THE PARDON IS ABOUT THE TRUMP MOB'S THREATS - 12.3.24
Countdown with Keith Olbermann
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🗓️ 3 December 2024
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SEASON 3 EPISODE 75: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN
Special Edition (1:44) SPECIAL COMMENT: Some time over Thanksgiving in Nantucket the light bulb went off over Joe Biden’s head and he finally realized that no, the norms and traditions and institutions to which he and most of the rest of us have dedicated our lives did NOT miraculously re-grow, did NOT suddenly spring, fully restored and intact, from the ground.
He saw that not only was his son about to go to prison because of his own foolish decision to not interfere with an enfeebled Department of Justice, and because of the dictator it let get away, who would now aim his DOJ at Hunter Biden - and Joe Biden - and anybody else - for personal revenge.
The President figured this out and pulled his son out of harm’s way. And much of he left attacked him for it. They are Morons. I don’t care about Hunter Biden, particularly. I care about the fact that we are 48 days away from a nascent military dictatorship taking over this government, supported by an unknown percentage of the population that wants to see Hunter and Joe Biden hanging from construction cranes parading through the streets, and wants to see Trump in power for life. A
We JUST got one more guy out of their sights and we JUST shoved one more plotline up Trump, and up Kash Patel and Pete Hegseth and Stephen Miller and whichever other lunatics Trump wants to take over the asylum. And countless liberals – and anti-Trumpers – think this will actually provide cover for Trump pardoning the January 6thinsurrectionists because apparently for the last ten years they have been hallucinating and thinking Trump has ever bothered to seek cover for anything. Or they think we should be "better" than them. The Trumpists are planning to put us in camps. I don’t care if we are better than them or worse than them or monstrous to them. If somebody’s going to go to camps, it ain’t going to be us, it’s got to be them. End of debate.
In addition to explaining why this was not just the right decision but should be a template of thousands of further pardons, permit me to excoriate a bunch of the clowns who cannot see the forest for the trees. Or the fact that the forest is on fire.
And then for giggles we have the moronic comments of Nate Silver and Dinesh D'Souza, complaining about pardons when he himself got an undeserved pardon.
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| 0:00.0 | It's hard to read the news these days without asking yourself, how did we get here? |
| 0:04.7 | Fiasco is a history podcast for the co-creators of Slow Burn. |
| 0:08.5 | In our first season, Bush v. Gore, we examine an unmistakable turning point in American politics, |
| 0:14.0 | the 2000 election, which resulted in a high-stakes stalemate, ended with one of the most controversial rulings in Supreme Court history. |
| 0:21.4 | So if you're trying to make sense at the present moment, check out Fiasco, Bush v. Gore. |
| 0:25.9 | Listen on the I-Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. |
| 0:31.0 | Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of IHeart Radio. |
| 0:48.3 | Yeah. of I Heart Radio. This is a countdown podcast special. |
| 0:51.7 | And to anybody listening who thinks President Biden pardoning his son Hunter was a bad |
| 0:57.1 | idea, and I suspect that includes nobody in this audience, but if you happen to run into somebody |
| 1:03.9 | who believes this, you can use this explanation. And by the way, my condolences that you ran into |
| 1:09.1 | somebody who thinks it was a bad idea. |
| 1:13.0 | Let me explain this to them. |
| 1:18.4 | One, they cannot find their political ass from their political elbow. |
| 1:23.5 | Two, that is probably because all they have is political ass. |
| 1:30.9 | And three, President Biden didn't pardon his son to keep him out of jail for this literally trumped-up gun and drug prosecution. He pardoned him to protect him from further persecution by |
| 1:38.5 | Trump next year. In this continuing hysterical ringing of pearls and clutching of hands reaction to the |
| 1:48.4 | pardon, we are reminded that we are in this transcendent mess because Trump is an evil psychopath, |
| 1:55.4 | first of all, obviously, but also because all of our guardrails against evil psychopaths, the Constitution, |
| 2:03.6 | the Supreme Court, the laws, the media, patriotism, they all turned out to be made out of |
| 2:10.0 | paper mache. And we are reminded that perhaps the most disturbingly diaphanous of these butter solid protections was the assumption |
| 2:20.6 | that eventually Democrats and liberals would actually, you know, fight back. Some time over Thanksgiving |
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