THE ATTEMPT TO MAKE IT ILLEGAL TO CRITICIZE TRUMP - 3.6.25

SEASON 3 EPISODE 106: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN

A-Block (1:45) SPECIAL COMMENT: Hidden behind Trump’s complex multi-layered endless hallucination that his address to Congress shows he is beloved and the stock market isn’t crashing and Speaker Johnson’s Chief of Staff WASN’T arrested on a DUI right after the speech and the MAGGOTS aren’t furious at him and the newest polling doesn’t suggest he’s already lost nearly a fifth of the Trump Bros under 30… there is a much more real and much starker truth: he has already moving to make NOT LOVING HIM… illegal.

The attempt is underway to make PROTESTING THE TRUMP DICTATORSHIP against the law. Early Tuesday, Trump posted what seemed like a warning against pro-Palestinian protests on American campuses. In fact it says nothing about what kind of protests he'd make illegal, so let me tell you what he really meant: 

Let me re-write this to reflect reality – the reality inside Trump’s plans to imprison you. 'All Federal Funding will STOP for any College, School, or University that allows illegal protests. Protests like ‘Black Lives Matter’ are now illegal. Protests to save Medicare are now illegal. Protests against your favorite president (me) are now illegal. Agitators will be imprisoned… American students will be permanently expelled or depending on the crime, arrested. NO MASKS! NO DEMOCRATS! Thank you for your attention to this matter.'

He also dropped a second hint inside that test of human endurance in front of the House and Senate of how he will use the new anti-Deepfake law to prosecute you for sharing videos of him, whether they're real or they're not. Because therein lies the true danger of a deepfake law: claiming a REAL video is just a fake.

And of course don't miss out on the attempt to censure Rep. Al Green, the true hero of Tuesday night. They will vote today on punishing him for doing nothing compared to the previous Karen-ing by Boebert and Greene, or the infamous Joe "You Lie" Wilson. WE should be voting on whether we want Al to be the Democratic nominee in '28. Or the head of the entire party. Or the mandatory role model behind whom all the Democrats should've walked out in solidarity.

B-Block (31:00) POSTSCRIPTS TO THE NEWS: Those Trump Bros? The under 30s who pushed Trump over the finish line? They have abandoned him. Poll numbers among them down 15-30% in the first MONTH. Ukraine and the peacekeepers explained. Which Trumper would you take first in the Moron Draft, JD Vance, Karoline Leavitt, or Alina Habba? And when Joni Ernst campaigned on going to Washington to get hog and make 'em squeal, little did we know!

C-Block (44:00) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: Jeff Shell, reportedly running CBS before he's legally allowed to? Well 15 years ago he tried to run NBC before he was legally allowed to, and I have the receipts. Appeaser Governor Polis of Colorado learns what you get for helping Trump: Trump wants to cut off funds to Colorado. And Nancy Mace has a Lion Gender Identity Crisis.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Hidden

(00:25):
behind Trump's complex, multi layered, endless hallucination that his addressed
to Congress shows he is beloved and the stock market
isn't crashing, and Speaker Johnson's chief of staff wasn't arrested
on a dui right after the speech, and the maggots
aren't furious at him, and the newest polling doesn't suggest
he's already lost nearly a fifth of the Trump bros

(00:46):
Under thirty and they aren't booing, They're saying, let's go
Bronzer and al Green. Isn't the first sign of life
in the Democratic resistance. There is a much more real
and much more stark truth going on here. Trump has
already made his first move in the process of trying
to make not loving him illegal. The attempt is underway

(01:11):
to make protesting the Trump dictatorship against the law. Trump
gassed protesters near the Whitehousing twenty twenty. He spent the
last campaign promising anti protesting laws, and he began to
roll out the new plot this week. This was Tuesday
morning before his telethon before a crowd of supplicants otherwise

(01:34):
known as the Republican members of the Congress and the Senate,
and those Democrats not named al Green quote, all federal
funding will stop for any college, school or university that
allows illegal protests. Agitators will be imprisoned or permanently sent
back to the country from which they came. American students

(01:58):
will be permanently expelled or, depending on on the crime, arrested.
No masks, thank you for your attention to this matter. A.
He's really effing nuts, isn't he. B that's about Israel
and Gaza, right, I mean, that's what he has to
mean by college school or university that allows illegal protests, right,

