Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Try and Stop Me. Another plot to evade the twenty second Amendment and enable Trump to seek a third term has floated up to the surface of the MAGA Latrine. The constitutional term limit on presidents, this one goes, is in fact unconstitutional because no other federal office is term limited. I'll go into depth about this in a moment. But Americans, especially displaced Americans in other countries and people here who are not really paying attention but think they know the Constitution, are not taking any of this seriously. But the twenty second Amendment, said an expatriate to me the other day. I sighed, I said, Trump will try. He has to. He cannot leave office. He will be prosecuted if he leaves office. He will be jailed by somebody. If he leaves office, he will die in prison if he leaves office, Trump twenty twenty eight. The methodology ultimately will be I'm doing it, try and stop me, just like everything else. And I might add he is still talking about it Trump on Sunday. So many people want me to do it. I have never had requests so strong as that. But it's something that to the best of mine knowledge, you're not allowed to do. But there are many people selling the twenty twenty eight hat. But this is not something I'm looking to do. I'm looking to have four great years. It's best of my knowledge, not allowed, not something I'm looking to do. The unspoken conclusion of all that is, of course, But if you all really want me to, okay, I guess I'll make the sacrifice. I'll come off the golf course two or three times a week, but I'm not going to come up with the plot. I'm not going to make it happen. You're going to have to do it. And then I'll pretend I don't want to, but I'll let you convince me, just to show how easy this is, how easy this evil is. You do not have to be a constitutional scholar to come up with a way for Trump, reluctantly, of course, to evade the Constitution. I mean it's not just that you don't have to be a constitutional scholar. You don't have to have a fourth grade degree to come up with something. Give the proverbial monkeys enough time and enough typewriters, and they will come up with an idea. No one better fits that analogy than Greg Kelly of Newsmax, a bonehead so dense that he makes Jesse Waters of Fox look like, well, there's so many choices. Greg Kelly makes Jesse Waters of Fox look like he's not Jesse Waters.

Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Try and Stop Me. Another plot to evade the twenty second Amendment and enable Trump to seek a third term has floated up to the surface of the MAGA Latrine. The constitutional term limit on presidents, this one goes, is in fact unconstitutional because no other federal office is term limited. I'll go into depth about this in a moment. But Americans, especially displaced Americans in other countries and people here who are not really paying attention but think they know the Constitution, are not taking any of this seriously. But the twenty second Amendment, said an expatriate to me the other day. I sighed, I said, Trump will try. He has to. He cannot leave office. He will be prosecuted if he leaves office. He will be jailed by somebody. If he leaves office, he will die in prison if he leaves office, Trump twenty twenty eight. The methodology ultimately will be I'm doing it, try and stop me, just like everything else. And I might add he is still talking about it Trump on Sunday. So many people want me to do it. I have never had requests so strong as that. But it's something that to the best of mine knowledge, you're not allowed to do. But there are many people selling the twenty twenty eight hat. But this is not something I'm looking to do. I'm looking to have four great years. It's best of my knowledge, not allowed, not something I'm looking to do. The unspoken conclusion of all that is, of course, But if you all really want me to, okay, I guess I'll make the sacrifice. I'll come off the golf course two or three times a week, but I'm not going to come up with the plot. I'm not going to make it happen. You're going to have to do it. And then I'll pretend I don't want to, but I'll let you convince me, just to show how easy this is, how easy this evil is. You do not have to be a constitutional scholar to come up with a way for Trump, reluctantly, of course, to evade the Constitution. I mean it's not just that you don't have to be a constitutional scholar. You don't have to have a fourth grade degree to come up with something. Give the proverbial monkeys enough time and enough typewriters, and they will come up with an idea. No one better fits that analogy than Greg Kelly of Newsmax, a bonehead so dense that he makes Jesse Waters of Fox look like, well, there's so many choices. Greg Kelly makes Jesse Waters of Fox look like he's not Jesse Waters.

That twenty second amendment about not being able to run for a third term just might be unconstitutional. Nobody else has term limits in the federal government. The Court, the Supreme Court. You're there for a lightetime. If you want it, you can stay as long as you like. How about the United States Senate? Those guys run for reelection. There is absolutely no term limits whatsoever. It's a big deal to change the constitution, but they did it. However, it just might be unconstitutional itself.

That twenty second amendment about not being able to run for a third term just might be unconstitutional. Nobody else has term limits in the federal government. The Court, the Supreme Court. You're there for a lightetime. If you want it, you can stay as long as you like. How about the United States Senate? Those guys run for reelection. There is absolutely no term limits whatsoever. It's a big deal to change the constitution, but they did it. However, it just might be unconstitutional itself.

President Trump, it should be looked at.

President Trump, it should be looked at.

This is a way the deep State keeps the presidency under their thumb.

This is a way the deep State keeps the presidency under their thumb.

Only two terms.

Only two terms.

Nobody else in federal government other than the vice president, I guess is no. I don't know if it applies to the vice president anyway. President Trump is not running in twenty twenty eight. But this looks to me and some other constitutional well some constitutional heavyweights.

Nobody else in federal government other than the vice president, I guess is no. I don't know if it applies to the vice president anyway. President Trump is not running in twenty twenty eight. But this looks to me and some other constitutional well some constitutional heavyweights.

I'm not one. There's something to be done here, and it should be explored.

I'm not one. There's something to be done here, and it should be explored.

So there it is a guy coming off is kind of rambling moron, just throwing it out there like it just occurred to him, rather than somebody handed this to him and said, read it in that stupid way of yours. Make it seem like it's your idea, the way Trump does it. Oh, I'm not trying to seek a third term, but everybody else wants me to, So I guess I'm going to have to. I don't really know the law. We'll just add ask other people as if he has had less than four hundred committees working on this in secret since the first election, since the first election. There it is the newest Trump third term plot. Trump can run for a third term because the Constitution is unconstitutional. And what phrase could better sum up this last decade in terms of the rules and the regulations and the laws and the impermeable boundaries and the guardrails. What could better sum that up than the concept just expressed by Greg Kelly that the constitution is unconstitutional in the olden times, say something like that on TV, even on TV like Newsmax, say the Constitution is unconstitutional and you would have been fired before the show was over. Say it now and instead of getting fired, some trump Ist will instead, I don't know, start a signal chat or something about your newest outline for their biggest scam ever and their most evil scam ever. There's one other new and frightening development on the eternal Trump plot front. It pertains to the arrest of Judge Dougan and the ominous follow up from Deucy the Younger of Fox to the White House Press Secretary MS Caroline Liar. Deucey asked, would you ever arrest a federal judge or even a Supreme Court justice? And Caroline Levitt Liar answered, I'd refer you to the DOJ for individuals they are looking at, but then concluded, anyone who is breaking the law or obstructing federal law enforcement officials is putting themselves at risk of being prosecuted. Absolutely so. Ultimately that means if Trump does go along with one of these many plots to stay on past twenty twenty eight and again, whether he's successful or ruinous, or half the country is underwater, it doesn't matter. This is not about us. This is about him keeping his sad ass out of prison. If he tries something and say it gets just for the sake of process. As far as the Supreme Court and they rule against him, he will arrest them. She just said it, because they will simply put it in terms of obstructing federal law enforcement officials and denying the unique executive authority of the executive which is how they have read the Constitution, even though the founding fathers, many of whom then became president, did not view it that way, viewed it exactly the opposite way. But clearly they were right when they wrote what they wrote, but wrong in how they applied it. All right, let's go back to the beginning. Remember the five main rules of Trump's various plots to get around the Constitution and not leave office alive. And then I'll go through the already extant three plots I haven't mentioned yet.

