --> 00:08:06,195 Speaker 1: two thirds of all cars, So by eight years from 116 00:08:06,235 --> 00:08:09,315 Speaker 1: now the thing Trump claims he was referring to when 117 00:08:09,315 --> 00:08:12,755 Speaker 1: he threatened a blood bath if Biden is reelected. Trump 118 00:08:12,795 --> 00:08:16,755 Speaker 1: called those rules ridiculous, offered to ban them. If see 119 00:08:16,755 --> 00:08:20,275 Speaker 1: if you can guess if those oil executives sitting with 120 00:08:20,395 --> 00:08:23,715 Speaker 1: him at the fundraiser at Mari Lago last month simply 121 00:08:23,755 --> 00:08:29,235 Speaker 1: gave him one billion dollars. You want your own state, guys. 122 00:08:29,555 --> 00:08:33,395 Speaker 1: You want a place like say North Dakota, to just 123 00:08:33,675 --> 00:08:37,555 Speaker 1: be trilleying and pipelines in rare earth extraction, and the 124 00:08:37,595 --> 00:08:40,955 Speaker 1: governor Doug Bergham, the guy with the eyebrows, to become 125 00:08:41,035 --> 00:08:44,875 Speaker 1: vice president or energy secretary, or hell, let's really do this, 126 00:08:45,515 --> 00:08:48,755 Speaker 1: let's make him head of Environmental Protection one billion dollars. 127 00:08:49,515 --> 00:08:51,955 Speaker 1: You want the official position of the United States to 128 00:08:51,995 --> 00:08:54,915 Speaker 1: be that climate change is a hoax and climate disaster 129 00:08:55,075 --> 00:08:58,035 Speaker 1: is an impossibility, and that anybody who says the combustion 130 00:08:58,195 --> 00:09:01,955 Speaker 1: engine threatens the continuation of our species is just crazy. 131 00:09:02,875 --> 00:09:09,195 Speaker 1: That'll be one billion dollars. In the reality of the 132 00:09:09,235 --> 00:09:14,955 Speaker 1: horizon immediately in front of us, dozens of tornado funnels growing, 133 00:09:15,275 --> 00:09:18,995 Speaker 1: speeding up, moving towards us, ready to lay waste to 134 00:09:19,155 --> 00:09:22,115 Speaker 1: everything we know about our lives and our freedom and 135 00:09:22,195 --> 00:09:26,595 Speaker 1: our democracy, the form of government Donald Trump has decided 136 00:09:26,715 --> 00:09:31,595 Speaker 1: must die so he can live with that in front 137 00:09:31,635 --> 00:09:36,355 Speaker 1: of us. We sometimes forget that behind that ominous, dark, 138 00:09:36,515 --> 00:09:41,795 Speaker 1: fatal view is another series of tornado funnels, not dozens, 139 00:09:42,155 --> 00:09:46,235 Speaker 1: but thousands, and not figures of speeches that would follow 140 00:09:46,315 --> 00:09:49,435 Speaker 1: once Trump has again seized power and destroyed what we 141 00:09:49,515 --> 00:09:52,115 Speaker 1: have discovered all too late are the far too few 142 00:09:52,195 --> 00:09:57,795 Speaker 1: safeguards and protections. And the difference is those are actual tornadoes. 143 00:09:58,715 --> 00:10:02,075 Speaker 1: Because what Trump would do for the two dozen or 144 00:10:02,115 --> 00:10:05,155 Speaker 1: so oil robber barons to whom Trump lent last month 145 00:10:05,475 --> 00:10:09,355 Speaker 1: at marri Lago, offered to sell the world for a 146 00:10:09,395 --> 00:10:14,595 Speaker 1: billion dollars, would end any remaining chance we have of 147 00:10:14,675 --> 00:10:20,235 Speaker 1: staving off or just reducing the coming climate disaster. These 148 00:10:20,355 --> 00:10:23,675 Speaker 1: decisions have to be made in the next five years, 149 00:10:24,635 --> 00:10:28,995 Speaker 1: and so for his billion dollars, you can be certain 150 00:10:29,035 --> 00:10:33,795 Speaker 1: that you, or your children, or your grandchildren, or in 151 00:10:33,835 --> 00:10:38,475 Speaker 1: a best case scenario, your great grandchildren, they will die 152 00:10:38,835 --> 00:10:42,155 Speaker 1: in one of those tornadoes, or that they will die 153 00:10:42,555 --> 00:10:45,155 Speaker 1: in a wildfire for which there is not enough water 154 00:10:45,235 --> 00:10:47,675 Speaker 1: to put it out, or that they will die in 155 00:10:47,795 --> 00:10:50,995 Speaker 1: the water after the hours of rain and the days 156 00:10:51,035 --> 00:10:54,315 Speaker 1: of rain, and the weeks of rain that does not stop. 157 00:10:54,395 --> 00:10:57,315 Speaker 1: Because what the billion dollars Trump wants comes for in 158 00:10:57,355 --> 00:11:00,515 Speaker 1: exchange for the fossil fuel companies to keep on destroying 159 00:11:00,715 --> 00:11:04,395 Speaker 1: the only atmosphere we have and the only ecosystem we have, 160 00:11:04,755 --> 00:11:08,435 Speaker 1: while they all maintain the arrogance and certainty and insanity 161 00:11:08,835 --> 00:11:12,195 Speaker 1: of the rich people on the Titanic. While other people 162 00:11:12,275 --> 00:11:17,035 Speaker 1: might die, but we won't. We are in first class. 163 00:11:19,595 --> 00:11:23,915 Speaker 1: We forget sometimes that part of the Trump will destroy 164 00:11:23,995 --> 00:11:30,315 Speaker 1: democracy deal is Trump will also destroy the planet your 165 00:11:30,395 --> 00:11:36,795 Speaker 1: cost one billion dollars. The Post report is spare and 166 00:11:36,915 --> 00:11:40,435 Speaker 1: non hysterical, and rather boringly written, and that makes it 167 00:11:40,515 --> 00:11:43,995 Speaker 1: all the worse. By the calculations the paper quotes from 168 00:11:43,995 --> 00:11:48,915 Speaker 1: the group Climate Power, those oil executives have donated heavily 169 00:11:48,955 --> 00:11:51,795 Speaker 1: to Trump already, but heavily turns out to mean only 170 00:11:51,875 --> 00:11:55,835 Speaker 1: about six million, four hundred thousand dollars over the first 171 00:11:55,915 --> 00:12:00,115 Speaker 1: quarter of this year. For the full apocalypse, Trump wants 172 00:12:00,195 --> 00:12:06,715 Speaker 1: just a little bit more, just another nine hundred ninety 173 00:12:06,755 --> 00:12:12,355 Speaker 1: three million, as he sees it, nine hundred and ninety 174 00:12:12,355 --> 00:12:16,155 Speaker 1: three million to end the campaign, as anybody who has 175 00:12:16,195 --> 00:12:20,515 Speaker 1: looked out a window in the last decade sees it. Knows, 176 00:12:20,635 --> 00:12:23,915 Speaker 1: to borrow a recent popular phrase, we all know intuitively 177 00:12:24,915 --> 00:12:29,795 Speaker 1: that money is in fact to end the world, and 178 00:12:29,795 --> 00:12:32,435 Speaker 1: thus the most chilling words in the post story about 179 00:12:32,555 --> 00:12:36,515 Speaker 1: the billions standing between US and climate armageddon are at 180 00:12:36,515 --> 00:12:41,795 Speaker 1: the end. Quote oil billionaire Harold Ham and others are 181 00:12:42,395 --> 00:12:46,915 Speaker 1: scheduling a fundraiser for Trump later this year, advisers said, 182 00:12:47,475 --> 00:12:53,275 Speaker 1: where they expect large checks to flow to his bid 183 00:12:53,995 --> 00:13:00,395 Speaker 1: to return to office. The money flows now, our blood 184 00:13:01,035 --> 00:13:08,755 Speaker 1: will flow later. Okay, come on down, get off the bridge, 185 00:13:09,275 --> 00:13:12,875 Speaker 1: off the ledge. Remember that while they have the power 186 00:13:12,915 --> 00:13:17,795 Speaker 1: to destroy the world immediately or in a literal slow burn, 187 00:13:18,635 --> 00:13:24,395 Speaker 1: these people are incredibly stupid and Trump has in fact 188 00:13:24,955 --> 00:13:30,595 Speaker 1: made them even more net stupid by now introducing complete 189 00:13:30,835 --> 00:13:35,155 Speaker 1: nepotism into this. And trust me, the smart members of 190 00:13:35,195 --> 00:13:38,315 Speaker 1: the Trump family, they have already been in the picture. 