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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPLEASE go listen to KO"s plea to the intel agencies around the world. I am still crying.
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)nolabear
(41,963 posts)He pretty much sums up what I'd say. I don't know if his reputation is such these days that anyone will listen but he's on point. Tragically on point.
niyad
(113,308 posts)him in a tweetstorm?
nolabear
(41,963 posts)He's got the best and worst of it. Smart, astute, on point, and apparently suffering from being insufferable. Dammit.
niyad
(113,308 posts)platform we need.
frankieallen
(583 posts)to about 12, unfortunately.
niyad
(113,308 posts)frankieallen
(583 posts)volstork
(5,401 posts)EPM
csziggy
(34,136 posts)10,941 thumbs up.
A few more than 12 viewers.
barbtries
(28,795 posts)if i knew how to support his work i would do so. i would cancel the young turks and subscribe to Olbermann.
niyad
(113,308 posts)will be available soon
youtube is where i watch him. i will follow on twitter and buy his book when it is available.
just bought it. won't get it at least until October...i hope i hadn't already bought it once, because Amazon just recently sent me an email about a book i bought that won't be available until later than thought...oh well, i'll make a gift of it if so, maybe to my republican brother? not really. lol
niyad
(113,308 posts)BSdetect
(8,998 posts)steve2470
(37,457 posts)He's certainly emotional but I agree with his core message. We NEED the decent people in foreign governments and foreign intelligence units to help us.
niyad
(113,308 posts)is at stake.
TeapotInATempest
(804 posts)It felt absolutely surreal watching this and knowing what he said is all true; I still can't believe this is where we are.
Some serious PsyOps has been perpetrated against the American people by the Trump cabal and I hope the civilized world will help us.
niyad
(113,308 posts)Trial_By_Fire
(624 posts)niyad
(113,308 posts)Trial_By_Fire
(624 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Is this posted on Facebook? I don't really use it, but it would be a good way to get the message out there to people who normally wouldn't see this.
niyad
(113,308 posts)everywhere you can.
here is the facebook link
https://www.facebook.com/gq/videos/10155177390143098/
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I can get one of my more social media savvy friends to do it. Thanks again!
leftieNanner
(15,100 posts)You can google GQ Keith Olbermann and go to their page. If you click on #74 (which is this episode), it will have a "share" button. Click it and select FB. A window should open up which will allow you to add a comment. Then post it to FB.
I just did it. Hope this helps.
Resist.
Peace.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)I thought "Coca Cola? Why is Coca Cola pleading to intel agencies?"
mtngirl47
(989 posts)I'm just so sad about the show out of the White House. I'm just so sad that nearly half of my fellow Americans think it's just okay.
I hope that some intelligence person will release something that will blow this all up.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Trump is now above the law if republicans don't do anything about the firing of the director of the FBI.
As a matter of fact when Turtle said there would be no independent special prosecutor the rule of law died in this country. For our rulers anyway.
What happens when Trump totally cuts off all communication with the press? He will just rule by fiat and the republican party will protect him.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Or to "a DU member".
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Its what is actually happening to this country, people need to be aware of it. Trump and the republicans have exposed the fatal flaw in our system of government.
All parties were supportive of freedom and democracy till now. Now we have one of the major parties that will destroy those previous taken for granted values for raw political power.
The republicans are now taking off their false masks to reveal the fascist within. They control all 3 branches of government and they will never bring impeachment against their leader Trump. He has a free hand to break any law at any time and to make the US Constitution a door mat for his jackboots.
As long as he strips trillions of dollars from the poor and middle class and gives it to the rich, he is safe. We have one more chance to be free in this country. The elections in 2018.
If the republicans stay where they are now or gain, this country is dead. We will have a theocratic dictatorship for the foreseeable future, if not forever. Locked into fascist Russia and against Europe and all democracies.
LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)ProudProgressiveNow
(6,129 posts)Cha
(297,240 posts)Mahalo for KO, niyad
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)❤️
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)❤️ niyad
crosinski
(411 posts)I hope our allies are planning something right now, because trump should have been taken down by now, unless the scope of the Russian hacking and all involved is many times larger than anyone can imagine. In any case, I think someone needs to drop a few pieces of incriminating evidence so we can impeach the orange jackass before he does even more damage.
Shandris
(3,447 posts)...is going to be swayed by the impassioned plea of...a television announcer? That they aren't so incredibly deep into their own cash and their own sealed off, bubbled world -- a world that neither borders nor intersects with our own -- that even IF they had ream after ream of data, they'd just release it to us to 'help us out'? Having seen the unified yawn to the genocide of Rwanda, do you REALLY think 'the world' will come to our aid?
I was taught conservatives were the 'religious' ones, but this requires more faith than literally anything I've ever heard in my life, and with less evidence than the Bible itself.
EDIT: It occurs to me that maybe I've become a bit more cynical in the time I've been watching the opposition. Ugh. My apologies for that, it's not entirely intended.
niyad
(113,308 posts)optimism, or anything positive at all.
TIAD-trump-induced anxiety disorder