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of Justice, everybody he can think of. He should offer an eight hundred hotline that you can call in and ask for a pardon. I want ten million pardons offered and given by Joe Biden before where he leaves office. It is the least he could do. Everybody except Merrick Garland. What does this mean exactly? Quote, I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, That I

will bear true faith and allegiance to the same. That I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, And that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me, God, So help me. God. Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. Has taken that exact oath nine times, seven as senator, two as vice president. His tenth oath, the presidential oath, is oddly enough, a little less robust.

It does not include that phrase about all enemies. But over forty eight years and in six different decades, Biden has sworn to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. And nothing I have found, and no constitutional

scholar I have consulted, indicates that once taken those oaths expire. Ever, the obligation as a senator or a vice president, or as a president to defend the Constitution does not end when the term of office does, and it manifestly has not ended in the period between an election and an inauguration. Nine times Joe Biden has sworn to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and that he would

bear true faith and allegiance to it. And the obligation to defend the United States becomes more profound still now that presidents have been immunized by the Supreme Court from prosecution for effectively anything. The incoming president, the one who wants an unqualified toady like Cash Patel to head the FBI, who desperately wanted a lawless menace like Matt Gates to head the DOJ, but will instead settled for a chief lawyer who led the lock her Up chant against Hillary

Clinton at the Republican Convention. That president to be will be immune and thus unstoppable. The current president the one who would not even fire the Attorney General Garland, as he personally let Trump get away with his crimes. The current president is also immune and thus unstoppable. And the current president is already in power and in command and has taken nine oaths ten if you count the one

as president. So this raises this theoretical constitutional question. The president to be, the one who decided four years ago that we weren't going to have any peaceful transfers of power anymore, has now decided to try to turn the Federal Bureau of Investigation over to a creature who will have gotten the job, specifically so that he will not conduct FBI investigations of the other cabinet nominees, and to clean out the offices at the FBI of anything that

might pertain to anybody. The President to be the one who tossed around top secret information like rolls of paper towels. Has now decided to try to turn the job of Director of National Intelligence to a woman a with no intelligence and b who once praised enemy dictators like assad and putin The president to be the one who flirted with using the army to shoot at or just to shoot peaceful protesters because he didn't like them, or to seize ballot boxes because he didn't like what was in them.

He has now reconfirmed he will use the military domestically to seize civilians and imprison them. And he has now decided to try to turn the job of the head of the military over to a man whose own mother called him an abuser and implied he needed psychological help. The president to be the one who once claimed he was owed a bonus term in office because he had had to spend so much of his first term defending himself against charges of conspiracy with another nation to harm

this country. He is now surrounded by operatives attempting to manipulate the law and the constitution to give him a third term or more. And if you are paying attention, you will have noticed. And if you haven't been paying attention,

I will spell it out later. The President to be, whose first campaign began with him slandering Mexico and slandering Mexicans and slandering Hispanics, he is already setting up the obligatory dictator thing in which you invade a neighboring country on the flimsiest of pretexts, and that country in this

case would be Mexico. And the President to Be, the one who wrote of terminating parts of the Constitution he didn't like, is encircled by fascist aids who have urged him to declare a state of emergency upon his taking the oath of office, and to simultaneou invoke the Insurrection Act and thus to some degree invoke martial law. So do the nine or ten oaths Joe Biden took as Senator, as Vice President, as president? Do they even permit him to not act against enemies both foreign and domestic, and

to defend the Constitution of the United States. So help him God, when the Supreme Court has immunized him from personal prosecution for doing you know, anything, anything at all. As long as it's official, I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States.

Against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same, That I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me, God, I wonder what that means. I will note here that there are not enough words in the English language, and not enough time between this moment and noon on January twentieth next for me to explain

to you just how much this will not happen. But I think it is important to ask this question. Is Joe Biden in fact obligated by oath to intervene, to protect and to defend, And to ask if, thanks to just some of the corruption of Trump and his cronies, if Joe Biden has been pre authorized and pre immunized by the Supreme Court of the United States to take any measures necessary to stop the discontinuation of representative government

in this nation, the discontinuation of that by anybody. I hate John Bolton, Trump's hand picked national security advisor last time, but yesterday he compared Cash Patel to Stalin's secret police Chief Barrier in a statement to NBC News when you were the head of the secret police in the Soviet dictatorship, and that barely describes your evil.

career path here when you get compared to Barrier. When Bolton was also quoted on this subject by CBS, Patel's one time mentor, Richard Grennell complained, did you have a balanced discussion or just people on one side trashing cash?

