November 14, 2024 • 44 mins
SERIES 3 EPISODE 69: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN
A-Block (1:44) SPECIAL COMMENT: Forget for a moment "Attorney General" Matt Gaetz and the bottom falling out of the market for prosecuting men who have sex with underaged girls. Forget for a moment associating Tulsi Gabbard with the word "Intelligence." Forget the prospect of Press Secretary Sage Steele. Even forget Trump's plan to adjourn both houses of Congress so he can appoint an entire cabinet without a single hearing and the Republicans rushing to bark like seals as the Lame Duck Dictator starts rolling out the Third Reich.
The lead story was a different 'third.' “I suspect I won’t be running again,” Trump said to his newly elected Republican House slaves, “unless you say ‘he’s good, we got to figure something else” and every news organization reported he was joking and kidding and trolling and - spoiler alert - he’s NOT. He’s NOT kidding. He’s intending to stay in office and if we’re nice to him he’ll let us elect him again. They've been working on this for more than a year: it's a re-interpretation of the 22nd Amendment and the two-term limit, claiming it means three CONSECUTIVE terms, or going around it and getting him by any one of four different backdoors.
That Trump is emboldened enough to go public with his "kidding" tells you how badly he has misread the shock this would create. Oh yes, everyone reported, he's a kidder. He's kidding. Ask Mike Pence how much of a kidder he is.
MEANWHILE: Lincoln had his "Team of Rivals." Trump is building his "Team of Trifles." And the key appointment isn't Gaetz or Gabbard or Huckabee or any of these other empty vessels. It's Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense because when the protests against Trump starts and he wants the protestors to face U.S. Army tanks and be shot with your taxpayer bullets, the guy who is just crazy enough to order it is this lunatic Hegseth.
B-Block (27:54): POSTSCRIPTS TO THE NEWS: Jack Smith will get out, and get out a report. Putin continues to turn the screws on Trump. At Mar-a-Lago, Elon Musk is "getting a little big for his britches" (Ozempic time!). Musk is also at war with Steve Bannon. Melania won't live at the White House. And one third of network news viewers voted for Trump so all the limp ABC/CBS/NBC coverage mattered more than we thought.
C-Block (40:00): THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: Olivia Nuzzi has suddenly backed off all her stalking claims against Ryan Lizza. Wait I'll get my dumpster-sized bag of popcorn. Tim Pool, Pine Cone. And the Idaho Republican who tells a Democrat to go back to where she comes from. You won't believe which minority group she belongs.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. I know,
I know Matt Gates Attorney General. It's appalling, but bluntly,
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I'd rather have somebody stupid like him. And after all,
there has been an attorney general who went to prison.
And Trump's plan to adjourn both houses of Congress so
he can appoint his cabinet without hearings or oversight will
be a litmus test of whether Republicans are loyal to
him or the country, and why are we even asking
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that question? They are whores. Every last Republican is a whore.
Tommy Tuberville announced last night that any Senate Republican who
votes against Gates stands in Trump's the other Senate Republicans
will try to get him or her out of the Senate.
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They are whorees. And none of these things was the
most important event yesterday. By the way, quote I suspect
I won't be running again, Trump said to his newly
elected Republican House horror slaves. Unless you say he's good,
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we got to figure something else. And every news organization
reported Trump was joking and kidding and owning the Libs
and trolling and spoiler alert he's not he's not kidding.
He is intending to stay in office indefinitely, and if
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we are nice to him, he will let us elect
him again. Yesterday, the move to pretend that another amendment
to the Constitution does not say what it says lurched
out of the shadows and into the forefront. And now
Trump is openly inviting his prostitutes to sell this farce
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in public, just as they have been trying to sell
it in private for two years. And as I've told
you previously that the two term limit in the twenty
second Amendment means two consecutive terms, and Trump hasn't had
two consecutive terms, so he can have a third term.
Or they make him Speaker of the House and then
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have the elected president and vice president resign and he
becomes president or or or or in any way, even
if none of this works, Trump won in a landslide,
the fiftieth biggest popular vote landslide of all time last week.
He's the most popular president ever if you look at
the list from the bottom up. And besides that, what
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about what the great philosopher once said, what can be
unburdened by what has been? You know, like what has
been in the Constitution until now, within a span of
literally fourteen or fifteen hours, the elements necessary for the
latest Trump coup attempt, the one in which he gets
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to run again in twenty twenty eight, or he's already
won the twenty twenty eight quote election unquote right now,
or we just love him so much that we don't
need another election in twenty twenty eight save the money,
or maybe, if the timeline gets extra spicy, he uses
the military to prevent an election in twenty twenty eight.
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All the elements have now come together. This remark about
I suspect I won't be running again, this seemingly offhand.
H you know him, he's all he's kidding. He's such
a kidder. Ask Mike Pence about what a kidder is.
All that word play follow the betrayal of Ukraine, and
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that had followed the wild card in all this, Secretary
of Defense designate mister Fox Morning fill In hosts Pete somebody.
I'll get to him, But first to how many Ukrainians
did Trump and his cowboy Mike Johnson killed yesterday or
sentenced to lives as Russian prisoners, all thirty seven million
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of them thirty six million with a million collaborators, the
Ukrainian equivalents of Maga and Elon Musk. How many more
polls did Trump just put at risk after Trump's manager
Putin rolls through Ukraine using troops sent by Trump's boyfriend
Kim Jong Un? Did he put at risk all thirty
seven million in Poland? Too? How about the eleven million checks,
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the eighty four million Germans? The insider report from the
Republican conference before Trump went into see Biden, Quoting the
New York Times and Annie Karney, speaker Mike Johnson told
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greeney in the closed door conference meeting
today that there would be no more money being sent
to Ukraine. According to two people familiar with the remark,
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I don't know if Mike Johnson is familiar with World
War Two or the decade which preceded it. He's always
seemed to me to be an absolute moron. He does
seem to have no working knowledge of anything that happened
before Fox News signed on, But Putin figured out as
Breshnev and Khrushchov and Stalian and Hitler and Napoleon and
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all the other dictators in states that were used to
dictatorships figured out that the way to stay in power
for life is to keep your country forever at war,
but a specific kind of war, a war for territorial gain.
Not Vietnam but Poland, not Afghanistan but England, not even
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the wastefulness of Iraq, but Ukraine and Trump and by
Johnson's gonna help. And then when Trump decides he can't
leave office because the situation in Europe is just too dire? Now,
how'd that happen? And he alone can prevent World War three,
which he and his wimpy little minion Johnson have just
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taken several giant steps toward. Or when the money Trump
took out of Ukraine and promised to spend on the border,
and yet amazingly it never winds up being spent there
when that runs out, Whenever the day comes that Trump
needs some sort of farcical legislation passed through the House
to enable him to stay in office with or without
a toothless shadow election in twenty eight, Johnson will pass it.
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Because Johnson is one of those feeble men who have
figured out that their route to a little power is
to perpetually kiss the ass of the nearest monster who
seeks world power, and as we all know, Trump is
a unique opportunity for the Mike Johnson's of this world.
He is not only the biggest ass, but he has
the biggest ass. And Trump, of course, has figured out
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what many of the dictators in countries not used to
dictatorships have realized, like net and Yahoo has realized in
the last few years that in these former democracies like
the United States, you cannot have aggressive wars because your population,
or you're part of your population the part you need
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as your power base. They actually will ask why is
my money going to Ukraine rather than to Jeff Bezos
and Laurence Sanchez. What you need is something local in
the way of a war that you can call not
a war but a defensive operation against attack by terrorists
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and other external threats. One type is, well, you know,
an actual attack like that Net and Yahoo was given
his on October seventh. The other type takes a little
more finesse. You must spend years and even decades manufacturing
an intern threat by an ethnic group that exists largely
inside your country but combines potentially with others from their
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original country or countries who are masked or ready to
mass or might be massing, or who you just lie
and say are massing at you know, your southern border.
