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"Schumer could (have) taken advantage of the popular support and made everyone stick around. He did not." Agree wholeheartedly with McKay, why this man is the Senate Majority Leader? NY is not liable to elect an R senator; primary please?

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He's more excited to have the job than to do the job. We need Klobuchar now.

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Agree about Klobuchar, but not sure what constitutes excitement for Schumer? Showing up?

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Jun 10, 2022Liked by Greg Olear

Excellence piece Greg.

Almost a Rant

I love a good diatribe.

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Thank you!

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This is one of your very best. Everyone should read it, and I intend to share it widely.

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Thanks!

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Jun 10, 2022Liked by Greg Olear

While I agree with getting some of the old timers to retire (definitely Feinstein), I think the most important point keeps getting missed. None of this means anything if public perception is still controlled by "big propaganda". Why doesn't Congress reflect the will of the majority? Because most of the voters in this country have absolutely no clue what is really going on. They have and will continue to vote against their own best interests. I don't have a solution for this but awareness of the real problem is the first step.

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I know, it's a big clusterfuck. The Dems do messaging, media ignores it, and round and round it goes. But I don't think most of the Dems are in touch with the people, their constituents. I've been calling for ambitious action, literally for years, and it's baby steps always.

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"Media ignores it". I think baby steps is all we can hope for until public perception returns to a fact based reality. Maybe I'm just a dreamer who expects too much.

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History

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History

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I liked all of this, but this especially: "If three out of four people want to ban AR-15s and ensure that women are allowed safe and legal access to abortions, that should be the law of the land. A clutch of soulless dinosaurs in the Senate, and six Federalist Society reactionaries on the Supreme Court, should not thwart the will of 250 million people—i.e., the vast majority of Americans."

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These two sentences popped out at me, too, Ellen. Now, how do we get a government that will actually give the people (250 million of us) what we are demanding?

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Lynell, this may be Pollyanna-ish thinking, but I am hoping that the hearings will reveal enough criminal activity by certain members of Congress that the DOJ will be forced to act BEFORE November. If those individuals were removed from office, that would certainly free up some seats for some younger, smarter, and certainly more honest candidates to be elected. Call me a dreamer. But last night, Liz Cheney promised that the J6 committee was still working and that there might be more to come as late as September. Appendages crossed!

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Right there with you, Ellen...Pollyanna is my middle name!

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“I really think, for the good of the nation, Schumer, Pelosi, Clyburn, on and on, should all resign,”

THANK YOU, Adam McKay!! I'd add several people in there, but they are the usual suspects, so no need. Left and right, this Congress and several Congresses before them have been completely ineffectual. It seems the evilest people (looking at you, McConnell!) are the most effective. Even when that old, batty bastard is out of power, he's somehow still IN power. That would be fine if Schumer or whomever the Democratic Majority Leader is, used the same power available to the Great Turtle., but no, even in the face of the dirtiest politics I've seen in my 64 years, Schumer wants to continue to "play by the rules." It's ridiculous and gets us nowhere at all. Maybe I have a bias because he's my Senator, but I think Dick Durbin would be a FAR better Majority Leader, but instead we have Schumer, schlepping his way through the workday. There is also a Senator Amy Klobucher, in case anyone forgot!

The truth is that if I hadn't made a solid vow that I would never vote for another Republican again as long as I live, AND I had the luxury of not caring what happened to the country, I wouldn't vote at all. There have been very few people lately worthy of a vote anywhere in the country, Democrat or Republican. It's ALL about the money and the power. And we can forget term limits too since the people that would have to pass something like that are the same people it would affect. Never happen. Listening to this podcast right now!

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The "Usual Suspects"

of course Keyser Soze

Is in charge

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What about Lauren Underwood, Sean Casten & Raja Krishnamoorthi? Any of them would be excellent Senators.

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Adam's right. Anyone older than me, 65, needs to go! I've been saying it for years. Remember the Golden Spur, like his father, WAS a Democrat and THAT, in my eyes, is why the Dems were so wishy-washy while he destroyed our country. They still are. Greg, you're too young to remember Atlantic City, but I get "fired up" remembering government limos pulling into Trump Plaza's valet parking every single ('88-'91) weekend and knowing damn well what those, then young, white, elected hot shots, from both parties, were doing there! My deceased fiancé managed an after hours club directly behind it and right next door was the Convention Center dock. Yeah! Talk about the psychology of corruption... Ha Ha Ha! ...And Trump and Epstein were friends by then too!

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Old men are dangerous. They cant ger it up and have nothing to lose. Then we have 18 year old white males with AR 15's and can get it up but have brsins adled by the unleaded gas of political insanity.

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Jun 10, 2022·edited Jun 10, 2022

I call them Lost Cowboys! And voyeurs come all in shapes, sizes, colors, genders and ages.

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Cowboys like religion are a myth.

And they both kill in the name of

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...Cheesus!

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You say

Hay sus

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Gwen maybe i was little rough on the Johnny come lately American Vaqueros. I did once round up some heifers with a few Mexican Vaqueros on the Hayes cattle ranch. Anyhoo i am not a fan of Cowboy movies but i did like Unforgiven and Lonely are the Brave that was based on Edward Abbey's novel, The Brave Cowboy.

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Lol! All good. The cowboy movies are a social science project for me as I come from the Home of Little League Baseball where we were also first in the cable TV experiment. I know there are more wannabe cowboys than there ever were real ones. Bikers too.

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Greed. Until we figure out how to get rid of greed, the cycle will continue.

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Oops. I apologize for all the typos.

That should have been "leaded" gas of political insanity.

Based on an old crime study.

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OLD MEN

News outlets just concluded what we have know for sometime about Putins goal.

He is the incarnate of Peter the Great with a touch of Catharine.

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Great piece. I have a word for those like Feinstein, McConnell, Grassley...institutionalized. We need term limits for members of Congress.

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When the insanity puts Donnie back as president he will not need congress or the courts He and Miller will run the World

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Until China nukes them

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He will not be voted back as president. Many of his minions won't be voted back in either. May I remind you of how many minority groups the GQP have pissed off?Propaganda via Faux News...viewers and others are seeing through the BS. Far right wingnuts are a small fraction of voters.

China's not going to nuke anyone.

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I agree

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