December 1, 2024 • 42 mins
SEASON 3 EPISODE 74: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN
A-Block (1:44) BULLETIN: Biden pardons his son. Terrific. Fully support.
Now, do the rest of us. Literally offer a pardon to anybody Trump might go after for prosecuting him, criticizing him, covering him, or looking at him funny. I want a 1-800-PARDONME hotline. I want 10 million pardons.
SPECIAL COMMENT (2:44): And the pardons should be a jumping off point for how Biden can protect the citizens of this country.
What does THIS mean, exactly?
“I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.”
Joseph Robinette Biden Junior has taken that exact oath NINE times – seven, as Senator, two as Vice President. He has sworn to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and nothing I have found, and no Constitutional scholar I have consulted, indicates that once taken, those oaths expire.
And the obligation to defend the United States becomes more profound still now that presidents have been immunized by the Supreme Court from prosecution for.. effectively anything. The incoming President, the one who wants an unqualified toady like Kash Patel to head the FBI and desperately wanted a lawless menace like Matt Gaetz to head the DOJ but will instead settle for a cheap lawyer who LED the “lock her up” chanting against Hillary Clinton at the Republican convention, that president-to-be will be immune and thus unstoppable. The CURRENT president IS immune and thus unstoppable. And already in power and in command and… under oath.
So. This raises this theoretical constitutional question: Do the TEN oaths Joe Biden took as Senator, as Vice President, and as President, even PERMIT him to NOT act against enemies, BOTH foreign and domestic – and defend the Constitution of the United States? So help him god? When the Supreme Court has immunized him from prosecution for doing… anything? Anything at all? As long as it’s official?
B-Block (24:52) POSTSCRIPTS TO THE NEWS: You do realize that Trump's lies about his phone call with the president of Mexico means we will, soon or late, invade Mexico, right? The quote from the Trump Transition Team member to Rolling Stone is "How MUCH do we invade Mexico?" Trump has now nominated both his daughters' fathers-in-law as envoys to the Middle East - including the one who set up his brother-in-law with a taped sex sting and sent the tape to his own sister. And why did JD Vance post a meme of himself in a dress?
C-Block (36:00) THE OTHER WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: Vivek Ramaswamy self-owns over unelected bureaucracy. We've found George Carlin's Worst Doctor In The World and he owns The Los Angeles Times. And Sideshow Bob (RFK Junior) is seen, uh, hanging out, in his wife's new supplements commercial.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. This
is a Countdown bulletin podcast. Last night, President Joe Biden
pardoned his son Hunter for everything good. Now, what about
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the rest of us. Joe Biden should at minimum pardon
everybody that Trump may target prosecutorially in the next four
years or more. And I mean one hundred thousand pardons,
every member of the media, every member of the Department
of Justice, everybody he can think of. He should offer
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an eight hundred hotline that you can call in and
ask for a pardon. I want ten million pardons offered
and given by Joe Biden before where he leaves office.
It is the least he could do. Everybody except Merrick Garland.
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What does this mean exactly? Quote, I do solemnly swear
that I will support and defend the Constitution of the
United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, That I
will bear true faith and allegiance to the same. That
I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or
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purpose of evasion, And that I will well and faithfully
discharge the duties of the office on which I am
about to enter. So help me, God, So help me. God.
Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. Has taken that exact oath nine times,
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seven as senator, two as vice president. His tenth oath,
the presidential oath, is oddly enough, a little less robust.
It does not include that phrase about all enemies. But
over forty eight years and in six different decades, Biden
has sworn to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign
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and domestic. And nothing I have found, and no constitutional
scholar I have consulted, indicates that once taken those oaths expire. Ever,
the obligation as a senator or a vice president, or
as a president to defend the Constitution does not end
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when the term of office does, and it manifestly has
not ended in the period between an election and an inauguration.
Nine times Joe Biden has sworn to defend the Constitution
against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and that he would
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bear true faith and allegiance to it. And the obligation
to defend the United States becomes more profound still now
that presidents have been immunized by the Supreme Court from
prosecution for effectively anything. The incoming president, the one who
wants an unqualified toady like Cash Patel to head the FBI,
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who desperately wanted a lawless menace like Matt Gates to
head the DOJ, but will instead settled for a chief
lawyer who led the lock her Up chant against Hillary
Clinton at the Republican Convention. That president to be will
be immune and thus unstoppable. The current president the one
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who would not even fire the Attorney General Garland, as
he personally let Trump get away with his crimes. The
current president is also immune and thus unstoppable. And the
current president is already in power and in command and
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has taken nine oaths ten if you count the one
as president. So this raises this theoretical constitutional question. The
president to be, the one who decided four years ago
that we weren't going to have any peaceful transfers of
power anymore, has now decided to try to turn the
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Federal Bureau of Investigation over to a creature who will
have gotten the job, specifically so that he will not
conduct FBI investigations of the other cabinet nominees, and to
clean out the offices at the FBI of anything that
might pertain to anybody. The President to be the one
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who tossed around top secret information like rolls of paper towels.
Has now decided to try to turn the job of
Director of National Intelligence to a woman a with no
intelligence and b who once praised enemy dictators like assad
and putin The president to be the one who flirted
with using the army to shoot at or just to
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shoot peaceful protesters because he didn't like them, or to
seize ballot boxes because he didn't like what was in them.
He has now reconfirmed he will use the military domestically
to seize civilians and imprison them. And he has now
decided to try to turn the job of the head
of the military over to a man whose own mother
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called him an abuser and implied he needed psychological help.
The president to be the one who once claimed he
was owed a bonus term in office because he had
had to spend so much of his first term defending
himself against charges of conspiracy with another nation to harm
this country. He is now surrounded by operatives attempting to
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manipulate the law and the constitution to give him a
third term or more. And if you are paying attention,
you will have noticed. And if you haven't been paying attention,
I will spell it out later. The President to be,
whose first campaign began with him slandering Mexico and slandering
Mexicans and slandering Hispanics, he is already setting up the
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obligatory dictator thing in which you invade a neighboring country
on the flimsiest of pretexts, and that country in this
case would be Mexico. And the President to Be, the
one who wrote of terminating parts of the Constitution he
didn't like, is encircled by fascist aids who have urged
him to declare a state of emergency upon his taking
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the oath of office, and to simultaneou invoke the Insurrection
Act and thus to some degree invoke martial law. So
do the nine or ten oaths Joe Biden took as Senator,
as Vice President, as president? Do they even permit him
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to not act against enemies both foreign and domestic, and
to defend the Constitution of the United States. So help
him God, when the Supreme Court has immunized him from
personal prosecution for doing you know, anything, anything at all.
