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TRUMP WASN'T "JOKING" ABOUT A THIRD TERM - 11.14.24

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SERIES 3 EPISODE 69: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN

A-Block (1:44) SPECIAL COMMENT: Forget for a moment "Attorney General" Matt Gaetz and the bottom falling out of the market for prosecuting men who have sex with underaged girls. Forget for a moment associating Tulsi Gabbard with the word "Intelligence." Forget the prospect of Press Secretary Sage Steele. Even forget Trump's plan to adjourn both houses of Congress so he can appoint an entire cabinet without a single hearing and the Republicans rushing to bark like seals as the Lame Duck Dictator starts rolling out the Third Reich.

The lead story was a different 'third.' “I suspect I won’t be running again,” Trump said to his newly elected Republican House slaves, “unless you say ‘he’s good, we got to figure something else” and every news organization reported he was joking and kidding and trolling and - spoiler alert - he’s NOT. He’s NOT kidding. He’s intending to stay in office and if we’re nice to him he’ll let us elect him again. They've been working on this for more than a year: it's a re-interpretation of the 22nd Amendment and the two-term limit, claiming it means three CONSECUTIVE terms, or going around it and getting him by any one of four different backdoors. 

That Trump is emboldened enough to go public with his "kidding" tells you how badly he has misread the shock this would create. Oh yes, everyone reported, he's a kidder. He's kidding. Ask Mike Pence how much of a kidder he is.

MEANWHILE: Lincoln had his "Team of Rivals." Trump is building his "Team of Trifles." And the key appointment isn't Gaetz or Gabbard or Huckabee or any of these other empty vessels. It's Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense because when the protests against Trump starts and he wants the protestors to face U.S. Army tanks and be shot with your taxpayer bullets, the guy who is just crazy enough to order it is this lunatic Hegseth.

B-Block (27:54): POSTSCRIPTS TO THE NEWS: Jack Smith will get out, and get out a report. Putin continues to turn the screws on Trump. At Mar-a-Lago, Elon Musk is "getting a little big for his britches" (Ozempic time!). Musk is also at war with Steve Bannon. Melania won't live at the White House. And one third of network news viewers voted for Trump so all the limp ABC/CBS/NBC coverage mattered more than we thought.

C-Block (40:00): THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: Olivia Nuzzi has suddenly backed off all her stalking claims against Ryan Lizza. Wait I'll get my dumpster-sized bag of popcorn. Tim Pool, Pine Cone. And the Idaho Republican who tells a Democrat to go back to where she comes from. You won't believe which minority group she belongs.

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Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. I know, I know Matt Gates Attorney General. It's appalling, but bluntly, I'd rather have somebody stupid like him. And after all, there has been an attorney general who went to prison. And Trump's plan to adjourn both houses of Congress so he can appoint his cabinet without hearings or oversight will be a litmus test of whether Republicans are loyal to him or the country, and why are we even asking

that question? They are whores. Every last Republican is a whore. Tommy Tuberville announced last night that any Senate Republican who votes against Gates stands in Trump's the other Senate Republicans will try to get him or her out of the Senate. They are whorees. And none of these things was the most important event yesterday. By the way, quote I suspect I won't be running again, Trump said to his newly elected Republican House horror slaves. Unless you say he's good,

we got to figure something else. And every news organization reported Trump was joking and kidding and owning the Libs and trolling and spoiler alert he's not he's not kidding. He is intending to stay in office indefinitely, and if we are nice to him, he will let us elect him again. Yesterday, the move to pretend that another amendment to the Constitution does not say what it says lurched

out of the shadows and into the forefront. And now Trump is openly inviting his prostitutes to sell this farce in public, just as they have been trying to sell it in private for two years. And as I've told you previously that the two term limit in the twenty second Amendment means two consecutive terms, and Trump hasn't had two consecutive terms, so he can have a third term.