(02:21):
I mean the protests at universities last year in particular.
We're just about the Middle East. And frankly, the odds
are whether you favor Israel or the Palestinians or neither,
you thought at least one of those protests for somebody
against somebody else, you thought one of them was inappropriate.
Except where in that statement does Trump say funding will

(02:47):
be cut off for any college that doesn't stop Middle
East protests or pro Palestinian protests or pro Israel protests.
Where does it say sending agitators back to the country
from which they came means the Middle East? Where does
it say American students will be permanently expelled only if

(03:09):
they've invaded Jewish or Muslim buildings on camp. It doesn't
say that Trump is as always doing a bait and switch.
You are putting constraints and limits on what he wrote.
He is not. This is his only skill. Let me
rewrite what he wrote to reflect reality. The reality inside

(03:32):
Trump's plans to imprison you. All federal funding will stop
for any college, school, or university that allows illegal protests.
Protests like Black Lives Matter are now illegal. Protests to
save Medicare are now illegal. Protests against your favorite president

(03:52):
me are now illegal. Agitators will be imprisoned. American students
will be permanently expelled or, depending on the crime, arrested.
No Masks, no Democrats, all musk Thank you for your
attention to this matter. Do you see it now? Trump

(04:13):
also rolled out an element of the coming Trump Protection
laws during that test Tuesday night in Washington, that test
of the limit of human endurance for one man praising
himself by making shit up. That was his speech to
the Joint Session. I think that speech is over by now.

(04:37):
He patted himself on the back for new anti deep
fake laws. Did you hear that part of it intended
to protect women against explicit fabricated sexual videos, or more correctly,
what women think is intended to protect them against such
ai fabrications. But Trump could not resist all of the misogyny,

(04:58):
the rape culture, violence, tech pros Tate Rose, and the
Elon Musk philosophy that not even a b rusted penile
implant can stop him from propagating endlessly. All of that
now married to the monstrous new elements of artificial intelligence,
and the law that comes out is actually there to

(05:19):
protect Donald Trump. Happily he had to go off script
and reveal it.

Speaker 2 (05:26):
And once it passes the House, I look forward to
signing that bill into law. Thank you, and I'm going
to use that bill for myself too, if you don't mind,
because nobody had treated worse than I do online nobody.

Speaker 1 (05:41):
Firstly, that's insane as usual, but he is insane, and
every time he appears in front of a camera and
does not kill somebody or begins speaking in tongues, people
forget the insanity and applaud the fact that they have
forgotten the Cohn They forget the self absorption, They forget

(06:04):
his true greatness cheating people. The anti deep fake porn
law is there, yes, to address the explicit purpose, but
it's also there and can be used so he can
prosecute you for that video that got hacked into the

(06:25):
headquarters of Housing in Urban Development the other day, the
deep fake on a loop of Trump sucking Elon Musk's toes.
At least I think it's a deep fake. If you
have not seen this video, don't, But what else could
it cover? AI and deep fakes are a cataclysmic nightmare
for women and for human privacy. But yes, there actually

(06:48):
is another worse level beyond that. It's when AI deep
fakes become so prevalent that anybody can claim this or
that real video is in fact a fake. I mean,
that's the Trump playbook twenty election was real. He claimed
it's a fake. Will Trump now say and his slaves

(07:11):
now repeat that the video of him looking at underage
girls at Mari Lago with Jeffrey Epstein in nineteen ninety
two is not real, that it's just a deep fake,
that it's always been a deep fake, that we've always
been at war with East Asia. NBC you say that's
your video, it's a deep fake, and here's the District
of Columbia US Attorney Ed. I'll believe anything, Martin to

(07:32):
prosecute you for it, or for Trump to sue you
for it for twenty billion dollars. So you better make
another donation to the Trump Library, the Trump Library of money.
There is no limit to what the deep fake law
could conceivably allow Trump to prosecute. Make a satirical video

(07:52):
of Trump that's an illegal deep fake, portray him on
Saturday Night Live. It's James Austin Johnson. Prosecute him. It's
Darryl Hammond. Oh no, it's a deep fake. Prosecute him.
Alec Baldwin, definitely prosecute him, says Trump. It's a network

(08:13):
anchor finally snapping. My money would be on Tom Lamas,
who just got the NBC job yesterday and who was,
if you can imagine this, a production assistant on the
first show I did at MSNBC when I returned in
two thousand and three, proving contrary to reports, I am survivable.

