SEASON 2 EPISODE 141: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN
A-Block (1:44) SPECIAL COMMENT: Jesus H. Christ, will SOMEBODY finally bring this man to Justice?
Trump stalled a document dump about Michael Cohen for a year, New York D-A Bragg just got 104 thousand pages from the U-S Attorney’s Office this month, 31-thousand of them this month – and what does Bragg do? To ensure TRUMP has enough time to REVIEW the documents he stalled, Bragg is willing to DELAY the Stormy Daniels hush money trial for ANOTHER 30 days. Out of an abundance of caution. For Trump’s sake.
We. Do Not Have. Another 30 Days.
Trump’s Concierge judge Aileen Cannon did NOT have the gall to dismiss the 32 Espionage Act charges against him in Florida yesterday but she also didn’t say a WORD about getting THAT trial started on time, or two months WITHIN BEING on time, or FOUR months WITHIN BEING on time, or before the election, or before Trump dies of his dementia. NOT saying you’re going to delay it, IS IN FACT just another form OF delaying it..
This is the greatest criminal in the history of this country and his incarceration is perhaps our only chance to re-build this nation before it splits into two UNIVERSES occupying the same spot at the top of the same pin – the SANE people and the people who believe in QAnon and support racism and think Trump is being persecuted, and he is RUNNING FOR DICTATOR AND HE HAS GIVEN UP PRETENDING HE’S NOTRUNNING FOR DICTATOR and he is running out the clock so he can regain power and effectively immunize himself and we… are giving him an extra 30 days. Out of an abundance of caution. Because we wouldn’t want to rush this thing.
And it’s not like the NEW crimes aren’t still piling up! The guy who lied to the FBI and Comer and Jordan about Hunter Biden and Joe Biden and Burisma turns out to have gotten $600 thousand dollars from a Trump-linked company four years ago.
But, sure, give Trump another 30 days to game the system a little longer because, I dunno, maybe he can get some nukes and hold a blue state hostage.
(10:30) SPECIAL COMMENT II: RFK Jr VP fave Aaron Rodgers issues a non-denial denial of CNN's report that he insisted to one of their reporters that Sandy Hook was a false flag and the murdered children never existed. His statement does not contest the quotes, refers only to "events" there, and comes on the same day a Sports Announcing site unearths dozens of other conspiracy theories Rodgers has endorsed in just the past few weeks. It raises anew the question of what we can do to separate these people who have lost touch with reality so that the society might avoid self-destruction at the most critical time in its history.
B-Block (24:52) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: Speaker Mike Johnson isn't JUST creepy and ineffectual. Turns out he is the worst kind of friend: the one who will tell you everything is fine, when it won't be. Ask Katie Britt! Marjorie Taylor Greene unconvincingly insists she's not a robot. And the purity tests have begun inside MAGA-world and Lauren Boebert just failed hers.
C-Block (33:30) FRIDAYS WITH THURBER: Amazingly, his most prophetic story - of a loutish, greedy oaf who becomes America's idol before the system corrects for his venality via a well-placed window, was printed in an edition of The New Yorker magazine that hit newsstands exactly 34,000 days ago! Please enjoy "The Greatest Man In The World."
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