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SEASON 2 EPISODE 59: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN

A-Block (1:44) SPECIAL COMMENT: The cheese slid COMPLETELY off Trump’s cracker yesterday in Derry New Hampshire. The first time I ever posited in public that his brain doesn’t work right was in a piece and video I did for Vanity Fair in 2016 called Could Trump Pass A Sanity Test and I do NOT know what the next step DOWN is mentally or psychologically or intellectually from “no he could NOT pass a sanity test” but Trump has now reached it: one speech, five statements that in a previous century would have been examined as signs of possible tertiary syphilis. At Derry, New Hampshire he a) showed he believed he was the first person to ever realize the letters U and S could spell "us" AND "U.S;" b) revealed he didn't know why FDR "sat" while he spoke nor what the thing he sat in was called; c) confused Turkey's Erdogan and Hungary's Orban; d) claimed he was Nelson Mandela; and e) told his voters not to bother to vote.

Trump is crazy. Those who opposed him shied away from this in 2016 and 2020. It needs to be mentioned hourly, because it's not only true and an existential danger - it's also perfect politics - the ideal answer to the slanders about Biden's age and acuity. 

Also: Judge Michael Luttig is back with another Constitutional answer to a Trump lie. If you don't know about the Presidential Vesting Clause in Article 2, it's why Trump does NOT have "absolute immunity" for trying to overturn an election while president. Luttig and 23 other former Republican officeholders filed a brief with the court saying this was a threat to the integrity of all future elections.

Trump continues to dare a judge to jail him for violating his various gag orders; he's caught in a bald-faced lie about whether or not Sidney Powell ever worked for him; the essence of the Jack Smith case against him is proved by Kenneth Chesebro taking a plea deal; and is the Republican Civil War over the Speaker of the House (now extended to Trump pretending he's not trying to sabotage Tom Emmer) enough to send five Republicans to form their own third party and get one of their group elected by the Democrats as the new Speaker? Is the GOP about to re-enact what destroyed the Whig Party in 1852?

B-Block (24:04) POSTSCRIPTS TO THE NEWS: Have you ever heard of the poll that indicated a third of all Trump supporters favor building a wall along the Atlantic Ocean to keep Muslims out? (32:27) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: Tom Cruise's agent discovers what "genocide" actually means. A Stanford neurobiologist concludes there is no free will. A Jim Jordan colleague says the naysayers got all those death threats because they deserved them. And why, yes that WAS a picture of Hitler on Michigan State's football stadium scoreboard. Why do you ask?

C-Block (38:30) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: The anniversary was Sunday, and the story continues to unfold 23 years later. The night in the 2000 World Series when Mike Piazza's bat shattered and Roger Clemens picked up the barrel and threw it near (or at, if you were a Mets fan) Piazza. And I thought Clemens was throwing it at me. And then Piazza announced he was suing me. And then it turned out he'd threatened others. It's an amazing saga within a saga.

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Jacob and Evan talk with Mr. Beat about presidential facts, obscure political parties, North American cities, West Edmonton Mall, ketchup on cottage cheese, presidential tier lists, Millard Fillmore, history YouTubers, online history communities, historical misinformation, Jacob's ability to learn any esoteric topic, the scale of wars, and Ukrainian civilian resistance.

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"Millard Fillmore was President?!" And he lived where? Learn about Millard Fillmore, 13th President, and his political rise and administration, his wives and children, and his homes in Buffalo and East Aurora!

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Episode Page: https://visitingthepresidents.com/2022/05/24/season-2-episode-13-millard-fillmore-and-east-aurora/

Season 1 Millard Fillmore Episode-"Millard Fillmore and Moravia"

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Millard Fillmore was a compromise vice presidential nominee who backed into the White House upon Zachary Taylor's sudden death. The nation was in the middle of a sectional crisis and a bitterly-divided Congress was about to send Fillmore some legislation cobbled together in a desperate bid to avert civil war.  His signing of the controversial Fugitive Slave Act may have helped resolve the crisis, but it would become a dark cloud that plagued his presidency. Tasked with holding together not just a fracturing Union but his own fracturing Whig Party, Fillmore did his best to reconcile the increasingly irreconcilable elements of antebellum America.  Also: Our Top 5 Embarrassing Political Blunders counts down some of the biggest bonehead moves and unforced errors by which presidents have shot themselves in the foot.

