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Countdown With Keith Olbermann, S2E91: Trump And Giuliani Prove They Can Be Beaten And Broken [1]

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Date: 2023-12-14

S2E91 on Omny.FM (and links to all of his podcasts)

ivoox also carries his podcast.

YouTube, later.

Preview:

A-Block SPECIAL COMMENT: After spending their lives as bullies, Donald John Trump and Rudolph William Louis Giuliani will go out as cowards. Guess who did NOT testify yesterday as testimony ended in the Ruby Freeman/Shay Moss/Rudy Giuliani case? Yes, the defendant, who had promised after court Monday and Tuesday that he would testify, prove that he was telling the truth about them, and that they were lying about him.

Instead, his lawyer was reduced to painting Giuliani as a pathetic “flat-earther” who could never process reality. Giuliani said nothing as the case concluded and the jury deliberated for three hours what he should make out the check for — and they didn’t reach a conclusion. When it takes jurors more than one day to decide how much money you owe the people you lied about, guess what: you’re going to owe the people you lied about … eleventy billion dollars.

It has been quite the week for Trumpian cowardice, led by Trump himself, because if the whole Giuliani “I’ll prove I'm right” posturing sounds familiar, Trump did the SAME THING this week. He vowed to tell the truth — under oath — about the New York Business Fraud judge and the clerk and the attorney general and then suddenly, he vanished.

Cowardice was on sale at popular prices in Trump-land this week. In ATLANTA yesterday the letters of apology required for the plea deals for Trump 19 confessed conspirators Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesbro were obtained through a Public Records Act motion, and combined they stretched to just 26 words.

The importance of Giuliani and Trump wimping out is that it underscores that when the spit hits the fan, the bullies ARE the first to run. The lesson in this is simple: hit them. Hit them every day. Hit them with every lawsuit, every indictment, every protest, every public mockery, every embarrassment. Hit them with everything you have, every day, for the rest of their lives. Because what Trump proved by NOT being in a New York courtroom Monday, and what Giuliani proved by squirming at the defense table yesterday, is that you CAN break them. Both of them. Maybe not all at once, maybe not permanently. But they cannot bullshit their way out of EVERYTHING.

ALSO: You’ll never believe how bad Vivek Ramaswamy’s CNN ratings were. Or Charles Barkley’s. And guess what else is back? Cajun Congressman Clay Higgins’s “Ghost Buses” delusion.

Except now they’re MISSING! Complete with an interview by delusional ex-reporter Lara Logan. And her show literally opens with video of Logan playing in traffic. B-Block IN SPORTS: Gene Carr, “The New Kid In Town,” and Ken MacKenzie of the 1962 Mets, in memoriam.

THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: Elon Musk says an anti-fraud law is a violation of the 1st Amendment. Kevin McCarthy puts the artificial in Artificial Intelligence.

A match made in Heaven: McCarthy brings the artificial, and Musk brings the intel—PFFFFFT! HAHAHAHAHA!

Oh, and speaking of AI and X, guess what xAI says about Musk? (Reporter Ana Valens is “speaking” here.)

I asked the AI to tell me whether Elon Musk is doing a good job running Twitter, and I asked Grok to only use “yes or not.” And it responded, “No.” Ouch. I was curious to learn more, so I asked the exact same question, but this time, I allowed Grok to explain its answer. I was fascinated. The AI definitively said, “No, Elon Musk is not doing a good job running Twitter,” and it more authoritatively claimed Elon’s leadership decisions were hurting the social media platform.

I wondered when xAI was going to become more intelligent than Elon Musk. I guess that moment has passed, after just eight days.

Okay, back to Keith.

And what kind of act could the New York GOP find to follow George Santos? How about registered Democrat Mazi Melesa Pilip, whose name is spelled Nazi — only with an “M.”

Aw come on, Keith. Coincidences happen. After all, the Jews in Eastern Europe were known as the Ashkenazim.

C-Block EVERY DOG HAS ITS DAY: An extraordinary Minnesota rescue is in danger of losing everything: 9 dogs and 130 more animals from Emus to Silky Chickens.

FRIDAYS WITH THURBER: Man versus machine, reduced to Man versus Medicine Cabinet: “Nine Needles”

And man versus transportation, reduced to mice: “The Mouse Who Went To The Country”

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