Countdown With Keith Olbermann, Episode 242: “Threads” Passes 100 Mill; Musk To Ask For A Bailout?

Actual title: As “Threads” Passes 100 Mill; Musk Has To Ask For A Bailout, Right?

Episode #242 of the Countdown podcast is up.

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Preview:

A-Block

• SPECIAL COMMENT: Not even five days since it went live, Zuckerberg’s ‘Threads’ has exceeded the 100,000,000 users mark. And what is Musk doing? Calling him a “cuck” and personally servicing “Libs of TikTok.” He’s already made a fool of himself threatening to sue Zuckerberg and he HAS sued Twitter’s old law firm for accepting the money Twitter owed it. So as Twitter is losing about two and a half billion dollars in value a month, what is his only other play? What it’s ALWAYS been: ask the government for a bailout. It HAS to be!
• For once I’m rooting for the Republicans to take a state-level plan national. Mark DeYoung Michigan county GOP leader says of Michigan county GOP leader James Chapman: “He kicked me in my balls as soon as I opened the door." And a dismissed budget chairman says new State GOP boss Kristina Karamo’s spending is “so far out of proportion with income as to put us on the path to bankruptcy.” MAGA: Make America Groin Again.
• THIS is unlikely: Ron DeSantis says Trump colluded with Big Tech to bury the Hunter Biden “story” in 2020. Again — more of this please, Republicans.
• Even President Zelenskyy is scoring points off Trump, and while in an ideal world we’d admit Ukraine to NATO tomorrow, Biden makes two unanswerable points as to why we can’t — not now.

B-Block

• POSTSCRIPTS TO THE NEWS: Oh, nothing, it’s just Tucker Carlson losing 92.5% of his audience between Episode 1 and Episode 8. You can guess which paper asked that moronic cocaine question. And Trump’s imbecility at a Dairy Queen invokes one of my Dad’s greatest stories and greatest punchlines.

“What is a Blizzard?” Yep, he’s on the same level as the common folk. /s

• IN SPORTS: The same day The LOS ANGELES Times sports section essentially announces it’s going out of business, the 28 surviving members of The NEW YORK Times sports section rebel and protest and mutiny against their dying outlet in the only way they can: with a letter to the editor. And MLB is trying to spruce up and speed up its player draft. But with it cut from 70 rounds to 20, what happens to all the people who won’t be drafted and thus won’t start their careers as the lifers who are the backbone of the game?  
• THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: The podcast host talks about liquidating Joe Biden. The podcast guest — Jeanine Pirro — doesn’t walk off the show. And given that assassination-adjacent conversation, why is Nimrada “Nikki” Haley STILL predicting the President’s death? Plus: Andrea Mitchell thinks magnetometers can detect cocaine. I think I detect the time for Andrea Mitchell to retire before she destroys her reputation and becomes Tom Brokaw.

C-Block

• THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: Last week was the 20th Anniversary of Ambassador Joe Wilson’s famous New York Times Op-Ed that destroyed George W. Bush’s lie that there were WMDs in Iraq — and thus destroyed George W. Bush’s legacy. So they decided to destroy Joe Wilson. And craziest of all: They thought I could help. Only one problem — they couldn’t figure out how to spell my name so they could email me the weapons.

That’s all the damage for now. Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and good luck!

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