TRUMP IS TALKING ABOUT HIS MORTALITY AGAIN. AND WEAPONS - 10.9.25

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Oct 9, 2025

Trump's recent musings on mortality intertwine with threats to jail political opponents, including local leaders. Through manipulation tactics, Stephen Miller reinforces Trump's distorted perceptions, leading to a chilling erosion of democracy. Meanwhile, the media landscape transforms as outlets like CBS News shift towards pro-MAGA narratives, raising alarms about censorship and the blurring line between news and propaganda. Amidst a backdrop of layoffs and a push for ideological conformity, the podcast delves into the alarming state of journalism and political discourse.

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INSIGHT

Mortality Talk As Political Lever

Keith Olbermann argues Trump's talk of mortality and weapons reflects accelerating mental deterioration tied to political manipulation.
He says Stephen Miller and allies exploit Trump's untethered reality to manufacture crises and erode democracy.

INSIGHT

The Trump Personal Feedback Loop

Olbermann describes a 'feedback loop' where aides fabricate narratives to steer Trump into authoritarian acts.
That loop converts manufactured claims into policy moves by showing him staged evidence on friendly media.

ADVICE

Study Which Instability Is Dominant

Olbermann urges news organizations to dedicate analysis to which strand of Trump's instability is driving actions each day.
He implies journalists should investigate manipulation networks rather than normalize erratic statements.

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SEASON 4 EPISODE 23: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN

A-Block (2:30) SPECIAL COMMENT: Here we go again.

Trump is talking about his own mortality or career mortality or heaven or all of the above… AGAIN at the same time he’s talking about declaring insurrections and jailing more political opponents, like Mayor Johnson and Governor Pritzker and any one of a dozen judges including at least one he appointed – not prosecuting them, just jailing them - and, as if it could GET any worse, he specifically segued from the issue of wanting to prove to God that he’s been good to how great all those weapons are at his naval base.

The missiles are flying, hallelujah, hallelujah.

Plus he's written: “Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also." Look, you and I know it should be TRUMP in jail because he’s not only broken laws, he’s nearly COLLECTED THE COMPLETE SET of broken laws. But the process of convincing Trump that he's not crazy, that his predictions are coming true, that Portland is ablaze, is how Stephen Miller and the others manipulate him into eroding American democracy a little more every damn day. And this has worked since at least 2016 and I was told about it by Ed Rollins in 2017. It's the Trump personal feedback loop.

And when the interruptors in that loop get in the way, they get bought out and destroyed. CNN first, The Washington Post, and now CBS News and the "B" stands for "Bari Weiss" who once told The Federalist Society that it was ok if it didn't believe her and her wife's marriage was legal because they all shared what really mattered: a desire for lower taxes. Let me expand upon the death of CBS News and her disastrous debut at its helm by retelling the story of the miniature version enacted at the CBS flagship station in LA when I worked there in 1991: The Mystery Of The Broken Number 3 CBS Pencils.

B-Block (37:00) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: What is wrong with these dweeb MAGAs? Ken Paxton can't keep his pants on, every other day there's some new story causing his wife to again decide to divorce him, and he's just announced "undercover operations" against leftists. Hey, Pal, if you did anything BESIDES undercover operations you wouldn't be dismissed as a sex pest. Poor Derrick Van Orden continues his descent: now he's yelling at people for not learning how the Senate votes the way he learned about it in the 4th Grade (all of what he learned was wrong). And the Bad Bunny Super Bowl blowback reaches Marjorie Taylor Greene who demands a law making English the official language which is going to be trouble for her since she doesn't speak it.

C-Block (45:00) THURSDAYS WITH THURBER: It's one of those weeks, plus my back is gone, one of my eyes is fighting me: it's time to bring back the first Thurber story I ever read aloud to an audience, the oddly soothing "A Box To Hide In."

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