(08:34):
My money is on Tom Lamas. If Tom Lamas snaps
one night and runs every pro Nazi Hitler esque thing,
Trump has ever said one night on NBC Nightly News.
Trump could dismiss it as deep fakes and prosecute Lamas
and NBC News and Comcast, and god knows they'll pay
up or not defend their journalists. You sure you want

(08:59):
this job, Tommy? Stretch this out to its extreme, and
it would affect the great white whale of Trump history.
What if there is a Trump pee tape, a real one,
or never mind there's a real one, or that it's
a pee tape, never mind that. What if there's just
something from which all of this originates, the Paul Manifort connection,

(09:21):
the krasnof the spy story, which is probably crap, the
compromant which is probably not crap, all of it. What
is the possibility here that there is a smoking video
of something just him taking a wheelbarrow full of rubles. Oh,
and that's now a deep fake and the new law

(09:43):
will what Trump prosecute you for retweeting it? Because his
allegation that it's a deep fake doesn't have to be true.
None of it has ever had to be true. He
just has to have the money to hire a lawyer
to sue you over it, or to have control over
the prosecutors to arrest you and force you to fight

(10:07):
back and waste a year of your life, five, ten,
twenty years of your life, one hundred thousand dollars, a
million dollars, twenty million dollars. Do you think ABC settled
over Stephanopoulos and the wording of the rape liability question
because that which Trump claimed was true? Or do you

(10:30):
think that CBS was willing to bargain over the Kamala
Harris interview because what Trump was saying was true. Do
you think the Des Moines Register cartoon lawsuit is true?
It isn't the jury verdict that matters. It's showing you
a list of legal fees you'll have to pay and
your businesses that will be cut off. And let's circle

(10:51):
back to the campus protests. Post All federal funding will
stop for any organization that allows anything Trump doesn't like.
Agitators will be imprisoned and or permanently sent back to
the country from which they come. Americans will be permanently
expelled or, depending on the crime, arrested. You now have

(11:14):
been warned that is what is going to happen next,
or you won't be warned. There's no warning in Idaho,
right Teresa Bourne poll protests at the public town hall
held by the Kutenaie County Republican Central Committee in Kurtelin,
and the next thing she knows, she's being manhandled carried

(11:36):
out by three men dressed in black. They are wearing
no badges, no uniforms, no IDs, they don't even have
security emblems on. They try to zip tie her, and
then the sheriff of the town steps in and threatens
to pepper spray her, and he records all this on

(11:56):
video as she repeatedly asks what are literally black shirts
to identify themselves and theyse The sheriff has posted that
video along with a photo of himself and Governor Abbott
of Texas grinning, and a photo of himself at the
Trump inauguration alongside oh members of the New York Police Department.

(12:22):
The police chief has begun an investigation of the company
that sent the rent at Gestapo and the Republicans who
hired that company, and the charges against Ms Barnpole are
being dropped. There is that the charges are being dropped
this time and who will next be manhandled by unmarked
security while elected law enforcement officials videotape it like RFK

(12:46):
Junior would videotape a bear he killed in Central Park,
or maybe my ex girlfriend who's next to be manhandled
that way. Congressman Al Green. Perhaps Congressman Al Green now

(13:26):
my front runner and first choice, and it could change,
but now my front runner for the Democratic nomination for
president in twenty twenty eight, because he's the only Democrat
I can verify is still breathing. Boycotting that address was,
as I may have mentioned before, it happened a move

(13:46):
from the year nineteen sixty eight, because of course, not
going somewhere is an invisible form of protest. Did you
see me, I wasn't there holding up those paddle signs
with the unreadable words on them. That was the absolute

(14:08):
dumbest thing Democrats have ever done. I mean, at least
since they stopped backing segregation in the sixties. They looked
like they were rich idiots bidding at a charity auction
to raise money to repaint the beachside cabanas in the Hamptons.
Or they looked like ping pong players who had gotten lost.

(14:34):
I mean, it was invisible and impotent. You want to
bring props to a congressional speech in the era of
Bobert or Green or whoever it was suing for the
right not to be scanned for guns. As you go
into the congressional chamber, you want to bring a prop
bring a goddamn bazooka, or at least bring smoke bombs.