Grenell asked, good point, Grenell, CBS or NBC should have also had somebody on to say that the comp was unfair to bury you and just to touch briefly, by the way, on one of my other favorite topics, headline on this nomination by The New York Times, quote Trump turned to a fire brand loyalist to become director of the Bureau. Headline on the nomination by Matt Drudge Cash tapped for FBI conspiracy. Theorist advocated prosecution spree twenty five years ago, I called Drudge an idiot with a modem

and a hat. Drudge is now a more responsible journalist than anybody editing The New York Times. Meanwhile, back at the psycho ranch, at the other end of the spectrum of nominees, there's the backup Attorney General Pam Bondi, whose resume is startlingly blank. Yes, she was at four seasons total landscaping, and yes, her Florida office not only dropped its case against Trump chronologically after he made a donation to her election, but she did that after he made

a small donation. But the biggest legal accomplishment of her career to date has been to have sent the ill starred former baseball pitcher Dwight Gooden to jail for seven months. That's it. Trump's still somehow standing nominee to run the Pentagon still supports using troops against citizens. His Solicitor general designate agreed at the Supreme Court that a president could order sealed Team six to kill a political rival and

would face no consequences. Ahem. All of his health appointees are such manifest dangers to health that Trump's previous surgeon general has publicly warned against their incompetence. And by the way, this Patel clown wants hawked pills that were supposed to protect you against something that is shed by people who've taken the COVID vaccine. You've got a pill that protects you against the stupidity that has been shed by those

of us who've taken the COVID vaccine. Trump's intelligence heads are such risks to this nation's security that a computer algorithm put one of them on a version of the No fly list, and our allies are considering cutting us off from receiving further intelligence even without Gates. There are nominees who have sexual assault accusations in their past, and the ones who have never been accused of a crime are at best snake oil salesman and his advisor or

henchman or egor or whatever. Musk is used his propaganda platform last week to declare that Alexander Vinman quote has committed treason for which you will pay the appropriate penalty, which, to be fair, may not be the threat. It seems.

The appropriate penalty may be having to spend an hour with Musk the o tours of Project twenty twenty five, which Trump lied and lied and lied and lied and lifeed and lied and lied about during the campaign and said he had no connection to will litter the administration. One of their allies groups has been at work for a year to find a way to evade the Constitution

and let Trump run again in twenty twenty nine. That would be a fourth Amendment they would have violated, say nothing of all the clauses they've already savaged the thirteenth, the fourteenth, and the twenty second, when previous Trump appointees like Judge Eileen Cannon and those Supreme Court justices found ways to allow him to run in twenty twenty four, despite his attempt to overthrow the government in twenty twenty his Supreme Court has in effect placed him above all laws.

He will be when he is sworn in, untouchable, uncontrollable, and in effect unremovable. Trump is the personification of the end of democracy in America and the beginning of a

military backed dictatorship. On the other hand, the weapons that his own corruption has brought him immunity from prosecution, the shelving of not just the most serious cases of espionage and subversion ever brought against an American president, maybe against any American, but also convictions by ordinary Americans sitting on ordinary juries. The right to use the military as he sees fit, the right to declare an insurrection or emergency for the flimsiest of reasons, or reasons that only exist

in the minds of paranoid racists. These weapons, perfectly disguised by corrupt laws, are.

or fluid or could be repaired. Lincoln said that the response to Ceasession and the attack on Fort Sumter was not to assume that it would end there, but to assume that it would not. Among the things Lincoln then did was suspend habeas corpus ulysses ask Grant was ready to do it. In eighteen seventy seven, when the election was in doubt and insurrection threatened again, he ringed Washington with troops and forts Nixon wrong as he was thought.