As long as it's official, I do solemnly swear that
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I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States.
Against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that I will bear
true faith and allegiance to the same, That I take
this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion,
and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties
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of the office on which I am about to enter.
So help me, God, I wonder what that means. I
will note here that there are not enough words in
the English language, and not enough time between this moment
and noon on January twentieth next for me to explain
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to you just how much this will not happen. But
I think it is important to ask this question. Is
Joe Biden in fact obligated by oath to intervene, to
protect and to defend, And to ask if, thanks to
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just some of the corruption of Trump and his cronies,
if Joe Biden has been pre authorized and pre immunized
by the Supreme Court of the United States to take
any measures necessary to stop the discontinuation of representative government
in this nation, the discontinuation of that by anybody. I
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hate John Bolton, Trump's hand picked national security advisor last time,
but yesterday he compared Cash Patel to Stalin's secret police
Chief Barrier in a statement to NBC News when you
were the head of the secret police in the Soviet dictatorship,
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and that barely describes your evil.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Scum.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Barria ran ethnic cleansing, ran the Russian atomic bomb program,
slave labor gulags, and in his personal life he was
a serial rapist and murderer. When Stalin died, his successors
gave Barria a promotion and then a show trial and
then a treason conviction, and then they shot him or
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they had already strangled him. Just so you understand the
career path here when you get compared to Barrier. When
Bolton was also quoted on this subject by CBS, Patel's
one time mentor, Richard Grennell complained, did you have a
balanced discussion or just people on one side trashing cash?
Grenell asked, good point, Grenell, CBS or NBC should have
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also had somebody on to say that the comp was
unfair to bury you and just to touch briefly, by
the way, on one of my other favorite topics, headline
on this nomination by The New York Times, quote Trump
turned to a fire brand loyalist to become director of
the Bureau. Headline on the nomination by Matt Drudge Cash
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tapped for FBI conspiracy. Theorist advocated prosecution spree twenty five
years ago, I called Drudge an idiot with a modem
and a hat. Drudge is now a more responsible journalist
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than anybody editing The New York Times. Meanwhile, back at
the psycho ranch, at the other end of the spectrum
of nominees, there's the backup Attorney General Pam Bondi, whose
resume is startlingly blank. Yes, she was at four seasons
total landscaping, and yes, her Florida office not only dropped
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its case against Trump chronologically after he made a donation
to her election, but she did that after he made
a small donation. But the biggest legal accomplishment of her
career to date has been to have sent the ill
starred former baseball pitcher Dwight Gooden to jail for seven months.
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That's it. Trump's still somehow standing nominee to run the
Pentagon still supports using troops against citizens. His Solicitor general
designate agreed at the Supreme Court that a president could
order sealed Team six to kill a political rival and
would face no consequences. Ahem. All of his health appointees
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are such manifest dangers to health that Trump's previous surgeon
general has publicly warned against their incompetence. And by the way,
this Patel clown wants hawked pills that were supposed to
protect you against something that is shed by people who've
taken the COVID vaccine. You've got a pill that protects
you against the stupidity that has been shed by those
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of us who've taken the COVID vaccine. Trump's intelligence heads
are such risks to this nation's security that a computer
algorithm put one of them on a version of the
No fly list, and our allies are considering cutting us
off from receiving further intelligence even without Gates. There are
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nominees who have sexual assault accusations in their past, and
the ones who have never been accused of a crime
are at best snake oil salesman and his advisor or
henchman or egor or whatever. Musk is used his propaganda
platform last week to declare that Alexander Vinman quote has
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committed treason for which you will pay the appropriate penalty, which,
to be fair, may not be the threat. It seems.
The appropriate penalty may be having to spend an hour
with Musk the o tours of Project twenty twenty five,
which Trump lied and lied and lied and lied and
lifeed and lied and lied about during the campaign and
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said he had no connection to will litter the administration.
One of their allies groups has been at work for
a year to find a way to evade the Constitution
and let Trump run again in twenty twenty nine. That
would be a fourth Amendment they would have violated, say
nothing of all the clauses they've already savaged the thirteenth,
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the fourteenth, and the twenty second, when previous Trump appointees
like Judge Eileen Cannon and those Supreme Court justices found
ways to allow him to run in twenty twenty four,
despite his attempt to overthrow the government in twenty twenty
his Supreme Court has in effect placed him above all laws.
He will be when he is sworn in, untouchable, uncontrollable,
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and in effect unremovable. Trump is the personification of the
end of democracy in America and the beginning of a
military backed dictatorship. On the other hand, the weapons that
his own corruption has brought him immunity from prosecution, the
shelving of not just the most serious cases of espionage
and subversion ever brought against an American president, maybe against
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any American, but also convictions by ordinary Americans sitting on
ordinary juries. The right to use the military as he
sees fit, the right to declare an insurrection or emergency
for the flimsiest of reasons, or reasons that only exist
in the minds of paranoid racists. These weapons, perfectly disguised
by corrupt laws, are.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
In effact at this moment.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
How about that? As I said, I can't tell you
how much this is not going to happen. We are
decades now. We are centuries away from the time when
a president could still look at the actions of others
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in the political class or the government class, and say
the nation must be defended against them. That was what
was in the oath. I take that's what the oath demands.
Everything else is fluid and flexible and can be repaired,
whereas the fundamental survival of the nation is not flexible
or fluid or could be repaired. Lincoln said that the
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response to Ceasession and the attack on Fort Sumter was
not to assume that it would end there, but to
assume that it would not. Among the things Lincoln then
did was suspend habeas corpus ulysses ask Grant was ready
to do it. In eighteen seventy seven, when the election
was in doubt and insurrection threatened again, he ringed Washington
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with troops and forts Nixon wrong as he was thought.
He had to cross the double white line several times,
and long before any of them, long even before Lincoln.
Andrew Jackson vetoed the APT renewing the Bank of the
United States, and in so doing issue a statement suggesting
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it's the president's responsibility to enforce or not enforce statutes
and judicial decisions based on his interpretation of the Constitution,
and everybody else be damned. Cash Patel as the head
of the FBI, why not Bashar al Assad or Putin
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or Matt Gates. I do solemnly swear that I will
support and defend the Constitution of the United States against
all enemies, foreign and domestic. I wonder what the hell
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that means to return to our world as it is.
