NYC SHOOTING SUGGESTS NEW ERA OF POLITICAL VIOLENCE - 12.9.24

Countdown with Keith Olbermann

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🗓️ 9 December 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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SEASON 3 EPISODE 77: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN

A-Block (1:44) SPECIAL COMMENT: Trump's return to the world of TV interviews is important (and crazy) but the shooting of the head of United Health Care just blocks from my home actually seems to be one of the watershed moments of 21st Century American Politics. We have often descended into the slough of despond that all political parties, voting, law, government, the entirety of the power structure mean nothing and that the only way to change things is violence. I think we're entering such a stage. If so: fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night.

AS TO TRUMP apart from his latest threat to imprison opponents (everybody on the January 6 House Committee should go to jail) did anybody notice his insistence that we are "subsidizing" Mexico and Canada by $100 Billion a year and at those rates they should become states.

Wait. What?

Mr. Numb Nuts Psycho President? If Mexico is a STATE in the United States – you know, where you are right now – the people LIVING there become CITIZENS of the United States, so not only can’t you deport people from the US State of Mexico… but you can’t put up a wall between Texas and the state of Mexico and in fact you can’t inhibit movement BETWEEN Mexico and any state of the union. I hope somebody told MAGA about Trump’s new Mexico solution: make it a state. That’d be two senators from Mexico and if New York has 20 million people, 26 congressmen, Mexico with130 million people at 13 congressmen per 10 million residents would get 169 Congressional seats.

Trump proposes giving Mexico 169 seats in the US Congress.

Also a GOP Senate operative uses the A-word on Tulsi Gabbard, and a Trump operative is ready to blackmail Republican Senators to get Pete Hegseth confirmed anyway.

B-Block (25:00) THE OTHER WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: "Democratic" Governor Polis again sides with Sideshow Bob Kennedy. Laura Loomer isn't just hateful, she's stupid. And Marshal Petain would be proud: Jeff Bezos, Joe Scarborough, and Mika Brzezinski all double down on collaborating with the Trump Regime.

C-Block (35:55) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: My Lunch With Elie. How a delightful afternoon getting to meet Elie Mystal meant I did NOT meet Martin Scorsese. That, in turns, evokes the story of Francis Ford Coppola unintentionally paying a former colleague of mine something like a million dollars to be in the background of one scene in Godfather II.

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0:00.0	Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of IHeart Radio.
0:17.2	I don't want to undersell Trump's television return from seclusion and his latest basket full of
0:23.6	insanities, and maybe I'm a little close to this other story, and by close I mean it happened
0:29.1	five blocks from my house. But you do realize that the murder of the head of United Healthcare
0:36.2	may have been the first political assassination
0:39.9	of the second Trump presidency. It may also signal a new echelon for political violence in the
0:47.1	United States. I don't mean Brian Thompson was shot because he was a Republican or a Democrat or a
0:51.9	MAGA or a liberal. I mean, I think we have reached a point where many people in this country think that voting
0:58.5	and government and the law are meaningless, and they have no other means of influencing the
1:05.7	culture without violence.
1:08.3	I also don't want to leave the impression that I am somehow in favor of people
1:12.5	shooting visitors here in Fun City and then escaping along one of the routes on which I walk my
1:18.8	dogs. I am just saying that something that started, now more correctly, something that resumed
1:25.1	no later than 2008, something that was not satiated by
1:29.4	Trump's fake populism, nor anti-woke, nor any of that crap, something is now boiling over
1:37.0	as it has so many times in our American past. Cabriot, we still don't know who shot him. Never mind why. This could be somebody else's
1:48.3	husband for all we know. If so, then my point here is a little less relevant that I'm suggesting.
1:53.8	But if you had to guess, you would say he was murdered by somebody who was not happy with
1:58.6	something to do with insurance. And of course, you have to guess
2:03.0	because New York's $11 billion paramilitarized police force needed two days to find the shooter's
2:11.9	backpack where he stashed it, a 14-minute walk from the shooting, full of monopoly money.
2:19.3	And it took them three days to announce the manhunt was being extended to New Jersey and
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