Or they make him Speaker of the House and then have the elected president and vice president resign and he becomes president or or or or in any way, even if none of this works, Trump won in a landslide, the fiftieth biggest popular vote landslide of all time last week. He's the most popular president ever if you look at the list from the bottom up. And besides that, what about what the great philosopher once said, what can be

unburdened by what has been? You know, like what has been in the Constitution until now, within a span of literally fourteen or fifteen hours, the elements necessary for the latest Trump coup attempt, the one in which he gets to run again in twenty twenty eight, or he's already won the twenty twenty eight quote election unquote right now, or we just love him so much that we don't need another election in twenty twenty eight save the money, or maybe, if the timeline gets extra spicy, he uses

the military to prevent an election in twenty twenty eight. All the elements have now come together. This remark about I suspect I won't be running again, this seemingly offhand. H you know him, he's all he's kidding. He's such a kidder. Ask Mike Pence about what a kidder is. All that word play follow the betrayal of Ukraine, and that had followed the wild card in all this, Secretary of Defense designate mister Fox Morning fill In hosts Pete somebody.

I'll get to him, But first to how many Ukrainians did Trump and his cowboy Mike Johnson killed yesterday or sentenced to lives as Russian prisoners, all thirty seven million of them thirty six million with a million collaborators, the Ukrainian equivalents of Maga and Elon Musk. How many more polls did Trump just put at risk after Trump's manager Putin rolls through Ukraine using troops sent by Trump's boyfriend Kim Jong Un? Did he put at risk all thirty

seven million in Poland? Too? How about the eleven million checks, the eighty four million Germans? The insider report from the Republican conference before Trump went into see Biden, Quoting the New York Times and Annie Karney, speaker Mike Johnson told Representative Marjorie Taylor Greeney in the closed door conference meeting today that there would be no more money being sent to Ukraine. According to two people familiar with the remark, I don't know if Mike Johnson is familiar with World

War Two or the decade which preceded it. He's always seemed to me to be an absolute moron. He does seem to have no working knowledge of anything that happened before Fox News signed on, But Putin figured out as Breshnev and Khrushchov and Stalian and Hitler and Napoleon and all the other dictators in states that were used to dictatorships figured out that the way to stay in power for life is to keep your country forever at war, but a specific kind of war, a war for territorial gain.

Not Vietnam but Poland, not Afghanistan but England, not even the wastefulness of Iraq, but Ukraine and Trump and by Johnson's gonna help. And then when Trump decides he can't leave office because the situation in Europe is just too dire? Now, how'd that happen? And he alone can prevent World War three, which he and his wimpy little minion Johnson have just

taken several giant steps toward. Or when the money Trump took out of Ukraine and promised to spend on the border, and yet amazingly it never winds up being spent there when that runs out, Whenever the day comes that Trump needs some sort of farcical legislation passed through the House to enable him to stay in office with or without a toothless shadow election in twenty eight, Johnson will pass it.

Because Johnson is one of those feeble men who have figured out that their route to a little power is to perpetually kiss the ass of the nearest monster who seeks world power, and as we all know, Trump is a unique opportunity for the Mike Johnson's of this world. He is not only the biggest ass, but he has

the biggest ass. And Trump, of course, has figured out what many of the dictators in countries not used to dictatorships have realized, like net and Yahoo has realized in the last few years that in these former democracies like the United States, you cannot have aggressive wars because your population, or you're part of your population the part you need as your power base. They actually will ask why is my money going to Ukraine rather than to Jeff Bezos

and Laurence Sanchez. What you need is something local in the way of a war that you can call not a war but a defensive operation against attack by terrorists and other external threats. One type is, well, you know, an actual attack like that Net and Yahoo was given his on October seventh. The other type takes a little

more finesse. You must spend years and even decades manufacturing an intern threat by an ethnic group that exists largely inside your country but combines potentially with others from their original country or countries who are masked or ready to mass or might be massing, or who you just lie and say are massing at you know, your southern border.

