(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Countdown With Keith Olbermann, S2E126: Trump Issues New Terror Threat [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2024-02-19 Episode 126 has been uploaded. iHeart Radio link; list of all podcasts there Omny.FM link; list of all podcasts there ivoox also carries his podcasts. YouTube, later. Link to Preview A-Block SPECIAL COMMENT: How many times would YOU be permitted to threaten mass violence if you didn’t get your way before Homeland Security came and dragged your ass, off somewhere? I think Trump is now in triple digits. It’s time to drag him off. “All political prosecutions of your favorite president, me, must stop immediately … this is election interference and must be immediately stopped … Our country will not stand for it.” This is the by-now standard Trump stochastic threat: if the government does not bend to my will my supporters will kill you all. It’s megalomania and as often as he does it and as dulled as we become to it, it’s unspeakably dangerous. It is not just shouting fire in a crowded theater, it’s shouting fire in a crowded theater full of gun-crazed nutjobs. And I’ll go back to my first point here: how often would YOU get away with it? Oh by the way, I think he also has to stop with this nauseating “your favorite president — me” schtick. If you hadn’t heard — in the new Presidents’ Day poll of 154 historians, Trump was again ranked the worst President ever, with only half the marks of the next-worst, James Buchanan. PLUS: The Biden Campaign “reset?” Knock it out of the park at The State of the Union. Good — but how about a million ads simply stating Trump WILL INSTITUTE A NATIONAL ABORTION BAN? And the story of the day: I don’t know how the hell you could’ve missed this but a 22-page report on the trial of a Union civilian employee during the Civil War who defended himself with a pocket-knife, produces the astonishing fact that in 1864 Abraham Lincoln PARDONED Joe Biden’s great great grandfather. The best part? “In imploring Lincoln to pardon him, the friends of Moses J. Robinette, described him as ‘ardent and influential … in opposing traitors and their schemes to destroy the government.’ ” Talk about destiny! B-BLOCK POSTSCRIPTS TO THE NEWS: No, I don’t know how a woman I lived with for three years wound up telling the audience for her MSNBC show how a man who tried to get the crowds at his rallies to kill her, wound up an “icon” in her eyes, and why she asked if it were “fair” to prosecute him — but I have a theory. The Self-Destruction of Katy Tur. THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: Two guys having sex atop a moving New York subway train give me the chance to quote the subway spokesman who preceded me as sports director of WVBR radio at Cornell, Tim Minton: “Those reckless clowns aren’t thinking about the mess cleaners and other subway workers will have to deal with when their stupid stunt goes tragically wrong.” Brian Kilmeade does a stupid, and spells it wrong. x Why Trump’s $354M fraud penelty [sic] is bad news for Nikki Haley and Joe Biden –by Brian Kilmeade | @FoxNews https://t.co/OOR6Ah7JTF — Bad Fox Graphics (@BadFoxGraphics) February 16, 2024 And the perfect joke about the Trump Sneakers. Arne Duncan tweeted: “The shoe of choice for every athlete who blames the referees for every game they have ever lost.” I think that one’s better. C-BLOCK THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: 40 years ago this month I was beginning the shortest, weirdest job I ever had. And by coincidence I had to re-tell the story over the weekend. The Short Unhappy Boston Career of Keith Olbermann. Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and good luck! [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/2/19/2224522/-Countdown-With-Keith-Olbermann-S2E126-Trump-Issues-New-Terror-Threat?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=latest_community&pm_medium=web Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/