191 00:13:39,075 --> 00:13:42,995 Speaker 1: He is now at the bottom of the barrel. The 192 00:13:43,035 --> 00:13:47,115 Speaker 1: Florida Republican Committee has named as its chair of its 193 00:13:47,275 --> 00:13:52,715 Speaker 1: delegation to the Republican Convention, Eric Trump, the guy who 194 00:13:52,795 --> 00:13:56,755 Speaker 1: proved what your mother said to you so very long ago. 195 00:13:57,275 --> 00:14:00,635 Speaker 1: Stop making that face. One day your face will freeze 196 00:14:00,635 --> 00:14:09,435 Speaker 1: like that. Eric Trump. Gee will be the one who 197 00:14:09,435 --> 00:14:14,435 Speaker 1: will place his father's name in for nomination if he 198 00:14:14,595 --> 00:14:21,555 Speaker 1: remembers it. And that's numb nay shun. Eric. The Convention 199 00:14:21,675 --> 00:14:25,275 Speaker 1: starts in Milwaukee August nineteenth. You can count on your 200 00:14:25,315 --> 00:14:27,955 Speaker 1: fingers and toes how many days from now that is, 201 00:14:28,315 --> 00:14:32,315 Speaker 1: and you can spend them practicing those big words numb 202 00:14:33,395 --> 00:14:37,835 Speaker 1: nay shun. The Florida GOP has also named Trump's daughter 203 00:14:37,835 --> 00:14:43,595 Speaker 1: Tiffany and her husband, Mister Tiffany, as delegates at large 204 00:14:44,435 --> 00:14:50,595 Speaker 1: and also as a delegate at large Baron Trump. So 205 00:14:50,835 --> 00:14:54,995 Speaker 1: that gentleman's agreement, the one both sides, surprisingly enough pretty 206 00:14:55,035 --> 00:14:57,355 Speaker 1: much stuck to all this time that Baron was off 207 00:14:57,395 --> 00:14:59,475 Speaker 1: limits because he was just a high school kid. That's 208 00:14:59,515 --> 00:15:04,195 Speaker 1: over now. So is Baron's de facto status as being 209 00:15:04,235 --> 00:15:08,555 Speaker 1: on sestionably the smartest Trump ever because he had never 210 00:15:08,595 --> 00:15:11,235 Speaker 1: been in politics and he had never said a word 211 00:15:11,275 --> 00:15:16,115 Speaker 1: in public. Why do this well, Trump has tipped his 212 00:15:16,195 --> 00:15:20,035 Speaker 1: hand now. Like all would be dictators, he cannot really 213 00:15:20,155 --> 00:15:24,755 Speaker 1: conceive of anybody succeeding him. But at some level he 214 00:15:24,835 --> 00:15:28,435 Speaker 1: understands that even if his wildest schemes come true, he 215 00:15:28,515 --> 00:15:32,235 Speaker 1: will die someday and you'll have to hand the family 216 00:15:32,315 --> 00:15:35,915 Speaker 1: government over to somebody else, and it ain't gonna be 217 00:15:36,035 --> 00:15:40,875 Speaker 1: Jared Kushner. Whether he fully perceives it or not. This 218 00:15:40,955 --> 00:15:44,595 Speaker 1: is Trump's own attempt at setting up an American monarchy. 219 00:15:45,955 --> 00:15:48,835 Speaker 1: Of course, the problem is none of them seem to 220 00:15:48,875 --> 00:15:55,035 Speaker 1: have even Trump's cornered animal instincts for effectively vile behavior 221 00:15:55,515 --> 00:15:59,395 Speaker 1: and utter lack of conscience and guilt. They are also 222 00:15:59,635 --> 00:16:03,835 Speaker 1: each of them imbeciles. No matter what happens. Now that 223 00:16:03,875 --> 00:16:07,995 Speaker 1: he's on the public stage, I think Baron Trump remains 224 00:16:08,035 --> 00:16:11,835 Speaker 1: the smartest Trump ever because the competition is Junior and 225 00:16:12,155 --> 00:16:19,275 Speaker 1: Eric and Tiffany, and Junior's all artificial ingredients, fiance platform 226 00:16:19,355 --> 00:16:24,395 Speaker 1: Committee member Kim Gilfoyle, and dumbest of them all, the 227 00:16:24,435 --> 00:16:31,715 Speaker 1: one the only Republican National Committee co chair Eric's wife Lara, 228 00:16:32,635 --> 00:16:39,035 Speaker 1: and Lara makes Kim gilfoyl seem like Nancy Pelosi. 229 00:16:39,555 --> 00:16:43,555 Speaker 2: Next question, can you have President Trump go to a 230 00:16:43,555 --> 00:16:46,235 Speaker 2: grocery store and buy a cart of groceries and or 231 00:16:46,355 --> 00:16:48,915 Speaker 2: pump gas at a gas station and show how expensive 232 00:16:48,955 --> 00:16:52,595 Speaker 2: it is and how Bidenomics is a joke? I think 233 00:16:52,635 --> 00:16:55,515 Speaker 2: that would be so effective. Love this idea, Love that idea. 234 00:16:55,555 --> 00:16:57,835 Speaker 2: I'm going to pass it along. We'll see what we 235 00:16:57,875 --> 00:16:58,635 Speaker 2: can do on that. 236 00:16:59,115 --> 00:17:04,395 Speaker 1: You want to give the world video of Trump at 237 00:17:04,435 --> 00:17:14,155 Speaker 1: a gas station with gas pumps, holding a gas handle 238 00:17:15,075 --> 00:17:21,115 Speaker 1: pumping gas, You, Lara Trump, want to connect your father 239 00:17:21,195 --> 00:17:29,195 Speaker 1: in law Trump with gas after the farting stories from 240 00:17:29,195 --> 00:17:37,315 Speaker 1: the trial, Trump and more gas. Once again, I note 241 00:17:37,315 --> 00:17:40,395 Speaker 1: that democracy survives not because of our efforts, but because 242 00:17:40,395 --> 00:17:42,995 Speaker 1: of the stupidity of those who seek to destroy it. 243 00:17:43,035 --> 00:17:46,795 Speaker 1: And also, once again I asked the same question about 244 00:17:46,955 --> 00:17:53,355 Speaker 1: yet another somebody close to the unoiled Trump decision making machine. 245 00:17:54,075 --> 00:18:02,435 Speaker 1: Is Lara Trump a democratic plant? And if not, what 246 00:18:02,595 --> 00:18:06,075 Speaker 1: kind of plant is she? Also of interest? Here? Good 247 00:18:06,115 --> 00:18:11,555 Speaker 1: news everyone. Our American political systemic crisis, the collapse of 248 00:18:11,595 --> 00:18:15,715 Speaker 1: our form of democracy, the perversion of the two party system, 249 00:18:15,755 --> 00:18:19,635 Speaker 1: because one party has stopped believing in voting and elections 250 00:18:19,675 --> 00:18:24,355 Speaker 1: and human rights and the constitution and reality. We have 251 00:18:24,835 --> 00:18:30,835 Speaker 1: a solution. The solution has come from the one man 252 00:18:31,075 --> 00:18:35,555 Speaker 1: to whom we have always turned in times of political crisis, 253 00:18:36,275 --> 00:18:43,355 Speaker 1: the one man who knows the way out, Chuck Todd. 254 00:18:44,315 --> 00:18:49,835 Speaker 1: Chuck Todd has saved America. Chuck Todd has a plan 255 00:18:50,635 --> 00:18:56,075 Speaker 1: and it starts with just a tiny little ask. All 256 00:18:56,235 --> 00:19:04,035 Speaker 1: Chuck wants is for Trump to publicly admit his mistakes. 