Either way, if there isn't an actual attack, if there's no October seventh or nine to eleven with which you can defend your country while always threatening your country that there's going to be another one, this invented problem becomes your war in everything but name Oh, they are here already, and they are why you Trump supporter, you are fat and don't make enough money. And they are why there

is any crime at all anywhere. And they have been given all these advantages when all the advantages should be going to Elon Musk and Joe Rogan. And if you exploit this successfully, it is a Swiss army knife of excuses. You can use it as a bludgeon against your internal political rivals who insists the threat is negligible or better

still containable and negotiable and solvable. You can use it to satisfy the bloodlust and the cruelty of the farm animals with thumbs, who are the base of your trumpy and support. And you can make it better or make it worse, or speed the threat up or slow it down as you need to. And the beautiful thing is you never actually have to call it a war, and

you never ever have to solve it. And if you have any doubts about that, remember when Trump came down that escalator in his building, the one that usually malfunctions. I know, I used to live in a Trump building. When he did that, it insisted that all the Mexican immigrants were bringing drugs and bringing crime and were rapists, and it was a crisis and the country was dying and it had to be dealt with immediately. That is

now three four hundred and forty days ago. And if there is anything Trump has ever done better than sharpen the knife edge of hatred in this country into his own personal shive with which to eventually kill us all. If he's ever done anything better than that, it's to make sure that nothing could have happened in those three four hundred and forty days, to make sure that this

alleged imminent, overnight existential crisis was resolved. For nine and a half years, the immigrants have been ready to destroy the country tomorrow for nine and a half years. America was going to end tomorrow for nine and a half years. Trump was going to fix it tomorrow. We have always

been at war with East Asia. The other part about this about Trump murdering everybody in Ukraine so we can make a big show of sending all the Ukraine money to fend off those nasty immigrants who have a lower crime rate than the people who were born here and who only pay into our social safety net and almost never take anything out of it. And there's Mike Johnson in the back trying to be seen over the heads

of the adults, saying, remember, I helped, I helped. The other part about this is that if you want to dial the Trump crisis machine up to maximum, you can't use as your excuse something like Ukraine or Poland or Europe. Those places don't exist to the people in the Trump cult. Europe what part of Arkansas's Europe? In whyat Europe? But you can use Mexico. Even these people pretty much know

where Mexico is. And you can say Steven Miller, new Deputy White House Chief of Staff in charge of stoking up fears of a zombie apocalypse, Stephen Miller wants to say it at noon on January twentieth. It seems like Trump's other monsters will want to wait until it's more strategically useful, like if he lives long enough to try

to subvert the Constitution again and stay in office. Well you say, then, Well, now, these dirty brown migrants pose an existential threat to the nation, and that's why we have an insurrection acted. Guess what. The presidents can do anything he wants now, and he wants army tanks running down the FDR Drive in New York, an Upper Whacker Drive in Chicago, and on every major street in Washington

to show those Democrats whose boss. And of course he has to have somebody at the Pentagon who won't say f this, and who will in fact send out those tanks. But the real Pentagon leader would be the one who would send the tanks to the White House and surround it until Trump and the Administration's surrender. The guy who will not do that is named Pete heg Seth. In his administration, Abraham Lincoln, as Doris Kerns Goodwin memorably wrote,

assembled a team of rivals in his administration. Trump instead is assembling a team of trifles, non entities with no experience, no brains, no common sense, nothing in their closets but skeleton after skeleton after skeleton, and absolutely no redeeming value except loyalty. Loyalty to him. Sometimes to putin depends on who we're talking about. I mean, as the former managing editor of Stars and Stripes, Earl Stevens wrote, Pete heg Seth is on Fox News for hours at a stretch.