So there it is a guy coming off is kind of rambling moron, just throwing it out there like it just occurred to him, rather than somebody handed this to him and said, read it in that stupid way of yours. Make it seem like it's your idea, the way Trump does it. Oh, I'm not trying to seek a third term, but everybody else wants me to, So I guess I'm going to have to. I don't really know the law. We'll just add ask other people as if he has had less than four hundred committees working on this in secret since the first election, since the first election. There it is the newest Trump third term plot. Trump can run for a third term because the Constitution is unconstitutional. And what phrase could better sum up this last decade in terms of the rules and the regulations and the laws and the impermeable boundaries and the guardrails. What could better sum that up than the concept just expressed by Greg Kelly that the constitution is unconstitutional in the olden times, say something like that on TV, even on TV like Newsmax, say the Constitution is unconstitutional and you would have been fired before the show was over. Say it now and instead of getting fired, some trump Ist will instead, I don't know, start a signal chat or something about your newest outline for their biggest scam ever and their most evil scam ever. There's one other new and frightening development on the eternal Trump plot front. It pertains to the arrest of Judge Dougan and the ominous follow up from Deucy the Younger of Fox to the White House Press Secretary MS Caroline Liar. Deucey asked, would you ever arrest a federal judge or even a Supreme Court justice? And Caroline Levitt Liar answered, I'd refer you to the DOJ for individuals they are looking at, but then concluded, anyone who is breaking the law or obstructing federal law enforcement officials is putting themselves at risk of being prosecuted. Absolutely so. Ultimately that means if Trump does go along with one of these many plots to stay on past twenty twenty eight and again, whether he's successful or ruinous, or half the country is underwater, it doesn't matter. This is not about us. This is about him keeping his sad ass out of prison. If he tries something and say it gets just for the sake of process. As far as the Supreme Court and they rule against him, he will arrest them. She just said it, because they will simply put it in terms of obstructing federal law enforcement officials and denying the unique executive authority of the executive which is how they have read the Constitution, even though the founding fathers, many of whom then became president, did not view it that way, viewed it exactly the opposite way. But clearly they were right when they wrote what they wrote, but wrong in how they applied it. All right, let's go back to the beginning. Remember the five main rules of Trump's various plots to get around the Constitution and not leave office alive. And then I'll go through the already extant three plots I haven't mentioned yet.

Rule one.

Rule one.

