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Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Episode 147: Trump Is ThisClose To Declaring Himself God [1]

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Date: 2023-03-05  

Episode #147 of the Countdown podcast is up at iHeart Radio. (The timings are shown below.)

OnMy.FM link (which also links to his previous podcasts)

ivoox also carries his podcast.

Preview:

A-Block (1:14) SPECIAL COMMENT: Donald Trump is thisclose to declaring himself God. His announcement to his ever-grieved angry real-victim-here Cult of Karens — “I AM YOUR RETRIBUTION” illustrates that even his eight-year long terrorist attack on this country had at least one more level to go. Trump has now imbued the 2024 GOP race with vengeance and vendetta. And a vote for Trump in 2024 is a vote for retribution and vengeance — and bloodshed.

And thanks to a failed actor who looks disturbingly like the cartoon character “Quagmire” from “Family Guy”, Michael Knowles, we now know the first targets of Trump’s mob. “Transgenderism must be eradicated from public life, entirely.” While Knowles tries the fascist trick of saying he never said transgender PEOPLE must be eradicated, most people have missed the key word in that hateful utterance. It’s not “eradicated”; it’s “entirely”, and it renders Knowles’s hairsplitting meaningless.

That full Michael Knowles quote is: “Transgenderism must be eradicated from public life, entirely. The whole preposterous ideology, at every level.” [emphasis mine], so not only did he double down, he tripled down (or maybe he doubled down twice, meaning he quadrupled down).

B-Block (16:31) IN SPORTS: One of the best of baseball’s announcers, Dave Wills of the Tampa Bay Rays, has died suddenly, and the sport is grieving.

(22:34) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: The Russian prime minister gets laughed at; Jason Brodeur, a Florida Republican, does something so dumb Newt Gingrich slams him; and Mr. Non-Opinion Journalism at Fox “News”, Bret Baier, turns out to be just as bad as the rest of them.

Here’s the original Newt Tweet:

x The idea that bloggers criticizing a politician should register with the government is insane. it is an embarrassment that it is a Republican state legislator in Florida who introduced a bill to that effect. He should withdraw it immediately. — Newt Gingrich (@newtgingrich) March 5, 2023

C-Block (30:04) EVERY DOG HAS ITS DAY

(31:25) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: One minute I was ruminating on the unappreciated beauty of the Hudson River as seen from a commuter train. The next they were prying me loose from the window I had become frozen to.

(No, I guess that’s not quite it.)

That’s all the damage for now. Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and good luck.

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