Fox News is on at military basis for hours at a stretch, like twenty four to seven. The troops and the lower command ranks know him and watch him and think he's one of them, even though he has insisted it is wrong for military veterans to take all the government benefits they are entitled to after we damn near got them killed. So we know to whom Pete Hegseth

is loyal. He is loyal to Pete Hegseth. So when the time comes and the order is given to fire on I don't know, the next women's march or a prayer service somewhere, maybe maybe some of the troops will be hesitant to do it. Say nothing of many of the commanders. But the ones who are Fox fans, the ones who watch Pete Hegseth, who will still be on Fox News every week. But now he'd be wearing a

big hat. It makes him look like a chess piece, like one of Kim John UN's general When they hear it's Pete telling them to go fire on their neighbors, they'll do it. And there's your trifecta. Eliminate or get the Supreme Court to reinterpret the twenty second Amendment to give Trump a third term or fourth or fifth or however long he lives, pull out of Ukraine and showily throw the money at the border with no desire or even thought of resolving anything at the border if there

is anything at the border to resolve. And then, finally, if anybody objects, Secretary of Defense hag Seth will order them shot by troops on American streets because America f Yeah.

You will notice that the actual support right now anyway for turning this country into a military dictatorship run by Trump is very loud, but very thin, so thin that despite all the military psychos on Fox News who support old man bullshit and would like nothing better than to strafe their domestic critics, Trump still could not find one of the weekday Fox psychos to do it. He had to go to the backup green room to get this idiot Hegseth, who once boasted that he hadn't washed his

hands in ten years. Obviously, the less qualified, the less prominent, the less intelligent somebody is, the better it is for Trump. Heg Seth will get the office in the Pentagon. Yeah, they might eat them alive, but probably not because Trump will be the defacto Secretary of Defense and will be seen as such. He may even get a big hat too. The latest of all of these other yeah, you have

the job, I have the responsibility. The latest of these are Attorney General matt The FBI division investigating underage sex is hereby disbanded Gates. The apparent would be Director of National Intelligence Tulsey Gabbard, which confirms that the term intelligence has been reduced to a brand name. There's Christy Nome, Director of Homeland Security, who will ensure we are all

safe from any harmless household pets. She feels like murdering Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who was apparently shifted over at the last moment from being Secretary of Combovers borders are Tom Hoeman, and you have to go no further than the first syllable of his last name to understand Tom Homan Ambassadors to Israel, Mike Huckabee, who believes there

is no West Bank. So congrats to anybody who didn't vote for Harris to teach the Dems a lesson about Gaza EPA administrator Lee Zelden so incompetent he couldn't even beat this idiot. Kathy hokel out for Governor New York and of course Musk and Ramaswamy as bosses of the new Department of Government Efficiency such efficiency, miles and miles of efficiency, so efficient that, as has been widely noted, this new department cannot get by with one boss. It

needs two. Then there's Press Secretary Politico Caroline Levitt, Elina Haba, Monica Crowley, Sage Steele, Scott Jennings, and Elizabeth Pipcoh are possibilities for the White House Press Secretary as the Trump team considers credentially more partisan Maga outlets Axios reports. But they're all MAGA outwits. I used to work with Monica Crowley, she's gone full Nazi too. But my god, Caroline Levitt,

Alena Haba, Monica Crowley, Sage Steal, Sage fing Steele. My briefly SportsCenter co anchor, who would first have to get up and criticize her own appointment cause DEI, and then, of course she would run the risk of being the first Press secretary ever to accidentally electrocute herself while adjusting

the podium microphone. I mean, the alert hit my phone about that Air National guardsman going to prison for fifteen years for perloining classified material one day at the office, and I read Jack to shera is and I just assume the rest of it. Was appointed by Trump as his liaison to the National Archives. Media coverage of all this, Chuck Todd, quote, these confirmation hearings may just save cable

TV for the short term. Unquote ps number one, despite your best efforts to destroy cable TV, Chuck, PS Number two. Trump doesn't want any hearings, numb nuts. That's the point of a dictatorship that you still don't see and won't see coming, because, frankly, Chuck, you're too stupid to believe anything that hasn't happened before might happen now. When the president is a treason his criminal who needs to stay in power until he dies or he goes to jail.

