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Tuesday October 08, 2024 · 5:45 AM PDT

2024/10/08 · 05:45

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Good morning! Today is the nineteenth Tuesday that Donald Trump has been a convicted felon.

It’s now 50 days until Trump’s re-re-scheduled sentencing.

And 74 days until the government next runs out of funding.

If you’re listening to the show in the Tampa area, stop! Unless you’re already in your car and listening while you’re sitting in traffic trying to evacuate. In which case, you’re already stopped as it is.

We’ve got a couple of stories we need to check back in on, plus the usual stack — this high! — of stories waiting to get to your ears!

Not to mention a few listener contributions for your further edification. Although I’ve just mentioned them. So… pretend I didn’t. Just anticipate them, anyway.

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Monday October 07, 2024 · 5:45 AM PDT

2024/10/07 · 05:45

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Good morning! Today is the nineteenth Monday that Donald Trump has been a convicted felon.

It’s now 51 days until Trump’s re-re-scheduled sentencing.

And 75 days until the government next runs out of funding.

Hey, this weekend seemed shorter than usual!

Actually, it really didn’t. That was supposed to be my sly way of referring to the fact that I issued a special Saturday edition of KITM this week, in order to finish reading through the Special Counsel’s filing on so-called “presidential immunity” in the January 6th case in DC.

Did you catch it? Or are you maybe tuning in now, thinking I’d be finishing it today?

Well, it’s already done! I just told you that!

I wanted to get it out there for weekend listening, and to clear the decks for Greg Dworkin today. Because we’ve got a whole new week to kick off!

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Saturday October 05, 2024 · 6:43 AM PDT

2024/10/05 · 06:43

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That’s right! A special Saturday episode!

And it’s two hour and 45 minutes long, too!

I just couldn’t leave the rest of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s motion in opposition to Trump’s claims of presidential immunity in the January 6th case hanging until next week.

Not after spending four hours on it already, on the Thursday and Friday shows.

So that’s it! That’s the summary.

Between Thursday, Friday and today, I read you the whole damn thing.

Was that foolish? Well, too late. It’s done.

Want to know what it said, but you’ve been carrying something with both hands for several days? Now you’re covered!

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Saturday October 05, 2024 · 5:45 AM PDT

2024/10/05 · 05:45

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Good morning! Today is the nineteenth Saturday that Donald Trump has been a convicted felon.

Yes, Saturday!

It’s now 53 days until Trump’s re-re-scheduled sentencing.

And 77 days until the government next runs out of funding.

It’s also the fourth day that we’ve had the bombshell Special Counsel motion in hand, to read through Jack Smith’s recounting of the many crimes of Donald Trump and his co-conspirators.

So, if you can believe it, I decided to just… run through all the rest of it that we haven’t gotten to yet.

That’s it. That’s the summary. A two hour and 45 minute, straight shot to the end! I read it, so you didn’t have to!

It took me three days to get it done. But I did it.

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Friday October 04, 2024 · 5:45 AM PDT

2024/10/04 · 05:45

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Good morning! Today is the nineteenth Friday that Donald Trump has been a convicted felon.

It’s now 54 days until Trump’s re-re-scheduled sentencing.

And 78 days until the government next runs out of funding.

It’s also the third day that we’ve had the bombshell Special Counsel motion in hand, to read through Jack Smith’s recounting of the many crimes of Donald Trump and his co-conspirators.

It’s really a pretty momentous document, and we’ve got the luxury of time again, today. So I hope you’re finding the reading enlightening. There’s still a ton of other things I want to share with you, but I really feel like we’d be missing the historical gravity of the moment if we didn’t parse through this.

Then again, we could always just wait for the federal judiciary to miss the historical gravity of the moment for us, I guess.

But we’ll endeavor to do better than that.

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Thursday October 03, 2024 · 12:44 PM PDT

2024/10/03 · 12:44

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It’s Rosh Hashanah!

I’m supposed to be off!

And another major news event has once again highlighted my habit of picking the very worst timing possible!

There was only one thing to do: sit right down and read the extraordinary narrative laid out in Special Counsel Jack Smith’s motion in opposition to Trump’s claims of presidential immunity in the January 6th case.

Well, two things to do: the second one being to hit the record button.

So that’s what I did. Two hours of cramming in as much of the motion as I could, so that you could work, putter around the house, or whatever it is you do, and still go word-for-word through the first 60 pages or so of this stem-winder!

There’s still more, of course. And there’s still Friday!

But then, another troublesome thought occurred to me: how could I ask Scott Anderson to summarize the show, when only one thing happened, and only one source was used?

And this post is the only answer I could come up with. Maybe he’ll have a better idea if we do it again tomorrow.

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Thursday October 03, 2024 · 5:45 AM PDT

2024/10/03 · 05:45

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Good morning! Today is the nineteenth Thursday that Donald Trump has been a convicted felon.

It’s now 55 days until Trump’s re-re-scheduled sentencing.

And 79 days until the government next runs out of funding.

So… what does it mean for the show to be “down but not out,” exactly?

Well, we were slated for a scheduled absence today. But once again, a scheduled absence coincides with a major news event!

So, pretty much right in the middle of putting together a pre-recorded episode for you, the Special Counsel’s extraordinary narrative motion opposing the Trump immunity claims in the January 6th case dropped… and I had no choice but to drop everything myself, and start reading it.

