THE MAGA PLAN TO KILL AND EAT ELON MUSK - 1.13.25

Countdown with Keith Olbermann

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🗓️ 13 January 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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SEASON 3 EPISODE 86: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN

A-Block (1:44) SPECIAL COMMENT: MAGA in disarray. While the mass deportation scheme becomes the latest casualty of having elected a bunch of incompetent egomaniacs, Steve Bannon has declared war on Elon Musk. AND Elon Musk’s toady David Sachs. AND Peter Thiel.

Bannon no longer will stop at getting Musk exiled from the White House because Bannon and the rest of the nativist lunatics hate all foreigners but Musk wants to not hate foreigners who can make him more rich via the H1B Visas. Bannon now wants Musk and the others to be the first immigrants thrown out of the country. He actually told this to Italy’s most-read newspaper, Corriere della Sala: "He is a truly evil guy, a very bad guy. I made it my personal thing to take this guy down... he should go back to South Africa. Why do we have South Africans, the most racist people on earth...making any comments at all on what goes on in the United States."

The point isn't whether Musk actually does kill and eat Musk. It's that they fight. Because at the same time Musk is admitting he can only cut half of the "government inefficiency" he promised to, and "Border Czar" Tom Homan is warning Republicans that Trump won't be deporting millions immediately. More like 60,000. And the Trump junta has admitted it can't unilaterally lower grocery prices, or install universal tariffs, and he's not going to dig up the Panama Canal and move it to Mar-a-Lago on Inauguration Day, he ain’t buying Greenland and coercing Canada and guess what, he didn’t “settle” Russia’s war on Ukraine in 24 hours, and his minions are hinting his attempts to turn the LA fires into an exploitable political event are going to crash.

And even before re-gaining power, Trump has pre-failed.

B-Block (34:55) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: Joe Scarborough doubles down on his role as Marshal Petain-In-The-Ass at MSNVIchy. Politico dubs him "Elon Mush" then deletes it. And Naomi Wolf thinks victims of the Southern California firestorm aren't panicking enough.

C-Block (45:20) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: It's bleak and the forecast for next week is Trump. So I need a laugh and maybe you do too. And this we bring you back to 1994 and the greatest off-air laugh in ESPN's history: Soccer Breakdown.

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0:36.6	Hitler exploited the Reichstag fire, and the Republicans want to exploit the L.A. fire.
0:44.3	Mass deportation meets mass stupidity as Trump already pre-fails again, and I wonder if Elon Musk understands that MAGA now plans to kill him and eat him.
1:10.2	Maga in disarray.
1:12.9	Well, the mass deportation scheme becomes the latest casualty of having elected a bunch of incompetent egomaniacs,
1:18.8	the only things they are hands-on about being their own dicks.
1:22.2	Steve Bannon has declared war on Elon Musk and on Elon Musk's Toti David Sacks and on Peter Thiel.
1:31.9	The point isn't whether Bannon still has a tenth of the sway he used to have among the fascists.
1:36.3	The point is his less than a tenth of these slime is the angry violent tenth. And Bannon has
1:43.5	escalated his war on Musk over those H-1B visas.
1:47.5	Bannon doesn't just want Musk exiled from the White House
1:50.6	because Bannon and the rest of the nativist lunatics hate all foreigners
1:54.4	and Musk wants to not hate foreigners who can make him more rich.
1:58.5	Bannon now wants Musk and the others to be the first immigrants thrown out of the country.
2:03.5	He actually told this to Italy's most red newspaper, Corriera de la Sala, which is not one of the
2:10.0	newspapers Mussolini owned, but it did give out the Mussolini Prize, and all this must have
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