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Aug 10, 2021Liked by Greg Olear

Why your massively important articles are not copied into every newspaper in the world, I just don't know, Greg. All I can tell you is that When I am king, things are going to be different...

(Not necessarily better, just different.)

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Ditto. Thank You. Now it all makes perfectly awful sense (as I read your 2000 pieces, too). Except, how could such a "great country" as ours have allowed a CI mafia donald to become king? Why are the good guys armed with nerf balls and silenced by secret codes. We need to go back to Democracy 101: for the GOOD guys.

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Aug 11, 2021Liked by Greg Olear

"Our" country has not been ours since Reagan or before. The super-rich and corporations pay NO TAXES, guess why, guess who really runs "democracy"?

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I think there is a complacency that has set in, especially among the Dems. Too many people just don't understand how close we came -- how close we ARE -- to descending into autocracy.

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The GOP preaches how bad government is, but NO Governemnt or Corporation works better on less money. The GOP only cares about kickbacks from the super-rich when they cut taxes.

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Yes, Greg. And it is all to fantastical for "intelligent" voters to believe. "don a DON? And CI? Nah, the FBI surely would have told us." My liberal Democratic friends think I am a crackpot, even though I correctly predicted the Jan 6th insurrection weeks in advance (and that there were no weapons of mass destruction, and...). Yes, how close we still are to descending into autocracy. Keep on writing, I will keep subscribing and sharing. Thank You.

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God save the king! ; )

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Aug 10, 2021Liked by Greg Olear

Because I have a tendency to click on links that may interest me within your columns, I found myself reading your 2019 piece on Giuliani at Alexandra Erin's Substack and almost spit up when I found out that Tooty-Rooty has been KNIGHTED by QEII??? I won't even question it, but that happened? In the UK, he's Sir Rudy Giuliani?? I can't even....

Also, I read "Grand Illusion," probably at your recommendation, and yes, Rudy has ALWAYS been a POS. I would LOVE to read the canned obituaries that major outlets have ready for his demise. They might each now have one employee just devoted to keeping up with that article. I used to predict where the "America's Mayor" thing would appear -- how many paragraphs in -- when Rudy was really doing the do during T****. Now, I wonder if it will appear at all.

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Yeah, that happened. Twenty years of 9/11, one of the strangest two-decade gaps in US history. And thanks for reading that piece, which was a long one. Rudy is, and always has been, awful.

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