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Oct 25, 2022Liked by Greg Olear

Damn, those devil words again. 😳

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Oct 25, 2022Liked by Greg Olear

Common Sense ... Uncommon Sense.

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Oct 25, 2022Liked by Greg Olear

The Lexicon we seek is not the OED. That one has 26 pages devoted to SET.

Nothing on Venn diagram, as I recall.

Reading dictionaries is amusing.

Greg, we need a Political and Apolitical Lexicon.

Devil’s Glossary. Loaded with...

Antonyms and synonyms and homonyms, maybe.

They’ll confuse most everyone, sooner or later.

A redraft of the Book of Job might help.

God’s Book. As drafted by Beelzebub?

Time for coffee - Black or white,

Either is delicious.

So is tolerance. Don’t ask, don’t tell.

What happened to David Stockman?

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I loved this, Greg! You broke everything down to simple English...one that even tfg and his maggots could “possibly” understand. Or...maybe not.

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Oct 25, 2022Liked by Greg Olear

Bravo!

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Oct 25, 2022Liked by Greg Olear

Ha! Cool piece.

WWJS

maybe

DTOP

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Such a good review. Just seeing all those buzz words in a list like this helps explain why I'm having such a time of it with my blood pressure.

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Muck Rack just flagged your column.

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Stuck on "libertarian," a party with which a close relative identifies. She is one who has had it all handed to her. Sees no irony in her wish to not share with others who are in need.

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Oct 25, 2022Liked by Greg Olear

DTOP OR DOP

Defund One Percenters

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Oct 25, 2022Liked by Greg Olear

Damn, my favorite HST quote to start off. Can’t get better than that.

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The weaponization of words -- we'll be seeing more of that -- at least until mid-March. Thanks for another brilliant column. In other news, I wonder if "defang" the police would have been more effective as a rallying cry than "defund"....???

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Exceptional piece Greg, the focus on vocabulary is amusing as hell! The fuckery of all things MAGA and the GOP are either iniquitous or ignorant, having labeled them unctuous derps!

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I'm going to lose my hair so Friday I went to my hairdresser to have it cut short. She asked me, "What do you think about what's going on?" I said, "It's scary. I'm afraid we will lose our democracy." She said, "I'm afraid of socialism." I said, "Socialism is not a thing." Then I noted her sticker. TRUMP 2020 FUCK YOUR FEELINGS

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Love the definitions. They really help bring everything into focus in an compact, succinct manner. I hope these definitions can become mainstream so everyone understands and accepts them. I keep looking forward about 50 years to see what History will say about this time we are living in. There is so much going on that has not yet come to the surface. The human mind can only process a limited amount of information. But History will uncover all that we cannot process right now and put it into perspective for us.

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We the North 🇨🇦 ,(whom are living the ‘antifa life’), are watching your election from above with bated breath, in the hope that your antifascistes win the day. Keep up the good fight .

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