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Governing is complicated. Thank God for the fifth column.

I had to find the fifth column as dedicated civil servants, who doggedly perform their duties in accordance with the law and resist unlawful orders.

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Sep 24Liked by Greg Olear

Remember: ...

The purpose of Corporate Media today is to MAKE MONEY for the already super-rich, and to entrench their power.

Close political races make by far the most profit... so the corporate media ARTIFICIALLY MAKE THE RACES CLOSE, unethically.

Truth rarely makes a profit.

Before the end of the Fairness Doctrine, news departments competed on accuracy and honour, since none of them made money on news.

The Media today are destroying the planet just as surely as Big Oil, for outrageous, unethical greed

#GOPtraitors

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Hi. Appreciate your comment. How do you know this. Personal observations? Inside info?

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Sep 24·edited Sep 24Liked by Greg Olear

US law requires, as a fiduciary responsibility, that corporate directors maximise shareholder value. The super-rich have distorted our laws to serve their mental illness of greed

https://lawreview.law.ucdavis.edu/archives/56/5/end-shareholder-wealth-maximization

The doctrine excuses egregious corporate action as required for efficiency. It prohibits the corporation from forgoing even a dime of shareholder wealth to benefit the environment, charities, or the corporation’s other stakeholders.

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Sep 24Liked by Greg Olear

Don't disparage mental illness by labeling them as such. They are pure evil, and brandish cruelty with fervor.

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Sep 24Liked by Greg Olear

GREED is truly the most terrible challenge of our times, and capitalism is its tool, its means to power and more greed.

Greed is a (contagious) mental illness, an unfillable hole, a hunger that denies justice, a brutal expression of broken egos.

Greed is having a million times as much as the poor and still feeling you don't have enough.

Greed consumes the earth without respite, and is a cancer on humanity.

Greed destroys us and our children and their future.

Greed is death.

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Sep 25Liked by Greg Olear

You nailed it, I so agree with your description of greed as a contagious mental illness in this context.

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Wow.

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Sep 24Liked by Greg Olear

It wasn’t just the end of the Fairness Doctrine but the move from the News Division(a loss leader)to the Entertainment Division by TV media execs. This is how FOX slid in the door, presenting itself as “Fair and Balanced” when it was nothing but screaming tabloid fodder with a smattering of what they called News.

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Sep 24Liked by Greg Olear

The Fairness Doctrine only applies to Air Broadcast programs since the public own that communication channel. Cable and streams are privately owned, so the Fairness Doctrine cannot restrict free speech on them.

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The second, third and fourth columns are also very important. With all its imperfections, I think our system is pretty damn good. One man – one idiot like Donald Trump can try to change everything but will fail Billserle.com

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The institutions held on for one Trump term. They will not endure a second one.,

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Sep 24Liked by Greg Olear

I bet they have the original copy but want official copies from the Archives in order to avoid prosecution for using it.

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The damage to our National Security is already done. Sources and methods are completely compromised

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Yes, because a LOT of traitors have already seen the binder materials.

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I hadn't even thought of that! Good take.

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Alison Gill (MuellerSheWrote) interviewed Lev Parnas for this morning’s Daily Beans podcast and it’s excellent! He gets into stuff that got left on the cutting room floor when they made “From Russia with Lev”. Check it out if you haven’t.

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Sep 24Liked by Greg Olear

Thanks. Will do. Can’t recommend FROM RUSSIA WITH LEV enough so can’t imagine what got left on the cutting room floor.

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Apparently he also wrote a book in which he lays out the entire scheme in detail. I might pick it up after I get through the 10 books currently backlogged in my queue.

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I am about at 10 also!! Hard to get to them all when I am on social media and reading everybody like Greg, on Substack!

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Thanks. I haven't had a chance to watch it yet...saw the first few minutes last night and can't wait to finish it!

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Sep 24Liked by Greg Olear

Trapper Keepers! Love that reference as the mom of three boys who grew up in the 70s and 80s!

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It's, like, totally tubular! ; )

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Sep 24Liked by Greg Olear

FBI should look in Bedminster or Dump Tower, perhaps even under the first tee with Ivana. If it's not there, check Patel's or Meadow's properties. And when it is found, charge the possessor with treason, send them to prison without bail until trial.

