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Which is worse?

Which is worse?

That Trump is running a protection racket presidency and bribed one Senator to vote for his big, beautiful, soak the poor budget bill while metaphorically bumping off another Senator who wouldn't vote for it.

Or that Trump threatened Israel, threatened the government of Israel, threatened funds for Israel if Israel's courts won't do what he wants, and nobody here noticed that.

Which is worse?

Well, it's a trick question because these are actually just two versions of the same story.

It is a protection racket.

There are just two parts of the protection racket.

There is the domestic operations of the protection racket and the international operations of the same protection racket.

Trump is trying to take over control of everything in the world.

Tom Tillis, the vaguely responsible Republican senator from North Carolina, refused to let Trump politically rape him Saturday night and would not vote to advance the budget bill.

Trump had been threatening him for weeks months, then accelerated it finally began to ask online for volunteers to primary Tillis Tillis then announced yesterday he will retire from the Senate at the end of his term next year.

So much for mister Tillis.

So much for somebody, anybody in the Republican Party say saying I owe this country something.

I'm staying I'm going to fight this son of a bitch.

I don't care.

No, he's taking the noble way out.

He's going to just retire.

Retire to hell, you coward.

So much for the thought that when the country is up against it and the breaks are beating, the boys tell them to go out there with all they got and win, just one for the Tiller.

I don't know where I'll be then, but I'll know about it and I'll be happy.

Well, I know where Tom Tillis will be.

He'll be back home in Cornelius, North Carolina, or somewhere, presumably drinking heavily reflecting on how he represents the utter moral and ethical decline of the already near bankrupt and nearly totally declined Republican Party.

Tillis began by refusing nine years ago to vote on o Obamba's Supreme Court nominee in an election year, a made up rule that violated the Constitution, and we'll send Mitch McConnell to hell, do not pass, go, do not collect two hundred dollars.

Immediately, Tillis went from that to calling the Access Hollywood tape indefensible and then defending the man who's on the Access Hollywood tape, to co authoring legislation to protect the Robert Muller Special Council role, to voting with Trump anyway ninety percent of the time, to one last gasp from inside the Borg collective about what was right and what was wrong, to what he did the next morning, running the f away.

So now the Republicans will nominate somebody worse than Tom Tillis, somebody who doesn't even stand up for twelve hours before running away, somebody who walks in with a big sign already hanging around his or her neck, a homemade sign reading political prostitute.

The ideal choice would be Tim Scott, but of course he's already the Republican senatorial political prostitute from North Carolina.

I can't elect him twice.

I think, yes, that's right, We've elected Tim Scott again.

He's now two senators from North Carolina.

They might try somebody from the North Carolina delegation in Doctor Tungue's three D House of Representatives, but the seat will probably be up for grabs next year.

The Democrats have some candidates, so punch Bowl News is reporting buzz about the nrc SA chair Richard Hudson, and the RNC chair Michael Wattley, and a local gal from Wilmington named Lara Lee Yanaska, though you may know her by her married name Lara Trump.

And if you'd like to t the protection racket analogy and go instead with the crime family analogy, there you go.

For all I know, Tillis is running away because he didn't get the Murkowski and so much for that ass clown two.

I don't want to hear about what she might be able to do defend off Trump.

I don't want to hear about her ethical wrestling matches.

I don't want to hear about her Susan Collins concerns only with less kabuki theater makeup than Collins wears.

She saw what Trump's big beautiful crush the middle class, increase the debt by Trillion's bill and raise your electricity bill thirty percent bill would do to her, and she knew the difference between right and wrong wrong would have been missing her opportunity at a Trump bribe from the Times quote, a new provision allowing individuals in a non contiguous state to be exempt from enforcing new work requirements imposed on snap formerly known as food stamps, appeared aimed at mollifying Miss Murkowski of Alaska.

Her state would be hit with billions of dollars in nutrition assistance costs as a result of the legislation, and she had cited the provision as one of her chief concerns.

She's very concerned.

The bill also includes new health provisions designed to benefit Alaska, as well as new tax benefits for fishermen in the state.

Waters of any guesses Alaska.

Well, congratulations, Senator Murkowski.

You successfully sold out three hundred and thirty million Americans to benefit the seven hundred and forty thousand Alaskans, and cleverly you did it without checking first with the Senate parliamentarian, who promptly ruled at the how to buy Alaska's vote.

Proviso violates the Bird Rule, which prohibits extraneous, well, among other things, extraneous bribery from budget reconciliation measures in the Senate.

Sorry Murkowski, you sold your soul for nothing.

There will be no Murkowski carveout, and there will be no refund.

Of course, now we have to watch to see how soon before Trump starts to threaten the Senate parliamentarian, or if the Senate Parliamentarian vanishes.

I'm not even going to mention the name of the Senate Parliamentarian.

I'll just mention they have been praised in the past by John Thune and John Cornyn, and they have served under the last four Ping pong administrations democratic, Republican, democratic, and of course the most recent one fascist dictatorial.

Oh and about threatening Israel.

Trump is both so out of control but also so gone in the head that he posted two startling things, startling even for him on his crapshack social media site.

One was evidently some kind of private thank you note intended for somebody named Jamie, which he somehow for some reason posted instead on quote truth it's a brand name, unquote social Now, Jamie could have been JD.

Vance.

I mean, we don't really know how many different names he's had in his past.

We think it's just these three, but he could be Jamie, could have been Jamie Fox, could have been Jamie Fox.

Because maybe Trump thinks Jamie Fox and Fox News are the same thing.

