Countdown - Keith Olbermann rants on Trump and Colorado decision
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Very few people in the media today can "bring it" like Keith Olbermann.
From today's countdown podcast-
....the rest of us have railed
from the reaction on the right to this,
especially from Baby Hitler himself. You
would think that nobody has ever before
tried to get any candidate disqualified
from the presidential
ballot . You know like Baby Hitler Trump
tried to get Obama
disqualified and used a fabricated faked
birth certificate to do it . Like he tried
to get Ted Cruz disqualified in 2016
for being born in Canada.
As if he did not repeat over
and over again during his first campaign
that Hillary Clinton should not be
allowed to run for the White House.
"She shouldn't be
allowed to run for president, she
shouldn't be allowed ,I'm telling you she
should not be allowed to run for
president based on her crimes ."
He based that I believe on
the third Clause of the 14th Amendment
of the Constitution, in his mind, that
only he can
see .
By the way the case was
filed by Republicans, including the
former Republican majority leader in the
Colorado House and
Senate.
If the Supreme Court takes this seriously,
rather than letting Leonard Leo and
Harlon Crowe write its ruling for it , the
most intriguing part of its verdict will
be how it gets around that most
treasured and publicized of the fascists
legal rationalizations for destroying
everything - "states rights"
The court has
used states rights, a civil war term, as
the excuse to curtail early voting ,as a
reason to shorten voting hours, as a
justification for reestablishing aspects
of Jim Crow voting laws, as a reason to
gerrymander semi -sentient white
supremacist Blobs of excrement like
Margorie Taylor green into the House of
Representatives.
The Colorado ruling is
at heart a states rights case or at
least it would be if it had been filed
by Republicans against a
Democrat.
Look, we are Colorado. We are a
state ,these are our state laws about
elections, these are our state laws about
presidential eligibility, these are our
state laws requiring us to observe and
act at the instruction of the
Constitution of the United
States, and the John Roberts answer to
that is going to be what?
As the Trump lickers circle the
wagons around Baby Hitler and cry due
process, note that the
disqualification Clause of the 14th
Amendment does not say convicted of
insurrection, it says engaged in
Insurrection. Senator elect former
Confederate vice president Alexander
Stevens was not convicted but he was
disqualified, Zebulon Vance,
the Confederate
governor of North Carolina from 1862 to
1865 for same general disloyalty.
Remember those amendments,
they are the backbone of America. The
Second Amendment, even though it does not
include the word own or any synonym for
own well it guarantees gun ownership
rights forever. The 14th Amendment
because it does not include a picture of
trump along with his social security
number it cannot be used to disqualify
him
ever. Remember also that the 14th
amendment was written largely, in fact
almost exclusively, by
Republicans.
More seriously this is the
Supreme Court Justices chance to redeem
their
souls and their Court ,to prove they are
stewards of the intent of the framers of
the original text and the Amendments, and
not incidentally to save the nation from
a man who would destroy any part of its
purpose or ethos for his own personal
purposes or Amusement, a man who would
destroy the Supreme Court, this Supreme
Court ,these justices ,any one of them
including the ones he appointed. Ask Bill
Barr.
when the Colorado Supreme Court ruled
Trump ineligible because of his
Insurrection, a writer for the Free
Beacon which is a pretty fascist outfit,
but in a minor league kind of way, a
writer named Drew Holden tweeted, in case
you were wondering why Dems and the
media kept calling January 6th an
Insurrection, on January 6th
2021 this same guy Drew Holden
tweeted "the president of the United
States a man of our political party
conservatives, has given cover to a
collective action that can only be
called
Insurrection".
This is the way they think
or more accurately the way they do not
think. They do not even remember their
world before they enslaved themselves to
Trump, and the loyalty requires the
denial not just of all other realities,
but of refusing to take the arguments of
others or the arguments of themselves in
the past as you know, sincere but
mistaken. There is only obeyance, there is
only servitude, they are on a mission to
serve Trump and install
totalitarianism on his behalf ,and no
logic nor persuasion nor law, nor what
they said last week, will stop
them.
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That the 4 judges are TDS driven morons; who violated the Constitution and assumed powers they don't have. It may be a 6 to 3; or even 5 to 4 if Roberts buckles under the stress; ruling- but it will be overturned.
Republicans complain that someone wants Trump taken off the ballot. What about when Trump himself wanted his opposition taken off the ballot. He wanted Obama.to be removed from office, after Obama was already president. Because of some made-up bull about Obama's birth. Trump wanted Hillary Clinton to be kept from running in 2016 because of the e-mail situation. Which she was never charged with. He wanted Ted Cruz to be kept off the ballot in Iowa, because, he said, Cruz was born in Canada. So how about enough with the crap?
Why John, you've caught that whatabout syndrome that you frequently complain about.
Trump supporters can dish it out, but they can't take it.
Interesting that the four justices who voted to remove Trump from the ballot all graduated from Ivy League colleges where the three who dissented graduated from the University of Denver Law School.
Kieth who? i thought he was dead, I guess it was just his career.
I would love to see Keith Olbermann debate Donald Trump or any of the Republican contenders. It would be a slaughter of biblical proportions.
Agree, like most liberals the stupid fucker olberman is driven by emotions and lacks logic, he would be foaming and the mouth and would get his ass handed to him, on the other side Biden couldn't win a debate with MTG, that's how bad his senility has become.
Pretty sad if he is someone folks point to as support for any argument.
Keith is a great example or a LWNJ. Incoherent rants, he can't keep a job and the lefties look up to him.