TRUMP IS THIS CLOSE TO DECLARING HIMSELF GOD - 3.6.23
Countdown with Keith Olbermann
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🗓️ 6 March 2023
⏱️ 48 minutes
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EPISODE 147: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN
A-Block (1:42) SPECIAL COMMENT: Donald Trump is this close 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.
B-Block (16:45) 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. (23:13) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: The Russian prime minister gets laughed at, 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.
C-Block (30:48) EVERY DOG HAS ITS DAY: Brothers Brooklyn and Butter (31:49) 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.
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| 1:26.0 | We are this close to Donald Trump declaring himself to be God. |
| 1:33.0 | I am your warrior. I am your justice. And for those who have been wronged and betrayed, I am your retribution. I am your retribution. |
| 1:44.0 | I have said all this before and you at least have thought all this before. Trump is manifestly insane, worse now even than 2016. |
| 1:52.0 | Having touched ultimate power and received unconditional support from his cultists, he lives only to gain it again. |
| 2:00.0 | If it is granted to him, he will not voluntarily give it up in his lifetime. He is our Hitler. |
| 2:06.0 | The Hitler of 1933, not of 1940, not yet. |
| 2:11.0 | And that statement about retribution, wreaking either of the twisted mind of Stephen Miller or someone trying to one-up Stephen Miller escalates Trump's eight-year-long terrorist attack on this nation to a different level, to one of Dorothy Parker's fresh hells. |
| 2:29.0 | If this country permits him to be nominated for president, if we permit him to be nominated for president, if you and I permit him to be nominated for president, by that action we will be setting the stage not just for the vengeance and vendetta's and bloodthirsts. |
| 2:44.0 | Trump has vowed to enact theoretically on behalf of his cult, but in reality on behalf of himself and the largest ego, the least burdened by conscience of any person living. |
| 2:57.0 | Just another Trump campaign would again magnify and multiply the obsession with political violence on the right and within the Republican Party. |
| 3:07.0 | Since the monster said these words Saturday night at CPAC, they have become the fascists new rallying cry. I am your retribution. |
| 3:17.0 | Saying America has had the audacity to vote them all out to beat their brains in when they resorted to violence. We have arrested them, we have prosecuted them, we have searched the home of their defied leader, we have accused him of crimes, and most certainly will prosecute him for crimes. |
| 3:36.0 | And we most importantly have refused to bend to their will, their certainty, their theocratic madness, their whiteness, and we will be punished you and I because of vote for Trump in 2024 is a vote for retribution, for vengeance, for bloodshed. |
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