July 16, 2024 • 55 mins
SERIES 2 EPISODE 213: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN
A-Block (1:44) SPECIAL COMMENT: This is the America Trump wanted. This is the America Trump got. He was shot at by a gun-obsessed MAGA kid, with Trump signs in the front yard of his home, in a MAGA world in which stochastic terror threats are Trump's only campaign, only belief, only religion.
Republicans! Stop shooting at Trump!
This wasn't an MSNBC viewer and it wasn't a Democrat and it wasn't the fault of the corporate media and Biden's oratory didn't impact him and this didn't happen because I keep saying Trump is a Hitler. TrumpIS a Hitler. The Republicans trained the weapon on Trump and they fired.
And shame on Biden and the other Democrats and the eternally gullible media for falling for the promises of a Trump pivot. He said we need to unite the way the extraterrestrials put "To Serve Man" on their Twilight Zone cookbook. The moment the Democrats took the bait, he explained what his demands were: as part of "unity" he expects all criminal charges to be dropped against him immediately. He probably secretly hopes the Democrats will also nominate him.
Same fraud. Different con.
ALSO: Anybody see those photos of him as he screamed "Fight!" like a giant rabid rodent? When he let his true soul out? They were chanting that as the GOP convention yesterday. There is no joining of hands here. As always, when the Republicans mean unity, they mean everybody has to agree...to do what they say. Nice timing on delaying the Documents case, "Judge" Cannon, until the morning the GOP Convention opened, and dismissing it.
Bluntly, Biden should take presidential immunity and use it. What would Trump do in the mirror image of the assassination attempt? Less than four months before the election and the guy ahead in the polls gets shot at. And the Secret Service clearly screwed security into the ground. And we don’t know WHY a kid registered with the same party as the candidate would try to kill the candidate. And we don’t know WHY a local police officer confronted the shooter moments before the shots only to back away. And we don’t know why, most insanely of all, the kid had a cameo in a Black Rock commercial for retirement plans. And we DO know it is being investigated as an act of domestic terrorism. And you know, you KNOW, a Trump in charge would look at this and say ‘good enough excuse for me! I am declaring a national emergency and invoking the insurrection act.”
Do it, Joe.
AND: please, stop with the "violence has never had a role in America." Our politics is a river of blood. 20 of the 45 presidents have either been shot and killed in office, shot and wounded in office, shot and wounded while seeking to regain office, or the subject of shooting plots averted at the last minute or last hour. If we stopped lying to ourselves about how peaceful we are, maybe we could begin to fix our bloody story.
B-Block (27:52) SPECIAL COMMENT II: The conventional wisdom of the electoral effect of the assassination attempt against Trump is - as always - wrong. The attempted murder of a Republican gun nut by a Republican gun nut using a weapon Democrats tried to ban is no longer even the lead Republican story. It may have no impact on the election at all. Candidate victims in the past have always lost.
C-Block (41:30) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: So many fascists said so many stupid things before the truth came out about who the shooter was, that the list today is literally EIGHTEEN PEOPLE LONG, climaxing with Chuck Todd, Lester Holt, Mike Johnson, Elon Musk, Mike Lee, Mike Collins, and J.D. Vance - who once compared Trump to Hitler (those Biden ads are gonna be lit)
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Trump
is still a hitler. Trump is still a threat to
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the future of this nation. Trump is still a threat
to the future of the human race. Trump's supporters still
divide into domestic terrorists or those who have no problems
siding with domestic terrorists. And Democrats, and especially the eternally gullible,
terrified media are still falling for Trump's lies. When he
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hinted at uniting America, it was like the book the
Extraterrestrials in the Twilight Zone had to serve Man. Trump
wants a united America, all right, united under his one
man authoritarian dictatorship. And Biden fell for it, and the
Democrats fell for it, and the commentators fell for it.
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And after the big poor dumbfishes who always take the
Trump bait took the Trump bait again, he explained what
it was they had just bought. His concierge Judge in Florida,
declared that Special Counsel Jacksmith is unconstitutional, and he followed with,
as we move forward in uniting our nation after the
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horrific events on Saturday, This dismissal of the lawless indictment
in Florida should be just the first step, followed quickly
by the dismissal of all the witch hunts. He even
included the E. Gene Carroll cases in the cases he
now expects we'll be dismissed. And then, in further tribute
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to the new spirit of bipartisanship, by which Trump means
both parties should nominate him, he named his running mate
the shit bag JD Vance, who two years ago he
literally could not name. He called him J. P. Mandel Vance,
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who not forty eight hours earlier had posted quote today
is not just some isolated incident. The central premise of
the Biden campaign is that Trump is an authoritarian fascist
who must be stopped at all costs. That rhetoric led
directly to President Trump's attempted assassination sounds unifying to me.
Jd like einvolk, I like in'infeurer kind of unifying on
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just remember MAGA for when the time comes.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
JD.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Vance wears a size sixteen noose. Also Dvance, the way
you phrase that post, it reads that Trump attempted the assassination,
which would kind of be the first thing you've ever
gotten right, Because while the Democrats and other opponents of
dictatorship folded at the knees over fear that they might
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be blamed or damaged, or not deferential enough to Trump
or have to answer questions. They forgot reality. Reality is,
this is the America Trump wanted, and this is the
America Trump gets. I'm really sorry. A Republican gun fetishist
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shot at another Republican gun fetishist using a weapon that
Democrats had tried to ban and Republicans had kept from
being banned. And he did this in response to nine
uninterrupted years of the Trump language of stochastic terror, while
the rest of us pleaded that he stopp I'm really
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sorry about this, but what exactly does this have to
do with America? Trump gets shot at by a guy
whose neighbors now say lived in a house that had
Trump signs out front. Seems to me like this is
a Trump problem. Who exactly needs to turn the temperature down?
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Who President Biden needs to turn the temperature down? Yes,
let's bow to and beg forgiveness from and pledge unity
with Republicans, with a man who called for his Second
Amendment people to stop his presidential opponent, with a psychopath
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who traffics only in violence with a party of quizzlings,
who have surrendered any remaining shreds of loyalty to our nation,
or our constitution, or our shared humanity, surrendered any shreds
of loyal to any of that to this scumbag Trump
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with an insensate creature, whose first act after his near
death experience was to name a new running mate that
he needed because he tried to get his own mob
to kill his last running mate. We need to steer
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out of this bipartisan scam, goddamned fast, President Biden, and
you need to steer out of it immediately, because I
don't care now if your polls improve or the crater.
You had one job in twenty twenty one, which was
to remove the cancer of Trump and MAGA from this
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country forever and out of foolish but in some ways
understandable naive ta, you waited and this is what you
waited for. If you are not prepared to remove the
cancer of Trump and MAGA from this country.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Now now, now, now, get the hell out of a
White House, get somebody a top our ticket who is
willing to do what is necessary because you say unity, sir,
and Trump and the Maga mob hears surrender, and if
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you want to surrender, go ahead.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
In this unwarranted deference to a would be dictator who
was shot at by his own side, you have completely
misread the mood of this nation and the urgency of
this crisis, and the absolute non negotiable necessity to not
back down in the face of the self fulfilling Trump
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prophecy of violence, but to instead redouble your efforts to
rid us of the nightmare of the cancer Trump represents.
Do it or get out.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Now.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Genuinely, I am heartbroken for the father who died protecting
his family, protecting it from the violence that is the
essence of Trump's campaign and the only through line in
his horrific vision for America. I am heartbroken that Trump's
stochastic terrorism killed yet another bystander and wounded two more.
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And I am equally heartbroken that the President of the
United States and other democratic leaders should act like this
is America's fault and that Americans need to turn down
the temperature. The man who has been boiling us like
frogs for a decade is Trump. Those who have enabled
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are trying to blame those of us who have tried
to stop Trump, and the idea that any of this
will abate, will even slow down because of some gesture
by us of neighborliness to people who want to kill us.
That idea is madness. Sir, I will remind you President
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Biden that no one who has treated Trump, and no
law enforcement authority involved on the scene or the investigation,
has yet confirmed he was even grazed by a bullet
and not some kind of shard of debris. Only he
has made that claim, and the Nations media has utterly failed,
as it does nearly all the time, to verify or
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probe or even question another Trump boast. And my God
listened to his cult right now, you would think Trump
was Christ fresh off the cross, rather than the victim,
as he him self phrased it in a moment of
unintentional and hilarious honesty, a victim of as he described it,
an ear piercing And of course those same quote reporters
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unquote swallowed whole the latest swindle that he would pivot.
We are told, wrote the editors of the astonishingly and
perpetually fatuous Politico, that this week Trump will adopt an unfamiliar,
almost benevolent posture and call for unity in the face
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of tragedy. Yes, unity, unity means everybody does what Trump says.
Trump told a propagandist from the Washington Examiner that he
has rewritten his nomination acceptance speech, that God had given
him a second chance. Quote, Honestly, it's going to be
a whole different speech now. It is a chance to
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bring the country together. I was given that chance. Yes,
another chance, another chance to scam the stupid. Somewhere, Van
Jones is still weeping as he was Saturday night. Happily,
if Van is on CNN weeping, he can relax because
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nobody is watching him. Just remember, after Trump dived under
the podium, not fell, not was struck down, not took
a bullet, and then got back up to his feet,
making sure as he did that the Secret Service retrieved
his baseball cap and his loafers. The great unifiers immediate
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and most telling reaction was simple and direct and self defining.
We saw into his soul or whatever he has there
instead of a soul. For one moment, his face taught
with rage and hate in a way even he has
not previously revealed. Trump screamed, fight, fight, hurt, same fraud,
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different con oh Trump, Jesus has a message for the faithful,
faith brotherhood, unity and fight anybody who does not conform.