He had to cross the double white line several times, and long before any of them, long even before Lincoln. Andrew Jackson vetoed the APT renewing the Bank of the United States, and in so doing issue a statement suggesting it's the president's responsibility to enforce or not enforce statutes and judicial decisions based on his interpretation of the Constitution, and everybody else be damned. Cash Patel as the head of the FBI, why not Bashar al Assad or Putin

or Matt Gates. I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. I wonder what the hell that means to return to our world as it is. In point of fact, I think Trump is going to eat shit on Patel, just like he had to eat shit on Matt Gates. The caveat, Trump could simply fire the FBI director, his own appointee, by the way, Christopher Ray, and not nominate any replacement, but simply repoint an acting

FBI director. And apparently Patel could serve as long as two hundred days. What could you do in the FBI offices in two hundred days. While it is hard to imagine that Patel's own words on camera about he once planned to evade secrecy designations and publish every classified document he could take out of the National Archives because he and he alone knew that Trump had declassified them by blinking his eyes six times or whatever it was, it's

hard to believe those words are actually criminal. But of course, if there's any law breaking here, the last person you want to be is the guy nominated to and vowing to break up the FBI and close FBI headquarters and

fire everybody at the FBI. When you have cleverly given the FBI forty nine complete days plus the morning of January twentieth to find anything you ever did about anything anywhere, for all his imperious insanity and for all his wonted poster cabinet nominations, the fact is right now, Trump is O for one, and I wouldn't bet on heg Seth and maybe a couple of the others, even if you give me odds. And not only did Gates go down in flames, but when he did, Trump didn't even stamp

his feet. Trump in fact caved. Republican senators who hated Gates. Know that Trump caved. Republican senators who hated Gates hate Patel. Chuck Grassley and that idiot Ted Cruz and a couple of the other FEBEs have already vowed to vote for Patel. But the others, who are already smiling up at the symbolically severed head of Matt Gates on their wall, are now emboldened, and they know their personal futures, not the countries.

They don't give a crap about the country's future. Their personal futures depend on being able to whip Trump into line and making sure he knows he cannot whip them into line. So help me, God on ratchet that whole point one more step higher, please. What if it was clear to you that the man was clearly writing the preamble to a military attack by this country against Mexico. What if the only question about that is the quote is attributed to a senior Trump transition team member by

Rolling Stone. Quote, how much should we invade Mexico? And what if the first step towards that was actually made in a phone call last Wednesday? How much should we invade Mexico? That's next this Discountdown.

with East Asia. Oceania had always been at war with East Asia. Trump is already lying about Mexico, and the moment I read this sequence of events, I saw the whole plan that the mice running around in the wheel inside Trump's head have cooked up. Quote just had a wonderful conversation with the new president of Mexico, Claudia shinbound Pardo, she has agreed to stop migration through Mexico and into

the United States, effectively closing our southern border. We also talked about what can be done to stop the massive drug inflow into the United States and also US consumption of these drugs. It was a very productive conversation. El Trumpo added, Mexico will stop people from going to our southern border effective immediately, Capitals. This will go a long way towards stopping the illegal invasion of the USA. Thank

you exclamation point, exclamation point, exclamation point, well, sir. President Shinbaum immediately came back and angrily noted that she never said anything of the sort. In point of fact, she did not say this, but Trump lied. The next day, President Shinbaum mitigated that somewhat and said it was a productive conversation about the border, and more politely said that there are no circumstances under which she would close the border with the US end migration into the US, nor

would she tell anybody that. But the horse is out of the barn. Here bluntly, the president of Mexico, the presidents of all the other countries should not take any calls from Trump. He's just using you to set something up for later. The oldest trick in the dictator bag.

The first step you have to take to cement power after you have seized power is to start a war somewhere on the phoniest and craziest of pretext, just so long as your base and the uninformed part of your public believes it's true, or pretends to believe it's true. Mussolini did it in Ethiopia. Putin's done it in Georgia and Ukraine at least twice in Ukraine. Japan did it

in Manchuria before World War Two. Hitler did it, and before that, in nineteen thirty six he went into what was supposed to be the demilitarized area of the Rhineland near the French border. You do it to stir up a sense of danger in your own country, and to stir up your own base, and mostly to see if you can get away with it. I mean, hell, Ronald Reagan invaded Grenada, and we are going to invade Mexico.

