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Feb 13Liked by Greg Olear

Howard Dean's comments, early on, about Trump(sniffles)

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Dean, who had to bow out for snapping at a questioner once.

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Amen. The DEA should have raided the WH pharmacy, like they did my weight loss clinic where I worked as Administrator for 18 years when I was younger and more foolish.

Greg, your work is terrific! Glad I’m a subscriber. Billserle.com

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Thanks, Bill. Yes, they should have!

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I wish I was surprised. But thanks for the tally. Adds to the hyper-widespread criminality that most of us knew about. Imagine if MY pharmacy was run that way. Need a paper Rx for Xanax. Sheesh

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To them the rules don't apply.

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Feb 13Liked by Greg Olear

We're going to quietly, so quietly nobody will predict it, vote that waste of space down once and for all, and then we're going rid the GOP of all his squealing, filthy minions. So mote it be!

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Amen.

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Yeah! The mofo didn’t know what a “mote” was, yet he was salivating like a Pavlovian doggy to put alligators in and around the border wall he’d never fully built!!

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Feb 13Liked by Greg Olear

MAGA is rotting from the inside out, we just have to entice our Joe and his team to remind people, constantly about the tRump dumpster fire. A fire that will burn even his loyal cultists, and take (and ready has) a bunch of you into his oblivion. Remind them Joe and in the same breadth show a vision for a better future. Everyday, constantly

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I wonder if there are any new recruits at this point. Doesn't seem likely.

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Goodness, Greg. You’ve brought up a subject about which I have been in blissful ignorance. But of course I’m not surprised that it was going on, just very saddened that people went along with such shoddy medical practice. We have to ensure he never has such power again!!! Stop with all the genuflecting already.

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It's minor in the grand scheme of things, but still important.

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Feb 13Liked by Greg Olear

Just reading the list made me crazy when I think of the hoops we now have to jump through just to get a bit of post surgical pain relief. And for anyone who thinks fentanyl is a problem at the southern border is a problem, I would suggest the problem all along was at the trump pharmacy. Remember, his accusations are admissions.

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Excellent point.

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Feb 13Liked by Greg Olear

After watching Maddow’s show last night I have given up on the MSM and wonder whether they are also in Putin’s stable.

I’m also thinking the free drugs may have an influence on media coverage.

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Amen

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I only watch on big nights. Election Day, 9/11, when they released Trump's mugshot.

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Feb 13Liked by Greg Olear

Corporate media is working overtime to keep Trump relevant, competitive and younger than Biden. Digging into Trump's dependency on Adderall and who knows what else might blow the lid off their ability to keep doing it. Unless of course they can prove that Biden mainlines Geritol or Metamucil as a way to create false equivalence.

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They are the masters of false equivalence! God that drives me nuts!

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Feb 13Liked by Greg Olear

Isn't this a story of privilege and elite insulation, of laws and procedures to safeguard being bent at will to satiate those who don't really feel bound by such strictures? Of course it is. It seems most everything around Trump and his gang is a blackmail set-up for everyday power and control, the kind of control we see now in the House and Senate GOP.

We often think blackmail is a big time crime when, if fact, many times, it is perhaps an everyday occurrence about what one doesn't want the public to know, now especially heightened by those with major responsibilities and presence within our governments, state and national, all hiding in plain sight.

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Feb 13Liked by Greg Olear

Trump and Putin and other authoritarian operatives must have plenty of Kompromat on GOP congress members. I was just wondering earlier today what they have on Lindsey Graham and "little Marco" and others.

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Feb 13Liked by Greg Olear

The truth always comes out. I eagerly await the truth about what makes Lindsey do the things he does. Eagerly.

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Forgive me—something brown and “Nasty” I would assume!

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I've heard plenty about both.