And if anybody is still falling for this, this what
you will hear next is what an Atlanta Journal Constitution
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an NBC News reporter recorded in the opening moments of
the Republican convention in Milwaukee yesterday. Spoiler alert, These scumbags
are not chanting.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Peace, peace, Peace.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
If when they had dragged him off the stage Saturday,
Trump had shouted kill, Kill, Kill, the Republicans would have
been chanting that at their convention yesterday. And by the way, no,
I do not believe that this was some sort of setup.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
No.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
I do not believe Trump wasn't really shot at No.
I do not believe they were not trying to kill him.
That was an assassination attempt. It's everything else that's the bullshit.
As Politico wrote eight hours before that fight fight, fight
chant was recorded, quote, the familiar face there nominating for
president this week is a different man than they've come
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to know. One bullshit. Two thank you bullshitters at Politico
for reminding me the familiar face. Go and look at
those images of Trump and the Secret Service agents and
the giant flags, and how the right is literally comparing
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all those images to the iconography of Christ. And then
find the photos snapped at the exact moment Trump is
screaming his message of hate and fight. And look at
his face with the mouth just slightly open and just
the front teeth visible. In my good God, it is
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the face of a giant, monstrous, enraged rodent. It's Gerbil J.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Trump. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
So, the unqualified judge and former Flamenco and yoga correspondent
of the Miami Nuevo Herald Trump appointed, delayed and slow
walked and corruptly undermined the case just long enough that
she could dismissed the charges against him in Florida for
stealing the nation's nuclear secrets and classified documents and sharing
them with like passers by. And she managed to dismiss
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the case literally hours before he, a convicted felon, was
renominated at his anti Democracy party convention. Timed it out,
she did to the month, the week, the day, and
the hour. Oh and she did it on a basis
of something Clarence Thomas threw in as an aside in
the Supreme Court's corrupt ruling on this imaginary and world
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ending concept of presidential immunity, the thing that will allow Trump,
if we let him seize power again, to arrest you
and never face any recriminations. And yes, it will be appealed,
and it will not matter if Trump wins. And yes,
I am dead serious when I suggest the following, absolutely serious.
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Biden should invent a pretext today and arrest Judge Cannon
and arrest Justices Thomas and Alito and Kavanaugh and Barrett
and Gorsich and Chief Justice Roberts and Trump and the
leading Republicans and come on TV from the Oval Office
and say just eight words, good evening, residential immunity, God
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bless our troops. Infant, he does not need a pretext.
What would Trump do in a mirror image of today,
a mirror image of the assassination attempt less than four
months before the election? He's in charge, and the guy
ahead of him in the polls gets shot at, and
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the Secret Service has clearly screwed security into the ground.
And we don't know why a kid registered with the
same party as the candidate, with the candidate signs in
his front yard would try to kill the candidate. And
we don't know why a local Police Office US are
confronted the shooter moments before the shots, only to back away,
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and we don't know why. Most insanely of all, the
kid had a cameo in a Black Rock commercial for
retirement plans.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
And we do know.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
It is an assassination attempt being investigated as an active
domestic terrorism. And you know, you know that a Trump
in charge would look at this and say, good enough
excuse for me. I am declaring a national emergency, presidential
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candidates under attack. I'm invoking the Insurrection Act. Do it, Joe.
I mean, right now, all the goddamned Republican terrorists are
in one place. They even all have hotel rooms in
the same neighborhood as the arena. Just seal it off
and keep them there. Hell, it's all legal. Clarence Thomas
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and John Roberts and Sam Alito just told you so.
So prayer as a dential immunity. And you know, mister President,
and if you don't know, retire and let somebody who
does know run in your place and run the country
in your place.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
If you don't do.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Something like this to stop Trump and the cancer and
the now emboldened fascists when they get the chance they
will do this. It isn't if the Insurrection Act will
be invoked in the next few years, it's when and
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by whom. I will get back later to all the
things that Trump cult said and did in the hours
after the shooting that probably were a tip off at
the unity and bring the temperature down Kumbayas stuff was
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just another Khan like the Georgia congressman who posted Joe
Biden sent the orders. But first there is something else,
utterly maddening, utterly dishonest, utterly Pollyanna. And after we stop
with the unity crap, the unity crap that Trump seriously
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thinks means dropping all charges against him, we also have
to stop with the violence has never decided anything in
our country.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Lie.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
I don't want to hear another politician say that violence
has no place in American politics. If you want to argue,
it should not have a place. That's one thing. I
endorse that completely with all of my heart. But by
this point, all I'm getting from this pious bullshit that
what happened over the weekend, or what Trump has been
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summoning for nine years, is some kind of unheard of,
unforseeable aberration. All I'm getting from that is a deep
bitter laugh. Even Trump wrote, it is incredible that such
an act could take place in our country.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
No, it's not.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
It may seem incredible to him that such an act
could take place to him. And I don't begrudge politicians, who,
after all, have a very vested interest in making sure
politicians don't get shot. I don't begrudge them arguing that
there is no room in this country for letting politicians
get shot. I get it, shouldn't shoot commentators either, But
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my god, the history of American politics is a river
of blood. Forty five men have now served as president,
not forty six. We gave Grover Cleveland two numbers for
some unfathomable reason. Four out of the forty five have
been assassinated with guns. That's nearly ten percent of them
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as of Saturday's event with Trump. Two of the other
forty one have been wounded in gunfire while running to
try to regain office. Another one was wounded by a
gun in office. Seven of the remaining thirty eight have
survived significant attempted assassinations by guns. Six more were targeted
with guns in plots that were stopped before getting nearly
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that close. That's twenty out of forty five twenty presidents
out of a full set of only forty five presidents.
That's forty four percent of all your presidents. It's a
lot of percent. A year from now, we will commemorate
the two hundredth anniversary of the first gun assassination of
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a sitting American elected official. The Attorney General of Kentucky,
Solomon Sharp. State Senator Clement of Pinckney of South Carolina
was one of the victims of the white supremacist Dylan
Roof in twenty fifteen, depending on your criteria, there have
been sixty others in between, or seventy or one hundred.
Then there are those who were shot and survived, Republican
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Congressman Steve Scalise in twenty seventeen, Democratic Congressman Gabby Giffrids
in twenty eleven. Then there are the leaders who were
not in office, not in politics, even from Martin Luther
King to Malcolm X to Huey Long to George Wallace.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
And also.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
We're still using in this context this phrase the peaceful
transfer of power, as if January twentieth, twenty twenty one
erased January sixth, twenty twenty one, and the other forms
of the Trump coup attempt, And even if you want
to concede that, did we have a peaceful transfer of
power in eighteen sixty one when Lincoln was not on
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the ballot in twenty percent of the country during the
election and the Southern states seceded in protest over his
victory as well, as it turned out, was eighteen sixty four?
Is election peaceful? Eighteen sixty eight when Mississippi, Texas, and
Virginia were still occupied by Northern troops and votes did
not count. Eighteen seventy two, when there were still troops
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throughout the South. Eighteen seventy six, when, after the most
controversial election before Bush v. Gore, supporters of the losing candidate,
Governor Samuel Tilden, urged him to take advantage of the
still heavy military presence in the capitol and start a
second Civil War in order to claim the office from Hayes.
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Was the Civil War peaceful transfer of power? Was the
Revolutionary War? Peaceful transfer of power? I am the least
pro violence person you are going to meet. I am
also the least pro sanitizing of history. If you want
to aspire to an America, where bullets are no longer
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as influential as ballots. Great, but don't lie, not now.
Don't lie to Lincoln and Garfield and McKinley and Kennedy.
Don't lie to Raig and Long and Wallace and King,
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and don't lie to Secretary of State Robert Lincoln. Please,
Robert Lincoln, who was supposed to be with his father
at Ford's Theater, who was walking towards President Garfield as
an assassin shot him in eighteen eighty one, who was
on a train to Buffalo to see President McKinley as
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an assassin shot him in nineteen oh one, Tell Robert
Lincoln that there's never been any place for violence in
American politics. Perhaps, just perhaps if we stopped lying about
it to ourselves, we might just might be able to
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stop it ourselves. I'm not done on this, but I
need to put in the commercials, all three segments today
on this, including so many worse persons, these same Republicans
pretending to sing Kumbaya, only they don't know the words,
and many of them had to bail out after the
kum So many worse persons I can't count them all.
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And more on the practicalities. No. Sorry, nothing in history
suggests the guy who got shot at gets an. I
didn't get killed. You should feel guilty bump in American elections.
Not only don't I think this helps Trump, I don't
think it has any significant impact on the outcome at all.
And what little insignificant impact there is might hurt Trump.
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The actual history of the attempts to kill Reagan, Ford, Teddy,
Roosevelt and the other candidates. That's next. This is countdown
to continue. I have a contrarian point of view as
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well on the impact on the election of the attempt
to kill Trump. Not only are all the headlines about
how this changes everything laugh out loud wrong, probably does
not change anything.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
It's not even the.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Lead story anymore. It's not even the lead political story.
It's not even the lead Republican story. But if it
has any impact, if it has one hundredth of one
percent impact, I don't think it's the one being uniformly predicted.
I confess this may be entirely wishful thinking, one last
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optimistic cell in a body that has turned otherwise fully cynical.
After daily exposure to American politics for sixty years as
boy and man, or it might just be the number
of decades I've been in this business and the number
of new details that you and I don't know yet.
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We didn't know about the yard signs until last night.
What's next. The only thing we have to go on
is history, and firstly the idea that this will coalesce
the nation around Trump. History suggests it's nonsense. Oh, it's
just like Reagan when he was shot. Heard that all weekend. Oh,
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it's just like Reagan's Trump's like Reagan looking Trump. Oh,
he's gonna win a landslide. Because Reagan won in a
landslide and he was shot. The time span between Reagan
getting shot and his landslide reelection was one thousand, three
hundred and eighteen days. It's three and a half years.