In point of fact, I think Trump is going to
eat shit on Patel, just like he had to eat
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shit on Matt Gates. The caveat, Trump could simply fire
the FBI director, his own appointee, by the way, Christopher Ray,
and not nominate any replacement, but simply repoint an acting
FBI director. And apparently Patel could serve as long as
two hundred days. What could you do in the FBI
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offices in two hundred days. While it is hard to
imagine that Patel's own words on camera about he once
planned to evade secrecy designations and publish every classified document
he could take out of the National Archives because he
and he alone knew that Trump had declassified them by
blinking his eyes six times or whatever it was, it's
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hard to believe those words are actually criminal. But of course,
if there's any law breaking here, the last person you
want to be is the guy nominated to and vowing
to break up the FBI and close FBI headquarters and
fire everybody at the FBI. When you have cleverly given
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the FBI forty nine complete days plus the morning of
January twentieth to find anything you ever did about anything anywhere,
for all his imperious insanity and for all his wonted
poster cabinet nominations, the fact is right now, Trump is
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O for one, and I wouldn't bet on heg Seth
and maybe a couple of the others, even if you
give me odds. And not only did Gates go down
in flames, but when he did, Trump didn't even stamp
his feet. Trump in fact caved. Republican senators who hated Gates.
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Know that Trump caved. Republican senators who hated Gates hate Patel.
Chuck Grassley and that idiot Ted Cruz and a couple
of the other FEBEs have already vowed to vote for Patel.
But the others, who are already smiling up at the
symbolically severed head of Matt Gates on their wall, are
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now emboldened, and they know their personal futures, not the countries.
They don't give a crap about the country's future. Their
personal futures depend on being able to whip Trump into
line and making sure he knows he cannot whip them
into line. So help me, God on ratchet that whole
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point one more step higher, please. What if it was
clear to you that the man was clearly writing the
preamble to a military attack by this country against Mexico.
What if the only question about that is the quote
is attributed to a senior Trump transition team member by
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Rolling Stone. Quote, how much should we invade Mexico? And
what if the first step towards that was actually made
in a phone call last Wednesday? How much should we
invade Mexico? That's next this Discountdown.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
This is Countdown with Keith Olberman.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Oh, scripts to the news, some headlines, some updates, some
snow still ahead of course, worse persons And what's that
old shriveled thing in that video seen behind poor gullible
Cheryl hines. Why it's Robert F. Kennedy Junior's credibility coming
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up or not coming up as the case maybe AnyWho.
This is the Countdown podcast, and these are the places
where there's news. Dateline Mexico City. The past was alterable,
the past never had been altered. Oceania was at war
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with East Asia. Oceania had always been at war with
East Asia. Trump is already lying about Mexico, and the
moment I read this sequence of events, I saw the
whole plan that the mice running around in the wheel
inside Trump's head have cooked up. Quote just had a
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wonderful conversation with the new president of Mexico, Claudia shinbound Pardo,
she has agreed to stop migration through Mexico and into
the United States, effectively closing our southern border. We also
talked about what can be done to stop the massive
drug inflow into the United States and also US consumption
of these drugs. It was a very productive conversation. El
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Trumpo added, Mexico will stop people from going to our
southern border effective immediately, Capitals. This will go a long
way towards stopping the illegal invasion of the USA. Thank
you exclamation point, exclamation point, exclamation point, well, sir. President
Shinbaum immediately came back and angrily noted that she never
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said anything of the sort. In point of fact, she
did not say this, but Trump lied. The next day,
President Shinbaum mitigated that somewhat and said it was a
productive conversation about the border, and more politely said that
there are no circumstances under which she would close the
border with the US end migration into the US, nor
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would she tell anybody that. But the horse is out
of the barn. Here bluntly, the president of Mexico, the
presidents of all the other countries should not take any
calls from Trump. He's just using you to set something
up for later. The oldest trick in the dictator bag.
The first step you have to take to cement power
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after you have seized power is to start a war
somewhere on the phoniest and craziest of pretext, just so
long as your base and the uninformed part of your
public believes it's true, or pretends to believe it's true.
Mussolini did it in Ethiopia. Putin's done it in Georgia
and Ukraine at least twice in Ukraine. Japan did it
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in Manchuria before World War Two. Hitler did it, and
before that, in nineteen thirty six he went into what
was supposed to be the demilitarized area of the Rhineland
near the French border. You do it to stir up
a sense of danger in your own country, and to
stir up your own base, and mostly to see if
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you can get away with it. I mean, hell, Ronald
Reagan invaded Grenada, and we are going to invade Mexico.
I guarantee it. It may not be announced as an
invasion or even as a war if it somehow goes
well for Trump he'll retroactively announce it's a war and
that we've always been at war with Mexico. The excuse though,
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for what shall we call it our special military operation,
That's what Putin would want Trump to call it, is
drugs or immigration or immigration with drugs, or drugs that
immigrate by themselves or whatever. The excuse for the actual
moment of action, though, will be that phone call with
President Shinbaum. Trump made the call, put out his lie
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about what she told him during it. Now he can
hold up his own tweet and say, but she said
she was closing the border. She didn't let's blow up
her country. These were the thoughts that raced through my
head when I heard about the two versions of the
call to Shinebaum. And then came the Rolling Stone story
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quoting the Highlights quote, how much should we invade Mexico?
Says a senior Trump transition member. That is the question. Trump,
who has routinely and falsely promoted himself as the candidate
who would stop endless wars, now wants to lead a
new conflict just south of our nation's border. But at
this moment, it is, in the words of one Trump advisor,
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unclear how far he'll go on this one. This source
adds if things don't change, the President still believes it's
necessary to take some kind of military action against these killers.
As Rolling Stone has reported since at least last year,
Trump has solicited specific battle plans and different military options
for attacking Mexico. Senator Marco Rubio, whom Trump chose to
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serve as Secretary of State, has endorsed the idea of
sending US troops to Mexico to combat drug cartels under
the conditions that quote, there is cooperation from the Mexican government,
and that such operations are done quote in coordination with
the armed forces and the Mexican police force. Poor Marco,
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he thinks we're going to coordinate our invasion of Mexico
with the Mexican government, with the Mexican armed forces, with
the Mexican police. He's going to be in quite a
position when we simply go in and start blowing up
one of our neighbors, just to see if anybody tries
to stop us. I wonder if Marco will be smart
enough to see that he's been lied to, or if
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he was smart enough to have somebody read to him.
The Rolling Stone article on how it has on the
record quotes from Tom Homan, Pete Hegseith, National Security Advisor,
Mike Waltz, Lindsey Graham, and the rest of the Trump
fascist clown college about invading and bombing and killing and badges, badges.
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We do not have to show you any stinking badges
because Oceania has always been at war with Mexico. Dateline
nepotism village District of Columbia. Trumps now appointed both his
daughter's fathers in law as Special envoys to the Middle
East Massad Bulos, father of the husband of the the
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other daughter, Sparkle or Bingo or whatever her name is.