Who knows the other thing that he posted was an attempt to take his protection racket presidency and extend it to bullying and owning the courts in other countries.

Who is the John Roberts of Israel?

Who is the Elito?

Who is the Clarence Thomas quote?

It is terrible what they are doing in Israel to bb nothing Yahoo, He is a war hero and a prime minister who did a fabulous job working with the United States Brakes greats and says got her into dangerous nuclear threat in a ret By the way, they didn't get rid of the dangerous nuclear threat in Iran.

They're going to be enriching the uranium within a month.

Importantly, he is right now in the process of negotiating a deal with a MAS which has been negotiating since October of twenty twenty three, which will include getting the hostages back.

Yeah.

How is it possible that the Prime Minister of Israel can be forced to sit in a courtroom all day long over nothing?

Cigars, bugs, bunny doll, et cetera.

It is a political witch hunt very similar to the witch hunt that I was forced to endure this travesty blah blah blah blah blah, interfere with bother of blah blah, bah bah blah blah blah.

The United States of America spends billions of dollars a year, far more than on any other nation, protecting and supporting Israel.

We're not going to stand for this.

We just had a great victory with Prime Minister net and Yahoo at the Helm, and this greatly tarnishes our victory.

Let bb go.

He's got a big job to do.

I've read a lot of political analysis of this, domestic and some international, and not once do I see anybody telling it to co sell you briefly, like it really ease.

That's a threat.

That's a threat by the President of the United States against the State of Israel.

That is a threat against Israel to cut American funding, to cut the billions of years llians of dollar a year.

That's a threat if the courts don't do what the president wants.

Not the president of Israel, the president of the United States, which is a different country now ordinarily throughout our history, and Israel's an American president publicly threatening Israel.

That would be the moment, we said, and that's when his political career ended.

But of course Trump's support of Israel isn't about Israel or Jewish people.

He doesn't like either of them.

It's about the evangelicals here and their apocalyptic vision of the end of the world.

How Netnyahu fits into the rapture.

If an Iranian mulla suddenly swapped hairstyles and headgear and pronounced that Mike Kakabee is absolutely right and God had just told him so, Trump would support the mulla to replace Netnyahu.

Immediately he threatened Israel and just to make this a little worse, it seems like it may have worked.

Remembering the law of A and then B that B is not always caused by A from the Reuters reporter in Jerusalem quote.

The Jerusalem District Court canceled this week's hearings in Prime Minister Netanya Who's long running coruption trial, accepting a request the Israeli leader made, citing classified diplomatic and security grounds.

It was unclear whether a social media post by US President Trump influenced the court's decision.

Trump suggested blah blah blah blah blah blah blah, Where's Chuck Schumer on this?

Where's Chuck Schumer, whom Trump keeps calling a quote Palestinian.

Where's Chuck Schumer standing up for once in his life and saying, I am a Palestinian.

You fat You just threatened to cut funds from Israel, just threatened to cut off American funds from Israel.

You anti Semite bastard.

Where is Kristin Gilibrand?

Where's Kristin Gilibrand calling Trump an anti Semite or at least anti Israel.

Where is she?

Kristin Gilibrand, who, by the way, has now done exactly two things since assuming her Senate office in two thousand and nine and becoming the most inert Democratic senator in history.

She went nuts on radio on NPR Live for Christ's sakes, repeating every maga lie about the Democratic candidate for mayor of New York, which is in the state of New York, which apparently Senator Jilibrand does not know, every maga lie about Zoran mom Donny, who is not an Tai Semitic and has not praised the Intifada, and he is bronx.

He's a lot of other things too, but he's bronx.

In fact, he's Bronx science, which makes him more American than I am, because I didn't actually go to school in the Bronx.

I'm just from the Bronx.

Kristen Gillibrand now adds to being the first to move to force out al Franken from the Senate for something that would now be deemed insufficient to get him into the Trump administration.

Al Franken, who was a thousand times the Senator Gillibrand would be if she served one thousand years.

She has now added to that an attack on the Democratic nominee in the biggest city that she represents in the Senate allegedly represents because you will never convince me she's not in the the Senate from New York as some kind of bizarre witness relocation program thingy.

He does not support violent intifida?

Is that fair?

So, Brian, I didn't hear your exchange with him, but if I was speaking to him directly, I would simply say, that is not how the words are received, and it doesn't matter what meaning you have in your brain, it is not how the word is received.

And when you use a word like is sofada to many Jewish Americans and Jewish New Yorkers.

That means you are permissive for violence against Jews.

It is a serious word.

It is a word that has deep meaning.

It has been used for wars across time, and violence and destruction and slaughter and murder against the Jews.

It is a harmful, hurtful, inappropriate word for anyone who wants to represent a city as diverse as New York City with eight million people.

And I would be very specific in these words, and I would say you may not use them again if you expect to represent everyone ever again, because they are received as hateful and divisive and harmful.

And that's it.

So I appreciate that he told you he didn't mean that, and that's great.

Rat also clarifyre he was clarifying that he never said globalized the antifada.

He was asked in an interview if he would denounce the phrase globalize the antifada, and then that led to this kind of conversation.

You know that you were just referring to, but that he was never out there saying globalized the antifada.

He was asked about other people who used it.

So just just to be precise about what happened there.

Yes, well, as a leader of the city of diversites, New York City with eight million people, as the largest Jewish population in the country, we should denounce it.

And that's it, period.

And you can't celebrate it, you can't value it, you can't lift it up.

And that is what that is the challenge.

She should be institutionalized.

No one has ever heard her speak that fast, frenzied, nor that insane, nor addressing anything.

She's completely wrong, obviously, but she's so animated about it.