And by the way, that landslide in nineteen eighty four,
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after he was shot, that was only thirty five electoral
votes bigger than his landslide was in nineteen eighty There
were a lot of crazy reasons Ronald Reagan was popular
enough to win that way without any functioning brain, but
getting shot was not one of them. Also, he got shot.
Maybe maybe Trump got winged again. His quote, my ear
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was pierced, Oh the humanity. As an aside, when I
went to double check the exact numbers, I googled Reagan assassination,
and my new laptop malfunctioned or it auto corrected, or
I hit return too soon or something, and I got
first the results for Reagan ass Here's a free tip
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for an old man, Sonny, never do this, Okay. Those
who found out the actual stats on Reagan and said, well,
that's not gonna work. We can't even get away with that.
They then said Trump was just like Teddy Roosevelt, who
also got shot while running and that was close to
the election, wasn't it. Huh huh, yeah, all right. The
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little background Teddy Roosevelt had served out William McKinley's term
after he was shot and killed, and then Roosevelt won
election in his own right in nineteen oh four and
impulsively then said he would not run again in nineteen
oh eight. He would have sailed to a third term,
actually his second term. Instead, his hand picked successor, William
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Howard Taft, flailed as President of the United States. Tr
did not help. He then challenged Taft for the nineteen
twelve nomination, and when the Republicans actually did rig the
convention against him. Roosevelt ran as the Progressive Party third
party candidate. On October fourteenth, he got into a car
to go to the Milwaukee Auditorium to give a campaign
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speech when an assassin shot him in the chest. His speech,
which was I forget now one hundred pages thick, actually
slowed the bullet down. Verbosity helps. The bullet did not
enter his lungs, and Roosevelt, who knew anatomy and hunting
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backwards and forwards, knew he was hurt but not mortally so,
so after making sure the assassin was not harmed, Roosevelt
went to the autorum and gave the whole speech as
opposed to, you know, diving under the podium. Not that
that was the wrong thing to do. I would dive
under the podium too, But the comparison between Trump and
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Teddy Roosevelt giving an hour long speech with a bullet
in his chest and no teleprompter, that comparison ends very
early in the process. And again dramatic, extraordinary, and just
twenty two days. It occurred before the election, and we
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don't have polling, but it seems as if Roosevelt underperformed
expectations on election day, they thought he would do a
lot better than he had. Although he became the last
third party candidate to finish in second place, he still
lost the Electoral College by three hundred and forty seven votes.
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Gerald Ford was the victim of two assassination attempts seventeen
days apart, fourteen months before the nineteen seventy six election,
an admirable comp to what happened to Trump, point blank
no damage. Not only did it not help Ford, who
would lose to Jimmy Carter, it didn't even secure him
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the Republican nomination, and he had two assassins. Reagan ran
against him, and by the time of the nineteen seventy
six Republican Convention, Ford was only forty three delegates ahead,
and the convention, not the primaries, and not the voters,
decided the Republican nomination. And even after all that, two
assassinations and Ronald Reagan trying to knock him off, he lost.
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President Harry Truman was shot at in November nineteen fifty
and it did nothing to help his political quagmire that
was so bad he didn't even try for renomination, and
when he bowed out at the end of March nineteen
fifty two, the candidate he endorsed, Averill Harriman, never got
above five percent in the Democratic polls. I realized the
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most recent of these examples is just over forty years ago,
and the Reagan shooting was only six years after Ford,
and Ford was only seven years after Bobby Kennedy, and
Bobby Kennedy was only five years after his brother, President Kennedy.
Trust me, we were not blase about any of this.
If that's what you're thinking, It is possible that the
kind of collective, unfathomable guilt we have seen since Saturday
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Night might have been worn out in nineteen seventy five
or nineteen eighty one by two decades of relentless gunfire.
But I really think the answer as to why getting
shot at does not help a presidential candidate is deeper
than that. In each case, here, the victim of the
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assassination attempt represented the more violent party, the more violent
choice in the upcoming election. Ford had just overseen the
disastrous evacuation of Vietnam. He was connected to Nixon, Truman
was blamed for the Korean War. Teddy Roosevelt was a
little bloodthirsty even in a bloodthirsty time, and Woodrow Wilson,
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who won, was already pledging to avoid what would become
World War One. He didn't, but he pledged it. And
now there are two American paths sitting in front of
us from this point in history, two American futures. Until Saturday,
there was the anti Trump path that you and I
have seen clearly, where we still have elections and judges
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and order, and we pushed back against sudden, mindless, uncontrollable
violence within politics and without. And the other view was
of Trump's America violence, assassination, persecution, bigotry, madness, tragedy, but
all in the future. The Trumpists could deny any of
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it was true now or woever be true. I don't
think they can deny it any longer. And America of
wild West shoot them outs involving presidential candidates or anybody
else that sounds fun to these psychopaths until you are
the one who gets shot. To paraphrase my cousin Mike Tyson,
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everybody has a plan until they get shot in the ear.
Most of the Trumpists are too far gone to correct
themselves now, but I suspect there's still a patch in
the middle or maybe at the sane end of the
right in which they saw on Saturday what Trump's America
really looks like, and the contrast to the Biden America flawed,
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flailing but trying, or a Democratic Party of America. Because
I can't tell you how angry I am at President
Biden right now for participating in this. Maybe I'll get better,
maybe I won't, but right now, no, thanks regardless, it's
a choice a Democratic Party America or a Trump America,
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a Trump America where everybody gets shot at, including Trump.
And lastly, so I'm clear and I can clarify for
any of the Trumpists who are so obviously looking for
stuff that MSNBC took Joe Scarborough off the air yesterday
out of fear that somebody on that show would say
something stupid that would harm NBC, and I thought, wait,
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that's the premise of the show anyway, For those hunting
liberal remarks, let me be explicit about what I am
and am not saying here. Do I want you to
shoot Trump? No?
Speaker 2 (34:54):
I do not.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Do I want you to shoot anybody. No, I do
not do I want anybody to shoot anybody. No, I
do not do I think anybody is responsible for the
rise of violent rhetoric and threats and stochastic terrorism besides
Trump and the Republicans. I do not do I think
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anybody is responsible for the assassination attempt besides Trump and
MAGA and the Republicans and the shooter.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
I do not.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Do I think Trump is less of a mortal threat
to representative government in this nation than he was on
Saturday morning. I do not. And lastly, will I stop
saying that he is intent on becoming a dictator and
his election is an existential threat not only to this
nation but to life on earth. I will not. Okay,
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So the same Republicans whose asses the Democrats are kissing
right now, the Republican Senate candidate in Pennsylvania wants the
incumbent democrit at Bob Casey to suspend negative advertising, and
the person he cites as his inspiration for this idiotic
idea is Biden. Those same Republicans said so many psychotic, violent,
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unforgivable things in the wake of the shooting that I
literally have lost count worst persons. Could be three guys,
could be thirty three guys.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
That's next. This is countdown. This is countdown with Keith Olberman.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
Still ahead of us on this edition of Countdown Nothing.
This is the last segment of today's programming. How's that
for a promo. But there are.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
Still time for all the new idiots to.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
Talk about the daily roundup of the miss Grants, morons
and Dunning Kruger effects specimens who constitute two days worst
persons in the world.
Speaker 2 (37:20):
See if you find.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
A theme well after the first one. There's so many
of them, though, that I've run out of precious medals
with which to make the awards, So first the Humorous
Relief Honorable Mentions Honorable Mention number fifteen. Ian Dale, a
host on England's LBC channel, kind of a right wing
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mishmash after the European Soccer Championship match Sunday between Spain,
which won and England, which did not win.
Speaker 2 (37:51):
See if you hear the.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
Racism, nationalism or just playing stupidity? Spain won, England didn't.
Quoting Ian Dale, what trust between the two teams. Every
England player belted out the national anthem with gusto. Not
a single Spanish player opened his mouth in the Spanish
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national anthem doesn't have any words. If you hear anybody
ever singing the Spanish national anthem, get to a hospital,
you're having an episode. The fourteenth Honorable Mention, the millennials,
they're complaining about this again with Trump. I mean, I
get it. No matter what dates you put on them.
They've all seen nine to eleven, Iraq, the recession, the
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climate crisis, the rise of Trump, COVID, now an assassination attempt.
We all have our burdens, and I don't minimize anybody
by generation. I just like to point out that I
am among the youngest of the baby boomers, so I
got all you've been through. Millennials. Also, I had the
Cuban missile crisis, the Kennedy assassination, Vietnam, the other Kennedy assassination,
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Martin Luther King, Watergate, the Residu nation of the President,
and then after I graduated from high school. The thirteenth
Honorable Mention speaker Mike Johnson. I know he sounds like
an FM radio preacher in a small town in the South.
Here are the beg's, but he's also been successful in
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a reptilian kind of way. But ultimately, this guy is
a dope. At the beginning of this month, Ugly Tiny
Johnson went on Fox and smeared Biden. Quote, unless the
president is reading off a teleprompter, I don't think he's
capable of making these big decisions. And then guess what happened.
Mike Johnson got up at the Republican convention yesterday and
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he learned that the god of teleprompters is a vengeful god.
It is now my honor to introduce the Attorney General.
Speaker 2 (39:58):
And there goes the teleprompter.
Speaker 1 (40:15):
And then Mike Johnson left the stage and he has
not been heard from since. And now those Republicans who
immediately said something about Trump that suggested that the lie
about unity and turning down the rhetoric was a lie
even before they tried to sell it to us. The
twelfth honorable mention, Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina quote,
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this was an assassination attempt, aided and abetted by the
radical left and corporate media incessantly calling Trump a threat
to democracy, fascists or worse. Yes, Tim, that's right. Thomas
Crook's Trump supporter, dead Shooter, was radicalized by like me
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absolutely now that you didn't get that vice presidential gig. Senator,
do you have an outclause in your contract with your quote?
