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Countdown With Keith Olbermann, S2E121: Garland, Kagan Betray Democracy [1]

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Date: 2024-02-08  

Episode 121 has been uploaded.

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A-Block SPECIAL COMMENT: OK which atrocity do you want to get enraged about first?

The fact that yesterday I began by saying “today we begin to find out if we still have a Constitution” and turns out, sorry, I guess we don’t — and the three liberal justices are complicit in that?

Or, the fact that a partisan hack appointed by Trump managed to turn his nothing-burger investigation of Biden and the returned documents into Christmas-For-The-Fascists by inserting unwarranted, unjustifiable, indefensible opinions about the President’s memory into it and THAT’S the headline, and oh by the way where is the goddamned Attorney General on this?

William Rehnquist’s former clerk, Rod Rosenstein’s former deputy, and a contributor to The Federalist has enough nerve finding nothing to prosecute but throwing into his report what sounds like a medical opinion about the President’s memory but which is really just another Conservative law-breaker whipping out his schlong and putting it on the political scale. But how does the Attorney General let that document leave his department without demanding that irrelevant, unprofessional, indefensible section not be removed?

Fire Merrick Garland. Now. Between this and his negligence in waiting two years to appoint a special prosecutor of Trump, he will bear the second most blame if Trump again seizes power.

Meanwhile at the Supreme Court, disaster as Elena Kagan posits that enforcing the 14th Amendment gives one state the right to decide who the president will be, and Ketanji Brown Jackson falls for the “President is not really an OFFICER” fabrication. The analyst Elie Mystal thinks the vote could be 9-0 for Trump, in which case Kagan, Brown, and Sonia Sotomayor need to resign from the court. B-Block IN SPORTS: Ex-coach Tommy Tuberville blasts Biden’s memory and says he needs cues from reporters and 30 seconds later he can’t remember the names of the teams and players in Sunday’s Super Bowl and needs cues from a reporter. And the Oakland/Las Vegas A’s saga worsens, while invoking the Oakland/Denver A’s saga of 1977-80.

THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: Sarah Palin is back! And can now see Russian propaganda from her house.

If every GOP accusation is actually a confession, Charlie Kirk and Marjorie Taylor Greene’s theory of anti-impeachment GOP’ers being blackmailed with pedophilia is SOME confession.

Speaking of Charlie Kirk, last fall Kalen Christian D’Almeida and Braden Joel Ellis, two members of his organization Turning Point USA, attacked David Boyles, a professor at Arizona State. They are scheduled to appear at a pre-trial hearing tomorrow (February 9). The Phoenix New Times (a local independent weekly) neatly summarized the event earlier this week. If I have the time, and if there’s any news, I’ll post an update on my article.

Back to you, Keith.

And of all the idiotic takes on the Robert Hur investigation of Biden, THE dumbest is by Mr. Astead W. Herndon of The New York Bothsidesist Times and CN-Bothesidesist-N. C-Block FRIDAYS WITH THURBER: Since this podcast is one of five nominees for the best politics podcast at the upcoming iHeart Podcast Awards, it’s fitting to read Thurber’s great story of what happened when a rookie went on radio: “How To Relax While Broadcasting”

Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and good luck!

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