Either way, if there isn't an actual attack, if there's
no October seventh or nine to eleven with which you
can defend your country while always threatening your country that
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there's going to be another one, this invented problem becomes
your war in everything but name Oh, they are here already,
and they are why you Trump supporter, you are fat
and don't make enough money. And they are why there
is any crime at all anywhere. And they have been
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given all these advantages when all the advantages should be
going to Elon Musk and Joe Rogan. And if you
exploit this successfully, it is a Swiss army knife of excuses.
You can use it as a bludgeon against your internal
political rivals who insists the threat is negligible or better
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still containable and negotiable and solvable. You can use it
to satisfy the bloodlust and the cruelty of the farm
animals with thumbs, who are the base of your trumpy
and support. And you can make it better or make
it worse, or speed the threat up or slow it
down as you need to. And the beautiful thing is
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you never actually have to call it a war, and
you never ever have to solve it. And if you
have any doubts about that, remember when Trump came down
that escalator in his building, the one that usually malfunctions.
I know, I used to live in a Trump building.
When he did that, it insisted that all the Mexican
immigrants were bringing drugs and bringing crime and were rapists,
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and it was a crisis and the country was dying
and it had to be dealt with immediately. That is
now three four hundred and forty days ago. And if
there is anything Trump has ever done better than sharpen
the knife edge of hatred in this country into his
own personal shive with which to eventually kill us all.
If he's ever done anything better than that, it's to
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make sure that nothing could have happened in those three
four hundred and forty days, to make sure that this
alleged imminent, overnight existential crisis was resolved. For nine and
a half years, the immigrants have been ready to destroy
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the country tomorrow for nine and a half years. America
was going to end tomorrow for nine and a half years.
Trump was going to fix it tomorrow. We have always
been at war with East Asia. The other part about
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this about Trump murdering everybody in Ukraine so we can
make a big show of sending all the Ukraine money
to fend off those nasty immigrants who have a lower
crime rate than the people who were born here and
who only pay into our social safety net and almost
never take anything out of it. And there's Mike Johnson
in the back trying to be seen over the heads
of the adults, saying, remember, I helped, I helped. The
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other part about this is that if you want to
dial the Trump crisis machine up to maximum, you can't
use as your excuse something like Ukraine or Poland or Europe.
Those places don't exist to the people in the Trump cult.
Europe what part of Arkansas's Europe? In whyat Europe? But
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you can use Mexico. Even these people pretty much know
where Mexico is. And you can say Steven Miller, new
Deputy White House Chief of Staff in charge of stoking
up fears of a zombie apocalypse, Stephen Miller wants to
say it at noon on January twentieth. It seems like
Trump's other monsters will want to wait until it's more
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strategically useful, like if he lives long enough to try
to subvert the Constitution again and stay in office. Well
you say, then, Well, now, these dirty brown migrants pose
an existential threat to the nation, and that's why we
have an insurrection acted. Guess what. The presidents can do
anything he wants now, and he wants army tanks running
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down the FDR Drive in New York, an Upper Whacker
Drive in Chicago, and on every major street in Washington
to show those Democrats whose boss. And of course he
has to have somebody at the Pentagon who won't say
f this, and who will in fact send out those tanks.
But the real Pentagon leader would be the one who
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would send the tanks to the White House and surround
it until Trump and the Administration's surrender. The guy who
will not do that is named Pete heg Seth. In
his administration, Abraham Lincoln, as Doris Kerns Goodwin memorably wrote,
assembled a team of rivals in his administration. Trump instead
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is assembling a team of trifles, non entities with no experience,
no brains, no common sense, nothing in their closets but
skeleton after skeleton after skeleton, and absolutely no redeeming value
except loyalty. Loyalty to him. Sometimes to putin depends on
who we're talking about. I mean, as the former managing
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editor of Stars and Stripes, Earl Stevens wrote, Pete heg
Seth is on Fox News for hours at a stretch.
Fox News is on at military basis for hours at
a stretch, like twenty four to seven. The troops and
the lower command ranks know him and watch him and
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think he's one of them, even though he has insisted
it is wrong for military veterans to take all the
government benefits they are entitled to after we damn near
got them killed. So we know to whom Pete Hegseth
is loyal. He is loyal to Pete Hegseth. So when
the time comes and the order is given to fire
on I don't know, the next women's march or a
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prayer service somewhere, maybe maybe some of the troops will
be hesitant to do it. Say nothing of many of
the commanders. But the ones who are Fox fans, the
ones who watch Pete Hegseth, who will still be on
Fox News every week. But now he'd be wearing a
big hat. It makes him look like a chess piece,
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like one of Kim John UN's general When they hear
it's Pete telling them to go fire on their neighbors,
they'll do it. And there's your trifecta. Eliminate or get
the Supreme Court to reinterpret the twenty second Amendment to
give Trump a third term or fourth or fifth or
however long he lives, pull out of Ukraine and showily
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throw the money at the border with no desire or
even thought of resolving anything at the border if there
is anything at the border to resolve. And then, finally,
if anybody objects, Secretary of Defense hag Seth will order
them shot by troops on American streets because America f Yeah.
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You will notice that the actual support right now anyway
for turning this country into a military dictatorship run by
Trump is very loud, but very thin, so thin that
despite all the military psychos on Fox News who support
old man bullshit and would like nothing better than to
strafe their domestic critics, Trump still could not find one
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of the weekday Fox psychos to do it. He had
to go to the backup green room to get this
idiot Hegseth, who once boasted that he hadn't washed his
hands in ten years. Obviously, the less qualified, the less prominent,
the less intelligent somebody is, the better it is for Trump.
Heg Seth will get the office in the Pentagon. Yeah,
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they might eat them alive, but probably not because Trump
will be the defacto Secretary of Defense and will be
seen as such. He may even get a big hat too.
The latest of all of these other yeah, you have
the job, I have the responsibility. The latest of these
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are Attorney General matt The FBI division investigating underage sex
is hereby disbanded Gates. The apparent would be Director of
National Intelligence Tulsey Gabbard, which confirms that the term intelligence
has been reduced to a brand name. There's Christy Nome,
Director of Homeland Security, who will ensure we are all
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safe from any harmless household pets. She feels like murdering
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who was apparently shifted over
at the last moment from being Secretary of Combovers borders
are Tom Hoeman, and you have to go no further
than the first syllable of his last name to understand
Tom Homan Ambassadors to Israel, Mike Huckabee, who believes there
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is no West Bank. So congrats to anybody who didn't
vote for Harris to teach the Dems a lesson about
Gaza EPA administrator Lee Zelden so incompetent he couldn't even
beat this idiot. Kathy hokel out for Governor New York
and of course Musk and Ramaswamy as bosses of the
new Department of Government Efficiency such efficiency, miles and miles
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of efficiency, so efficient that, as has been widely noted,
this new department cannot get by with one boss. It
needs two. Then there's Press Secretary Politico Caroline Levitt, Elina Haba,
Monica Crowley, Sage Steele, Scott Jennings, and Elizabeth Pipcoh are
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possibilities for the White House Press Secretary as the Trump
team considers credentially more partisan Maga outlets Axios reports. But
they're all MAGA outwits. I used to work with Monica Crowley,
she's gone full Nazi too. But my god, Caroline Levitt,
Alena Haba, Monica Crowley, Sage Steal, Sage fing Steele. My
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briefly SportsCenter co anchor, who would first have to get
up and criticize her own appointment cause DEI, and then,
of course she would run the risk of being the
first Press secretary ever to accidentally electrocute herself while adjusting
the podium microphone. I mean, the alert hit my phone
about that Air National guardsman going to prison for fifteen
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years for perloining classified material one day at the office,
and I read Jack to shera is and I just
assume the rest of it. Was appointed by Trump as
his liaison to the National Archives. Media coverage of all this,
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Chuck Todd, quote, these confirmation hearings may just save cable
TV for the short term. Unquote ps number one, despite
your best efforts to destroy cable TV, Chuck, PS Number two.
