WHEN DO WE START BOMBING RUSSIANS WHO ARE KILLING CHRISTIANS IN UKRAINE? - 12.29.25

Countdown with Keith Olbermann

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🗓️ 29 December 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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SEASON 4 EPISODE 44: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN

A-Block (2:30) SPECIAL COMMENT: Why isn’t Trump bombing RUSSIAN terrorist scum who have been targeting and viciously killing innocent Christians in UKRAINE?

I mean now that our White Supremacist Theocratic Bandit government has gone into the Crusades business; now that per Trump we’re bombing to kill ISIS terrorist scum “who have been targeting and viciously killing...innocent Christians” in NIGERIA, shouldn't yesterday's meeting with Zelensky have been about how Trump is going to protect the Christians in Ukraine - and Ukraine is an 85% Christian country - by bombing the Russian terrorist scum who have been targeting and viciously killing innocent Christians IN Ukraine?

I'm not holding my breath. But since it's obvious that yesterday all Trump did was stall, just as all he's been doing since he again seized power is stalling on Putin's behalf (he even took a call from Putin 72 minutes before the Zelensky meeting began), isn't this tack supporters of Ukraine and Europe and world freedom who aren't morons like Trump or Rubio who think 'it's not our war because OCEANS' (a logical argument as long as this is the year 1909) should now take?

ALSO: THE TRUMP PARDON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX? It seems brand new. In fact there was a lawsuit alleging Rudy Giuliani told his girlfriend he and Trump were selling pardons for $2,000,000 apiece as long ago as 2019. And we check in MAGA stupidity, how even Brian Krassenstein trolled them, and why on earth Stephen Miller would think the term "sexual matador" is a compliment given how much he hates Mexicans and Spanish-speaking people like, you know, Matadors.

B-Block (33:00) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: Somebody actually tries to insult the Pope by calling him "Holier Than Thou"; WSJ has a piece blasting Jack Smith written by the first lawyer Trump hired to defend himself against Jack Smith, the ironically named "James Trusty"; Trump is finally hoisted on his lawsuit petard. If we damaged you financially or emotionally, says the Pulitzer Prize Board, we're going to know by how much so we'll need all your fiancial and emotional health records.

C-Block (46:00) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: What did you get for Christmas? I got a Baseball Cap! From Ted Turner! Of course, this is Christmas 1982 I'm talking about. The saga of Ted, my first tv job, and what might have been my last tv job after he and I argued in public. But it ended happily - with baseball caps for Christmas.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.3	Guaranteed Human.
0:04.4	Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of IHeart Radio. Why isn't Trump bombing Russian terrorist scum who have been targeting and viciously killing innocent Christians in Ukraine?
0:37.2	Now that our white supremacist, theocratic, bandit government has
0:41.4	gone into the Crusades business, now that per Trump, we've been bombing Nigeria to kill ISIS
0:48.5	terrorist scum, quote, who have been targeting and viciously killing primarily innocent Christians.
0:55.2	This question for MAGA and the Republicans who continue to enable this dictatorship,
1:00.4	like Marco, things go better with Coke Rubio.
1:02.8	If that's the new standard, we're bombing ISIS terrorist scum who have been targeting
1:09.6	and viciously killing innocent Christians in Nigeria.
1:15.2	After your latest pointless photo op meeting with Zelensky in Florida yesterday, Trump,
1:19.8	why aren't you also bombing Russian terrorist scum who have been targeting and viciously killing primarily innocent Christians in
1:32.0	Ukraine. How committed are you to this protect the Christians bullshit Trump? Don't get me wrong.
1:43.3	I do not buy into any of the organized religious corporations.
1:47.8	Many do good things, sometimes many sincere people work with and for them and believe in them.
1:54.0	But if it's spirituality you're looking for, just talk to your creator or your universe or whoever you feel you need to talk to and do it directly.
2:02.2	Cut out the middleman.
2:03.6	Avoid the brand names.
2:05.4	But this isn't about beliefs.
2:08.5	Believe what you want.
2:10.8	What the hell do I care?
2:12.6	This is about the newest Trumpian excuse.
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