Countdown With Keith Olbermann, S2E150: Trump Stochastic Assassination Threat Against Biden

Episode 150 has been uploaded.

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A-Block

• SPECIAL COMMENT: It was a presidential kidnapping and assassination video.
• It showed a pickup truck, Trump flags flapping in the wind, and on its tailgate, with an illustration of President Biden bound and gagged and thrown in the flatbed. Trump posted the video and he knew what he was doing: it is a stochastic attempt to GET Biden kidnapped or assassinated.
• It all makes me again ask a chilling question I first posed months ago. Had any of Trump’s various coup attempts succeeded in 2020 — if any of the coup attempts Trump is planning NOW for this election  — exactly what is Trump’s plan, or the plans of his thugs and gangs cultists and psychotics and death fetishists and militias and god-and-gun lunatics — for the ACTUAL president he usurps? Now Trump has given us the answer. Have the pick-up truck mob grab Biden and tie him up and throw him in the back of the truck.
• And the listless, clueless, spineless media as personified as Kristen Welker of NBC, reduces it to: “It is yet another reminder that we are covering this election against the backdrop of a deeply divided nation.” Yeah — like we were divided during the Civil War.
• If the media had not failed us sufficiently in this case, wait’ll you hear the Trump story that wasn’t merely covered poorly — it wasn’t covered at all. In a move I have long anticipated, Trump minions are begin to soften up potential opposition to repealing or ignoring the 22nd Amendment’s presidential term limits and dare us to stop Trump running for re-election in 2028. They have produced nonsensical sophistry in “The American Conservative” that boils down to this: because Trump would not have served CONSECUTIVE terms, the 22nd Amendment wouldn’t apply to him.

“No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.” (with the rest irrelevant at this point in history)

I don’t see anything about consecutive terms there. So maybe Obama can run again?

• Disagree? Sue him. Maybe you’ll get lucky and find a different Supreme Court that will agree with you and actually defend the Constitution. If not: welcome to the Trump Dictatorship.

B-Block

• THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: Such a pile there are EIGHT award winners. I had to expand the medal stand and hand out aluminum in addition to bronze, silver and gold.

Okay, here we go. (Note that Keith just listed the people on the list, not what they did. You’re welcome.)

• Charles Johnson, the owner of the San Francisco Giants. (This appears to be an update after Keith recorded the podcast.) The SF Giants had planned on removing fans’ memorial tiles and replacing them with a kiosk that showed pictures of the tiles. The plan got nixed on Saturday.
• Michele Morrow Low, the North Carolina GOP State Superintendent of Schools candidate who belongs to Liberty First Grassroots, an organization that believes Obama is Hitler’s grandson.

• Mayor Eric Adams of New York, who wants to make the subway safe by installing AI metal detectors. He then went on to say, “This is a Sputnik moment. When President Kennedy said ‘we’re gonna put a man on the Moon’ and everyone responded.” Which is wrong in so many ways. (Keith forgot to mention the fact that Kennedy wasn’t President when Sputnik was launched; Eisenhower was.)
  • Bonus idiocy that Keith didn’t report. Evidently, Adams also signed a contract with Elon Musk to replace the G train with self-driving Tesla minivans. Gee, what could possibly go wrong?

• Trump’s Media Company. “An auditor has raised doubts about the ability of former President Donald Trump’s publicly traded company to stay in business.” IOW, Dog Bites Man.
• Trump’s $200 Burger Buy. This consisted of 18 “double double” cheeseburgers, 10 hot dogs, two quarter-pounder hamburgers with cheese, 20 orders of fries, and 10 orders of onion rings, to have on his private flight back to Mar-A-Lago. To which Keith asked, “What did everybody else have?”
• Roseanne Barr, for calling for violent revolution if Donald Trump and the “great” [sic] Kari Lake lose their elections.
• The Ohtani-deaf New York Yankees. Meanwhile, the Yankees have invented gamblingball.

• Representative Mike Turner.

C-Block

• THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: I outlasted five heads of MSNBC and three chiefs of NBC News (one of them twice) and it looks like I’m about to outlast a fourth. The Ronna McDaniel Scandal continues and the fingers and figurative knives are all pointed towards the Chairman of NBC News Cesar Condé. I have my own history with him, and with the predecessor he most reminds me for pure self-absorption: Andy Lack. Their stories in an all-new edition of Countdown.