I guarantee it. It may not be announced as an invasion or even as a war if it somehow goes well for Trump he'll retroactively announce it's a war and that we've always been at war with Mexico. The excuse though, for what shall we call it our special military operation, That's what Putin would want Trump to call it, is drugs or immigration or immigration with drugs, or drugs that immigrate by themselves or whatever. The excuse for the actual moment of action, though, will be that phone call with

President Shinbaum. Trump made the call, put out his lie about what she told him during it. Now he can hold up his own tweet and say, but she said she was closing the border. She didn't let's blow up her country. These were the thoughts that raced through my head when I heard about the two versions of the call to Shinebaum. And then came the Rolling Stone story quoting the Highlights quote, how much should we invade Mexico?

Says a senior Trump transition member. That is the question. Trump, who has routinely and falsely promoted himself as the candidate who would stop endless wars, now wants to lead a new conflict just south of our nation's border. But at this moment, it is, in the words of one Trump advisor, unclear how far he'll go on this one. This source adds if things don't change, the President still believes it's necessary to take some kind of military action against these killers.

As Rolling Stone has reported since at least last year, Trump has solicited specific battle plans and different military options for attacking Mexico. Senator Marco Rubio, whom Trump chose to serve as Secretary of State, has endorsed the idea of sending US troops to Mexico to combat drug cartels under the conditions that quote, there is cooperation from the Mexican government, and that such operations are done quote in coordination with

the armed forces and the Mexican police force. Poor Marco, he thinks we're going to coordinate our invasion of Mexico with the Mexican government, with the Mexican armed forces, with the Mexican police. He's going to be in quite a position when we simply go in and start blowing up one of our neighbors, just to see if anybody tries to stop us. I wonder if Marco will be smart enough to see that he's been lied to, or if he was smart enough to have somebody read to him.

The Rolling Stone article on how it has on the record quotes from Tom Homan, Pete Hegseith, National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz, Lindsey Graham, and the rest of the Trump fascist clown college about invading and bombing and killing and badges, badges. We do not have to show you any stinking badges because Oceania has always been at war with Mexico. Dateline

nepotism village District of Columbia. Trumps now appointed both his daughter's fathers in law as Special envoys to the Middle East Massad Bulos, father of the husband of the the other daughter, Sparkle or Bingo or whatever her name is. He will join Charles Kushner, whose father of the husband of what was the name, Plinko, Plinko Trump whatever, And I think it's plink Is it Plinko the daughter Kushner's wife, Yeah, Plinko Trump Kushner. Anyway, Plinko's father in law was appointed

to the same post last week. And you remember Charles Kushner ex Khan, whom Trump pardoned, quoting the Associated Press, after Charles Kushner discovered his brother in law was cooperating with federal authorities, the wealthy real estate executive and father of Trump's son in law, Jared hatched a scheme for

revenge and intimidation. Kushner hired a prostitute to lure his brother in law, then arranged to have the encounter in a New Jersey motel room recorded with a hidden camera and the recording sent to his own sister, the man's wife. The scheme didn't work. Kushner later pleaded guilty to tax evasion and making illegal campaign donations. Our representative to the Holy Land, everybody, and remember there is no blackmail, especially no sex on any videotape anywhere involved in the entire

Trump political crime family. No never, never, never and dateline some secure, undisclosed location. Whatever happened to jd Vance? Remember him? It's like vice president elect or something. What's he doing? Is he busily trying to match his record of having never done anything as senator by never doing anything as vice president? Well he has resurfaced online. He sent us

a Thanksgiving greeting. Weirdo's Thanksgiving greeting a parody meme of the Norman Rockwell Thanksgiving scene with all those wholesome white folks being served a turkey the size of a buick by Mom, except there's three small changes from the original Rockwell painting. The Turkey is now an electoral map of the country showing how Trump won all those counties in

which nobody lives. Dad is now Trump looking like he wants to carve up and eat some of the people at the table, and Mom still in her Rockwell dress and rockwall frilly white apron and eyeliner. Mom is JD vance JV.