Trump doesn't want any hearings, numb nuts. That's the point
of a dictatorship that you still don't see and won't
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see coming, because, frankly, Chuck, you're too stupid to believe
anything that hasn't happened before might happen now. When the
president is a treason his criminal who needs to stay
in power until he dies or he goes to jail.
What this just in, Chuck, Todd is the new Trump
White House Director of Communications. I'm making that up. I think, yeah,
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it sounds like they're just trolling us at this point,
but they're not. There is a through line in all
of them dates heg Seth, Gabbard, Gnome home Man, rubio
Z Helden, Huckabee, musk Ramaswami. There's a through line besides
the fact that they could have just as easily been
the cast of the next season of Dancing with the Stars.
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They are all idiots who think they are geniuses. And
they not only would never think to not do something
Trump told them to do, they would never think of
something that Trump didn't tell them first. They are utterly
empty vessels chosen so Trump can say I think you
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should do this to this guy, and they can say,
and believe, I just thought of this to do to
that guy. And when the migrants or Democrats or reporters
or whichever protesters are bleeding on the streets of an
American city start bleeding, Trump can say, I had nothing
to do with this. That was Tulsey's idea. All the
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evidence suggests that the insane Roman emperor Caligula did not
actually name his beloved racehorse in Catatas as consul, consul
being one of the two official leaders of the Roman
state below only the emperor to consuls. So Pete Hegseth
is safe. He's actually not the worst political appointment since
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a horse. But there's also evidence that Caligula did say
he intended to name Incatatas a consul to comment on
and criticize and mock the consuls who were already in office,
and in fact to mock all the Roman senators, and
even perhaps to mock other members of his own royal family.
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This would have happened in the year forty or forty
one AD, and then on January twenty fourth, forty one,
Caligula was assassinated by a bunch of angry Roman generals
and government leaders who just had an effing enough of him. So,
in some having cleared up the Caligular history, if you
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think that Gates hag Seth g Nome, especially that very
poor advertisement for her own intelligence department, Gabbard. If with
them you think Trump is just trolling us, remember Caligula's horse,
because there is no way that caligulous horse in Catatis
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would have opened fire on Roman citizens. Oh, Pete hegseth.
Will one last thing. Trump went to the White House
yesterday and in the public photo op, President Biden emphasized
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that there will be a peaceful transfer of power. And
I have two questions for you to ponder. The first
question is why did Biden say that? The second question
is do you think President James Buchanan said something like
that to President elect Lincoln in eighteen sixty? So good news?
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You want good news? Hang on a second, let's have
some good news. Here's somewhere. Oh wait a minute, how
about the continuing signs that the man who may do
the most to make sure Trump's presidency is a disaster
and he leaves not late but early, is Putin? Or
maybe it's Steve Bannon. There is already infighting inside the
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Trump dictatorship. Plus there's Newsy Olivia Newsy News. That's next.
This is an all new edition of Countdown. This is
Countdown with Keith Olberman. Postscripts to the news, some headlines,
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some updates, some snark. This is the Countdown podcast. And
these are the places where there's news. Dateline Washington Special
counsel Jack Smith. He tried, thousands, didn't will beat Trump,
at least in small letters Smith will resign and end
the federal cases against Trump and release a report about
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the insurrection prosecution? What is in the report? To what
lengths will Trump go to try to stop its publication?
A reminder to President Biden, just release the effing thing.
You cannot be prosecuted. You have presidential immunity. As to
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the Florida case, the Biden DOJ may have seeded the
clouds exactly right. They can continue to appeal Trump Concierge
Judge Eileen Cannon's decision to throw out the entire you know,
espionage and stealing classified documents case, because let's think of
something special prosecutors aren't legal, except if they're going after Democrats.
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They can continue if they drop Trump as a co
defendant and only continue to appeal her decision and only
continue to go after his co weaseles Walt Nauda and
Carlos di OLIVERA dateline moscow boy Putin just continues to
signal that what Trump thinks he's going to do to America,
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Putin has already done it to Trump yesterday afternoon and
with ear muffs. Remember the claim that after Putin stiffed
Trump and did not call him after election night, Remember
the claim that they finally had talked. The Kremlin is
denying that. Spokesman Dmitri Peskov told the BBC there has
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been no phone call. Quote. It doesn't correspond at all
to reality. It's completely made up. Its false information. There
was no conversation. More interestingly, from tasks the Russian State
propaganda agency the headline Trump to rely on forces that
brought him to power. Russian Presidential aid Nikolai Patrushev agreed
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that Trump, when he was still a candidate, made many
statements critical of the destructive foreign and domestic policies pursued
by the current administration. In his future policies, including those
on the Russian track, US president elect Trump will rely
on the commitments to the forces that brought him to power,
rather than on election pledges, Russian Presidential aid Nikolai Patrushkaev
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told the Daily Commerceant in an interview. The election campaign
is over, Patrushev noted, to achieve success in the election,
Donald Trump relied on certain force to which he has
corresponding obligations. As a responsible person, he will be obligated
to fulfill them. Well, you know, we've never actually seen
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a Russian dictator who owns his own American president, telling
him in slightly veiled language that there are a hell
of a lot of windows in Washington and that if
he doesn't do what he's told, he might be pushed
out one of them. But that sure sounds like that
relied on certain forces. What forces? Oh, Kremlin forces? Eight
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line Mari Lago. Guess who's already up the creek in
the Trump Meyer Elon Elmo. It was apparently him who
told everybody that he was on the call between Trump
and President Zelenski. Turns out, per Politico, Musk happen to
be in the room with Trump when the call came through.
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To quote the entirety of the Politico report about Dusk's
future or non future with Trump, Musk is quote starting
to wear out his welcome with some in Trump's orbit.
After initially making a huge splash with his endorsement made
just moments after the July attempt on Trump's life, some
insiders now say he's become almost a comical distraction, no
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hanging around marri A Lago, sidling into high level transition meetings,
and giving unsolicited feedback on Trump's personnel decisions. Quote Elon
is getting a little big for his breeches. One insider
tells Playbook what Elon too big for his breeches? Mister Musk,
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time for more ozempic Dateline the wag House. You know
who else is onto Elon Musk? Steve Bannon is onto him,
so he Musk tweeted out something, I used to think
Bannon was smart and evil. Now a think he's evil.
Steve Bannon retweeted it, this is on what It's the truth, truth,
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whatever the name of Trump's social media platform is. So
Musk is quoted as saying, I used to think Bannon
was smart and evil. Now I think he's just or
now I think he's just evil. And Bannon said, smart
enough to turn you down to your face every time
you came to the White House for a taxpayer bailout,
evil enough to call you out as a running dog
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for your paymasters in Beijing. So the Musk Trump thing
and the Musk Putin thing are both going. Well, maybe
there's a way out of this yet, Dateline Brooklyn. Here
is the rare good point from Nate Silver that isn't
just numbers. Trump, he notes, starts out unpopular and will
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likely sink from here. According to the National Exit Poll,
this is silver, writing. Trump was elected with a tepid
forty eight percent favorability rating. However, he actually won nine
percent voters who had an unfavorable view of him. These
people may have seen Trump as a superior alternative to Harris,
but will be less tolerant now that he has no
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more elections to run in. No, we think in the
same poll, forty four percent of voters have a very
unfavorable view of Trump, so the ceiling on his popularity
is likely to be fairly capped forty eight percent. That's
not even even. This could be silver, says a Kin.
