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deletedJan 1, 2021Liked by Greg Olear
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A happier year ahead to you and your family, Greg, I enjoyed the way you wrote this. Almost like a fairytale. I look forward to the day we can all look back and remember how damn awful we let things get. I only hope that justice is served and we fix the holes that exist, so many holes. We should have learned our lesson, we can't sweep it under the rug now, history has proved that. Thanks again for a fine read.

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Jan 1, 2021Liked by Greg Olear

Dear 2020,

Fck off.

Regards, William

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And Thank you , Greg, for your clarity and your wit. I'm wishing you a terrific and safe New Year.

Regards, William

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Jan 1, 2021Liked by Greg Olear

Happy New Year, Greg! ~@highmaintenancy

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Happy New Year/Feliz Año Nuevo to you and your readers. We did it. Voters saved democracy from the brink. we have a long way to go, but we saved the country. the new year in the new decade will be better. it is hard to imagine worse.

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Jan 1, 2021Liked by Greg Olear

Happy New Year, Greg! Keep fighting the good fight.

I keep hoping that I'll awaken from this dream/nightmare or that maybe I fell into a coma sometime in 2015, but evidence doesn't support that, so I guess this shit is real. Eighteen days until the inauguration, but only five days until the seditious traitors reveal themselves in public, led by the human (?) dildo, Josh Hee-Haw. THIS is the guy that took Claire McCaskill's seat? That's offensive all by itself. AND only four days until we know who takes the Senate. Big week incoming! At least 2021 isn't 2020, so there's that.... Looking forward to your further insights as the year carries on.

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Greg, thank you for another kick-ass article! And for expertly navigating us through the Homeric lashing waves of 2020, like the Master Mariner of Journalism you are...👏🏻💙🌠

I've been pondering which song will be most emblematic to celebrate the end of this reign of terror & have decided "Ding-Dong, the Witch Is Dead!" hits the correct kitschy note, considering the lurid antics and questionable skintone of the nightmarish antagonist. So, it's queued up for the 20th & I saved my New Year's Veuve Clicquot for that blessed day, too. Here's to a healing 2021! ✊🏻🇺🇸💙🌊🙏🏻

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Happy New Year, Greg!

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[Virtual high five]

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founding

This piece is absolutely brilliant. I was dumbstruck when I first read it a few days ago, unable to respond, and had to take some time for reflection and contemplation before a response appeared.

Over the course of the past several months, I have had the recurring, nagging thought that there is a direct link between a President and the history that unfolds under his tenure. I kept flashing back on 9/11 taking place less than a year into Bush's term, and thinking that Bush, the man, is somehow linked to that historical event. I keep seeing the garish hideous lights of the Tenderloin, the Combat Zone, elements (events) of Trump's term in office, and wondering how much calamity is actually being wrought.

I couldn't help thinking, over and over again, that the pandemic is somehow linked to Trump, somehow produced in part by his presence in the most powerful office in the land, meaning that we as a nation are also the most vulnerable to whoever occupies that office.

So here you are, Greg, verbalizing my thoughts in your own way, by linking the failure of the impeachment process in removing Trump to the arrival of the pandemic.

I am a bit flabbergasted.

Are you playing muse for your subscribers? Are you psychic? Are we a collective tapping into the roots and origins of the pivotal social and political developments in our society, with you as oracle and messenger? Or are you individually and brilliantly gaining genius-level access to this causative information, with us as witnesses, observers, and fan club?

Rhetorical questions. Answers don't matter.

The placement of a person into that office can unleash a wave of good things for the country, or, as we have learned, it can unleash a torrent of nastiness straight out of Pandora's box. It all depends on the heart and soul of that person.

I wasn't expecting confirmation of my unusual and perhaps downright bizarre thought that Trump might be a direct or indirect cause of the plague we are experiencing. But there it is, in Greg Olear's 2020 summation piece. The image heading that piece? A Biblical one, reminiscent of bad pharaohs inflicting plagues and calamities.

Wow. You continue to impress, Greg.

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This article should be re-read by all, published 5 days prior to J6.

(references and comments)

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