THIS WAS THE WEEKEND ELON TRULY BECAME PRESIDENT - 12.23.24

Countdown with Keith Olbermann

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🗓️ 23 December 2024

⏱️ 73 minutes

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SEASON 3 EPISODE 81: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN

A-Block (1:45) SPECIAL COMMENT: To paraphrase Van Jones and other panderers: This was the weekend Elon Musk truly became president.

It was also the weekend the other guy became Donald J. Trumpuppet.

The number of Republicans who defied Trump over the Continuing Resolution ranges, depending on your point of view, from 29 to ALL of them. Because they also voted by unanimous consent to bury Musk's fabricated controversy over the no-cost land transfer to the District of Columbia. Trump, for his part, is in a bigger hole now than he ever was during his presidency as the self-inflicted losses pile up:

The Gaetz Lack-of-Ethics Report may come out today. Other nominations are in trouble. One new one may be Alan Dershowitz and another may have padded his resume. The idea of Recess Appointments is forgotten. Trump has been taunted with the "Musk Is President" chatter. Some Republicans are taking it seriously and suggesting him for Speaker. And that in turn let Democrats emphasize Trump tanked the deal to benefit his interests with the Chinese Communist Party.

And Trump spoke yesterday for the first time in weeks and sounded drunk - which is a problem, because he doesn't drink. All while he is being pursued by his two worst enemies: himself - and Musk.

B-BLOCK (27:00) POSTSCRIPTS TO THE NEWS: Remember my suggestion that MSNBC's response to Trump's win and its own tanking ratings was to do nothing but double down and exploit the Liberal Media Monopoly the cowards at CNN, The Washington Post and others were giving them? Guess what! MSNBC's new boss wants... better relationships with Republicans. (40:56) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: Martin Shrkeli emerged from his sewer to get owned on social media, New York sends a bill for damages to the family of a guy a police officer killed with an unmarked car, and are there secret Mark Burnett Trump Outtake Tapes? Don't ask Burnett - he now works for Trump.

C-BLOCK (50:20) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: You have your Christmas story, I have mine. Mine is about falling off a cliff near Malibu filming a commercial for fast-food chicken. Stick around for the post-closing theme guest appearance Easter eggs courtesy some of my dogs.

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0:00.0	Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of IHeart Radio.
0:18.4	To repurpose the old phrase, this was the weekend when Elon Musk truly became president.
0:27.9	And it was also the weekend when the marionette, he's leading around by his orange nose, truly became Donald J. Trump Puppet.
0:38.0	One month until the inauguration and Trump Puppet has already dug himself a bigger hole
0:43.0	than he was in at any point during his presidency, and during his presidency they impeached
0:48.2	the bastard twice.
0:50.8	God rest you married gentlemen, let nothing you dismay, for Donald Trump, their savior,
0:56.7	to Elon Musk must pay.
1:00.2	It is now just five days, and I know that in the kaleidoscopic dementia of Trump land,
1:05.3	five days can be ancient history, but still, five days, since Trump puppet vowed to primary, quote, any Republican,
1:15.4	unquote, who voted for a clean continuing resolution without an extension of the debt
1:20.1	limit or later elimination of the debt limit. After Musk and not Trump puppet blew up that bill,
1:28.5	two days later,
1:34.2	170 different Republicans voted for a clean continuing resolution without an extension of the debt limit anyway.
1:37.2	Thus, there are only two questions left.
1:40.2	One, which scam Musk is actually running here?
1:44.8	I'll get to that in a moment.
1:46.9	And two, how many Republicans then gave Trump puppet the finger?
1:51.8	All 170 or 38, which was the number of no votes on the final bill Friday night, or just 29 because nine of the 38 are lame ducks who vanished in two weeks.
2:02.0	Even if it's just 29. Remember, Trump threatened primaries. Primaries. And Trump wanted a shutdown.
2:08.9	And Trump insisted a shutdown would be counted against Biden. They defied him anyway.
2:17.3	They defied him because when at the end of these segments, I refer to the
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