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Dec 18, 2022Liked by Greg Olear

Good morning Greg! I’m grateful that I somehow stumbled onto you several years back. You take a poem that is probably misunderstood by many and lead your readers to understand what the tyrant is thinking. 👏👏 As for Elmo and his bird app who knows what will happen... Ca Sera Sera! Maybe we should all take a break from tweeting? Please keep informing us. Your podcast is always entertaining, the 5/8 is funny and engaging ❤️ Chunk animation! And of course Karaoke is the best 🤣 Have a blessed Holiday Season. Best wishes to you and your family!

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Morning, Greg, and all!

What can I say but good on that last duchess for smiling. Her best revenge, is what I'm thinking.

As you well imagine, many of us have had it having to hold our collective breaths over both these men/children. Alexandra Petri, noted satirist for the Washington Post, abandoned her satirical ways in her latest column. Like you, Greg, she speaks for so many of us.

https://wapo.st/3FG37Hl

I have many thoughts as I listen to both your podcasts and the Five8 videos. I especially take to the music played in the intro to Five8. Who should I credit for that? As well, the podcast music!

To you, LB, Bret, Chunk, your families, named and unnamed fans of all your works: Enjoy your holiday pick, be it Christmas, Hanukkha, Kwanza, et cetera! ...then have a Happy New Year!

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First Amendment "free speech" is no defense to any of the crimes that can send you to prison & fine you thousands for lying to IRS, DHS, FBI, or for lying for a profit or official job or power or other benefit. The 1A shouldn't be a defense to political & news lying either.

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Dec 18, 2022Liked by Greg Olear

Greg. Great topic and column to end the year. Musk,=.........................Savant Fuhrer.

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Quite an amazing, masterfully crafted piece Greg! The repulsively evil, precociously pious, piece of child-like fuckery that plays the Bill Mummy Twilight Zone character, is Musk! Although, incitus ass would be apropos! Sundays obviously bring out your literary genius, with great amusement for your readers, thanks!!

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Dec 18, 2022Liked by Greg Olear

Master class in lit crit!

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Dec 18, 2022Liked by Greg Olear

I am no longer embarrassed to admit that without these Sunday columns, I would be UNABLE to start my week. If you're off, like next week and maybe New Year's Day, I randomly seek out a past Sunday column and I'm good.

"...Musk has an army of fans, not all of them bots..." Subject for a future column: when does a person become a bot? There are now MANY examples of people that continue to fluff the monsters of our world long after they should be relevant. My take is that people who CONTINUE to follow, praise, or simply BE fans of someone like Musk or Trump, LONG after they've proven over and over what a drag they are on the human experience, are bots; ignorant of the real world, only believing what they hear from their "programmer."

Per Wiki: An Internet bot, web robot, robot or simply bot, is a software application that runs automated tasks over the Internet, USUALLY WITH THE INTENT TO IMITATE HUMAN ACTIVITY on the Internet, such as messaging, on a large scale. (emphasis mine)

It seems clear that these bots are not always "software applications." The bots the Muskovite claimed to be worried about before he blew $44 billion on the Bird App, came with him. He's ONLY interested now in seeing people PRAISE him, or worse, imitate him. I have changed my thinking somewhat on his national security threat status. I don't have a full handle on what his ultimate goal is, but it's NOT just so he can make liberals cry. The reality is that anything supporting the insurrectionist right-wing of the US is a national security threat. This certainly includes Musk -- which my fingers keep misspelling as "Muck." They seem to know more than me.

Any change of Congress always comes with at least a month of sheer chaos, especially now, so let's all ENJOY the holidays this year like we haven't since 2015! Merry Christmas to you Greg and your family, along with LB, who rocks my world every week on the 5/8, Chunk, and everyone here. Happy Holidays to all who don't celebrate Christmas -- no matter what you may have heard from the deeply misinformed, this is NOT a Christian nation, it is a secular nation, open to all faiths, and those without faith. Someday maybe, we'll get there!

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Dec 19, 2022Liked by Greg Olear

It's good Greg,. It's Reeeal good

Love StacyO

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Good Lord, you find logic in all the strange places. Always a sharp turn down a bumpy road and a delight of unexpected proportions. But always makes my old brain spin as I try to arrive at some coherence or discernment. A test and a challenge at my age…

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