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In history to two thousand and four, when George Bush
got elected by a razor thin margin, announced he had
won a mandate, insisted the world was his and he
was going to use all his political capital, and while
new Democratic stars rose in the background to destroy the
Republicans in the next two elections, actually four elections, Bush
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gradually got eaten alive by an increasingly hostile media led
by who was that again? All right? Me? And Dateline
the White House, the CNN headline Milania Trump unlikely to
move to the White House full time as First Lady
This time he's different. I'm not anxious because these time
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he's different. I have much more experience and much more knowledge,
she told CNN. I was in the White House before.
When you go in, you know exactly what to expect.
She said in a recent friendly interview with Fox News.
Milinia Trump is expected to spend a majority of her
time over the next four years not at the White House,
but between New York City and Palm Beach, Florida. Sources
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familiar with the thinking told CNN. However, they insisted she
would still be present for major events and would have
her own platform and priorities as first Lady, the first
of them being stay the hell away from her idiot husband.
Now you have to admit what she said there was
pretty good word salad for somebody for whom English is
a second language. Role of Milania Trump will be performed
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tonight by Alina Habba and Dateline Washington. So if you
wonder whether or not the limpdiced coverage of Trump during
the campaign by CBS News, NBC News, and ABC News
could not have had anything to do with Trump's win,
think again. From the invaluable Dan Frumkin of Press Watch,
distilled from polling by NBC News, Biden supporters more likely
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to get their news by newspapers than Trump supporters. How
registered voters consume news based on who they voted for.
In twenty twenty four, in cable news, fifty three percent
of cable news as your primary source of news voters
fifty three percent Trump, forty five percent for Well Harris
not Biden, obviously, and then in newspapers it was seventy
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to twenty one the Democrats over Trump. And then in
National Network News, where supposedly ABCCBS and NBC had been
abandoned decades ago by the Republicans, the voters said fifty
five percent in favor of the Democrat Kamala Harris, thirty
five percent in favor of Trump. So for one third
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of the audience watching the broadcast network newscasts every night
and things like Meet the Press and Face the Nation
and whatever they're calling the one on CBS at the
moment that nobody watches, yes, one third of them are
still Trump supporters or became Trump supporters thanks to the
as I noted before, ld coverage of Trump by the networks,
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and with that this media note, Dennis Murphy, Jarrett Shustrin,
and Lamar Gerring have joined Newsmax as executive producers for
American Agenda, Wake Up America, Nazi Line on whatever the
shows are called Murphy. Most recently was it Fox. Schustron
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Ha said, Gerring is the former EP of wnywtv's Good
Day New York. That would be the Fox station in
New York. So Newsmax just hired a producer named Gerring
ge r i n g Lamar Gerring. Now he might
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pronounce it some other way. Maybe he pronounces it smith.
Maybe he pronounces it lamar g. Maybe he pronounces it Gerrig.
I don't know, but it's spelled g o e r
i n g, which in German is Gerring. Even for
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these dark times, isn't that a little too on point?
And there's Olivia Newsy News and the most racist Republican
thing ever in Worst Persons Next, believe it or not,
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there are still more new idiots to talk about. Yes,
it's the semi weekly roundup of the miss Grants, morons
and Dunning Kruger effects specimens who constitute today's other worse
persons in the world. Theron's worse Olivia is back. No, no, no, no,
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that's not what I mean, I'm not going to tell
you about Olivia's back, I meaning she's back in the news,
Newsy in the news or NUTSI. I can never remember
which way she's pronouncing it. This week, remember the restraining
order and the charges Olivia Newsy made against her ex
fiance Ryan Lizza before their careers both imploded, and the
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stories about going to the FBI and he hacked her
phone and revealed all the RFK Junior stuff, and he
was a stalker, and he blackmailed her into sex and
staying into their relationship, and most importantly to her, blackmailed
her to in the book deal. Oh god, pew pew pew,
what were those bullets? I just missed? She's dropped all
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those charges, The Daily Beast reports Ryan Liza answered those
charges in court in the last ten days with an
outline of evidence that he was going to use in
his defense that suggested Olivia wasn't exactly not lying texts, email's,
third party witnesses, phone conversations. Her response to seeing this,
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she has withdrawn the restraining order against him. Just dropped it.
No stalking, no blackmailing, no book deal stuff. So now
Liza is hinting at suing her his quote, she shamelessly
used litigation with false and defamatory allegations as a public
relations strategy. I said I would defend myself against her
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lies vigorously and successfully, and I am fully prepared to
do so way more or lassits. Oh boy, takes my
mind off Trumpo. But for now, he concluded, I'm pleased
this matter is closed. One additional quote she lied, pal
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take a number. As for me, I'm just quietly enjoying
my garbage dumpster full of popcorn. I mean, I'm gonna
have to deal with the fact that I'm now eight
hundred and seventy five pounds. It's all popcorn, and I'll
just keep enjoying my hot and cold running Shadu and Freud.
But I will mention that as far back as the
year twenty fourteen, she used to tell me about her
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quote stalker unquote in DC. His name was Ryan Lizza.
I'm quoting her. You know how to reach me. The
runner up worser, Tim Poole, one of those fascists, the
one with the beanie baby outfit, who it turned out,
was brought to you by a contribution from the Kremlin.
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Make pronouns illegal. He's written, everyone and everything must be
referred to directly by name. In the replies from at
duchess Prim, everyone is a pronoun, you pine cone? Try again?
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The best thing all week that is the new insult
you pine cone. Pool says he was just trolling here.
He knows, he knows knows everyone and everything are pronouns.
It was the whole point he wanted to get. Who
are you writing to, Pool? You're talking to conservatives. If
you knew that everyone and everything is a pronoun you're
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the only one of the crowd who knows that, because
the rest of them have a collective IQ of one
hundred and seven. The best part is the insult you
pine cone. Hey, f you o your pine cone? Thank you,
duchess Prim. You have introduced one of the great new
insults of the century. Dear listener, won't you use it
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today and tell the others of the good news U
pine Cone? But our winner the worst. Now this is
a month old. Somehow I missed it. The Independent just
published it. The guy in it is so Republican he
should be continued onto the adjacent Republican At a bipartisan
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forum in Idaho, Republican state Senator Dan Foreman got into
a heated exchange with Democratic House six district candidate Trish
Carter Goodheart. They were talking about discrimination and somebody said
there wasn't really any discrimination in Idaho, and Carter Goodheart
says that. She then said, just because someone hasn't personally
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experienced discrimination doesn't mean it's not happening. And that is
when Republican Senator Foreman screamed, I'm so sick and tired
of this liberal bullshit, and looking at Ms Carter Goodheart,
he added, why don't you go back to where you
came from? Trish Carter Goodheart is Native American nez Perse.
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Just for the record, Native American in Idaho. She is home,
She is back where she came from. Senator Foreman denies
he said this, but attendees, including a state representative, said
they heard it. And then in real time after he said,
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why don't you go back to where you came from?
To the Native American, the Native American, Ms Carter Goodheart
asked the unanswerable rhetorical question, where am I supposed to go? Well,
we all know where State Senator Foreman is supposed to go. Hell,
but first he should go into the Trump administration as
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Secretary of Pine Cones, Idaho State Senator Dan why don't
you Native Americans go back to where you come from? Foreman,
Today's other worst person in the I've done all the
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damage I can do here. Thank you for listening. Follow
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announcer today was my friend John Dean, and as always,
everything else was pretty much my fault. Let's countdown for today,
just one five hundred and thirty five days until the
scheduled end of the term of Lame duc President Trump.