257 00:19:05,955 --> 00:19:09,915 Speaker 1: And Chuck has even come up with a hashtag for this, 258 00:19:10,195 --> 00:19:16,515 Speaker 1: a hashtag to save democracy and Chuck Todd's hashtag is 259 00:19:18,635 --> 00:19:24,755 Speaker 1: Kalpa capana. Oh, for Christ's sake, that's next. This is countdown. 260 00:19:26,635 --> 00:19:52,595 Speaker 1: This is Countdown with Keith Olberman still ahead of us 261 00:19:52,635 --> 00:19:55,475 Speaker 1: on this edition of Countdown Fridays with Thurber, and it's 262 00:19:55,515 --> 00:20:01,275 Speaker 1: Thurber at his snarkiest. No nostalgic tales of the dogs 263 00:20:01,315 --> 00:20:05,355 Speaker 1: of the nineteenth century this week, No disturbing stories about 264 00:20:05,355 --> 00:20:08,235 Speaker 1: a man who wants to hide in a box. Here 265 00:20:08,315 --> 00:20:12,275 Speaker 1: he just goes after Salvador Dali and the pretense of 266 00:20:12,355 --> 00:20:17,115 Speaker 1: the artiste in the Secret Life of James Thurber. Next, 267 00:20:17,795 --> 00:20:20,275 Speaker 1: but first, as ever, there are still new idiots to 268 00:20:20,315 --> 00:20:22,875 Speaker 1: talk about. The daily roundup of the mis grants, morons 269 00:20:22,915 --> 00:20:28,915 Speaker 1: and dunning Krueger effect specimens who constitute today's worst persons 270 00:20:28,955 --> 00:20:33,795 Speaker 1: in the world. That's my Salvador Deli popping his never 271 00:20:33,835 --> 00:20:38,115 Speaker 1: mind the bronze worser Mark Levin, who for more than 272 00:20:38,155 --> 00:20:42,715 Speaker 1: a decade now has been like the fourteenth string fascist 273 00:20:42,835 --> 00:20:46,595 Speaker 1: on Fox quote news unquote. I believe the technical term 274 00:20:46,635 --> 00:20:49,395 Speaker 1: for him is dyspeptic. It is clear he has never 275 00:20:49,515 --> 00:20:51,595 Speaker 1: liked anything in his life, which I guess is fair 276 00:20:51,595 --> 00:20:53,995 Speaker 1: because it doesn't look like anybody or anything has ever 277 00:20:54,155 --> 00:20:59,355 Speaker 1: liked him. Levin's latest target is Justice Juan Mrshan. Levin 278 00:20:59,395 --> 00:21:01,675 Speaker 1: has a law degree, but his legal career appears to 279 00:21:01,715 --> 00:21:06,515 Speaker 1: have climax during his tenure as deputy the Assistant Secretary 280 00:21:06,635 --> 00:21:13,195 Speaker 1: for Elementary and Secondary Education in the US Department of Education. Anyway, 281 00:21:13,515 --> 00:21:16,275 Speaker 1: he's been reading the transcripts of the Trump trial and 282 00:21:16,315 --> 00:21:19,075 Speaker 1: going on the air and saying he knows Merschaun was 283 00:21:19,155 --> 00:21:24,355 Speaker 1: protecting Stormy Daniels, and he knows why, quoting Levin, although 284 00:21:24,395 --> 00:21:27,955 Speaker 1: I really can't do his deviated septum voice correctly, Wan 285 00:21:28,075 --> 00:21:31,355 Speaker 1: Khan John, because you can't understand the words, then Wan Khana, 286 00:21:31,355 --> 00:21:35,195 Speaker 1: don riansurpri watch how the judge tries to protect her 287 00:21:35,715 --> 00:21:39,035 Speaker 1: in what is the porno case of the century. Because 288 00:21:39,035 --> 00:21:42,755 Speaker 1: the judge appears to be really into this, listening attentively 289 00:21:42,835 --> 00:21:47,035 Speaker 1: to all the details. We used to call that a pervert. 290 00:21:47,755 --> 00:21:50,635 Speaker 1: Mark Levin says, I can't accuse the judge of being 291 00:21:50,635 --> 00:21:53,155 Speaker 1: a pervert. I don't know him, but I do wonder 292 00:21:53,195 --> 00:21:55,595 Speaker 1: if he's a pervert. Can I say, I wonder if 293 00:21:55,635 --> 00:21:58,675 Speaker 1: the judge is a pervert? Mister producer, how do I 294 00:21:58,755 --> 00:22:03,635 Speaker 1: know whether he's a pervert or not? Unquote. I don't know, Mark, 295 00:22:03,675 --> 00:22:07,315 Speaker 1: but if Mrson's about Stormy Daniels, what does that make Trump? 296 00:22:08,515 --> 00:22:11,355 Speaker 1: By the way, Levin hoaring himself out to Trump like this, 297 00:22:11,555 --> 00:22:14,275 Speaker 1: you know what that's gotten him. Trump always refers to 298 00:22:14,355 --> 00:22:19,035 Speaker 1: him and always calls him Levin. His name is Levin, Macklebin. 299 00:22:20,315 --> 00:22:23,195 Speaker 1: Levin is such a supplicant to dementia. J. Trump. I'm 300 00:22:23,195 --> 00:22:26,235 Speaker 1: surprised he hasn't changed his name to Levin just to 301 00:22:26,315 --> 00:22:30,915 Speaker 1: please the Master, the runner up worser, speaking of which 302 00:22:31,235 --> 00:22:35,435 Speaker 1: Andrew Giuliani. Now, to be fair, I've had it in 303 00:22:35,475 --> 00:22:37,875 Speaker 1: for this little toad ever since he used to get 304 00:22:37,915 --> 00:22:39,995 Speaker 1: in the way at Yankee Stadium when he was a kid. 305 00:22:40,555 --> 00:22:43,715 Speaker 1: The night of the Roger Clemens Mike Piazza bat incident 306 00:22:43,795 --> 00:22:46,995 Speaker 1: in the two thousand World Series, my live interview with 307 00:22:47,075 --> 00:22:51,115 Speaker 1: Clemens during the game broadcast on Fox was held up 308 00:22:51,155 --> 00:22:54,795 Speaker 1: for like four minutes because Andrew Giuliani had to use 309 00:22:54,835 --> 00:22:58,035 Speaker 1: the toilet in the Yankee Clubhouse, and Daddy had the 310 00:22:58,075 --> 00:23:01,115 Speaker 1: cops block the tunnel from there to the field so 311 00:23:01,195 --> 00:23:04,915 Speaker 1: Clemens could not get back to our camera. Now today 312 00:23:04,995 --> 00:23:07,755 Speaker 1: I hate Andrew Guliani because he's actually turned out to 313 00:23:07,795 --> 00:23:11,595 Speaker 1: be dumber than daddy. He is quote covering unquote the 314 00:23:11,595 --> 00:23:15,555 Speaker 1: Trump trial live on Twitter x and I can't get 315 00:23:15,595 --> 00:23:18,795 Speaker 1: audience totals, but his live report yesterday morning got like 316 00:23:18,795 --> 00:23:21,115 Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty five likes, so I don't think 317 00:23:21,115 --> 00:23:24,875 Speaker 1: he's got that many viewers, especially since he started that 318 00:23:24,955 --> 00:23:28,275 Speaker 1: Thursday morning report with the camera positioned wrong and showing 319 00:23:28,355 --> 00:23:30,875 Speaker 1: him only from his sport coat buttons at the bottom 320 00:23:31,235 --> 00:23:34,835 Speaker 1: up to his nose. Or maybe that wasn't a mistake, 321 00:23:34,875 --> 00:23:38,195 Speaker 1: maybe that's the plan. Okay, good thinking, Andrew. Anyway, he 322 00:23:38,275 --> 00:23:41,435 Speaker 1: also put out about one hundred tweets yesterday, including one 323 00:23:41,515 --> 00:23:44,955 Speaker 1: at four h nine pm which got him on this list. 324 00:23:45,115 --> 00:23:49,235 Speaker 1: Quote the DA's office walks slowly back into the room. 325 00:23:49,675 --> 00:23:55,395 Speaker 1: They look nearly as defeated as Lawrence O'Donnell, who is 326 00:23:55,435 --> 00:23:58,755 Speaker 1: saying in the second to the last row on the right, Ah, 327 00:23:58,995 --> 00:24:02,835 Speaker 1: thanks a lot, little handy. I got you who I loathe, 328 00:24:03,595 --> 00:24:11,635 Speaker 1: blasting od who I lose? Now I gotta choose, but 329 00:24:11,755 --> 00:24:15,355 Speaker 1: our winner, the worst and somebody we can all agree 330 00:24:15,395 --> 00:24:20,235 Speaker 1: on Chuck Todd. Yeah, I know you thought he'd left 331 00:24:20,275 --> 00:24:23,595 Speaker 1: the universe after he got fired from Meet the Press, 332 00:24:23,635 --> 00:24:27,715 Speaker 1: only to be replaced by somebody worse in Kristen allegedly Welker, 333 00:24:28,395 --> 00:24:31,995 Speaker 1: But no, Chuck is still there, still at NBC News, 334 00:24:32,075 --> 00:24:36,155 Speaker 1: still writing stuff, apparently still playing out his contract or something, 335 00:24:36,195 --> 00:24:40,475 Speaker 1: and most importantly, still showing that he has not the 336 00:24:40,595 --> 00:24:44,475 Speaker 1: vaguest idea what on earth has happened in this country 337 00:24:44,475 --> 00:24:47,875 Speaker 1: in the last decade? It is still for him in 338 00:24:47,955 --> 00:24:52,395 Speaker 1: nineteen eighty seven or something. Headline, Chuck Todd the missing 339 00:24:52,515 --> 00:24:56,675 Speaker 1: ingredient to win the twenty twenty four election. Ameya Kulpa analysis. 340 00:24:56,755 --> 00:24:59,275 Speaker 1: Voters don't have to imagine a Biden or Trump presidency, 341 00:24:59,475 --> 00:25:03,355 Speaker 1: but they might like to hear admissions of mistakes and 342 00:25:03,555 --> 00:25:07,795 Speaker 1: ideas about how a second term would be different. By 343 00:25:07,835 --> 00:25:11,475 Speaker 1: the way the headline there, that's the highlight. After twelve 344 00:25:11,715 --> 00:25:17,155 Speaker 1: paragraphs of introduction, Chuck finally gets to his point, which 345 00:25:17,195 --> 00:25:19,155 Speaker 1: is such a dumb point that would have been rejected 346 00:25:19,155 --> 00:25:22,675 Speaker 1: by a sixth grade debate class. Quote. There's a final 347 00:25:22,755 --> 00:25:25,035 Speaker 1: chunk of voters who I think are looking for one 348 00:25:25,155 --> 00:25:27,235 Speaker 1: or both of the candidates to do something else, admit 349 00:25:27,475 --> 00:25:31,075 Speaker 1: some failure in their tenures, and express regret for decisions 350 00:25:31,115 --> 00:25:34,715 Speaker 1: they did or didn't make. Ultimately, voters want to know 351 00:25:34,795 --> 00:25:38,515 Speaker 1: the candidates they support are actually listening and responding to 352 00:25:38,555 --> 00:25:44,915 Speaker 1: their concerns, even if those concerns change. Yes, Chuck, the 353 00:25:45,035 --> 00:25:50,595 Speaker 1: voters are expecting Trump to say he screwed up Trump, 354 00:25:51,235 --> 00:25:53,915 Speaker 1: who told Frank Luntz once that he had never asked 355 00:25:53,915 --> 00:25:57,595 Speaker 1: God for forgiveness because I think if I do something wrong, 356 00:25:57,755 --> 00:26:00,315 Speaker 1: I think I just try and make it right. I 357 00:26:00,395 --> 00:26:04,995 Speaker 1: don't bring God into that picture. I don't. It comes 358 00:26:04,995 --> 00:26:08,195 Speaker 1: to a major failure for both candidates. Chuck writes, there's 359 00:26:08,235 --> 00:26:12,195 Speaker 1: one obvious place to start, their inability to bring the 360 00:26:12,275 --> 00:26:15,835 Speaker 1: country together. I believe it's that fact that has kept 361 00:26:15,875 --> 00:26:18,875 Speaker 1: either gentlemen from taking anything more than a margin of 362 00:26:18,995 --> 00:26:24,995 Speaker 1: error lead in the polls. Yes, Biden's inability to bring 363 00:26:25,035 --> 00:26:28,115 Speaker 1: the country together while Trump is trying to get Biden 364 00:26:28,315 --> 00:26:32,755 Speaker 1: killed is entirely Biden's fault. Then there's one paragraph in 365 00:26:32,755 --> 00:26:36,115 Speaker 1: which Chuck writes, Donald Trump and Maya Culpas aren't something 366 00:26:36,115 --> 00:26:39,035 Speaker 1: that go together, like peanut butter and jelly. Peanut butter 367 00:26:39,115 --> 00:26:43,035 Speaker 1: and tuna fish. Maybe I bet Chuck spend a week 368 00:26:43,075 --> 00:26:45,835 Speaker 1: on that one, peanut butter and tuna fish. I finally 369 00:26:45,875 --> 00:26:49,275 Speaker 1: got it, Hey, peanut butter and tunafish. We can print 370 00:26:49,315 --> 00:26:53,795 Speaker 1: it now. That's the last we hear about Trump in 371 00:26:53,875 --> 00:26:56,115 Speaker 1: this story, which goes on and on and on and on, 372 00:26:56,195 --> 00:26:59,235 Speaker 1: except for Chuck's claim that Trump in fact did make 373 00:26:59,835 --> 00:27:04,755 Speaker 1: a maya culpa just before the twenty sixteen election. Do 374 00:27:04,835 --> 00:27:07,435 Speaker 1: you remember this, Do you remember him making an admission 375 00:27:07,435 --> 00:27:12,715 Speaker 1: of guilt or being wrong? Quote he finally acknowledged Obama 376 00:27:12,755 --> 00:27:15,555 Speaker 1: was born in the US. It was an important moment 377 00:27:15,595 --> 00:27:18,475 Speaker 1: at the end of the campaign. His advisors convinced Trump 378 00:27:18,595 --> 00:27:21,435 Speaker 1: he needed to show some humility about something, and the 379 00:27:21,515 --> 00:27:27,355 Speaker 1: birther issue was an obvious place to start. Humility. Trump 380 00:27:27,435 --> 00:27:33,115 Speaker 1: showing humility, We've hit rock bottom now right now. There 381 00:27:33,155 --> 00:27:38,035 Speaker 1: follows fifteen paragraphs on how it is Joe Biden who 382 00:27:38,035 --> 00:27:41,395 Speaker 1: has to do a maya culpa because, well, let me 383 00:27:41,395 --> 00:27:48,115 Speaker 1: again quote this great glowing Chuck Todd online turd quote. 