What this just in, Chuck, Todd is the new Trump White House Director of Communications. I'm making that up. I think, yeah, it sounds like they're just trolling us at this point, but they're not. There is a through line in all of them dates heg Seth, Gabbard, Gnome home Man, rubio Z Helden, Huckabee, musk Ramaswami. There's a through line besides the fact that they could have just as easily been the cast of the next season of Dancing with the Stars.

They are all idiots who think they are geniuses. And they not only would never think to not do something Trump told them to do, they would never think of something that Trump didn't tell them first. They are utterly empty vessels chosen so Trump can say I think you should do this to this guy, and they can say, and believe, I just thought of this to do to

that guy. And when the migrants or Democrats or reporters or whichever protesters are bleeding on the streets of an American city start bleeding, Trump can say, I had nothing to do with this. That was Tulsey's idea. All the evidence suggests that the insane Roman emperor Caligula did not actually name his beloved racehorse in Catatas as consul, consul being one of the two official leaders of the Roman state below only the emperor to consuls. So Pete Hegseth

is safe. He's actually not the worst political appointment since a horse. But there's also evidence that Caligula did say he intended to name Incatatas a consul to comment on and criticize and mock the consuls who were already in office, and in fact to mock all the Roman senators, and even perhaps to mock other members of his own royal family.

This would have happened in the year forty or forty one AD, and then on January twenty fourth, forty one, Caligula was assassinated by a bunch of angry Roman generals and government leaders who just had an effing enough of him. So, in some having cleared up the Caligular history, if you think that Gates hag Seth g Nome, especially that very

poor advertisement for her own intelligence department, Gabbard. If with them you think Trump is just trolling us, remember Caligula's horse, because there is no way that caligulous horse in Catatis would have opened fire on Roman citizens. Oh, Pete hegseth. Will one last thing. Trump went to the White House yesterday and in the public photo op, President Biden emphasized that there will be a peaceful transfer of power. And I have two questions for you to ponder. The first

question is why did Biden say that? The second question is do you think President James Buchanan said something like that to President elect Lincoln in eighteen sixty? So good news? You want good news? Hang on a second, let's have some good news. Here's somewhere. Oh wait a minute, how about the continuing signs that the man who may do the most to make sure Trump's presidency is a disaster and he leaves not late but early, is Putin? Or

maybe it's Steve Bannon. There is already infighting inside the Trump dictatorship. Plus there's Newsy Olivia Newsy News. That's next. This is an all new edition of Countdown. This is Countdown with Keith Olberman. Postscripts to the news, some headlines, some updates, some snark. This is the Countdown podcast. And these are the places where there's news. Dateline Washington Special

counsel Jack Smith. He tried, thousands, didn't will beat Trump, at least in small letters Smith will resign and end the federal cases against Trump and release a report about the insurrection prosecution? What is in the report? To what lengths will Trump go to try to stop its publication? A reminder to President Biden, just release the effing thing. You cannot be prosecuted. You have presidential immunity. As to the Florida case, the Biden DOJ may have seeded the

clouds exactly right. They can continue to appeal Trump Concierge Judge Eileen Cannon's decision to throw out the entire you know, espionage and stealing classified documents case, because let's think of something special prosecutors aren't legal, except if they're going after Democrats.