He will try this, he has to. He might be stopped, let's hope, so he might die in office another convenient exit route. But he will try this. If he is alive in the year twenty twenty nine, he will try to stay in office, and he may have begun that in the election of twenty twenty eight. Main Rule number two, he will try multiple routes again. I see at least four of them. Now I mentioned the Constitution is unconstitutional because there aren't term limits for everybody one that has just been invented. Three, he will use surrogates to keep his hands clean. The goal to this, of all else, other than staying in office, is to make sure that as few people as possible really think he's behind this plot to erase the Constitution. It must be others. He must be responding to the will of the people, even if he's the one who has purchased the will of those people. But he did say in a slip that I bet he never makes again. He did say that he knew that there were methods that would allow him to stay in office past two terms that others are quote studying. This was a major, major accidental confession, and again I would not expect him to do it again, no matter how crazy he is, and he's lots of crazy. Mainline rule number four. His only involvement in this, at least publicly, at least superficially, will be to thank everyone for making this day necessary and that lawmakers. In other words, his Republican prostitutes will change things if he's done enough good while in office, meaning if He's made them enough money and gotten them enough power. Why is he doing this money and power? Why are they supporting him? Power and money? Are there any other possibilities? Well, there's power, money and money. Power the fifth main rule to consider here. If nothing else works, he will ultimately turn to a fake emergency to stay in office. I have been questioned if he would do a fake emergency to stop the midterms if it was clear he's going to lose and potentially be impeached and potentially be convicted in the Senate, if the midterms by this time next year looks so bad that they might lose the Senate and actually get past the threshold to convict him, Well, would he stop the election? Would he go to that degree? Well, he would have to admit to losing in advance, which he would never do, and he would essentially be putting himself at maximum risk for others, for the congressman who would not be elected in that scenario. And he never does that because nobody else actually exists in his mind. But the fake emergency is there, as it was ready to go in the dear Departed days of twenty twenty one. On January sixth, for him and him alone. If you remember that he is the only person in the world down at the base of his feral brain. Down there, at the bottom of the reptile spine, there is Donald Trump, and the rest of us are just at our best extras in his movie. Most of us are just cardboard cutouts furniture that can be moved around on rollers. Now to the methods. I mentioned that one from Greg Kelly, you can't term limited president if nobody else term limited. The oldest of the four methods has now been formalized and the Bigs, the Trump whore from Tennessee who sits in Congress, actually introduced a constitutional amendment to twist the meaning of the twenty second Amendment into not a two term limit, but a two consecutive term limit. This is the oldest of the arguments. They have been putting this one out since early twenty twenty three. The Biggs Amendment reads The proposed amendment specifies that no person shall be elected to the office of the President one more than three times two for any additional term after being elected to two consecutive terms, or three more than twice after having served as president for more than two years of a term, to which some other person was elected president. For example, if a president died after serving for one year and the vice president became president for the remaining three years of the term, that person may subsequently be elected president no more than two times. In other words, this would be an amendment that allows Trump to run for a third term, but not Obama or even Bill Clinton. Of course, the idea of doing this by a new amendment to supersede the twenty second Amendment's term limitation is just them playing nice. Somebody somewhere has a sentimental feeling for Hamilton and Jefferson and John Adams and everybody else, the founding fathers. Again, as I said the other day, it was a surprise to me when Trump recognized the name John Adams when he was questioned about John Adams. And we are a country of laws and not men. He knew John Adams because he knew there was a picture of him somewhere on the wall. The headline in the magazine The American Conservative read Trump twenty twenty eight, and the sub had read the second Amendment is an arbitrary restraint on presidents who serve non consecutive terms and on democracy itself. This is from nearly two years ago, the Republicans started quote joking and quote tweaking the Libs and quote triggering the left with variations on this idea ever since. Trump mused in twenty eighteen that he was owed an additional term, a third term, because during his first term he had been unfairly preoccupied with defending his you know, criminal acts intended to overthrow the democracy. Then there was that jokey animation of a Trump twenty twenty campaign sign followed by a Trump twenty twenty four campaign sign, followed by a Trump twenty twenty eight campaign sign followed by a Trump twenty thirty two campaign sign, and on and on and on until it would have been a one one hundred and two year old Trump running in the year twenty forty eight, and nobody was wondering if he'd be dead by then and running from a coffin, because all they were doing was trying to own the Libs. Except that's not what they're doing. He is going to try. Let me quote the author of that article in The American Conservative. His name is, I swear to Jesus, his name is Peter tung It ton gu E tte tungue It tung It on Trump Trump by tung It the quote, Trump's re emergence as the Republican nominee in twenty twenty four is a triumph of democracy. Not only did Trump secure the nomination following his defeat in twenty twenty a rather incredible feat in and of itself, but did so in spite of every obstacle the mainstream media, the Republican establishment, and the law fair apparatus have put in his way. Well, you can look at it that way, or you can point out that the leading opponents to his candidacy inside the Republican Party were Ron DeSantis an idiot, and Nicky Haley, an even bigger idiot. Continuing from mister tung Its tonguing of Trump, Trump, however, makes an even more forceful ethical argument against the twenty second Amendment and for its repeal. If a man who once was president returns after a series of years to stand again for the office and proved so popular as to earn a second non consecutive term, as Trump seems bound to when they wrote this, to deny him the right to run for a second consecutive term cuts against basic fair play. Unquote ah, the familiar no fair constitutional argument. I think that was Alexander Hamill to new thought that one up, or maybe it was George Hamilton. Quote. If by twenty twenty eight, voters feel Trump has done a poor job, they can pick another candidate. But if they feel he has delivered on his promises, why should they be denied the freedom to choose him once more? You see where this is going. Trump overcame obstacles, or if you prefer, Trump overcame mediocrity, and he weaponized stupidity and hatred on his own behalf. Therefore the constitution doesn't apply to him, especially them pesky term limits. In that twenty second Amendment, Republican primary voters chose him, writes The American Conservative, because they damn well felt like it, and they count. If you want to choose Obama or Bill Clinton, you can't because write something fast, write something why they can't the twenty second Amendment two full terms or one and a half if you're serving out another president's term quote sounds reasonable enough, especially in light of FDR's hold on the office. Yet those who supported the amendment more than seventy years ago could not have foreseen the prospect of a one term president who lost the office, but who later regained it in a subsequent election. The author then immediately turns to that time that that exact thing happened Grover Cleveland all the way back in eighteen ninety two. No one could have ever seen this happening, except I'm going to mention that it already had happened when they passed this amendment. The author leaves out that's mister Tungue it that while he may see this as something from prehistory Grover Cleveland, that is, when dinosaurs still had the vote or something. The twenty second Amendment is surprisingly modern, and yet it reaches back into our past so far that when it was introduced was by a Michigan congressman named Earl Mitchner and Earl Mitchener. When he was sixteen years old and preparing to go to University of Michigan law school, Grover Cleveland was elected President of the United States. The guy who wrote the twenty second Amendment was already an adult or a near adult during Grover Cleveland's non consecutive terms, so in Congressman Mitchener's lifetime, he had not only seen Cleveland re elected after four years in the wilderness as an ex president, regaining the office four years later. But he'd also seen former President Theodore Roosevelt one and three quarters terms try for a third non consecutive term in nineteen twelve, And he'd seen the Republican bid to draft the former President Calvin Coolidge to run for a third non consecutive term instead of President Hoover in nineteen thirty two. And he had seen the former President who Hoover try for a nomination for a second non consecutive term in nineteen thirty six and again in nineteen forty oh And he Mischner, the author of the twenty second Amendment, had seen Franklin Roosevelt run for a third term and get it, and run for a fourth term and then get it. And he had seen William Jennings Bryan get the Democratic nomination in eighteen ninety six and nineteen hundred and, having not had enough, run for it again in nineteen oh eight and began to try for a fourth time at it in nineteen twelve. Mitchner, the congressman behind presidential term limits, only saw all of that unfold in one lifetime. But nobody, according to mister Tungatt, could have seen Trump serving two non consecutive terms, nobody except the guy who wrote the rule against three terms if you're non consecutive or any other kind of president. Once again, if they do this wrong, it would not apply. Just to suddenly Barack Obama, who will be sixty seven in the year twenty twenty eight, and Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton, who is still and would presumably still be two months younger than Trump, they would be eligible to run for their own third terms. Not so fast. What the trumpists are setting up in this scenario is a Supreme Court ruling that only presidents who've served two non consecutive terms can seek a third, as if that made any possible difference. Lisa Needham at the site Public Notice connects the final dots here in case you think this is just some guy named tung It with the kind of life you must have had if your name was tung It, expressing the frustrations of his impossible existence by writing this bullshit, it's not. He wrote it in The American Conservative, which, as Lisa Needam notes, is a quote partner en quote of Project twenty twenty five. So that's plot one. Plot two from Joel A. Ready of the Cornerstone Law firm and his site, which also features pieces on security deposit laws in Pennsylvania and courtroom movies to watch. This spring thinks you don't have to have an amendment or any alteration of the twenty second Amendment because quote the twenty second Amendment doesn't say what you think it says. This piece offers not only ways to ignore the twenty second Amendment, like the it doesn't say you can't serve a third term and only says you can't be elected to a third term, but it provides additional workarounds like electing an entirely different Republican ticket in twenty twenty eight and making Trump Speaker of the House and then getting the new electees to both resign immediately, which would make Speaker of the House Trump president without violating the constitution. Plot three. And the purists here will say this is actually just plot two. A. I like to think of it as a third, separate plot because it's important to remember that as stupid as all this sounds, this is deadly serious. This is the end of democracy, in its embryonic stage, in its fetal heartbeat stage, in its personhood stage. One of these infants in the womb will come out like Rosemary's Baby. Plot number three, the one minute presidency of JD. Vance. JD. Vance runs with some clown as his vice president, somebody who pays enough money. I mean, pick them, you're your choice