TRUMP TAPS RFK, GAETZ, TO SEE IF GOP WILL LIMIT HIS DICTATORSHIP - 11.15.24

Countdown with Keith Olbermann

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🗓️ 15 November 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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SERIES 3 EPISODE 70: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN

BONUS EDITION: We are missing the POINT of the nominations of Sideshow Bobby Kennedy and Beavis and Botox Gaetz.

This, simply, is Trump finding out how MUCH of a dictatorship his Republican House and Senate slaves will let him have. It's hard to believe that the literally worm-eaten brain of RFK Jr and the Madison Cawthorn wannabe that is Matt Gaetz could decide whether the Republicans will stop him here (or anywhere) but this is where we are.

Because Trump is explaining his plan: I decide, I tell you what to do, and you do it or else. We are already HERE: THIS is the fork in the fascist road: deliberately choose people with no morals, no qualifications, and no qualities except absolute fealty to the dictator, then insist everybody else salute them. Same for Noem. Same for Gabbard. Same for Hegseth. Same for Patel.

THE NEXT TEST will be openly demanding that he be permitted to run again in 2028, if he isn't dead by then. A lot of people asked me why I devoted so much time to the topic yesterday since it's a settled issue. Congressman Dan Goldman was concerned enough by Trump's third term "joke" to introduce a resolution affirming that the 22nd Amendment precludes it.

Except, since early this year, the far right has been insisting that you're wrong, that's not what the 22nd Amendment says. The headline in a recent edition of the magazine The American Conservative: “TRUMP 2028.” Sub-head: “The 22nd Amendment is an arbitrary restraint on presidents who serve non-consecutive terms – and on democracy itself.”

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0:00.0	Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of IHeart Radio.
0:17.2	Trump is now testing how much of a dictatorship his Republicans will let him start.
0:24.8	The obvious reality about Attorney General designate Beavis and Botox and Health and Human
0:31.5	Services Secretary designate sideshow Bobby Kennedy because Dr.ala is unavailable, is that whatever happens next,
0:39.8	Trump will not withdraw Gates' nomination, or Kennedy's nomination, or any of the other
0:44.8	nominations.
0:45.6	He will not compromise.
0:47.2	He is not playing three-dimensional chess.
0:49.7	These creatures and the other psychotics have been chosen because they are unacceptable, because they are
0:57.6	unqualified, because they are unbalanced. This is Trump saying he doesn't care about any of that.
1:06.1	Trump does not think he's overplayed his hand. Trump knew the House ethics reporting to Gates's sex life
1:12.0	was going to come out, as it already did yesterday when ABC reported that the woman who testified
1:17.1	to the House hearing said she had sex with Gates when she was 17. Trump doesn't care. Trump
1:23.5	cares whether or not she was hot. Just like his only reaction to the RFK Jr. Olivia Newsie story was to consider consoling her ex-fiance.
1:34.3	In an entirely different way, though, he cares about one thing.
1:38.8	If he ever answers a media question again, he will say the ABC leak about Gates or the full committee report
1:47.5	if it leaks is fake, and it's a witch hunt, and they are all lying, and only he tells the truth,
1:54.7	and ultimately it's just another attack on him, and he is going to make it and the Kennedy nomination into a life or death
2:03.3	loyalty test for his cult and his slaves. And as much as I hate every last Republican
2:11.3	lawmaker, I almost feel sorry for them right now. Trump is going to demand they approve Gates as Attorney General
2:19.3	and Kennedy at HHS and maybe Patel at FBI anyway. Or at minimum, he's going to demand
2:28.2	that the Senate gets out of the way with recess appointments instead of hearings. That's the plan.
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