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I'm not sure why they would hide what they want out in the open. It's all very strange.

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Sep 24Liked by Greg Olear

Thank you, Greg. Surely these tools want to whitewash and misquote any evidence they find that would be detrimental to Trump.

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That's my take for sure.

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Sep 24Liked by Greg Olear

"Last week, the Court ruled against Solomon, citing 'numerous problems with the plaintiff’s case,'" - when I first read this I thought I saw "humorous" problems instead of numerous.

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Ha! Perfect. The email exchanges ARE kind of funny...

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When this national nightmare is finally over and history looks back on what really happened, I think you’ll have written a good bit of it.

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Thanks for saying so, Earl. Much appreciated.

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Sep 24Liked by Greg Olear

I bet the original is buried with Ivanna or nearby. This whole story could be another special by Rachel Maddow to show the depth and breath of the corruption in trump's time in the White House. Again rich oligarchs, anti democracy authoritarian leaders, mafia gophers, Russian agents and the cowardly spineless money driven republicans in this country. And not to mention Fox News and their ilk, that are soulless, on the take from trump and the republicans via Putin. It’s all ….I don’t have quite the word for it.

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Starts with an "F"...

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The Ivana thing is so weird. But I don't know why they would bury something they planned to document-dump. It's all so bizarre. But then, these people are WEIRD.

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It’s TUESDAY🎉

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Sep 24Liked by Greg Olear

Maybe Mark Twain's comment about another cretin would apply to the chump crowd. Regarding William Andrews Clark of Santa Barbara, CA. "Clark, Twain wrote, "is as rotten a human being as can be found anywhere under the flag; he is a shame to the American nation, and no one has helped to send him to the Senate who did not know that his proper place was the penitentiary, with a ball and chain on his legs." Just substitute whatever name of any of these bastards, and substitute whatever applies instead of "Senate" and Twain's comment fits to a tee. The whole barrel is rotten to every last core.

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Excellent quote, JD. Twain nails it as usual.

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Very good, Greg. Very, very good.

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Thanks, Lynell!

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Sep 24Liked by Greg Olear

As a citizen, given all of Trump's lifelong malfeasances, I feel as if I'm watching a movie with a script that doesn't make any sense — epitomized by the ad where the kids hide behind the running chainsaws instead of getting in the running car leading the Jason-like character to take off his mask to shake his head in disbelief—and yet am powerless to intervene, except to vote and hope enough of my fellow citizens will get in the running car and not hide behind the running chainsaws.

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Excellent analogy. I actually really like that commercial. Especially as Trump is sort of the serial killer in it.

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Sep 24Liked by Greg Olear

The GOP are the paid poodles of the super-rich AND PUTIN

The Kremlin has been feeding money to Republicans for years. And they are (a) addicted and (b) blackmailed can't stop.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/07/18/how-the-gop-became-the-party-of-putin-215387

see more here:

https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2018/05/08/how-putin-s-oligarchs-funneled-millions-into-gop-campaigns/

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Sigh.

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We really should prosecute all these criminals for money laundering and foreign influence.

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Sep 25Liked by Greg Olear

While dipshit 45 and I never met a couch I didn't like JD grab the slime-light there are many other vile sorts getting little or no attention. Thanks Greg for bringing Patel and Solomon back to the fore. Meadows most likely committed some serious offenses but never do we hear anything about him, it is as if he vanished. From Russia with Lev is a damning indictment of Hannity, in cahoots with Solomon on the Ukraine/Ivanovich criminality. I am so sick of hearing about the dipshit 45 orbit, sicker because there is no accountability while the reporting of crimes grows larger by the week.

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Thanks, Old Man. I like to think Meadows is cooperating and that's why we haven't heard from him, but he seems so inept. I stand with my take that Cassidy Hutchinson was secretly running the entire country for the last few months of Trump's presidency.

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Perhaps a most valid assumption

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I so think that too and my gawwd, is she not a capable young woman or what? Let’s not forget that is was Cassidy who said that Meadows wife said his suits “smelled like smoke”. That SOB was burning documents!!

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