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deletedNov 10, 2020Liked by Greg Olear
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Nov 10, 2020Liked by Greg Olear

I'm so glad you are going on vacation. So overdue. This may my favorite piece. See you when you return. I'm hoping the band will play ALL of these songs..plus I understand from their tour manager they plan on releasing a brand new track called. " Tuck it like you mean it " .. bon voyage.

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Nov 10, 2020Liked by Greg Olear

“60% of a contribution helps the campaign retire debt and 40% goes to the Republican National Committee” Hmmm..... doesn’t 60+40=100? So 100% will either go to Donny’s debts or the RNC, that leaves... **checks calculations**... 0% for anything else. ~Make America Dumb Again

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Loved this piece, Greg! I, too am wondering what Trump has up his sleeve, of course fund raising was something I could count on Trump to continue, after all, he hasn’t been able to raise much during the time spent in the Oval Office as he might have if he were rallying the Trumpkins on a regular basis.

I’m wondering too, if Putin won’t call Trump home to Russia to spend his retirement there, or to simply push him out the window, once he gets there; after all Trump knows plenty about Putin’s dirty deeds, his moves against America, yada yada yada...currently media reports that Putin is still eliminating those who helped in the American scam/cyber warfare from 2016 and the mid terms in 2018.

I wonder too if Congress will stop the arms from going to the Saudis and what Trump will do if that happens, after all he’s likely getting a kick back or finders fee for selling the arms to them in the first place. On second thought it maybe repayment for something the Saudis already did for Trump and/or Kushner...

Oh what tangled web he weaves....Trump may get exactly what he deserves-prison sounds good to me- but I hate the thoughts of having to pay for his accommodation and food...it just rubs me the wrong way...

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OMG, I love love love this! Well said, Greg! I just saw one of my silver-haired cousins, a widow with not much to give, saying she will support her beloved President at all cost, "I've got your back President Trump" And there is NO changing her mind. I really feel sorry for her. Meanwhile, McConnell is going to do plenty of damage and Kushner the list goes on. January 20th seems years away. Enjoy your time, you have been doing the hard yards.

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Greg, first of all let me say THANK YOU for giving yourself the reward of a week off. 👏👏👏👏🥂🥂

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Nov 10, 2020Liked by Greg Olear

As always, thanks for all your research. Enjoy your time off.

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Second, I just have to send praise for how biting and clever you are. Somehow I already managed to see the dynamic you are describing, which is clearly the story and context for the lame duck period until we are purged and purified of this filth on January 20 at noon. I recognized the arms sale for what it is, for example. But I could never imagine this brilliant story metaphor. You are absolutely brilliant at what you do. I’m sorry you’ll just have to accept this acknowledgment. You do not know what kind of standards I hold in my life. I do not dispense glowing praise with this frequency anywhere else in my life. For you to construct this satirical and wickedly insightful piece in just the time since the election was called on Saturday is absolutely phenomenal and incredible. I cannot imagine any other author or source, in fact I have never seen any other author or source, come up with a metaphor and execute it, while absolutely nailing the truth of the situation, the real story behind the smoke and deception. I saw the real truth, the story of the lame duck period, in part because it hit me that Four Seasons Total Landscaping event was executed because it didn’t cost them anything. By losing the election, the goose that laid the golden egg suddenly died. But to construct this satirical vessel, and pepper with little zingers like “fresh infusion from Deutsche Bank” and “the difference between polls and people from Poland“ and “not investing a single kopek” all wrapped up in the envelope of a band trying to prop itself up as its popularity is dying, is just beyond brilliant.

In my best imitation Boston accent, “Greggy, my man, you are wicked wicked smahhht.”

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I almost had to consider billing you for a new keyboard, Greg, as I did an actual spit-take re your track listing for Trump's Mourning Tour!

It's become VERY clear over the past few days that Trump is determined to be as much of an embarrassment to the United States as he possibly can over the next 70 days, as he's been during the last 1,390-some. But it's far better that he do this than something else more dangerous. Let him have his recounts if he can manage to make enough money to pay for them, and let him try to fix his bruised ego with his Nuremberg rallies. In the end, he will no longer be president as of Jan 20th, and the rest of his inept, yet dangerous, cabal goes with him.

Of course, he will have no dignity about it, he doesn't know the meaning of that word any more than he does "empathy," but he will be gone. And with a high degree of certainty, I know he will not keep silent as other former presidents have. I'm hoping against hope that the media doesn't feel it necessary to cover his every utterance on Twitter though -- "Today, former President Donald Trump tweeted that...." NO! I'll give it a month or two before I start my letter-writing campaign to get them to stop.

Right now, I am content. That will change, but after four years of the Daily Monstrosity, we all deserve a bit of time to just relax. Have a great vacation -- I would have taken at least two weeks, but that's just me. See you on the other side!

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Nov 10, 2020Liked by Greg Olear

ENJOY your vacation! Man, you’ve more than earned a relaxing break. Thanks for this piece of soul soothing!🍻🥃🍻🥃

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Nov 10, 2020Liked by Greg Olear

Enjoy your break, don't worry I will remain vigilant.

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Noticed gift to Emeraties. Here is another contract.

The Boeing Co., Defense, Space & Security, St. Louis, Missouri, has been awarded a $9,800,000,000 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for F-15 support for Saudi Arabia. This contract provides for modernization and sustainment of the F-15 Saudi fleet to include such efforts as hardware, software, and interface design, development, integration, test, subsystem and structural component production and installation of future modifications and enhancements to the F-15 Saudi weapon system.

Number above begins with a B not an M.

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Send in the possy to collect the moron clown, Resident Donald Chernobyl Trump, international mobster and criminal. Yes, please send in “The Insane Clown Possy.”

Cronies, subversion of government, imbedded everywhere, including DOD, will be destroying records, declassification of top secret, aiding and abetting Russia, fo fuck sake, rip the republicans and get in there and drag his ass out right fucking now. Gina, CIA, STAD UP, deny this crazy bastard. FBI, risk it all and Director Wright, deny him , stay, and brin Trump down.

If all the generals, FBI, AND CIA cannot save us, who will. Melania, now is her chance to earn The Medal of Freedom.

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Finally, after reading this, I understand why the RNC hangs with the grifter. He gives them a cut! TY for your amazing work and rest up.

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'...As the historian Heather Cox Richardson wrote last night: “When you remember that Trump’s strong suit has always been distraction, and that he has always used the presidency as a money-making venture, ...'(article)

21 March 2023 - tfg announced as the day of his arrest-

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