They can continue if they drop Trump as a co defendant and only continue to appeal her decision and only continue to go after his co weaseles Walt Nauda and Carlos di OLIVERA dateline moscow boy Putin just continues to signal that what Trump thinks he's going to do to America, Putin has already done it to Trump yesterday afternoon and with ear muffs. Remember the claim that after Putin stiffed Trump and did not call him after election night, Remember

the claim that they finally had talked. The Kremlin is denying that. Spokesman Dmitri Peskov told the BBC there has been no phone call. Quote. It doesn't correspond at all to reality. It's completely made up. Its false information. There was no conversation. More interestingly, from tasks the Russian State propaganda agency the headline Trump to rely on forces that

brought him to power. Russian Presidential aid Nikolai Patrushev agreed that Trump, when he was still a candidate, made many statements critical of the destructive foreign and domestic policies pursued by the current administration. In his future policies, including those on the Russian track, US president elect Trump will rely on the commitments to the forces that brought him to power, rather than on election pledges, Russian Presidential aid Nikolai Patrushkaev

told the Daily Commerceant in an interview. The election campaign is over, Patrushev noted, to achieve success in the election, Donald Trump relied on certain force to which he has corresponding obligations. As a responsible person, he will be obligated

to fulfill them. Well, you know, we've never actually seen a Russian dictator who owns his own American president, telling him in slightly veiled language that there are a hell of a lot of windows in Washington and that if he doesn't do what he's told, he might be pushed out one of them. But that sure sounds like that relied on certain forces. What forces? Oh, Kremlin forces? Eight line Mari Lago. Guess who's already up the creek in

the Trump Meyer Elon Elmo. It was apparently him who told everybody that he was on the call between Trump and President Zelenski. Turns out, per Politico, Musk happen to be in the room with Trump when the call came through. To quote the entirety of the Politico report about Dusk's future or non future with Trump, Musk is quote starting to wear out his welcome with some in Trump's orbit.

After initially making a huge splash with his endorsement made just moments after the July attempt on Trump's life, some insiders now say he's become almost a comical distraction, no hanging around marri A Lago, sidling into high level transition meetings, and giving unsolicited feedback on Trump's personnel decisions. Quote Elon is getting a little big for his breeches. One insider tells Playbook what Elon too big for his breeches? Mister Musk,

time for more ozempic Dateline the wag House. You know who else is onto Elon Musk? Steve Bannon is onto him, so he Musk tweeted out something, I used to think Bannon was smart and evil. Now a think he's evil. Steve Bannon retweeted it, this is on what It's the truth, truth, whatever the name of Trump's social media platform is. So Musk is quoted as saying, I used to think Bannon was smart and evil. Now I think he's just or

now I think he's just evil. And Bannon said, smart enough to turn you down to your face every time you came to the White House for a taxpayer bailout, evil enough to call you out as a running dog for your paymasters in Beijing. So the Musk Trump thing and the Musk Putin thing are both going. Well, maybe there's a way out of this yet, Dateline Brooklyn. Here is the rare good point from Nate Silver that isn't just numbers. Trump, he notes, starts out unpopular and will

likely sink from here. According to the National Exit Poll, this is silver, writing. Trump was elected with a tepid forty eight percent favorability rating. However, he actually won nine percent voters who had an unfavorable view of him. These people may have seen Trump as a superior alternative to Harris, but will be less tolerant now that he has no

more elections to run in. No, we think in the same poll, forty four percent of voters have a very unfavorable view of Trump, so the ceiling on his popularity is likely to be fairly capped forty eight percent. That's not even even. This could be silver, says a Kin.

In history to two thousand and four, when George Bush got elected by a razor thin margin, announced he had won a mandate, insisted the world was his and he was going to use all his political capital, and while new Democratic stars rose in the background to destroy the Republicans in the next two elections, actually four elections, Bush gradually got eaten alive by an increasingly hostile media led

by who was that again? All right? Me? And Dateline the White House, the CNN headline Milania Trump unlikely to move to the White House full time as First Lady This time he's different. I'm not anxious because these time he's different. I have much more experience and much more knowledge, she told CNN. I was in the White House before. When you go in, you know exactly what to expect. She said in a recent friendly interview with Fox News.

