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Dec 19, 2022·edited Dec 19, 2022

After you wrote your piece on the Jon Stewart episode about Trans issues, John Oliver chimed in with *his* episode on the same topic.

I have been searching high and low for your reaction to the John Oliver piece, so now I’m going to have to ask: What did you think? Was it equally as vapid as the Stewart episode? How does an episode like that get made, when just at that moment places like the New York Times are finally starting to treat Trans activists claims with even a tiny bit of skepticism? If current Jeff Maurer was in the writing room, would you even raise the points you did on the Stewart episode, and if you did, how would you do it? Would any objections be regarded with good faith?

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Which Supreme Court justice would win in no-holds-barred 9-way cage fight?

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Why is the name "Archduke Ferdinand" a harbinger of doom in any century? The guy who died in Sarajevo was not the first, in fact there were TWO of them during the Thirty Years' War, and arguably that conflict was worse in some ways. Why? Surely you, an alleged comedy writer, can explain this funny coincidence sir.

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Could you summarize your biography and/or résumé? I didn't expect the writer of this blog to know something about economics, you also mentioned working for the government at some point, and said you were doing stand-up comedy back in the Bush era. I'm curious to know how it all fits together.

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Is Trump's political career REALLY dead, as many in the MSM seem to believe, and more importantly, does it really matter anymore, if the political forces he has unleashed continue beyond him?

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Why are woke people obsessed with the word "centered"?

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A quick search engine look for "Jeff Maurer" suggests that you are only the third-ranked "Jeff Maurer". Why should we prefer you to the other, more popular "Jeff Maurer"s?

How about starting a new TV show, starring you as a lowly substacker whose complaints about corruption are widely broadcast by his readers and gets him shockingly elected president? I just thought this idea up, but feel free to use it.

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Like fantasy football, but you get to pick _both_ sides: Let's pretend that the Republicans and Democrats both decide to let the grownups drive their respective parties... who would those grownups be?

I'm assuming that they do exist; over here on Mud Island (aka Britain) we finally have a Tory grownup in charge of the government, and it looks like the Labour opposition is also led by a grown-up.

So accidents _do_ happen...

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(a) Do you think Biden should run again in 2024. (b) With Kamala Harris?

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How are you finding life in SoCal?

When are you and the other southern Californians going to give everyone's water back?

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I'm going to answer this one here in the comments because the answer is simple -- I'm not in California anymore! I was there for a few months this summer working on a TV show, but Covid (yes, Covid) caused the show to go remote, so I'm back in my first-choice city: Washington, DC. And it poured all day here today, so I'm currently feeling pretty ambivalent about water.

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Dec 20, 2022·edited Dec 20, 2022

Slight twist on an old classic-

If you had to fist fight any notable person in recorded history, would you a) pick somebody you know you could beat, b) pick somebody you think deserves to be whupped on, c) some combination thereof but not limited thereto? If you pick c, then please describe your calculations in details.

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