This is the first time Jillibrand has managed to confirm she's not some sort of plastic blow up doll, but an actual human being.

And how does she do it?

She does it but losing her mind and attacking very possibly the most responsible politician who happens to be a Muslim in this country, a guy who is far more of a New Yorker than she is.

Resign, Get out, you're worthless, Maga parroting Albany clown.

Resign.

She now says she misspoke.

I'll tell you when she misspoke.

She misspoke when she took the oath of office.

I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.

That's when she misspoke.

You just carried Trump's water for him, you moronic cipher.

You just carried Cuomo's water for him, and Trump's and Curtis Sliwa, you know, the Guardian Angels idiot in the stupid beret.

You carried the water of all those people against the Democratic nominee in the biggest city you represent.

By the way, let me tell you something.

Apparently you don't know, Senator Jillibrand.

You are in the Democratic Party, and you know what's going on behind the scenes here right that she played right into.

I would assume she was part of this, except she's too stupid to be a part of anything planned.

A New York Post financial reporter writes, quote, prominent donors are gunning to get Republican mayoral nominee Curtis Sliwa a job in the Trump administration in hopes of pushing him out of New York City's mayoral race.

Source has told me the aim is to open up the GOP nomination and the nearly thirty percent of the vote someone running in that lane is expected to get four Current Mayor Eric Adams, so Adams could run as the Republican nominee against I'm Danny Adams could run pretending to be the anti anti Semitism candidate and get introduced by Sneako, and Curtis Sliwa could become Trump's new Secretary of Berets.

And I was reminded that last November, the guy who isn't oraon Mamdani, whom Jillibrand just helped.

Sliwa said this on Staten Island to an Israeli reporter regarding anti Semitism.

This is right before the last election.

Quote.

I tell the Jews all the time, I'm a gentile.

It's in our DNA.

You need to wake up and understand that we always blame the Jews no matter what happens.

Curtis Sliwa, whom Jillibrand helped by the way President protection Racket, gave his game away about New York too yesterday with Maua Badawomo quote, whoever's mayor of New York is going to have to behave themselves or the federal government is coming down very tough on them financially.

We already know this drill.

Trump wants Cuomo as mayor no matter what he says about Cuomo.

But Adams will do because they dropped the corruption charges against Adams and made sure they could reinstate them at any point.

And they already announced the investigation of Cuomo and they could charge him at any point.

So with Mayor Cuomo or Mayor Adams, Trump can blackmail them into anything, especially into letting Trump's ISIS raids continue here.

And now we have the money injected into the equation by Trump, I will go back to the one solution to all this swallowed up by Trump's Los Angeles ISIS raids.

The day after the solution was spoken by Gavin Newsom June sixth.

Haven't heard it since for obvious reasons.

But this is it.

What are we going to do this?

We're going to do this.

What could we possibly do to stop Trump?

This?

This is what we can do stop Trump.

Are there any solutions?

It seems like every guardrail this is the guardrail.

What he wrote on June sixth was the governor, Californians pay the bills for the federal government.

We pay over eighty billion dollars more in taxes than we get back.

Maybe it's time to cut that off.

Donald Trump, it's going to reach that point.

It is a protection racket.

And the only thing that stops a protection racket in the absence of law enforcement, and law enforcement is part of the protection racket.

The only thing is to have a greater financial gun pointed at the people running the protection racket than they have pointed at you.

Let's get to it right now.

Let's get it started right now.

Never mind the midterms, never mind twenty twenty eight.

We'll deal with them when they happen.

We can deal with this now.

The Blue states and their attorneys general and their tax experts and their governors should convene right now with Gavin Newsom and see what can be done to stop forwarding federal tax money to the federal government from the Blue States right now, to starve Trump into submission right now.

Starve him because A it will work, and because B in our sad times, this is actually the closest thing we will see for decades to ethical.

We used to split our big decisions in life fifty to fifty, or at least it seemed that way as late as when I was in college and in my twenties and in my thirties.

People quit jobs on principle, or at least on the fear of getting caught.

People did things and didn't say but I got paid a million dollars to do this, and everybody didn't just go, oh, okay, it's all right.

Then I'm not just judging here.

I took a job at Fox once, lots of reasons, lots of ancillary fact.

There's the tipping point was they were going to pay me five times when I was making at NBC.

I've done it.

But we used to do this on a fifty to fifty basis.

Half your decisions in life for you, half your decisions in life for you and everybody basically ethics or cash.

Now what is it ninety nine to one?

When was the last time somebody did anything, anything important, anything permanent, irretrievable, because to do otherwise was just wrong.

I'll wait.

Murkowski not only did she not do that, she didn't even do anything smart.

She sold out and it turned out she doesn't get what she sold out for till us.

I have taken my stand, and now I'm going to run away and the rest of you can deal with this, cause I'll be in North Carolina.

And what's not like it's going to affect me.

It's not like the stochastic terrorism is ever going to affect me just because we had a political assassination in this country earlier this month, Trump, anybody named Trump, to do something right rather than for profit.

Starve the federal government, Starve Maga, Starve Trump, and they'll understand.

They will fold immediately because they will do what's right to protect their money.

In times like this, I always think of one scene from what I think is probably the most underrated motion picture of all time.

It was considered a bomb when it came out.

I think it should be considered a classic.

It's improved over the half a century since its release to no, that's actually very good.

But when it came out, people were so disappointed because the book was so big and rich and nuanced, then layered and intricate, you couldn't have made a perfect movie out of it.

This is actually almost a perfect movie.

It's called Catch twenty two.