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Millard? Fillmore? Was a president? Come along and visit Millard Fillmore and his birthplace in rural Cuyuga County, New York, and his true rags-to-riches(?) rise to the presidency. Millard was a real product of his time, but his birthplace is commemorated at two separate sites! Learn about one of our forgotten presidents and what we expected of a president during this era!

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Episode Page: https://visitingthepresidents.com/2021/04/13/episode-13-millard-fillmore-and-moravia/

Season 2's Millard Fillmore Episode: "Millard Fillmore and East Aurora"

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What can you say about a President who shuffled between four political parties and more or less destroyed them all, whose Southern sympathies ran right in the teeth of his Northern upbringing, and whose name was so nondescript clubs were created to remember to try to remember him? Well, plenty! Join us and Gratz College President Dr. Paul Finkelman, whose specialty just happens to be this episode's podcast subject ... because DB Comedy Remembers Millard Fillmore!

This episode’s sketches were Written and Produced by:

Gina Buccola
Sandy Bykowski
Joseph Fedorko
Sylvia Mann
Paul Moulton
Patrick J. Reilly
And Tommy Spears

This episode’s sketches were Performed by:

Gina Buccola
Brad Davidson
Paul Moulton
Sylvia Mann
Patrick J. Reilly
Tommy Spears 
And Louise Thomas

This Episode’s Historian: Dr. Paul Finkleman

Original Music written and performed by Throop McClerg
Audio production by Joseph Fedorko
Sound effects procured at Freesound.org

DB Comedy Logo Designed by Adam L. Harlett
ELECTABLES logo and Presidential Caricatures by Dan Polito

THE ELECTABLES concept was created by Patrick J. Reilly.

CAST AND CREDITS 

COLD OPEN – Written by Paul Moulton

            Doctor – Tommy
            Sal - Paul

MR. JONES – Written by Paul Moulton

            Seward - Joe
            Weed – Tommy
            Jones – Patrick
            Millard - Brad

THE DEVIL AND DANIEL WEBSTER – Written by Paul Moulton

            Barkeep - Louise
            Millard – Brad
            Daniel – Patrick

THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLARD – Written by Patrick J. Reilly

            Singer – Patrick
            Playwright – Sylvia
            Composer - Tommy

THE MILLARD FILMORE REMEMBERANCE SOCIETY – Written by Joseph Fedorko

            Barry – Joe
            Phyllis - Sylvia
            Angela – Gina

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When Millard Fillmore became president, the country was on the verge of collapse. President Taylor had just died, the Compromise of 1850 appeared dead, and southern secessionist were organizing a convention to plot disunion. The nation looked to Fillmore to save it.

And he totally whiffed.

Follow along as Fillmore uses the scapegoating of minorities to rise to power, postpones Civil War for a decade with the Compromise of 1850, destroys the Whig party with his overzealous enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act, and runs for president with the Know Nothings - a nativist secret-society-turned-political-party that dreamt of building an America where immigrants, catholics, and minorities are second-class citizens.

Bibliography
1. Millard Fillmore – Paul Finkelman
2. Zachary Taylor – John D. Eisenhower
3. Heirs of the Founders – H.W. Brands
4. Abraham Lincoln – David Herbert Donald
5. Franklin Pierce – Michael F. Holt

Gadfly is back and it's part two of the What Led to the Lincoln Election Saga. This time 'round we will be discussing the 1854 Midterm Election, the badass that is Charles Sumner, but If this episode had a star, it would be the worst completed presidential term in American history, that of 15th President James Buchanan. 

Join us as we discuss the importance of the surname apostrophe, Soviet McDonald's, and how bad of an idea it is to ever declare war on Paraguay.

Olivia's mommy teaches us about our thirteenth president, Millard Fillmore.