384 00:27:48,555 --> 00:27:50,635 Speaker 1: I'm not convinced Biden is going to do a mea 385 00:27:50,635 --> 00:27:53,755 Speaker 1: culpa for his inability to bring the country together or 386 00:27:53,795 --> 00:27:57,755 Speaker 1: his inability to turn the page on Trump, even though 387 00:27:57,755 --> 00:27:59,995 Speaker 1: I think that was the central premise of his campaign, 388 00:28:00,195 --> 00:28:02,595 Speaker 1: at least for the last slice of voters who put 389 00:28:02,635 --> 00:28:09,115 Speaker 1: him over the top. So again, Chuck Todd, head of 390 00:28:09,235 --> 00:28:15,035 Speaker 1: NBC News Politics, host of Meet the Press and a 391 00:28:15,075 --> 00:28:18,355 Speaker 1: guy that both Tim Russert and I once actually thought 392 00:28:18,435 --> 00:28:23,955 Speaker 1: had some talent to him. Chuck Todd says, the problem 393 00:28:23,995 --> 00:28:27,635 Speaker 1: here is Joe Biden's inability to bring the country together 394 00:28:28,155 --> 00:28:32,435 Speaker 1: while Trump is trying to overthrow the democracy and establish 395 00:28:32,555 --> 00:28:37,635 Speaker 1: a dictatorship. But of course Chuck saves the article in 396 00:28:37,675 --> 00:28:40,875 Speaker 1: the end because he had a clever Twitter hashtag for it, 397 00:28:41,475 --> 00:28:47,235 Speaker 1: Kulpa Cabana. I have a hashtag for it as well, 398 00:28:47,995 --> 00:28:54,075 Speaker 1: hashtag Chuck Todd is an effing idiot, Chuck. It's Biden's 399 00:28:54,115 --> 00:28:58,435 Speaker 1: fault he didn't stop Trump's subversion of democracy and then 400 00:28:58,555 --> 00:29:05,595 Speaker 1: forgive him for it. Todd two Days Worst Stupidness Person 401 00:29:06,515 --> 00:29:30,755 Speaker 1: and Fridays with Thurber now and as I believe I mentioned, 402 00:29:30,755 --> 00:29:35,555 Speaker 1: Thurber stuck mostly too. Besides the cartoons and drawings that 403 00:29:35,635 --> 00:29:38,635 Speaker 1: made him famous in one part of the world, his 404 00:29:38,995 --> 00:29:41,715 Speaker 1: short stories and other works of fiction that made him 405 00:29:41,715 --> 00:29:44,795 Speaker 1: famous in the rest of the world. But every once 406 00:29:44,835 --> 00:29:47,275 Speaker 1: in a while he would get really ticked off by 407 00:29:47,315 --> 00:29:50,195 Speaker 1: something going on in real life. He would delve into 408 00:29:50,195 --> 00:29:53,675 Speaker 1: cultural criticism. He wrote pieces about how bad radio was 409 00:29:53,715 --> 00:29:56,635 Speaker 1: in the nineteen forties, particularly as we began to lose more 410 00:29:56,635 --> 00:30:00,355 Speaker 1: and more of his vision, and periodically he would have 411 00:30:00,475 --> 00:30:05,395 Speaker 1: at other authors, especially if he thought their work was crap. 412 00:30:06,035 --> 00:30:09,955 Speaker 1: And in that context I bring to you The Secret 413 00:30:10,075 --> 00:30:17,635 Speaker 1: Life of James Thurber by James Thurber. I have only 414 00:30:17,715 --> 00:30:21,955 Speaker 1: dipped here and there into Salvador Dhali's The Secret Life 415 00:30:21,955 --> 00:30:26,275 Speaker 1: of Salvador Dolli, with paintings by Salvador Dolli and photographs 416 00:30:26,275 --> 00:30:30,435 Speaker 1: of Salvador Dolli, because anyone afflicted with what my grandmother's 417 00:30:30,435 --> 00:30:35,155 Speaker 1: sister Abigail called the permanent jumps, should do no more 418 00:30:35,195 --> 00:30:40,315 Speaker 1: than skidder through such an autobiography, particularly in these melancholy times. 419 00:30:41,275 --> 00:30:45,115 Speaker 1: One does not have to skidder far before one comes 420 00:30:45,195 --> 00:30:47,835 Speaker 1: upon some vignette which gives the full shape and flavor 421 00:30:47,875 --> 00:30:52,115 Speaker 1: of a book. The youthful dreamer of dreams, biting a 422 00:30:52,835 --> 00:30:58,115 Speaker 1: sick bat or kissing a dead horse, the slender stripling 423 00:30:58,515 --> 00:31:02,315 Speaker 1: going into man's estate with the high hope and fond 424 00:31:02,355 --> 00:31:06,595 Speaker 1: desire of one day eating a lot I've but roasted turkey, 425 00:31:07,595 --> 00:31:11,795 Speaker 1: and sighing lover covering himself with goat dung and aspic, 426 00:31:12,475 --> 00:31:15,555 Speaker 1: that he might give off the true and noble odor 427 00:31:16,235 --> 00:31:21,555 Speaker 1: of the ram in My Flying trip through DOLLI I 428 00:31:21,675 --> 00:31:25,355 Speaker 1: caught other glimpses of the great man, Salvador adoring a 429 00:31:25,395 --> 00:31:29,115 Speaker 1: seed ball fallen from a plane tree, Salvador kicking a 430 00:31:29,315 --> 00:31:34,955 Speaker 1: tiny playmate off a bridge, Salvador caressing a crutch, Salvador 431 00:31:35,035 --> 00:31:38,675 Speaker 1: breaking the old family doctor's glasses with a leather thonged 432 00:31:38,715 --> 00:31:42,835 Speaker 1: mattress beater. There would appear to be only two things 433 00:31:42,835 --> 00:31:45,515 Speaker 1: in the world that revolt him, and I don't mean 434 00:31:45,555 --> 00:31:53,475 Speaker 1: a long dead hedgehog. He is squeamish about skeletons and grasshoppers. 435 00:31:54,075 --> 00:31:59,755 Speaker 1: Oh well, we all have our idiosyncrasies. Senor Dali's memories 436 00:31:59,755 --> 00:32:02,715 Speaker 1: have set me to thinking, I find myself muttering as 437 00:32:02,755 --> 00:32:06,195 Speaker 1: I shave, and onto as I have swung my crutch 438 00:32:06,275 --> 00:32:08,715 Speaker 1: at a little neighbor girl on my way to the 439 00:32:08,755 --> 00:32:14,515 Speaker 1: post office. Senor Dolly's book sales for six dollars. My 440 00:32:14,595 --> 00:32:17,795 Speaker 1: own published personal history, Harper and Brothers nineteen thirty three, 441 00:32:18,195 --> 00:32:21,555 Speaker 1: sold for a dollar seventy five at the time. I 442 00:32:21,635 --> 00:32:25,595 Speaker 1: complained briefly about this unusual figure, principally on the ground 443 00:32:25,635 --> 00:32:28,555 Speaker 1: that it represented only fifty cents more than the price 444 00:32:28,635 --> 00:32:32,515 Speaker 1: asked for a book called The Adventures of Horace. The Hedgehog, 445 00:32:32,635 --> 00:32:36,395 Speaker 1: published the same month. The publishers explained that the price 446 00:32:36,515 --> 00:32:41,595 Speaker 1: was a closely approximated vertical prefigured on the basis of 447 00:32:41,675 --> 00:32:46,035 Speaker 1: profitable sailing, which in turn was arrived at by taking 448 00:32:46,075 --> 00:32:51,915 Speaker 1: into consideration the effect on diminishing returns of the horizontal factor. 