Maybe the next scheduled countdown is Monday. Still playing this
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by ear on the schedule, I may do some shorter
eight nine ten minute editions as news warrants. I mean,
Trump could could appoint a horse to his cabinet, especially
if he doesn't think. I have a confirmation here Wilbur
has been named Secretary of Oats. We'll see how the
schedule works out. Two at least a week schedule Monday
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and Thursday make the most sense for me in any event.
As always, bulletins as the news warrants, till the next one,
whenever the hell that is. I'm Keith Alderman. Good morning,
good afternoon, good night, and good luck. Countdown with Keith
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Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. I know,
I know Matt Gates Attorney General. It's appalling, but bluntly,
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I'd rather have somebody stupid like him. And after all,
there has been an attorney general who went to prison.
And Trump's plan to adjourn both houses of Congress so
he can appoint his cabinet without hearings or oversight will
be a litmus test of whether Republicans are loyal to
him or the country, and why are we even asking
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that question? They are whores. Every last Republican is a whore.
Tommy Tuberville announced last night that any Senate Republican who
votes against Gates stands in Trump's the other Senate Republicans
will try to get him or her out of the Senate.
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They are whorees. And none of these things was the
most important event yesterday. By the way, quote I suspect
I won't be running again, Trump said to his newly
elected Republican House horror slaves. Unless you say he's good,
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we got to figure something else. And every news organization
reported Trump was joking and kidding and owning the Libs
and trolling and spoiler alert he's not he's not kidding.
He is intending to stay in office indefinitely, and if
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we are nice to him, he will let us elect
him again. Yesterday, the move to pretend that another amendment
to the Constitution does not say what it says lurched
out of the shadows and into the forefront. And now
Trump is openly inviting his prostitutes to sell this farce
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in public, just as they have been trying to sell
it in private for two years. And as I've told
you previously that the two term limit in the twenty
second Amendment means two consecutive terms, and Trump hasn't had
two consecutive terms, so he can have a third term.
Or they make him Speaker of the House and then
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have the elected president and vice president resign and he
becomes president or or or or in any way, even
if none of this works, Trump won in a landslide,
the fiftieth biggest popular vote landslide of all time last week.
He's the most popular president ever if you look at
the list from the bottom up. And besides that, what
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about what the great philosopher once said, what can be
unburdened by what has been? You know, like what has
been in the Constitution until now, within a span of
literally fourteen or fifteen hours, the elements necessary for the
latest Trump coup attempt, the one in which he gets
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to run again in twenty twenty eight, or he's already
won the twenty twenty eight quote election unquote right now,
or we just love him so much that we don't
need another election in twenty twenty eight save the money,
or maybe, if the timeline gets extra spicy, he uses
the military to prevent an election in twenty twenty eight.
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All the elements have now come together. This remark about
I suspect I won't be running again, this seemingly offhand.
H you know him, he's all he's kidding. He's such
a kidder. Ask Mike Pence about what a kidder is.
All that word play follow the betrayal of Ukraine, and
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that had followed the wild card in all this, Secretary
of Defense designate mister Fox Morning fill In hosts Pete somebody.
I'll get to him, But first to how many Ukrainians
did Trump and his cowboy Mike Johnson killed yesterday or
sentenced to lives as Russian prisoners, all thirty seven million
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of them thirty six million with a million collaborators, the
Ukrainian equivalents of Maga and Elon Musk. How many more
polls did Trump just put at risk after Trump's manager
Putin rolls through Ukraine using troops sent by Trump's boyfriend
Kim Jong Un? Did he put at risk all thirty
seven million in Poland? Too? How about the eleven million checks,
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the eighty four million Germans? The insider report from the
Republican conference before Trump went into see Biden, Quoting the
New York Times and Annie Karney, speaker Mike Johnson told
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greeney in the closed door conference meeting
today that there would be no more money being sent
to Ukraine. According to two people familiar with the remark,
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I don't know if Mike Johnson is familiar with World
War Two or the decade which preceded it. He's always
seemed to me to be an absolute moron. He does
seem to have no working knowledge of anything that happened
before Fox News signed on, But Putin figured out as
Breshnev and Khrushchov and Stalian and Hitler and Napoleon and
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all the other dictators in states that were used to
dictatorships figured out that the way to stay in power
for life is to keep your country forever at war,
but a specific kind of war, a war for territorial gain.
Not Vietnam but Poland, not Afghanistan but England, not even
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the wastefulness of Iraq, but Ukraine and Trump and by
Johnson's gonna help. And then when Trump decides he can't
leave office because the situation in Europe is just too dire? Now,
how'd that happen? And he alone can prevent World War three,
which he and his wimpy little minion Johnson have just
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taken several giant steps toward. Or when the money Trump
took out of Ukraine and promised to spend on the border,
and yet amazingly it never winds up being spent there
when that runs out, Whenever the day comes that Trump
needs some sort of farcical legislation passed through the House
to enable him to stay in office with or without
a toothless shadow election in twenty eight, Johnson will pass it.
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Because Johnson is one of those feeble men who have
figured out that their route to a little power is
to perpetually kiss the ass of the nearest monster who
seeks world power, and as we all know, Trump is
a unique opportunity for the Mike Johnson's of this world.
He is not only the biggest ass, but he has
the biggest ass. And Trump, of course, has figured out
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what many of the dictators in countries not used to
dictatorships have realized, like net and Yahoo has realized in
the last few years that in these former democracies like
the United States, you cannot have aggressive wars because your population,
or you're part of your population the part you need
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as your power base. They actually will ask why is
my money going to Ukraine rather than to Jeff Bezos
and Laurence Sanchez. What you need is something local in
the way of a war that you can call not
a war but a defensive operation against attack by terrorists
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and other external threats. One type is, well, you know,
an actual attack like that Net and Yahoo was given
his on October seventh. The other type takes a little
more finesse. You must spend years and even decades manufacturing
an intern threat by an ethnic group that exists largely
inside your country but combines potentially with others from their
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original country or countries who are masked or ready to
mass or might be massing, or who you just lie
and say are massing at you know, your southern border.
Either way, if there isn't an actual attack, if there's
no October seventh or nine to eleven with which you
can defend your country while always threatening your country that
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there's going to be another one, this invented problem becomes
your war in everything but name Oh, they are here already,
and they are why you Trump supporter, you are fat
and don't make enough money. And they are why there
is any crime at all anywhere. And they have been
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given all these advantages when all the advantages should be
going to Elon Musk and Joe Rogan. And if you
exploit this successfully, it is a Swiss army knife of excuses.
You can use it as a bludgeon against your internal
political rivals who insists the threat is negligible or better
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still containable and negotiable and solvable. You can use it
to satisfy the bloodlust and the cruelty of the farm
animals with thumbs, who are the base of your trumpy
and support. And you can make it better or make
it worse, or speed the threat up or slow it
down as you need to. And the beautiful thing is
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you never actually have to call it a war, and
you never ever have to solve it. And if you
have any doubts about that, remember when Trump came down
that escalator in his building, the one that usually malfunctions.
I know, I used to live in a Trump building.
When he did that, it insisted that all the Mexican
immigrants were bringing drugs and bringing crime and were rapists,
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and it was a crisis and the country was dying
and it had to be dealt with immediately. That is
now three four hundred and forty days ago. And if
there is anything Trump has ever done better than sharpen
the knife edge of hatred in this country into his
own personal shive with which to eventually kill us all.