(14:59):
I mean, it's Capitol Hill. According to Trump, You're allowed
to attack it and try to kill people inside of it.
That's the Trump doctrine. Now, little paddles with the word
no on it didn't quite cut it, but Al Green

(15:22):
cut it. Al Green got it exactly right. And shame
on every Democrat passed whom he was walked out who
did not stand up and walk out with him in protest,
which would be one hundred goddamn percent of them. If
you think walking out on Trump will somehow cost you
the non existent middle and damage your reelection chances and

(15:42):
get you written up in the wrong newsletters, you're wrong,
but I get it. You're a terrified, textbook fungible, useless politician.
But to not see as it unfolds in front of
you as a win win. Rising to the defense of
a colleague whose outburst was half the Bobert Green, Karen

(16:05):
Honking and a quarter of Joe Wilson's racist you lie
scream against Obama in two thousand and nine. If you
don't see that as it happens in front of you, Hey,
I'm going to stand up with him. I'll get my
name in the papers next him. Oh my god, Martyrdom points.
If you don't see that, that means you're just a
moron Democrat. The optics of unidentified goons ordering a seventy

(16:31):
seven year old congressman and his cane out while JD.
Free Speech Vance smirks and applauds with his mincing, little
trained seal flippers is the essence of an organic viral
video that would win awards. The optics of ten were

(16:54):
twenty or thirty Democrats, then spontaneously rising with him would
have won the night. And I hate with every fiber
of my being the idea that we have now that
we have to win the night. But Trump is getting
to build his cask of a Monteata wall around you,
brick by goddamned brick, because he won the night night
after night for much of twenty twenty four. We have

(17:15):
to play this game or he will kill us with it.
So get in the game, or get up from those
seats in the House and from the Senate and start
walking and don't stop until you are neck high in
the Potomac. Matter of fact, don't stop. When you are
neck high in a Potomac. We can replace you and
no one will know you were ever there. And by

(17:37):
the way, of course, the Republicans who did not face
any of this when it was Republicans doing this to
Joe Biden or Barack Obama, because the Democrats would never
consider doing this. The Republicans are talking about censuring Representative Green.
There is a vote on this this morning unless they
think better of it and make it all go away.

(18:00):
And I guarantee you any Democrat who goes along with
this is finished. In fact, I promise you I will
do everything I can to finish them. More importantly, I
don't think the censure motion is going anywhere because it
was floated by Speaker Mike Johnson, and his chief of
staff was so affected by Trump's speech he was literally

(18:21):
arrested on a dui right after that. Well, it was
either the Trump speech or the chief got a look
at the porn consumption report that Johnson shares with his
own son on their app So Johnson has other things
to worry about. So mighty ugly, Johnson, you have their Republicans. Incidentally,

(18:43):
Johnson's chief of Staff's dui. That was three hours after
Johnson at the speech trotted out the widow of a
man killed by an undocumented immigrant in a dui. Back
to the point, we need people who understand politics and

(19:05):
protest and optics, and who are not afraid to get
walked out by the authorities, and are not afraid to
get arrested if need be. As al Green said as
they brought this up yesterday, I'll do it again. He
didn't have to say he's not afraid to get arrested.

(19:26):
If I could do one thing that transcends time and space,
I would clone John Lewis and put about three hundred
of him into democratic politics right now. Oh, you think
this is bad? Did you see when they beat me
over the head on the bridge? Chuck Schumer having trouble
with traffic is not a great crisis in the months

(19:53):
to come, In the years to come, if there are
years to come, we are going to need democratic leaders
who are not afraid to get arrested, and not arrested
for getting drunk after a Trump speech and drive into
an official capital vehicle either. And so far the list
of Democrats who I'm confident in uh is uh are

(20:15):
is well, there's al Green, I think AOC. But she
stayed home. She thought that was the right move. And
there are others who, probably looking at it again, would
go I should have been there and walked out with him.
But really, you could have seen this coming, and you
could have been there and walked out with Al Green.