He will join Charles Kushner, whose father of the husband
of what was the name, Plinko, Plinko Trump whatever, And
I think it's plink Is it Plinko the daughter Kushner's wife, Yeah,
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Plinko Trump Kushner. Anyway, Plinko's father in law was appointed
to the same post last week. And you remember Charles
Kushner ex Khan, whom Trump pardoned, quoting the Associated Press,
after Charles Kushner discovered his brother in law was cooperating
with federal authorities, the wealthy real estate executive and father
of Trump's son in law, Jared hatched a scheme for
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revenge and intimidation. Kushner hired a prostitute to lure his
brother in law, then arranged to have the encounter in
a New Jersey motel room recorded with a hidden camera
and the recording sent to his own sister, the man's wife.
The scheme didn't work. Kushner later pleaded guilty to tax
evasion and making illegal campaign donations. Our representative to the
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Holy Land, everybody, and remember there is no blackmail, especially
no sex on any videotape anywhere involved in the entire
Trump political crime family. No never, never, never and dateline
some secure, undisclosed location. Whatever happened to jd Vance? Remember him?
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It's like vice president elect or something. What's he doing?
Is he busily trying to match his record of having
never done anything as senator by never doing anything as
vice president? Well he has resurfaced online. He sent us
a Thanksgiving greeting. Weirdo's Thanksgiving greeting a parody meme of
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the Norman Rockwell Thanksgiving scene with all those wholesome white
folks being served a turkey the size of a buick
by Mom, except there's three small changes from the original
Rockwell painting. The Turkey is now an electoral map of
the country showing how Trump won all those counties in
which nobody lives. Dad is now Trump looking like he
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wants to carve up and eat some of the people
at the table, and Mom still in her Rockwell dress
and rockwall frilly white apron and eyeliner. Mom is JD
vance JV.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Did you think this one through before you hit send?
I mean, you've posted a picture of yourself wearing a
dress and an apron and eye liner on No, wait, wait,
I'm sorry. The dress and the apron were in the
original Rockwell painting, and the eyeliner. JD brought that with him.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Believe it or not. There's still more new idiots to
talk about. It's the daily round up, now nearly daily,
of the miscreants, morons and Dunning Kruger effects specimens who
can't to today's other worst persons in the world. And yes,
I'm thinking about going back to more of these a
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week after the new year. Ah, can't I just retire?
Can't the rest of you just keep the democracy together
for three weeks without me having to work? More. I'm
gonna be sixty six fing years old. I have been
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broadcasting in some form or another since Gerald Ford was president.
I am an oak of my own generation. I need
to attend to my bark, all right. I sort of
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went off on a tangent there, Lebrons worse Vibek Ramaswami
talking about trees, the Trump Department of Government efficiency that
is so inefficient it needs two chiefs. And of course
he's a moron with a bad haircut. He really is
a kaleidoscope of all the lack of skills required of
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a moron. So somebody posts a video of an MSNBC
host warning that the Ramaswami and Musk plans to cut
the government and set private industry up to steal more
money out of your pocket will result in raw milk
only and more pollution and worse climate catastrophes than the
other thing Trump likes, because the job of being Trump
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is to make sure there are crises you can pretend
to fix and of course make money off of. Ramaswami
reposted this MSNBC video and added quote, the fear mongering
has begun, but the real thing we should be afraid
of is the loss of self governance to an unelected bureaucracy. VIV.
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The entirety of your Department of Governmental Efficiency is, in
fact an unelected bureaucracy. You are an unelected bureaucrat. Thanks
for the admission, VIV. The runner up, doctor Patrick soon Shong,
useless billionaire, Well that's redundant useless billionaire who also owns
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the Los Angeles Times. It was lost to some degree
amid the cowardice of Jeff Bezos at the Washington Post
and others, but the LA Times also deliberately did not
endorse in the presidential race because this guy was sucking
up the Trump. The LA Times continues to have something
of a reputation outside of Southern California, and I will
never understand why within Southern California it has. For at
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least the forty years I've read it or been covered
by it, it's had a reputation locally for being able
to screw up the proverbial two car funeral. The LA
Times is at a virtual monopoly on news in that
city since the La Herald Examiner, a much better newspaper,
first imploded after a decade long strike that ended with
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the paper going out of business in nineteen eighty nine,
and The Times in this time of monopoly now entering
what year thirty six, has been uniformly terrible in everything
but maybe movie reviews and the quality registration of the
colors in its color photography process all that time. This soon,
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Shong guy, I think that's how it's pronounced. Might be soon, Schlog,
I'm not sure. Made the mistake of doing an interview
with Oliver Darcy for his media newsletter's status. He explained
to Darcy that it's just an opinion that Trump lies
at a higher rate than other politicians. Schong also wrote
that he'd like to see Scott Jennings, the fascist idiot
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CNN puts on every night in its latest worring out
of the reputation US CNN originals and near originals built
for it. He'd like to see Jennings on the La
Times editorial board. I'd like to see Jennings on a
flight to Russia, but I don't think that's gonna happen.
Mister Darcy questioned this idea, since Jennings is a condescending,
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misogynist and clown, and he just is put on CNN
to cause trouble. That is impossible to watch and drives
their ratings down even further, and he is paid by
CNN to make up excuses for Trump. Mister sun Schong
answered that observation, quoting, according to Darcy Scott Jennings, you
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just said his job is to defend Donald Trump. Did
you find that in his job description with CNN. I
don't know if you know that as a fact. I
love to work with facts. So when you make that statement,
just reflect on that you just made that statement. Did
you make that statement based on having Scott Jennings employment
agreement with CNN? Doctor sun Shong is another moron? Right
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after that quote, a Time spokesman ended the interview for
the record, sun Shong was a transplant surgeon who invented
a drug and got rich off of it. He's a
South African, naturally, and I am reminded by him of
my friend George Carlin's best joke. George said it was
provable fact.
Speaker 3 (37:28):
It was provable by sheer math, by simple math, that
somewhere in the world there is somebody right now who
is literally the worst doctor in the world.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
I mean he's right. If there are forty million doctors,
somebody is number forty million on the list of good doctors.
The punchline, of course, is, as George put it, somebody
has an appointment to see him tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (38:02):
I think we found him, George, but our winner, the
worst RFK Junior.
Speaker 1 (38:11):
RFK Junior has now endorsed heroin. Said it on a
podcast quote. I did very, very poorly in school until
I started doing narcotics. Then I went to the top
of my class because my mind was so restless and
turbulent and I could not sit still. It worked for me,
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and if it still worked, I'd still be doing it.