Milinia Trump is expected to spend a majority of her time over the next four years not at the White House, but between New York City and Palm Beach, Florida. Sources familiar with the thinking told CNN. However, they insisted she would still be present for major events and would have her own platform and priorities as first Lady, the first of them being stay the hell away from her idiot husband. Now you have to admit what she said there was pretty good word salad for somebody for whom English is

a second language. Role of Milania Trump will be performed tonight by Alina Habba and Dateline Washington. So if you wonder whether or not the limpdiced coverage of Trump during the campaign by CBS News, NBC News, and ABC News could not have had anything to do with Trump's win, think again. From the invaluable Dan Frumkin of Press Watch, distilled from polling by NBC News, Biden supporters more likely

to get their news by newspapers than Trump supporters. How registered voters consume news based on who they voted for. In twenty twenty four, in cable news, fifty three percent of cable news as your primary source of news voters fifty three percent Trump, forty five percent for Well Harris not Biden, obviously, and then in newspapers it was seventy

to twenty one the Democrats over Trump. And then in National Network News, where supposedly ABCCBS and NBC had been abandoned decades ago by the Republicans, the voters said fifty five percent in favor of the Democrat Kamala Harris, thirty

five percent in favor of Trump. So for one third of the audience watching the broadcast network newscasts every night and things like Meet the Press and Face the Nation and whatever they're calling the one on CBS at the moment that nobody watches, yes, one third of them are still Trump supporters or became Trump supporters thanks to the as I noted before, ld coverage of Trump by the networks, and with that this media note, Dennis Murphy, Jarrett Shustrin,

and Lamar Gerring have joined Newsmax as executive producers for American Agenda, Wake Up America, Nazi Line on whatever the shows are called Murphy. Most recently was it Fox. Schustron Ha said, Gerring is the former EP of wnywtv's Good Day New York. That would be the Fox station in New York. So Newsmax just hired a producer named Gerring ge r i n g Lamar Gerring. Now he might pronounce it some other way. Maybe he pronounces it smith.

Maybe he pronounces it lamar g. Maybe he pronounces it Gerrig. I don't know, but it's spelled g o e r i n g, which in German is Gerring. Even for these dark times, isn't that a little too on point? And there's Olivia Newsy News and the most racist Republican thing ever in Worst Persons Next, believe it or not, there are still more new idiots to talk about. Yes, it's the semi weekly roundup of the miss Grants, morons and Dunning Kruger effects specimens who constitute today's other worse

persons in the world. Theron's worse Olivia is back. No, no, no, no, that's not what I mean, I'm not going to tell you about Olivia's back, I meaning she's back in the news, Newsy in the news or NUTSI. I can never remember

which way she's pronouncing it. This week, remember the restraining order and the charges Olivia Newsy made against her ex fiance Ryan Lizza before their careers both imploded, and the stories about going to the FBI and he hacked her phone and revealed all the RFK Junior stuff, and he was a stalker, and he blackmailed her into sex and staying into their relationship, and most importantly to her, blackmailed her to in the book deal. Oh god, pew pew pew,

what were those bullets? I just missed? She's dropped all those charges, The Daily Beast reports Ryan Liza answered those charges in court in the last ten days with an outline of evidence that he was going to use in his defense that suggested Olivia wasn't exactly not lying texts, email's, third party witnesses, phone conversations. Her response to seeing this, she has withdrawn the restraining order against him. Just dropped it.

No stalking, no blackmailing, no book deal stuff. So now Liza is hinting at suing her his quote, she shamelessly used litigation with false and defamatory allegations as a public relations strategy. I said I would defend myself against her lies vigorously and successfully, and I am fully prepared to do so way more or lassits. Oh boy, takes my mind off Trumpo. But for now, he concluded, I'm pleased this matter is closed. One additional quote she lied, pal

take a number. As for me, I'm just quietly enjoying my garbage dumpster full of popcorn. I mean, I'm gonna have to deal with the fact that I'm now eight hundred and seventy five pounds. It's all popcorn, and I'll just keep enjoying my hot and cold running Shadu and Freud. But I will mention that as far back as the year twenty fourteen, she used to tell me about her quote stalker unquote in DC. His name was Ryan Lizza.