Fiance unquote just asking The eleventh honorable mention Matt Gates,
who also posted yesterday a photo of quote Supreme Court
Justice Eileen Cannon. He wrote on Saturday, they tried to
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impeach him, They are trying to imprison him. Now they
have tried to assassinate him. Oh sorry, Matt, good guess,
but no, he was shot by a Republican in the
They Versus You construction. You tried to assassinate him. You
Republicans tried to assassinate him, Beavis. The tenth honorable mentioned
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Junior Trump, who you'll remember mocked the attack on Nancy
Pelosi's husband like twelve times and who seems to have
serious brain damage.
Speaker 2 (41:48):
Quote.
Speaker 1 (41:49):
Dems and their friends in the media knew exactly what
they were doing with their literally hitler bullshit. If Democrats
got their way, my dad would be dead right now.
Once again, Junior, your father was shot at by a
young and clearly unhappy Republican. Perhaps he was a young, troubled,
gun obsessed man whose relationship with his own father was
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never fulfilled, that it never had any love, never proved
to the son that his father valued him in any
way or not. The ninth Honorable Mention Eric Erickson, the
conservative commentator from a family so poor they could only
afford to give him a one name. On a daily basis,
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six forty nine pm July thirteenth, On a daily basis,
MSNBC tells its audience that Trump is a threat to democracy,
an authoritarian and waiting and it would be dictator if
no one stops him. What did they think would happen?
Comcast made a choice, right you are, mister Mahrhoffer Thomas
Matthew Crooks with the Trump sign in his front yard.
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Eric Erickson was radicalized by Chris Hayes shrug Emochi. The
eighth honorable mention Clays, the kid we today politely called
challenged who used to write stupid things but only about sports,
but he since expanded to also writing stupid things about politics.
Six point thirty three pm July thirteenth. I am effing furious,
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beyond words f every left wing media member who's been
calling him hitler for the past eight years. This is
on them. They made this happen. I'd just like to
note these people all suddenly discovered sarcastic terrorism and now
they believe in it completely. Oh knows what I don't
get here is the one advantage and I think I
know something about this topic of starting your career in
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sports and then going to news, is you tend to
remember one lesson from sports. Don't declare the winner or
describe the deciding play of the game until after the
goddamn game ended. Never had dawned on Travis, not for
a moment that Trump shooter even might have been a Republican.
Yet there it is. So I guess what Klay Travis
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is saying? There is f all Republicans. You bet youa.
The seventh Honorable mentioned Kate Andrews in The Spectator with
one of these unity crap pieces headlined today we are
all maga. Listen, miss Andrews. If you want to be maga,
go ahead. The key point is the guy who tried
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to kill Trump was maga. The sixth honorable mention Lauren Bobert.
First she insisted Biden quote is responsible for the shooting.
Then she retweeted another fascist. The Dems realized it's too
late to switch out their candidate, so they attempted to
kill ours instead. Again Bobo significant them versus hours fail.
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Here the sentence should be the Republicans realized it's too
late to switch out their candidate, so they attempted to
kill theirs instead. You're welcome and get a grip on yourself.
The fifth Honorable mentioned Ben Shapiro Daily. This guy trips
over his own rake? How is he a power in
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the fascist sphere? How a shocking and tragic day for
the nation. You cannot repeatedly and endlessly label a major
party candidate and former president Actual Hitler full scale threat
to democracy without radically increasing the danger of violence in America.
This danger has been obvious for years and enraged engaged
in by nearly everyone on the left up to and
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including the president current president. We are in a hideously
ugly new era. Twelve ten Am, Sunday, October thirty first,
twenty twenty two, Ben Shapiro, the attempt to twist the
Paul Pelosi attack into a broader story about supposed extremism
and Republican rhetoric. So vote dem is so transparently opportunistic
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and pathetic. Everyone can see what you're doing Democrats in
the media, and it's disgusting. Ben, is what Bill O'Reilly
used to call pinhead. The fourth honor Will Mention Forbes magazine,
which took a well intended but kind of garbled piece
by somebody named Sean Harper and completely pushed it over
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the edge with this headline, will Surviving Gunfire be Donald
Trump's next appeal to black voters? They've deleted it now,
which is good because if Trump finds out about that headline,
he'll try it. The third honorable mention Congressman Mike Collins
of Georgia. I think he was in fact first out
of the box Saturday with something really stupid, but it
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really didn't hold up well to later entrance. This was
the guy who started his first campaign ad by insisting
that Biden lost Georgia in twenty twenty, and then he's
shown shooting up a voting dropbox Saturday. Mike Collins wrote,
Joe Biden sent the orders uh huh to a twenty
year old Republican kid in Pennsylvania. The second honorable mention
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Lester Holt of NBC News. I told you White House guys,
don't waste your time with Lester that job. If we're
going fascist, he's going fascist. Wester's that's kind of guy.
He's a joiner. He's a group togetherness dude who asks
Biden about his off the record remark to donors about
(47:18):
not talking about him leaving the ticket anymore, but instead
putting Trump in the proverbial bull's eye. Well, Lester did, why,
I don't know. Let me see how many more times
I have to say this. The shots at Trump were
fired by a registered Republican who's not likely to have
been doing Joe Bidden's Biden or Joe Biden's bidden. By
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the way, at MSNBC, we used to call Lester iron
Pants because he could fill endless hours without ever getting
up from the anchor chair to use the little announcer's room.
Iron Pants was not meant as a compliment. And while
we're over here, honorable mention number one Chuck Todd of
NBC News, quoting the promotional tweet about his piece, Chuck Todd,
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any one of the political devices over the last six
weeks would be classified as unprecedented. Put them together, and
it's creating a stew that could turn quite toxic if
we aren't careful. Unquote bye, there's no sneaking anything past
Chuck Todd? Is there now? The award winners. The Bronze
(48:26):
worse Elon Man was the ketamine flowing over at Shay
Musk this past weekend, the ridiculous Dave Ruben starts, Musk
is here for the moronic tap in here. First off,
the first word of the Ruben tweet should have been
a tip off to him. Assuming no, okay bad, Assuming
it turns out to be true that this sick F
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was an Antifa member, Antifa should be labeled a terrorist
organization immediately, and that should have happened years ago. Actually,
Musk replies, absolutely, so. I guess what Dave Rubin and
Musk are now saying that since this sick F was
a Republican Party member, the Republican Party should be labeled
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a terrorist organization immediately, and that that should have happened
years ago. Actually, and Elon is saying absolutely to that.
The runner up worser, Senator Mike Lee of Utah, this
is really one of the stupidest people on the planet.
These are two tweets eight days apart from the same guy.
(49:31):
In the first one, Lee endorses Musk's idea to kill
anybody who opposes the Republican I don't know how to
describe it. The Republican floor showroom kind of build that
makes voting. That's already illegal, illegal again. In the second
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the retweet, well you'll hear this. This is on July fifth,
Musk tweets those who oppose this are traders, all caps traders.
What is the penalty for trait? Again? And Mike Lee
retweets this and says, I literally cannot think of a
legitimate reason to oppose the same act, and the only
illegitimate reasons are really really damning of those who espouse them.
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So Mike Lee calls for killing people who oppose a
piece of legislation that makes something illegal that's already illegal.
And then on Saturday night statement by US Senator Mike Lee,
We've got to take the political temperature down, as evidenced
by what happened in Pennsylvania today. We call on President
Biden to immediately order that all federal criminal charges against
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President Trump be dropped, and to ask the governors of
New York such a gesture would heal wounds, allow all
Americans take it. Our prayers are with the victims of
the shooting in our country, except for all the people here.
Speaker 2 (50:49):
We want to kill.
Speaker 1 (50:51):
I'm Mike Lee, and my hair did not fall off
because my brain is in overuse. Holy crap, going to
take the political temperature done except for killing people I
don't like. I'm Mike Lee and I'm actually be an
elected senator. And you know, in Utah there's lots of
things wrong with the state of Utah. But in Utah
they would look at this and go, why did we
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elect this guy? Where did we find this idiot? Even
the Republicans would go, Joseph Smith would be really pissed
off at me. But our winner, the worst Republican vice
presidential nominee, JD. Vance, male prostitute. I call him that
because I don't think Trump actually vetted him, because he
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kind of said unkind things about Trump that may come
back to haunt him later and later is right now?
I mean things that I might not have said here,
or worse things I might too have said here. As
The Washington Post put it February twenty sixteen, Vance set
a message to his former law school roommate Josh McLaurin
that McLaurin has recounted publicly in it, Vance that he
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went quote back and forth between thinking Trump is a
cynical asshole like Nixon, who wouldn't be that bad and
might even prove useful, or that he he's America's hitler.
According to a screenshot maclaurin shared on social media in
twenty twenty two, when Vance was running for Senate in Ohio, Gee,
somebody who called Trump America's hitler, which is the people
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that all the Republicans were blaming for the assassination attempt. So,
so you Republicans are saying that jd Vance is responsible
for the attempt on Trump's life.
Speaker 2 (52:31):
Oh, that could.
Speaker 1 (52:33):
Be an interesting commercial for the Biden campaign. Or or
they could just run this opo research ad that has
already been put in place against JD Vance and just listen.
Speaker 3 (52:46):
Jd Vance in his own words, I'm a never Trump guy.
Speaker 2 (52:50):
I never liked him. As somebody who doesn't like Trump,
I might have to hold my nose and vote for
Hillary Clinton.
Speaker 1 (52:56):
I didn't vote for Trump because I can't stomach Trump.