How about hitting yourself in the head with a two
by four? Have you tried that? Bob Side show. Bob,
the nominee for Secretary of HHS, has endorsed heroin, but
not fluoride and vaccines. And I'll note that Kennedy also
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appears in an online video in which his poor wife
is trying to sell you supplements or something. Kennedy is
in the shower, presumably naked, and the wife, fortunate Cheryl Hines,
is positioned in the foreground in such a way that
you can't see. You can't see into this, you can't
you don't know it. You can't see rfk Junior Junior
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Okay ms Hines. Missus Kennedy is, of course more than unfortunate.
She is at maximum gullibility because the first thing I
thought of when I saw that Kennedy in the shower
tableau on her video selling supplements was Ooh, he's probably
facetiming my ex Olivia Newsy Robert F. And guess what
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the F stands for? Kennedy Junior two days other worst
person in the worl Hello, what are you wearing? Hello?
Speaker 2 (40:15):
Have any heroin?
Speaker 1 (40:17):
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Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. This
is a Countdown bulletin podcast. Last night, President Joe Biden
pardoned his son Hunter for everything good. Now, what about
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the rest of us. Joe Biden should at minimum pardon
everybody that Trump may target prosecutorially in the next four
years or more. And I mean one hundred thousand pardons,
every member of the media, every member of the Department
of Justice, everybody he can think of. He should offer
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an eight hundred hotline that you can call in and
ask for a pardon. I want ten million pardons offered
and given by Joe Biden before where he leaves office.
It is the least he could do. Everybody except Merrick Garland.
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What does this mean exactly? Quote, I do solemnly swear
that I will support and defend the Constitution of the
United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, That I
will bear true faith and allegiance to the same. That
I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or
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purpose of evasion, And that I will well and faithfully
discharge the duties of the office on which I am
about to enter. So help me, God, So help me. God.
Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. Has taken that exact oath nine times,
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seven as senator, two as vice president. His tenth oath,
the presidential oath, is oddly enough, a little less robust.
It does not include that phrase about all enemies. But
over forty eight years and in six different decades, Biden
has sworn to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign
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and domestic. And nothing I have found, and no constitutional
scholar I have consulted, indicates that once taken those oaths expire. Ever,
the obligation as a senator or a vice president, or
as a president to defend the Constitution does not end
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when the term of office does, and it manifestly has
not ended in the period between an election and an inauguration.
Nine times Joe Biden has sworn to defend the Constitution
against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and that he would
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bear true faith and allegiance to it. And the obligation
to defend the United States becomes more profound still now
that presidents have been immunized by the Supreme Court from
prosecution for effectively anything. The incoming president, the one who
wants an unqualified toady like Cash Patel to head the FBI,
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who desperately wanted a lawless menace like Matt Gates to
head the DOJ, but will instead settled for a chief
lawyer who led the lock her Up chant against Hillary
Clinton at the Republican Convention. That president to be will
be immune and thus unstoppable. The current president the one
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who would not even fire the Attorney General Garland, as
he personally let Trump get away with his crimes. The
current president is also immune and thus unstoppable. And the
current president is already in power and in command and
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has taken nine oaths ten if you count the one
as president. So this raises this theoretical constitutional question. The
president to be, the one who decided four years ago
that we weren't going to have any peaceful transfers of
power anymore, has now decided to try to turn the
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Federal Bureau of Investigation over to a creature who will
have gotten the job, specifically so that he will not
conduct FBI investigations of the other cabinet nominees, and to
clean out the offices at the FBI of anything that
might pertain to anybody. The President to be the one
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who tossed around top secret information like rolls of paper towels.
Has now decided to try to turn the job of
Director of National Intelligence to a woman a with no
intelligence and b who once praised enemy dictators like assad
and putin The president to be the one who flirted
with using the army to shoot at or just to
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shoot peaceful protesters because he didn't like them, or to
seize ballot boxes because he didn't like what was in them.
He has now reconfirmed he will use the military domestically
to seize civilians and imprison them. And he has now
decided to try to turn the job of the head
of the military over to a man whose own mother
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called him an abuser and implied he needed psychological help.
The president to be the one who once claimed he
was owed a bonus term in office because he had
had to spend so much of his first term defending
himself against charges of conspiracy with another nation to harm
this country. He is now surrounded by operatives attempting to
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manipulate the law and the constitution to give him a
third term or more. And if you are paying attention,
you will have noticed. And if you haven't been paying attention,
I will spell it out later. The President to be,
whose first campaign began with him slandering Mexico and slandering
Mexicans and slandering Hispanics, he is already setting up the
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obligatory dictator thing in which you invade a neighboring country
on the flimsiest of pretexts, and that country in this
case would be Mexico. And the President to Be, the
one who wrote of terminating parts of the Constitution he
didn't like, is encircled by fascist aids who have urged
him to declare a state of emergency upon his taking
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the oath of office, and to simultaneou invoke the Insurrection
Act and thus to some degree invoke martial law. So
do the nine or ten oaths Joe Biden took as Senator,
as Vice President, as president? Do they even permit him
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to not act against enemies both foreign and domestic, and
to defend the Constitution of the United States. So help
him God, when the Supreme Court has immunized him from
personal prosecution for doing you know, anything, anything at all.
As long as it's official, I do solemnly swear that
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I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States.
Against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that I will bear
true faith and allegiance to the same, That I take
this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion,
and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties
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of the office on which I am about to enter.
So help me, God, I wonder what that means. I
will note here that there are not enough words in
the English language, and not enough time between this moment
and noon on January twentieth next for me to explain
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to you just how much this will not happen. But
I think it is important to ask this question. Is
Joe Biden in fact obligated by oath to intervene, to
protect and to defend, And to ask if, thanks to
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just some of the corruption of Trump and his cronies,
if Joe Biden has been pre authorized and pre immunized
by the Supreme Court of the United States to take
any measures necessary to stop the discontinuation of representative government
in this nation, the discontinuation of that by anybody. I
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hate John Bolton, Trump's hand picked national security advisor last time,
but yesterday he compared Cash Patel to Stalin's secret police
Chief Barrier in a statement to NBC News when you
were the head of the secret police in the Soviet dictatorship,
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and that barely describes your evil.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Scum.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Barria ran ethnic cleansing, ran the Russian atomic bomb program,
slave labor gulags, and in his personal life he was
a serial rapist and murderer. When Stalin died, his successors
gave Barria a promotion and then a show trial and
then a treason conviction, and then they shot him or
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they had already strangled him. Just so you understand the
career path here when you get compared to Barrier. When
Bolton was also quoted on this subject by CBS, Patel's
one time mentor, Richard Grennell complained, did you have a
balanced discussion or just people on one side trashing cash?
