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Feb 6Liked by Greg Olear

This is one of your best.. see you at Newark Airport!

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Thank you!

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Feb 6·edited Feb 6Liked by Greg Olear

‘In the U.S., an AfD-style party could only succeed by infiltrating and co-opting one of the two extant political parties, as MAGA did with the GOP.’

As for Newark and JFK, I do my utmost to avoid NY airports as they’re both too congested and unable to serve the public. On my last trip to Europe, everything that could possible go wrong happened at EWR, and I hope never to set foot there ever again 🛫

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I'll say this about Newark: it's much much easier to check a bag that it is at Berlin.

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Haha, my bag disappeared for a week after checking in at EWR. On the return, there was no captain on the flight, so we had to wait 4 hours before one showed up. Also, the facilities are outdated and the ground crew is unhelpful and rude, the worst. I worked for the airlines for many years and hope never to transfer through NYC ever again. Boston is much better.

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Yep, that quoted sentence, did get my attention. It did take 40+ years of concentrated effort to pull it off. We should never lower our guard again, even for a nanosecond

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Social media with their trolls spreading fake news is our biggest enemy today.

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Even bigger than our MSM following Rupert down the rabbit hole of monied “news”

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Unregulated Lugenpresse 🤥

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Feb 6Liked by Greg Olear

Loved it.

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Thanks!

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Feb 6Liked by Greg Olear

Your non-exhaustive list of 3rd party candidates left out Barry Commoner, for whom I voted in 1980, because I was disappointed in Jimmy Carter. I thought he had caved to political pressure when he authorized a military rescue attempt for the Iran hostages. The mission failed. Maybe I also thought that Carter, a great President, was not lefty enough, but it didn’t take me many months of Ronald Reagan’s reign of fantasy before I regretted my choice. I’ve often wished we had a parliamentary system instead of our uniquely wacky government, but that will only happen after the Alph Centaurians set up the new colony on Jupiter’s nicest moons for those who will have chosen the right airport.

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Feb 6Liked by Greg Olear

Like the office of the presidency, the Democratic and the Republican parties also are open to exploitation. Unlike the parties I grew up with in the UK and elsewhere Europe, the US parties are-big tent political movements with weak internal leadership and discipline and no fixed platforms. They provide havens for all kinds of individuals and groups with extreme views on the left and the right - including on the far right in Republican circles, such as white supremacist movements and militias, which Trump increasingly appealed to during his presidency. 🥷🏻

- Fiona Hill 📖 There Is Nothing For You Here.

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Maybe an election wherein the person/party with the most votes wins. Radical idea but our electoral system has screwed us more often than not.

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Yes EC gotta go! #NPVIC

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Barry Commoner! I have never heard of him, but that's a great name for a lefty third party candidate. I'm not sure the parliamentary system is better. It's different for sure, but things seem muddier, and it winds up that prime ministers stick around way longer than they should. But we will debate this when I see you at the landing on Callisto. ; )

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Feb 6Liked by Greg Olear

I love analogies! This one is great--not perfect, to be sure, but what analogy is perfect? It does the job and I'm loving it! Going to one of the alternative airports? Why not just stay home and shoot yourself--and your neighbors--in the foot while you wait for the asteroid? (Maybe you could all cut off your noses, too!)

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Thanks, Lexine! There's a Tycho Brahe joke in there somewhere...

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WTG Mr. O. As an alien I have to say we’ll send many self-replicating rescue capsules to airports around the world. Not just the USA. Dunkirk-style.

As an American I’d like the dirt strip down the road a piece. More convenient don’tchaknow.

As a Flaming Liberal I believe we’re all going to die in the end. Might as well be nice - just in case…

Billserle.com

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The aliens are doing the same thing in every other nation on earth, happily. Forgot to mention that...

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Feb 6Liked by Greg Olear

Good stuff!

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Thanks!

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It’s NO IMMUNITY TUESDAY🎉⚖️

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yes!!!

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This funny as hell—I’ve often wished for a few more airports when traveling to NY, although the WalMart parking lot seems a bit extreme. Thanks for getting my imagination going. Too bad Europeans aren’t seeing the positive side of Biden. I think he has been doing an awesome job despite the roadblocks put up by the stupids in Congress. What a bunch of idiots.