I think that he's noxious, him being ry, really outrageous
instances on Twitter, called Trump quote reprehensible, an idiot, and
Vance loves Mitt Romney.
Speaker 2 (53:10):
I'm a never Trump guy. That's the real. Jd Vance.
Speaker 1 (53:14):
Club for Growth Action is responsible for the content of
this apt so Biden campaign. All you have to do
is pop on I'm Joe Biden and I approved this message. Also,
what the heck's wrong with this guy's voice? Pal the VP,
JP Mandel, jd Vance, whatever the hell your name is,
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don't stick your neck out two days worst person in
the world. I've done all the damage I can do here.
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And everything else was pretty much my fault, except for
the guy who tried to shoot Trump. He was a Republican.
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Let's countdown for this the one hundred and thirteenth day
until the twenty twenty four presidential election, two hundred and
eighty sixth day since convicted felon and evil Gerbil Donald
Trump's first attempt at coop against the democratically elected government
of the United States. Use the September eighteenth sentencing here.
Use the mental health system. You've got it, President Biden.
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Use presidential immunity to stop him from doing it again
while we still can. Also, Republicans, stop shooting at Trump.
Speaker 2 (55:20):
Please.
Speaker 1 (55:21):
The next scheduled countdown is tomorrow. Boltin's is the news
requires till then, I'm Keith Olderman. Good morning, good afternoon,
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Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Trump
is still a hitler. Trump is still a threat to
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the future of this nation. Trump is still a threat
to the future of the human race. Trump's supporters still
divide into domestic terrorists or those who have no problems
siding with domestic terrorists. And Democrats, and especially the eternally gullible,
terrified media are still falling for Trump's lies. When he
(00:50):
hinted at uniting America, it was like the book the
Extraterrestrials in the Twilight Zone had to serve Man. Trump
wants a united America, all right, united under his one
man authoritarian dictatorship. And Biden fell for it, and the
Democrats fell for it, and the commentators fell for it.
(01:14):
And after the big poor dumbfishes who always take the
Trump bait took the Trump bait again, he explained what
it was they had just bought. His concierge Judge in Florida,
declared that Special Counsel Jacksmith is unconstitutional, and he followed with,
as we move forward in uniting our nation after the
(01:37):
horrific events on Saturday, This dismissal of the lawless indictment
in Florida should be just the first step, followed quickly
by the dismissal of all the witch hunts. He even
included the E. Gene Carroll cases in the cases he
now expects we'll be dismissed. And then, in further tribute
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to the new spirit of bipartisanship, by which Trump means
both parties should nominate him, he named his running mate
the shit bag JD Vance, who two years ago he
literally could not name. He called him J. P. Mandel Vance,
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who not forty eight hours earlier had posted quote today
is not just some isolated incident. The central premise of
the Biden campaign is that Trump is an authoritarian fascist
who must be stopped at all costs. That rhetoric led
directly to President Trump's attempted assassination sounds unifying to me.
Jd like einvolk, I like in'infeurer kind of unifying on
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just remember MAGA for when the time comes.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
JD.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Vance wears a size sixteen noose. Also Dvance, the way
you phrase that post, it reads that Trump attempted the assassination,
which would kind of be the first thing you've ever
gotten right, Because while the Democrats and other opponents of
dictatorship folded at the knees over fear that they might
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be blamed or damaged, or not deferential enough to Trump
or have to answer questions. They forgot reality. Reality is,
this is the America Trump wanted, and this is the
America Trump gets. I'm really sorry. A Republican gun fetishist
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shot at another Republican gun fetishist using a weapon that
Democrats had tried to ban and Republicans had kept from
being banned. And he did this in response to nine
uninterrupted years of the Trump language of stochastic terror, while
the rest of us pleaded that he stopp I'm really
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sorry about this, but what exactly does this have to
do with America? Trump gets shot at by a guy
whose neighbors now say lived in a house that had
Trump signs out front. Seems to me like this is
a Trump problem. Who exactly needs to turn the temperature down?
(04:26):
Who President Biden needs to turn the temperature down? Yes,
let's bow to and beg forgiveness from and pledge unity
with Republicans, with a man who called for his Second
Amendment people to stop his presidential opponent, with a psychopath
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who traffics only in violence with a party of quizzlings,
who have surrendered any remaining shreds of loyalty to our nation,
or our constitution, or our shared humanity, surrendered any shreds
of loyal to any of that to this scumbag Trump
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with an insensate creature, whose first act after his near
death experience was to name a new running mate that
he needed because he tried to get his own mob
to kill his last running mate. We need to steer
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out of this bipartisan scam, goddamned fast, President Biden, and
you need to steer out of it immediately, because I
don't care now if your polls improve or the crater.
You had one job in twenty twenty one, which was
to remove the cancer of Trump and MAGA from this
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country forever and out of foolish but in some ways
understandable naive ta, you waited and this is what you
waited for. If you are not prepared to remove the
cancer of Trump and MAGA from this country.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Now now, now, now, get the hell out of a
White House, get somebody a top our ticket who is
willing to do what is necessary because you say unity, sir,
and Trump and the Maga mob hears surrender, and if
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you want to surrender, go ahead.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
In this unwarranted deference to a would be dictator who
was shot at by his own side, you have completely
misread the mood of this nation and the urgency of
this crisis, and the absolute non negotiable necessity to not
back down in the face of the self fulfilling Trump
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prophecy of violence, but to instead redouble your efforts to
rid us of the nightmare of the cancer Trump represents.
Do it or get out.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Now.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Genuinely, I am heartbroken for the father who died protecting
his family, protecting it from the violence that is the
essence of Trump's campaign and the only through line in
his horrific vision for America. I am heartbroken that Trump's
stochastic terrorism killed yet another bystander and wounded two more.
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And I am equally heartbroken that the President of the
United States and other democratic leaders should act like this
is America's fault and that Americans need to turn down
the temperature. The man who has been boiling us like
frogs for a decade is Trump. Those who have enabled
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are trying to blame those of us who have tried
to stop Trump, and the idea that any of this
will abate, will even slow down because of some gesture
by us of neighborliness to people who want to kill us.
That idea is madness. Sir, I will remind you President
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Biden that no one who has treated Trump, and no
law enforcement authority involved on the scene or the investigation,
has yet confirmed he was even grazed by a bullet
and not some kind of shard of debris. Only he
has made that claim, and the Nations media has utterly failed,
as it does nearly all the time, to verify or
(08:52):
probe or even question another Trump boast. And my God
listened to his cult right now, you would think Trump
was Christ fresh off the cross, rather than the victim,
as he him self phrased it in a moment of
unintentional and hilarious honesty, a victim of as he described it,
an ear piercing And of course those same quote reporters
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unquote swallowed whole the latest swindle that he would pivot.
We are told, wrote the editors of the astonishingly and
perpetually fatuous Politico, that this week Trump will adopt an unfamiliar,
almost benevolent posture and call for unity in the face
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of tragedy. Yes, unity, unity means everybody does what Trump says.
Trump told a propagandist from the Washington Examiner that he
has rewritten his nomination acceptance speech, that God had given
him a second chance. Quote, Honestly, it's going to be
a whole different speech now. It is a chance to
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bring the country together. I was given that chance. Yes,
another chance, another chance to scam the stupid. Somewhere, Van
Jones is still weeping as he was Saturday night. Happily,
if Van is on CNN weeping, he can relax because
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nobody is watching him. Just remember, after Trump dived under
the podium, not fell, not was struck down, not took
a bullet, and then got back up to his feet,
making sure as he did that the Secret Service retrieved
his baseball cap and his loafers. The great unifiers immediate
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and most telling reaction was simple and direct and self defining.
We saw into his soul or whatever he has there
instead of a soul. For one moment, his face taught
with rage and hate in a way even he has
not previously revealed. Trump screamed, fight, fight, hurt, same fraud,
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different con oh Trump, Jesus has a message for the faithful,
faith brotherhood, unity and fight anybody who does not conform.
And if anybody is still falling for this, this what
you will hear next is what an Atlanta Journal Constitution
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an NBC News reporter recorded in the opening moments of
the Republican convention in Milwaukee yesterday. Spoiler alert, These scumbags
are not chanting.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Peace, peace, Peace.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
If when they had dragged him off the stage Saturday,
Trump had shouted kill, Kill, Kill, the Republicans would have
been chanting that at their convention yesterday. And by the way, no,
I do not believe that this was some sort of setup.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
No.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
I do not believe Trump wasn't really shot at No.
I do not believe they were not trying to kill him.
That was an assassination attempt. It's everything else that's the bullshit.
As Politico wrote eight hours before that fight fight, fight
chant was recorded, quote, the familiar face there nominating for
president this week is a different man than they've come
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to know. One bullshit. Two thank you bullshitters at Politico
for reminding me the familiar face. Go and look at
those images of Trump and the Secret Service agents and
the giant flags, and how the right is literally comparing
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all those images to the iconography of Christ. And then
find the photos snapped at the exact moment Trump is
screaming his message of hate and fight. And look at
his face with the mouth just slightly open and just
the front teeth visible. In my good God, it is
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the face of a giant, monstrous, enraged rodent. It's Gerbil J.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Trump. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
So, the unqualified judge and former Flamenco and yoga correspondent
of the Miami Nuevo Herald Trump appointed, delayed and slow
walked and corruptly undermined the case just long enough that
she could dismissed the charges against him in Florida for
stealing the nation's nuclear secrets and classified documents and sharing
them with like passers by. And she managed to dismiss
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the case literally hours before he, a convicted felon, was
renominated at his anti Democracy party convention. Timed it out,
she did to the month, the week, the day, and
the hour. Oh and she did it on a basis
of something Clarence Thomas threw in as an aside in
the Supreme Court's corrupt ruling on this imaginary and world
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ending concept of presidential immunity, the thing that will allow Trump,
if we let him seize power again, to arrest you
and never face any recriminations. And yes, it will be appealed,
and it will not matter if Trump wins. And yes,
I am dead serious when I suggest the following, absolutely serious.