here. My favorite would be Mike Lindell. The ticket Advance and Lindell gets elected and the Republicans retain the Senate and the House in twenty twenty eight, and the vance inaugural address on January twenty, twenty twenty nine consists of my fellow Americans. Vice President Lindell has resigned. I hereby advice the House and Senate, I am nominating as the new Vice president, Donald J. Trump. The Senate and the House convene same day, maybe because this wasn't planned in advance, and they each approved Trump as vice president. Whereupon, the moment that's sign sealed and delivered, Vance resigns as president. Trump accedes to the presidency having never been elected. And of course we could never actually have this happen in real life. We could never have a president who wasn't at least elected vice president. Oh right, Gerald Ford, Now there is a problem with this one. The last sentence of the twelfth Amendment is about the Electoral College, and the twelfth last sentence reads, quote, no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of president shall be eligible to that of Vice President of the United States. Well, they are already looking at that in the phony Bologne argument from the fascists. Here is that phrase constitutionally ineligible. The word constitutionally. They say that covers only the presidential eligibility terms in the Constitution, not the logical ones. And those terms are natural born citizen at least thirty five years old, resident for at least fourteen years. And what's even better from their perspective is they are quoting an NYU law professor who pointed all this out that the terms ineligible constitutionally ineligible only mean those three things citizenship, age, residency. The guy who pointed this out did so in the year two thousand and three because he was trying to get a former president to run for vice president, and that former president he wanted to be the vice president was Bill Clinton. The fourth one I've mentioned, the new one up is down, left is right, fiction is truth, The Constitution is itself unconstitutional. I'm sorry I've enjoyed parts of this. There is something to be said in unraveling how they have packaged this, how they have gotten around America to create new America. They have not been stopped. This has been going since twenty fifteen, with varying degrees of success. But this is the ultimate test, and they are bound to try it, in Trump's case, to literally die trying if need be. I will again quote Tim Snyder, and I have been quoting him so long that he he used to be at Yale and now he's at the University of Toronto because he got out while the getting out was good. Quote Triump is the classic dictatorial position. He needs to die in bed holding all executive power to stay out of prison. This means that he will do whatever he can to gain power, and once in power, will do all that he can to never let it go. This is a basic incentive structure which underlies everything else. It is entirely inconsistent with democracy. So if somebody tells you the fascists are joking about Trump in twenty twenty eight, or if somebody tells you, or if you believe the twenty second Amendment flat out precludes this, what are you all talking about? Just remember the only one on the right, the only one of the undead pretending to not be doing this right now, pretending to not be trying to get Trump a third term, or we don't even know what their reasons would be for further terms thereafter. The only one pretending to not be doing this, the only one pretending not to be in on the plot, the greatest crime in American history. The only one pretending not to be involved is Trump itself, and Trump itself denying this is an essential ingredient to the plot. Trump here is Julius Caesar refusing the crown, or Richard the Third refusing office. And remember what Tim Snyder says, and remember what I say, and God help you, remember what Greg Kelly says, and remember this above all else. The Trump political baseline mantra is the Hitler political baseline. Mantra is the Mao political baseline. Mantra is the pole Pot political baseline mantra quote, I'm going to do it, Try and stop me. The bad news among Thursday's headlines is Trump's nosferatu. Stephen Miller is still trying to ignore and bypass the courts. The good news is Miller is clearly too scared to just go ahead and do it. He's trying to create bullshit, legit sounding reasons to allow him to bypass the courts and yet not go to prison for contempt. As a result, the government has now invoked the state secrets privilege in the Kilmar Abrego Garcia abduction case. It clearly it is crap, but they've been voked it anyway, and Judge Zennis has only given them until Monday to file twenty five pages or less on what the f they think they are doing, and only until a week from tomorrow to prepare for an in person hearing about what the f they are doing. Clearly, since the most they've actually been able to dig up on this wrongly renditioned man that their own DOJ admitted was wrongly renditioned, so they fired the guy who admitted he was wrongly renditioned was the possibility that he was a driver for undocumented workers going from one state to another. There is no chance there are any state secrets involved in this case, and the point of this is the point of all Trump's court cases, to stall, to fill up the calendar with hearing after hearing and then appeal after appeal so they can run out the clock. Presumably both on the orders to return Abrego Garcia and all the possible contempt charges piling up against Stephen Miller and the leaders at Ice and hopefully that witch Christy Nome now with eight new action dress up outfits. As usual, when faced with the six foot thick walls of the actual remaining laws and actual remaining American principles, Trump and his minion and especially this Eichmann level nerd monster Miller, are simply stepping on the gas and headed right for the walls. They have not only installed these new hurdles in the Abrego Garcia case, but they are now kidnapping and renditioning immigrants to Libya at least they want to to a hellhole of a prison in a country in a state of full on civil war. They are basically sending people who, if nothing else, have a right to do process into a dangerous prison inside a dangerous country where there is every chance they can get killed inside the prison or outside the prison. They also apparently wanted to send other people they have kidnapped off our streets to Ukraine. This while the memo is out confirming reporting that America's intelligence agencies, now run by trumpists, had concluded that the entire excuse for all of this from kilmar Garcia through the Libya airliners is crap that there is no basis for President Scrooge McDuck to invoke the Alien Enemies Act because of the Venezuelan based gang trend Aragua, which must really piss Trump off because he had just managed to somehow learn to say the Intel community's conclusion, the Venezuelan govern does not control that gang, and the country's dictator Maduro also does not control that gang. Thus, any gang members here are not part of some kind of invasion, and thus they are not subject to the Alien Enemies Act. Thus, if the laws and the courts still have any purpose or influence here, Trump has to bring them all back and either let them go or give them the same hearings they would have gotten under Biden and every preceding president. This also raises the stakes for Miller and increases the chances that Judge Zennis or Judge Boseburg in the other case, may actually take the step of putting one of these bastards behind bars, at least briefly, for their continuing and now escalating contempt of court. Before the memo confirming all this was declassified and released. The New York Times reported the conclusions in the memo in March, and Trump's response, naturally, was to threaten prosecution, not of Stephen Miller, nor of Tom Homan, nor of Christy Nome, but of those who leaked it and those who printed it. Miller, Holman, Gnome, and of course Trump are Unamerican bastards, and if we do not stop them now, we will soon be deprived of the ability to do so. The only alien enemies here right now are the members and supporters of this rogue and immoral Trump dictatorship. Naturally, the Trump response to the whole thing, promote Stephen Miller to National Security Advisor, hasn't happened yet expected to within months, just as the response in trump Land to his asinine idea of an Anschluss in Canada and something akin to Mussolini invading Ethiopia in Greenland is for Trump to have the brain dead Director of National subpar Intelligence, Tulsey skunk Streak Gabbard, issued what is called a collection emphasis message to the chiefs of the various intel services to ramp up spying on Greenland, among other things. This will cue a search of both Greenland and Denmark for people there who want Trump to invade Greenland and annex it should be a pretty long search producing a pretty short list. But at underscores, we may wake up one morning to find out that overnight Trump has invaded Greenland and given the knee jerk reaction of so many in this country who view the world as a video game. I don't know what happens after that, besides a lot of the same blood and guts, flag waving and accusations of disloyalty that followed Bush attacking Iraq, and once again, like Iraq, this invasion would be in the interests of private industry. And no, we didn't go into Iraq for oil. We went into Iraq so we could have a war in Iraq, so we could use in Iraq all the weapons made by the Halliburtons of this country and employ all the Eric Prince mercenaries. Now we would be deploying to Greenland, maybe Denmark in order to get elon Musk his rare earths. Donald Trump does not know what rare earths are. He barely knows where Earth is. This is the same Musk for whom Trump is now pressuring countries facing tariffs to adopt Starlink, per the Washington Post, to bribe their way out of tariffs that way. This is the same Musk who reportedly just told a Milken conference that he expects a SpaceX mission to get to Mars next year and maybe a manned mission to Mars by twenty twenty eight. Cynics would say it is safe to assume Musk is high as a kite all the time, and he may be high as a kite and be the somewhat perturbed victim of that reported botched penile implant. But even if neither is true, that is exactly the way Elon Musk acts. In any event, this is not the first time. It is of special note that Musk keeps making these Mars predictions, and so far there is not one indication he's taken even the preliminary steps to make any of them come true. He made the next year prediction in March. He made it in December twenty twenty when he said the unmanned mission would occur within six years. In fact, quote, if we get lucky, maybe four. He made the prediction in September twenty sixteen, adding the competing people on Mars quote might kind of be in the ten year range. He also predicted a million humans on Mars by twenty fifty, and I'll just note for perspective, twenty fifty is now only as far ahead as two thousand is behind, and that nowhere did he predict that those million humans on Mars by twenty fifty would still be alive. Maybe that's Trump's next location for renditioning immigrants. So crazy Musk has already blown through his first prediction. If we're lucky, that would have been December twenty twenty four. As it is, he sent nothing to Mars. The fastest possible trip from here to Mars is seven months in length. More likely it's eight nine, ten months. Give him the benefit of the doubt. Here. The unmanned mission he's talking about must take off by next year, by next May, to get there by twenty twenty six, a year from now. It has to take off right now. Musk can't launch a cyber truck that your average American can't peel apart with their bare hands. But yeah, let's attack Greenland so this guy can get some rare earths. And if we're lucky, Trump will think we are going to Greenland to rescue the seventies band Rare Earth, and that they'll perform. I just want to celebrate and their cover of get Ready at the White House while he and Musk dance, or more correctly, while he and Musk make those spasmodic, embarrassing body movements. That is as close as either one of them will ever get to dancing. Meanwhile, Generalissimo Donaldo Trumpo is still nuts. There is a kind of brilliance in the SoundBite I am about to play for you asked about his blasphemous image in which he depicted himself as pope. He posted that image himself, he goes in a matter of seconds from A Catholics can't take a joke to B. There's no problem here with Catholics. It's fake news. To C, I didn't do it. To D, maybe it was AI. To E, I know nothing about this. To F, I just saw it for the first time. To G even though I know nothing about it and I had nothing to do with it, and I just saw it. I know Millenia liked it. This is magnificent in a way, completely insane, but magnificent.