449 00:32:54,235 --> 00:32:57,235 Speaker 1: In those days, all heads of business firms adopted a 450 00:32:57,275 --> 00:33:02,475 Speaker 1: guarded kind of double talk, commonly expressed in low muffled tones, 451 00:33:02,835 --> 00:33:05,595 Speaker 1: because nobody knew what was going to happen, and nobody 452 00:33:05,675 --> 00:33:09,155 Speaker 1: understood what had. Big business had been frightened by a 453 00:33:09,195 --> 00:33:12,555 Speaker 1: sequence of economic phenomena which had clearly demonstrated that our 454 00:33:12,595 --> 00:33:16,075 Speaker 1: civilization was in greater danger of being turned off than 455 00:33:16,115 --> 00:33:19,835 Speaker 1: of gradually crumbling away. The upshot of it all was 456 00:33:19,835 --> 00:33:21,955 Speaker 1: that I accepted the price of one dollar and seventy 457 00:33:21,955 --> 00:33:24,835 Speaker 1: five cents. In so doing, I accepted the state of 458 00:33:24,875 --> 00:33:27,515 Speaker 1: the world as a proper standard by which the price 459 00:33:27,555 --> 00:33:30,355 Speaker 1: of books should be fixed. And now, with the world 460 00:33:30,395 --> 00:33:32,955 Speaker 1: in ten times as serious a condition as it was 461 00:33:32,995 --> 00:33:36,515 Speaker 1: in nineteen thirty three, Dolly's publishers set a price of 462 00:33:36,595 --> 00:33:39,635 Speaker 1: six dollars on his life story. This brings me to 463 00:33:39,675 --> 00:33:43,315 Speaker 1: the inescapable conclusion that the price fixing principle in the 464 00:33:43,315 --> 00:33:49,035 Speaker 1: field of literature is not global but personal trouble, quite 465 00:33:49,035 --> 00:33:51,635 Speaker 1: simply as that I told too much about what went 466 00:33:51,675 --> 00:33:54,515 Speaker 1: on in the house I lived in, and not enough 467 00:33:54,795 --> 00:34:00,835 Speaker 1: about what went on inside myself. Let me be the 468 00:34:00,835 --> 00:34:03,355 Speaker 1: first to admit that the naked truth about me is 469 00:34:03,435 --> 00:34:07,435 Speaker 1: to the naked truth about Salvador Dolly, as an old 470 00:34:07,595 --> 00:34:11,195 Speaker 1: ukulele in the attic is to a piano in a tree, 471 00:34:11,715 --> 00:34:16,555 Speaker 1: and I mean a piano with breasts. Senor Dolly has 472 00:34:16,595 --> 00:34:19,875 Speaker 1: the jump on me from the beginning. He remembers and 473 00:34:19,995 --> 00:34:22,835 Speaker 1: describes in detail what it was like in the womb. 474 00:34:24,155 --> 00:34:27,635 Speaker 1: My own earliest memory is of accompanying my father to 475 00:34:27,755 --> 00:34:31,675 Speaker 1: a polling booth in Columbus, Ohio, where he voted for 476 00:34:31,835 --> 00:34:37,035 Speaker 1: William McKinley. It was a drab and somewhat battered tin 477 00:34:37,235 --> 00:34:39,835 Speaker 1: shed set on wheels, and it was filled with guffawing 478 00:34:39,915 --> 00:34:43,475 Speaker 1: men and cigar smoke. All in all as far removed 479 00:34:43,475 --> 00:34:48,555 Speaker 1: from the paradisiacal placenta of Salvador Dolly's first recollection, as 480 00:34:48,595 --> 00:34:53,315 Speaker 1: could well be imagined, A fat jolly man dandled me 481 00:34:53,435 --> 00:34:55,675 Speaker 1: on his knee and said that I would soon be 482 00:34:55,755 --> 00:34:59,395 Speaker 1: old enough to vote against William Jennings Bryan. I thought 483 00:34:59,395 --> 00:35:01,755 Speaker 1: he meant that I could push a folded piece of 484 00:35:01,795 --> 00:35:04,755 Speaker 1: paper into the slot of the padlocked box as as 485 00:35:04,795 --> 00:35:08,035 Speaker 1: soon as my father was finished. When this turned out 486 00:35:08,075 --> 00:35:10,715 Speaker 1: not to be true, I had to be carried out 487 00:35:10,715 --> 00:35:14,955 Speaker 1: of the place, kicking and screaming. In my struggles I 488 00:35:15,035 --> 00:35:18,675 Speaker 1: knocked my father's derby off several times. The derby was 489 00:35:18,715 --> 00:35:23,595 Speaker 1: not a monstrously exciting love object to me, as practically 490 00:35:23,635 --> 00:35:27,595 Speaker 1: everything Salvador encountered was to him, and I doubt, if 491 00:35:27,635 --> 00:35:29,835 Speaker 1: I had that day to live over again, that I 492 00:35:29,875 --> 00:35:32,875 Speaker 1: could bring myself, even in the light of exotic dedication 493 00:35:33,075 --> 00:35:37,035 Speaker 1: as I now know it, to conceive an intense and 494 00:35:37,155 --> 00:35:41,715 Speaker 1: perverse affection for the derby. It remains obstinately in my 495 00:35:41,795 --> 00:35:44,155 Speaker 1: memory as a rather funny hat, a little too large 496 00:35:44,155 --> 00:35:46,515 Speaker 1: in the crown, which gave my father the appearance of 497 00:35:46,555 --> 00:35:50,635 Speaker 1: a tired, sensitive gentleman who had been persuaded against his 498 00:35:50,755 --> 00:35:56,315 Speaker 1: will to take part in a game of charades. We 499 00:35:56,355 --> 00:35:59,235 Speaker 1: lived on Champion Avenue at the time, and the voting 500 00:35:59,235 --> 00:36:02,835 Speaker 1: booth was on Mound Street. As I set down these names, 501 00:36:02,835 --> 00:36:05,515 Speaker 1: I begin to perceive an essential and important difference between 502 00:36:05,515 --> 00:36:09,915 Speaker 1: the infant Salvador and the infant me. This difference can 503 00:36:09,955 --> 00:36:14,275 Speaker 1: be stated in terms of environment. Salvador was brought up 504 00:36:14,315 --> 00:36:17,835 Speaker 1: in Spain, a country colored by the legends of Hannibal 505 00:36:18,235 --> 00:36:24,475 Speaker 1: el Greco and Servantes. I was brought up in Ohio, 506 00:36:24,595 --> 00:36:28,475 Speaker 1: a region steeped in the traditions of Coxey's Army, the 507 00:36:28,635 --> 00:36:35,835 Speaker 1: Anti Saloon League, and William Howard Taft. It is only 508 00:36:35,915 --> 00:36:39,435 Speaker 1: natural that the weather in little Salvador's soul should have 509 00:36:39,475 --> 00:36:43,675 Speaker 1: been stirred by stranger winds and enveloped in more fantastic 510 00:36:43,755 --> 00:36:48,435 Speaker 1: mists than the weather in my own soul. But enough 511 00:36:48,435 --> 00:36:51,835 Speaker 1: of muling apology for my lackluster early years. Let us 512 00:36:51,875 --> 00:36:55,035 Speaker 1: get back to my secret life, such as it was, 513 00:36:55,715 --> 00:36:58,915 Speaker 1: stopping just long enough to have another brief look at 514 00:36:58,955 --> 00:37:04,795 Speaker 1: Sennor Dolly on our way. Salvador Dolly's mind goes back 515 00:37:04,835 --> 00:37:07,395 Speaker 1: to a childhood half imagined and half real, in which 516 00:37:07,435 --> 00:37:10,115 Speaker 1: the edges of actuality were sometimes less sharp than the 517 00:37:10,195 --> 00:37:13,355 Speaker 1: edges of dream. He seems, somehow to have got the 518 00:37:13,435 --> 00:37:19,835 Speaker 1: idea that this sets him off from Harry Spencer, Charlie Doakes, I, Fineberg, 519 00:37:20,435 --> 00:37:26,395 Speaker 1: JJ mcnabo, William Faulkner, Herbert Hoover, and me. What Salvey 520 00:37:26,515 --> 00:37:29,315 Speaker 1: had that the rest of us kids didn't was the 521 00:37:29,315 --> 00:37:33,795 Speaker 1: perfect scenery, characters, and costumes for his desperate little rebellion 522 00:37:33,835 --> 00:37:38,755 Speaker 1: against the clean, the conventional, and the comfortable. He put 523 00:37:38,835 --> 00:37:42,515 Speaker 1: perfume on his hair, which would have cost him his 524 00:37:42,595 --> 00:37:48,195 Speaker 1: life in say Bayonne, New Jersey, or Youngstown, Ohio. He 525 