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I think I've decided that Trump et al have NOTHING on GOP Congressional members except the power of the base. When one considers that ALL the Republicans seem to want anymore is POWER, and Trump controls those voters who help keep them in power, no kompromat is needed. Imagine if Republicans lost their cushy congressional jobs and had to WORK for a living and be ACCOUNTABLE to a boss to keep their jobs! I can see Lindsey scooping ice cream in an ice cream truck that rides around neighborhoods, and Li'l Marco trying his hand as a rodeo clown. Neither job is $200K a year plus perks.

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Well put, Billy. Like his buddy Epstein, Trump set up a blackmail factory.

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Trump had had a modeling agency which he moved to France, I think, before the election. Very few follow-ups on that at the time, although there were some. And, of course, none going on now. Reporters for the major media seem reluctant to pursue that, as if they don't realize the operational mode and understand that the past is often still the present.

The Russian hack of Ten_GOP in '95 gave them lots of info and then the later hack of the DNC and RNC gave them more, so I would think he had a whole base of blackmail material still in use. Commonly, the excuse is that the GOP House is afraid of Trump voters. I just think there is more to command their fears, much more personal and direct.

Great work, Greg.

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It’s TUESDAY🎉

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Feb 13Liked by Greg Olear

Back when Sarah Huckabee Sanders was Press Secretary, I used to joke about her "melting face" - thinking at the time that almost everyone who worked at the WH or for the WH and were pathological liars had "melting faces" instead of Pinocchio noses. This report on the lax and chaotic mess that functioned as a free-for-all pharmacy makes me wonder if all those droopy eyes and sagging lips had to do with a "little help from my friend." It could be anything, but excessive use of drugs or alcohol does have a noticeable effect on a person's appearance as well as behavior. I wonder what tfg is on these days? He seems to stay up all night long ranting and he looks like something the cat dragged in. His face has gone from orange to POC brown, but I suppose that's just makeup.

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Good point. We'll never know. But it doesn't seem good.

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'I wonder what tfg is on these days?(Ellen Massey)

Weight Loss Drugs.

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All through reading this I kept thinking about how they got Al Capone. Wasn't he convicted of tax evasion? Oh, my!

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Feb 13·edited Feb 13Liked by Greg Olear

Yes. Trump can still be al caponed. Or drug cartelled. Or..

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Feb 13Liked by Greg Olear

...Or any number of things! There's so much if someone has the courage to look.

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Feb 13Liked by Greg Olear

Thanks, Greg, for NOT following the pack and reporting this morning on either Biden's age "problem," or Trump's traitorous comments about NATO.

So, it seems the Trump WH, in addition to being one where the building should have been torn down afterward and rebuilt, like they do sometimes after a school shooting, was also a drug cartel. Color me not surprised. There has been talk of this situation, but not nearly enough to make a dent in right-wing public opinion, and more than likely, more envy than anything else, that the Trump cartel could get ALL the good drugs (name brands, even!), whereas his voters have to be satisfied with the crap they get on the street, and their sick dopamine high at his rallies. And yes, maybe you can't say it, but I can: Mr. Sniffy Trump IS a drug addict. You can tell when he's had his fix, and when he needs his fix, just by the cadence of his voice. That down-speak he does at the end of sentences is when he is not being served his dose. I hate his voice, but then, most of all. Ugh! I used to be a nice person before this trainwreck destroyed everything!

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Feb 13Liked by Greg Olear

Isn't it interesting how "addicted" his followers seem to be to him? One possibility could be what he and his handlers are providing them with. To the point that they can't even think straight anymore?

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Could be. All those Nazis had meth...

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I will have to talk about NATO at some point, but the media seems at least to be covering it, which is progress...

Part of what makes us detest Trump so is that he makes nice people be less nice on account of him.

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In my nursing career I have seen patients on similar drug cocktails get so worked up they throw whole hamburgers at the wall, dripping in ketchup...

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What an image.

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Nothing about the depths of FPOTUS’s corruption could surprise me anymore. I think. I could be wrong.

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When we find out that he sold national secrets for golf course payments, what will people say? I'd be shocked if that isn't coming.

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The depths of his corruption are beyond what I can imagine. My naivete will probably be shattered at some point. Worth it if he is punished. Harshly.

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