He will try this, he has to. He might be stopped, let's hope, so he might die in office another convenient exit route. But he will try this. If he is alive in the year twenty twenty nine, he will try to stay in office, and he may have begun that in the election of twenty twenty eight. Main Rule number two, he will try multiple routes again. I see at least four of them. Now I mentioned the Constitution is unconstitutional because there aren't term limits for everybody one that has just been invented. Three, he will use surrogates to keep his hands clean. The goal to this, of all else, other than staying in office, is to make sure that as few people as possible really think he's behind this plot to erase the Constitution. It must be others. He must be responding to the will of the people, even if he's the one who has purchased the will of those people. But he did say in a slip that I bet he never makes again. He did say that he knew that there were methods that would allow him to stay in office past two terms that others are quote studying. This was a major, major accidental confession, and again I would not expect him to do it again, no matter how crazy he is, and he's lots of crazy. Mainline rule number four. His only involvement in this, at least publicly, at least superficially, will be to thank everyone for making this day necessary and that lawmakers. In other words, his Republican prostitutes will change things if he's done enough good while in office, meaning if He's made them enough money and gotten them enough power. Why is he doing this money and power? Why are they supporting him? Power and money? Are there any other possibilities? Well, there's power, money and money. Power the fifth main rule to consider here. If nothing else works, he will ultimately turn to a fake emergency to stay in office. I have been questioned if he would do a fake emergency to stop the midterms if it was clear he's going to lose and potentially be impeached and potentially be convicted in the Senate, if the midterms by this time next year looks so bad that they might lose the Senate and actually get past the threshold to convict him, Well, would he stop the election? Would he go to that degree? Well, he would have to admit to losing in advance, which he would never do, and he would essentially be putting himself at maximum risk for others, for the congressman who would not be elected in that scenario. And he never does that because nobody else actually exists in his mind. But the fake emergency is there, as it was ready to go in the dear Departed days of twenty twenty one. On January sixth, for him and him alone. If you remember that he is the only person in the world down at the base of his feral brain. Down there, at the bottom of the reptile spine, there is Donald Trump, and the rest of us are just at our best extras in his movie. Most of us are just cardboard cutouts furniture that can be moved around on rollers. Now to the methods. I mentioned that one from Greg Kelly, you can't term limited president if nobody else term limited. The oldest of the four methods has now been formalized and the Bigs, the Trump whore from Tennessee who sits in Congress, actually introduced a constitutional amendment to twist the meaning of the twenty second Amendment into not a two term limit, but a two consecutive term limit. This is the oldest of the arguments. They have been putting this one out since early twenty twenty three. The Biggs Amendment reads The proposed amendment specifies that no person shall be elected to the office of the President one more than three times two for any additional term after being elected to two consecutive terms, or three more than twice after having served as president for more than two years of a term, to which some other person was elected president. For example, if a president died after serving for one year and the vice president became president for the remaining three years of the term, that person may subsequently be elected president no more than two times. In other words, this would be an amendment that allows Trump to run for a third term, but not Obama or even Bill Clinton. Of course, the idea of doing this by a new amendment to supersede the twenty second Amendment's term limitation is just them playing nice. Somebody somewhere has a sentimental feeling for Hamilton and Jefferson and John Adams and everybody else, the founding fathers. Again, as I said the other day, it was a surprise to me when Trump recognized the name John Adams when he was questioned about John Adams. And we are a country of laws and not men. He knew John Adams because he knew there was a picture of him somewhere on the wall. The headline in the magazine The American Conservative read Trump twenty twenty eight, and the sub had read the second Amendment is an arbitrary restraint on presidents who serve non consecutive terms and on democracy itself. This is from nearly two years ago, the Republicans started quote joking and quote tweaking the Libs and quote triggering the left with variations on this idea ever since. Trump mused in twenty eighteen that he was owed an additional term, a third term, because during his first term he had been unfairly preoccupied with defending his you know, criminal acts intended to overthrow the democracy. Then there was that jokey animation of a Trump twenty twenty campaign sign followed by a Trump twenty twenty four campaign sign, followed by a Trump twenty twenty eight campaign sign followed by a Trump twenty thirty two campaign sign, and on and on and on until it would have been a one one hundred and two year old Trump running in the year twenty forty eight, and nobody was wondering if he'd be dead by then and running from a coffin, because all they were doing was trying to own the Libs. Except that's not what they're doing. He is going to try. Let me quote the author of that article in The American Conservative. His name is, I swear to Jesus, his name is Peter tung It ton gu E tte tungue It tung It on Trump Trump by tung It the quote, Trump's re emergence as the Republican nominee in twenty twenty four is a triumph of democracy. Not only did Trump secure the nomination following his defeat in twenty twenty a rather incredible feat in and of itself, but did so in spite of every obstacle the mainstream media, the Republican establishment, and the law fair apparatus have put in his way. Well, you can look at it that way, or you can point out that the leading opponents to his candidacy inside the Republican Party were Ron DeSantis an idiot, and Nicky Haley, an even bigger idiot. Continuing from mister tung Its tonguing of Trump, Trump, however, makes an even more forceful ethical argument against the twenty second Amendment and for its repeal. If a man who once was president returns after a series of years to stand again for the office and proved so popular as to earn a second non consecutive term, as Trump seems bound to when they wrote this, to deny him the right to run for a second consecutive term cuts against basic fair play. Unquote ah, the familiar no fair constitutional argument. I think that was Alexander Hamill to new thought that one up, or maybe it was George Hamilton. Quote. If by twenty twenty eight, voters feel Trump has done a poor job, they can pick another candidate. But if they feel he has delivered on his promises, why should they be denied the freedom to choose him once more? You see where this is going. Trump overcame obstacles, or if you prefer, Trump overcame mediocrity, and he weaponized stupidity and hatred on his own behalf. Therefore the constitution doesn't apply to him, especially them pesky term limits. In that twenty second Amendment, Republican primary voters chose him, writes The American Conservative, because they damn well felt like it, and they count. If you want to choose Obama or Bill Clinton, you can't because write something fast, write something why they can't the twenty second Amendment two full terms or one and a half if you're serving out another president's term quote sounds reasonable enough, especially in light of FDR's hold on the office. Yet those who supported the amendment more than seventy years ago could not have foreseen the prospect of a one term president who lost the office, but who later regained it in a subsequent election. The author then immediately turns to that time that that exact thing happened Grover Cleveland all the way back in eighteen ninety two. No one could have ever seen this happening, except I'm going to mention that it already had happened when they passed this amendment. The author leaves out that's mister Tungue it that while he may see this as something from prehistory Grover Cleveland, that is, when dinosaurs still had the vote or something. The twenty second Amendment is surprisingly modern, and yet it reaches back into our past so far that when it was introduced was by a Michigan congressman named Earl Mitchner and Earl Mitchener. When he was sixteen years old and preparing to go to University of Michigan law school, Grover Cleveland was elected President of the United States. The guy who wrote the twenty second Amendment was already an adult or a near adult during Grover Cleveland's non consecutive terms, so in Congressman Mitchener's lifetime, he had not only seen Cleveland re elected after four years in the wilderness as an ex president, regaining the office four years later. But he'd also seen former President Theodore Roosevelt one and three quarters terms try for a third non consecutive term in nineteen twelve, And he'd seen the Republican bid to draft the former President Calvin Coolidge to run for a third non consecutive term instead of President Hoover in nineteen thirty two. And he had seen the former President who Hoover try for a nomination for a second non consecutive term in nineteen thirty six and again in nineteen forty oh And he Mischner, the author of the twenty second Amendment, had seen Franklin Roosevelt run for a third term and get it, and run for a fourth term and then get it. And he had seen William Jennings Bryan get the Democratic nomination in eighteen ninety six and nineteen hundred and, having not had enough, run for it again in nineteen oh eight and began to try for a fourth time at it in nineteen twelve. Mitchner, the congressman behind presidential term limits, only saw all of that unfold in one lifetime. But nobody, according to mister Tungatt, could have seen Trump serving two non consecutive terms, nobody except the guy who wrote the rule against three terms if you're non consecutive or any other kind of president. Once again, if they do this wrong, it would not apply. Just to suddenly Barack Obama, who will be sixty seven in the year twenty twenty eight, and Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton, who is still and would presumably still be two months younger than Trump, they would be eligible to run for their own third terms. Not so fast. What the trumpists are setting up in this scenario is a Supreme Court ruling that only presidents who've served two non consecutive terms can seek a third, as if that made any possible difference. Lisa Needham at the site Public Notice connects the final dots here in case you think this is just some guy named tung It with the kind of life you must have had if your name was tung It, expressing the frustrations of his impossible existence by writing this bullshit, it's not. He wrote it in The American Conservative, which, as Lisa Needam notes, is a quote partner en quote of Project twenty twenty five. So that's plot one. Plot two from Joel A. Ready of the Cornerstone Law firm and his site, which also features pieces on security deposit laws in Pennsylvania and courtroom movies to watch. This spring thinks you don't have to have an amendment or any alteration of the twenty second Amendment because quote the twenty second Amendment doesn't say what you think it says. This piece offers not only ways to ignore the twenty second Amendment, like the it doesn't say you can't serve a third term and only says you can't be elected to a third term, but it provides additional workarounds like electing an entirely different Republican ticket in twenty twenty eight and making Trump Speaker of the House and then getting the new electees to both resign immediately, which would make Speaker of the House Trump president without violating the constitution. Plot three. And the purists here will say this is actually just plot two. A. I like to think of it as a third, separate plot because it's important to remember that as stupid as all this sounds, this is deadly serious. This is the end of democracy, in its embryonic stage, in its fetal heartbeat stage, in its personhood stage. One of these infants in the womb will come out like Rosemary's Baby. Plot number three, the one minute presidency of JD. Vance. JD. Vance runs with some clown as his vice president, somebody who pays enough money. I mean, pick them, you're your choice