This is after Lieutenant Nately, the character who's played by of all people, Art Garfunkle, gets blown up when the American generals and Lieutenant Milo Minderbinder make a deal with the Germans.

The Germans will pay full value for some worthless cotton from minder Binders so called syndicate he's running the black market during the Second World War, if the Americans will bomb their own air base on behalf of the Germans.

Now, if this sounds familiar to you, like it's something that's been in the news recently, well that's because Trump now claims the Iranians responded to the bombing of their nuclear sites by warning us in advance they were going to go and bomb the US base at Katar, And Trump says, they said, what time, one o'clock?

And Trump says, I said, one o'clock is fine, and we let them bomb us.

After the bombing run in the movie Catch twenty two, Martin Balsom says, as the bombs are following American bombs on an American base to pay off a deal with the Germans, Martin Balsom says, it's all part of the contract.

Isn't that what we're fighting for?

Anyway?

The dialogue that I'm referring to sums up America right now today and sums up what Michael Nichols, the director, saw coming when he made the movie in nineteen sixty nine.

In nineteen seventy.

What Joseph Heller must have seen when he wrote the novel in nineteen fifty three and when he lived this experience in the Second World War.

Nately is dead, literally blown to pieces.

Yosarian is his friend, the protagonist, played to perfection in the movie by Alan Arkin.

Lieutenant Minderbinder.

Nately died a wealthy man, Yusrian.

He had over sixty shares in the syndicate, Yosrian.

What difference does that make.

He's dead, minder Binder.

Then his family will get it.

Y'sarian.

He didn't have time to have a family, minder Binder.

Then his parents will get it.

Y'sarian.

They don't need it, they're rich.

Minder Binder.

Then they'll understand.

That's today's Maga, that's today's Republicans.

That's Tom Tillis, that's Murkowski, that's John Roberts, that's all of them.

They don't need it.

They'll rich.

Then they'll understand that's today's Trump, that's today's America.

By the way, for real, belly laugh.

In the movie, that character, the ultimate cynic, the ultimate grifter, Milo Minderbinder is played also perfectly by John Voight.

Headlines Headlines so many headlines.

Number one Washington Posts the United States obtained intercepted communications between senior Iranian officials assessing this month's military strikes on Iran's nuclear program and remarking that the attack was less devastating than they had expected.

Per four sources, the communication intended to be private.

Did you copy?

Hag seth On?

This included Iranian government officials speculating as to why the strikes directed by Trump were not as destructive and extensive as they anticipated per sources.

I'm waiting to hear that Trump, who has promised to sue all the news organizations who say that it was not obliteration.

I'm waiting for him, after bombing Iran, to sue Iran for not saying they got really, really obliterated.

Senator Roger Marshall, you remember him, the one who thinks our last great terrorist attack in this country is pronounced nine to one one.

Senator Roger Marshall disagrees.

He claims that Trump strikes led to total devastation of the Iran in nuclear facilities, citing my assessment.

Everything I can see, I'll just add everything I can see.

Senator Marshall is a gynecologist.

Headline number two.

Trump made up a statistic.

If his budget bill were to fail.

He said there would be a sixty eight percent tax increase.

This is what he used against Tillis.

Tillis is supporting a sixty eight percent tax increase.

Made up where he got it where he saw it?

I don't know.

I'm assuming Jamie told him about it.

There is the possibility that the President of the United States of America currently actively has an invisible friend named Jamie, which would increase his total no number of friends to one number three.

Oh, by the way, we no longer have a constitution.

Oops.

The Supreme Court did not just rule that a federal district judge cannot stop a presidential proclamation even if it is illegal, even if it would, say, kill people.

The Supreme Court said, if it's illegal, even if it could kill people, a federal judge cannot really delay it, let alone overrule it.

Let's just cut right to the extreme here.

Trump has already issued a presidential proclamation demanding Miles Taylor be investigated for treason and anybody associated with Miles Taylor.

What if Trump now ratchets it up.

I mean, he's losing his mind actively every day.

There's something else that makes no sense, Jamie.

What if he suddenly issues a presidential proclamation and who the hell's going to stop him?

Now a judge in Israel?

If he so.

Suddenly declares that twenty people, including Miles Taylor, just for the sake of argument, are guilty of treason, you know, how far do you want to take this.

Let's cut out the courts thing.

I'm Trump.

I'm now going to be the courts.

I'm going to make the decisions and the outcomes and the sentences.

I am both judge and judy.

What if he does that, who's going to stop him?

So what if it's totally illegal and Miles Taylor sues or one of the other twenty people on the list of these people are treason is decapitate them?

They sue, and a federal judge issues a temporary restraining order while it goes up to the Supreme Court, and good luck up there, Miles.

Oops, you other nineteen are not part of this lawsuit.

You're out of luck.

You remain on the kill list.

That's the problem.

You have to be part for a federal judge anywhere to overrule a crazy ass president doing illegal things.

For a federal judge to step in and just stop it.

Let alone overruling it.

Just delay it for thirty days or thirty minutes to be delayed.

You can only be protected by that delay if you're part of some sort of class action suit.

If Miles Taylor and the other nineteen don't sue, the judge can save the one person who sued, or if they coordinate everybody in the class action suit.

If they don't, sorry, the rest of you are dead.

Obviously, this is the worst case scenario.

On the other hand, Trump is the worst case scenario.

The Supreme Court of the United States the worst case scenario, because the actual case will simply the one we're talking about here that precipitated all this will simply strip citizenship from people born in this country.

This will happen next October.

If you doubt it will happen next October, I'd like to congratulate you on waking from that coma you fell into late in twenty fourteen.

