DE-FUND THE TRUMP DICTATORSHIP - 10.27.25

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Oct 27, 2025

A call to action emerges as one speaker demands blue states to halt federal tax transfers until Trump resigns. He highlights numerous illegal actions taken by the Trump administration, likening them to a dictatorship. Concerns about voter intimidation arise with plans to deploy election monitors in Democratic areas. The controversy continues with critiques of Trump's extravagant proposals and their economic implications on Social Security. Additionally, he scrutinizes the involvement of celebrities in normalizing problematic figures.

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ADVICE

State-Led Financial Boycott

Do pressure state governments to withhold funds to the federal treasury as leverage against abuses of power.
Keith Olbermann urges governors to lead a state-led tax payment boycott until Trump resigns.

INSIGHT

Trump's Actions As Extralegal Power Grab

Olbermann argues much of Trump's behavior is extralegal and aimed at building a unilateral dictatorship.
He concludes monetary leverage is the most effective tool remaining to halt that trajectory.

ADVICE

Withhold State Funds Immediately

Do refuse to send state-controlled funds to Washington when federal authority becomes tyrannical.
Olbermann names California, Illinois, and New York as states that should withhold funds.

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SEASON 4 EPISODE 28: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN

A-Block (2:30) SPECIAL COMMENT: Donald Trump does not own the White House. Donald Trump does not own the United States of America. Donald Trump does not own the world.

NOTHING Trump has done, in sending in thugs and military to attack people that did not vote for him in cities and states that do not support him, is LEGAL.

NOTHING Trump has done in having his Nosferatu Stephen Miller threaten Governor Pritzker with “seditious conspiracy," is LEGAL.

NOTHING Trump has done in sending so-called “election monitors” to interfere in the voting in California and Jersey on BEHALF of Republican Thugs, is LEGAL.

NOTHING Trump has done to let himself say – supposedly jokingly, per the New York Times – “I’m the speaker AND the president," is LEGAL.

NOTHING Trump has done in his demolition against, destruction of, attack ON the East Wing of the White House, is LEGAL.

Almost NOTHING about Trump administration - his presidency - his forming unilateral DICTATORSHIP, is LEGAL.

And it is TIME to CUT HIM OFF FINANCIALLY by taking the one measure that will force an end to this Trumpian madness: for the blue states to follow up on Gavin Newsom’s suggestion, on the suggestion of others including me in this forum, and stop transmitting federal taxes to the national treasury until Trump resigns. We must have a tax payment boycott and it must be led by Governors and other STATE OFFICIALS so that there can be no attempt by Trump or his enablers and flunkies to prosecute or further threaten democracy-loving civilians.

De-fund Donald Trump. Now.

ALSO: More on these "election observers." Also the targeting of Mike Johnson as the fall-guy. And a media update on Bret Baier, CBS, NBC and the Ballroom, Cheryl Hines and Olivia Nuzzi, and Bill Maher making a jackass of himself. AGAIN.

B-Block (36:00) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: Kayleigh McEnany trying to sell her audience Hamburger Helper and convince them it's steak. ICE arrests a guy for playing the Star Wars imperial march. Anna Paulina Luna has a debate with a California congressman who doesn't exist. And Andrew Cuomo achieves a new high in low: laughing at a 9/11 racial slur about the man who beat him in the primary.

B-Block (48:00) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: Before the World Series ends (and I still think that's in five games) it's time to tell the 25th Anniversary edition of Roger Clemens, Mike Piazza, the bat, and how Clemens was actually throwing it at me.

C-Block (1:06:00) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL, CONCLUDED: There are so many ripples in the pond on this Clemens saga - they're still rippling!

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