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Ninga

(8,704 posts)
Wed Jan 22, 2025, 04:48 PM Jan 22

Keith Olbermann has an idea. Worth the listen

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/countdown-with-keith-olbermann/id1633301179?i=1000684948591

A-Block (1:44) SPECIAL COMMENT: Impeach Trump.
Now. Again.
No, it won’t pass, it won’t work now. But it will pass, and it will work, next year, and it win the Democrats the midterms and the year after that it will brand Trump yet again as the most treacherous garbage in our history. Because lost in the avalanche of evil he has perpetrated since beginning his dictatorship, lost in the astonishment and even the despair of true Americans, lost in the numbed terrified capitulatory media coverage is the reality that his pardoning of the January 6th Traitors is amazingly unpopular, literally unpopular enough to cost him at least 43 house seats, right now, BEFORE he mindlessly signs more red meat Steven Miller slides under his piggish face. And the second part of this is: he has also already violated the Constitution of the United States. Already. Not 48 hours on the job and he is already guilty of impeachable offenses. Already.
There is almost nothing to do to stop Trump NOW. The Democrats are minorities in both houses, the courts are crooked, the SUPREME court is just another Trump Scam, the billionaires like Musk and Bezos and Zuckerberg and the other tech scum have lined up beside him just as Krupp and IG Farben and Opel stood next to and behind Hitler.
There is nothing to do TODAY except (to borrow from the musicals of the fascists) to make sure Tomorrow Belongs To Us. Introduce a bill, or even multiple bills, to impeach Trump. Keep the crimes he has already committed, including the ones he has been convicted of, and the ones he wriggled out of with dubious legality and non-existant morality, front-of-mind. Fight back, thwart him, anger him, waste his time, make him play defense, enrage his base, and terrify the billionaires because you could see on that mouse Zuckerberg’s face at the inauguration that he wasn’t so sure any more he picked the right side, and fight back.
Moreover – give the opposition – not the resistance this time but the DEFIANCE – something to DO with this time other than just sit here and replay November 5th and all the days leading up to it in some P-T-S-D doom loop. Nothing that is wrong in the history of the world has ever been stopped without the same first step: people standing up and SAYING this is wrong, this must BE stopped. 76 and a half million people voted against Trump – 49 and two fifths percent - and we are all just sitting here saying nothing, doing nothing, watching Trump wreck train after train.

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louis-t

(23,939 posts)
1. This is something I mentioned a few days ago.
Wed Jan 22, 2025, 05:00 PM
Jan 22

Granted, it was a YouTube comment and I got a lot of flack from maga idiots, but a lot of positive feedback also. KO said it so much more elegantly.

Ninga

(8,704 posts)
2. I hung in for the entire podcast. So if you think it's a good idea and so does Keith...I'm in!
Wed Jan 22, 2025, 05:23 PM
Jan 22

louis-t

(23,939 posts)
3. Here is my comment regarding the latest lawsuits against him.
Wed Jan 22, 2025, 10:00 PM
Jan 22

"This needs to continue. Keep him so busy chasing lawsuits and trying to jail people he doesn't like that he can't wreck too much. We need to be the proverbial Whack-A-Mole."

Maraya1969

(23,128 posts)
5. I thought mtg made an ass of herself when she tried to impeach
Thu Jan 23, 2025, 01:43 AM
Jan 23

Biden on day 1 BUT the difference here is fuckerTrump has so many criminal and civil charges he is easy pickens. I may be wrong but even if he pardons himself congress can still go after him right?

35 Felonies and a RAPE, (that one makes me the most mad) Can they bring up impeachment for that rape?

Maraya1969

(23,128 posts)
6. They should bring up impeachment for rape just to get the GOP
Thu Jan 23, 2025, 01:49 AM
Jan 23

to have to vote on it. Do we have to have the majority to bring articles of impeachment?

Polybius

(19,024 posts)
7. The official charge is sexual assault
Thu Jan 23, 2025, 02:47 PM
Jan 23

But regardless, he was convicted of that before he won the election. The people knew it.

Polybius

(19,024 posts)
8. I take everything Keith says these days with a grain of salt
Thu Jan 23, 2025, 02:49 PM
Jan 23

I used to be a big fan, but he became a loon with his urine comment last Spring.

Ninga

(8,704 posts)
9. His analysis is mostly spot on. His ego stroking is a bit much but not enough to keep me from
Thu Jan 23, 2025, 02:56 PM
Jan 23

following his podcasts.

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