(20:36):
And guess what, you are back to square one because
you didn't. And so Trump largely won the night. In
football parlance, he threw two hundred and seventy six interceptions

(20:59):
and fumbled one hundred and fourteen times. And because the
already moronic Washington press corps has now been dumbed down
even further because of market conditions and naked pucellanimous fear,
the toadies at the right wing site Politico rushed to
hile Trump, I want to read you two examples. I mean,
this is John Harris, very serious journalist, reminding us that

(21:22):
they all approach covering events like this, the raw boned
truth of which is an insane man who just sold
this country out to Russia talks longer than anybody else
in history, all of it about himself, says he's done
better than George Washington, and lies literally dozens of times
while making a threat to prosecute dissenters, which you, by

(21:44):
the way, completely missed. They all approach covering this with
one thought and one thought only, not have I captured
the headline here, or the essence or the hidden news story,
But rather, what if I write something different than what
everybody else writes, I'll be mocked, John Harris, Trump, he writes, again,

(22:08):
showed why the presidency is such a powerful platform from
which to wage national arguments, even as predecessor Joe Biden
was never able to use it to good effect. By contrast,
Trump in his showmanship, the boasts and bluster, the indignation
and insults, the ability to channel popular frustrations demonstrated anew
why he has vexed opponents of both parties for the

(22:28):
past decade. Unquote, somebody wrote something like that about Hitler's
first speech as chancellor. We don't know who that somebody was,
because I would expect he wound up any concentration camp. Oh,
the boasts and the bluster, nothing about all the dead
from COVID. Because Trump didn't want his numbers to look bad.

(22:53):
Nothing about calling Liz Warren Pocahontas in the equivalent of
the State of the Union address. Nothing oh demonstrated anew
why he is vexed moments of both parties for the
past decade. Then there's this from the right wing site,
Politico's Rachel Bade. That's bad only with an E at

(23:16):
the end. Congratulations. Attention, hungry House Democrats. You stole the
spotlight from Donald Trump on Tuesday Night. Your reward undercutting
your own message in the fight against Trump, making your
party look small on deathbit and making Trump look at
the commanding figure he desperately wants to be. She's an idiot.

(23:38):
In its same massive vowel movement, Politico praised the celebration
of disruption, praised the defying of backlash. Disruption you mean
al Green, I know by Trump incompetent democracy destroying front

(24:00):
running bastards at Politico and not just at Political because
they all move around. Somebody just left NBC for Politico,
and I think somebody from Politico just went to NBC.
And I will spare you more of this with one exception,
because this is one of the all time greatest, worst
takes ever this is and the author is not a surprise.

(24:21):
But the quality of how bad this is is is
his mona Lisa, his mona Lisa of stupidity. I'll read
it first and then tell you who said this. This
speech will play very well for Trump. Yes, he has
repeated a whole lot of lies he tells all the time,

(24:46):
but he's also poignantly highlighted trans issues, Wokeness, Lake and Riley,
et cetera. And those are eighty twenty issues for the
public in his favor. The speech is a master work
of shareable content and moments. Trump is reality TV show
producer and star, and he is showing it tonight. Almost

(25:12):
got into Rich Lowry Little starbursts in Sarah Palin's eyes
territory at the end. There you could almost see the
guy who wrote this doing a Joni Ernst. But the
author there can only be one, Chris Solisa. At the

(25:38):
heart of all this is this truth. If Trump agreed
to let Putin attack Washington, DC with tactical nukes and
the Democrats held a last second news conference calling Trump
a trader and a murderer, half the Washington press corps
would rise to Trump's defense. Because he cannot shake the
idea that there are still rules, there are rules. There
are no rules here. There have not been rules in

(26:01):
Washington for a decade. But they still want, they still need,
They still cannot function without cubby holes for everything. There
are to them only eleven different stories in Washington, and
whatever this is, it has to be one of them.
It can't be deliberately manipulating the stock market by turning
tariffs on and off. That's not one of these eleven stories. Well,

(26:23):
how would we cover that, Well, we can't. Don't cover
it at all. Okay, So al Green's audacity and forward
thinking and pro democracy courage is reduced to disrespecting the presidency.
I have bad news for you, Washington d C. Press Corps.
There is no presidency. There is no president. The office

(26:48):
of President of the United States, for all practical purposes,
no longer exists. There is just a madman, a senile
bully no one has had the courage to stand up to,
rapidly using his remaining shreds of self control. There is
no president to disrespect. There is only a dictator building

(27:12):
that wall around us and around you, the media, and
around the courts, and you, the media and the courts,
and most of the Democrats, you guys are busy handing
him the effing bricks. Also of interest here I teased

(27:41):
at the beginning some startling but happy polling news for you,
and I will deliver. How about six weeks into the
dictatorship and Trump has already seen his support among men
under thirty. Dive deeply underwater. Trump, bro, you've been doged.
It's next. This is Countdown.

Speaker 3 (28:05):
This is Countdown with Keith Oberman.