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Biden should invent a pretext today and arrest Judge Cannon
and arrest Justices Thomas and Alito and Kavanaugh and Barrett
and Gorsich and Chief Justice Roberts and Trump and the
leading Republicans and come on TV from the Oval Office
and say just eight words, good evening, residential immunity, God
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bless our troops. Infant, he does not need a pretext.
What would Trump do in a mirror image of today,
a mirror image of the assassination attempt less than four
months before the election? He's in charge, and the guy
ahead of him in the polls gets shot at, and
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the Secret Service has clearly screwed security into the ground.
And we don't know why a kid registered with the
same party as the candidate, with the candidate signs in
his front yard would try to kill the candidate. And
we don't know why a local Police Office US are
confronted the shooter moments before the shots, only to back away,
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and we don't know why. Most insanely of all, the
kid had a cameo in a Black Rock commercial for
retirement plans.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
And we do know.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
It is an assassination attempt being investigated as an active
domestic terrorism. And you know, you know that a Trump
in charge would look at this and say, good enough
excuse for me. I am declaring a national emergency, presidential
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candidates under attack. I'm invoking the Insurrection Act. Do it, Joe.
I mean, right now, all the goddamned Republican terrorists are
in one place. They even all have hotel rooms in
the same neighborhood as the arena. Just seal it off
and keep them there. Hell, it's all legal. Clarence Thomas
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and John Roberts and Sam Alito just told you so.
So prayer as a dential immunity. And you know, mister President,
and if you don't know, retire and let somebody who
does know run in your place and run the country
in your place.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
If you don't do.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Something like this to stop Trump and the cancer and
the now emboldened fascists when they get the chance they
will do this. It isn't if the Insurrection Act will
be invoked in the next few years, it's when and
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by whom. I will get back later to all the
things that Trump cult said and did in the hours
after the shooting that probably were a tip off at
the unity and bring the temperature down Kumbayas stuff was
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just another Khan like the Georgia congressman who posted Joe
Biden sent the orders. But first there is something else,
utterly maddening, utterly dishonest, utterly Pollyanna. And after we stop
with the unity crap, the unity crap that Trump seriously
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thinks means dropping all charges against him, we also have
to stop with the violence has never decided anything in
our country.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Lie.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
I don't want to hear another politician say that violence
has no place in American politics. If you want to argue,
it should not have a place. That's one thing. I
endorse that completely with all of my heart. But by
this point, all I'm getting from this pious bullshit that
what happened over the weekend, or what Trump has been
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summoning for nine years, is some kind of unheard of,
unforseeable aberration. All I'm getting from that is a deep
bitter laugh. Even Trump wrote, it is incredible that such
an act could take place in our country.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
No, it's not.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
It may seem incredible to him that such an act
could take place to him. And I don't begrudge politicians, who,
after all, have a very vested interest in making sure
politicians don't get shot. I don't begrudge them arguing that
there is no room in this country for letting politicians
get shot. I get it, shouldn't shoot commentators either, But
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my god, the history of American politics is a river
of blood. Forty five men have now served as president,
not forty six. We gave Grover Cleveland two numbers for
some unfathomable reason. Four out of the forty five have
been assassinated with guns. That's nearly ten percent of them
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as of Saturday's event with Trump. Two of the other
forty one have been wounded in gunfire while running to
try to regain office. Another one was wounded by a
gun in office. Seven of the remaining thirty eight have
survived significant attempted assassinations by guns. Six more were targeted
with guns in plots that were stopped before getting nearly
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that close. That's twenty out of forty five twenty presidents
out of a full set of only forty five presidents.
That's forty four percent of all your presidents. It's a
lot of percent. A year from now, we will commemorate
the two hundredth anniversary of the first gun assassination of
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a sitting American elected official. The Attorney General of Kentucky,
Solomon Sharp. State Senator Clement of Pinckney of South Carolina
was one of the victims of the white supremacist Dylan
Roof in twenty fifteen, depending on your criteria, there have
been sixty others in between, or seventy or one hundred.
Then there are those who were shot and survived, Republican
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Congressman Steve Scalise in twenty seventeen, Democratic Congressman Gabby Giffrids
in twenty eleven. Then there are the leaders who were
not in office, not in politics, even from Martin Luther
King to Malcolm X to Huey Long to George Wallace.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
And also.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
We're still using in this context this phrase the peaceful
transfer of power, as if January twentieth, twenty twenty one
erased January sixth, twenty twenty one, and the other forms
of the Trump coup attempt, And even if you want
to concede that, did we have a peaceful transfer of
power in eighteen sixty one when Lincoln was not on
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the ballot in twenty percent of the country during the
election and the Southern states seceded in protest over his
victory as well, as it turned out, was eighteen sixty four?
Is election peaceful? Eighteen sixty eight when Mississippi, Texas, and
Virginia were still occupied by Northern troops and votes did
not count. Eighteen seventy two, when there were still troops
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throughout the South. Eighteen seventy six, when, after the most
controversial election before Bush v. Gore, supporters of the losing candidate,
Governor Samuel Tilden, urged him to take advantage of the
still heavy military presence in the capitol and start a
second Civil War in order to claim the office from Hayes.
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Was the Civil War peaceful transfer of power? Was the
Revolutionary War? Peaceful transfer of power? I am the least
pro violence person you are going to meet. I am
also the least pro sanitizing of history. If you want
to aspire to an America, where bullets are no longer
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as influential as ballots. Great, but don't lie, not now.
Don't lie to Lincoln and Garfield and McKinley and Kennedy.
Don't lie to Raig and Long and Wallace and King,
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and don't lie to Secretary of State Robert Lincoln. Please,
Robert Lincoln, who was supposed to be with his father
at Ford's Theater, who was walking towards President Garfield as
an assassin shot him in eighteen eighty one, who was
on a train to Buffalo to see President McKinley as
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an assassin shot him in nineteen oh one, Tell Robert
Lincoln that there's never been any place for violence in
American politics. Perhaps, just perhaps if we stopped lying about
it to ourselves, we might just might be able to
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stop it ourselves. I'm not done on this, but I
need to put in the commercials, all three segments today
on this, including so many worse persons, these same Republicans
pretending to sing Kumbaya, only they don't know the words,
and many of them had to bail out after the
kum So many worse persons I can't count them all.
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And more on the practicalities. No. Sorry, nothing in history
suggests the guy who got shot at gets an. I
didn't get killed. You should feel guilty bump in American elections.
Not only don't I think this helps Trump, I don't
think it has any significant impact on the outcome at all.
And what little insignificant impact there is might hurt Trump.
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The actual history of the attempts to kill Reagan, Ford, Teddy,
Roosevelt and the other candidates. That's next. This is countdown
to continue. I have a contrarian point of view as
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well on the impact on the election of the attempt
to kill Trump. Not only are all the headlines about
how this changes everything laugh out loud wrong, probably does
not change anything.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
It's not even the.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Lead story anymore. It's not even the lead political story.
It's not even the lead Republican story. But if it
has any impact, if it has one hundredth of one
percent impact, I don't think it's the one being uniformly predicted.
I confess this may be entirely wishful thinking, one last
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optimistic cell in a body that has turned otherwise fully cynical.
After daily exposure to American politics for sixty years as
boy and man, or it might just be the number
of decades I've been in this business and the number
of new details that you and I don't know yet.
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We didn't know about the yard signs until last night.
What's next. The only thing we have to go on
is history, and firstly the idea that this will coalesce
the nation around Trump. History suggests it's nonsense. Oh, it's
just like Reagan when he was shot. Heard that all weekend. Oh,
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it's just like Reagan's Trump's like Reagan looking Trump. Oh,
he's gonna win a landslide. Because Reagan won in a
landslide and he was shot. The time span between Reagan
getting shot and his landslide reelection was one thousand, three
hundred and eighteen days. It's three and a half years.
And by the way, that landslide in nineteen eighty four,
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after he was shot, that was only thirty five electoral
votes bigger than his landslide was in nineteen eighty There
were a lot of crazy reasons Ronald Reagan was popular
enough to win that way without any functioning brain, but
getting shot was not one of them. Also, he got shot.
Maybe maybe Trump got winged again. His quote, my ear
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was pierced, Oh the humanity. As an aside, when I
went to double check the exact numbers, I googled Reagan assassination,
and my new laptop malfunctioned or it auto corrected, or
I hit return too soon or something, and I got
first the results for Reagan ass Here's a free tip
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for an old man, Sonny, never do this, Okay. Those
who found out the actual stats on Reagan and said, well,
that's not gonna work. We can't even get away with that.
They then said Trump was just like Teddy Roosevelt, who
also got shot while running and that was close to
the election, wasn't it. Huh huh, yeah, all right. The
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little background Teddy Roosevelt had served out William McKinley's term
after he was shot and killed, and then Roosevelt won
election in his own right in nineteen oh four and
impulsively then said he would not run again in nineteen
oh eight. He would have sailed to a third term,
actually his second term. Instead, his hand picked successor, William
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Howard Taft, flailed as President of the United States. Tr
did not help. He then challenged Taft for the nineteen
twelve nomination, and when the Republicans actually did rig the
convention against him. Roosevelt ran as the Progressive Party third
party candidate. On October fourteenth, he got into a car
to go to the Milwaukee Auditorium to give a campaign
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speech when an assassin shot him in the chest. His speech,
which was I forget now one hundred pages thick, actually
slowed the bullet down. Verbosity helps. The bullet did not
enter his lungs, and Roosevelt, who knew anatomy and hunting
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backwards and forwards, knew he was hurt but not mortally so,
so after making sure the assassin was not harmed, Roosevelt
went to the autorum and gave the whole speech as
opposed to, you know, diving under the podium. Not that
that was the wrong thing to do. I would dive
under the podium too, But the comparison between Trump and
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Teddy Roosevelt giving an hour long speech with a bullet
in his chest and no teleprompter, that comparison ends very
early in the process. And again dramatic, extraordinary, and just
twenty two days. It occurred before the election, and we
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don't have polling, but it seems as if Roosevelt underperformed
expectations on election day, they thought he would do a
lot better than he had. Although he became the last
third party candidate to finish in second place, he still
lost the Electoral College by three hundred and forty seven votes.
