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With you on hoping this all comes to pass. Every other Mary and Joseph have had to pay up on taxes. Sans healthcare some women -- especially Black women -- might as well be delivering in a barn.

If DJT stays crowned as lord of all by tacit approval, consequences mean noting. But I cannot and won’t believe Garland will leave us with crickets by Christmas.

Once Herschel is safely tucked away, I believe we’ll hear something.

Thank you!

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Having been a staunch supporter of AG Garland since his appointment, it pains me to high-five your today's newsletter, Greg. But here I am now high fiving.

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Nov 15, 2022Liked by Greg Olear

Laying it all out, still frustrating as hell. Who could have pictured 1/2 of any of this actually happening? Still keeping the faith.

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Nov 15, 2022Liked by Greg Olear

Enough is enough. It's beyond high time to indict this traitor ~ I refuse to say his name!

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Astonishing that Trump remains free to announce his presidential candidate fuckery!

Garland should have named a special counsel months ago, we’re both correct on that easily made decision. As for his merry band of complicit chodes that remain in indicted, in the words of my well known Attorney father”The law is no damn good anymore”! Great piece Greg!!

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Nov 15, 2022Liked by Greg Olear

Prosecute now with extreme prejudice. Donald Chernobyl is a super criminal. Always.

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You nailed it. Good job. For some odd reason--possibly dementia--I am reminded of the the rebellion of the Duke of Monmouth against Charles II in 1685. Notwithstanding that Monmouth was Charles’s bastard son, he was beheaded at the Tower in one of the most gruesome executions ever: the drunken executioner failed to cut off his head having missed his mark with two previous blows of the axe, finally severing the beautiful head with his pocket knife. Frankly, this is how you depose traitors of large reputation: Carry them out into the courtyard and kill them. Otherwise: endless chaos, riots, rebellion, and all their attendant murder. It’s probably worth pointing out, however, that the rule of law in this country depends upon an unbiased jury, and no such jury can be found in this country at the moment. It will be, though, simply because Trump is SO LAST DECADE. To old farts like me, last decade was this morning, but to the kids who voted last week, it’s ancient history. They were in 7th-8th grade when Trump first ran for office. Justice may be slow, but as Longfellow reminds us, “though the mills of God grind slowly, they grind exceeding small.”

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Nov 15, 2022Liked by Greg Olear

This is so frustrating! I try to have faith that the wheels of justice turn slowly. The thought that keeps coming to my mind is the fact that Nixon was never brought to justice. A direct line can be drawn between that lack of closure and the rise of the monstrous little boy that lives inside of the bloated Newt and now the obese Donald. Any parent knows that a lack of consequences for bad behavior only escalates and intensifies the recurrence of bad behavior. If he is not held accountable, an even worse version of the aforementioned little boys awaits us in the not-so-distant future.

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Nov 15, 2022Liked by Greg Olear

Great column.

Trump takes the award for historys most corrupt US President.

However

Unlikely that Trump will wear the Orange suit.

History notes that we dont prosecute, "Presidents."

Easily charges could have been brought against Nixon and how about George W and his gang of liars? Cheney, Rice, Powell and Wolfowitz.

Or Reagan for what he did to Jimmy Carter and his Contra Affair?

And as the WASP holidays approach, don't forget Thanksgiving and the murderous affairs against US indeginous.

Yep as ee cummings said. "Manunkind. "

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founding

In the last few days, an interesting awareness has been dawning.

Pundits and prognosticators have been focused on a 2022 red wave, the expected historical backlash for a midterm election.

What if history no longer applies. What if we are entering a new normal.

What if the traditional seesaw between Democratic and Republican Presidents has been discontinued.

Donald Trump may have changed American elections for good. The legislative election tampering that racist America has been engaging in for over 100 years is now routinely headline news. America pays attention like never before to gerrymandering and Election Day monkeyshines and voter suppression.

The 2018 midterms and the 2020 election were a referendum on Trump. Now in 2022, instead of the expected referendum on Biden, we are getting another referendum on Trump, MAGA, election deniers, et al.

Politically, Trump kills everything he touches. That trend has been confirmed this month.

Trump’s involvement in 2024 is guaranteed to kill that election cycle for the Republican Party. And something tells me that, in 2028, they’re going to be in even more serious trouble.

We are moving into a new and unfamiliar political system. The political parties are going through some kind of change. Remember, we didn’t always have a two-party system. At the time of the election that Abraham Lincoln won, it was a multiple party system, much more of a free-for-all.

[this post is duplicated on Lucian Truscott]

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Nov 15, 2022Liked by Greg Olear

Actually, Greg, I think I'm done with Garland. I have defended his delay in indicting the Orange Menace for two years with the same thought processes you have, that a conviction was predicated on solid, air-tight evidence against him. Objectively speaking, January 6th was a thought crime, and the DOJ would be forced to try to prove intent on Trump's part, a heavy lift. But the classified documents? No, it IS an open-and-shut case, and there shouldn't be this delay after delay after delay. In my mind, I gave Garland until yesterday (Monday) to indict, knowing that the DOJ likes to make a big splash announcement like that on a Monday, and I thought it the last Monday there would be before Trump announced. But no, nothing, not even an update. When it happens, IF it happens, I'll be pleasantly surprised, but I'm no longer looking forward to it.

I encourage everyone to read, "Unchecked: The Untold Story Behind Congress's Botched Impeachments of Donald Trump" by Rachael Bade and Karoun Demirjian. This book seems to have flown under the radar, and contains MANY revelations, some of which were surprising and uncomfortable.

At present, it looks as though Donald J Trump is now getting away from ANY justice for a THIRD time within the US government. It seems like no matter who tries -- Democrats, Republicans, non-partisans -- they fail to bring Trump to justice. I think the only justice he'll see is in the mythical, but much spoken of, afterlife. It doesn't seem destined for here on Earth.

And by the way, Kimberly Guilfoyle, who the hell wears BLACK to a daytime wedding? I'm no fashion maven, basically wearing pajamas every day, coming up on three years, but even I know you don't wear black to a wedding. I would have cropped you out of the picture too! What a perfectly ticky-tacky little wife for Don Jr.

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Nov 15, 2022Liked by Greg Olear

To NOT prosecute Trump would be criminal.

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Great piece, lead of Zombies tune as well Greg!

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Nov 16, 2022Liked by Greg Olear

The planets second largest White Collar Criminal announced he is running "agin."

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Thanks Kate

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Nov 16, 2022Liked by Greg Olear

It seems that years of outrageous behavior by Trump should be punished, but I'm not feeling confident it will. C'mon Garland!

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