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Feb 6Liked by Greg Olear

I think they are just jealous that our economy is humming right along and theirs isn’t so much. The other thing is the way things are now, we are looking weak because congress has tied the President’s hands in funding for Ukraine. I can understand how we may look to an outsider and at this moment, that look is unreliable as an ally. Unless we all head to Newark to get on the rescue ship we’ll evaporate or drown when that asteroid hits us.

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What concerns me is that the same deza Biden narratives popular in MAGA circles have clearly made headway everywhere.

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With our MSM

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It’s not only outsiders who see us as unreliable. As one who will not be able to pay rent with a govt shutdown, I share their skepticism

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Thanks! Albany Airport is actually lovely.

I expect that will change if and when he can get Ukraine the funding. But we'll see.

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Your analogy makes the point. So does experience. My wife and I also learned a great lesson in the Ralph Nader era. (BTW, as a totally irrelevant piece of trivia, my son used to live in Newark, Delaware, and he tells me they pronounce it New Ark.)

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Yes, in DE it is NEW-Ark, and in NJ it is either NEW-irk or it has one syllable. My grandmother pronounced it NERK. Rhymes with JERK.

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Feb 6Liked by Greg Olear

This was really good but now I might be thinking about 2-party vs. multi-party systems all week.

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Thanks. The parliamentary system is well and good, but it keeps people in power for way too long. Or lets people like Bibi creep back.

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Really, and we don’t have a vile creeper on our doorstep waiting to return? And even ruling by remote as we post.

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Feb 6Liked by Greg Olear

Great, you’ve never failed to inject your creative sense of humor, and I’m truly grateful.

It’s very necessary these daze, as the maggots in the house destruct carefully wrought across the aisle policies.

Recent good news sailed in this a.m about the melting orange blob’s appeal immunity claims being denied added more upbeats.

Drum rolls please!

Meanwhile, President Biden continues to impress me.

& Capture our flag back from the those shrinking brains on the far (w)rong.

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Thanks, Samm!

It's sort of crazy, isn't it, that it's taken the courts this long to decide that yes, an alleged criminal should be tried for his crimes.

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Feb 6Liked by Greg Olear

This ending gave me a good chuckle. I'm ashamed to say I was on the tarmac of LaGuardia in 1980 voting for Robert Anderson. I was young and stupid and living in Las Vegas so I do plead temporary insanity.

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Feb 6Liked by Greg Olear

I knew "Robert" Anderson looked wrong, but I had to look it up. He was John Anderson and I think I might have voted for him too because he was from Illinois. I had NO idea what I was doing! lol

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Feb 6Liked by Greg Olear

You are right it was John. Where Robert came from I have no clue. Like I said I live in Vegas then. :)

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Thanks! "LaGuardia" is just kind of an inherently funny word.

Reagan was not going to lose in 1980, no matter whom you voted for, alas. And Vegas was better then...

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He cheated, even before he was “in”

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Feb 6Liked by Greg Olear

No, I LIKED the analogy! I used to love going to airports until after 9/11 when they became places that ANYONE could be a terrorist, EVEN YOU!! Not so much anymore, but I do know, given the choice, I'd go to Newark. My Running Mate JFK, Jr. Airport would be overly crowded with "people," and smell of old beer, body odor, and desperation, and who needs that havoc when an asteroid is coming? Not me, surely.

If I were on X, I'd this morning be posting:

No Get Out of Jail Free Card, No More Special Treatment, Complete and Total NO IMMUNITY. KEEP AMERICA GREAT! 🤣🤣🤣

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Maybe I should have called it "Four Seasons Total Airport?" I still love airports. I love STATION ELEVEN and one of the reasons is the importance placed on airports. I love airports because in airports, time stands still.

I was on X, posting about Tucker, and being swarmed by Russian bots -- like the good ol' days!

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🤣🤣🤣

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Feb 7Liked by Greg Olear

Thanks for the laugh and a perfect analogy!

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Thanks!

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Really enjoyed this one, Greg! Anytime going to see my sis from CA to NY, I am now destined to go to JFK airport. Not my choice, believe it or not. Had a crazy bad incident with a TSA agent there. Happened a few years back but left a real nasty taste in my mouth. And speaking of mouths…HOORAY for today’s ruling from the appellate court! Take care of yourself. Jet lag’s a bitch.

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Thanks, Marlene! I hate going to JFK. It's in Far Rockaway, or as I call it, Rock Faraway.

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Great moniker for that place!

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