here. My favorite would be Mike Lindell. The ticket Advance and Lindell gets elected and the Republicans retain the Senate and the House in twenty twenty eight, and the vance inaugural address on January twenty, twenty twenty nine consists of my fellow Americans. Vice President Lindell has resigned. I hereby advice the House and Senate, I am nominating as the new Vice president, Donald J. Trump. The Senate and the House convene same day, maybe because this wasn't planned in advance, and they each approved Trump as vice president. Whereupon, the moment that's sign sealed and delivered, Vance resigns as president. Trump accedes to the presidency having never been elected. And of course we could never actually have this happen in real life. We could never have a president who wasn't at least elected vice president. Oh right, Gerald Ford, Now there is a problem with this one. The last sentence of the twelfth Amendment is about the Electoral College, and the twelfth last sentence reads, quote, no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of president shall be eligible to that of Vice President of the United States. Well, they are already looking at that in the phony Bologne argument from the fascists. Here is that phrase constitutionally ineligible. The word constitutionally. They say that covers only the presidential eligibility terms in the Constitution, not the logical ones. And those terms are natural born citizen at least thirty five years old, resident for at least fourteen years. And what's even better from their perspective is they are quoting an NYU law professor who pointed all this out that the terms ineligible constitutionally ineligible only mean those three things citizenship, age, residency. The guy who pointed this out did so in the year two thousand and three because he was trying to get a former president to run for vice president, and that former president he wanted to be the vice president was Bill Clinton. The fourth one I've mentioned, the new one up is down, left is right, fiction is truth, The Constitution is itself unconstitutional. I'm sorry I've enjoyed parts of this. There is something to be said in unraveling how they have packaged this, how they have gotten around America to create new America. They have not been stopped. This has been going since twenty fifteen, with varying degrees of success. But this is the ultimate test, and they are bound to try it, in Trump's case, to literally die trying if need be. I will again quote Tim Snyder, and I have been quoting him so long that he he used to be at Yale and now he's at the University of Toronto because he got out while the getting out was good. Quote Triump is the classic dictatorial position. He needs to die in bed holding all executive power to stay out of prison. This means that he will do whatever he can to gain power, and once in power, will do all that he can to never let it go. This is a basic incentive structure which underlies everything else. It is entirely inconsistent with democracy. So if somebody tells you the fascists are joking about Trump in twenty twenty eight, or if somebody tells you, or if you believe the twenty second Amendment flat out precludes this, what are you all talking about? Just remember the only one on the right, the only one of the undead pretending to not be doing this right now, pretending to not be trying to get Trump a third term, or we don't even know what their reasons would be for further terms thereafter. The only one pretending to not be doing this, the only one pretending not to be in on the plot, the greatest crime in American history. The only one pretending not to be involved is Trump itself, and Trump itself denying this is an essential ingredient to the plot. Trump here is Julius Caesar refusing the crown, or Richard the Third refusing office. And remember what Tim Snyder says, and remember what I say, and God help you, remember what Greg Kelly says, and remember this above all else. The Trump political baseline mantra is the Hitler political baseline. Mantra is the Mao political baseline. Mantra is the pole Pot political baseline mantra quote, I'm going to do it, Try and stop me. The bad news among Thursday's headlines is Trump's nosferatu. Stephen Miller is still trying to ignore and bypass the courts. The good news is Miller is clearly too scared to just go ahead and do it. He's trying to create bullshit, legit sounding reasons to allow him to bypass the courts and yet not go to prison for contempt. As a result, the government has now invoked the state secrets privilege in the Kilmar Abrego Garcia abduction case. It clearly it is crap, but they've been voked it anyway, and Judge Zennis has only given them until Monday to file twenty five pages or less on what the f they think they are doing, and only until a week from tomorrow to prepare for an in person hearing about what the f they are doing. Clearly, since the most they've actually been able to dig up on this wrongly renditioned man that their own DOJ admitted was wrongly renditioned, so they fired the guy who admitted he was wrongly renditioned was the possibility that he was a driver for undocumented workers going from one state to another. There is no chance there are any state secrets involved in this case, and the point of this is the point of all Trump's court cases, to stall, to fill up the calendar with hearing after hearing and then appeal after appeal so they can run out the clock. Presumably both on the orders to return Abrego Garcia and all the possible contempt charges piling up against Stephen Miller and the leaders at Ice and hopefully that witch Christy Nome now with eight new action dress up outfits. As usual, when faced with the six foot thick walls of the actual remaining laws and actual remaining American principles, Trump and his minion and especially this Eichmann level nerd monster Miller, are simply stepping on the gas and headed right for the walls. They have not only installed these new hurdles in the Abrego Garcia case, but they are now kidnapping and renditioning immigrants to Libya at least they want to to a hellhole of a prison in a country in a state of full on civil war. They are basically sending people who, if nothing else, have a right to do process into a dangerous prison inside a dangerous country where there is every chance they can get killed inside the prison or outside the prison. They also apparently wanted to send other people they have kidnapped off our streets to Ukraine. This while the memo is out confirming reporting that America's intelligence agencies, now run by trumpists, had concluded that the entire excuse for all of this from kilmar Garcia through the Libya airliners is crap that there is no basis for President Scrooge McDuck to invoke the Alien Enemies Act because of the Venezuelan based gang trend Aragua, which must really piss Trump off because he had just managed to somehow learn to say the Intel community's conclusion, the Venezuelan govern does not control that gang, and the country's dictator Maduro also does not control that gang. Thus, any gang members here are not part of some kind of invasion, and thus they are not subject to the Alien Enemies Act. Thus, if the laws and the courts still have any purpose or influence here, Trump has to bring them all back and either let them go or give them the same hearings they would have gotten under Biden and every preceding president. This also raises the stakes for Miller and increases the chances that Judge Zennis or Judge Boseburg in the other case, may actually take the step of putting one of these bastards behind bars, at least briefly, for their continuing and now escalating contempt of court. Before the memo confirming all this was declassified and released. The New York Times reported the conclusions in the memo in March, and Trump's response, naturally, was to threaten prosecution, not of Stephen Miller, nor of Tom Homan, nor of Christy Nome, but of those who leaked it and those who printed it. Miller, Holman, Gnome, and of course Trump are Unamerican bastards, and if we do not stop them now, we will soon be deprived of the ability to do so. The only alien enemies here right now are the members and supporters of this rogue and immoral Trump dictatorship. Naturally, the Trump response to the whole thing, promote Stephen Miller to National Security Advisor, hasn't happened yet expected to within months, just as the response in trump Land to his asinine idea of an Anschluss in Canada and something akin to Mussolini invading Ethiopia in Greenland is for Trump to have the brain dead Director of National subpar Intelligence, Tulsey skunk Streak Gabbard, issued what is called a collection emphasis message to the chiefs of the various intel services to ramp up spying on Greenland, among other things. This will cue a search of both Greenland and Denmark for people there who want Trump to invade Greenland and annex it should be a pretty long search producing a pretty short list. But at underscores, we may wake up one morning to find out that overnight Trump has invaded Greenland and given the knee jerk reaction of so many in this country who view the world as a video game. I don't know what happens after that, besides a lot of the same blood and guts, flag waving and accusations of disloyalty that followed Bush attacking Iraq, and once again, like Iraq, this invasion would be in the interests of private industry. And no, we didn't go into Iraq for oil. We went into Iraq so we could have a war in Iraq, so we could use in Iraq all the weapons made by the Halliburtons of this country and employ all the Eric Prince mercenaries. Now we would be deploying to Greenland, maybe Denmark in order to get elon Musk his rare earths. Donald Trump does not know what rare earths are. He barely knows where Earth is. This is the same Musk for whom Trump is now pressuring countries facing tariffs to adopt Starlink, per the Washington Post, to bribe their way out of tariffs that way. This is the same Musk who reportedly just told a Milken conference that he expects a SpaceX mission to get to Mars next year and maybe a manned mission to Mars by twenty twenty eight. Cynics would say it is safe to assume Musk is high as a kite all the time, and he may be high as a kite and be the somewhat perturbed victim of that reported botched penile implant. But even if neither is true, that is exactly the way Elon Musk acts. In any event, this is not the first time. It is of special note that Musk keeps making these Mars predictions, and so far there is not one indication he's taken even the preliminary steps to make any of them come true. He made the next year prediction in March. He made it in December twenty twenty when he said the unmanned mission would occur within six years. In fact, quote, if we get lucky, maybe four. He made the prediction in September twenty sixteen, adding the competing people on Mars quote might kind of be in the ten year range. He also predicted a million humans on Mars by twenty fifty, and I'll just note for perspective, twenty fifty is now only as far ahead as two thousand is behind, and that nowhere did he predict that those million humans on Mars by twenty fifty would still be alive. Maybe that's Trump's next location for renditioning immigrants. So crazy Musk has already blown through his first prediction. If we're lucky, that would have been December twenty twenty four. As it is, he sent nothing to Mars. The fastest possible trip from here to Mars is seven months in length. More likely it's eight nine, ten months. Give him the benefit of the doubt. Here. The unmanned mission he's talking about must take off by next year, by next May, to get there by twenty twenty six, a year from now. It has to take off right now. Musk can't launch a cyber truck that your average American can't peel apart with their bare hands. But yeah, let's attack Greenland so this guy can get some rare earths. And if we're lucky, Trump will think we are going to Greenland to rescue the seventies band Rare Earth, and that they'll perform. I just want to celebrate and their cover of get Ready at the White House while he and Musk dance, or more correctly, while he and Musk make those spasmodic, embarrassing body movements. That is as close as either one of them will ever get to dancing. Meanwhile, Generalissimo Donaldo Trumpo is still nuts. There is a kind of brilliance in the SoundBite I am about to play for you asked about his blasphemous image in which he depicted himself as pope. He posted that image himself, he goes in a matter of seconds from A Catholics can't take a joke to B. There's no problem here with Catholics. It's fake news. To C, I didn't do it. To D, maybe it was AI. To E, I know nothing about this. To F, I just saw it for the first time. To G even though I know nothing about it and I had nothing to do with it, and I just saw it. I know Millenia liked it. This is magnificent in a way, completely insane, but magnificent.