Grenell asked, good point, Grenell, CBS or NBC should have
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also had somebody on to say that the comp was
unfair to bury you and just to touch briefly, by
the way, on one of my other favorite topics, headline
on this nomination by The New York Times, quote Trump
turned to a fire brand loyalist to become director of
the Bureau. Headline on the nomination by Matt Drudge Cash
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tapped for FBI conspiracy. Theorist advocated prosecution spree twenty five
years ago, I called Drudge an idiot with a modem
and a hat. Drudge is now a more responsible journalist
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than anybody editing The New York Times. Meanwhile, back at
the psycho ranch, at the other end of the spectrum
of nominees, there's the backup Attorney General Pam Bondi, whose
resume is startlingly blank. Yes, she was at four seasons
total landscaping, and yes, her Florida office not only dropped
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its case against Trump chronologically after he made a donation
to her election, but she did that after he made
a small donation. But the biggest legal accomplishment of her
career to date has been to have sent the ill
starred former baseball pitcher Dwight Gooden to jail for seven months.
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That's it. Trump's still somehow standing nominee to run the
Pentagon still supports using troops against citizens. His Solicitor general
designate agreed at the Supreme Court that a president could
order sealed Team six to kill a political rival and
would face no consequences. Ahem. All of his health appointees
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are such manifest dangers to health that Trump's previous surgeon
general has publicly warned against their incompetence. And by the way,
this Patel clown wants hawked pills that were supposed to
protect you against something that is shed by people who've
taken the COVID vaccine. You've got a pill that protects
you against the stupidity that has been shed by those
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of us who've taken the COVID vaccine. Trump's intelligence heads
are such risks to this nation's security that a computer
algorithm put one of them on a version of the
No fly list, and our allies are considering cutting us
off from receiving further intelligence even without Gates. There are
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nominees who have sexual assault accusations in their past, and
the ones who have never been accused of a crime
are at best snake oil salesman and his advisor or
henchman or egor or whatever. Musk is used his propaganda
platform last week to declare that Alexander Vinman quote has
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committed treason for which you will pay the appropriate penalty, which,
to be fair, may not be the threat. It seems.
The appropriate penalty may be having to spend an hour
with Musk the o tours of Project twenty twenty five,
which Trump lied and lied and lied and lied and
lifeed and lied and lied about during the campaign and
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said he had no connection to will litter the administration.
One of their allies groups has been at work for
a year to find a way to evade the Constitution
and let Trump run again in twenty twenty nine. That
would be a fourth Amendment they would have violated, say
nothing of all the clauses they've already savaged the thirteenth,
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the fourteenth, and the twenty second, when previous Trump appointees
like Judge Eileen Cannon and those Supreme Court justices found
ways to allow him to run in twenty twenty four,
despite his attempt to overthrow the government in twenty twenty
his Supreme Court has in effect placed him above all laws.
He will be when he is sworn in, untouchable, uncontrollable,
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and in effect unremovable. Trump is the personification of the
end of democracy in America and the beginning of a
military backed dictatorship. On the other hand, the weapons that
his own corruption has brought him immunity from prosecution, the
shelving of not just the most serious cases of espionage
and subversion ever brought against an American president, maybe against
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any American, but also convictions by ordinary Americans sitting on
ordinary juries. The right to use the military as he
sees fit, the right to declare an insurrection or emergency
for the flimsiest of reasons, or reasons that only exist
in the minds of paranoid racists. These weapons, perfectly disguised
by corrupt laws, are.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
In effact at this moment.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
How about that? As I said, I can't tell you
how much this is not going to happen. We are
decades now. We are centuries away from the time when
a president could still look at the actions of others
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in the political class or the government class, and say
the nation must be defended against them. That was what
was in the oath. I take that's what the oath demands.
Everything else is fluid and flexible and can be repaired,
whereas the fundamental survival of the nation is not flexible
or fluid or could be repaired. Lincoln said that the
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response to Ceasession and the attack on Fort Sumter was
not to assume that it would end there, but to
assume that it would not. Among the things Lincoln then
did was suspend habeas corpus ulysses ask Grant was ready
to do it. In eighteen seventy seven, when the election
was in doubt and insurrection threatened again, he ringed Washington
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with troops and forts Nixon wrong as he was thought.
He had to cross the double white line several times,
and long before any of them, long even before Lincoln.
Andrew Jackson vetoed the APT renewing the Bank of the
United States, and in so doing issue a statement suggesting
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it's the president's responsibility to enforce or not enforce statutes
and judicial decisions based on his interpretation of the Constitution,
and everybody else be damned. Cash Patel as the head
of the FBI, why not Bashar al Assad or Putin
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or Matt Gates. I do solemnly swear that I will
support and defend the Constitution of the United States against
all enemies, foreign and domestic. I wonder what the hell
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that means to return to our world as it is.
In point of fact, I think Trump is going to
eat shit on Patel, just like he had to eat
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shit on Matt Gates. The caveat, Trump could simply fire
the FBI director, his own appointee, by the way, Christopher Ray,
and not nominate any replacement, but simply repoint an acting
FBI director. And apparently Patel could serve as long as
two hundred days. What could you do in the FBI
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offices in two hundred days. While it is hard to
imagine that Patel's own words on camera about he once
planned to evade secrecy designations and publish every classified document
he could take out of the National Archives because he
and he alone knew that Trump had declassified them by
blinking his eyes six times or whatever it was, it's
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hard to believe those words are actually criminal. But of course,
if there's any law breaking here, the last person you
want to be is the guy nominated to and vowing
to break up the FBI and close FBI headquarters and
fire everybody at the FBI. When you have cleverly given
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the FBI forty nine complete days plus the morning of
January twentieth to find anything you ever did about anything anywhere,
for all his imperious insanity and for all his wonted
poster cabinet nominations, the fact is right now, Trump is
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O for one, and I wouldn't bet on heg Seth
and maybe a couple of the others, even if you
give me odds. And not only did Gates go down
in flames, but when he did, Trump didn't even stamp
his feet. Trump in fact caved. Republican senators who hated Gates.
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Know that Trump caved. Republican senators who hated Gates hate Patel.
Chuck Grassley and that idiot Ted Cruz and a couple
of the other FEBEs have already vowed to vote for Patel.
But the others, who are already smiling up at the
symbolically severed head of Matt Gates on their wall, are
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now emboldened, and they know their personal futures, not the countries.
They don't give a crap about the country's future. Their
personal futures depend on being able to whip Trump into
line and making sure he knows he cannot whip them
into line. So help me, God on ratchet that whole
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point one more step higher, please. What if it was
clear to you that the man was clearly writing the
preamble to a military attack by this country against Mexico.