It's not that we're going fascist or dictatorial.

We've gone fascist.

We've gone dictatorial.

This asshole president is telling the courts in Israel what to do, and they're doing it.

If some of the people who have citizenship stripped, and don't say that too many times too fast.

If some of them sue, maybe a district court can put a hold on it.

But if they're not in the suit, they're gone abreco garcia.

If they are in the suit, and of course it eventually goes to the Supreme Court, then I say, oh, guess what Scotus has been bought corrupt another concierge Trump Court.

He's already boasting about that.

Now.

Of course, if Milania Trump did skirt the law getting her citizenship, I don't know what does that mean about Baron Trump?

Does he have to spend his whole life wondering if somebody is gonna try this routine on him?

Maybe he should start looking for that class action suit right now?

You never know.

It's spike strips thrown a few miles ahead on the road of justice, which leads us to headline number four, the human strike strike strip or spike strip in English.

Stephen Miller.

Stephen Miller owns between one hundred and one hundred thousand and one dollars and two hundred and fifty thousand dollars in financial stock in Pallunteer Technologies or Polantier Technologies.

One of the biggest contractors of ikes isis that, according to his recent financial disclosure in a report by the Project on Government Oversight, Miller owns stock between one hundred k and two hundred and fifty k in one of the leading contractors for ice see he has put his money where his evil is and headline number five in a set of five collect them all.

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Contestants then four years, later five years, later the next Time i'm on, it it's, politics It's, washington it's, Me Gretchen, carlson AS i referred To Al franken before he was senator and Before Kristen jillibrand sabotaged.

Him they reveal the jeopardy category pote pourri potent potables blah blah blah blah blah, blah and Then Prime Time.

Presidents my jaw.

DROPS i, said what is, That, alex And trebek, Says Primetime, Presidents Saturday Night live characters who portrayed presidents over the.

Years AND i just looked At al and he laughed and, smirked AND i looked and looked at the audience and did?

It what AM i missing?

Here al ran the.

Category he had control of the board because of the coin, flip and he ran the.

Category he answered all five questions before any of us could get in because the first words were clues to, him because he wrote four of the five sketches on which the questions were.

Based SO i said after, that WHEN i next got the, Board, ALEX i expect the Final jeopardy category at better goddamned Be SportsCenter anchors from the nineteen.

Nineties, oh she's a great great ant aunt of the.

Contestant it's, Like, oh it's a.

Conflict it's a.

Fix, no, no, no this was a.

Fix they Fixed Celebrity jeopardy.

TWICE i won't Forget frebec.

Anyway the Bronze Emily compenno or a Compagno the nice thing about being On fox is you can be, stupid as stupid As trump guessing as he did the other, day that The Civil war ended in eighteen sixty, nine and the audience will never call you out on it because the audience is far more.

Stupid this is What Emily compagno, Said Ma'm danny is talking about, Handouts he's talking about.

Gimmicks the reason older people think of socialism as breadlines is because they lived Through World WAR ii and through communist.

Adventures World War two ended eighty years ago this, summer meaning the youngest people who lived Through World War two are literally eighty and they were.

INFANTS i don't think they remembered these communist adventure.

Breadlines Ms.

Compagno as old As fox's audience.

Is if you.

Were six When Pearl harbor was, bombed you are or you are about to turn, ninety not even the Average fox viewer is.

Ninety but actually the stupidest part is the bread.

Lines the breadlines in this country had nothing to do with.

Socialism, socialism in, fact cured the.

Breadlines socialism the breadlines began in this country Under Herbert hoover nineteen twenty Nine President Republican President Herbert.

Hoover and if you remember The republican breadlines because of The republican unrestrained capitalism, depression you're way over ninety.

Something you cannot say About Emily COMPAGNO'S, iq the runner Up Worsir Chris, Cuomo he remarkably, enough is actually the Dumb cuomo.

Brother he hates the person who is killing The Democratic.

Party, well this is.

News he hates his, brother his corrupt, Brother.

Andrew, oh he doesn't Mean.

Andrew Jim clyburn Thinks andrew is the future of The Democratic party when he's like my Age Eleanor Holmes, norton who's running for office again at, whatever late, eighties early.

Nineties, no the person who's killing The Democratic, party according To Chris, cuomo Is Alexandria Acasio.

Cortez on his show on The nick At night OF tv News News, Nation Chris cuomo decided the country is full Of iranian cells or, something and it's the fault of her quoting.

Him this is why immigration resonated with the, many not just.

Maga the majority is not afraid of, migrants As trump may, like but they are afraid of these Guys iranian nationals with jihadist.

Sympathies you let them in with a laxity THAT aoc and other radicals insisted.

On and the far left is actively embracing people who are the enemy pro, hamas people who chant, globalize The, intifada The palestinian uprising characterized by over one hundred and thirty suicide.

Bombings, Really chris really is.

Stupid i'm not picking ON, Aoc you're picking on.

HER i respect her success in developing a.

Following she has a, job in other, words in.

Politics you and your, brother.

DON'T i just think that she's killing her.

Party she's a deranged form Of.

Democrat please sue, Him please sue him for whatever three or four dollars he has.

Left AND i am pointing her out because she's at the top of the food.

Chain a RECENT cnn pull she found she's the Top democratic leader who best reflects the core values of The Democratic.

Party this is By democratic.

Voters she ranked higher Than Harris Jeffrey's newsome Even.

Obama are you kidding?

Me she couldn't be less about what made The Democratic party.

Great apparently you are.

Wrong Your Democratic party was killed off by people Named cuomo who did make The Democratic party?