And then, I hit record.

So if you’ve been wishing you had the time to pore over the report yourself, and you also had two hours to burn anyway, listening to this show… now you can do both at once! The first 59 pages of the narrative, all the way up to where Trump starts leaning on Pence to do his bidding. All the false allegations of fraud. All the pressure on the state legislators. And all the fake elector shenanigans.

It’s wild!

And there’s still Friday yet to come!

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Wednesday October 02, 2024 · 1:27 PM PDT

2024/10/02 · 13:27

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It’s post-debate Wednesday! Kudos to the campaigns for agreeing to a date that allows us to depend on Greg Dworkin pulling debate duty and calling in the next morning! First on the list: an “undecided voter” panel in MI reacts to Vance ducking the January 6th question. Over in PA, they defied the punditry and declared Walz the winner. And the normies have spoken! They just seem to react better to Walz. Which of course, must mean the weirdos do not.

Meanwhile, in polling world, things are swinging Harris’ way, even in some of those swingy states.

Maybe that’s because Trump continues to speak, dismissing for a second time the injuries American troops suffered on his watch, and blaming… something on “people from the Congo,” just to add to the pile of previous outrages, like accusing Kamala Harris of murder.

Somehow, though, Trump’s a lot more cautious in court, and urges others to be, too!

And hey, remember Project 2025? If you thought its overwhelming unpopularity was slowing the “Heritage Foundation” down, it’s not! They’re proceeding with Schedule F, anyway, win or lose.

Speaking of that quote-unquote “think tank,” they’ve got a small gay porn hypocrisy scandal on their hands now, too. If, you know, that matters at all.

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Wednesday October 02, 2024 · 5:45 AM PDT

2024/10/02 · 05:45

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Good morning! Today is the eighteenth Wednesday that Donald Trump has been a convicted felon.

It’s now 56 days until Trump’s re-re-scheduled sentencing.

And 80 days until the government next runs out of funding.

And it’s one day since I didn’t watch the debate. But you knew I wasn’t going to do that.

Greg Dworkin will likely fill us in. Although there’s something so dreadfully boring about most Vice Presidential debates that it’s possible even Greg couldn’t bring himself to watch.

But maybe his professionalism got the better of him.

I mean, we’re just faking the professionalism. But we’re very convincing actors!

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Tuesday October 01, 2024 · 5:45 AM PDT

2024/10/01 · 05:45

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Good morning! Today is the eighteenth Tuesday that Donald Trump has been a convicted felon.

It’s now 57 days until Trump’s re-re-scheduled sentencing.

And 81 days until the government next runs out of funding.

It’s just a couple of hours, now, until the VP debate. I think they know the KITM schedule, and didn’t dare have it on an evening after which Greg would not be on. Glad they’re waiting until tonight! But I’m also pretty sure I won’t be able to stand to watch.

Thankfully, you don’t have to actually watch to see what happens. You just have to be willing to see it no more than two minutes at a time.

Should be plenty for me!

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Monday September 30, 2024 · 1:03 PM PDT

2024/09/30 · 13:03

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It’s Monday. And the last day of September. No better time to have Greg Dworkin drop by to sum up happenings. If it was a relatively quiet weekend for you, perhaps that was because you weren’t getting any phone calls from Western North Carolina, and other storm and flood-stricken areas of the country, where there was no power, no cell service, and no clean water. And consequently, still no clear picture of exactly how bad it is.

On the upside, there was the opportunity to remind people that: 1) yes, there are large numbers of climate change-believing, tolerant and inclusive Democrats in the area, and; that real Americans help.

The political world went kind of topsy-turvy over the weekend, too, with this Harris ad featuring ex-Trump voters renouncing the orange guy. Which of course, leads to death threats. On the other hand, some people know full well how wrong and bad Trump is, but can’t quite bring themselves to the right conclusion. Even though Trump spent the weekend promising that The Purge would become a part of his platform. Other (sadly) influential voices were being similarly dumb, if not similarly scary.

On the domestic policy front, Harris policy proposals are winners over Trump’s. But sometimes, scary lies win out over hopeful truth.

Is it funny that TikTok users are reportedly using AI to translate Hitler speeches? Well, it can be.

What won’t be funny is how many more nails this badly unbalanced Supreme Court could put in our coffin, starting next week. Held up next to this weekend’s reminder of the real world stakes, just for transgender Americans alone, it’s appropriately worrisome.

Trump’s got a new rip-off up and running, this one more naked than most.

By the way, just as a reminder: Joe Biden actually knew what he was doing, had international allies, and could make amazing things happen, internationally and with dozens of moving parts.

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Monday September 30, 2024 · 5:45 AM PDT

2024/09/30 · 05:45

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Good morning! Today is the eighteenth Monday that Donald Trump has been a convicted felon.

It’s now 58 days until Trump’s re-re-scheduled sentencing.

And 82 days until the government next runs out of funding.

I’d say it’s about 25 minutes until we hear from Greg Dworkin, on whom we’ll depend for a recap of the weekend’s top stories. Because I don’t know what any of them were. I think I only know about the dumbest ones. That’s my beat.

Then again, we’re ten years into the Trump era. The top stories are all dumb.

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