00:37:48,235 --> 00:37:51,915 Speaker 1: owned a lizard with two tails. He wore silver buttons 526 00:37:51,915 --> 00:37:54,875 Speaker 1: on his shoes, and he knew or imagined he knew 527 00:37:55,435 --> 00:38:01,075 Speaker 1: little girls called Galuchka and Dulita. Thus he was born 528 00:38:01,115 --> 00:38:06,795 Speaker 1: halfway along the road to paranoia, oft expression of his prayers, 529 00:38:07,035 --> 00:38:10,835 Speaker 1: the melting oz of his oblations, the capital to put 530 00:38:10,875 --> 00:38:12,235 Speaker 1: it so that you can see what I'm trying to 531 00:38:12,275 --> 00:38:16,915 Speaker 1: say of his heart's desire, or so anyway it must 532 00:38:16,955 --> 00:38:20,395 Speaker 1: seem to a native of Columbus, Ohio, who has a youngster, 533 00:38:20,555 --> 00:38:22,915 Speaker 1: bought his twelve dollars suits at the F and R. 534 00:38:22,995 --> 00:38:27,155 Speaker 1: Lazarus Company, had his hair washed out with ivory soap, 535 00:38:27,755 --> 00:38:31,595 Speaker 1: owned a bull terrier with only one tail, and played 536 00:38:32,155 --> 00:38:36,555 Speaker 1: nicely and a bit diffidently with little girls named Irma 537 00:38:37,195 --> 00:38:43,555 Speaker 1: and Betty and Ruby. Another advantage that the young DOLLI 538 00:38:43,675 --> 00:38:47,035 Speaker 1: had over me from the standpoint of impetus towards paranoia 539 00:38:47,595 --> 00:38:49,835 Speaker 1: lay in the nature of the adults who peopled his 540 00:38:49,875 --> 00:38:54,435 Speaker 1: real world. There was in Dolly's hometown of Figeas a 541 00:38:54,475 --> 00:38:58,635 Speaker 1: family of artists named Pi, show musicians, painters, and poets, 542 00:38:58,835 --> 00:39:02,875 Speaker 1: all of whom adored the ground that the en Font 543 00:39:03,155 --> 00:39:07,355 Speaker 1: Terrible walked on. If one of them came upon him, 544 00:39:07,395 --> 00:39:11,195 Speaker 1: throwing himself from a high rock, a favorite relaxation of 545 00:39:11,235 --> 00:39:13,955 Speaker 1: our hero, or hanging by his feet with his head 546 00:39:13,955 --> 00:39:17,395 Speaker 1: immersed in a pail of water, the wild news was 547 00:39:17,395 --> 00:39:20,635 Speaker 1: spread about the town that greatness and genius had come 548 00:39:20,675 --> 00:39:23,795 Speaker 1: to figet Us. There was a woman who put on 549 00:39:23,835 --> 00:39:27,955 Speaker 1: a look of maternal interest when Salvador threw rocks at her. 550 00:39:28,635 --> 00:39:30,795 Speaker 1: The mayor of the town fell dead one day at 551 00:39:30,835 --> 00:39:33,595 Speaker 1: the boy's feet. A doctor in the community, not the 552 00:39:33,635 --> 00:39:36,475 Speaker 1: one he had horse whipped, was seized of a fit 553 00:39:36,555 --> 00:39:40,395 Speaker 1: and attempted to beat him up. The contention that the 554 00:39:40,435 --> 00:39:42,675 Speaker 1: doctor was out of his senses at the time of 555 00:39:42,715 --> 00:39:48,475 Speaker 1: the assault is Dolly's, not mine. The adults around me 556 00:39:48,635 --> 00:39:50,875 Speaker 1: when I was in short pants were neither so glamorous 557 00:39:50,875 --> 00:39:54,875 Speaker 1: nor so attentive. They consisted mainly of eleven maternal grain ants, 558 00:39:55,075 --> 00:39:59,915 Speaker 1: all Methodists, who were staunch believers in physic mustard, plasters 559 00:39:59,955 --> 00:40:02,875 Speaker 1: and scripture, and it was part of their dogma that 560 00:40:03,035 --> 00:40:05,995 Speaker 1: artistic tendencies should be treated in the same way as 561 00:40:06,075 --> 00:40:11,275 Speaker 1: hiccups or hysterics. None of them was an artist, unless 562 00:40:11,275 --> 00:40:15,075 Speaker 1: you can count at Lou, who wrote sixteen stress verse 563 00:40:15,435 --> 00:40:19,075 Speaker 1: with hit and miss rhymes in celebration of people's birthdays 564 00:40:19,355 --> 00:40:23,715 Speaker 1: or on occasion of great national disaster. Never occurred to 565 00:40:23,755 --> 00:40:27,075 Speaker 1: me to bite a bat in my aunt's presence, or 566 00:40:27,115 --> 00:40:32,675 Speaker 1: to throw stones at them. There was one escape though 567 00:40:32,875 --> 00:40:38,435 Speaker 1: my secret world of idiom. Two years ago, my wife 568 00:40:38,435 --> 00:40:40,235 Speaker 1: and I, looking for a house to buy, called on 569 00:40:40,275 --> 00:40:43,475 Speaker 1: a firm of real estate agents in New Milford. One 570 00:40:43,515 --> 00:40:46,115 Speaker 1: of the members of the firm, scrabbling through a metal 571 00:40:46,155 --> 00:40:49,915 Speaker 1: box containing many keys, looked up to say, the key 572 00:40:50,515 --> 00:40:56,235 Speaker 1: to the Roxbury House isn't here. His partner replied, it's 573 00:40:56,235 --> 00:41:00,475 Speaker 1: a common lock. A skeleton will let you in. I 574 00:41:00,675 --> 00:41:04,195 Speaker 1: was suddenly, once again five years old, with a wide 575 00:41:04,315 --> 00:41:08,195 Speaker 1: eye and open mouth. I pictured the Roxbury House as 576 00:41:08,195 --> 00:41:10,075 Speaker 1: I would have pictured it as a small boy, a 577 00:41:10,115 --> 00:41:13,435 Speaker 1: house of such dark and nameless horrors as have never 578 00:41:13,515 --> 00:41:18,115 Speaker 1: crossed the mind of our little batbier. It was of 579 00:41:18,195 --> 00:41:22,115 Speaker 1: sentences like that nonchalantly tossed off by real estate dealers, 580 00:41:22,195 --> 00:41:26,515 Speaker 1: great aunts, clergymen, and other such prosaic persons. That the 581 00:41:26,715 --> 00:41:31,075 Speaker 1: enchanted private world of my early boyhood was made. In 582 00:41:31,155 --> 00:41:34,795 Speaker 1: this world. Businessmen who phoned their wives to say that 583 00:41:34,835 --> 00:41:39,595 Speaker 1: they were tied up at the office, sat roped to 584 00:41:39,715 --> 00:41:43,835 Speaker 1: their swivel chairs and probably gagged, unable to move or speak, 585 00:41:43,875 --> 00:41:51,115 Speaker 1: except somehow miraculously to telephone. Hundreds of thousands of business 586 00:41:51,235 --> 00:41:54,355 Speaker 1: men tied to their chairs in hundreds of thousands of 587 00:41:54,355 --> 00:42:00,835 Speaker 1: offices in every city of my fantastic cosmos. An especially 588 00:42:00,915 --> 00:42:03,475 Speaker 1: fine note about the binding of all the businessmen in 589 00:42:03,515 --> 00:42:07,515 Speaker 1: all the cities was that whoever did it, always did 590 00:42:07,555 --> 00:42:13,595 Speaker 1: it around five o'clock in the afternoon. Then there was 591 00:42:13,635 --> 00:42:17,275 Speaker 1: the man who left town under a cloud. Sometimes I 592 00:42:17,315 --> 00:42:19,675 Speaker 1: saw him all wrapped up in the cloud and invisible, 593 00:42:19,715 --> 00:42:22,435 Speaker 1: like a cat in a burlap sack. That other times 594 00:42:22,435 --> 00:42:25,835 Speaker 1: it floated about the size of a sofa, three or 595 00:42:25,835 --> 00:42:29,315 Speaker 1: four feet above his head, following him wherever he went. 596 00:42:30,315 --> 00:42:33,035 Speaker 1: One could think about the man under the cloud before 597 00:42:33,075 --> 00:42:36,435 Speaker 1: going to sleep. An image of him wandering around from 598 00:42:36,475 --> 00:42:42,715 Speaker 1: town to town was as sure soporific. Not so the 599 00:42:42,755 --> 00:42:45,555 Speaker 1: mental picture of a certain Missus Houston, who had been 600 00:42:45,635 --> 00:42:49,355 Speaker 1: terribly cut up when her daughter died on the operating table. 