Great, chris why his Dad Mario?

Cuomo you know, WHAT i was a big fan Of Mario.

CUOMO i met him once and it was a great.

Honor but having Watched andrew And Chris cuomo these last ten fifteen years or, so BEFORE i believe they are Actually mario's, Sons i'm gonna have to see paternity.

Tests Andrew, cuomo you know what he.

Did let's briefly review What chris.

Did chris was while anchoring primetime news ON, cnn serving as his brother's media advisor at meetings with other advisors during a crisis a political.

Scandal while he was a newscaster allegedly covering the same scandal on the air AT, cnn he helped to whitewash his BROTHER'S covid scandals and women's scandals on the, air and when called on this conflict of, interest his solution to covering his brother's scandal was to not cover it, all to just drop the, subject rather than doing what you would do in this, situation which is to, say good, Evening I'm Chris, cuomo and this is The Chris Cuomo i'm smarter than you are, show and our first story is about my, brother the governor Of New.

York so we'll cover that, now AND i will step aside and turn it over for five minutes to anybody else who works.

Here that's how you cover.

It that's how you avoid a conflict of.

Interest you step, aside your newscast covers.

It you have nothing to do with.

It you can't rebutt, it you can't deal with.

It that's how you cover it if you're a.

Journalist happily For Chris, cuomo he's not a.

Journalist he never was a.

Journalist he's A tv guy and also not very good at.

It he went on the air and simply solved this conflict of interest that he might say something favorable to his corrupt brother who would have to resign as governor of a.

State he simply settled this by not covering the story at, all in other, words covering it.

Up aocized the problem with The Democratic, party not The cuomos Or kristin Gilibrand, london but our, winner the Worst, Senator Bernie, moreno the idiot senator From ohio who replaced the previous idiot senator From OHIO Jv vance when he became the Idiot Vice President moreno was On Laura Ingram's fox show and claimed about The iran bombing, that as we, know was the greatest event in world history Since christ came back from the, dead at least according To.

Trump he, Said Senator moreno To Laura, ingram the operation that you ran will go down in the anals Of American.

History you can hear the clip.

ONLINE i could risk playing it for you, here but Knowing, fox this would be the one they would complain.

About you'll have to trust.

Me he said, It he, said.

Anals why WOULD i bother to make up something stupid On fox when they produce one hundred stupid things a day without any writer's.

Embellishments he said Of, iran the operation that you ran will go down in the anals Of American.

History, SENATOR i believe the word is pronounced.

ANNALS i think you meant.

ANNALS i hope you meant.

Annals Senator, bernie please don't talk To lauringram about.

Anals, moreno two days are five person to the number one story on The countdown and THINGS i promised not to, tell and it is hardly that.

Today in, fact it is more accurately show and.

Tell there is no particular excuse for, this except for the fact THAT i found these the other.

Day they are three SPORTSCASTS i did in the first ten weeks of my professional, career From july Through september of nineteen seventy, nine and to, me the fun part of this is hearing the old timy names and a few events that are still talked, about like the night of the infamous disco demolition In chicago and one of the many Nights Nolan ryan bid for a no hit.

Game and then there's reporting on the retirement of one of my favorite players and SOMETHING i could not physic do today THAT i did that.

Day you don't have to listen to all of.

THEM i won't take it.

Personally you don't have to listen to any of them in.

Fact but in their, defense they're each just two minutes.

Long the first one was on the morning Of, Tuesday july, tenth nineteen seventy.

Nine the thousand stations on The united Pres International radio NETWORK Upi audio were expecting to hear our sports Director Sam, rosen their usual morning, man to appear on their feed for the nine forty FIVE am, sportscast but at about eight forty eight.

Am sam had told the new guy me THAT i wasn't just training and watching him do all those.

SPORTSCASTS i would be doing the nine forty five.

Surprise what you will hear first is the talk up, newscasters business, reporters sportscasters would tell the stations live that they were there and that their broadcast was coming up exactly ten seconds From.

Mark stations live sports will, begin preceded by one second to coming up ten seconds From.

Mark, INCIDENTALLY i never figured out Who mark was here it is here's the sports.

Guest good.

Morning three members of The Houston astros named this morning to Manager Tommy Losorda's National league pitching staff for Next Tuesday's All Star.

Game top Winner Joe nicro tapped By, lesorda along With Joaquin andehar and Reliever Joe.

Sambido routing out the, staff Veteran Steve carlton Of philadelphia and Gay Lord perry of The, Padres Steve rodgers Of, montreal The Cubs Bruce suiter.

And Cincinnati's Mike.

Lacas and speaking of The All, stars you would Think Don baylor and his EIGHTY rbi would be a shoe in for the al.

Outfield baylor drove in another run last night as The angels Whipped boston six to.

Nothing but matter of, fact he placed fourteenth in the.

Voting the most important thing for me right now is just to win on This.

BLOKA a lot of people have brought up to The All star, thing AND i can't do anything about.

That you, know those voter any things THAT i can't do something.

About this fall closing on side produced on this club.

Warf when they did last night As Nolan ryan struck out.

Twelve that Puts california a half game up On texas in The.

West elsewhere in The american The orioles lead is up to.

Three in The, east they Beat oakland by the score of seven to.

Three it was The Blue jays Seven milwaukee, One minnesota Over detroit five to three As Jerry kuzman won his Eleventh The White sox Stopped texas five to.

Four In cleveland OVER kc eight to.

Two The New York yankees were, off but they made an important move for their pennant hopes the activation of injured relief Pitcher Rich gossage over in The National Montreal's eastern lead is up to five and a.

