(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Countdown With Keith Olbermann, S2E59: Trump’s Insanity Overtakes Him In New Hampshire Speech [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2023-10-24 S2E59 on Omny.FM (and links to all of his podcasts) ivoox also carries his podcast. YouTube, later. Preview: A-Block 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”; “… come for us. You know how you spell us? Right? You spell us US? I just picked that up. Has anyone ever thought of that being? I just picked that up a couple of days. I'm reading and I said US, and I said, you know, you think about it? US equals US?” Either that, or else he’s gone through life not knowing how to spell “us”. Which is a word that most of us learn in elementary school. (b) revealed he didn’t know why FDR “sat” while he spoke nor what the thing he sat in was called; “They said that was one of the greatest speeches since FDR. You know, FDR was a great speaker. Right here was a great speaker. He sat. He sat because of a situe [from the transcript]. But he was an elegant, beautiful, eloquent, elegant and eloquent.” When the FDR was President, there was an agreement among the media that he would never be shown in a wheelchair, out of respect. (Those times seem so quaint, don’t they?) He was paralyzed from the waste down, after he caught polio. I think Trump is going to say that he’s the first person to know that, as well. (c) confused Turkey’s Erdogan and Hungary’s Orban; “Victor Orban, did anyone ever hear of him? He is probably like one of the strongest leaders anywhere in the world. And he he’s the leader of — right — he’s the leader of Turkey, fronts on both Russia.” (d) claimed he was Nelson Mandela; “I don’t mind being Nelson Mandela because I’m doing it for a reason. I’m doing it for a reason. It is amazing to state allowed that a man who has been, however, he achieved that power President of the United States and his fascist party’s nominee for the office.” Only figuratively, Keith. After all, Nelson Mandela spent 27 years in prison. Trump hasn’t spent even 1% of that time in prison. and (e) told his voters not to bother to vote. “You gotta get out there. You gotta watch those voters. You don’t have to vote. Don’t worry about voting. The voting. We got plenty of votes.” 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 II, 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; LOCK HIM UP! LOCK HIM UP! LOCK HIM UP! LOCK HIM UP! LOCK HIM UP! LOCK HIM UP! LOCK HIM UP! LOCK HIM UP! LOCK HIM UP! LOCK HIM UP! he’s caught in a bald-faced lie about whether or not Sidney Powell ever worked for him; Not surprising. He also claims to have never worked with (his campaign manager) Paul Mantafort, one of many examples. He hasn’t forgotten about Ivanka, but when he sees Eric, he asks himself, “Who IS that guy?” 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 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? THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: Tom Cruise’s agent Maha Dakhil discovers what “genocide” actually means. Stanford neurobiologist Robert Sapolsky concludes there is no free will. Jim Jordan colleague Warren Davidson 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 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. That’s all the damage for now. Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and good luck! [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/10/24/2201260/-Countdown-With-Keith-Olbermann-S2E59-Trump-s-Insanity-Overtakes-Him-In-New-Hampshire-Speech?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=trending&pm_medium=web Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/