Episode #120 of the Countdown podcast is up.
A-Block
- (1:32) SPECIAL COMMENT: We must act now against The New McCarthyism, or lose the Republic. With Trump restored to Facebook, dispatching Coke Jr and recording a video sending KEVIN McCarthy instructions for this insidious āWeaponization Subcommitteeā, the Democrats must literally counter-program. The Senate must crowd the Jim Jordan Star Chamber off the public stage by holding its own hearings (the suppression of the Mueller Report; the actions of just-arrested FBI agent and now Russian oligarch advisor Charles McGonigal in the infamous Comey Letter of October 2016; anything will do). Trump smells the opportunity to turn truth into falsehood, and falsehood into truth. We must stop him and The New McCarthyism ā and damn fast.
B-Block
- (16:31) EVERY DOG HAS ITS DAY: Huggin, in New York City, NY
Remember that story about George Santos raising $3000 for a veteranās dog, and then skipping out on them? Well, thereās some good news for that story.
- (17:55) POSTSCRIPTS TO THE NEWS: Sapphireās successor is finally on the way; the man behind audience participation at āThe Rocky Horror Picture Showā has passed; and a bad day for Joe Rogan and Fred Roggin
- (21:50) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: HOW many people watched baseballās Hall of Fame announcement on the network it owns? Marge [Taylor Greene] can see her reflection in a mirror. And the RWNJ who thinks Damar Hamlin didnāt recover from his cardiac arrest and is actually dead and the vaccine killed him ā because some people are just insensitive morons. [second moronic post by Stew Peters ā¦ Yes, thatās his name]
C-Block
- (28:56) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: With the Republicans now offering to place one of their presidential primary debates on CNN or MSNBC, time to recall the day they starkly told Tom Brokaw what HE had to do if they really expected John McCain to show up to the debate Brokaw would moderate in his swan song for NBC News: get me fired.
(I listened to the podcast with headphones for the first time, and that music really jumps out at you …)
Well, thatās all the damage for now. Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and good luck.