Half Bill lee blanked The dodgers three Zip phillies over The giants four to, two The cardinals Beating cincinnati six to three In chicago Seven atlanta.

Four at The Padam.

Games In San juan a big upset and the eight hundred meter Run American James robinson Shocking Cuban olympic Champ Alberto.

Jantarina THE us boosted its gold medal total to eighty.

One both the men's and.

Women's basketball teams remain, undefeated and for the second time in his, Career Crack Montreal canadian's Goaltender Ken Drive and has called it, quits dried and going back to the law books at the age of thirty.

One this time it looks, permanent though the habs saying the big goalie is welcome back at any.

Time from a sports desk if You United Press, International I'm Keith.

Oberman what NO nfl camp news?

Today that whole sports guest would be nothing BUT nfl camp.

News well it's not bad CONSIDERING i was twenty years old AND i was going on no.

SLEEP i was having an out of body, experience and the tape is running a little, FAST i should tell you about that tone that starts each one of.

These the tone was used for automated.

Stations that would be the signal for them to take the network as it, were and put me on their automated, stations and it had another automated quality to.

It the guy who succeeded me once went in there a little, impaired and when the tone generator did not generate the tone because somebody had switched it off instead of just doing his sportscast, anyway he got up and.

Left they threw him back in the booth and somebody shouted.

Talk they fired him not long.

After so That's, tuesday my first sportscast as a.

Professional By, FRIDAY i was on my.

OWN i was anchoring the night shift AT, upi six sportscasts one an, hour starting at five forty.

Five the big news that day was what had happened the night before at The Tigers White sox, doubleheader when The socks tried to tap into the nation's sincere anti disco eitgeist by blowing up a bunch of disco records between.

Games, what as the kids, say could possibly go.

Wrong after pondering the evidence for the better part of the, Day American league President lee McPhail has forfeited the second game of last Night's Chicago detroit doubleheader to the Visiting.

Tigers between, games anti disco promotional event escalated into big trouble and estimated seven thousand fans stormed the field and wreaked.

Havoc the second game never got.

Underway socks Centerfielder Chet lemon was upset by the, forfeit but as he told, reporters there was more to worry about last night than who won and who.

Lost you know THAT i could do or say anything like, that only anything.

About, it you, know there's the only things that happened was out of my.

Control i'm happy THAT i can go out the day and play.

BASEBALL i think we're lucky that every ball player is able to walk around and nobody get.

Hurt, everybody just not only the ball, players with anybody that was pushing enough to get away from here last night without getting hurt or anything like.

That is that has to be, Pushing you, know it.

Happens you know it's a, shame but it.

Happens it's just the way.

The social system.

Is detroit And chicago are scheduled for a plain old night game later.

Today, meanwhile the disc jockey who led the anti disco stunt refused to take the blame for the.

Incident Steve dahl said it was not his.

Fault he claims the media have distorted the event and other baseball.

News The Cincinnati reds have extended Manager john McNamara's.

Contract McNamara will be skipper In cincinnati at least through the nineteen eighty.

Season it'll be The United states In Puerto rico tonight playing for the basketball gold medal at The Pan American, games and THE us will have Coach Bobby knight at.

Courtside knight today got a postponement of his assault trial until the twenty second of next.

Month also this, evening The american women's hoop squad goes for gold Against.

Cuba in action this, afternoon THE us took golds in both men's and women's tennis, doubles and Mel purcell took the men's single.

Title in, Golf Ed daugherty is all alone atop The Greater Milwaukee.

Open he shot a six hundred sixty six, today one stroke ahead Of Vick.

Regolato and at The Women's open In, Connecticut Sandra palmer And Debbie massy share the, lead that, is early in the second.

Round from the sports, desk have You United Press.

International I'm Keith.

OVERMAN i love Chet lemon there saying it wasn't.

Him it was the, system, Man it's the.

System by the, Way guess who was the organist At Kamiski park for that disco demolition night for The White sox And tigers on that night In august of nineteen seventy.

Nine, yes our Own Nancy.

Faust all, right SO i think that was the six forty five sports cast on the night of the, Thirteenth maybe it was the seven forty, five but by nine to forty Five Disco Demolition night aftermath was no longer the lead.

Story in an early evening start In, anaheim a man whose name is now inseparable from no hitters use when my ten forty five sportscast began on the verge of throwing another.

One through eight innings At, Anaheim Nolan ryan of The California angels has a no hitter going against The New York.

Yankees ryan's no hitter preserved with one out in the eighth inning When Jim spencer lined a dying quail to center field that the official score ruled an.

Error, Again Ryan bidding for his fifth no hitter of his.

Career he leads The.

Yankees three to nothing going into the ninth inning An American league.

Final, Tonight minnesota Beat toronto six to four in The National The padres came up with three in the ninths to Beat montreal seven to five in the first of a.

Doubleheader The mets got two rbi From Steve henderson as they won the opener of their Night Twin night or rather with The giants seven to.

Six the home run bats propelled The braves to a thirteen to four mashing Of.

Pittsburgh Jeff burrows at a grand slam And Bob horner hit two, homers and The phillies beat The dodgers three to.

Two American League President lee McPhail has declared a forfeit in the second game of last night's.

Scheduled Detroit chicago.

Doubleheader the nightcap was never played because thousands of fans dreamed onto the field during a promotional event after the.

Opener al Spokeswoman Phyllis marriage Reads president mcphale's official.

Decision it was the judgment of the umpires that it was not possible to start the second game of The july twelfth doubleheader because of inadequate crowd control and damage to the playing, field both of which are the specific responsibility of the home.