If he's ever done anything better than that, it's to
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make sure that nothing could have happened in those three
four hundred and forty days, to make sure that this
alleged imminent, overnight existential crisis was resolved. For nine and
a half years, the immigrants have been ready to destroy
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the country tomorrow for nine and a half years. America
was going to end tomorrow for nine and a half years.
Trump was going to fix it tomorrow. We have always
been at war with East Asia. The other part about
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this about Trump murdering everybody in Ukraine so we can
make a big show of sending all the Ukraine money
to fend off those nasty immigrants who have a lower
crime rate than the people who were born here and
who only pay into our social safety net and almost
never take anything out of it. And there's Mike Johnson
in the back trying to be seen over the heads
of the adults, saying, remember, I helped, I helped. The
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other part about this is that if you want to
dial the Trump crisis machine up to maximum, you can't
use as your excuse something like Ukraine or Poland or Europe.
Those places don't exist to the people in the Trump cult.
Europe what part of Arkansas's Europe? In whyat Europe? But
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you can use Mexico. Even these people pretty much know
where Mexico is. And you can say Steven Miller, new
Deputy White House Chief of Staff in charge of stoking
up fears of a zombie apocalypse, Stephen Miller wants to
say it at noon on January twentieth. It seems like
Trump's other monsters will want to wait until it's more
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strategically useful, like if he lives long enough to try
to subvert the Constitution again and stay in office. Well
you say, then, Well, now, these dirty brown migrants pose
an existential threat to the nation, and that's why we
have an insurrection acted. Guess what. The presidents can do
anything he wants now, and he wants army tanks running
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down the FDR Drive in New York, an Upper Whacker
Drive in Chicago, and on every major street in Washington
to show those Democrats whose boss. And of course he
has to have somebody at the Pentagon who won't say
f this, and who will in fact send out those tanks.
But the real Pentagon leader would be the one who
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would send the tanks to the White House and surround
it until Trump and the Administration's surrender. The guy who
will not do that is named Pete heg Seth. In
his administration, Abraham Lincoln, as Doris Kerns Goodwin memorably wrote,
assembled a team of rivals in his administration. Trump instead
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is assembling a team of trifles, non entities with no experience,
no brains, no common sense, nothing in their closets but
skeleton after skeleton after skeleton, and absolutely no redeeming value
except loyalty. Loyalty to him. Sometimes to putin depends on
who we're talking about. I mean, as the former managing
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editor of Stars and Stripes, Earl Stevens wrote, Pete heg
Seth is on Fox News for hours at a stretch.
Fox News is on at military basis for hours at
a stretch, like twenty four to seven. The troops and
the lower command ranks know him and watch him and
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think he's one of them, even though he has insisted
it is wrong for military veterans to take all the
government benefits they are entitled to after we damn near
got them killed. So we know to whom Pete Hegseth
is loyal. He is loyal to Pete Hegseth. So when
the time comes and the order is given to fire
on I don't know, the next women's march or a
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prayer service somewhere, maybe maybe some of the troops will
be hesitant to do it. Say nothing of many of
the commanders. But the ones who are Fox fans, the
ones who watch Pete Hegseth, who will still be on
Fox News every week. But now he'd be wearing a
big hat. It makes him look like a chess piece,
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like one of Kim John UN's general When they hear
it's Pete telling them to go fire on their neighbors,
they'll do it. And there's your trifecta. Eliminate or get
the Supreme Court to reinterpret the twenty second Amendment to
give Trump a third term or fourth or fifth or
however long he lives, pull out of Ukraine and showily
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throw the money at the border with no desire or
even thought of resolving anything at the border if there
is anything at the border to resolve. And then, finally,
if anybody objects, Secretary of Defense hag Seth will order
them shot by troops on American streets because America f Yeah.
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You will notice that the actual support right now anyway
for turning this country into a military dictatorship run by
Trump is very loud, but very thin, so thin that
despite all the military psychos on Fox News who support
old man bullshit and would like nothing better than to
strafe their domestic critics, Trump still could not find one
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of the weekday Fox psychos to do it. He had
to go to the backup green room to get this
idiot Hegseth, who once boasted that he hadn't washed his
hands in ten years. Obviously, the less qualified, the less prominent,
the less intelligent somebody is, the better it is for Trump.
Heg Seth will get the office in the Pentagon. Yeah,
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they might eat them alive, but probably not because Trump
will be the defacto Secretary of Defense and will be
seen as such. He may even get a big hat too.
The latest of all of these other yeah, you have
the job, I have the responsibility. The latest of these
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are Attorney General matt The FBI division investigating underage sex
is hereby disbanded Gates. The apparent would be Director of
National Intelligence Tulsey Gabbard, which confirms that the term intelligence
has been reduced to a brand name. There's Christy Nome,
Director of Homeland Security, who will ensure we are all
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safe from any harmless household pets. She feels like murdering
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who was apparently shifted over
at the last moment from being Secretary of Combovers borders
are Tom Hoeman, and you have to go no further
than the first syllable of his last name to understand
Tom Homan Ambassadors to Israel, Mike Huckabee, who believes there
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is no West Bank. So congrats to anybody who didn't
vote for Harris to teach the Dems a lesson about
Gaza EPA administrator Lee Zelden so incompetent he couldn't even
beat this idiot. Kathy hokel out for Governor New York
and of course Musk and Ramaswamy as bosses of the
new Department of Government Efficiency such efficiency, miles and miles
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of efficiency, so efficient that, as has been widely noted,
this new department cannot get by with one boss. It
needs two. Then there's Press Secretary Politico Caroline Levitt, Elina Haba,
Monica Crowley, Sage Steele, Scott Jennings, and Elizabeth Pipcoh are
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possibilities for the White House Press Secretary as the Trump
team considers credentially more partisan Maga outlets Axios reports. But
they're all MAGA outwits. I used to work with Monica Crowley,
she's gone full Nazi too. But my god, Caroline Levitt,
Alena Haba, Monica Crowley, Sage Steal, Sage fing Steele. My
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briefly SportsCenter co anchor, who would first have to get
up and criticize her own appointment cause DEI, and then,
of course she would run the risk of being the
first Press secretary ever to accidentally electrocute herself while adjusting
the podium microphone. I mean, the alert hit my phone
about that Air National guardsman going to prison for fifteen
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years for perloining classified material one day at the office,
and I read Jack to shera is and I just
assume the rest of it. Was appointed by Trump as
his liaison to the National Archives. Media coverage of all this,
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Chuck Todd, quote, these confirmation hearings may just save cable
TV for the short term. Unquote ps number one, despite
your best efforts to destroy cable TV, Chuck, PS Number two.
Trump doesn't want any hearings, numb nuts. That's the point
of a dictatorship that you still don't see and won't
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see coming, because, frankly, Chuck, you're too stupid to believe
anything that hasn't happened before might happen now. When the
president is a treason his criminal who needs to stay
in power until he dies or he goes to jail.
What this just in, Chuck, Todd is the new Trump
White House Director of Communications. I'm making that up. I think, yeah,
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it sounds like they're just trolling us at this point,
but they're not. There is a through line in all
of them dates heg Seth, Gabbard, Gnome home Man, rubio
Z Helden, Huckabee, musk Ramaswami. There's a through line besides
the fact that they could have just as easily been
the cast of the next season of Dancing with the Stars.
