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Countdown With Keith Olbermann, S2E93: Trump Reveals How He Will Take Over All Police [1]
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Date: 2023-12-18
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SPECIAL COMMENT: In his three-day orgy of insults, expanding his list of those who are “poisoning our nation’s blood” from Hispanics to Africans and Asians, praising dictators and echoing Hitler, it’s understandable that most of us missed it. But Trump also explained the one rug that will really tie his totalitarian room together: he’s going to indemnify the police.
Translation: under Trump, the cops can kill George Floyd and be certain they will face no legal liability. They can kill YOU and be certain they will face no legal liability. It is literally a license to kill, a license granted to the 700,000 police officers at all state and city levels in this nation. Who already have weapons. Who already have tanks. Who already have affinity to Trump and the fascism and white supremacism he’s selling.
And now they will be freed of all restraint. And they’ll owe that freedom to Trump.
They will become Trump’s stormtroopers and his little SS. And if invoking the Insurrection Act to use the National Guard against unarmed civilians is too sharp-edged for some of his under-Fuhrers, Trump can simply dispatch local cops to shoot up a Black Lives Matter protest. Or an anti-Cop City protest. Or just an anti-Trump protest.
It may be his most totalitarian revelation since.
And naturally, The New York Times follows it with an op-ed titled “The Secret of Trump’s Appeal Isn’t Authoritarianism” and Axios begins the last full business week of the year with 1,000 words on Trump, and not one of them mentions his plan to take over the cops or his quoting Hitler or his praising Xi and Kim. Jim Vandehei and Mike Allen have shown that they — and so many other institutions we think would recoil from authoritarianism — are in fact ready to serve them, just as long as they can continue to make profits. Axios has 1,000 words on Trump and they are all positive and normalizing and praising him for having “much greater power than in his first term and fewer restraints on carrying out his political agenda.”
His political agenda is Totalitarianism, you useless slobs.
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