Team it is therefore required of me THAT i declared this game forfeited To detroit by a score of nine to.

Nothing at The PanAm games In San, juan THE us women took the silver medal in, basketball dropping their final game To cuba ninety one eighty six this.

Evening, Meanwhile America's Mary decker took the fifteen hundred meter race And wi La plotte won the gold in the one meter low.

Hurdles this, afternoon THE us took gold medals in both men's and women's tennis, doubles and Mel purcell won the gold in men's.

Singles in, golf Fitzgeralen britz leading the pack at THE Us Women's open In.

Connecticut she shot a two hundred part today and as the lead by two strokes after the second.

Round and At doherty leads The Greater Milwaukee.

Tournament he has a one stroke.

Lead from the sports DESK If United Press, International I'm Keith Oberman.

That's a lot of information for a two minute.

Sportscast Kid Nolan, ryan by the, way did not get his fifth no hitter that.

Night An angels infielder fumbled A Thurman monthson ground ball to start the ninth.

Inning Then Greg nettles popped.

Out Then Reggie jackson got the First yankee hit of the, game and a moment later a sacrifice fly took Away ryan's shutout.

Two it was the second of five Times Nolan ryan lost a no hitter in the.

Ninth he would get his fifth no hitter two years later and got seven for his career and lost five in the.

Ninth, Amazingly Thurman munson would be dead just twenty days.

Later there would be moments At Yankee stadium the rest of that year that were not overwhelmed by the shock of his, death but they were very.

Few On september, sixteenth nineteen seventy, nine the Great yankees And athletics Pitcher jim Canfish hunter was honored in a retirement, ceremony AND i got to cover, it and THEN i got to hear my reports on the air on one of The New york radio.

STATIONS i grew up listening to Honored Catfish, hunter who's retiring at the end of the.

Season Keith oberman, reports.

After receiving gifts serious and comical and the praise of his, teammates as manager and the, Fans Catfish hunter marked his retirement ceremony by noting the important people who could not attend three.

PEOPLE i wish him in here, today.

Got, time clutch.

My dad.

And.

Money poter leaves The yankees to retire to his farm In, Hertford North.

Carolina Keith oberman At Yankee, Stadium New.

York he's retiring at the end of the, season And Keith oberman has.

The Tales yankee.

Showered they're retiring right hander with, gifts a trip To, hawaii a pickup, truck and even a brown.

Elephant after his teammates and the fans thanked, him it was time For Catfish hunter to do the thinking AND i thank you for all the gifts that receives the, day and Thank god for giving me strength and let me be a mall player.

What always wanted to.

Be thank you very much.

So thirty minute ceremony was the symbolic end Of hunter's fifteen year major league, career a career that Has today featured two hundred and twenty four.

Victories hunter says he'll miss his, teammates but he's missed his family even more and plans to become a gentleman farmer In North.

Carolina Keith oberman At Yankee stadium In New.

York two things about.

That it was such a different.

TIME i got to the ballpark early That sunday, morning and perhaps an hour before the, CEREMONY i Saw Jim hunter sitting by himself in the.

DUGOUT i approached him for an, interview explaining WHO i was and saying if he was trying to take in the last day and just contemplate, THINGS i was sorry to have, intruded and of course we could skip the.

Interview he laughed and, said Now i'm just sitting here waiting for them to give me them gag.

Gifts there was no pr, person no entourage to keep me, away just.

HIM i tried to get him to repeat his most famous quote and his famous SoundBite that all of us who ever heard it kept repeating to each other for, years where he insisted his marm was just, fine which was the answer to the, question, catfish how's your arm marm?

Feels real, good and that leads me to the second.

PostScript there was also no malt.

BOX a malt box is an audio feed from a live event at a press conference or off something like a public address system while you know player is retiring and giving his farewell.

SPEECH i asked The YANKEES pr man if there was SOMEWHERE i could plug in to Record hunter's.

Address, NOPE i, said you don't have a malt box for The Catfish hunter retirement.

Speech.

Nope COULD i get on the field and just tape my microphone to THE pa mic and then stay crouched over with the, Photographers.

Nope SO i had to get.

CREATIVE i was sent to get the.

Speech those clips Of Catfish hunter talking about his teammates and supporters reverberating through the vast caverns Of Yankee stadium over THE pa system were recorded by me standing atop a garbage can next to the hot dog stand next to The Yankee stadium press, box and while balancing and trying not to fall off the damn, thing extending my right arm completely above my head and sticking my microphone into one of THE pa speakers hanging from the.

Ceiling it.

WORKED i got the.

Tape, HUH i mean you can still hear.

It it's more than forty three years ago, now And i'm still proud of.

It on the other, hand AS i recalled, this my rotator cuff passed out just by remembering the Pain i've done all the DAMAGE i can.

Do here to my rotator.

Cuff thank you for.

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Credits most of the, music including our theme here From Beethoven's, ninth was, arranged, produced and performed By Brian ray And John Phillip.

Shanelle they are The countdown musical.

Directors all orchestration and keyboards By John Phillip, shaneale, guitars bass and drums By Brian, ray produced By Tko.

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Allowed the sports music is The olberman theme FROM espn, two and it was written By Mitch Warren davis courtesy of THE Espn.

Inc musical comments By Nancy, fauss the best baseball stadium organist ever and survivor of Disco Demolition night in nineteen seventy.

Nine our announcer today Was Larry david and everything else is pretty much my.

Fault so that's countdown for, this the seven hundred and twenty third day Since Donald trump's first attempted coup against the democratically elected government of The United.

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