Speaker 1 (28:16):
Postscripts to the news, some headlines, some updates, some snarks.
Still ahead of us of course, worst persons. And Nancy
Mace was today years old before she learned there was
a difference between a boy lion and a girl lion. Next,

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this is the Countdown podcast. And these are the places
where there's news. Kateline harvid yad headquarters of the research
company Social Space, actually located at Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
They tell Puck News that it is faint at this point,
but the writing is on the wall for Trump's support

(28:58):
with men under thirty, possibly the pivotal point of the
twenty twenty four election. Quoting Puck, six weeks into the
new presidency, John Delvolfi of Social Space said that Trump'
support among young voters is already taking an unambiguous hit. Overall,
favorability with the younger voters has dropped seven points since
his January poll. The weekend before the inauguration. He came

(29:22):
into office with a fifty percent favorable among gen z.
He's now at forty three. Since mid January, Trump's favorable
rating has dropped most significantly among young rural voters, down
seventeen points, independence down thirteen points, white women down ten points,
and women overall down ten points. At the same time,

(29:44):
Trump's standing among young white men has remained about the same,
But in January, sixty two percent of men under thirty
had approved of Trump's handling of the economy. Now just
forty eight percent approve. That's a drop of fourteen points
in one month. On handling inflation, Trump has taken a

(30:04):
fifth teen point hit, dropping from fifty five percent approval
before the inauguration to forty percent today. And as Puck
additionally notes, those bad numbers and they are actually horrible.
They are themselves three weeks worse and three weeks old. Now.
These numbers were conducted in the middle of February. So

(30:27):
who knows what the impact of all of this nonsense
about tariffs and everything else has factored in. Here Trump
is in trouble with the people who put him over
the top dateline Kiev. Speaking of which headline, Putin pauses
US military aid to Ukraine. In case that got right

(30:49):
past you, I'll just say it again, Putin pauses US
military aid to Ukraine. Let me explain something, as I
understand it, about what may not be fully evident at
first glance, to the situation in Ukraine. On the one
subject peacekeepers that is so desperately important to both sides.

(31:10):
Why is Putin desperate to make sure peacekeepers and other
truce enforcers if there is one, if there is a deal.
Why there are no Americans? Why is Zelensky just as
insistent that there be at least some American troops there
doing something to keep the peace. Well, there must be Americans,

(31:30):
because otherwise all of the peacekeepers would be European. When
Putin violates any ceasefire, Well, he can't shoot Americans. Not yet.
He wants to fight Europeans. He would fight Europeans, he
would shoot European peacekeepers. He wants, in fact, an excuse

(31:51):
to fight Europeans. That's the whole point of Ukraine. It
is a warm up for going into Poland and other
parts of Europe. That's the whole reason we have been
defending Ukraine for three years. The whole point that Trump
not understand, the whole reenactment of nineteen thirty eight and
nineteen thirty nine. That Trump could never understand in a

(32:11):
million years, because there's no cash in it for him.
The peacekeepers, if they are not American, guarantee war in Europe,
which is why Zelenski and smart people want Americans as
part of any peacekeeping force. Dateline, Washington, shocking. I know,

(32:33):
I hope you're sitting down for this part, but did
you know Trump's cabinet and staff are full of absolute
flaming morons. I mean, if there were such a thing,
who would you pick first in the moron fantasy draft
of the Trump administration? Would you go with? Alina haba

(32:53):
White House advisor on parking lots who has just slimed veterans.

Speaker 4 (33:00):
Starting to think about maybe some of those veterans who
worked for the federal government and maybe what the administration
can do to at least help salvage their lives.

Speaker 5 (33:08):
Well, as you know, we care about veterans trumendously. I
mean that's something the President has always cared about anybody
and blew anybody that serves this country. But at the
same time, we have taxpayer dollars. We have a fiscal
responsibility to use taxpayer dollars to pay people that actually work.
That doesn't mean that we forget our veterans by any means.
We are going to care for them in the right way.
But perhaps they're not fit to have a job at

(33:28):
this moment or not willing to come to work, and
we can't. You know, I wouldn't take money from you
and pay somebody and say sorry, you know they're not
going to come to work. It's just not acceptable.

Speaker 1 (33:37):
Yeah, they're not qualified or ready or willing to take
an important job like cheap advisor on bimbos to the
White House now, as if he hadn't already made it
unsafe for any American official to travel in Europe. There's
another candidate, jd. Vance. He may be the number one
draft choice in the Moron draft because he may have

(33:58):
single handedly canceled the Trump state visit to meet the
King of England. He may or may not have meant
British troops and British wars and British dead, but they
sure think he did when he said this.