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They are all idiots who think they are geniuses. And
they not only would never think to not do something
Trump told them to do, they would never think of
something that Trump didn't tell them first. They are utterly
empty vessels chosen so Trump can say I think you
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should do this to this guy, and they can say,
and believe, I just thought of this to do to
that guy. And when the migrants or Democrats or reporters
or whichever protesters are bleeding on the streets of an
American city start bleeding, Trump can say, I had nothing
to do with this. That was Tulsey's idea. All the
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evidence suggests that the insane Roman emperor Caligula did not
actually name his beloved racehorse in Catatas as consul, consul
being one of the two official leaders of the Roman
state below only the emperor to consuls. So Pete Hegseth
is safe. He's actually not the worst political appointment since
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a horse. But there's also evidence that Caligula did say
he intended to name Incatatas a consul to comment on
and criticize and mock the consuls who were already in office,
and in fact to mock all the Roman senators, and
even perhaps to mock other members of his own royal family.
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This would have happened in the year forty or forty
one AD, and then on January twenty fourth, forty one,
Caligula was assassinated by a bunch of angry Roman generals
and government leaders who just had an effing enough of him. So,
in some having cleared up the Caligular history, if you
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think that Gates hag Seth g Nome, especially that very
poor advertisement for her own intelligence department, Gabbard. If with
them you think Trump is just trolling us, remember Caligula's horse,
because there is no way that caligulous horse in Catatis
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would have opened fire on Roman citizens. Oh, Pete hegseth.
Will one last thing. Trump went to the White House
yesterday and in the public photo op, President Biden emphasized
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that there will be a peaceful transfer of power. And
I have two questions for you to ponder. The first
question is why did Biden say that? The second question
is do you think President James Buchanan said something like
that to President elect Lincoln in eighteen sixty? So good news?
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You want good news? Hang on a second, let's have
some good news. Here's somewhere. Oh wait a minute, how
about the continuing signs that the man who may do
the most to make sure Trump's presidency is a disaster
and he leaves not late but early, is Putin? Or
maybe it's Steve Bannon. There is already infighting inside the
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Trump dictatorship. Plus there's Newsy Olivia Newsy News. That's next.
This is an all new edition of Countdown. This is
Countdown with Keith Olberman. Postscripts to the news, some headlines,
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some updates, some snark. This is the Countdown podcast. And
these are the places where there's news. Dateline Washington Special
counsel Jack Smith. He tried, thousands, didn't will beat Trump,
at least in small letters Smith will resign and end
the federal cases against Trump and release a report about
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the insurrection prosecution? What is in the report? To what
lengths will Trump go to try to stop its publication?
A reminder to President Biden, just release the effing thing.
You cannot be prosecuted. You have presidential immunity. As to
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the Florida case, the Biden DOJ may have seeded the
clouds exactly right. They can continue to appeal Trump Concierge
Judge Eileen Cannon's decision to throw out the entire you know,
espionage and stealing classified documents case, because let's think of
something special prosecutors aren't legal, except if they're going after Democrats.
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They can continue if they drop Trump as a co
defendant and only continue to appeal her decision and only
continue to go after his co weaseles Walt Nauda and
Carlos di OLIVERA dateline moscow boy Putin just continues to
signal that what Trump thinks he's going to do to America,
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Putin has already done it to Trump yesterday afternoon and
with ear muffs. Remember the claim that after Putin stiffed
Trump and did not call him after election night, Remember
the claim that they finally had talked. The Kremlin is
denying that. Spokesman Dmitri Peskov told the BBC there has
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been no phone call. Quote. It doesn't correspond at all
to reality. It's completely made up. Its false information. There
was no conversation. More interestingly, from tasks the Russian State
propaganda agency the headline Trump to rely on forces that
brought him to power. Russian Presidential aid Nikolai Patrushev agreed
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that Trump, when he was still a candidate, made many
statements critical of the destructive foreign and domestic policies pursued
by the current administration. In his future policies, including those
on the Russian track, US president elect Trump will rely
on the commitments to the forces that brought him to power,
rather than on election pledges, Russian Presidential aid Nikolai Patrushkaev
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told the Daily Commerceant in an interview. The election campaign
is over, Patrushev noted, to achieve success in the election,
Donald Trump relied on certain force to which he has
corresponding obligations. As a responsible person, he will be obligated
to fulfill them. Well, you know, we've never actually seen
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a Russian dictator who owns his own American president, telling
him in slightly veiled language that there are a hell
of a lot of windows in Washington and that if
he doesn't do what he's told, he might be pushed
out one of them. But that sure sounds like that
relied on certain forces. What forces? Oh, Kremlin forces? Eight
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line Mari Lago. Guess who's already up the creek in
the Trump Meyer Elon Elmo. It was apparently him who
told everybody that he was on the call between Trump
and President Zelenski. Turns out, per Politico, Musk happen to
be in the room with Trump when the call came through.
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To quote the entirety of the Politico report about Dusk's
future or non future with Trump, Musk is quote starting
to wear out his welcome with some in Trump's orbit.
After initially making a huge splash with his endorsement made
just moments after the July attempt on Trump's life, some
insiders now say he's become almost a comical distraction, no
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hanging around marri A Lago, sidling into high level transition meetings,
and giving unsolicited feedback on Trump's personnel decisions. Quote Elon
is getting a little big for his breeches. One insider
tells Playbook what Elon too big for his breeches? Mister Musk,
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time for more ozempic Dateline the wag House. You know
who else is onto Elon Musk? Steve Bannon is onto him,
so he Musk tweeted out something, I used to think
Bannon was smart and evil. Now a think he's evil.
Steve Bannon retweeted it, this is on what It's the truth, truth,
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whatever the name of Trump's social media platform is. So
Musk is quoted as saying, I used to think Bannon
was smart and evil. Now I think he's just or
now I think he's just evil. And Bannon said, smart
enough to turn you down to your face every time
you came to the White House for a taxpayer bailout,
evil enough to call you out as a running dog
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for your paymasters in Beijing. So the Musk Trump thing
and the Musk Putin thing are both going. Well, maybe
there's a way out of this yet, Dateline Brooklyn. Here
is the rare good point from Nate Silver that isn't
just numbers. Trump, he notes, starts out unpopular and will
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likely sink from here. According to the National Exit Poll,
this is silver, writing. Trump was elected with a tepid
forty eight percent favorability rating. However, he actually won nine
percent voters who had an unfavorable view of him. These
people may have seen Trump as a superior alternative to Harris,
but will be less tolerant now that he has no
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more elections to run in. No, we think in the
same poll, forty four percent of voters have a very
unfavorable view of Trump, so the ceiling on his popularity
is likely to be fairly capped forty eight percent. That's
not even even. This could be silver, says a Kin.
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In history to two thousand and four, when George Bush
got elected by a razor thin margin, announced he had
won a mandate, insisted the world was his and he
was going to use all his political capital, and while
new Democratic stars rose in the background to destroy the
Republicans in the next two elections, actually four elections, Bush
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gradually got eaten alive by an increasingly hostile media led
by who was that again? All right? Me? And Dateline
the White House, the CNN headline Milania Trump unlikely to
move to the White House full time as First Lady
This time he's different. I'm not anxious because these time
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he's different. I have much more experience and much more knowledge,
she told CNN. I was in the White House before.
When you go in, you know exactly what to expect.
She said in a recent friendly interview with Fox News.
Milinia Trump is expected to spend a majority of her
time over the next four years not at the White House,
but between New York City and Palm Beach, Florida. Sources
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familiar with the thinking told CNN. However, they insisted she
would still be present for major events and would have
her own platform and priorities as first Lady, the first
of them being stay the hell away from her idiot husband.