I'm quoting her. You know how to reach me. The runner up worser, Tim Poole, one of those fascists, the one with the beanie baby outfit, who it turned out, was brought to you by a contribution from the Kremlin. Make pronouns illegal. He's written, everyone and everything must be referred to directly by name. In the replies from at duchess Prim, everyone is a pronoun, you pine cone? Try again? The best thing all week that is the new insult you pine cone. Pool says he was just trolling here.

He knows, he knows knows everyone and everything are pronouns. It was the whole point he wanted to get. Who are you writing to, Pool? You're talking to conservatives. If you knew that everyone and everything is a pronoun you're the only one of the crowd who knows that, because the rest of them have a collective IQ of one hundred and seven. The best part is the insult you pine cone. Hey, f you o your pine cone? Thank you, duchess Prim. You have introduced one of the great new

insults of the century. Dear listener, won't you use it today and tell the others of the good news U pine Cone? But our winner the worst. Now this is a month old. Somehow I missed it. The Independent just published it. The guy in it is so Republican he should be continued onto the adjacent Republican At a bipartisan forum in Idaho, Republican state Senator Dan Foreman got into a heated exchange with Democratic House six district candidate Trish

Carter Goodheart. They were talking about discrimination and somebody said there wasn't really any discrimination in Idaho, and Carter Goodheart says that. She then said, just because someone hasn't personally experienced discrimination doesn't mean it's not happening. And that is when Republican Senator Foreman screamed, I'm so sick and tired of this liberal bullshit, and looking at Ms Carter Goodheart, he added, why don't you go back to where you

came from? Trish Carter Goodheart is Native American nez Perse. Just for the record, Native American in Idaho. She is home, She is back where she came from. Senator Foreman denies he said this, but attendees, including a state representative, said they heard it. And then in real time after he said, why don't you go back to where you came from? To the Native American, the Native American, Ms Carter Goodheart asked the unanswerable rhetorical question, where am I supposed to go? Well,

we all know where State Senator Foreman is supposed to go. Hell, but first he should go into the Trump administration as Secretary of Pine Cones, Idaho State Senator Dan why don't you Native Americans go back to where you come from? Foreman, Today's other worst person in the I've done all the

damage I can do here. Thank you for listening. Follow me for the podcast promos on Blue Sky YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, x, Instagram threads, and Graham Face not on TikTok I got banned from TikTok I put out an anti Trump meme. TikTok is crap. Brian Ray and John Phillip Shaneil, the musical directors have Countdown Range, produced and performed most of our music. Mister Shaneil handled orchestration and keyboards. Mister Ray was on the guitars, bass and drums. It was produced

by Tko Brothers. Our satirical and fifty musical comments are by the best baseball stadium organist ever, Nancy Faust. The sports music is the Olderman theme from ESPN two, written by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN, Inc. Other music arranged and performed by the group No Horns Allowed. My announcer today was my friend John Dean, and as always,

everything else was pretty much my fault. Let's countdown for today, just one five hundred and thirty five days until the scheduled end of the term of Lame duc President Trump. Maybe the next scheduled countdown is Monday. Still playing this by ear on the schedule, I may do some shorter eight nine ten minute editions as news warrants. I mean, Trump could could appoint a horse to his cabinet, especially if he doesn't think. I have a confirmation here Wilbur

has been named Secretary of Oats. We'll see how the schedule works out. Two at least a week schedule Monday and Thursday make the most sense for me in any event. As always, bulletins as the news warrants, till the next one, whenever the hell that is. I'm Keith Alderman. Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and good luck. Countdown with Keith

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