Speaker 4 (34:14):
If you want real security guarantees, if you want to
actually ensure that Vladimir Putin does not invade Ukraine again,
the very best security guarantee is to give Americans economic
upside in the future of Ukraine. That is a way
better security guarantee than twenty thousand troops from some random
country that hasn't fought a war in thirty or forty years.

Speaker 1 (34:37):
The problem for jd JV is there are so many
skeletons in his closet he may have to have extra
closets put into his closet. Give me like five hundred
to one odds on this and I'll predict right now
and take a bet that he resigns from that office
before the term expires. And lastly, in the derby of

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dumb in the race to be the first draft choice
in our fantasy Fantasy league, is Caroline Levitt, the former
star center fielder of the softball team at her college
in wherever the hell it was. She had just said
that she thought God had given her a special skill
the ability to communicate. And here she is right after

(35:23):
that communicating that Trump's addressed to Congress would be attended
by a dead guy.

Speaker 6 (35:31):
There will be everyday American heroes and attendance. Stephanie Diller,
whom you mentioned, who lost her husband in the line
of duty at the hands of an illegal immigrant. You
have Mark Foegel, who, of course, because of President Trump's
Peace through Strength efforts were returned from Russian captivity. Corey
Compratour who lost his life protecting his family in Butler, Pennsylvania.

Speaker 1 (35:51):
That's the firefighter who was shot when they tried to
shoot Trump. I don't know if you have one of
the top three draft choices, you can't go wrong with
any of these three idiots and Dateline des Moines, Iowa
Senator Joni Ernst was a late yes on Pete Hegseth's nomination.

(36:12):
There's all kinds of guesses now as to why she
said yes, and this as the reason. It sounds good,
but it doesn't hold up to logic because if this
had been the reason, then it wouldn't have come out. Still,
it came out at its efing funny. In fact, it's
effing hilarious. In twenty fourteen, Jony Ernst ran for the

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Senate in Iowa and put up a controversial campaign ad
in which she boasted that she had experienced castrating hogs
castrating hogs, and thus she would be an expert in
Washington in finding and getting rid of pork now. Pro

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Publica reports this. Earlier this year, the Air Force revealed
that the general who oversaw its lobbying before Congress had
inappropriate romantic relationships with five women, including three who worked
on Capitol Hill. Major General Christopher Finnity's colleagues told investigators
the relationships were highly inappropriate, as they could give the

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Air Force undue influence in Congress. I honestly felt sick
to my stomach, one said, according to a report about
the investigation, because it just felt so sleazy. Well, no
doubt that's why it was so much fun. But one
of the women whose relationship with Finity was scrutinized by
the Inspector General was Senator Jony Ernst, according to two

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sources with knowledge of the investigation, Pro Publica continues, the
Iowa Republican and combat veteran you Bet is one of
the most influential voices on the Hill. About the military.
I see, and she sits on Oh there's more to that.
She sits on the Senate's Armed Services Committee, which oversees

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the Pentagon and plays a crucial role in setting its
annual budget. And yes, I'd make exactly the same kind
of thirteen year old's jokes if this was about a man.
Three other sources told Pro Publica that around twenty nineteen,
Earnst that a previous romantic relationship with a legislative affairs
official for a different branch of the military, the Navy.

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There's a joke there about swimming to troop ships. We'll
just let that go. But I'm not letting this one go.
You're telling me that Jony Ernst went to DC to
get all the pork she could find. Wait, wait, it's
worse that twenty fourteen castrating pigs ad. Jony Earnst punchline,

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which she delivered herself, was about her goal when she
got to Washington, which was, in fact, quote, let's make
them squeal. You bet.

Speaker 3 (39:27):
Then, finally, believe it or not, there's still more new
idiots to talk about. The roundup of the miscreants, morons
and dunning Krueger e fects specimens who constitute today's other.