Catholics, we're not so happy about the image of you looking like the Pope.

Catholics, we're not so happy about the image of you looking like the Pope.

Oh, I see.

Oh, I see.

You mean they can't take a joke. You don't mean the Catholics, you mean the fake news media, not.

You mean they can't take a joke. You don't mean the Catholics, you mean the fake news media, not.

The Catholics loved it.

The Catholics loved it.

I had nothing to do with it.

I had nothing to do with it.

Somebody made up a picture of me dressed like the Pope and put it out on the internet. That's not me that did it. I have no idea where it came from. Maybe it was Ai, but I know nothing about it. I just saw it last evening. Actually, my wife thought it was cute. She said, isn't that nice?

Somebody made up a picture of me dressed like the Pope and put it out on the internet. That's not me that did it. I have no idea where it came from. Maybe it was Ai, but I know nothing about it. I just saw it last evening. Actually, my wife thought it was cute. She said, isn't that nice?

It makes your head spin. Of course Trump's head is already spinning like an exorcist. And Trump confirmed he met with the insurrectionist Henry Tarrio with that metro sexual beard, and he told Tario to thank the January sixth insurrectionists. And then there is the insanity of him wanting to reopen Alcatraz, closed in nineteen sixty three because it was no longer viable, which followed by six hours Channel twenty six the PBS station in Miami playing the movie Escape from Alcatraz, and all of a sudden, Trump believes what he sees on PBS. Are there any films about Just to pick a topic, at random presidential suicide. Oh right, the Salvador Allende documentary. Hey, Channel twenty six, can you run the Salvador Allende documentary? And he wants one hundred percent tariffs on foreign made films and at least technically all films are foreign made, and John Voight gave him that terrify idea, and Trump doesn't realize. John Voight's career peaked when he played Milo Minderbinder in Catch twenty two in nineteen frickin seventy. The process is always the same. Tell Trump he's great, Tell Trump a lie he wants people to believe, and he will then do whatever you suggest next. Gee, mister president, I'm John Voight. You're great. Ever seen the Salvador Allende documentary? And of course the likeliest outcome to all of that will be no American made films get booked in any other country in the world, and prices here go up like egg prices went up, though he lied and said they went down. And then there was the part about rationing the dolls so your child only gets three and his military parade and the cancer causing wind mills in his mind.

It makes your head spin. Of course Trump's head is already spinning like an exorcist. And Trump confirmed he met with the insurrectionist Henry Tarrio with that metro sexual beard, and he told Tario to thank the January sixth insurrectionists. And then there is the insanity of him wanting to reopen Alcatraz, closed in nineteen sixty three because it was no longer viable, which followed by six hours Channel twenty six the PBS station in Miami playing the movie Escape from Alcatraz, and all of a sudden, Trump believes what he sees on PBS. Are there any films about Just to pick a topic, at random presidential suicide. Oh right, the Salvador Allende documentary. Hey, Channel twenty six, can you run the Salvador Allende documentary? And he wants one hundred percent tariffs on foreign made films and at least technically all films are foreign made, and John Voight gave him that terrify idea, and Trump doesn't realize. John Voight's career peaked when he played Milo Minderbinder in Catch twenty two in nineteen frickin seventy. The process is always the same. Tell Trump he's great, Tell Trump a lie he wants people to believe, and he will then do whatever you suggest next. Gee, mister president, I'm John Voight. You're great. Ever seen the Salvador Allende documentary? And of course the likeliest outcome to all of that will be no American made films get booked in any other country in the world, and prices here go up like egg prices went up, though he lied and said they went down. And then there was the part about rationing the dolls so your child only gets three and his military parade and the cancer causing wind mills in his mind.

Hey, wait a minute, oh, Nancy, like the gas that costs two dollars, like eighty three percent of eggs, never ending or beginning.

Hey, wait a minute, oh, Nancy, like the gas that costs two dollars, like eighty three percent of eggs, never ending or beginning.

Like a tariff on your legs, like a prison on an island that was closed in sixty three, Like a ninety dollars sir, charge on any movie you might see, like rationing the doll so your child only gets three mill tarily parading, but it's really just forummy, like the bullshit that you find in the windmills of Trump's mine. Buh, thank you, Nancy Faust. I have to confess I'm not exactly sure how I turned into Bernie Sanders while singing that, but there you have it. By the way, Nancy Faust is returning this Sunday as the organist at the Chicago White Sox game, the job she performed brilliantly for the White Sox for forty one years. Bravo. And incidentally, Nancy Faust immediately becomes the best player on the White Sox. Also of interest, here, a Minnesota woman calls a five year old the N word, and the lunatic right rallies to defend the woman and raises a million dollars for her. I don't know what we can do with all these people, except maybe sequester them in Wyoming or somewhere for their own safety. Also, I've seen a ghost. That's next. This is Countdown, the the the.

Like a tariff on your legs, like a prison on an island that was closed in sixty three, Like a ninety dollars sir, charge on any movie you might see, like rationing the doll so your child only gets three mill tarily parading, but it's really just forummy, like the bullshit that you find in the windmills of Trump's mine. Buh, thank you, Nancy Faust. I have to confess I'm not exactly sure how I turned into Bernie Sanders while singing that, but there you have it. By the way, Nancy Faust is returning this Sunday as the organist at the Chicago White Sox game, the job she performed brilliantly for the White Sox for forty one years. Bravo. And incidentally, Nancy Faust immediately becomes the best player on the White Sox. Also of interest, here, a Minnesota woman calls a five year old the N word, and the lunatic right rallies to defend the woman and raises a million dollars for her. I don't know what we can do with all these people, except maybe sequester them in Wyoming or somewhere for their own safety. Also, I've seen a ghost. That's next. This is Countdown, the the the.