What if the only question about that is the quote
is attributed to a senior Trump transition team member by
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Rolling Stone. Quote, how much should we invade Mexico? And
what if the first step towards that was actually made
in a phone call last Wednesday? How much should we
invade Mexico? That's next this Discountdown.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
This is Countdown with Keith Olberman.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Oh, scripts to the news, some headlines, some updates, some
snow still ahead of course, worse persons And what's that
old shriveled thing in that video seen behind poor gullible
Cheryl hines. Why it's Robert F. Kennedy Junior's credibility coming
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up or not coming up as the case maybe AnyWho.
This is the Countdown podcast, and these are the places
where there's news. Dateline Mexico City. The past was alterable,
the past never had been altered. Oceania was at war
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with East Asia. Oceania had always been at war with
East Asia. Trump is already lying about Mexico, and the
moment I read this sequence of events, I saw the
whole plan that the mice running around in the wheel
inside Trump's head have cooked up. Quote just had a
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wonderful conversation with the new president of Mexico, Claudia shinbound Pardo,
she has agreed to stop migration through Mexico and into
the United States, effectively closing our southern border. We also
talked about what can be done to stop the massive
drug inflow into the United States and also US consumption
of these drugs. It was a very productive conversation. El
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Trumpo added, Mexico will stop people from going to our
southern border effective immediately, Capitals. This will go a long
way towards stopping the illegal invasion of the USA. Thank
you exclamation point, exclamation point, exclamation point, well, sir. President
Shinbaum immediately came back and angrily noted that she never
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said anything of the sort. In point of fact, she
did not say this, but Trump lied. The next day,
President Shinbaum mitigated that somewhat and said it was a
productive conversation about the border, and more politely said that
there are no circumstances under which she would close the
border with the US end migration into the US, nor
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would she tell anybody that. But the horse is out
of the barn. Here bluntly, the president of Mexico, the
presidents of all the other countries should not take any
calls from Trump. He's just using you to set something
up for later. The oldest trick in the dictator bag.
The first step you have to take to cement power
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after you have seized power is to start a war
somewhere on the phoniest and craziest of pretext, just so
long as your base and the uninformed part of your
public believes it's true, or pretends to believe it's true.
Mussolini did it in Ethiopia. Putin's done it in Georgia
and Ukraine at least twice in Ukraine. Japan did it
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in Manchuria before World War Two. Hitler did it, and
before that, in nineteen thirty six he went into what
was supposed to be the demilitarized area of the Rhineland
near the French border. You do it to stir up
a sense of danger in your own country, and to
stir up your own base, and mostly to see if
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you can get away with it. I mean, hell, Ronald
Reagan invaded Grenada, and we are going to invade Mexico.
I guarantee it. It may not be announced as an
invasion or even as a war if it somehow goes
well for Trump he'll retroactively announce it's a war and
that we've always been at war with Mexico. The excuse though,
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for what shall we call it our special military operation,
That's what Putin would want Trump to call it, is
drugs or immigration or immigration with drugs, or drugs that
immigrate by themselves or whatever. The excuse for the actual
moment of action, though, will be that phone call with
President Shinbaum. Trump made the call, put out his lie
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about what she told him during it. Now he can
hold up his own tweet and say, but she said
she was closing the border. She didn't let's blow up
her country. These were the thoughts that raced through my
head when I heard about the two versions of the
call to Shinebaum. And then came the Rolling Stone story
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quoting the Highlights quote, how much should we invade Mexico?
Says a senior Trump transition member. That is the question. Trump,
who has routinely and falsely promoted himself as the candidate
who would stop endless wars, now wants to lead a
new conflict just south of our nation's border. But at
this moment, it is, in the words of one Trump advisor,
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unclear how far he'll go on this one. This source
adds if things don't change, the President still believes it's
necessary to take some kind of military action against these killers.
As Rolling Stone has reported since at least last year,
Trump has solicited specific battle plans and different military options
for attacking Mexico. Senator Marco Rubio, whom Trump chose to
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serve as Secretary of State, has endorsed the idea of
sending US troops to Mexico to combat drug cartels under
the conditions that quote, there is cooperation from the Mexican government,
and that such operations are done quote in coordination with
the armed forces and the Mexican police force. Poor Marco,
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he thinks we're going to coordinate our invasion of Mexico
with the Mexican government, with the Mexican armed forces, with
the Mexican police. He's going to be in quite a
position when we simply go in and start blowing up
one of our neighbors, just to see if anybody tries
to stop us. I wonder if Marco will be smart
enough to see that he's been lied to, or if
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he was smart enough to have somebody read to him.
The Rolling Stone article on how it has on the
record quotes from Tom Homan, Pete Hegseith, National Security Advisor,
Mike Waltz, Lindsey Graham, and the rest of the Trump
fascist clown college about invading and bombing and killing and badges, badges.
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We do not have to show you any stinking badges
because Oceania has always been at war with Mexico. Dateline
nepotism village District of Columbia. Trumps now appointed both his
daughter's fathers in law as Special envoys to the Middle
East Massad Bulos, father of the husband of the the
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other daughter, Sparkle or Bingo or whatever her name is.
He will join Charles Kushner, whose father of the husband
of what was the name, Plinko, Plinko Trump whatever, And
I think it's plink Is it Plinko the daughter Kushner's wife, Yeah,
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Plinko Trump Kushner. Anyway, Plinko's father in law was appointed
to the same post last week. And you remember Charles
Kushner ex Khan, whom Trump pardoned, quoting the Associated Press,
after Charles Kushner discovered his brother in law was cooperating
with federal authorities, the wealthy real estate executive and father
of Trump's son in law, Jared hatched a scheme for
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revenge and intimidation. Kushner hired a prostitute to lure his
brother in law, then arranged to have the encounter in
a New Jersey motel room recorded with a hidden camera
and the recording sent to his own sister, the man's wife.
The scheme didn't work. Kushner later pleaded guilty to tax
evasion and making illegal campaign donations. Our representative to the
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Holy Land, everybody, and remember there is no blackmail, especially
no sex on any videotape anywhere involved in the entire
Trump political crime family. No never, never, never and dateline
some secure, undisclosed location. Whatever happened to jd Vance? Remember him?
(30:02):
It's like vice president elect or something. What's he doing?
Is he busily trying to match his record of having
never done anything as senator by never doing anything as
vice president? Well he has resurfaced online. He sent us
a Thanksgiving greeting. Weirdo's Thanksgiving greeting a parody meme of
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the Norman Rockwell Thanksgiving scene with all those wholesome white
folks being served a turkey the size of a buick
by Mom, except there's three small changes from the original
Rockwell painting. The Turkey is now an electoral map of
the country showing how Trump won all those counties in
which nobody lives. Dad is now Trump looking like he
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wants to carve up and eat some of the people
at the table, and Mom still in her Rockwell dress
and rockwall frilly white apron and eyeliner. Mom is JD
vance JV.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Did you think this one through before you hit send?