Speaker 1 (39:37):
Worst persons in the world. Here the nominees the Bronze
worst Jeff she Shell owld pal from Fox. Jeff Shell,
Jeff Shell, and I worked with Lauren Sanchez at Fox.
He's the incoming boss of CBS after NBC fired him

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over a woman. He'll be the boss of CBS whenever
the Paramount sky Dance murder finally happens, or or he's
the boss right now. Legally, my former friend, who's defensive,
his deception was once you should have known I was
lying is, according to Oliver Darcy, as Status already pressuring
CBS News to settle Trump's bullying lawsuit so that Trump

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doesn't corruptly hold up that merger I just mentioned between
the Paramount Company and sky Dance. A couple problems here.
First of all, the lawsuit is bullshit. This is that
Kamala Harris editing thing, and now the dictator wants ten
billion dollars in damages for something that didn't have a
goddamn thing to do with him. But secondly, Jeff Shell

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isn't the head of CBS because Paramount and Skydance haven't merged,
and the sky Dance people are legally not supposed to
be involved in CBS decisions, let alone running things until
the merger is complete. As Oliver Darcy puts it, quote,
by attempting to influence decisions at CBS News, Shell may
have aired and potentially opened Paramount and Skydance up to

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regulatory scrutiny. Well you should have known I was lying. Now.
This sounds awfully familiar to some of us, because fifteen
years ago, Jeffshell was one of the top executives at Comcast.
In the same situation, Comcast was about to merge with
NBC takeover NBC. That was a huge slow merger, and

(41:31):
once again Comcast people were not supposed to have any
say on day to day stuff at NBC until merger day,
which was January first, twenty eleven. And yet what do
I find in my files a series of emails to
me from jeffs Shell at his Comcast address, encouraging me
not to leave MSNBC and to hang in there and

(41:55):
not worry about Jeff Sooker, and telling me how much
fun he and I would have together if I stayed
at NBC when he would come in and run it.
The dates on these emails else El Sir. A couple
of them are July twenty ninth, twenty ten, five months
before JEFFS. Shell was actually allowed to try to influence
stuff at NBC or the people there. Huh So maybe

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his previous experience doing this is why he got the
CBS gig runner up appeaser Governor Jared Poulis of Colorado,
I keep telling you, playing nice with the fascists is
not only going to get your thrown out of the party,
it's also going to get you run over first by
the fascists. Polis praised Robert F. Kennedy Junior, Then he

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went on vs. Joe on MSNBC. On there, he praised
the Trump and Musk efforts to gut FEMA, and how
have they repaid his quote bipartisanship unquote. Republicans are angry
that Colorado prosecuted Trump vote denier Tina Peters. They have
demanded Governor Polus hardened Tina Peters or Trump will try

(43:02):
to cut off federal funds to Colorado. Do you see
what happens, Jared? Do you see what happens Jared when
you fill it in yourself. By the way, trump ists
go ahead try to cut off federal funds to a
blue state. All the other blue states will then cut
off their funds to the federal government, and your president

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will be overthrown before the end of the month by
MAGA because people in the red states will start starving
without the blue state money. But our winner, on top
of a field day of great candidates Nancy Mace. Nancy Mace,
congress Woman of North Carolina, although probably not of this earth,

(43:45):
how many dumb things has she done in office so far?

Speaker 3 (43:47):
Started with telling the I skip morning sex with my
unmarried partner to be here on time story at Senator
Tim Scott's prayer.

Speaker 1 (43:56):
Breakfast he was. It was we will have sex.

Speaker 3 (44:00):
Later, reverend the unmarried partner she lived with, and then
there were loud threats of lawsuits when they broke up
and argued over who actually owned their house. That was
another story involving Nancy Mace. Well, this isn't quite that graphic,
but in many ways it's really much more disturbing. Nancy
Mayce has posted on social media an animated video of

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a lion the wind blowing through its hair, along with
her comment quote, women want someone who will go to
battle for them. I am your lion.

Speaker 1 (44:30):
Hear me roar. The lion in Nancy May's tweet is
a male. I am your lion. Hear me roar, and
the lion she.

Speaker 3 (44:42):
Is is a guy.

Speaker 1 (44:46):
Nancy Hell.

Speaker 3 (44:47):
Maybe now we know why she broke up with the
boyfriend Mace two days other worse person than the world.

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I've done all the damage I can do here. Thank
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that's countdown for today. Just seventeen days until the scheduled

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end of his lane. Duck lame brained term unless Musk
removes Trump sooner where the actuarial tables do. The next
schedule Countdown is Monday. As always, bolletins as the news warrants.
Remember peach Trump. It won't work now. It will, however, win.

Speaker 1 (46:22):
The Democrats the midterms if we have midterms. Until next time,
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