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Do Do Do Doom. Let's go take two.

Do Do Do Doom. Let's go take two.

This is Countdown with Keith Oberman, my crazy friend.

This is Countdown with Keith Oberman, my crazy friend.

Still ahead. On this edition of Countdown. I saw ghost, I mean really a ghost. Not only that, but I recognized him immediately, and I knew why he was there with me. And there was our old commercial radio station run by Cornhill students in Anthaca, New York. And I knew why he was there. He wanted me to save the station. And on top of everything else, the ghost was laughing at me things I promised not to tell about ghosts. Next first, believe it or not, there's still more new idiots talk about the roundup of the mis grants, morons, undunning Kruger effects specimens who constitute the latest other worst persons in the world, the bronze worst Shiloh Hendrix on a playground in Minnesota. This white garbage saw a five year old black child trying to steal from her bag. Is not a good thing. I am not endorsing anybody stealing from anybody's bag. But Shiloh Hendrix did what anybody would do in this situation, anybody who's a racist scumbag who shares a name with a battle started and lost by the racist Confederate trader during the Civil War. She called the five year old boy the N word. When a Somali American man confronted Shiloh Hendrix, she called him the N word. Two there's video. It went viral, and the obvious then happened. Right wing groups raised seven hundred thousand dollars for her. The goal is a million. How because as the almost equally clownish Timpool you know, Beanie baby, the I'm bald and I'm not proud of it guy, how he put it quote, she's making money. This sends a message to other white people stop taking racial abuse. White guilt is largely over because in the world of Tim Poole, who is also white garbage, it's the racist woman named Shiloh from Minnesota who's the real victim here because she's so oppressed because she's white. Of course, she blurted out the N word because in her mind, she's tired of all these N words who are oppressing her by denying her the right to call them the N word. I'm going to quote from the ken Burn Civil War documentary. Now, Shiloh is a Hebrew word meaning peace. I wonder if anybody's told Shiloh Hendrix that fact, and if so, what she called them or what she calls Hebrews. The answer to the latter question may be provided by our runner up, Laura Lumer. Shiloh might use the phrase blood and soil to them Hebrews, as did this Trump whisper and school shooting denier, the one who has all that plastic melting on her face. Lumer. Lumer best described as it is writing about Shri Thanadar, the Indian American congressman from Michigan, who, as I mentioned the other day, has introduced the seven articles of impeachment against Trump. It's not enough for Lumer and the others to lash out against the impeachment. They have to attack the congressman and particularly his ethnicity, and to pretend that their attack, their racism, is actually somebody else's. And they're just giving these unnamed others a platform like Trump talking about a third term. I don't want this, they want it. This is Lumer quote. They are embarrassed by Shri Thanadar, So maybe he'll get a primary. I don't know. I mean, if he's such a heavy immigrant community, it'd be nice to have an American there, like a real blood and soil American. But if we can't get a real, true blood soil American to represent that district, and it has to be an immigrant, there's got to be at least a patriotic, pro Maga pro Trump, patriot immigrant who lives in that country. There's a terrible hypocrisy here on top of all the hate and the stupidity. Laura Lumer identifies as Jewish, and she dropped two blood and soil references in that quote. Blood and soil, of course, is not just a Nazi rallying cry. It was one of the first Nazi rallying cries from the twenties to evoke pure blood and arians and all those things. Lumer thinks Thanador is not all those things the Nazis and most of today's Trumpers actually believe Lumer is not. But she hasn't found that out about her quote, friends yet, because she thinks the current twenties are somehow different from the previous twenties. Oh boy, is she in't for a surprise, but the winner the worst. How do you top these racists stupidity? Christopher lan Deputy Secretary of State, the guy who theoretically is dumber than Marco Rubio. Apparently even others in the Trump Government of the Undead realize that the Deputy Secretary of State, Christopher Landau is a moron. He tweeted this alongside a photo of a thermostat. As Deputy Secretary of State, the number two official in our state department, You'd think I'd at least be free to set the temperature in my own office, where I spend some twelve hours a day. Well, you'd be wrong. The thermostat is encased in a locked container so that I have to call someone if it's too hot or cold. Seems like I should be trusted with this awesome responsibility, but I'll guess I'll have to work my way up to that level. Ps He adds. I asked the state official photographer who is in my office for another event to take this picture, because I'm also not allowed to bring a cell phone or camera into my own home office. If you want to blame somebody for the lack of trust, for the need to lock up the thermostat. Well, you've got to keep the thermostat locked, because otherwise Elon Musk will steal it and try to build a rocket out of it or attach it to his car and charge you twelve thousand dollars for it. If you want to blame somebody about the cell phone and the camera, Christopher, go talk to Mike Waltz, Pete the keg heg Seth, get him on a signal chat and ask them about this, or Rubio your boss. But it's interesting because Landou is a fascinating case. It may be just about him. It's possible that in the other offices they don't lock up the thermostats, lock up your thermostats. Landau's in town. He clerked for Clarence Thomas and Scalia, but he went to Harvard, which, as you know, his boss Trump is trying to put out of business. So every day he should go into that office of his and check not his thermostat, but should check whether his bosses hate him that day or love him that day. They must issue a calendar or something along with instructions on who gets to touch the Holy thermist out of Antioch and who, like Chris Landau, does not Christopher, he runs with scissors Landau two days other worse Porthidden. Go to the number one story on the countdown and my favorite topic me and I once saw a ghost. I have never talked about this before, not publicly anyway, but I once saw a ghost. And it wasn't one of these vague things where you're not sure what you're seeing or who you're seeing. I know exactly who the ghost was. I will get to this story, but first, the setup requires a cassette tape I found that dates from February nineteen seventy seven. And the damnedest thing about this cassette tape is, if you were familiar at all with cassette tapes, they used to have little pinholes at the top, little pieces of plastic that you were supposed to break out or break off or punch through after you were done recording on the tape so you could not accidentally record over the tape. And when I found this cassette the other day, these little things that you had to make not intact anymore, were still intact. So this tape has survived not only intact since nineteen seventy seven, but it has not been accidentally erased even though I left it eligible to be accidentally erased every day since February nineteen seventy seven, and it contains, among other things, the voice of the ghost. The setup here is The radio station involved is called WINR in Binghamton, New York. The man you will hear calling himself Tom Daniels is actually named Glenn Cornelius. He called himself Tom Daniels because that's what the jingle package said, and they had a variety of Tom Daniels's over the years at WINR in Binghamton. He was our friend Glenn who worked at WVBR, the Cornell radio station. I have mentioned m teen thousand times on this podcast. He was going to be the program director and tried to become the general manager of the station. And he was my original frenemy best friends. Helped me out in a thousand different situations as I did he and we once had a fist fight over a girl. He won the girl, and of course that turned out to be the best thing he ever did for me, but that's another story for another time. As they say so, Glenn is portraying Tom Daniels, and one weekend in the winter of nineteen seventy seven. He brought his friends me, Peter shack now and Pat Lyons that's now Patrick J. Lyons, executive Foreign Desk editor of The New York Times. He brought the three of us down there with him to see a real radio station, and he put Peter and I on the air, Peter doing a newscast and me doing the sportscast. The only part of this before I play this tape that requires a setup is the explanation of the vitamin B twelve joke. Peter used to introduce me on the newscast at WVBR, and he used to ask me a trivia question every Tuesday, and got so frustrated in my always getting the answers to his trivia questions that he changed the trivia question from a sports trivia question to a question, the answer to which was vitamin B twelve. And I didn't get it, and it became a running joke inside the studios of WVBR for quite a while. That's the setup. And then there is the additional detail that Glenn Cornelius portraying Tom Daniels on this next tape was the ghost I.