I mean, you've posted a picture of yourself wearing a
dress and an apron and eye liner on No, wait, wait,
I'm sorry. The dress and the apron were in the
original Rockwell painting, and the eyeliner. JD brought that with him.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Believe it or not. There's still more new idiots to
talk about. It's the daily round up, now nearly daily,
of the miscreants, morons and Dunning Kruger effects specimens who
can't to today's other worst persons in the world. And yes,
I'm thinking about going back to more of these a
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week after the new year. Ah, can't I just retire?
Can't the rest of you just keep the democracy together
for three weeks without me having to work? More. I'm
gonna be sixty six fing years old. I have been
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broadcasting in some form or another since Gerald Ford was president.
I am an oak of my own generation. I need
to attend to my bark, all right. I sort of
(32:56):
went off on a tangent there, Lebrons worse Vibek Ramaswami
talking about trees, the Trump Department of Government efficiency that
is so inefficient it needs two chiefs. And of course
he's a moron with a bad haircut. He really is
a kaleidoscope of all the lack of skills required of
(33:19):
a moron. So somebody posts a video of an MSNBC
host warning that the Ramaswami and Musk plans to cut
the government and set private industry up to steal more
money out of your pocket will result in raw milk
only and more pollution and worse climate catastrophes than the
other thing Trump likes, because the job of being Trump
(33:40):
is to make sure there are crises you can pretend
to fix and of course make money off of. Ramaswami
reposted this MSNBC video and added quote, the fear mongering
has begun, but the real thing we should be afraid
of is the loss of self governance to an unelected bureaucracy. VIV.
(34:03):
The entirety of your Department of Governmental Efficiency is, in
fact an unelected bureaucracy. You are an unelected bureaucrat. Thanks
for the admission, VIV. The runner up, doctor Patrick soon Shong,
useless billionaire, Well that's redundant useless billionaire who also owns
(34:26):
the Los Angeles Times. It was lost to some degree
amid the cowardice of Jeff Bezos at the Washington Post
and others, but the LA Times also deliberately did not
endorse in the presidential race because this guy was sucking
up the Trump. The LA Times continues to have something
of a reputation outside of Southern California, and I will
never understand why within Southern California it has. For at
(34:50):
least the forty years I've read it or been covered
by it, it's had a reputation locally for being able
to screw up the proverbial two car funeral. The LA
Times is at a virtual monopoly on news in that
city since the La Herald Examiner, a much better newspaper,
first imploded after a decade long strike that ended with
(35:12):
the paper going out of business in nineteen eighty nine,
and The Times in this time of monopoly now entering
what year thirty six, has been uniformly terrible in everything
but maybe movie reviews and the quality registration of the
colors in its color photography process all that time. This soon,
(35:36):
Shong guy, I think that's how it's pronounced. Might be soon, Schlog,
I'm not sure. Made the mistake of doing an interview
with Oliver Darcy for his media newsletter's status. He explained
to Darcy that it's just an opinion that Trump lies
at a higher rate than other politicians. Schong also wrote
that he'd like to see Scott Jennings, the fascist idiot
(36:00):
CNN puts on every night in its latest worring out
of the reputation US CNN originals and near originals built
for it. He'd like to see Jennings on the La
Times editorial board. I'd like to see Jennings on a
flight to Russia, but I don't think that's gonna happen.
Mister Darcy questioned this idea, since Jennings is a condescending,
(36:23):
misogynist and clown, and he just is put on CNN
to cause trouble. That is impossible to watch and drives
their ratings down even further, and he is paid by
CNN to make up excuses for Trump. Mister sun Schong
answered that observation, quoting, according to Darcy Scott Jennings, you
(36:43):
just said his job is to defend Donald Trump. Did
you find that in his job description with CNN. I
don't know if you know that as a fact. I
love to work with facts. So when you make that statement,
just reflect on that you just made that statement. Did
you make that statement based on having Scott Jennings employment
agreement with CNN? Doctor sun Shong is another moron? Right
(37:09):
after that quote, a Time spokesman ended the interview for
the record, sun Shong was a transplant surgeon who invented
a drug and got rich off of it. He's a
South African, naturally, and I am reminded by him of
my friend George Carlin's best joke. George said it was
provable fact.
Speaker 3 (37:28):
It was provable by sheer math, by simple math, that
somewhere in the world there is somebody right now who
is literally the worst doctor in the world.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
I mean he's right. If there are forty million doctors,
somebody is number forty million on the list of good doctors.
The punchline, of course, is, as George put it, somebody
has an appointment to see him tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (38:02):
I think we found him, George, but our winner, the
worst RFK Junior.
Speaker 1 (38:11):
RFK Junior has now endorsed heroin. Said it on a
podcast quote. I did very, very poorly in school until
I started doing narcotics. Then I went to the top
of my class because my mind was so restless and
turbulent and I could not sit still. It worked for me,
(38:32):
and if it still worked, I'd still be doing it.
How about hitting yourself in the head with a two
by four? Have you tried that? Bob Side show. Bob,
the nominee for Secretary of HHS, has endorsed heroin, but
not fluoride and vaccines. And I'll note that Kennedy also
(38:54):
appears in an online video in which his poor wife
is trying to sell you supplements or something. Kennedy is
in the shower, presumably naked, and the wife, fortunate Cheryl Hines,
is positioned in the foreground in such a way that
you can't see. You can't see into this, you can't
you don't know it. You can't see rfk Junior Junior
(39:17):
Okay ms Hines. Missus Kennedy is, of course more than unfortunate.
She is at maximum gullibility because the first thing I
thought of when I saw that Kennedy in the shower
tableau on her video selling supplements was Ooh, he's probably
facetiming my ex Olivia Newsy Robert F. And guess what
(39:40):
the F stands for? Kennedy Junior two days other worst
person in the worl Hello, what are you wearing? Hello?
Speaker 2 (40:15):
Have any heroin?
Speaker 1 (40:17):
It's my sideshow Bob impression AnyWho. I've done all the
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and performed by the group No Horns Allowed. My announcer
was my friend John Dean. Everything else was, as ever,
my fault. So that's countdown for today, just one and
eleven days until the scheduled end of the lame duck
presidency of Trump. The next scheduled countdown is Thursday. I'm
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thinking about more okay, as always, bulletins, as the news
warrants until next time, I'm Keith Oulremman. Good morning, good afternoon,
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