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Oct 22Liked by Greg Olear

If only Biden would give that speech...

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if only.

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Oct 22Liked by Greg Olear

I've been praying for just such a pep talk. Bring out Dark Brandon!

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We haven't seen the Dark One in a while.

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Well that was certainly cathartic!

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It was for me, too.

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Oct 22Liked by Greg Olear

Holy macaroni!! I love this!!

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: )

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Oct 22Liked by Greg Olear

It's astonishing that corporate America has chosen the same path as those in Germany in the 1930s:

FASCISM FOR PROFIT

Surely we must WE MUST RESTORE POWER TO THE POPULACE, not the corporations and the tools of the super-rich, or civilisation WILL PERISH, not with a bang, but a hundred year whimper as water and food becomes only available to the powerful, and then, finally, not even to them.

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Oct 22Liked by Greg Olear

Yes, getting rid of corporate 'personhood' is a primary goal...get rid of Citizen'sUnited, a right wing set up in the first place, with its beginnings way back in 1895 with the Southern Pacific decision and edging it's way into power from then until now.

The U.S. Supreme Court is not above the law, despite their arrogance before Congress and the public. There is an implicit trust between the populace and SCOTUS, one that I feel is currently being broken by six members. Take 'em down. We can't abide with such generated distrust; that is seditious in and of itself.

The fossil fuel industry is one of the key powers behind all this...not just those in the US but in the Middle East as well. They want to freeze us, the world, too, into an oil driven world. Their money and their implicit threat to our current world is the dark shadow of the present in groups and institutions like SCOTUS.

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Oct 23Liked by Greg Olear

If you were insane and super-rich and decided the world were overpopulated, how would you get rid of 3 billion human beings?

- Answer: Stop efforts to end global warming.

#GOPtraitors

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His plan, insofar as he has one, is to accelerate global warming and hoard all the resources (water, food, etc.)

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It's all so very dark.

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I wouldn't say it's astonishing. I'd say it's predictable.

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Trump and maga will burn democracy to the ground to grab dictatorship

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And this is war...has been for sometime.

That's the real deception.

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It’s TUESDAY🎉

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I snapped to attention and tipped over my desk...Great piece. Bring it Joe!

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Thank you, good sir!

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Oct 22Liked by Greg Olear

What a dream come true this would be. And there's nothing to prevent it! Thanks, Roberts Court!

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I don't think he really needs to worry about the immunity part to do any of this. It's all within his powers right now, I believe.

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Great letter! Hope you've sent it to him. We can see whether we're in the terrible place of having one crooked candidate and one too cowardly to protect democracy, or whether Biden will stand up to the threats.

I hope Biden carries out that plan to have federal authorities protecting election workers. A friend, a Florida poll worker, said the state plans to have sheriff's deputies watching the polls. I couldn't decide whether that's good or bad.

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Sheriff's deputies could be anyone. I think it's probably not so good.

I really do believe that anyone disrupting the polling places should be arrested and held. I don't see why that's even controversial.

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Oct 22·edited Oct 22Liked by Greg Olear

If they really had the courage of their convictions The Dems would either circulate this as far and wide as the could or encourage President Biden to read this tomorrow at a news conference. He had the integrity to put the country before his political ambitions he could/should say something similar if not read it verbatim

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Even if he didn't do the arrests and stuff, saying the words would have a big impact.

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I don't understand the timid nature of the Dems. It's how we arrived here in the first place starting with Bush2

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I've posted it on my FB page with quotes.

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Oct 22Liked by Greg Olear

Great channeling of Biden! I could hear him saying this in my head.

The irony of Reagan's inaugural address is that he proceeded to launch an era of anti-freedom Republican authoritarianism.

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Thanks, Rick. I was really trying to imagine him speaking and not me.

Reagan launched into all of that IN THE NEXT PARAGRAPH OF HIS SPEECH. What a horrible man he was, so damaging to the country.

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Oct 22Liked by Greg Olear

Good morning our strong warrior! Yes, it would be a beautiful speech and set of actions, of course if our current version of Garland Justice enforced it, but we are dreaming, aren't we? I also have a dream that the current nominee for our UNITED States of America does her current job as nominee to bargain, compromise, promise the Republican voters who haven't lost their way and principles, a seat on her cabinet (as in Nikki Haley or Mitt Romney) to get their supporters to lose the allegiance to the small, corrupt fraud running his current scam to enrich himself and his ilk. Harris was a Prosecutor in her earlier career so compromise and going after the bigger prize, foregoing the smaller principled win, isn't a new strategy for her to play. I believe that she won't allow an "ideal, only Democrats on her team" solution get in her way. Of course, that won't be a popular strategy among all Democrats, but who are they going to vote for........Al Gore, who wasn't a politician but stuck to his ideals and cut Clinton (a popular Politician who had errant sexual judgement) off of the campaign trail,........the Green Party.........the Peace and Freedom Party? No, the idealists aren't winning and don't win! All winning POLITICIANS, like FDR 4 times, strategized, went for the bigger goal and won (entered a War on the other side of the globe, unpopular, but making maneuvers looking to not have a bigger War on our shores). Harris has to be, and I believe she is, a politician First with morals, a heart, principles and a vision, and a Leader willing to have people with different ideas at the table.....a good, honorable politician wins, all the while keeping their hand on the tiller, navigating these treacherous waters. You can't navigate by keeping on a straight, narrow course.

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Thanks, Dennis. The one thing Trump did that was...I hesitate to say "good"...he didn't just accept things as they were. He changed them for the worse. KH could change them for the better. And I think she will.

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Oct 22Liked by Greg Olear

If you sent this today, he'd have 13 days to edit it to his liking but keep the spirit of it intact. I say, load it into the teleprompter and let the networks know he needs time on Nov 4th! Excellent speech, Greg!

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Thanks, Steve. Even if he doesn't do the arrests and stuff, just issuing the warnings would be helpful, I think.

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Oct 22Liked by Greg Olear

Send it to Biden. I think he would use it!

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I tagged him.

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Oct 22Liked by Greg Olear

Great speech. All true, and of course I am sure it will never happen. It would be justice 100%, and we can all dream. We DO need a miracle to avoid absolute chaos AFTER November 5. I pray we get that miracle. Maybe this speech is it!!! Brilliant work.

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Thanks, Rick. The main thing is that they really have to go after anyone screwing with the voting, and hit them HARD. I'd like to think Joe would do that. I don't think he wants to go out having presided over a chaotic election.

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It did make me smile to imagine President Biden saying “daddy’s emerald mine” lol great piece. Make it so Joe.

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Wouldn't that be great if he said that? Ha!

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