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Gerald Ford was the victim of two assassination attempts seventeen
days apart, fourteen months before the nineteen seventy six election,
an admirable comp to what happened to Trump, point blank
no damage. Not only did it not help Ford, who
would lose to Jimmy Carter, it didn't even secure him
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the Republican nomination, and he had two assassins. Reagan ran
against him, and by the time of the nineteen seventy
six Republican Convention, Ford was only forty three delegates ahead,
and the convention, not the primaries, and not the voters,
decided the Republican nomination. And even after all that, two
assassinations and Ronald Reagan trying to knock him off, he lost.
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President Harry Truman was shot at in November nineteen fifty
and it did nothing to help his political quagmire that
was so bad he didn't even try for renomination, and
when he bowed out at the end of March nineteen
fifty two, the candidate he endorsed, Averill Harriman, never got
above five percent in the Democratic polls. I realized the
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most recent of these examples is just over forty years ago,
and the Reagan shooting was only six years after Ford,
and Ford was only seven years after Bobby Kennedy, and
Bobby Kennedy was only five years after his brother, President Kennedy.
Trust me, we were not blase about any of this.
If that's what you're thinking, It is possible that the
kind of collective, unfathomable guilt we have seen since Saturday
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Night might have been worn out in nineteen seventy five
or nineteen eighty one by two decades of relentless gunfire.
But I really think the answer as to why getting
shot at does not help a presidential candidate is deeper
than that. In each case, here, the victim of the
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assassination attempt represented the more violent party, the more violent
choice in the upcoming election. Ford had just overseen the
disastrous evacuation of Vietnam. He was connected to Nixon, Truman
was blamed for the Korean War. Teddy Roosevelt was a
little bloodthirsty even in a bloodthirsty time, and Woodrow Wilson,
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who won, was already pledging to avoid what would become
World War One. He didn't, but he pledged it. And
now there are two American paths sitting in front of
us from this point in history, two American futures. Until Saturday,
there was the anti Trump path that you and I
have seen clearly, where we still have elections and judges
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and order, and we pushed back against sudden, mindless, uncontrollable
violence within politics and without. And the other view was
of Trump's America violence, assassination, persecution, bigotry, madness, tragedy, but
all in the future. The Trumpists could deny any of
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it was true now or woever be true. I don't
think they can deny it any longer. And America of
wild West shoot them outs involving presidential candidates or anybody
else that sounds fun to these psychopaths until you are
the one who gets shot. To paraphrase my cousin Mike Tyson,
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everybody has a plan until they get shot in the ear.
Most of the Trumpists are too far gone to correct
themselves now, but I suspect there's still a patch in
the middle or maybe at the sane end of the
right in which they saw on Saturday what Trump's America
really looks like, and the contrast to the Biden America flawed,
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flailing but trying, or a Democratic Party of America. Because
I can't tell you how angry I am at President
Biden right now for participating in this. Maybe I'll get better,
maybe I won't, but right now, no, thanks regardless, it's
a choice a Democratic Party America or a Trump America,
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a Trump America where everybody gets shot at, including Trump.
And lastly, so I'm clear and I can clarify for
any of the Trumpists who are so obviously looking for
stuff that MSNBC took Joe Scarborough off the air yesterday
out of fear that somebody on that show would say
something stupid that would harm NBC, and I thought, wait,
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that's the premise of the show anyway, For those hunting
liberal remarks, let me be explicit about what I am
and am not saying here. Do I want you to
shoot Trump? No?
Speaker 2 (34:54):
I do not.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Do I want you to shoot anybody. No, I do
not do I want anybody to shoot anybody. No, I
do not do I think anybody is responsible for the
rise of violent rhetoric and threats and stochastic terrorism besides
Trump and the Republicans. I do not do I think
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anybody is responsible for the assassination attempt besides Trump and
MAGA and the Republicans and the shooter.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
I do not.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Do I think Trump is less of a mortal threat
to representative government in this nation than he was on
Saturday morning. I do not. And lastly, will I stop
saying that he is intent on becoming a dictator and
his election is an existential threat not only to this
nation but to life on earth. I will not. Okay,
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So the same Republicans whose asses the Democrats are kissing
right now, the Republican Senate candidate in Pennsylvania wants the
incumbent democrit at Bob Casey to suspend negative advertising, and
the person he cites as his inspiration for this idiotic
idea is Biden. Those same Republicans said so many psychotic, violent,
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unforgivable things in the wake of the shooting that I
literally have lost count worst persons. Could be three guys,
could be thirty three guys.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
That's next. This is countdown. This is countdown with Keith Olberman.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
Still ahead of us on this edition of Countdown Nothing.
This is the last segment of today's programming. How's that
for a promo. But there are.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
Still time for all the new idiots to.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
Talk about the daily roundup of the miss Grants, morons
and Dunning Kruger effects specimens who constitute two days worst
persons in the world.
Speaker 2 (37:20):
See if you find.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
A theme well after the first one. There's so many
of them, though, that I've run out of precious medals
with which to make the awards, So first the Humorous
Relief Honorable Mentions Honorable Mention number fifteen. Ian Dale, a
host on England's LBC channel, kind of a right wing
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mishmash after the European Soccer Championship match Sunday between Spain,
which won and England, which did not win.
Speaker 2 (37:51):
See if you hear the.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
Racism, nationalism or just playing stupidity? Spain won, England didn't.
Quoting Ian Dale, what trust between the two teams. Every
England player belted out the national anthem with gusto. Not
a single Spanish player opened his mouth in the Spanish
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national anthem doesn't have any words. If you hear anybody
ever singing the Spanish national anthem, get to a hospital,
you're having an episode. The fourteenth Honorable Mention, the millennials,
they're complaining about this again with Trump. I mean, I
get it. No matter what dates you put on them.
They've all seen nine to eleven, Iraq, the recession, the
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climate crisis, the rise of Trump, COVID, now an assassination attempt.
We all have our burdens, and I don't minimize anybody
by generation. I just like to point out that I
am among the youngest of the baby boomers, so I
got all you've been through. Millennials. Also, I had the
Cuban missile crisis, the Kennedy assassination, Vietnam, the other Kennedy assassination,
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Martin Luther King, Watergate, the Residu nation of the President,
and then after I graduated from high school. The thirteenth
Honorable Mention speaker Mike Johnson. I know he sounds like
an FM radio preacher in a small town in the South.
Here are the beg's, but he's also been successful in
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a reptilian kind of way. But ultimately, this guy is
a dope. At the beginning of this month, Ugly Tiny
Johnson went on Fox and smeared Biden. Quote, unless the
president is reading off a teleprompter, I don't think he's
capable of making these big decisions. And then guess what happened.
Mike Johnson got up at the Republican convention yesterday and
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he learned that the god of teleprompters is a vengeful god.
It is now my honor to introduce the Attorney General.
Speaker 2 (39:58):
And there goes the teleprompter.
Speaker 1 (40:15):
And then Mike Johnson left the stage and he has
not been heard from since. And now those Republicans who
immediately said something about Trump that suggested that the lie
about unity and turning down the rhetoric was a lie
even before they tried to sell it to us. The
twelfth honorable mention, Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina quote,
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this was an assassination attempt, aided and abetted by the
radical left and corporate media incessantly calling Trump a threat
to democracy, fascists or worse. Yes, Tim, that's right. Thomas
Crook's Trump supporter, dead Shooter, was radicalized by like me
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absolutely now that you didn't get that vice presidential gig. Senator,
do you have an outclause in your contract with your quote?
Fiance unquote just asking The eleventh honorable mention Matt Gates,
who also posted yesterday a photo of quote Supreme Court
Justice Eileen Cannon. He wrote on Saturday, they tried to
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impeach him, They are trying to imprison him. Now they
have tried to assassinate him. Oh sorry, Matt, good guess,
but no, he was shot by a Republican in the
They Versus You construction. You tried to assassinate him. You
Republicans tried to assassinate him, Beavis. The tenth honorable mentioned
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Junior Trump, who you'll remember mocked the attack on Nancy
Pelosi's husband like twelve times and who seems to have
serious brain damage.
Speaker 2 (41:48):
Quote.
Speaker 1 (41:49):
Dems and their friends in the media knew exactly what
they were doing with their literally hitler bullshit. If Democrats
got their way, my dad would be dead right now.
Once again, Junior, your father was shot at by a
young and clearly unhappy Republican. Perhaps he was a young, troubled,
gun obsessed man whose relationship with his own father was
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never fulfilled, that it never had any love, never proved
to the son that his father valued him in any
way or not. The ninth Honorable Mention Eric Erickson, the
conservative commentator from a family so poor they could only
afford to give him a one name. On a daily basis,
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six forty nine pm July thirteenth, On a daily basis,
MSNBC tells its audience that Trump is a threat to democracy,
an authoritarian and waiting and it would be dictator if
no one stops him. What did they think would happen?
Comcast made a choice, right you are, mister Mahrhoffer Thomas
Matthew Crooks with the Trump sign in his front yard.
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Eric Erickson was radicalized by Chris Hayes shrug Emochi. The
eighth honorable mention Clays, the kid we today politely called
challenged who used to write stupid things but only about sports,
but he since expanded to also writing stupid things about politics.
