Episode #91 of the Countdown podcast is up. Here’s the summary, with links and an extra dose or two of snark.
A-Block (1:32) SPECIAL COMMENT:
- Ludicrous or imminent, Trump and his minions are planning some sort of violent revolution, something not unlike what has percolated in Germany these last few years. Yesterday, the Germans had the presence of mind to recognize insurrection and mass violence and terrorism and revolution when they saw it. WE damn well better do the same — and fast. The Germans sent 3,000 police and Special Forces troops to arrest 25 coup plotters who planned to attack their capitol, assassinate the chancellor, take over the government.
- Lost in the Trump/QAnon bluster, nobody is saying the obvious: to “terminate” the constitution or just part of it, Trump will have to foment violence. Even in the Trumpian fantasy, Biden and the military don’t just stand aside because somebody decides Trump is right.
- This is what Arizona Congressman Paul Gosar and failed governor candidate Kari Lake endorsed yesterday. ARREST THEM.
- And Trump continues to meet with plotters. The latest? A QAnon/Pizzagate lunatic named Liz Crokin, at Mar-a-Lago, Tuesday night.
B-Block
C-Block (27:15) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL:
- It is 42 years since the night John Lennon was murdered in New York. Impossibly, one of only two times I was ever a rock disc jockey, it was at the exact hour Lennon was killed. The air check of the show still exists, and it re-tells the nightmare as it unfolds in real time.
Before I sign off, a musical tribute to John Lennon, performed by the band Klaatu, which was rumored to be the Beatles recording under a different name.
As Keith says: Well, that’s all the damage I can do here for now. Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and good luck.