gonna be sixty six fing years old. I have been broadcasting in some form or another since Gerald Ford was president. I am an oak of my own generation. I need to attend to my bark, all right. I sort of went off on a tangent there, Lebrons worse Vibek Ramaswami talking about trees, the Trump Department of Government efficiency that is so inefficient it needs two chiefs. And of course he's a moron with a bad haircut. He really is a kaleidoscope of all the lack of skills required of

a moron. So somebody posts a video of an MSNBC host warning that the Ramaswami and Musk plans to cut the government and set private industry up to steal more money out of your pocket will result in raw milk only and more pollution and worse climate catastrophes than the other thing Trump likes, because the job of being Trump is to make sure there are crises you can pretend

to fix and of course make money off of. Ramaswami reposted this MSNBC video and added quote, the fear mongering has begun, but the real thing we should be afraid of is the loss of self governance to an unelected bureaucracy. VIV. The entirety of your Department of Governmental Efficiency is, in fact an unelected bureaucracy. You are an unelected bureaucrat. Thanks

for the admission, VIV. The runner up, doctor Patrick soon Shong, useless billionaire, Well that's redundant useless billionaire who also owns the Los Angeles Times. It was lost to some degree amid the cowardice of Jeff Bezos at the Washington Post and others, but the LA Times also deliberately did not endorse in the presidential race because this guy was sucking up the Trump. The LA Times continues to have something of a reputation outside of Southern California, and I will

never understand why within Southern California it has. For at least the forty years I've read it or been covered by it, it's had a reputation locally for being able

to screw up the proverbial two car funeral. The LA Times is at a virtual monopoly on news in that city since the La Herald Examiner, a much better newspaper, first imploded after a decade long strike that ended with the paper going out of business in nineteen eighty nine, and The Times in this time of monopoly now entering what year thirty six, has been uniformly terrible in everything but maybe movie reviews and the quality registration of the

colors in its color photography process all that time. This soon, Shong guy, I think that's how it's pronounced. Might be soon, Schlog, I'm not sure. Made the mistake of doing an interview with Oliver Darcy for his media newsletter's status. He explained to Darcy that it's just an opinion that Trump lies

at a higher rate than other politicians. Schong also wrote that he'd like to see Scott Jennings, the fascist idiot CNN puts on every night in its latest worring out of the reputation US CNN originals and near originals built for it. He'd like to see Jennings on the La Times editorial board. I'd like to see Jennings on a flight to Russia, but I don't think that's gonna happen. Mister Darcy questioned this idea, since Jennings is a condescending, misogynist and clown, and he just is put on CNN

to cause trouble. That is impossible to watch and drives their ratings down even further, and he is paid by CNN to make up excuses for Trump. Mister sun Schong answered that observation, quoting, according to Darcy Scott Jennings, you just said his job is to defend Donald Trump. Did you find that in his job description with CNN. I don't know if you know that as a fact. I love to work with facts. So when you make that statement,

just reflect on that you just made that statement. Did you make that statement based on having Scott Jennings employment agreement with CNN? Doctor sun Shong is another moron? Right after that quote, a Time spokesman ended the interview for the record, sun Shong was a transplant surgeon who invented a drug and got rich off of it. He's a South African, naturally, and I am reminded by him of my friend George Carlin's best joke. George said it was provable fact.

not fluoride and vaccines. And I'll note that Kennedy also appears in an online video in which his poor wife is trying to sell you supplements or something. Kennedy is in the shower, presumably naked, and the wife, fortunate Cheryl Hines, is positioned in the foreground in such a way that you can't see. You can't see into this, you can't you don't know it. You can't see rfk Junior Junior Okay ms Hines. Missus Kennedy is, of course more than unfortunate.

She is at maximum gullibility because the first thing I thought of when I saw that Kennedy in the shower tableau on her video selling supplements was Ooh, he's probably facetiming my ex Olivia Newsy Robert F. And guess what the F stands for? Kennedy Junior two days other worst person in the worl Hello, what are you wearing? Hello?

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