601 00:42:50,115 --> 00:42:52,435 Speaker 1: I could see the doctors too vividly, just before they 602 00:42:52,475 --> 00:42:55,115 Speaker 1: set upon Missus Houston with their knives, and I could 603 00:42:55,155 --> 00:42:58,035 Speaker 1: hear them, now, Missus Houston, will we get up on 604 00:42:58,115 --> 00:43:00,635 Speaker 1: the table like a good girl, or will we have 605 00:43:00,795 --> 00:43:05,155 Speaker 1: to be put there? I could usually fight off Missus 606 00:43:05,155 --> 00:43:07,435 Speaker 1: Houston before I went to sleep, but she frequently got 607 00:43:07,435 --> 00:43:11,995 Speaker 1: into my dreams, and sometimes she still does. I remember 608 00:43:12,115 --> 00:43:15,795 Speaker 1: the grotesque creature that came to haunt my meditations when 609 00:43:15,835 --> 00:43:19,355 Speaker 1: one evening my father said to my mother, what did 610 00:43:19,435 --> 00:43:24,275 Speaker 1: missus Johnson say when you told her about Betty? And 611 00:43:24,435 --> 00:43:31,795 Speaker 1: my mother replied, as she was all ears. There were 612 00:43:31,835 --> 00:43:35,675 Speaker 1: many other wonderful figures in the secret surrealistic landscapes of 613 00:43:35,675 --> 00:43:37,915 Speaker 1: my youth. The old lady was always up in the air, 614 00:43:38,435 --> 00:43:40,635 Speaker 1: the husband who did not seem to be able to 615 00:43:40,635 --> 00:43:43,395 Speaker 1: put his foot down, the man who lost his head 616 00:43:43,475 --> 00:43:45,955 Speaker 1: during a fire but was still able to run out 617 00:43:45,955 --> 00:43:48,715 Speaker 1: of the house yelling. The young lady who was in 618 00:43:48,755 --> 00:43:53,435 Speaker 1: reality a soiled dove. It was a world that of 619 00:43:53,475 --> 00:43:55,955 Speaker 1: necessity one had to keep to oneself and brood over 620 00:43:56,035 --> 00:43:58,795 Speaker 1: in silence, because it would fall to pieces at the 621 00:43:58,875 --> 00:44:02,835 Speaker 1: touch of words. If you brought it out into the 622 00:44:02,915 --> 00:44:05,515 Speaker 1: light of actual day and put it to the test 623 00:44:05,555 --> 00:44:09,195 Speaker 1: of questions, your parents would try to laugh the miracles away, 624 00:44:09,595 --> 00:44:12,235 Speaker 1: or they would take your temperature and put you to bed. 625 00:44:13,275 --> 00:44:15,715 Speaker 1: Since I always ran a temperature, whenever it was taken, 626 00:44:15,795 --> 00:44:18,115 Speaker 1: I was put to bed and left there alone with 627 00:44:18,195 --> 00:44:22,675 Speaker 1: Missus Houston. Such a world as the world of my 628 00:44:22,875 --> 00:44:28,195 Speaker 1: childhood is alas not year proof. It is a ghost that, 629 00:44:28,315 --> 00:44:35,115 Speaker 1: to use Henley's words, gleams, flickers, vanishes away. I think 630 00:44:35,155 --> 00:44:37,915 Speaker 1: it must have been the time my little cousin Francis 631 00:44:38,035 --> 00:44:40,875 Speaker 1: came to visit us, that it began surely and forever 632 00:44:40,955 --> 00:44:44,555 Speaker 1: to dissolve. I came into the house one rainy dusk 633 00:44:44,755 --> 00:44:49,395 Speaker 1: and ask where Francis was. She is, said, our cook 634 00:44:50,035 --> 00:44:56,515 Speaker 1: up in the front room, crying her heart out. The 635 00:44:56,555 --> 00:44:59,835 Speaker 1: fact that a person could cry so hard that his 636 00:44:59,955 --> 00:45:03,155 Speaker 1: heart would come out of his body as perfectly shaped 637 00:45:03,315 --> 00:45:06,435 Speaker 1: and glossy as a red vel it pincushion was news 638 00:45:06,635 --> 00:45:10,515 Speaker 1: to me. For some reason, I had never heard the 639 00:45:10,555 --> 00:45:14,235 Speaker 1: expression so common in American families, whose hopes and dreams 640 00:45:14,315 --> 00:45:18,755 Speaker 1: run so often counter to attainment. I went upstairs and 641 00:45:18,835 --> 00:45:21,715 Speaker 1: opened the door of the front room. Francis, who was 642 00:45:21,755 --> 00:45:24,795 Speaker 1: three years older than I, jumped off the bed and 643 00:45:24,995 --> 00:45:30,115 Speaker 1: ran past me, sobbing, and down the stairs. My search 644 00:45:30,835 --> 00:45:35,995 Speaker 1: for her heart took some fifteen minutes. I tore the 645 00:45:35,995 --> 00:45:39,875 Speaker 1: bed apart and kicked up the rugs, and even looked 646 00:45:39,875 --> 00:45:44,115 Speaker 1: in the bureau drawers. It was no good. I looked 647 00:45:44,155 --> 00:45:46,555 Speaker 1: out the window at the rain and the darkening sky. 648 00:45:46,995 --> 00:45:50,515 Speaker 1: My cherished mental image of the man under the cloud 649 00:45:50,675 --> 00:45:54,875 Speaker 1: began to grow dim and fade away. I discovered that, 650 00:45:55,035 --> 00:45:58,235 Speaker 1: all alone in a room, I could face the thought 651 00:45:58,315 --> 00:46:05,315 Speaker 1: of missus Houston with cold equanimity. Downstairs, in the living room, 652 00:46:05,955 --> 00:46:17,715 Speaker 1: Francis was still crying. I began to laugh. Ah, there, Salvador, 653 00:46:31,515 --> 00:46:33,355 Speaker 1: I've done all the damage I can do here. Thank 654 00:46:33,355 --> 00:46:36,195 Speaker 1: you for listening. Countdown. 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Our announcer today is my friend 664 00:47:07,915 --> 00:47:12,355 Speaker 1: Larry David and everything else was my fault. So that's 665 00:47:12,355 --> 00:47:15,275 Speaker 1: countdown for this the one hundred and eightieth day until 666 00:47:15,315 --> 00:47:19,235 Speaker 1: the twenty twenty four presidential election, and the two hundred 667 00:47:19,275 --> 00:47:23,275 Speaker 1: and twenty first day since Dictator Jay Trump's first attempted 668 00:47:23,315 --> 00:47:26,035 Speaker 1: coup against the democratically elected government of the United States. 669 00:47:26,715 --> 00:47:29,795 Speaker 1: Use the legal system such as it is, use the 670 00:47:29,835 --> 00:47:33,835 Speaker 1: mental health system, use presidential immunity if it happens, Use 671 00:47:33,875 --> 00:47:38,235 Speaker 1: the not regularly given elector objection option to stop him 672 00:47:38,275 --> 00:47:44,315 Speaker 1: from doing it again while we still can. 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