Six point thirty three pm July thirteenth. I am effing furious,
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beyond words f every left wing media member who's been
calling him hitler for the past eight years. This is
on them. They made this happen. I'd just like to
note these people all suddenly discovered sarcastic terrorism and now
they believe in it completely. Oh knows what I don't
get here is the one advantage and I think I
know something about this topic of starting your career in
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sports and then going to news, is you tend to
remember one lesson from sports. Don't declare the winner or
describe the deciding play of the game until after the
goddamn game ended. Never had dawned on Travis, not for
a moment that Trump shooter even might have been a Republican.
Yet there it is. So I guess what Klay Travis
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is saying? There is f all Republicans. You bet youa.
The seventh Honorable mentioned Kate Andrews in The Spectator with
one of these unity crap pieces headlined today we are
all maga. Listen, miss Andrews. If you want to be maga,
go ahead. The key point is the guy who tried
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to kill Trump was maga. The sixth honorable mention Lauren Bobert.
First she insisted Biden quote is responsible for the shooting.
Then she retweeted another fascist. The Dems realized it's too
late to switch out their candidate, so they attempted to
kill ours instead. Again Bobo significant them versus hours fail.
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Here the sentence should be the Republicans realized it's too
late to switch out their candidate, so they attempted to
kill theirs instead. You're welcome and get a grip on yourself.
The fifth Honorable mentioned Ben Shapiro Daily. This guy trips
over his own rake? How is he a power in
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the fascist sphere? How a shocking and tragic day for
the nation. You cannot repeatedly and endlessly label a major
party candidate and former president Actual Hitler full scale threat
to democracy without radically increasing the danger of violence in America.
This danger has been obvious for years and enraged engaged
in by nearly everyone on the left up to and
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including the president current president. We are in a hideously
ugly new era. Twelve ten Am, Sunday, October thirty first,
twenty twenty two, Ben Shapiro, the attempt to twist the
Paul Pelosi attack into a broader story about supposed extremism
and Republican rhetoric. So vote dem is so transparently opportunistic
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and pathetic. Everyone can see what you're doing Democrats in
the media, and it's disgusting. Ben, is what Bill O'Reilly
used to call pinhead. The fourth honor Will Mention Forbes magazine,
which took a well intended but kind of garbled piece
by somebody named Sean Harper and completely pushed it over
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the edge with this headline, will Surviving Gunfire be Donald
Trump's next appeal to black voters? They've deleted it now,
which is good because if Trump finds out about that headline,
he'll try it. The third honorable mention Congressman Mike Collins
of Georgia. I think he was in fact first out
of the box Saturday with something really stupid, but it
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really didn't hold up well to later entrance. This was
the guy who started his first campaign ad by insisting
that Biden lost Georgia in twenty twenty, and then he's
shown shooting up a voting dropbox Saturday. Mike Collins wrote,
Joe Biden sent the orders uh huh to a twenty
year old Republican kid in Pennsylvania. The second honorable mention
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Lester Holt of NBC News. I told you White House guys,
don't waste your time with Lester that job. If we're
going fascist, he's going fascist. Wester's that's kind of guy.
He's a joiner. He's a group togetherness dude who asks
Biden about his off the record remark to donors about
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not talking about him leaving the ticket anymore, but instead
putting Trump in the proverbial bull's eye. Well, Lester did, why,
I don't know. Let me see how many more times
I have to say this. The shots at Trump were
fired by a registered Republican who's not likely to have
been doing Joe Bidden's Biden or Joe Biden's bidden. By
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the way, at MSNBC, we used to call Lester iron
Pants because he could fill endless hours without ever getting
up from the anchor chair to use the little announcer's room.
Iron Pants was not meant as a compliment. And while
we're over here, honorable mention number one Chuck Todd of
NBC News, quoting the promotional tweet about his piece, Chuck Todd,
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any one of the political devices over the last six
weeks would be classified as unprecedented. Put them together, and
it's creating a stew that could turn quite toxic if
we aren't careful. Unquote bye, there's no sneaking anything past
Chuck Todd? Is there now? The award winners. The Bronze
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worse Elon Man was the ketamine flowing over at Shay
Musk this past weekend, the ridiculous Dave Ruben starts, Musk
is here for the moronic tap in here. First off,
the first word of the Ruben tweet should have been
a tip off to him. Assuming no, okay bad, Assuming
it turns out to be true that this sick F
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was an Antifa member, Antifa should be labeled a terrorist
organization immediately, and that should have happened years ago. Actually,
Musk replies, absolutely, so. I guess what Dave Rubin and
Musk are now saying that since this sick F was
a Republican Party member, the Republican Party should be labeled
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a terrorist organization immediately, and that that should have happened
years ago. Actually, and Elon is saying absolutely to that.
The runner up worser, Senator Mike Lee of Utah, this
is really one of the stupidest people on the planet.
These are two tweets eight days apart from the same guy.
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In the first one, Lee endorses Musk's idea to kill
anybody who opposes the Republican I don't know how to
describe it. The Republican floor showroom kind of build that
makes voting. That's already illegal, illegal again. In the second
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the retweet, well you'll hear this. This is on July fifth,
Musk tweets those who oppose this are traders, all caps traders.
What is the penalty for trait? Again? And Mike Lee
retweets this and says, I literally cannot think of a
legitimate reason to oppose the same act, and the only
illegitimate reasons are really really damning of those who espouse them.
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So Mike Lee calls for killing people who oppose a
piece of legislation that makes something illegal that's already illegal.
And then on Saturday night statement by US Senator Mike Lee,
We've got to take the political temperature down, as evidenced
by what happened in Pennsylvania today. We call on President
Biden to immediately order that all federal criminal charges against
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President Trump be dropped, and to ask the governors of
New York such a gesture would heal wounds, allow all
Americans take it. Our prayers are with the victims of
the shooting in our country, except for all the people here.
Speaker 2 (50:49):
We want to kill.
Speaker 1 (50:51):
I'm Mike Lee, and my hair did not fall off
because my brain is in overuse. Holy crap, going to
take the political temperature done except for killing people I
don't like. I'm Mike Lee and I'm actually be an
elected senator. And you know, in Utah there's lots of
things wrong with the state of Utah. But in Utah
they would look at this and go, why did we
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elect this guy? Where did we find this idiot? Even
the Republicans would go, Joseph Smith would be really pissed
off at me. But our winner, the worst Republican vice
presidential nominee, JD. Vance, male prostitute. I call him that
because I don't think Trump actually vetted him, because he
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kind of said unkind things about Trump that may come
back to haunt him later and later is right now?
I mean things that I might not have said here,
or worse things I might too have said here. As
The Washington Post put it February twenty sixteen, Vance set
a message to his former law school roommate Josh McLaurin
that McLaurin has recounted publicly in it, Vance that he
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went quote back and forth between thinking Trump is a
cynical asshole like Nixon, who wouldn't be that bad and
might even prove useful, or that he he's America's hitler.
According to a screenshot maclaurin shared on social media in
twenty twenty two, when Vance was running for Senate in Ohio, Gee,
somebody who called Trump America's hitler, which is the people
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that all the Republicans were blaming for the assassination attempt. So,
so you Republicans are saying that jd Vance is responsible
for the attempt on Trump's life.
Speaker 2 (52:31):
Oh, that could.
Speaker 1 (52:33):
Be an interesting commercial for the Biden campaign. Or or
they could just run this opo research ad that has
already been put in place against JD Vance and just listen.
Speaker 3 (52:46):
Jd Vance in his own words, I'm a never Trump guy.
Speaker 2 (52:50):
I never liked him. As somebody who doesn't like Trump,
I might have to hold my nose and vote for
Hillary Clinton.
Speaker 1 (52:56):
I didn't vote for Trump because I can't stomach Trump.
I think that he's noxious, him being ry, really outrageous
instances on Twitter, called Trump quote reprehensible, an idiot, and
Vance loves Mitt Romney.
Speaker 2 (53:10):
I'm a never Trump guy. That's the real. Jd Vance.
Speaker 1 (53:14):
Club for Growth Action is responsible for the content of
this apt so Biden campaign. All you have to do
is pop on I'm Joe Biden and I approved this message. Also,
what the heck's wrong with this guy's voice? Pal the VP,
JP Mandel, jd Vance, whatever the hell your name is,
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don't stick your neck out two days worst person in
the world. I've done all the damage I can do here.
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Thank you for listening. Countdown. Musical directors Ryan Ray and
John Phillip Schanel arranged, produced, and performed most of our music.
Mister Ray was on the guitars, bass, and drums, and
mister Chanelle handled orchestration in keyboards. It was produced by
Tko Brothers. Other music, including some of the Beethoven compositions,
arranged and performed by the group No Horns Allowed. Sports
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music is the Olderman theme from ESPN two, written by
Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN Inc. Our satirical and
pithy musical comments are by Nancy Faust. The best baseball
stadium organist ever. Our announcer today is my friend Dennis Leary,
And everything else was pretty much my fault, except for
the guy who tried to shoot Trump. He was a Republican.
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Let's countdown for this the one hundred and thirteenth day
until the twenty twenty four presidential election, two hundred and
eighty sixth day since convicted felon and evil Gerbil Donald
Trump's first attempt at coop against the democratically elected government
of the United States. Use the September eighteenth sentencing here.
Use the mental health system. You've got it, President Biden.
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Use presidential immunity to stop him from doing it again
while we still can. Also, Republicans, stop shooting at Trump.
Speaker 2 (55:20):
Please.
Speaker 1 (55:21):
The next scheduled countdown is tomorrow. Boltin's is the news
requires till then, I'm Keith Olderman. Good morning, good afternoon,
good night, and good luck. Countdown with Keith Olderman is
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