Now you have to admit what she said there was
pretty good word salad for somebody for whom English is
a second language. Role of Milania Trump will be performed
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tonight by Alina Habba and Dateline Washington. So if you
wonder whether or not the limpdiced coverage of Trump during
the campaign by CBS News, NBC News, and ABC News
could not have had anything to do with Trump's win,
think again. From the invaluable Dan Frumkin of Press Watch,
distilled from polling by NBC News, Biden supporters more likely
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to get their news by newspapers than Trump supporters. How
registered voters consume news based on who they voted for.
In twenty twenty four, in cable news, fifty three percent
of cable news as your primary source of news voters
fifty three percent Trump, forty five percent for Well Harris
not Biden, obviously, and then in newspapers it was seventy
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to twenty one the Democrats over Trump. And then in
National Network News, where supposedly ABCCBS and NBC had been
abandoned decades ago by the Republicans, the voters said fifty
five percent in favor of the Democrat Kamala Harris, thirty
five percent in favor of Trump. So for one third
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of the audience watching the broadcast network newscasts every night
and things like Meet the Press and Face the Nation
and whatever they're calling the one on CBS at the
moment that nobody watches, yes, one third of them are
still Trump supporters or became Trump supporters thanks to the
as I noted before, ld coverage of Trump by the networks,
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and with that this media note, Dennis Murphy, Jarrett Shustrin,
and Lamar Gerring have joined Newsmax as executive producers for
American Agenda, Wake Up America, Nazi Line on whatever the
shows are called Murphy. Most recently was it Fox. Schustron
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Ha said, Gerring is the former EP of wnywtv's Good
Day New York. That would be the Fox station in
New York. So Newsmax just hired a producer named Gerring
ge r i n g Lamar Gerring. Now he might
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pronounce it some other way. Maybe he pronounces it smith.
Maybe he pronounces it lamar g. Maybe he pronounces it Gerrig.
I don't know, but it's spelled g o e r
i n g, which in German is Gerring. Even for
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these dark times, isn't that a little too on point?
And there's Olivia Newsy News and the most racist Republican
thing ever in Worst Persons Next, believe it or not,
(36:08):
there are still more new idiots to talk about. Yes,
it's the semi weekly roundup of the miss Grants, morons
and Dunning Kruger effects specimens who constitute today's other worse
persons in the world. Theron's worse Olivia is back. No, no, no, no,
(36:29):
that's not what I mean, I'm not going to tell
you about Olivia's back, I meaning she's back in the news,
Newsy in the news or NUTSI. I can never remember
which way she's pronouncing it. This week, remember the restraining
order and the charges Olivia Newsy made against her ex
fiance Ryan Lizza before their careers both imploded, and the
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stories about going to the FBI and he hacked her
phone and revealed all the RFK Junior stuff, and he
was a stalker, and he blackmailed her into sex and
staying into their relationship, and most importantly to her, blackmailed
her to in the book deal. Oh god, pew pew pew,
what were those bullets? I just missed? She's dropped all
(37:13):
those charges, The Daily Beast reports Ryan Liza answered those
charges in court in the last ten days with an
outline of evidence that he was going to use in
his defense that suggested Olivia wasn't exactly not lying texts, email's,
third party witnesses, phone conversations. Her response to seeing this,
(37:38):
she has withdrawn the restraining order against him. Just dropped it.
No stalking, no blackmailing, no book deal stuff. So now
Liza is hinting at suing her his quote, she shamelessly
used litigation with false and defamatory allegations as a public
relations strategy. I said I would defend myself against her
(37:58):
lies vigorously and successfully, and I am fully prepared to
do so way more or lassits. Oh boy, takes my
mind off Trumpo. But for now, he concluded, I'm pleased
this matter is closed. One additional quote she lied, pal
(38:21):
take a number. As for me, I'm just quietly enjoying
my garbage dumpster full of popcorn. I mean, I'm gonna
have to deal with the fact that I'm now eight
hundred and seventy five pounds. It's all popcorn, and I'll
just keep enjoying my hot and cold running Shadu and Freud.
But I will mention that as far back as the
year twenty fourteen, she used to tell me about her
(38:42):
quote stalker unquote in DC. His name was Ryan Lizza.
I'm quoting her. You know how to reach me. The
runner up worser, Tim Poole, one of those fascists, the
one with the beanie baby outfit, who it turned out,
was brought to you by a contribution from the Kremlin.
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Make pronouns illegal. He's written, everyone and everything must be
referred to directly by name. In the replies from at
duchess Prim, everyone is a pronoun, you pine cone? Try again?
(39:31):
The best thing all week that is the new insult
you pine cone. Pool says he was just trolling here.
He knows, he knows knows everyone and everything are pronouns.
It was the whole point he wanted to get. Who
are you writing to, Pool? You're talking to conservatives. If
you knew that everyone and everything is a pronoun you're
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the only one of the crowd who knows that, because
the rest of them have a collective IQ of one
hundred and seven. The best part is the insult you
pine cone. Hey, f you o your pine cone? Thank you,
duchess Prim. You have introduced one of the great new
insults of the century. Dear listener, won't you use it
(40:13):
today and tell the others of the good news U
pine Cone? But our winner the worst. Now this is
a month old. Somehow I missed it. The Independent just
published it. The guy in it is so Republican he
should be continued onto the adjacent Republican At a bipartisan
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forum in Idaho, Republican state Senator Dan Foreman got into
a heated exchange with Democratic House six district candidate Trish
Carter Goodheart. They were talking about discrimination and somebody said
there wasn't really any discrimination in Idaho, and Carter Goodheart
says that. She then said, just because someone hasn't personally
(40:56):
experienced discrimination doesn't mean it's not happening. And that is
when Republican Senator Foreman screamed, I'm so sick and tired
of this liberal bullshit, and looking at Ms Carter Goodheart,
he added, why don't you go back to where you
came from? Trish Carter Goodheart is Native American nez Perse.
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Just for the record, Native American in Idaho. She is home,
She is back where she came from. Senator Foreman denies
he said this, but attendees, including a state representative, said
they heard it. And then in real time after he said,
(41:44):
why don't you go back to where you came from?
To the Native American, the Native American, Ms Carter Goodheart
asked the unanswerable rhetorical question, where am I supposed to go? Well,
we all know where State Senator Foreman is supposed to go. Hell,
but first he should go into the Trump administration as
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Secretary of Pine Cones, Idaho State Senator Dan why don't
you Native Americans go back to where you come from? Foreman,
Today's other worst person in the I've done all the
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damage I can do here. Thank you for listening. Follow
me for the podcast promos on Blue Sky YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, x,
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TikTok is crap. Brian Ray and John Phillip Shaneil, the
musical directors have Countdown Range, produced and performed most of
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our music. Mister Shaneil handled orchestration and keyboards. Mister Ray
was on the guitars, bass and drums. It was produced
by Tko Brothers. Our satirical and fifty musical comments are
by the best baseball stadium organist ever, Nancy Faust. The
sports music is the Olderman theme from ESPN two, written
by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN, Inc. Other music
arranged and performed by the group No Horns Allowed. My
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announcer today was my friend John Dean, and as always,
everything else was pretty much my fault. Let's countdown for today,
just one five hundred and thirty five days until the
scheduled end of the term of Lame duc President Trump.
Maybe the next scheduled countdown is Monday. Still playing this
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by ear on the schedule, I may do some shorter
eight nine ten minute editions as news warrants. I mean,
Trump could could appoint a horse to his cabinet, especially
if he doesn't think. I have a confirmation here Wilbur
has been named Secretary of Oats. We'll see how the
schedule works out. Two at least a week schedule Monday
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and Thursday make the most sense for me in any event.
As always, bulletins as the news warrants, till the next one,
whenever the hell that is. I'm Keith Alderman. Good morning,
good afternoon, good night, and good luck. Countdown with Keith
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